Comments by "Gilded Chalice" (@GetGwapThisYear) on "Aperture" channel.

I believe that everything, including meaning, is a man-made concept. We exist to do the same as any other creature in existence - survive to maturity, reproduce, raise offspring, die. We’ve become so far removed from our instincts, because modern human survival is centred around the exchange of labour for money to purchase necessities and luxuries, that’s all we know. Because we are so far removed from those instincts, and have been conditioned so far from our nature, we struggle to articulate what we intrinsically know. It just seems too simple an explanation, yet is a level of freedom so out of reach for the majority, so we embellish it.
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 @tarikwalters854 We do. A far more simplistic one than I think nihilists were looking for, but we have one. Purpose and meaning are not the same thing, however.
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@tarikwalters854 The difference, to me, is that all creatures have a common purpose, and the only creature that (demonstrably) seeks to derive meaning from its existence, beyond that purpose, is humanity. Purpose is driven instinctually, whereas meaning requires interference with/influence over instinct-driven existence. In other words, purpose is innate, meaning is constructed.
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@tarikwalters854 Reproduction and nurturing young are the most natural things in existence, I don't understand what you mean.
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 @tarikwalters854 What's that got do with anything? If you're a creationist, one of us is in the wrong place.
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@tarikwalters854 It is. That is our natural purpose, nothing more. The fact that some people are unable to conceive (which I am sympathetic to) is just unfortunate, as far as nature is concerned. Nature is indifferent.
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