Why can't people accept that life has no inherent purpose or meaning?
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I imagine life to be like a blank sheet of paper. I am the author of my life and am free to write my story in any way I want to.
What is unacceptable about this point of view?
Some people are simply incapable of being the authors of their own destiny. They need rules, institutions and leaders to direct them. They need a plan... any plan to build their lives on and give their existence meaning.
Believing some supreme deity is directing his grand design that includes you as a "cog in the machine" is a psychological crutch that takes away some of the scariness of just being here with no reason or purpose...
... but it takes a stronger mind to accept the reality of our situation and find our own reason for being. Not all people are capable of that.
I imagine life to be like a blank sheet of paper. I am the author of my life and am free to write my story in any way I want to.
What is unacceptable about this point of view?
Nice of you to have believe this way. However, your OP title makes a statement of fact as if you already have the correct answer on life itself.
I beg to differ. Great philosophers since the dawn of time and to this day still search for what seems an elusive answer, the meaning of life.
To me you adress one point using a different angle. I can be an author of my life in the sense of what I want to do with the life I have. Another is what meaning life has. I can live live like a ship without a shudder or a beacon to guide me, the same with life. However, I can also live like a ship with a shudder and a beacon. Either way I plot my way as I travel.
Bottom line, I believe your conclusion is very flawed. However, you are correct that you can be the architect of your own destiny. Take care.
I like your point of view, but honestly I think we can't write our whole destiny. Some parts are written itself, and we are not able to influence them.
I believe, we are our own creators of the bigger part of our destiny. This life has some meanings, maybe one of the meanings is to die, or to live a life, we're social beings, we can't live alone, which leads us to next statement. One of the meanings is to live and hang out with other people, to create something in your life, or simple to find something that satisfy us.. life is full of meanings.
Yes, that is partly the paradox I'm trying to point out here:
That life has no inherent purpose or meaning. But at the same time, it has infinite possible purposes and meanings.
Some people are simply incapable of being the authors of their own destiny. They need rules, institutions and leaders to direct them. They need a plan... any plan to build their lives on and give their existence meaning.
Believing some supreme deity is directing his grand design that includes you as a "cog in the machine" is a psychological crutch that takes away some of the scariness of just being here with no reason or purpose...
... but it takes a stronger mind to accept the reality of our situation and find our own reason for being. Not all people are capable of that.
i dont believe people are the authors of their own destiny , if that were true , a whole lot less people would end up as failures as only a tiny minority of people have some masochistic desire to crash and burn , i myself thought i could achieve anything when i was younger , then out of the blue , an earthquake struck and nothing was ever the same again , some people like to believe that if you follow a certain script , the world will be your oyster and all your dreams will come true but its a lie
i dont know whether i believe in fate or that i dont believe in free will but i absolutley dont believe that people make their own luck
i dont believe people are the authors of their own destiny , if that were true , a whole lot less people would end up as failures as only a tiny minority of people have some masochistic desire to crash and burn , i myself thought i could achieve anything when i was younger , then out of the blue , an earthquake struck and nothing was ever the same again , some people like to believe that if you follow a certain script , the world will be your oyster and all your dreams will come true but its a lie
i dont know whether i believe in fate or that i dont believe in free will but i absolutley dont believe that people make their own luck
We do control our own destiny, failure happens to even the hardest of workers, sometimes it just doesn't work. The way we remain in control of our destiny once this happens is to just continue on either finding where it went wrong, starting over, or just giving up.
When something happens that we have no control over or have anyone to blame, we still control our destiny by how we react to it. We can asses and change or we can give up.
Anyone who thinks the world is their oyster has forgotten they share this oyster with 6 million+ other people. When our dreams do come true, we need to realize that depending on what happened and how it happend it could have squashed someone else's dreams.
i dont believe people are the authors of their own destiny , if that were true , a whole lot less people would end up as failures as only a tiny minority of people have some masochistic desire to crash and burn , i myself thought i could achieve anything when i was younger , then out of the blue , an earthquake struck and nothing was ever the same again , some people like to believe that if you follow a certain script , the world will be your oyster and all your dreams will come true but its a lie
i dont know whether i believe in fate or that i dont believe in free will but i absolutley dont believe that people make their own luck
They say one person cannot change the world. After the earthquake in Japan on March 11th last year, the will have to change. Those who thought they knew the way have led this world down a very dark path. Not only will this world never be the same, it can disappear as if nothing happened. Fate should always be tempted and tested rigorously.
I imagine life to be like a blank sheet of paper. I am the author of my life and am free to write my story in any way I want to.
What is unacceptable about this point of view?
Nothing is unacceptable about this point of view until or unless you break the law, hurt someone, steal something, create a heinous crime of some sort. You are definitely entitled to live as you want and you should....just don't hurt anyone or anything for no reason.
I know no such thing. I can understand however the desire for it to be so and for someone like yourself to mistake that desire for knowledge.
Alas truth is not determined by us really really wanting something to be true.
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Why can't people accept that life has no inherent purpose or meaning?
