What is life about?

[Excited Penguin]

Well, this thread ... Uhmm, ok.

[Homeless Nutter]

What is life about?
Like this thread, we just follow the tide and see where it leads?[...]

Uhm... sure. If you're talking about the life of plankton. Personally - I like the "hookers and blow" idea better.

[Cyberman]

I used to know what my life was about. I thought I still did. Now I'm the painting in Dorian Gray's attic, wearing the scars of life that everyone else is living.

[RozKek]

On my part life's purposeless, of course I don't have an objective purpose and I'd absolutely despise one. 

I used to say I had a subjective goal like I wanted to do that and this however I realised that all of them lead to happiness.

So, I don't really have a purpose, I just live and try to be happy.

[henryp]

I think coming to terms with it not mattering really frees you up to just enjoy yourself. There's this burden that's put upon us to live life a certain way with certain goals and try to have certain accomplishments. Like we get some prize after we die, rather than just ceasing to exist.

So the people that could be happy the way they are, are bombarded with "You're not doing it right", and then when they "do it right", they don't find happiness in it.

It takes a certain mindset, but if you can shut out the incoming noise, and just live however you want, I think that's the way to go. But if that way doesn't conform to the standard rules, then it's going to be very hard to ignore the negativity projected onto you from others.

Answering the question more directly, we are an evolutionary anomaly. And the anomaly, is that we're capable of living a purpose free life. Our awareness of what we are allows us to overcome many of the compulsions that are dictating the behavior of most animals. For example, we can not have kids because it seems like a lot of work. And you can just do that. That freedom is a pretty big deal, I think. 100's of millions of years of evolution poured into the survival of the species, and we can just go "Not for me." Bit of a ramble there, but there's something to that, that I find fascinating.

[LadyForCamus]

How can weed be bad for you though

Weed was terrible for me. It made me over-analyze every tiny thought that popped into my brain (which I already do sober, so it was magnified by a thousand); it kept me from sleeping; I would get super paranoid, and I'd cry over everything. Also, it made me almost pass out a few times. I only smoked it a handful of times in college and it was never a fun OR relaxing experience! Booze is most definitely my one and only drug of choice. [emoji41]

[LadyForCamus]

Oh, the things I have seen hee at AF that I can never unsee...

Damn you, iggy! [emoji13][emoji8]

[robvalue]

And they're all in a folder on his desktop

[Excited Penguin]

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I think coming to terms with it not mattering really frees you up to just enjoy yourself.  There's this burden that's put upon us to live life a certain way with certain goals and try to have certain accomplishments.  Like we get some prize after we die, rather than just ceasing to exist.  

So the people that could be happy the way they are, are bombarded with "You're not doing it right", and then when they "do it right", they don't find happiness in it.

It takes a certain mindset, but if you can shut out the incoming noise, and just live however you want, I think that's the way to go.  But if that way doesn't conform to the standard rules, then it's going to be very hard to ignore the negativity projected onto you from others.

Answering the question more directly, we are an evolutionary anomaly.  And the anomaly, is that we're capable of living a purpose free life.  Our awareness of what we are allows us to overcome many of the compulsions that are dictating the behavior of most animals.  For example, we can not have kids because it seems like a lot of work.  And you can just do that.  That freedom is a pretty big deal, I think.  100's of millions of years of evolution poured into the survival of the species, and we can just go "Not for me."

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Bit of a ramble there, but there's something to that, that I find fascinating.

Yes, that's definitely fascinating...

[Edwardo Piet]

I used to know what my life was about. I thought I still did. Now I'm the painting in Dorian Gray's attic, wearing the scars of life that everyone else is living.