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I suspected as much, but at the same time I feel as though it is unavoidable.

Like I have no control over it, I suspect that the end product is; loss but at the same time I must hope that I can influence myself at least to the degree were I can stop at some point.

I have spent much of my life questioning reality, my place in this world, what I am doing in my life.

If there is any higher meaning, if not than if there is any meaning at all. 

Life, death. I could go on but that's not the point I am trying to make here.

All of this. Now for me this has not given my much in terms of happiness, it is hard to look back but I don't think so.

The question is, fellow citizens of SC, has your experience in trying to come to grips with this given you anything other than unhappiness. 

Would we have been better of spending our time on other things? Or perhaps are these questions unavoidable?

Well, looking back how do you think it affected you?

You chose to stop so there must have been some negative factors, perhaps just time and effort?

I used to be all philosophical and shit.

Now I'm not.

What you said.

It brought me far too much grief.

If you gaze too long into the sun, your vision starts going.

I have learned that it is best not to question things too much and simply... enjoy the ride.

I gave up to ponder about the sense of life. My answer to it is that the question is only as important as interested I am in it.

The more important question is how am I going to live life.

Like NojuanEspecial said becoming happy is the answer. Fulfillment doesn't need a justification. When you feel it you don't care if that's really life's purpose.

These are good questions. I will try to answer them in the frame of how I see things. To start: Think of anatomy. Each part of the body serves a function in coordination with each other body part. All organs work together to create a "Darwinian" being (a "biologically successful" one that goes on to mate). Each organ has been finely tuned through the process of natural selection, in a rather beautifully intricate fashion.

Let us consider the brain. What is its function? It deciphers reality so that we can function more efficiently as biological beings. The limbic system evolved to drive animals toward sexual and resource-aggrandizing ends, the visual cortex evolved to discriminate environmental stimuli, the parietal lobe to coordinate motor function for those things we are resolved to do. The brain is a biological tool, it is designed to sustain the homeostasis of the body which it resides in, as well as propagate the genes from which it was derived.

What is exceptional about the human is that its brain became the basis of its survival and ability to reproduce. Physically, the human is utterly pathetic compared to lions, or wolves, or chimps, etc. But we have become the "dominant animal" because evolution streamlined us toward a sort of hyper-brain development.

Humans have not only evolved to be self-aware—they have also developed the intellectual capacity to wonder about who they are, and what reality itself is. And so they begin to ponder the mechanisms of their own minds, as well as their own mortality. The search for "higher meaning" is simply satiation of the desire to find something emotionally purposeful in the schema of life. It is the extension of our natural drive to make sense of reality itself and how we fit within its framework.

You can ask away about life's purpose, but there are no answers. You ask that question in an attempt to structure your reality in relation to your mortality, but there was never any actual purpose to begin with. Purpose itself is a human interpretation of causality; there is no such thing as "purpose," purpose actually just an idea.

I use "the big questions" to learn more about other people than myself, but the time spent on it for myself I'd say did more good than harm. The variation in answers has proven more interesting than rehearsing my own thoughts.

TheBlack: "I have learned that it is best not to question things too much and simply... enjoy the ride."
If you like questions though they kinda become the ride.

You conformist.