Am I the only one who thinks this world is absurd?

Question

I hear people say things every day, and I wonder how they can say them with a straight face. They say things pertaining to the existence of a God, or to the existence of many other intangible and clearly made up ideas, like ettiquete and morals. I see people living in such a way as to limit themselves according to the rules of the majority. The entire world seems like this, an entire world that abides by quantity versus quality. People standing in lines, people making sure they aren't ever naked infrot of others in public, people saying it's wrong for people to do this or that, and not supporting their ideas with any logical foundation. So I ask again, am I the only one who thinks this world is absurd?

Answer 1

You stand with a select group that have transcended mediocrity.
Welcome to the club.

Answer 2

The world IS absurd. That's what makes it the world.

I'm driving along the highway one day and, philosophically minded as I consider myself, I start to think. I have a story. My life has been a series of events and will continue to be so until the day I end (and maybe even after.) The car next to me, that guy has a story nothing like mine and he could tell it as well as I could mine. Or he could not.

Okay, now multiply by over six billion just for the humans. Now, some of our lives intersect and some of us just go on with little other human interaction.

Somewhere within all that chaos of everyone living their own lives, for some psychological reason they do feel the need to share their story with others. The truth (as I see it) is that everyone is on their own little path, crossing other paths as they go perfectly happy that way.

Is it absurd? On an individual level, yes. On the large scale, no. It's just life.

PS: Read "On a Tangled Skein" by Piers Anthony. Fantasy but interesting on the tapestry of life.

Answer 3

That is just how the world is! And you just have to live with it! I mean I'd be really glad to join some strike with you saying all that, but the truth is i think only 2% of the US would join. More and more people are starting to not believe in God, more and more people are starting to teach their children the wrong things in life. Like money is everything and you better get a job that brings in lots of money. When I have kids I'm going to raise them to be good people. Sorry...but I don't think there is anything you could do! Life is meant to be crappy sometimes anyways. :(

Answer 4

We think of ourselves like we are interior the middle of the universe. until people, the full purpose of existence became to reproduce, to reproduce, to enhance. The trees stepped forward berries became for a extra effectual wa to unfold seeds. on the top, the main effectual, smartest, and cowardly stay to tell the story. We think of ourselves to be stepped forward creatures because of fact we've in no way considered smarter ones. we would be merely as clever as an earthworm to a distinctive creature. you could actually in no way extremely become fulfilled. this is the way nature has created us, because of fact in case you do not want, you do not improve, in case you do not improve, you would be crushed by using the continuously transforming into, advancing forces around us. And absurdity is in basic terms a count of what we choose as precise and robust and what we choose as evil and crooked.

Answer 5

It's not the world but people who are absurd.
I confess I'm one of them. I told my neighbour I've never seen an uglier dog than hers.
I believe in God but I cannot explain why.
I don't believe in the Devil but I'm afraid of it.
I believe a tree should not be planted directly in front of anyone's front door.
I believe that parents should not have kids if they were not prepared to accept full responsibility for them.
Rapists should be neutered.
Only those who have some earth shatteringly smart thing to communicate should be allowed to speak publicly.
Idiots and other mentally deficient people should be gagged for life.
There, you see we all have our little idiosyncracies. The trick is to know how to avoid irritating people or if that is not possible then how to insult them into silence.

Answer 6

The problem with the world is that only a small minority of people understand and use logic.

I believe that we should teach logic in public schools. If people understood that logic is valued by society, they might start to use it. If people in decision making positions started using logic, it might cause the world to be less absurd.