WHY ARE WE HERE?

This is the average human being's life:

Born.

Sent to school.

Come out with a degree.

Work.

Marry.

Raise kids.

Die.

A lot of us are at point 3 in our lives right now. Some at point 6.

But for as long some of us can remember we've been clenched fists.

You know? Like you have to hold your breath to actually stay breathing?

We're all like this, in some small way or other.

Tommorow is a blank.

Next week isn't even conceivable.

A year from now? Two? Pssssh.

Marriage? Some of us aren't sure about doing (or doing AGAIN).

Kids? Some of us aren't sure about raising (or raising AGAIN).

Dying... well, we've got no choice in the matter, have we?

Life rarely lets us get our way.

Yet we haven't left. We're still here.

Suicide... isn't an option. Even though it's the quickest way out.

What the f**k are we waiting for? What are we hoping for? To see? To feel? To experience?

We don't know what's coming, do we? We don't know what we're waiting for.

Honestly and truly, we don't.

Yet we're still here.

Hoping...

We're comfortable not knowing.

But only a few of us are comfortable acknowledging that it's a very pathetic existence, indeed.

TO BE CONTINUED...

...CONTINUED

Some of us believe in Heaven. But you're waiting to get there.

Some of us believe in total blackness and eternal rest. Still waiting.

Some of us believe in reincarnation. Yup. Waiting for another go.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

That's all we ever do.

We wait for that promotion. For that one true love. For enough money to buy that house.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

That seems to be the Point of Life, condensed.

Waiting. While time slips on by.

Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, TOCK.

Waiting to live. Waiting to die. Waiting for a better easier existence outside this one or to have another go on this one as someone new.

Waiting for him, waiting for her, waiting for them, waiting for it, waiting for there, waiting for when, waiting for how.

Just...waiting.

It's like... all we're here for is to get somewhere else. Somewhere we may never truly get to.

Posted by Beetleguese
Given that we're all going to die anyway my purpose is to enjoy whatever time I have here. Do the things that I want to do, not what society expects me to do. Spend more money on experiences than material items, when you're looking back on life you won't regret the things you did near as much as those that you wanted to but never did.

That's my M.O in a nutshell.

Posted by ThroatVirus
Daria

not feeling too positive about life right now?

It's funny you should say that because I feel on top of the world. And that's the problem!

It never really lasts, does it? That feeling. And when it's gone, the waiting begins again.

You know waiting conjures up thoughts of being static.

But in moving and gettting things done we're actually still "waiting".

To reach another point.

Posted by ThroatVirus
how old are you? if you don't mind me asking.

23.

Before anyone gives me the whole "you're young" speech, I'm just thinking.

It's something people born under aquarius CAN'T stop doing lol

Posted by Clair De Lune

The feeling of waiting sucks, which is why I try better to live for the moment. It's good to know something nice is pending, but to be 'waiting' for it I think is just a state of mind that some people adopt more than others.

I am just as capable of 'waiting' for something as anybody but if I ever find myself doing this, i'll switch things around in my mind and take on a more enjoyable perception of the situation, be it here and now, future, whatever. There are things i'm looking forward to next week but i'm not preoccupied with the expectation of it, rather i'm enjoying what's going on in my life today. 🙂

Lol you're still waiting, though. In living for the moment you're still waiting for something.

You may not know what but you are.

Otherwise you wouldn't have much to keep living for.

That's it: the SURPRISE.

Life is full of them. Which is why in living we're waiting.

We're waiting to be surprised.

And now in popping over to the local Tesco I am waiting to get my hands on some Frosties Cereal Bars.

They're Grrrrreat!

Posted by ThroatVirus
I just remember feeling like that when I was younger. same exact thing, like there is no point to all this...and in a way there isn't...nothing definitive anyway.

Yeah.

I was never a strong Christian, thinking back.

God really shouldn't have given us the gift/curse of logic if he wanted TOTAL belief from human beings.

Posted by SatoriFierce

Posted by Beetleguese
Given that we're all going to die anyway my purpose is to enjoy whatever time I have here. Do the things that I want to do, not what society expects me to do. Spend more money on experiences than material items, when you're looking back on life you won't regret the things you did near as much as those that you wanted to but never did.

Reminds me of this:

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I laughed through most of it... it was his matter of fact voice.

Posted by Clair De Lune

Posted by &2gedanow

Posted by Clair De Lune

The feeling of waiting sucks, which is why I try better to live for the moment. It's good to know something nice is pending, but to be 'waiting' for it I think is just a state of mind that some people adopt more than others.

I am just as capable of 'waiting' for something as anybody but if I ever find myself doing this, i'll switch things around in my mind and take on a more enjoyable perception of the situation, be it here and now, future, whatever. There are things i'm looking forward to next week but i'm not preoccupied with the expectation of it, rather i'm enjoying what's going on in my life today. 🙂

Lol you're still waiting, though. In living for the moment you're still waiting for something.

You may not know what but you are.

Otherwise you wouldn't have much to keep living for.

That's it: the SURPRISE.

Life is full of them. Which is why in living we're waiting.





We're waiting to be surprised.

Can we escape all this waiting malarky through choice is what i'm asking and are we stuck with it? Is it an actual act or a state of mind? What if I can't be bothered waiting, or don't particularly want to wait?

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Neither, I think. In the extreme I would believe that, like being born, it just happens.

We're just waiting. End of.

No conception or incubation stage, that's what the mother (who in this case would be Life) experiences.

As a new born, life (waiting) happens to us. We're not alive one minute and living the next.

Same I think with waiting. We don't consciously wait, though we can, like we don't consciously breathe but we can make a conscious effort to breathe.

It just happens.

We don't know what's round the corner but we stick around because we know there's a corner.

That knowledge is the waiting.

Or, I could just be full of sh**...

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Posted by &2gedanow
This is the average human being's life:

Born.

Sent to school.

Come out with a degree.

Work.

Marry.

Raise kids.

Die.

Shit, were we supposed to do these in order? I think my manual must of been misprinted.

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Haha! Nah. I listed it like that bcause it's wht everyone thinks they should strive towards (which is where the whole "average human being's life" thing comes from).

It's what we're told to want until we learn to want for ourselves.

You know, the video Satori posted is really comforting.

I don't know about other people, but for me the fear has never been dying. It's what I leave bhind that scares the sh** outta me.

I see old people who walk faster than people my age and it brings me happiness. It makes me know that old age is just a mindset.

You will grow old and die, but you at lest have the smidgen of a choice in how quickly you leave.

My fear is of of course shallow though, since I wanna look good (you know, not found rotting 2 weeks after and whatnot) when I die.

Posted by ThroatVirus
I enjoyed this one 😛




Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday

Oh my God.

That is crazy.

It's funny: who can actually remember when they first learned the concept of death?

How you reacted?

I don't remember. I can't trace what went on inbtween me not knowing and me knowing that one day I would die.

Nor can I recall how I reacted.

I used to be more scared of growing old than I was of death. I was this way from about age 12 until I was in my 20's. I went through being terrified of nuclear war when I was young as well. I am now pretty much over that.

I don't fear death anymore and that actually came when I discovered spirituality. I do believe there is a heaven although now I also believe in other forms of spiritual paths other than just Christianity. I just go through life believing that I do have a purpose and that the main purpose is to be happy and share that happiness with others. To try and alleviate some of the sadness and suffering for others if I can in any way. I make it a goal to share joy, laughter and sincerity with those around me. That is my purpose and what I do in the "waiting" time. I don't really think of it as waiting though. I get excited about upcoming events and such but I really try and live life in the fullest and live it with gusto moment by moment! I am also a very strong believer in not living by society's standards or expectations but I try and live by the beat of my own drum!

I have been married and raised kids and I am now in school to become an RN. I don't think I ever want to be married again. I know I don't want anymore children. I have my furry babies to take care of that...he he. I would like to be a world traveler and that is a big theme I have on my vision board but most of all I just treasure every happy moment I am given!
😄

To make each other happy. To lift someone up when they are low, to give a hug when it's needed. To touch and be touched. To comfort, to hold. Love. That is why we are here. It's the one thing that makes a pretty shit existence worth while.

Such a deep question for a Sunday morning but if you must ask .....it is really simple.... the answer is to experience life. Nothing more or less. It is about the journey, the experience, the relationships we aquire, the lessons ......if you think it is about the car you drive, the title you have, the material wealth .....than you just might be missing the big picture. I feel like life is like being on vacation on foreign land ....exploration ...exploration ...exploration. It never ceases to surprise me. 😉 It is us humans who complicate the matter.

PD

I think I have spent nearly a god fucking hour on how to respond and now I realise im wasting my time. My head has been done in

Posted by The_eleventh_sign_11
I think I have spent nearly a god fucking hour on how to respond and now I realise im wasting my time. My head has been done in

I died reading this lol

So from what I gathered from PD, VB and St PP, we're here for the good moments life has to offer.

I could live with that.

My mind doesn't want to shut up, though, which is where Pisces_Dream is right about us humans lol

What the f**k are we waiting for? What are we hoping for? To see? To feel? To experience?

It's all left up to whatever cards you are dealt in life. By cards, I mean, whatever you are born into -- from generation to generation, we are all born into something.

We don't know what's coming, do we? We don't know what we're waiting for.

We are not suppose to know, there is no purpose in living if you know everything. We live to learn because that's what mammals do, how much we learn depends on the individual.

Honestly and truly, we don't.


We're comfortable not knowing.

But only a few of us are comfortable acknowledging that it's a very pathetic existence, indeed.

I wouldn't say we all are comfortable with not knowing and I wouldn't call not knowing a pathetic existence. Like I said, there's no point in living if you know all that's going to happen to you on all fronts. Life is one big circle and we continue on and on until we take are last breath, along the way, we learn, some learn more or less then others, but that's what the brain in conditioned to do, gather and store information.

Posted by &2gedanow
So from what I gathered from PD, VB and St PP, we're here for the good moments life has to offer.

I could live with that.

My mind doesn't want to shut up, though, which is where Pisces_Dream is right about us humans lol

Yeah us humans have a way of mucking it all up.......love, life, purpose, and meaning .......I am a huge fan of Terry Gilliam's movies ......Monty Pythons, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Imgainarium of Doctor Parnassus.....great movies making light of life. Sometimes us humans take life way too seriously. 😉



One of my favorite scense of Bon Munchausen - He is trying to die because of all the complexities of life....

This thread is fueling my anxiety

I'm at the same stage in my life. I'm trying to figure out why I'm here and what the fucking point is.
Sometimes I feel totally at peace about it & other times I break out in hot flashes and feel like I'm going to pass out I get so upset....


*shrugs*

The thing is I really need some time to myself...take a trip to nowhere and camp out and think.
Unfortunately that's not possible right now. I'm so busy I don't have time to really think about this kind of stuff. So, occasionally I get really anxious and worked up over it.

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Posted by &2gedanow
It's like... all we're here for is to get somewhere else. Somewhere we may never truly get to.

and inbetween 1 and 6 - is the journey of life...what our "mission" on earth is/was, well, i am hoping we find out one day. 😉

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I believe in just taking your chances as they come and seeing what life has in store for you.

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Posted by &2gedanow
It's like... all we're here for is to get somewhere else. Somewhere we may never truly get to.

and inbetween 1 and 6 - is the journey of life...what our "mission" on earth is/was, well, i am hoping we find out one day. 😉

I believe in just taking your chances as they come and seeing what life has in store for you.

exactly. i don't believe in this pseudo-happiness like "life is great" "become a millionaire in two days" you get the picture - blah blah; but i do believe that whatever folds out in front of us in our lifepath, is there for a reason. be that positive or negative.

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Yep, same here. In a way, I do believe that people slightly in control of their own fate -- not all the way, but slightly.

I am not the type of person to go out and achieve my dreams I am so stubborn in the fact i want my dreams to come true I just let things come to me because its like a sign or a good omen its supposed to happen.....like every good job I have ever had was offered to me....every good boyfriend I had approached me......I just moved to melbourne and Ive already been offered a job on stage last weekend....I didnt make any money but the guy i was on stage with makes movies and he said he wanted to use me and last night i was at a party and met a girl who manages the hilton and she told me to email her my resume and shell have an interview for me in no time. so Its luck and it makes things so much special to me 🙂

Posted by Chance11
is one of those stations animal planet? 🙂

Gahahahahahahahaha.

I love that there's humour in this thread. LOVE it!

Posted by brianafay
This thread is fueling my anxiety

Don't be.

Seriously.

Posted by cookoocappy
Exactly, just stop asking questions we??re never going to get any answers to anyway. Ter is NO point to why we are here, don't you get it? Must we continupusly remind ourselves of that fact??

You know what stuck out in this post? The "we're never going to get answers to anyway" part.

It made me think of religion.

If there is a heaven, would God be willing to sit down and answer the shitload of questions us humans would wanna ask?

How about the "WEho created YOU?" question?

Will we EVER know how things really began?

The origin... of EVERYTHING?

We sort of know the END. I measn, people die, stars die, planets will die and all that'll be left is the blackness of the universe.

But... the beginning?

And it's good to ask questions. Even if the answers are difficult ones.

Knowledge is the ultimate.

Posted by FeistyAquarian

Posted by &2gedanow
Before anyone gives me the whole "you're young" speech, I'm just thinking. It's something people born under aquarius CAN'T stop doing lol

AHHHH It's our biggest gift and our biggest downfall, if you ask me...I think so much and it's often like I have 4 tv stations going off in my mind at one time...and I'm always thinking of these introspective things you think of too, must be an Aqua thing 😛

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I think it's more a blessing, though. I mean if Abe Lincoln wasn't an aqua?

Us black folk? Shiiiiiiiiit LMFAOSB.

The s and the b after the lmfao stands for "so bad".

Neat, isn't it?

Posted by SatoriFierce

Posted by &2gedanow
You know, the video Satori posted is really comforting.

I don't know about other people, but for me the fear has never been dying. It's what I leave bhind that scares the sh** outta me.

I see old people who walk faster than people my age and it brings me happiness. It makes me know that old age is just a mindset.

You will grow old and die, but you at lest have the smidgen of a choice in how quickly you leave.

My fear is of of course shallow though, since I wanna look good (you know, not found rotting 2 weeks after and whatnot) when I die.

And lol. Yeah, I hear you about looking good, but what I fear most is losing my mind before I die.

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Exactly, but mine is sort of a variation on the losing senses thing where I wanna be able to do things for myself right until the day I die.

I fear blindness more than death, though. I would imagine that blindness is worse than living when it comes to the fear of "The Unknown".

It's a simulation of death.

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Posted by &2gedanow

Posted by ThroatVirus
how old are you? if you don't mind me asking.

23.

😕

I thought you were HEAPS older than that!!

Wow

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Did you not read the thread where I took the time out to talk about my butthole?! LOL

I shit you not, I spoke at length about my butthole.

But, yeah, I'm 23...

Posted by Shaka_laka_boomboom
This thread should be called:

"Life as viewed from the Lower Mind"

🙂

I don't get it.

It sounds like the lower mind is a part of the brain.

If the aim was too insult you should've gone with something more direct.

Seriously, is the lowerr mind a part of the brain? And if so, why do you think the thread should be called that?

Or, am I just being naive and you WERE shitting all over the thread?

Explain, man, you've got me all curious and shit.

Posted by Shaka_laka_boomboom

I dont have any further answers for you my friend, I only recommend you not living your life being stuck on your Lower Mind 🙂 or else you'll be just one of the sheep you described in your first post.

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You know, I created this thread because I felt really happy.

It was in acknowledgement of the things us humans tend to surround ourselves with to give this meaningless existence a little bit of meaning.

I was just examining the recent meaning I found in my life and the happiness it brought me and I realised a pattern that made me wonder what it is we are here for.

Religion teaches that we are here to serve a higher purpose for someone bigger than we are. Therefore the reason for living isn't a selfish one.

Yet it can be drawn from personal accounts on here (as is my personal belief) that we are here to experience the little things in life that bring us joy.

Which is admittedly a little selfish in terms of reasons for being on earth.

Yet, neither is right or wrong, nor was I interested in the right and the wrong to begin with.

I just realised that as human beings the way we live is through expectating (waiting).

Even when we're moving (living) we're static (waiting/expecting) because the reason we are moving (living) is to experience things (reach a point/place, be it happiness, parent-hood, wealth etc).

Therefore in the time between living and reaching a pivotal point in our lives we never stop expecting (waiting).

We are living because we are expecting those pivotal moments to happen anytime now.

We don't know when, we don't know how, we don't know with whom.

But we know it'll come.

How long the novelty lasts before we move on to the next point is a personal thing.

I just wanted to get that out of my head.

live don't worry why just live! you live for x amount of years you are dead foeever.

Posted by FeistyAquarian
^^^


That's fucked up lol No wonder Aquarians don't get along with Cancerians...Most of you just would NEVER understand our thinking. It's just deep thinking...the mind is a powerful thing, but only if you use it once in a while...ha.

hey ms long time no speak as the honorary air sign placements i would like to say dont mesh with cancers either to emo for me i actually like this post as a virgo i love deep thinking as well and love to question things love aquas for that deep thinking feat u guys have.

Back to the OP??_

Dude..

In this life, you have only TWO CHOICES??_

1. Be part of the solution

2. Be part of the problem


In other word, DO SOMETHING! Thinking otherwise is wasting time??_!




That??ll be all??_.

It doesn't matter what actions you take or don't take in the world ..... although your way of seeing and the attitude you maintain while engaging in any action does matter.

And that btw is what you are waiting for .. it's what are all waiting for.



Mattering

" You aren't here to be yourself or find yourself. But to create yourself."



I like.

Posted by cancersunleomoon123

Posted by &2gedanow
...CONTINUED

Some of us believe in Heaven. But you're waiting to get there.

Some of us believe in total blackness and eternal rest. Still waiting.

Some of us believe in reincarnation. Yup. Waiting for another go.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

That's all we ever do.

We wait for that promotion. For that one true love. For enough money to buy that house.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

That seems to be the Point of Life, condensed.

Waiting. While time slips on by.

Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, TOCK.

Waiting to live. Waiting to die. Waiting for a better easier existence outside this one or to have another go on this one as someone new.

Waiting for him, waiting for her, waiting for them, waiting for it, waiting for there, waiting for when, waiting for how.

Just...waiting.

What a sad fucking existence you must live. Yeah,you should just off yourself.

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

*dies*

Posted by P-Angel
And that btw is what you are waiting for .. it's what are all waiting for.



Mattering

You mean, like, msttering to others or...?

Posted by cancersunleomoon123

Posted by FeistyAquarian
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That's fucked up lol No wonder Aquarians don't get along with Cancerians...Most of you just would NEVER understand our thinking. It's just deep thinking...the mind is a powerful thing, but only if you use it once in a while...ha.

that's deep thinking? Ha,ok if you say so. It's cliche and depressing,not deep.

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You don't seem to have put a lot of...um... THOUGHT into the reason why someone would create such a...er...um "depressing and cliche" thread though.

Still, it's good to know there's other shallow thinkers like myself out there in the real world 🙂

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Posted by ThroatVirus
how old are you? if you don't mind me asking.

23.

😕

I thought you were HEAPS older than that!!

Wow

Did you not read the thread where I took the time out to talk about my butthole?! LOL

I shit you not, I spoke at length about my butthole.

But, yeah, I'm 23...

I'm seriously in shock!

Most if the time you talk like you are at LEAST 35!

And I'm not surprised you created a thread about your ass... You are an aqua 😉

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GAH! I made a freaking POST! Two, maybe! Not an entire THREAD!!! LMFAO

ok its time to give my two cents and this is the short version....

the universe aligned to create the planet earth as its center....and the earth eventually created us.....to me we are the only living things in the universe that has a conscious....and without humans to see the universe with our eyes and beleive in it, it would not exist.....theres a duality here because the planets our there affect us and so does our environment we cant exist without them and it all cant exist without us its like the universe is the body and earth is the consciousness/spirit.....but can u beleive a universe without a consciousness? without something out there thinking of anything?......to me its impossible it would be like soo quiet and truly lonely....so we are born we think there fore we are and so is the universe.....it doesnt matter what we do with our lives.....we are free to do whatever we want because were sustaining existence by merely existing ....yes I'm sure the universe at some points go without consciousness when beings die those are sleeping periods when the universe naps and dreams.....its hard to write it out but i think u guys get what I'm saying.

I believe we are related to mermaids that left earth ages ago by turning the earths core into a vortex transporting them to uranus because it has a deep freezing cold ocean.....because they are a vain race they used to beach theyre ugly babies and they evolved into us....Its fun to believe in things.