Darkover
Angelic
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4,718
I don't mean my life specifically. I mean the majority of living things capable of suffering do so a lot. Factory farming has billions of animals living their worst lives. More humans are suffering than not. Even just wild and free nature is filled with starvation, being eaten alive, disease, infanticide, parasites, and whatever other horrible things to which I am ignorant. Evolution didn't give a shit how pleasant life was; it just happened and here we are.
Good and evil is subjective so yes nature is what it is. But to me, it is evil. Why? Because this plane of existence is hell on earth. You want to know where is hell? You are walking on it. That flesh suit that you are wearing is dependent upon food and water. the body will turn on itself if you don't fuel it with sustenance. You feel pain because you are living in hell. The lack of peace and tranquility means that you are living in evil. Pretty much living is evil. The word "evil" spelt backwards is "live." Existence is suffering.
I used to ask the same question you do myself. I am not a religious person, so I don't believe there is an afterlife, a heaven or hell. I personally believe that when we die, it's done, nothing even our consciousness remains, like a computer turned off.
So then why exactly are we living if meaningless death is what seems to be the end. What is the point of living if we're all going to die anyway? Do our lives have any special meaning at all? And if not, should we just cut to the end now and skip the whole messy journey called "life"? If no matter how good we live our lives it all ends with nothing?
The answer is no. Absolutely with all the truths in the universe no.
The whole concept of "life" is inherently absurd. Your consciousness is created because some two consciousnesses decided to do so, but suddenly you're now exposed to these emotions - sadness, grief, anger, joy, love, instead of never having to exist and experience the ups and downs at all. You're taken on a colorful, sometimes vibrant and sometimes dark rollercoaster until you reach the end - which is also where you came from, nothingness.
Life itself has no inherent meaning, I don't believe in that. Being born is neither in itself good or bad, so is death. Anything you do in life doesn't matter - if today you wake up and go to work an hour early or if you just lay in bed all day doesn't matter. Your life will still end the same way.
Good and evil is subjective so yes nature is what it is. But to me, it is evil. Why? Because this plane of existence is hell on earth. You want to know where is hell? You are walking on it. That flesh suit that you are wearing is dependent upon food and water. the body will turn on itself if you don't fuel it with sustenance. You feel pain because you are living in hell. The lack of peace and tranquility means that you are living in evil. Pretty much living is evil. The word "evil" spelt backwards is "live." Existence is suffering.
I used to ask the same question you do myself. I am not a religious person, so I don't believe there is an afterlife, a heaven or hell. I personally believe that when we die, it's done, nothing even our consciousness remains, like a computer turned off.
So then why exactly are we living if meaningless death is what seems to be the end. What is the point of living if we're all going to die anyway? Do our lives have any special meaning at all? And if not, should we just cut to the end now and skip the whole messy journey called "life"? If no matter how good we live our lives it all ends with nothing?
The answer is no. Absolutely with all the truths in the universe no.
The whole concept of "life" is inherently absurd. Your consciousness is created because some two consciousnesses decided to do so, but suddenly you're now exposed to these emotions - sadness, grief, anger, joy, love, instead of never having to exist and experience the ups and downs at all. You're taken on a colorful, sometimes vibrant and sometimes dark rollercoaster until you reach the end - which is also where you came from, nothingness.
Life itself has no inherent meaning, I don't believe in that. Being born is neither in itself good or bad, so is death. Anything you do in life doesn't matter - if today you wake up and go to work an hour early or if you just lay in bed all day doesn't matter. Your life will still end the same way.
