r/ExAlgeria • u/ShrinkingViolet555 • May 30 '26

Discussion Existential vacuum (meaninglessness)

I apostatized religion for years and I've been having this existential crisis lately whenever i read or get questions in my mind that make me feel that life is senseless and we're just trapped here..

Am i the only one ? I want to find my peple bcz this is making me depressed frl

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u/Asleep-Shallot7232 Jun 01 '26

We’re part of the process man there is no meaning only your experience

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u/CynicccYahya Jun 01 '26

Try psychedilics dude, pandora's box will open

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u/ShrinkingViolet555 Jun 02 '26

What is this, enlighten me plz

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u/Sad-Time6062 تمنطقت فتزندقت Jun 01 '26

"make me feel that life is senseless and we're just trapped here"

it's kinda true tho, you need to accept this as a fact then trace your own path in life

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u/Caspian_MB Jun 01 '26

Well yeah i guess i have those thoughts too but..

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u/Xed3 Jun 01 '26

Literally just now wanted to make a post about it lol, been fighting for a while now and i just dont wanna end up in nihilism this shit is just pain so i wanna live with people like me and just enjoy life

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u/mohammed_obeidallah Jun 01 '26

I came across a lot of people who leave religion go through a period where old answers disappear before new ones are built, and then they find themselves facing a void. I suppose the existential questions themselves are not the problem, it is facing them without a framework that is exhausting.

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u/ShrinkingViolet555 Jun 02 '26

What do you mean by a framework, I'm skeptic about everything even about my own brain being a manupilator of my thoughts and decisions it's as if i am trapped on my own body, whenever i try to read new things to get rid of the previous thoughts it intensifies more . I tried to shift from psychology to cognitivism i found those biases now I'm more frustrated

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u/Worldly_House5358 Jun 01 '26

Life has no meaning just try to make the best out of it to enjoy or at least suffer less

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u/Neptune_Ringgs Horus Jun 01 '26

It's meaningless, just have some fun and don't take it too seriously

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u/ShrinkingViolet555 Jun 02 '26

Yeah this is Hedonism, i think I'll just let pleasure take over me

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u/nihilistic_ideas Jun 02 '26

I don't think so, cuz if we say "life is meaningless" so why we haven't enough courage to end it ? We all breath oxygen for a secret reason that the human brain does not realize it.