The human condition is a self-inflicted absurdity.

[dearlydeparted44]

Paying to live. Seeing suffering as the norm. Happiness as needing to be earned. I guess I've seen too much of human behavior to see this life as something that worth keeping. I mean, people who could really be the salt and seasoning of the earth are ignored, isolated, abused, ridiculed, and abused. They die faceless and loveless. People who are an insult to humanity, a danger to humanity, and have the worst values are celebrated, elevated, honored, and protected by humans. They have monuments built in their names, and their memories live on in the minds of people who they didn't even know nor care about.

In the end, humans have the world that they want and deserve. I truly believe that there's just something fundamentally wrong with this life. Enjoying it requires a certain amount of delusion. What there is to enjoy about this is fleeting and not worth the abuse one takes.

Just a rant.

 

[VoidBlessed]

You're right, this is a world for psychopaths and murderers, and unless you're willing to be a predator you'll be prey. Have you read "The Last Messiah" by Peter Wessel Zapffe? He concludes that people cling to systems of meaning no matter how flawed or outlandish because they don't want to face the inherent emptiness of existence. I think he's right - we have this hell world because humanity in general prefers hell to the void.

 

[dearlydeparted44]

You're right, this is a world for psychopaths and murderers, and unless you're willing to be a predator you'll be prey. Have you read "The Last Messiah" by Peter Wessel Zapffe? He concludes that people cling to systems of meaning no matter how flawed or outlandish because they don't want to face the inherent emptiness of existence. I think he's right - we have this hell world because humanity in general prefers hell to the void.

I have not read that. I wish I had.

 

[VoidBlessed]

I have not read that. I wish I had.

https://openairphilosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/OAP_Zapffe_Last_Messiah.pdf

Here you go
It was a big eye opener for me, very short read too

 

[pharma]

I think existence is pointless (we all die) and every culture that has ever existed has thrived on the need to say "Hey, I was here!" I think of when I was in high school and we'd right "X was here" on the bathroom stores, basically a less sophisticated version of the pyramids. It's the only way we can immortalize our existence. We have kids so we can say "I was here," we own homes and cars that tell the world "I am here." We go to college, have careers, have sex, party, just so we can scream "See?? I was there!!" Even if you're terminally online you create a paper trail or get achievements or badges in videogames. Everything exists because our existence is so short and meaningless that we have to erect towers and build walls just to prove that we were there. It's so fucking pointless when in a billion years everything will turn into dust. Give it enough time and the universe will collapse and cease existing. I subscribe to the Block Universe Theory because it gives me some hope that life has meaning- that everything that has ever happened and is happening and will ever happening is already pre-determined and we're just experiencing it in a meat suit. I want to live and experience things, I want to have sex and get a job and have kids, but sometimes I just wonder what the point is if everything just turns to dust.

I usually take the path of least resistance. I do whatever makes me comfortable now. I don't have to travel or be rich or get married, because that takes too much effort. I can work, and fuck, and blow my brains out when I'm bored of it. I only continue existing for my family.

 

[Alice563]

For years I have been trying to understand why people decide to create children, thier offspring. What is the motivation. There is too high chance they will be miserable, sick and so on. Not even mentioning that often "the reason to live" for the parents is to have children… Which in this logic means that those children will also need to have children as a reason to live… :/