I mean, there is no meaning in nature, it was man who invented it, and often it appeared because of a scarcity, for example, the point is in a beautiful woman, because you are unlikely to find another one as beautiful, right?, or can you find a person who will support you and accept you as you are, like your loved ones? The examples are not the best, but I hope you get the idea.
In addition, I will say that about a year ago I watched the film “The Seventh Seal”, and now sometimes I feel in the place of a character named Antonius Block. I dismissed the inevitable by refraining from suicide as a teenager, thinking I could find the meaning of life, but what was to be expected, nothing worked out. But especially now, how shall I put it… in the age of AI, it is impossible to escape the truth, self-deception no longer works, at least for me personally.
Chess Game with Death:
i decided to live vicariously through trump and act like i’m winning all the time regardless of reality, like my white trash brethren
you create meaning in your own life
life is fun
Instead of making a post about it. I suggest you seek professional help.
what you are describing is the economic situation.
on the free market, the thing that is profitable is always the thing that there should be more of (according to market pressures). this is universally true across all branches of economy. if you open up a company that sells shoes, and nobody else has any shoes, then you can sell your product at a high profit margin. but if there are already 2 million shoes for 1 million people, then you will have a difficult time selling yours as well, so it’s not profitable for you at all.
the same happens with the “beautiful woman” example that you cited. the reason why you think that you have to be with her now, urgently, is because there is too few of them. so there should be more of them, and that’s why it’s profitable to strive to be with them, if you get what i mean. in a certain sense, by doing so, you are in fact helping to make sure that there will be more like her in the future, because by striving to be with her, you are increasing the average number of children that she is going to have.
so, you can look at things through the free market perspective, which is largely equivalent to yours, but has the added benefit that there are a lot of clever people having developed very useful tools to analyze it in the past.
Is that chess scene from The Seventh Seal? Always enjoyed seeing that clip pop up.
In terms of finding meaning; try out as many hobbies and practical skills as you can. When you find one that makes you lose track of time, run with it.
Make it your goal to improve that skill as far as you can, and allow that to provide you a meaning to the regular day to day life.
I try to reason my way into uncertainty that we dont know if a meaning exists, maybe it does, we dont know for sure anything, no evidence either way, if u have to believe something, believe something that makes u happy.
It is a blessing that life has no meaning. You can give it any meaning you want without having to delude yourself from the “right” meaning.
Your life meaning could be charity, attempting to reach the pinnacle of your hobby, teaching and empowering others, success, dismantling tyrrany, competition (like that in sports and other hobbies), creation and building, etc. Find one that you believe in, and help others to find theirs
You can choose multiple, but many is too great of a burden to carry.
Sounds like you’re in the Pessimistic Nihilist stage, you just need to process things and then progress yourself to either Absurdist Nihilist or Optimistic Nihilist
yeah imperialism provided cheap money to workers through high demand for human labor. that’s decreasing now, so workers go through the five stages of grief:
- denial (AI can never replace human workers)
- anger (it’s the billionaire’s / AI company’s fault)
- bargaining (we’re yet to see this step develop, my guess is tax reforms)
- depression
- acceptance
depression is actually a theme throughout the whole process, so not limited to the 4th step, that’s just where it’s most intense. at the end however is probably the nihilistic optimism stage.
Myth of Sisyphus is a great book if you want to lean into the absurdism
there is no meaning to life without context. Trying to find “meaning” is like walking through the forest blind. you give meaning to your life.
when I say, “the roses are beautiful,” every person provides their own meaning to what that entails. some think of red roses some yellow, others white. then the beauty is only provided by the context of the audience based entirely on their subjective associations of beauty.
the meaning of life is what you make of it, since you are your own audience.
I’m glad there isn’t a meaning to life. If there was a meaning, then I’d have to be doing that thing or be failing at existence. If no act matters, then I’m equally valid for doing my goofy nonsense as I am working hard or whatever.
Optimistic nihilism is the way to go. We make our own meaning.
that’s easy for you to say. it’s just that a lot of people don’t have a gut feeling that tells them what to do. so, for many people, without an external leader of sorts, they fall back depressed and sit around all day, at least that’s what i’ve learned from observing the people around me.
i’d even go as far as to say that there’s a very strong correlation between being politically left/right and being able to find meaning in your own life from within, without an external leader/authority/religion telling you what to do.
I’m still looking for whatever is making that smell.
Check the lint trap/filter in your washing machine, a blocked drain can make the machine itself smell funky.
Alternatively an ionizing (ozone producing) HEPA air filter is worth its weight in gold, uses high voltage arcs to split air into ozone and other free ions that break apart viruses, microbes and makes dust highly statically charged to pull them out of the air.
Or wash under your nose ;D
Corollary-- that doofus, cool-kid guy on the right is probably going to do something stoopid, likely to bust his own argument…
Well, there’s different degrees of “matters”. Obviously if he causes harm to himself or others there will be consequences that matter! This is specifically referring to anything intrinsically mattering on some sort of cosmic scale.
Hmm…
Please feel free to go on, Samus…Sir Pterry put it better than I ever could:
“All right," said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
“So we can believe the big ones?”
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
“They’re not the same at all!”
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”
MY POINT EXACTLY.”
Try to enjoy the last of the abundance, things aren’t going to improve.
