Does anyone believe that existence is a moot point?

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Hollywood_Guy
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13 Sep 2019, 7:45 pm

I am having a philosophical thought. Do you believe that our current human existence on a physical planet is all really a moot point? And our possible next existence after our death here is only this "spiritual" place where you only feel some kind of eternal but vague-sounding bliss and never-ending peace. You may not even be able to sense or "visit" the concepts or memory of your existence in the here and now. It makes me think of the idea that this physical place is nothing more than an existential moot point. I'm not necessarily losing sleep or feeling depressed that I can't do anything else over it, even though I feel like it's kind of a "trick" somehow. Don't you feel a little tricked if this might be true?

FYI I was personally raised in the Roman Catholic religious tradition, so some parts of my understanding and experience may vary.



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13 Sep 2019, 7:53 pm

There's really no point unless you come up with it yourself and I don't really feel like it, ever. I just kind of exist because I have to. Mostly.


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13 Sep 2019, 10:35 pm

Existence is existence.

It is not a moot point. It just is.



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14 Sep 2019, 3:04 pm

Not sure what the point of existence is, but I'm glad to go along with it and find out what happens.



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18 Sep 2019, 6:13 pm

yeah... things just are. and I don't believe in an afterlife, as in: for me, this is not a pre-selection round or anything. it's just there, no one asked for it, sometimes it's even not that awful.


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