What do you keep living for? Is there a specific person, goal, or idea that you work for? Is there no meaning to life in your opinion?

Context: I’ve been reading Camus and Sartre, and thinking about how their ideas interact with hard determinism.

  • Archangel@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    You climb the tallest mountain you can find, and you ask the old man sitting there.

    • elbucho@lemmy.world
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      To which the old man replies: “Man, what the fuck is up with all of you people coming up here to ask me what the meaning of life is? I moved to the top of the tallest mountain I could find to get away from you all!”

      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        If the true meaning of life is to move to the tallest mountain and isolated yourself from everyone and everything then I don’t really want to know it thanks gramps