Is it normal not to think life has meaning?

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Is it normal for me to believe that there is little meaning to life?

Dont get the wrong idea, i kind of like my life, i suppose. I work hard, out of sheer boredom if anything, and to keep myself amused. But, whats the point of working your a** off for about 30 years (relax im 20) when in the end, everything you know, love and cherish, will be ripped away from you, most times without even a single goodbye? And when you do say goodbye then what? You die, i highly doubt there is an afterlife, no reincarnation, no heaven, no hell. Just blackness, that you don't realise is even black. I see no value in material possessions (amusment only) I dont see myself living past 30-40 ish, getting old, is horrible, you basically decay, wither, until you are nothing but a shadow of your former self and the joy of that? Everyone else gets to watch it happen.

I also dont view "us" as more important than other beings, i see an ants life, weighed as equally as a humans, they have as much right to live on this planet, no matter how small, weak or inferior they may seem to us, im not saying that if either a person or an ant were to be dying, i would save the ant, i would save the person almost 100% of the time. I dont degrade the value of human lives in doing so either, i still think a humans life is important, im just thinking of equality.

Is this normal? Or am i psycopath?
And if it isn't normal, am i still a good person despite my views on life?

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    11 years ago

    The first paragraph sounds like realism on the pessimistic spectrum. There need not be a transcendent meaning of life for there to be an individual meaning. Some people believe that the meaning of their lives is about making the world better for future generations. Realistically, all that lives will decay and die and some of us are more at peace with it than others.

    Paragraph two is a philosophy akin to Buddhism, where every life is of equal importance.

    None of what you have stated seems horribly abnormal and you seem to have a mistaken idea of what a psychopath is. I highly doubt you are one but I am not qualified to make those claims.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    It's normal and I agree with you. But there will be neither blackness nor blankness. I know it's very hard to comprehend, but nothing happens when we die. I think I've understand what you mean with "blackness", but believe me, it's wrong: we just stop living. What we see is nothing but a feeling, and when we die, we become like a stone.
    Life is not a special thing; we are made of lifeless materials and what makes us live is only an ensemble of chemical reactions.

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    • Skitzo1
      11 years ago

      Haha, we are just complex biological computers really, with a few limbs here and there. We are nothing but dust at the end of the day.

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        Right, dude! If only people realized that, it might be a great world!

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  • curly-hair
    11 years ago

    yes its very very normal. everyone goes through the phase of questioning that truth is we have no idea what happens after death, personally i think we just rot back into the ground. the trick is to live in the moment. see, your anxious now because you're living in the future. if you're depressed you're living in the past. But what about right now? make it count while you still can .

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  • thr
    11 years ago

    Fore a long time, I have thought that there is no meaning of life. As you live, you learn that good things come to an end. Hopefully, the bleakness that can be a part viewing your life as void of objective importance, won't make you unable to enjoy life.

    As far as the importance of ants and humans, I also don't humans are objectively more important than ants, because I don't believe in any objective scale of importance.
    Instead, I would say "important to whom?" You mention that humans are important to you, and that is something I deem to be naturally human, i.e., that you react instinctively different towards humans than towards other being.

    Thinking, that importance is not objective, does not make you a bad person or a psycopath. The fact that you do assign more importance to a human being than an ant, speaks to the contrary.

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