I did not. I was referring to a specific premise involved, which includes “extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence.” Which is relevant and appropriate. In short. But philosophy 101 is always enjoyable to discuss.
Just a joke about practicing what you preach, I suppose.
I think we all write our own stories, for ourselves and humanity at large. If we’re able to turn this ship around, it won’t be because of the attitudes in this thread. It will be in spite of them.
Kids are great. Life is challenging but worth living and worth fighting for.
Positive perspective is valuable, and cynicism is just lazy counterproductive nonsense without it.
Better than the enthusiastic nihilism in this thread, tbh.
Buddhists hate this one weird trick.
Jfc, finally some sanity in this thread. Thank you. You’d think a bunch of supposed computer nerds would have done a fucking experiment before going off on some anecdotal bullshit.