[Skalman]

Somehow, despite not understanding why exactly we exist, what our purpose is, and that at any given moment we could die and cease to exist, we don't go insane. Do you have any idea how crazy that is?

I don't get why people need a reason to exist. To me it's clear that there isn't a reason and we don't have any predefined purpose, yet most people create their reason. Maybe they live for their loved ones, maybe they enjoy life. And regarding death: it's scary and doesn't happen very often, so it makes sense not to think about it too much.

[Vivtek]

I've always had the same problem. I don't need a purpose - I am alive. Here I am! Why does life need a meaning beyond just being life?

It's to the point that I wonder whether I'm normal, really. Everybody else seems so caught up in their own meaning.

[JackFr]

Well it's tough (though not impossible) to build a any sort of value system on top of "I exist."

[Vivtek]

This is ludicrous. I have a value system. It consists of me feeling like a better person when I'm a better person. I feel no need to prove my value system as though it were a theorem - what an odd fetish. I've never understood this need.

[kazagistar]

Not sure why you need to build one.

Last time I checked, people tend to have one, irrelevant of the effort they put into building it. Is that one not enough? Why not? If you are missing one, why do you need to get one?

[robmclarty]

Death is definitely what others here are referring to as an "out of bounds error". It is simply the ultimate definition of incomprehensible.

It's like a physical computer not only losing power, not only being gone, not only nothing, but never having existed at all. In my mind (haha) death is the end of both space and time. Oblivion.

And that's pretty crazy to shove into a finite brain.