Life has no meaning.


Today I just attended a paleontology lecture. Our professor talked about the origin of life briefly. He said nobody in particular knows how life came into existence except that there are some theories. We cannot know for sure. Now here it gets interesting. He talked about the fact that horses once had two nails and once were dog sized. But as the environment around them changed, certain parts of their body were used more and more in different ways while certain parts were used less and less. Since the dog sized horses were weak and small and dull, they couldn't survive. Those who did, ran fast remarkably and this differentiation sat them apart from other dog sized horses. Eventually due to the exercise of running they grew larger in size (more muscular) and the parts which hindered their ability to run were genetically discarded. So here comes our modern horse.

Then our professor talked about modern man. He mentioned how once we were a chimpanzee-like species, walking on all four legs. Then some changes took place and we became more and more erect. Then he talked about Homo sapiens sapiens and how our intellect set us apart from other animals... then the lecture went to typical paleontology stuff (including ice ages and stuff) not directly related to the origin of life.

It's INDISPENSABLE for us to understand that we are animals no matter what happens. We are just like all the animals here in this earth. We are not aliens or robots. We have a common ancestor. We do not have a "purpose" in life, nothing has. We are born, so we live, do some things and then die, just like every other animal. But man has a some sort of alcoholic influence (I call delusion) that he is a superior form of life and somehow he can control nature and whatever life that's been left in it. That's not true! We are a form of life living in this planet for no particular reason. Every life is meaningless. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't take care of each other.

An example is a giraffe. They feed themselves, survive, reproduce, and then die. That's their "purpose." Ours is the same too, except we incredibly complicated that damn thing. Now we've got to "marry", "raise a family", "maintain a job", "support the family" etc. etc. before dying. I call it bullcrap. It's a mistake that man evolved. We should never have evolved. They say anything excess is a disaster. We have excess intelligence. It's going to be our end before the next ice age comes.

Basically, as far as biology is concerned, we have the same purpose in life.
1) Feed yourself
2) Survive
3) Reproduce
4) Die.

But we... are smart enough to change the laws of nature. So nature is going to change itself so we'd have an even more painful end than dinosaurs. It's very unfortunate people get sad over "purpose of life", while it's nothing but survival and reproduction. I don't get it why we complicated it this much...