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[Anonymous No.13510590]

what meaning have you found on your life?

[Anonymous No.13510603]

None. I thought I found some, but it was a larp/cope.

[Anonymous No.13510617]

life itself is the meaning of life

[Anonymous No.13510625]

>>13510590
Taking carnality for a walk, pampering sensuality with undivided attention, and cleaning the neural-circuit boards by frequently updating the software helps me run at an optimal superhuman capacity

[Anonymous No.13510627]

>>13510590
Yeah, my wife girlfriend and our coming child.
Also, have sex.

[Anonymous No.13510644]

>>13510627
huh?

[Anonymous No.13510674]

cheveux blonds yeux bleus doux cou doux

[Anonymous No.13510716]

>>13510590
So my mom doesn't kill herself, she already lost 1 child.

[Anonymous No.13510734]

>>13510627
My wife girlfriend and coming child helped me find meaning “on” my life.

[Anonymous No.13510741]

>>13510734 was meant for >>13510644

[Anonymous No.13510745]

>>13510716
Why is your mom killing herself a bad thing?

[Anonymous No.13510746]

>>13510745
Specious & sophist pilled

[Anonymous No.13510756]

My life doesn't need meaning. Like the books I enjoy reading the only justification is aethetic.

[Anonymous No.13510760]

>>13510734
and i'm asking how pathetic and empty your life has to be for a wife and child to give it meaning. my wife openly cheated on me for 2 years and even humiliated me in front of my parents by telling them she was fucking other guys with bigger cocks, causing my parents to laugh WITH my wife AT me (on several occasions). a month ago my daughter revealed that she's pregnant and the father could be one of three different guys, she doesn't know which and two of them she literally doesn't kbow their names or how to contact them. the other guy is black and lives with his mom in a shack with no windows and has no job. tell me, you think a wife and kid give my life meaning? grow up

[Anonymous No.13510763]

>>13510734
>>13510627
Stop Larping faggot we don’t even want to consider your hypothetical parenthood
DONT have sex
Have a vasectomy

[Anonymous No.13510767]

>>13510760
lmao

[Anonymous No.13510797]

>>13510760
Embarrassing post. Did you just project all of your small cocked insecurities in this fake, poorly narrated story?

[Anonymous No.13510803]

>>13510763
I won’t because I’m a well read, thrice published alpha-chad who has made love to over 100 women before I met the right one.
You should though, you non sex-having virgin gollum-tier incel.

[Anonymous No.13510834]

>>13510590
Overcoming social anxiety to see if one day i can stop being a virgin.

[Anonymous No.13510841]

>>13510803
where can I read your books

[Anonymous No.13510849]

Bread. I fucking love bread.

[Anonymous No.13510891]

>>13510841
Yes right like I’d doxx myself on this vile pig pen of a website.

[Anonymous No.13510998]

>>13510891
Ok, pussy.

[Anonymous No.13511093]

>>13510891
>>13510803
>I’m a well read, thrice published alpha-chad who has made love to over 100 women before I met the right one

[Anonymous No.13511178]

>>13510590
I haven't found any, Macbeth was right in his final soliloquy

[Anonymous No.13511184]

>>13510590
It's a secret. I'm not going to tell you losers.

[Anonymous No.13511193]

>>13510590
Setting big goals for myself and achieving them or die trying. In the process my mind expands.

[Anonymous No.13511199]

>>13510803
>who has made love to over 100 women
whore

[Anonymous No.13511201]

>>13510590
You don't need a meaning, just be lucky you have a life to live at all.

Millions of people all around the world would kill to swap places with you in a second.

[Anonymous No.13511210]

>>13510590
None. I don’t think people can find meaning in their lives anymore

[Anonymous No.13511247]

>>13510590
Meaning is an illusory concept. We as human beings seem very inconsistent in how we apply it. We find no problem that the cup on our table is sitting there. We don't ask for the meaning of the cup being there. We just know it's there, and that's good enough for us to go on. Same with most other things in life. Yet when it comes to life itself, we apply to it an unattainable standard of having meaning. Why should it? Can't life just be there? What is the meaning of the next two seconds of my life? How about 10 hours of my life? If I increase time like that does it suddenly necessitate a meaning? How about 10 days? 10 years? 70 years? But, you object, we're talking not about the meaning of life which actually is, but meaning according to which we should choose how we live, the meaning of life in the abstract sense. And I say, what does it matter how we choose our life - we don't have free will anyway! Read Sam Harris's book.

[Anonymous No.13511249]

>>13511201
>Millions of people all around the world would kill to swap places with you in a second.

Imagine unironically using the Africa argument...

[Anonymous No.13511271]

>>13511199
>t. Incel christ cuck

[Anonymous No.13511289]

>>13511271
>incel
volcel
>christ cuck
i'm an atheist

What was the point of your post? You're still a male slut.

[Anonymous No.13511294]

>>13511289
Why would an atheist be voluntarily celibate? And furthermore, the very idea of “slutiness” is a spook. Get over yourself.

[Anonymous No.13511299]

>>13511247
Meaning is as much of a biological reality as pleasure. Our brains are hardwired to experience these phenomena so there's really no point in trying to rationalise that they are pointless constructs - you still need to attend to them if you wish to live a pleasant life.

[Anonymous No.13511306]

>>13510590
I don’t need meaning as long as I am being and present.

Meaning is only an illusion of a sick brain, one who is enslaved to the desire, or one who is afraid of life. They seek to find “meaning”, an escape from their current scenario, believing they can be alleviated of the burden of life through some yet unobtained thing/point/place/etc. When you realize you are avoiding the impossible, and instead embrace life for what it currently is than what you currently want, you’ll find you never needed meaning. You’re only supposed to be here, now.

Do not let your philopsychia fool you.

[Anonymous No.13511307]

>>13510617
nice circular reasoning lol

[Anonymous No.13511323]

[Anonymous No.13511335]

>>13511294
Absolutely based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.13511346]

>>13511294
You're not a spook, and you're a slut. You can go to slutwalks all you want, nothing will change that fact.
I'm voluntarily celibate because I'm currently more interested in my career than dating.

[Anonymous No.13511353]

>>13511346
Cope

[Anonymous No.13511356]

>>13511307
Then how about this: There is no need to look for any meaning in life, because the meaning is already there. You're looking for something you already have

[Anonymous No.13511383]

>>13511093
You don’t believe me nerd?

[Anonymous No.13511470]

>>13511306
underrated post.

[Anonymous No.13511514]

>>13511356
[citation needed]

[Anonymous No.13511533]

>>13511306

The presence to which You refer is both a presence as in a "now" and also a presence as in an eternal present, as one might associate with God or the "eternal" laws of science. This hypostatized (underlying) belief in presence is undermined by novel phenomenological ideas, such that presence itself does not subsist, but comes about primordially through the action of our futural projection, our realization of finitude and the reception or rejection of the traditions of our time.

In his short work Intuition of the Instant, Gaston Bachelard - in an attempt to navigate beyond, or parallel to, the Western concept of 'time as duration'; that is, the Western concept of time as the imagined trajectorial space of movement - distinguishes between two foundations of time: time viewed as a duration, and time viewed as an instant. Bachelard then follows this second phenomena of time and concludes that time as a duration does not exist, but is created as a necessary mediation for increasingly complex beings to persist. The reality of time for existence, though, is in fact a reprisal of the instant, the gestation of all existence every instant, the eternal death that gives life.

The present is dependent on and subsists by something that, by its orientation to the present, is always absent.

[Anonymous No.13511543]

>>13510590
I cross fingers every night to die in my sleep, so I hope something good happens and I don't need to wish that.

[Anonymous No.13511556]

>>13511307
Someone else posting, but he's right in a way: all meaning comes from the activity of life. This is literally true in that only living things experience meaning, but also is the implicit thesis of life itself written in action: that an organism *grasps towards* affirms the necessity of grasping, a faith that activity is preferable to indifference and that the organism can reach nourishment. It isn't circular reasoning, but a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nihilism is impossible because absolute indifference is impossible (it implies a God's eye view,) and is itself a preference; the inescapability of preference means that meaning is inescapable. The problems of value and one's responses to it remains.

[Anonymous No.13511561]

>>13511093
Fucking hell fuck this mentality man. I mean honestly WHO the fuck are YOU? Why are you sitting there doubting people on the Internet? Are you seriously so depressive that in your own little world you don’t want to believe people are getting laid more than you?

And this is coming from ME :3

[Anonymous No.13511562]

>>13511383
It’s not just that I don’t believe you, it’s that even if you were telling the truth, all those accomplishments have yet to make anything of worth out of you. Published alpha whore or not, your a lame ass. Have a nice life weasel

[Anonymous No.13511566]

>>13511561

[Anonymous No.13511714]

>>13511533
Absolutely based, Gaston Bachelard is definitely on my reading list.

I stumbled upon the same understanding from the suspicion that the foundations of calculus (the mathematical study of change) corresponds to a metaphysical principle, which as an empiricist for me meant a description of our most fundamental understanding of reality (our perception of change.) I was very unfamiliar with philosophy at the same so couldn't place this concept in relation to others, but being a Fedoran "scientific skeptic" gave me a lot of familiarity with evolutionary biology as well as perspectives of scientific methodology. My suspicion was advanced in an unexpected place: the workbook of an 8-week course in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, which described two basic "modes" of consciousness: being and doing. From my experiences and this model I realized that it corresponded exactly to the relationship between integration and differentiation in calculus as inverse operations of the same process, that were at once reference frames of change-perception exactly as you describe: the presentist frame of reference places an omnipresent experiential moment as the fixed frame of perception, with instantaneous change experienced in this ever-present. "Time experienced as an instant" is what it is like to *be* a derivative, a fundamental perspective of change-perception. Similarly with cumulative change over time the duration (eternity) is the fixed point of reference, and cumulative change over time is experienced. My conclusion was that neither the instant nor the cumulative was primary, but both mutually necessary to make coherence of each other as contrasts, both views needed for any coherence of change much as motion needs something in motion in relation to a second to be meaningful. This didn't negate either fundamental account of change, but elevated them on a terrain of mutual intercompatibility and co-emergence.

[Anonymous No.13511718]

>>13511714
Last year I began to study the work of Alfred North Whitehead after finding his philosophy to have remarkable similarities to my own, and he has rocked my world unlike any other thinker has. My premises had led me right to process philosophy, and at the heart of the study was the same relationship of change described as an interdependency of being and becoming. It placed not things but evolution in the most abstract sense, that of "process" as fundamental to the real, which while second nature to me because of the assumptions I started with, is such an alien premise to most of assumed philosophy, including in some of the most committed metaphysical naturalists I had read. My journey was completed when I discovered that Bergson, who inspired Whitehead, had the same intuition about calculus and related it to the process of knowledge:

>for Bergson, calculus is more than just a handy metaphor or analogy, but rather, he indeed aimed at framing an approach to the organicist world hypothesis that employs the calculus as its actual method of discovery (i.e., differentiation) and explanation (i.e., integration), and that every discovery is the inverse of an explanation and every explanation the derivative of a discovery.

That "The present is dependent on and subsists by something that, by its orientation to the present, is always absent" speaks of the same relationship. Knowledge is dependent on and subsists by its own absence: the possibility of fallibility. The pursuit of knowledge is endless, an inherent incompleteness that also makes it necessary. Likewise biological evolution is only possible because of the "death penality," the possibility of failure. Incomplete Nature by Terrence Deacon explores this idea of an absence that is a productive force, and uses the word absential to define it: "the paradoxical intrinsic property of existing with respect to something missing, separate, and possibly nonexistent. Although this property is irrelevant when it comes to inanimate things, it is a defining property of life and mind; elsewhere (Deacon 2005) described as a constitutive absence"

[Anonymous No.13511775]

>>13510834
my nigga.

[Anonymous No.13511873]

>>13511718
You are definitely ready for this

[Anonymous No.13511886]

>>13511562
Pathetic

[Anonymous No.13512438]

>>13510590
Transhumanism

[Anonymous No.13512444]

>>13510849
I prefer pizza

[Anonymous No.13512447]

>>13510603
What anime is this?

[Anonymous No.13512492]

I’m tired of looking for meaning and purpose. It is an endless pursuit. The goal posts will just keep moving if I were to somehow convince myself that I had found it. It would be underwhelming and then the search would continue.

Im trying to be impressed with life.

[Anonymous No.13512503]

>>13510849
Me too! I just hate supermarket grade bread though (not really but it is bad for you)

[Anonymous No.13512527]

>>13512438
>t. oyster card arm

[Anonymous No.13512583]

>>13510760
So nice of you to adopt jamal's kid