There Is No Point To Living.

[Tehomu]

There's no point to the world anymore.

Everyone is so harsh and segregated against one another. Terrorism is piking dramatically in the middle east. I'm researching how robots will take over every job imaginable- including creative one such as artists. It's already begun. Everything today is cheap, meaningless and doesn't last-and that includes relationships. The environment is going to shit. There's no hope anywhere for anything. Whats the point?

 

[Ziga]

No, the contrary.

If everything's going to shit (not that it is, it's been this state for ages) - isn't that more of a reason to stick around, find where it isn't going to shit & how to multiply that world, instead of everything else? Who will make the change you need to see in it, if everyone capable of it and seeing the need for it with all their heart, goes just away?

 

[Izozoz]

I don't know, what is it?

 

[Ebo]

This is a question I ask myself a lot. What is the point? Why put up with all this shit? The world is going down the crapper, why bother continuing on? I think everyone has to figure out what the purpose of hanging on is for themselves.

For me, it's love. I don't mean romantic love, or familial love, I have long given up on that. I'll probably always have a lonely and difficult existence. But I stay alive because of being able to stay to everything dark and awful, IN THIS MOMENT, YOU DO NOT WIN EVERYTHING. It's being able to be for kids what I needed. No robotic advancement or terrorist or anything can do that.

Plus, offing myself means my abuser wins. I don't want to give them that victory.

Maybe my reasons sound childish, maybe they are childish, but they are enough for me.

 

[Ece]

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

You could spend your time researching how it's all going to shit... Or you could spend your time researching amazing things that people are doing that you want to be a part of.

Your choice.

 

[Ajo]

Too much news input is bad for one's mental health. I do not recommend it.
You need to be in your body, in the moment, moving said body, living in the world that is here, now.
As far as robots making my art...it's not like I was selling any of it anyway. The purpose of me making art is to make it, it's not a job.
My thought about artificial intelligences is that they are not operating and are not going to operate like human intelligences...I'm not sure Turing was right.
We've never encountered something smarter than us, yet very cognitively alien? And we're actually about to create it...And not in a centrally directed way. People will do stuff because they can...and it'll boil out as it does. Anyway...
I try not to worry too much about terrorism; it is less likely to kill me than traffic; and if that ever changes I have a big enough trench coat that I could conceal-carry a riot shotgun if I felt inclined, praise be to Discordia.
Survival is here, now, and very simple. It doesn't fill you with useless dread over things you cannot control. It just is.

 

[Ukiv]

Everyone is so harsh and segregated against one another

Are you including yourself in this 'everyone'? If not, do you truly believe that you the only exception to this blanket rule of everyone being harsh and against each other?

Bad news usually sells better than good news. Depression lies sometimes.

It seems to me that you're buying into a picture of a world that supports your depressed view of it and only looking for evidence to support that view of it rather than anything that might contradict it.

You're posting on a forum where strangers from all around the world, from different races, religions and social and economic backgrounds, give their time and energy day after day to support and help other strangers from around the world......just a thought.....maybe drop some of the "everyones" and "everythings".

 

[Ija]

I go there to this place! I honestly do not feel proud to be a human being any more.
What is the point...
Well in my own mind I think maybe I can do some small thing to help some small part of the world of nature. It's still s beautiful world and I'm glad to be here. Just wish I'd come as some kind of bird, not a human. But then again, being human may mean we can help the world I. Some small way.
But yeah the human race is so often so horribly disappointing )-: