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[Serious] What keeps you sane in these troubling times?
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I would go a step further to say life isn't that important as a whole in the grand scheme of the universe
We as humans place value on it because we're part of it, we rely on it to carry on existing, and we're curious and find it interesting
Could argue that intelligence/sentience is important but it's only important from the perspective of beings with intelligence
I suppose I'm not 100% on Nihilism in that sense.
I still value life of course, but the climate change existential dread which I feel pretty constantly is alleviated when I tell myself its only complete societal collapse/mass extinction event, rather than total destruction of life on the earth.
I wouldn't say I'm a nihilist, I still care about sentient life and am also a vegetarian so can't really say I don't care about animals
Just in the grand scheme of things if the earth blew up tomorrow it's no biggie for the universe
Generally put those kind of issues out of my mind by just reminding myself it's out of my control anyway