What is the meaning of Life ?

Human Life has Meaning under all circumstances – This statement can be made unqualified because:

• Meaning is not only found in that which one does (in one’s work, hobbies, commitment to a cause, etc.). but
• Meaning can be realized in that which we experience (e.g. in nature, in art, in relationships).
• Meaning can be realized through the attitude that we take in the apparently meaningless, tragic, situations which cause unavoidable suffering.

The Human being's Will to Meaning is his primary motivation. It is more powerful than the Will to Pleasure (Sigmund Freud), and the Will to Power (Alfred Adler, & Friedrich Nietzsche).

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 Viktor Frankl’s Avenues to Meaning – A Compendium of Concepts, Phrases and Terms in Logotherapy, by Patti Havenga Coetzer, D.Phil., LFIBA – 2003: 8-10

Despair is suffering without meaning. If one could see a meaning in one’s suffering, there is no despair!” (Havenga Coetzer, 2003, p. 33) ~ Viktor Frankl’s Avenues to Meaning

Tragic Optimism for Frankl is:

• to turn suffering into a human achievement, to an accomplishment;
• to derive from guilt the opportunity of changing oneself for the better; and
• deriving from life’s transitoriness an incentive to take responsible action.

To be DUMB = To be a Conformist 👉 ONLY dead fish goes with the Flow

Conformism: In an effort to evade the stress of authenticity – of living lives of personal responsibility – people fall into the stream of conformism and do what most other people do. They are afraid to be different and take a committed stand. They feel safe by going along with the crowd."

Shantall, 2003, p.p. 104-105 ~ The Quest for Destiny

Cocoon Killer - Post Cold War Confessions by An agent

An unofficial history of human behavioral research experiments reveal that :

When there is no problem, it shows the void existence and zeroes' growth. When you get everything you need, there is nothing remains for you to do ahead which is called the living dead stage of our growth.

An unverifiable story disclosed by An ex KGB agent cum self introduced research psychologist Alexei Ivanovik has recently published in dark-net records about human behavioral researchers conducted by governments during the Cold War era.

He was also known as agent Ubisyta Kokonov - (Cocoon killer in English) who was supposed to find methods to modify the behavior of human beings in favorable ways government machinery wanted. In other words, it was all about building human robots with no electronics or machines inside.

A significant part of the disclosure is shared here for readers’ interest

Behavioral research scientists had conducted secret researches among three dozens people (As per unofficial records of KGB) during the cold war era about their behavioral patterns on doing nothing mental stage.

Initial 2 days people were feeling happy that they were getting everything in hand without many efforts. Tasty food, vodka, sleeping comforts, sexual urge fulfilling, good music, and all possible five-star facilities were given. Eventually, they were forced to “do nothing” so that they get their food, water, and rest of the comforts on time.

Day 3 onward, half of them started to breakdown as it was impossible for most of them to stay doing nothing. Surprised? That’s true. Human beings cannot stay for a long time without doing anything.

By the 6th day, almost everyone surrendered and still, they were forced to do nothing so that they could get all survival needs to be completed. Those who were reluctant started to get a reduction in their comforts and eventually they came back to the struggling state of mind. The broken persons slowly become active to get the comfort back. They had pleaded to do anything (remember it was opposite actions to - doing nothing state ) to get the comfort.

Two of them (as per the disclosed stories) were able to survive till 8 and 11 days by doing nothing and by then they lost their identity forever as they were behaving like nonexisting human beings. They forgot almost their pasts, history and started to respond to new names what the researchers newly used to address them. However, the command and instructions were not been working on them as normal human beings and eventually they lost their interest in food, sleep, need of existence, etc. and both of them were taken away from the lab and further records were not available in the lab records to find what happened to them.

Coming to the psychological points of researches which were summarised by agent cocoon killer are listed here:-

1. Human beings cannot exist when no struggles are there in life

2. We lose our interest in everything when we get essential things without efforts for a long time.

3. Identity crisis and identity lose can happen if everything comes with zero efforts

4. The human brain is wired to solve the problems and find solutions

5. The brain cannot ideally go for zero thoughts or thoughtlessness.

6. What we say as thoughtlessness is ideally staying in a single thought

Courtesy: Cocoon killer Confessions from the darknet