What do you keep living for? Is there a specific person, goal, or idea that you work for? Is there no meaning to life in your opinion?

Context: I’ve been reading Camus and Sartre, and thinking about how their ideas interact with hard determinism.

  • einkorn@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Isn’t the idea of a meaning of life irrelevant if you believe that the universe is deterministic?

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This is one of my cats, do you think she’s looking for meaning?

    Life just… is. Don’t look for a deeper meaning. Enjoy what you have.

  • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Im not sure. I stay for my family and husband and my animals.

    But I wouldn’t mind dying. Eternal rest from all the grind. Even if there is nothing after death. It would be nice to just sleep forever.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I have so many goals man. I wanna travel the world, meat new people, stay in one of those hostels or that website where you can work to stay. I wanna scuba dive, rock climb, surf, run marathons, hikes and all sorts of stuff before I get too old to do anything fun.

  • meyotch@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    This is it. You die and you are gone, gone, gone. Make every day count and don’t waste time bargaining with an imaginary god for a preferred place in her cinematic universe.

    It’s not grim. It’s extremely freeing. ‘Now’ is all there is.