Why take life so seriously? its just an illusion.?

Question

Every thing that we have that we are, is just illusion, nothing is real. why be so damn serious about all this unreal things? Why even love someone so much, when you know s/he is going to die anyway? it does not make any sense to me, what so ever.

Answer 1

Antinomy: life's worth is as much as its worthlessness. Is that an answer or question.


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_logic.htm#69

"APPENDIX — THE ANTINOMIES.
69. The categories, the determinations of Being are simple; but the determinations which do not constitute the primitive elements, i.e. the determinations of Essence, are simple only in so far as their antithetical moments are reduced to simplicity. Whenever such a category is predicated of a subject and is developed through the analysis of those antithetic moments, the two are predicable of the subject, and there arise antithetic propositions, both of which have equal truth.

70. Kant especially has drawn attention to the Antinomies of Reason, although he has not exhausted them, since he has made an exposition of the forms of only a few. "

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/sl_iv.htm#SL48n1

"The principles of the metaphysical philosophy gave rise to the belief that, when cognition lapsed into contradictions, it was a mere accidental aberration, due to some subjective mistake in argument and inference. According to Kant, however, thought has a natural tendency to issue in contradictions or antinomies, whenever it seeks to apprehend the infinite. We have in the latter part of the above paragraph referred to the philosophical importance of the antinomies of reason, and shown how the recognition of their existence helped largely to get rid of the rigid dogmatism of the metaphysic of understanding, and to direct attention to the Dialectical movement of thought. But here too Kant, as we must add, never got beyond the negative result that the thing-in-itself is unknowable, and never penetrated to the discovery of what the antinomies really and positively mean. That true and positive meaning of the antinomies is this: that every actual thing involves a coexistence of opposed elements. Consequently to know, or, in other words, to comprehend an object is equivalent to being conscious of it as a concrete unity of opposed determinations. The old metaphysic, as we have already seen, when it studied the objects of which it sought a metaphysical knowledge, went to work by applying categories abstractly and to the exclusion of their opposites.

Kant, on the other hand, tried to prove that the statements issuing through this method could be met by other statements of contrary import with equal warrant and equal necessity. In the enumeration of these antinomies he narrowed his ground to the cosmology of the old metaphysical system, and in his discussion made out four antinomies, a number which rests upon the list of the categories. The first antinomy is on the question: Whether we are or are not to think the world limited in space and time. In the second antinomy we have a discussion of the dilemma: Matter must be conceived either as endlessly divisible, or as consisting of atoms. The third antinomy bears upon the antithesis of freedom and necessity, to such extent as it is embraced in the question, Whether everything in the world must be supposed subject to the condition of causality, or if we can also assume free beings, in other words absolute initial points of action, in the world. Finally, the fourth antinomy is the dilemma: Either the world as a whole has a cause or it is uncaused."

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hl667.htm#HL3_671

"be deduced with equal correctness. The Kantian antinomies of reason amount to nothing more than that from a notion first one of its determinations is laid down as basis, and then with equal necessity, the other. In these cases this inadequacy and contingency of a syllogism must not merely be shifted on to the content, as though these defects were independent of the form and the latter alone were the concern of logic. On the contrary, it lies in the form of the formal syllogism that the content is such a one-sided quality; it is determined to this one-sidedness by the said abstract form. "

Answer 2

That's certainly one of the more negative views I've seen in a while.

My answer would be to view life as you choose. I'm not going to try to talk you into seeing it as I do.

And even if it were "just an illusion," my personal "illusion" is pretty darned good. I'm enjoying it.

If you're asking why to have a sense of committment toward someone or some thing, that's another issue I can't help you with.

Look at it this way - you're given X number of years of conscious life. It's like saying,"you have this much money; spend it the way you want."

I could sit here and tell someone all the wonderful things about MY life, but if his life sucked...well...then I guess it sucks to be him, doesn't it?

Answer 3

It sounds like you have been hurt bad by someone you really cared for. I can see where you're coming from though. We shouldn't be so serious for the most part. Until you have a child of your own and watch them grow and become their own little person, you will probably question yourself with this. Just don't let anyone no matter how much they meant to you bring you down. Try focusing more on things that mean something to you, things that you can touch and feel, then maybe it will start to make sense.

Answer 4

So why take people who take their life seriously seriously?
I love life and i think that we should live life to the fullest even if we love someone who is going to die were going to die to so who cares on day we will all die anyway! In case you havnt noticed life isnt an illusion its everything its how you asked this question its how im typing the awnser. You know even when we all die what about people who will come after us and the people who were before us they died but were living where they once did and its an amazing wonderful world we live in and i think that we schould live it to the fullest.

Kealty

Answer 5

I take life seriously because I do not believe it is an illusion. Can you offer any proof that life is an illusion? It would have to be illusionary proof, wouldn't it? And consider-- the consequences of acting as if the world were illusionary and being wrong are far more severe than the consequence of acting as if the world were real and being wrong.

Answer 6

This comes back to the question about the meaning of life. What would life be like if you have nothing to look forward to? A person choose to commit suicide because he/she thinks that tomorrow is going to be worst then today.
Life is an illusion doesn't mean that we are going to be passive with our life. The actors who play in the show know that it is illusionary, but still do their best.
I get to know about life is an illusion in my religion, but the doctrines that I studied never said we should treat life passively. It is through living life to the fullest that we get to understand what life is about and ultimately transcend it, where we need not to come back to this earth anymore.

Answer 7

For every beam of light, there are at once a million shadows.

In a realm such as the one in which we all live, which is to say, one of duality, all things import. Illusion depends on reality to be illusion; therefore, if not to be taken seriously, it should at the very least be taken with clarity, with sobriety, for illusion depends on reality to be illusion.

Your dilemma and issue are not with the mind but with the Heart, great one...

Answer 8

In India and much of the East where Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism are the major religions, life is viewed as illusory in the sense that "maya" delude us into holding onto certain beliefs and misconceptions about ourselves and about our lives. One of the goals of Buddhism is to be free of the illusions and to embrace pure consciousness. In fact, the "self" is also seen as an illusory construct designed to keep us believing that our individual consciousness and the larger consciousness are separate. So, life is illusory, however, our constructions feel very real. This can lead to great deliverance from suffering in that you can create your own illusions...you are the architect of the dream-world.

Answer 9

We agree.


This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 10

Life is an illusion, but it is an illusion of reality! What lies underneath the illusion is actually real! emotions are real, feelings are real. Death is the result of life, but to have lived and never loved is the sign of a spirt that is dead already. Get over it, it happens, it is going to happen to you. Accepting fate is reality.