Journal #8530

This question usually occurs to people who do not know the mission objectives. Press TAB to see your mission objectives.

Unfortunately, life is a crappy untested game where the developer forgot to put in important gameplay elements, like displaying objectives. The game is also not in active development, as the developer has appeared to turn everything over to the community. Therefore, like some generic sandbox game, you need to find the objectives yourself.

“After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.”
Peter Watts, Blindsight

I exist because the world simply wasn't awesome enough and needed someone to kick things up a few notches.

Seriously though, I don't think there is a reason or meaning to existence outside of religious beliefs. We simply are. Life is a fantastic accident.

I believe I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum.

To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentation of their women.

My brother wanted a younger sibling so my parents made it happen.

I'm here to learn and teach and experience all this world (or any other) has to offer.

I exist because my parents were horny in 1987.

I don't know of a reason for me to exist, as in why I was brought into existence, but I do know I have decided upon a personal objective: To make the world a better place for others to exist in.

If, however, what Ninja said is true, this is nothing but a purposeless endeavour that exists entirely in the mind of the reader.

That's too boring, though, so I still want to make the world a better place. If only to pass the time.

Im here because God decided to create me to be so... I'm here to commune with God and His creation, which gives me value and meaning for my life and find it in others...
Not here to start a religion debate, mind.

I asked for your own personal world view, and you gave it. There's nothing to debate.
Not in this journal, anyway.

NineTnine I did not create you, but you can commune if you wish.

Well because my parents did one weird thing on one certain night. If that's what you mean, the question is very subjective.

Interpret it how you will.

For most people, it isn't weird.

well for those who dont question may their fruit never question too

What, the weird thing or existence?

kinda the same isnt it. I mean i think theres no reason for our existence beyond that weird thing, you might have been a few microns of latex away from not existing

In my mind's eyes; compare it to this saying. When the benefit outweighs the risk, you take the risk "if you so choose."

In existence in general, I think the good outweighs the bad, so with that being the case, existence is simply true if you are born.

This unfortunately does not pertain to some people's lives. "The bad might outweigh the good in their existence." So for those you can only hope they get another run. And hell, you can only hope they get an infinite amount of chances to get it right.

There's no telling for sure, but it would make sense that when you die, you have the option to go again or not. Either that or if the case is that when you die "if your entire knowledge of existence lives in your brain" then there's two things that will set you at ease. Number one: don't worry about it because you can't know your dead after your brain and entire body checks out (you die). Number two: you might try living each day like your last because you believe or are convinced (don't have faith otherwise) that this is all you got. That's where a lot of people turn to religion, it's just a bunch of choices you make. You can even have faith without religion.

So like I say, i'm here right now because when I died I chose to live again, since the beginning. Either that or it was an accident. Now the beginning implies that there is one, but that's just non sense in my mind's eyes. A beginning doesn't make sense although since so many things we experience have a start and finish like a vehicle, a toy, anything in reality that vehicle comes from various stuff that was already around. It was just organized together in a certain way. So you might fear that "we are so complex" that when we are destroyed we will never exist again but that's like saying in an infinite amount of time "reality's medium" your combination of complexity will never reconstruct itself on its own. Well you might not remember it when you come to exist again on another planet in a trillion years but it sounds highly probable when infinity is the playground and chance is the father of everything.

Why do you think technology is so advanced? It's simple. Anything that's worth remembering is stored somewhere. If you are worth remembering, your span of being remembered will go on for a certain amount of time. Probably not long enough for you to live again while those memories can be found realistically but who cares.

In general I think it makes sense to live your life to the fullest you can. Sometimes it involves taking educated risks. Hell without such the case, we might not exist...

Might I add, you should probably consolidate your objectives. Mine used to be a ton of shit. Now, it is to "make good furniture". When you have less goals, you have a lot more time to focus on what is important to achieve them successfully.