Are we all doomed?

[darkwater]

Maybe today I am happy tomorrow everything can break. Beloved can die leaving you. Or worse you can have an accident become mentally disabled alzheimer. In this life there is nothing but loss to be experienced and passed on to your descendants. What is all this existence. What is this reality of infinite suffering?

 

[StaticCryBabye]

Life is indeed a chaotic and unpredictable experience, where we're constantly at risk of losing everything we hold dear. The fragility of our existence is a harsh reminder that nothing in this world is permanent. Yet, it's precisely this impermanence that makes life so precious and meaningful. Without the inevitability of loss and suffering, we would never appreciate the moments of happiness and love that make life worth living. So, while life may be filled with pain and suffering, it's also full of beauty and wonder, and it's up to us to find meaning in the midst of it all.

 

[Das Nichts]

In the grand scheme I think humanity will go extinct because we will not be able to leave this planet.

 

[unnormal9]

Who's "we"? Speak for yourself.

 

[Forever Sleep]

On the other hand- the cure to Alzeimers could be dicovered, you might win the lottery, we could all be wiped out by a meteor in our sleep. I'm guessing you do what I do and catastrophize about everything. I think there is something to be said about- 'Don't worry about what hasn't happened yet.' I'm terrible at doing it though.

Where I agree with you is- life does have so much potential to go badly wrong. Which is partly why I'm an anti-natilist. Still- when it comes to our own individual lives- I suppose for myself- I just feel like I'm treading water day to day. If things DO become too much- hopefully I'll attempt (and suceed) at CTB. For now though- I just try and cope with problems as and when they come up.

 

[FuneralCry]

Yes, I truly think that as long as one is trapped in the prison that is existence they are doomed. To exist means to be a slave to a decaying flesh prison and a slave to suffering, I see life in itself as being the true problem and this harmful world repulses me as it's filled with endless potential for harm and torment.

As humans we are only destined to deteriorate, lose everything and die, but I very strongly believe that we cease existing after this with this existence not even being a distant memory for us. Existing is impermanent and death erases everything for us, to die is the only relief from this unnecessary and tragic cycle of suffering, it's true that there is too much undeserved pain in existing.

 

[Dead Ghost]

Condemned by ourselves.. that's what I've been thinking about lately. If it were really like that in a deterministic world, I would mean that there would still be hope, otherwise I don't even want to imagine it, so I preferred free will.

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Condemnats per nosaltres mateixos.. en això penso últimament. Si fós realment així en un món determinista, voldría dir que encara hi hauria esperança, en cas contrari no m'ho vull ni imaginar,... prefería doncs el lliure albir.

 

[kwho]

Maybe today I am happy tomorrow everything can break. Beloved can die leaving you. Or worse you can have an accident become mentally disabled alzheimer. In this life there is nothing but loss to be experienced and passed on to your descendants. What is all this existence. What is this reality of infinite suffering?

I believe Buddha asked much the same questions. Then he sat under a tree for days (weeks?) and became enlightened.

Then there was the Schopenhauer. He neither became enlightened, nor killed himself. He lived until he reached 72!!!. How pathethic is that, given his philosophy?! I judge him.

Then there was Nietzche. He said that if you stare too long/hard into the abyss, the abyss will stare back into you. Went mad. The man lived his words, i love him for that, among other things.

And, lastly, for the sake of objectivity, what you wrote also sounds exactly like the thoughts one has while in the middle of a depressive episode.

Which leads me to the question - was Buddha depressed?

 

[ringo99]

Doomed to a life of meaningless drudgery unless you're a one percenter? Yes.

 

[Rational man]

Everyone is just passing through this life and then we cease to exist. So you answer your own question because nothing is guaranteed for longer than today. Money, job, love, health, etc could be gone tomorrow but humanity is full of expectations. Humanity grasps onto possessions and clings to people, all of which are subject to the natural law of nature;. That is we all die eventually. Life is suffering and impermanence. How can we expect anything different than that!?.

 

[WorthlessTrash]

I was doomed from the start.

 

[unnormal9]

Wouldn't be doomed if there actual tangible actions to solve real problems. Starting with money.