Ask HN: How do you make sense of life?

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Post by davehcker » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 11:16 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How do you make sense of life?

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Post by nurettin » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 11:18 AM UTC

As with everything, I watch others try to do it, then I take whatever I think is applicable and leave out the parts which appears cringy.

Re: Ask HN: How do you make sense of life?

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Post by davehcker » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 11:23 AM UTC

nurettin wrote: post #2

As with everything, I watch others try to do it, then I take whatever I think is applicable and leave out the parts which appears cringy.

Any tips on how you generate/develop the 'cringy', 'applicable' filters? Is that also something you'd say learned by watching others?

Re: Ask HN: How do you make sense of life?

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Post by nurettin » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 11:25 AM UTC

davehcker wrote: post #3

nurettin wrote: post #2

As with everything, I watch others try to do it, then I take whatever I think is applicable and leave out the parts which appears cringy.

Any tips on how you generate/develop the 'cringy', 'applicable' filters? Is that also something you'd say learned by watching others?

Applicable is easy, it must repeatedly yield results which have long-term utility. Cringy is harder. I guess it's a personal preference thing. But that's human isn't it?

Re: Ask HN: How do you make sense of life?

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Post by lalo2302 » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 11:28 AM UTC

For me it is looking for books that tackle that question and find what clicks with me and my context.

When the feeling starts to go away, I just repeat.

Find your drive and just keep it going. It can be anything, your career, your house, having fun, games, anything, literally anything.

Re: Ask HN: How do you make sense of life?

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Post by badabadadook » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 11:41 AM UTC

Sense is a very personal thing, if at all. There is no intrinsic sense after all. Though you could make an argument for biological sense- survival and all that jazz.

I live minimalistically and try to keep busy until 1) either the time passes and I go through all the motions, or 2) I get an certain enough opportunity to end it all.

Re: Ask HN: How do you make sense of life?

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Post by davehcker » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 11:53 AM UTC

lalo2302 wrote: post #5

For me it is looking for books that tackle that question and find what clicks with me and my context. When the feeling starts to go away, I just repeat. Find your drive and just keep it going. It can be anything, your career, your house, having fun, games, anything, literally anything.

My regimen is kind of the same. But then when I look at things like myself, the world, human nature, the stars, etc. my brain just freezes. I'm willing to accept even a 'fuzzy' sense of meaning, but it should be coherent. Every now and then I'm taunted by this pursuit and sometimes it just cripples me.