I’m not depressed (at the moment, well maybe a little), just feeling philosophical.

Edit: the idea of this came to me because I was pondering why people fight so hard to beat diseases and live a few more years. What are they planning to do? Why exert effort just to be here longer when you don’t have a reason?

Just why?

  • anar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    5 days ago

    It’s whatever you decide it to be. You are right - nothing matters in reality, but you can assign importance to things yourselves and as you said “amuse yourself to death”.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    12 days ago

    There’s no meaning to life. We are an accidental self sustaining chemical reaction that has lasted for billions of years. There’s no creator, no higher power, nothing waiting for us when we die.

    We’re also about to go extinct and are way past the window of being able to save ourselves. You and I are among the last humans that will ever exist.

    And IMO that’s extremely comforting once you actually internalize it. Focus on making you and the people around you happy in the short time you’re here, don’t worry about the far future because it doesn’t matter.

    • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      12 days ago

      It’s a bit ridiculous to me why you’d think that we’d be the last humans to exist. Habitable zones will keep existing after climate change kills 99% of the population. Even full-scale nuclear war will leave most dead, but not all.

      The remainder will probably keep reproducing and survive. Even 0.001% of our current population would likely mean humanity would continue.

      What else do you think would make humanity 100% extinct?

      • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        11 days ago

        I’m not trying to convince you on this, but this is my personal belief:

        There are runaway reactions already being triggered in the atmosphere that will make the planet hotter and hotter without stopping or slowing down for millions of years. Where are you going to live when the minimum temperature is 60C or higher? A difference of 30C or so is enough to make life impossible for us but isn’t even a rounding error compared to the temperature range of a planet. Look at Mars.

        Will it happen in the next few centuries or even millennia? No. But those timescales are miniscule compared to the life of the Earth or the lifecycle of an entire species.

        We will be the cause of not just climate “change”, but pretty much a life reset. Like the asteroid. EVERY animal larger than 10 or so cm will die. There’s no way out of it. This is the great filter.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    12 days ago

    This is the first post I’ve ever seen that’s gotten twitter-style ratio’d. There are more comments than votes.

  • QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    10 days ago

    TBH, yeah, that’s what I consider the point of my life - amusing myself until death. Whatever I do will not matter in 100, 1000 or 1000000 years which is all just a blip in the scale of the universe. So basically, I’m just trying to have fun and help other people have fun. Of course I realize that I’m incredibly privileged to live a life where I don’t have to worry about too much and I can think about fun and not surviving. I experienced difficult periods in my life and the answer to this question was much, much harder back then.

  • monovergent 🛠️@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    12 days ago

    Being a good friend, finding what makes me happy while in some way better off, and trying to do those things.

    Failing that, doing very bad things to very bad people.

  • NuraShiny [any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    12 days ago

    Life is what you make of it. Which is why we are leftists, we’d like more people to be able to have lives that are actually fulfilling to them.

  • Zaleramancer@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    12 days ago

    Philosophically, I think the pursuit of truth and the exercise of compassion are worthwhile endeavors.

    But when that’s too abstract, I remind myself that I have people who rely on me and benefit from my presence in their life. I work to make the world around me better than it was before, so that others can immediately, and in the future, have better lives.

  • Zetta@mander.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    11 days ago

    On a fundamental level there is absolutely no meaning to life, it happened randomly over great great spans of time.

    On a human level the meaning of life is enjoying it to the best of your ability.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    11 days ago

    I like to recall some wise words of Christmas in these dark times:

    Here’s the deal, newbie. You can stuff your stocking with shiny little toys from now until you grow some testicles, but until that stocking is filled with friendship, loyalty, love and devotion, well… it’s just plumb empty.

    And no, you can’t purchase those things at Laura Ashley. And no, you can’t win them in the red book giveaway extravaganza. And, gee, I’m sure if these aren’t things that you can wind up and watch spin for eight hours.

    Let me make this exceptionally clear. Christmas is about love. You can’t live without other people’s love. Not during Christmas, not ever.

    So go spend this time with your friends and family. And if they laugh at you, laugh with them. And if they laugh at you again, hit them and go find some new friends. But for the love of god, jesus, Mary, and Joseph and his technicolor dreamcoat, don’t ever ever forget this, newbie. You have to give love to get love. So start giving. Now.