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Topic	How do you deal with your existential angst that all life is inherently...
ParanoidObsessive 03/03/21 12:29:28 AM #48:	GunslingerGunsl posted... How do you deal with your existential angst that all life is inherently meaningless? What existential angst? For me, the idea that life DID have meaning would be the utterly terrifying thing. Because you'd never be entirely sure if you were actually doing what you were supposed to, living up to your potential, or otherwise achieving or furthering that meaning. It would be like if all existence was an MMO and you're the asshole AFK in the corner trying to figure out what the buttons do while the rest of your team is trying to pick up the slack and screaming at you in team chat. Believing life is ultimately meaningless is incredibly freeing. It's very comforting knowing that I'll eventually be dead, and literally nothing I did in life will ever really matter, because on a long enough time scale everything ends. The greatest fuck-ups, assholes, and villains in all of human history will eventually be forgotten, humanity itself will die, the stars will all burn out, Earth will either be a cold cinder floating in an infinite void for all eternity or be torn apart on the subatomic level and dispersed across infinite space, and there will be no one and nothing left to observer, remember, or judge. And for most of us, we won't even have to wait for the inevitable end to be forgotten - most humans will have their own individual personal impact on the world/universe smoothed out to zero within only a few generations, or maybe a couple dozen or so at most. Even if you have tons of kids and they have tons of kids, eventually those kids will lose track of you in the weeds of the family tree and forget you ever were. And the rest of the world certainly will. But if literally nothing you do matters, then paradoxically, the only thing that matters is what you choose to do. Live a life you enjoy living, and stop worrying about what you leave behind or whether you "mattered". Like I posted in another topic recently, "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may be dead. Que sera sera. Dum vivimus vivamus." --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:951278876] in How do you... [t:79325363]...</cite> <quote><cite>GunslingerGunsl posted...</cite> <quote>How do you deal with your existential angst that all life is inherently meaningless?</quote> What existential angst? For me, the idea that life DID have meaning would be the utterly terrifying thing. Because you'd never be entirely sure if you were actually doing what you were supposed to, living up to your potential, or otherwise achieving or furthering that meaning. It would be like if all existence was an MMO and you're the asshole AFK in the corner trying to figure out what the buttons do while the rest of your team is trying to pick up the slack and screaming at you in team chat. Believing life is ultimately meaningless is incredibly freeing. It's very comforting knowing that I'll eventually be dead, and literally nothing I did in life will ever really matter, because on a long enough time scale everything ends. The greatest fuck-ups, assholes, and villains in all of human history will eventually be forgotten, humanity itself will die, the stars will all burn out, Earth will either be a cold cinder floating in an infinite void for all eternity or be torn apart on the subatomic level and dispersed across infinite space, and there will be no one and nothing left to observer, remember, or judge. And for most of us, we won't even have to wait for the inevitable end to be forgotten - most humans will have their own individual personal impact on the world/universe smoothed out to zero within only a few generations, or maybe a couple dozen or so at most. Even if you have tons of kids and they have tons of kids, eventually those kids will lose track of you in the weeds of the family tree and forget you ever were. And the rest of the world certainly will. But if literally nothing you do matters, then paradoxically, the only thing that matters is what you choose to do. Live a life you enjoy living, and stop worrying about what you leave behind or whether you "mattered". Like I posted in another topic recently, "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may be dead. Que sera sera. Dum vivimus vivamus." --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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