we are products of mindless brainless
and clueless evolution on a meaningless
planet spinning around a meaningless g2
spectrum class yellow dwarf star
orbiting a gigantic black hole in a
meaningless small galaxy. everything in
the universe tries to kill you. we live
in a world where the war of everyone
against everyone prevails.
we're the only way to maintain your life
is to kill other life-forms, where every
mouth is a slaughterhouse and every
stomach a graveyard and where struggle
of existence and survival of the fittest
prevails, and we ourselves are part of that
fight
we are nothing but bio-robots, survival
mechanisms of our genes and our lands
the only reason why we are here is the
concept of The Selfish Gene. we are
slaves of our genes following our
biological evolution and our memes
following our cultural evolution. we are
slaves to our genes and memes. the only
meaning of our existence is propagation
of our genes and memes to future
generation.
no matter how smart, how gorgeous, how rich
how liked, how influential or how famous
you are, one day you will die. the only
certain way to be remembered by the posterity is by becoming notorious like
Herostratos or Pol Pot. there is no
reason to assume there was anything
beyond atoms, energy and their
interaction or existence of soul, spirit,
metaphysics or deities. we come from
nothingness, live for a moment and then
expire into nothingness. the only certain
things in this life are suffering, pain,
agony and death. life is a short stint of
suffering between two non existences. and
life itself will one day get snuffed
when Sun Goes red giant. it takes a brave
soul to look into the chasm and have the
chasm looking back at you. then again, it
takes a brave soul to jump off an
aeroplane into emptiness. admitting the
complete meaninglessness is a hard thing
to do. being a nihilist is being brutally
honest. the price of truth is high, but it
can t be higher.
but while life is meaningless, it does
not follow it had to be dull. for me,
epicureanism is the philosophy to follow.
the highest goals are aponia (keeping
the agony away) and ataraxia
(having peace of mind). and it is reachable
by enjoying the simple things of life
and avoiding things which cause pain.
enjoy wisdom, knowledge, hobbies
companionship of friends, your family and
arts. avoid excess, sexual debauchery,
destructive drugs, reckless risks, fights
and disputes and keep yourself off
politics.
deity's do not have to be feared. death is
not to be feared. suffering can be easily
kept away. pleasure is easily obtainable.
what if suffering, agony and pain becomes
too hard to bear? mind you life is
meaningless and non-existence is always
preferable to miserable existence. I have
come from nothing, I go into nothing so
what do I have to lose? Nothing
