why does life feel like some kind of elaborate torture mechanism? like you're born into this decaying meat suit that's literally programmed to fall apart from day one, constantly under threat of random pain, disease, accidents. your body is fragile as hell and you're just waiting for something to go wrong. even when you're not actively suffering you're bored out of your mind or stressed about survival. the worst part is consciousness itself because we're the only creatures cursed with knowing we're gonna die and rot, so we spend our whole existence running this pathetic cope game, desperately manufacturing "meaning" and "happiness" just to distract ourselves from the void. most of your time gets wasted on tedious bullshit like commuting, cleaning, waiting, all the residual garbage actions between the few moments that don't suck. you can't even survive without being selfish and hurting others because the game is rigged that way. and for what? there's no cosmic purpose, just endless pointless carnage where everything tears at everything else forever. we're basically self-aware nothings, puppet meat animated by pain, forced to pretend we don't see through the whole sick joke or else we'd just collapse. the machine is broken, it cuts you while it grinds you down and you're stuck frantically patching it while the timer counts down to guaranteed implosion. how is this not just systematic torture?
The world is run by sociopaths as an open air labor camp. The various socialist programs that rose up during the revolutionary period figured this out and have been trying to resist. This Ebenezer Scrooge guy just never figured it out. His way leads to emo. Don't buy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c
>>24938212If it's torture then why don't you just kill yourself?
>>24938212>how is this not just systematic torture?Because you can stay home listening to The Cure while inebriated
>>24938258Biologically wired to survive, humans are. It's a teleological contradiction, really. Life's telos, its end, is to deny its own end.
>>24938491Nah, once you've fathered and raised a child or two, your continued existence holds no more value except to the economy and nature has no more need of you.
>>24938212Many people are happy, and do so by living according to nature, as man the aesthetic animal, man the self-conscious, man the free. The only reason you're depressed by the thought of life is because you forget to live, and bring yourself to proportion with respect to reason and emotions. The *thought* of seeing a life from begin to end, realize it's just biology doing dumb shit is depressing because thoughts, eternity, is itself a boring realm because it is static, what's fun and makes depression go away is everything that is lived, unique, present, felt; the realm of thought is merely a tool to an end of creating good stuff.>even when you're not actively suffering you're bored out of your mind or stressed about survival.Once you escape the thought of surviving and reach a decent standard of living and fall into boredom you must seek activities, preferably aesthetic one, ones that make you grow in power and that offer beauty, because beauty reminds you of your self-consciouness and of your freedom (can't explain, read Aesthetic Education of man by Schiller). Schopenhauer is wrong when he says there is merely escaping suffering, he was probably too disgusted disgusted by other people, and maybe clang on to too dear an image of himself, to go dance and have fun and see all that is aesthetic in life. >So what, do I just do activities, grow in power, experience beauty, try to achieve things, and bring aesthetic to my life by celebrating in proportion to my efforts? Is that it? is that all of life? From afar, it will forever remain depressing, because you see a hamster wheel and you as subject see the hamster as object and cannot understand its joy, it is only by tasting happiness for yourself, as subject, that you will turn the realm of thought to ridicule. Experiencing happiness puts all thoughts to rest ~ but you have to live it, as subject, not see it from afar, you will never understand that way.
>>24938212>why does life feel like some kind of elaborate torture mechanism?Because you're a solipsistic loser. Bad combo.
/lit/ hates religious threads, yet materialists can't stop making 20 billion threads about the fact they'll die someday. Interesting.
>>24938212>why does life feel like some kind of elaborate torture mechanismBecause you choose to conceptualize it that way, duh. If 'happiness' is an empty manufactured concept, so is pain, so it torture, so is 'ze void', so is 'tedious bullshit'. So there's no reason to be worried really.
>>24938508>implying nature had need of this faggot at all
>>24938491Wrrrrong, It's because you get infinitely reincarnated by the Will, so killing yourself does nothing. At least that's what Schoppy believed.
>>24938212Up to you to call it life, or existence really.
>>24938508They still need you for protection. Your job is truly done once you have grandchildren.
>>24938258most empathetic natalist argument
>>24940307This is much more terrifying than I Have No Mouth because of how casual the robots are. There's no hatred in the dialog.
