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Originally Posted by mulan
I'm still young, so I have much to learn about and I don't want to say something stupid that you don't agree.
But I think there is no real meaning in life, in every people life. Sure there are great people to whom the humanity owns so much.
But first, which one of us will be remembered in the future, very few people from the ones who ever lived got in the history, much, much more were forgotten.
Second, eventualy the human race will disapear for ever, we are just like the other animals and extintion is a thing that surely is going to happen (I don't believe that someone is gonna find a nice planet for us to live when our sun won't shine anymore.
What I do believe that in order to be alive we have to find a meaning in our lives. But the real reason why we are here is because of evolution and because we have instinct to make us live (search for food, procriate...). I don't know if we are or aren't better than the other animals, but we can't forget we are animals.
For me, yes, we have to find meaning in your lives, but is that meaning really meaningfull?
And if people just will be on earth to suffer (like terminal patients) they have to find a meaning just because there is the need for everyone to have a meaning? And if even so they don't find it, are we going to make them finding it?
In my opinion what make us move, beside than instinct, is our capacity of imagine the future, wanting things, waiting for them to happening (or avoiding them to happen).
My country doesn't allows eutanasia, and well, **** of the meaning, there are meanings that aren't suposed to be found. If you find a meaning to live, that's great...but if you can't see a meaning, I just think people shouldn't be forced to find it. Are we so that important?
Sorry if I make someone think twice about what they are doing here. My sentimental side says to me that we should help people in order to make them feel the best is possible and treatment with dignity, not going around sending human to the garbage. But my racional side ask me many time if there's any meaning in having a meaning.
Please be free to disagree with me. And I really don't want anybody to feel bad about themselves because of what I said.
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Mulan. I think the author is more talking about very practical and mundane things. Like maybe there is meaning in just posting in this forum. After all the whole world can read our posts and maybe it is helping people we don't even know about. Or finding meaning in your studies and wanting to be whatever you are studying for.
Whether there is any meaning in meaning. Or that maybe life is just meaningless is more a philosophical and existenial question. Maybe we are just born, metabolize, act on instinct, procreate and die. The only meaning is passing our genes on only to become extinct at some point. Whats the point?
There has been a huge debate raging on this very issue for some time. People like Richard Dawkins, a very prominent evolutionary biologist believes that we are just biological machines acting solely on instinct and external stimuli. That free will is an illusion. That if we just knew enough about biology and physics your every thought, feeling, and action could be predicted.
I believe in evolutionary biology. I am not a "creationist". But I believe very strongly that the mind transcends the body. That there is such a thing as spirit and life after death. I believe that there is so much more to this universe than our limited senses are able to percieve. Look at quantum physics. They are coming up with some very bizarre theories that totally defy logic and go against everything we have always believed in science.