I often times wander online looking up stuff. Recently I have watched the debates that Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have had with religious leaders about atheism. I have also read scientific studies that say love doesn’t exist. All of this makes me wonder why should we even bother with life at all. If you don’t invent something important or create a cure for something it all seems totally pointless. Are we all living in a twisted bullshit fantasy that never has a happy ending? Poverty, homelessness, and abuse are getting worse world wide and with 9 billion people the world is dangerously overpopulated. Even in the latest Avengers movie the villain says “they’re doomed to destroy themselves” and the brilliant hero agrees!!
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I agree. And the answer is that:
a) most people don’t consider it an option to take their own lives, and the ones who do have a hard time doing it. As proved by this site.
b) there’s enough bullshit on this Earth to distract you from the pointlessness of it all, until the day you die. We’re physical creatures. Eating and drinking and cutting and smoking and sexual pleasures FEEL GOOD. The little dopamine hits you get from school/work/hobbies/socializing FEEL GOOD. That’s all there is to it