(May 31, 2012 at 3:45 pm)StatCrux Wrote:(May 31, 2012 at 3:39 pm)Panglossian Wrote: "Make it count" basically means to leave a positive impression of yourself after you're gone i.e. create/do something memorable, fight for a cause you passionately believe in, affect and treasure the lives of those you love, and your life will have meaning, purpose, however you wish to label it. Constructing a deity to do all that for you is a cop-out. Your sense of worth should come from who you are as a person, not what you believe in.
But how do you define "positive impression" in a meaningless universe, any action you take is neither positive or negative, its just a meaningless neutral action.
You are so funny. You want us sooooo badly in your mind to be the pessimists but it is YOU, that is the pessimist.
How do you define "positive impression" in a meaningless universe?
Really? You have to ask that question?
This reminds me of when I was a kid and didn't get what I wanted.
My mother would say, "You can sulk about it and be miserable, or you can move on"
Adults accept reality the way it is, not the way they want it to be. I can spend my life crying over something I cannot change, or I can enjoy the time I have while I have it.
THAT is how you define "positive impression". I wasn't around a billion years ago and felt no pain then because I didn't exist. I am not going to be pessimistic about the fact I am finite. I have no choice but to move on or be miserable.
Life is no mystery. You are born, you live, then you die, THAT IS IT. What you do in between can only be up to you. Facing that fact doesn't make life less worth living.
