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A common thought finally hit me today. The thought pop out in my end randomly, everything we do is really just an excuse to keep our minds busy for our inevitable end.

We create all this distraction from hobbies, jobs, family, technology, entertainment, science and religion to keep our minds occupied. We invented money to buy us more time to be occupied.

It is like the whole thing is just a fidget spinner.

Curious how you approach this?

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[–] persona_non_gravitas@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It mulled in the background for about 30 years to process, and then I came to the conscious conclusion that out of all the possible equally pointless reasons to hang around, for me satisfying my curiosities and improving the world for my fellow experience-capable-beings are the ones I want to do. Of course I still slip into mind-numbing distractions a lot, that's just being human in the world we live in.

That, and that practically, what are the options anyway? No point in ending it early, or wasting your finite life on something you don't actually want.

My choice of philosophy is absurdism, honestly because I think it sounds more fun than "optimistic nihilism" or "existentialism". IMHO there's a whole host of philosophies that basically suggest the same guide to living well, with different emphasis (for example):

  1. Figure out what you want (<- 20th century existentialism)
  2. Do it the best you can (<- stoicism, confucianism)
  3. Don't let the other stuff distract you (<- stoicism, buddhism)