What is the Meaning of Life, based off of everything we know of humans throughout history?

What is the Meaning of Life, based off of everything we know of humans throughout history? Who have the happiest individuals/civilizations been? How are we all "meant" to live, like as Marcus Aurelius said "in accordance with nature", but what IS our nature?

I feel like in the modern era we're so far removed from how we're supposed to be living, how we were "designed" to live (not by God, but by Evolution, assuming you don't consider the two to be essentially the same)? I just want to be happy, bros. What am I meant to do, how am I supposed to live, to be truly happy? Not just artificial hollow happiness from drugs for example. Am I just screwed because there's no way I can be part of a tribe of hunters and gatherers anymore? Am I just screwed because the modern culture/society is crazy and perverted, and raising a family seems way too expensive for most people (and statistically fewer and fewer young people hare having sex in the first place leading to eventual demographic collapse). What, if anything, can history teach us in this regard?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    p-please respond!

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome.

    We all inherently have various desires, and at any given moment, we are not always able to satisfy those desires. By having more power over our environment, we are more likely to get what we want. You can never have too much power, it is never a bad thing in itself. Any problem in life can be solved by gaining power financially, physically, socially, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. So get power at all costs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      We got puppy power

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What a vapid mindset.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        not an argument. You’ll find that the hedonistic and feminine men that I’m sure you often criticize are the ones who do not follow my advice. They are somehow wired to have fun doing things that only make them weaker.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        what a vapid response

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >t. weakling

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Reddit n.p.c.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            not an argument

            The desire to hold domain over others is weakness.

            >the desire to shape the conditions around you for your own benefit is weak
            lol
            lmao

            go get gang raped since you love it so much, homosexual

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        as opposed to… what?
        >the meaning of life is to create your own meaning bro!
        >our purpose is to sing in front of God for eternity!
        >the only thing that matters is the survival of the species!
        not to mention that these things are included within the struggle for power. So how could you even OPPOSE it properly? Aiming for eternal weakness?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The desire to hold domain over others is weakness.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's a futile pursuit, anon. Everyone dies and loses everything they ever gained or attained. It doesn't matter if we all die, ambition in the back of a black car. 100 years after you die you will be forgotten and everyone who ever knew you will be dead, like you never existed. My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            So why do you eat? It’s futile. You’ll just die anyway. So why not starve yourself to death, hypocrite?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Same reason I survive, to be honest. I have a biological imperative passed down through the unbroken chain of evolution, from the point of single celled organisms to me. It drives me to eat or I suffer, and I don't want to suffer. I have an inherent fear of death and the uncertainty of what lies beyond it, even though I know most likely there is nothing but I'm still afraid I might be wrong. I have an inherent love of my loved ones that I don't want to make sad with my death.

            All of this is just biology and there's not a whole lot I can do about it. Life wouldn't flourish as much as it has over 3.7 billion years if every living thing offed itself, because it mostly couldn't. We're the inheritors of all of the living things which survived and reproduced. Even the need for meaning in human life is an enigma that is probably generated from evolution. Doesn't mean there's any real meaning or ultimate purpose behind anything though. Like a falty system perhaps. Like we have evolved this human logic but clearly there are limits to it as well, and as a result we suffer from those imperfections.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            so this basically

            Do you have preferences?
            Are there actions you can take to satisfy those preferences?

            >yes
            >yes
            Stop complaining

            All “meaning” comes from purpose. If you’ve ever been on 3 weeks of nofap, you should know what it’s like to not have these nihilistic views on life. If you ever have any strong desire to do anything, then you can’t say life is meaningless.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >all meaning comes from purpose*
            preference*

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            what about the Buddhists and their claims that desire is the cause of suffering and the key is to essentially reduce desire as much as humanly possible to become enlightened? to quiet the mind?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            But do they not DESIRE to have no desires? This simply is not a universal imperative. For various reasons they feel as though their desires lead to no good. It is not a matter of logic. They simply dislike life and having desires, whereas people like me love desires. It’s not even the object of my desires that I love, but the desire itself, the feeling of wanting more. And this can never be escaped, even by the greatest of Buddhists, because they never actually reach enlightenment. They are always stuck in the desire to cease desires. I know this because they still eat, which could only happen if they still desired to satisfy their hunger. So they preach about the superiority of a state of existence that they haven’t even reached yet. To me it is no different than a Christian who prays and find exceeding joy in the idea of going to heaven one day. It is all just a self-delusion, squeezing every last drop of relief that comes with abandoning all your earthly duties, convincing yourself that you’re in the right. How does any of this fit within the theory of evolution? Why should an organism want to cease all desires? Buddhists don’t deny biology, so they should know that desires come from within us. So even their desire to be losers has an explanation, which is their absurd belief that they will be gods in a next life. The concept of karma is all you need to know to understand that it’s just another fantasy religion that relies on faith. There’s a Buddhist monk that does AMA’s on IQfy and he acts all high and mighty (lowly and peaceful), but when you ask him he jerk offs, a cardinal sin in Buddhism, he dances around the question. It is all one big joke, a cope for people who feel too powerless to find happiness in the most natural and normal ways. Just like antinatalism and nihilism, it is a subjective problem, their own deluded and unhealthy perspective. But in the end they all still have preferences, they all seek power in some way…

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >But do they not DESIRE to have no desires?

            Let me stop you there: no. There's literally an entire thing in Buddhism that deals with this problem beginners often have. Multiple koans. You don't desire to become enlightened, you just become enlightened. It's a realization of something that was in you all along. Desiring to attain it fricks you over basically. It would take too long to get into detail but you can google it if you want to go down the rabbit hole. Desiring to not desire is, itself, a desire and self-defeating.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That’s bullshit. The Buddhist novice has the conception of being enlightened and without desire, so he desires to attain that state. You can argue that at some point, the enlightened person no longer cares about being enlightened, but just is enlightened, but they all have to first desire enlightenment, which is why they have to follow certain rules of behavior. But I don’t think anyone’s actually enlightened or they would sit still and starve to death.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Who or what created those single-celled organisms?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            there's the flaw in human logic. you think everything needs to be created by something. if you think you're clever and the answer is God, apply the same question to that: "Who or what created that God?" and then "Who or what created that thing that created God?" If you go down that route, it's infinite regression, and human logic breaks down. If you say "God is an effect without a cause", well, you just broke your own logic of causation, and if you can do that then you might as well use occam's razor and skip the added step of a creator and say the universe always existed instead of being created.

            Logic is fun, eh? :^)

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Step 1: Stop trying to "identify" with those on this website.

    Step 2: Leave this website

    Step 3: Be happy

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Meaning of Life
    Meme phrase. What do you even mean by it? A telos?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What's the point of being alive? How are we supposed to live, what are we supposed to do and why? All this, within the context of the fact that we inevitably die in relatively short order and everything we've done or achieved, good or evil, is lost, as though it never even happened in the first place. All of your memories, gone. All of your skills, gone. Your body decayed and turning to dust. Your wealth, worthless. A world full of suffering and pain from every direction, in various flavors, throughout your whole life, with only temporary satisfaction that never lasts.

      So what are we even doing here? What is all of "this"? This reality? It's absurd.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Do you have preferences?
        Are there actions you can take to satisfy those preferences?

        >yes
        >yes
        Stop complaining

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >AS PER SECULARISM / MATERIALIST SUGGESTION

    if DNA/RNA/genetic material arranged themselves RANDOMLY

    and creature were created and becoming CONSCIOUS and sentient being RANDOMLY

    >THEN

    they should face the fact that

    all suffering inflicted upon one sentient self — is due to the existence of one's own consciousness

    i.e. NO CONSCIOUSNESS = NO SUFFERING

    >SO

    if purest happy life is accessible through the PURE ELIMINATION OF DISCOMFORT AND PAIN

    >THEN

    COMPLETELY PAINLESS LIFE IS ONLY VIABLE THROUGH DEATH

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      reply to this

      https://quran.com/51?startingVerse=51

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      بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ

      >I DID NOT CREATE JINN AND HUMANS EXCEPT TO WORSHIP ME.

      >I SEEK NO PROVISION FROM THEM, NOR DO I NEED THEM TO FEED ME.

      >INDEED, GOD ˹ALONE˺ IS THE SUPREME PROVIDER — LORD OF ALL POWER, EVER MIGHTY.

      >[51:56—51:58]

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