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Old Aug 13, 2018, 08:48 PM
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But all of this comes down to, how do you resist that despair after such a starkly terrifying and bleak insight? How does one cope with absolute nothingness? How do you overcome that visceral fear so that you can actually go one (sic) with your life?
Well, it’s not that we cope with nothingness whilst living, exactly, is it?

We come from nothingness and nothingness is simply our ‘fate’ (no, I don’t mean it like that!).

Nothingness is incomprehensible, I know, you know. Beyond our ken — yet, yeah, we fear that which we cannot imagine, don’t we?

I think that we accept nihilism, accept that we’ve no destiny or meaning, and accept finality. We’re just as unable to understand nothingness as we’re unable to, say, stop the Earth from rotating around the Sun; doesn’t make sense, does it? Why worry about that which we cannot do?
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