Darkover
Angelic
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4,308
What's the point of it all if at some point it will all be forgotten? Every song I've listened to, game I've played, movie I've watched, place I've been. Poof, no more "me" to have the memory of it and it's all gone. Everything is like a book that after you finish reading will be forgotten. So why bother living a full life at all?
Common rebuttals are:
You can make others happy, but then they will die as well, so everything you do for them will have been forgotten.
You can experience pleasure in the meantime which honestly I cannot accept. It literally would disgust me to think that the only purpose of life is just to pump dopamine into my stupid monkey brain which I didn't even want in the first place.
Related to this: note how 90% of what we call pleasure is just the absence of pain. Food, sex, sleep, etc is just satisfying a need. This means that not only we are given by nature a super-limited lifespan, but more than half of this we have to spend into satisfying biological needs, which just adds insult to injury to me.
The only pleasures worth pursuing are art and knowledge, but those, as I said, are going to be nullified by death.
Common rebuttals are:
You can make others happy, but then they will die as well, so everything you do for them will have been forgotten.
You can experience pleasure in the meantime which honestly I cannot accept. It literally would disgust me to think that the only purpose of life is just to pump dopamine into my stupid monkey brain which I didn't even want in the first place.
Related to this: note how 90% of what we call pleasure is just the absence of pain. Food, sex, sleep, etc is just satisfying a need. This means that not only we are given by nature a super-limited lifespan, but more than half of this we have to spend into satisfying biological needs, which just adds insult to injury to me.
The only pleasures worth pursuing are art and knowledge, but those, as I said, are going to be nullified by death.