New Beginnings Begun

Alright.

Though my last post was in November, I still insist that, in a way, this blog is maintained. Just like every other kind of site on the internet, blogs can die. A steady pattern of updates slows and stalls, sputtering in its last weeks. In all likelihood, the author has lost interest, and moved on. A strained maintenance becomes a forgotten hobby, and its increasingly dated carcass floats lifeless around the Internet as if through outer space, bone-links breaking.

In my case, my interest and pursuit of my subject matter have anything but deteriorated, even as my as the site's surface remains cold. What began, to me, as a casual brainstorming post-board became a serious book-writing springboard. Since stopping posting, I have started reading, and taken what started as a wandering in a general direction to the beginning of a map being drawn. The human purpose has never left my thoughts. So now, I begin again, because I know what makes the most sense as the ideas have and continue to become increasingly formalized.

As unreliable as my hiatus may seem, I ask you all to stick around this time. With more points refined, discussion will prove fruitful. That being said, I will no longer continue the lengthy discourse to which I had started to become accustomed. I will stick to pointed questions about the human purpose, as points of origin for discussion, or, at minimum, as points for personal investigation. I will be somewhat less historical and more current. And rather brief.

There is strength in simplicity. As William of Occam is understood in what is known as Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is often the best one. With respect to the human purpose, it is difficult to know whether this maxim applies. This is about the very reason why we do the things we do, and live the lives we lead. As much as there is a comfort of knowing that comes with a simple account of the human purpose, there is a way in which too simple an explanation can sabotage the colour of our lives. We think of ourselves as complex, involved, multi-dimensional beings. We have a range of emotions, behaviours, and ambitions. We've made art, science, and religion. To sum all of what we are and could be in one or a few simple concepts, in a way, does not do the story of the human race justice. Yet this is precisely what might have to be done, to gain some perspective on where we are. We have to shed our insecurities and realize that we still follow patterns, are finite, and ultimately, predictable. We form part of systems, and, to varying degrees, systems can be explained. Doing so, however, requires a constant state of abstraction, of distance from all that is arbitrary. If the primary principles of life are to be distilled from it, a mind for attention and a passion for simplicity must be maintained, to see the seed from which life has grown and blossomed as it has.

Thanks for coming. I could use your help.

Comments

[jlan]

I have to say I agree. We don't want to reduce the purpose of our life to something so simple it could be boiled down to one sentence. Perhaps we don't even want it so simple that we actually know and comprehend what the purpose is. Maybe we'll find it's not as grand as we hoped.
But just maybe it is that simple after all. Perhaps in fact it is so simple we all know, and those who claim not to know are in denial - disappointed with what they have found.

[Ian Alas]

I believe the meaning of life is to find meaning in life.

[Raj Jain]

I believe the meaning of life is to live in harmony with all things. As long as we live out of harmony we will never know love.

[Janey]

Life's meaning is ineffable; absolute knowledge has always been beyond our reach, and will continue to be so. Pondering on the human purpose fascinates me, but it sometimes feels like something of a lost cause. Since the beginnings of human life, people have been searching for an answer to life's graetest mystery, but still no consensus has been reached. What one man finds meaningful, another will find completely meaningless. This, alas, is one of life's laws; perhaps the only law we can be certain of.

Life, undoubtedly, is amazing. Gazing out of the window as I write this, I am struck by nature's inherent beauty. Wind is ravaging trees, but there is something bizarrely comforting about nature's ruggedness. Each night that our body survives leads to a new day, bringing in its wake adventure and exploration. As humans, we are vessels for emotion; we are constantly searching for happiness, but this is beyond the reach of most. Happiness is sought after, we finally 'find' it, only to realise that this achievement no longer satisfies us, the human psyche constantly wanting more. Can happiness be found? What is happiness? A palatial house? A sports car? A beautiful body? A stellar career? An IQ of 160? We assume that such things will make us happy, but I have recently come to doubt this universal assumption. Even those who seemingly have everything are plagued by insecurities, and continue to search for that 'something' that will finally render their lives complete. So, am I postulating that the happy man is he who accepts his lot in life, finding contentment in life's subtle nuances? Perhaps I am. Perhaps I am not. I do not know. Like everybody else, I do not know anything. I know what I have read, what I have seen, what I have been told; similarly, my predecessors only know what they have read, what they have seen, what they have been told. Are we blessed by any new ideas, or do we live in a discourse of regurgitation? The latter seems more probable. We are only really the product of what surrounds us, no matter how individual we think we are.

Life's meaning is beyond definite knowledge. We all have our own ideas, our own ambitions, our own theories on what will make us happy. We are overwhelmed by life, and like to think that we have been put here to carry out some great mission. Thinkers have been pondering on this question for centuries, but still we are no wiser. Should we give up, and just concentrate on the here and now? Again, I have no idea. Who, in all honesty, can say that they do?

Bullshit.

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