Life is not a problem to be solved ... 

hahaha oh yeah

so that's what crickets have been playing that trance..

seriously though, the mind gets obsessed with riddles & questions & meaningless conceptual solutions to abstract made up problems... and then there is that which is infinitely aware of the eternal awareness..

The root of the word CURIOSITY is CURE, and for good reason. ("Ask and it is given.") Curiosity didn't kill the cat; curiosity CURED the cat - as I know from firsthand experience. And life in this world (of imitation) IS a problem to be solved! Absolutely all problems in this world of limitation stem from FEAR...our irrational fear of Truth, which keeps us from desiring Truth...which is why the solution to our problem is DESIRE for Truth. "And in your desire lies it's accomplishment," sayeth the LORD. I'm the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah, born in 1957 - the same year this movie was made. And I've published the answers to all major mysteries, including precisely what GOD is, what WE are, and The Meaning of Life: the exact reason WHY and HOW we fell into this realm of limitation, and the method by which we will be EXTRACTED from limitation - guaranteed.

​@@tomrhodes1629where have you published this?

Dune

Then is life at the end a reality at all?

I was clicking on my cell phone. Internet webvideo that is called Life is not a problem to be solved dot dot dot. Turned out to be half of a quote from Mann. I'll basically tell the quote that way you can hear and read it again while you watch the show. Why does the show come back on when you try to watch it again. I thought this was the TV remote but it's an email

@@flannigan7956 Stop thinking. It's killing you, Lannigan :) ru-vid.com/group/PLm7cPGtN7kV2w8Mt91kcXqQBTSiZqY8lu

HOW do you know? WHY do you think you know? "Unless ye become as little children" - who know that they DON'T know - even GOD Itself can't give you the answers! My information doesn't come from mere speculation. And life in this world (of imitation) IS a problem to be solved! Absolutely all problems in this world of limitation stem from FEAR...our irrational fear of Truth, which keeps us from desiring Truth...which is why the solution to our problem is DESIRE for Truth. "And in your desire lies it's accomplishment," sayeth the LORD. I'm the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah, born in 1957 - the same year this movie was made. And I've published the answers to all major mysteries, including precisely what GOD is, what WE are, and The Meaning of Life: the exact reason WHY and HOW we fell into this realm of limitation, and the method by which we will be EXTRACTED from limitation - guaranteed.

exactly. drugs too.

Dont forget to leave plenty of time for sex

thats deep

I ain't tripping

Good computers go to heaven.

There is this phrase for it. I once knew.....

Too make it Very clear Its under Protest....then its called sulking....haha

@@etterbakk haha

Hearing someone say it's "...such a mood" after a very enlightening and poetic piece feels trite

@@tylerholbrook8634 nothing is good or bad. Its all absurd. Embrace the Absurd

Don @cocojamboidoprzodu9302 salud.

where is this from

@@TravisListener sopranos uncle junior says it to tony

beautiful, i love that series, thanks and God bless@@imsurfingontheearthimasurf5975

Walt fuckin Whitman ova here

Helping others fulfils me more than anything else

Helping others is full filling but not having to struggle is always much more full filling

​@@CoperXYZBe loved intimately by someone is all that matters. In the end of the day, all we fear is to be alone. It has nothing to do with meaning. The meaning we are searching for is true connection with a loving partner.

@@Lobosonmision19819 No doubt. That's the difficult part. You either have to find some way to teach that is profitable (like creating an online course) or you have to save and invest into semi passive investments that pay the majority of the bills (dividends, car or house rental income, etc.).

Oprah coauthored a book with Harvard Happiness professor, Arthur Brooks: Build the Life You Want. One of the elements for a deep happiness-versus chasing success, esteem from others, sex, etc-is to share experiences you enjoy with others. They have an excellent 3 part discussion about their book material and examples from their life experiences on RU-vid.

Than you're a slave.

As a friend of mine who used to say when we were discussing Herbert's work, "so says the gospel of Frank".

There are no accidents ~ some turtle

Literally read this tonight before arriving here and reading it again. The world is strange.

It truly is I've just picked up Dune myself ​@charlesbrown4689

Abs correct.

Treating your life like a problem to be solved will cause your life to continually and consistently be a problem to be solved.

“The future is the greatest tool to screw the now” Pearsonalisms 2:11

I really like how you articulated that, makes sense.

Is it too late to understand this

So what conclusion have you come to, sir?

@@thakurSavitarI also want to know that but there really isn’t much answer but to experience it, life.

@@MrAllstar well, it resembles me little quantum physics: on particles it's impossible to know in a moment both where the particle is and what is its velocity, and on living it's impossible in a moment both to understand and to experience existence

" I have studied Camus, Sartre and others...", are you bragging, or confessing?

Sartre, "a balloon of hot air" as Russell once defined him. If anything is NOT the answer to even curiosity is any of those Parisian charlatans.

For example a life of any dead person? Nope, I still don't understand.

@@hannahsdrawings8664 For example. If we look through history there are many recognizable and therefore observable patterns in human behaviour. Actions with predictable outcomes. If we touch the stove we'll burn our hands. If we steal from a shopowner we will likely get chased down. If we follow strangers into a van it will likely end up horribly. We can learn from the dead as well as the living. And maybe most importantly from our own past since that's the most relatable experience and the only reality we have. Successes, mistakes and behaviours. The more knowledge we have from the things we observed and went through the better we can navigate life. With less fear and vulnerability.

Isn't that a great quote?! At 58 I still have, I hope, a while yet to go, but I chuckled in understanding when he read that one. Pure gold.

My favourite quote and it took me many years to really understand it

I’m listening to Alan Watts currently. And it seems like I’ve learnt a great deal about Buddhism. Do you know who you are?

@@lionelemilio4141 Yes, I studied everything I could get my hands on, from Einstein to Confucius to Pythagoras.

You sound very wise. I know nothing.

You are very old now and have more experience but I would not say that buddhism has all the answers, its an interesting religion but the only one that fufilled His promisses throughout history is Abraham's God right? I don’t want you to take this bitterly or in a disrespectfull way, away from me such thing, I just wanted to maybe ask you to consider if you really have "all the answers", because in reality most of the time we don't but cling to this ilusion of a complete knowledge. I mean, buddhism says that you can achieve this state of knowlege and elevation, but I never knew anybody that actually reached that (I guess you could say Buddha himself but from my knowledge he never came back, Jesus came back from the dead on the other hand). Please do not take this as disrespect, I just wanted to make you consider that this thought might be wrong, maybe you haven't searched on the right places for the answer? Have you read the bible without any bias and with a open mind? In any way, may God bless you wherever you are brother! And may he show you a good path, amen.

​@@lionelemilio4141Brother, no disrespect but thinking that, just because someone said that religion is man made, it is, is very arrogant in a way, you are making a lot of assumptions and discrediting many historical data (many of which are outside the bible yet mention those same events). I think you COULD make a case for some types of beliefs, sure, but to discredit EVERYTHING and say something that sounds scientific doesn't seem right. It is not that man created God to find a purpose, but rather God that created us with a purpose. Life is too complex to be a result of nothing becoming something out of probability, that one in fact that is so small that is probably uncalculable with our current technology, life only comes from life as we observe, there is only one 2 domains of creatures procaryotes and eucaryotes (if I spell anything wrong plz igone because english isn't my first language) and even they share DNA, if life could just randomly spawn without an inteligence behing wouldn’t we see diferent lifeforms? Maybe ones that are not DNA or RNA based? Also the universe being perfectly set with all its constants, some of which if they were decimals different reality, that is the universe, itself could not exist and would colapse in itself with its forces? Isn't it way much more likely to be there an inteligence, who HAS manifeted and fulfilled His prophecies throughout millenia than it is to not have? Think about the amount of coincidences, the amount of improbable events that would have to take place in the right time for eons, and that you are taking for granted after ignoring many historical records, evidence, that the true cause of everything is God? Please brother I intend no disrespect, just to make you question and maybe consider if you think like you think because you believe on it, or because you were conditioned to think like this, Or because you chose which and from whose evidence you believe? Takes a lot of faith to believe that everything is just a probability, things won't form out of nothing, that is perhaps the most important of the physical understandings humanity uncovered, yet so many people, and to my understanding you, neglect it saying that it is scientific? Again no hate intended brother, just wanted to give you this questioning because I wish you well! May God bless you brother! and may he lead you to a good path, amen. P.S.: So if you want to check those evidence I mentioned, I don't quite remember on top of my head now but there is the dead sea scrolls, there is reference of the capture of the Jews by the Egyptians on their own records etc. A quick search will show you all the info around it that I would not make justice on a comment section, hope you go there see it for yourself, farewell!

And have you found compassion for yourself? Enough to put distance between you and your tormentors even if they convinced you that they were once your friends or family?

I'm 67 and I can help. And if this is interesting to you, I'm easy to find if you want to converse. (I won't know if you respond to this post, so you'll have to give my icon a click and find out how to contact me.) But here's the deal: Life in this world (of imitation) IS a problem to be solved! Absolutely all problems in this world of limitation stem from FEAR...our irrational fear of Truth, which keeps us from desiring Truth...which is why the solution to our problem is DESIRE for Truth. "And in your desire lies it's accomplishment," sayeth the LORD. I'm the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah, born in 1957 - the same year this movie was made. And I've published the answers to all major mysteries, including precisely what GOD is, what WE are, and The Meaning of Life: the exact reason WHY and HOW we fell into this realm of limitation, and the method by which we will be EXTRACTED from limitation - guaranteed. Yes, GUARANTEED; "Good News" that men have corrupted into a BAD NEWS (lie) "gospel" of judgment and sacrifice for "sin." And in the coming years I will make a big dent in that lie, which is why I was sent. (Read Revelation Chapter 11, which is highly symbolic.)

From one sentient being come forth many; this is the propagation of life. One god divides himself* in the form of all sentient beings. That is why it is said - where there is jiva there is shiva. (* him = this one). ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

​@@sven888 More idolatry?

Well according to this logic smoke as much weed as you can, you only live once.

@@sw00t_yprd79fuck it, why not?

Children and idiots in other words......

That's Republicans

Blessed is the stupid?

​​@@DSAK55thats the imperium of man

​@@DSAK55ur sad

>the meaning of life is to live it, because.... ITS JUST IS, OK???

It's just a part of it. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that we have been created to know God, to love him and to serve him. And we love him by loving our neighbors. Many won't like this simple answer, but it's the truth. Life is about love, but not any kind of love, it's the total gift of ourselves to a God that gives himself totally to us and the rejection of sin every day. True love is impossible without the cross.

Life is an slavery

@@KarmaWords you’ve misunderstood what i meant by exactly 100%

If life is essentially God's video game, I'd like access to the cheat codes that will let me forcibly power off the gaming console. I do not want to be a marionette for Yahweh the Cannibal to find its amusement in.

I *just* watched a video about how Conan the Barbarian is the antidote to H.P Lovecraft's cosmic horror. Because Conan does not concern himself with thoughts of what may be *beyond* this world, he does not worry about what might be there (I'm paraphrasing). If it comes for him, he will kill it, if he cannot kill it, he will die, as all men do. "No one who enjoys life seeks the meaning of it." That's great. If it's yours, congratulations.

I don't know if i agree with this. Happiness, peace, must be constantly worked at. Without suffering there is no balance. Hedonism leads to suffering so enjoying life too much is possible. Happiness outside of our basic comforts is subjective as well. I have many times questioned, why does this make me happy? Happiness is a daily struggle and often times the more mundane moments may be filled with ponderings of, why? All of these feelings may be the result of an evolutionary blunder. Self awareness might feel advantageous but may cause outr suffering. No different than the male babirusa's upper canines that can grow long enough to pierce it's own skull and kill it. The universe existed long before us. Thus we created questions and answers.

just keep distracting yourself theory. but you know, you can't be doing things all the time, sometimes you'll be lying there waiting to sleep, or maybe you'll be old one day and bed ridden, that's when the thoughts come after you.

Wisely said.

You should kill fear and work from a place sacrificial attitude, but you need God for this. Fear is simply the anticipation of what might happen ie, it is not something that exists, it is imagination.

​@@SrMwayNay

​@@hurricanemeridian8712could you elaborate on your denial of his statement?

Hilarious comment considering fear is how religions work/maintain power

​@@SrMwaynobody needs god for this, tho who do are incomplete man searching to a false ego to complete themselves and give them courage, but the true answer is obtaining enough knowledge that courage is no longer needed, you don't need a leap of faith when you calculated the exact outcome where you'd be safe

That’s like saying a planet can choose what star it shall orbit. It doesn’t make sense. The divine is our only hope.

​@@TheNightWatcher1385 no it's like wave particle duality because of the insane juxtaposition of an actual meaning existing or not. Doubting is a trap, if you want to believe in something, live by it. You believe god exists? Allah ? Yahweh? Shiva? Go for it, don't doubt and take a leap of faith. You believe life is meaningless and we have the potential to give life its own meaning? carved by us? No problem, just don't have that semblance of doubt because it's a trap. At the end of it all, it's just a leap of faith. No one can ever truly know what's out there after our bodies decompose

Luckily for Viktor, he was easily duped. Some of us aren't so easily confused.

Did he really say that? That means he didn’t get it.

@TheNightWatcher1385 Given sufficient velocity, a planet can absolutely “choose” its star. There are even planets which orbit no stars at all.

Silver?

@@ColtraneTaylorphotographic film is made using silver, there is alot that goes into making it. The ensuing film, when exposed to a short burst of light, will imprint an image onto the piece of film

@@reikyfoxxe1847 Thanks. So does more silver in the film make it look different?

@@ColtraneTaylor yes, it would change the brightness or clarity of the film on screen when the projector in the movie theater shines light through the now developed image. Technology connections has a few videos on photography and camera technology history ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wbbH77rYaa8.htmlsi=-FiA7-xrNFECu8M3

​@@ColtraneTaylor, the grain can be heavily impacted. The more grain, the more details can be captured and less grainy it looks. It also allows for more gentle shadows and such.

But I am not

⁠@@one.ebrownI have not done everything that I have wanted to do. I am not ready.

I got the 69th like I feel so honored 🥲

Reverse snu-snu

Godspeed gentleman

Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!

Yes, dr.porass. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.

Is he on instagram?

Yes he is dr.porass.

I like that

If only we all worked together

​@@postpwnmalonewhat do you think society is, you misanthrope.

Humans are wired to avoid pain and solve problems, to try to inhale for a few more seconds even when their chest is being crushed...And yet at the same time we're so afraid and weary of the aspect of constant struggle, fear, and uncertainty, and we come up with idioms like "life isn't a problem to be solved" or "death is what gives life meaning" to make ourselves feel better.

That's all ego based. The ego is there for survival, and advancement, but it gets out of control, and that's when we worry about or consider that we may have any influence on someone. Let alone even believe the future exists.

@@UrMomsChauffer you can ignore reality, but you cant ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. It is in our nature to survive and propagate information beyond our lives. This has nothing to do with ego. Its literally built into our biology. You think you can override your biology? Good luck. It will make you alone and miserable.

What Film is this

@@alibengali1992a movie that’s aged terribly

@@freyasworn2600 whats the Name

@@freyasworn2600 whats the name?

The Seventh Seal @@alibengali1992

I would be seriously pissed if I had to come back again. If I had to, I would hope to come back without anyone who cared about me so I could opt out of life without emotionally destroying anyone else.

That point has long since passed me by If I could have rescanned about a decade ago that would have made all the difference

If I'm in the spirit world and looking back, then my life can't be over.

On a serious note, it doesn't matter. Everything will be gone when we die, including our regrets. No respawns.

It’s no wonder so many atheist are angry with the world, thinking this way. When death comes in this world, it may very well be the beginning of a life much grander afterwards.

Lilies of the Field, a good film starring Sidney Portier

@@onepeaceableworld very interesting verse, however as a Muslim who has some knowledge of Islamic spirituality, I disagree with the last part of the verse. In contrast to the Bible presentation of the Prophets, there is a different Islamic representation of the Prophets, so I think Solomon(Peace Be Upon Him) had far surpassed the lilies. We are still not like the lilies, me and you, but Solomon had certainly attained that inner peace and spiritual unity with God.

@@mrs8768 not in the sense u probably think, he definitely had untity with God in the consciousness sense, but no way he has found true peace and his life became all sunshine and rainbow

@@sigmaohiogyattfanumrizz well i think all Prophets had true peace, but they had 'terrible' exterior lives with the exception of a few like Solomon. I don't think true peace is anything like sunshine and daisies, its certainly not a naive positivity or a toxic positivity, its a sense of tranquility that remains no matter the hardships one goes through, and the prophets had that. I believe that finding unity with God and true peacec come hand in hand, for so many reasons. Negative attitudes towards life and fears are creations of the ego, which a Prophet does not have.

​@@mrs8768 if you ever read Ecclesiastes, you might change your mind; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

you write exceptionally well and with great clarity.

Fantastic comment

But the movie is meant to examine God within the world.. It is worthless in that respect. It is just Bergman's inversion of the cold perversions of his youth, which he was obsessed with over and over and over, especially in early career.

@@Ronald-ki8ch Thank you. I am glad to see my years of debating atheists in RU-vid comment sections has payed off.

@@kenkaplan3654 Unfortunately I don't quite know what you mean, as I don't know much about Bergman. Would you care to explain further?

No. Its a flawed logic, do u see it?

@@rex-up9ln It is not flawed. It is simply a reflective.

@@ObiWanBillKenobi it is. Replace the word meaning with purpose/goal and u will see it. Your statement makes superficial sense, only because it's just bad semantics

@@rex-up9ln Except you can't make that substitution 1-to-1. Linguistically, we can obviously speak of "meaningless" vs "meaningful" goals whilst still clearly communicating, if we want to clarify the semantics. Meaning implies the existence of value judgements to which our intents and surroundings are subjected and measured, which we we should expect to sit on a sliding scale across the range of "Total Subjectivity" to "Total Objectivity", with the idea "There is no meaning" (inherent in life) being dependent on absolute subjectivity.

@@nathanharvey8570 you're confused

This is a really wise and beautiful commentary

This is more on the actual lines of Kierkegaard's beliefs. Your comment brought to mind his book Works of Love and his spiritual writings, most notable Lily of the Field.

When I was four years old I had my mom open a can of spinach for me so I could eat it out of the can like Popeye...and I was disappointed that my muscles didn't grow. But as an adult, I learned that RAW spinach (not canned, but eaten in salads) is a healing food, as are all of the raw greens and cruciferous family. And I overcame cancer with raw vegetables long ago. And as for the topic of this video... Life in this world (of imitation) IS a problem to be solved! Absolutely all problems in this world of limitation stem from FEAR...our irrational fear of Truth, which keeps us from desiring Truth...which is why the solution to our problem is DESIRE for Truth. "And in your desire lies it's accomplishment," sayeth the LORD. I'm the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah, born in 1957 - the same year this movie was made. And I've published the answers to all major mysteries, including precisely what GOD is, what WE are, and The Meaning of Life: the exact reason WHY and HOW we fell into this realm of limitation, and the method by which we will be EXTRACTED from limitation - guaranteed. Yes, GUARANTEED; "Good News" that men have corrupted into a BAD NEWS (lie) "gospel" of judgment and sacrifice for "sin." And in the coming years I will make a big dent in that lie, which is why I was sent. (Read Revelation Chapter 11, which is highly symbolic.) I won't know if you reply to this post, but I'm easy to find if you want to know more. (Click on my icon.)

Welcome aboard 😄

I didn't know it existed, either. And I was born the same year this movie came out, 1957... But life in this world (of imitation) IS a problem to be solved! Absolutely all problems in this world of limitation stem from FEAR...our irrational fear of Truth, which keeps us from desiring Truth...which is why the solution to our problem is DESIRE for Truth. "And in your desire lies it's accomplishment," sayeth the LORD. I'm the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah. And I've published the answers to all major mysteries, including precisely what GOD is, what WE are, and The Meaning of Life: the exact reason WHY and HOW we fell into this realm of limitation, and the method by which we will be EXTRACTED from limitation - guaranteed. Yes, GUARANTEED; "Good News" that men have corrupted into a BAD NEWS (lie) "gospel" of judgment and sacrifice for "sin." And in the coming years I will make a big dent in that lie, which is why I was sent. (Read Revelation Chapter 11, which is highly symbolic.) I won't know if you reply to this post, but I'm easy to find if you want to know more. (Click on my icon.)

came across the same solution weeks ago, with our idea of perfection whatever that means, we destroy our mental life, because let us for a moment say there is perfection, than no one reaches it, its only there in our mind, our fantasies, it never appears in reality and forever stays fiction

Respectfully, I couldn't disagree with Nietzsche more. The Christ of the Bible's achievement of perfection means I don't have to achieve it for myself (substitutionary atonement), therefore I am free to be who God made me as I move through time, becoming refined by experiences given to me as I return my life to him through acts of selflessness, service, and love. I don't strive for perfection, but to please the Father as best I can in each situation as an act of worship. This "abundant life" as Jesus spoke of means staying in the moment as I take the next step in obedience and joy. Maybe Nietzsche is referring to religion, but I prefer this living and active relationship with my Abba Father.

edgy

"A man can bear with almost any _how_ as long as he has a _why_ ." - Nietzsche

​@@stevepayne5965If I may add to this: We are set in this world to do good and to survive. For man does not know everything, and in that sense, man must make himself the most educated, timely, and wise he could ever be. There is no greater pleasure than this. That is why we must love, why we must cherish our time on this Earth, why we should improve ourselves. Ah, if this isn't the meaning of life than I don't know what else it could be.

I mean, the AI revolution of the past two years is only possible if we design robots to figure things out for themselves. It's the only reason new ideas, art, voices, and perspectives can be created by smashing together all the information placed inside it by programmers. The unique things generative AI creates aren't always profound or uplifting, but you can't argue that it's NOT unique. You could state the fact that it's all based on previous creations made by humans, and therefore claim its output can only ever be derivative. You'd also have to ignore the fact that literally everything humanity has ever dreamt of, thought of, and believed in has been given to us. Our imaginations combine all that information to ways not necessarily defined by logic, creating what we'd consider truly unique.

So what if it was "designed to function" a certain way? You can still do what you want, that's the beauty of humanity, you design your own function.

@@Game_Hero yea, thats part of the function. free-will

No creature ever falls short of its own completeness. Wherever it stands it does not fail to cover the ground. Dogen

This is not a full sentence, what are you trying to say?

@@ChucksExotics you're so smart, man

That's so profound! Not. It tends to happen when a movie ages past 70 years.

Your parents were supposed to tell you about death, I'm sorry.

Wow, what a discovery, I hope you didn't get a splitting headache after thinking that sentence 🥱

Yes, please do, I love this film 😄

Yes a great inspiration right before bed haha.

​@@Catpanl It's 3 am and I am sitting in my room, waiting, waiting... And it's so cold. And the light is dim and my mind is burning bright. But it's so cold... What am I waiting for? Endlessly?

@@Jose-jx5pu look up “ikigai”

The meaning of a grass is sucking nitrogen and water from the soil to power and propagate its biological machinery. The meaning of a computer is executing machine code of a specific format. Grass wasn't designed, but it evolved under pressure that anything not suitable to live under died, thus it appears as a marvelous pseudo-design of unimaginable complexity. A computer was designed. Both work in clear ways, have a clear purpose. Life appears to not have any purpose in particular, it's just a lot of shit happening together in different times and places.

​​@@mostm8589Your viewing the question wrong, asking about the meaning of life is not the same as asking its purpose. Its a shit question in all honesty thats better worded as "What is the significance of life?" or "Why should I live as opposed to die?" The purpose of life, could in theory be awnserd through biology but purpose is as arbitrary as significance since they are both empirical/rational concepts that exist for practical purposes. When you reduce empiricism down to its base form, you realize that we understand very little to almost nothing of how the real world (the world as it is, independant of your experience or observation) works. Rationalism in a vaccume devoid of experience (empiricism) leaves you with only one guaranteed truth, (I think, therefore I am) and all else becomes fallible. Thus, both reason and empiricism are incapable of definitivley awnsering these questions on an objective ground since the world in itself is inaccesible to us and reason cant give us much beyond proof of own existence. The awnsers then can only lie in the subjective realm, hence why they are often left up to interpretation.

@@mostm8589 Why did the blade of grass evolve under THOSE conditions and not any other. Why is 1+1, 2. You believe you have all the answers because you see the effect of the mystery. You still have not witnessed the mystery itself. If we are in one of many parallel universes or the same repeating universe that coincidentally fostered life. Why is there a Universe at all? How does physics even exist at all? Math?

​@@mostm8589If we are living in the matrix, as some people believe, then the grass is a program. Programs have a certain amount of instructions; the whole "if-then" paradigm. Think about it. How many instructions does a housefly have? A spider? Nobody teaches them anything, but they somehow know what they are supposed to do.

​@@GoldenTV3saying why isn't 1+2=2 is the worst argument ever, it means nothing and it does nothing, 1+1=2 is the basic of a logical system called math that we use as a tool, if 1+2=2 then we'd simply build another tool based on that logic

There are many unsubstantiated stories about famous atheists suddenly becoming religious before their deaths, they're often spread by religious people

​@@Kyoto_Edalways. And so on it continues , people trying to make sense of life. To solve it

​​@Kyoto_Ed You don't "sort of have to take his word for it"; there's no independent, reliable corroboration of this at all. It sounds just like the French version of Lady Hope's lies about Darwin.

Camus definitely struggled with these questions, his philosophy is pretty shallow, can hardly provide any meaning at all and it is a wonder it's so appealing to modern audiences (or maybe no wonder at all, since absurdism is perfect for people with a penchant for simple, mediocre answers.

Life without God inevitably becomes hopeless

Likewise.. those trap questions are nonetheless the seeds of madness

I think my Sociology of Religion prof would disagree with you. But he'd be very nice about it and give you an A.

@@petermgruhn When someone chooses a purpose for his or herself, said person is simply making up a reason for being they find comforting and accepting it based solely on faith, emotion, or both. They are basically just crafting a personal religion for themselves

tfw the anime pfp has the best interpretation, its true, all one needs to do is look at the modern world which has done nothing but push the "find your own meaning" neoliberal philosophy to its greatest extent and youll see where it's led us.

Well put. Glad to see someone dismantling the myth of Camus and not taking his creed at face value. Camus was hardly a philosopher. He was a novelist who entertained mythological rambling as a substitute to the sophisticated reasoning of philosophy and as a flight from the uncomfortable questions that come with it.

Money is meaningless if you are loveless.

A greedy man makes money his only limb, a wise man makes money one of his limbs.

Very well put. Curious, do you believe in life after death? Reincarnation? Heaven? Field of Reeds?