What do you keep living for? Is there a specific person, goal, or idea that you work for? Is there no meaning to life in your opinion?

Context: I’ve been reading Camus and Sartre, and thinking about how their ideas interact with hard determinism.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    There are three ways to look at the meaning of life.

    The realistic: the is no meaning of life, no grand idea behind it.

    The biological: the meaning of life is to procreate.

    The philosophical: The meaning of life is to make the world better than when you arrived.


    Since the first two are boring to talk about, I’ll skip right to the third, making the world better than it was when you arrived.

    In my case, I am an IT guy, I solve other people’s problems and enable them to do their job, making their day slightly better.

    I am also a hobby photographer, who share photos for free on the internet, people seem to like them so I have made their day slightly better as well.

    Perhaps I can make your day slightly better by linking my Pixelfed: https://metapixl.com/Stoy

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      1 day ago

      Great photos, really. You have a good eye for details, and I like the ‘appreciation-snapshot’ type of photography, like with the Icom IC-R6, the throttle of the steam ship, the lynx, and the lights in the front landing gear of the airplane.

      It reminds me of those moments where you look around, and you notice a pleasing or interesting detail which catches your attention. The more of those moments I have, the more I appreciate the life and the positive in the world we created.

      People have put a lot of hours into all the good we have in the world, and sometimes I am reminded through a detail.

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        1 day ago

        Thank you, with the landing gear it was just a happy accident as I was still getting used to my Sigma Contemporary 100-400mm lens.