Post by Zir0-N on Dec 9, 2010 18:31:18 GMT -5
Born out of what I call the "Thursday Miracle", I was in a state of panic and fear because I was unable to complete my planned project for philosophy class.
Dispite that, I went to class anyways. In desperation, I opened up wordpad and started writing. 30 minutes later, as the last person to present his project, I figured "at least I didn't do nothing."
I'd like your comments on it, see what you think.
This is "Live With Purpose" by me, Ryan Johnson AKA Zir0-N.
______________________
My name is Ryan Johnson, I’m 19 years old and I am a skeptical agnostic.
At seven years old, I was hit with amnesia, Everything before eight years old was forgotten or faded, leaving me with a sense of having no past. While my mother and brother had memories of the past, I felt like I was missing something.
Because of that, I became skeptical of anything one says to me without absolute facts.
But rather than be a skeptic, I wanted to have a purpose, and without a past, I was unsure of how to move into the future. So I find myself always searching for something, a clear answer to why I exist and how to live with purpose. What made it harder to find my purpose is how easily people can throw their lives away.
So while I did some soul searching, I also made some observations on the world we live in today, and the past that it has.
Do people seek a purpose to their lives so desperately that they are willing to sacrifice themselves just so they can have a purpose. I speak to those in religion, especially the zealots, who are willing to kill others and themselves in the name of their god. Willing to prejudice others to push their own ideals. More so, nobody can agree on how to worship god. Everyone will always have their own beliefs, and willingly fight to defend them, even against their own code of ethics. In a religious world, there is always conflict as long as people are unwilling to compromise and allow their pride to overcome their reason.
No better are the athiests, who drive themselves with the idea of progress, to keep making things to better the world. But these people do not live with purpose, because as they make the world more convenient for people in the future, they loose the mean to act out their own lives. Why go and cut wood to keep you warm, when you have a machine to do it.
Why socialize with people in daily life, when you can just get on the computer and speak to someone on an instant messenger. As life becomes quote “easier”, we lose the reason to act, to live in the real world, and in an athiest’s world, we basically live just to die, as we have everything else to do things for us.
It’s true, not everyone lives just to die, some people try to make the most of life. Yet asked why do you live, not many can give a clear answer. Some may even say that they give their lives to their family and loved ones, and that gives them purpose.
Noble, yet nothing lives forever. If your reason for living is put in the hands of another, then at any time your life can lose meaning when they are gone.
When you need a purpose in life, you cannot focus on the material or the metaphysical. They do not give you grounding, because as a christian would say “The lord giveth, and the lord taketh away.”
That includes purpose. So how do we live in a world that each hold a possible future that is either violent or empty?
By looking within. The complex matter of looking within rather contradicts myself, as you have to give yourself a reason to live. What I want to emphasize is to just not live your waste life. If there is a god, he gave us life not so we could waste it, even if we do not know why he did. If we evolved from some ancient species, we are born, we are alive, now. If we live just to die with no purpose, then why live at all?
Do we emphasize choice, as Satre said to live life to the fullest? Do we focus on the individual, moderating ourselves between reason and emotion as Nietzsche and the Buddha offered us?
I don’t have a clear answer yet, as there are many answers, but not a real truth. What I am sure of is I do not want to waste my life on meaningless things that only succeed in taking away a person’s will to live. I will find my own purpose, I still have much to see, and much to do, because I am alive, and I want to make the most of it while I still can, and I ask of you, as my fellow living beings, to do the same.
Dispite that, I went to class anyways. In desperation, I opened up wordpad and started writing. 30 minutes later, as the last person to present his project, I figured "at least I didn't do nothing."
I'd like your comments on it, see what you think.
This is "Live With Purpose" by me, Ryan Johnson AKA Zir0-N.
______________________
My name is Ryan Johnson, I’m 19 years old and I am a skeptical agnostic.
At seven years old, I was hit with amnesia, Everything before eight years old was forgotten or faded, leaving me with a sense of having no past. While my mother and brother had memories of the past, I felt like I was missing something.
Because of that, I became skeptical of anything one says to me without absolute facts.
But rather than be a skeptic, I wanted to have a purpose, and without a past, I was unsure of how to move into the future. So I find myself always searching for something, a clear answer to why I exist and how to live with purpose. What made it harder to find my purpose is how easily people can throw their lives away.
So while I did some soul searching, I also made some observations on the world we live in today, and the past that it has.
Do people seek a purpose to their lives so desperately that they are willing to sacrifice themselves just so they can have a purpose. I speak to those in religion, especially the zealots, who are willing to kill others and themselves in the name of their god. Willing to prejudice others to push their own ideals. More so, nobody can agree on how to worship god. Everyone will always have their own beliefs, and willingly fight to defend them, even against their own code of ethics. In a religious world, there is always conflict as long as people are unwilling to compromise and allow their pride to overcome their reason.
No better are the athiests, who drive themselves with the idea of progress, to keep making things to better the world. But these people do not live with purpose, because as they make the world more convenient for people in the future, they loose the mean to act out their own lives. Why go and cut wood to keep you warm, when you have a machine to do it.
Why socialize with people in daily life, when you can just get on the computer and speak to someone on an instant messenger. As life becomes quote “easier”, we lose the reason to act, to live in the real world, and in an athiest’s world, we basically live just to die, as we have everything else to do things for us.
It’s true, not everyone lives just to die, some people try to make the most of life. Yet asked why do you live, not many can give a clear answer. Some may even say that they give their lives to their family and loved ones, and that gives them purpose.
Noble, yet nothing lives forever. If your reason for living is put in the hands of another, then at any time your life can lose meaning when they are gone.
When you need a purpose in life, you cannot focus on the material or the metaphysical. They do not give you grounding, because as a christian would say “The lord giveth, and the lord taketh away.”
That includes purpose. So how do we live in a world that each hold a possible future that is either violent or empty?
By looking within. The complex matter of looking within rather contradicts myself, as you have to give yourself a reason to live. What I want to emphasize is to just not live your waste life. If there is a god, he gave us life not so we could waste it, even if we do not know why he did. If we evolved from some ancient species, we are born, we are alive, now. If we live just to die with no purpose, then why live at all?
Do we emphasize choice, as Satre said to live life to the fullest? Do we focus on the individual, moderating ourselves between reason and emotion as Nietzsche and the Buddha offered us?
I don’t have a clear answer yet, as there are many answers, but not a real truth. What I am sure of is I do not want to waste my life on meaningless things that only succeed in taking away a person’s will to live. I will find my own purpose, I still have much to see, and much to do, because I am alive, and I want to make the most of it while I still can, and I ask of you, as my fellow living beings, to do the same.
