the meaning of life
August 6, 2006
Kierkegaard: Life must be understood backwards!
Sisyphus: So life doesn’t mean anything while we’re living it?
Proust: Precisely. Our experiences can only come together in a meaningful form as memories. As long as we’re experiencing events, we’re too caught up in the swirl of life to make any sense of them. Only when we have the leisure to look back and think about the past do our minds organize it into something meaningful.
Sisyphus: When we look back in time, we become observers of our own life. Does this mean that life only has meaning to the people who observe it, but not to those who actually live it?
Kierkegaard: Hmmm. That’s what my assertion would seem to imply.
Camus: Then life essentially has no intrinsic meaning. So-called meaning comes from the outside, and is imposed on life in retrospect.
Nietzsche: In that case, my life just means anything that I want it to mean. The meaning of life becomes completely subjective and … meaningless.
June 14, 2007 at 8:57 pm
This is awesome.
February 3, 2008 at 2:18 am
Thank you for the post!
February 28, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Hah, if only such a conversation had actually taken place. Time to start funding cloning research.
April 18, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I love your blog.
If you get too suicidal and want to cut the whole thing out, may I suggest the prose of H.P. Lovecraft as a companion?
May 24, 2008 at 2:16 pm
But, what is the meaning of life for you?
Greetings!
May 24, 2008 at 2:16 pm
But what is the meaning of life for you?
Greeting
May 31, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I found your blog on stumble upon, and even after I read the title I knew I had to send you a link to one of my favorite poems:
http://milkfromthedish.blogspot.com/2007/06/untitled-poem-by-fernando-pessoa-as.html
June 28, 2008 at 4:41 pm
So life doesn’t mean anything while we’re living it????
:D:D
January 3, 2009 at 7:57 pm
I enjoyed the post. Did you write this?
January 18, 2009 at 11:54 am
Nice post.
January 20, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Just like blogging: Everything is backwards, it drove me nuts!
Excellent blog.
Do you wanna be friends?
February 13, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Life may not have any intrinsicmeaning, but if you can go on a bouncy castle and enjoy it, that’s meaning enough for me. Bouncy castles are kind of awesome when you think about it.
April 4, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Honestly a lot of your stuff goes over my head, but it is just so interesting to read. I mean I understand all the characters, but the topics covered are just so complex. I like it. It makes me think.
maybe we can exchange blog rolls
June 18, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Great Post, very interesting
July 29, 2009 at 1:14 am
no meaning
August 3, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Brilliant!
August 8, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Even if there might not always be a meaning of something, there is always a reason.
life and the universe has a logical and a biological reason and there is an explanenation to why everything exists. Altough there is no meaning in anything.
Us, humans are not more living than a robot. Many peaple say we have feelings and robot dont. But how hard would it actually be to build a robot and give them a variable and call it hunger and then if hunger>…..eat..
Its just that us humans are very compicated and have a huge amount of variables.
And also it wouldnot be very dificoult to program a robot to think that he is not a robot but a living thing wich is exactly what has happened to us humans.
I have a syndrome and can therefore think very logical and have a very high iq.
This has mady me very depressed since i often see that there is actualy no logical meaning with anything.
The only thing i live for is that us peaple are programed to “Like” stuff.
And the more i do this stuff the ore alive and less depressed i feel.
I have a blog where i discuss many of these things plus many computer related stuff wich is a result of my syndrome and iq(dont whant to brag).
here is a link to a text ive written the same time as i where thinking.
I tried to think as logical as i could,
It is like asking a computer the meaning of life:
http://hackormake.wordpress.com/logical-philosophy/logical-thinking-good-and-bad/
in this episode i discuss why good is good and bad is bad and why we enjoy good and not bad.