Oh yeah? I’ll start my own life. With Blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget about the life.
what even is the purpose of life?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by did_you_find_violets@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Just blackjack and hookers it is.
yesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re not only allowed to make your own meaning, there is no other choice.
Drusas@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
sundray@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
You dropped this, fam.
BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah, never forget, Sisyphus had meaning in his life, he helped a kidnapped daughter, he secured an ever lasting spring of water for a village… the gods punished him because he kept tricking them and helping himself and other people, masses of normal people.
sundray@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
He chose to do those things, so… you could say he created his own meaning in the midst of an inherently absurd and meaningless universe? 😉
W_itjust_works@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Dropped it… not againn.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
“Imagine Sisyphus happy” reeks of corporate middle management extolling the virtues of grind culture to their underlings. I’ve never thought it was a good argument. Just a cheap cop-out for people who can’t face the never-ending barrage of existential despair that comes from truly, deeply questioning the meaning and purpose of life.
Like “Here, find meaning in this menial labor that you’re compelled to do by society!” No, you mindless automaton, the whole point of my existential despair is that I’ve seen through the superficial layers of appearances to grasp the utter meaninglessness at the core of everything. I’m not gonna pretend that I haven’t seen through it and stop questioning things just because it’s uncomfortable.
softwarist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
From the Wikipedia summary:
However, the absurd can never be permanently accepted: it requires constant confrontation, constant revolt.
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Camu has addressed that in his essay on suicide -
it’s not that you distract yourself, that’s denial, and it’s not a full embrace of nothing, that’s depression (and suicide). it’s an acceptance that things are meaningless - but you as a person can never stop looking for that meaning, in fact just the search itself is what keeps you going. that’s the absurd in absurdism, searching for meaning despite knowing it doesn’t exist, finding happiness in the journey, making peace with the fact that even if you do reach some goal you’ll never feel fulfilled. and even if you become the king of the world and have everything you could ever desire - the rock is still going to roll down, you’ll feel like there’s still something missing, and you’ll need to push the rock again
at least that’s my interpretation
sundray@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
I think there’s more to existentialism than that, but if it’s not for you there are other philosophies available–there’s always Schopenhauer.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I do love my anime and videogames.
Just saw this video personally last night.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIHRmoOBZBg
But a good point to make, if we all keep escaping, do we really ever affect any change to make things better? Are not media and entertainment, even if critical of the systems they exist within, forms of emotional relief such that we don’t stand up, go outside, and affect change?
A personal question I struggle with all the time.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Turns out getting your life together doesn’t really ease the constantly simmering existential dread.
At least I know that now.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
On the plus side, you only have to keep busy until the wonderful day it all finally ends. sob
IPeaceInYourFace@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Then don’t.
Sit in it, ask it questions, find out what it’s all about.
9 times out of 10, it’s just your inner child who’s been neglected and misunderstood. Once you take the time to give love to your inner less developed psyche, you’ll not need to find escapism.
Because there will be no pain to escape from.
Love yourself, you deserve it.
And just to get you started… Let me open the door for you:
softwarist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
It definitely has some campy/quacky parts, but I think the underlying idea of The Power of Now is worth contemplating: the emptiness is peace, and it is rather the ego that derives despair from an inability to assert over or distract from it.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s what living superficially running from new thing to new thing does to a person
Hubi@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The emptiness underneath? Like the subway tunnels?
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That tracks
Beangut@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The all acts because it acts.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Isn’t that just the meaning of life?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This looks so familiar…
Is this the subway station in PowerWasher Simulator (aka the game that made me get diagnosed with ADHD)?
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This image just reminds me of the videogame “pools”
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
On the bright side you will eventually die and then you don’t have to worry about existentialism anymore
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I finally found my kin!
plyth@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Touch the emptiness
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Weltschmerz
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You heal the emptiness
MrGeneric@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
One: Maybe you’re depressed
Two: Maybe you’re tricked by capitalism and religion into believing everything is special and needs a grand purpose
Three: We desperately need things on earth right now, dog shelters are overrun, solar panels need to be built and sold, bus lanes needs to be put in roads
Four: Just because it all ultimately means nothing, empires rise and fall, some remembered some forgotten, doesn’t mean nothing matters to someone else, I still remember 4th grade friendships and the things they taught me. Even if I never see them again. They still matter.
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Having a grounded big-picture perspective and being depressed can be really hard to tell apart
danciestlobster@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I thought the latter just creates the former