Ask HN: Do you Consider Life to be Futile

I Have no Formal Background in Philosophy. All I've Learned is from Internet and Books such as The Stranger(Camus),Sophie's World(Jostein Gaarder.) etc. It would be really great If you can give Elegant Arguments for either case .(And please don't bring uncertain entities(like God) or concepts).Thanks.

No.

I'm assuming this is a practical question rather than a theoretical one, since you don't want abstract concepts that you can't relate to.

Usually if you enjoy your live you don't stop to ask if it's futile or not. When life is hard or boring... that's when such questions usually arise.

So... I don't what to assume to much, but if life is too boring, you CAN make it better. It's not futile. The general strategy seems to be to 1) get skills, 2) get paid for those skills, 3) have free time, 4) figure out what's interesting to you and spend time and money doing that. Many people have problems figuring out each of these steps, but they're all solvable.

Of course. You're born naked and you die naked. The only point to life anyone can possibly argue is one they deem worthy. For me, I felt content at 17. From there I decided the only way I would be happy living longer is if it would mean something at least in the end. How did I define "meaning": decided I had to change the world, for better or worse, as long as something in the world changes by my being around, I'll be content. In other words if I could have not existed and the world ends up in the same place without me, I've failed.

In ten years that might mean having kids, right now it means trying to set myself up so I can focus on making a real difference when I figure out how to make the world a little bit less fucked.

Like I said, I dont think anyone can argue this without first assuming their view is somewhat correct in the first place. All of the above is just my views on this topic. Take it or leave it I'm not really fussed, just thought I would share.

Oh, well, it sounded good at the time. :)

Were you objecting on the basis that the rock has some version of consciousness? The argument has been made and it's interesting, but I thought it was pretty far afield from the present topic.