Does anybody see a point in life?

[MariV]

well our perception is very limited. we cant know

 

[FuneralCry]

Maybe the purpose of life is to make us appreciate death and no longer existing when it finally comes. To me death is an reward for all the pain we have to go through in life.

 

[Sir_nihilist]

Wrong place for this question lol

 

[wanttodie]

No I can't see any point in my life.

 

[Pikachugrenade]

Nope. I'm ready to give it all up

 

[LivingDeadGirl]

There is no point in living. This world has become so normalized to humanities horrors that nothing is shocking, nothing makes us feel anymore. We are a society of emotionally dead beings waiting to torture the next poor soul we find to make us feel adequate in some irrational way. We are heartless, "soulless", hate filled creatures that don't deserve this world. Life has no meaning, there is no point anymore. We don't deserve to continue being the destructive empty assholes we've become. For those of us who dare feel or care, we are too "emotional." We are too "soft" and need to strengthen or armor. This armor society wears is just a mask and I'd rather feel overwhelmed emotions that help me to escape the void that is our world. I'd rather care and go out knowing I felt more in a world I hated then most of societies robots.

 

[Jojo81]

The purpose of life is to earn and make money to take care of your family.. And then die one day.. The grass is greener on the other side.. If you are alone, you will miss the family bonding.. If you have a family, then you sacrifice your life to keep your family happy..

 

[ezeph]

I'm an extreme nihilist so definitely not... we're here to live and die. Everything in between is too finite for purpose.

 

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

We all die. Some have better lives than others but we all die in the end so there's no point. Some people manage to do something good with their lives. I wish I could but too many bad things happened to me and I don't want to go on so now for me there's no point in living.

 

[WornOutLife]

Nope, no point at all because the universe is infinite but absurd. It doesn't make sense.
The only way I could find life to have a purpose would be if there was actually an afterlife in which we get what the meaning of life was, and learn all about this world and every galaxy, every universe.

 

[Ghost2211]

The purpose of our existence is breeding, like all other animals and plants. Humans aren't special, so there is no special point to our existence. Life happened because the right situations allowed for it, and life evolved.

 

[262653]

In the past, people had gods to believe in and to be fearful of. Advances in science has taken that away from the masses who now just exist.

I guess having a god works both ways. It pushes some to find the life worth living, while pushing others leads them mostly to more suffering, like an animal in captivity has the urges of a wild animal, but unable to satisfy these urges. Still, a society with both groups driven outlasts a society where no one is driven, so what we have is that most people are driven but not all of them are capable to satisfy the demands set before them. It's a heaven and hell with a multitude of layers.
At times it can be difficult to figure out where each individual is positioned.

 

[CarbonMonoxide]

Life happened because the right situations allowed for it, and life evolved.

Frankly I don't believe evolution is even logical. For instance, the earth's rotation speed is slowly reducing. Going back 100,000 years or so, the earth would have been spinning so fast that the oceans would have washed over the continents twice a day. How could evolution happen under such conditions? I can point out many other such inexplicable events.

Regarding the op's question, yes I believe life has meaning and worth. Life itself is not the problem. The problem is the people who use their freedom of choice to pursue harmful ambitions at the expense of others. Think warfare for profit, pollution, drug and human trafficking and many others. The majority of humanity's problems are man made. I believe in God but selfish men have messed up religion as well. I'm still looking for a way to make my life worthwhile.

 

[Megadeth]

Yes, i believe theres a point, though i dont think i fully 100% know the point. I personally believe that there is but i just haven't found it yet.. I wonder if i'll have enough time to find it before im dead.

 

[Ghost2211]

Frankly I don't believe evolution is even logical. For instance, the earth's rotation speed is slowly reducing. Going back 100,000 years or so, the earth would have been spinning so fast that the oceans would have washed over the continents twice a day. How could evolution happen under such conditions? I can point out many other such inexplicable events.

Regarding the op's question, yes I believe life has meaning and worth. Life itself is not the problem. The problem is the people who use their freedom of choice to pursue harmful ambitions at the expense of others. Think warfare for profit, pollution, drug and human trafficking and many others. The majority of humanity's problems are man made. I believe in God but selfish men have messed up religion as well. I'm still looking for a way to make my life worthwhile.

No point in debating evolution. I respect your right to believe in creationism

 

[CarbonMonoxide]

No point in debating evolution. I respect your right to believe in creationism ❤

I respect your right to believe in evolution too. I believe in special creation, not creationism.

 

[MrBlue]

I don't think there's any proper purpose/meaning to life, but we're biologically inclined to gain satifaction in sharing life experiences with others and connecting to people. Even if cynically thats probably just to increase the liklihood of satisfy our primal urges to reproduce and dominate. Not saying that's enough for many people though.

 

[Deleted member 20852]

Nope no point. It's all just a painful journey from nothingness to nothingness.

 

[XYZ]

My life has no meaning, but I believe my biological purpose is to make more humans that carry my genes. Me passing down genes?!? Ludicrous, I know...

 

[TheSomebody]

It doesnt have a point. You are just born, you work your whole life to be happy and then you die, returning to the nothingness you came from.

Nope, no point at all because the universe is infinite but absurd. It doesn't make sense.
The only way I could find life to have a purpose would be if there was actually an afterlife in which we get what the meaning of life was, and learn all about this world and every galaxy, every universe.

life would still be meaningless. The universe and everything else that exists within it, has no purpose except to exist. Even if we assume that the universe exists because God wanted it, then I would just ask, why does God exist? Behind its existence there is absolutely nothing, so there is no reason for it to exist either.

If we keep asking to everything "why this exists" we will arrive at a big "nothingness". So, everything is meaningless.

 

[Niirvana]

No, just envy those who have already left and wait for my turn.

 

[purplesmoothie]

There would be a point if I was attractive. It would be to have fun and spread love but I'm not so yeah

 

[LenkaX]

It's pointless, you just eat, drink, shit, and piss. If you're lucky, you can have sex, but if you're an average man like me, women will probably not like you.

 

[Mixo]

Even in my best days I accepted the fact that life itself doesn't contain meaning and that we as humans are tasked with doing so. However if your life is in shambles or the majority of your life is comprised of non-stop suffering, it is incredibly hard to find meaning. At least for me. I believe that if my life mattered or had meaning at all, I would have mattered to people while I was alive. So I don't believe there is a point to any of this.

 

[LonelyNick]

I don't. Tired of the pain, tired of the daily grind. Tired of my mental illnesses. I want to rest. I've thought my error live, things didn't get better, my health will only decline. Everything is awful.

 

[Homecoming]

I see life as pointless game with no rewards/achievements in the end (regardless I CTB or not ).

 

[Mr2005]

The point is if you enjoy your life it doesn't need one

 

[ARW3N]

Most people agree with you about the sheer pointlessness of life but think that fleeing from the absurdity of reality into illusions, religion, or death is not the way out.

 

[Marchioness]

I'm someone who goes out and travels, explores new things, meets new people and checks off a bucketlist item at least once a month and still don't see a point to it all. The things I do are fun distractions until the high of the distraction wears off and reality is sitting there in a corner evily smirking at me.

 

[Green Destiny]

Given the state of this world i'm very hard pressed to find a reason to continue to live in it.