Man creates his own meaning.

Man is but a mere bug/a dot/a virus/ in this transitory space and he has to pass his time through it.

So man creates his own meaning - This is so that he does not go mad or fall into a state of nihilism. The insignificance and loneliness of mankind in this cosmos is terrifying.

Consequently he creates arts, films, theatres, music, the idea of a career, job, education, wealth accumulation, family, children, love, war, marriage, shopping, fishing, sports, reading, acquiring knowledge, dancing, gardening, shooting, hunting, traveling, alcohol, smoking, conquering mountains, hiking, net browsing, introducing and using technologies, flying, blogging, etc., etc., …to fill up his time

Otherwise or apart from it - Life is meaningless.

Der Blaue Engel - Josef von Sternberg

This German film in which a pretentious, naïve middle-aged high-school teacher’s life is destroyed through his romantic infatuation with a seductively wayward young cabaret-singer he meets at a nightclub, showcases a downward spiral filled with hopelessness toward absolute nadir.

It portrays a catastrophic transformation of a man from a respectable professor to a cuckold cabaret clown, losing all human dignity, nose-diving into madness and eventual death

Life starts jolly well – and then things go terribly wrong!

One can see how man is responsible for his own action and destruction

Questions?

From Thales (636-546), Anaximander (c.611-c.547 B.C.), Pythagoras (c.580-c.520 B.C.), Parmenides (c. 515-c. 445 B.C.,) Heraclitus (fl. 500 B.C, ), Anaxagoras (c. 499-c. 428 B.C.), Socrates (c. 469-399 B.C.), Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.) to Aristotle (384-322 B.C.);

from Gottfried Leibniz (1646 AD–1716 AD), Giordano Bruno (1548 AD-1600 AD), Galileo Galilei (1564 AD – 1642 AD), René Descartes (1596 AD – 1650 AD), Voltaire (1694 AD–1778 AD), David Hume (1711 AD–1776 AD), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 AD — 1778 AD), to Immanuel Kant (1724 AD – 1804 AD);

from Hegel (1770 AD – 1831 AD), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 AD – 1860 AD), Søren Kierkegaard (1813 AD – 1855 AD), Karl Marx (1818 AD – 1883 AD) , Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 AD – 1900 AD), Edmund Husserl (1859 AD – 1938 AD), Bertrand Russell (1872 AD – 1970 AD) , Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 AD – 1951 AD) , Martin Heidegger (1889 AD – 1976 AD) , Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 AD – 1980 AD);

since then - we have still been asking the same questions :“Who are we? – Why are we here? – What is the meaning of life? - How should we live? – Where are we going?”

Present Status : No satisfactory answer!

Indoctrination

The Consumer Slaves AKA The Debt Slaves

It has been said that the world’s 1% of the rich and powerful controls the rest of the 99%. They decide what we should eat, see, read, wear, buy and think, how we should look or what habits we should acquire!

If so then are we destined to lead the rest of our lives as consumer slaves who work harder and harder to buy things |_*_| we cannot afford?

Has the system put us in a spirally downward path of studying hard to get a University degree and then a job, eventually joining the millions and billions of aspirants to become a debt slave, trying to buy things that we don’t or won’t need?.


To top it, we are made to pay taxes (for buying these "THINGS") which instead of being used for the welfare of the society is used up to develop nuclear and chemical arms to destroy mankind and their infrastructures.

Can science help or save human from Indoctrination?

|_*_| The Things :
(Versace, Gucci, Givenchy, Cartier, Chanel, Rolex, Prada, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Giorgio Armani, Pierre Cardin, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Bvlgari, Montblanc, René Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, L’oreal, Tiffany & Co., Fendi, Burberry, etc., etc. - the list goes on and on)

Waste of Time

* If you are young, you may be talented. Have you ever seen a man talented when he reaches mid-life?


* It is not very difficult to do things that you don’t know. But if you know, then you cannot do difficult things.


* Maybe it is some ambiguity, some fantasy, some mystery, which eggs us on to live life. Had life been perfect, we may have ended it.


* Sometimes, everything looks like a waste of time.

Social Life and Loneliness

• Definition of a communist: Anyone the Americans don’t like!

• Everything in life is not where you live – it is somewhere else.

• To quote Ingmar Berman: “In that way, I'm very Swedish — I don't dislike to be alone”

• Over the number of years (and somewhere here one may tend to agree with Kushwant Singh) that a realization creeps in that most of the time, all our so called social relationships are restricted to gossiping and disparaging other people thoughts and their manners. This awareness may slowly push one to detach oneself from the purported social life. The days then passes in isolation.

• When you are young, you are so full of hope and life. You have your own view of life. You then think that everything that you touch would turn into gold. Gradually you realize that everything you touch actually turns to shit when all your views of life starts melting. You become conscious that the so called views of life don’t exist.

Ban it!!!!!

A cluster of people form a Government and usurp authority, thanks to the general public. Once they sit on the throne, they metamorphosis to an oligarchic status and manage to use their powers to curb or ban one or more of these:


Time travel,

Long hair, Spiked Hair, Hair cut, Games Consoles, Video games, Check Shirts, Tattoo,

Miniskirts, Social mixing, Bikinis, Music Schools, Sophocles, Ketchup, Spanking, Baby Walker, Baby Sitter, Twitter, Face book, Tolstoy,

Euripides, strikes, Aristophanes, Dictionaries, Yellow Clothes, Cell Phones, Sartre,

Mannequins, Freedom of the press, Marijuana, McDonald’s, KFC’s,

Women Drivers, Casinos, Pornography, Televisions, Internet & Websites, Wi-Fi, sociology, Gyms, Chewing gum, Beckett,

Bars, Night Clubs, Women in Pubs, Dance Bars, Milk, Alcohol,

Smoking, Smoking anything on the screen, Dostoyevsky, Being Gay, Valentine’s Day, Rap Music, Rock Music, pop music, Jazz,

Cycling, Prostitution, Movie and Theatre Halls, Foreign Films, Beef, Bacon, Books,

Movies, Cartoons, Paintings, Alice in Wonderland, Pets, Coca-Cola & Pepsi,

Computers, The Big Bang Theory, The God Particle, Online dating, Soaps, Feeding the Homeless,