What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of “meaning” in that question? And who’s life? – Mine or humans in general or any living thing?
We’re born and we keep chasing one thing after another, if it’s not for the goal of earning more money then it’s surviving and just living at the present. Isn’t there something more to it? So what if you built a family legacy of lawyers or of noble prize winners per say, we’ll die and won’t know what’s going to happen afterwards. Are lives consists of one phase or step after another: you’re born -> school -> university and or work -> get a partner and get hitched for next half of life, if not you live and die alone… Basically, it’s the same with everyone else’s – almost universal.
Then why do people struggle to win something when it all comes to nothing in the end? What am I even doing here? If I don’t know what the meaning of life is then that’s like I don’t know why I should exist, and existence is like null.
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What if there’s life after death? Would it make existence more meaningful? But it’d only be meaningful if we carry on what we have at present to our next life, right? This sounds absurd but just think about the Buddhist stuff and Julian’s alien talk. It might just get you thinking. Alright, so you might say you don’t believe in that Buddhist crap and you hold the bible close to your chest. Fine with me.
Now it’s said that the bible is written by men, but what if there is no God and he’s a fictional character like other Greek gods the Greeks believed. We don’t believe in Zeus now, do we? It was a religion. Why do religions go close to extinction?
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And another thing that’s on my mind: extinction and evolution. The mammoths died out because people hunted them and they weren’t well adapted to the environment anymore. Dodos went extincted because people ate them before they can over-populate again. What if stopping extinction slows down evolution of animals including humans. I mean we’re trying to make them adapt to the environment which they are not supposed to exist in, i.e. pandas. What a symbol of China! An animal that probably costs more than raising a human being because we need professionals to monitor their living habits. In fact, we need to help them reproduce. My point is, if we didn’t stop inapt animals from going to extinction, what would happen besides them being gone forever and we’d have to look at them at the national museum of (what was once) natural life?
