• CDommunist [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    36·
    7 months ago

    To all dorks saying “Nihilism isn’t about being depressed, it’s about [text length of an average leftist meme]” I just ate a really good garlic bread and don’t give a shit about what niche-ee had to say. All that time you spent typing out your dork 95 thesis on posting could have been used that to make some delicious garlic bread but you didn’t

    I would be a depressed nihilist if I were you, a person sans garlic bread

    Coat whole peeled garlic with olive oil in an oven safe bowl or dish, roast it in the oven at °425 for like 20-30 minutes. Bam. Garlic confit and garlic infused olive oil. Confit Keeps in the fridge for a few weeks. Take some of your confit and mash it together with butter, some of the olive oil, and whatever seasonings you have. Honey or something spicy is a good twist. Spread on bread with cheese then throw it in the oven

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    23·
    7 months ago

    I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. It’s rather absurd that I get to live at all.

    I feel like I understand the Buddha better as years go by. I want to enjoy this strange and mysterious opportunity to be without becoming too attached to all these temporary things, myself included. Indeed, my life today looks nothing like it did 10 years ago. I’m not sure I am the same person. In many ways, it’s like every day we die and become something new.

          • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
            6·
            7 months ago

            I believe you’re missing the forest for the trees. Words are signposts, tools. It doesn’t mean literal vacuous truth. The phrase is illustrative, of course.

            In this case, “is what it is” means forgoing judgement because it doesn’t change what already is the case. This seems fundamental to Buddhist teaching that was mentioned in the root comment. This attachment and resistance is, to some interpretations, the source of suffering. At least that’s how it was taught to me during my short time living at my local temple.

            “Until it isn’t” refers to death.

            • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              3·
              7 months ago

              I’m not missing the forest for the trees, I’m telling you that you are looking at a desert with a scrub brush, insistent it’s a forest.

              It is vacancy masquerading as truth. I am perfectly aware of Buddhist dualisms and detachment theory. However, per Wittgenstein, there is no real wisdom or metaphysical truth to be gained in phraseology and word games. Particularly if they are readily interchangable with their contradictions. It can be fun, but not nessecerily wise or meaningful.

              'Isn’t what it isn’t" means foregoing judgement because it doesn’t change what already isn’t the case. This attachment and resistance is, to some interpretation, the source of suffering.

              ‘Until it is’ refers to death.

              • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                5·
                7 months ago

                However, per Wittgenstein, there is no real wisdom or metaphysical truth to be gained in phraseology and word games.

                They aren’t playing word games, you are merely interpreting that way. They are conveying a message via the words to you, one you reject without reason

  • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    7 months ago

    existential nihilism doesn’t require that there is no meaning, just that there is no inherent meaning. Meaning can still be created and received through recognition of others.

    Those who stop at the breakdown of old morality and wallow in filth are nothinglords who missed the point of breaking down the old social constructs, that is, to build new better ones and even later break those down again and so on… That is what history is, that is what the dialectic is - the eternal process of change and exchange.

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          7 months ago

          Yeah I definitely am more sympathetic to Hegelian ideas of meaning, in that I believe the connections and dialectical relation between people is where meaning is created and received. Meaning originates in the area between you and I, we both create it and then get it back - that is between two equal comrades.

          There’s all types of unequal relations such as master-slave or tenant-landlord or employee-employer or two parties at total war. These create distorted and off balanced meaning that has to be enforced with violence and are filled with contradiction. At some point they will necessarily end.

        • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          I certainly find De Bouviourvian goals in life and such, but ultimately looking for a “meaning of life” is a foolish task, because it is just our culture that told us it is out there. Ultimately we will leave this absurd world and find ourselves worm food.

            • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              I mean “the meaning of life” is a myth. You can find it meaningful but there isn’t some answer out there.

              Think of it like free will. When most people think of it they think “a specific person could make any decision physically possible” and imply they might make a different one if you went back in time. Instead we do make decisions freely, but those decisions are completely determined by the way our mind works and the influences we have encountered.

              The point I’m trying to make is that it can exist, but it’s different from how people colloquially imagine it (say, someone asking an omniscient being “what is the meaning of life?”).

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    7 months ago

    The meaning or lack thereof of life doesn’t abrogate your responsibility in life: to change the world for the better. This could be as impactful as being the architect of a world-historic event and it could be as modest as being a good role model for kids who will grow up to not fuck up as much as you. But everyone has this responsibility, and this responsibility is completely orthogonal to whether life has meaning or not.

    There’s nothing more meaningless to question whether life has meaning or not.

  • CDommunist [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    I don’t give a shit if God is dead, I want to know if God is giving head?

    "What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest jerk off, and say to you, “This goon sesh as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it other than me sucking you off? but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and cumsplosion everything unutterably small or great in your Armenian conveyor belt with your bros will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence” … Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: “You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”