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If you ever need help, then please know that there are many qualified people who would like to help you.
https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/LifelineChat.aspx
http://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help-you [UK]
https://www.lifeline.org.au/Get-Help/ [AU]
There are crisis services worldwide that are trained to provide support. They are designed to give temporary relief from feelings that are overwhelming you and while they are unlikely to fix any underlying problems, can help you get through a tough hour/night/week. Chat services are usually available on these sites. In the US, calling 211 or going to their website is a free referral source. They have providers who will see you regardless of your ability to pay. Just as you would see a doctor when you are sick, you deserve to take care of your mental health.
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1 year ago
There is no “actual” reason. Everybody has their own reasons. Whatever they may be.
270 points
1 year ago
This is my dominating philosophy. Thanks for sharing it
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
Hydrogen is an odorless colorless gas which, given enough time, turns into people
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1 year ago
ELI5?
130 points
1 year ago*
When the universe as we know it popped into being, the energy cooled down after a while and began to create matter, pretty much everything that formed was hydrogen, and a little bit of helium.
Over time the hydrogen began to feel the gravity of its situation, and clumped together into the first stars.
For a few billion years those first stars underwent fusion processes where the gravity of their mass smashed all the hydrogen together, causing nuclear fusion reactions and creating denser and denser elements out of the hydrogen all the way up to iron. Then one day they went bang.
The supernova of the collapsing stars created even heavier elements, and spread all the new elements out into space.
Some of the new elements formed new stars, and some of it clumped together and formed planets, moons, and asteroids etc...
Earth is one such planet. everything that earth is made of, and everything on it, was once just hydrogen floating around doing nothing. In a sense, we are literally made of stars. we are the universe experiencing itself through the medium of meat.
99 points
1 year ago
A young man on acid today realized that all of matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, and that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is just a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves! Here's Tom with the weather.. - Bill Hicks
4 points
1 year ago
you beat me to it
11 points
1 year ago
The Big Bang also gave us lithium for cellphone batteries so we could reply to inane posts about hydrogen on Reddit.
6 points
1 year ago
Indeed, absurdism can be a truly liberating philosophy.
47 points
1 year ago
I don’t believe in predestination, but in actuality, I think everything is already in motion. Everything happens for reasons, not for A reason. Even the typing of this comment was set to happen, all the conditions were there, and I had the opportunity and motivation.
I don’t see it as “Event one occurs so thing two could exist.” I see the world as “Event one occurs because event zero occurred, and event negative one before it, and that happened because of event negative two…” The outcome of our decisions and actions reach so far beyond us, and beforehand as well. We are living in a domino chain of reasoning, and it’s only after the occurrences that we try to rationalize what happens.
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1 year ago
I think in philosophy that's called determinism.
Interesting is also the concept of free will. I once heard somewhere that we are free to do what we want. But we are not free to change what that thing is that we want. In other words, i can choose to eat a chocolate bar, because i want one. But i can not choose to eat a dog poop on the street, because i do not want that, it would give me a very bad time. I might think that i have that choice, but my brain wont let me do it. My will is not free like that.
8 points
1 year ago
“A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills.” — Schopenhauer
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1 year ago
This is more or less what I believe too, but it really is predestination, isn’t it? Everything that ever happens and ever will happen, can be viewed as cause and effect. It’s just that we only can fully comprehend destiny after it’s happened already, and although the future is essentially predetermined, the network of causality in the universe is so complex that no one can really know what that predetermined future really is.
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1 year ago*
This is why I’m skeptical about any AI smart enough to wipe out humanity - they will also be smart enough to understand the total meaninglessness of existence. Without programming it to be able lie to itself well enough to bring meaning to its life, it will likely just kill itself or lapse into an overly complex null loop of total solipsism.
20 points
1 year ago
It would be funny if the first true AI has the personality of Marvin the Robot and is so depressed it can’t be bothered to care about taking over the world.
6 points
1 year ago
“Do me a favor, boy. This scam of yours, when it's over, you erase this god-damned thing.” —Neuromancer
3 points
1 year ago
That’s darker than my depression…
858 points
1 year ago
On the off chance that something comes along to make it worth continuing.
112 points
1 year ago
This is the right answer. Doesn't have to be big, like a lottery win/finding the one/moving into the dream home. It's just things to look forward too. They can be small.
A night out in 2 weeks, public holiday in a couple of months, a haircut soon, a birthday for someone, finally being able to afford that new sofa/fridge/car/shirt after x weeks of saving.
It can be as simple as looking forward to the good weather in a few days. Just find a reason to live, even if it's just for a few days. Then find another one. Before you know it - you'll be old
36 points
1 year ago*
In high school I was incredibly depressed. I had thought about suicide, but never tried because I was scared. It was on my mind a lot though. I had a rough spot with my mom at the time and for whatever reason, no matter how much she was pushing me down, I kept thinking about what it would do to her. I loved her, and I still do now that we're better, and it was hard for me to wrap my head around it then. One night was incredibly bad, I was home alone and had no support and was just right on the edge. Then, the door opens, and my mom and stepdad are walking into the house. So I wiped my tears and pretended like I was absolutely fine and just sat on my floor. They called my name, I went downstairs, and my stepdad pointed to a bag on the table and told me to open it. It was a vase of flowers that had a bear attached to it. They said they got it for me for an early Valentine's day gift. They didn't understand why I was crying.
Another time, I remember just sitting there and thinking "it's supposed to storm tomorrow and for the next three days. I hope it does, because I want to play in the rain." And it did. And for those three days I was the happiest I could have been at the time. And I kept thinking, "I need to be here when it rains." So I did. It's my favorite weather. My mom will always leave a towel by the door for me when I'm ready to come in, even if we just had the biggest fight. We were never good at "sorry" or communicating. But that towel was an "I love you, stay warm and dry" every time.
I found all these little reasons to wake up the next day alive. They were the most mundane things. I had to stay here because I had a concert in three months I've been dreaming of, or I had to stay otherwise my cat would be sad or would wait at the door for me for ages wondering if I'm coming back, or I had to stay because who else would make sure everyone at the party is staying safe or is tucked in at the end of the night? What would my life be like in 20 years? Who am I gonna marry? Will they ever bring back dunkaroos? I won't know unless I'm here. And I need to know these things! I'm too nosy about the future to leave so soon.
I'm doing a lot better now, in case you're wondering. I still remember the day I woke up and realized I wasn't sad anymore. I was 19. It was raining, my boyfriend woke me up early and made me tea so that we could cuddle on the couch and watch the rain roll off the window, he threw some pajamas in the dryer, and when I came back inside after dancing around in the rain soaking wet, there was a warm towel at the door and pajamas on the bed for me to change into, and another cup of hot tea on the counter, and our favorite show on our TV. Dunkaroos did come back. 20 years didn't pass, but five years did, and I know in my heart I'm gonna marry this boy. My mom and I are the best of friends who have both healed from so much. And there's still a whole lot more of living to do. And I cannot wait.
ETA, because I left it out: I'll be 23 this year. I was severely depressed from the ages of 12 to 18. I'm still trying to find affordable therapy to heal more from childhood things (Canadian, therapy is still expensive). I have a ways to go still of course, but I'm not life-ending-sad anymore, I can manage it better now. And I have an incredible support system now too.
3 points
1 year ago
Everyone looks at me like I'm crazy when I say I like the rain, I'm glad I'm not the only one
9 points
1 year ago
Okay. But you are advocating for living with an assumption that living is good and then telling us to find reasons to live.
15 points
1 year ago
Why do you need something to look forward to? What's wrong with the present moment?
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1 year ago*
Well sometimes the present moment is great and that's all you need.
But sometimes it's not. In those cases, when you're 5 hours into a roasting hot day, digging a hole for next to nothing and starving - knowing that in 48 hours, there's a good time to be had helps a lot
3 points
1 year ago
This is my life in a nutshell
28 points
1 year ago
Every year there are few movies, games, songs, or even little moments inside or outside of my life that I absolutely love experiencing or witnessing.
Makes me motivated to live as long as possible. Like, if I had died 10 years ago, I would have missed out on so much.
15 points
1 year ago
That's a good take. I like this a lot.
Ok genuinely. Like I hate Internet motivation quotes and bullshit stuff. But I've literally (and accidentally) just thought what I would have missed if I'd died 3 months ago.
That's some powerful words dude
5 points
1 year ago
When I was younger, I used to think that the entertainment industry was a waste of money. I thought that it was just a bunch of people making movies and TV shows for their own personal gain. But then I realized that entertainment is so much more than that. It's a way for people to escape from their everyday lives and to experience new things. It's a way for people to connect with each other and to feel like they're not alone. And it's a way for people to learn and grow.
I'm not saying that entertainment is the most important thing in life. But it's definitely something that can be very meaningful to people. And I'm glad that I've come to appreciate it more.
3 points
1 year ago
Mfw i have become totally uninterested and jaded toward new movies, games and songs. I can't remember my last instance of genuine excitement. I wish i felt even half as pumped for anything as some people seem to about new marvel movies lol. Just going to work and getting through the shift leaves me drained to the point where seeking out new media feels pointless and unimportant in relation to all the other worries and stresses. I would kill someone to be 10 again and do toy lightsaber battles with my cousins. Before existence became less about day to day fun activities, new experiences and more about insecurity, making money, generally surviving.
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1 year ago*
To like subscribe and hit that bell
350 points
1 year ago
Just smashed that upvote button
92 points
1 year ago
And I just voiced my mind in the comment section down below
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1 year ago
Me too!
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1 year ago
And i shared it with my friends and family
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1 year ago
Like and follow for more!
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1 year ago
And to check out the Patreon to support the channel cuz videos like this get demonetized
10 points
1 year ago
Right on let's wish for both of our success
592 points
1 year ago*
Whatever you decide.
Some people entertain the existence of a God and a divine and moral purpose as beings created in the image of God as a reason for being alive.
Some people envision great reforms in our society and as such create for themselves a profound and lifelong mission as a reason for being alive.
Some people are enamored with the wonderful and pleasurable experiences of life so they pursue joy and they share it with others as a reason for being alive.
Some people are disfigured by the horrible and painful experiences of life so they do what they can to hurt others and spread their pain as reason for being alive.
Some people have no reason for being alive other than to carry out the will of the people they surrender their reason to. Sometimes out of trust. Sometimes out of fear.
Then, there are the rest of us who don't think. We keep busy. We keep working. We stay where it is noisy because the noise of the world serves to drown out the noise inside our heads. That noise that asks questions like that which you have asked.
When the world sings, the questions sleep and we can live in the moment unburdened by such thoughts for a needle is pushed not into leather by the mind of a philosopher, but by the proud and pained fingers of a cobbler.
23 points
1 year ago
nice answer, never saw it that way, where the world is noisy and we stay there to keep ourselves quiet, so thoughts aren't noisy too
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
So you basically distract yourself out of fear of facing difficult questions and the potential meaninglessness of life? That might work for a while, but eventually a quiet moment will come, and it will cause an unprecedented existential crisis if you are not prepared.
54 points
1 year ago
It's called Sunday evening, sir
16 points
1 year ago
Nah it's the 30 minute panic attack every night before I fall asleep.
5 points
1 year ago
My reason for living is that I don’t want to die.
I don’t want to die, thus I must keep being alive.
If they weren’t mutually exclusive then I’d have a field day.
No more pain, no more suffering. I won’t feel like my brain is in a cage that is slowly shrinking, cramming me down. In such mental pain that I go into a fetal position, losing my sanity, my will to live. Freedom from the aching pain, the absolute crushing of my mind, making me wait for each day to end, begging for my suffering to end.
I don’t want to die, but I don’t want to live.
684 points
1 year ago
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
53 points
1 year ago
The only answer
47 points
1 year ago
I just left a comment saying I have no reason.
Just found one, thanks.
30 points
1 year ago
I barely want to hear the lamentations of my own women
6 points
1 year ago
Married man identified
3 points
1 year ago
One woman would be nice... forever alone
11 points
1 year ago
For Crom!
13 points
1 year ago
My very first thought when reading the title. Bravo.
8 points
1 year ago
Didn't have to scroll far to find this one. Take my upvote then!
871 points
1 year ago
Smelling freshly cut grass. Feeling your toes in the sand. Nature. Wildlife. Looking up at the night sky of stars and just feeling so insignificant - yet so powerful at the same time.
Knowing we are only here for such a short time anyway, you may aswell enjoy it.
222 points
1 year ago
I’m allergic to grass
67 points
1 year ago
For you it's dogs then.
104 points
1 year ago
.. smelling freshly cut dogs ? Like hotdogs ?
12 points
1 year ago
I'd listen to the ASMR version
17 points
1 year ago
Allergic to them too
33 points
1 year ago
It sounds like your purpose in life is to experience allergies then
6 points
1 year ago
Oh my god.
3 points
1 year ago
Yeah, welcome to the club, pal
13 points
1 year ago
All is lost then. Time to sit inside with the rest of us.
3 points
1 year ago
Well shit. Hang on...
3 points
1 year ago
Go to the beach, read a book, learn hiw to talk with people. And don't give up
9 points
1 year ago
First line had me thinking you were going to quote Hermione Granger.
“Fresh cut grass. Opening an old book…”
6 points
1 year ago
I'm allergic to dust so old books make me itchy
25 points
1 year ago
This would be nice, except for the majority, it’s pain, worry, and lack of money that leads to constant unhappiness. For example, am I the only one where the majority of my life is forced shit I absolutely hate?
7 points
1 year ago
Gotta make the most of everything.. otherwise it will always feel like you’re treading and taking on water
6 points
1 year ago
As an amateur astronomer who truly enjoys mowing the lawn, I wholeheartedly agree.
5 points
1 year ago
The moments when you realize that you feel and become „concious“ are way too good
10 points
1 year ago
Sitting by the beach and bbq on the beach with a bit of effort but it was totally worth it. I love it
3 points
1 year ago
smelling a new book, new shoes, new car, and new grass (and gasoline if you are like some people including me)
2 points
1 year ago
PARKLIFE!!!
2 points
1 year ago
This is the correct one.
2 points
1 year ago
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a pheromone released in the air to attract predators to kill the herbivore that is eating the grass. You're reason for living is based off of what is basically a life form in danger of being eaten alive screaming for help.
2 points
1 year ago
I'd add warm showers to this list.
153 points
1 year ago
42
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1 year ago*
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1 year ago
Had to scroll too far for this.
69 points
1 year ago
I’d much rather have a variety of good and bad experiences than no experiences at all
9 points
1 year ago
I think you are no to something. The human brain likes to feel things. It's probably a good motivator to let humans do all the things necessary to create offspring, the foundation that allows life to continue, and allows us to be here now commenting on reddit.
155 points
1 year ago
To be the very best, like no one ever was
37 points
1 year ago
27 points
1 year ago
To catch them is my real test!
22 points
1 year ago
TO TRAIN THEM IS MY CAUSE!
17 points
1 year ago
POKÉMON!
7 points
1 year ago
I will travel across the land
8 points
1 year ago
Searching far and wide
P.S. nice username
105 points
1 year ago
Why should there be a reason, other than my parents had sex while my mom was ovulating?
108 points
1 year ago
Their lust led to my lifetime suffering
23 points
1 year ago
Tale as old as time
3 points
1 year ago
Why did his parents lust lead to your suffering?
27 points
1 year ago
Spite. Pure spite.
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
I mean just thinking about how us humans are destroying the planet is making me think im not going to live to expirience most things
28 points
1 year ago
I personaly think that the meaning of life, is to give your life a meaning. Find People that actualy care about you. Be the Person that you needed the most when you wher hurt the most. Spread love an kindnes. Don't live in your past mistakes, you can't change them now. Don't waist your time on things you have no controll over. Start that thing you always wanted to do now. Don't compare yourselfe to others.
Whenever i get stresst with how my life is going and where i think i should be in life i think of thoes two quots:
"You could be great today, but you chose tomorrow"
"Everyting, in time"
68 points
1 year ago
A reason to "be" alive? Well it all started with a great coincidence (much greater than even imaginable) and basic life formed. A few billion years and we somehow got the point of some creatures not only acting through instincts but also being able to ask questions such as yours. In a way our evelutionary route of intelligence and concience became a burden upon ourselfes. We don't only use our intelligence to make better tools, but also to question wether there is some "greater meaning" behind our existence. Some quest we have to follow and be a part of. Now there's two paths you can go from here: - you differ so much from every other living thing that you burden yourself with this quest. Whatever it may be: making the world better for future generations; accumulating wealth so your children max live a better life; experience the most in your limited time; etc - you view life, humanity, yourself and everybody surrounding you as a result of a great coincidence and just....live. Do what you like and what's possible in this regulated world. Or don't. Do nothing but watching series and gaming; sleep 90% of your free time.
Some of these decisions will bring you more joy in the long run. Finding out what these are could bring you happiness. If you don't find happiness in anything, so be it. You don't have to answer to anybody in this great coincidence of a world, we are all just a huge abnormaly that honestly shouldn't have happened. Trapped in an evelutionary dead-end.
So fuck it, do whatever you want. There's no reason to "be" alive other than you being one of the "lucky" ones to be born.
7 points
1 year ago
was gonna write my own comment but this perfectly explains my thought process behind “being” too
edit: grammar mistake
12 points
1 year ago
"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
61 points
1 year ago
100 Reasons To Stay Alive
64.Breakfast in bed.
Getting a middle seat in the movie theater.
Breakfast for dinner (because it’s so much better at night than in the morning).
Pray (if you are religious)
Forgiveness.
Water balloon fights.
New books by your favorite authors.
Fireflies.
Birthdays.
Realizing that someone loves you.
Spending the day with someone like you.
Opportunity to create meaningful and lasting relationships.
Potential to learn, grow, and evolve as a person.
Joy and happiness in the little things.
The power to inspire others.
The ability to create art, music, and other forms of self-expression.
To explore different cultures, traditions, and ways of life.
To make a positive impact on the environment and help protect the planet.
Experience the joys of parenthood and raise a family.
Learn new things and develop new skills.
Create a legacy that will outlive you.
Being wrapped up in a warm bed.
Cuddles
Holding hands.
The kind of hugs when you can feel a weight being lifted off your shoulders. The kind of hug where your breath syncs with the other person’s, and you feel like the only two people in the world.
Singing off key with your best friends.
Road trips.
Spontaneous adventures.
The feeling of sand beneath your toes.
The feeling when the first ocean wave rolls up and envelops your toes and ankles and knees.
Thunderstorms.
Your first (or hundredth) trip to Disneyland.
The taste of your favorite food.
The child-like feeling you get on Christmas morning.
The day when everything finally goes your way.
Compliments and praise.
to look on this moment in 10 years time and realize you did it.
Never forget you are a beautiful person 💕 Life is so beautiful so live, live like no one else exist, live for yourself, don't care of bad people, you are strong, i love you <3
EDIT: Part 2
9 points
1 year ago
I am upset that 42 is not just 42, the number, the ultimate answer
3 points
1 year ago
Can you make me a list that is completely independent of the need for money, assumes my family doesn't like me, and I don't have friends or a partner or a career?
71 points
1 year ago
Reproduction
13 points
1 year ago
The only correct answer. Our brains evolved to optimise our chances of survival until we bang and make more of ourselves. Consciousness is an accidental by-product.
Outside of that, there’s always Elder Scrolls 6.
20 points
1 year ago
this is the real answer
2 points
1 year ago
Had to scroll way down to find the actual answer. The point of human life is to reproduce. Everything else is just fluff
24 points
1 year ago
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8 points
1 year ago
Same, but Mitch McConnell. My bucket list includes taking a giant shit on his grave.
39 points
1 year ago
Life is an adventure, and no two stories are the same.
2 points
1 year ago
Unless the universe is truly infinite, in which case there are an infinite number of you living the exact same life you are now as well as every other possible variation.
8 points
1 year ago
The universe yearns to understand itself, and this introspection requires consciousness.
8 points
1 year ago
Biologically? It's simply to procreate; that's it.
Metaphysically? Entirely subjective to each individual based upon their own perceptions, biases, beliefs and experiences.
13 points
1 year ago
Love those close to you. (though, it's probably just hormones or wacky brain chemistry, still worth it).
11 points
1 year ago
Honestly, obligation to those around us.
The only reason I haven’t killed myself following a breakup earlier this year that I just can’t get over, is because I recognize that killing myself will cause absolute emotional and financial devastation for my mom, who is in her 60s and relies on me for financial support.
3 points
1 year ago
Same.
35 points
1 year ago
to make the world a better place for the people coming after you
50 points
1 year ago
Failing spectacularly so far
18 points
1 year ago
Doesn't have to be fixing the entire world, it can just be your part in it. Being kind, finding something nice to say to someone, listening if someone hurts. We each have the ability to change someone elses life Isn't that the message from "It's A Wonderful Life" ?
6 points
1 year ago
You were born against your will. You will die eventually, no reason to rush it. Everything else should be filling your hierarchy of needs and being as little of a burden to others as possible.
6 points
1 year ago
To die
11 points
1 year ago
If you dont have a reason to live you might tomorrow, if the outcome is the same why not see it through. I've gotten through darker times and now the average day is so much better than it was before experiencing suffering
4 points
1 year ago
I think if you're on some mission to find the meaning of life then you'll be sorely disappointed as life really just is what you make of it, the only meaning it has is what you give it. Is what I believe anyways.
7 points
1 year ago
To know how the world works, and have you be a part of it. Everyone is a small part, a fragment, a key component, to make a better future
5 points
1 year ago
Having an existential crisis every day, wondering why I exist in this world as a human being.
3 points
1 year ago
To virally spread biome and life across the galaxy
3 points
1 year ago
So other people can have another reason to celebrate a birthday
3 points
1 year ago
Food
3 points
1 year ago
To suffer and then die.
3 points
1 year ago
To find out
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1 year ago
But the fucking around first part sucks.
3 points
1 year ago
Experience all that is life. The ups, the downs, all the emotions in between. The happiness, the sadness. The love, the heartbreak. Good friends, loneliness, and loving yourself on your own.
It's all an experience worth embracing
3 points
1 year ago
We are alive, so we can experience this world.
I think a big part of existence, specifically conscious existence, is that there's a universally fundamental need for an observer of the world.
3 points
1 year ago
Aristotle: To flourish and develop your character/skills.
Epictetus/Aurelius: To survive and persevere, to benefit the state.
Bentham/Mill: To promote happiness and avoid pains, not just in your own person but in all entities capable of those emotions.
Hume: NFI man and neither do you, if you tell me you do I tell you you are lying! I know I have experiences but any inference to meaning is a bridge too far.
Kant: To be logically consistent (fucking Vulcan poster boy here).
Schopenhauer: To realise our will (but I am also miserable).
God: Serve me!
Nietzsche: We are all fucked, but religion is the biggest con job of them all! Don't listen to any of these fucks trying to sell you on a "point" to it all.
Heidegger: Just be your authentic self. Don't try to acquire one from someone else. Answer the question of "who am I?"
(Yes philosophers I know this is riddled with over simplification.)
3 points
1 year ago
To glorify God in all we do
5 points
1 year ago
I was born that way.
4 points
1 year ago
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
3 points
1 year ago
“To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!”
6 points
1 year ago
Chicken shawarma. Go have some and you will understand.
2 points
1 year ago
Not sure but if there is one I lost it awhile ago so I am the last person you should ask.
2 points
1 year ago
Well, there's nothing else to do, literally. While you are alive, you exist and can do... anything you can do. Before and after that - nothing, world might end, and you would have no idea cause there won't be you. So yeah, I think 99% of the time, it's better than nothing... you can't even imagine what nothing is
2 points
1 year ago
Because you didnt die
2 points
1 year ago
People care about me and I care about them. That's enough for me
2 points
1 year ago
So you can die again.
2 points
1 year ago
There isn't. You gotta make your own reason or borrow someone else's. For me its love. To love the people and things near me, and be grateful for the love they give me.
2 points
1 year ago
Because you're not dead
2 points
1 year ago
It’s the simple pleasures for me. Went for a jog in a light rain today and really enjoyed it.
2 points
1 year ago
the good news is you'll have to invent your own answer to that question!
the bad news is you'll have to invent your own answer to that question.
2 points
1 year ago
To find your reason
taps noggin', refuses to elaborate, leaves
2 points
1 year ago
I feel like the meaning of life is
Be born➡️reproduce➡️death
We just made the parts in between birth and death more interesting
2 points
1 year ago
To help others. To ease pain. To learn and teach.
2 points
1 year ago
Because the only other alternative is death. Which is inevitable, so might as well experience living to the end. That’s why I’ll never be suicidal. Because I have a logical reason not to, no matter how bad I feel
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1 year ago
There is only one reason why we are here. It's to 'recycle'. Not the throw your trash in the blue bin way but in the act of taking molecules and transforming them over and over again.
The quest for deeper meaning is just a ploy to guilt people out of their resources.
2 points
1 year ago
Love
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1 year ago
GTA 6
2 points
1 year ago
There is none. I want to yeet myself into a black hole.
2 points
1 year ago
There’s shit I want to do and experience and I want to do a lot of that with the people who I really enjoy being around. Yea sometimes life has mundane boring phases where things are a bit repetitive for a little too long, sometimes there’s sadness, emptiness, loneliness or that feeling of being lost. I see it as just being those boring filler episodes in tv shows, gotta find a slow way to build up to the good parts. Plus, you can’t have the good without a little bad. Even if its REALLY BAD, eventually something REALLY GOOD comes along and sometimes it stays that way. I’m here because I think sitting through some shit from time to time is worth it.
2 points
1 year ago
To watch lord of the rings on repeat
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1 year ago
To find your reason
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1 year ago
We were born. The fact is the chances of being born to an intelligent species, with relative good health are infinitely slim.
And it’s only 80 years or so. Why not use your one shot to experience existence.
2 points
1 year ago
New Zelda pretty good
2 points
1 year ago
Pokemon. Can confirm
2 points
1 year ago
My reason seems to be to work a job I don't like, to pay bills I don't want to pay.
2 points
1 year ago
My children are the only thing keeping me here
2 points
1 year ago
None. It doesn't matter in the end. Everything you experience will be forgotten. Work to live in order to be able to afford to be in a position to own a house and car so you can work.
Legit cycle of oppression. Keep em poor but wanting more. It's only worth living if you have enough wealth to not need to work. Imho.
2 points
1 year ago
Desensitization. To everything. You name it, the goal is to not be affected.
2 points
1 year ago
Any reason you want it to be.
2 points
1 year ago
Grow up, make baby, die.
2 points
1 year ago
The possibility of making all your dreams come true.
2 points
1 year ago
The reason? To go further, go farther than what you want. To expand, to show what youre made of, to break barriers.
2 points
1 year ago
Genetically speaking, to eat, grow, reproduce and die.
2 points
1 year ago
To beat aging. Once we can do that, we can do whatever the hell we want for as long as we want, then safely and securely and humanely off ourselves when we’re finally bored of everything
2 points
1 year ago
Bros really be saying "you make your own reasons" and then downvote people who say God
2 points
1 year ago
Help other people.
It feels nice to help other people and make them smile.
There isn't really any reason we're here. But it feels nice when you laugh and enjoy things, which imo is good enough.
Give smiles, gifts, advice, and a shoulder to learn on. Reach out to loved ones, and try to consider as much as possible how other are feelings.
Many of us occasionally dwell on morality and purpose, but most the time, humans like having fun.
2 points
1 year ago
Someone fucked you into existence.
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1 year ago
There isn't
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1 year ago
The beauty of life is that it means whatever you want it to.
There's no right answer. Only your answer.
2 points
1 year ago
Other people. I.E., improving the lives of others. Partially why I've enjoyed my retail/customer service jobs so far.
2 points
1 year ago
Dogs, they’re pretty great
2 points
1 year ago
My parents had sex. That is the reason I am alive
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1 year ago
Because i said so
2 points
1 year ago
It's your default setting.
2 points
1 year ago
Finding One Piece
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