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Have you ever wondered: "What is the meaning of life?" or "What is our purpose here?" Many people will say that the meaning of life is simply to live, procreate, and sustain the next generation until the time to die presents itself. Many people also believe that the meaning of life is the purpose of life. Despite this, if the meaning of life is to live and procreate, then die, what is the point? Eventually you will run out of resources and we will all die anyways. If that is the case, then how can we justify our existance? By procreating, in this sense, you will be contributing to the problem: more and more lives consuming more and more resources.
This is not an issue of overpopulation; this is, however, an issue about life itself. If we cannot justify our purpose, we cannot justify anything in life and associate a proper meaning to it.
Example:
Why do people work? --To earn money
Why do people need mony? --To earn a living
Why do people need to live? -- exclaim Trick Question exclaim
The reason the above question "Why do people need to live?" is a trick question is because there is no real answer. One could argue that living is all humans know how to do at the basic level of instinct, doing anything one needs to keep one alive. Others say that people need to live otherwise life itself would be terrible. Here is a thought: If we do not exist, life still goes on. With or without humans, life would continue to cycle: birth, growth, reproduction, and death; This is the basic cycle of life. Secondly, if our instincts ruled our lives, we would realize that life sucks. Otherwise, why would we need cars, firearms, and forms of entertainment? Basic human instinct will tell us to eat, sleep, reproduce, and protect the ones close to us.
"Life sucks, and then you die." -Fr. Kenneth Mc Kernan, CSB.
The above quote was told to my morality class last year. The topic of the class discussions for that week regarded life in-and-of-itself. This quote was used as a way of putting into perspective views on life and why certain things in the world occur.
The quote also brings up a valid side point: If life sucks so bad to the point that it still goes on until our demise, what makes us believe otherwise? Human beings are logical beings, and so logically we would have to admit that life truly does suck and then you die. But, the funny thing is, many people are unwilling to accept this as true?
The answer is simple: our minds divert us from this truth. Whenever smething bad happens to us and we question why it happened to us and why at that time and why us and why this way, our minds are cleverly at work finding an alternate explanation other than this truth. Our coffee spilt on us while driving to work and we have a very important interview first-thing when we get to work. Our minds will tell us that although it would be embarassing to have coffe stains all-over our clothing, we should not have been doing this because it is detrimental to our daily functions.
Also, our minds will do anything to divert us from this truth, going to lengths as far and wide as making us a little paranoid about our lives. We go about our life doing things all-the-while worrying about what akward thing will happen to us next. THis is only caused by the fact that we have experienced many things that have no "logical" explanation. We as humans instinctively cannot accept the fact that things we cannot logically explain can occur.Our minds tell us to try and explain it logically, and if we cannot, we instinctively pass it off as simple gossip or rumor and nothing worth any notice.
Another way our minds can literally go to far to protect ourself from unveiling this truth is when we briefly question subjects such as this and then reflect on what we have found out. A perfect example of this is a baloon popping. When we push up against the truth and briefly question the explanations given to us by our mind, it is like we are throwing needles and the balloon; eventually we are going to pop it, and when we do, a loud, yet brief, *bang* will resound. This *bang* is our consciousness coming to the realization that our subconscious is "lying" to us in the sense that we are being witheld from the truth of life.
Now, bringing back the point of the purpose of life, what could we possibly say now? Our life is meaningless, always attempting to stay occupied and "entertained" so that we cannot be "sad" and "downtrodden". The one problem with all of this is the simple fact that all life is susceptible to it. Everyone is subject to their minds' prevention of the truth. Everyone is under its influence. For the few of us that truly realize and accept this truth, it does not mean that our minds stop this charade all together. It simply means that we have come past the mind's deception and accepted the fate handed down to us. Our minds will still continue to attempt to cover up the truth, many-a-time succeeding just for the simple fact that at those times we simply cannot bear to admit it at those times.
So simply remember, you are your own bank of information regarding the truth. Only you have the power to admit that life is a charade, a facade, a hoax meant to ensare us into finding the methods to live forever. It is only ourselves that can stop the threat of self-destruction through research and development for self-sustenance beyong immortality. And, lastly, it is only ourselves that can try to fathom a reason to why we need to live.
Have you ever wondered: "What is the meaning of life?" or "What is our purpose here?" Many people will say that the meaning of life is simply to live, procreate, and sustain the next generation until the time to die presents itself. Many people also believe that the meaning of life is the purpose of life. Despite this, if the meaning of life is to live and procreate, then die, what is the point? Eventually you will run out of resources and we will all die anyways. If that is the case, then how can we justify our existance? By procreating, in this sense, you will be contributing to the problem: more and more lives consuming more and more resources.
This is not an issue of overpopulation; this is, however, an issue about life itself. If we cannot justify our purpose, we cannot justify anything in life and associate a proper meaning to it.
Example:
Why do people work? --To earn money
Why do people need mony? --To earn a living
Why do people need to live? -- exclaim Trick Question exclaim
The reason the above question "Why do people need to live?" is a trick question is because there is no real answer. One could argue that living is all humans know how to do at the basic level of instinct, doing anything one needs to keep one alive. Others say that people need to live otherwise life itself would be terrible. Here is a thought: If we do not exist, life still goes on. With or without humans, life would continue to cycle: birth, growth, reproduction, and death; This is the basic cycle of life. Secondly, if our instincts ruled our lives, we would realize that life sucks. Otherwise, why would we need cars, firearms, and forms of entertainment? Basic human instinct will tell us to eat, sleep, reproduce, and protect the ones close to us.
"Life sucks, and then you die." -Fr. Kenneth Mc Kernan, CSB.
The above quote was told to my morality class last year. The topic of the class discussions for that week regarded life in-and-of-itself. This quote was used as a way of putting into perspective views on life and why certain things in the world occur.
The quote also brings up a valid side point: If life sucks so bad to the point that it still goes on until our demise, what makes us believe otherwise? Human beings are logical beings, and so logically we would have to admit that life truly does suck and then you die. But, the funny thing is, many people are unwilling to accept this as true?
The answer is simple: our minds divert us from this truth. Whenever smething bad happens to us and we question why it happened to us and why at that time and why us and why this way, our minds are cleverly at work finding an alternate explanation other than this truth. Our coffee spilt on us while driving to work and we have a very important interview first-thing when we get to work. Our minds will tell us that although it would be embarassing to have coffe stains all-over our clothing, we should not have been doing this because it is detrimental to our daily functions.
Also, our minds will do anything to divert us from this truth, going to lengths as far and wide as making us a little paranoid about our lives. We go about our life doing things all-the-while worrying about what akward thing will happen to us next. THis is only caused by the fact that we have experienced many things that have no "logical" explanation. We as humans instinctively cannot accept the fact that things we cannot logically explain can occur.Our minds tell us to try and explain it logically, and if we cannot, we instinctively pass it off as simple gossip or rumor and nothing worth any notice.
Another way our minds can literally go to far to protect ourself from unveiling this truth is when we briefly question subjects such as this and then reflect on what we have found out. A perfect example of this is a baloon popping. When we push up against the truth and briefly question the explanations given to us by our mind, it is like we are throwing needles and the balloon; eventually we are going to pop it, and when we do, a loud, yet brief, *bang* will resound. This *bang* is our consciousness coming to the realization that our subconscious is "lying" to us in the sense that we are being witheld from the truth of life.
Now, bringing back the point of the purpose of life, what could we possibly say now? Our life is meaningless, always attempting to stay occupied and "entertained" so that we cannot be "sad" and "downtrodden". The one problem with all of this is the simple fact that all life is susceptible to it. Everyone is subject to their minds' prevention of the truth. Everyone is under its influence. For the few of us that truly realize and accept this truth, it does not mean that our minds stop this charade all together. It simply means that we have come past the mind's deception and accepted the fate handed down to us. Our minds will still continue to attempt to cover up the truth, many-a-time succeeding just for the simple fact that at those times we simply cannot bear to admit it at those times.
So simply remember, you are your own bank of information regarding the truth. Only you have the power to admit that life is a charade, a facade, a hoax meant to ensare us into finding the methods to live forever. It is only ourselves that can stop the threat of self-destruction through research and development for self-sustenance beyong immortality. And, lastly, it is only ourselves that can try to fathom a reason to why we need to live.