It's just self-indulgence and taking the easy way out by devoting ones-self to chasing something blindly rather than grow up as a human and see the true picture.
True picture - pointless and almost meaningless except to fully understand that this is so and actually can't be any other way.
Having obsessions like collecting money or power is a way of avoiding the above reality.
They'll probably realize on their deathbeds.
True picture - pointless and almost meaningless except to fully understand that this is so and actually can't be any other way.
Having obsessions like collecting money or power is a way of avoiding the above reality.
They'll probably realize on their deathbeds.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche