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For about 550 million years of active sentient evolution, animals have been tearing each other apart (eaten alive through predation, resource competition, hierarchy dynamics , territorial establishment, etc.). A rabbits reproductive strategy is to reproduce as much as possible to be able to have enough survive to create the next generation, studies show that around 80% or more rabbits die annually, with many young rabbits not being able to make it past their first year due to being hunted by snakes, birds of prey, coyotes, and wolves (predation).Lions kills cubs that aren't theirs and they compete with other male lions, chimps fight each other, sometimes to death for territory, mates, and food (hierarchy dynamics). Humans are contributing to the 6th mass extinction through deforestation, pollution, (resource competition and territorial establishment)
First world humans who aren't vegan are only one sentient organism, yet they consume many animals, even if you are a vegan, you exploit the ecosystem of the agriculture in which you get your vegetables/fruit (predator birds, prey birds, other prey animals like rodents ( mice, rabbits, insects) , so by existing you are causing harm. Animal consumption harms animals, plant consumptions harms inhabitants of the agricultural ecosystem, being a first worlder means you exploit the 3rd world's labor and resources. hierarchical subjective opinions like beauty contributes to notions of ugliness which reinforces bullying, suicide/self harm, eugenics, etc. Another one is that, a society that values labor/assets (being a genius , pro athlete, rich billionaire) will view those that cant produce those for any reason such as mental illness, disability , depression, as "lesser" thus a hierarchy that leads to poor self esteem which can lead to the same things from the previous like suicide.
If reincarnation existed, statistically speaking , you're just going to get eaten alive over and over again through predation by being placed low on the food web/chain as an animal . And to that, some will say , "but I am human and I have a human soul , therefore I'm going to be reincarnated as a human forever " . But to that, I would argue that it is unlikely, because from science we know that 185 million generations ago our ancestors evolved out of the water from fish into land vertebrates, and before that it was a asexual replicating molecule at abiogenesis. We are one in the same with animals as we came out of the same stock, so there's no reason to believe that we can't reincarnate as animals if reincarnation exists, so... statistically speaking, if reincarnation exists, its nightmare narratives upon nightmare narratives in the billions happening over and over again because you're going to get brutally torn apart and get eaten alive over and over again, this idea is what turned me into a philosophical pessimist, I philosophically acknowledge that existence would be better off if it never existed (whether its possible or not) .
To refer back to the last paragraph, it covers the circumstance of being reincarnated as an animal which is the statistical likely outcome, but it also referred to people assuming that being reincarnated as a human is good as well, in which I would strongly disagree, humans suffer through hierarchy dynamics , ideological disagreements leads to wars which are still going on to this day(disputes over socialism/capitalism/communism/fascism/religion etc.), human greed can trigger war through economic incentives , such as wanting to invade another country for oil. Many people die in war throughout human history and its still going on to this day. Humans also suffer from human social hierarchy dynamics (as i discussed in the 2nd paragraph) such as the value of beauty and the value of talent in terms of skills/labor production. So in many ways , even being reincarnated as human forever is almost as terrible as the average animal. You need to secure many privileges in order to be "happy" and comfortable, for instance , in a "beautiful" grassy field , you need to have dominance in the territory in order for you to be comfortable, You need to be capable of killing the predators (bears , coyotes , wolves , bobcats, etc.) at your will . Secure food at your will, which may be meat and vegetables, you have to claim some animals as your own, and have their families constantly reproduce for the sole purpose of your own consumption, and you have to be capable of defending the vegetables and meat as your own from other beings(bugs, predator animals including other humans) that want it. You need to be considered beautiful amongst people who will be considered less attractive relative to you, and you need to be considered talented, productive and "not lazy" compared to people with less of those qualities than yourself to be comfortable with where you stand within the human hierarchy , if not the pressure may crush you to death. As a philosophical pessimist observing reality, sentient lives functioning within physical material existence can be described as a bucket of crabs, the whole system creates pain, you have more pain the less you are at the top, and the top is rewarded with relatively more pleasure and comfortability due to exploiting those below them, the farther you are below in terms of general hierarchy and privilege the more you get crushed. In addition, if you are an intelligent and empathetic being, if you are comfortable and at the top, how can you be happy knowing you are benefitting from exploiting other sentient beings, and others are being crushed for their immutable physical/neurological characteristics that they have little to no control over, if you are an empathetic and intelligent being, how can you be happy knowing you are sitting on top of a throne of blood and gore?
Humans are stuck on a "hedonic treadmill", objective fulfilment doesn't exist, that's another reason why there is no meaning, we are just stimulating our brains in a way that it wants for pleasure, we are biological/evolutionary beings wired to "act" in the world for reproductive success. if we were stuck in a sensory deprivation room/chamber, you'll go crazy and desire to go away from it (sedentary creatures are not reproductively successful). and you desire towards pleasure (environments and interactions/actions that your brain prefers). we will be bothered by our brains mechanism of desire forever as long as we exist, our brains induce it into us. Needs don't need to exist, the only ethical plane of existence is nonexistence or a utopia(which is impossible) , which means there is no ethical plane of existence. Our only salvation is eternal nothingness when we die (if it exists). We are nothing but insatiable desire engines, insatiable desire monsters born to keep on having hunger for needs that don't need to exist as we live whilst being unethical and causing harm while we exist.
I think the last main pessimistic idea I have that can be shared is, existence is only material, and material has no intrinsic value, and people usually respond with "love, love has value, love is not material and love is the meaning of life", and I will say that love IS material. When you interact with the people you "love" (friends ,family , romantic relationships), you communicate with them about material interactions with the physical world, and material interests don't last forever, even if you could live for an eternity through some technological breakthrough, eventually you will get tired of them. You will break up with your family, friends and partners if given enough time. This is why I believe that "true love" doesn't exist either, love is about material interactions and material interests don't last forever. Existence is superficial, materialistic( and material has no intrinsic value) and unethical, this is why I believe that "narrative is dead" , if you can record the beginning and end of your life into a book, they're all just material and material interactions, the distinctions between why you enjoy one thing vs another isn't even rational, you cant even decide when you get bored of them.
Atheism, philosophical pessimism , antinatalism, existential/cosmic nihilism , and promortalism implies suicide, this is why the vast majority of the population has an aversion to pessimistic ideas, its because we are genetically wired through evolution to have an aversion towards death and pain, and an inclination towards reproduction and other pleasures. Natalism is implicitly optimistic as the action presumes that life is beautiful, valuable, meaningful, and we are born into the world being introduced to optimistic ideas like there is a possibility of visiting a utopia (heaven) with an all powerful, all loving, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent "God". Meanwhile pessimistic ideas are highly censored, if an old person said "I wouldn't do life over again if i could" they will tell him to shut up, "things get better with time", "it gets better" is spread everywhere but you never hear the opposite, and if you do that person will be highly shunned and ostracized. This is because humans evolved to value reproduction, and because of such they attack pessimism at any opportunity. The landscape of optimism vs pessimism is the DNA replicating molecule since abiogenesis is gatekeeping against pessimism to reinforce and maximize replication.
Its not hidden like God that we need to "see to believe it" or must "believe without evidence to have faith", we KNOW that the vast majority of sentient life gets destroyed brutally, and people still cant accept philosophical pessimism. there is no free will anyway, you don't get to decide what you like and who you are anyway, existence is unethical anyway, satisfaction doesn't exist anyway, and you're going to die anyway. The moral landscape we are born into can be described as being in a pool of diarrhea, but even this exaggeration to emphasize the filth may not even be enough. But once you are aware of how disgusting it is , how can you even embrace it? Once you accept philosophical pessimism you cant look back. And lastly, to reiterate one of the main conclusions about my existential worldview is that I acknowledge that when I die, I prefer to not reincarnate or be in heaven or hell, I would prefer to not exist for forever.
First world humans who aren't vegan are only one sentient organism, yet they consume many animals, even if you are a vegan, you exploit the ecosystem of the agriculture in which you get your vegetables/fruit (predator birds, prey birds, other prey animals like rodents ( mice, rabbits, insects) , so by existing you are causing harm. Animal consumption harms animals, plant consumptions harms inhabitants of the agricultural ecosystem, being a first worlder means you exploit the 3rd world's labor and resources. hierarchical subjective opinions like beauty contributes to notions of ugliness which reinforces bullying, suicide/self harm, eugenics, etc. Another one is that, a society that values labor/assets (being a genius , pro athlete, rich billionaire) will view those that cant produce those for any reason such as mental illness, disability , depression, as "lesser" thus a hierarchy that leads to poor self esteem which can lead to the same things from the previous like suicide.
If reincarnation existed, statistically speaking , you're just going to get eaten alive over and over again through predation by being placed low on the food web/chain as an animal . And to that, some will say , "but I am human and I have a human soul , therefore I'm going to be reincarnated as a human forever " . But to that, I would argue that it is unlikely, because from science we know that 185 million generations ago our ancestors evolved out of the water from fish into land vertebrates, and before that it was a asexual replicating molecule at abiogenesis. We are one in the same with animals as we came out of the same stock, so there's no reason to believe that we can't reincarnate as animals if reincarnation exists, so... statistically speaking, if reincarnation exists, its nightmare narratives upon nightmare narratives in the billions happening over and over again because you're going to get brutally torn apart and get eaten alive over and over again, this idea is what turned me into a philosophical pessimist, I philosophically acknowledge that existence would be better off if it never existed (whether its possible or not) .
To refer back to the last paragraph, it covers the circumstance of being reincarnated as an animal which is the statistical likely outcome, but it also referred to people assuming that being reincarnated as a human is good as well, in which I would strongly disagree, humans suffer through hierarchy dynamics , ideological disagreements leads to wars which are still going on to this day(disputes over socialism/capitalism/communism/fascism/religion etc.), human greed can trigger war through economic incentives , such as wanting to invade another country for oil. Many people die in war throughout human history and its still going on to this day. Humans also suffer from human social hierarchy dynamics (as i discussed in the 2nd paragraph) such as the value of beauty and the value of talent in terms of skills/labor production. So in many ways , even being reincarnated as human forever is almost as terrible as the average animal. You need to secure many privileges in order to be "happy" and comfortable, for instance , in a "beautiful" grassy field , you need to have dominance in the territory in order for you to be comfortable, You need to be capable of killing the predators (bears , coyotes , wolves , bobcats, etc.) at your will . Secure food at your will, which may be meat and vegetables, you have to claim some animals as your own, and have their families constantly reproduce for the sole purpose of your own consumption, and you have to be capable of defending the vegetables and meat as your own from other beings(bugs, predator animals including other humans) that want it. You need to be considered beautiful amongst people who will be considered less attractive relative to you, and you need to be considered talented, productive and "not lazy" compared to people with less of those qualities than yourself to be comfortable with where you stand within the human hierarchy , if not the pressure may crush you to death. As a philosophical pessimist observing reality, sentient lives functioning within physical material existence can be described as a bucket of crabs, the whole system creates pain, you have more pain the less you are at the top, and the top is rewarded with relatively more pleasure and comfortability due to exploiting those below them, the farther you are below in terms of general hierarchy and privilege the more you get crushed. In addition, if you are an intelligent and empathetic being, if you are comfortable and at the top, how can you be happy knowing you are benefitting from exploiting other sentient beings, and others are being crushed for their immutable physical/neurological characteristics that they have little to no control over, if you are an empathetic and intelligent being, how can you be happy knowing you are sitting on top of a throne of blood and gore?
Humans are stuck on a "hedonic treadmill", objective fulfilment doesn't exist, that's another reason why there is no meaning, we are just stimulating our brains in a way that it wants for pleasure, we are biological/evolutionary beings wired to "act" in the world for reproductive success. if we were stuck in a sensory deprivation room/chamber, you'll go crazy and desire to go away from it (sedentary creatures are not reproductively successful). and you desire towards pleasure (environments and interactions/actions that your brain prefers). we will be bothered by our brains mechanism of desire forever as long as we exist, our brains induce it into us. Needs don't need to exist, the only ethical plane of existence is nonexistence or a utopia(which is impossible) , which means there is no ethical plane of existence. Our only salvation is eternal nothingness when we die (if it exists). We are nothing but insatiable desire engines, insatiable desire monsters born to keep on having hunger for needs that don't need to exist as we live whilst being unethical and causing harm while we exist.
I think the last main pessimistic idea I have that can be shared is, existence is only material, and material has no intrinsic value, and people usually respond with "love, love has value, love is not material and love is the meaning of life", and I will say that love IS material. When you interact with the people you "love" (friends ,family , romantic relationships), you communicate with them about material interactions with the physical world, and material interests don't last forever, even if you could live for an eternity through some technological breakthrough, eventually you will get tired of them. You will break up with your family, friends and partners if given enough time. This is why I believe that "true love" doesn't exist either, love is about material interactions and material interests don't last forever. Existence is superficial, materialistic( and material has no intrinsic value) and unethical, this is why I believe that "narrative is dead" , if you can record the beginning and end of your life into a book, they're all just material and material interactions, the distinctions between why you enjoy one thing vs another isn't even rational, you cant even decide when you get bored of them.
Atheism, philosophical pessimism , antinatalism, existential/cosmic nihilism , and promortalism implies suicide, this is why the vast majority of the population has an aversion to pessimistic ideas, its because we are genetically wired through evolution to have an aversion towards death and pain, and an inclination towards reproduction and other pleasures. Natalism is implicitly optimistic as the action presumes that life is beautiful, valuable, meaningful, and we are born into the world being introduced to optimistic ideas like there is a possibility of visiting a utopia (heaven) with an all powerful, all loving, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent "God". Meanwhile pessimistic ideas are highly censored, if an old person said "I wouldn't do life over again if i could" they will tell him to shut up, "things get better with time", "it gets better" is spread everywhere but you never hear the opposite, and if you do that person will be highly shunned and ostracized. This is because humans evolved to value reproduction, and because of such they attack pessimism at any opportunity. The landscape of optimism vs pessimism is the DNA replicating molecule since abiogenesis is gatekeeping against pessimism to reinforce and maximize replication.
Its not hidden like God that we need to "see to believe it" or must "believe without evidence to have faith", we KNOW that the vast majority of sentient life gets destroyed brutally, and people still cant accept philosophical pessimism. there is no free will anyway, you don't get to decide what you like and who you are anyway, existence is unethical anyway, satisfaction doesn't exist anyway, and you're going to die anyway. The moral landscape we are born into can be described as being in a pool of diarrhea, but even this exaggeration to emphasize the filth may not even be enough. But once you are aware of how disgusting it is , how can you even embrace it? Once you accept philosophical pessimism you cant look back. And lastly, to reiterate one of the main conclusions about my existential worldview is that I acknowledge that when I die, I prefer to not reincarnate or be in heaven or hell, I would prefer to not exist for forever.
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