Realizing there's no objective meaning of life is liberating. It frees you up to determine whatever subjective meaning you want every single day.
I think today, the meaning of life is playing golf. Time to fulfill my meaning.
Good stuff.
I have been feeling a lot of existential dread lately
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_Some Schmo
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Re: I have been feeling a lot of existential dread lately
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
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Re: I have been feeling a lot of existential dread lately
I went through that briefly. Now I'm focused on enjoying life. Think about how lucky you are. This life is all we get, so it's all the more precious.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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_Doctor CamNC4Me
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Re: I have been feeling a lot of existential dread lately
Some Schmo wrote:Realizing there's no objective meaning of life is liberating. It frees you up to determine whatever subjective meaning you want every single day.
I think today, the meaning of life is playing golf. Time to fulfill my meaning.
Good stuff.
Nihilist!
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Re: I have been feeling a lot of existential dread lately
malaise wrote:Mormonism and other religions might depress you, but at least when you are part of a religion you can shield yourself from the pointless nature of reality with pretty lies. When I first decided that there were no good arguments for any religion (and become an agnostic atheist) I was ecstatic because it meant all the Mormon doctrines that troubled me were made up, but lately I have become more and more nihilistic. I go through periods like this sometimes, but they usually end fairly quickly...Not this one. Hmm, should stop reading Zapffe.
life's too short to worry too much. I guess I'd say its healthy to trouble your mind to the point of trying to figure it all out, but It seems there's some thin line out there that if crossed can be pretty depressing. Its a calculated trick to come close to the line and not cross it, it seems.
I feel bad. I can't say I understand your position very well. It does sound depressing though.
Love ya tons,
Stem
I ain't nuttin'. don't get all worked up on account of me.
Stem
I ain't nuttin'. don't get all worked up on account of me.
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_Blixa
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Re: I have been feeling a lot of existential dread lately
Dr. Shades wrote:What's wrong with nihilism?
Read Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility, Shades, then come back and discuss nihilism...
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
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_MrStakhanovite
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Re: I have been feeling a lot of existential dread lately
Blixa wrote:Dr. Shades wrote:What's wrong with nihilism?
Read Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility, Shades, then come back and discuss nihilism...
lol- that is like handing someone a knife blade first.