Were people always this bored with life

Pic related sums it up very well

the first sentence is on point, the second is entirely different and implies things that seem at odds with the first

your picture states everyone wants to just live a quiet normal life etc, as far as i can tell anyway.
does anyone wish thats all they wanted? do tell me if this is too r9k but sometimes i wish i could be satisfied with such an existence. banging staceys. watching football and drinking beer. 9-5 and off on weekends. there are literally hundreds of millions of people who live this life and are completely satisfied, to some extent anyway. meanwhile im scrubbing by, i have sex and a job and a house and a cat but its not enough. i desperately scour the internet and books for some sort of higher meaning or purpose, something to hit that existential null spot inside.. and its hit or miss. idk desu. DAE??!?!

You are unhappy because you do not have God. Take a leap of faith, repent, and believe in the Gospel. Then you will have life within you.

Reminder that sex heals every wound

>it's another upper class liberal whining episode

are you memeing me? i like the idea of god but im still on the fence- i would love to believe in god but a part of me resists bc muh logic and all that. are you supposed to just force it?

what happens if you spent your whole life trying to quench that thirst but find nothing does and nothing will. looking for a key that doesn't exist

Having been bored of life, I now wonder how anyone can be bored of life. It's endlessly fascinating.

God cannot be comprehended by human reason. There is no logical approach to God. You have to take a leap of faith. Only then will you have the kingdom of God within you.

>Take a leap of faith
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then you die i guess. not like i have a choice either way

God does not have to do with logic, nor brain. Faith is outside of brain, it manages to run away from reason. Faith is a gift that one should pray for, I do not know your situation, your character, tendecies. But one thing I now - God loves you, even if you dont acknowledge him, even if you say he doesn't exist. And I recommend you books that helped me find God: Tolstoy's War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. When I read those, even though the people described lived only in the imagination of the writer, and on top of that, were inspired by real people living over 200years ago - I very much saw myself in such characters as Pierre Bezukhov, Constantine Lewin, Andrew Bolkonski, all these were young men looking for something in life, looking for the answer, just like me and you. Pierre, for instance, being a millionaire thanks to his dad, was completely free, and he looked for happiness in many thing: from philosophy, charity, to brainless partying, women. And yet he only found happiness when he was a prisoner of war in Napoleons hands, being reduced to a prisoner, he, the big Count Bezukhov, one of the richest men in Russia, was for that time equal to plebs, simple russian peasants. And guess what: from them he learned how to apprieciate little things. What it means to be a man on this earth, with your father in heavens. From them he learned how to be happy.
Because it was written:
"I praise you, Father,Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children"
And that is true.

For like, 3 minutes.

I don't remember when was the last time I was bored, like with nothing to do.
The older I get the faster time flies and I get anxious thinking about all the things I could be doing. Even if I'm just sitting doing nothing time flies.

I can identify things/activities as boring, but they mostly just irritate me (say, watching a random movie). I probably also developed some ADD from all the internet use. Many such cases.

if you even an interest in God, i would greatly encourage you explore faith. nobody can or should force religion on you. if you havent read the bible yet, just read it. honestly theres no way you could read that and not get something out of it

good luck with your life user

>God cannot be comprehended by human reason.
God cannot be fully comprehended by human reason, but many things about him can. We can understand that he is a necessary being, that he is timeless, all powerful etc.
>There is no logical approach to God.
Yes there is as shown by Augustine and his neoplatonism and Aquinas and his aristotelian approach, of course ignoring those between and after.
>You have to take a leap of faith.
Yes, but it isn't a blind one like protestants want you to believe.
>Only then will you have the kingdom of God within you.
You cannot have God within you without faith, but let us not pretend it is all a passion without reason.

>if you havent read the bible yet, just read it.

I don't understand this meme. Of all the ways to "get faith" why should an intelligent person choose to read the Bible (or dare I say, any book)?
I think the best advice is simply to join a church/community, that's where the benefits of religion are most obvious anyway.

>surrogate activities

>reading the foundation of the religion
>a bad way to learn about the religion
is lit always this retarded?

He's right though. Faith is a living, felt thing, not an intellectual abstraction.

>Faith is a living, felt thing
correct
>not an intellectual abstraction.
abstraction
əbˈstrakʃ(ə)n/
noun
1.
the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events.

He's trying to become religious, not "learn about the religion".

>3 minutes

got a bit of a premature problem there user?

Exactly, faith is not ideology but to feel Christ and know Him. I think is sound advice if one just dares to look past the analytic mindset one shields oneself with.

And he's not a child, so he doesn't need the "god is loving and caring" meme, he just needs to read the foundation(s) of whatever belief he's most attracted to and form his opinions from there.
The best way for an adult to learn faith is not through face-to-face discussion, but study of the materials that gave birth to it.
Otherwise you get absolute retards who give your faith a bad name.

It's not an ideology, it's a religion, the very basic essence of what necessitates its birth is the need for abstraction of ideas and morality.
>look past the analytic mindset
...you're fucking with me aren't you.

What on Earth are you talking about? Do you not think it might be a good idea to know what you mean when you say you 'know Christ'? How could you "know Him" when you don't even know His commandments?
Come to think of it, this is the problem with most ""Christians"" in the world today. They don't even know what they're supposed to believe. Not much of a surprise how fractured the church has become when nobody even reads the foundation their faith is based on.

Once you start exploring things like art and meditation and spiritually, it might just come naturally to you, that's what happened to me. I really don't know how though, best of luck :)

Lit is talking about me and giving me advice. Best day of my life desu. I think everyone seems to agree that reading the bible is probably of some benefit. I'm gonna give it a go I suppose. Maybe I'll learn something profound. When I was 16 or whatever I was a euphoric fedora tipper but that was a while ago. I can't help but feel like there's something there..

>Falling for the Christianity meme
At least pick something interesting like Zoroastrianism.

Universalism is particularly popular. People ignore both the scripture and the catechism whenever anyone tries, with direct quotations, prove otherwise. A grave anti intellectual spirit has entered the Church and Francis is the face of it. Ignoring theology for a bland idea of mercy is what Catholicism has become for many in the west, substantially the same to a weekend charity ngo.

Read Introduction to Christianity and Jesus of Nazareth by Joseph Ratzinger parallel to the bible to help put everything in perspective through a quality interpretation.

Christianity should not be intellectual, you must open your heart to Christ and not your mind. You cannot understand scripture without faith, and it can be very dangerous to read without the proper training.
Faith is based on perceived truth and does not comply to a shopping list or what is most exotic.

Faith has been intellectual for the Church fathers, if it was for Justin, Oregin and Augustine, if it was for John the Evangelist, it should be for me.
You orthodox shills think that the mystical and the rational are somehow the opposite for some reason.

Memes are based on perceived popularity and does not comply to a shopping list or what is most funny.

>it can be very dangerous to read without the proper training.
Yeah you wouldn't that, it might lead to people finding out your institution is corrupt as fuck, abusing their power and what not.

The reasons Christians are fractured is precisely because everyone can just read that book which is a clusterfuck of contradictory ideas.

If Jesus wanted you to read books in solitude he would've said so. Instead he founded a Church, a living Church made of people.

I phrased it awkwardly, sorry. I only meant to say that a good epistemological skeptic should admit the possibility of there being a "point" to "everything", and saying that there isn't one is as big a metaphysical claim as any old metanarrative

Technology has presented us with relatively easy, bland lives.

>"I praise you, Father,Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children"
SHEEEEEEIT

Just join the alt-right*, watch this:
youtu.be/kYT3jE1Xknc?t=5h22m46s

*Seriously though, the label doesn't matter, just do good stuff.

>Technology has presented us with relatively easy, bland lives.

Only for some people. Most people actually make that technology and keep it running, which is a job that doesn't afford them any boredom.

It's hard for me to see that the problem of boredom here, isn't a problem of class and a failure to see meaning in your actions. I mean, everyone of these people who are exceptionally bored should try volunteering for some homeless shelter, and then you will see that being kind to others and listening to their stories will give you meaning and make you respect yourself.

>If Jesus wanted you to read books in solitude he would've said so. Instead he founded a Church, a living Church made of people.
One does not exclude the other. I agree that merely reading a book is not enough, but it is not of any less importance than prayer or fellowship.
What I'm getting at is, you don't even know who or what Jesus is and what he said if you don't read the Bible. This is precisely how the countless off-shoots of Christianity, such as Jehowah's Witnesses, came to be. Have you ever read one of their booklets? They actually quote the Bible constantly, completely out of context and with completely inane interpretation - because they're well aware people don't read it.

>The reasons Christians are fractured is precisely because everyone can just read that book
That's simply not true. Apostasy and division in the early Christian communities was not hindered one bit by lack of the New Testament in readable form.
You're saying that the very foundation of Christianity, along with the history of humanity's relationship with God, laid out on paper, is what causes confusion and division? I'll be honest, I don't even understand where you're coming from.

>clusterfuck of contradictory ideas
Such as?

wouldn't it be better to conclude that 'a point' isn't the appropriate object of skepticism?
that, since metaphysical narratives like christianity or, say, an attempted, concerted rejection of metaphysical narratives are all equally groundless, instead of concluding that one conceivable metaphysical narrative might be grounded, maybe we should conclude that they metaphysical narratives the sort of things that need grounding
we make meaning; this doesn't make it subjective, it just makes it relative to reason, ie the thing that gives things meaning

this has been a drawn out and I fear pretentious way of saying what I want to say; the gist is that instead of holding out hope that there exists, out there, some kind of point to it all, we should realize that a point to it all just isn't that kind of thing--that is, it isn't out there

>life
what does that even mean? Why peoples treat "life" as some predeterminated collection of spooks?

People's standards have changed. Nowadays we find entertainment everywhere, from pc, tv, phones. Society demands to be entertained, and information cannot be passed otherwise, whatever there is to tell, needs to be shown in a tv-like dramatic manner. But any form of entertainment will bore people, and they will seek for new ways to entertained. This eventually will come to an end, and they will realize the fact of their entertainment and how it is not as much a natural state of being but one that has been culturally hold.
It's like a noise in the background that you don't realize is there until it's gone. Entertainment is gone when nothing is left to (subjectivelly) entertain. "Your" generation only realized later, because they grew up in the noise, thinking it was the natural state of life.

>my mental proliferation connects me to god

why do people like you have to bring your sexual insecurity up in every conversation?
please take a step back, no one wants to hear about it, it's disgusting

Yeah, it does. Wisdom, knowledge, understanding are all gifts of the Holy Spirit. None of these is irrationalist or fideistic.
It doesn't work on its own of course, but the God does enlighten our reason after all.

How many people are actually ironic memesters about everything? I have met very few people who were detached from materialist lifestyles and gave off the image of hipsters you see in television and film. Whenever I read the doom and gloom stuff from conservatives and liberals I wonder if we are living in the same world. To me people are actually very serious and only joke around when the issues of our times threaten to overwhelm them because the older generations seem to care or know so little that there is no relief found in their guidance.

>>clusterfuck of contradictory ideas
>Such as?
infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/contradictions.html
answering-christianity.com/101_bible_contradictions.htm

Of course you can say they're metaphors or 2deep4u or that you just lack a doctorate from ancient middle east studies.
The bottom line is that reading and studying the Bible solo without context seems like a waste of time.
There's very little to suggest that it will fill you with religious joy. But joining a church probably will.

I have the same expereince; people aren't nearly as detached as many of them wish they were

I think this "everyone is trapped in bubbles of irony" schpiel is the kind of thing David Brooks would write after waking from a nightmare in which he was naked in Washington Square Park and hipsters and yuppies walked by, not laughing or pointing, but smirking
just out of touch

>infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/contradictions.html
I'm 10 "problems" in and I'm wondering if this website is a joke.

>I think this "everyone is trapped in bubbles of irony" schpiel is the kind of thing David Brooks would write after waking from a nightmare in which he was naked in Washington Square Park and hipsters and yuppies walked by, not laughing or pointing, but smirking
just out of touch
Lol pretty much this. I think it is also an analysis based on how many young people watched The Daily Show for their news. It was a large number, and I used to watch it when I was actually a young reactionary in the late 2000's, but it was not a good representation of the population. The olds focus on a lot of shit that seems relevant to advertisers, young people are a collection of marketing statistics and not a future generation of people who will run the country.

This could also be tied into the helicopter mindset of parents who worry their children are not getting enough reward for achievement or that they are getting too much reward and will expect a trophy for completing minor tasks. The trophies aren't for the kids they are for the parents, maybe if they spent more time learning who your kids are young people wouldn't need to take up hobbies like "adulting" which is just teaching yourself useful shit that nobody thought would be important to a "digital native" growing up in web 3.0.

Something I actually like about hipsters is that they give a shit about "artisanal" hobbies and actually try making shit instead of buying it. Not to get all bolshevikky but we are so detached from the product of our labor that we fetishize production.

I found the Kaine and Able versus God treating everyone the same particularly funny.

>human history: having a tightly bound community situated in a belief system bigger than you, which you can have pride in and treat as a project, combined with the family as the foundation as society are the most successful organizational combination for human happiness.

>Millennial airheads: I threw all that away it's racist and xenophobic, my school experience was alienating and depressing. I have no goals and I'm forced to work with people unlike me and not my age which i can't form any lasting bonds with. I'll get a dog instead of a family.
I couldn't discipline my dog and it barks at me.
I'm depressed what's wrong?

When life becomes too easy it turns on itself.

See the experiments of this lad:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun

He created a perfect mouse environment with everything they need. Their population exploded but after a while they became indifferent, stopped breeding and died out.

This is why any civilised country has below replacement birthrates.

After a certain point of quality of life is reached we become passive.

This explains the Fermi paradox as well. Any civilisation that becomes advanced enough to explore space also loses the desire to do so because life is too good.

>DT 6:15, 9:7-8, 29:20, 32:21 God is sometimes angry.
>MT 5:22 Anger is a sin.
I like this one.

I read them in Mitch Hedberg voice

I wonder how literal would one have to be to see this as genuine criticism.
Could they read any book at all without it being 'contradictory'?

Tractatus

God is beyond contradiction. If He wants to suck a dick it does not make Him gay.

Still haven't gotten around Witty sadly, will have to next year.

Go to bed, Donald.

I believe life has gotten more boring overall because we never experience true boredom anymore. Remember when you hung out with your friends doing nothing, watching nothing, no cellphones, just getting that good old bore on?

No. Read Voltaire. The stereotype of the disinterested and cynical French bourgeoisie has existed for centuries, and likely dates back much further.

What I meant to say was yes, in response to OP's question

>GE 2:17 Adam was to die the very day that he ate the forbidden fruit.
>GE 5:5 Adam lived 930 years.
Is this guy retarded?

Yes

I do think people expect to be constantly stimulated by media all the time now, in a way they never used to.

It's as if when people find there is no show to watch, or nothing interesting to read online at that time they sort of panic, because their brain has to switch gears and find something to think about.

Personally I can spend hours alone just thinking about things I've read, but that's just a habit. People need to learn to cultivate it rather than living passively all the time.

The cult of action is meaningless and the young see that now.

We killed god, and replaced him with external meaning like politics and money.

Life experiences which amount to nothing. People move away, change and move on with other people that are not you. Eventually you're left idling between school and work just to stay afloat, but for what? So you can go back to work endlessly so that you can earn those two week vacation. Its not enough, there will always be a mountain we need to climb and strive to get to the top only to find its littered with debt, bad ideas, poor friendships and easy let-downs.

coupled with our instant access entertainment. no one has patience and demands the best. NOW. It comes and goes and is very fleeting.

Listen to Read Candide. This type of pessimistic attitude has existed for ages. My advice is to cultivate your garden

Never bored. Mostly anxious and angry a lot. I used to be very depressed but it has turned to me feeling pissed off and scared ever since I began getting more routine and responsibility in my life. Maybe I need pills.

You can make that argument, but in the context of metaphysics, where reason is the first and last test of truth, it isn't justified. There's very little that's justified, desu. You can say fuck metaphysics, like most people do, and use another set of criteria to argue with, and I don't really have anything to say to that (because I'm an autist and don't like arguing outside of reason) except yeah fair enough

Yup, that's why men got into strange things like mountaineering.

They were the elite of the elite, and they risked it all to get to the top of a mountain first.

Her "generation" are rich white millenials with disposable income and constant social media exposure. They are bored because they are bombarded with useless information every day and whenver they see someone travel and blog about it they hate themselves and feel like they have to do something or else their life is meaningless. Source: I know plenty of people like this, they all act the same and have the same aspirations, mannerisms, and detriments and qualities.

There are millions of people within the same age range around the world that challenge them selves and by life to live it, some because of their social and economic status, others because they simply want to live, not bitch about how Trump triggered them and made them cry on their Tumblr.

youtube.com/watch?v=q3iT5PupBhM

Boredom is the fate of all overly wealthy societies. They lose that sense of initiative and vitality which comes with being compelled by the sheer biological necessity of the life process. In this very elemental sense these people are removed from the realities of life itself, ever more alienated from their natural species-being.

I do not recall candide being about boredom

>orthocucks

That sounds perfect, barring the cats. Why are people so hung up about non-participation? I think we're all a little too involved in the rat trap

so you're saying I should be homeless
sounds pretty good desu

As soon as we don't have to fight for survival, life becomes boring and ugly.

Otherwise we wouldn't need poetry as makeshift beauty and gladiator fights for survival by proxy.

>They lose that sense of initiative and vitality which comes with being compelled by the sheer biological necessity of the life process.
this is the most beta things to say. achieving goals and trying to stay alive, as if you knew you were about to die, is really fancied by men, only because men fail to have comfy life. Hyping struggle and finding meaning in pain and hardship is the fate of deluded men

>I will never be content with what I have
>Loathe the prospect of blue-collar life
>Desperately want to be acknowledged
>Realize that this complex will only ever affect me; everyone else is on the grind, too
>Must therefore be out for myself
>Life without empathy
>the emptiness
>the emptiness

Will we ever see any new wars? Any new revolutions? Any excitement in the future, regardless of consequences?

No. Read A Hero of Our Time

what episode is that pic from?

If you are a socialist, crusader, jihadi, nazi, or imperialist there are plenty of wars to fight. Most people don't want to travel and take risks.

Examples: Peshmerga, Ukrainian/Russian conflict, US military, Yemeni Rebellion