stepson opened this issue on Dec 11, 2010 · 150 posts
SamTherapy posted Wed, 22 December 2010 at 7:29 PM
Quote - To all of you who feel so "optimistic": just wait for the day in which you will stare at yourself in the mirror and ask: why? to what purpose? and find no answer at all or, better, understand that the only sensible answer is that there is no purpose at all.
It won't be a happy day, trust me.
Bye and remember that this "enthusiam" is the usual seasonal disease which runs rampant every year at the end of December. Nothing to worry about.
Not so. There is a purpose, albeit one I chose to impose on myself. That is, to do the best I can to bring up my children in a loving and caring environment, to give them a good grounding in everything I believe necessary and to - hopefully, when I'm gainfully employed - be a good provider. My children didn't ask to be born. We - Claire and I - have a responsibility to do right by them.
Anyone can have a purpose. They just need to choose one.
BTW, it's not enthusiasm, it's pragmatism. There's a huge difference between enthusiasm and avoiding negativity. So what if there's no god, no afterlife, no ultimate point. If this is all we have - and I firmly believe it is - why not make the best of it? You're a long time dead.
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.