If life’s meaning is to survive and pass on our genetics, then what am I here for?
If life’s meaning is to survive and pass on our genetics, then what are we here for?
Countless people have told me when I asked them what the meaning of life was they responded, "To mate and carry on the human population." Honestly, I kind of believe them. It makes sense. It’s in our truest nature to. Everything else is surviving for reproduction to be able to work. Is happiness really ours? Are we really hear to be happy or is it just our self-awareness that makes us believe so? I’m gay and this concept kind of saddens me because I would love to marry a woman and have kids but I am not attracted to women whatsoever and that is what isn’t fair. In our most fundamental purpose is to procreate and yet I cannot procreate with a man so I’m wondering if happiness should be thrown aside and put my natural meaning into play? I don’t acknowledge God as anything because I don’t know if he exists or not so I am not religious. So if God is not real then our sole purpose would to be what our bodies are made to do and that is make offspring and everything else is just human ego [happiness, sadness, ect.] I really don’t want to believe this and I did not get this from any homophobic publication I concluded this all by myself. I’d like to hear intelligent answers and not just biased answers. I want to know if I am truly ****** up and pointlessly living? I want a purpose in life but everything I make meaningful to me in life is masked by this concept I have. Why am I here? Why do I deserve to be happy, and why can I not find women sexually attractive instead of men? What do you think? Should I just admit myself into an insane asylum or take up psychotherapy? Should I just jump off a bridge into the depth of nothing but the ending of a dysfunctional human being?
Sorry about the "we’s" I posted this on the LGBT section before.
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January 24th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Love.
January 24th, 2010 at 4:06 am
If life meaning is to survive and pass on our genetics, then that is what you should do.
If you buy into your meaning, and you cannot pass on your genetics, then you cannot fulfill life’s meaning.
Do what the rest of America does - if this reality doesn’t suit you , find another one. (For example, notice all the protestant churches, they either didn’t like the Church, so they made a new one, or didn’t like the new ones and made newer ones to fit what they wanted to believe)
EDIT: Just saying here, but maybe your meaning of life is a little off. You base your entire suicide scheme on the theory that the meaning of life is to merely procreate. IF you accept that theory, then you are ******. However before you go jump off that bridge for something you "kind of believe," I suggest you do some research. ACTUALLY look into what the meaning of life is versus just relying on Y!As to tell you or on random people with no expertise in the field.
You wouldn’t trust the advise given about car repair by 10,000 valley girls, so don’t trust the advise about life given to you by 10, 000 RANDOM people.
January 24th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Why is everyone so concerned about life having "meaning"? Also, what reasons do we have to think that if it did, it has to do with producing offspring. That seems kind of strange. Just because we’re capable of doing so doesn’t necessarily mean that we have some kind of obligation to do so. We’re also capable of eating and sleeping. Does that mean we’re hear to eat and sleep? Of course not. Once you give a bit of thought, it’s pretty clear that life doesn’t have meaning. It seems incoherent to think that it does. Asking what we’re meant for is like asking what colour the number two is.