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No, but sometimes you get the answer nevertheless, usually by inference when they address similar questions or subjects. I ask similar questions, but not exactly focused on those three. True, true. Analyzing the life of a person is not that difficult when you ask the right questions (or even when t...

Hey Matt Have you read Tolstoy's Confession ?If you not you should because its probably the book that discusses this stuff directly and is entirely autobiographical. Emerson is a lifelong favourite of mine, Thoreau at the time, because much of my anxiety was about finding menaingful employment and ...

Nikolai and TheVoiceofTime, I'll get back to you soon. Just too busy lately to catch up with all the posts!! Sorry

That's because there isn't any. But I need one. Most of us need meaning. Otherwise, if there is none, wouldn't suicide be the only rational consequence? I wasn't advocating hedonism or a philosophy or anything like that. Merely pointing that everything - you know EVERYTHING! I think I mentioned the...

Hi Matt24, i understand you look out for some meaning in life. Maybe an older post of mine might be of entertaining inspiration. It´s titled: Planet We - A new approach towards the meaning of life (Sorry, i would have posted the direct link but i don´t know how to do it. You might have to search fo...

Hmm... I don't mind being plan B, as long as I'm not always or mostly plan B. I find it only positive that I'm plan B, and not C or D x) I think the core of our disagreement may lie in that. As long as there is room for more, I'm never satisfied with a secondary place. I know what you're thinking, ...

This one-on-one discussion is starting to become so big that I'm gonna divide it up into two chapters. Chapter 1: Oh my god, it really has become too big. Hope you don't mind me answering only Chapter 1 today. :) I went on my first trip just because I felt like it, however, while on my trip I decid...

Hey Matt, I haven't read all, but you descirbe a lot of how i feel and used to feel. If you dont mind me asking, are you from the States or European? or for that matter, some other continent.. I will read, the whole post pff, one of these days and will share my opinion too :) Dont let it get you do...

I think it is everywhere you look. We have little red spider mites, I have no idea if that's what they are called, but they are no bigger than this full stop . That's the adults. They are born, they find food, find a mate, have offspring. They are made of the same atoms as we are, as are all the ob...

Okay then, if all you care about is how unhappy you'll be afterward, don't do those things. Don't do anything pleasant. They were merely examples: everything is temporary. It's not that I'm renouncing to do any pleasant activity. You misunderstand me. I'm saying I can't find meaning in doing that. ...

Well, as I would say in a later quote, I spent most of my time philosophizing. I considered my journey more like a self-employed voluntary job, not a vacation per se. I've always had very clear goals in my life, many of them in philosophy, and as such I spent time trying to ponder myself into a cla...

Well I do know how you feel, as I have felt like that before, but luckily I have music, as it always lifts my spirits, and can remind me of the reasons to keep going. One of the things I really enjoy doing is research on the net, and of course my philosophy. Observing natures diversity is another t...

We're all sorry for Hex, you get used to him though he's like that. As to what you said on Camus, it's much of a muchness, some people will enjoy life some people will seek purpose. Camus spoke to me because I was looking for a reason, and Camu's Myth of Sysiphus said: life is absurd there isn't on...

Wow, you sound a bit depressed. Here it is, there has got to be something you're passionate about? Something really fun, or maybe something that requires much skill, or maybe something that really pisses you off that's worth fighting for, like social justice. You've got to have something that you'r...

Hi Matt Of course, but I think it's important also to recognise that what you are going through is very rare - and that what is rare is special. When I went through this myself I didn't have an internet connection and it wouldn't have occurred to me to discuss it on forums. I only tried with friend...