Does anything we do actually matter at all?

No. It doesn't matter. But now that you know the truth and you still have a brain, work on the problem of, "Now that I know life doesn't matter, what should I do for the rest of it?"

I'm just one person, but I highly recommend you stop doing what everyone else (who think they are 'special' even though they are doing ONLY what everyone else is doing) is doing, and as a guy named Bucky Fuller once wrote in a letter to a 12-year old boy, who had asked, "Mr. Fuller, what should I do?, Fuller wrote back, "Do that which you are most interested in, that no one else seems to be attending to."

Both Earth and Humanity are jonesing for innovation. We all need more people who can do wildly innovative things without fear of what anyone thinks of them and which may or may not ever make any money. The future best innovators will ALL be humans who know they don't matter, so why not do a weird thing that only YOU would like to see. My observation: If your friends and associates don't think what you're doing or saying is 'Bat **** Crazy' then you're probably not being innovative.

First of all slow your roll... You already answered your question, you just didn't give more thought to it when you said it. Everything that is done will fade away in time, that's correct, so what we do does matter, it just wont matter for long. Stop thinking that actions have to last forever or be meaningful for a while just to be worth anything. That's illogical thinking since you knew it'll fade away. So just be grateful you're here now, ever heard the saying "live life here and now tomorrow can wait"? Well that's a fine way of thinking bro. Have a good day, and don't be too hard on yourself.

We work to live, we try to survive: if we are life, it's because we are encouraged by instincts to survive and reproduce.
Our planet is one of the few planets where there are conditions to produce a loop of chemical reactions that we call life.
Organisms die and rise, we live and procreate because that's our function, we are driven in this way by chemical reactions (as the same as planets are driven by physical laws to orbit a star).
If you are looking for a meaning of life, and a reason to survive, this is the answer: we are not free, we are always ruled by physical laws. If we were completely free, we wouldn't have a destination, so we couldn't do anything.
Even our choices, they all depend on something, so what is freedom? It would be a status of max indecision, a status of nothing.
Physical laws lead to entropy, entropy lead to indecision, indecision lead to nothing. At the end universe will be in a status of max entropy, every part of energy will be completely balanced, so there won't be move, energy will be no more conditioned by anything. This is the max freedom: the nothing.
So what's the matter? We must live as physical laws rule, because we want live, physics rule us to.
Our consciousness makes things existing, and we are those things. WE are the universe, in the form of consciousness, we are everything exists: consciousness. Consciousness is one, it's the same for as all, it's not divided in organisms, we are the same thing: the universe. The universe is consciousness.
So anything we do must not matter, we do what physics rule.

This is something most people miss and act accordingly. I have always thought I wanted to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. We need to think more about propelling the human race to a better future and every action we take affects this.

It doesn't have to matter. So we'll die, be forgotten, and the planet will be incinerated by the sun...so what? It isn't a reason to pursue life any less. If anything it is a reason to squeeze every drop of enjoyment out of it that we can because this brief moment we call life is a one shot deal.

I am an atheist, but I'm not a typical atheist, so let me answer that in my own way.

Does existence mean anything on the egotistical human level? No. And when I say egotistical, I am not putting you down. It is natural to think of all existence "as it pertains to ME". To say you think otherwise all the time would be a lie.

Now, does existence mean something on a scale we cannot physically comprehend due to our minute size when compared to the rest of the universe? Quite possibly.

I don't believe in an anthropomorphic God, but I have begun to believe there is more to the universe than the human brain can truly comprehend. After all, we are ALL made of atoms, both living and non living things, so aren't we all connected? And, to continue in that vein, there are still so many things about the atom that we don't know. Who is to say that what we think of as "sentience" doesn't begin somehow at the atomic level?

The point of life and existence is to question existence itself. :)

Yes, it does matter!
Why do people cry when somebody dies? I would venture to say it's because they are troubled by the prospect of having to live life without the deceased individual. Maybe they feel bad that the person can not enjoy life any longer. If that be the case, then that means that the life of that person really mattered to others.
So who does the life of the universe matter to? Well, we're talking religion now. Studies have shown that 9 out of 10 people believe in a Supreme Being of one form or another. I certainly believe that there is a God who loves each and every one of us. We matter to Him.

Yes it does matter to me. Focus on the positive aspects in life and then your attitude will change too.

We will all die...All we can do is to enjoy the life

No

If you measure "matter" as "permanent presence", you are correct.

But that something no longer exists doesn't mean it didn't exist. Think of it this way. What is the best thing you ever ate? Does it still exist? Even though it doesn't, is it still the best thing you ever ate? Extend that thinking into your life. Even after your life is over and forgotten, your life is still what it was.

Sorry to say but i personally feel you are feeling down to heart .Please don't feel like that you got life for doing certain work everything already decided by god before our birth. You have taken birth for doing certain task. Your work is your identity yes it is true that you will lose your body one day but your work will keep you alive till the last day of world.

Yes. Almost everything I do means something to, and matters, to my offspring. Everything they do will matter to their offspring and so on.

No offspring? Fine, but what you do still matters to those that come behind you.

Does playing matter?

There is no deep meaning to be derived from it. In a way it's purposeless spontaneity, so why the hell bother at all? Arguably its evolutionary function is just to sharpen the tools needed for later social dominance. That's what the animals do it for and that's what we ostensibly do it for. But who doesn't like playing? Who doesn't like joy? Joy is enjoyable by definition. I get the feeling that those who take life seriously, whose perspective is skewed toward spotting the hardship over the joy, who assume life as a tragedy rather than a comedy, are the ones who end up nihilistic or deeply religious. This entertaining 2 minute video should elaborate a little...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4

enjoy the ride. that's all you can do.

This is a very arrogant assumption that we humans are so much more important than any other animal. The important thing is how we live our,lives....our contribution to the future are our children and anything we have done to leave the world a better place. There are the men who discovered DNA which has led to such great things. As a teacher I hope there are yg people around with good English skills to enable them to communicate properly. Mo University Lecturer Atheist

This is a nihilistic view that you are questioning, which I share. Everything we know is created in our minds. We do not truly know if anything is real we just have our senses and what we can deduce from them. Life is what you make of it. Nothing is "good" or "bad" because those are labels that society has placed.

Science tells us that our lives are insignificant, I mean how much would the universe be affected if you were fell down a flight of stairs tomorrow? But how much you will be affected? Your world would end. The universe is not going to tell you the meaning of your life, your life just is what you make of it. Does your existence matter to you? Why?

My dad told me, "We're here to do good in the world. That's it! Everything else will take care of itself!"

Don't overthink this problem, dude! Enjoy the moment. Eventually you'll know the meaning of it all...and if you don't... so what?

It might not, but I guess we do things in life to fill that void, so we don't venture ourselves in those thoughts, I suppose living itself is a way to deal with that of our existence to the end of our life, give oursevles hope even if it is false, to just keep living but that's just my opinion

I find hard to believe that all of this is for nothing.
What is truly worth working toward is being the best you can be. How you treat others will derive meaning from others about you and how they remember you. All that you will take with you wherever you go after this life.
Everything you do will actually matter to yourself and others.

What I do matters to me, or else I wouldn't do it.

Does anything matter to you? Why are you asking us?

"Is anything truly worth working towards?"

Yes. Work towards what makes you happy.

I am so tired of pointing out that anyone who EATS and asks this question is a hypocrite. Why is it nobody questions their LUNCH but everyone questions their LIFE?

Life is lunch. Enjoy it and make it work for you. All the rest is BS.

It matters to us. We're here now, and what we do matters to those of us on this planet. In the grand scheme of things in the universe, it probably doesn't matter that much, and that's ok with me.

You sound like a product of your culture ~ the American (or some other Western) culture that isn't a culture at all, but essentially a business. The life-is-really-nothing-at-all idea is very modern American and very naive. Westerners largely never look beyond biology, genetics, physics, and chemistry, and then assume that that's all there is to life. You need to look deeper ~ so few people in this "culture" do that, however. There is actually nothing to support this "nothingness" idea about life, but it does seem, for whatever reason, to be very popular ...

Death is like a giant rotting tree that has grown sideways over our little village; so massive it blocks out the sun. And at any moment the trunk can break and the tree will fall crushing everything below.

With that said, I spend my time shining my crystal balls, and also influencing others to assist in the task. As I look into my balls, there is a shimmer of hope. The hope is that my consciousness is separate from material, and confinement of rigid physics. And when the "mind trap" is opened by death, then I'm free to roam and see the full spectrum of existence. Yes, physical life is absurd...

Doing something is an unavoidable compulsion for us so long as we are live....... not only physiologically but also psychologically !! Try to 'do absolutely nothing' for a while and you would simply give up as impossible after some time. Therefore, doing something is actually an indispensable part of life, not only for survival, but also for 'feeling' alive (due to our ego).
Whatever we do thus matters to our life..... beyond and outside of that there is nothing indeed that we need to either worry over or consider.

Only one life
T'will soon be past
Only what's done
For Christ
Will last

Personally,I agree with you.Haters gonna hate but in the end,we would just all die.Everything is meaningless.No matter how grand our expedition in life,all that awaits us is a grave and to be forgotten like some random guy you would meet on a street unless you are someone who have achieve something that is worth the worlds recognition e.g Scientist like Newton,Einstein and others. This is the hard truth which not many people will come to agree.Having hit hard by the hard truth,some of us may search for an excuse.Again,what is the point?is'nt it meaningless to find excuse?isn't it more meaningless to not to do anything?I mean come on...since its already meaningless in every way.Why not do something you like and you feel which is worth and enjoyable.Eg,playing your favorite games,sports and other hobbies which one might have.If you don't want to be meaningless.You could at least try to shake the world for your goal and to make historians remember you and future decendants to learn about you even after youre are dead.You could at least give your existence a meaning though it is still meaningless but more meaningless if its nothing than something.Well,I would probably just die anytime and no one in the world would give a damn except giving grieves to my family members and maybe friends?TBH there aint any deep meaning to anything except words from dictionaries and den marks you left on earth before your departure.Back to your question,it is worth doing anything? Just drown yourself in any enjoyable action.It is much better than rotting there thinking about meanings and $hit while doing nothing.Life is yours,everyone makes their own stories and all stories needs a closure.Since its meaningless,just make it interesting than or just enjoy the life that is given to you by the nature.Because of it,you are able to wonder such thought provoking process.For me to wonder such things is truly a bless.So again next would come,what would the feeling like if you are not born?Well...I suggest to quit such thought including deep meanings to everything.It's just so painful to not know.So why torture yourself in such thoughs?At the end of the day,I would just Fk it and do something in life like playing games and watch anime and hang out with a few friends or try to get a girlfriend .

Of course it does. The very fact that you are asking that question is telling enough. Meaning of life comes from what you are serving. Do you serve yourself? Do you serve other people? Do you serve God? Meaning comes from purpose, purpose comes from goals, and your goals come from what you hold as holy.

Our life and every thing is temporary. so nothing matters in long run or for ever. But what we do matters in the short run or for time being. so life goes on. When we die others will do what we are doing now and then their action will matter. This is how life goes on perpetually.

A positive answer to this question is to ask ourselves whether it is worth even make such a question; this leads to doubt of the need or interest even to give an answer to this question that is not worth being made and a fortiori does not deserve be answered.
The anser it´s : "tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena"(all worth it when the soul is not small), Fernado Pessoa

Sure it does. We are here to propagate and preserve our genes (race) and live and thrive.

Just accept that everything IS. Walk,work,and live through life as part of the universe not just separated from it. You have a life of approximately 70 years and at the end you fall into to the trap of death. While we are here the instinct is to survive as long as possible and to pro create. Whether everything is worth it, is not the question. The question should be. How many worthwhile things can I achieve in my allotted life span. If you happen to be brilliant then you WILL be remembered for your achievements ,but of course everything will disappear with the passage of time - but it will be millions of years hence.

Don't ask the meaning of life. When you are engaged in something you like, you will forget that the time and life is passing. a lot of things such as eating pizza, watching movie,reading books or working can make me feel that life is awesome , although I know all of this would be meaningless a hundred years later. But as long as I live in this world in this minute, I love all of wonderful things .The passion toward life is the meaning itself.

You want to live for now and not try and second guess the future. Enjoy your time and make the most of it whilst you're here. Otherwise you'll just waste it for no good reason.

humans were created by GOD with a purpose. do some reading in google and u will slowly find the answer.

Sounds a tad pessimistic to me.
I live for curiosity. I'm not a fan of the notion of entropy, it's too broad when applied to a Universe we still don't really understand. Stars burn out and go Super Nova sounds like entropy but in fact it's the opposite that explosion produces heavy elements that can't be created in other ways. To quote Joanie Mitchel , We are Star Dust , we our planet our solar system and our Sun are just that built on the remains of long dead stars.
Humanity will disappear from the Earth someday, pretty much as all creatures do either through extinction or evolutionary change.
You may be forgotten or you may be remembered, no way to know that, no way to know what you may achieve ,
live life and learn.

If you're religious, I guess it does because you pray for the after life.

If you want to get into the Kingdom of God it does. Anyone who thinks that when we die, it's just the end, is making the biggest mistake of their lives. When we die, it isn't the end, it's the beginning. What we see is only temporary, what we don't see is eternal. Life is like a mist, that appears for a moment and then vanishes forever. I feel sorry for anyone who thinks that when we die ...that's it. All you have to do is believe and have eternity or not believe and have NOTHING. WHY???

In the eyes of the universe, no. We are insignificant, and theories of how the universe ends or repeats makes it all irrelevant in the end game. It's what you do with your life that matters, the way you write your story.

Everything matters

Psalm 139:13-16
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

yes my nature.

In the past, few of us were ever remembered after our departure from this life.

However, all that has changed, because now anyone can open an account with Wikipedia and insert everything about themselves in there. We can also leave everlasting statements about ourselves and our likes and dislikes via social media - Facebook Twitter and etc. Believe me, everything we publish via these social media sites stays there in cyberspace for all time, so do be careful what you publish.

John Dow Citizen dreamt of becoming President of the USA but had to settle for being and unknown until wham, he found a link in cyberspace where he could leave lots of info about himself for anyone to read forever.

We live in hope.

But always keep this in mind, no matter what.

"Only the dead shall know an end of war"
Aristotle

Yes and no it really depends what it is for example if you did something really bad and it effects a lot of people then yes it does matter or if you did something really good for people and they love it a lot then yes it does matter cause they appreciate what you did but if it's something like one little mistakes that don't effect people like that in anyway then no stuff like that doesn't matter it really just depends on the situation that we're in.

Our lives are pointless actually ...

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No just enjoy life .

Yes, of course everything we do does have meaning, does have value, so it certainly does matter; at least to someone. Whatever way you would like to look at it, life has value; it is a gift for us to make the best of no matter how tough or difficult it may be. You do not have to look at this from a religious point of view at all. You may not see much point to your endeavours at the present time, but you should eventually come to find meaning in your life. Whatever your goals in life may be work hard and strive towards completing your goal and you will be rewarded with the strength of attainment. You do not have to set lofty goals, even the most simple ideals of being as helpful to others as you can be, does matter. You may not see the way of things at the moment but find your true self and your desires for the future can become realised. Everyone can make impact; just got to find your way ahead and make yours. Good luck.

Ps. Some helpful words from The Doctor:

"We are all stories in the end. Let’s just make it a good one. Eh?"

and

"900 years of time and space and I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important."

well, it would really depend on how you would think about it. If you believe that your existence wouldn't actually matter, probably it would not. But remember that our life have been influenced by the works of great scientist, inventors, philanthropist, doctors, mathematicians, economist, prophets, etc., Considering that you might think that life is just something that is only for yourself and for the pleasure you might be enjoying then you are one of those people who exist only for themselves.

No

Everything I do in life determines where I will live in eternity. If I serve Jesus, and do his will, I will live with Him for eternity, and if I live for myself in sin, I will live in hell for eternity. There is no purpose in life, but to prepare for eternity.

Jesus said, "Enter in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be that go in at the wide gate, for strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it."

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I believe that covers it.

It seems that you have a mind set (like many others) that after we die , there will be nothing more. You feel that it will be as if you will be sleeping on your bed and not wake up forever. I don't think that way. I believe that we all were born for a reason. I am a believer of Christ which means - my mind thinks that God created the world and he created us so that we may be joyful and enjoy every fruit that he had made. But someone came and plundered all he did for us. The plunderer gave us his nature and we were (are) ruled under this plunderer.But God loved this world so much that he sent his only begotten son such that he laid down his life for us all and made up for our sins. Now whoever receives Christ even at this moment is new..whoever 'believes' that there 'is' a savior who came down for us..to bear our sins he/she has and will have a new life after death. God is still stretching his hands towards us. I am a normal person. I am wicked in many ways but i rely on him because it is not by 'works' but only through Christ that we are saved. I hope to change and be what he created me to be.
Believing in God is one's own decision. He has helped me. If not now..if you are in pain , call upon him without hesitation though you think you have been wicked in this world and he will answer. Praise God.

Yes it matters.

Dude. Just live your ******* life. Yes Our life means something. Our life means for us gain as much knowledge as possible. Happiness. Love.live it as best as you can.

Life can then little else supply,
but a few good fxxxs,
and then we die.

(John Wilkes 1725-1797)

depends on what you do.

Idk.

Are you trying to have an impact on the Universe? If so it will not be much of an impact but if you want to have an impact on humans there are certain ones who for adding to knowledge for inspiring for creating beauty and wonderment or good and evil so names like Einstein, Newton,, Plato and man other swill be remembered, as will those of Shakespeare, Leonardo, Michelangelo and many others or Jesus, Moses and on the other side Genghis Kan or Adolph Hitler and others. So you can make a mark in human history which matters to humans and the fact that things decay and die is just the nature of things as we know them in some alternate universe this may not be true but play the cards you are dealt.

Try not wasting time it counts

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all we do doesnt matter in the end. but hey we live to enjoy

No. We all die in the end, I see no point in putting restrictions on yourself.

Take a fork, walk up to a neighbor's house and ring the door bell. When your neighbor answers the door, stab him in the eye with the fork. Then ask him if you matter at all!

it matters, as before reaching the end of everything, there is a long long long time in between. that process is what one have to take during lifetime, and luck won't always around.

We can only live for ourselves

Joe

nope

truth is it doesn't matter, but people do it anyway

It would be funny if the content of the internet were archived for later use by modulating the digital data onto a terawatt laser and beaming it out of the plane of the Milky Way to preserve it on a beam of light until we are clever enough to build a FTL transport to get out in front of the beam and read it. What would be even funnier is if aeons from now, somebody (not necessarily even humans) found your particular yahoo question archived long after the sun had reduced to a white dwarf, and it struck them so that they founded a galactic religion based on your question, wisdom from the ancient past. Hey, you never know.
What we do NOW can be scattered by the actions of entropy (but it can be beautiful in the meantime). I think that's what both the Navajo sand painting, and the Buddhist mandala are about. (the Buddhists scatter theirs, the Navajos let the regular wind and rain destroy theirs.)
Or what we do now can cause a chain reaction through time, or it might just sit like a fossil hidden for a long time with the possibility of being discovered later.
The water in our bodies was in the ground or a bottle a few days ago, in a few days some of it will be going through a sewage treatment plant, this doesn't worry you, that you are losing so much of yourself. We are a pattern of atoms that can hold together for a little while until the pattern begins to degrade, then it needs to reset. The reset is called birth.
This particular pattern seems to make consciousness, and those atoms get to bounce around and look at things and think of stuff, how do you know that you are not laying down permanent tracks on the fabric of the universe just by experiencing stuff right now?
I feel like the planet Earth developed us to be the germinal stage of this solar system, the Earth is like a big Dandelion that is just about to open a big puffball of seeds-- that's us.
If you like "What's it all mean?" questions then watch "Waking Life"

Of course it all matters! This earth life is just a pit stop. We learned stuff in the past to get to now and are learning stuff now to get to the future. =)

no unless your famous and then you live forever in the hearts of retro folk

YES! Everything we do,matter. In essence what we do are often our thoughts expressed as actions. Our actions can contribute to people, nature and the Universe by extension in either positive or negative ways, according to varying views.

If we do nothing then we receive the energy of nothing in return since energy must return, reverberate and recoil around the earth's crust to facilitate life and death.

The matter is therefore, that everything we do actually matters and contributes to the forces of life and death. The choice to do or not do is ours but both life and death will continue regardless of our choices or lack thereof.

Not really.

Don't try to find meaning in your life, create it.

No.

No. But while you are here in this miserable existence you have to make the best of it for your own sake, or life will suck even harder.

It does. Life isn't about making others happy but for you & everyone who really cares about you.& for you to experience so much this world can offer you

Having been (and sometimes still am) depressed before, I tend to think like like you. But I try to remind myself that the important thing to remember is not what will happen after we die. Because after all, we'll be dead by then, right? No one chooses to born. But driven by the will succeed, we all end up living the same lives. Some work hard and forget to enjoy the minuscule amount of time a human lifetime represents and that they have to enjoy, and others decide to believe in an eternal after life. I think what we do matters. But not to others. Who cares about others? All of their, along with your actions and evidence of ever existing will eventually be erased by time. Not to sound like a hippie, but the important thing is that you do what you want to do in life. Accomplish stuff, have fun, strive for a better you. Because even if time is so vast our lives get lost in it, to us time is little longer than our own lives. So always remember what it is you want to achieve!

There are something that if being done, produce great meaning. But to finish these things, requires significant effort, or time. If you just do things that are within your capability, you will never find those great things. Those things are beyond your ability and you have to continue to grow in order to have them finished. After you achieve all that, you might feel you really make deep change around the world.

Yes

Yes what we do actually matters. It matters because the youth after us deals with what we have done. Maybe in the existence in the human race, we could encounter an alien race that sees what we have done. The way I see it is, death is almost like the refresh button you press on your screen. After you press that button you see something new. The old is covered by the new. In order for some new to be new, it needs to work on what the old has established.

Only if someone write a steupid book about you once your dead.

Maybe, maybe not. i'm hoping i'll live forever with whatever advancements in medical technology and space travel arise. I'll always be on some planet somewhere.

that is the question

YES, whether for us, who we love or others. Mike

If you have a constructive purpose, you matter because your constructive purpose dictates how you and your work will impact the world, and how they will be remembered.

For future's sake kind of doing something matters

You should read Alan Watts the Wisdom of Insecurity.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently.
Say a boy is being bullied at school. The boy goes home everyday and is rude and angry towards his mother and siblings...We'll, all I mean is our actions can have consequences that get worse and which cause other bad, or good, things to happen.

It is a random Universe, to which we bring meaning. A carefully guarded secret, a garden, a fence...no one at home. Tens of thousands of things that are no-thing, but thing-ness, we deny futility and press on toward ever inclusive layers of relevance.
"We create the world which we perceive." This old adage posits an organ of perception, where experience and rationality combine in lower realms to patch a cross stitch cover on the surface of the world, built and preprocessed, so at a place where the stitching or hash markings piece together, we seek to heal and bind like the knots of a binding cord..
And we all walk around and say ah, wtf I wash my hands of the thing because I can, and when the heavens should open I will be generously rewarded. And that's just the religious people in their perennial infancy, the what-ifs and the why-nots and the doomsayers of reasoning.
Atheists are less abundant but make up a lot of the secular "world-building" activity, with increasing influence and a widening bipolar expansiveness. Their offense is our humility, and even a few atheists are also humbled. And the cut of false pride is defensiveness.
I wouldn't conclude an answer to your question, but things are NOT in our control, life is difficult in its cynicism and ill-blown wisdom, the wind of a demolishing twister, a thing with the size of a monster, and a ruthlessness of an army. If we make believe, we have meaning...if we 'settle' there is unrest. We are here to SEEK meaning, even in make-believe, a personal quest to quell the unrest.

It depends on what we do. If you like sex that the best thing in life that matters.

But of course it matters, which depends on what you do.

If you can put a smile on one persons face, your life was worth while.

Thats why a true relationship Jesus Christ helps us get out of this Matrix. Pray the prayerof Romans 10:9

I dont know probably maybe somehow like we wont know in life though perhaps

Everything matters.

You do not live in the "eternity" - you live in the here and now. The point of confusion in your view, in my opinion, is insisting that some action, some thought, some event, have meaning for the rest of eternity, a permanence that simply cannot be. It is the here and now that has meaning, NOT eternity. You CAN make a difference and do meaningful things that have serious meaning NOW - things that would create happiness for you and others. Your search for eternal meaning reminds me of the myriad of posts that seek to discover the "ultimate" of anything (meaning of life, happiness,truth, etc) - which doesn't exist (and if it does we are incapable of discovering it because our capacity for abstract thinking and expression is quite limited -for example, we cannot describe/define "love" let alone looking for the "ultimate" love).

So, yes, EVERYTHING that you do "matters" in the here and now - but NONE of it matters in the reference frame of "eternity".

I've wondered these questions before. I could find no real answers until I opened my bible and realized the truth.

yes

Yes, while you are alive everything matters

Follow King Stannis and your life will matter

YEAP !

It all depends on opinions.

Yes

There are people in these world that do care what we do. Someone near you or besides you will support you in your good and bad times. Just don't over think too much in life. Live your life the way you want and see where you go with your future. Don't give up on yourself once a person told me, and death is not the answer. Be around of those who love you and take out time for you.

I've also been wondering nearly this same question lately, and what I've come up with is yes, everything we do matters- for now. One day when the earth dies and is eventually absorbed into the sun it will not matter. Luckily for you and I, that day is not today. We can't speak for a universe that will exist in a billion years, but even when that time comes there's still some small part of me that hopes something about us, and about our time spent on earth in this little corner of the universe will survive and make it all worth the outcome.

According the the Christian Bible, it all means nothing. That's why you devote your life to Christ whatever it is you do, because in the end, it all inevitably means nothing.

That means, whatever true worth there is will be found in those who are benefited through your life, and even more so those who find salvation because of you.

In the end, the only thing that will still have any say is what God says, so the only way anything you have, have done, or say in this life will have any worth is if God determines that it has worth.

It is worth existing and working towards your goals because you have to make the most of your time on Earth. Sure everyone dies eventually, but we leave behind a legacy and are remembered by our loved ones. But then again after thousands of years no one will remember you unless you accomplish something great and become a person in history. Otherwise, the only reason that you live is for yourself so that your life is fulfilled before you pass on and so you can die happily because once you're gone you're done in this life

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only to ur loved ones and god

Nope

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite
reaction". If you write it in English, it becomes
Newton's Law. If you write it in Sanskrit, it becomes
Law of Karma.

Leucippus, the founder of the atomic theory,
declared in his only surviving statement, "Nothing
occurs at random, but everything happens for a
reason and by necessity". It is known as
Leucippus’ principle of causality.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/karma.html

Yes in matters to the Home Team! You are somebody.

Depends in what context

What you do matters to you dont it?
what you do matters to your friends dont it?

So in those contexts yes it does

Does what you do matter to what happens on the earth? - almost certainly not
does what you do matter to the universe? - certainly not

So in those contexts - no it doesnt

First,
Negative Thinking as i said before we inherited from our very early ancestors and still as i see exist
Second,
Our humanity way if we look it we see great scientists who go through that way with courage, long thinking , great imagination made our life wonderful we still remember them and love them

negative thinking could never make our life better

last but not least

reality is not absolute reality as you see it

thanks
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your friend
from egypt

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
If you must believe in something, believe in this world and the time you have in it. Wasted time is the worst possible conclusion you can come to. It is the only thing we know we have for certain in this life.

depends on who you are including in "we".

yes

Life is much more than that, its about compassion, love, anger, enjoyment, and all those other emotions. Life is not for the other person but for you to live it and make the best of what you got.

Maybe its true that on the grand scale of things nothing matters. But there is a lot of people suffering here and now and if you can do something to make that suffering even a little bit less then you have done something very worthwhile.

Of course this life matters we were sent here to do great things you just haven't found what yet so for now search.

By usual design: We are born to enjoy the first 17 years of life, growing up and enjoying carefree years of life....because after we blow out the 18th birthday candle....

We become emerging adults---and begin the first yawns of stresses brought upon us by college or higher education studies or workplace job routines---where we work hard each day, to make the elitist few wealthier.

And our pittance reward is the barely successful ability to eek out a honest living life of our own.

Unless you delve yourself into the criminal element of society---rife with it's on inherent life threatening dangers and other risks.

We matter to God Almighty---and maybe, if we're lucky, sincerely viewed upon lovingly with respect / dignity from our loved immediate family and REAL friends; everyone else, however--could give two hoots less about us.....

...and in the end, that actually IS ok.

What we do may not matter, now. But after we are gone, what we did may have been the start of something which changes the world. Even Newton had Grandparents. They probably thought the world would never change because of what they would do in life. I am hoping my future grandchildren will be the ones whose names go down in history. They might be the leaders we want now. They might discover something of great importance. If they do, then even though I am not remembered, I had a part in something good.

The things that we do only matters in an individual way...We all have separate life and times go by fast..it would be prudent if each person do what he or she wish for in the ways they want and see things................
In the end of the day; only you will approve yourself of how valuable you can be in your own mind...

In any case its depend upon both

It matters to our children. That's all we leave behind, that and their memories of us. Some people leave a very long memory.

Sure.
It means absolutely nothing.
Sort of like casual sex.
It means nothing, but we have every right to enjoy it.
And every right to try something different.
And embrace having no purpose, embrace being alive.
You only live once, right?
So cram in experience and fun and life an **** while you can

All the work and things you do in this world are exercises aimed at improving your wisdom and elevating your self. The works you leave behind are like work books left by a student after passing through a grade in the school. Even though the student toiled through out the year for completing those assignments, they become junk once he passes the grade. What is carried forward is the wisdom.

Same is the case with life and the activities we do during the course of our life.

The question is why do you care what exists after you are long dead? If you want to derive meaning from your life, you do that, and appreciate it until that life is exhausted.

Of course there is no meaning. To people who step over others to achieve their goals, and ruin lives, kill, for a legacy...they are truly sad individuals...and arguably quite stupid.

I personally think it's kind of stupid to just make up a meaning for life as well. Do what you want, help others when you can, and yeah...keep on doing that. What's more to be done? Anything you do, and you try to say it is meaningful...is just you thinking that. Which is..fine I guess, but I don't want any of the BS. Not for my life.

in this reality, no it doesn't matter. in fact it doesn't really matter in any reality. the only thing that matters is your experience. the only thing that matters is you. so do what makes you feel good. because i find that when i do things that make me feel good, i like that feeling, and that matters.

all that matters is your happiness. real happiness. not egotistical happiness. rid your possessions because you wont have them when you die. focus on your experience and feelings and emotions because they are where real happiness comes from.

be happy, be kind, don't harm anyone, just enjoy the fact that you can smell delicious smells, taste delicious tastes and feel positive emotions that make you feel good. because it feels nice and that's what matters.

If you want to be happy it should matter to you!

Of course it matters or you wouldn't have a purpose in life. I would like to think that I have made a positive difference in this world. I feel what you do is like the rock that when thrown into the pond makes ripples. Your actions have far reaching effects and consequences so make sure there positive. There is too much negativity in this world.

Depends on your spiritual beliefs.

" yes " in the long run it does matter. as a mere human, you cant change the world, but you can leave your mark on it in a positive way. you can try to make it a better place and preserve it for the poor soles of the future. by "soles " I mean man and animals. volunteer for a good charity for man or animals, plant trees, give back something to the planet that has given you your very existence. it doesn't have to be a huge undertaking but every little bit counts. " life" is a opportunity to help progress as you cant do anything when your gone.

Of course there is point, to learn. Your spirit remembers all that you have done. I cannot say how many lives I've lived and how many more I will live. But the purpose of it escapes me but I guess that is the grand mystery. Either way don't worry about, enjoy life!

Well you are going to get answers from Atheists that say they THINK nothing matters and Christians who say that they THINK it matters very much. Then there are folks like me that say that Integrity, how you treat other people, the lessons you learn, who you spend your time with and how much of your ego you can let go of is what matters. All else is just a way of holding onto ego and continued suffering in thinking we are separate from the God force and each other.

everything and nothing matters at the same time since everything is nothing
you can put anything into nothing and you can find anything in everything

Yup. Because you can change the world.

no

Life is full of choices. The more you put into life the more you will get from it.

It's not about the end result. it's about how you get there or what you do until then. If time is gonna end, I don't wanna waste it thinking about the end and disregarding everything between now and then. I'd rather be happy and ignorant, if I'm powerless.

We are all little lights shining bright as we can. Would be that we shine brighter but we have to come together for that. In the meantime we shine as brightly as we can. That is all we can do. Something good comes from it. Even if to just be swallowed up in the darkness of eternity. Not all of it was meaningless.

I think, May be, It does, When it is becoming the large scale, while hiding the smaller " Selves" inside.

look at this way

if it does matter then it is important to do it

if it doesn't matter then it's no big deal to do it

No, not if you confine yourself to an absolutist definition of what matters as only being what matters to the universe. But who cares about the universe? It's not sentient. It doesn't pass judgment on us. It has no values. It doesn't even matter to itself.

A far better definition of what matters is what matters to those your actions have effects on, i.e. those around you. *WE* are sentient, emotional, social creatures with values. What you do absolutely matters to those around you, in the here and now, and *that* is what's important.

tHIS ANSWER MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED THE BEST BUT IT IS A SIMPLE ONE FOR SURE. LET US SAY THAT WE EXSIST FROM THE THOUGHTS OF "GOD" THEN IN BELIEVE IN THAT AND GO FORTH AND MULTPLY AS YOUR PARENTS DID, BUT FOR "GOD" HE WAS THE GREATEST INVETOR OF ALL! CREATING A MAN AND WOMAN WITH SUCH GREAT COMPONENTS MIND BODY AND SOUL WHILE WE ARE HERE ONE EARTH I WOULD THINK THAT THE ONLY ONE'S THAT MATTER TO GOD IS CHILDREN WHO SOME DAY WITH HOPE WOULD ALL BE A GOOD AS AN EXAMPLE AS THE BEST PEOPLE PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIVE IN PEACE TOGETHER AND MAKE HIM BE THE ONE WE WILL ALWAYS BE THANKFUL FOR ! IT IS NOT WHAT YOU WILL (NEVER HAVE) (BUT WHAT YOU DO HAVE) SO WE WILL PASS THROUGH OUR SEASON ON EARTH AND YES WE WILL BE GONE AND SOME DAY AND NO ONE REALLY KNOWS THE TRUTH. WE MAY PASS WITH OUR SOULS WHERE LIFE IS ENDLESS PERHAPS DIFFERENT BUT HERE ON EARTH TO ME IS A PROVING GROUNDS FOR EVERYONE. YOU ONLY HAVE TO MAKE A TRANSITION FROM BEING BORN UNTIL YOU DO TURN TO DUST DOES NOT A TREE GROW OLD AND EACH YEAR HE LEAVES DIE BUT THEN NEW LEAVES RETURN AND AFTER MANY YEARS THE TREES ARE OLD AND ARD ALSO ROT AWAY TO DUST BUT THEIR FRUIT AND WAIST ALSO NOURISHES THE EARTH AND FROM THEIR ROOTS WILL BE THE TREES ROOT'S PRODUCING ANOTHER TREE OF THE SAME KIND AND SO IT IS THAT YOUR LIFE WILL DO THE SAME THING AND THAT IS THE BEST I CAN EXPLAIN LIFE. SO GO OUT INTO THIS WORLD AND BE THE BEST YOU CAN IN WHAT YOU ENJOY DOING WHILE YOU CAN ACTUALLY HELPING ANYTHING OR ANY ONE TO BECOME GREATER THAN YOUR SELF AND WHEN YOU GO REMEMBER THAT YOU GAVE YOUR BEST SHOT TO DO THE RIGHT THING! WILL WE SEE OUR REWARDS ? I WOULD LIKE TO THINK WE WILL. BUT IF WE DO NOT, THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO ! IS THERE. BUT ONLY KNOW ONE THING. THAT IF THEIR IS NOT A GOD IT WILL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE. AH!!!! BUT IF THERE IS A GOD THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL YOU BE BLESSED TO KNOW YOU ARE THE ONE WHO DID THE RIGHT THING AND THOSE OFFSPRING OF YOURSWILL FOREVER KNOW OF YOUR DEEDS AND SEE YOUR LIFE AND BE PROUD OF YOUR DEEDS. SO LIVE TO BE HAPPY AND LET YOUR FUTURE ALLOW YOU TO BE WHO EVER YOU WANT TO BE. THERE IS ALWAYS THAT CHANCE OF KNOWING THAT THERE IS ALWAYS LIFE. HOLDING YOU CHILD IN YOUR ARMS WHO IS DEPEDING ON YOU AND IS SO HELPLESS WITHOUT YOUAND WHO NEEDS TO BE NOURISHED AND LOVED ANF HE WILL LEARN FROM YOU AND YOUR WIFE AND THEN IT MAY BE THAT THIS TINY LEAF OF A CHILD WILL HOLD YOU IN HIS ARMS AND SAY THE WORDS, THANK YOU (DAD)(MOM) FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR ME I LOVE YOU AND THEN THEY WILL CLOSE THE CASKET LID AND THAT LITTLE BOY OR GIRL WILL SLIP INTO YOUR SHOES LIKE THEY DID AS A CHILD. SO THIS MAY NOT BE THE ANSWER YOU WANTED. BUT IT IS THE BEST I CAN COME UP WITH THAT MAY ENLIGHTEN YOU

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Yes! things that we do, actually do matter, they have consequences and results. You were put here to accomplish a purpose, your existence does affect other people. Eventually you will go to visit your master and he will ask you if you accomplished your mission on Earth.

Ec 12:13 The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard, is: Fear the true God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole obligation of man.

You sound like you're a pessimistic individual, so I'm not going to dignify your question with a response.