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?

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    Life has no inherent meaning. It doesn’t need one. That doesn’t make it pointless either. These judgments are human constructs, not qualities of life itself.

    But if someone needs a meaning in life:
    The meaning of life is to give your life meaning.

    Find it yourself. What feels important to you? What makes you unhappy? What makes you happy?

    I tend to be on the empathetic side. I feel a lot of pain and desperation about the state of the world, and the way we humans treat one another so cruelly. That’s why I am trying to find my own way to contribute, so that life, for us and those who follow, becomes permanently better.

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    I would argue we have a whole list of purposes:

    • procreate
    • copulate
    • mate
    • engage in sexual reproduction
    • propagate the species
    • reproduce
    • conceive life
    • bring forth offspring
    • weave new generations
    • kindle the spark of life
    • sow the seeds of tomorrow
    • whip up some womb-biscuits
    • bake a bun in the baby oven
    • start a stork-summoning ritual
    • do the chromosome cha-cha
    • know each other in the biblical sense
    • lie together
    • hook up
    • get it on
    • do the deed
    • bump uglies
    • initiate a genetic merge request
    • fork the DNA repo
    • compile the next generation
    • instantiate another human

    I think you got the gist.

    And in the meantime also entertain ourselves, of course.

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    Literally? There is no reason for life. Which scares people, so they develop superstition (theology) or ascribe it to emotions (happiness, suffering, etc). There is no reason, for life. The reason for life existing or how it came to be is certainly up for debate, but there is no why. We are alive, we are conscious. Eventually our bodies give out on us, and our life ends.

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    The answer is that there’s no one answer. Since people find it, since people make it, and some people don’t think it exists. I’m that last one, just killing time until sweet oblivion finally claims me.

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    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.

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    Maybe the point is to find your own meaning of life.
    Like my reason to continue may be different than yours (once found)

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    There’s so much to explore. Not just physical locations, but our own minds and each other’s too. Learning about the laws of the universe, history, and seeing what’s to come. Even pain is a thing to be experienced that the dead don’t get to.

    Is all that meaningless? All of us contain our own universe within us. Sure, it would be nice to care about all the other people (if there are other people) and what impact I have on them. But if in the long run nothing I do matters to them, fuck it. I’m mainly concerned with what’s going on in here.

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    There is no point, no purpose, self replicating cells appeared and evolution led to where we are now.