Re: My life is pointless!
agrote wrote:I don't believe in God, I don't believe that I have a soul, and I don't believe in any kind of objective morality.
If everyone I knew died, I would be totally alone. In a way, I might as well be totally alone already. Nothing I do can every be right or wrong in any 'real' way. When I die, I'll just be dead - nothing fancy. In a way, I might as well be dead already.
What's the point in anything?
There doesn't have to be a point - that's the point. We're here now, in this environment, at this time - to do what? Who cares? There's no regulation that we have to achieve XYZ while we are here. Successes and goals are things of our makings. There may be no future after death (reincarnation?) and there may be no memories of us after all our companions die (are we so egotistical that we NEED remembrance long after we cease to exist?) but the fact that we exist now doesn't have to have a major cosmic meaning. We're blips, that's all. But we're big blips on our own personal screens and in our self centeredness we look at everything around us in relation to how I feel, what I want, what makes me happy, etc. We are fashioned with a brain that has the ability to question, imagine, reason, and overthink absolutely every issue - and sadly some people do just that, and miss out on the occasional silliness of happy things interspersed here and there.
Yes for some people there has to be achievement, religion (or a belief in something), and a satisfaction of looking back on a life and being content that a certain measurement was taken and found sound.
I don't measure that way. I find God, Souls and being remembered (in life, and in death) unimportant. If I've found a days joy in all the years I've been alive, then I'm smugly self-satisfied. There's been a lot of shite, but in that shite I've dug around and ... occasionally found a pony!