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How do you cope?
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:09 pm
As you age, you become more aware of your mortality. When you're younger, you usually believe in a "god," someone who will take care of you, a notion that brings comfort with you and your loved ones being taken care of after death, reunited. An idea instilled by our parents at a young age; that is, someone you trust to be one step above your level of knowledge, thus having figured everything out, bringing you yet another layer of comfort.
But when you become a parent, or at least that age, who do you look up to after realizing that no man who has ever walked the Earth knows more than you do? How do you find meaning and comfort in life, or does this very notion drive you to the brink of becoming religious (madness), thus continuing this vicious cycle as you relay the meaning of life to your grand kids? Why can't people just accept their mortality and the fact that we have no purpose in life, other than an instinct to procreate and spread false rumors of truth that becomes ever increasingly distorted?
P.S. I'm plastered.
But when you become a parent, or at least that age, who do you look up to after realizing that no man who has ever walked the Earth knows more than you do? How do you find meaning and comfort in life, or does this very notion drive you to the brink of becoming religious (madness), thus continuing this vicious cycle as you relay the meaning of life to your grand kids? Why can't people just accept their mortality and the fact that we have no purpose in life, other than an instinct to procreate and spread false rumors of truth that becomes ever increasingly distorted?
P.S. I'm plastered.
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Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:09 pm to VooDude
with my blankey duh
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:11 pm to VooDude
frick Bitches, Make Money.
Nothing else matters, so why think about it.
Nothing else matters, so why think about it.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:13 pm to VooDude
also you drunk or high? i say you high as a muthafukka
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:13 pm to VooDude
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As you age, you become more aware of your mortality. When you're younger, you usually believe in a "god," someone who will take care of you, a notion that brings comfort with you and your loved ones being taken care of after death, reunited
Congrats on having people love you
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:13 pm to VooDude
Long cut
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:14 pm to VooDude
All you can do is live the best life you can and do the most good for others and those you care about that you possibly can. Truthfully no one knows what "happens" to us when we die outside of our physical body rotting. However what we do know is that everyone leaves behind a legacy, good or bad. My goal is to have made some kind of positive impact on people and my community and live my life as best as I can. That's all you can really do.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:15 pm to VooDude
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no man who has ever walked the Earth knows more than you do?
I’m pretty sure Bear Grylls knows more than me.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:15 pm to VooDude
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But when you become a parent, or at least that age, who do you look up to after realizing that no man who has ever walked the Earth knows more than you do?
How about a therapist who would call you a delusional narcissist.
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P.S. I'm plastered.
6:00 on a Wednesday. Nice!
This post was edited on 12/6/17 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:16 pm to VooDude
This is probably one of my favorite quotes.
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
-marcus aurelius-
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
-marcus aurelius-
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:16 pm to OMLandshark
quote:it's Wednesday
6:00 on a Tuesday. Nice!
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:18 pm to VooDude
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods,
“And for the tender mother
Who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses
His baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens
Who feed the eternal flame,—
To save them from false Sextus
That wrought the deed of shame?
The Captain of the gate:
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods,
“And for the tender mother
Who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses
His baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens
Who feed the eternal flame,—
To save them from false Sextus
That wrought the deed of shame?
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:18 pm to Rouge
frick. Got me. Started thinking about South Park finale tonight, and I thought “shite it’s Wednesday”.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:20 pm to VooDude
Scruffy decided that he won't die.
Pretty straightforward.
Pretty straightforward.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:29 pm to Scruffy
Instead of worrying, be grateful that somehow, someway, the atoms aligned just so and you were born. Think about the statistical probability of that. Its a miracle. You can see, can hear, can taste, feel and experience emotion. Not only that but you are an American living in the South Be grateful for every day and be someone that brings joy in others. Life is lived in relationship.
Remember also this rule of physics; matter is neither created or destroyed, only changed in form. You have always existed and always will. Only the form will change.
Be glad you are alive.
Remember also this rule of physics; matter is neither created or destroyed, only changed in form. You have always existed and always will. Only the form will change.
Be glad you are alive.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:34 pm to VooDude
The answer to your philosophical rant - BEER. It is the nectar of the Gods. Drink it as much as you can as long as you are on God’s green earth and everything else will fall into place.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:35 pm to VooDude
I'm not stupid. No one lives forever. No one. But with advances in modern science and my high level of income, I mean, it's not crazy to think I can't live to be 245, maybe 300. Heck, I just read in the newspaper they put a pig heart in some guy from Russia
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:39 pm to VooDude
I often wake up, from a deep sleep, with the realization I'm going to die someday. It's pretty weird. Other than that I don't think about it.
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:43 pm to el Gaucho
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Long cut
This is a severely underappreciated post
Posted on 12/6/17 at 6:45 pm to VooDude
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Why can't people just accept their mortality and the fact that we have no purpose in life,
We are sentient beings so we have the privilege of deciding whether or not we have a purpose. I've decided to devote the remainder of my life to the pursuit of knowledge about physics, for example.
Physics is the ultimate reductionism. We can learn the "how" of existence if not the "why." I personally don't think the latter can be answered.
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