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Originally Posted by Joe Citizen
So what makes life worth living for you?
For me, it's eating, drinking, smoking pot, fucking, travelling the world, reading, appreciating art and generally enjoying myself. All of which are much more fun than being dead.
I saw this Icelandic movie recently Reykjavik101 and there's this line in it (I'm paraphrasing here) "We're dead before we're born and we're dead after we die. So life is like a break from death."
I'm gonna enjoy my break from death. How about you?
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I don't think there is any particular thing which makes life worth living for me. My personal life philosophy is a mixture of Stoicism, Epicureanism and radical subjectivism.
There is no objective reality or truth that we have access to, therefore we are forced to make all our decisions and judgements based on (empirical) experience, rationality and intuitions. Rationality helps us to combine experience and intuitions into a coherent whole. This coherent whole is necessarily entirely subjective, but at the same time it's the whole of reality as we can possibly understand it, and therefore it is, for all practical purposes, truth.
If our subjective reality is all we have, and thereby all there is as far as we are concerned, then the thing to do would seem to be to control it in the best way possible, to experience life in the most rewarding, painless way we can experience it. This can be achieved by always keeping a certain level of detachment from the physical aspects of life, while at the same time cherishing the achievable pleasures of life, especially the ones that provide us with longlasting feelings of joy, beauty or fascination. Things like leading a temperate, dignified life, fully recognising the beauty of nature, attaining knowledge of the world, seeing different cultures and environments and appreciating the great works of literature and art seem like the best ways to achieve this to me.