Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958)
Coincidentally, yesterday I attended a talk by Bernardo Kastrup on the topic of finding our purpose in life. Kastrup is a philosophical idealist, he explained an alternative to the existentialist view of creating your own story and meaning in a essentially meaningless universe outside of ourselves reasoning in part from recent insights in physics. For example:<p>* S. Gröblacher, T. Paterek, R. Kaltenbaek, Č. Brukner, M. Żukowski, M. Aspelmeyer, and A. Zeilinger. An experimental test of non-local realism. Nature 446, 871–875 (2007)
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;nature&#x2F;journal&#x2F;v446&#x2F;n7138&#x2F;abs&#x2F;nature05677.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;nature&#x2F;journal&#x2F;v446&#x2F;n7138&#x2F;abs&#x2F;nature05...</a><p>In minute 38 I ask the question if he can describe an example of finding meaning in life.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;D-EeF1quouY?t=2305" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;D-EeF1quouY?t=2305</a><p>In one of his books he says the meaning of life is &quot;about experiencing existence, in all its angles and glory, for the sheer and pure sake of experience itself! We don’t eat a nice meal, make love or travel to beautiful locations just to understand or make sense of something. We do these things because the experiences themselves imbue our lives with a kind of timeless meaning, independent of comprehension.&quot;
-- Kastrup, Bernardo. More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief (p 203). John Hunt Publishing.<p>Ask yourself the right question in the moment itself, fully aware of your emotions and the things around you, and the answers could rise up automatically - &#x27;the meaning of life&#x27; cannot be an armchair intellectual exercise he says.
This has been my experience in life as well, it takes practise to get back to the Nexus. As Dr. Soran tells Picard: &quot;They say time is the fire in which we burn. Right now, Captain, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives... I know you understand&quot;