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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: pineninja]
    #23858445 - 11/22/16 07:24 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Nihilism is a trap.  A fool's trap.


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #23858459 - 11/22/16 07:29 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Life is perfect because it is an all inclusive totality that leads to middle way realization, in avoiding the two extremes of nihilism and eternalism, which are only separated by the cognitive construct of words.


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #23858481 - 11/22/16 07:33 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

I'm happy within my delusions are you.?


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: Thanatos10] * 1
    #23858523 - 11/22/16 07:44 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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Ill talk to you on the phone if your serious.  Because your as blind as a bat.  You are what plato talked about in his allegory of the cave.  PM Me, ill set your ass straight boy with a good phone call.


maybe the life YOUR living is not worth SHIT.  But by god life itself wouldn't be here if it wasn't intrinsically worth it.

only bad thing about the internet is know it all's believe their own bullshit, and find things to conform to it creating endless delusion.




You are wrong that life itself wouldn't be here if it wasn't worth it. Life exists without reason. It continues to live on whether or not we think it's worth it.

Also your response is full of the same nonsense that has been shot down before. Traveling, children, outside mainstream. Rather pedestrian answers that just dodge the question instead of answer it



How do you know life exists without reason? In my mind it is hard to have an opinion about these things when we have no factual evidence. So for you to be so sure would mean you know how everything was created and that death is the end of an individual consciousness...If you have proof of these things get off the shroomery and share your knowledge with the world....otherwise what is it in life that does not seem worth doing? And the Blind Ass is not dodging your question he is asking you if you have experienced those things....I have children and sometimes they are frustrating and sometimes they bring such joy into my life...I have traveled some and seen how other people live and it is fulfilling...to me at least. What is it in your life that makes it not worth living? You have been very vague about this...at least from what I have read.


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: The Influence] * 1
    #23858659 - 11/22/16 08:22 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

You will die eventually.  That is a guarantee. Nothing to gain by being in a hurry.   

But life is all that you have, your only chance at anything other than death. 

Take that for what it's worth.

That and I love you man. :smile:


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: srphatness] * 1
    #23860889 - 11/23/16 02:39 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Well I think I'm slowly getting over it now. Realizing things aren't as bad as they seem


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: Thanatos10]
    #23861031 - 11/23/16 03:26 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

hey, imagine dat!
now we don't have to be so cynical.
phew!


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #23861286 - 11/23/16 04:55 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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hey, imagine dat!
now we don't have to be so cynical.
phew!




time to clean my latrine.  pick up your hat and say imagine that you working for me!~



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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: Thanatos10]
    #23862413 - 11/24/16 01:31 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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Well I think I'm slowly getting over it now. Realizing things aren't as bad as they seem




"All things shall pass"                  :-)


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: Thanatos10]
    #23862451 - 11/24/16 02:18 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

i sympathize and i understand where you're coming from. 




Life is hard. And for anyone born with a brain earth is a really cumbersome experience.  but the simple fact you exist is something.  having the ability to experience (even if its shit) many people believe is a gift.  It is better to feel depressed than to feel nothing at all, or ever again.


I try hard to have a attitude of gratitude, but obviously I struggle. I will unless someone waves a magic wand and eliminates everything that makes Earth a fkg ruiner.  (and what makes earth a ruiner is PPL. because PPL=SHT)


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: sprinkles]
    #23862913 - 11/24/16 08:19 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Most of us are living in "comfortable" circumstances. A view of people's getting their brains bashed out of their heads or hearing desperate gasps to maintain the bodies respiratory system would probable send you into trauma.

You have no idea of the reality hiding behind your cultural pasifiers. A flimsy screen you will have pulled away in due course. Death in its insatiable, inconsequential appetite  will claim your bloated corpse

Death and decay won't give a fuck about your intelligence or twitters popularity. It doesn't care about your humility or lack of it. Your human programs. All of it is meaningless

It's a process  like the one many people claim as a soul. Nothing special a process of cause and effect


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: Jaegar]
    #23863156 - 11/24/16 10:12 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)



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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #23863185 - 11/24/16 10:22 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

The first person perspective simplifies our organisms ability to navigate and interact with environment. Any clown exposing personal enlightenment is a fart in the wind.


The reality of our eventual demise will not Ben ideas, but visceral raw and rash.


Edited by Jaegar (11/24/16 10:38 AM)


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: Jaegar]
    #23863284 - 11/24/16 10:58 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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The first person perspective simplifies our organisms ability to navigate and interact with environment. Any clown exposing personal enlightenment is a fart in the wind.


The reality of our eventual demise will not Ben ideas, but visceral raw and rash.




I like you. The fact is if they were enlightened they wouldn't be be here putting themselves on pedestals belittling people.

I tend to err on the side of humor. I enjoy it down here. It's fun, it's depressing, but this dreamy world has it's moments.


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"Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say if they knew you believe in God above? They should realize before they criticize that God is the only way to Love."


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: LRG]
    #23863314 - 11/24/16 11:08 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

The Blind Ass farts in the wind.


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: Jaegar] * 1
    #23863329 - 11/24/16 11:13 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

misery comes from desire and wanting.  when you're content with shit and nothing anything else is a bonus.


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: sprinkles]
    #23863810 - 11/24/16 02:23 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Thing is I see us all enlightened.  Some just wear it better than others. To clarify, I see our normal everyday mind and heart as enlightenment, tis' the vehicle through which we deepen our realization.

Just an opinion.  Not some special holier than thou thing.  Not super powers.

So with that said... I fart in your general direction.


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: sprinkles]
    #23863843 - 11/24/16 02:37 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Maybe not the life for what you think of it right now.

I used to think I wanted to stop existing, and I too was afraid of dying. I used to think that I was a coward because I couldn't get myself to do just that. So I stayed alive and tried to live self-destructive. Eventually I did (slowly) realize that deep down, to stop existing, is not what I really want. Yes, of course I wanted to die, it seemed like easy answer to everything. But those were just superficial idea's. My conclusion, years after, is that my subconsciousness had other idea's. The problem was not that I was doomed to live a meaningless life. The problem was that I believed that life was what society had thought me: it being substandard like it was. And I can't live a substandard life like the masses. I eventually started looking 'outside the box' and found my own way of living.

Anyway, I don't think hope is a very good thing as well. And then there is also the thing people say, that it is selfish to kill yourself. Well, I think it is just as selfish to be alive but not really live. Whether you live or you don't is your choice in the end, but don't let your mind trick you. Chances are good that your unconscious thinks otherwise. People nowadays are just not tuned into their deeper self. Also, some people say that things will be better in the future. I'd say that if you refrain from taking the easy road, this definatly will be true, and you'll get to learn why. On the other hand, don't let it be a reason to just wait and do nothing in the hope that things just change. Nothing changes for no reason.

Anyway, hope this may help. Not trying to be harsh though.


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Because if you keep looking, everything eventually leads to the same truth, like a fractal that contains itself in every direction you take it.
You will find yourself.

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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: LRG]
    #23863966 - 11/24/16 03:50 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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Jaegar said:
The first person perspective simplifies our organisms ability to navigate and interact with environment. Any clown exposing personal enlightenment is a fart in the wind.


The reality of our eventual demise will not Ben ideas, but visceral raw and rash.




I like you. The fact is if they were enlightened they wouldn't be be here putting themselves on pedestals belittling people.

I tend to err on the side of humor. I enjoy it down here. It's fun, it's depressing, but this dreamy world has it's moments.




So two people that like to threaten and puff up their chests, like each other.  Maybe share a beer.  It's fun.


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Re: Is life worth living? [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #23864137 - 11/24/16 05:14 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Some seriously depressed people in this thread.


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