>you literally have one attempt at life and then it's overAny books that deal with this issue?
Why is it an issue?
>>25348650It's a theme of The Book of Marlon. One of the characters, a Ross Ulbricht type, tries to convince Marlon that he already had his chance, ruined it and now has no choice but to follow him into a life of crime.
>>25348650>implying that it’s a bug not a featureThe certainty of death is what gives life its ephemeral significance. If you could have as many do overs as you like then there would be no reason to live your life to the fullest.
>>25348662It's really weighing on me recently. I get the feeling that until recently my brain has genuinely believed that I would avoid this fate, or that there would be another opportunity to go back and start over."A man has two lives, the second begins when he realizes he only has one."
>>25348650Yea
>>25348670>If man understood eternity, he would do everything to change his life.I try to remember that every day when my wife irritates me or anything irks me.
>>25348684Does that mean eternity for a single man, or eternity in general while not necessarily suggesting life after death?
>>25348650https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9FrlRBx2Qew&t=265s
>>25348689The four last things are:DeathJudgementHeavenHellThe context of that quote is from Our Lady of Fatima and obviously applies to eternal life.
I feel a great relief knowing I don't have to do this again. The odds of being born white and intelligent are too low, and anything else isn't worth enduring.
StonerDeath of Ivan IlyichThe Remains of the Day
>>25348650>I'll escape the prison planet if my material body rots!!!No atheshit, your narcissistic delusions aren't reality.
The way I see it is that we all get one chance at this, and we don't even realize that until we've made like half of our irreversible choices, so to have any anxiety about living life suboptimally is absurd. It is already guaranteed to be suboptimal. The best thing you can do is recognize your life as your own unique collection of choices, random chance, mistakes, etc. and value that for what it is. There is no cosmic universal win state for a lived life. There is only the journey, maaan. And if you ever feel blue, just remember that everything you know will perish, the sun will die, the universe will probably collapse back into a black hole and none of this will ever have mattered any more than anything else going on in the cosmos right now.
>>25348650Unironically picrel. This board memed me into reading it and it's pretty good. Soldier gets deployed to an isolated mountain fort and nothing happens for years and he dies. Great book
>>25348650nope. no book has ever done this
>>25348650>one attemptThat's just your opinion. Refute Aquinas' and Aristotle's arguments for the existence of God first, also TAG. Solve the hard problem of consciousness too while you're at it, the vertiginous question as well, the explanatory gap, qualia, what came before the Big Bang, why there's something rather than nothing...>>25348662There is no point to life if reductive materialism is true. Unless you enjoy being a dumb monkey that does dumb monkey things.This is a gay low-effort bait thread anyway so why bother, nuke 4chan at this point
Buddhism.>There is no (you).
>>25349789There is though?I literally just typed this post, and you didn't.
>>25348670every single person from the lowest wretch to the wealthiest man is going to lose to death at the end. none of us are going to survive it. not even one. you have to make the most of the time you have. most people get trapped in little mental hamster wheels of media, and work, and other crap that doesn't matter. you have to think what you want to do, and what you can do, and work on those things. nothing else matters.
>>25349809This sentiment is really hitting me as of recently. Turned 35, working a desk job back in my hometown, about to buy a place and live alone, mentally crashed about a decade ago and haven't recovered since, lost my literary ambition and general enthusiasm for creativity during this time. Pretty bleak time, though I know plenty have it worse. Almost every day now I read news or see something and struggle to overcome the sense that it is all meaningless. I even watched a webm on /sp/ recently of a beetle having sex with another beetle and it just reminded me how searching for a sexual / romantic partner is probably just my biology trying to take over. I feel hopeless and utterly discouraged.
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
>>25349462>And if you ever feel blue, just remember that everything you know will perish, the sun will die, the universe will probably collapse back into a black hole and none of this will ever have mattered any more than anything else going on in the cosmos right now.This is a very linear view of time. Einstein's general relativity implies eternalism.
>>25348650>you literally have one attempt at life and then it's overOkJustify that statementLink 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemmaLink 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Tortoise_Said_to_Achilles
>and then it's overkeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
>>25348650>You really are an idiot if you think existence ends at death. That’s just too good to be true and it contradicts the obvious observation that a lot of "effort" went into creating this conscious experience. To just be free from this all as if nothing ever happened and rest in eternal oblivion, now that’s something I wish you were right about. Of course there’s hardly a point in arguing with you since you are probably not conscious anyway.
>>25349933Who is this fine gentleman?
>>25348662>>25348668>>25348673>>25348719>>25348960>>25349666>>25349789>>25349912>>25349924Coping and seething
>>25349938He became convinced of simulation theory in one of his last videos lolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIt-w8BwvV4
>>25348650Ecclesiastes
>>25348650Schopenhauer, as alwaysTolstoy, especially Ivan Ilyich and My ConfessionThe BibleNietzsche maybe
>>25349824it is meaningless, you just have to learn to go post meaningso it’s meaningless - what does that mean for your life? is the answer really stasis? why do nothing over something?
>>25349949Dilate, obliviontard.
>>25348650Any time I get those thoughts it helps to think about people younger than you who died completely preventable deaths only done from their own stupidity. It helps to say like “at least you are not this guy. You have an entire life ahead of you this idiot refused himself of his own accord.” The people forcibly drafted to fight for Kiev as kids (18-20 are kids basically) I always turn to when I get these thoughts. Fighting for separatist oblasts most of them never even set foot in before.
>no book about aging noir detective thinking about missed highschool oneitis love
