If nothing happens after we die, what's the point of it all?
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The purpose of discipline is to live MORE fully. Not less. There's nothing noble about suffering.
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This. "It is a cheap generosity that promises the future as compensation for the present."
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There's no point in living, but make sure you take a couple of the bastards with you when you go down.
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Hey now, isn't your religion all peace and niceties?
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there is no point. simply try to enjoy it
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No; it's not all peace.
It's about truth and justice. -
Shows your ignorance.
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Plenty happens after you die. You're just not there for it.
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To make evil men and women powerful.
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Does there need to be a point? We eat because we're hungry, sleep because we're tired, live because we're instinctively apposed to death.
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The point is there is no point. No higher order. We're an accident of physics.
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There are two types of thinking about it:
- There is no point in living. We are doomed to get into the grave, and eventually be forgotten forever.
- There is no point in living. No higher order, no higher purpose, no higher authority. We are free to live our lives, to explore, to insert any meaning whatsoever into it. We are forging our own destiny.
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There’s nothing after this, so make the most of what you get. Try leave your corner of the world a slightly better place then when you were born.
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And, protip, you're not going to be around for option 1 anyway.
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people still manage to catch a glimpse of happiness. Why?
Why not? Happiness comes from what happens while we're still alive. It's ""just"" a question of finding those things.
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Nietzsche was low-key a little too excited about the meaninglessness of the universe, from what I've seen.
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Why aren't you creating meaning?
Without a god, there's only one option left for anyone with agency - us.
The fuck are you doing whining about it? Time's wasting and you don't have much. Get out there and build something that matters.
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You've got to outlive your enemies
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Why does there have to be a point? I have no legacy, I'll never pass anything to the next generation, I have and will not ever make anything that changes the course of humankind, the world will probably not be a better place after I am gone. But I still feel happiness when I see a beautiful sunset, I laugh when my dog does something goofy and I smile when I see others expressing real joy. I don't have to have a direction to still enjoy life while I am here to enjoy it.
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I think life is about maximizing positive subjective experience. If it doesn't make you happy or allow you to live happy in other moments, don't do it. Work sucks, but it gives you money that allows you to buy things that make you happy.
