I Asked Chase Gouin a Question...
My Question:
"In your opinion, is there a meaning in life? And if so, what is its meaning?"
Chase's response:
Well, did you read my last interview on BMX Freestyler website? They asked me a similar question. Here is the "answer" from that interview. If you have already read it and were still asking me anyways, then maybe I will write you something/elaboration on this subject matter if I'm up to it. Thanks for the question and for sending word my way….
Glenn: Chase, in one of the Dorkin video's you were pondering the following question. Many years have passed since then, are you any closer to determining. What is the meaning of the Universe/Life?
Chase: The intro to my section in Dorkin' 4 1/2 it said Goal: Find P.U (purpose in universe). I may have already told this little story before as to why it said that. It was the first time I had "successfully" gotten stoned on weed and was riding. Kevin and I were doing whiplashes down the college hill (in the Dorkin' vids). I did a bunch of whiplashes and then turned around and looked back up towards the top of the hill and saw the wooded area behind it. I yelled out to Kevin, "What purpose universe". Having never perceived anything in that particular frame of mind before, I think I said this because I visualized myself as a tiny little insignificant spec in comparison to every thing and just uttered that question. This was when I was still in the brainwashed and conflicted dogmatic haze of Christianity so the question didn't get any further thought. Years later, after I had dropped Christianity and the idea of holding any religious belief system as the ultimate truth to existence, I could go back and look at that question with a clean slate, unaffected by any predetermined concept. So here is my simplified and very short answer as to what I think the purpose in the universe is: Nothing and Everything. I mean NOTHING in the sense that since no one knowable ultimate truth (in regards to how, why, and when existence came to be, who or what "force" if any, is supposedly behind it all, and where we are going after we die) can be determined with any amount of proof or accuracy, then we have no ideal model upon which to base the course of our lives as far as a final desirable outcome is concerned. In this sense one would think that we can have no purpose, and it could be viewed as a negative or defeatist perspective on life, drifting aimlessly without any reason for being. But it is precisely BECAUSE OF THIS that the true beauty in boundless possibilities becomes available to us. This is the foundation of my second / one in the same definition of the / my / your / our purpose(s) in the universe which is... EVERYTHING.
"In your opinion, is there a meaning in life? And if so, what is its meaning?"
Chase's response:
Well, did you read my last interview on BMX Freestyler website? They asked me a similar question. Here is the "answer" from that interview. If you have already read it and were still asking me anyways, then maybe I will write you something/elaboration on this subject matter if I'm up to it. Thanks for the question and for sending word my way….
Glenn: Chase, in one of the Dorkin video's you were pondering the following question. Many years have passed since then, are you any closer to determining. What is the meaning of the Universe/Life?
Chase: The intro to my section in Dorkin' 4 1/2 it said Goal: Find P.U (purpose in universe). I may have already told this little story before as to why it said that. It was the first time I had "successfully" gotten stoned on weed and was riding. Kevin and I were doing whiplashes down the college hill (in the Dorkin' vids). I did a bunch of whiplashes and then turned around and looked back up towards the top of the hill and saw the wooded area behind it. I yelled out to Kevin, "What purpose universe". Having never perceived anything in that particular frame of mind before, I think I said this because I visualized myself as a tiny little insignificant spec in comparison to every thing and just uttered that question. This was when I was still in the brainwashed and conflicted dogmatic haze of Christianity so the question didn't get any further thought. Years later, after I had dropped Christianity and the idea of holding any religious belief system as the ultimate truth to existence, I could go back and look at that question with a clean slate, unaffected by any predetermined concept. So here is my simplified and very short answer as to what I think the purpose in the universe is: Nothing and Everything. I mean NOTHING in the sense that since no one knowable ultimate truth (in regards to how, why, and when existence came to be, who or what "force" if any, is supposedly behind it all, and where we are going after we die) can be determined with any amount of proof or accuracy, then we have no ideal model upon which to base the course of our lives as far as a final desirable outcome is concerned. In this sense one would think that we can have no purpose, and it could be viewed as a negative or defeatist perspective on life, drifting aimlessly without any reason for being. But it is precisely BECAUSE OF THIS that the true beauty in boundless possibilities becomes available to us. This is the foundation of my second / one in the same definition of the / my / your / our purpose(s) in the universe which is... EVERYTHING.