How many people Think that Life is just a Total Waste of Time in this Endless Universe ?

Raspberry_Yoghurt: Thanks for that nice photo. Many years ago I used to work with hogs as we used to feed between 100 and 150 of the chubby little critters ( depending on prices )  lol. 

@badenwurtca. You can probably think of that because you have a life to think of it (life) as waste. Time, Life, All Things can only be something or nothing...

All I know, is that I'm hoping that, all these accounts of people having a sense of this Life, Not being their 1st-time-around, on this 'veil-of-tears'.. Is in fact, a Satanic lie - Since I don't relish, having to become an almost totally clueless, kindergardner, etc. - And before that - Crapping in my diapers!  ] ;

ahh yes, non-atheists need to justify suffering as it is pointless asking the human race to mature to the point each person can respect the life of others and live intelligently.

What if the purpose of the universe was  for a particular person at a particular time to perform a simple kind act...

What if the purpose of the universe was for an individual to experience the joy of geometrical movement and coordination of pieces in a game of chess at a particular set of spacetime coordinates...

What if everything led up to this point and us, few sentient creatures , on this thread, relative to the whole of creation, knew that only we knew this ...

In that case we could regard ourselves as very blessed !

Even if it wasn't for us, we can still take pride in being part of the greatest Rube Goldberg machine ever.

That's interesting. I have a notion that Emmett Brown in "Back To The Future", who had one of these machines to make his breakfast was possibly named after a real life Emmett Brown who made a similiar machine in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".

I could of course be imagining all this...BUT the real life  inventor was related to a friend of a friend of an old next door neighbour...

“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

"The entire universe is but a single living entity capable of self-reflection and endless growth."- George Washington Carver

All life is about learning to become a better person, to show compassion, etc etc

So learning and reading is not a waste of time imo.

If that applies to chess i don t know

It is a great subject for a sunday

Carl Jung on Schopenhauer,

He was the first to speak of the suffering of the world, which visibly and glaringly surrounds us, and of confusion, passion, evil — all those things which the [other philosophers] hardly seemed to notice and always tried to resolve into all-embracing harmony and comprehensiblility. Here at last was a philosopher who had the courage to see that all was not for the best in the fundaments of the universe.

• Carl Jung, in Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961), p. 69

Go West , Jung man 

If u are in a paty in France, jsut start a discussion  Jung /Freud. One hour later ...

jung criticized : Leibnot sentnce allis for the best in the best world ...conceiveable. Mny forget the last word.

vive OP.

all time is now.

well maybe the rest of us enjoy being pissed off.

I've become aware, on a personal basis.. that we All live in a paradigm - Where Divinely appropriated Love & Faith, is in a seemingly Never-ending struggle, against Fear & Anxiety, in All of its' manifestations.

With myself.. It takes the odd, day-in and day-out experience, of usually creating noticeable anxiety in strangers - Simply because, I opt to wear a non-descript, 'baseball cap' whilst grocery shopping {among other places}..  and without any glasses.. with the 'checkout-line' being the fulcrum, as it were - Of other peoples' apparent nervousness - As if, by that mere commonly seen hat - I'm trying to disguise my I.D.!?

Ps. - Yesterday.. It caused a woman fellow customer, in front of me.. to pull out her cell-phone.. and pretend, I think.. to be double-tasking.. as she seemed to be, awkwardly dialing & talking on her phone - While almost simultaneously, entering her credit-card number, in the store's electronic entry device!?

Hmmm..sounds like you suffer from psychosis.

Well the fact that life as we know it, is very rare in this endless universe, so it's better not to think such a great improbable rarity a total waste of time, not even a troll's life... All hails to the great pawn collector, Stolen_Authenticity et all! :D

.. I suppose it's easier to draw conclusions, if you don't personally experience that - And, even if it were ..{N-o-t!}.. it's a {personally}, Helluva long-term, convincing one!  0:

I was watching a field that was filled one morning with flowers that were not there a couple of days earlier. There were thousands of them. They were growing in the sun and reaching out. They had nowhere to go. I wonder what they are trying to achieve. Why grow there?

I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
          That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
          When all at once I saw a crowd,
          A host, of golden daffodils;
          Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
          Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

          Continuous as the stars that shine
          And twinkle on the milky way,
          They stretched in never-ending line
          Along the margin of a bay:                                  10
          Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
          Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

          The waves beside them danced; but they
          Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
          A poet could not but be gay,
          In such a jocund company:
          I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
          What wealth the show to me had brought:

          For oft, when on my couch I lie
          In vacant or in pensive mood,                               20
          They flash upon that inward eye
          Which is the bliss of solitude;
          And then my heart with pleasure fills,
          And dances with the daffodils.