I must have gotten ripped off by the simulation travel agent and overpaid for the low budget experience. When I wake up, I'm taking that bitch to court! And never plugging into this shit show again!
To me, the purpose of life is to give life a purpose. It up to you and only you to figure that out. There is no definitive meaning to life, and thats okay. All I care about is making life worth living and helping others trying to find their own personal happiness in life.
Mikey A Life has no objective meaning. Alrhough, I dont view that as a bad thing. It's up to the individual to come up with their own subjective purpose/meaning for life.
there is no actual purpose, you decide what your purpose of life is whether it's taking care of your family or trying to become the best in your field or just enjoying the simple things at the end of the day none of it matters, we all die and the world moves on like we never even existed
@@UFCWWE69 i'm on youtube when you responded so should i wait years to respond? and you responded 3 minutes later to my comment so i guess you are pathetic too right? why are you upset shouldn't be happy with all of your "friends and family" you impact so much?
Sure it's certianly a good thing to kind of accept death early on and learn to not fear it. But it's another thing to have it suddenly and intensely pop into your head when you're trying to sleep. Man that was some anxious as fuck moment last week holy shit.
As someone who follows a monolithic religion Islam… I find it so informative and interesting for me to hear from very intelligent atheists what’s their worldview on life and existence. We are different but our differences should unify us❤️
The purpose of life is to reproduce, protect the Earth & constantly strive to improve human kind. Help the helpless, give hope to the hopeless & align with nature.
@@gingerbreadman7357 Nihilism is cancer to the human psyche. Human beings have been on earth for a long time without issue, only recently have things gone bad since the industrial revolution, that’s not indicative of all of humanity, that’s simply a small period of our long history on the planet. Human beings are more aligned with nature than you think, it’s literally where we come from, we’re not separated from nature, we are byproducts of nature, technology has only driven us further away from our origin, that doesn’t mean we’re not still of the essence of the Earth. Don’t be such a pessimist, humanity will recalibrate itself out, just like everything in the universe does.
@@WarriorsfanDubnation If that were true we wouldn’t have biologically adapted to being extremely efficient reproductive creatures, it’s literally embedded in our DNA to continue on the species, reproduction is simply a byproduct of our nature. The only reason why you think it’s selfish is because you’ve been brainwashed by people who want to cull the population.
@@ElohimPenemue nobody asks to be born and life is extremely pointless. You are born, you grow up, slave away for some corporation, grow old, and die. Once dead it will be like you never existed in the first place. I know you probably have a huge ego and think your genes Matter but they don’t. You will be forgotten in 3 generations and it will be like you never existed.
1:53 ... I realized MY mortality after my two Grandfathers, and an 11 yr. old cousin who was one of a set of twins passed away within 6 months of each other when I was about 7 yrs. old. I was lying in bed when all of a sudden I realized that I was going to die one day. I got out of bed, started jumping up and down crying out loud - *"I don't ever want to die!!... I don't ever want to die!!...".* All of a sudden a calming and a thought came into my head, and I suddenly realized *"that won't happen for another 80 yrs...".* I immediately calmed down, stopped crying and settled back to bed and slept fine... lol. I guess this means, if my thoughts were accurate, that my 87th year is going to be a nervous one... lol.
People keep saying this mantra - "only you can figure out what the purpose is". What I am hearing here is that there is no actual or at least objective purpose to life. We only say this to make ourselves feel better, but deep down we all know that it is all meaningless and pointless. We are born into a losing struggle... Life is full of pain, suffering and anxiety with very fleeting moments of joy and happiness. We became good at tricking ourselves into thinking that things matter, that we matter. The reason why anybody does anything is because of boredom, hunger and sex-drive and that pretty much all there is to it.
Dude I love this conversation! I am a firm believer in Death. It's my biggest belief! It helps me understand more about life. A life's purpose, my opinion, is simply do for others.. especially if you're healthy, wealthy or obtain a wisdom.. share that shit with others :)
@@squarecircle2347 regarding logic...your example is simplistic, at best. My inquires where not rhetorical, but to actually engage how the OP to thinks, how introspective they are. What "wisdom" are we truly imparting...what constitutes "wealth"..and why we define it that way. I was asking for deeper thinking, metacognition, curiosity, more inquiry into self.
This is one of the major things occupying my life and mind as I get older and my g'mother is suffering from Cancer in her old age. She has been the sole love and compassion in my family that when she does pass my family will brk apart. I also have my own health issues that I relate to this conversation. Im not scared of dying per-say but I do hold on to life bcus my G'mother is still here. Its just reality that haunts me that I have to reach for more understanding of being prepared for loved family and myself dying. 😌😏🕊️
based on what i can see life does not have a real purpose lol. you can try to swallow that all you want. for me thats rough. i feel like the only 2 types that can are in denial, or too dumb to truly grasp it. i dont see how a logical person can look at it and not feel bad about it.
Were they created by nothing, or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain. (Surat al-Tur, 53:34) If you have ever wondered the absolute truth to reality than Islam is it , it answers all the questions to life of why we were created , where we are going and where we came from. Allah the absolute one creator of the everything sent prophets and messengers from Adam , Noah, Abraham , Musa , Jesus and the last Prophet Muahmmad peace be upon all of them to tell us our purpose of life and that is as the Quran states : And I (Allah) created not the jinns and humans except they should worship Me (Alone) (Quran 51.56) Islam is the religion of absolute monotheism and I invite you to islam to worship the absolute one creator and not idols , humans lr spirits that they themselves depend on the creator. I would tell you to read the Quran first as the first step . You worship besides Allah only idols, and you only invent falsehood. Verily, those whom you worship besides Allah have no power to give you provision: so seek your provision from Allah (Alone), and worship Him (Alone), and be grateful to Him. To Him (Alone) you will be brought back.(Quran 29:17)
The answer to life is to learn and evolve your cells with experiences and knowledge gained. These quality you will transfer to the next generation. That way a part of us will live on. Besides that it’s all entertainment and fun. Life is suppose to be fun. It’s about freedom and exploration if you are into that kind of stuff. Or it’s about the decision to not continue your cells and don’t have children. This is a personal choice of many and it’s something to be respected.
The purpose of your life is no different than any other living thing: to further the species. Humans are not unique or special in this aspect. Humans are unique when it comes to the magnitude of the effect one individual can have on the species.....which stems with the way we go about it. The only way for all life other than humans to accomplish this is by spreading their genetic information and letting natural selection (and luck) determine which genes are strong enough to go on. Humans are unique because we are the only living beings that we know of where one individual, without a single door offspring, can have an instant effect on the entire species with such a great magnitude that the entire species is able to “leapfrog” natural selection. This is because, while our genes still evolve, we evolve at a light speed, rapid pace through our collective knowledge. The man that came up with the cure for polio gave all of humanity the ability to leapfrog natural selection, and we all avoided having to find out if our genes were resistant to polio or not. He could have gone without producing a single offspring, and the magnitude of the effect, and the ripple effect of this “wildcard” he gave to humanity is exponentially greater than any living thing I can think of. We’re the only living thing that has some say in our own evolution.
Other species don't know that their life is meaningless. They just eat and sleep. We, on the other side, have bigger brains than them and this has made us realize that our lives are totally meaningless. If anything evolution has cursed us.
If there was a single answer to the question "what is the purpose of life?" Then everyone would be doing the same thing, and life as we know it wouldn't exist. So, the purpose of life is subjective, make it whaever you want.
Not how it works our life purpose depends on the desires of our brain how it was programmed by whoever god maybe but yes we don’t consciously make things happy to us our brain makes certain things happy to us on earth and we just do it cuh we like the feeling
@@disturbedvelo7199 whether it’s family, religion, your kids, pot, or mountain biking, the goal is the same for everyone. People looking for meaning and assigning it to whatever they feel like. We just are. There is no answer to the absurdity. Suicidality, elation, or revelations in lieu of this fact are vanity; grasping at straws.
The purpose of life for me was to do the best I could with the information I had available while dealing with a constant barrage of life's ups and downs. Just being alive after all these years in this world is one hell of an accomplishment. My special talent is staying alive. Unfortunately I am running out of talent.
I just keep saying to myself once I never existed and did the impossible to experience living and that when I die I will oneday experience life again whether that's as a human, alien other planets maybe even an animal , and maybetyou can be born back in time and future, maybe even experiencing the life any of you who read this comment is having
@@somespiritualdude9576 what’s wrong with weakness? Afraid of destruction? That’s the ultimate destination you know! Someday this planet along with our solar system will be gone. Get over it
We are duel beings, physical and spiritual. Our physical bodies need to aid in the balance of nature and our spiritual selves, (our true selves) need to get the experience you can only get in the physical reality to learn and grow from.
Every time I listen to Sean Carroll's voice, I think of a Hypnotist and am literally whating for him to say : " your body is getting more and more sleepy, when I count to 5 ..... 5...4..3..2..1.. SLEEP" ! 😁
I'm just a Guru with the answer, you can accept it or not but one thing is for sure....without humans or a planet to habitat then what is life? We just try to continue it, that's our purpose.
There is no purpose only then to compose and decompose, so why live? Well because it's fun and enjoyable. If you're not having fun or enjoying things then why are you here? Do what you like because life will move on with or without you and that means you've got limited time to do what you want, so do what you want to do because life doesn't care. And it won't wait until you start caring, it'll just move on. It doesn't care what you do or do not do, that's for you to decide. It's your time, do what you want with it, you choose how you fill up your life and how you live it. You choose at the end of your life if you think that you've had a fulfilling life. And if you've got nothing that you want to do that's okay too. You can just live until you die and that's it.
It's to pay penence through the suffering we all go through.we.learn to love and forgive and cleanse our heart's so our soul can be released back to god..from the hell that we are born into just as we realize the true meaning of life.we die.hopefully not be return.as those are return haven't learned the lesson or lessons meant to learn..but this world is Hell..
What is the purpose of life is a silly question like life itself .. let's assume we meet the creator and he reveals the purpose will we accept that purpose and follow it or will we disagree and chose our own path and our own purpose .. the problem with life is not that we dont know the purpose .. the problem with life is that it can be too long and too boring so we endup asking why are we still here .. the proof is you wont find a child asking questions like that because they aren't bored yet
There is an importance to every living thing on this planet and throughout the entire universe. The meaning of life is the evolution of Consciousness. Each time we re-incarnate on Earth that consciousness develops. What stops that evolution of consciousness is all the religions. Having said that I have learned this as well. Truly, it is not right to forbid opinion holders and religious believers, or believers in god, places in which they, individually or in groups can retreat or get together for the purpose of exchanging opinions, or for the religious reflection, because that does not correspond to freedom of opinion and freedom of belief. A different way of reflecting, striving and acting, which is directed against such places and their emblems, represents sheer sectarian and fanatical racism against religion and belief, as well as hatred of those who believe differently, and that is absolutely unacceptable in every form. It is very important to all people to respect this statement. People will evolve over many lifetimes. That is the importance of re-incarnation. Each person's evolution is subject to how they are raised. Once a person "has reached the age of reason" - (George Carlin) they can decide for themselves. The spirit within each living being is subject to this natural law.
I'm an antinatalist, and it's not crazy. Crazy is to bring more sentient beings to endure this horrible, cold, unfair and merciless existence for no reason at all, but to serve our selfish whims.
My purpose is to work long enough to pay my bills, watch Joe Rogan pod casts, stay outta jail, not smoke crack or heroin, not kill anyone and hopefully have a life of happiness and no stress! Of course being married to a porn star is up there too... J/S! Oh can anyone remind me of why I can't enjoy Marijuana? What's that all about?
The Neo-Epicurean well if you take a drug that makes you think that you just lived for 100+ years when meanwhile it’s been like 30 minutes, you start to not care about death because you’ve already lived a full lifetime in 30 minutes, btw I’ve never experienced this personally
Noble Vagabond - First time I tried mushrooms me and some friends went to a mountain and picked 1000 and then brewed them and made tea with the water. I was sent to another dimension and it was a bad trip. I was around 22 at the time and I thought that I was over 40 years old and had been stuck in the bad trip for past 20 years, so I might as well kill myself to end it. It was a rough night. Took me around 6 months to get over it, but I did, and now I look back on it as a good experience.
The purpose of life is to differentiate space and time. That's how come you're a recombinant tripartite space time differential aggregate. Genetic, memetic and contemporary data layers in constant interplay. Pretty cool mechanism if you ask me.
On a personal level survive long enough to reproduce and contribute to the gene pool of the species... On a species level survive and evolve to be in harmony with the environment.. Its like a self refining algorithm..
You know I'm a poor Widow and I walk every single day my life and my family's been stripped away from me and I didn't do nothing to deserve it and I really don't see the purpose in any of it Shore life could be a beautiful thing but people make it so it's not so so what's the purpose of it and there is no reason I mean clearly whoever created this made a mistake so why not just scratch it so other children don't suffer and start over we would never know we were here why put us through it what's the purpose of this ignorant so people can grieve and be hurt? Somebody I want to know the answers people say God's talking to him and tell him stuff will tell me then how come I can hear him
I'm so sorry for your loss. And I'm sorry for your pain and grief. I too have lost family and I know how hard that can be. I'm going to try and explain what has worked for me and I hope in some small way it finds you and brings you some peace. I understand life as a gift of lessons. Some lessons are easy and some are more difficult than we think we will ever understand. When I think about pain and suffering I truly believe those are greatest lessons to learn from. Each lesson is different individually. When we lose someone we miss them but we also get a chance to strengthen our love to them. It's easy to love someone you can see and touch every day. But when they leave us it's harder but if we lean into our love. they never leave us the love becomes stronger and we are even more strongly connected. God will talk to you but it's a relationship you have to keep working at. He loves and see your pain he wants you to feel loved and to give love. Try having little conversations with him about anything anytime and you'll feel close to the great creator. Hang in there I know it's been hard for you but you deserve happiness. Get in touch with nature appreciate everything even hard stuff I call them opportunities. Many blessings I'm proud of you.
In my opinion the purposes of life are: On a biological level to reproduce. (Not everyone can or may want to and that is quite alright due to our current global population) On a social level I feel our purpose is to exist in symbiosis with nature and strive to make living as easy as possible for our species with minimal detriment to the environment and other species. And lastly personal purposes are varied from individual to individual and the individual could feel they have one personal purpose or many many personal purposes.
Our mission for this brief moment on the physical plane is to accumulate as much light and warmth as we can...so that we become as large of a star as possible floating in heaven (joy, beauty and harmony). This is accomplished by appreciating (loving) this paradise planet lifeboat and the miraculous works of fine art called life that inhabit it. If we extinguish our light and warmth with ignorance (greed)...we become the darkness and emptiness that surrounds the stars...here on Earth like it is in heaven. Love (god) knows every star by name.
There is no purpose other than to breed and help the species continue. The problem is now we've evolved to where we think there should be more than that.
Mike ferrari Ferrari and you assume the creator is greater than you ? Also the genetic code that generates conscious experience seems to be a unique, genetic treasure
Exactly. I truly think the gift of intelligence is also a curse in some ways. We beat ourselves over things that are, in the grand scheme of the universe, insignificant. Depression is also a product of intelligence. Thinking too much leads to more harm than good in the long run. That's why ignorance is bliss.
Inventing distractions and imagining doing things to gain praise is not the same as having purpose. If we reject a Creator, we will daily and for the rest of our lives, have to justify our life as worth living. When he says he's motivated to make the world a better place, the motivation is not one of caring about other people, the motivation is to lessen his own pain at not having a purpose. Many of us can't quite deceive ourselves into thinking a self invented purpose is real and so we seek a Creator.
The issues of death panels was real. They were proposing a panel of bureaucrats who would decide who gets treatment and who dies. I agree people should be able to choose when they are finished but that should be completely up to the individual. This should never be under the control of bureaucrats.
I didnt realize there were so many religious nuts who watched jre considering he is an atheist/agnostic who happens to be a comedian where there are no topics that are off limits
This existence of life is so crazy we could really never imagine what's going on. I know one thing for sure, death is a illusion. We are probably the universe experiencing itself. I really don't fucking know and I think that's kind of the point
what about dejavu, preminisions?? because this exact type of thing happens to me all too often, ill be thinking of something like this and ill hear it on something i watch often - or ill think of someone i havent seen in a long time and ill see them very shortly after
Seems like it’s so relative what everyone believes their purpose is. Relativism can make someone believe their purpose is to help the world, and another person to believe their purpose is to kill others. No sound definition exists for what our purpose is according to relativism. Yet the religions of our time tell us that our purpose is to gain proximity to God as His slaves. He created us and to Him is our return. Two different perspectives.
I always want to hear these physicists say something like "...it seems like the Universe goes through a hell of a lot of trouble to create complex biological life for Absolutely no reason...", but it never happens. Just a meaningless universe filled with Dead matter according to the most brilliant amongst us. That Sucks!
The purpose of life..... Be a slave and work for meaningless material items or be above the slaves and let them do all the work for said meaningless material items.. There is an enjoyable time at the start called childhood but its all downhill after that
I think the real question is "Where are we?" and when we can correctly answer that then the purpose of life comes naturally. But hey I'm just another shnorrer
For me it's the thought of how do we know we're dead and what does that feel like. I'm guessing to feel death would mean that your subconscious is still alive somewhere.
True story: A man passed away and went to a place he described as heaven. He saw long passed relatives, friends, and many he did not know. He was given a tour of this beautiful place by a man he described as Jesus. Jesus told him he could stay or go back, the choice was his to make. Jesus said that before he gets returned to his Earthly life, he could ask one question. Put on the spot and not knowing what to ask, the man finally said, "what is the meaning of life?" Jesus smiled and said, "it's all about love." The man was then returned to his life and family with that message to share. True story...
