/lit/ - Literature

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>>13296925
The only rational decision for humanity to make is to end itself, but we're all to stupid and hedonistic to do that. It's kind of pathetic really.

haha their dancin

>>13297259
Get that nihilist shit out of here faggot. Since you have no solutions that require effort doesn’t mean everyone should throw in the towel. How about lead by example and off yourself first?

>>13297294
There are no solutions, I'm sorry you have such an emotional response to realism.

>>13296925
I relate to that other than the last bit also fuck niggers

>>13297318
>vague realism
>just gives up
Insufferable. Please lead by example and kill yourself

No one desires meaning when they're feeling content. You feel this problem because there is something else you lack.

>>13297474
>Vague realism
What is vague about the two simple facts that existence is worthless and it is better to have never existed?

>>13297504
>existence is worthless
You clearly are looking at everything wrong. You don’t need a big flashing sign telling you the ‘purpose’ or goal in life. The fact you even chose to respond, even though your comments are stupid, shows that responding had more value rather than not responding. You just played yourself. Go outside and get off 4chan.

>>13297487
i feel this way when I'm with friends having an otherwise "great time". The only time I don't feel it is when I'm distracted, when I'm giving my full focus to something else. The moment I let that slip it's right back to meaninglessness.

>>13296925
That’s not autistic that’s a craving for human interaction. That’s part of the human experience.

>>13296925
Existence is not worthless, you have complete freedom in thought despite everything else being a determined biochemical machine. You live in a society where good health is cheap and easy and have the free time if you choose to give up foibles to explore the inexhaustible reaches of cognition and creativity for decades. Stop moping and start running the infinite ziggarut mazes of thought, the only miracle granted to us.

>>13298158
i call it autism because I'm horribly bad at face to face social interaction, even though I crave intimacy. It's some kind of cognitive/attentional issue in any case. I would give up everything and pursue writing and music, were it not for my parents and family passively pressuring me into getting a shit job in STEM

>>13298125
Then you're not actually having a great time, most likely. Our bodies are wired to bring us contentment when our needs are satisfied, which is why normalfags don't really care about meaning, but when we can't fulfill those needs, the idea of pleasure itself starts to look flawed. Why am I working so hard for something that will last a few minutes at most? And yet, when it finally happens, it's like bliss. In that moment of fulfillment, pleasure makes sense again, and you feel content.

If you always feel that emptiness though, you're even weirder than I am. That sounds like the urge to become a religious man, a philosopher, or a mystic. Most of us don't need things to make sense, but if you do, there's that path going forward.

>>13298219
Now you word it like that, I realize I often use the meaninglessness of existence as way to put things off, to not start something. In a way I've created a sort of anti-god for myself. Whereas people look to this almoghty being in their times of need and trouble, I use another metaphysical concept to fall back onto in my worst times. People say there's a comfort in the void, and I understand why. It's almost like this huge formless abstract mass that you can sink into when don't wanna deal with the world.

>>13296925
Isn't "The emperor's new groove" the fucking greatest movie ever made, OP?

>>13298279
it's up there somewhere, yes.

for real though, on the topic of movies, my favourite is probably Alice by jan svankmajer

>>13298195
>I'm horribly bad at face to face social interaction, even though I crave intimacy
You've had bad experiences with rejection in the past, and it hurts. There was likely a time in your life where you were brave, tried to truly relate to someone, but it turned out poorly. That kind of shit sits with us, subconsciously, making us blame ourselves for who we are, and that makes us feel that it is easier to not try at all, because it'll just result in rejection anyway.

You think you're bad at social interaction, and it's probably true. But it's not permanent. And it doesn't have any bearing on your fundamental worth as a human being. You can absolutely get better. It's not something that you learn overnight, as I'm sure you've heard a million times. You're on a good track by acknowledging that you crave intimacy, it means that you're not broken to the point of deluding yourself into thinking that you don't want connection. What you're going to have to do is focus on that feeling - that you do want social interaction - and then remember that every time you have the opportunity to connect with someone. Please, try, it can get better

>>13298797
i dunno man, it feels pretty permanent to me. I have an auditory processing disorder, is what they told me once. Basically it entails me not processing auditory verbal information correctly. This is one of the reasons I can never have a normal conversation with someone irl. I cannot keep up with what they're saying. To go on a tangent, on the other hand I'm abnormally good at discerning tiny sounds and nuances in music.
I don't understand myself enough to be confident. My daily life consists of an overwhelming mess of stimuli that all sort of start blending into eachother. I've got synesthesia, is what they call it.
I truly wish I would have a "normal" brain without any extremes, that way I wouldn't feel so left out and misunderstood all the time.

>>13297294
>>13296925
Passive nihilism is a female trope that when embodied by males results in romanticism rather than active nihilism because we are incapable of remaining both conscious of meaninglesness and the unconscious animal state necessary to act without higher meanings. We are bound to abstract nihilism or the traditions and determinations of the masses, the earth, and the universe. One must always be in search of a desert to find such beauty as this ... as her, who speaks in whispers and echoes of deliverance from the anxiety to be when one cannot.

>>13299238
Do you write about what your experience is like, the overwhelming mess of stimuli?

I can relate 100% to this thread OP. I think why you/I keep coming back is the desire for that feeling of connection you are talking about. But, it never fully satisfies, and it puts off developing more significant connection with people face to face. However, I still think there is SOME value to talking to people online. This thread, case in point. But, it needs to remain in its proper place in the big picture. It can't serve the purpose forever. The desire for connection, community and belonging are biological parts of being human.

>>13299999
nice numbers
but not what im looking for