What's the Point?
20 Questions
What’s the point in thinking we can or will be in control of our life? Anything can happen to us in any moment.
What’s the point in being obsessed with material things, when life will make us immaterial?
What’s the point in telling people “That’s your choice.” We haven’t chosen birth, aging, pain and death. There is much more we didn’t choose, too.
What’s the point of expressing arrogant views about other people? We then give them the right to have arrogant views about other people, including us.
What’s the point of moving to a home with more space. Get rid of half our stuff and we have more space.
What’s the point in developing our ego to get attention? We make ourselves a target for ridicule and rejection.
What’s the point in having a secret affair? We experience long term fears of being found out. The exposure goes on longer than fleeting sex.
What’s the point in watching violent films (movies) and horror films (movies)? Isn’t there enough violence and horror in the world already?
What’s the point of becoming famous? We couldn’t even go to the shops without someone demanding a selfie of us with the person.
What’s the point of eating ultraprocessed food (junk food). We slowly and painfully dig our grave with a knife, fork and spoon.
What’s the point in telling ourself, we won’t do it again? After a while, we carry on just as we did before.
What’s the point in becoming super-rich? We won’t know if we have real friends or hangers on.
What’s the point in always wanting to be a winner? We make others losers. Other winners will make us losers.
What’s the point in gambling? We hand over our peace of a mind on a plate for the profiteers to spit on.
What’s the point of shouting and threatening our kids? We are a bully. We prepare them to become bullies or spend their lives living in fear.
What’s the point in believing in political leaders when their primary motive consists of self-preservation?
What’s the point believing in the daily onslaughts of advertising? The business world only wants our attention and our money.
Whats’ the point in believing in God if God never answers our prayers?
What’s the point in being an atheist? We end up depending upon the views of the changeable or fixed mindset of others, or our own changeable or fixed mindset.
What’s the point supporting wars to kill people? They will die anyway. And so will we.
Thanks for responses. Text questions the demands of the hardened ego and the nihilistic culture with a selection of common endless repetititions of unexamined oneliners. The text supports questioning, not surrender, nor disengagement, nor compassion for the fragile self.
Dear Christopher, as you probably know, we people in Germany are facing the election in February. Does Question 16 means that there might be no point in voting?