I can only come up with other two choices? Religious beliefs or depression.
You know I can't go the religious route. It seems too ridiculous and outlandish. I would have to believe in fairy tales and Candy Mountain. I guess I do make up my own belief system, but I that is it's own topic. I also prefer the idea of "evidence" as Dawkins puts it.
Depression is a path I have taken a couple times. Nothing too serious, but I have been there. It may be a natural Paulson disposition or tendency. It is certainly not enjoyable nor is it productive. Of course, since there seems to be no meaning, why worry about production?
I know the most obvious answer is that "you make your own meaning, erik." I believe that every individual is the center of The Universe, so yeh, of course, each person defines their own meaning. Even this idea perturbs me a bit, 6.5 billion meanings, or purposes, to life? Come on.
Pleasure, personal pleasure. That is all I can come to as a come point for all those meanings or statements of purpose. I don't care if you are religious, depressed, or got your own idea. It all comes down to what you, the individual wants that meaning to be.
It is all up to you. Please choose correctly, so you don't F it up for me.
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Your come point is compelling. I think pleasure (loosely defined to include all sorts of satisfying of impulses) is behind all of our conscious decisions.
ReplyDeleteBut I think we also do a lot of things instinctively, without thought. We're programmed to feel and react and behave in certain ways that we cannot consciously control. Some interesting studies have shown that the feeling of free will is largely self-delusion. I'll try to find articles on those studies for a future post.