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[Anonymous No.7139299]

>life is an illusion

[Anonymous No.7139305]

[Anonymous No.7139315]

>I consider myself a realist, all right, but in philosophical terms, I’m what’s called a pessimist.

[Anonymous No.7139322]

>when you die the universe dies since you can no longer perceive the world.

[Anonymous No.7139343]

If you want to kill yourself, why don't you want to kill yourself?
Now's your chance!
I, who greatly love both death and life,
Would kill myself too, if I dared kill myself...
If you dare, then be daring!
What good to you is the changing picture of outer images
We call the world?

You're needed? O futile shadow called man!
No one is needed; you're not needed by anyone...
Without you everything will keep going without you.
Perhaps it's worse for others that you live than if you kill yourself...
Perhaps your presence is more burdensome than your absence...

Other people's grief? You're worried
About them crying over you?
Don't worry: they won't cry for long...

First there's anxiety, the surprise of mystery's arrival
And of your spoken life's sudden absence...
Then there's the horror of your visible and material coffin,
And the men in black whose profession is to be there.

Then the attending family, heartbroken and telling jokes,
Mourning between the latest news from the evening papers,
Mingling grief over your death with the latest crime...

And you merely the incidental cause of that lamentation,
You who will be truly dead, much deader than you imagine...
Much deader down here than you imagine,
Even if in the beyond you may be much more alive...

Next comes the black procession to the vault or grave,
And finally the beginning of the death of your memory.
At first everyone feels relieved
That the slightly irksome tragedy of your death is over...
Then, with each passing day, the conversation lightens up
And life falls back into its old routine...
Then you are slowly forgotten.

You're remembered only twice a year:
On you birthday and your death day.
That's it. That's all. That's absolutely all.
Two times a year they think about you.
Two times a year those who loved you heave a sigh,
And they may sigh on the rare occasions someone mentions your name.

[Anonymous No.7139344]

>life is an allusion

[Anonymous No.7139347]

>>7139299
>>7139322
How are these wrong?

[Anonymous No.7139359]

>>7139347
It's not so much that they're wrong, it's that people tend to say that crap a lot. Especially 'life is an illusion'.

[Anonymous No.7139364]

>>7139359
This is true.

[Anonymous No.7139367]

>life is a collusion

[Anonymous No.7139370]

>DUDE what if...like...we're like our universe is like the brain cell of like a like a giant like creature like^2 think about it man!

[Anonymous No.7139380]

>La vida es sueño

[Anonymous No.7139386]

>>7139370: >>7136048

[Anonymous No.7139422]

>>7139380
hindu
"Creation of the universe originated in a dream of Brahma, the creator god."

[Anonymous No.7139880]

>Life is short

[Anonymous No.7139891]

>>7139380
It totally is tho

[Anonymous No.7139899]

>>7139347
If life is an illusion, who's falling for it?

The universe doesn't die, it's just that your own perceptions stop. To say that everyone dies when one person dies is FUCKING WRONG, even as 2deep4u statements go, because the world is still swarming with people as thick as cockroaches in a chinese restaurant, despite innumerable people having perished since early antiquity (or even before)

[Anonymous No.7139900]

>Life is a rollercoaster
>"Baby"
>You just gotta (sic) ride

[Anonymous No.7139959]

>>7139899
how do you know?

[Anonymous No.7139967]

>life is an allusion

[Anonymous No.7139975]

>tfw American
>tfw all television is now digital
>tfw they did it because you can see the CMBR and therefore the entire history of the universe in analog tv's static, and they didn't want us to discover all of its secrets

[Anonymous No.7140102]

>ball is life

[Anonymous No.7140337]

>life is suffering

[Anonymous No.7140416]

>>7140102
>>7140337
>therefore ball is suffering

[Anonymous No.7140826]

>>7139299
Great, let's live up the illusion!

Seriously, I think these kind of ideas are only depressing on first sight, but are actually quite joyful. Same goes for "life is meaningless".

[Anonymous No.7141182]

>>7140826
"Life is meaningless" is comfy as fuck. Makes me think that no matter what I do with my shallow existence I'll just end up exactly like the ambitious people who attempt to change the world: dead.

[Anonymous No.7141185]

>>7139299
If that's the case, you won't mind me throwing rocks at your head.

[Anonymous No.7141283]

>>7139899
Hush. People don't take kindly to people using words, such as 'illusion' or 'death', properly. Especially religious people, and make no mistake, it is religious people who make up the figurative 'reality is illusion' crap that relies on the 'let's extend the definitions' trick.

[Anonymous No.7141305]

>>7139891
>Krazy Kat
I like you anon