I mean, there is no meaning in nature, it was man who invented it, and often it appeared because of a scarcity, for example, the point is in a beautiful woman, because you are unlikely to find another one as beautiful, right?, or can you find a person who will support you and accept you as you are, like your loved ones? The examples are not the best, but I hope you get the idea.

In addition, I will say that about a year ago I watched the film “The Seventh Seal”, and now sometimes I feel in the place of a character named Antonius Block. I dismissed the inevitable by refraining from suicide as a teenager, thinking I could find the meaning of life, but what was to be expected, nothing worked out. But especially now, how shall I put it… in the age of AI, it is impossible to escape the truth, self-deception no longer works, at least for me personally.

Chess Game with Death:

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        23 hours ago

        Corollary-- that doofus, cool-kid guy on the right is probably going to do something stoopid, likely to bust his own argument…

        • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          22 hours ago

          Well, there’s different degrees of “matters”. Obviously if he causes harm to himself or others there will be consequences that matter! This is specifically referring to anything intrinsically mattering on some sort of cosmic scale.

            • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3·
              21 hours ago

              Sir Pterry put it better than I ever could:

              “All right," said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”

              REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

              “Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”

              YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

              “So we can believe the big ones?”

              YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

              “They’re not the same at all!”

              YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

              “Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”

              MY POINT EXACTLY.”

              • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
                2·
                6 hours ago

                I guess this all kind of takes me back to when we arguably got too smart for our own good. That our intelligent fear of the unknown became so outsized that we started to try to bend nature to our own will, create gods & religion, becoming a race of headcases searching for ever more elaborate solutions to problems of our own making.

                ~12Kyrs or so we first jumped down that rabbit hole, and now the ground is rising up rapidly to show us how that all works in the end.