Food for thought

[Gaming Chicken]

What is it that we're here for? What are we working towards? Humanity as a whole I mean. Like, we're just shoved into existence without a single thing to work towards. Anything we do will mean squat 100 or so years from now and at that point all we'll have done is rope even more people into this hell we call life. Nothing matters. And that fact will do nothing but prove itself as time goes on. So, thoughts?

 

[Darkover]

life there is no progression to it
the process of developing or moving gradually towards a more advanced state.
life it just decay into nothingness everything we do just decays into nothingness in the end

 

[NambaSutra]

Either religion/god if you believe, or it's all meaningless.

 

[Gaming Chicken]

Either religion/god if you believe, or it's all meaningless.

But what purpose does God give you?

 

[unplug]

Like any other living being we're here to survive and pass on our genes, there's really nothing else besides that.

 

[NambaSutra]

Some religions say that surviving this miserable world is a test and if you fail you don't get to go to heaven.

 

[RandomTuesday]

Nothing exists for any reason. We're not working towards anything.

Almost no one does anything that will mean anything to anyone in 100 years. Most of it means nothing to anyone now.

 

[Gaming Chicken]

Some religions say that surviving this miserable world is a test and if you fail you don't get to go to heaven.

This actually just connected some dots for me. As a non-believer of religion that is. This just made me realize/think that religion was created simply to give people purpose, at least before it was what it is now. And thanks for the replies, they are greatly appreciated.

 

[NambaSutra]

I'm not an outright atheist. I'm just not smart enough to be that sure. I do think religion, especially organized religion is problematic, to put it mildly.

 

[my-end]

What is it that we're here for? What are we working towards? Humanity as a whole I mean. Like, we're just shoved into existence without a single thing to work towards. Anything we do will mean squat 100 or so years from now and at that point all we'll have done is rope even more people into this hell we call life. Nothing matters. And that fact will do nothing but prove itself as time goes on. So, thoughts?

Those who give no thought to leaving intentionally, try to find a way to add meaning to their lives, whether or not it truly matters when we die, the way the world is changed now will have an effect in the future. Meaning can take on many forms, from helping young people reach personal development levels to law or medicine, music, art, philanthropy or maybe just living a good simple life.
Some don't look for meaning but instead fall into pure hedonism as they truly see no point in existing so might as well enjoy it.
So, nothing may matter after we pass but while we remain is different.

 

[FuneralCry]

The way that I see it, life is just an unfortunate and tragic consequence of evolution, we only exist just because other people decided to selfishly procreate and there is no meaning or purpose to life other than that. I think that humans often ask the question "what is the meaning of life" as they have the ability to be conscious and aware unlike animals and the fact that we exist all for nothing just to decay from age and die is too difficult for them to bear. Many humans like to believe that there is some kind of purpose to all this but all that we are intended for is to not exist. Life is only an endless cycle of suffering that never needed to exist and continues to repeat all for the sake of doing so.

 

[ILuVCkn]

Probably evolution.. I'd like to think that we are no better than any other animals that lives here on earth and like them they survive to reproduce and birth a better generation.