What is a piece of information that you wish you never new?
What is a piece of information that you wish you never new?
That all things eventually die. I have an ongoing existential crisis ever since I found out that I would die one day. Earth would one day be inhabitable, the Solar System would eventually become a cold dark place lacking the sun’s energy, humanity would one day be extinct, the universe would one day end. There would be no record of our existence.
But what’s worse is that we may never settle on another planet. We’re already running out of time. Climate change is going to kill us all.
Block universe means that forgetting my Bitwarden password was always meant to be? 😥
Btw this isn’t my “main” account, I got locked out of my main because the password is inside my Bitwarden vault, which I don’t have the password to. 😬 What a shitty universe, such a shitty fate.
Now that’s a misconception, climate change won’t kill us, it will only kill most of us. If you think there is any chance for it to literally wipe out all of humanity, you
What’s worse is that we shouldn’t settle on another planet. We are running out of time here for a reason and without learning something from it we’d only do the same to another planet. And then another. And another. We’d never end and we’d never learn.
Climate change is nature’s payback.
universe would one day end.
On the bright (heh) side, it is possible to “harvest” black hole energy. That gives life more time to… well be around. Kinda cured my terror in that regard.
I’ve had this same crisis for the last few years. I mean, any time I’ve thought of death in my life, it would give me that dread and sadness for a few days, but ultimately it would pass and I’d continue living in blissful ignorance. However, in the last few years – mostly since my first kid was born – it’s been this lingering sadness that I can’t escape. Life just seems so pointless. If there’s nothing after death, no purpose, no reason for existence, then why does anything matter at all? As you say, one day we’ll all cease to exist and if there are other beings, they will never know we were here – and even if they find traces of us, does it even matter? We’re gone and our reason for existing is to just live and die and be done. That’s infuriating to me.
And so far, all the things people have said to me to try to help means nothing to me. “When you die, you won’t care, because you’ll be dead.” Yeah, exactly. But I’m alive now and that fucking sucks knowing that I’ll just drift into nothingness. “You cause ripples in your life, like a lake, and you will live on through that, through your kids, your friends, etc…” Cool. But one day, they’ll all be dead, too. And even ripples in a lake eventually dissipate. “Yes, we’ll eventually all go, but that’s why life is so special! The fact that you exist is so extremely unlikely. It’s a gift.” Yes, I will try to enjoy life and make the most of my team because if I have to be here, I don’t want to make myself and others around me miserable, but it still won’t matter in the end how good of a life I lead because eventually it will all end.
Lately I’ve been saying, I’ve given up on life, but not in a suicidal way. I’ve just sort of accepted that it’s all pointless, and that makes that sadness just linger. So I’ll just go along, trying to enjoy life, with the cloud of death looming on the horizon.
He didn’t eat it… Just touched his beard and nose.
I hate feets but I’m actually not affected by watching this… :)
During a lecture Q&A session Richard Stallman appears to pick something off his foot or toe, places it in his mouth and chews on it.