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Do you think there is any point to life? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I keep wondering why my life turned out to be so hopeless and miserable. Did I do something in a past life and this is my punishment? Is it bad karma? But then karma has never made sense to me. If you murder someone, and karma decides you then need to be murdered to pay for that, it requires someone else to commit murder so you get your karma. The cycle would never end.

Is the New Age idea that we choose our lives before birth true? Do we choose everything that will happen to us in advance so we can learn something from it? Or is that just cope?

Are we just evolved pondslime who mutated into humans by chance and none of this means anything?

Why is life so incredibly awful for so many people?

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[–] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Life doesn't have any meaning all by itself. The only thing that can give your life meaning is yourself. To do that, however, you need security and stability in your life, which is something you need to be able to afford. In our societies, we need to earn a lot of money for that to work. So I guess what I'm saying is that capitalism is the reason life has no meaning, and the only way to fix this is revolution.

[–] DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And most people are so beaten down by capitalism that they have no strength or energy for revolution. It seems, by design.

[–] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Absolutely by design, yes.

[–] FoolishAchilles@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Systemic oppression of the masses. Classic!

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

What’s your explanation lemmitor