/lit/ - Literature

>>19118814
Wrong board

>>19118819
Sorry, I meant....
Literally speaking, is life worth living?

it depends whether or not you neurotically search for an objective meaning or if you cease thinking about it to a certain capacity, to do something with your life to make it meaningful. if you want further shit on whether or not to "continue playing the game or quit" read "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus and if instead you want to continue overthinking everything then just blow your brains out now and save yourself and everyone around you the trouble.

>>19118814
No other option so might as well.

Yes. You were built in the image of the creator, if you do His will you will partake in His everlasting kingdom.
If there is nothing after death then even thinking about it or devoting the energy to arguing about it is an illogical fool's errand.

>>19118861
>"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus
Been there. Absurdism is a mindset that you have to feel, that you have to adopt unconsciously. Simply acknowledging it consciously doesn't do it even though you might find it convincing. Your fears don't go away, the doubts stay, all the what-ifs,...

>>19118883
>If there is nothing after death
I think that there's at least a Buddhism-like cycle.
You don't need god for any of it. It's quite a reach actually.

Biologically speaking, yes.

>>19118916
No, the purpose of the product of a process isn't to continue the process, especially if it's a simply selection/mutation type process.

>>19118814
What's the cost?

>>19118929
I don't know.
What's the gain?

>>19118935
I enjoy things

>>19118943
Sooner or later you won't. What then?

>>19118943
There is also further gain than this, not to mention that "Is life worth living?" is a question that can only be answered with context and time.

Saging because this is /lit/ and this does not have a direct relation to literature.

>>19118951
They will later, though enjoyment is not the end-all be-all, and neither is sadness nor suffering.

>>19118951
Not quite sure what you mean

>>19118988
You might not enjoy things in the future, especially once you've seen enough things to just see rehashed bullshit instead of new exciting things up to the point where you make a thread about the meaning of life on /lit/ because there's no /phil/ board.

>>19119011
I guess we'll cross that bridge if we ever come to it. Eventually I'll be dead so the question won't have any meaning anymore

Thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1TiN-dBSxY

>>19119019
>I'll be dead so the question won't have any meaning anymore
Maybe but I doubt that this will be the case

>>19118814
Not really. Either kill yourself or start huffing copium.

>>19119127
>or start huffing copium.
I'm trying to go the acceptance route instead but I can't really internalize and make it a part of my personality yet.

>>19119148
There is no you

>>19119198
Ego death does nothing for those who return to life.

>>19119198
Or maybe it's all there is.
Either way, it doesn't matter because there's something(you or not you). Depersonalization might not be the answer.

Nothing is worth anything, Life included. Death isn't worth anything either. This is all there is and it has no value, no purpose, and no meaning.
Many find their own brand of delusional cope and we should leave them alone. There's nothing to gainbin inspiring waves of suicide

>>19118814
The simple answer is yes. If you ask how much it's worth living, it varies through contexts, so that is not answerable.

>>19119250
Nothing to lose either, you pussy.

>>19118875
This.

Yes brother, make the most of it while you can. God has blessed us

>>19119217
I agree. Cringy af to see some loser talk about mUsHroOm TrIp I’m A NeW HuMaN

>>19119534
Then why initiate action?

>>19118814
>Is life worth living?
Well since that's a subjective judgement the statement can be rephrased as "do you think your life is worth living" and in my case the answer is yes.

Life is short, it will be over soon.

>>19118814
Yes it is not, not that it isnt

>>19118814
It is when you have a twink to pound on the reg.

>>19118814
Your soul is eternal OP. Once you realize the objectivity of good and evil. And how to distinguish them. You will find the reason to live.

>>19118814
Yes. I've always been filled with despair, so when I do something, I go all the way and live without regret.

>>19118814
no

>>19118951
Why would I care about what happens later? It’s not here yet.

>>19119588
I was trying to point out that you're still holding onto a value judgement. If there's nothing too gain from mass suicide there's nothing to lose either. I don't point that out only in an effort to mock the logical inconsistency, which isn't really important, but in an attempt to give notice to the kernel of value you still hold, which with some nurturing can hopefully pull you out of the nihilist zone.
>their own brand of delusional cope
I hear shit like this and it's just more cope. It's holding a feeling of intellectual superiority over non-nihilists because YOU figured it out, and even in this pointless existence you can rise above the rest. Cope upon cope I'm sick of that word.

>>19118924
humans are not products.

>>19118814
Jesus loves you bud

>>19118814
damn that gif and this track matchmade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfnn4VHOBOM

>>19118814
Yes
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>>19119534
>Nothing to lose either, you pussy.
you don't know what loss is little zoomer. the world will break you soon enough

>>19120200
What the fuck are you talking about? If you move your mouse cursor over the number sited in my original post, you can see the post I was responding to you absolute fucking retard.

>>19118814
Yes no maybe I don't know

Life worth living is not an syllogism, it's a feeling. You have something you'd be fine doing for the rest of your life. Maybe you set it aside because you thought it was frivolous, or you'd never make it. Take that, unite it with a spirituality, any spirituality, and get a move on.

>>19119127
What is your particular brand of cope, anon?

>>19119250
>Many find their own brand of delusional cope

Ah yes. The delusional cope of nihilists. *leaves him alone*

>>19118814
Is death worth dying?

>>19120605
Of course

>>19118814
Maybe. You might as well either way. It's not as though you're going to miss your chance to die if you don't kill yourself.

>>19120340
I’ve had many copes over the years. Christianity, Taoism, depressive realism. Currently I’m on Platonism but the delusion is slipping.

So Becker was right?

>>19118814
Sometimes

>>19118850
*Literarily speaking

>>19118814
yes
>>19118875
this desu

Existential terror is an inherent part of the human condition, since man is both a worm doomed to decay and die, but also posessing a consciousness and intellect that can roam far beyond himself. Most people cope by following the culturally and socially prescribed path forward.

>>19120717
Can you elaborate on why your platonism is slipping?

>>19118814
No. But it’s too late, you’re here. Commit suicide or don’t, either way you’ve already lost

>>19118814
Ye

>>19118915
God doesn't really mean a being in the most refined conceptions. That's just the path, the signs, that the intellectual tradition made use of. It's no more a reach than Buddhism or Hinduism.

probably not. Life is ultimately an utterly meaningless existence. Nothing "you" do is truly "your" choice, everything is decided for you by larger influences you can't possibly understand. Even "you" are merely a product of external influences; it makes no difference whether you live or die because it will be the difference between a machine functioning or breaking down--either way, it will one day be replaced. Everything you were told growing up about meaningful living is a lie invented to stave off the darkness. Embrace it, anon. The sun gives you light and burns your skin. You live, and suffer, and suffer more and die the same, and none of it matters. All your triumph and all your trials come with you to the grave. And maybe, when you have understood the utter meaninglessness of your life, the absurdity of existence and the nothingness of reality, maybe you will come to understand something. But continuing to believe in the world, in a meaningful "existence", is only the conceit of a powerless ego, and the search will drive you further into torment.

>>19118814
yes big yes live for the new explorations

anyone who truly disagrees would not be able to write so in this thread

>>19122285
Fucking brutal

>>19119534
Based life-affirming

>>19118814
who knows, we keep doing it though.

You have to be more specific.
Is my life worth living? Yeah. Is yours? Probably not.

If you want it to be yes

>>19118814
of course not, faggot

>>19122618
Elon is looking FAT.

>>19118814
who cares

Life is all I've known and all I have to cling to

>>19118814
Do you enjoy your life, anon?

>>19122640

>>19122832
I'm not sure

>>19118814
Funnily enough I also only open up /lit/ when I'm feeling existential dread or equivalent, I wonder why.

>>19118814
If you treat it like it is, then it is.

>>19123879
Same

>>19118814
Not living is the default state. You were not alive during most of history and you will not be alive for most of it.

The amount of time in which "you" can experience the world, for better or for worse, is infinitesimal. Which doesn't mean it is or has to be insignificant. Why not give it a go?

We come to the world unwillingly. We're given form and existence without our permission or knowledge. With time we acquire the ability to interpret ourselves and the world around us. That's the tragedy of life: there isn't a manual for this shit and everyone has to figure stuff out as they go. There's suffering and sacrifice along the way.

Is it worth it? I think so.

>>19118814
Idk senpai, atm not really. Making shit pay for my degree because of geographical location and debt. Wouldn't nearly be as depressing if I wasn't a chronically single 23yo who hasn't had sex in 3 years and the first girl I was romantically involved with broke it off after the third date where I took her to the movie drive in and fingered her in the bed of my truck. Smh didn't even get my dick touched.

Wish there was a war I could suicide into so everyone saw it as noble and not despicable.

Sometimes I feel so bad from that imploding head feeling I get from extreme depression I just lie down on the floor. Then I think about my life and fail to find a reason to struggle any longer.
I've been running on no enthusiasm at all for life for the past 10 years. I've spent all this time as a living dead, functionally.
I used to have so much enthusiasm when I was younger. I remember I wanted to travel and see the world and everything looked like it would turn out good.

no, but you can't kill yourself anyways so why not make something good out of it while you still haven't burned out like a candle?

Yeah it's chill I like it

>too lost in world to make it
>too much of a coward to kill myself
this limbo is the worst.

>>19124106
>We come to the world unwillingly.
>We get taken away unwillingly.

I really wouldn't mind the first if we at least got some choice over the second. Gimme a couple hundred years to live or a body that doesn't start breaking down after 25.

>>19124170
you ever try reaching out to God through prayer, as a last ditch effort, to ask him to make himself known to you

>>19125301
yes for one year straight
I no longer bother

>>19125568
Actually I still bother I just don't really believe anything will happen.

I don't enjoy life at all, so I would say no. I think only the perpetual numbness keeps me here.

>>19118814
No.

No, it's a fundamentally evil thing.

>>19118814
Yeah.

you decide. no one has an answer