I've thought a lot about suicide and near death experiences

I've thought a lot about suicide and near death experiences Sept 29, 2017 12:47:17 GMT theravenking likes this

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Sept 29, 2017 12:42:06 GMT cupcakes said:

Sept 29, 2017 12:27:14 GMT @miccee said:

But WHY do you think that so many people are desperate to fabricate some kind of meaning out of whole cloth? If life itself is enough of a 'blast' without having to concoct some sort of bizarre narcissistic fantasy regarding the ultimate significance of their existence, then why do the lives of the majority of the world's population revolve around these myths? It's not as if people don't have access to the education required to dispassionately reject these myths...but it seems that people feel that they need them.

Indoctrination. Both of the father figure type and of there has to be ultimate reasons beyond your own for everything. The religious drive for the perfection of eternity of one form or another.
Facing mortality. Many people are tempted grasp at all sorts of irrationalities when it sinks in that they and their loved ones won't live forever.

Gone Daddy Gone

Even a lot of people who were raised non religious eventually embrace some kind of theistic religion which gives their life the 'meaning' that they feel that it has been lacking. It's not always a case of people being born into religion (although it usually is). Religion is obviously some kind of salve to put on an existential wound (perhaps being that at some level, people do have some kind of existential dread of the futility of life).

Facing mortality is possibly the main one, and people don't only grasp at irrationalities for their own consolation, but also grasp for irrational justifications to curtail the bodily autonomy of other people in order to validate the value of life.