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

I've thought a lot about suicide and near death experiences Sept 30, 2017 11:57:02 GMT theravenking likes this

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Post by THawk on Sept 30, 2017 11:57:02 GMT

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

Sept 29, 2017 11:45:33 GMT cupcakes said:

^tpfkar

Life being just a fantasy-based prelude to something not coming is what would make it actually meaningless.

Embracing it and enjoying it while you have it is the only meaning not concocted wholly out of nothing.

Come dancing

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.

This, and your other one on suicide, are honest posts.

If all the billions upon billions of people throughout history who have had some sort of religious faith have been completely wrong about everything, and given how much this faith has shaped civilization....it really would make the entire human species one of the most preposterously deluded, laughable collections of bacteria to ever exist. No other species that I can think of bases so much of its existence on (what would be in this scenario) a total delusion.

It is not at all "narcissistic" to want a possibility of heaven, if your focus is on other people and not just yourself, however. But without that possibility, yes, life becomes not just meaningless, but if we are completely honest, a nightmarish dark hole of misery for the majority of mankind. Suicide becomes a rather logical consideration in the face of such darkness.

I hope that is not the true reality, I have faith most days that it is not, but if it is, then this is the honest, no-BS reflection of it.