General existential discussion thread

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Atheist existentialism.

Of course, I can't pass up recommending Nietzsche. While not explicitly existentialist, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a beautiful book.

I would definitely consider myself an absurdist.

I think our existence is a blight, and I think we should quietly opt out of it.

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I don't know anything about the schools or philosophers of existentialism.

I think life doesn't have meaning beyond what living things ascribe to it, and that people structure an interpretation of reality as existential framework.

Meaning isn't intrinsic.

Ehhh, absurdism. The world is a blank slate.


I'd like to think the meaning of life is adaptive to one's own happiness, which in turn acts as a less batshit insane version of "karma"


Like the probability of you being happy would be based on the fulfillment of certain meaningful life goals, like making money or fucking dark hoes.

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It's something I've planned to read about because I'm really not familiar with philosophy in regards to existence but it's just so depressing.

I don't know if it really counts, but I often feel like I'm born like, in te wrong time period. If that makes sense. Like, I wish I could be living in a time when we were exploring; like back when America was being colonised, or if/ when we begin manned space flight in the solar system. For everything I love (SciFi, Physics, Space), it genuinely depresses me to know that I will not live to see a human or a probe land on a planet in another star system, and probably won't get to see a human settlement on mars before I die. Maybe not even a landing.

Alternatively, it also depresses me when I think about how exciting it must have been when you could just explore and find new countries and places on our planet before we discovered it all (inb4 oceans)

I often feel out of place for when I live, as everyone around me seems more interested in celebrities and shit than exploring the universe. Everyone remembers the moon landing, but no one remembers the guys who spent decades building various rocket systems and testing what we knew about aerospace engineering like how we test what we know about quantum mechanics today. So in 100 years, people may look back on the future mars landing as a monumental achievement, but very few will look at 2015, when nothing major was happening then.

Fuck, I honestly feel like I'd serve more purpose in life if I was living in a fucking war. Or a nuclear wasteland or a zombie apocalypse, you get the idea. I'm not saying I'd survive long, but at least you always have a purpose, rather than just the status quo of sleep work eat sleep repeat that pretty much summarises the early 21st century. I have a general opinion that my mindset, the way I think and how my brain functions is out of place for now. This period of history. Like, I have a way of thinking better suited to other parts of history, with different skillsets that are useless now but would otherwise be good elsewhere. I dunno.

But yeah, I often feel like I'm someone who is better equipped, mentally for more 'exciting' periods of history, as it were. A time when something is going on, be it major exploration or major war. Just something exciting, where every day isn't just repeating the same shit all the time. To be honest, that's my reason that in considering joining the armed forces; because at least then I'd have a purpose and something to do everyday instead of going to school for an arbritary grade that tells everyone how good my memory is.

I don't know if that counts towards the topic, but it seemed kind of relevant, even if a bit of a tangent at the end.

Atheist existentialism.

Of course, I can't pass up recommending Nietzsche. While not explicitly existentialist, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a beautiful book.

Everyone should read Zen at some point in their lives, such a great book. I do enjoy Nietzsche though I've only read On The Genealogy of Morality. There any of his other books worth reading?

Beyond Good and Evil.

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Since I also feel I was born in the wrong age I'm pursuing research in Gerontology is so I can have a shot at exploring space and actually mastering some of my disciplines. I'm not satisfied with societal goals and status quo existence either. It's meaningless to me. I want to make my own goals and find means that matter to me.
Most people in my life make themselves irrelevant because they can understand where I'm coming from, but don't. To me, love is based in understanding, and people try to instill normative values because it's what they understand without recognizing that my views also exist in a different existential framework. This idiocy drives me insane.

For me this is bleak as fuck, and totally relevant

I don't really care. I'm here. That's it.

Basically this.

Absurdism most closely aligns with who I am, stoicism and pragmatism align with who I want to become.

I tried reading a compendium on Nietsche a while back; unfortunately, it was a very dry book and hard to keep an interest in despite the subject.

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Alternatively, it also depresses me when I think about how exciting it must have been when you could just explore and find new countries and places on our planet before we discovered it all (inb4 oceans)

Okay cmon why do you exclude the very obvious example.

Absurdism most closely aligns with who I am, stoicism and pragmatism align with who I want to become.

I tried reading a compendium on Nietsche a while back; unfortunately, it was a very dry book and hard to keep an interest in despite the subject.

You think Neitzsche is dry you ought to try Schopenhauer

your mother was dry

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Used to be very nihilistic

Now, after everything I've been through, I'd say on the topic of meaning, a divine comedy of sorts seems to be taking place. It's just a belief of course.

I'm a normie. We exist because of cosmic coincidences, which is pretty neat imo,

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When it boils down to it, everything is apart of a collective consciousness incessantly creating it's own reality. Matter/energy vary in frequencies to help illustrate this world of ours, along with various forces of course.

You can say, because we, as microcosms of the universe, create our own realities (i.e. art, ideas, perspectives), the clear purpose can be said to create, and from that it can be derived that we create our own respective meaning or purposes to exist.

The idea is to create a beautiful purpose, I think

Better than Nietzsche supposedly

Impossibru.

You can say, because we, as microcosms of the universe, create our own realities (i.e. art, ideas, perspectives), the clear purpose can be said to create, and from that it can be derived that we create our own respective meaning or purposes to exist.

Could not the same thing be said about literally anything we have in common with reality, like say, inevitably dying?

Life is Art.

I use to be a lot of "isms," but I've grown really disinterested in all of the metaphysical stuff.

I guess I still qualify as an existential nihilist, but I don't really do much in terms of acting on that belief. I'm here, that's fine with me, I'm gonna make the best of my existence. I don't care if its pointless, I'm having fun.

I forget all of the philosophy books I read, and never really bothered to stick to one specific philosopher I really valued.

I'm a normie. We exist because of cosmic coincidences, which is pretty neat imo,

Existential philosophy more deals with the why of our existence rather than the how.

Meaning our initial existence or our continued existence?

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I'm a normie. We exist because of cosmic coincidences, which is pretty neat imo,

Existential philosophy more deals with the why of our existence rather than the how.

Meaning our initial existence or our continued existence?

Continued existence imo

So if I believe that ownership of the galaxy is Mankind's Manifest Destiny/Lebensraum and that we as a society continue to exist and reproduce solely to fulfill that destiny, what does it make me?