Coping with Nihilism

[Anonymous No.22017874]

How the fuck do I cope with the fact that our existence is meaningless and that we will all just fade into darkness upon death. My parents are le atheists so I wasn't raised to believe in anything but the full scope of nihilism only hit me early this year because I was going through some shit. I was so motivated at uni to do well but now I can't mount the motivation to do anything. I am so completely blackpilled that I don't even give a shit about the direction my country is heading or the state of my life. Everyday I just move around like a zombie and do half-assed uni assignments and then go to bed. I know you fags don't give a shit if I kill my self but how the fuck do you guys cope with this? Am I just missing something? Are there some books that can at least stave off this soul crushing dread so I can live a decent life? I read the stranger because a friend recommended it and didn't help at all and just made me feel more shit.

[Anonymous No.22017878]

Swtg

[Anonymous No.22017884]

>>22017874
You have to pray. If that doesn’t work initially, go talk to a psychic or astrologer or something

[Anonymous No.22017889]

>>22017874

Realize you are mistaken and that humans in fact serve an important role in a larger process

[Anonymous No.22017890]

/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22017891]

>>22017884
pray to what religion or just generally so some deity?

[Anonymous No.22017910]

>>22017874
All copes against nihilism are simply self-delusion or just ignoring the issue. Since I'm not a schizo or a retard I just try and keep myself preoccupied with other shit.

[Anonymous No.22017913]

>>22017910

>>22017889

Just as extreme optimism is a delusion, so is extreme pessimism. Things are not as good as we hoped, but nor are they as bleak as we feared.

[Anonymous No.22017920]

>>22017913
Yeah I think I've come to that conculsion too. It's just endless copes unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.22017928]

>>22017920

No, it isn't. I'm disagreeing with you. Refer to the linked post that isn't yours.

[Anonymous No.22017929]

You have to come out on the other side of nihilism by realizing that existence being meaningless ISN'T A BAD THING.

You're combining the belief that existence is meaningless with the idea that it shouldn't be. That some meaning SHOULD exist, that purpose is necessary, and that things that don't have a purpose in some vast cosmic scheme are less valuable.

But all of those ideas are delusions. There is no such purpose, never has been, and what is best of all, IT DOESN'T NEED TO EXIST. A true Nihilism should be freeing, not crushing, because you have not had something stolen from you, you've been freed from impossible demands and can do whatever you want with your life, and no matter what you do, there is no Higher Purpose you have betrayed by doing what you wanted to do instead of what it wanted.

[Anonymous No.22017934]

>>22017928
ok I see. I'll try and make the most of it

[Anonymous No.22017936]

>>22017929

>But all of those ideas are delusions. There is no such purpose, never has been

...That you were personally able to figure out. See: >>22017889

[Anonymous No.22017938]

>>22017874
Think on the fact that nothing in this universe can disappear without a trace. Science tells us that nothing, not even the tiniest particle or form of energy can disappear. Nature does not know extinction, it knows only transformation. Think about that for a moment.

Now, if this fundamental principle is applied to even the tiniest particle in the universe, don't you think it also applies to the masterpiece of creation, the human soul, in other words, your conciousness? I think it does. We are concious and know we exist, and that I think is reason enough to continue living.

[Anonymous No.22017943]

>>22017929
I agree with what you are saying. It's just hard to figure out what I really want and how much I am going to have to suffer to get there when their is no over arching purpose. I suppose I should focus on relinquishing some of my desires.

[Anonymous No.22017945]

u don't need a book, u need magic mushrooms, or better yet, ayahuasca. see u on the other side, cowboy

[Anonymous No.22017949]

>>22017874
https://fs.blog/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/

[Anonymous No.22017950]

>>22017889
>we become le robot...and then le bigger robot!
So? Transhumanism gotta be the most painfully reddit tier ideology. Back to r/singularity fatty

[Anonymous No.22017953]

>>22017874
similar situation to you rn, basically npcing university but I have started given less of a shit about life lately and been trying less hard. absurdism is the philosophy for normies who have this type of issues so check that out ig it was cringe imo though. having a therapist helped me he didnt give my life meaning or smth but its nice to have someone to talk to about this stuff who actually listens and can provide meaningful insight (if they are competent at their job), i have also been trying to get into shit that people generally enjoy and add some more color into my life like music or poetry idk just hoping i like one of em and gives my life something to look forward to in the everyday idk desu i have the same problem and couldn't solve it but maybe it helps gl

[Anonymous No.22017956]

>>22017874
I assume you're in your late teens? I used to feel like that back then. As I reached my early-mid 20s, I started to realise that life is actually beautiful
I recommend:
1) get out in nature more. city life is soul poison
2) get a hobby (a creative one like art or music ideally)
3) experiment with psychedelics (i recommend something like mescaline if you haven't had any experience with psychs before)
4) start meditating and reading about spirituality

It does unironically get better, as cliche as it sounds. You're just in your angsty teen phase

[Anonymous No.22017958]

>>22017953
holy shit i typed desu accidently i will kill myself now i think its a typo but i dont know what type of word i typod to come out as desu i don't even use it legit ending it

[Anonymous No.22017959]

>>22017958
lurk more newfag

[Anonymous No.22017961]

>>22017874
Create your own purpose
Half assing uni is boring.

[Anonymous No.22017962]

>>22017874
>How the fuck do I cope with the fact
This isn't a fact. It's an opinion.
>that our existence is meaningless
How do you know it is meaningless? Just because you don't know the meaning doesn't mean it is meaningless.
>we will all just fade into darkness upon death.
How do you know this?

>how the fuck do you guys cope with this?
By reading literature and philosophy.
>Am I just missing something?
Yes.
>Are there some books that can at least stave off this soul crushing dread so I can live a decent life?
Just start reading philosophy. I recommend starting with Plato.

[Reprehensible Pervert No.22017965]

>>22017945

[Anonymous No.22017969]

>>22017953
Thanks man. One piece of solace I have is that we are all in the same boat and meeting someone in the wild who feels similarly to me a couple times was comforting. Just figure shit out as we go.

[Anonymous No.22017970]

>>22017950

Go swine go, trample the shit out of those pearls!!

[Anonymous No.22017972]

>>22017958
baka desu senpai

[Anonymous No.22017973]

>>22017959
i just realized that shit existed holy shit i thought people were just fucking braindead and typed desu, i probably have at least like 800 comments and posts combined and this never happened like holy shit my eyes have been opened i guess y just dont abbreviate often

[Anonymous No.22017974]

>>22017945
>u don't need a book, u need magic mushrooms, or better yet, ayahuasca. see u on the other side, cowboy

[Anonymous No.22017977]

>>22017962
Your right that I can't know that it is all meaningless but I suppose we can't really know. I bought The Republic is that the best way to start with Plato?

[Anonymous No.22017978]

>>22017969
yeah pretty sure my problem stems from having no hobbies aside from video games my life is a cycle of basic human functions uni shit and league of legends, i think if i spice it up a bit with poetry/music/any other hobby and some interaction with humans it will get better

[Anonymous No.22017999]

>>22017978
I'm trying to read a bunch more because I always found enjoyment in that as a kid and yeah I think just being social is one of the best ways to stave it off because I'm basically an autist and my mind thinks about 1000 different things instead of meaning when I'm with people.

[Anonymous No.22018008]

>>22017999
true true social interaction is kind of op could probably due with a nerf. honestly reading never really helped this feeling for me but i quite enjoy it and i read quite a bit nowadays its definitely better then mindlessly scrolling social media by like 10 orders of magnitude though, when i said poetry in my previous messages i mean writing it I enjoy reading it but it doesn't fulfill me and it doesn't allow me to express my feelings which is kind of why i like poetry

[Anonymous No.22018016]

>>22017950
>Single cells posting on cellnet
>We become...le bigger organism! Multicellular ideology is Reddit tier

[Anonymous No.22018041]

>>22017874
>How the fuck do I cope with the fact that our existence is meaningless and that we will all just fade into darkness upon death
Unironically study NDEs and realize that there actually is an afterlife and that we are eternal and will go to heaven unconditionally when we die. And NDErs talk about how the meaning of life is to learn to love and be kind and thrive here despite how hard it is in this world. So neither of the things you wrote are actually true. And while the Bible and the Qu'ran convinces few people who do not already believe, the book in pic related is known to convince even hardened skeptics that there is an afterlife.

>b-b-but NDEs are dreams or hallucinations somehow
Already explicitly refuted in the literature you likely have not read on NDEs.

Here is a very persuasive argument for why NDEs are real:

https://youtu.be/U00ibBGZp7o

It emphasizes that NDErs are representative of the population as a whole, and when people go deep into the NDE, they all become convinced. As this article points out:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mysteries-consciousness/202204/does-afterlife-obviously-exist

>"Among those with the deepest experiences 100 percent came away agreeing with the statement, "An afterlife definitely exists"."

Since NDErs are representative of the population as a whole, and they are all convinced, then 100% of the population become convinced that there is an afterlife when they have a sufficiently deep NDE themselves. When you dream and wake up, you instantly realize that life is more real than your dreams. When you have an NDE, the same thing is happening, but on a higher level, as you immediately realize that life is the deep dream and the NDE world is the undeniably real world by comparison.

Or as one person quoted in pic related summarized their NDE:

>"As my soul left my body, I found myself floating in a swirling ocean of multi-colored light. At the end, I could see and feel an even brighter light pulling me toward it, and as it shined on me, I felt indescribable happiness. I remembered everything about eternity - knowing, that we had always existed, and that all of us are family. Then old friends and loved ones surrounded me, and I knew without a doubt I was home, and that I was so loved."

Needless to say, even ultraskeptical neuroscientists are convinced by really deep NDEs.

[Anonymous No.22018048]

was it autism?

[Anonymous No.22018069]

>>22017889
billions of years just to turn into one half of daft punk

[Anonymous No.22018071]

>>22017874
Well, so long as you're alive, you're feeling things that feel real enough to do something about, meaningless or not. You felt bad enough about what life appears to look like to you to post about your feelings on an online forum. You can't control your country but you can control how you choose to look at it and interact with it. So what's stopping you from moving around like a living person trying to find better reasons to wake up and deal with life every day?

[Anonymous No.22018086]

>>22017974
nta but what kinda font is that for the mushroom?

[Anonymous No.22018094]

>>22018041

https://neurosciencenews.com/death-nde-consciousness-23161/

[Anonymous No.22018149]

>>22017953
>i have also been trying to get into shit that people generally enjoy and add some more color into my life like music or poetry idk just hoping i like one of em and gives my life something to look forward to in the everyday idk desu i have the same problem and couldn't solve it but maybe it helps gl
that's jsut hedonism, it's the whole purpose of the atheist society

[Anonymous No.22018152]

>>22018069
Unless you Get Lucky

[Anonymous No.22018213]

>>22017874
reddit image and post

[Anonymous No.22018262]

You done it to yourself bro. You gave birth to yourself. You dream into the world

[Anonymous No.22018274]

well if nothing matters, then "nothing matters" doesn't matter. the real problem here is not that nothing matters, it's that life being meaningless matters to you. life is not meaningless, it is meaningfully bad.

so what's the cure? there isn't one sorry. But try fostering a burning seething hatred for err 'coloured' types. your hatred will get you through the day. seeing n4ggers get hurt, shot and murdered will make you smile. fantasize about total nigger death. apocalypse niggers. vaporize niggers. shove em all in woodchippers and tap dance on their fucking graves. no such thing as a meaningless life when nigger corpses litter the ground and the streets drown in nigger blood. suckle on the bosom of nigger blood and feel meaning in your life.

[Anonymous No.22018280]

>>22017953
I wish I found my love for poetry while I was still in university. I graduated when I was 24 but I was like 26 or 27, maybe even 28 when I got really into poetry.

[Anonymous No.22018284]

I think it’s difficult to accept because it feels so otherwise in the world we inhabit, but there’s no reason God, gods, some sort of afterlife aren’t real. All of the theories which assert that there’s nothing when we die are just theories. Ironically, they’re not even scientific because that’s a hypothesis that can’t be tested. Science is looking down and dissecting things while religion is looking up and taking in the big picture. Just because things can be dissected into little pictures doesn’t mean there is no big picture.

[Anonymous No.22018679]

>>22017874
> our existence is meaningless and that we will all just fade into darkness upon death
Do you have a single fact to back that up

[Anonymous No.22018718]

>>22017874
You're still in uni? You have not seen the abyss yet. Wait until you get out with a shit job and nowhere to go.

[Anonymous No.22018789]

>>22017929
>meaninglessness
>not a bad thing
Jesus man.

You have to understand, nihilism is a threat to your own survival. There is no motivation or will to keep going if you cannot overcome it

[Anonymous No.22018810]

>>22017913
>>22017889
>>22017874
The Buddha's middle-way between eternalism and nihilism, which leads to the 4 Noble Truths.

[Anonymous No.22018917]

>>22017874
>I know you fags don't give a shit if I kill my self

You shouldn't kill yourself. If you have the blues, sometimes this is just a physical biochemical imbalance in the body that can be addressed witha simple pill. Yes, the existential question is always there, but your current response to it is more likely than not also a function of a physical issue in your body that is easy to address. After you've restored the chemical imbalance in yoru body than you can come back and ask the existential question (something people grapple with for years, not in the space of a few weeks of crisis at uni) without the chemical bias.

[Anonymous No.22019303]

>>22018149
What? Is this a critique? are you saying i shouldnt strive for a more meaningfull existence and that brings me well being and satisfaction?¡

[Anonymous No.22020376]

>>22018810
This is the actual answer just in case anyone was wondering.

[Anonymous No.22020826]

>>22018789

No, intellectual understanding of the pointlessness of things doesn't suddenly free you from your animal instinct for self-preservation. These two things are in absolutely irreconcilable tension with each other, although the latter retains a certain primacy. This is actually one of Cioran's better observations throughout his work (because in making it, more than once, he is validating an observation which I had made well before ever reading him).

[Anonymous No.22020850]

>>22017874
What an absolute soulless, plebbit, bugman rendition of the Flammarion engraving OP. I think this shit rendition perfect illustrates what is wrong with materialistic, atheistic, nihilism, it’s completely devoid of soul, and is completely oblivious to the divine that underpins this universe. If you want to unfuck yourself OP start with the art you use and synergize with.

[Anonymous No.22020863]

>>22020376
A way you can really tarnish the nobility of your religion is with shitty normalfaggot memes.

[Anonymous No.22020873]

>>22017874
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9NhjMOWUNY

[Anonymous No.22021058]

>>22017891
There is a God and he loves you. Go from there.

Read the Old Testament and Aristotle. Discern the nature of God beyond le bearded man in the sky. Or watch Jordan Peterson’s lectures on Genesis.
>inb4 muh peterson = bad
His biblical lectures are great

[Anonymous No.22021079]

>>22020873
Yes, do as the schizophrenic virgin who drowned himself.

[Anonymous No.22022670]

>>22017874
>Life is meaningless, I should do nothing
>Life is meaningless, I can do anything.

You're not nihilistic, you're pessimistic. Find literally anything you can motivate yourself worth doing. A gf, a monotonous job, a passionate industry, an ideology, nationalism, globalism. It doesn't matter, you know it already, but pick something that distracts you from the pain of mortality. You're probably just lonely though. Get some friends.

[Anonymous No.22022688]

>>22017973
Lurk for 2 fucking years before posting or get off the board. Fucking newfags I swear.

[Anonymous No.22022701]

>>22021079
He drowned in his owned genius, you nigger.

[Anonymous No.22023092]

>>22017874
Just learn to not give a shit. So everything is ultimately meaningless and you’ll die someday. So what? If there’s no structure or greater meaning, then it actually frees you in a way.

Life often feels like a fight against time, doesnt it? No matter what you do, no matter how much you appreciate the current moment, it slips away. For me the solution to this, to “pause” time in a way, is to deeply engross myself in some positive or creative pursuit. I achieve this somewhat through my writing, but also other ways. Isn’t there anything that you’re passionate about or that you love? Have you ever played music or created art? Have you ever studied another language seriously, or spent time in nature or with animals?

[Anonymous No.22023142]

I was in the exact same situation when I was 18. Life's meaningless took a heavy toll on me.
After almost 10 years of reading books, seeking religion, trying some drugs, I ended up becoming an atheist, hard-deterninist, pessimist, antinatalist.
But I am not absolutely miserable, in fact, I feel quite good. Once I fully accepted these ideas I kind of began rolling with them. The sleepless nights stopped, the constant dread, it all went away once I acknowledged all of it as "the truth".
I don't care about the way my country or the world is going, I don't care about the future, I don't care about whether people believe in this or that, I just don't care about anything trascendental anymore. I write, I read, I consoom a little. I'm glad that death is the end of everything and O look forward to eternal oblivion.
I recommend reading the "scary" nihilism books like The Denial of Death, The Last Messiah, Emil Cioran's works, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, etc. You face that shit head on, you'll come out stronger

Getting a girlfriend and a job also helped a lot, you should look into it.

[Anonymous No.22023165]

>My parents are le atheists
>Waaaah why did my parents not raise me as brainwashed cattle rape bait!!!
Ungrateful faggot. Your parents are too based for you.

[Anonymous No.22023182]

>>22020826
>doesn't suddenly free you
Yes it does, it's called learned helplessness which will absolutely happen to you if you get nihilistic for too long

[Anonymous No.22023232]

>>22017874
Take the absurdism pill

[Anonymous No.22023349]

>>22023182
ITT:

[Anonymous No.22024267]

>>22020850
Destruction of icon. OP is absolute filth

[Anonymous No.22024390]

why would i cope with nihilism in the first place

[Anonymous No.22024952]

>>22017874
>our existence
step 1: don't lump me in with you, if you want to talk about the lack of meaning of YOUR existence, do so. but don't overreach over to my existence.
step 2: stop finding so much meaning in nihilism. if you feel justifiably unmotivated to study and politic, then why do you feel so motivated to spout the millionth nihilism rant? a true nihilist doesn't act like you.

of I forgot step 0:
Jesus saves!

[Anonymous No.22025016]

>>22017874
My life was very whitepilled in youth and gradually became greypilled as adult life start setting in.
I then studied Schopenhauer and became extremely blackpilled and realized the human species condition.

[Anonymous No.22025114]

>>22017874
who cares just kys ffs

[Anonymous No.22025418]

>>22020850
>>What an absolute soulless, plebbit, bugman rendition of the Flammarion engraving OP.

the flammarion itself is product of the atheist thought
The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology").[1] The wood engraving has often, but erroneously, been referred to as a woodcut. It has been used as a metaphorical illustration of either the scientific or the mystical quests for knowledge.

[Anonymous No.22025425]

>>22017874

[Anonymous No.22025433]

>>22017874
Posts like this strike me as abhorrently ungrateful. I say this as an atheist and strictly speaking a nihilist, but you have this strange, bizarre, unfathomable gift of life and existence in this beautiful, wondrous, mysterious universe with manifold experiences and insights to gain and unfold, and you sit there whining because at some point you'll go back to not existing. Not only this, but you have access to immense wealth if you're going to uni, not to mention electronic access to the vast accumulated work of the human race, all the art, the music, the philosophy, the academic pursuit, everything lies before you awaiting a mere lift of your finger. I wake up every day in dumbstruck awe of existence, of all the interesting things to learn, all the people to spend time with, all the experiences to partake in; we have this kingly banquet set before us, and you gripe about apathy? If you complain while these embarrassments of riches lie before you, you are worse than a spoiled child. If you truly can't appreciate the enormous opportunity you have been gifted, may I humbly suggest you may have a legitimate chemical brain imbalance. Grow up. Seize the day.

[Anonymous No.22025478]

>>22017874
>How the fuck do I cope with the fact that our existence is meaningless and that we will all just fade into darkness upon death
So?

>I was so motivated at uni to do well but now I can't mount the motivation to do anything. I am so completely blackpilled that I don't even give a shit about the direction my country is heading or the state of my life. Everyday I just move around like a zombie and do half-assed uni assignments and then go to bed
Anon I don't think that nihilism has anything to do with it. It seems like you are just a sad lazy fuck with a poor sleeping schedule, shitty diet, no friends and a faggy gay major that your parents picked for you. Ideas of meaning or meaninglessness can't actually make you feel good or bad about your life - they are just ways of rational interpretation of experiences you have. Those decide how you feel, abstract concepts and ideologies can only help you decide what to do with how experiences made you feel. If your experiences are trash, then every single ideology will be a "blackpill" for you. Garbage in - garbage out.

Go outside, touch grass, make friends, have sex (preferably with a women so that it makes you less of a cocksucking faggot), lift wights, start with the Greeks, etc.

[Anonymous No.22025602]

Become anglican

-cute garden parties and parish feasts
-old ladies call you handsome
-opportunities to get outside, keep a schedule and volunteer
-meaning and peace through the infinite mercy of Christ
-lots of /lit/ sermons about the original greek/hebrew
-cool robes and incense

[Anonymous No.22025606]

>>22017874
Explain to me what you mean by "your existence is meaningless"?

[Anonymous No.22025623]

Take the taoism pill

[Anonymous No.22025779]

>>22017929
It is a bad thing. If it’s meaningless, it’s absent of meaning, and this absent of good and the definition of bad is the absent of the good.

[Anonymous No.22025783]

>>22022670
Not everything you can pick will become a reality. In the end, it could be hopeless anyway.

[Anonymous No.22025787]

>>22023142
Can’t relate. My job is probably the single biggest source of misery. It’s comparable only to the failure of having a job which is purposeful and meaningful.

[Anonymous No.22025996]

>>22025433
If life is not demystified for you by your late 20s then you are just low Iq. I dont mean that offensively but there are philosophies that exist that encompass entire worldviews of the entirety of reality. One that comes to mind is Schopenhauer.

A chain of old causal events with no overarching telos is pretty fucking lame.

[Anonymous No.22026025]

>>22025783
Go find out then, nigga, and stick to the thing that DOES become reality

[Anonymous No.22026039]

>>22026025
Not that anon, but none of the things I chased in life became reality, no matter how much effort I've put, it simply wasn't meant to be and I just wasted my time. It seems that I'm not fit to have and do things that I want, and the options I'm given are not to my liking.

[Anonymous No.22026122]

>>22017874
I'm not even a nihilist but the world is fucking shit, anon. I think you'll be okay. Look at it as an end of suffering.

Even in the 90s, when the world was 100x better, people still experienced:
- vicious heartbreak
- torture
- starvation
- disease
- war
- lifelong injuries from one wrong move
- staying with a partner who's more an enemy than a friend
- homelessness
- severe depression
- addiction to hard drugs

And on and on. Become okay with death because even some of the best leaders in history acknowledged that this planet is mostly wretched.

[Anonymous No.22026138]

>>22023142
>I recommend reading the "scary" nihilism books like The Denial of Death, The Last Messiah, Emil Cioran's works, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, etc
They're essentially death cult books that tell you to not have children and preferably kill yourself. I'm a nihilist but not the type that thinks the human race should go extinct.

[Anonymous No.22026152]

Everyone in this thread is a retard. OP, what you need to do is embrace egoism and sadomasochism. You need to learn to both love and hate yourself. Your disappointment and listlessness stems from an overgrown sense of empathy and a misapprehended feeling of connection with humanity. You're not fulfilling yourself, so you're seeking a surrogate fulfillment in hope for mankind, which is just a projection of your own selfhood onto the ambiguation of others. If you can't fufill yourself and accept the ultimate end of your life, hate yourself and take pride in the fact that you deserve it, with the knowledge that everyone else will be a blind retard right up until the moment of their death, which if you think about it is extremely arousing.

[Anonymous No.22026162]

>>22017874
What makes you think (you) are that which 'dies'?

[Anonymous No.22026628]

>>22017874
Read philosophy consistently for 2+ years. Good philosophy. Start from pic related.
Also, the 2+ years is the real important thing here. It does not matter what worldview you subscribe to, in the end, or what books you read, as long as they are good.

I have been reading consistently good philosophers and good novels (both ficiton and poetry, if good, can also serve the purpose), for about twenty years now, and I can tell you that your perspective on life after sustained reading will change radically, for the better and the worse. What is working for myself is this: the only way to keep the dread at bay is to think about it, and to push your mind to the utmost limit in order to contrive some way of making sense of things. Most of these ways will fail, especially through the first years, but it will get better with time. You won't understand everything, but little things will start pointing towards a larger, possibly more intelligible picture.
But again: this is only something you can get through sustained commitment to reading - in the same way as artisans or athletes who commit to their activities acquire a wisdom that comes from commitment in time. Pay constant attention to life, or an aspect of it, and it will get better.

The other way to deal with this is to escape in entertainment, drugs, numbing jobs, etc. It may work for a while but everything you sweep under the rug, mentally speaking, will stay there to get you when you feel the weakest. So focus on something, pay attention and read.

[Anonymous No.22026895]

>>22025996
What an incredibly arrogant thing to say. You think you have "demystified" life? And not only do you have all the ultimate answers about life, you think this diminishes the experience of it? I weep for such people as you. The deep and profound are no less so by knowing their origin and mechanics. When you gaze into the eye of your lover, do you suppose the existential connection you share is a simple matter which has been "demystified"? Or, perhaps, are you shutting yourself off from the wonders of life with a ready excuse that they have all been "demystified", and so you aren't missing out by not participating in "A chain of old causal events with no overarching telos (which) is pretty fucking lame"? Again, the ego to believe that ONLY your position is head by those of high IQ is naive to the extreme. I hope you are able to shift your thinking, being both self conceited and also sorry for yourself is a poor use of one's life.

[Anonymous No.22026921]

>>22026628
My go-to for existential dread is to compare temporal positioning with physical positioning. At any given time, you aren't very bothered that you don't exist everywhere in the world, right? You could exist across the room, and out in the street, and in Paris, but you're usually content to exist only in one place physically. Why not with time? Must you exist in all of time? Why not be content with existing only in a certain part of time, for, in a sense, that part of time will always be yours.

Lucretius had a good line in The Nature of the Universe about if your life has been good, you should retire from the feast of life satisfied, and be humble enough not to complain for more, but if your life was bad, you should welcome the end to it, that nothing else bad will be added to it. A bit pithy but I liked it.

[Anonymous No.22027093]

>>22026895
>Again, the ego to believe that ONLY your position is head by those of high IQ is naive to the extreme

I hold my position above those I deem lower IQ because I can actually coherently answer "MOST" big questions to life. Other types of atheists have to rely on "I dont know" or the religious "God did it".

When you can see through the curtains of the magic act play and see the mechanics behind the gimmicks. It becomes a lot less interesting.

[Anonymous No.22027167]

>>22017874
it's either religion or egotism for you anon, there's no other way out. personally, i think Christianity is the way to go.

[Anonymous No.22027228]

>>22017874
If nothing in life matters, the simple tought of that also doesn't matter.Stop worrying about it

[Anonymous No.22027495]

>>22017956
You started off well until you told the guy to kill his brain with psychedelics.

[Anonymous No.22027640]

>>22027093
>When you can see through the curtains of the magic act play and see the mechanics behind the gimmicks. It becomes a lot less interesting.
Based on this statement alone, I can guarantee you don't sufficiently comprehend the nature of the universe.

[Anonymous No.22027729]

>>22017874
Become Catholic. It was in a similar position as you that I learned to submit to God.

[Anonymous No.22027744]

>>22017874
Realize existentialism.
Everything happens for reasons and it is undeniable. Everything has a purpose, even if that purpose isn't always satisfying. Stop stopping and start starting. Figure it out.
>Verification not required.

[Anonymous No.22027817]

>>22017874
Every illustration I see now, like this one, I assume is made by AI.

Must suck to be a real illustrator or graphic artist at this point.

[Anonymous No.22028050]

>>22027817
Honestly, I mildly suspect every single image, text, even sound and voice I come across on the internet to be AI-generated nowadays.
The Dead Internet Theory is not some schizo conspiracy theory anymore. Hopefully, this will make people stop giving a shit about the internet and get a life in the future.

[Anonymous No.22028065]

>>22017949
holy shit I posted this entire letter in a thread a few months ago.