What is the nature of reality? How should a life ought to be lived?
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Nuclear Bingo
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I find reading the likes of Aristotle, Socrates and dale Carnegie help me with how to go about living
All people who had free will, I’m afraid. And their “philosophies” were just opinions, basically.
Nuclear Bingo
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That's true, but does that make it a bad thing?
Not necessarily. They are good things to go off of, but definitely nowhere near the finish line.
visibleghost
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just do what makes u happy and if nothing makes u happy then uh consider a therapist or maybe death
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Life feels meaningless not gonna lie, we're just a speck in an infinitely large universe, possibly even multiverse.
After we die it won't take long until we're forgotten, what's the point.
All I've found is that I just want to do whatever I enjoy, and try to make life better for the people I care about.
After we die it won't take long until we're forgotten, what's the point.
All I've found is that I just want to do whatever I enjoy, and try to make life better for the people I care about.
I don't really get the first question and the fact that everyone has given an answer to one question, I'm guessing they've all disregarded it too ^-^
The second question I think life should be lived to better ones self and the lives of those around them as a collective. To what one perceives bettering as, is up to their own interpretation, as is the question in the first place
The second question I think life should be lived to better ones self and the lives of those around them as a collective. To what one perceives bettering as, is up to their own interpretation, as is the question in the first place
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How should a life ought to be lived?
Well, there shouldn't be a particular lifestyle that should be lived in my opinion. We live our lives in different ways than how other people live their life. We don't really decide how our lives play out even when our actions could impact the future. That being said, due to the many lifestyles in the world, there really isn't a particular way someone should live their life. All you can do is live your life like how it is even if it means changing your current lifestyle as you grow older.
Well, there shouldn't be a particular lifestyle that should be lived in my opinion. We live our lives in different ways than how other people live their life. We don't really decide how our lives play out even when our actions could impact the future. That being said, due to the many lifestyles in the world, there really isn't a particular way someone should live their life. All you can do is live your life like how it is even if it means changing your current lifestyle as you grow older.
Death is a bit grim, but idk aside that, that's how I live my life and works great really. Do what makes you happy, find a way to secure that happiness and take care of the people around you.
Life ought to be lived however you would like it to. There's really no standard way of doing it 'right' as we're all individuals with different preferences and opinions.
Then they will have to live with the consequences of said choice. Or lack thereof if they're good at it I suppose. If doing crime truly makes them happy they're fairly twisted by normal standards though. Or just desperate. I'd steal if I was starving too.
That’s what I’m saying. There is NO simple answer to either question of this thread, which is why everyone who has disregarded one or the other question and given an answer so far has been incorrect.
Even my answer COULD be incorrect, but yeah, everyone has free will, and a lot of the times people will use that free will for good things, but a lot of the other times, not so much...
Yeah, hypothetically, I see your point. In a world with no free will a lot of things would be better, no war, no crime and so on. Still, with no free will how would you get a "drive" to get anything done? If everyone is happy doing a basic job, going home to their wife and their 2 kids and repeating that over and over, you'd miss out on a lot of happiness and passion and possibly even things like great work of culture.
Removing free will from the equation would solve a lot of things, much like how having a dictator instead of democracy makes some things "easier". But at what cost? I struggle to see myself enjoying a passionless life, and I struggle to see passion in a world with no free will. Then again, had I never known it, you wouldn't know what you miss out on.
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