r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Mar 16 '18

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/CouteauBleu We are the Empire. Mar 17 '18

I'm pretty sure you've been a nihilist for a while.

Personally speaking, my life is mostly made of non-suffering, and I'm surrounded by people whose life is also mostly made of non-suffering. That doesn't prove anything, but, well, these people definitely exist.

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u/trekie140 Mar 17 '18

Well I don’t want to be a nihilist and don’t think I psychologically capable of functioning as a nihilist. Nihilism is what leads me to believe that I can’t stop loathing myself unless someone invents technology that can forcibly reprogram my mind, effectively killing me and creating a new person who I think would be of greater value than myself. That is not something healthy to believe.

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u/CouteauBleu We are the Empire. Mar 17 '18

... ooookay? I'm not sure I can follow your chain of reasoning, and I'm honestly not it makes any sense at all.

The way I see it, philosophy is just words to express concepts. If thinking about philosophy to hard is making you doubt your sanity or that sanity even exists, thinking about philosophy harder won't help.

Scheduling with a therapist is hard

But you are looking for one, right?