If Life Has No Meaning, Why Live? | Albert Camus & The Absurd Man

"The meaning of life is not a problem to solved, but a reality to experience"

That Nico Robin thumbnail. On point! Didn't think you were a one piece fan. Cheers mate!

"My mother died today, or may be yesterday, I don't know." The very first line of "The Stranger" signifies a deep meaning of the absurdity.

I like the nico robin panel

I think Albert Camus should be a required subject in literature classes world wide. The Stranger is a wonderful piece of work.

The point of existence… IS to EXIST. We each make our own “purpose” in life. I like to believe that the meaning of my life is to LEARN and to EXPERIENCE life. I rationalize this with our VERY FIRST action at birth. We were given senses… and ever since our birth, we have been using them to experience and learn.

"If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do." ~Angel (television series based on Absurdist philosophy) Episode "Epiphany"

Meaning is itself a sort of paradox. When we say that something has no meaning, we are in fact giving that thing meaning. It's meaning is that it has no meaning. Just like how food that has no taste, has a taste, it's taste is that it is bland and has no taste.

A book about absurdism has given me this sense of awe is basic stuff. We don't give nature and the universe enough credit because we're used to seeing it. But REALLY realizing how strange it is that we're even alive, even for a second, is an uncanny, slightly anxious bliss

Absolutely love the Robin “I want to live” 💙😭

I want to live - Nico Robin

I was an absurd man who lived the life without hope, but I can't say I "lived", I just "existed". There's no life without hope and only an attachment to the hobby kept me through that period.

The most important thing is to keep yourself so much busy that these negative thoughts don't take over you!

It's the One Piece thumbnail that did it for me. I love this channel even more now!

for those who dont know, the character in the thumbnail is Nico Robin. Its apt that she was chosen for this because, when she thought she could not longer achieve her dream, her reason for living, she was ready to die. Thankfully, the main character helps her stay alive, and she finds the will to keep living because of his kindness. I havent gotten too far in one piece yet, so i dont know if she achieves her dream, but i hope she does! (edit for typo!)

As someone who went from theism to atheism, it was really difficult at first. I was taught that the meaning of life was to worship god (Allah). After realizing that there is no afterlife, it's like learning to walk again. Even though life has no ultimate meaning, it doesn't mean that there is no meaning. The physicist Sean Carroll said it's like painting. A great art is not made by coloring books, where you get the instructions on what to color and where. A great art is made by creativity, we can paint different paintings.

Just had a deep conversation with my dad on this. I have a real problem with this. I'm glad you came out with this video 12 hours after that. You've been so helpful. Thank you for all your research and hard work.

I have lived my entire life feeling hopeless but I recently have given up on hope and I am FREE and very content to live each day the way I want. I have a sterling character so I can do no harm. I spend my days enjoying whatever happens and I spend a lot of time learning self mastery. Having had some out of body experiences I absolutely know we go on after our body quits but I don't think about it

Once, many years ago, I had an Anthropology professor rather bring this to light, - for me anyway. He said to the class, something like this, 'You may believe anything or whatever suits you, but it does not - and it cannot mean that it is true'. With more classes in critical thought, I really began to wonder if I could ever really 'know' anything. This really began for me when I was 18 years old. I remember it so well. I eventually became very anxious as well as depressed because I just could not find a reason to live, - I know this sounds really crazy, but it eventually drove me to thoughts of suicide. Then of course I couldn't figure out how I was going to do it. 😐 This state of confusion and the anxiety that followed it ties I guess right in with Camus's Absurdism. That was a million years ago, and inspite - or despite, - all the learning and experience from just living, that truth has never changed. Once sitting in a group, the group leader looked at the floor and shook his head after one of our group stormed out. He simply said to the rest of us, that there was no such thing as 'Finding Yourself', - he said to us that, it was actually a matter of 'Creating Yourself'. I grew comfortable with the complete nonsense that life must be. I don't know what Biology was thinking with an unnecessary sophistication to our brains. Her requirements were pretty much intact already. Unless it's one of Her many 'mistakes'; - we all know how that invariably turns out. Learning is a classic bell-shaped curve, any authentic 'purpose' in life quickly descends the more you learn. But I suppose that with that comes a kind of resolve, or surrender. I guess I became more frightened, but much more excited at the same time. And why I am typing all this is probably because that 'absurdity' I still resist. If 'Meaning' is so critical to life, how can I discover or manufacture it, while all the while 'knowing' that it's entirely absent ? Eventually, even Albert Camus had to resign to, or design a Religion; a 'belief' system that allowed him to go-on living, even though he knew (or did he only believe) that it was meaningless, without real purpose, and Absurd.

I'm a writer and this channel has inspired me in some way. The title of my recent eBook is "The absurdity of existence". And I'm really inspired by Albert Camus