Fuck my life

>at least I'm moving forward in life.
>Falling for the "life has direction" meme
You can do literally what you want, my man. Be happy, be miserable, whatever.
Ultimately your concept of the present and your own ego is just one in a multitude of slides frozen forever in time on a higher dimensional plane.
Just a sculpture, that's what you are. Your death doesn't mean anything other than "this is the last brush stroke of the painting". It's your life that defines the substance.
AM I GETTING THROUGH TO YOU?

The more I spread my DNA the better chance I can be replicated in the Star Trek space adventure future.

>What makes you lose your fear of death?

Honestly? In the past year, as a former agnostic, finally believing in God. Check out the Bible.

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oh shit, I never thought of that. I don't have much time though, whats the most efficient way to start believing?

Whatever point you're trying to make, it doesn't change the fact people who don't feel they're moving forward in life become depressed. Go browse /r9k/ to see what I mean. When people feel that their actions do not carry a higher purpose or building to some ultimate goal, like furthering a college career; they become depressed.
Ways you can feel that you're moving forward in life:
>work to some ultimate plan
>follow a plan for religious salvation
>work towards furthering a career
>exercise to build a better body
>read to enhance your mental capacities
This is also the basis on why materialism/consumerism is so shit. Surronding yourself with neat toys like vidya is meaningless if it isn't something you carry with you after you turn off the console. Believing in religion/philosophical principles bring happiness because of this. Some ways I'm furthering myself:
>I am practicing nofap for religion/discipline
>reading Bible to work towards salvation
>studying chemistry to get a job after college
>reading books to make me more well rounded
>jog and lift to build a better body
Once you get hooked on this, this that don't further your goals become hollow. I'm losing pleasure from playing vidya/ watching netflix/animu because I understand that they're not contributing anything to furthering myself.

My message must've gotten clunky midway but do you understand the gist of what I'm saying?

Fuck up your life to the point that your mind literally can't deal with reality.
Unless you're lucky enough to be born stupid, in which case you can have faith because your parents told you to.

Idk man, maybe try reading the Brothers Karamazov? If you're really short on time, Mere Christianity?

>Surronding yourself with neat toys like vidya is meaningless if it isn't something you carry with you after you turn off the console.
What about surrounding yourself with neat illusions like faith and "being well rounded"?
Do they still hold meaning after you turn off your existence?

Either way, I think we're arguing two different points at the same time here. I agree with the first half of your post because it is simply a fact.
However your means of dealing with it is immensely retarded, It seems more like a guise of rationality than an actual attempt at self realization.
Both your posts make it look like you're doing these things just because you think they're the only way. Or at least the only correct way.
And then only because you were told so.

People have different paths to walk I suppose but it doesn't really "matter" either way. Certainly not in any way we can appreciate.

Everyone should do some serious soul searching and find out what really fulfills them and makes them happy.
At the end of the day the reason why it makes you happy is probably irrelevant.

>What about surrounding yourself with neat illusions like faith and "being well rounded"?
fedora

I've stated before, what brings people true, lasting happiness is working towards a goal no matter what it is.
>your means of dealing with it is immensely retarded
I don't think you understood what I was saying. People think that pursuing material goals will make the happy, when from my experience this is never the case. At max it'll give them a short high.
>Do they still hold meaning after you turn off your existence?
Who said our existence would truly end?
>People have different paths to walk I suppose but it doesn't really "matter" either way. Certainly not in any way we can appreciate.
This is very vague. Are you advocating destiny?
>Everyone should do some serious soul searching and find out what really fulfills them and makes them happy.
At the end of the day the reason why it makes you happy is probably irrelevant.
You're not going to be happy if you see your actions as meaningless. You right now are trying to push forward a relativist philosophy, doing so makes you happy because you know you could potentially have an influence. Its sad that the modern world has forgotten these truths.

>At the end of the day the reason why it makes you happy is probably irrelevant.
This should be greentext

Also my post was vague, I want to emphasis that pursing things like consumer goods, things that don't contribute to an overall plan won't make people true happiness. They can become temporarily happy, but they won't be content.
People need to be working towards a goal, be it religious, political, philosophical, etc. Something to indicate that they're moving forward.

>fedora
Amazing argument.
>People think that pursuing material goals will make the happy
Pursuing metaphysical goals work in the same way.
Having goals are great for keeping busy and building a decent framework for your mind to rationalize it's own existence on but it's not a necessity nor a guarantee for happiness.
>Are you advocating destiny?
No, I'm saying we literally can't know for sure so it doesn't matter.
>You're not going to be happy if you see your actions as meaningless
That's just not true. You can ascribe meaning to whatever you please and meaning is in fact inherently subjective.
The happiness you derive from something isn't bound to whether or not it has meaning.
You can have someone thrive on chaos.
>They can become temporarily happy, but they won't be content.
Contentment isn't the same thing as happiness.
>Something to indicate that they're moving forward.
Time itself indicates that we're moving forward. The finality of life indicates that you're heading toward some ultimate goal.
Saying that you HAVE to work towards something to be happy is silly and runs contrary to the notion of appreciating what you have.
It's interesting that you're arguing against materialism and commercialism (even though I've never brought up either of those things) and yet you preach this world view of constantly struggling to achieve and accumulate.
Those things serve as a distraction and a chase towards a new "high" just like materialism.
People can under the appropriate conditions waste away like a pile of blubber and still be happy because happiness is transient and dependent on unhappiness for it be defined.
There's two neutral states based on whether you're a pessimist or an optimist and happiness is just a positive deviation from that norm.
This means that if you want to feel like you're primarily happy with your life what you have to do is choose to be happy with your life.
By constantly chasing some future goal that you're telling yourself is going to make your life better and happier, all you're really doing is postponing the achievement.
It will always be 'just around the corner'.
Appreciate what you have while it's there.

Could someone recommend me some books on accepting death?

I woke up nine days ago in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, I realized I am going to die someday and the thought terrified me, It's strange that so many things people consume feature death, whether it be video games or movies and I have never once really thought about it.

I've had this feeling of dread since that night and I feel physically ill and hopeless. This isn't a baww post just looking for some guidance

>babby's first existential crisis
I remember being 7.
Now it's time for you to put on your big boy pants and invent your own life and meaning.

God damn these people are pathetic. I have no disrespect for people raised in the faith but people like this who basically force themselves to become Christian with the help of a Vietnamese Tapestry-Weaving image board really take the cake for saddest people in existence. How empty must your life be that you can only get up in the morning if you appropriate a religion you didn't care about 2 years ago?

Death is fundamentally the sole motivating factor of life. Value is contingent upon scarcity, if you don't appreciate the significance of your death then you cannot appreciate your life.

>trying to apply economics to a philosophical debate
How trapped by societal norms are you exactly?

I never said I can only get up in the morning now. Far from that, actually. Only now, after reading The Bible, Mere Christianity, and some Plato, when I DO think of death, it's not the scariest thing in the world.

>How trapped by societal norms are you exactly?
Not half so much as he who hides behind formal obfuscations.

Well I never...

>The value of life? How could I put a tangible value upon it? Somehow, I, who have always had expression, lacked expression when with Wolf Larsen. I have since determined that a part of it was due to the man’s personality, but that the greater part was due to his totally different outlook. Unlike other materialists I had met and with whom I had something in common to start on, I had nothing in common with him. Perhaps, also, it was the elemental simplicity of his mind that baffled me. He drove so directly to the core of the matter, divesting a question always of all superfluous details, and with such an air of finality, that I seemed to find myself struggling in deep water, with no footing under me. Value of life? How could I answer the question on the spur of the moment? The sacredness of life I had accepted as axiomatic. That it was intrinsically valuable was a truism I had never questioned. But when he challenged the truism I was speechless.

Oh I see, you're just regurgitating shit you've read instead of actually thinking.
Good boy, polly want a cracker?

I'd appreciate it if you'd read and understand posts before replying to them. Or just not reply at all.

Ditto.

>By constantly chasing some future goal that you're telling yourself is going to make your life better and happier, all you're really doing is postponing the achievement.
It will always be 'just around the corner'.

I'm not the person you replied to, but I really needed to hear this. Thanks.