I wrote this in a blog, actually, and then transfered it to here. Enjoy:
So I was browsing this new forum I visit, at ld4all.com. The meaning of life was brought up a while ago, and has grown quite a bit. It’s funny, because there are people who run with ideas, and others who don’t even bother with the question. Some think life is just a chore/priority, just another thing that happens. I think I lean more towards this “theory”(if you can even call it that). But others try to explain why we are here, what we should be doing, god, religion, all that crap.
To me, it’s very hard to find a reason to even explain the meaning of life. There is no concrete answer, and there never will be. So why even bother trying to explain it? Just leave it alone and go on with life.
But there’s still that part of me that wants to know if there IS a meaning of life. One theory someone brought up was that the meaning/point of life is to find out what the meaning of life is. To me, this would just create one huge loop. On the other hand, maybe there isn’t just one meaning of life. Maybe the first one is to find out what the meaning it, and the other is to use it to your advantage throughout it. It’s all very complicated, and even I don’t understand it. If one tried to find a definitive answer, he/she would go insane.
It’s sort-of like that movie “Proof” I saw a while back. A man known for his great inteligence in the mathematical field, spends the last years of his life trying to find out the perfect thesis/theory to a problem no one can solve. In doing so, he goes insane. You could even say it’s a tad on the Edgar Allen Poe side(great writer, who eventually goes insane).
I could never, ofcourse, write down every theory on life in this one blog. I can’t even think of all the theories.
Yet another thing brought up at the forum was the existence of the afterlife. This theory is the same as UFO’s to me: I WANT to believe, but just can’t. People say ghosts are real and that they can appear where/whenever they want to give us a sign. Well, why don’t they ever appear on a simple camera and stop the insane debate on whether or not they exist? A simple video could prove this. I mean, does God only allow certain fragments in time for ghosts to appear. Or, better yet, does God only allow certain fragments in time for US to see them?
The theory about ghosts can only be in affect if you truely do believe in God(same thing that follows my thoughts of UFO’s and ghosts). Im a man who needs proof of something in existence. Im also a evolutionist. There’s no way in hell that Im believing an entire sea was parted(then again, this sentence is in controdiction with itself by stating hell exists). I believe in the logical, not illogical, reason as to how man got onto Earth. Bacteria to fish to bird to ?land animal? to ape to human(well, something like that). Saying God created us with a magic wand isn’t true at all.
But then we have to rethink religion. It’s a BELIEF in something, like God. There’s nothing wrong about believing in something. Nothing at all. But the creationists who say God existed and it’s the only way, those are the ones I have a problem with. Give us proof, and I’ll believe. I believe science has already pretty much proved evolution. Having a book on the creationists side as proof doesn’t really work…
A thing that wasn’t brought up on the forum(that I’m aware of), is that man has an already chosen path throughout life. I’ve started thinking about this ever since I saw Donnie Darko(the part where he see’s others paths, remember?). This I cannot really debate nor accept fully, because I don’t really understand it. I thought I had a general idea, and that the world is basically a prison if the theory is correct, but I just can’t decide now.
One thing I don’t get is that suicide is a sin(the ultimate, if Im correct). Why don’t we have the harmless choice of ending the life we live. We aren’t hurting anyone else at all(physically). If ones life is truely as bad as they think, they should logically have the right to end it. Isn’t this our right to freedom? Our freedom to die? Is that even a right? Who knows…
Man, ever since I saw Waking Life, this crap has been on my mind. I just can’t stop thinking about it. Wish I could…