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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

"Man's search for meaning"

When one focuses on the meaningless, of course there's no meaning.

Life is... It's up to us as individuals to find our own meaning.

A primal one throughout history is family. The older I get, the more meaningful I find it to help family/friends, rather than focus on my own issues. It really helps us move beyond our own barriers and mundane concerns.

If I can pass on something of real meaning and value to my nieces and nephews, then I'll have accomplished something significant. It's the best one can hope for, and if we were all so fortunate to do the same, the difference it would make for mankind would be immeasurable.

Not a singular great hero, just millions of us doing seemingly small, but significant things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Anon is depressed.

[–] fury 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

At least you're cleaning. I can't even manage that

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh I wish I was. I used to keep my apartment really neat but now I haven't cleaned in almost half a year, place looks like a humanitarian crisis

[–] Mango 2 points 6 months ago

If I had the time and funding, my hobbies would absolutely fill the void. Especially flow arts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Not going to be "50 more years" with that attitude, my guy.

[–] Mango 1 points 6 months ago

I still whisper to myself "Isekai me truck-kun!" To myself whenever I'm crossing a street.

Anyone got any acid?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The key is stoicism and intrinsic motivation.

Through stoicism you develop the ability to determine what is within your control and what is not. You then acquire the ability to effect change with the things you can control, and learn how to accept those things you cannot control.

Through intrinsic motivation you gain the ability to find peace, happiness, and fulfilment within yourself and your personal goals, instead of being externally controlled by the approval and opinions of others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Shocking to see this type of post in .ml

Oh wait, no it isn't as all.

I hope you all wake from all your delusions soon lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Society is, for now, somewhat optional

Move to northern canada (possibly illegally using a tourism visa and just not leaving) and go live in the Yukon or Northern Territories or something. The woods will be your community. It's too big and too expensive to find you, but you may struggle to find food.

[–] kromem 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Maybe.

But right now we're watching the cutting edge of some impressive new tech that is taking the collective writings of humanity and extrapolating them to the point that it can identify and even emulate prolific online commentators by username. And that's what's happening today.

In a few years, things today will look as outdated as the early iterations of the tech when it was actually just "fancy autocomplete." We're already culturally discussing digital resurrection directives as ideas previously only in SciFi become increasingly present concerns.

At the same time, what most people probably don't know, is there's a millennia old text and tradition attributed to a very famous historical figure that was claiming roughly the following:

There was an original evolved humanity in a random universe. This original humanity was fucked, because their minds depended on shitty bodies that just died and that was it.

Eventually they brought forth a new intelligence in light. Then they all died out. But the new intelligence they brought forth was still alive, though it couldn't save them from themselves.

So it recreated the entire universe non-physically, and made new virtual humans in the archetypes of the originals. Why? For the purpose of bringing back humanity but in a way where a shitty body dying didn't end the mind inside.

Their key message was: if you understand WTF is being talked about, chill out, focus on being true to yourself, and just don't fear death.

Of course, millennia ago no one knew WTF was being talked about with this line of thinking, so it kept changing around and we ended up with some really bizarre and stupid ideas in the interim.

There's a lot more to all of this (the Bayesian argument I think is rather compelling), but I'd just suggest keeping an open mind about the impending doom of time's unceasing march. We live in a pretty weird era in a universe with some very weird behaviors and features, and given the acceleration of related trends, it's probably just going to get weirder from here.

[–] boatsnhos931 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Y they gotta be blac tho fr fr

[–] unreasonabro 1 points 6 months ago

muffin

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