Helpmeplease
Misery
- Jul 4, 2020
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I think 20 years should be enough...or is it my depressed mentality. I am so tired. ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_;
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I think this si true we've forgotten what the meaning of life is really supposed to be about.We spend so long trying to find meaning or purpose; trying to fulfill some unclear goal. I'm not sure anyone dies with an understanding of what it was all about. Perhaps we should just be completely hedonistic our whole lives and then end it when we can't have any more pleasure. To be truthful, I think there are people who live this way. They usually are looked down upon by society (including me) but maybe they have the right idea...
Can any of us really say what the meaning of life is supposed to be? I feel that anyone claiming they can, has a duty to demonstrate to everyone else how they know it is so; at least that would be very helpful of them. All we have until then is our own personal feelings to work with, and we tend to share many sentiments in common, but it's never a perfect match, there always seems to be disagreement inevitably because of our different brains. I'm happy to admit that I have no idea what the ultimate meaning of life is or if there is any true meaning to it at all.I think this si true we've forgotten what the meaning of life is really supposed to be about.
Could you elaborate this further?I still find it hard to believe in evolution having gone to med school and seen everything inside out but that's just me, I'm probably a fool.
I hate that as well. I like to flip it around, we can observe how everyone ends up drawing a short straw in some aspect of their life no matter how 'lucky' they are; we're bound to suffer bad luck somewhere. Gratitude and luck are subjective, and why ought we be compelled to be grateful just because someone tells us we should? The fact is we either feel gratitude or we don't.I wish our bodies had a sort of automatic shutdown mechanism in cases of ongoing major depression and existential despair.
Like, if we got to a certain point of hopelessness, all major life sustaining functions would just stop or something, as a way of preventing unnecessary suffering.
You'd think evolution could have come up with an inbuilt biological apparatus like that.
I also don't understand people who bring up that statistic about the chances of being born as you, which is about 1 in 400 trillion, as if we should be grateful about being alive or something.
'Think how lucky you are to be born', 'it's a miracle given the odds against it' etc.
Uh, no. I don't see anything lucky or miraculous about having entered a hellscape of meaninglessness and suffering.
Yeah, exactly . Especially when you see everything degrades over time yet our bodies somehow got more complex and better all on its own? Could it be some intelligence, even alien behind this "apparently" purposeful design.Could you elaborate this further?
Are you talking about the complexity of things like even the simple cell, let alone whole living organisms, and the odds against such localized, intricate and apparently purposeful entropy decreases?
old age is big business. think nursing homes, big pharma, hospitals, retirement villages, cruise ships & leisure industry, taxes, realtors and estate lawyers, etc. they don't want to lose customers, so they keep you alive until you run out of money and benefits. plus your 60's & 70's and up are the hardest part of life, imho, 'cause that's when you develop more aches & pains, organ failures, diseases, cancer, and other shit catches up with you. if you thought you'd live this long, maybe you would have take better care of yourself. haha. and then you start running out of money, your friends and fam start dying, and you're bored out of your mind. I don't want my new late-life career being a greeter at wal-mart. no way. i've lived and suffered long enough. i don't see my future getting better, like it was 30-40 years ago. when you're over-the-hill, it's all down from hereLife seems to fly by I was brainwashed into thinking it's normal to go to church get a job, get married have children buy a car/house etc before you know it, your working long hours that's your life, in the winter it's grim you work hard come home eat, watch TV, surf the net and go to bed and repeat day in day out and you look back 30 years later and say WTF where has it gone.
The sad fact in the UK they have implicated measures for people living longer we pay into state pension but they keep changing the law, making you work longer to reach pensionable age.
Shame they never had a suicide policy for people who don't want to reach old age.
Cheers
Geo
Our complexity has steadily increased since our proposed origin as single cells, but what do you mean by "better"? Also, have you had a look at Conway's game of life? It seems to show that immense complexity can unexpectedly emerge from the simplest of rules. Computer scientist Stephen Wolfram is working further on this idea and is developing a potential theory of everything (Wolfram physics project). Using a computational approach, he has already derived general relativity, special relativity and quantum mechanics, however it's still a work in progress.Yeah, exactly . Especially when you see everything degrades over time yet our bodies somehow got more complex and better all on its own? Could it be some intelligence, even alien behind this "apparently" purposeful design.
old age is big business. think nursing homes, big pharma, hospitals, retirement villages, cruise ships & leisure industry, taxes, realtors and estate lawyers, etc. they don't want to lose customers, so they keep you alive until you run out of money and benefits. plus your 60's & 70's and up are the hardest part of life, imho, 'cause that's when you develop more aches & pains, organ failures, diseases, cancer, and other shit catches up with you. if you thought you'd live this long, maybe you would have take better care of yourself. haha. and then you start running out of money, your friends and fam start dying, and you're bored out of your mind. I don't want my new late-life career being a greeter at wal-mart. no way. i've lived and suffered long enough. i don't see my future getting better, like it was 30-40 years ago. when you're over-the-hill, it's all down from here