Ask HN: How do you overcome feeling completely lost in life? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you overcome feeling completely lost in life?

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Post by skhm » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 12:30 AM UTC

ROTMetro wrote: post #90

You seem like a person I can relate to. I felt way you do too, only I had a wife and kids. Then I burnt it all down and went to prison by allowing escapes/shortcuts to become habits, habits replace actual living, and ultimately prison. Let me give you my ex-con wisdom. 1. You are worth getting to know. You are worthy of friendship. This isn't a medium for it, but in another medium I would love to sit down with you an…

I’d be really interested to hear your story. Good work getting to what looks like a healthy place in life.

Re: Ask HN: How do you overcome feeling completely lost in life?

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Post by aristofun » Sat, Dec 03, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

p0pcult wrote: post #106

aristofun wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> becoming religious just isn't a realistic option I was thinking exactly like that 10 years ago. Until I finally realized that 1) people, be it enlightened priests or corrupted believers, have nothing to do with god nor with faith 2) faith is the most basic and fundamental feature of our human mind and the idea pf god is an ultimate pinpoint of this feature. So being a reasonable man, i prefer to believe in somethin…

>other limited ideas invented by specific people (sometimes with bad intentions) So, like, religion?

Yes, you don’t _believe_ in religion. Otherwise you’re nothing but a stupid and dangerous fanatic.

You believe in god and religion is just a tool that helps you organize your faith and connect it to your everyday life.

Re: Ask HN: How do you overcome feeling completely lost in life?

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Post by techytin » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 11:34 PM UTC

ineedausername wrote: post #108

techytin wrote: post #101

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> All of these things are really important, necessary, take effort, and are awesome. But they are not the point of life. They’re meant to aid the point of life. There is no point in life bro. :)

If you sincerely sit with this you'll realise it can't be true :)