hi

You have to see for yourself I guess

Hmm I can understand that experience. And relate to it in a sense.

Yes its a surprisingly familiar one when you have it

I like to acquire as much knowledge as I can. Which is why I enjoy deep philosophical discussions such as this.

Hello @Gosta

Yeah hey,

yeah well it certainly helped me overcome my own nihilism

If I was a nihilist I'd still play the game and stand by my morals for sure.

Just in case I was wrong.

Real nihilism is pretty painful

For who? The self or others?

Or both?

I find true nihilism pretty sad.

to really contemplate meaninglessness

is quite painful

the condition of the heroin user

I wouldn't find it painful to be honest.

Well the human condition is painful

In what sense?

We suffer emotions, delusions, sickness, age, death

To adapt and evolve you'll need to suffer.

How else could we possibly experience the universe?

I don't see an alternative way of living. But at least most of us can experience the beauty of our universe and be happy.

well this is pretty central to a lot of philosophy, west and east

How do you deal with the suffering

how do you go about living this

its not an easy one

Isolation to be honest.

I mean I'm my own worst enemy and best friend so that's basically how I deal with it.

well psychoanalysis has a good take on this too

But when I actually deal with it properly I pretend to be someone Im not in order to fit in more.

But with actual suffering I can't really say I deal with it.

Maybe it was just too much for me but I guess I just distract myself from pain since it just seems like the best thing to do.

And it works because then I can multitask and work on bettering myself while just ignoring the pain.

so the psychoanalytic view

would be that we must nurture our pain

And by bettering myself I dont mean by helping myself but I mean by trying to make myself a better person like a good person.

as part of us is still infantile

and it needs to be parented