Life isn't meaningless, you are a self aware creature with a body and brain to learn to use and an environment to adapt to. You have neural pathways to form, resources and knowledge to cultivate to pull from, any needs, wants, and desires to be worked on. You can even grow spiritually and become a really good person/positive karma emitter
I do think people use religion as a crutch though, usually as a way to not have to ask themselves bigger questions. I also think a lot of religious people are just indoctrinated into religion and probably don't fundamentally agree with it but do so out of a moral obligation. Some religious people also enjoy feeling a sense of superiority, and it fits them to be deeply devout.
It provides an answer anytime someone's faced with a dilemma, this is how some defense mechanisms work. Something goes wrong and they apply any religious idea in literally any way that they feel best serves them, providing an instantly gratifying shallow remedy to a problem, which exacerbates the real underlying issues because the solutions are less about their output into the universe and more about finding justifications in a past civilization's mythos.
To be more clear, I feel like being religious can easily develop mental impairments and deficits. I'm sure there are religious people out there that use their faith in a similar way to how I use spirituality, I think I work with someone who might be like that, but there's still the presupposition for all the incredulous claims by religions that makes me reserved around zealous believers
You have quotable material here, my man. I'm going to save it for a rainy day. The jump/stop thinking (with associated sticky obsessions) that many religions foster does cause limited damage to the intellect.
What I mean when I say that life is meaningless is that once you die, assuming there is nothing, it means anything that happened to you doesn't truly matter anymore.
That's not true, if you have children then their lives presumably have been shaped by you which will affect how they rear their children and assuming you deserve the title of parent this is a good chain of positive karma that lasts beyond your death
Also anything else you have going, I have a small dream of opening up an orphanage with a staff of cooks, tutors, etc that would also have some apartment buildings that could be owned by the orphanage that uses the revenue generated by the buildings, which would also cater to orphans who turn 18. If I set that up right, it could be a long standing resource for people to get an edge after having their blade break
I have the time to really compose myself here, in real life a lot of people seem to think I'm full on retarded until I get comfortable around them. I feel like I suddenly made a noticeable improvement a few days ago though. Other people are seeming less like threats now. Even if I get fired right now I feel like I could get another job pretty quick, but I want to maintain this current job and I feel like I can handle it. I feel like I can move more freely, and that's something I've been craving.
As for the planet, I'll say Saturn. My sun sign is Capricorn, a Cardinal Earth sign, meaning of the three Earth signs it's the most vibrant, and I really resonate with Capricorn traits as core values. I spent 5 bucks on a star chart from when I was born, I have interesting gas giant signs, they depict varying social aspects. I'm still looking into it, I eventually want to paint it one day.
do you think religion is a crutch used to deny the meaninglessness of life?
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Life isn't meaningless, you are a self aware creature with a body and brain to learn to use and an environment to adapt to. You have neural pathways to form, resources and knowledge to cultivate to pull from, any needs, wants, and desires to be worked on. You can even grow spiritually and become a really good person/positive karma emitter
I do think people use religion as a crutch though, usually as a way to not have to ask themselves bigger questions. I also think a lot of religious people are just indoctrinated into religion and probably don't fundamentally agree with it but do so out of a moral obligation. Some religious people also enjoy feeling a sense of superiority, and it fits them to be deeply devout.
It provides an answer anytime someone's faced with a dilemma, this is how some defense mechanisms work. Something goes wrong and they apply any religious idea in literally any way that they feel best serves them, providing an instantly gratifying shallow remedy to a problem, which exacerbates the real underlying issues because the solutions are less about their output into the universe and more about finding justifications in a past civilization's mythos.
To be more clear, I feel like being religious can easily develop mental impairments and deficits. I'm sure there are religious people out there that use their faith in a similar way to how I use spirituality, I think I work with someone who might be like that, but there's still the presupposition for all the incredulous claims by religions that makes me reserved around zealous believers
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You have quotable material here, my man. I'm going to save it for a rainy day. The jump/stop thinking (with associated sticky obsessions) that many religions foster does cause limited damage to the intellect.
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Thank you, I'm making a conscious effort to improve my composure :)
What I mean when I say that life is meaningless is that once you die, assuming there is nothing, it means anything that happened to you doesn't truly matter anymore.
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That's not true, if you have children then their lives presumably have been shaped by you which will affect how they rear their children and assuming you deserve the title of parent this is a good chain of positive karma that lasts beyond your death
Also anything else you have going, I have a small dream of opening up an orphanage with a staff of cooks, tutors, etc that would also have some apartment buildings that could be owned by the orphanage that uses the revenue generated by the buildings, which would also cater to orphans who turn 18. If I set that up right, it could be a long standing resource for people to get an edge after having their blade break
Which planet are your ancestors from? I feel you've deciphered human communication, and social-political affairs to the fullest.
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https://youtu.be/BU5RSVW2bYw
I have the time to really compose myself here, in real life a lot of people seem to think I'm full on retarded until I get comfortable around them. I feel like I suddenly made a noticeable improvement a few days ago though. Other people are seeming less like threats now. Even if I get fired right now I feel like I could get another job pretty quick, but I want to maintain this current job and I feel like I can handle it. I feel like I can move more freely, and that's something I've been craving.
As for the planet, I'll say Saturn. My sun sign is Capricorn, a Cardinal Earth sign, meaning of the three Earth signs it's the most vibrant, and I really resonate with Capricorn traits as core values. I spent 5 bucks on a star chart from when I was born, I have interesting gas giant signs, they depict varying social aspects. I'm still looking into it, I eventually want to paint it one day.