/lit/ - Literature

>>22309598
allow me to rant more. ive been thinking, some people are more adept at conceptualizing and philosophizing about life, meaning, theory in a particular field. i think it shows up in MBTI scores consistently. anyway, its a blessing and a curse in that you see through the facade of everyday material life but it doesnt do you any good to daydream and especially form some kind of theory about it all. i think it ruins your unique experience (phenomenology) and you are more inclined to feel depressed about life and its purpose. you have to be relatively intelligent to make that observation though and so you should be smart enough to bring yourself back. instead of being depressed about seeing whats behind the curtains, you have to then use that knowledge to get back into the game. if you wanna be blunt you can say 'to delude yourself again' but thats stupid and naive. you have to be clever about approaching life back after something like this and find your niche. i brought this up in an archetypal way because i see it in other people who have the same burning questions about life and i thnik they are more inclined to end up on websites like this. to give you the opposite person, its someone who is living in the moment, creating a history, however temporary, without questioning its grand meaning. they are intune with their 5 sense and have no need to look beyond, they will find it boring actually to debate these questions. there are advantages to both types (this is not an absolute dichotomy) but there are also weaknesses and each has to understand how to manage their weaknesses, especially if its causing them existential crises (former cases), or complete lack of direction and then heavy consequences (latter case).

>>21631018
They will create an advanced artificial intelligence and call it God, and it will rule over them. Chipped, half silicone cyborg men with an incomprehensibly advanced capacity for understanding yet devoid of any of the feeling, frailty, emotion or humanity which would make such an understanding valuable in the first place.
They will digitise their benign souls and then they will pray for death but will not be able to die.

>>21530266
I pretend to have no choice.
If I held a gun to your head you'd sit there and read.