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To me, there is no meaning to life. The greatest impositions of meaning come from society, and civilizational values. We set out to achieve things like a house, a family, because these are social expectations, but ultimately none of us are going to be remembered in a 100 years' time. Not everyone can be a Socrates, Jesus, Buddha. The best comfort I've found in life is the fact that civilizational, regardless of its form, will continue until humans cease to exist due to natural causes. We do not have free will because causality ultimately derives from nature. We don't choose to be born who we are or at this specific point in time. As a result, our ideas, personality, characteristics are not truly our own. Our ideas have been molded and formed from centuries of philosophical, religious and scientific development. We don't make new words up when we speak, we use the languages that have been in place forever. Our language, thus everything about us, is not our own. We are not acting individuals, we are a collective separated by the illusion of individualism. This is why I am not concerned about greater achievements, accomplishments in this life, I will live my life and that will be that; I might have children, I might not, but I will find out in this life.
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>>2556691Religion is not exempt from the causality of nature. Religion thrives on the mediocre and the unenlightened who, from the standpoint of evolutionary psychology, perpetuate false belief systems that have a specious sense of ethical and moral superiority and righteousness. It only makes sense that people cling onto these things.