What's "existential dread." Are you guys okay?
Ways to overcome your existential dread: 1. Try to create great art. 2. Throw yourself into politics. 3. Take a leap of faith into religion. 4. Just sort of stop thinking about it and watch TV or something instead.
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Ever since people started asking about the "meaning" of life instead of its "purpose", "end," or "good," they've been stuck.
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The first three are also good ways to give yourself existential dread.
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I'd warn against organized politics - in my experience that way lies the roaring abyss of realizing just how limited our democracy is (any and all policy that perturbs the elite will be killed by party mechanisms) Collective action on the other hand is a great antidote to despair
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5. Realise everything was pre-written into the boundary conditions of the Universe. Realise too it is meaningless anyway, try not to think too much about it and live a life believing you have free choice
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I think 90% of people already do #4.
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The best way to overcome your existential dread, is to acknowledge that existentialism is dead.
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4. Watching reruns of Babylon 5. Flower Persephone Chihuahua is less than enthusiastic.pic.twitter.com/8Br0kdJoZv
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5. Go for a walk.
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But, 4a, do not watch "Existential Dread 2: This time it's personal"
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