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[–] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Welcome to Nihilism+! Back with stronger intellectual justifications.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would like to unsubscribe please.

[–] rayne@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I take that to mean I am not unsubscribed sadness

[–] rayne@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your response was just surprising to me and I like you, so I laughed. If it seemed like I was laughing at your struggles, that was not my intention and I'm sorry.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It didn't feel that way at all, I was trying to continue the joke. I'm glad you thought it was funny :) no need to be sorry, I like seeing you around too.

Honestly I don't even struggle with nihilism that much anymore.

[–] rayne@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

https://globular.bandcamp.com/track/overcoming-occhiolism

It can be hard. What I ultimately settled on is that it's worth bringing joy into this moment, no matter how dark the future looks. Even if everything was gone tomorrow, I would still say I love you. I love you.

And that, no matter how dark the future looks, it's worth protecting every one of those moments above for that future, to the best of my abilities.

That was my insight. Of course, I had actually read it years before in the book Street Zen, Issan Dorsey's autobiography. He was a drag queen, and the abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center during the AIDS epidemic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issan_Dorsey

He said he had read a plaque on a wall that said, "You have to live your life like you're going to die tomorrow, and live forever. All at once". And that he had really liked that :) He also said that the point of cleaning up isn't to make things clean, but so that they looked cared for.

He seemed like a very kind and gentle soul. I learned a lot from reading about his life.

[–] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it’s funny letting the thoughts go for a second and realizing you really feel fine even if everything’s meaningless and going to get worse.

[–] rayne@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The birds are still singing :) I find meaning in that. But yeah, ultimately it's all in flux and we're just bubbles on the fabric of spacetime.

At which point I like to break my brain and ask myself how does time start. How does a Big bang happen. From a certain perspective maybe everything really is just a dream.

And if I feed the dream joy it will be a happy one.

[–] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

I like to think through the absurdity of being. Nothingness, the absence of life, should be the default. But no, I’m experiencing something and something must exist. It’s insane that it does, but it does.