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I have death anxiety. Mostly my own death if I think about it too much. However the meaning of life is different for everyone. I've yet to find my own personal meaning but maybe I don't need to. Maybe just enjoying life the best I can is enough until I cease to exist again.

I'm more leaning towards skipping it because of the It miniseries leaving such a bad taste in my mouth

Bovine forces.

If that's how the world is, what will angsting do about it other than make you uncomfortable? Accept that fact and do what you want with your life. It doesn't matter either way.

The circumstances of ones birth do not matter. It is what you do with the gift of life that is important.

Go out and do something meaningful. Keep striving towards the future. Every little drop causes bigger and bigger ripples until a mighty wave grows. Don't ever think of yourself as meaningless. So long as you matter to one person you can change history and have meaning in even a small way.

I'm part way through Jurassic Park

"yeah i guess it's fine to commit crimes if you are the victim of other crimes"

Well I really am a carefree dude

can't wait for the movie adaptation of the whole Depp-Heard fiasco. They both seem like abysmal awful people full of spite and anger and the movie will be like an extravagant Great Gatsby version of Marriage Story.

I assure you, it's surprisingly easy to hurt the feelings of most of PotD

Eh, just like shorter lifespans, eternal life would probably be what you make of it. The only issue might be if you were trapped somewhere for long durations, although even then

Otherwise I'm not sure I can agree with things lacking meaning due to permanence and, I should note, even if you were immortal, you'd still have moments with limited duration. Even within peoples' short lives they have tons of moments, many of which either directly contributed to the person they are today or from which they extracted some meaning. (I guess a comparable example would be somebody who has short romantic relationships vs long romantic relationships. The short relationships would have a direct change in partners (and the people themselves might change over time partly based on those relationships), whereas the longer relationship would see the nature of the relationship change over time. In the scope of things, arguably the longer relationship probably has more meaning since it continually evolved even though the shorter ones have more surface-level changes.)

And in the cosmic scale of things, I suspect that even if people lived forever, they'd constantly change, unless they were stuck in a setting that precludes change.

Meaning is less significance than duration anyway. And honestly, you don't even need meaning to find purpose anyway.

Of course, the realization that death is seemingly inevitable is more troubling. If we cured aging, death would still exist.

https://youtu.be/M6Kq3mu9734?t=29

I heard a quote a long time ago that I've stuck by: "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."

There is no inherent meaning, so we create our own. Consciously creating meaning in the face of existential dread has helped significantly.

I don't think about it because what's the point of thinking about it? You can't change it so just move on to more important things.

Realise that it is only apparently meaningless from our limited human perspective. Our very existence as opposed to non-existence suggests the possibility there could be some overarching meaning to reality which we are unaware of. The best we can do is to continue to study philosophy/science/religion/whatever and perhaps eventually we will make significant metaphysical discoveries.

I find it liberating because if life has no inherent meaning, that means its not dictated by someone else and you can live however you want to live.

Oh, for sure. Several times people here people have said they believe I have no friends but I'm actually pretty social. Real life is pretty different from message board environment. On the same token, I've seen people that were previously friendly in real life be total dicks to those same people on Facebook. People like to vent online in ways they wouldn't in face to face encounters

Nah. Thats my kitten, Orchid Mantis. She was helping my wife as she took the picture.

^this guy salvias

Yeah that's a rookie mistake. Ketamine is a come down drug, not a start up drug. You take it after the rave while chilling in your hotel room, not right before going in lol. Glad it still worked out for you though!

we probably read the same article lol

Having done both: DMT is definitely the more intense of the two, but salvia trips seem to have a greater potential for a bad time. I've never really had a pleasurable experience on salvia. The weird body sensation is just too uncomfortable for me. But DMT feels like my body has been wrapped into a warm blanket while my mind is blasting off. I doubt I'd do salvia right now if it was offered to me, but I'd probably do DMT.

But in terms of short acting disassociative psychedelics, ketamine is the one I'd recommend anyone try once. It's like the exact opposite of salvia: comfortable, blissful, and instead of coming out feeling like you just took a trip through hell, you feel like you got a glimpse into how to be the ideal you. There's a reason it's being used to treat depression these days.

That's like 50% of the conversations here probably. I think I've seen almost everyone here bitch at almost everyone else about something at some point

Hey shouldn't be a surprise for you I'd imagine lol

Hasn't Sunny got many alts?

I'm not saying it wasn't, I'm not sure what you mean here.

The actor seems to be referring more to the reaction to the film, rather than the film itself. That audiences saw the protagonists racism as being justified by his good attributes. And maybe that it wasn't wise to release a film like that into the American culture.

Just based on my reading of the article. It's been ages since I saw the film.

Woah buddy this is a peaceful flopic

Eh, I wouldn't say that moment was reflective of her entire personality. There's also a lot of context missing in my story that isn't really necessary unless I wanted to do a dissertation on my relationship. She didn't go about that moment in the kindest way, but she wasn't a bad person or anything. We're still friends.

It was not in a friendly way. She said it in a way like she was grossed out and I should have already known about this gross thing and not been doing it. I'm glad she said something though because I would have never known otherwise!

can someone shame me though

please daddy

Well, apparently it isn't Always Sunny in PotD.

omg, you actually look like a Yara