I know this is an old thread but I just want to say to whoever is reading this, our lives are never meaningless. No matter who you are or how insignificant you feel, your life is an infinitely important thread in the tapestry of our world. I don't mean to derail the original poster, I just wanted to leave a little bit of positivity and something I've personally come to realize to be true.
I think this conversation needs to be had and to the extent that it might be necessary. This is the most important issue to be talked about on SS, or in life actually. I am grateful that you came out to defend what is not a popular opinion in here, and I hope that you can explain yourself carefully and thoughtfully.
I hope this isn't annoying but I totally get your response too. I didn't feel this way until I got confronted with a possible diagnosis of a terminal illness. Ironically I thought I wanted to die for years until I was confronted with actually dying and it being non-negotiable, far sooner than I thought, and that I won't be myself when I finally leave. Suddenly all I want is to live! I then got really into reading about near death experiences, and I personally came to the conclusion that our lives are meaningful because of our relationships to other people. I realized that my life has a ripple effect whether I wanted it to have one or not. This is just me though! Everyone has a right to interpret our time on this earth however they choose.
Fair enough. Sadly this means those that have no one are free to go, no?
Sorry to single you out @sarahwilliams . But i just see these kind of posts all over youtube comments etc. And it frustrates me that i can't respond on youtube because they'll ban me on youtube for saying the truth : that life has no objective purpose and that life is meaningless.
Someone may have a subjective purpose and that's ok with me.
You or anyone: what would you say makes my life meaningful? i don't see any meaning, purpose or reason for me to continue working and trying to struggle against a sea of troubles dealing now with level 3 pain waiting for level 10 pain as in a brain stroke or homelessness or dementia to hit me. For what reason? . i don't see a purpose to life. i don't see a reason to put up with suffering, to put up with anything or to do anything.
Death, pain, old age and disease are inevitable. Pain is a lot worse than people can remember or imagine.
They don't ban you on ThemTube for being a nihilist, where did you get that? I have seen quite the edgy and bleak commentary in my years on there, I produced part of it, lol.
They banned most of my conspiracy theorist buddies though, that much is true.
