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RE: A lighthearted look at death, religion.. and communists
So you've attained Nirvana, or else you suffer from an incipient nihilism.
So you've attained Nirvana, or else you suffer from an incipient nihilism.
Nihilism is just a negative, lazy state of mind (imo)
You can have purpose if you decide to have purpose. Meaning can be whatever you choose to attach meaning to.(if you make the effort, and kick lazy into history).
Life is the point, (with or without an afterlife), and therefore for, to have no point (as in nihilism), is illogical.
(how many dead nihilists can refute this?)
Nihilism is a bit silly, and juvenile.(imo)
And best left behind with your memories of your first pubic hair...
The juvenile aspect holds water, if you consider the postmodernist's obsession with it.
There is nothing more juvenile than a post modernist adult.
(They are young teenagers still stuck in their bedrooms, that just happen to find themselves the big wide world at the same time.)
Attained nirvana?
I doubt it.
If that was truly the case, a cup of coffee would appear magically on my desk when I wanted - rather than have to go and put the kettle on every goddamn time!
Life is fantastic just as it is, until it's not.
What's not to like?
But life is suffering unless I'm wrong. There's more to dislike than full-blooded nihilist could ever hope and he might even get a thrill in this fact. But if you want meaning beyond this, you're not going to find it in life. What's your secret?
It's about perspective.
...we are all on the same train - and it has one destination.
What you make out of the journey is up to you.
(and as you never know when the train pulls into the station, this means there is no time to waste - enjoy that journey! - or not, no one is responsible for your happiness except you)
I don't have any secrets. ...maybe that's the secret! lol
A life's worth is about the road travelled, not the destination sort of deal, huh? A cliche, still I like it. But I really think you have to be blessed if you're happy. I remember learning the ancient Greek {eudaimonia} is misconstrued as 'happiness' when it actually means something more like 'the good life led.' Seeing as the best lives of history were hard and miserable by any standard, I tend to agree.
GPS has made life so predictable...😂
(never used one - I don't even have a
stupidsmart phone..)