The reason for living?

[wootapotky]

I think about these questions a lot. Gets me down. Then I realize that if the universe doesn't care about me, then it can go to hell. I don't need it, just like it doesn't need me. I realize that nothing in life or the universe matters, but then I realize I don't care.

 

[Falcon]

Who says that excelling in school and your job to get wealthy and famous is not wasting your life?

Who says that sitting on the beach and doing supermodels all day is not wasting your life?

It is not about living your life to the full potential. It isn't about helping others, it isn't about making this world better or worse.

It is like we come for our turn in the rollercoaster ride. We strap ourselves in and ride for 70 years or so. Then we get off, and those after us get in and keep riding. But nobody tells us why we are doing it, and why that rollercoaster even exists.


To solve the question we can try going from the opposite way by answering this question:

What does count as an accomplishment good enough to matter?

Creating a major imporvement for the masses to keep the numbers up - profilactics, cure for aids and cancers. Developing unlimited food and energy supplies.

But all that pales to the accomplishment of exploring deep space and finding what else is out there

But even then... with the land filled with healthy people, without any disease, poverty or despair, with peacful aliens living among us... what is the purpose? What are we (as a species) live for?

The ability to ask that question alone is what separates us from animals.

Accomplishments mean nothing if it is not what you truly want. Stop seeing your life from the viewpoint of how others will see or remember you. You keep waiting for someone to come in a tell you what your purpose is. It is not worth it, you need to determine that purpose. You need to have control in your life.

It seems you have an interest in deep space? Is this true?

 

[Vulpine]

I suspect what holds most people back from suicide is psychotic self-delusion (psychology texts will tell you that 'normal' people are irrational and overestimate their future prospects and ability to create that future), or for the smarter ones of the group, not wanting to hurt those around us.

This is an excellent point. When people of a "higher than average" IQ look around and notice all the idiots that surround them, it's hard for them to not want to "clean house" a little bit. So, rather than take a bat and start splattering skulls, they settle for something a little less violent than extermination in order to maintain a certain level of sanity. They settle for something like, oh, say, making them smell their farts, or flinging boogers at the idiots and smiling a smile of satisfaction when the booger sticks.

 

[6-heads lewis]

My reason for living is to make as many different people as possible smell my farts and never determine exactly who "dealt it."

Probably the best answer to the question. Some days I get up only to listen to all the stupid soundboard prank calls ive downloaded.

My favourite is Arnold: 'Who is you're daddy and what does he do?!' and the Full Metal Jacket ones 'What's your name scumbag? Hell, I like you, you can come to my house and **** MY SISTER!'

'How tall are you anyway private? 5 foot 9? I didnt know they stacked **** that high!'

Classic.

 

[Vulpine]

Some days, the only thing that gets me out of bed is the fact that it's my birthday. Happy birthday to me: I'm 11,515 days old today.

By the way, I must've netted about 20 chicks purely by telling them it's "my birthday", then following with "I'm XX,XXX days old. Happy birthday to me!"

It started from a game a chick and I played. Basically, we tried to outdo each other for coming up with (ridiculous) reasons to have a party. There were so many: The "It finally snowed!" party, the "I got done with work early today" party, the "I found 10 dollars in my coat pocket" party... but I came up with the mother of all excuses, and won the little game.

 

[Docs]

I take glee in making others smell my farts too, but I want to know what everyone else thought of what I typed, becuase you know, I'm a sensitive caring prick that will beat people's heads in (or in other words, I'll pwn yoiu) if they don't read it. Yes? Chill!

 

[Vulpine]

(or in other words, I'll pwn yoiu)

With your farts?

Look out! Alpha male on the loose!

 

[wootapotky]

I take glee in making others smell my farts too, but I want to know what everyone else thought of what I typed, becuase you know, I'm a sensitive caring prick that will beat people's heads in (or in other words, I'll pwn yoiu) if they don't read it. Yes? Chill!

What did you type?

 

[6-heads lewis]

I think Vulpine is actually the smartest one here, I mean that honestly. At some point the truly intelligent ones realize there is no point in even discussing or thinking about it, as it is impossible to come up with an answer. We truly are 'hopeless' in that sense. He has created a mockery of this thread as a way of mocking our feeble inquiries.

Or maybe hes just a guy who likes to fart in public.

 

[wootapotky]

I think Vulpine is actually the smartest one here, I mean that honestly. At some point the truly intelligent ones realize there is no point in even discussing or thinking about it, as it is impossible to come up with an answer. We truly are 'hopeless' in that sense. He has created a mockery of this thread as a way of mocking our feeble inquiries.

Or maybe hes just a guy who likes to fart in public.

It's not impossible to know the answer to these questions. If you were smart you would realize that.

 

[Docs]

Post 11.

 

[6-heads lewis]

It's not impossible to know the answer to these questions.

You are stupid and delusional. Dont worry, its quite common.

Go to your library and see how many people smarter than you and I have attempted to answer this question. Let me know how that went.

 

[wootapotky]

You are stupid and delusional. Dont worry, its quite common.

Go to your library and see how many people smarter than you and I have attempted to answer this question. Let me know how that went.

The answer dumbass is 42. Nor is it impossible. It's only a virtual impossibility.

 

[wootapotky]

Oh yeah and there is no one smarter than me since I'm the only one in the universe that matters to me. So what ever conclusion I come to is ultimately truth. Since I don't even know for sure if anyone else exists.

 

[Vulpine]

The answer dumbass is 42.

Hell yeah! What movie was that where the plugged question into the mega computer and checked it years and years later and that was it's answer? "Why are we here?" "The answer is 42."

Docs...

I intereact. Smell that?

And you can't say I interact negatively, either. What if someone was considering commiting suicide and suddenly smelled my gift to humanity and it distracted them? Then, they were like "PU! Gross! Who farted? Anyway, what was I thinking about again? Hell, I forget." See?

I was thinking about changing my life's purpose to "to see how far I can shoot a load", but that would involve women specifically, so I decided against it.

 

[Oxide]

Each one of you should pick a religion, then kill yourself. Then come back and post how it went.

 

[6-heads lewis]

wootapotky,

Fair enough. Its all limited to human perception. Perhaps you dont even exist, at least not in the way you think you do.

'If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite'

Of course this poses a load of further questions, a cycle which never stops, so why continue?

 

[Vulpine]

*done*

Hedonism is the way to go, man. Seriously. My buddy was a rastafarian - he's too baked and lazy to find his way back, so he's still chillin' on the other side.

 

[Falcon]

Each one of you should pick a religion, then kill yourself. Then come back and post how it went.

Oxide,

Please tell me you learned something from this thread. You didn't answer my question either.

 

[wolf116]

THERE IS NO REASON!!
Why do you want one?
What if we are alive by accidient?
What would happin if there was a reason and we fufilled it?
It would be like when you finish your xbox game, and you don't play anymore.
When I see totally disabled babys that will never move, talk or think. Just breeth. What goal could they reach? Maybe one day it will be able to reconise its mother. woho was that its reason for living?

Life is just a grain of sand in the infinate number of dimentions. We will never understand because we can only think in 4D. And not many ppl can even understand the forth dimention "time" is not fixed. We can never understand the other dimentions because we can never exist in them.