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4299522 No.4299522 [Reply] [Original]

What's the point of gaining knowledge if you're just gonna die?

>> No.4299525

What's the point of this thread, if you don't expect to receive a satisfying answer?

>> No.4299527

>implying there is a point

Everything in life is pointless. You are supposed to do stuff you enjoy.

>> No.4299528

>implying life has purpose

>> No.4299529

you don't have to learn, you know. you can just off yourself right now

>> No.4299538

>implying I'm not immortal

My genius knowledge made me overcome death.

>> No.4299570

gaining knowledge is not just an action in and of itself.
it's enjoyable to some to learn the intricacies of the universe that many will never know.
in some ways it's a superiority complex to know something that inferior minds couldn't comprehend.

shit, sometimes it's just to get money to put food on the table.

>> No.4299571

>>4299522
how would you act differently if you knew that you were going to live forever?

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4299572

>>4299538
Have fun in trillions of years when all that is left in the universe is darkness and black dwarf stars
>yfw you realise this is truth

>> No.4299580

>>4299570
>it's enjoyable to some to learn the intricacies of the universe that many will never know.
> Me ^^

>> No.4299586

Because it's enjoyable to learn?

>> No.4299601

I need to do that shit to pass my courses and get a job so I dont starve.

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4300008

This just ruined my childhood...

>> No.4300016

>>4299601
>>4299601
>>4299601

sadly this :(

>> No.4300021

Better question, OP;

What's the point of gaining knowledge that you're going to die?

>> No.4300035

And what's the point in happiness? It does nothing for oyu in the long term, just makes u sad those days are over...

>> No.4300040

>>4299525
What's the point of not doing anything if whether you do it or not doesn't matter?

>>4299527
Why? That sounds like an explanation made up by a mind trying to justify its worth, not a derived reason

>> No.4300073

>Because, it brings pleasure, and a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment.
>However null this is, we are, so we should be. To be is to enjoy life, in whatever way, no matter how futile.
>Pleasure =/= happiness.

>> No.4300086

>>4299522
>study astrophysics
>discover empirical evidence of God among the stars
>he was wearing sunglasses the whole time, that's why it was so hard to find him
>fly to him
>make out
>???
>???
>become God
>bitches n hos
>space40s
>make Pluto an official planet again, LIKE A BOSS
>block party on Pluto

>> No.4300099

Humans work on the short term. we are driven by goals, be it an addiction or obsession. some are obsessed with love, others with fame, others with drugs, and others with science. Why does knowledge excite people? Some people are just built with a desire to organize and solve puzzles. Science gives a perfect field to do just that. Obviously, it's not for everyone.

>> No.4300105

Gaining immortality, duh.

>> No.4300125

because money and pleasure.

>> No.4300680

Kill yourself and it'll all go away.

Meanwhile, I will sit here tweaked to hell and back having the time of my life and learning more in this sitting than I did all week.

>> No.4302408

What is a "point"?

>> No.4302412

Only real point in life is to reproduce life.
I think we're above that by now.

>> No.4302425

There isn't one, life is completely meaningless. That being said, there's no point to not learning either. I enjoy learning, so I learn.

>> No.4302435

Helps me overcome my boredom. I have no social skills or true interest in social interaction.