What do you keep living for? Is there a specific person, goal, or idea that you work for? Is there no meaning to life in your opinion?

Context: I’ve been reading Camus and Sartre, and thinking about how their ideas interact with hard determinism.

  • meyotch@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    This is it. You die and you are gone, gone, gone. Make every day count and don’t waste time bargaining with an imaginary god for a preferred place in her cinematic universe.

    It’s not grim. It’s extremely freeing. ‘Now’ is all there is.

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        21 hours ago

        But those days where you just relax and enjoy yourself count as good days so that’s ok too.

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        1 day ago

        I have felt that once upon a time. But since there is no external meaning, I have decided our main purpose is to fart around a lot. I greatly enjoy those days when I can just be, without pressure to produce something.

        Maybe that’s inner peace?