Yeah, I agree most ardently.

This is the best we can do, given the universe and everything.

A little bit of belief in having things matter is a great boost to behave as if they did.

Greatest pep talk and inspirational speech, man. Also the shortest, and that matters to me. You're a man, no? It's hard to tell from your pic. You look like the werewolf in our old village in Transylvania, who used to cry "sheep!"

It is a feeling like: "Life goes on."

Or a feeling of:

Don't sweat the small stuff. And its all small stuff.

There comes a time when you look at the chaos in the world, and at peoples problems and dramas, and at good and bad things happening, and at wars and bull crap, and politicians, and the news, and panic about the economy and you feel helpless and frustrated and just plain tired of it.

I read these blogs and debates on forums and about stupid stuff and wonder why I waste my time participating in any of it.

So I say, "Nothing matters." I mean,

None of it matters.

Of course I speak for myself and my life.

Does any of it matter in the end when we all die?

What then, does matter? Only one thing.

Did we love anyone? Did we care about anyone besides ourselves and our own egos?

What did you do today to make someone else feel good? Did you love anyone today?

Love matters.

All this other crap is just crap.

And I am not talking about a mutual admiration society type of love that demands "if I love you will you love me?."

I mean unselfish love. Real love. Divine Love.

Did you feel any love or gratitude today?

its a hologram disguising the real Wonderland

Recently I stood up to my ex-husband for first time ever for the sake of my daughters. That mattered to me because it will matter to them a great deal in the long run.

I can't change a lot of things in this world, but I could do this. So, I did.

Men. You can't live with them .. and you can't shoot them.

Well,... you CAN... but...


never mind.

I don't like to disagree with Rob, and everybody. I didn't read twenty five of his books, only a few. But he was in no sense a nihilist. He was an early proponent of the differences and reconciliation of Western and Eastern philosophy, particularly Zen, "The Way of Zen" which I did manage. He did adhere to the doctrine of material impermanence and illusion as with the doctrine of "maya" in Buddhist and Hindu thought, but he was an early proponent of ecological awareness, and stressed the importance of social ethical awareness. He was one of my favorites at the time also.

Flat

Yeah, I thought about it.

I'm settling for a court order.

I've never heard of the guy. I did read a little about him on Wikipedia. He sounds like an interesting character.

You have to come to the realization that this reality is FANTASY ISLAND. Anything you want is here. The game is in learning how to get it.

The bull crap is just bull crap. Ignore it and go for what you want.
My advice to most people is to just live your life and be as good a person as you can.

But if you don't have love in your heart for others, you have nothing in the end. Its not about how many people love you. Its about how much love you have in your own heart for others.

Do you feel love or fear?

Most people feel fear.

Yes.

IGNORE THIS THREAD!

”A heart is not judged by how you love, but by how you are loved by others.” – The Wizard of Oz as he gives The Tim Man a heart.

If it really is nothing
then it doesn't.

Because you never get something
for nothing.

But if nothing turns out to be
something,

then you will be sorry you thought it
was nothing.

Because sometimes even nothing
can become something.

He had it backwards.

You have little control over someone else's love for you. That is personal to them.

You will know love when you feel it for others.

i have a different perspective. one can only know love
when it is given to them unconditionally.



but if nothing matters, then who cares?

You're right. Nothing matters. But matter matters more.

I often find that taking a moment to consider the projected fate of our sun, and its devastating effects on the biosphere of the earth leads me to...being happy. Having a sense of perspective, a shifting of values, a feeling of lightness, an increased ability to enjoy the moment and empathize with others, an inclination to cherish what I have.

I have tried to share this with others, and for some reason many people take a very negative view of thinking that all life on this planet will eventually be destroyed.

In other words, seeing that nothing matters helps you to see what really matters.

I don't think that is correct.

I know people who are loved unconditionally but they don't know love themselves. (A tiny baby is a good example, loved unconditionally by its mom.)

You must love someone else unconditionally besides yourself, in order to know love.

And so it shall, but the recession will long be over by then. Your post reminds me of one of Woody Allen's movies. Woody's character is shown as a child in school, and he is being seen by the school psychologist because he learned in science class that in billions and billions of years our yellow star, the sun, will burn out and all life on Earth will end. The fact sends him into an inconsolable state of depression.