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What makes life worth living?

>> No.4673086

Different for each person.

>> No.4673088

benis in vagina

>> No.4673090

>>>/adv/
>>>/r9k/
>>>/out/

>> No.4673093

power over others

>> No.4673099

the acquisition of currency

>> No.4673096

Love

>> No.4673102

fuckieng you're mom!!?

>> No.4673159

that's mine to know and yours to find out

>> No.4673162

>>4673085
Your innate will to live.

>> No.4673174

masturbation

>> No.4673185

>>4673085
What makes life worth dying for?

>> No.4673191

It's not but you're biologically hardwired to want to stay alive regardless.

>> No.4673213

To answer that question.

>> No.4673228

Why does it need to be worth living? Why does it need a reason in the first place? If you find life to be a generally enjoyable thing then live. If you don't find it to be enjoyable then change it, or just hurry up and die. Either way doesn't really require any justification. The whole question seems silly to me.

>> No.4673267

Manipulating mopey fuckers like yooooooooou!!!

>> No.4673289

>>4673085
Enjoyment.

>> No.4673332

Whatever you think is worthwhile.

>> No.4673334
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>>4673085

>fapping
>films
>observing interesting shit
>cute girls
>reading
>cuddling with QT girl(i've never experienced this. it's one of my dreams)

The bad things in life make life not worth living regardless of how great the good things are.

>> No.4673345

>>4673334
>The bad things in life make life not worth living regardless of how great the good things are.

Couldn't you just turn this around and say the good things in life make life worth living regardless of how bad the bad things are? That's how I see it. If I saw it your way I'd have killed myself already. And, no, I'm not intimating that you should kill yourself, but rather that it might be in your best interest to alter your perspective.

>> No.4673348

>>4673334
>filename: _safe_rainbow-dash_(...).gif)
>cuddling with QT girl(i've never experienced this. it's one of my dreams)

Ooooh lawdie

>> No.4673397

>>4673348
4chan

>> No.4673408

Smoking dank ass nugs.

>> No.4673417

>>4673397
The quarantine.

>> No.4673415

>>4673408
Yea, uh, this. And drinking. And takin dat molly and dem ludes

>> No.4673427

>>4673085

because who the fuck else is gonna take all these shits?

>> No.4673478

Raping women

>> No.4673479

Raping men

>> No.4673485

Raping girls

>> No.4673491

Raping animals

>> No.4673492

Raping children

>> No.4673494

>>4673085
It's relatively short enough that I figure it will do to stick it out anyway.

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Mecha robots

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>>4673559

>> No.4673585

>>4673088
>>4673102
>>4673174
>>4673397
>>4673408
>>4673478
>>4673479
>>4673485
>>4673491
>>4673492
>>4673559
Never change 4chan, never change.

>> No.4673590

>>4673185
God, King, and Country.

>> No.4673593

the fact that, despite the meaninglessness of life, you can make up a meaning out of nothing and live by it

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>>4673585

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>that realization that everything you do is truly about the pussy, neatly hidden behind a social multiplex

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>>4673085
Broadly, the telos or purpose of man is the act of reason or contemplation.
I've found that this is actually the answer that is both meaningful/accurate enough to be useful and broad enough to cover most other categories, e.g., poiesis, the praising/contemplation of God in religion, etc.

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To experience everything in your own unique way, and contribute to the ultimate complexity of the universe with your experiences. So live bravely.

>> No.4673661

>>4673631
mah psychology nigga

>> No.4673748

>>4673631
No, it's about cock.

>> No.4674354

>>4673631
siggy pls tell me why i keep refusing the pussy thrown at at me

>> No.4674536

>>4673085
serotonin and dopamine
on a less abstract level, love, drugs, music, friendship and literature for me I guess

>> No.4674537

>>4673228
this

>> No.4674541

>>4673085
>What makes life worth living?
What would you rather be doing?

>> No.4674887

>>4673085
pleasure

>> No.4674937

>>4673085
pain

>> No.4675023

The question is dishonest

>> No.4675035

>>4673085
Other people.

This is the only answer.

>> No.4675079

>>4673085
Doing science because it is hard.

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>>4673631
schopenhauer pls go

>> No.4675251

>>4675035
That's... Lame. If this was the only answer I'd rather be dead.
Obviously, we are very social animals and isolation often ends up in depression and other psychological disorders. But this isn't enough, like food or oxygen aren't enough to make life worth living. You're confusing one necessary condition for a worthy life with what makes life worthy. It's not exactly the same.

>> No.4675258

>>4674541
Well, this is a tricky question. But anyway, since >>4675023, that's the answer one should expect.

>> No.4675266

>>4674354
Because you want to fuck you're mom.

>> No.4675295

Art.
Creating beyond yourself.
Turning your life into a work of art.

>> No.4675600

>>4673085
>worth

enjoyable experiences aka good times!!

>> No.4676120

Nothing. It's an obligation.

>> No.4676143

>>4673631
Didn't Freud once say that every man on Earth has a secret subconscious desire to have sex with their own mother?

>> No.4676146

Just BEING alive.

Riding down a busy sloping street, picking up speed, I have this thrill verging on panic, I could lose control, swerve and die quite easily, I have no helmet. At best a crash with major scrapes and bruises could have awaited me. I reach the bottom, I slow, cars thin out. Absolute joy. I begin to think of the daredevil types, skiers, skydivers, and their odd Epicurean hobbies, always ready to risk injury or death for that thrill.

Life is so worth living.

>> No.4676364

>>4676146
not sure if buttercups parody

>thrill seeking
>epicurean

>> No.4676395

>>4676364
It's pleasure. I know it isn't at all what Epicurus would advise, but it is a pleasure to risk. I'm still feeling it (Oh, and a coffee rush)

>> No.4676397

>>4676395
It's diametrically opposed to what Epicurus would advice. You're a crypto-cyrenaic and you know it.

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>>4673345

I am not saying i am depressed enough that I would kill myself. I don't even know what it means to be depressed to be perfectly honest.
In my world there is just irritation(some asshole pissing me off) and a neutral state where I am neither irritated nor happy. I get happy when i get something i desire but it doesn't last for long.

I am just saying if i had a choice before birth whether to have been born or not, i would have chosen not to have been born, because my life is not my ideal of life. I am a beta NEET who has never had a girlfriend.

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>>4676397
Not really. I'm not some fool who makes a living doing this. I'm not putting myself into this situation on purpose. I'd like a nice comfy home and a garden, but civilization needs to march. The risks it takes to explore space, for one, is a rewarding risk I understand and appreciate.

I have always been at odds with the non-participatory nature of Epicureanism (despite my rather quiet lifestyle) But I insist his doesn't make me a crypto-cyrenaic.

>> No.4676445

Probably all the psychological mechanisms that keep you from killing yourself.

>> No.4676465

>>4675266
>because you want to fuck you're mom
>want to fuck you're mom
>want to fuck? you are mom
>want to fuck mom?

Nice Freudian slip

>> No.4676516

>>4674354
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_formation

>> No.4676519

ambiguity

>> No.4676524

>>4673085
Fear and spite.

>> No.4676541

mushrooms dude mushrooms

>> No.4676609

>>4673228
because as one (inculding me) realizes there's no meaning in life, it seems hard to justify anything you do/don't do. It dawned on me I will probably never go down in history in some form, and from there life seems meaningless, and that most people are really no better than others. So to avoid this existential trap I tried to find a better reason to live, and though I didn't really come up with anything I kind of just go over it, and don't think about it as much now. Currently I just do what I like (that I personally find productive) is reading, math, weightlifting, and watching some funny ass seinfeld.

>> No.4676754

>>4676609
>because as one (inculding me) realizes there's no meaning in life, it seems hard to justify anything you do/don't do.
This is precisely what is glorious. There are no obligations, no objectives. The only reason to do anything is because you want to. Embrace the überstapalis or if you can't hawk it go follow some sort of pleb tailored ideology.

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Franku Sempai

Gorillæ

Pre-Islamic Iran

Egyptology

Assyriology/Sumerology

Byzantium

Medieval Latin Christendom

Select elements of Islamic civilization

Captcha: Idjoymo Scriptures

>> No.4678308

Pleasure.

In the absence of pleasure, spite.

>> No.4678324

women, booze, books, art, love, etc. i dont know man it doesn't matter

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An attachment to other people. The realization that once you die, you can't come back. A desperate attempt to find meaning through intellectual rigor. A fear of the unknown.

>> No.4678537

>>4678308
I find pleasure in spite

>> No.4678539

>>4673085
Only you can answer this question for yourself.

>> No.4678555

There is none. I propose:

>/lit/'s Commit Suicide 2014