Existentialism: Why Are We Here, & Where Are We Going?

[Libby]

I feel that it's a rather serious yet neglected topic that, as a member of the furry community, I want to see what people's mindsets are, and rather or not anyone here may have a radically different opinion on it than people I've talked to about it so far. So, what do you guys think?

[Bones]

Here is my opinion, summarized. :>

[Cheeky Stoat]

"I do not think that word means what you think it means." To quote the great and wise Inigo Montoya. ;P

Existentialism is more of a way of thinking, I'd use an existentialist way of thinking to answer the questions that you just asked.

In the end I'm not going answer because I think that there's no way to know for sure and so the questions themselves are kind of silly, in my opinion.

[Fen]

I find myself wondering once a week at least about this subject of what way I should be thinking.

Usually I find my way back to the way I've been thinking for the longest of times. But I occasionally change by my experiences.

[Mikkaddo]

being a genuine believer in a faith, I've always felt we have more than one reason to exist, the purest of which is we're each born with a goal in life. Some one thing we may never know about that we are meant to do. Some life we're meant to have an effect on, some plant we're meant to care for, something. We may never know it, it may come to us and let us put ourselves on a determined path. But I don't believe and never have that we exist for no reason.

Of course, none of that matters as we can't know for absolutely certain if we're right or not. I know what I believe, but I also know what I believe could turn out to be complete crap. It's kind of an odd thing really. Knowing your beliefs might not be real but choosing to believe them regardless.