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As I get older I realize that all feelings are chemical poo poo that goes off in our heads. Nothing really matters as we are all just a vapor in this timeline. As a child I recall olde people saying that our lives were like a drop in an ocean. Never realized what it meant but now I do realize it. Time is moving as if on a conveyor belt. There’s no stopping it. I sometimes wonder if on my death bed I will long for those boring times in my life at work when I would wish time to pass by quickly so I could go home. How important those “boring” times were and not to be taken for granted. I sometimes wake up at night and feel a sense of dread as I realize that death is inevitable. But it makes me feel at the same time happy because I realize the pains and frustrations and uncertainties are just temporary in a sense. Soon it just won’t matter.
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whenever i feel this way i just eat a hoagie and i'm good for another week
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The days are long, but the years are short. I hope you are doing OK, OP. Your post is somewhat ominous. Hang in there.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 06:41 |
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We don't know if anything we do in this life matters or not. Death may just be the end, or it may be we move on to another life here on Earth, or maybe we take off our alien headphones and step away from the computer simulation we were playing, or who the hell knows what. I do admit and accept that what an individual does probably won't matter in the big picture. There are some people who are exceptional for better or worse, but most of us are stuck making sure we can put food on the table and won't accomplish much more than that. Don't let it get you down OP. Keep food on your table, and do what you can to bring more joy into the world than you bring sadness. Then at least, whether poo poo matters or not, you've done your best.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 06:57 |
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A serious young man found the conflicts of early 21st Century America confusing. He went to many people seeking a way of resolving within himself the discords that troubled him, but he remained troubled. One night in a coffee house, a self-ordained Zen Master said to him, "go to the dilapidated mansion you will find at this address which I have written down for you. Do not speak to those who live there; you must remain silent until the moon rises tomorrow night. Go to the large room on the right of the main hallway, sit in the lotus position on top of the rubble in the northeast corner, face the corner, and meditate." He did just as the Zen Master instructed. His meditation was frequently interrupted by worries. He worried whether or not the rest of the plumbing fixtures would fall from the second floor bathroom to join the pipes and other trash he was sitting on. He worried how would he know when the moon rose on the next night. He worried about what the people who walked through the room said about him. His worrying and meditation were disturbed when, as if in a test of his faith, ordure fell from the second floor onto him. At that time two people walked into the room. The first asked the second who the man was sitting there was. The second replied "Some say he is a holy man. Others say he is a shithead." Hearing this, the man was enlightened.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 07:17 |
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Get some therapy OP.
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If there's one thing I've learned about the meaning of life is that there is none. It is entirely about whatever you decide it is. Want to make your mark on the world? then do so. Want to rot in front of your computer? Then do that. We all play our role in things and the effects of our existence will reverberate through time one way or another to varying degrees. Some people think that line of thinking is nihilism and defeatist but I think it's a positive since there are no preconceived notions about what you must do and leave you with the choice of 'do you want your effect on the world and universe to be positive or negative?'
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 07:33 |
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life is like that for you op because you have not discovered thug life
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 07:34 |
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Life is, imo, ok.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 07:37 |
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Life. It ain't easy. It's so tough. It ain't easy. What you gonna do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRPLaobXG2k
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Counterpoint, OP: Why does it matter that feelings are just neurochemical reactions inside your head? Your whole subjective experience of the world is basically just a simulation your brain whips up. My favorite way that I have heard it put is “your brain is the universe thinking about itself.” So, doesn’t matter that it is all just chemical poo poo. Without that chemical poo poo the universe might just as well not exist at all since there is no one around experiencing it. So yeah, we might be an insignificant part. But we are the part that gives existence it’s point.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 08:02 |
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The answer is to gently caress more
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 08:03 |
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Humans existed solely for the purpose of writing Smash Mouth's All Star and all the rest of existence is just incidental.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 08:03 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye_iob2MwGw
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 08:08 |
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I never associate that feeling you get, when you lie awake, when you realize how small your life is, that your dust exists briefly as the shape of a man, with the tether of a soul to animate it; with dread. Its an honour to be here at this moment, during this march of the constellations, to witness the moments that pass by. Its a blessing to be here, and the finality of that is further gift. There's hope for the future, of you, of man, of our souls, or of the dust, who knows what's beyond the veil, could be nothing, bliss, could be another course to set. Your purpose is yours to choose, and wise men will tell you just as fools, to set your sights on the star they follow. but the choice is yours alone. Listen to their wisdom, from their successes and their failures. And I promise you that we'll all be in the same place, in 80 years time. and then a leaky pipe dumped poo poo on my head
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 08:27 |
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Life is trying to tell you to lurk more, OP.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 08:29 |
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Do you remember old CRT screens? I imagine you do. If you were anything like me, you used to wait (maybe even set an alarm) for that glorious 30 minute mark. Because that's when you could degauss again for a real big FIREWORK explosion. 10 minutes scratched that itch but man, 30 minutes was when poo poo got interesting. Longer was better. I'd leave my screen on all night so I could get a proper "THUMP" that you could see and feel in the morning. Psychedelics can do the same for your brain. I guess what I'm asking is: have you tried LSD?
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 08:38 |
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Knormal posted:Life.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 08:42 |
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VinylonUnderground posted:Do you remember old CRT screens? I imagine you do. If you were anything like me, you used to wait (maybe even set an alarm) for that glorious 30 minute mark. Because that's when you could degauss again for a real big FIREWORK explosion. 10 minutes scratched that itch but man, 30 minutes was when poo poo got interesting. Longer was better. I'd leave my screen on all night so I could get a proper "THUMP" that you could see and feel in the morning. Psychedelics can do the same for your brain. i never actually degaussed. i didnt know it was a thing until well after lcds were popular. my grandpa and i dumped hundreds of hours in to Doom 2 and Baldurs Gate and never noticed any change so idk maybe we had some fancy model that degaussed its self
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 08:42 |
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both my sense of where i am in the universe and my moral code is largely based on xavier's teachings
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 08:45 |
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease that is 100% fatal
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 09:03 |
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The years start coming and they really don't stop coming.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 09:19 |
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Robo Reagan posted:i never actually degaussed. i didnt know it was a thing until well after lcds were popular. You didn't have to do it very often and a big part of the "thrumb" of a CRT monitor setting up was a degaussing. But it was a cool thing to see and I miss it. To me that's real computer poo poo. A C:\ and a loud THRUUUMB
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 09:24 |
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You were born a slab of thinking meat cursed with a comprehension of your own mortality. You might be lucky and go out in a blink if some catastrophic misadventure happens, but it’s way more likely it will be slow, drawn out, and expensive. You despise your life yet you cling to it desperately. In the end, nothing of this will even matter. You will be annihilated and in a short while nobody will even remember your existence.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 09:39 |
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lol if you don't believe in quantum immortality. even cowards live forever. try not to make all futures including you futures where you are an invalid of some sort.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:You were born a slab of thinking meat cursed with a comprehension of your own mortality. You might be lucky and go out in a blink if some catastrophic misadventure happens, but it’s way more likely it will be slow, drawn out, and expensive. You despise your life yet you cling to it desperately. In the end, nothing of this will even matter. You will be annihilated and in a short while nobody will even remember your existence. I'll remember Piggy Smalls forever, don't listen OP
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 09:49 |
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Cheer up op!
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 11:25 |
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Just saying 'up op' cheers me up
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All life, humans included, exists both as a result and in order to replicate. As a result, specialized life exists everywhere there is enough energy to be extracted to power reproduction. Humans approach replication by specializing in processing information, specifically to find patterns, communicating, and cooperating. We can see or conceive of more intricate patterns than other animals and we call that intelligence. My point is, the only reason you exist is because two organisms reproduced. Your only "purpose" is to reproduce. But you can understand bigger patterns, and you can choose to intentionally dismiss them as drivers in your life. Either way, you have much more mental potential than necessary to exclusively eat and try to reproduce. How you choose to use it is up to you. Ultimately culture is arbitrary, so there is no morally correct or incorrect to way to live. Do what you want. Stick to the script, or don't. I'm leaning into empathy, communication, and cooperation and not really prioritizing reproductio, but that's just what I want to do. Do something else if it makes you happy. Ultimately, that's the best thing you can do with your brain. Brought to you by my nightly sleepy time bowl of weed. BrianRx fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Dec 20, 2020 |
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Everything you'll ever be happens in between twin eternities of non-existence. Compared to two infinities of nothingness 100 years (at most) is the same as 0 years. Ipso facto you don't exist so don't worry about it.
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 12:06 |
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When playing the game of life with my family I would rig the cards so that I always got the police officer profession because it was OP. I would also slam out as many children as possible because they gave you additional money every turn and it compounded until you had so much money you could buy the win.
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Every generation is born in order to uncover the mystery of the what is the best bbq
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 12:29 |
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the purpose of life is to know, love, and serve God in this life, so that we can be with God in the next. i remember my loving catechism, bitch also, smoke weed
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 12:45 |
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Piggy Smalls posted:As I get older I realize that all feelings are chemical poo poo that goes off in our heads. Nothing really matters as we are all just a vapor in this timeline. As a child I recall olde people saying that our lives were like a drop in an ocean. Never realized what it meant but now I do realize it. Time is moving as if on a conveyor belt. There’s no stopping it. I sometimes wonder if on my death bed I will long for those boring times in my life at work when I would wish time to pass by quickly so I could go home. How important those “boring” times were and not to be taken for granted. Rust Coyle, huh? https://youtu.be/A8x73UW8Hjk
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 13:48 |
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the only time is now, and the only constant is change
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 14:05 |
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Have you tried being a nihilist? It owns
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 15:24 |
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Icochet posted:Just saying 'up op' cheers me up what's up op
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 15:29 |
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sometimes i remember death and have a bit of a panic. but then i think about it and its alright. we all die. it seems like its a lonely thing at first but were all in on it togetherDickParasite posted:The answer is to gently caress more
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# ? Dec 20, 2020 15:29 |
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Empty Sandwich posted:what's up op Ligma balls
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