life is meaningless and empty

[neverbeenbetter]

even with the closest people you will ever meet in your life the deepest conversation you will have is about the last thing you did with them or some sort of media. if you are intelligent enough to have any actual deep insight most people wont be able to match it and you wont even be able to communicate your inner self to them. everything is a useless and meaningless distraction to persuade you not to die, even your own brain is constantly tricking you into not dying with positive and negative stimulus and if the filter was lifted and you still had consciousness you would immediately find a way to kill yourself. intellectual pursuits such as religion or philosophy that try to add meaning to life are nothing but mental gibberish and nonsense that we have invented to prevent ourselves from thinking life is meaningless and not worth living.

 

[Julgran]

even with the closest people you will ever meet in your life the deepest conversation you will have is about the last thing you did with them or some sort of media. if you are intelligent enough to have any actual deep insight most people wont be able to match it and you wont even be able to communicate your inner self to them.

My sorry soul tells me that people, in general, only seem to try to imitate each other in order not to feel inferior to other people. You have no obligation or reason to follow in their footsteps

everything is a useless and meaningless distraction to persuade you not to die, even your own brain is constantly tricking you into not dying with positive and negative stimulus and if the filter was lifted and you still had consciousness you would immediately find a way to kill yourself. intellectual pursuits such as religion or philosophy that try to add meaning to life are nothing but mental gibberish and nonsense that we have invented to prevent ourselves from thinking life is meaningless and not worth living.

You and I share this sentiment, but it's a difficult subject to tackle.

 

[neverbeenbetter]

if i had a way to kill myself i would not live another day.

 

[FinalDestiny]

I think its just human nature to not want to die. Why else would SI kick in for so many people who attempt.
As a being of life, we simply wish to enjoy the act of being alive even if it isn't as meaningful or eventful as we want it to be.
Only really when external stimuli become too much for us to process and pain becomes unbearable or escapes are no longer available to pursue that I think we truly find a disconnect between the human will to live and our internal resonance of how to enjoy living.

I don't think that distraction is meaningless. Sometimes it gives us a reason to live. Sometimes it just keeps us afloat for that one day or moment.
Ultimately, I think its about our own perspective. Is this worth sticking around for? Can I see this pain eventually absolving?
At some point, we all have been at our lowest and considered it and I'm sure at some point we've been a little higher and thought that it wasn't so bad.

Our ups and downs really define who we are, how we process them helps either build character or exposes our flaws.
Sometimes I do find myself wanting to take a plunge but my flaw is that I am a spineless weakling.
I'd rather endure pain externally inflicted than choose to inflict pain unto myself.
Then, there are times when the external has affected me to much that I prefer the opposite.

I wish I could find the resolve myself to ease myself out of these distractions. I've never felt like I belonged.
I think it just solidifies the fact that everyone in my life simply cannot seem to comprehend me.
Imagine speaking an alien language and no one ever gets you. At most you can sign to someone with basic gestures and they MIGHT get the point.
I think life can be very lonely when you get to a point like that. We can eventually just feel like we don't in fact live a meaningful life.
I hope that in time we can heal. I'm not sure if we'll ever be able to really acknowledge ourselves without confronting the fear of taking the plunge.
That type of bravery sometimes feels beyond me.

 

[FuneralCry]

You are right. There is no point to living and I think that wanting suicide is perfectly rational in a world like this. I think that many people delude themselves into believing that life has some meaning or purpose as they are in denial of how pointless everything is, they cannot bring themselves to accept the fact that they really are insignificant and nothing they do could ever matter.

Life is just one big distraction from the fact that we will die. We suffer and struggle for no purpose and this is why suicide could never be wrong. Existence is completely unnecessary and to me, non existence is always preferable to any kind of life.

 

[Django]

I used to believe it had meaning. Then I grew up