So the world was made from random shit, populated with more random shit which grew into more random shit, then completely randomly made me mentally ill to the point of a suicide attempt?
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“For the rest of the earth's organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. But we know too much to content ourselves with surviving, reproducing, dying—and nothing else. We know we are alive and know we will die. We also know we will suffer during our lives before suffering—slowly or quickly—as we draw near to death. This is the knowledge we “enjoy” as the most intelligent organisms to gush from the womb of nature. And being so, we feel shortchanged if there is nothing else for us than to survive, reproduce, and die. We want there to be more to it than that, or to think there is. This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.”
-- Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Highly recommended for the depressive; you will feel better because Ligotti is WAY MORE depressed than you are
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-- Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Highly recommended for the depressive; you will feel better because Ligotti is WAY MORE depressed than you are
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well darn, i was just venting but this is a pretty incredible paragraph and has such an amazing point.
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