Have you ever considered what a ridiculous burden it is to be a human being? We're born like the animals: we're finite. We live for a while then we die. We work, we struggle, we try to pass on our genes.
So far, this isn't a problem. Being an animal is not a problem. And on the surface of it, the human looks like a superior animal: more resources, longer life expectancy, vast amounts of technology that give him (I mean the collective 'him') control over the entire planet.
But the problem is that the human has something animals don't: self awareness. A human being is able to recognize what he is and what he isn't. Ideas like "immortality" and "life after death" and so on seem theoretically possible to him. So a human being starts to develop an ego, to want to make himself into something more, at least in his own and other peoples' eyes.
But it never really works. The human doesn't overcome death by making money or acquiring fame or whatever it is. He's still an animal who lives and dies, goes to dust. But self awareness makes him wish he was something more, like a god. But the universe thumbs its nose at us, with stuff like the knowledge that our whole planet is just a speck of dust in a vast cosmos. We know intellectually that we are animals, but the desire to prove we are gods persists.
Heaven and hell exist there all here happening right now and annything in between
If your thinking like that your probertly close to hell You can pop into heaven by just switching your mind set
Christian Jones
These thoughts are pretty fundamental to the human condition. What I describe is pretty much what Genesis is getting at in the part where adam and eve eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and realize they're naked. Self awareness and morality represent a loss of innocence.
Easton Ross
Awwwh. Babby's first existential crisis.
Christopher Young
>Reminder that every "hot" girl you see is just an animal, who takes shits, pisses, has intestines, and smells horrendous without continual and frequent care.
Jason Ramirez
Apparently according to the jews the solution to the existential crisis is to marry and have children. the jews who told me this said that all the philosophers who talk about existentialism were unmarried, and this is why they worry about the meaning of life so much: because they missed the boat. do you think this is correct?
It wouldn't surprise me if the Jews were on to something here. You'll note that even their priest classes are prone to getting married and having children, so it's a culture that's very family-centric. Is this perhaps why they approach life with energy and enthusiasm, as opposed to the navel gazing of the goyim?
Cooper Ward
How come, no matter what someone posts on this website, whether it's entry level or genuinely advanced thinking, faggots always go "bleeh babbys first". I feel like if you fags met Plato himself you'd just go "babbys first". You're not smart user.
Owen Robinson
this site generally has an attitude of wanting to seem 'above it all'/'too cool for school'/etc
Luke Young
pseudo intellegent posters piss me off.
literally write normally, faggot.
Christopher Bennett
Sick of this attitude among people where they assume everyone else is deliberately trying to come across a certain way.
Maybe that's genuinely how they talk you absolute fucking mastercunt
