Smasharoo wrote:
It's probably sadder than that. It strikes me as the result of a man too intelligent to cope with meaningless reality of human existence through ignorance, while at the same time being too creative and open minded not to try and find some reason life might not be so pointless. The detour from the path of nihilism is often spirituality for those who care for others and feel for the world as a whole. For high functioning sociopaths like me, it's trivial to say "life is meaningless, lying to yourself doesn't make it any less so". For people with empathy and intelligence, I imagine it's a constant battle to find something to cling to which makes life worth living.
Man, you nearly bring a tear to me eye.
But, despite your gracious words I still have to say you are selling yourself short. It is not a constant battle when you find something that works. Are you having a constant battle remaining a nihilist? Assuming non-meaning is equal to assuming to know the meaning. The true natural state would be complete ignorance but nature abhors a vacuum and thus we do all put our faith in something or do put our faith in nothing. The difference between your side of the fence and my side is nothing more than
Hope.
If we were 2 people on a desert island arguing whether or not there were any other islands... you could say no, this this is the only island and yes there is no reason not to believe that and I would indeed have no way to prove to you that what we are seeing isn't all that there is.. but you would simply say "there is no island" which I could not agree with because here we are on an island.
I'm just curious if you do realize that your hard-core stance is a self imposed prison. Probably not if you don't believe that you have a spirit to be imprisoned. All people have the potential to be animals but no animal has potential to be a person
Your mind and your consciousness is your spirit.
We both likely hope for the exact same things.. family, home, stability, children to pass on our name.. but I simply have this extra hope which is a choice for me to make. You hope for things of a temporal nature.. so do I. I also hope for things of an eternal nature.. eternal life. There should be no shame in having hope that such a thing is as plausible as a Sun during the day and a Moon at night.. This hope is plausible.. it is as plausible as existence and all of it's OTHER complexities are plausible.
and I think everyone is essentially a high functioning sociopath.. it's simply a matter of circumstantial conditioning which some biochemical exceptions.
oh and... SPACE!!!!!!!
Edited, Dec 4th 2014 6:22pm by Kelvyquayo