The Point In Human Life

Let me change my response: while there is no absolulte requirement that we create meaning for our lives, we are free to do so. I think that's one of the purposes for obtaining a good education, intellectually and artistically--and not just to make more money.

Well yes it is better to have a meaningful life by your personal standards, that's why we don't just eat, sleep, and fornicate for humankind to continue. Obvious stuff, and we are practically free to do whatever we want in life and are not absolutely required to do anything aside from things we must do to survive such as breathe, eat, and sleep. But even those things we can chose not to do with enough will power, it's just not smart or healthy.

well breathing we can't help even if we hold our breathe we will eventually pass out and begin breathing again against our will.

Even if you both are wrong it does not matter, the point of philosophy is to gain wisdom from yourself and from others. So don't worry about being right just worry about wasting time on knowing less. No insults or offence to anyone here, I am not here to insult anyone just to further my wisdom as well as try to help others do the same thing.

i like the answer i heard a few years ago.. LOVE!!! We search for it>> we crave it >> we live for it. weather it be great friends of close co workers. we want them to love us and want to love them. Its the search for the great self and all to know it it and love it as much as you find to love yourself

In addition> you will have this answer the last seconds of your life when the last thing on your mind will be the one and only thing that ever mattered

You can invent an idea for a point in human life. We all have the ability to imagine. You can imagine there is no point.
From creation itself, will come forth the point. You can't know the truth, until it is revealed by the creator. The point, or singularity, will come forth from the creation.

GOOD POINT

You mean "good" in the sense of the taste of mental candy ?

Yes u can invent anything you want but a good starting point would be to start a list of things that arent the point of life. You may find then a better list from which to pick from that really matter

A list of things that aren't the point of life? That list would be infinite.
It would include anything, and all things the mind can imagine.
There is a point, a singularity of light, it is at the heart of matter, it is the truth within the righteousness of God. There is where you will see him, when you see yourself within your point of space and time.

...and "the point" for the congenitally blind who have never experienced "light" would be what ?

It's funny to think of the the age we live in (predominantly capitalist/large market based economies) and how it coincides with the concept that 'life's meaning' can be somehow relatively acquired, or not. It is interesting to think whether humans living in medieval times had far less 'meanings' on that proverbial 'list' than in our day and age. I'm sure certain 'meanings' would still be still prevalent for people today like I'm sure that certain 'meanings' people use today wouldn't have any relevance in a world so far gone.

In terms of the actual question, human life may vary in it's 'point'/'purpose', or indeed one may not want one, and so to say there is a 'point of points' becomes somewhat inconsequential; when we break it down to see that each moment becomes a totally different 'reason'/'meaning'/'point' for someone merely being (this also includes the intention of not choosing a 'point'). If you zoom out into humanity as a whole, the same approach can be applied.

The point is to have fun; preferably, a lot of it.





David

One person's definition of 'fun' may be 'hell' for another person...

For some people the point of life is to generate the most widely purchased bullcrap; for others it is the avoidance of same.
And, of course, these are not the only types of people.

I know. I get that sometimes when I recommend Las Vegas for vacations.
Each man to his or her own tastes.





David

Let me qualify my last post. There are, of course, no real (only ideal) dualities such the one I proposed. Our metaphysical dichotomies are only tools to think with; they are not descriptions of reality. They help us to simplify or reduce the complexity and subtly of actual experience. I perceive myself as behaving--variably, of course-- somewhere on the "spectrum" between the ideal bullcrapper and truthful actor.
Ah, that feels better.

I can relate to that. Is it safe to say that intentions can never be 'truly' known, (of course we do sometimes intend what we mean or act, but with certain people ie: someone looking 'shifty', we can veil intentions to get out of a situation.. or into them for that matter) cos I've dealt my fair share of bullcrap and honesty but these 'metaphysical' tools merely reflect that we know ourselves better than anyone can.

"The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself."
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Regarding "the point" of life, I believe I read somewhere the assertion by Krishnamurti, that we ask questions like that when we are unfulfilled, and we are unfulfilled when we are deluded, driven by desires and attachments and unaccepting of each moment on its terms.

Regarding "the point" of life, I believe I read somewhere the assertion by Krishnamurti, that we ask questions like that when we are unfulfilled, and we are unfulfilled when we are deluded, driven by desires and attachments and unaccepting of each moment on its terms.