RE: Our society values blind optimism.
October 18, 2014 at 9:43 am
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2014 at 9:54 am by MusicLovingAtheist.)
(October 18, 2014 at 5:14 am)Aractus Wrote: Yeah, cause judging other people the way you do MLA is the way to go is it? You're so immature. You "know everything" do you?
You have absolutely no authority to come on here and tell people their lives have no meaning; and no one is interested in listening to that message either.
If you insist, oh great wise one. Your wiseness is overwhelming me! I'm MEEEELLLLLLLTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGGGG... hhhhhhhhhhh
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(October 18, 2014 at 5:03 am)stonedape Wrote: Here are some questions I have to explain the meaning of life. I just copy-pasted this from an old thread.1. Our ideas only exist in our imagination
Do ideas only exist in our imaginations? Or do we have the power to make ideas reality?
Is this planet ever going to grow rocket ships and spread life throughout the universe?
Are we or are we not the earths natural source for radically expanding creativity?
Is this radically expanding creativity sustainable without moral regulation?
Would you dismiss music as just meaningless sound waves? Is a painting just colorful grease on a sheet of cotton? Or are they art?
Would you say life is tasteless and without meaning? Or is life an art form? Do metaphors give art meaning?
2. Rockets ships don't grow. They're built.
3. We're not the earth's only natural source of creativity. Animals can be creative too. Beavers builds dams for example.
4. Hell yeah. You can be creative an as immoral as you want within the boundaries of an artistic medium like music, television, literature, etc.
5. Hell no I wouldn't dismiss music as meaningless sound waves. I hear it as a signal of human emotion. You'd have to be operating on a pretty low mental level to just hear music as purely noise. Same with painting. I actually listen to music that is literally classified as noise, and people like Jackson Pollock make paint splotches and people call it great art.
6. Life is not talentless by any means. It is absolutely without meaning. Is life an art form? Depends on your definition of art. Do metaphors give art meaning? Art can use metaphors to convey meaning, and you can use metaphors to interpret art. So I guess so. Art is pretty abstract sometimes so metaphors definitely are useful.
