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Life is not worth living. How do you Christians on here manage to convince yourselves that it is not only worth living, but that there is a heaven waiting for you at the end? I am honestly jealous. Every person you care about will die one day, and you will have to witness some of them go through it. I think about my parents dying quite often, and I do not wish to experience such a thing. I wish I had the courage to end my life, just so I could avoid such torture. I find it very hard to believe in an afterlife. Your consciousness will perish for eternity, as will mine. It is simply not fair, because not one of us had a say in any of this. If I was told that my family, friends, and /lit/ bros would get eternal life (or at least be able to return to consciousness here and there throughout time) if I killed myself and I alone died forever, I would do it in a heartbeat. Hell, I would do it for one person I cared about. The worst part is that nobody escapes the void, and I can never come to terms with this. I just cannot. This world is one giant scam, where you invest time and effort only to get brutally trolled in the end. The more you read, the more you realize just how badly people need to cope with this elementary fact. There is no way around this truth unless a personal God exists, and I doubt he does. If anyone has some book recommendations besides The Bible, Meditations, or any other popular ones I have most likely read, please do recommend them. I am sick of pacing around the house every single night.

>> No.14135615

>>14135600
There is an afterlife where your soul, your real self will wander. Death is only the beginning.

>> No.14135622

>>14135615
What is the point if you do not experience it? It is the same as there not being an afterlife.

>> No.14135640

Atheist cope- the wisdom of insecurity might help you

Chad- just realise you have an immortal soul

>> No.14135660

>>14135622
>What is the point if you do not experience it?
How do you know you won't expirence it

>> No.14135676

>>14135600
If you don’t believe there’s a heaven afterwards, why wouldn’t you just stick around and look at all the beautiful things before they go away forever?

>> No.14135704

>>14135676
It is a bitter feeling, not sweet one bit, just bitter. All of it will disappear and nobody will be around to experience it. Experiencing something like a good friendship or reading a good book that eventually comes to an end is different. You are there afterwards to contemplate what you went through and appreciate it. Who will be there to think about anything once we are all gone?

>>14135660
Do you really think consciousness can go on beyond brain death?

>> No.14135724

>>14135600
Look into books about astral projection. Maybe that could give you some hope.

>> No.14135990

I feel despair in this life but do believe/hope for an afterlife. I feel like what you experience in this world is mostly heartbreak, that life will always break your heart. But I hope for better in the next life.

>> No.14136044

>>14135704
>Do you really think consciousness can go on beyond brain death?
>he doesn't know about the immortal soul
>he doesn't know about astral projecting
NGMI

>> No.14136050

I feel you, anon.
I find some solace in the fact we - that is all of existence - happens to be in this grand vals against entropy. If this is our condition, what else can be done but than consumate it?

Proper poetry tends to have memento mori as a central theme; Pessoa's verses are magnificent, however nothing has ever resonated with my like his Book of Disquiet. It is, in my eyes, a magnum opus not only of the medium, but of our species.

A rereading and reinterpretation of Don Quixote is always in order. Otherwise Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling could atleast incline you towards faith. Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno is also an intimate take on religion and existentialism, and all in a brief novella. Skim an article on apocastastasis, the mere concept makes me somewhat hopeful.

But ultimately just know, dearest anon, that you are not alone. And what little can be done now: living, regardless of its ephemeral nature, is a noble pursuit. We must at least attempt to maintain the flame of consciousness, for without us not only does the world die - but so does death itself. Our death is the death of the cosmos, for without us it is not. The poor fool simply does not realise this.

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14136055

>>14135600
His books have been waiting to be read by you for 150+ years.

>> No.14136056

>>14135600
Le Mythe de Sisyphe.

>> No.14137012

>>14135600
God bless us all.

>> No.14137120

>Life is not worth living.
I sincerely feel sorry for you, that you are incapable of choosing not to be ignorant of the infinite wonders of this reality.

>> No.14137446

>>14137120
:(

>> No.14137461

life is worth living but honestly most of people are born handicapped as hell to actually enjoy it

literally only 1% can enjoy what life has to offer in modernity

>> No.14138078

>>14135600
"Chrisitians" aka satanic trinitarians or dualists (polytheistic pagan idolators) will taste naught but fire. Their mouths will be filled with ashes and they shall know infinite lashes for their follishness. Unless you sumbit unto the oneness of our Lord, you will never know peace.

I pray that our Lord might guide you sibling.

>> No.14138099

>>14135600
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/01/the-hour-i-first-believed/

provides secular arguments for the following:

1. There is an all-powerful, all-knowing logically necessary entity spawning all possible worlds and identical to the moral law.

2. It watches everything that happens on Earth and is specifically interested in humans’ good behavior and willingness to obey its rules.

3. It may have the ability to reward those who follow its rules after they die, and disincentivize those who violate them.

>> No.14138102

>>14135600
>How do you Christians on here manage to convince yourselves that it is not only worth living, but that there is a heaven waiting for you at the end?
I don't like living at all. I don't believe in heaven. I don't believe in God either. I have know clue what God is supposed to be. I don't even know what is meant by "You have to believe in God, even if you don't know him". We are in the same boat as far as that goes.

I understand only one point of Christianity: All I know is that the measure by which everything should be weighed is love. This "should be" is the only thing I believe in. I don't like people and I don't feel love or kindness towards them, not even to my mother - I guess I have been depressed for a long time. Still I believe in love. If I cannot love, atleast I will surrender myself to love - I will be like a puppet on the strings of love, a mechanical lover. This is my cross, boooooi.

>> No.14138105

>>14138099
>secular "arguments""
Those are always unsustainable or inconsistent garbage.