in the end... no matter how much good I do, there will be a point where it didn't matter... any suffering that exists would be ultimately purposeless and irredeemable.

literally anything anybody works for will end someday and it won't ultimately amount to anything...whether we all give everything to the poor and work in slums or we extort money, ultimately it would come to nothing either way.

Bro really making up worst case scenarios of living in his spare time
Like whole ass stories lol go write a book on it

Politics will always have a subjective influence. It’s just how people commit themselves to religion in such a contradictory way that their own personal interests are compromised and they’re sometimes left less happy than they started

A completely honest and consistent atheist is Albert Camus. “ The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” without God there is no meaning.

Then join something where collective efforts will change conditions

even if you're not religious you still have to live by faith, hope, etc. - even if you don't call it that

everyone hopes they'll live another day, hopes their parents/kids won't get hit by a truck, etc.

Struggled with this for a long while now. It is true ultimately. Nothing does really matter whatsoever.

It is freeing. Shouldn't feel fear or anxiety or stress because of it. Should allow you to take life less seriously.

Of course it is depressing. Certainly weighs on me in my toughest times and makes exiting permanently rather tempting.

I think for me my thought process that has stemmed as a result is: all we are is the impact we leave on others. Can't take anything with us beyond that. And that impact will dissipate too, but while it exists it is tangible and meaningful in a way nothing else really is.

And yeah read some Camus and absurdism.

because the universe will have a cold slow death, alleviating by collective efforts is just temporary.

I have?

Not you lol, meant OP

are you aware that positive acts can ripple across generations and large amounts of time?

can you name any musicians from before the common era?

Who cares about the future when you can help the people you share experiences with ?

We are not the arbiters of our fate.

We do not know all there is to know.

Life is an overarching entity that in ways deviates from the deterministic nature of the "natural world".

The degree to determinism is not a euclidean things, its not a hard line, it doesn't have edges, it's something we try to conceptualize but due to limited scope end up reducing to some form of self serving conjecture.

Freedom isn't being free, freedom isn't escaping an undetermined fate. Freedoms and the degree to which we can impact the external whole (have any autonomy or impact) implicitly may be limited by temporal momentary bounds we are physically restricted too (a degree of determinism).

If you are seeking infinity autonomy you will come up short, in this field freedom is in essence knowing what is enough.

In terms of permanents and the desire for it, that is a condition of the ego and by extension a condition of life. There is no reason other than ones you derive "the point". Wanting a point is also a condition of the ego/life.

It's innate, if you don't feel it to be innate, that is life's way of selectively removing you from the gene pool. Why live if you don't want to live? Why live in general, why do anything? Because life wills it. We are at it's whim.

so?

aight you're just a negative kid

time for another person on my block list

A completely honest and consistent atheist is someone like ta nehisi coates..

I agree with this post. It’s always the unemployed people who complain about life being pointless.

read cioran and embrace the pointlessness of life

"That history has no meaning is what should delight our hearts. Should we be tormenting ourselves for a happy solution to process, for a final festival paid for by nothing but our sweat, our disasters? For future idiots exulting over our labors, frolicking on our ashes? The vision of a paradisiac conclusion transcends, in its absurdity, the worst divagations of hope. All we can offer in excuse for time is that in it we find some moments more profitable than others, accidents without consequence in an intolerable monotony of perplexities. The universe begins and ends with each individual, whether he be Shakespeare or Hodge; for each individual experi­ences his merit or his nullity in the absolute..."

Work definitely isn't the answer either

@op have you considered that by the time your life's work has been undone, you'll be too dead to be salty about the difference?

Depends on your view of the afterlife tho

rich people too.. people with jobs are too busy trying to make ends meet so they have no time to question their own existence..