Gotta agree. There is no point. Sentience is just an evolutionary fluke brought on by each ancestor in our evolutionary tree being a more awesome and efficient hunter than the ancestor before them. Or I am wrong and it is special and it is just something that is hard as fuck to figure out. Unmentionables might help.
As organisms that were produced by conception, you was put on this earth to go through different stages, experiences (physical, emotional, spiritual, financial), find sense of self (identity), find their particular purpose and how they want to leave an imprint in society (career choice and use that ego generatively to help the younger generation), fulfill basic drives and accomplish goals that you have set. There's probably more that I haven't listed.
There is no point. Just theories. But, since we have life, we need to take care of it and not take it granted.
I don't know, and I don't believe anybody that claims to know. People say there is no point... I don't believe that either. I just don't know.
Tried that, but all I kept thinking last night was "Well damn it, what exactly is the point of anything?!"
this is going to be a wall of text, but i read this in an e-mail i get from some random website, and it had this Hunter s. Thompson excerpt that just totally blew my mind. really clarified some things for me at the time, it may just be my own perspective, but reading this helped me (it's sort of a strange surreal feeling when you are constantly questioning what life even means, for me i even had suicidal thoughts sometimes, so i just found this to be really grounding for me) "To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal – to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself. “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles…†And indeed, that IS the question: whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives. So few people understand this! Think of any decision you've ever made which had a bearing on your future: I may be wrong, but I don't see how it could have been anything but a choice however indirect – between the two things I've mentioned: the floating or the swimming. The answer – and, in a sense, the tragedy of life – is that we seek to understand the goal and not the man. We set up a goal which demands of us certain things: and we do these things. We adjust to the demands of a concept which CANNOT be valid. When you were young, let us say that you wanted to be a fireman. I feel reasonably safe in saying that you no longer want to be a fireman. Why? Because your perspective has changed. It's not the fireman who has changed, but you. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle every day? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything other than galloping neurosis? The answer, then, must not deal with goals at all, or not with tangible goals, anyway. It would take reams of paper to develop this subject to fulfillment. God only knows how many books have been written on “the meaning of man†and that sort of thing, and god only knows how many people have pondered the subject. (I use the term “god only knows†purely as an expression.)* There's very little sense in my trying to give it up to you in the proverbial nutshell, because I'm the first to admit my absolute lack of qualifications for reducing the meaning of life to one or two paragraphs. To put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES. But don't misunderstand me. I don't mean that we can't BE firemen, bankers, or doctors-but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal. In every man, heredity and environment have combined to produce a creature of certain abilities and desires-including a deeply ingrained need to function in such a way that his life will be MEANINGFUL. A man has to BE something; he has to matter. As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal) he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path which puts no limit on his self-development), and he avoids the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose its charm as he draws closer to it (rather than bending himself to meet the demands of that which he seeks, he has bent his goal to conform to his own abilities and desires). In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he KNOWS he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important. And it seems almost ridiculous to say that a man MUST function in a pattern of his own choosing; for to let another man define your own goals is to give up one of the most meaningful aspects of life – the definitive act of will which makes a man an individual. A man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else. But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life. But you say, “I don't know where to look; I don't know what to look for.†And there's the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look for something better? I don't know-is it? Who can make that decision but you? But even by DECIDING TO LOOK, you go a long way toward making the choice. I'm not trying to send you out “on the road†in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that – no one HAS to do something he doesn't want to do for the rest of his life."
to live to do everything to the fullest extent or to just do it!, just live drop all fears(rumors, people that dont like you, everything!) and live.
The more I think about this the more I begin to think that really isn't a point to life. I mean I guess there could be but right now I pretty much operate under the assumption that life is what one makes out of it. Upon birth, we find ourselves trying to fill a shell with our memories and aspirations. At least, that's what I make out of it tonight. Come tomorrow night, I might have a completely different outlook on life.
The sooner you stop looking for one the sooner one will appear, but it won't be something mystical or magic. Rather, meaning will spring from you letting go and allowing life to be what it is, random. Life, us, we're like paint that hasn't been applied in some sense and we have all this canvas called life to apply so much of ourselves. I actually feel sorry for people looking for pat answers, because they aren't looking for truth they're looking for comfort and ultimately life is anything but. Meaning? Heh, depends on what day it is and how high I am......