You know what, folks?

[mbarrick]

The world is cruel. Nothing matters. Certainly nothing I do matters. It doesn't matter what I feel. It doesn't matter what I say. I'll just get up tomorrow, wander through another day and wind up one more footstep along the path to dusty death. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...

Comments

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

'tis not at all true...for it is not always evident that what you do matters...a picture you post, a drawing created by your hand, a word you speak, a clever post you make, a smile directed at someone, a shoulder you lend to lean upon can make all the difference in another's day...i'll bet there are many people out there who would disagree with you and believe that almost all you do matters...the thing is when those feelings grip you, you should be reaching out to them...as cruel as the world may seem at times, that cruelness passes...tomorrow you will wake up and the world will look much different than it does tonight...it's all about perspective, every minute of every day...don't deny feelings of sadness, but keep in mind they are never as heavy a burden to carry as they may seem...they grow lighter by the hour...life is only as pointless as you choose to let it be...and thus far you have lived so very little of it...

[seth1334.livejournal.com]

"You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis. And you are not a beautiful snowflake."

My advice, if I may offer it, is this.
Do something (maybe something totally selfish) that will make you happy.
Don't "walk the path" to dusty death. Drive it, man! At a hundred miles an hour, with your hair on fire and the stereo blaring!
That's what matters.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan.

[uberbabe.livejournal.com]

The world is cruel.
True.

Nothing matters.
Depends on the situation.

Certainly nothing I do matters.
every picture you post gives the people who glance at your journal a moment of beauty.

Every comic you post gives us a moment of laughter.

Every witty comment you makes gives us a smirk.

Every post of yourself and your life gives us a glimpse of your soul, and possibly a reflection of our own.

If you do that in 25 minutes on Livejournal a week without thinking about it imagine what else you do without realizing it...

It doesn't matter what I feel.
Pure speculation, unless you are saying it doesn't matter to you because that is your own speculation on your own world, but as a person that thinks your cool, your feelings matter to me.

It doesn't matter what I say.
It depends on who your saying it to; and just because your words do not create the desired outcome does not mean that your words are ineffective.

I'll just get up tomorrow, wander through another day and wind up one more footstep along the path to dusty death. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...
That is up to you. It's all about whether you believe in fatalism or Ori: if you are a fatalist this should still not distress you because it is only when you realize that what you do bears no impact that you are free to not care and live as though it does not matter because it truly does not; or if you believe in Ori then you feel that you create your own fate and as such then you will be achieving exactly what it is you seek, and if you are not happy then you have the power to achieve what it is that will make you happy.





OfcoursethisisjustmyopinionandwhatdoIknowanyways....

Ah, gotta love that ol' "question of free will"

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Can there be free will in a deterministic universe? If cause and effect are inextricably bound and there is no effect without a cause, is anything really random? Right down to the firing of individual neurons every thought we have could be nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a series of previous causes. There is of course the uncertainty principal, but the random motion of sub-atomic particles is hardly a satisfactory explaination for free will, it's just a randomised point of causation - it makes the future unpredictable but doesn't make thought any less deterministic. So is free will an illusion, or is there really a mind/soul that is independent of the brain and not subject to the mundane rules of the physical universe?