It is neither.
Life is a meaningless series of chemical and physiological reactions which begin in conception and end in death.
Homo sapiens is a social animal, and all the laws of nature which concern on herd or pack animals concern also on humans. We are animals, nothing more and nothing less. Some of us are males, some females and some mutants.
If you are wealthy, healthy, good-looking, have steady income, are slightly more tall, intelligent, strong or beautiful than the rest of the humanity, have your basic needs including sex covered, your life is a gift. If you are poor, sickly, ugly, unemployed, your attributes are below average or you are extremely tall, intelligent, strong or beautiful or you lack your basic needs covered, including involuntary celibacy, your life is a curse.
Life isn’t what you get of it or what you do to it. Life is what the other people around you get it to you or do to you. And the pack of predators gladly crush and tear apart anyone who is different from the norms of the pack.
The only meaning of life is to continue it: to produce as many surviving offspring as possible. Vanquish your competitors and enemies and prevent them from reproducing. The laws of biological evolution, struggle of existence, survival of the most worthy and natural selection apply also to humans.
There is no God, no supernatural entities and no absolute ethics or concepts of right and wrong and no karma. It is all on how we make it. There is no reward after death on how “good” you have been on your earthy life and no punishment after death on how “evil” you have been. Once the crematorium’s furnace has done its job, what is rest of you, obey the laws of gas physics.
If life becomes an unbearable burden, I condone suicide. I am a Finn, and I see suicide just as another way to die. Nothing to moralize with it - it is an individual’s own choice and thus to be respected. If life feels like a curse, it is the ultimate way to flip the bird to the rest of the pack of predators.
Life is a meaningless series of chemical and physiological reactions which begin in conception and end in death.
Homo sapiens is a social animal, and all the laws of nature which concern on herd or pack animals concern also on humans. We are animals, nothing more and nothing less. Some of us are males, some females and some mutants.
If you are wealthy, healthy, good-looking, have steady income, are slightly more tall, intelligent, strong or beautiful than the rest of the humanity, have your basic needs including sex covered, your life is a gift. If you are poor, sickly, ugly, unemployed, your attributes are below average or you are extremely tall, intelligent, strong or beautiful or you lack your basic needs covered, including involuntary celibacy, your life is a curse.
Life isn’t what you get of it or what you do to it. Life is what the other people around you get it to you or do to you. And the pack of predators gladly crush and tear apart anyone who is different from the norms of the pack.
The only meaning of life is to continue it: to produce as many surviving offspring as possible. Vanquish your competitors and enemies and prevent them from reproducing. The laws of biological evolution, struggle of existence, survival of the most worthy and natural selection apply also to humans.
There is no God, no supernatural entities and no absolute ethics or concepts of right and wrong and no karma. It is all on how we make it. There is no reward after death on how “good” you have been on your earthy life and no punishment after death on how “evil” you have been. Once the crematorium’s furnace has done its job, what is rest of you, obey the laws of gas physics.
If life becomes an unbearable burden, I condone suicide. I am a Finn, and I see suicide just as another way to die. Nothing to moralize with it - it is an individual’s own choice and thus to be respected. If life feels like a curse, it is the ultimate way to flip the bird to the rest of the pack of predators.
