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  • _niko1

    Here’s my philosophy on life from what I’ve gathered in my forty something years of existence.

    It all means nothing. We don’t matter. The universe will disappear just like it appeared and all will be forgotten. We are no more than fireflies in the night.

    We are a cosmic fluke and shouldn’t really exist but since we do we should live, love and enjoy every single minute of it and ensure everyone else does too.

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    • AmenMrT
    • Nilistic Optimism.pango
    • you are a cosmic fluke, everyone else means and matters, just you don'tnudes
    • Welcome to the apathetic church of pragmatic nihilismthumb_screws
    • omnipresenceutopian
    • lol and you were worried about me? It's all a lark, just have fun and leave when you want.garbage
    • lol at cosmic fluke.set
    • preach itfuturefood
    • and here lies the problem: person 1 claims to have found the truth, person 2 and 3 are bullshitting about it; war. Have some respect.mekk
    • cosmic fatalism = religious predestination = justifying being a shit person because it's beyond your will (the will of god/ nature/ science)... same shit.kingsteven
    • If you don't matter, kill yourself and find out.robthelad
    • You're just spouting nonsense. Mattering is just a human construct. Things only matter if we make them matter. The meaning of life, for me, is to find meaning.set
    • Being a good person is never beyond will. That’s just something religious people say to justify their awful tendencies.monospaced
    • When did this become about free will.
      Just a reminder:
      http://psycnet.apa.o…
      http://science.scien…      soundofreason
    • and
      http://journals.sage…      soundofreason
    • @_niko
      What I really want to know how racism fits in to your world view.      soundofreason
    • Is your church accepting donations? I'm a believer. Praise _niko the disciple. He's going to save us all from sin. Oh! save us all _niko!shapesalad
    • oh totally, religious predestination is that the will of god is carried out via individual free will. in effect it's a surrender to lack of control, and as akingsteven
    • mantra this is the same ideology, but based in scientific dogma...kingsteven
    • Hello there old friend!
      ELI5, where in _niko's post he's referencing free will.      soundofreason
    • I honestly never understood why people find a lack of "meaning" in the universe depressing. Like set said, it's an incoherent concept.yuekit
    • Ultimately your own subjective experience is all that matters. Think of your life like a film or a book. It's up to you to direct it and write the plot.yuekit
    • @yuekit
      Probably because some are unable to have an objective view of specific elements within a structure. Ex: atheist = immoral      soundofreason
    • @soundofreason, denial of meaning/ roll with it ideology is hardly an objective viewpoint. as personal philosophy it only serves the same purpose askingsteven
    • aforementioned religious (+ as you point out) scientific concepts on the nature of free will... as a coping method for not knowing, and an excuse for not caringkingsteven
    • about your actions.kingsteven
    • OKsoundofreason
    • kingsteven, why would you expect there to be meaning in the universe?yuekit
    • so basically qbn is full of nihilistic satanistspinkfloyd
    • So we exist out of pure luck? I may not believe in jesus and the single old man in the sky but I do think we're part of something bigger.Maaku
    • people believe in what they want to believe in. in the end, we're all clueless apespinkfloyd
    • i don't expect, but i'm not going to say there's not because i don't know. i'm not religious, but just as wary of the certainty of atheist 'beliefs'.kingsteven
    • Why should we ensure everyone else does too? That's on them.cannonball1978
    • Not saying I have any answers either... but it seems awfully convenient and self-serving to think that reality would conform to human psychology or morality.yuekit
    • When you consider the tiny amount of time we've been here, not sure I would put the chances of that on par with the alternative.yuekit
    • It was natural and intuitive for humans to think the universe rotated around the Earth too.yuekit
    • cannon I just mean respect everyone so that they could do the same._niko
    • pinkfloyd is right ... we're just "clueless apes" at the end of the daymonospaced
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