intrapersona

Buddhist monk, meditates all day in complacency and peace.

Yeah, except you can't explain why so you just sit back and call it silly because you don't have intellectual nerve to actually refute it. Perhaps dar...

Ok, how many people out there still live life and are pretty much emotionless? How about the 40-50-60 year olds who are lost the love interest in thei...

yes, that would be strange indeed. I was saying that purpose can not be happiness or pleasure. You havn't said anything about why it isn't, you just t...

You didn't list why not, you just stated your premise again. Explain why you think people don't need purpose in life in order to live good lives. What...

The meaning of life is what life means, what it IS. The purpose of life is why were are. Some might say the meaning of life entails the purpose but I ...

I agree, but what does it mean to live "fully"? To take every opportunity you get? Why? To live a more dynamic lifestyle? Why? More interesting? Why d...

I don't really know what you are saying, I never saw a distinct classification of purposes. Nor do I see what the illusion of agency has anything to d...

I wouldn't call being afraid to fall of a cliff "intellectual strategic action", more like instinct. I also wouldn't call this a classification of pur...

how did you get from "they have liberty to pursue purposes" to "they have purpose'?

because it might well be the case following death, so it is potentially an option for action in life, just take an overdose and YOU MIGHT BE there, in...

So you are saying our existence is ultimately absurd and we just give ourselves small purposes to take our mind of that fact. There could never be an ...

That suggests then that you are complacent with your experience of the world and what you know of it. Some of us aren't happy with what knowledge we a...

Would you also call the effiel tower part of you because it inhabits the same material you are made from? Or shares the atmosphere around you? That wh...

Ok, I understand and fair enough but no matter what activity you do, you are still enganged in an activity that encompasses all of them called "living...

That is a very sound conception of how purpose is usually implemented in human life. It is in accordance with what I said in my OP about how animals h...

That is the issue. How can transitory pleasure be a purpose if it is without meaning and doesn't stay consistent? Purpose would be a goal, something t...

You are impossible to do philosophy with. Not only are you subject to bigotry (not being able to see the other person's point of view because of your ...

Who are YOU though? Do you also claim to have free will and have proof for it too? Do you not get scared if someone holds a gun to your head? Maybe yo...

Yes, and indeed is absurd as my OP points out.

You misinterpreted this. I rationally concluded............ the the only rational conclusion is.......... that all animals have an IRRATIONAL fear of ...

Then it seems that we are getting the short end of the stick. Like we are thrown in to a prison... Like we are actors out on loan with no recompense

Bravo, on point!

I didn't say it was rational, I see it is what ALL animals on earth share instinctively and unconsciously. In fact that would be considered pre-ration...

So, in your thoughts (mainly if not completely unconscious) are programs that operate for survival. If someone puts something close to your eye you wi...

No it isn't, I said that claiming happiness to be the sense of purpose in ones life is absurd. There are some fleeting moments of joy and beauty that ...

I understand this. At the end of it all though all that can be concluded is "Life is just a nothingness to be ignored or miserably wallow in" So there...

Then obviously you didn't read it thoroughly enough, it said a great many things... it is just the illiterate people who are unable to spell out what ...

How am I denying that a purpose is so? Or claiming that a purpose will lead me to satisfaction? A purpose will lead me to living a fulfilling life, is...

You imply that being "satisfied" quenches your need for a purpose in life.

Did you read my OP, if you can please respond to that as it is directly relevant to what you claim to be purpose in life: "There are some fleeting mom...

True but you didn't define "You could live and love your pet (or whatever) and find it just as significant, and your life just as meaningful" the whol...

I understand what you are saying John, but I just can't see how it relates to the OP: "There are some fleeting moments of joy and beauty that I can ca...

I concur (Y)

Great post! It reflects what I was saying in my OP about how all animals live in the same way. The very nature of a "good life" entails a purpose. If ...

I said nothing about the fact that because it is temporary it is inconsequential (AKA why live if it's not forever) I was claiming (if you even read m...

Lol, What happens when the fetish goes stale? It really doesn't though if you read my OP, fetish is like right pinky toe.

Ok, I see what you are saying. I meditate so I can see directly that when thought stops contentment arises and that is the lowest possible energy stat...

It is vain, and illusory. It has nothing to do with the detriment of others, so you don't need to point that out. Likewise, how do you even prove that...

Then obviously you didn't read my OP

I never claimed death was anything more than nothing. The term superduper wizz bang thingamajig is just to show you the absurdity of the component you...

Are you sure of that? How do you know you weren't an mystical energy being who at the time of transference had all of it's memories temporarily disabl...

You quoted me on what I said "I am not talking about the meaning of life here but a purpose that sustains one from avoiding inevitable death" then you...

Bitter Crank I would like you to address this plz when u have the time.

We don't need to find a desire for purpose, I think most people have desire for a purpose and if they don't then they are too stupid too or depressed....

What your describing sounds like a nightmare someone cooked up about a bunch of carbon based lifeforms who are too stupid to see the truth of their ow...

Exactly, we are just kidding ourselves that our life is worth living or that it has purpose and/or meaning (self-created or otherwise)

Sure John, there are various aspects of my existence that I find fun, beautifull, eccentric, enlightening but AS I POINTING OUT IN MY OP I am failing ...

That purpose is the same as I stated in my OP, just to keep surviving and not die like all other animals. That is not a purpose, that is an instinct.

Don't you see though that they are one and the same thing? You don't KNOW what an absence of anything is because you can't ever experience it. It is s...