World, Life and stuff.

[beyondhuman]

And I had the odd friend who every now and again would come to me for advice, Cos' I'm apparently this advice machine.
This one friend of mine was about to commit suicide, She told me of her plans by telephone, So i drove down to her apartment, I don't know how incredibly un-sober I was (I was a drug addict back then) , But i got there safely and on time. She said to me, These exact words: "Why the **** should I not push this chair!" and I simply replied, "Life is a test, we have to pass it, by not ****ing it up and doing something like this."
She then took the rope from her neck and walked over to me with tears in her eyes, Sooner or later she was my girlfriend. That didn't last too long though.

A little while after that event i began to think, "Whats the purpose of our being here? Why are we on earth, If we are ruining it like we are"

Any answers to those last two questions?


-Cheers, Matt

[AwayAloneAlast]

Short of subscribing to a religious belief, which I personally think is a cop-out, the only answers to those questions lie in Existential philosophy, of the Camusian or Sartrean sort: you create your own meaning.

('Existence precedes essence', in Sartre's reworking of the Aristotelean/Scholastic truism)

[NikolaiI]

Your poor friend was feeling the sickness of the world...
Which I am feeling...
I cannot wear pants because they choke you. I wanted to wear a robe but I don't have one, so I'm wearing a blanket...

[blazeofglory]

Friend the world is not sick, and it reflects our own image. The world is a mirror only.

[jgweed]

All life simply IS, whether we are thinking about a flower or a human, and the flower does not ask why it is justified nor seek the ultimate meaning of its existence.
Meaning is given, not found, by human existents, and is a matter of choice, or perhaps a link of choices about oneself and decisions about one's actions. Each of us writes his own autobiography, and each of us in so doing "justifies" our existence.

[byquist]

I once worked for a theater director whose theory was that his goal was to accomplish one significant thing during each rehearsal. He had found that by the time a show opens, say 4 or 5 weeks, he'd have an excellent production.

Same way, by accomplish one significant item per day of value and in the right direction (esp. if unselfish), then given some time it adds up to something commendable.