The meaning of life is balance. The goal of life is legacy. The best form of legacy is continuation and cultivation of your bloodline. You are the product of over a thousand years of generationally sequential survival competence. For every human being alive today, millions of bloodlines were not as successful and died out. YOU are the only thing left to show from dozens of lifetimes filled with hard work, suffering, and the will to succeed. If a single link in your ancestry failed, you would not be here. In the grand scheme of things, you are on a bus filled with every ancestor that came before you, and every descendant that will come after. This lifetime is a representation of your turn at the wheel. Your actions, your choices will affect everyone on the bus with you. Carelessness or sloth on your part is disrespectful to all who have come before, and possibly fatal to all who may come after. Barring that, the next best form of legacy is positive advancement of society. Whatever form that may take, the goal should be to leave the world a better place due to your existence. In either case, if you leave no trace of your existence, you are but a worker ant, destined to operate as a drone until your ultimately insignificant death, quickly erased from the pages of history.
The meaning of life is balance between this goal and healthy chase of personal happiness. For if you arrive only to burn out prematurely and fall to the vices of men, such as alcohol, drugs, or degeneracy, all your effort is for naught. If you are not but happy, does anything else matter in the end?
Is being hit by a bus purely a luck based factor? Is preparedness and risk management not a skill? Additionally, this is a response to a mysteriously deleted thread containing the question "What is the meaning of life?". Likely due to the lack of relation to business and finance, however I felt compelled to make an attempt to reply nonetheless.
Your post refutes no point and adds no useful contribution.
Daniel Young
The co-founder of anything as degenerate as the likes of Facebook, such as Twitter, is indeed without hope.
Blake Morris
only thing is i dont want my kids to be fucking chipped only to be chained and milked. Nor do i see the sky clearing up morally. unless i find some peeps with like mindedness or create such community, kids are off the table for me. Selfish on my part yes, but most people didnt think about all this shit when they had a kid, they just fucked and boom responsibility.
Benjamin Davis
And by this line of thought alone, you have accomplished two things. One, you are already thinking of how your actions affect those on the bus. At the least, you are asking the right questions. Secondly, by adding the topic of future financial outlook, you are the first contributor who has added the concept of finance into the discussion, and thus added the possibility of the continuation of this thread beyond five minutes. Do you have a specific question revelant to your statement?
Additionally, know that your competition is growing weaker by the generation. Those with a head on their shoulders think as you do, and make the responsible decision to delay bringing a child into this world into a financially insecure family. These couples often end up having fewer children, or none at all. The dimwitted of the populace instead procreate with no consideration to the topic, and thus begin having more children, far sooner in life. Ergo, the worldwide genetic pool is averaging down in intelligence. We are being outbred by the dimwits. It is no coincidence that many religions promote large families to utilize this same mechanic as a method of religious domination.
Grayson Taylor
to each his own, dont tell me how to live my life. all life is different.
Xavier Thomas
Two chicks at the same time. I want them hot and disease free. And no picking off pubes off their mouth while they suck my dick. I want them to be troopers.
Andrew Taylor
This. OP needs to read The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker and he'll see that he doesn't really need a legacy.
Easton Butler
Nor am I at your door, pressing you to read the pamphlet of my message. Do you take everything you read on the internet as directed specifically at you? Or is it just this post?
I would, however, encourage you to think about the distinction between genuine oppression, and a disagreement of opinion. It seems that the current culturally accepted norm is to decry any ideas counter to your own, claiming oppression. Much like the LGBTQ movement, or the feminist movement. Or how a pizzeria may get shut down due to the owner's polite declination to cater a gay wedding, citing religious viewpoints, and somehow internet warriors took this as a sign of oppression deserving of a social media campaign. The client has a right to request the catering. The owner has a right to decline. This thread is no different.
Jordan Miller
I will take your suggestion into consideration. I rarely find viewing a subject from another angle anything but beneficial.
Easton Martin
How do you prepare for getting hit by a bus or unfortunate events in general they're unfortunate what?
Joshua Myers
Heres the fun part, Bill Gates is doing us a favor in a way (1 perspective that is), on the other side, he is our enemy. Unfortunately for the people at the top, they probably dont differentiate people how you described any differently from the first sub group to the later (in my opinionated guess anyhow), and they rather throw a dice and let fate decide than to try to intervene and see which ones are better suited and evolved for the human species. Im honestly conflicted by this, one minute i look and im disgusted by how we are, and how i am and see through the eyes of those that want to reduce the global population, then again im kinda pissed by their mismanagement/calculation as well. this world can support 20 billion people (ofcourse we all would need a haircut), but we have the tech to feed, cloth and shelter everyone and perhaps get rid of the lowest pyramids of maslows hierarchy. but sadly, most people suffer when idle and cannot cope too well and sickness will probably spread.
Do you have a specific question revelant to your statement?
thats an interesting question, my question is who is worthy to escape this hell hole so to speak? nature is very primal, and very very sad especially with female it looks to be so which are the gate keepers of genes i suppose. I dont like this global depopulation plan, and i wage my own war against it for the world that already hates me but ethically, i cant abandon ship although i thought about it few times. why dont they let those willing pick their own path? by default the majority will do as told and follow whats layed out for them, realistically those who see just want to be left alone
Juan Butler
hello fellow /x/ browser, you have a very strange but familiar demure about yourself, maybe abit intro about yourself sounds interesting, your wording too, how old are you?
Leo Cruz
Unfortunate events often occur to those who make unfortunate choices. Do you know of anyone who constantly decries their "bad luck", and is always the victim? Meanwhile, their peers silently chalks the "it's always happening to ME" situation as largely a result of sloppy planning?
Irregardless, you have missed the point or are attempting to construct a flimsy straw man counterpoint. It was never the goal of the post to suggest the entirety of your biological outcome is 100% within your control. The point of the post is that the outcome is largely affected by the collective choices you, your ancestors, and your descendants have and will make.
Oliver Richardson
The meaning of life is subjective. Legacy? You think people really remember who the fuck people were in the past? I've taken philosophy courses, history courses, etc, and even did well in them, but don't remember the main contributions the great thinkers/philosophers/whatever did for society because it's been awhile. Maybe I'm an r-tard, but I wouldn't be surprised if most other people didn't value legacy. Having kids? I mean, if you can provide them a good life, by all means. Some report having great satisfaction from it, that it's life changing. Some on the other hand, wish they didn't have kids, regret it, have their kids tarnish the family's reputation because they turn out to be fuck-ups, etc. Like I said, It's subjective man.
Michael Gutierrez
"legacy" is just caring what people think about you, the ultimate NPC way to live your life. the goal of life is to have fun
Who gives a shit? 99% of people are completely forgotten 30-100 years after dying.
Carter Smith
I think most people dont value lagacy within themselves, but in others i think they do and admire. musicians/stars/idols seem to be well beloved after death and remembered. but i dont see much in that personally. looks like from my experience, the more immature you are, the quicker you'll have a kid/spouse somehow as it looks like mommy nature wants to shape you a certain way. having a kid is raising another life, hence maturing you in the process and revealing yourself too. the contrast, i see some smart people usually unable to find partners not because they have an inflated ego/self value, but people just dont see them as fun/interesting imo. im only 27 so take it as you will
James Carter
cringe
Isaiah Adams
Who cares? I just came to the realization that I don't care about any of that. It's static to me.
Kayden Jenkins
bruh we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this. Can't prepare for getting struck by lightening, getting mauled by mountain lion during a hunting expedition instead of the person walking two feet next to you, meeting a group of people who welcome you into a community rather than bandits, etc. There is no choice, this is just shit that happened in the past that could have killed off an entire bloodline. A more modern example would be just getting in with the wrong crowd at school or having shitty parents. You can be physically more fit, smarter, capable in general, and a better choice maker but still get fucked by luck.
Tyler Hill
i wouldn't call that luck, its just how primal we as species are, and how dated women's programming is being a gate keeper in this modern world. brute/might seems much more favorable in the west in a deep level that was burried with some success with Christianity. Sure you can prep against an bear encounter, and greatly reduce the chance of getting hit by lightening but i guess you mean the x factor where theres no way to avoid it whatsoever, so does that mean fate exist? i would like to know what fate is =(
Ayden Ortiz
I find your choice of wording a bit unclear, but I will do my best to address your statement dutifully.
It is unfortunate, however natural, that there will ALWAYS be a hierarchy in many facets of life. Life is largely composed of multifaceted concepts, problems, and situations. Mathematical and some scientific statements and problems are one of the only things in existence that are absolute. The best solutions for the unfortunate involve ensuring the doorways to evolution exist, but it is not beneficial to wheel the unfortunate through those doorways as if they are disabled. Doing so is counterproductive and only reinforces the continuation of the behavior that either they, or their ancestors displayed in order to land them where they are today. As they say, give a man a fish....
Back to facets. There are very, very few complex topics that have only one facet of "train of thought". Even more so there are almost none when dealing with people as a group. They are more of a parallel thread situation : coming up with an answer that achieves a solution on one facet of the problem is simple. Finding a balance that best addresses the problem from multiple or all facets is the issue at hand. Because of this, there will rarely be an answer that does not leave some behind, and some will always have to work harder than others due to their specific lot in life.
Juan Hernandez
Forty-two
Wyatt Flores
E.g, many Indian reservations were set up with permanent funding to "account" for the atrocious treatment they received upon the colonization of America. Unfortunately, drug abuse, sloth behavior, and other forms of degeneracy are overwhelmingly present in these communities when the statistics are reviewed. As a mental exercise in human behavior, if 10 people were given the choice to do absolutely nothing and receive free housing plus a 30k / year allowance, or venture out of the reservation and expend great deals of energy to possibly make 80k a year and pay for housing out of said proceeds, what do you think the percentage would be that would choose the latter? How would those that chose to stay behind feel about those that chose the harder path with a possibility of greater gains? Would they drag them down or build them up? Further, are we as a society genuinely commiting reparations and strengthening that group as a whole or hamstringing them? As to the population, I care for all human life. However I do not believe our rate of exponential growth is sustainable. Unlike almost every other species on the planet who live within their environment, we destroy at a grand scale to create. Were an alien species to visit earth with no preconceptions of the life within, would we appear to be the intelligent, dominant lifeform we like to believe we are, or would we appear to be a bacterial infection, a growth of mold quickly breaking down the planet like a month old slice of unrefrigerated cheesecake?
Much like those who are seemingly always the victim, my belief in the cultivation of your bloodline is attested to the fact that time and time again, nature demonstrates that the strongest survive the barbaric nature of the world.
