Taken from JRE #1309 w/Naval Ravikant: https://youtu.be/3qHkcs3kG44
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Taken from JRE #1309 w/Naval Ravikant: https://youtu.be/3qHkcs3kG44
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Being alive IS the meaning of life. Be here now. There's no deeper purpose or goal. You're here to experience being alive. We all are, from rock and tree to lions and humans. It's that wonderfully simple.
Logically, if you try to get to the root of why anything exists at all, it doesn't make sense, because something cannot come from nothing, so something has to be eternal, neither created, nor destroyed, no beginning, no end, and why is there something that is eternal, the best Logical answer is 'because'. Our Human Brains are FINITE, we don't have the power or capacity to comprehend something that can be INFINITE. Hence, it is pointless to pursue this question of 'Why anything exists?', and instead, just divert your focus and energy on living a good Life, leaving the world a little better than when you found it, being personally responsible for yourself and your family, and not dwelling or worrying about cracking the mystery of existence because it's unanswerable, it's like trying to divide by zero, or trying to imagine the 4th dimension, your Brain doesn't have the power or capacity to wrap itself around those concepts.
The very conclusion that there is no answer while sitting and having an intellectual discussion about it is self-refuting.
One of the core assumptions that is presupposed in finding a purpose is The pursuit of truth. Therefore, it would have to be an objective moral/purposeful fact that pursuing The Truth is part of our purpose, and because the truth does not always align with our subjective views, then our subjective purpose is not actually our true purpose. Instead, our subjective purpose is only a placeholder that serves the function of a disposable purpose that is disregarded when the ultimate truth is revealed.
This is demonstrated with when an atheist or agnostic might say "I will change my views and conform my life if the evidence is sufficient". In other words, a person's subjective purpose is being replaced based on whatever is ultimately true, which means it is only a placeholder, and the actual purpose of a person's life comes from an external source based on whatever is ultimately true.
This is an alignment with Theism, not atheism or agnosticism. What the man in the video is saying is tempting to believe because It holds the implication that any person can make any choice and be validated merely because that's what they prefer, but that's not true, and that way of reasoning is actually dangerous because that's what gives rise to the transgender issues that we are experiencing today, and other things like this where people create their own subjective purpose or their own identity or their own subjective moral values or their own "truths", and in doing so, actual objective truth is rejected in favor of our preferences or desires. This is not right.
The Man in the video is incorrect. Don't fall for it. There is an objective purpose to life, and therefore, God's existence is implied.
Doing what is right for rights sake is self-sufficient. Doing what is good for goodness sake is self-sufficient. Therefore, There will not be an endless amount of asking the question "Why".
On the other hand, if we establish a subjective moral position such as the man in this video, then we can keep asking the question "Why" forever, which will eventually end up in a loop of the answers continuously presupposing each other. Thus, if the continual asking of the question why is the basis not to ask for Why there is an objective purpose to life, then this is the basis to reject Your reasoning towards subjective purpose.
“Who is the meaning of life?”
“What is the meaning of life?”
“Why is the meaning of life?”
Starlord:“What am I supposed to say Jesus?”