The problem with knowing the truth is that it's mostly depressing as fuck

[Darkover]

Those who recognize that life is temporary and in the cosmic scheme of things, pretty useless, are left with two ways to consider the situation.

The nihilist might say, "Woe and gloom, life is miserable and pointless, let's just crawl off in a corner and die."

The existentialist might say, "life is short and pointless, let's have a good time while we can!"

 

[flyingrabbitt]

Honestly, and if you factor in the state of the world it only gets more depressing that even someone like me who is pretty optimistic is stuck without a way to find good in the world.

 

[The anhedonic one]

I'm definitely in the nihilistic category here because I'm a miserable bastard due to Anhedonia.

 

[juraviel]

yeah i don't think happy people don't know they'll die some day. i found this to work in the other way around meaning, you get depressed - by something - first, then all the sucky things that everyone experiences become that much worse. it's not about you "realizing" that your mortal. little children understand they are mortal but it doesn't depress them.

i think more people here should understand that people that live happy lives don't do so because they lack insight into how cruel the world really is and that sort of thing. they just probably were raised with better coping methods. that's obviously just one aspect and there's much more than goes into somebody's mentality.

I'm definitely in the nihilistic category here because I'm a miserable bastard due to Anhedonia.

i'm severely anhedonic (96th percentile on SHAPS). it doesn't make me miserable. misery makes me miserable. you're confounding things as well.

 

[FuneralCry]

I know that no matter what only not existing could ever appeal to me. I just see existence itself as being the true problem, I think wanting to die is a perfectly logical response to being aware of how truly futile and unnecessary existing is, existence is just meaningless suffering.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

I would say that life itself is pretty much pointless and it was only a terrible coincidence that the chemcial reactions that created ´"life" happend on earth 4 billion years ago. They might have happend in so many other places throughout the universe but we will never ever know. And anyway any kind of life is doomed to die once the sun dies and this is inevitable here and in any other place wherever "life" may have came into existence in the universe, once the star dies life will inevitably die there.