/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9877531
>A few weeks ago I had asked my psychiatrist what the meaning of life is, and he simply told me a story about some Japanese fishermen, which I thought was pretty lame. His story basically came down to:
> >Get a job to make money. ->Make money to pay for school. ->Go to school to get a degree. ->Get a degree to get a higher-paying job. ->Get a higher-paying job to pay for your psychotropic medication and psychotherapy. ->Keep attending your psychotherapy sessions so that your psychotherapist can order you to do things like getting a job. -> Do all of these things to keep your mind preoccupied and distracted from thinking about how meaningless it all is.
> He could not provide me with a sufficient answer.
> I dropped out of high school back in 2006. And I figured that by this point of my life I would have known what I wanted to do with my life. But it has now been over a decade, and I have yet to do anything with my life. I am a 29-year-old high school drop-out with a decade-long gap of unemployment. These past two years I have been applying for jobs on and off and I keep coming back to the same old line of questions I have asked myself in the past, like:
> >Why am I doing this? What is the point of all this? What is the point of applying for jobs? What is the point of making money? To survive? What is the point of survival? To live life? What is the meaning of life?
> So, yeah. Can anybody here tell me what the meaning of life is?
not science or math

>>9877531
Everything exists because it can exist. So in the grand scheme of things, your life happens because it can happen. This is the purpose of the universe. But if you narrow down to organisms, or life, then our purpose is obviously to survive and reproduce. But these once strong desires have been weakened by modernity, as survival has become easy and reproduction entails much more than having sex. Life seems meaningless because our biological desires that govern the majority of our decisions are no longer needed, leaving our mind drifting and lost, trying to find a desire that impels us to action. Everythijg has become abstract, far from simplicity. We don’t try to find food, but fill out paperwork to make money to go to the store to buy food. So almost all the work we do is not understood by the body. This is why schoolwork is particularly stressful to adolescents.

Life has become deceptively easy. Although it easy to stay alive, it is not so easy to live. The only way to counteract this is to find ways to struggle, optimally in ways which improve your body and mind. Because even if you run on a treadmill for 30 minutes, a meaningless activity in itself, the feeling afterwards suggests that you actually did meaningful work. And when you gain a better understanding of the world, you feel accomplished, because you are now comfortable knowing that your environment is more known to you. By finding ways to highlight your ignorance, you can ignite a desire to rid your ignorance, so that you have a better chance of survival.

This post is completely inappropriate for this board.

>>9877531

>Proof and conjecture, and keep the SF's score low.

>>9877531
try /his/ btw the answer is nihlism

>>9877531
The meaning of life is yours. There is no person in the universe besides you, reading this post right now.
However, everyone else is their own singular person on their own planet, and your decisions can affect their worlds as well as your own.

What you gotta do is this:
Get some real goals. Until you do this, your life hasn't even begun; it's someone else's life up to that point.
Achieve them.
Try not to cause undue pain to others in the process.
das it mane.

>>9877575
When you said “everything exists because it exists” it made me think of this, actually some pretty true stuff in this post tho.

>>9877799
I guess if I wanted to be more explanatory I would say that everything exists because nothing can prevent it from doing so. When something can not be prevented, it will happen.

>>9877799
This is a black-science-man tier quote but it's absolutely deeper than he meant it to be.