Would anyone agree that life is useless?

Question

Without telling me not to worry or treating me like a mental patient, just on an intellectual level. Would anyone agree that there is nothing important. Whatever we acheive we will all end up in the same place and it's meaningless. You might say, "but think about the people you leave behind." All of humanity will come to an end one day. And everything will get swallowed up in a black hole again. Who knows how many infinities of creatures evolved, thought, and lived before we did. We're not special, we're made of the same material as all of the inanimate objects. So would you agree at all?

Jackattack: I know, I was having trouble finding the words to get my point across.

Answer 1

I once spent time calculating these, which in and of itself was pitiful: a line where one centimetre represented a year of the earth's existence would be about 50,000km *right now*. Using this same scale, imagine you can plot your life onto this - you're going to have maybe 100cm, 1m or .001km. You'll have taken up 0.00000002% of the earth's existence when you die, dropping 0.00000001% of it when the earth itself has gone.

I think on a personal level, your life has meaning - you have friends, jobs, family, pets, etc ... but, when you look at it on a higher plane, you're 1m on a 50,000km line.

Answer 2

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Would anyone agree that life is useless?
Without telling me not to worry or treating me like a mental patient, just on an intellectual level. Would anyone agree that there is nothing important. Whatever we acheive we will all end up in the same place and it's meaningless. You might say, "but think about the people you leave...

Answer 3

Life is useless . however I have inferred this because I believe there is no reliable basis to life. Might is indeed right. Evolution and civilization is not optimal . It is along mediocre lines. With the advancement in science and technology , we ideally should have been a paradise by now. Instead we are all stuck up in inane , petty issues . this world is useless because there is no method to this madness. There is no meaning in anything/any words. Everything is empty, hollow , null - n-void , ad hoc and momentary. Nothing is pure nor sacred. Everything is a function of affordability. The good are not relevant , the relevant are not good. And with an indifferent God at the helm of affairs - virtue, kindness , understanding, ethics are mere empty emotions . we all live and die at our own risk and choice

Answer 4

I believe that life is indeed useless. If you take away all the smoke and mirrors, all the false smiles, and all the deceit, you can clearly see that we as a human race are steadily heading toward our inevitable demise.

In all seriousness, we've done nothing but drain the planet of it's resources, and if Agent Smith from the Matrix movie can be quoted "Humanity is a virus".

But ultimately I know life is useless simply by looking at two people: a successful man and an unsuccessful man. Both end up at two completely different outcomes in life, but did either of their lives matter? No. The first man ended up in riches, and the second probably died on the streets of a major city, but neither of their lives affected anything or anybody. Multiply these two men by a billion and you have the entire meaningless human race.

Answer 5

Ultimately, yes.

However, I don't enjoy pain.

I have ways to minimize pain. I use them. Life is a very enjoyable thing when you give up looking for ultimate meaning.

I did so by accident, finding an answer.

Others do it by just deciding to live rather than suffering continually by choice.

Feeling bad is a choice. Letting life pass by is a choice.

Being happy is your natural state. All the intellectualizing about how things "should be" is what gets in the way.

Answer 6

For people who think like you life certainly seems futile. However, many people find many reasons that signal to them that life is wonderful and the possibilities that it presents gives them the kind of hope that does not end up in a black hole. Give your self a challenge and try to find out how people on the other side of the fence think: do not look for people with ideas that keep reinforcing your pessimism.

You are asking that sixty four dollar question asked by Macbeth: "To be or not to be. That is the question". The truth is 'To be'; as challenging as it may seem.

Peace

Answer 7

Life is quite useful,you can laugh,cry,love,wonder,explore,invent.Because it comes to an end does not make it useless.Quite the contrary,it is the only useful point of existence.Death is what is useless.Take an automobile for example.It will eventually wear out,cracked head,engine blown.Does that make it useless?Hell no,I use mine everyday.It is very useful.Because one day it will become useless in no way negates the ultimate usefullness NOW.Such also,is life

Answer 8

1:1 These are the words of the Philosopher, David's son, who was king in Jerusalem.
1:2 It is useless, useless, said the Philosopher. Life is useless, all useless.
1:3 You spend your life working, laboring, and what do you have to show for it?
1:4 Generations come and generations go, but the world stays just the same.
1:5 The sun still rises, and it still goes down, going wearily back to where it must start all over again.
1:6 The wind blows south, the wind blows north--round and round and back again.
1:7 Every river flows into the sea, but the sea is not yet full. The water returns to where the rivers began, and starts all over again.
1:8 Everything leads to weariness--a weariness too great for words. Our eyes can never see enough to be satisfied; our ears can never hear enough.
1:9 What has happened before will happen again. What has been done before will be done again. There is nothing new in the whole world.
1:10 "Look," they say, "here is something new!" But no, it has all happened before, long before we were born.
1:11 No one remembers what has happened in the past, and no one in days to come will remember what happens between now and then.
1:12 I, the Philosopher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.
1:13 I determined that I would examine and study all the things that are done in this world. God has laid a miserable fate upon us.
1:14 I have seen everything done in this world, and I tell you, it is all useless. It is like chasing the wind.
1:15 You can't straighten out what is crooked; you can't count things that aren't there.
1:16 I told myself, "I have become a great man, far wiser than anyone who ruled Jerusalem before me. I know what wisdom and knowledge really are."
1:17 I was determined to learn the difference between knowledge and foolishness, wisdom and madness. But I found out that I might as well be chasing the wind.
1:18 The wiser you are, the more worries you have; the more you know, the more it hurts.

Answer 9

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Yes, most things in life are useless...But what is useful? I find some people committing suicide just because they couldn't pass an Exam... Is exam useful? No! Nothing is useful, just our mind makes something useful and something not-so-useful. Only few things are useful, things that make us strong, and remaining are not-so-worry things...

Answer 10

Yes, I agree. To give you few examples------- Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up every two hours? > If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing? > > Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat? > > Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough? > > Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet? > > Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection? > > Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground? > >Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat? > > Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer? > > Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is? > > Why does your Obstetrician, Gynecologist leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway? > >Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?