re: Tiredness of life: the growing phenomenon in western society

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Same factors in all places (people aren't having children, cultural dilution/erasure, religious decline, etc.)

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Agreed. But at some point cultures are going to evolve. Pick up some good things leave some good things behind. It certainly isnt linear.

Is that "progress"? depends on where you sit.

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Same factors in all places (people aren't having children, cultural dilution/erasure, religious decline, etc.)

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I figure the children is economics as anything else. Two parents having to work makes childcare a mfer, especially in those early years. It certainly doesnt help the loneliness situation.

I dont have the same sour view on the culture as many here do.

Now religious decline ties pretty directly to the problem I think. We've lost so much of that sense of community. While not religious, I see the benefit in something that makes people meditate and also come together once a week.

It doesnt need to be religion to get communities together, but its a good vehicle.

We need more block parties.

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can the elderly do coke at the block party?

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I encourage it

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Nihilistic atheist miserable self-loathing a-hole statist-leftist whose tedious verbosity was outweighed only by his self-congratulatory vituperations. I’ll take anything he said with a grain of nonKosher salt.

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Nah, I’m just bullshittin. Idk wtf you even just said but it sounded cool

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It's barbaric that we don't allow people to go out on their own terms.

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Person A: “I won’t kill you.”
Person B: “You barbarian!”

Maybe leave the existential debates to other people, champ.

Mu FIL is failing. He had early onset dementia and now has a permanent catheter, which he can't leave alone, and constantly causes to leak.

He's about to go into a nursing home, which if he live more than 3 years will eliminate his life savings, which he has been scrimpimg on spending for a decade to leave something for his kids.

He is miserable living like this.

I feel like this more hours, days and weeks than not. I’m still trying but ve had enough of the nonsense.


There is no such thing as gravity. The world sucks.

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Person A: “I won’t kill you.” Person B: “You barbarian!”

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More like

Person A: “I am in daily physical and emotional pain, lost everyone I have ever loved, have lived my life to the fullest, and would like to go now.”

Person B: “No. Sorry. You must continue to suffer until the same result occurs on its own.”

I wonder how these folks compare to their contemporaries who are religious.