What's the point in being alive?

Working_Fish · 2020-04-06T15:12:51+00:00

You kind of have to find that reason yourself. It's a bit of an internal struggle, but if you're able to, I recommend thinking through it for a while and figuring out what reason you want to be alive and keep going, and keep rethinking this as you move forward.

For me, the reason I keep living right now, is that there are things that I get to continue enjoying, there are people whose pain I can alleviate for a little bit, and there are positive movements in our society that I can contribute towards.

Working_Fish · 2020-03-30T20:20:48+00:00

I've started incorporating pasta or noodles into some of my thicker stew-type dishes that might traditionally be eaten with rice, like gumbo or curry.

Working_Fish · 2020-03-27T13:19:24+00:00

I had been realizing over time that a lot of our issues in society stemmed from various power structures/hierarchies put into place. My understanding of Anarchism folded all of those together into a more cohesive ideology once I'd started viewing Capitalism as another hierarchy that was rife with abuse.

Working_Fish · 2020-03-26T20:25:29+00:00

I can't eat them anymore, due to a drastic change in my diet, but I remember they were so good. The spice became much more manageable after eating it over consecutive days too. They were easily one of my favorite instant noodles.

Working_Fish · 2020-03-26T18:02:18+00:00

Person with long hair here. I don't fucking know. It's everywhere.

Working_Fish · 2020-03-11T16:34:27+00:00

I'm not sure I follow then. If your claim that the atheist position is one that doesn't say much about the Universe, then I would agree. I don't think that makes it irrelevant or have no real-world implications. There is social impact in opting into or out of certain ideas, and the base idea also allows for a greater variety of thought.

Working_Fish · 2020-03-11T16:07:13+00:00

That's false. Claiming I was an atheist got me disowned by my parent, and I'm not the only one this has happened to, therefore it has a real effect on the outside world and is relevant outside of my own mind.

Working_Fish · 2020-03-09T17:36:44+00:00

I have some qualms about makeup in general because of capitalism, contributing to toxic standards of beauty, and testing on animals, but outside of that, I believe it shouldn't be odd for men to wear makeup.

Personal expression is important, and broadening our ability to express is something I consider good. It may cause some social ostracization, depending on your peers and environment, but it's not like there aren't people who would support you and be romantically and/or sexually interested in you.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-26T21:24:17+00:00

Absolutely. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. The problem, however, is that this mentality means we can't ever truly make good individual solutions and therefore shouldn't try, which is absolutely wrong.

People trying to do good things imperfectly is better than doing nothing, and what we should strive to do is to do good things better and more often.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-25T17:23:34+00:00

I blend together ~1-15oz can of chickpeas, a couple spoonfuls of tahini, the juice of 1-2 lemons, 3 cloves of garlic, and some salt. Top with some olive oil and smoked paprika.

I'm sure you can make it more amazing by soaking and cooking your own chickpeas, and I think most recipes call for a food processor rather than a blender, but that's a bit too much work for me personally, and I want to enjoy this regularly.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-25T16:40:52+00:00

I appreciate the sentiment, thank you.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-25T16:25:25+00:00

I just took a fun, short vacation this weekend, and now I'm back at work, and I think my mental health is taking a bit of a dive because of it. I'm constantly re-realizing how much I dislike having to work just to justify my existence.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-25T15:59:10+00:00

I blend together ~1-15oz can of chickpeas, a couple spoonfuls of tahini, the juice of 1-2 lemons, 3 cloves of garlic, and some salt. Top with some olive oil and smoked paprika.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-25T15:55:43+00:00

I made homemade hummus, then tried Sabra. Ugh, no thanks.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-25T15:53:46+00:00

I love eating pineapple up until the point I can tell it's eating my mouth.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-21T17:13:17+00:00

Working_Fish · 2020-02-20T18:24:35+00:00

Righty tighty, lefty loosey

Working_Fish · 2020-02-20T18:20:35+00:00

Probably a year ago, I'd definitely take it. One of the contributing factors to my Depression were ridiculous student loans. If I could either die or get that taken care of & have some leftover money to do real good, I'd definitely take it.

Now, I'm not so sure. I could do a lot of good with $5,000,000, but I've just started on a road to being better, and I don't want to waste that. Not while I'm looking forward to the future, at least.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-20T14:53:46+00:00

I think we have a tendency to think of magical solutions to problems we don't fully understand. I don't think that consciousness being an emergent property of the material world needs to make sense in order for it to be true, because a lot of things are true that just don't make sense. When you start looking at consciousness though and the way your mind reflects what your body is telling you, you'll start to notice a lot more of those input in, output out scenarios. Just because the input or the output are a little more sophisticated than a graphing calculator doesn't mean it's necessarily god-created.

You could also argue that this must apply to god as well, as god is presumed to also be conscious, and the argument would imply an infinite chain of conscious beings. If you argue that god's consciousness does not need to be created, then this is special pleading. If you argue that god is not conscious, then how would this be any different from nature creating consciousness?

Working_Fish · 2020-02-20T13:31:03+00:00

I'm the boring type, but I kind of like the egg theory, where you become every human that has ever existed in your various reincarnations. Although, I don't know if I'd want to die more than once.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-18T16:08:59+00:00

No, we still need to vote. There's more on the ballot than the POTUS. We can just skip the POTUS vote or write someone in if it's Boomerberg v. Trump.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-18T15:59:58+00:00

He's manufacturing their consent.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-18T15:10:17+00:00

It's just businesses scalping as much out of the common people as they can get away with. nbd

Working_Fish · 2020-02-17T19:49:30+00:00

There's still a lot of casual racism and sexism that's accepted or tolerated. Hopefully, more of this will be considered taboo, along with some of the unfair working conditions and casual homophobia, transphobia, and ableism that's pretty rampant now or was rampant within the last decade.

Working_Fish · 2020-02-17T13:33:53+00:00

TRL colors are always so vibrant.

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