(March 22, 2017 at 7:43 pm)Angst King Wrote: Does anyone have an answer to the question: If there is no afterlife and no consciousnesses to remember what we did in life and we are forgotten, why does it matter? Why should I logically keep living?
When I was 11 years old and going through a phase of puberty-related major depression, I was extremely nihilistic. One afternoon after school, IIRC in midwinter, I thought hard about the question and essentially had a vision that encompassed all of time-space. I watched civilizations and planets arise and disintegrate, and at one point imagined myself standing outside space and time. I realized that not even eternal life can have a coherent meaning. I didn't have a solution at that point but resolved to just keep going anyway.
Some years later I discovered the concepts of flow and mindfulness. At that point I internalized meaning, made it completely independent of the outside world, and from that point forward have just been enjoying life experiences for their own sake without trying to stick "...but why?" at the end of them.
