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Touhou is medicine

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People throughout history pondered questions about why we exist. People in the past have come up with other ultimate truths and beliefs in the past, namely religion. Religion gives people a false hope believing their existence and reason for being has purpose and there is an incentive to adhering to the tenets of a religion. Whether you believe in a God or not, this fact is true. If the Christian God exists, Vishnu and Zeus gave people false hope in the past. If Allah exists, other Gods from other religions gave people false hope.

However, the truth remains true regardless of what you believe. Much like how Mathematics is universal. 1+1 = 2 in America and 1+1 = 2 in Africa, regardless of that society's culture.

So presented with the truth that "Life is objectively meaningless" and you accept the fact Gods don't exist, it's natural to come to this conclusion without invoking some supernatural explanation.

The question is how you interpret it. Some people feel crushing hopeless and despair at the thought. And that's completely natural. Humans, along with basically all animals, are egocentric. People desire to feel that they themselves are important because that's literally how evolution works. Selfishness allows for the individual to survive over others and pass along with own genes instead of others. But just because "Life is meaningless" doesn't automatically mean is inherently hopeless. It's just indifferent to how we feel about it and interpret it.

Personally, I wouldn't consider myself a Nihilist because I believe you can create own your personal "Subjective Meaning" in life regardless of the absurdity of it all. I'm aware of the impending oblivion that awaits when I die, but I didn't exist for billions of years before I was born and I didn't really mind it. So I really won't mind it if I die and stop existing again. I realize everything is ultimately pointless, so I shouldn't stress out over the suffering in my life.

It's kind of like going to an Amusement Park that you can only enter once and your memory gets wiped after leaving. We're not going to a theme park for some express purpose of appeasing some God. We're just here for the ride and to enjoy ourselves before we have to leave. We only have one opportunity, so even though I'm aware that attending the theme park is ultimately meaningless, I'll just go with the flow and not get depressed over it.

In short, you can probably derive your own subjective form of hope despite how bleak Nihilism sounds.