Thread: Meaninglessness Of Life

Don't think of a job like slave labour for the system, think of it like the talent you give to the world. If that's too hard, perhaps you need a different job.

Plain and simple: Read a book by Viktor Frankl. For example: "Man's search for meaning" or a compilation of text excerpts of his. This man is to me the most important person in the field of "the meaning of XYZ". Read his stuff, it's very insightful.

Or, if you prefer that, become some frustrated, stuck up bitter nihilist and kill yourself at the age of 40. If that's your plan in life, all the power to you.

Also try Erich Fromm (To Have to To Be). Smart man.

Anonymous42 you sound like a situationist! rad as fuck!

Originally Posted by DoomedOne

Don't think of a job like slave labour for the system, think of it like the talent you give to the world. If that's too hard, perhaps you need a different job.

more like selling your time. don't be for sale.
more like the money you make for someone else. All they give you is all you need to keep working (you get to pay for a house, food and transportation) so you can sleep eat and get back to work. and its practically compulsory how else will you survive? a life vs. a living. Don’t beg for the right to live, take it. ...you can never get the time you were making someone else rich back. so what can we do?

Hey folks, I'm going to go ahead and move this thread due to the fact that A-42 is no longer a member, therefore will not be responding to all your input.

I do think the topic itself may merit further discussion so it will now live here in extended discussion for those of you who would like to continue the topic.

Have a nice day!
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I went through a stage similar to that. Join the damn army. Go see the most fucked up things this world has to offer. That will make you feel alive.

Not to mention all the benefits the army offers. They'll set you up for life.

Really, when you look back on it, life is what you make it. If it's meaningless, it's meaningless. If it's full of mystery and wonder, it'll be that.

There is no meaning of life but the meaning you yourself give it.

Originally Posted by shark!

Anonymous42 you sound like a situationist! rad as fuck!




more like selling your time. don't be for sale.
more like the money you make for someone else. All they give you is all you need to keep working (you get to pay for a house, food and transportation) so you can sleep eat and get back to work. and its practically compulsory how else will you survive? a life vs. a living. Don’t beg for the right to live, take it. ...you can never get the time you were making someone else rich back. so what can we do?

That's only because our economy rules people by fear. You can't survive comfortably without going to college, you can't survive the debt after college without immediatly getting a job you hate. The only way to be ab le to enjoy your work, it seems, is to face the fear and just go for what you really want to do.