If nothing happens after we die, what's the point of it all?
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Friend, have you considered becoming a full-time philosopher?
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Also punching trees is a lot of fun.
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We're just smelly sacks of biology like a rat or a lizard who happen to have developed higher reasoning capacity for whatever reason.
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I promise that I will die. Even if it takes the rest of my life!
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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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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," -
the number of trees I've punched in life is more than zero.
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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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a game-o-sopher. when life gives you shitty loot, change the difficulty settings.
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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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Or "Bend over for authority".
Works with protestantism, catolicism and some others.
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Huh?
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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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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.
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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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Try playing disco elysium
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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)
