Why do human beings persist? Suffering is our default state and nothing can deliver us from it. It would be better to have never been born than to live in this world. The very act of birth is immoral as it both forces human beings into a state of suffering and condemns them to death implicitly. Why do they keep reproducing? What causes them to abandon all reason and ensure that human suffering continues? Why do they invent obsessions for themselves to fill time before death instead of simply skipping to the end?
I cannot imagine anyone ever willingly participating in something like Nietzsche's eternal recurrence of the same. I can't imagine Sisyphus being happy with his position. What am I missing?
Why do human beings persist? Suffering is our default state and nothing can deliver us from it...
Juan Martin
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Jayden Anderson
Only life can make death sweet
Cameron Jackson
Beauty, joy, not compounding your misery in a miserablist echo chamber. Read some Keats or something fucking, crybaby.
Ethan King
Can you stop posting your retard rants with that based man's picture? We exist because we exist. We could never not have existed. And death solves nothing. Antinatalism also solves nothing. You could not not to exist. There is a reason Nietzsche was so obsessed with eternal recurrence, and that is it's the truth --in some sense.
Jackson Hernandez
Beauty is for children who are able to look with awe at anything and everything; it is one of the first things lost with maturity.
Joy is temporary and brief at best and is not a justifiable motivation to endure continual suffering.
Keats is fine at writing but linguistic aesthetics are still subject to the rules which generally govern beauty. As a man grows older and reads more, impressive prose is no longer impressive.
Isaac Wright
I would assume until the arrival of Homo Sapiens multiple strains of the thinking humanoid came to exist, and upon realising the sheer horror of existence, rebuked procreation and successfully went extinct. We are the the result of unthinking evolution's honing process, creatures born with pre-built fear of death and love of reproduction. While neither makes sense for death is imminent and reproduction is pointless, to us, the latest model in the chugging factory of life, it's not a choice, at least not a choice for large enough portion of the population for the species.
Luke Campbell
I am unconcerned with the reason why humans exist; such a thing is an irrelevant and irrational line of inquiry. The simple fact that we do exist does not justify continual existence. Humans very well could choose to go extinct regardless of the fact that they are not currently extinct; that would be preferable to the continued existence of the species.
Nathan Bennett
That is not true. Maybe read Schopenhauer first before posting his picture with self-indulgent rants.
Zachary Martin
"A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbour with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he is happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over."
Julian Cook
That doesn't mean you should (or even could) just go extinct. That means you should temper your will.