#existantialism

[thelifeisabsurd]

The world says: "You have needs, satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[diemondgrimm]

I want to not feel like a bother when showing that i exist

[thelostbaka]

Why are we here?

Why are we here? Is it because genetics brought by our parents made us like this? Is it because of your heart? Or is it because someone or something has a plan for your soul? The human mind is the most complex thing in the world, which everyone has it but can’t understand it. Are we a mind in a skeleton or are we a body with a mind? We all have different identities, different roles in our societies. Americans have the identity of independence, Mexicans have the identity of family, and Japanese have the identity of honor. We are from the same species, yet we are so different that all 7.5 billion of us can become our own animal, our own kingdom, our own self. We live in the world of complex economics, politics, and structure and that asks more questions than it answers. The human race, or any intellect race, will go towards a leader or a God but we will always be plagued with one question… Why are we here?

[nihilistnews]

Meaning

The purpose of life is just feeding, reproduction, and death. (Death is essential to evolution.)

But that isn't the meaning of life. Meaning is a meta-narrative (story about the meaning or value of our stories) that directs our actions or even our gaze toward some things and away from others. It isn't innate to life, it is mythic, even fictitious. But I challenge people who think fictions don't effect the world in very real ways to consider Victor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning, which details how a sense of meaning literally helped jews survive Auschwitz, or on the flip side, all the ways myths of meaning have driven wars and waves of religious conversion. Myth is fundamental to the fabric of all human society (as society is intersubjectively composed), and there can be no more fundamentally mythic question than "what does it mean?" A rock, a life, a particular pattern of mountains or a specific mountain range, are all begging to be given a meaning. The fact that meaning is given and constructed hardly means it isn't real -- is a house real? -- is it less real to know that it will one day blow away in a hurricane? A house is the result of purposed activity -- and so is meaning. It's not as if trees grow so that we can saw it into planks, so that we might construct a shelter. When we say life has no meaning, we're accidentally speaking nonsense. The question is what meaning do we want to build with a life?

[cravenlaufeyson]

Mommy Dearest

Every day I sit down and count.

Mathematics, you see.

I learn it to become an accountant.

I never wanted to learn it to much.

I never wanted to become an accountant.

One day, long time ago,

I walked up to my mommy and said,

"Mommy, i want to be a zoologist!",

But my mommy said,

"Why not doctor? Zoologist is no real proffesion.

You'll spend your whole life caged in zoo

like one of the animals.

You'll get older, wiser. We'll talk then."

That's not true. I didn't know that jet.

One day,  not so long ago,

I walked up to mom and said,

"Mom, i want to be a pathologist!",

But my mom said,

"Why not something business related? You're never get to medical school.

Even if, you'll spend your whole life cutting corpses.

You'll get older, wiser. We'll talk then."

But that's not true. I didn't know that jet.

Now,

I want to walk up to mother and say,

"Mother, i want to have a coffeshop!",

But i know what mother would say,

"Why not an accountant? You'll never suceed otherwise.

And even if, you still wont be enough.

You'll get older, wiser. We'll talk then."

That's not true. I know that now.

But i don't say anything.

But she tells me anyway.

"Be an accountant, but you know,

It's your choice in the end."

But all the choices are well past me.

I am older

I am wiser

I am caged

I am corpse

And i am still, not enough.

And in the end we still didn't talk.

And in the end i still sit

And learn

And count

With hope that, one day, i'll become an accountant.

With hope that, one day, mommy dearest,

will think me enough.

[thelifeisabsurd]

The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.

The Plague / Albert Camus

[thelifeisabsurd]

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

- Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

[thelifeisabsurd]

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov