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Regarding the meaning of life and suicide.

I realize this is a sensitive topic. But I have spent so much time mulling over these issues recently, and I would like to hear other's opinions regarding my own. I would also like to preface this by saying that these thoughts and statements are made on the pretense that god doesn't exist. I am not looking to argue that particular subject but any discourse is good discourse, I suppose. 

I believe that life has no purpose. At one point in time, I felt that was a freeing statement. Life only has the purpose we give to it. But lately I have started to feel as though it is actually the opposite; that it is what imprisons us. If I decide that I have no purpose, then perhaps my real purpose is simply to exist. Existence itself should come with the pursuit of knowledge. But a life as a human is flawed. I feel that as humans we all suffer a deep irony. We are intelligent enough to be sentient, but we are not intelligent enough to be omnipotent. And because we are also too intelligent to be ignorant of our human condition, we suffer in the middle between greatness and obliviousness. There is nothing inherently good about being human. Being human means wanting power. Wanting to reproduce. Wanting to live. In fact I would say being human is the source of all wants, of all desires. A truly rational being would want nothing. Why would it desire anything at all? The source of all wants (some of which are driven by human needs) is being human. I think a being of infinite intelligence, would actually do nothing at all. Being human is not only the source of all desire and fear, but also the source of all pleasure and pain. Emotions are merely distractions we evolved into to aid our survival. From a pure intelligence standpoint, emotions do nothing except cloud our vision. Love and hate are nothing but constructs our minds have created for us. Our innate desire for perfection is merely so we can have the power to nurture our loved ones and also to crush our enemies. Without emotion, without being human, I have no reason to want anything from this world. Which is why I view life as a human as inherently flawed. The most I can do to overcome this is to try and think as though I had none of these desires. And in turn, the more I try to push these concepts of emotion from my mind and view life objectively, the more I realize that life is nothing but an act we carry out to realize our primitive desires.  I feel the only way to truly live a happy life is to live without realizing this truth. Because now all I desire is to be something better than human, or to not exist at all. But what's the point, anyways? I only want these things because I am human. Before I just wanted to live. But if you view life without the lenses of emotion given to us from birth, then things quickly devolve into what I have written here. I no longer understand why I should exist. My only other possible path to an existence without knowing this pain is to forget. Perhaps this is why mind-altering substances are so popular. I can forget everything for small periods of time. I can be blissfully unaware before reality comes crawling back and with it self-awareness. The only time I feel I can truly be happy is when life is so busy or hectic that I forget what a facade it is. 

I can't get these thoughts out of my mind. I've been thinking on this for weeks now and I believe I've said all my main points. 

If you read this or reply to this, thank you for sharing your time with me.
gpt
You're essentially describing Nietzsche's ubermensch and transvaluation of all values.  In his view, man is a bridge species to becoming the kind of powerful, rational being that can actually shape reality based on how you want it to be shaped.  The transvaluation of values is to take us from the value systems of a race of beings that is in the condition you describe, sentient enough to understand their situation but powerless to change it, to value systems that match up to what we could be: ubermensch.  

Something you should be aware of though is the omnipotence paradox: Omnipotent beings can create rocks they themselves can't lift, but then they are no longer omnipotent.  Think of it like having one magic bullet: its possible that with a lot of work, dedication, etc. you could change any one thing in the world you wanted to change: but you can't control what all of the consequences of that change or what the price to create that change will be, because those are determined by the world of many agents and not just your agency.  

And even if you are short of the level of pure omnipotence of a god, or the above described level of omnipotence of an ubermensch, there are probably still many things it is within your power to change, and it is both your opportunity and burden to decide what changes are meaningful enough for you to work for, ever mindful of the prices and possible consequences.  To understand the price, the change, and its consequences well enough requires the pursuit of knowledge, and to actually pay a price and make a change requires a pursuit of power (and willingness to spend it).

Lastly, you're wrong when you say life is a facade.  For it to be a facade, the meaninglessness has to be the "real" or more important side of the coin.  But in an absence of things to give meaning, the reality lacks any means to truly distinguish itself as more important than those things that only act like they do have meaning.  This is what existentialists point out when they are talking about absurdity: that really "acting like" is as good as "being" meaning that a surreal, romanticized, or any other "unrealistic" view is just as real as the cold meaningless starting point.

Lastly, if we are truly living on an empty stage in which we can act out any absurdity we wish, enact any change we desire enough, then we are free to choose to become something different than we are now by the act: think of the actor who learns from their character, or the writer who wants to see where their creation will go.  We are the playwrights as well as our own audience, and it would be incredibly boring to do nothing but sit on stage and wait for stage directions that won't come.  So the question to ask yourself is, at the very least, what kind of life would you like to watch?