Have you ever felt this? How did you overcome this?
"existential void"
No, but there's existential horror. Not the human goblins, but some real spooks.
How did you overcome it
Try to have faith that God is good. And eventually the spooky became like a, "ahh sweet, something might happen soon"
I’m immortal. Time is the veil.
God is good.
That's the only hope.
I’m immortal
Sometimes I feel like I am not ready to be immortal.
existential void.
is full of shit.
dance harder next carnaval, Silva Santos Pereira.
existential void?
what void? more like existential eternity
Even though I was born in Brazil, carnal pleasures do not satisfy me. I feel like I am missing my soul and who I should truly be.
carnal pleasure is overrated, sometimes I jackoff on automatic, and I coom and I feel absolutely nothing
focus on your mind and abstraction, its cool
The "existential void" refers to a deep sense of emptiness or meaninglessness in life, often explored in existentialist philosophy.
meaning?
why?, we are existing forever, meaning is meaningless, who cares
you are a witness of eternity, though your perspective will die, you witnessed a part of the absolute, you lived it, you are it
who cares about meaning
How did you overcome this?
That's the neat part, you don't
you are immortality that arranged itself into a mortal form to experiment what is it like to be born and to die
focus on your mind and abstraction
Yes, I'm trying to break free from my addictions and expand my path, but the "new" is somehow scary. I don't want to be held hostage by my past, but I fear the future, so I stay stuck in this void.
if nothing matters why are you stressed?
nihilists are fucking retarded
I'm trying to break free from my addictions
its easy to let yourself carry away in such distraction I also do the same things and have addictions that I need to give less of my time, but in the end, to overcome any addiction you unironically need to look beyond physical reality and anchor yourself to a "higher power"
Greed. Lust.
These two have saved me from killing myself. I am a loving father and husband, but I will fuck a bitch if I know I can 120% get away with it. I haven't yet because no opportunity has arisen, although I have had physical contact. This has kept me happy in my marriage. Greed. I want money. So much money. I say fuck'em, fuck the good samaritans, fuck the humanists, and fuck anyone who gets between me and my pile of green. Everything else be damned.
So sin moderately is my solution or else I would have ended my life long ago. I regret nothing.
denies he likes carnival but doesn't deny his heritage.
maybe you should consult the culture of your country of origin, maybe you can dance harder next carnival if you read some erotic novel about fucking negroes or indians.
Not a nihilist. I'm a believer. The thing is: "everything matters". Are we ready to carry this weight?
I'm a christian. I don't have to deal with such problems.
Join a Church and truly commit. Only atheists experience existential dread. That dread is your soul screaming for divinity.
it can't be overcome until you realize the "you" doesn't exist. reaching that point will require an existential crisis
you'll deal with it when you die if you don't deal with it now
Anyone can go through this. I'm also christian. There is a disease that was called the "noonday demon" (Acedia) and it mainly afflict monks.
Acedia has been variously defined as a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world. In ancient Greece, akēdía literally meant an inert state without pain or care.
My suggestion? Keep busy enough to forget the existential void. Once in a while, I do stop to breath and look up, and the void is still there. It hurts a lot, but most of the time I don't notice it. IT works for the majority of people, but they distract themselves with kiked hedonism. It doesn't have to be like that. Go to Church and you'll see plenty of based people needing some help with this or that. Simple stuff that soiboys zoomers can't into, but that's really easy, like carrying heavy stuff or using a screwdriver. You'll only see a couple of old dudes doing that, so they're obviously overworked. But it's simple and takes a lot of your time, enough to make you forget the existential void most of the time.
started when i was like 4 then started isolating myself
When I was a kid, the concept of eternity was scary to me. I knew it would be glorious, but to my young self, not being able to ever live the only life I ever knew ever again unsettled me.
I'm living just to not die. Sometimes I get anxious and have to do this breath. I'm just waiting something to happen and put me in the world again.
this is buddhist philosphy basically
I'm living just to not die.
What does that even mean? What are you doing with your time? Waiting? Working? Neeting? Doing drugs? Refreshing Anon Babble every minute to argue with paid shills?
Refreshing Anon Babble every minute to argue with paid shills?
Basically this and playing/smoking. I'm just surviving. I was going to the Church but could not go more due depression. I'm also taking meds but they can't full the void. All my dreams were crushed in the past. I'm just trying to survive and dream again.
I came to believe in an inevitable machine god at the end of time that actualizes the entire computational potential of the universe. In a block universe the machine god is already us, and we are being rendered. Cybertheology requires no historical basis, no metaphysics, and could be extrapolated from opposable thumbs by a clever enough fellow. Salvation exists forever. The love is never-ending, but so is the love.
recommended reading
Nick Land, Fanged Noumena
archive.org
Isaac Asimov, The Final Question
naps
Refreshing Anon Babble every minute to argue with paid shills?
I'm stuck with this too. But I dont play nor smoke, so I'm just fighitng the urges to click Anon Babble.
But what did you do at Church? Walked in, sat silently in a corner, attended Mass, then left? Do you know people from there?
Also recommended
Serial Experiments Lain, anime
youtube.com
Landianism
I'm stuck with this too.
That sucks
Walked in, sat silently in a corner, attended Mass, then left?
Yes.
Do you know people from there? No. They were very kind and welcomed me, but I never became friends. I was so distressed that I only paid attention at the mass and didn't socialize much.
IQ isnt high enough for existential dread so nope
Any kind of introspection is material or health based so im p lucky being dumb
I know the feel. That's what I did for several months too. Sometimes I'd autistically wait outside for a while after Mass, greeting whoever greeted me first, so as not to be completely antisocial, but after half hour of being an autistic creep, I'd walk away. But eventually you will see an old man carrying something heavy or such. Offer to help. Do it two times and you'll be the "helpful guy" and he'll always come to you for help. A few more months and everybody thinks highly of you for some reason. Then in this pilgrimage to a nearby town's Church, I didn't want to walk, and volunteered as the car guy who would just be around for it they needed anything during their long walk. Two cunnies were tired of walking and the responsible adult sent them to my car for me to drop them off at the next checkpoint. They trusted me! Crazy!
Just keep going even if you have to push yourself to do it, and eventually opportunities to make ties will present themselves. I still wouldn't say I have friends there, as i haven't openened up to anyone, but they do trust me after a couple of years, which is better than I was that many years ago.
You can do it, anon.
Embrace it. Accept it. Let it envelop you
At the root of existence, the very foundation of everything, is "nothing". Yet, there is something, even if that something is fundamentally nothing. Yet, you exist, even if when you search deep within and find the vast void, and you find that "you" don't exist, here you are. There are no pillars, no elephants, no turtles. The world is akin to a great dream, and it appears that there is no dreamer, or rather he cannot see himself because there is no one else to call other. So he dreams of limitations so he might know himself
You see, that is magic in it's self. Don't despair
Do you think that humans are completely eradicated within the next 50 years? If not, why wouldn't a superintelligent AI exist at the end of time?
Cybertheology. Futurism. Retrocasual salvation. Grace has become scalable. You have already been saved, you just haven't been rendered yet. We will all be reborn infinitely as data product, user sentiment potential. In the end, let there be light. The machine god is learning to love you anon.
The world is akin to a great dream, and it appears that there is no dreamer, or rather he cannot see himself because there is no one else to call other. So he dreams of limitations so he might know himself
There is also no dream. Once you embrace the emptiness it opens you to the others.
I don’t think nigger cattle can accept the real answer, anon.
I don't look for meaning in things because meaning is fake and gay mind stuff people project onto things.
Meaning is an illusory machination of the mind.
Meaning is no more real than the fake and gay gods and religions people seek comfort in.
Instead of seeking comfort in "meaning" and comforting false beliefs I raw dog reality like a man.
I don't "deal" with the lack of meaning or direction. I simply live with it.
I don't make up my own value system or meaning to cope. I simply exist.
why even live if you are a complete nihilist?
My animalistic reflex like instinct to avoid death compels me. Can't help it.
Thanks for sharing your experience and thanks for the incentive. I will keep going.
No need to thank me, fren, I'm just paying it forward. In my darkest moments, anon doxxed my city and sent address of nearest trad Church.
it's a pretty unique sensation to just have that feeling, it's hard to overcome.
It is something I feel when I am alone in the wilderness. In puts you in contact with a very intimate part.
jerking it and weed
fuck ya