Do you constantly look for that meaning/information which will give your life more purpose?

Or even better, if you don't?
What is your take, on the purpose of life?
:)

The constant realization that I'm going to die, we're all going to eventually die, forces me to look for.. in the words of Maira Kalman.. "meaningful distraction."

We search for an expanded sense of self, to evolve our own sense of self, by reflecting on the "selfhood" of others.

"I'm looking for someone to change my life. I'm looking for a miracle in my life."

-Moody Blues


The above doesn't really happen, yet we all keep looking for that.

I constantly consume information, but I do not necessarily go looking for meaning all of the time.

Knowledge is the desired effect and the pursuit gives my life more purpose.

Has there been something said to you that has changed your life in an instant?
YES.

My sense of self seems rigid and unchanging, yet some researchers believe our self is constantly in flux as a result of interactions with others.

[link to www.brainpickings.org]

It's difficult to distinguish innate characteristics from those we've acquired through context or interactions with others. We're all looking to answer the question "who am I?"

It seems that the more rapidly we internalize external events and ideas, once they've become fused with our self and personality, the more quickly the "newness" of the idea wears off and seems to be part of our static self. Then we're quickly off looking for another fresh perspective to bring back that sense of continuous evolution of self.

I finaly moved into a place I built by my-self for me and I feel alittle in-mature. It's like I need to install a firepole.

It formed a confidences of alienation. I know I'm right to the point I want as little to do the outside world as posible.

Dot, I think that's a pretty real look on life, or 'being'. It doesn't involve anything external, it just basically us, at our purest self which I don't think could be argued. That's one thing I find myself doing a lot, I ask people about everything, their opinions their history, just to get an external view of selfhood.



Anon- That's a good view, we'r always on a pursuit not, no matter what desitnation it is. My day's feel fulfilled when I go to bed, with more information than what I've woken up with.

Dot - Again couldn't argue or find a fault with what you've said. We learn/experience, and once it's 'stuck' we go onto the next thing, to improve/evolve ourself. I always wonder, if that knowlege.. or atleast the affects of that knowlege can be passed on through our genes.

Dot, I think that's a pretty real look on life, or 'being'. It doesn't involve anything external, it just basically us, at our purest self which I don't think could be argued. That's one thing I find myself doing a lot, I ask people about everything, their opinions their history, just to get an external view of selfhood.



Anon- That's a good view, we'r always on a pursuit not, no matter what desitnation it is. My day's feel fulfilled when I go to bed, with more information than what I've woken up with.

Dot - Again couldn't argue or find a fault with what you've said. We learn/experience, and once it's 'stuck' we go onto the next thing, to improve/evolve ourself. I always wonder, if that knowlege.. or atleast the affects of that knowlege can be passed on through our genes.




I think that it must be passed on through our genes, since our DNA is constantly changing based on experience. This might explain "a priori" knowledge and the fact that knowledge increases exponentially over time.

The "blank slate at birth" theory doesn't really seem to be true.

I think it's beautiful you've built a house that you can call your own. I think the term 'mature' is pretty opinionated, and everyone has differenvent thoughts on what it means.

If you feel a propper need to do it, install it. can't say I've heard of any other house, that'd be awesome as! Aslong as it doesn't cost too much?

I'm still young, and i'm trying to involve myself, or see as much as the world as I can. I know it's no good comming on here and reading information about USA when I'm in AUS, but I still find it interesting.

Definately, my friend was telling me a story how his family history has a bit of a darkside with murders and such.
and made me wonder. Are they that way because it's just a random gene 'defective gene' passed on, or are they that way because of their ancestor's prior actions which then imbedded to DNA.

Or you could look further into it, if you believe in souls. That it's all the information from your previous selves. I'm not quite sure yet to solidly accept that theory there. But what I said in the first paragraph makes me think.

I can quite clearly seen that my life has changed over time. I don't think the way I used to think. That's more than thinking different things; it's really changing the way I think about things.

The reason we may not see it is that nothing we do in the present immediately changes the present. The present has been created by the past. However, there's a lot we can do in the present that will in time change our future.

Or, as a scientist friend says, "Life integrates."

Hm. I am unsure.
I lean towards the idea that the self is continuously evolving.
Our minds are always taking in information and thinking. We do not even realize it is happening a lot of the time.
That is what I mean when I said I constantly consume information.

Advertisement on webpages are a good example. I am not actively looking at the advertisements. They are in my peripheral vision and are being processed. I am definitely not interested in the meaning of this information.
(That was just an example, I have ads blocked for this reason...lol)

"The "blank slate at birth" theory doesn't really seem to be true."
I agree. Just because we do not recall the information gathered before birth does not mean it is not there.


"My day's feel fulfilled when I go to bed, with more information than what I've woken up with."
I feel the same! :)

Life and Love,
how old are you roughly?
was there many key times in your life where it felt like your views and completely changed?

It's like I'm going for the godlike life style but I am still just a young god.


And yes travel in comfort and style and travel well.

Anon - I think thats a really good way to put it. Before, I read what you were saying is, there's some things I see but don't question.

but now I read it as.
Our minds are constantly taking in and processing new information. However your filtering out what you don't need or have no interest in.

How do you mean? Like as in, you create your own reality? can you elaborate that more :)

Is what we learn realy that much different from our antsesters.

We have new technonegy and have undergone an industrial revellotion in our generation,

but to think life so different than out past because we pay for fuel and have access to enormus amouts of impormation (we think),

does that make life so different.

I think you got it. :)
Everything should be questioned. I do not think there is a stupid question.
But some information we are taking in is just not beneficial and other times we do not even realize we are processing so many things in our mind every day.
Thinking about thinking.

I agree with that. We are not so different from our ancestors.

I am 62.

There have been three or four times that I have significantly changed the way I think about things.

I think that sounds about right hey.
there are complete overhauls of thinking every 15-20 years.
That's not to say it can change tomorrow.

I like to see them as milestones.

This 1000%

I call them not so much milestones for the future as markers in the past. The future is not so much a goal as it is a trajectory.

i would say i have come to believe the meaning of life is to just experience and live life to the fullest, never forget life is a gift to not be wasted and to everyday take baby steps to evolving yourself into that better person you want to be.
i have also come to realize that everyone makes mistakes in life but the difference between a failure and a mistake is not learning from your mistakes. I see spending ones life acquiring physical and monetary wealth as a waste of time and energy. the knowledge you build and friends you make over your lifetime are the greatest fortune you can build in ones life.

That's a really beautiful outlook hey. Everyone's pressing me to go into mining, but... I know the people who are in it and are just trapped by their possessions... some still haven't experienced a propped relationship.

Any reason you called yourself the seeker? I keep thinking about that song a lot.

And yet, information and knowledge isn't the whole thing, is it? Knowledge isn't the sole key to a sense of purpose, it doesn't necessarily bring us happiness does it? Only to a point. It certainly doesn't seem to invite love into our lives, or to ensure that will come.

A sense of purpose also derives for meaningful relationships and a sense of connectedness with others.

So it seems that some kind of balance is needed. One must strive for a combination of factors.

^^THIS^^

I cannot think of anything lasting and worthwhile that I ever did that did not involve relationships and connectedness.

FIRST OF ALL,

YOU ARE INSIDE A NEURAL INTERACTIVE SIMULATION.

WHEN YOU LEAVE THIS PLACE FIRST
(PERHAPS PASSING THE TEST,DOORS WILL OPEN)

WHEN YOU LEAVE HERE,THEN YOU ASK THIS QUESTION!


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