Regret said:
I thought I would start this thread because I am in dire need of a debate, or at least an intellectual discussion. I know this particular topic may have been discussed alot on the forums, so I wish to avoid the whole 'Meaning of Life' dispute.
Now, I feel that there is absolutely no purpose for anything that occurs anywhere in the universe (or, indeed, in others). I could take a gun and kill anyone I damned well please and, for all intents and purposes, it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference. I could discover the cure for cancer, but what good would that do? Everything is going to die eventually.
I could elaborate further, but I want to hear your opinions first.
Thoughts?
If you believe that there is no meaning to life, make one for yourself.
I don't necessarily mean parenting, but if you wish to interpret my statement as such, so be it. It is a possible valid interpretation.
If you aren't concerned with continuation of the Status Quo, change things in some way that will be meaningful to you or set out into the world beyond the space between your ears, the one that will continue to be no matter what your perception of it is, even long after your ability to perceive it is long lost, to find that meaning.
Maybe that is exactly wrong for you and the answer is instead to journey deeper into your own mind or explore your own body (take that however you will). Body modification might be just the thing for you, be it simple surface level augmentation or fundamentally changing your body's very genetic structure. If you have no knowledge of genetics, you can always learn it. If nothing else is important to you, anyway, you can focus entirely upon your studies. Changing oneself can change both the way one sees the world and how one can interact with it.
(Trees don't have existential crises, do they? You could be a tree. Isn't that at least a novel life goal?)
Then again, you may not wish to put forward any effort to change yourself or the universe around you into something more interesting. Fine enough. You could just drop out of society and wander around the world, going whereever your whims take you with no particular goal in mind. You likely would cease to care about futility, only utility with no social support system acting to sustain you.
Losing interest in worldly things is hardly some defeat and it most definitely does not have to be the end.
