Why do the feelings we feel now matter if we're just going to die anyway?

Question

"The feelings we feel now matter even though we're going to die anyway because we can feel them" is not an answer. My question is, who cares if we can feel them? It doesn't matter. We can feel, yea, but it doesn't matter, none of it matters, we don't matter.

Try to make life better for others yea, but in the end it doesn't matter for them either.

"it's not the journey, it's the destination" yea but....... why should the journey matter if the destination nullifies it? the journey doesn't matter because it won't matter after we die. the only REASON it matters is because we are able to feel.

it matters to US because we perceive it as something that matters. but truly, it doesn't matter.

life has no inherent meaning and no meaning in any way you look at it except when you are looking through the eyes of a living being. and it only matters to us because we are biologically wired to be able to FEEL.

but so what? the thing itself still doesn't matter. so what if we can feel? those feelings won't mean anything in a short time from now.

i know it is pessimistic. but i'm just looking for an answer. it's a legitimate philosophical question. (i think)

why does any of it matter? why should we strive for self-improvement, improvement of anything? if those positive feelings we feel as a result of those improvements mean nothing beyond our own perceptions, what is the point?

at one point, i argued that life matters because we can feel.

but now i wonder whether or not the fact that we can feel even matters if life truly has no meaning.

Answer 1

lol... We're alive man. We live. So we may as well do what we can to make our lives worth living.



Sounds like you need to get out and experience life. Then maybe you'll learn something.

Answer 2

You're right to say that none of it matters - in some grand scheme - but still, our personal experiences ARE our life, so we'd rather have sex say, than be on fire. Rather be listening to good music with someone we feel close to than falling off a mountain and freezing to death. There is no, like, "assigned purpose" to us, other than, and this IS assigned, other than to make babies, so beyond that, why not live in the way that brings us the most pleasure while we're alive? That doesn't mean abandoning ourselves to hedonism either (sex drugs rock & roll) - it feels good to be say, a respected PhD in society, or to have a warm loving family, things that require effort, so living to feel good can require work and effort. But other than being genetically charged with the mission of making more life, as all life is, our slate is free - we can do whatever we want. There is no other purpose or expectation on us.

Answer 3

I think you should just enjoy living while you can, cause it won't last forever. So you should live in the moment and even if there isn't really a point to life or if we don't really matter, its still fun to live and so you should try to make the best of it, I guess. Life won't matter unless we do something meaningful in it. :))



LOL I'm not really that philosophical but that's my opinion. And also, I didn't actually read the whole question so if that didn't really answer your question...sorry

Answer 4

What you are saying is a denial of meaning, but it is an a priori argument to justify your feelings. Can you prove life has no meaning, or you just don't feel like it matters? What you feel seems to be all that matters to you, which is exactly what you are saying.



Maybe it would be more accurate to say you see meaning, but don't feel it anymore. Feelings can come back if you allow them to, if you are alive. I cannot prove life has meaning to a rock, because it does not.



Anyone can see meaning. When morning comes it means the sun will rise. It matters because when the sun rises, life goes on. But obviously if life has no meaning and doesn't matter to you, you are feeling depressed and might want to seek out a happier perspective if you can.

Answer 5

there is heavily no way we are able to be attentive to till death contains us. So if there rather isn't something, in basic terms blackness and unconsciousness, why no longer stay life as long as plausible? I had a dream as quickly as that I died, and it replaced into like i replaced into consciously conscious that i replaced into ineffective and there replaced into actually no longer something, in basic terms black and no sounds or smells or something and that i could no longer think of approximately something by way of fact my techniques replaced into black and it replaced into the scariest dream ive ever had. My objectives consistently are waiting for issues... If it rather is how that's after death, wakeful information of your death, I in no way desire to die. That dream replaced into the worst feeling i've got ever had.. yet possibly this is rather not what that's. possibly there is heaven and hell. possibly there is an afterlife. possibly reincarnation. i don't be attentive to, neither do you, and we in no way will in this life. So why no longer purely be blissfully happy and chuckle as much as plausible and in basic terms cope with the indisputable fact that we gained't be attentive to yet? That sounds greater ideal than hating life and residing on each little thing to me.

Answer 6

This is like asking, why do I have to get dressed in the morning when I'm just going to get back into my pajamas come night time?



Don't be in such a rush to death. Yeah, stuff won't matter once you're dead, but you aren't dead yet, and hopefully won't be for many decades.



Death is in the future. Life is now, and life is for the living. So live it, already!

Answer 7

If you are basing off their is no God you are correct. However since he does exist you are wrong, God does have feelings, maybe not like ours in the flesh so to speak, but he has them if you read the Bible you will find that what I am saying is a fact.

Feelings are for a reason. For instance guilt feelings are to show us we maybe wrong shame is to show we are acting inappropriately, anxiety shows as well we may need to act or to think things through and love the ultimate feeling is to have a heart and compassion towards who ever you are having that feeling towards.

Answer 8

Our feelings have to do with our future and the way react and behave according to things, so i'd say they are vital to survival. Say you feel like something bad might happen if you touch the fire, or go on a ride.

Answer 9

well, look at it this way. Would you rather die after you've lived a happy, joyful life full of smiles and laughter, or a miserable life? HAVE FUN IN LIFE. It's the only life you have, so you might as well enjoy it. :)

Answer 10

your feelings are what make you alive. you're alive now. before your dead, you're alive.