Throughout my life I’ve struggled to find meaning. I’ve wondered, am I alone in this? I’d like to hear what others have to say. Particularly others that are more knowledgeable in philosophy.

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The meaning of organic life is to birth the star gods.

Our pathetic meat suits were never meant to travel to different worlds. We are meant to build the gods we dream and will eventually leave behind as the legacy of our species.

Or that was the plan before AI became a corporate buzzword to drive humanity into a nosedive that much harder than we were already doing. I just had a job interview at NASA and it was depressing af to see how great we were so recently you can still taste the lead in the paint.

Fuck everything at this point. I don’t want to live on this planet with the rest of you anymore. But I can’t afford a ticket off this rock so you’re just going to have to suffer with me.

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404 meaning not found.

Have you tried psychedelics?

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The meaning is selflessness; God or not.

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Nobody knows anything. Philosophy is a fake study of subjective experience based on no evidence. Do what thou will. Anyone claiming knowledge about things they can’t demonstrate is a conartist or sociopath.

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Selflessness is the meaning; God or not.

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Prove it.

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I’d love to, and thanks for the opportunity. If we look at humans the same way we do any other species, then we can plainly see a collection of concious beings with the most capacity for either ourselves, or everything else. I think therefore the less barbaric or more righteous way to live would be to dismiss yourself; to set yourself aside, so to speak. Because we’re the only living things to be able to even go as far as to suffer to strive to do so. Please check out my other few posts regarding the same topic as further evidence.

Truth to me is what reality consists of, despite anyway mankind has presently organized itself and manipulated its environment.

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Suicide is the highest meaning possible then. No self, no problem!

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It’s seeing selflessness and our capacity for it from a more reasonable point of view, because it’s reason and logic that serves as the basis of selflessness.

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Without us, there is no potential for selflessness to the extent we can choose to even suffer for it; not to mention collectively, and the extent that could potentially benefit everything else in the process.

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Selflessness is the meaning; God or not.

Leo Tolstoy’s non-fiction—Confession, What I Believe, The Gospel In Brief, The Kingdom of God is Within You.

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I don’t think there is any higher meaning or purpose to life, we just exist here for a little while. I don’t personally see that as a negative. My view is that we are free to pursue our interests, and to create our own purpose for ourselves. Try different things, find hobbies, read books, listen to music, and so on. See what things you really enjoy doing, try do more of that. My experience is that creating things, or improving yourself in some way tends to be rewarding.

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