Everyone should just do what they want to do without appealing to grandiose notions of purpose and meaning.
No.
Without any sense of meaning, life becomes oppressive due to the sheer meaninglessness of it all. Add in a regular dose of news reports about, say, infants dying because they were left in car seats in a parking lot all day, and you're on the fast track to suicide.
Which of course is a reasonable option in a meaningless world. But it's not a happy trip.
No.
Without any sense of meaning, life becomes oppressive due to the sheer meaninglessness of it all. Add in a regular dose of news reports about, say, infants dying because they were left in car seats in a parking lot all day, and you're on the fast track to suicide.
Which of course is a reasonable option in a meaningless world. But it's not a happy trip.
Without any sense of meaning, life becomes oppressive due to the sheer meaninglessness of it all.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=622534 said:Passive nihilsim is indicative of a decline in spiritual power. It is characterized by the inability to create, or in the extreme to react. The passive nihilist is one who, when faced with the world's uncertainty, withdraws and refuses to enagage the world. For him, uncertainty is a sufficient condition not to proceed through life, and so paralysed by fear of the unknown and unknowable he does nothing. Nietzsche described this condition as ".. the weary nihilism that no longer attacks..a passive nihilism, a sign of weakness".
Active Nihilism on the other hand, is indicative of a relative increase in spiritual power. the active nihilist sees freedom where the passive nihilist sees absurdity or meaninglessness. He chooses action and creation instead of passivity and withdrawal. For him, the lack of objective standards of truth motivates self created standards and criteria. The active nihilist is not active despite the unknown but because of it. He possesses a store of creative energy and power which allows him to impose personal meaning on the world while never forgetting that hes is the source and progenitor of that meaning. He is heroic in this sense, facing the world with courage and purpose.
Higher purpose? After spending all my life under the cruel yoke of christianity I'm really enjoying utter meaninglessness of human existence. Having some universal purpose or meaning for life would suck anyway.
You want to do [whatever]? Too bad. You need to be in church/meditating your earthly desires away/studying the word of god/paying penance/fasting/denying yourself/auditing your thetans/praying or whatever.
Everyone should just do what they want to do without appealing to grandiose notions of purpose and meaning.
Isn't there anything that gives a sense of "This is what I was made for."? Nothing at all?
Not at all. I just am, everything just is. To think that I am here for a purpose would be horribly narcissistic of me. However I do consider it my self appointed mission in life to kick ass and chew bubble gum.
Beleiving in god is not the same as higher purpose. Beleiving in a higher power isn't the same as higher purpose, either. Higher purpose can just be something that you should really be doing, whether that is soemthing you are "destined" to do or something you would simply be good at and would enjoy.
Not at all. I just am, everything just is. To think that I am here for a purpose would be horribly narcissistic of me.
However I do consider it my self appointed mission in life to kick ass and chew bubble gum.
Why is it narcissistic to feel think or believe you have a higher purpose (if you believe everyone does)?
I always wondered what people meant when they say "kick ass". Maybe it is Asperger's, or maybe it is because I don't really have a primary language, but I have a lot of trouble interpriting that phrase as anything other than the very literal (and usually wrong) interpretation.