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If nothing happens after we die, what's the point of it all?

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    It's important to me that I have no goal or purpose, and I will focus on making that come true no matter that.

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    I promise that I will die. Even if it takes the rest of my life!

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      We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?

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      First existential crisis? There's isn't one. Once you make peace with that fact then you can overcome the existential dread of oblivion and move on content in the understanding that nothing you do matters in the long run, and focus your energy on something else.

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      • G [email protected]

        We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?

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        Nothing happens to you after you die. The pieces to pick up and carry on is on those we leave behind, if we are remembered well. If not, the pieces to pick up and throw out is on them too, anyway.

        If nothing happens after we die, it's the same thing as that nothing happens in a movie after it's ended. I hope that the character I was will still exist in peoples' mind even after I go. I've recently started to embrace that "All the world's a stage" thing a lot and lot more, recently.

        "All the world's a stage,
        And all the men and women merely players;
        They have their exits and their entrances,
        And one man in his time plays many parts,"

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        • H [email protected]

          Also punching trees is a lot of fun.

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          the number of trees I've punched in life is more than zero.

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          • G [email protected]

            We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?

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            if one's life was just loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work it might appear pointless

            maybe there is lots of other things to do?

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            • M [email protected]

              Friend, have you considered becoming a full-time philosopher?

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              a game-o-sopher. when life gives you shitty loot, change the difficulty settings.

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              • G [email protected]

                We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?

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                "There's no point living, so you may as well die" is so last decade. "There's no point dying, so you may as well live" is where it's at

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                • G [email protected]

                  We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?

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                  I welcome you to study Islaam to know the purpose of life.

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                  • liberatedguy@lemmy.mlL [email protected]

                    I welcome you to study Islaam to know the purpose of life.

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                    Or "Bend over for authority".

                    Works with protestantism, catolicism and some others.

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                      Or "Bend over for authority".

                      Works with protestantism, catolicism and some others.

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                      Huh?
                      what's your point?

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                      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deG [email protected]

                        From what i've observed, people deal with "there's no higher power" differently.

                        For some people, that i call right-wing, or authoritarian, having some higher power that tells them what to do, is the meaning of life. If they lose that something, then they become depressed and stop living, in any sense, a joyful life.

                        On the other hand, there are people, which i am comfortable to call left-wing, or hippies, or communitarian, who don't need that higher power to tell them what to do, in fact, it rather obstructs them. They are joyful even in the absence of a higher, guiding power, because they can find their own meaning in life.

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                        IMO the need for a higher authority is both because of fear of death, and to be lazy and not think about what is right and wrong. So either excuse yourself (ex. catolicism, ask oardon from god not the victim) or just believe "your" religion gives you the right to do as you please.

                        So stop living in fear and embrace the absurd that we, simple 100 years tops organic blobs live in a billion years universe.

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                        • liberatedguy@lemmy.mlL [email protected]

                          Huh?
                          what's your point?

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                          Oh so you edited your post, how clever.

                          It was basically a basic call for joining Islaam.

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                          • V [email protected]

                            Oh so you edited your post, how clever.

                            It was basically a basic call for joining Islaam.

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                            It still is a call to study and join Islaam.
                            I haven't edited anything.

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                            • G [email protected]

                              We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?

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                              The point is petting dogs and the warmth of their smile, crying and laughing at movies and books and music and art of all forms, its supporting your fellow being, its finally cracking some problem that you've been trying to solve for ages.

                              As others have said, if nothing we do matters then the only thing that matters is what we do. Be kind, seek joy, seek experiences, punch fascists, pet animals. Be kind.

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                                We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?

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                                Try playing disco elysium

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                                • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksS [email protected]

                                  "There's no point living, so you may as well die" is so last decade. "There's no point dying, so you may as well live" is where it's at

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                                  "We're all going to die someday. Might as well do what you love doing" - Alex Honnald. Free Solo (or something like that)

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                                  • sibachian@lemmy.mlS [email protected]

                                    life's like minecraft (survival mode). you set your own goals and then you pursue them.

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                                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUAL7CAhlyY

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                                    • G [email protected]

                                      We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?

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                                      "If nothing we do matters - then all that matters is what we do."

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                                        We spend our days bound by endless obligations. Yet, even with loneliness, failed relationships, and soul-draining work, people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?

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                                        Existentialism is the branch of philosophy that deals with these problems, I think you would have an interest in it. I struggled with these kind of questions a lot when I was in my 20s (what is the point? Does anything even matter?). I read a lot and hitchhikers guide to the galaxy was the first book that really eased this anxiety for me. There probably is no point in living, it’s fine. Everyone decides on what they are going to do based on their circumstances in life. In the end the universe may not exist again, so what, we were all perfectly fine before it existed and who knows, maybe everything that made your conscious possible will be able to exist again in another universe, you won’t have memories of your past life, at least you shouldn’t have anyway.

                                        I write a little and one of the first stories I wrote was about a being that created the universe from nothing because it was bored, I made a character narrate later on and his thought process was along the lines of “if you existed in this universe, who’s to say you won’t again in another? Whatever random events lead to life being self aware could happen again. The universe could expand until there is no energy left and then retract until the next big bang does it all again. It may not happen for the next trillion cycles but eventually something could happen again like it is now. Maybe it’s all happened before and we just don’t remember it.”

                                        So, even if you don’t find a purpose. You are not alone in your journey. It’s part of being human, to have awareness of your own existence but powerless to know as to why you exist. Some people just can’t handle those kind of truths, it scares them stupid and that’s why you get things like hedonism, flip it the other way and you get nihilism. Despair can come from both.

                                        My own personal thoughts on it are:

                                        You are alive and you are able to do as you please. You always have a choice. If you make your life a journey of accumulating a larger number than others then so be it, I am happier without playing any number games. I want to see things and meet people and interact with them. I love petting cats and dogs, I love ducks. I enjoy the fact that my tongue evolved enough so that I can enjoy the taste of good food and tasty bourbon. I like to know that I am helping someone or something else not be scared of existing, like if my cat is worried because of a noise, I can soothe her nerves and she doesn’t have to feel fear anymore. I am still able to see the good in humanity even if I don’t have much faith in the world currently. There are problems with society as it currently stands in the west but if everyone can find it in themselves to be honest with each other and help one another out then the world will be somewhere worth living in, no matter how short that time is in the grand scheme of things. One day the sun will explode, will the universe care about some billionaire’s wealth? No. Nor should anyone now, if that’s what they choose then so be it. What really matters is not what you do for yourself but what you do for everything else.

                                        /schizo rant

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                                        • liberatedguy@lemmy.mlL [email protected]

                                          I welcome you to study Islaam to know the purpose of life.

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                                          Cults are for simpler people that are tired of asking "why" and just want to be spoon-fed some light "answers".
                                          Islam is for those of them who also fear threatened by women and girls or just simply despise them. Or both.

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