SilentFlame
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Is there any meaning to life? If countless people have been erased forever, what is there to be done about it? Are the views of this site on death similar to atheism? Of course, atheists don't believe in even free will, but one core belief would be the same as theirs, that humans are ultimately meaningless and can/will disappear forever into the nothingness from which they supposedly came, as if they never existed, and their existence was the mere product of meaningless matter interactions, with meaning being only a human construct that has no objective basis. The only difference is the Soul is here believed to be a spiritual/energetic body which is generally much harder to destroy than the physical one, which often survives the physical one's death. However the end result of nothingness and non existence is seen as the exact same thing if the spiritual body dies, so in a way it's just one stage removed from atheism, but the same overall concept of 'If the matter/energy producing or facilitating your consciousness vanishes, you are gone forever'. The same seems true of the origin of the soul in atheism and the beliefs of this site as it is simply seen as created by interactions of matter/energy. From nothingness to nothingness basically.
This is not aimed to be critical but I do want to know, what do you all believe about meaning in life? From the articles i read on this site it really seems like the ultimate view here is that life is inherently meaningless and is always ready to disappear forever. The most I read that indicates a belief in meaning in life is the idea promoted here that all energy/matter is consciousness in some way, and consciousness is a result of the basic processes of the universe which are destined to produce higher and higher complexity, and that doesn't sound so unreasonable to me. However, i haven't seen anyone say yet that it was in itself meaningful or that the individual people created are. For example, this would make all humans completely replacable beings that serve no unique purpose in themselves other than being one among many. Please correct me if I am wrong about this, but this was the impression I got from reading the Important Topics articles here and on the site on what the general official view here is on meaning in life and spiritual death.
It really makes me wonder. Even if spiritual death is an absolute truth and those who are dead are gone as if they never existed and never had any true reason to exist, everyone should oppose this truth and see the state of nature as inherently flawed to allow such results, and in need of correction. Of course this idea of correcting nature and the chaos it produces seems to be in line with the beliefs of people here, as the general idea seems to be curing the disease of death in humanity and making humans immortal either spiritually or physically or both, that seems like a good idea to me too. It just seems like the next step after everyone became immortal would be then trying to find some sort of purpose of life in general, or of their individual lives. What do you guys think about this?
This is not aimed to be critical but I do want to know, what do you all believe about meaning in life? From the articles i read on this site it really seems like the ultimate view here is that life is inherently meaningless and is always ready to disappear forever. The most I read that indicates a belief in meaning in life is the idea promoted here that all energy/matter is consciousness in some way, and consciousness is a result of the basic processes of the universe which are destined to produce higher and higher complexity, and that doesn't sound so unreasonable to me. However, i haven't seen anyone say yet that it was in itself meaningful or that the individual people created are. For example, this would make all humans completely replacable beings that serve no unique purpose in themselves other than being one among many. Please correct me if I am wrong about this, but this was the impression I got from reading the Important Topics articles here and on the site on what the general official view here is on meaning in life and spiritual death.
It really makes me wonder. Even if spiritual death is an absolute truth and those who are dead are gone as if they never existed and never had any true reason to exist, everyone should oppose this truth and see the state of nature as inherently flawed to allow such results, and in need of correction. Of course this idea of correcting nature and the chaos it produces seems to be in line with the beliefs of people here, as the general idea seems to be curing the disease of death in humanity and making humans immortal either spiritually or physically or both, that seems like a good idea to me too. It just seems like the next step after everyone became immortal would be then trying to find some sort of purpose of life in general, or of their individual lives. What do you guys think about this?