Science, Religion, Politics and in the pursuit of truth – HappyPsychotic

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I suppose the biggest thing I’m thinking about right now is her suggestion that the meaning of life is to work hard to accomplish something. She implies that if we work hard, create something, be successful then you will be happy and you have helped the world. This philosophy is directly opposed to the Buddhist one which says that we should just accept that nothing is truly fulfilling in life and that we shouldn’t strive to accomplish something big because we will end up being disappointed.

It had to be asked: What was it I was so attached to? Is it just something in the imagination? When you have done time in a mental hospital, that is never a trivial question. If he wasn’t just imaginary, then where did he go? Do real things just disappear like that? If they do, then the conservation laws of physics are in trouble. But if we stay with the laws of physics, then the Chris that disappeared was unreal. Round and round and round. He used to run off like that just to make me mad. Sooner or later he would always appear, but where would he appear now? After all, really, where did he go?

I can’t figure out what to do with my life. I know that life is short and that fact motivates me to stop wasting time. The problem is that I can’t think of anything that is not a waste of time.

So we move down the empty road. I don’t want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. We are just moving down the empty road.