Reason to Live

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I have long believed that no one has any actual reason to be alive. I believed this because i came to realize how random and pointless life is and came to terms with the fact that i will soon die and so will everyone eventually and so therefore everything done by anyone is absolutely meaningless and insignificant when compared to the fact that we are just random life forms placed on a random planet in a random spot in the universe. I am unimportant, and so is everyone and everything else. So it was my understanding that the only thing one could do in life is to self-indulge and be an overall selfish person (which goes against my character of wanting to help others (which makes me feel good and so could be considered a selfish act to be selfless)). It was (and still is) my belief that society blinds people from seeing that their lives are so insignificant so they can be motivated to do good for the society and stay in order. I brought this idea up to a friend of mine and she told me that people have individual reasons to live. So i thought about what she said and made my reason for living to find an actual reason for living and to attain knowledge to bring me closer to goal in order to live in happiness.

Any thoughts on why people live? Why do you choose to be alive? Why not just die? I only ask because i want to know why others live to give me a sort of perspective on my overall thoughts.

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WtP

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Everybody has a will to power, but only successful people have reasons to live.

That is why successful people can create values and losers are nihilists.

Success self is the goal of creating values.

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good lord not antother thread about this, I would think its a shorter list to ask; Reasons to die. Reason one and only one to die. You refuse to find a reason to live. And that is all there is to that. A refusal . you have decided to reject life. It is lazy, it is easy. It requires no will, it requires no feelings . It is for the laziest in this world, for those that do not have an illness.

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I just think its hilarious that someone makes this thread like once a week :banana-dance:

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yea, its that or its a commentary on the mindstate of a part of society. To me it seems to be more about laziness. Or maybe spoiled rotten self centeredness.

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Yeah either that or there is something insanely boring about modern society to where large portions of the population are just endlessly going why is life so damn boring.

Personally I think it was always boring which is why people used to go around spearing the shit out of each other back in the days. I try to occupy myself with the internet reading books watching movies music hoes but even like that I am like Fuuuh for large portions of the day. I tried getting a job but it bored the shit out of me also.

I donno maybe a lot of people with the marvin the paranoid android personality come on here or post on the internet. If its just that then it kind of sucks for us but I get the feeling like some major shit is about to go down in 2012.

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One cannot predicate of a first principle, that being life.

One does not have reasons to live, but methods.

The eyes do not have a reason to see, it has methods.

The lungs do not have a reason to breathe, they have methods.

This is a psychological inversion expecting the result to justify itself.

We do our job as mind in order to live. We don’t ask life to give us a reason to do our job.

Each functions to have life and to have it more abundantly, and they have life and have it more abundantly because of its functioning.

We are life. You are demanding a self-referential fallacy and since that is not possible, you cannot give or receive an answer.

Many times that question is asked because one does not know how to ask, “What is my job?” “What is my function?” This is only an indication of how young the human mind really is. Instead we are taught, we live for the state, for gods, for country, and so many others, when in fact, it is not true. We don’t live for anything, we function to live.

To regulate our behavior so as to turn the past into the future and to bring the future to pass.

That is hardly pointless.

In short, one should not ask “What is our reason to live.” for by the very laws of reasoning, it cannot be answered, however that “We live to reason.” is a full life of adventure.

Life cannot ask itself for a reason to be, it simply is, but we are not alive until we function, until we can do our job.

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There’s definitely something to this. Life can be really dull. Not for everyone of course, but for a considerable number of people - that’s why so many people are depressed.

Work. Eat. Sleep. Work. Eat. Sleep. Work. Eat. Sleep. Ad nauseum . . .

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yea there is just not that much interesting shit to do in life on a continuous enough basis. people become alcoholics or heroin addicts where they are just basically comatose for alot of the day to avoid the boredom. Prozac Nation out the hizane.

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I’ve looked upon my life and once thought how uninteresting and boring my life is until i realized that the majority of people are extremely boring people who just work and sleep.

There is no reason to live, we live to reason? That makes sense. Life is a game which we play for the sake of playing.

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just ask the same questions about being dead

if life is meaningless, is death a better option? is death meaningful?

nah

but once your dead you cant go back

so might as well hang on for the ride, you’ll die eventually lol

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The question “What is the purpose of life?” is REALLY the question: What is the purpose of existence?

Or even better: What is the purpose of purpose?

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You must be a fan of Whitehead and Russell. Now there was a pair of genius’s for you. It is amazing how many people cannot use the simple idea that relation to self is inadmissible. Or said simply A - A = 0

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I’m fed up of all this whining, right I’m going to kill everyone in the whole wide world, even those who love life, see what you made me do! :evilfun: :angry:

Do me a favour whole world, write a suicide note and then exercise your right to not live, save me a trip. :wink:

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???

Calrid, i have a note written and a gun to my head and have informed others to follow suit

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You know, if you kill anyone, you do yourself a grave disfavor. You don’t get to piss them off anymore.

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I am unfamilliar with Whitehead amd Russel. Please explain how this relates

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Nothing can die until it fails to try.

Those who slyly convince the mind to yearn only for the catharsis delights make all else unsatisfactory and not worth the effort, hence murder the victim. It isn’t all that easy to inspire suicide, but the art is quickly becoming a science.

Trained to FEEL unsatisfied, the mind can no longer choose priority or purpose by its feelings, it can only survive by divorcing from the feelings and accepting only reasoning. But mere reasoning seems to terribly uninspiring, “why try” the heart asks, “I am uninspired by your reason. Why bother?”

There was no victor until quietly, slyly, from the shadows, the enemy was convinced that their lives had no purpose.

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There are things we need to know in order to live. We need to live in order to know the things we want to know.

We cannot function without a desire for information, for truth.

If we don’t want truth, what else can we get from existence? Nothing.