Discussion If life has no purpose, then why live?

[jazzcat621]

Lately this is something ive been thinking about a lot. Before I lost my job to mental disability, my only life purpose i felt was to serve. As ive worked through therapy and had a lot of different life experiences ive found that really there is no purpose and im supposed to just make one up, like a sandbox game. What is supposed to happen when I get bored? With a video game I just stop playing and switch to another game, but what if I get tired of video games all together? Like video games ive been feeling that about life. Im bored of making up purposes to live when things dont work out. When that happens then what's the point of living?

 

[WhatCouldHaveBeen32]

Well, I don't know, I also think the same way you do, to respond with anything other than "there is no point" is to lie to myself first and foremost and I hate liars.
I also think/thought?/still think that putting myself in servitude of animals and people in need is the only thing left for my carcass, not so I can live but so others don't suffer as much.

For me, me? there is nothing left, no point. It's everyone's choice at that point wether they serve others or choose to die but you shouldn't hear this for the first time at like 20 years old when you've been asking since 12, you know?

I hate society for that and that alone, I don't think it's my point but if I had a dream or wish it would be to make everyone on this planet acknowledge the darkest depths that someone can get to. The fact that they have lied to me so many times and have continued to do so for over a decade and fill my mind with false promises is insane.

Only to as an adult to be told that I can live or die and that they don't care; it just reeks to me that these people knew the answer, they just couldn't risk it saying it to a child because of jail time. Why? because they are evil and know that every adult is evil and is waiting for an opportunity to sack another person so they expected the child to be asking the question as a gotcha moment to get them in trouble and the child would get...what exactly? schadenfreude ? I've seen people ruin others lives for that, I guess adults project that on children aswel so they are careful to be legally correct when talking to them.

I can't explain it otherwise, since I was 18 I was told that I can kill myself whenever I want and that nobody cares but as a child no one ever even entertained the idea, I hate humanity, there is no point in my opinion but humanity is making me day after day choose the secret hidden 3rd ending that is between living and dying, the revenge ending.

 

[reki_haibane]

I honestly don't know exactly what to say… but I really dislike when people talk in absolute terms—like "life has no meaning" or "life definitely has a meaning." Personally, I do believe there is some kind of greater purpose, maybe something connected to shaping the universe or being here for a reason given by a higher being.

But at the same time, I think there's an emptiness inside every human being that we're meant to fill ourselves, for our own sake. Nothing in life is perfect, and I don't pretend to fully understand it.

For me, I just want to experience things more fully and contently. I can't judge my entire life based only on the first 18 years, or on the limited experiences I've had so far. And I guess this constant search for something meaningful never really goes away—but maybe that's okay.

And honestly, I prefer expressing things this way rather than giving a simple script, even if writing it out might be easier.

 

[Persona3]

Look up biology and you'll find your answer. If that's not enough for you, I'm sure there are opinions as numerous as grains of sand. Maybe you'll find the one that fits you

 

[thelastmessiah]

Because of my autism people more often than not tend to not like me or want to be around me so my purpose in turn is to do nothing leeching off them my entire life and live off disability pay to spite them ever so slightly. Better than nothing I guess.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

life has no purpose to me .

i didn't ask to be here . i like imo every human was forced to be here.

the only reason i'm still here is scared of failing a suicide attempt.

as long as i continue to live the only thing i want is to avoid unbearable pain and get my suicide ready to go and do it

so that's the only purpose for me to avoid unbearable pain and suicide asap. but the only reason i have to avoid pain is because this hell was imposed on me and i haven't been able to kill myself yet. the things that i consciously plan on doing is only to avoid pain but i won't need to do those if i can kil myself . because after Death i won't have to do anything , no pain , no problems , no suffering no bad memories , all my problems solved forever .
Death is Non-existence forever.

it;s not like i try to work and wash clothes and eat etc because i want to or because those things have meaning. i only plan and do that garbage and more only to avoid becoming homeless or the pain of thirst starvation cold weather etc. if i could lie down and not have any needs like for water or to go to the bathroom or for food then i'd just lay there and die of thirst after what 3 days? but the pain of extreme thirst would hit so i have to do all that garbage just avoid extreme pain . but only because i'm alive . a dead corps doesn't get thirsty or hungry etc. boggles my mind that almost all humans are ok with this being a slave to the body, then mind , then to society others etc.

 

[Off_Switch]

We are here because our parents are animals. And animals have been cruelly programmed by nature to procreate. I predict that this practice will continue to decline like it has been, as we evolve to be less and less like animals. At least as far as quality people are concerned. Dumb people will always still continue to procreate though. Dumb people never question the purpose of life. Maggots essentially. The movie Idiocracy explains everything.

 

[FoxSauce]

I don't have a purpose. I just live for others, snd obligation.

 

[plsyapyap]

Why you want to die if there's no purpose? i mean death itself is not a purpose if everything is meaning. I personally find living without a purpose quite easier than living with a purpose. I feel no pressure, no anxiety to do a certain thing because it doesn't matter. On other hand i would be very much anxious if there would be any god whom i have to follow or a purpose i have to fulfill. I can just live with this absurdity of life as i think the world is perfect this way

 

[socksnsandles]

life has purpose to some people, just not us

 

[FuneralCry]

I could never see a point to any of this, it's just futile unnecessary suffering all for the sake of it with no limit as to how much one can be tortured and I only continue to suffer as I exist in this horrific world where I cannot just cease existing peacefully and it's a crime to cease existing in peace with the suffering and torture of existing seen as to force and prolong no matter what. It's just all so terrible and dreadful to me and I always suffer so much from being peacefully denied the option to be permanently free from this existence that just causes harm and suffering, I just want to not exist, for me only non-existence could ever be positive.

 

[Pale_Rider]

There is purpose to life. sentience , and intelligence would be the base to that purpose now that we have made it to the AI age. [ this is separate a religious argument ]

The individual is transient however is my take.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I suppose you kind of answered your own question in a way- we live to serve. So- even if we no longer get any sense of fulfilment about being there for others, we may still feel stuck here because we don't want to hurt them emotionally. That can be the last remaining tether I think.

Maybe nothing matters to us in terms of bringing us joy or fulfilment. Does it still really not matter if we hurt others with our actions though? Regarding suicide, some people will argue that we'll be dead so- it won't matter. We won't be there to witness it. I think a lot though, still worry about their loved ones beyond their death. What will their suicide do to them?

I think- unfortunately for many of us, the 'purpose' of life is to try to not hurt others. Even if they have hurt us sometimes.

 

[randomthougts]

Our anchestor's have fighted wars and hell of sickness through history and years and years and here we Are giving up. Part of life is to reproduce.

 

[Forveleth]

We think we are superior, but our job is to make more copies of ourselves, like any other living thing. The problem is we have developed enough brain power to realize that there is more possibility to life than than replicating. The problem is our brains need something more than that, so we search for something bigger, but that is really it. We grew too smart for our own existence.

 

[Steph99]

We think we are superior, but our job is to make more copies of ourselves, like any other living thing. The problem is we have developed enough brain power to realize that there is more possibility to life than than replicating. The problem is our brains need something more than that, so we search for something bigger, but that is really it. We grew too smart for our own existence.

Exactly so!

 

[wtg]

A question I also ask to myself a lot. Well, I havent find the answer, im just here procastinating.

 

[Mr.Tristesse]

You're supposed to infuse it with your own purpose and meaning.

If you can't, well, I guess you end up here.

 

[F@#$]

Well put,I wonder the same thing.

 

[vitbar]

I don't know what the point is, or if there is one. I just try and make the most of it. I enjoy aspects, and I hope to brighten the lives of those around me. This has been enough so far.