What are you living for?

[Someone here]

Sounds contradicting but anyways.... 

[Twenty]

When your karma is finished you will die. 

[mandyjw]

Because there's no opposite of living. That's not really a cause. There's no cause for being. 

[Gesundheit2]

37 minutes ago, Someone here said:

Sounds contradicting but anyways.... 

What is it exactly that sounds contradicting?

[LastThursday]

On 17/11/2021 at 0:04 PM, Someone here said:

What reasons do you have to go on living? What gives your life meaning and purpose?

I'm alive, it seems like carrying on is the path of least resistance. So I don't need to give myself reasons to live, I only need to give myself reasons not to live: but that sort of ideation is a waste of being alive. Meaning and purpose is just icing on the cake of living.

[tsuki]

On 17.11.2021 at 1:04 PM, Someone here said:

What reasons do you have to go on living? What gives your life meaning and purpose?

Yes.

[Someone here]

@Gesundheit2 your last two posts contradict each other. 

[Armand]

To witness all that I can. The fear of dying keeps many of us here as it's unknown. The stories I hear of near death give me hope that further learning and understanding is beyond that which many of us ffear.

Edited November 18, 2021 by Armand

[Gabith]

For beauty, for Love, for Grattitude, for sounds, colors, thoughts, sex...

 

[Gesundheit2]

20 minutes ago, Someone here said:

@Gesundheit2 your last two posts contradict each other. 

How?

[Someone here]

@Gesundheit2 Well.. Saying you don't have a reason to live but just going with the flow and then calling it conscious survival is a contradiction in my eyes.  

But whatever makes you happy lol 

[Gesundheit2]

2 minutes ago, Someone here said:

@Gesundheit2 Well.. Saying you don't have a reason to live but just going with the flow and then calling it conscious survival is a contradiction in my eyes.

Can you explain how that is a contradiction?

Please don't tell me that you think that the only way to be conscious is to have a cause to live (or die for).

[Someone here]

 Imo.. "conscious" implies intention and premeditated living.. Knowing exactly what you are doing and why are you doing it. And that doesn't match with your description here :

23 hours ago, Gesundheit2 said:

I really don't.

And to be clear, I am not continuing life, per se. That would require a will and an effort, which is ego.

Life is happening and unfolding, and I'm simply not standing in the way. I'm going with the flow of things. It's that simple.

This doesn't describe a conscious living but a random spontaneous living. 

Edited November 19, 2021 by Someone here

[Gesundheit2]

3 hours ago, Someone here said:

Knowing exactly what you are doing and why are you doing it.

This has nothing to do with having an "ultimate cause" to live life. For example, I eat because I feel hungry, I know what I do and why I do it, that's conscious eating. I don't eat because I think that I have to use food as a fuel to achieve a certain vision, that would be neurosis.

Now, I can, and I do have a vision and a greater purpose, but I am detached from it, such that I don't care if it gets fulfilled or not in the end. As long as I'm surviving, nothing else matters.

Edited November 19, 2021 by Gesundheit2

[happyhappy]

On 11/18/2021 at 4:08 PM, Someone here said:

What if you have no reason to live? What would you do then? 

then have a reason to die? what if there is no reason to die or to live lol??

Edited November 20, 2021 by happyhappy

[Loba]

To keep my parents and brother happy and to make sure my pets are not lonely.
Family and pets keep me alive.
If I didn't have them, I don't know... my fear is that if I leave early, then I will have failed my mission here.

[Someone here]

5 hours ago, happyhappy said:

then have a reason to die? what if there is no reason to die or to live lol??

What then ?? 

[Cathal]

for the wonder of the creator, to truly realize who i really am

[Someone here]

@catcat69123 who do you think you are? 

[Cathal]

@Someone here i dont know, im seeking to know