…and suicide might satisfy you?
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How? — Michael Ossipoff
Is this just philosophical Nihilism, or is there something about your particular life-situation that makes your own particular life inadequate for you? — Michael Ossipoff
Given the irreversibility, how sure are you really that it will result in something better, and not worse?
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"Is this just philosophical Nihilism, or is there something about your particular life-situation that makes your own particular life inadequate for you?" — Michael Ossipoff
to answer that question, I think it'd be better if we chatted somewhere than here. Google hangouts is a great choice — Rhasta1
.“…and suicide might satisfy you?
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How?” — Michael Ossipoff[/i]
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Imagine that you've just bought a new gaming console, with two brand new games. You put the first disk in. You get so immersed in this game that you don't notice how much time has passed, you are thoroughly enjoying it, it's been a long time since you've had this much fun with a game.
And now you put the second disk in. 10 mins in and you already know how much of a crappy and generic game it is, with no substance in it, it's just there for no apparent reason.
What would you do with the second video game? Keep playing it until you compulsively convince yourself that you like it? Or do you rationally delete the damn game?
life for some is the first video game but for most it's the second one.
.I don't know, I might go to hell or heaven, the underworld of Greek myths, or eaten by Egyptian afterlife monsters, or even merely go from one folder to another folder, if we are inside a giant simulation.
.All I know is that, when you're not content with your life, and deem it too trivial to begin caring about, it's nothing but a big, yet brave, risk to take.
.It might get worse if there's an afterlife and we don't reside in blackness (I still don't understand how there can't be oblivion, you go there every night when you sleep).
.But it's only sensible to take action to improve your life, even if it ultimately ends up hurting you
The analogy doesn’t fit the situation — Michael Ossipoff
You can’t really say that hurting you is an improvement. — Michael Ossipoff
.In my analogy, video game A wasn't death caused by suicide, it was a content worry less life, the type that you speak of, the promised life promised by our parents and our schools and the life Camus promises by laughing at the absurd. The life where problems are tolerable, where at the end of the day, you and your significant other share a cup of coffee together and read books or whatever you're into, where you sense purpose and meaning. That's video game A compared to video game B of mine where everyday is a constant struggle to even get out of my room, not because I'm sad but because I'm numb.
.And I don't wanna be depicted as a sad edgelord who fetishizes his own sadness, I'm really trying to elevate my life. By doing things that make me happy at that particular time, and breaking away from the system, I'm following through just so that I could get a glimpse of the life that you promise, but if this doesn't work either, well....
.”You can’t really say that hurting you is an improvement.” — Michael Ossipoff
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I never said it will hurt me, I just said that it might.
.you know you might not reach your goals but you wake up every day working towards them.
If someone tinkers, by ending their life just because they decide that they don’t like it, without genuine urgent need to, they just make it a lot worse for themselves, because what you end-up in depends on your actions — Michael Ossipoff
Sounds like religious/karmic superstition — emancipate
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