My last blog got a few nice and interesting comments. Some say its the bold decision, the decision to suicide. While some say if you cant do any good while alive what good will you do by being dead?
May be I was not clear in my last blog. Or may be the topic was too touchy in the first place. Because no where did I say that one should commit suicide. Its more about thinking of suicide. Its more about realizing the utter futility of the air we give to our menial silly lives. Its about the folly of our lives.
"Butterfly effect" is a term coined by many who discuss the chaos theory. They say that the flapping of a butterfly in Uganda can cause a super cyclone in Orissa! But the other way is also equally likely, i.e. the flapping of a butterfly in Uganda can stop a super cyclone from materializing over Orissa!
Similarly, from my last blog I wanted to make both the sides clear. There is no big benefit of you staying alive. Neither is there any benefit of you committing suicide. It really makes no sense at all about what you do. Just zoom out (either in space or in time or in both) and you realize it hardly matters if you live or you die or kill or rob or rape or meditate!
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I found this post really interesting and amusing. I think what you said is just "existential" philosophy (I am not sure if you are aware of it or not). It says life as such doesn't hold any meaning. Its like myth of sisyphus: One roles the stone up the hill to let it come down and roll it again the next day. And suicide is one of the important aspects covered by it. As you said, if there's no meaning in life, there's no meaning in suicide also, then why the effort.
It says one just tries to find a meaning in life by defining it himself, be it every day's targets or finding a promise in future. So finally the only thing is how you well are you able to fill the gaps of time :)
(Actually we had a wonderful course last semester in HS that revolved around Existential philosophy)
Yes, I have heard of it and of nihilism. But systems of philosophies again bring systematic stuffs into it. Whereas what I wrote is a purely personal account. Just the state of the affairs.
Some time ago I tried to read Satre. But then I thought not to clutter an already cluttered mind with more 'stuffs'! May be I will read him all the same; who cares :-)
BTW, have you read Victor Frankel's "Man's search for meaning"? He claims that one need to define a meaning to life; else he can live no more. I think there are two things: 1) man thinks there is a meaning to life and is unable to find it; 2) man realises that there cant be any meaning to life. I think option (1) is more harmful. May be.... a distant may-be, if we realise (not just read/listen and think) that we are nothing, then , may be, that will give rise to some other strange conclusion! For that we have to be bold enough to realise that we are nothing!
Perhaps what you are saying means more like giving up the desire to live and does not necessarily mean the end one's life. Realisation of one's insignificance in the creation/futileness of one's action/completion of one's goals can possibly lead one to a state where there is no more desire. The desire to live ends. This makes so much more sense.
Just once if I get hold of those damn butterflies causing all those storms and bad weather....
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