Venting This is a depressing universe with these shitty natural laws governing everything we do

[Darkover]

It's like existence itself is a prison, with these rigid, unchangeable laws dictating everything. The speed of light limits us, entropy guarantees decay and suffering, and physics itself doesn't care about our struggles. Everything feels slow, inefficient, and constrained—whether it's movement, progress, or even thought itself being limited by biology.

And then there's the sheer indifference of it all. The universe doesn't care about pleasure, happiness, or fairness. It just runs on cold, physical rules, where suffering is an inevitable byproduct of existence. Even if someone finds ways to enjoy life, they're still ultimately trapped within these natural limits—aging, pain, needs, and eventual death.

It really does feel like a shitty setup, like a game rigged from the start where even the best possible outcome is still just temporary relief from the endless constraints.

Life just feels like an endless, meaningless cycle of survival. You're born into a system you never agreed to, forced to struggle just to keep yourself alive, all while knowing it leads to nothing in the end. There's no real progression—just a temporary existence filled with repetitive needs, suffering, and fleeting distractions before it all ends in death.

Even if someone tries to create meaning for themselves, it's just an illusion to cope with the fact that the universe itself is indifferent. No matter what you do, time erases everything, and the universe continues on as if you never existed. There's no ultimate goal, no reward, no reason—just the obligation to survive until you don't.

It's a depressing reality, but it's also the truth. Some people try to pretend life is beautiful or meaningful, but at its core, it's just a biological process running on autopilot, with no greater purpose beyond keeping itself going.

 

[Michelstaedter]

I have been thinking the same for a long time, I have even always felt that I do not like life. People who see that kind of thinking, think that "we are depressive", "we only focus on the sad", "life is beautiful". But to be honest, life is cruel. In nature we can see it; predators and prey, they all suffer. A plant grows as much as it can and a human can cut it, the plant "does not feel", but objectively it is crude, destructive, as you said about the universe, the planets, the stars, destructive matter like black holes and other unknown things that are indifferent to the rest. A virus, a bacteria, a parasite, want to survive and our body acts as a "microcosm", eliminating what is foreign, all of this is a perpetual struggle, an endless, eternal battle. When I read Philip Mainländer, he more or less explains in philosophical and even scientific terms his idea of the universe, entropy and the destruction of "God", where the agony is us and everything that exists, the product of an inherent "law" that its power could not be destroyed immediately.
Finally, I cannot say what existence is, it would be pretentious, nor can I say what death is or what is there? Nothingness? The afterlife? Paradise? I don't know, frankly I don't know and perhaps I will never know. However, death, as Mainländer said, whether or not you believe in "heaven", "eternal life" or "nothingness and absolute emptiness", death is the cessation of pain, of suffering. Everything ends there, biologically speaking. At least it sounds like the most realistic logic. And that's when I say, wow! Death, after all, among so much pain, misery, suffering, sadness or even happiness, pleasure, is an absolute, which ends it all and therefore, at least it seems to me, death is an idea that relieves, that devours everything, but not to cause more pain in itself (because our cultures teach us the opposite) but to alleviate the pain.