Modern life is literally pointless

deepspace7 · 2020-06-20T00:35:47+00:00

Life being pointless doesn’t mean you can’t live your own life with some purpose. Humans try to give meaning to everything.

The universe has no point. Why should it? Meaning is a human construct. The universe is what it is.

Same goes for life. It is what you want it to mean to you. Since you’re still living life, why not make it fun and enjoyable? My focus is on constant learning and attaining knowledge in a number of subjects. It will pass the time for me.

NotherThrowaway284 · 2020-06-20T01:26:47+00:00

I can't name a single person who has some end goal or real direction to their life.

I can.

Because you feel lost and directionless you infer everyone is lost and directionless? That doesn't follow.

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Rooster_C · 2020-06-20T08:58:11+00:00

Of course it is. All life is just different chemical reactions reproducing with no real goal, point or grand destiny. We are no different from pond scum at the end of the day.

Mindraker · 2020-06-20T10:29:18+00:00

We all know family and marriage isn't stable either.

Born to a middle-class white family, the assumption was that both my brother and I would get married and have two kids on our own.

My brother turned out to be gay and I never married. We really bucked the trend of our family.

qantuum · 2020-06-20T09:44:16+00:00

My only goal is to stay afloat job-wise, and not become homeless. I have plenty of other subgoals like becoming good at creating media... But yeah overall it's hard getting this kind of discipline.

Porkramenbroth · 2020-06-20T09:29:05+00:00

I can. My goal is to experience cultures, to travel, and to protect nature. You gain much understanding and knowledge when you become in sync nature. it's the modern world which has made everything pointless. Not life.

colcrnch · 2020-06-20T08:58:17+00:00

All life is pointless. The point of life is life. No magic or mystery.

But you can make it a point to have a point.

The point of my life is freedom. Freedom from society and rules and the 9-5. In the grand scheme this is also pointless but it will minimize my own personal suffering.

Maybe that’s the point. Find out what you really want. Not what you are supposed to want. And work towards that in a way that minimizes your own suffering.

Venky_brotha100 · 2020-06-20T08:46:46+00:00

My only life goals rn are conservative genocide and be rich.Your life is pointless bitch, mine is not.

DrPVM · 2020-06-20T08:44:20+00:00

I'm an alcoholic and attend AA. What has struck me in the few years of doing it is that it seems like a deep need in human beings to have a regular support group and a framework to live by. Once we were all herded to church; now 'God is dead' we've lost that regular societal contact and rules to live by. And I just don't think we're built to function that way. Doing what you like all the time feels great, but ultimately if nothing matters and there are no rules then what's the point!?

I'm not saying get religious-I'm an agnostic and still detest organised religion. Just....I think all this liberation and freedom we've actually lost something along the way.

akihonj · 2020-06-20T08:10:55+00:00

Why are you asking others if there's a point to life.

Mgtow, men going "their own" way.

That does not mean men going their best mates way, or the way of the guy in the bar, or what their mother's told them, we already tried that one.

You find your own way, what makes you happy, get out of bed in the morning, not want to end yourself everyday.

Any of those things, part of being mgtow means rejecting what society dictates for you, rejecting the herd for your own path, rejecting the idiocy and stupidity of society and social constructs for your own self identity, your own self worth.

In all regards then, if there is a point to life it's what you and you alone ascribe to it, what point you assign to your life, your point of life will be different to mine.

In my case I say to be happy, that, means to be financially secure, to be comfortable both in terms of where I live and how I live, it means to have a set of quality friends, guys I can turn to for anything and to be there for them when they call. It means to reject those things others determine for me, to never be afraid to say no if it's something I don't want, to use my experience of life to apply to current and future situations to gain the best possible outcome for myself.

These things are for me and me alone, they might match with the same things for other mgtow or be wildly different to every single one, it doesn't matter because it's for me alone.

You have to find yours.

Herban_Myth · 2020-06-20T07:39:58+00:00

Nihilism?

Setari · 2020-06-20T07:20:56+00:00

I haven't had a goal in life for years. Shit, I don't even remember the last time I had a goal in my life besides wanting to be a paleontologist as a kid, and that got shut down because they have to do math. So probably since I was ten and I'm almost 30 now.

jonathaninfresno · 2020-06-20T06:57:47+00:00

U took the words out of my moutj

DonMelbourne · 2020-06-20T06:42:47+00:00

Life is a gift. If everyone else is being encouraged to throw away their gift, it doesn't mean you have to.

You don't have to live in that hive-mind.

I can't name a single person who has some end goal or real direction to their life.

What about Frinkst21? What's stopping you from naming him? Name him!

I'm 60 years old. I worry about the future, with what is happening in the world. But I recognise that life is a gift, and I don't plan on throwing it away even if everyone else is doing that.

nakari821 · 2020-06-20T11:05:19+00:00

Sometimes you don't need a end goal and the goal is just to be happy until the end.

red-tea-rex · 2020-06-20T06:33:44+00:00

Consider listening to some Jordan B. Peterson lectures and report back. Or try out church. Like one that is involved in community service and giving. The one I'm involved in does some crazy stuff like fund joint task forces that save young Cambodian girls from prostitution and then counsel and house and train them in various trades so they can make a sustainable living.

The point of conscious life is to avoid pain at a minimum, satisfy basic needs in general, seek pleasure which is better, and seek sustained pleasure which is best. That's a starting point. Fill in what gets you those and you've got the makings of a point. Or a good life at least. It's really only the last hundred or so years when thinking beyond this, other than for religious reasons, has become common. Modern life problems.

taoreal · 2020-06-20T15:36:39+00:00

pretty nihilist

MGTOW_BEASTMODE · 2020-06-20T15:14:02+00:00

Revenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuxmando · 2020-06-20T13:41:43+00:00

I am going to agree with part of what you say, and disagree with the overall idea.

I work in biotech. I’ve worked at big pharma and little start ups. Almost to a person, everyone is there because they have a mission in life to save lives. This includes the annoyingly passionate biologists who chose research over medical school, the chemists who decided they like getting paid well, the IT Aspergers guys who managed to get out of academia, the business people who chose this over working for some construction conglomerate, and even the financial people who could have gone into Wall Street. Life isn’t pointless to us. Life is a mission to build a better world. I bet you’d find the same passion in engineering and architecture firms, too.

But....

This recent plague lockdown has really shown us what is important and what is actually pointless drivel. Groceries...important. Hospitals...important. Restaurants in general...important. Professional sports...important. Places to meet friends and laugh....important. Hair salons...important. What is actually pointless? Malls, tourist traps, fancy sit-down restaurants with snooty waiters, sitting at a computer all day AT work with a 45 minute traffic jam commute each way, lawn services...things we mostly didn’t miss.

There are a lot of pointless things in our culture that we all seem to just do because it is expected.

fredfernackapan · 2020-06-20T11:42:37+00:00

there is no universal point we have to make our own, your might be enlightening people, for example, for many the point is just to keep their kids alive, but its a point

rickmackdaddy · 2020-06-20T06:36:08+00:00

Faster Horses. Younger women. Older Whisky. More money.

It’s worth a listen, but I think it’s out of date as I don’t drink. :)

https://youtu.be/V9_X_5ftSt0

victor_knight · 2020-06-20T06:26:58+00:00

It's like nothing is stable, it just goes from one novelty to the next in the form of girlfriends, news, trends, political ideas. We all know family and marriage isn't stable either.

Families used to be (largely) stable. The man earned the money and the wife took care of the house and kids (and him). Then the powers that be realized that endless population growth was unsustainable so they had to undermine the family unit (e.g. via female empowerment) to help slow population growth. Among many other subtle measures. The fact is, single/divorced/gay/trans people are simply less likely to reproduce.

MarlinModel1895 · 2020-06-20T00:54:06+00:00

Let me tell you how I’ve overcome that issue myself. None of us individually matter in the grand scheme of life, what does matter is who we connect to. I’ve been an introvert my whole life. Hell the only times I’ve even been laid was with “Pros”. The way I found a direction in life and a meaning was to meditate; really contemplate everything I’ve done up until this point. The first step is to stop self loathing. You have to find things that you value about yourself and realize that hating who you are can be a powerful agent of change. What I mean by that is when you’re not happy with an aspect of yourself, try to fix it. The second fully embrace Mgtow. I’m not saying never be with women again but use the advice here on Reddit, red pill on YouTube and work on becoming a better man. Be the best version of yourself and your life will start making more sense. Hell just two months after I found Mgtow and redpill. I went out and bought a brand new Harley. My dad did too and now he and I have an awesome hobby together. The third and final thing to help you is this, you are not owed an explanation for this life. No one can truly give you the one right answer. It’s up to you to live your life and find your own answers.

VestigialHead · 2020-06-20T00:22:46+00:00

All life is literally pointless. You make up your own point. There is not some actual absolute point to any of it.

So whatever an individual animal decides is the point IS the point.

30203forever · 2020-06-20T00:11:21+00:00

Life's a journey, not a destination and you never know what tomorrow brings. P.S. "Happiness" is the female drug of choice they're are trying to push. Avoid it like a poison it is.

spiesvsmercs · 2020-06-20T00:03:11+00:00

I think happiness as a reason for being is bullshit, but I'd say modern life is only pointless if you think life as a whole is pointless.

The world is a messed up place but the fact I can talk to you right now with ease and infant mortality rates are low are just a couple random examples why modern life is good.

You just have to realize that the standard narrative sold to you by our culture is nonsense and you need to come up with something you'd be proud of accomplishing. Maybe you succeed, maybe you don't. Just don't let society and a woman trap you along the way.

-RmaN- · 2020-06-20T04:18:13+00:00

My goal in life is to do nothing. i am proud to report that I am well on my way to acomplishing it.

MusubiMonster · 2020-06-20T06:08:55+00:00

Dude MGTOW isn’t supposed to be about resigning yourself to a depressed and “pointless” life. Make some goals and figure out what you want to do. If that doesn’t involve any women fine who cares. Just don’t waste your life complaining about how things are pointless and then realize you ran out of time. I hate seeing that shit. Also I’m drunk. Make the best out of this shit dude.

420fmx · 2020-06-20T05:49:36+00:00

you know losers. Most ppl are living mediocre average lives which is exactly that.

whats Your end goal, you loser? Can shit on everything whilst you yourself drift aimlessly.

angelrock420 · 2020-06-20T05:25:43+00:00

I'm just going my own way

ConvergenceMan · 2020-06-20T04:32:58+00:00

You've just discovered for yourself Existentialism and Stoicism.

These are the words for what you are feeling.

Now Google these words, and you'll find tons of resources on this.

PurpleKurry · 2020-06-20T03:33:29+00:00

Read the Quran

serialkillernextdoor · 2020-06-20T03:09:34+00:00

Life has a default path. Which consists of

Be Born, Get Educated, Get into Debt, Spend 50 hours a week for 50 years working to pay off debt, Retire (if your lucky) then Die.

I consider a life wasted away, making fortunes for other people. Pointless.

Unfortunately many people seem satisfied with living off the crumbs of people who they believe they are above them

One of the good things about MGTOW is that is help you avoid some of the pitfalls that have been setup to turn you into a wage slave. Expensive useless degrees, getting married and "settling down" as well as things like Child Support and Alimony.

The game called Modern Life is rigged and it's not in your favor.

But if you avoid enough pitfalls you can enjoy the luxury of having time to think about bigger issues than "How am i going to make my alimony payment this month?"

DangZagnut · 2020-06-20T02:59:51+00:00

People often give a vague answer like "happiness is my goal" but it's suspicious to me that they can't expand further or give any practical examples.

That is so totally me.

That's all I'm into, "happiness", except I'll add a caveat, "but not at the expense of an individual".

LuciusCSulla · 2020-06-20T02:40:33+00:00

Meaning you'll have to find it yourself. No humanoid can or should give it to you. Nor should you find it in other humanoids. I despise just about all modern western organized religion, vehemently, however, I'm not an atheist. I view myself as a free agent and study mostly Vedic Hinduism, Buddhism, Heathenism, Paganism, Occult and the more adversarial religions simply to ensure they don't contaminate mankind again (i.e. Christianity). I used to be a Christling. At any rate, there is a point to many things. YOU got to find it. Period!

BlackCubone · 2020-06-20T01:43:40+00:00

Welcome to your X-life crisis op. Yeah, nothing matters really. That's why you should do what you want.

XGHOW · 2020-06-20T01:07:37+00:00

What is your end goal? Take your time.

Title	Modern life is literally pointless
Author	Frinkst21
Upvotes	2
Comments	75
Date	June 19, 2020 11:58 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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