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I don't think there is a purpose to life. I used to think I was an existentialist and thus believed it's up to me to find my purpose. So I kept looking for a purpose and I kept getting increasingly more depressed by not being able to find it. Recently I understood that I am in fact an absurdist: I don't think there is a point to this game, and thus I don't delude myself into trying to look for it - this realization really took a lot of weight off my shoulders. But: a true absurdist par excellence would do the most absurd thing he can and STILL look for some purpose, despite assuming there is none. Ernest Becker while himself dying of cancer wrote in "The Denial of Death" of strong human need for some "immortality project" - something that outlasts the decaying human form; something more than your own form to keep going on as if for you, after you. Probably the most direct path to such thing is to have a child, but it could also be coming up with a cure for cancer, or fighting for some other good cause. How would you like to be immortalized and do you even care?