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reguile  ·  3350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is There Anything Good About Men?

I'm a big fan of existentialism.

Nothing matters, life is pointless, the world is pointless, the universe is pointless. No matter what we do, we will die, be forgotten, and nothing we remembered or nothing about how we exist today will live on. There is no future for us.

But, regardless of that, we can life happily picking our own path, picking what is important for us. In the grand scheme of things, life is truly pointless, from my view, I just want to be happy, live my life, and die.

Going out with a bang, being famous, is encouraged by society because it benefits society when people sacrifice themselves for doing so. Society loves a poet driven to suicide, but who produced lovely poems for thousands. Do you want to be that poet?





_refugee_  ·  3350 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You have no idea what you are talking about, but I'd appreciate it if you can trust that I'm an adult who has thought through her desires carefully enough not to mind what they are. So otherwise, fug off.

reguile  ·  3349 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think you are reading too much into what I am saying.

    it if you can trust that I'm an adult

I don't give a shit who you are.

_refugee_  ·  3349 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Society loves a poet driven to suicide, but who produced lovely poems for thousands. Do you want to be that poet?
reguile  ·  3349 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't say that because my views of you, or because I thought you are a child, I said that because it's a rhetorical tool. Making the statement that being great, being a hero, is something that society "glamorizes" at the expense of all those who become heroes. And that nobody should actually want to be a hero, even in the culture that emphasizes it, because it comes a personal harm.