I’ve been asking myself that very question for years. Why SHOULD we go on with our daily lives even though it’s all meaningless? For a minute there I thought Woody had the answer.

*Spoken like a true Atheist.* (It's sad... cuz I love Woody!)

I don't know the meaning of life but the purpose of life is to share the experience with someone you love(and its a big plus if that person loves you back) and also to come up with at least one original thought.

As a drug induced experience once taught me, we are all totally forgotten, as if we never existed at all. Even those who are remembered will be forgotten.

Death renders life a temporary meaningless illusion and those of us unable to continue lying to themselves commit suicide.

"it is the artist's job not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence"

Every living organisms has the will to survive and propagate. Every weed wants to cover the earth. That weed just reproduces and will choke out anything . The rabbit arrives just in time. Rabbits will cover the earth. The wolf arrives . It goes on until equilibrium is achieved. The invaders.

“What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after--who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.” ― Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters

Not too strong an argument. First, there were many superior minds who thought that there was a "higher sense" to it, not just a materialist nihilism- Goethe, Hegel, Plato, Whitman, Dostoevsky, Jung....to name a few. Woody is highly selective in his world-view, one-dimensional. Then, even in the case of "ultimate meaninglessness" - a healthy mind doesn't worry, because it is beyond our imagination what will be in the next million or billion years. We care about the continuity of our worries & our cultures, and these cultures last, hundreds and sometimes thousands of years. This is how our human minds perceive "what matters". And developed minds- for instance Aristotle, Leonardo, Marx (although he was wrong in his utopianism), Brahms, Einstein, Joyce... were aware that pseudo-questions stem from the lack of energy of an individual, or the exhaustion of a civilization. Optimistic, expansionist civilization & people in it don't care about some "ultimate meaning". They enjoy the energy of life's flow & energetically flow with it, not giving a damn where it flows to.

Profound and sadly true. His films are one of many great distractions from the truth. Watch “Hannah and Her Sisters” to see how he expands on this issue in one of his best films. 🎬❤️🎬

Seems like the point is in energy that we give out to those who feed off it. This is a big farm and we are the stock. Farmers remain unknown to us, common people. Game is rigged.

Slightly more pretentious sociopath heavy on narcissism light on encouragement.

Everything still exists, only in potential…..like my love life.

This guy REALLY needs something.............

Tough Assignment would be a good book or film title.

Nietsche said that the only valid philosophical question is whether or not to go on living i agree.

What I don't get about Woody is that Judeo-Christian values are at the heart of the best of his work: kindness, forgiveness, redemption, atonement of sins: he is, in a goofy sort of way, a religious filmmaker. And if If he truly believed what he's saying he wouldn't do anything - what would be the point? I truly believe that through his work he is an instrument of God's loving grace and is proof of the existence of God because he chose Woody. Oh the irony! I just wish the great man had the humility to recognize that but if there is one thing atheists lack it's that🎉

All gone. Everybody gone. New group cycles through. All replacements. Then they're gone. Next cycle. Absolutely right. People don't want to believe that. Just like the animal world...as we are all the same.

Whomever dies with most toys wins.

Gigante woody

I totally agree with Woody's assessment and have thought that way since my teens. For me, the only really useful thing to do with your life is to spend it trying to help and entertain your fellow beings get through it all. Woody has always managed to help me pass some time by capturing my attention for a short while. So have a lot of other people. Friends who spend time with me help. Musicians and artists who make you think and entertain you. Interactions with strangers are chances to make them feel better. We can all help each other through whatever this experience is if we try.

Fabulous

I can’t believe this is from the same man who is (most likely) a sick pedophile. It’s crazy how life works, really

The philosophy of Absurdism by Albert Camus. Read The Myth of Sisyphus.

Huge Woody Allen fan, who grew up with a Jewish-Italian mom - double whammy- along with a healthy (unhealthy?) dose of personal existential dread. So what makes life worth living? Love. The Beatles got it right. The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Woody Allen and George Carlin are my go-to guys when it comes to making sense of my life and the world around me. I've tried Christopher Hitchens and Jordan Peterson but they just seem to over-analyse and overcomplicate things; at least to me anyway.

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Well said by Mr. Allen.

It’s a pretty grim description of life without meaning and devoid of God. My challenge is if there was a guy who predicted that he would die and raise again and then did it. That would be a game changer in terms of the meaningless of life.

What is the meaning of life? What sound does the color red make when you it eat it in 1922 under the Staples Center?

My thoughts exactly.

"Nothing lasts forever, but the earth and sky - It slips away - and all your money won't another minute buy ..." (Dust in the Wind- Kansas)

It seems natural for human beings to try to 'make things better than they seem' (to quote Van Morrison). Pessimists tend to strip that away, but that can be for a good reason. On reflection, reality is often much bleaker than I care to think.

College dorm philosophy.

Spirits are eternal. This snake spreads lies. He was good friends with epstein. He don’t know shit

Everyone who reads these lines now in a hundred years will no longer exist and all the people in the world will be new

I think that we all know how meaningless it all seems , but normally we try not to talk about it too much. Some people are more prone to dwell on these thoughts and some others apparently wouldn't care less, but they know. Woody Allen describes the big picture meticulously. These are the existential fears of a very talented mind. It took a lot of reading and a lot of internal debate to put it all so well. It is nice to read other people's comments and discover that they also reflect on that. Let's hope our flush arrives with delay.

Great talk I can't stand existence I hope death is one truth in this corrupt hell.

This guy is one depressing fuck.

The best thing about life,is that you can end it when ever you want.

He is a genius

Oh, so what you're saying is bang your adopted daughter, no consequences, what does it matter.

Love & Death makes it worthwhile. So does Fellini's Amarcord which I just saw. My recently passed father's jokes. A nice glass of vino. My dog playing in the snow...lots of things make life worthwhile even tho it's all transient.

I understand what hes saying except for the part where "artists have to figure things out." Oh, thank you artists for figuring things out for us.😅

This is why the only thing that is important in this life is Knowing Jesus, repenting and trusting in him because this lasts for eternity!

And he really lives his life like a true nihilist! (Molesting his daughter, grooming then marrying her) (Multiple dinners with Epstein and prince Andrew) Id lose my religion too if i did the things he has done.

Why is Heaven and or He double toothpicks nonsense ? 🤔 Jesus Christ didn't think so. Nor do I . You see, the things he mentioned. The sun 🌞, stars 🌟, and so on, is where you find God and meaning ✨️. Peace everyone 😌.

If that's the fact! 😱 ALL GONE! 🤪 So, why bother! 🤣 Cuz our spirits won't die, they will live forever, and go elsewhere/another universes to live on/fullfil their dreams! ❤️

I've only seen a couple of movies but this guy is so based, many people don't recognize the insignificance of all the noise

So the meaning of life it's not to have sex with your own daughter?