EXISTENTIALISM and NIHILISM

[antonlavey]

Anyone else feel that life serves absolutely no purpose? Life is an endless cycle of the mundane and absurd (word to Albert Camus)

 

[mangudai954]

Go to bed.

 

[ninjallamafromhell]

Sums up my life. Well look on the bright side Anton, we all gotta die some day. So that'll change it up a bit...I hope.

 

[koolbarbone]

Time to read some Sartre.

 

[18key]

I feel that way. But I'm gonna be damn sure to enjoy it while it lasts. Who knows what happens after this?

 

[p0tat0 5alad]

The Stranger by Camus is pretty sick

I thought existialism: One gives one's life meaning through action; life has no value unless one gives it value.

So what you put in is what you get out, more or less. Or am I wrong?

 

[suckafree85]

Dam... You always on some other !@!%..

 

[noslickremarks]

you need to put me on to some books!

 

[superantigen]

Originally Posted by Mangudai954

Go to bed.

 

[Master Zik]

I get the feeling that if this were true or even if I believed in this I'd get on my existentialist grind and give my life meaning/purpose if in factexistence precedes essence.

I mean how many ppl actually live their life without it serving some purpose to them whether they decide it or someonedoes for them? You'd have to be born within some void or without any of your senses.

 

[antonlavey]

Originally Posted by Mangudai954

Go to bed.

Exactly, everyday is a cycle of the same ol' nonsense. You get up and its yadda yadda yadda for 16 or so hours and you go to bed.

 

[rtz13]

If there is no God, the only logical conclusion is...Who cares?

 

[antonlavey]

Originally Posted by rtz13

If there is no God, the only logical conclusion is...Who cares?

I was going to mention this earlier but I didn't want another absurd religious NT debate..........but humans need religion because it giveslife a purpose.

 

[antonlavey]

Originally Posted by Hen Lin 32

Originally Posted by AntonLaVey

Originally Posted by Mangudai954

Go to bed.

Exactly, everyday is a cycle of the same ol' nonsense. You get up and its yadda yadda yadda for 16 or so hours and you go to bed.

this dude

 

[sure lock 510]

maybe its just your 'mo life

 

[streetsmarts]

theres no such thing as a winner just repeated success

 

[c0nev3rge]

posting to cum back to this thread

 

[miketysonthekiller]

 

[jt air jt]

Anyone else feel that life serves absolutely no purpose?
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[dunkaroos]

Existentialist girls are the best.

 

[bboy1827]

Sorry I'm an idealist, so life can serve a purpose. Live my life by this line "No to days are a like like the first and 15th pretty much"-Jay-zeveryday has purpose, otherwise there would be no reason for anything, for love, lust, trust or any of that.

 

[solemunchies]

Jeez, you're always on here spreading nonsense about ideas and concepts that seem to fit an apparent lifestyle, you got to stop. You're full of !@$%.If you feel life has no purpose either find one or do something about it.

 

[boilermaker x]

If you're an existentialist then life is a purpose unto itself. Sorry if that sounds all fortune cookie, but that's almost the definition ofexistentialism - that it is existence that defines the individual instead of what some might perceive as the underlying essence of the individual. Life has nopurpose? I don't know of any existentialist that believes that. I know of many who believe that life is ultimately futile (I am not among them - word toKierkegaard), but futility and purposelessness are far different beasts.

 

[jsmilez]

Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West

 

[theprocessofbelief]

Just atoms in an ectoplasmic sea, no direction or reason to exist.