Life is meaningless?

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Oh sure, stop and smell the flowers... and get stung on the nose.

well bees do make honey sometimes...we gotta try

I think the meaning of life is whatever you make it. It can be meaningless or a great deal more. One can live for themselves, others or both, it can all be meaningful as long as done with conviction. Many students have neither conviction nor solid priorities.

[piercehawkeye45]

You can take meaning as two different ways.

On a personal level (friend and family) then of course people have meaning. If I died today I'm sure many people would be hurt and my death would have an impact on other people meaning that my life is meaningful in some way.

On a universal level life is meaningless. Humans are no more important to the world than a fly or lion. We are just a small notch in history and we will be gone soon and the universe will move on with or without us.

Not really, our matter and energy will still be here.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Not really, our matter and energy will still be here.

Not in the same form.

Nothing ever is. Ego is just an illusion even now.

[BrianR]

I vote this thread be moved to the Philosophy forum.

Any seconds?

[busterb]

Originally Posted by BrianR

I vote this thread be moved to the Philosophy forum.

Any seconds?

Yes, but anymore, wtf is a thread on here?

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Of course it can be. I actually tend to agree with this philosophy more or less.

for people to believe life is 'a meaningless existential hell' is pretty extreme though. It comes across to me as suggesting there's no meaning in anything and that life is hell.

yeah, well...consider the source. 27% of college students are spoiled little melodramatic bitches.

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

yeah, well...consider the source. 27% of college students are spoiled little melodramatic bitches.

well that made me laugh.

So you reckon they should just be left to melodramaticly live their lives?

[Bullitt]

for people to believe life is 'a meaningless existential hell' is pretty extreme though. It comes across to me as suggesting there's no meaning in anything and that life is hell.

I think we should keep in mind that this seems a canned response, a survey answer choice. The students weren't saying that life is a meaningless existential hell, they were just >50% in agreement with the statement presented to them by the testers.

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

I think we should keep in mind that this seems a canned response, a survey answer choice. The students weren't saying that life is a meaningless existential hell, they were just >50% in agreement with the statement presented to them by the testers.

That could very well be true. As I acknowledged, the source is definitely far from reliable.

Maybe I should worry about more important things than melodramatic college students.

[Hagar]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

I think we should keep in mind that this seems a canned response, a survey answer choice. The students weren't saying that life is a meaningless existential hell, they were just >50% in agreement with the statement presented to them by the testers.

I think that this is right. If I'd been presented with this survey option as a student, I'd have picked it for fun and then chuckled at myself all day for being soooo clever.

Depending on the survey target group, I doubt that 27% of students would have even known what "existentialism" was.