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What’s The Point? — A Take On Life
Life is complicated.
Being the only living beings to be self-aware we ask a lot more questions that any other living being about life, the universe, and humanity.
We wonder what the point to our lives is, what brought life into being in the first place, what happens after death and what the point of life, in general, may be.
Throughout time, humanity came up with a lot of possible answers to all of these questions, and very few are set in stone.
Everyone believes in something, but we cannot know what is going on without a shadow of a doubt.
In my personal opinion, there is no point to any of it.
There is no destiny, nothing we need to achieve, and no point to humans overall.
Life moves on, with or without us, and time will eventually end everything.
No matter what you may believe in, if you keep expanding your point of view, everything will become meaningless in the end.
Given enough time everything will cease to exist.
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Wow…
That’s pretty grim isn’t it?
Well, I do not necessarily mean that in a negative or pessimistic sense, because if there is no point to anything that includes…