Darkover
Archangel
- Jul 29, 2021
- 5,649
For quite some time now, I wondered what the point of life is. We spend all of our time looking for distractions to make our journey to towards death less tedious. Why should we strive to achieve anything when we will inevitable lose it all, one way or another? There is no reward after all of that struggle. You are forced to wade through endless problems until you're gone. This brutal cycle will repeat itself over and over until humanity as at the brink of extinction.
This I think is the selling point behind many religions. People desperately want to believe that their efforts amount to something. That their life has some grand purpose.
The notion that the only certainty in life is death, coupled with the reality that death is perhaps the most terrifying prospect for many humans, suggests that procreation imposes a form of existential bondage. By bringing a child into the world, parents force another being into a state of perpetual awareness of its own mortality and the suffering that life entails.
This I think is the selling point behind many religions. People desperately want to believe that their efforts amount to something. That their life has some grand purpose.
The notion that the only certainty in life is death, coupled with the reality that death is perhaps the most terrifying prospect for many humans, suggests that procreation imposes a form of existential bondage. By bringing a child into the world, parents force another being into a state of perpetual awareness of its own mortality and the suffering that life entails.
