looking at things objectively and the meaning of life pt. 2

did it work? did you get the answer you were looking for? me neither. and this is a problem. i don't know about you (or maybe i do, was that you on craigslist?), but i really, truly believe, that none of us know why, that man has never known why and we probably will never know why. what do you believe?(you can have your cell phone back now). do you believe that mankind is destined not simply to be, but that he has a job description in his destiny as well?(in this economy? fuck!!). it's strange premise, but the concept of "why?" has bugged me (and mankind or whatever) for a long time.

so we can't answer this question without outside sources, that much is apparent, now we need to figure out how to most objectively choose our sources (mla or apa or lsd). fortunately in this day and age we (the white, upper-middle class, lazy, over priveledged me anyway) have access to a huge expanse of information from books to the internet to word of mouth and everything else. we are extremely lucky to have the wealth of information we do and (like we usually do) we completely take it for granted. but the trick is, how do you determine what is legitimate and what is questionable material for compiling results? how would you think, beyond any amount of research, backlogging or fact checking, should you determine the most appropriate place to start your search.

If it was me? I would start rationally. we know that the sky is blue, but we also rationally infer through science (get out the torches and the pitchforks) that the word blue is a construct that we have created to define what we see. When you realize language is simply man’s attempt (one of many) to more clearly define all things, then words also take on associative, correlative and sometimes even personal meanings. Unfortunately, this is the bittersweet nature of language and literature, it is susceptible to everything that influences the person or society that creates it. Thus society and language begin to fuel one another, literature inspires someone and they write or say something that inspires another, and so on (wow I really seem to like tangents, anyway moving on).

My point is (finally) that all information that has been assimilated from and into society since the dawn of human time has been tainted, in a way and degree that makes it impossible to reasonably and rationally determine any conclusion about the reason to human existence. That being said, are you starting to panic? Is there still something within you holding out that there must be some eternal or divine something (thingamagod) that has created it all, and it wasn’t just for the hell of it?(pun fucking intended). I say great, you have strong convictions, but right now you’re saying that on faith and faith alone do you believe that it was meant to be (which means you may also believe that through divine action the bible or any text, but just the one for the religion you worship, was written by god and is therefore untainted by man’s half-baked ponderings). And seriously, if that’s enough for you then that’s awesome, have a fulfilling life i guess. But for me it isn’t enough.