Fill Collins
Playing for keeps.
Camus bit Tolstoy? I'll have to look into this more
I’ve been suffering from existential dread the past few months
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We might be in some sort of HELL. A punishment of some sort.
For all I know this might be a classroom simulation that youll keep coming back to until you "get it right".
Your body itself (your flesh & bones) is the most advanced prison cell imaginable. It gets hungry & thirsty so you have to constantly feed it. It's subceptible to disease and sickness so you have to exercise and feed it healthy foods. It ages and one day you'll be unable to take care of yourself. There's literally no way to escape it except for death.
Society is the prison itself.
Your physical body = prison cell
Society = the prison.
Your spirit = the real you.
Nobody is happy here (except for temporary happiness) and NOBODY of sane mind would return here if given the opportunity after death.
If you haven't brought any kids into this existence.......don't.
For all I know this might be a classroom simulation that youll keep coming back to until you "get it right".
Your body itself (your flesh & bones) is the most advanced prison cell imaginable. It gets hungry & thirsty so you have to constantly feed it. It's subceptible to disease and sickness so you have to exercise and feed it healthy foods. It ages and one day you'll be unable to take care of yourself. There's literally no way to escape it except for death.
Society is the prison itself.
Your physical body = prison cell
Society = the prison.
Your spirit = the real you.
Nobody is happy here (except for temporary happiness) and NOBODY of sane mind would return here if given the opportunity after death.
If you haven't brought any kids into this existence.......don't.
Cat piss martini
Veteran
Find peace in the fact that
you could be murdered at any moment,
contract a dreadful disease,nuclear war
looming and pretty much the end of the world.
you could be murdered at any moment,
contract a dreadful disease,nuclear war
looming and pretty much the end of the world.
lets say there are two parallel universes...
all the events you mentioned happened to to the same person in each of those universes...
in the first universe... the person took a look at everything that has happened to him...
and sees no future, no hope, no happiness.... he makes no attempt at anything because why would he when he doesnt believe anything is possible?
in the second universe, the same events happen to a person..
but they respond by looking for motivation/inspiration in the stories of people...
who have overcome physical limitations, poverty, loneliness, helplessness...
they see hope even if it doesnt really exist... they approach life in that manner regardless of the current circumstance....
looking at these two people who have gone through identical events.....
which of the two is stronger?
which of the two has a better chance of finding and taking advantage of opportunities they may come across?
which person's life story would be more worthy of studying and understanding?
if you had a child... which of the two personalities would you want them to mimic?
which of the two personalities is a sucka./..
which of the two is a solid one?
Swahili P'Bitek
Absorbingpovertywithoutlimitations
Come visit a 3rd world slum and you"ll realise something.
Lemme Guess
Broke
Single
No Kids
Hate Your Job
Hate Your Living Situation
Your Last “Trip” Was To A State Less Than 3 Hours Away, You Saw Relatives And Had A Miserable Time
Any Friends You Do Have, You Barely Ever See
Your Favorite Memory Of The Past Year Involves Either A Movie Or Video Game
Broke
Single
No Kids
Hate Your Job
Hate Your Living Situation
Your Last “Trip” Was To A State Less Than 3 Hours Away, You Saw Relatives And Had A Miserable Time
Any Friends You Do Have, You Barely Ever See
Your Favorite Memory Of The Past Year Involves Either A Movie Or Video Game
the “at least I have it better than…” mindset isn’t always effective…that’s not a knock at anyone but it just simply doesn’t work for everyone
BunchePark
Coli N Calisthenics
You better find something nikka
I hate this depressive whoa is me shyt man but I feel for y'all because I've never been there
Not even in prison....jail was fun...not because it is but because I made the shyt fun for what it was
Like y'all boys in the free world man....go LIVE
Go do something you're good at that makes you feel good and keep doing it
I hate this depressive whoa is me shyt man but I feel for y'all because I've never been there
Not even in prison....jail was fun...not because it is but because I made the shyt fun for what it was
Like y'all boys in the free world man....go LIVE
Go do something you're good at that makes you feel good and keep doing it
Yo have you read Afro Pessimism by Frank Wilderson? Check him out on YouTube interviews/ podcast if you haven't.
read that book in 2020... before that i believed that if we collectively voted and held cacs accountable we could change antiblack police practices and make the world a better place.
You in your 40s, asking another man to come draw with you brehs
Damn
I reccomm Ecclesiastes 1:9 -12 OP. Seems like maybe you have finally woken up.
4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem[a] as well—the delights of a man’s heart. 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.
10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.
and also madness and folly.
What more can the king’s successor do
than what has already been done?
13 I saw that wisdom is better than folly,
just as light is better than darkness.
14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.
15 Then I said to myself,
“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?”
I said to myself,
“This too is meaningless.”
16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;
the days have already come when both have been forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise too must die!
But if you dont read it,to sum it up your life is meaningless. You are supposed to be living for god.
Pleasures Are Meaningless
2 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. 2 “Laughter,” I said, “is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?” 3 I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem[a] as well—the delights of a man’s heart. 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.
10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.
Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless
12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,and also madness and folly.
What more can the king’s successor do
than what has already been done?
13 I saw that wisdom is better than folly,
just as light is better than darkness.
14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.
15 Then I said to myself,
“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?”
I said to myself,
“This too is meaningless.”
16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;
the days have already come when both have been forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise too must die!
But if you dont read it,to sum it up your life is meaningless. You are supposed to be living for god.