As joseph Campbell most eloquently stated; the point of life is to "Follow your bliss". If your not doing what makes you happy, then you're a slave. To what, I don't know. That's up to the individual to figure out.

no, there doesn't need to be, but there is. I believe there is a point to everything no matter how dismal the point may seem.

Yeah, it's like that movie Butterfly Effect.
I think we have that butterfly effect on our collective conscious.
You might walk into a room somewhere, and there might be really drab energy,
but what you might not know is that someone in that room might have just had their car break down on their way to an interview for a job that they needed to be able to pay their month's rent for that month.
Then, he may have told everyone in there, and it brought down everyone else's energy.

you make everything much more complex than it needs to be.

I do agree with the idea "Follow your bliss", but I'm not sure that because you're not doing what makes you happy makes you a slave, and I'll tell you why.

Right now, I'm driving a truck, and it's not fun, but I want to save up enough money that one day I can pursue a dream of being a professional actor, or being a musician, or doing something really enjoyable. So, ya know, I definitely think there's something to delayed gratification.

I think the key is that, you can work jobs that you hate, but don't let it bring you down. If you find yourself whining about your job, you will attract others like that to you, like flies on #%^. Anyone can keep a positive attitude whether they are working in a slaughterhouse, or cleaning up animal *&^* at the zoo. It's all up to you.

I really agree with the first part, but I doubt the second part of your statement is true.

Also, I do believe in the theory, 'Only the paranoid survive'

I'm weary of what's going on around me, and it's not what people think about me, it's about not wanting to have physical pain inflicted upon me.

Yes, death is imminent, and life is imminent.
I could walk out the front door tomorrow, and start living that day like it was my last. I might get up, and go for an early morning jog. And then, along my jog I realize no one else has this attitude, and I don't like the world I'm in, and I don't like the way people are looking at me.
In fact I have so much disdain for our society, that I am fighting to live in it now, as a goal to become financially independent one day, so I can distance myself from society as much as possible.
If I was doing what I truly wanted to do in this moment, I would surely be living as a recluse, never going out in public, and when I did constantly mocking people for their ways. I can't think of a better word than just ways. I don't like our tao in this country. And I used to come on here all the time and just b*tch and b.itch and beotch about it. But I'm going to try to not do that anymore, I'm going to try to have a positive attitude, while understanding that our society may not be what I want, I've got to find a way to turn the tables on it, and spin it, and make it work for me.

...no? What? Why would it seem vain?

I'm still not sure why you're here for a reason, or to fill some funciton. And there can be a point to things even if you were put here to fulfill a point.

"We are put here for a reason"

I think sentiments like this arise from those disillusioned with their lives as a way to counteract the bleak reality in which they exist. On the otherhand, the notion that we are put here for a reason can be championed by the same group, but in more of an attempt to say that "Oh, well, everything I do now will amount to something".


The reality of it is that those who are well off, or are happy with their lives often do not question the meaning behind existence. I'm not saying that this is the case with everyone, just my point of view. Personally, I don't think the meaning of life is worth worrying about or pondering. I'd much rather be out living life than wasting it trying to figure out it's meanings.

I entirely agree. No one in the can say in all honesty that they know the meaning to life. If there is one we learn it sometime after death I think.