Just throwing my two cents in here: I always had a hard time accepting moral categories e.g. good and evil, right and wrong as something universally applicable. It's quite natural to seek certainty and therefore also truth but my personal opinion as of today is that even if there was absolute certainty and truth out there, we wouldn't have the means to identify it as such without doubt due to our limits to rationality.
Trying to understand or even know things might just be one of the many mechanism we would ultimately try out in order to achieve ultimate chance of survival. The more you know the better you are prepared to defeat potential threats, right?
Still, this "it's all about survival of the fittest" approach has left me rather unsatisfied ever since. I can't really tell where spirituality or seeking not only knowledge but also meaning fits in here. It would also be hard to distinguish between "natural" desires and socially trained ones.
Regarding true selflessness, another thought of mine: I personally think that 99.9% of the time people are selfish and egocentric but for some awkward reason we are capable of loving. It can't be for reproductional purposes only since most living things reproduce without the necessity of loving each other, also we are capable of loving a person we would not want to reproduce with. Once we actually love another human being, his or her interests are valued higher than our own which, ultimately, is against any survival or self-preservation instinct. That gives me hope and I am trying to love without the expectation of being loved back.
PS: this text seems oddly familiar, I might be wrong but have I seen this yesterday on write.as?
PS: this text seems oddly familiar, I might be wrong but have I seen this yesterday on write.as?
Yep. I mirror everything here on there, and post some other things there besides.