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Old Aug 08, 2013, 12:43 PM
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If you check out the Wikipedia on Absurdism (Absurdism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) it mentions that humans search for meaning when there is none.

Kierkegaard believes there are 3 ways to deal with this (I believe this too because it's the list I came up with before I found out this existed).

1. Suicide - obviously solves the problem since it ends existence.
2. Religion - God gives you meaning.
3. Acceptance - I guess this for most of us is the problem we are having. Kierkegaard calls living like this "demonic madness".

Obviously none of the answers above are optimal (I guess religion is but I'm an atheist so it doesn't for me).

I've tried to go with the acceptance but I'm having trouble finding just fun stuff to do to get yourself in "flow". Everyday is a grind and if life isn't fun then why live with number 3?

It almost becomes a logic problem that you either need to have lots of money so you can do whatever you want and have tons of fun or you need religion.

I find with work that there is no meaning, there is no point. Nobody cares or listens to what work you deliver and I deliver at a higher level than most of them understand (yea that's arrogant but we probably are all gifted).

From what I understand, the happiest people in the world are the ones in tribes that struggle to survive. Their whole existence is trying to find their next meal, being in a close circle of people and procreating to further their race.

Once you don't worry about survival and you don't make close emotional connections, the mind turns in on itself and you end up where we are.

I don't have any answers. I don't know what I'm supposed to do or what the point is. I don't look forward to doing it again tomorrow. I just know that whatever I'm doing isn't working and that therapy/drugs/exercise/diet/religion aren't the answers for me.
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