What is your reason or justification for existence? Do you have one? Do you need one? |
deg said: Doesn't that leave you feeling empty, without purpose, and/or alienated?none just hedonism and fear of dying aka self-preservation (or survival instinct) |
| I generally find meaning being creative in some way. I want to feel like I am accomplishing something otherwise I just feel hollow. |
 This ground is soiled by those before me and their lies. I dare not look up for on me I feel their eyes |
deg said: I don't think you can separate existential emptiness from emptiness caused by mental illness, you know? like it's a symptom but also it's a societal ill. so basically a double whammy.struggler_sensei said: Doesn't that leave you feeling empty, without purpose, and/or alienated? i do feel empty at times but thats because im mentally sick and its one of my symptoms |
StarfireDragon said: Finding purpose in creation and finding a reflection of yourself within your own works in doing so proving and ensuring your own existence.I generally find meaning being creative in some way. I want to feel like I am accomplishing something otherwise I just feel hollow. |
| To one day purchase a GSXR-600 in triton blue with an Akrapovič race exhaust |
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Psi_Male said: that doesn't sound entirely healthy. Like, it's good you still have goals like doing cool stuff to keep you going but what about after? I'm not saying life is great or anything but like we all die eventually no need to rush it.I wanna die. But dying right now would be humiliating, I think I can do cool stuff, good stuff before going down. Still, I need happiness as energy, with battery down I can't do good, I can't do shit. |
deg said: Shit man well that sucks, are you doing therapy? struggler_sensei said: I don't think you can separate existential emptiness from emptiness caused by mental illness, you know? like it's a symptom but also it's a societal ill. so basically a double whammy. one of my negative symptoms is avolition so ye i lack motivation to pursue meaning in life |
Skimt said: How though? You'll be worm food, inanimate matter, without thought. Ironically with a clear purpose, being sustenance.I believe that my reason for existing will be revealed to me upon death. |
| It is basic courtesy to answer your own threads. What is your raison d'être? Mine is simply to search for invisible cats that no one has ever seen. |
deg said: damn man I'm sorry to hear that. That is very unfortunate.struggler_sensei said: Shit man well that sucks, are you doing therapy? nope we do not have any talk therapy here in the philippines if there are its on the national capital and im sure and its gonna be so expensive |
Meusnier said: Mine is working towards leaving society in a better state than I found it. It's what drove me to my Bachelor's and now my Master's and drives me towards PHD studies afterwards.It is basic courtesy to answer your own threads. What is your raison d'être? Mine is simply to search for invisible cats that no one has ever seen. |
| @Moonspeak Thank you. struggler_sensei said: Meusnier said: Mine is working towards leaving society in a better state than I found it. It's what drove me to my Bachelor's and now my Master's and drives me towards PHD studies afterwards.It is basic courtesy to answer your own threads. What is your raison d'être? Mine is simply to search for invisible cats that no one has ever seen. Oh nice, good luck for your PhD! What are you studying? Let me guess... sociology? |
Psi_Male said: I don't mean looking for something stupid reasons to stay alive. I mean finding, or more accurately, creating meaning for your existence. Otherwise, what is the point in your existence? what is the point in you? Nothing. at which point you can choose to live as nothing wallowing in nihilism or you carve out meaning to your existence, even if ultimately it means nothing in the cosmic sense.struggler_sensei said: that doesn't sound entirely healthy. Like, it's good you still have goals like doing cool stuff to keep you going but what about after? I'm not saying life is great or anything but like we all die eventually no need to rush it. What about after? Try to be happy to not kill myself too early > do good stuff > die happy I got my tattoo, I did some good stuff this year but not enough, I'd die happy but guilty cause I can do more, I can do better. Why look for some stupid reason to keep yourself alive? They are all just idiotic justifications. Better die a hero than live long enough to become boring. My life life works much like @moonspeak 's love life. |
Meusnier said: haha pretty much, my bachelor's was in Human Rights so it was a mix of sociology, philosophy, law, and political science, and my Master's is in Cultural Studies, so more sociology, plus social anthropology, philosophy, ethnography, phenomenology, and cultural analysis.@Moonspeak Thank you. struggler_sensei said: Mine is working towards leaving society in a better state than I found it. It's what drove me to my Bachelor's and now my Master's and drives me towards PHD studies afterwards. Oh nice, good luck for your PhD! What are you studying? Let me guess... sociology? |
| I have no reason for living and that's completely fine with me. I don't need a reason to do something. |
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Salty-GB said: do you ever have existential dread or existential crisis?I have no reason for living and that's completely fine with me. I don't need a reason to do something. |
struggler_sensei said: Salty-GB said: do you ever have existential dread or existential crisis?I have no reason for living and that's completely fine with me. I don't need a reason to do something. Nope. Like I said, I don't need a reason to live. It doesn't bother me. |
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_Maneki-Neko_ said: My existence pissed some people off, the people I want to piss off, and made some others happy. The people I want to make happy. And I too like it, so that's my reason. Does it mean that you only live for others? |
struggler_sensei said: this is me its not even on purpose ;_____; its a cope d'etre not a raisin StarfireDragon said: Finding purpose in creation and finding a reflection of yourself within your own works in doing so proving and ensuring your own existence.I generally find meaning being creative in some way. I want to feel like I am accomplishing something otherwise I just feel hollow. ive only been on it for a couple years. i could still change. the other seems pretty lame though. the idea of leaving society in a better place, id have trouble making that a raisin in and of itself... i dont even know what better and worse means let alone how to do it. but i know what sticks are jabbing me, i guess. |
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| I believe that my reason for existence is spreading positivity.. (sounds cliché I kno) For some reason complete strangers tend to share there entire life stories with me.. at random... lit everywhere, so I think I'm just meant to be an ear to listen to people and help share any & all positive vibes with them✌️ |
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| It has been said that there are three elements of a good life: vocation, relationship, and inner self. I've probably got the hang of the latter, for the time being at least, but the first two remain elusive. It's hard to identify a career that I can be passionate about and even if I find it, I don't think it would be a smooth transition. Actually, I've been thinking of a career change for a while to a field that catch my interest but damn the requirements and investments are massive. Regarding relationship, I really enjoy being alone but I feel uneasy when projecting my current position far into the future. I think many young people greatly underestimate what it's like being really old or they think that their carefree life will go on forever. But at the same time, it's difficult to find somebody you can really trust in this current society. But regardless, so high the risk of marriage is that many people think that being alone is a more sensible choice. I can't see it change any time soon cause it really is valid, in the time of uncertainty one should prioritize himself above all else. |
| Don't know what I want, but I know how to get it |
| Have always been curious minded, love learning about new things or expanding upon them, as well as visiting new places. |
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struggler_sensei said: What is your reason or justification for existence? Do you have one? Do you need one? Existence of each individual have a reason even if you ain't seeing that. Most of us and me lives for a purpose without realising what for, usually it is to gather experiences, negative and positives one, sharing or keeping it on your own, living on and giving your own influence into the enviroment you live in till the end. As said above same as my buddy I do believe in stuff such as "Destiny" or "Fate" not into very crazy stuff, but I do believe that nothing happens by accident and something was meant to happen, or while something didn't happen it also had a purpose and meaning which is the pillar of existence majority of stuff we do everyday has a meaning even when we don't see that meaning on our own. Do I have a reason to exist or to live? I don't know, maybe there is but I don't see it, as I don't know my own reason to live and I have no goals, maybe there is in nearby/far future but I haven't meet the purpose of my life yet. Do I need one? I guess I already have one destined for me but I don't know of heaving a reason yet, or maybe I will never know till the end of my life. |
| Because I don't know what happens after death, specially if heaven and hell exist then I'm afraid that I'll be thrown into hell. I tried reading/watching accounts of people who have had near death experience but the negative ones are really scary and I'm most definitely not a good person by any means so it didn't help at all :/ In short, it's just fear of the unknown after death, I don't have any goals, ambitions or anyone for whom I can keep living for. |
| Ever since I was 10 years-old, I said to myself that if I could learn at least one new thing every single day for the rest of my life, whether I live to be 30, 50, 80, 120, or any other age, then it will be time well spent and life will have seemed worth it. So I have held true to that internal vow and pledge since then and also since that point, self-education in general has been my main drive and interest as well as justification to the self for remaining in the world. Basically, to learn as much as possible about the mysteries of the universe, the nature of existence, and all the miniscule details and factoids which are a subset of it and our world before I'm violently ripped out of it in this form one way or another. I feel like everything else in life other than gaining such understanding and trying to immerse in one's own thought and conceptualization of the world around them is essentially pointless, worthless to me, and just like playing along with a fake game in a virtual reality. No matter how much power, love, admiration and respect, physical accomplishments or achievements, or anything else you gain, it's all zip anyway when the slate is wiped clean at the moment of extinguishment of a finite mortality. I have a brain so I'd rather try to use it with all the time allotted to better or best understand my situation. Like after waking up in a dark, locked mystery room and shortly thereafter trying to determine the purpose for why you're there and map out all the details and identifying features. Only the room is, in fact, the whole universe. Everything else to me feels like just going through the motions of a script, as if I were transported into a dragonfly or gorilla's body, but didn't really feel drawn to going through the motions of typical dragonfly or gorilla acts and behaviors other than the barest basics needed to continue existing, like breathing oxygen, securing an adequate supply of nutrition (eating and drinking), expelling waste products, and sleeping. I'd be fine with continuing to live on as a dragonfly or gorilla or insert any other organism, if I had no other choice other than death, the same as my stance on continuing as a human, but it doesn't mean I'd want to play along and immerse myself in all the bullshit dragonfly or gorilla politics, play-acts, and rituals. The same for human life. |
WatchTillTandavaAug 23, 2022 1:57 PM
| To create and preserve something beautiful. And that beautiful is my garden. |
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| to go to eiriel obviously,............. |
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| I'm trying to find a reason for my existence, which seems like a pretty good reason for existence in itself! |
| My reasons for my existence: - Maximizing my happiness and fun for as long as possible. Basically, just having adventures and variety in my life, and just living life to the absolute fullest. - living as long as possible - learning about many different things throughout my journey in life - being able to leave an impact in the world with my work |
| I am the protagonist of this world. Everyone else is a mere narrative device to my story. If I turn off my computer, you all cease to exist. |
| Gambling. That is my raison d'etre. |
| Probably family; without it I don't really have one; no ambitions, nothing |
 "Only one with the courage to shoulder the burden of their own fate can be called a hero.." |
| The reason I exist is because my parents were horny, I guess. Oh, you mean the reason I don't kill myself? Because I enjoy life. Wait, you meant some philosophical rationalization to explain what in particular I enjoy or strive for? hehe. Anyway... I suppose my raison d'etre would be my passion, music. I used to be a musician, but nowadays my focus is listening to music (practically all genres) with high-end gear that makes it sound better. |
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