• Philosophy and Spirituality
    Welcome Guest
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
    Threads of Note Socialize
  • P&S Moderators: JackARoe | Cheshire_Kat

Life Means Nothing and is Going Nowhere. Somebody prove me wrong. Please.

limitsoflanguage said:
Life Means Nothing and is Going Nowhere. Somebody prove me wrong. Please.

Life is going towards death.
Therefore you are wrong.
Quite simple really.
Click to expand...

what is the "nowhere" you know of though? and what if there is a some kind of somewhere, and what it takes to get there is a lifetime of you being yourself as contently and harmoniously with others as possible, and while doing so reaching your full potential? if there isnt "somewhere" then at least you while here did as much as possible, i cant know it for myself or see it for others any other way.
 
My advice is hop off those addictions if you're able, and other than that grow the fuck up and deal with your meaninglessness. Fucking enjoy it. Your philosophy is not the issue here; I have largely the same beliefs but I'm a happy fuck and never feel sad or empty with lack of spirituality. It's likely that your genetics have given you physiological propensity toward depression and addiction, and it has nothing to do with your very logical philosophy.
 
You're looking for someone to make rationale of why life means something? I'm not I understand what you are asking. No one can provide you the answer you are looking for. Your mental state and the fact that you even need assurance of things seems to be a mental health problem. You're in-control, don't worry. You've got answers without us.
 
Last edited:
No one can prove the statement within the title wrong.
Click to expand...

Well, duhhh. Unfortunately, such pithily limpid commentary does little to assuage the OP's actual concerns, which I take to be broadly practical/existential (to the effect of Camus's famous question, "Why should I not kill myself?," though clearly posed in a different form), and not strictly logico-linguistic, in nature.

Well over half of the posts in this thread have consisted of unhelpful and often conceptually convoluted attempts at deflation and/or rationalization re. the meaning/value of human life as such, with all of its attendant philosophical hangups and real-world problems, typically resorting to such well-worn tactics as semiotic reduction to definition; deliberate conflation or simple misconstrual of this particular contextual use of the word 'meaning;' and incessant, desperate emphasis on the intersubjectivity of this 'meaning;' as though any of these constitute an honest, human response to a simple expression of alienation from and fed-upedness with life.

I tried, apparently without success, to bring the discussion back around to more pertinent considerations and to steer the discourse away from the pillow-headed 'It's All Subjective, Doooood' and 'The "Meaning of Life Question" is Technically Meaningless, Derp' drivel. Oh well...
 
Last edited:
PA, before your time here i smodded this area. the kind of disussion found here is generally the kind found in this thread. we predominatly post on bl just to shoot the shit with each other, not necessarily explore issues in any great depth or regurgitate the established philo concepts.

camus was pretty much on point with the only rational choice being suicide thing, anyway. rationality is overrated, imo;)
 
we predominatly post on bl just to shoot the shit with each other, not necessarily explore issues in any great depth or regurgitate the established philo concepts.
Click to expand...

Okay, I guess. :|

But as I mentioned elsewhere, I could have sworn that the word Philosophy occupied roughly half of this subforum's title. If philosophical discussion is not, in fact, the intended and fundamental purpose of this forum, then I'm not entirely sure what I signed up for, as it were. Care to enlighten me?
 
I'm here for philosophy. Bring it.

I'm not here for bullshit or over-complexity alike.

^P A I'm not really sure where you're coming from. Subjectivity and rationality alike are solid philosophical bases.

Badger us with more of your prose, but please offer a solution to whatever ails this thread. I have no qualms responding directly.
 
P A said:
Okay, I guess. :|

But as I mentioned elsewhere, I could have sworn that the word Philosophy occupied roughly half of this subforum's title. If philosophical discussion is not, in fact, the intended and fundamental purpose of this forum, then I'm not entirely sure what I signed up for, as it were. Care to enlighten me?
Click to expand...

previously it was simply called "thoughts and awareness", the culture of this place may have been set then. i applaude your attempt to raise the standard of discourse, and i would encourage you to not give up. coming from experience, it is a steep and long climb. you'll need equal portions of strong will and patience, often it feels like swimming upstream.
 
P A I'm not really sure where you're coming from. Subjectivity and rationality alike are solid philosophical bases.

Badger us with more of your prose, but please offer a solution to whatever ails this thread. I have no qualms responding directly.
Click to expand...

Save for the first paragraph, my fussbudget post wasn't directed at you in specific.

And, for the record, I'm of the opinion that 'subjectivity' as such does not serve as a solid basis for much of anything, discursively speaking (and most certainly not the nebulous, discourse-dissolving appeals to 'subjectivity' - read: lazy relativism - that are rampant in this thread, threads like this thread, and daily life).
 
P A said:
Save for the first paragraph, my fussbudget post wasn't directed at you in specific.

And, for the record, I'm of the opinion that 'subjectivity' as such does not serve as a solid basis for much of anything, discursively speaking (and most certainly not the nebulous, discourse-dissolving appeals to 'subjectivity' - read: lazy relativism - that are rampant in this thread, threads like this thread, and daily life).
Click to expand...

Well its definitely not a Western concept, but its pretty irrefutable if I'm not mistaken.

I urge OP to question themself as to why this must be a bad thing.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top