RE: Why your exsistence is more worthless than you previousy thought it was.
February 10, 2014 at 6:02 am
(February 5, 2014 at 1:04 pm)x2theone2x Wrote: We as organic lifeforms will cease to function. We will die and lose our consciousness, and then we shall reemerge ourselves into the state of darkness and nothingness we were experiencing(or not experiencing) an infinite amount of foreseeable time prior before we were. The actions we perform during our life, as well as the thoughts, are universally pointless. We'll have no recollection or feeling of said actions or thoughts after death. We won't be able to look upon them or contemplate them. The memory's of your actions, feelings, and emotions will never come into play again, nor will you care if they do, because you are factually nothing. It's quite identical as if life never occurred for any organic to begin with. We as organics all share something, equality in prenatal, and equality in death; being able to do nothing, and being nothing. ( more specific you'll still be energy of some sort, disassociation of matter, etc.)
'Meaning' and 'purpose' are relative. Given what we now know about the age, size, composition, and indeed the very nature of our universe; our lives can appear to be insignificant on the scale of the universe. The universe is entirely indifferent to us, as you could remove not only us but also all of the visible matter (every star, planet, nebula, and galaxy) in the universe and the universe would be largely unchanged. So it's all about scope and perspective. Chances are good your decisions have very little, if any, impact or meaning to those living on the other side of the planet. But what you do in life does have an affect on those around you, both living and those yet born; and so they are decidedly not 'meaningless' or 'inconsequential'. But that does not mean that you cannot give your own life meaning and purpose. Find meaning wherever you can, be it in the raising of your children, the teaching of students, helping your neighbors, or expanding your own intellectual horizons; you can give your own life meaning and purpose, and to see it reflected back in others.
How liberating it is to be more than just a puppet, a cosmic marionette dancing to a purpose someone or something else dictated for us without our consent!