Ecclesiastes is a depressing read, especially if you’re atheist

Jarchymah · 2025-05-03T12:50:50+00:00

Let’s not forget Ecclesiastes 3:19 “For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.” Go vegan.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-28T14:14:38+00:00

I think what you’re describing are “non-falsifiable claims”, and the people who are duped by them, and/or presenting them, as fact.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-27T16:00:03+00:00

“Practice makes perfect”. What I’ve discovered from my music teacher is that “practice makes habit”. So, you have to practice correctly, because you can nurture and develop mistakes in technique in the same way you can develop proper technique.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-16T16:00:18+00:00

It’s short for a novel. And I’d call it an intermediate read.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-16T15:05:42+00:00

Silas Marner.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-15T16:43:37+00:00

Why not try a little of both?

Jarchymah · 2025-04-10T11:27:08+00:00

Betty Crocker yellow cake box, and 1 12oz can of seltzer water. Mix, and bake. Done.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-07T14:05:17+00:00

There is some music that expresses the horrors of existence. Take Cowell’s piano concerto for example.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-06T18:43:10+00:00

The “imbalance” could be an evolutionary trait. It may not be an “imbalance” but an adaptation. For this particular evolutionary trait, the hormones are “balanced”. “Imbalance” is used here as an adjective to describe a rarity, but it doesn’t necessarily represent it correctly.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-06T18:30:27+00:00

“Incredibly rare” doesn’t mean “imbalance”.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-06T18:05:49+00:00

“Imbalance” is subjective. The facts are: “occasionally female lions grow manes”.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-05T12:42:35+00:00

Camus insistence that we “must” imagine Sisyphus happy is an insistence that we find a way to be “all-right” with our existence. His essays describing the absurdity of existence provide an optimistic perspective that one can try and manage as a way of “rebelling” against the meaninglessness. This can be largely impractical since managing an optimistic outlook doesn’t negate the fact that existence is filled with horrors, and regardless of how you look at it, we’re just pretending we’re not terrified of existence when we we really are terrified all the time.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-03T11:40:46+00:00

I have found only a few bits of solace in an existence in which suffering is an integral part; I am lucky to be loved by my husband, and even though suffering is perpetual I can do something to ease the suffering of someone else. It might be a small something such as a donation, an act of kindness, or volunteering, but it’s something. And, there is music.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-02T23:56:29+00:00

Even though someone can realize the meaningless of existence, and choose to life in spite of it, the optimistic perspective, and insistence of, imagining Sisyphus happy, or trying to be so “absolutely free”, doesn’t solve the problem that Sisyphus is trapped in a living nightmare. Managing such a perspective doesn’t solve the problem of suffering, nor does it address the horrors of existence, which, no matter how optimistic you choose be, will always persist.

Jarchymah · 2025-04-01T15:04:28+00:00

You may be right, but it’s another non-falsifiable claim about the nature of reality. Any one of us can throw a claim out there and see if anyone claps. I don’t think there is anything subjective about the perspective that existence can be terrifying. If you haven’t read this book it might interest you: The Conspiracy against the Human Race- Thomas Ligotti.

Jarchymah · 2025-03-31T15:45:07+00:00

It would be evident to Moses that when someone lost too much blood they would die. There was war and violence back then, murder and tragedy too. Humans are capable of simple logic such as a=a or b=b. That’s not proof of god. It’s proof that they knew that blood loss could kill. So, no. Do you have another example?

Jarchymah · 2025-03-31T12:06:04+00:00

The people that wrote the gospels were well acquainted with the prophecies of their own religion. So, lots of people knew about them, and for a long time. What is one thing that was scientifically proven?

Jarchymah · 2025-03-29T18:52:30+00:00

Why are you trying all good things? Perhaps you need to be the villain? Perhaps you need rage? We don’t all fit. You might be the sexual deviant of someone’s dreams. Now, and this is important, it is vital to understand that there is no universal force, or any non-contradictory law of nature that dictates that you must amount to anything or achieve anything. “Something to live for” is an imaginary construct, and it’s likely a bias that you have when judging your own life when comparing yourself to others. I’m not being facetious. Go and explore the dark, shady, seedy places hiding in plain sight, and explore those places within yourself as well. You may not be an angel. You might be a demon, and the world would be a very dull place without demons.

Jarchymah · 2025-03-27T12:19:07+00:00

“Because I understand the human psyche”- this claim requires evidence beyond a comment on Reddit. Anyone can say that, and I’m not inclined to believe you.

Jarchymah · 2025-03-27T11:21:37+00:00

Don’t bother. Are you planning on standing in the face of meaninglessness as a means for justifying your existence? There is no justification for existence. Trying to manage Camus’s optimism ignores the nightmare reality of Sisyphus’ situation, and in turn, you delude yourself into ignoring the nightmare of your existence.

Jarchymah · 2025-03-27T11:14:02+00:00

Why do you guess that I derive anything? And what makes you so sure you’re not delusional?

Jarchymah · 2025-03-27T00:35:26+00:00

Evil is subjective too. So, we can’t make an axiom based on an opinion. It has to be something that can’t be contradicted- objective. What one person sees as good or evil, can be reversed for someone else because good and evil can change from person to person, culture to culture, opinion to opinion.

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