The Point of Life

[FarAcrossTheWater]

The point of life is to pound as much dopamine into a three pound slab of meat in your skull. If you can't that for the rest of your life, what's the point of living?

 

[262653]

Inaccessibility of dying.

 

[Mentalmick]

The point of life is to make everyone else's miserable.

 

[Sensei]

The point of life is to pound as much dopamine into a three pound slab of meat in your skull. If you can't that for the rest of your life, what's the point of living?

If how to get as much dopamine as possible is the question, then methamphetamine is the answer.

The dopamine release after using ice explains why it is dangerously addictive

"If food gives you 50 'units' of dopamine, sex gives you 120, alcohol gives you 150 units, and cocaine about 350, methamphetamine gives you about 1200," Dr Marcia Fogarty, the executive director of Hunter New England Mental Health Services, said – quoting a report compiled by Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital, Nexus and Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative.

 

[Superdeterminist]

There is no point to life outside the ones ascribed to it by us.

 

[LifeQuitter2018]

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

 

[Euthanza]

If how to get as much dopamine as possible is the question, then methamphetamine is the answer.

The dopamine release after using ice explains why it is dangerously addictive

"If food gives you 50 'units' of dopamine, sex gives you 120, alcohol gives you 150 units, and cocaine about 350, methamphetamine gives you about 1200," Dr Marcia Fogarty, the executive director of Hunter New England Mental Health Services, said – quoting a report compiled by Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital, Nexus and Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative.

The problem with meth because it's stimulant like cocaine. I imagine an heart attack or stroke will happen if using stimulant to CTB, rather than death during a peaceful sleep.

 

[Shikamaru]

The true meaningful point of life is to catch all Pokémon

 

[FuneralCry]

There could never be a point to living. We only exist because people decided to selfishly procreate. Life is just endless misery and problems all for no purpose which there was never a need for in the first place. We only exist for the sake of existing just to die eventually and be forgotten about. The idea that living has any point is a delusion. I believe that life should have never been a thing in the first place, I have a strong dislike for life itself. All of this suffering would have been prevented by never being born.

 

[gimzero]

The point of those who want to live and not let us go.

 

[theboy]

technically, life is meaningless since we will all die anyway.

 

[SecretDissociation]

The point of life is the circle to* please the displeased. In all seriousness, I don't think there's a point other than to just mingle and be. Ugh

 

[Eternal Oblivion]

There could never be a point to living. We only exist because people decided to selfishly procreate. Life is just endless misery and problems all for no purpose which there was never a need for in the first place. We only exist for the sake of existing just to die eventually and be forgotten about. The idea that living has any point is a delusion. I believe that life should have never been a thing in the first place, I have a strong dislike for life itself. All of this suffering would have been prevented by never being born.

Selfishly procreate is right.
No pleasure in life can ever outweigh the horrors of being alive. Never existing is the greatest gift one can receive.

 

[Pluto]

Ultimately there cannot be a point as such. Does a tree or a squirrel ask questions like this?

One approach is to say that it's whatever you say it is. In fact, everyone is doing this anyway based on the choices that they make. Nobody has a choice about whether they get to make choices. We find ourselves here, so the process is already in motion. Clearly there is enormous diversity in what people do with life, but some of us face situations that involve chronic pain, hopeless situations and thus a need to possibly choose to exit. No matter what, life is choice.

There are various belief systems which describe some sort of bigger picture context to life, whereby there might be some framework with which to make 'higher' choices. Given the variety of such ideas, it would then be a question of how to distinguish between them, or whether to dismiss all as wishful thinking on the part of their various creators. If going down this path, it helps to remove as much old conditioning as possible, remembering that even our current world-view is based on sociocultural ideas inherited from parenting, media and education.