If we are an accident, then what is the point?

If life is indeed, a cosmic accident, what is the point to anything? If after death we cease to exist, why live?

How about because we can.

By living life and evolving, you are sharing in the tree of knowledge. If the universe shares the same pulse with the earth and humans then by experiencing things, we are in fact manifesting our own reality. I tend to think of God as not as one being, spirit, or the like, but as the trandsendance of knowledge through life. In tern we are god.

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Originally Posted by psychocat

How about because we can.

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Being able to makes no difference. If we consider the aforementioned assumptions to be true - then the outcome is always the same.

So why bother?

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Originally Posted by BathingApes

Being able to makes no difference. If we consider the aforementioned assumptions to be true - then the outcome is always the same.

So why bother?

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Take a toke, sit back and enjoy the ride..

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Originally Posted by illnillinois

Take a toke, sit back and enjoy the ride..

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Thats what I say, since there is no way of knowing for sure, so I might as well just live. But say you know definitely that nothing happens after death, and you are sure that you simply cease to exist - then what is the point?

Why does there need to be a point, though? Aren't the things you experience made even better by the fact that there's no afterlife (if true)? Wouldn't that be even more reason to enjoy every second--because thats all you get...? :rastasmoke:

DrSpiggs

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Originally Posted by DrSpoof

Why does there need to be a point, though? Aren't the things you experience made even better by the fact that there's no afterlife (if true)? Wouldn't that be even more reason to enjoy every second--because thats all you get...? :rastasmoke:

DrSpiggs

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That's my conclusion, too. No need to search for "the meaning of life" because there is none; to wonder at life is a good thing, to seek a Point to it is, I'm afraid, a human foible.

Because even though we are an accident we are a very good accident. In my opinion what's a better reason to keep on living and existing than the fact that our existense is so extraordinary. There isn't a meaning to life except what you personally make it.

Run with it I say. Be the best freak accident you can be.

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Originally Posted by rebgirl420

Because even though we are an accident we are a very good accident. In my opinion what's a better reason to keep on living and existing than the fact that our existense is so extraordinary. There isn't a meaning to life except what you personally make it.

Run with it I say. Be the best freak accident you can be.

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I think everyone is missing the point. Im not arguing whether there is meaning to life, or whether us being an accident (if true), actually has any sort of profound inherent meaning, rather, my point is, if we all die and cease to exist, then what is the point, to anything?

Does there have to be a point? I dont know. But if there doesnt, then thats the same as not having one essentially, which means that nothing matters, ever.