Discussion Is Life Precious?

[AngelTear]

You see the title

Is life precious or is that something we just tell ourselves so we feel like we have a purpose?

Is there actual meaning in the world or again, is it just something we make up so everything has a meaning?

 

[Intoxicated]

Life is just a game like GTA. You may like it or not. That's it.

 

[Forever Sleep]

To some I'm sure it can be. I suppose I've had very brief moments where I've felt love, belonging, joy. In those moments- I could envisage that if at least some of life were like that- it could well feel like something to be grateful for and to think a precious thing. I just think it depends on a person's experiences. I'm not sure people say it without meaning it though. At least to some extent. Why would they?

 

[Unlucky777]

Under some circumstances yes it can be very precious.

EDIT for clarity: I once thought life was very precious up until my 30s and that we were very lucky to experience life, including the joys and pains.

Now in mid 40s? I think life is a curse. I don't want to be here anymore. I wish I could just disappear or wish I never existed.

 

[overthehill]

Others sure as fuck don't act like it. Nobody cares about people like us. We're gutter trash, especially the men. Do you know how many of us could be saved with a kind word here and a heartfelt hug there? Yet nobody does anything. Instead they say that websites like this one should be shut down. Huzzah, the only place where lonely losers could meet kindred spirits is shut down and now they're more isolated than ever! Surely this will make everything better!

 

[anhedonic_moron]

personally, no. i don't find life to be precious at all but that doesn't mean that nihilism is a bad thing. in fact i find that nihilism is the best case scenario. that finally reaching the conclusion that life truly is meaningless is liberating in a way. coming from a religious family (am not specifying because I am afraid that it would shatter someone's entire life's illusion) i have learned THE supposed purpose of life and having thought about it further reveals it to be nothing more but a nothingburger. that even with my faith, it is meaningless. which is why that although i understand why people are scared for the fact that life is meaningless, for me i still find it baffling. idk

 

[WeDontKnowTheFuture]

That's one of the question that sometime prevent me to decide if i should go with suicide or not, i feel like putting an end to my life is a big deal, it's putting an end to my very being and all that characterize it and it sound grave to me. However, what if all that was just a construction of my mind and his will to live ? Eventually suicide could be seen as a neutral thing wich does not involve so much at least for the person commiting it.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

To me Life is extreme torture, a hell a trillion times worse than the worst thing one can imagine

Only eternal Non-existence is the opposite of evil life and this evil world

So Non-existence forever is as good and beautiful as that worst hell = life is bad, as the most extreme torture is bad

The horrorible things far outweigh any garbage they say is so good

For example any human can can get most of their skin burned off in a fire and remain alive. The pain of the burning is unimaginable. What is worth that nightmare : watching a shit click bait "enjoyable" video, eating a fucking sandwich, reading a crap "entertaining" social media post? Not to me not by a longshot

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

Under some circumstances yes it can be very precious.

EDIT for clarity: I once thought life was very precious up until my 30s and that we were very lucky to experience life, including the joys and pains.

Now in mid 40s? I think life is a curse. I don't want to be here anymore. I wish I could just disappear or wish I never existed.

Schopenhauer said life was like walking up to the stage in a theater and seeing ever more clearly that it's just cardboard cut outs

 

[badatparties]

Subjectively, sure, it can be precious if that's the meaning you assign to it. Objectively, probably not. Religions consider life sacred because the all powerful sky daddy said so

Humans sure don't act like it because we are currently engaged in several genocides around the world. We look at each other lower than dog poo. If life doesn't consider itself sacred, then what the fudge is all this talk about sanctity?

If life was sacred, we wouldn't even have to ask the question, it would be apparent to everyone.

 

[overmorrow]

not really no

 

[FuneralCry]

No, never to me existence just feels like the opposite, I see existence as the most dreadful, terrible mistake that just causes harm and suffering with no limit as to how much one can be tortured and I could never see a point to any of this rather it's just pain and suffering all for the sake of it and I wish I never suffered more than anything, I find it the most terrible tragedy how this existence was imposed causing all this endless suffering as a result, all I want is to be gone, I'll just always prefer to not exist than suffer.

 

[WhatCouldHaveBeen32]

Life as it is now is not precious. Life could be precious, life could be sacred, people could've choose to give birth only when necessary, to keep populations low, to cry when someone is born and to laugh when someone dies, that is not our life, not our reality.

Even a blind man would agree that life is SHIT either way BUT ITS WAY MORE SHIT because of the choices we made, it can never be precious because we have made it into a gambling simulator instead of acting like humans and actually using our intelligence.

I think human conscience is the worst kind there is and if there are any other conscious beings they would likely agree, a primitive, sadistic and hedonistic animal that gains conscience but doesn't eliminate the animal aspect from itself is doomed to not go past the great filter, I genuienly think that, just think about it, a monkey killing another monkey for something only creates destruction in a 1x1 meter area, the monkeys get injured they draw blood, earth around them gets moved around, some insects might die in the forest by the monkey falling on them, you get the idea. Humans doing the same with one another is similar BUT nation wide, it destroys the ENTIRE world. That's the filter in my opinion that we haven't managed to pass, our animalistic tendencies which we gave weapons capable of destruction that far exceeds our mind.

And I think that the right choice was to just stop pursuing it, unironically, we weren't made for it but we have an ego, we have something to prove so instead of taking our seat as a conscient being that tries to help other animals, that knows it's place, that is happy and becomes humble we became even more egoistic in a quest for whatever the fuck humanity desires.

Life on our planet is not precious, we slaughter, we rape, we relish in all of it, we have squandered the option of life being precious, it's something that is way behind us, a path not taken that would have ended in a wall, sure, but it would've ended in peace rather than endless pursue for power and domination.

We were a mistake.