Honestly, I don’t even know anymore whether we live in a world that is meaningful and that makes sense. Some people will say no and some people will say the cliché answers: “yes, because of the people we love and the things we love to do.” But sometimes, life gets to a point where you think the people you love don’t really matter or the things you used to love to do become cyclical and boring. Maybe it is just a moment of drama but I think there are two answers to the big question; it really depends on people’s lives.
The way I see Bernard’s quote: “everything is the same, even if it’s different,” is that everything has the same value. This goes well with an argument that life or the world is meaningless. Everything has the same value; nothing is more significant than another; life is boring; so when one thing is meaningless, everything else is meaningless. It can go the other way too; let us say that one thing is meaningful. If one thing is meaningful and everything is the same, then everything else is meaningful. But I don’t think this argument works as well because we don’t really see everything as meaningful. And if everything is meaningful, then how will we know the difference between our family and the person that is most despised in school to figure out who we should love, who makes life meaningful. Then again, the person that is most despised in school may be the person that makes life interesting. But without the love of family or friends, nothing really matters even if the hated person still goes to school.
I also want to refer to what Tommy’s girlfriend and what Tommy said.
Tommy’s girlfriend: “if nothing matters, then how can I matter?”
Tommy: “once you realize the universe sucks, you got nothing left to lose.”
Tommy’s girlfriend has a point; if the world is meaningless, then everything in the world is meaningless. This connects to what Tommy said; if everything in the world is meaningless, then what is there to value and what is the point of life. It kind of reminds me of Banach; Banach says that we must lose all external values to seek internal happiness. We must see no point in the world to drop all external values. Once we lose all external values, then we can find happiness but what is the point of happiness when there is no point in life? Whether or not there is meaning in the world depends on how you view the events in life and I find it hard to be optimistic all throughout life.
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I feel that when Tommy said "you got nothing left to lose", I think that love is already lost if we think like Tommy (thought I don't want to think like him o.o -- he's rather scary to me >.< and violent-ish)and so we don't care about anything or find it meaningless.
ReplyDeleteI like your post though and its not that depressing, if it is, you wouldn't be laughing today. xD
Maggie- You have a very interesting perspective here. I like how you mainly focused on how the universe is meaningless and disappointment is expected in life. Just now I was actually researching for Andy's assignment and I researched Buddha's noble truths, he says if we are not attached to anything we will not suffer which is similar to this idea that you bring up in your blog post.
ReplyDeleteNice Post :)- Sandy