Pointless

Pointless

Do you ever just feel that your life is without point?

We have just done this lesson at uni about what the hell we are doing in the world - and its making my head hurt.

All the call centre monkeys, all the office workers, all the people who work towards targets that they dont even care about, all the labour slaves, all the people who get up at god knows what time when the rain is lashing at the window, its dark and cold, to go and work for a big company to whom you are just a number, who dont actually care about you, who make you think you are total crap by comparing what you do and your statistics on how well you are doing to the 'best' person in there, and who make you think you get personal satisfaction from doing well when you have an appraisal - when really they just want you to work better for thier company, not for yourself.

What is the point?

We slave over our work doing our repetative jobs which lead nowhere to get money (about 75% of what you actually make the company in business/revenue etc) to end up with a 3 bed semi detatched in a nice area with the wife/husband and kids and a ford mondeo, only to end up old and lonely in an old peoples home, your pension barely covering the amazingly incompetant care you recieve there as you have become so senile in dealing with 'life' that your relatives cannot look after you.

What is the damn point?

To live in a blanket of fear controlled by the goverment putting tanks at heathrow to make us feel vulnerable, like we need to be protected from this terrible terrorist monster - when really we are more likely to drown in our bath tub than be caught up in some evil terror plot "hey, you seem nice - a word of advice, stay away from the metrocentre on 23rd December" WHATEVER

Well, there is always the case that if you take a different stance and refuse to be conditioned into this androgenous proletariat worker, you are outcast in society - thrown off like an 'unfashionable' piece of clothing - made to live off benefit/or be homeless/have no status.

Again, I repeat, what is the damn point of all this?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

/rant off

but hey, how are YOU feeling today?

happy smily people holding hands.....shiny happy people laughing

Im not discounting anyone for wanting this but what I am saying is that we are CONDITIONED to want it, from our family, our education and the media. We want it because we are made to want it, its not actually real.

We cant step outside it though coz like I say doing that gets you nowhere.

The point of life is to get experiences and enjoyment out of them. Then when you get older to bring up kids and get enjoyment out of them.

Do some voluntary work if you want to make your life feel more worthwhile

Its not that I dont feel it worthwhile, its that we have little or no choice in what we do.

Andy - how do these people you speak of support themselves?
You cant get much for nothing these days. Surely most of these people, even people who took a gap year had to save, beg borrow and steal to be able to do that?

you need money to be free - freedom is an illusion

my priorities are a small white box with a red square in?

cant see the pic

Re: Pointless

Chill out American Beauty.

Re: Re: Pointless

whats that?

the point of life imo is to just enjoy it!!!


oh and meet some aliens

The point of life is living....

No one knows what happens before or after so concentrate on the present... When individuals win millions on the lottery they all find their own unique way of spending this gift, life is greatest gift known to man so find your own way of using it.

Don't be so quick to dismiss the capitalist path we tread, theres no shame in working 9-5 to raise a family, after all it is your family and the values that you instill in them that will be your legacy on earth.

Everything else is meaningless, we are born with nothing and die with nothing... so go forth and be fruitful

I believe xander got in there first

well i feel alot happier after reading this thread like

no its not its a horrible thought

You could spend your whole life worrying what the point of life is, wether it could be better and stuff...or you could just have a load of fun and not bother about what you are missing out on. Ive wasted a hell of a lot of time, and dont intend to any more! Now all I worry about is that Im not too much of a cunt, and that I manage to have a good time as much as possible as often as I can! Work and stuff is just a means to an end, and anything else that comes along Ill just take as it happens!

I find it hard to come to terms with the pointlessness of life and spent a lot of time looking for spiritual enlightenment. I envy those with faith who believe they will live forever but I just can't buy it.
Our whole society is built on the idea that you are what you own, and so everyone is constantly unhappy cos they don't have all the things that will make them happy. And so everybody does work they hate for money to buy things they don't need which makes them unhappy so they buy more things......
Trainers are the best example I can think of. How little does it matter which ones you have yet people bankrupt themselves trying to get the right pair. What is the point.
My present solution involves the liberal application of class A's (I know this is not a solution :spangled: )................ and

try to live a ceative life, have kids, find someone to love try not to want things, try to leave things better than you found them, don't fuck up

Totally.

I dont mean to be depressing or anything, but isnt it weird that we put most of our time and every working to a dream we cant attain?

jimi, its not a horrible thought, its just realising the truth - have you honestly never thought about it before? What the hell are we doing? who decided that this thing was good and that thing was bad etc?

and Rossy, no - no mushrooms, just this uni course lol. Living off the land would be awesome but a utopia would never be possible - it is tried with "Celebration" you know, that crazy town in the US which is Walt Disney? A gated community which has certain rules to follow - no smoking no foul language, no tv, you can only paint your house a certain colour, you cant lock your door etc. What the hell are the children who have been brought up in this community think when they grow up? They will be so fucked up!

Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

John 10 vs 7


And that's exactly what I'm doing, living life to the full through Jesus. I have a personal relationship with the creater of the universe and that's all anyone could ever need!!!

It's really sad reading this thread because there are so many people out there who do not know what it is to know God and I'd just like to encourage you all that it ISN'T a meaningful existence at all! You can have an incredible purposeful life if you just ask for it!