what do you live for?

hi guys, im agnostic, i've always been skeptikal to many things in life. I want to know WHAT DO YOU LIVE FOR. i know many of you are agnostic/atheist as i am. why do you think life is worth living? why do you decide to keep on living if you have the power to end up your life and there will be no afterlife in which you might be judged or punished.

i know this sounds pretty suicidal, but i mean what do you think makes existing better that not existing?

i decide to continue living because life offers positive emotions i wouldn't experience if my existence ended. thats my only reason.

I live to learn and inform.

I suppose i live because life is fun and isnt worth losing. i kind of like to make people happy so when other people are happy im happy. if i kill myself, the people that i love will feel terrible and sad, therefore i dont commit suicide.

Hmmmm when i look at this paragraph it looks like it was written by a 1st grader about why people shouldnt kill themselves.

[ArmsMerchant]

At the mundane level, I live to support those who depend on me--my wife, her son, and a bunch of dogs and cats, all of whom I love dearly.

At a higher level, I live to express and declare Who and What I am, to recreate myself on a daily--even a minute to minute--basis to become more loving, more accepting, and more compassionate.

In general, I just enjoy life, appreciate the really neat planet I have to live on, get a huge charge out of seeing the play of light over the mountains around dusk.

On a more material level, I also enjoy gloating over my coin collection, wheeling and dealing for firearms when I work gun shows, and consuming mass quantities of buttered popcorn whilst watching cheesy horror movies.

Life is good. Or rather, life is just exactly as good as I choose to make it.

[This message has been edited by ArmsMerchant (edited 10-09-2006).]

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Life is good. Or rather, life is just exactly as good as I choose to make it.

Great thought, thanks man!

[This message has been edited by iamtheman (edited 10-07-2006).]

quote:Originally posted by Merlinman2005:

I live to learn and inform.

nice. i would have put enjoyment in there as well, but i enjoy teaching and learning so it's not really necessary.

I can be happy.

Thats enough for me.

its funny but you all listed reasons that are just as intangeble as the concept of GOD:

Love

Enjoyment

Emotions

Fun

Happiness

These concepts only exist in your mind. They are as real to you as the ground beneath you, but I cannot disprove that they are real.

love and emotions are GOD.

I don't really know... It kinda makes me sad. I just go day by day. I've just yet to figure it out, I suppose.

well my thoughts are: why stop something prematurely? live life to its fullest, who cares what happens in the end, and i know that all emotions are just electrical signals in the brain etc, but i dont care, i take them as they are...

thats about as well as i can explain it