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Re: Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?

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Post by at_a_remove » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

godDLL wrote: post #148

at_a_remove wrote: post #80

As I have grown older and some of my vim and vigor have waned, the momentum that has hustled me past obstacles and over life's hurdles has similarly decreased, and I find myself wondering the same. The objects I have collected have lost their pallor, experiences for which I have paid through the nose left me hollow, the connections I once thought complex are shallow. Through more than one circumstance of birth I have…

Whenever that happened to myself, I'd start over in a different space. New rules, new acquaintances, new things, and new experiences. Get out the house. No. Sell it and move. Move somewhere you would expect to be surprised. Do something you would not expect yourself to do for a living. Experience a new life, a new meaning. Give it 7-15 years and you may want to do it again. It's good for you.

That isn't an option for me.

Re: Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?

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Post by godDLL » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 1:11 PM UTC

carabiner wrote: post #170

godDLL wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know. If I sit down with my back straight and close my eyes, I can, in the space of 3-5 minutes, infallibly find the inner joy rising up from my body. Same way that something's kinda tense, and something's kinda sat on – there is a form of joy. I hear it is never lost, lest you're actually dead or in the process of. So I don't know about that.

Good for you. I wish I could do that, just will myself to be happy at any time. I wish alcoholics or drug addicts could will themselves to stop using drugs. I wish the obese (40% of Americans) could simply choose to eat less food and start exercising. If we could all choose to be happy regardless of circumstances, there would be no problems in the world.

I wish that for you too.

I've been struggling with "neurosis-based" depression all my life. They still don't have a cure for that. You know what the medical consensus is? Breathe.

That appeared in 2015.

And I have myself discovered Wim Hoff independently of medical science the year before. That got me started.

Maybe it could get you started too.

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Re: Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?

#173

Post by godDLL » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 1:13 PM UTC

at_a_remove wrote: post #171

godDLL wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever that happened to myself, I'd start over in a different space. New rules, new acquaintances, new things, and new experiences. Get out the house. No. Sell it and move. Move somewhere you would expect to be surprised. Do something you would not expect yourself to do for a living. Experience a new life, a new meaning. Give it 7-15 years and you may want to do it again. It's good for you.

That isn't an option for me.

If action is not an option and inaction leads to suffering, are you settled on suffering? That doesn't seem right.

At least dedicate the appropriate amount of time to this, methinks. Put "explore immediate surroundings, going-ons, and people" into your weekly schedule, and do.