Venting Being human is the most cruel joke of all

[lucid]

I just needed to say this somewhere without being bombarded with "i want to help you" comments.
Ever since my eyes were opened to existentialism, I haven't been the same. Every day I wake up knowing it's going to be the same old shit all over: talk to people, laughs will be had, I will stare at the wall contemplating life as well as my loneliness, and then I will slip back into my free trial of death also known as sleep, which as far as I'm concerned a lot of the time beats life itself. The fact we are so sentient to the point we spend every day thinking about these things is horrible. I don't want to know that we live to die, I don't want to know that there's a possibility there might be nothing after death, I don't want to be aware of any of this. Animals have life so much easier, I cherish and envy them...
When I die, I want to meet the being responsible for life, and I want to ask them "Why humans? You know what you're doing, right?"
I wish I had more friends who would just accept this kind of mindset, or even share it. Then again, the people here know.

It'll probably be another while before I post, hopefully I can start being more active again soon.
Goodbye for now, at least <3

 

[PapaSuicide]

I agree with you, for us who think and have a different perception of reality from others, life is a bad joke, pathetic and meaningless!

 

[Mara09]

I've often thought this as well, intelligence and sentience just seem to be a curse. Not being able to think and just drifting through this joke called life would be so much easier than having your head constantly filled with horrible or confusing thoughts.

I'm pretty sure the only thing nature cares about is species reproducing and ensuring their survival, I don't know why we evolved to be this weird-ass species. So smart and yet so dumb, able to make conscious, complex decisions and yet still tied down by shitty primal instincts. No animal should ever be intelligent enough to question life itself and everything to do with it, it just becomes painful then.

 

[Life sucks]

I've often thought this as well, intelligence and sentience just seem to be a curse. Not being able to think and just drifting through this joke called life would be so much easier than having your head constantly filled with horrible or confusing thoughts.

I'm pretty sure the only thing nature cares about is species reproducing and ensuring their survival, I don't know why we evolved to be this weird-ass species. So smart and yet so dumb, able to make conscious, complex decisions and yet still tied down by shitty primal instincts. No animal should ever be intelligent enough to question life itself and everything to do with it, it just becomes painful then.

The thing is the whole universe is incapable of creating a consistent game of life. Also the core of evolving is going from a state machine to Turing machine. That is, the universe which computes makes smaller machines that computes also. I know it might sound hard but it's a chaotic mess.

 

[WornOutLife]

Your thread has inspired me to quote one of fav songs, the opening of the anime Parasyte, "let me hear"

"You guys do not notice that we are gifted just by being humans
We are absolute predators
We do not even have any enemies
Maybe there are other animals watching us
and thinking that someday "we will beat them down"

Here's the real question, are we really gifted or simply...cursed?

 

[Mara09]

The thing is the whole universe is incapable of creating a consistent game of life. Also the core of evolving is going from a state machine to Turing machine. That is, the universe which computes makes smaller machines that computes also. I know it might sound hard but it's a chaotic mess.

I hate thinking about how you're basically just helplessly trapped in the universe and can't escape it. It's honestly terrifying. I sometimes wonder why some people seem to think that nature or the universe are inherently "good", that makes no sense to me at all. Everything just seems like a mess.

 

[Superdeterminist]

I just needed to say this somewhere without being bombarded with "i want to help you" comments.
Ever since my eyes were opened to existentialism, I haven't been the same. Every day I wake up knowing it's going to be the same old shit all over: talk to people, laughs will be had, I will stare at the wall contemplating life as well as my loneliness, and then I will slip back into my free trial of death also known as sleep, which as far as I'm concerned a lot of the time beats life itself. The fact we are so sentient to the point we spend every day thinking about these things is horrible. I don't want to know that we live to die, I don't want to know that there's a possibility there might be nothing after death, I don't want to be aware of any of this. Animals have life so much easier, I cherish and envy them...
When I die, I want to meet the being responsible for life, and I want to ask them "Why humans? You know what you're doing, right?"
I wish I had more friends who would just accept this kind of mindset, or even share it. Then again, the people here know.

It'll probably be another while before I post, hopefully I can start being more active again soon.
Goodbye for now, at least <3

I sympathise with much of what you said. There is potential for enormous suffering as a human being. However, I don't envy other animals, because I think they have terrible suffering to deal with as well.