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[SaberToothTiger]

Several things that I've been thinking about recently.

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I've realized recently (the last month or so) that any goal we strive to achieve is ultimately pointless, as upon achieving our imagined goal (for an instance, getting a job, getting married, stabilizing your life) we will enjoy it's benefits for only a short while, and with time we will come to see it as standard and expect nothing less. What we achieve doesn't matter because in the end, we will only come to expect more from life, leading to the inevitable fall, when we get caught up in problems or simply die we will be unhappy as we always were.

Whatever you strife to accomplish for anyone else shall never come to be realized, because when (and if) you manage to make it happen (say, remove all racial tensions from the world [magically]), it would all turn out to be worth nothing in the end, as it would corrupt and twist itself into an unrecognizable shape (for an instance people would start hating each other for religious differences or ideological ones or even nationality) and your life work would prove itself to be of no value. The only way not to see your ideals shattered is to have none and be a jaded cynic or die before seeing your goal instated.

There is no such thing as charity - people help others only for personal gain, whether is it for material wealth, favours or even feeling that they are better than they really are. It all comes down to a barter system where you give money to a charity so that you can consider yourself a better person. No such thing as kindness for the very same reason - people are kind because they subconsciously know that it is easier to get things done rather because they are actually good.

Erosion is omnipresent. It applies to everything, everywhere, for all eternity and we will never be able to outrace or outmatch it.

[IcyTea31]

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May I recommend the works of Søren Kierkegaard?

[hops]

Edgy nihilism isn't really a new thing...

You might want to read more philosophy.

[Calidovi]

Spoiler: i subscribe to the school of memetic nihilism (click to show/hide)

[NRDL]

Wheels are there to be reinvented.  I find it quite reassuring that if we were to lose all works associated with this this subject, all historical knowledge, the state of being human still drives us to contemplate life's meaning, and actually come to the same conclusions.  Shows us that we're not really all that different from our forebears, that there is an archetypal human response to existence.

[Emma]

Pus and blood was coming out from my ear this morning. The fact that it was worries me. I think it was just a pimple but according to Dr. Google it could be a ruptured eardrum.

[Frumple]

Delayed posting, but. Little bit ago, either something crawled down the far wall of my room that had a leg span roughly equivalent to my head, or. I hallucinated something with a leg span roughly equivalent to my head crawling down the far wall of my room. Didn't have a light close enough to me to really tell what it was, which just makes it worse.

Currently undecided as to which is more disconcerting. Leaning towards the former just because we... don't have much in florida that reaches that size, particularly that are inclined towards crawling around inside a house. Also there's not really anywhere in the room I'm aware of that something that size could even get in through, save maybe the AC vent.

Either way there's either something in here that could comfortably audition as an extra in an Aliens movie, or I'm starting to see things what aren't there more overtly than the normal static. This is not terribly conducive to my paranoia levels.

... as for the ear thing. Perhaps consult Dr. Doctor, instead of Dr. Google. Dr. Google doesn't actually have a license to practice in most countries. Usually a good idea when blood is actually emitting from various orifices. Alternately get a mirror and see if you can see something, or ask someone nearby to check. Then possibly go to the doctor.

E: On the flip side, if it is a ohgodfire sized bug, I can hit it with things until it stops being a coherent entity. If it's hallucination the it in this scenario is my brain. I don't want to slam a maglight into my brainmeats until they cease to be a roughly contiguous organ.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Stay safe, Frumple, and don't kill yourself to stop the abyssal horrors from climbing out through your eyeballs.

I just had a ruptured eardrum. That was not blood, it was a weird-smelling fluid slowly oozing out of my ear as well as clogging my auditory stuff. I'd recommend asking Dr. Doctor, but he has a very suspicious name.

[Arcvasti]

Pus and blood was coming out from my ear this morning. The fact that it was worries me. I think it was just a pimple but according to Dr. Google it could be a ruptured eardrum.

Yeah, I've had moments like that. I'm pretty certain[Note:Not even close to a doctor, so please take with a double dose of delicious sodium] that you'd notice a ruptured eardrum pretty quickly, but I dunno how ears work.

EDIT:

Oh god now the insides of my ears are crawling uncomfortably thinking about punctured eardrums. Damn you power of suggestion!

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

If it was a ruptured eardrum, there would be significant pain.

[Yoink]

Just checked my email and discovered a gigantic freakin' power bill. I haven't even been here much at all so I have no idea what my fuckwit housemates have done to rack up such a huge bill. They're probably running a growhouse or something.

This bill is in my name, of course- me who never wanted to live here in the first place.

Edit: Hmmm, it could be mostly leftover from the previous landlord, who is incredibly stingy and unscrupulous and generally does her best to avoid having to pay for anything. Whatever the case, this is no doubt going to be a pain in the arse to sort out.

[hops]

Pus and blood was coming out from my ear this morning. The fact that it was worries me. I think it was just a pimple but according to Dr. Google it could be a ruptured eardrum.

According to Dr. Google it's probably cancer.

[ChairmanPoo]

Pus and blood was coming out from my ear this morning. The fact that it was worries me. I think it was just a pimple but according to Dr. Google it could be a ruptured eardrum.

In middle ear otitis purulent material can build up, which might lead to a perforation of the eardrum.

Needless to say, its unlikely that this went unnoticed.

[Rolan7]

Edgy nihilism isn't really a new thing...

You might want to read more philosophy.

Almost the opposite, a high proportion of teens seem to arrive at it independently.  I certainly did!

I don't even think it's wrong, exactly.  But getting invested in life is more fun.  Addictive, too.  Kinda the opposite of nirvana, but nirvana is overrated.  (Not Nirvana though they're cool)

[scriver]

Which makes you realise that all these famous philosophers were really just people who stayed in the "edgy teen" stage of development for the rest of their lives.