How does Sup Forums combat existential dread?

How does Sup Forums combat existential dread?

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Anime, videogames and fapping to porn of both

There is a reason this board turns religious over time. Even if an influx of retarded atheists come from new sites like Reddit, they'll see.
Suicide is fairly common, I've heard.

I drink.

Meditation

Jump between multiple distractions to try and wash out the hollow aching dread.

Video Games - Shitposting - porn - nail biting - reading all in the space of five minutes

I'm not a giant bitch.

You can't combat it.

You have to distract yourself.

The easiest way to do this is to interact with other people.

Even if you don't like other people or spending time with them, you have interact with them or else dive into the abyss of self-godhood.

These types of thoughts are called "intrusive thoughts". The more you pay attention to them, the more real they become. So, simply ignore them and they will fade away over time.

Actively change the world for the better.

Start by cleaning your room.
Then clean your neighborhood with other people who have clean rooms.
Then clean your city with other people who have clean neighborhoods.
Then clean your nation with other people who have clean cities.

Balls and guts, mostly.
Combined with a morbid fascination with seeing how the journey ends.

>I lack the capacity for meaningful existential and introspective thought

Cool story, hoi polloi.

>combat
Embrace the truth, look into the abyss, accept the reality. denial is not the answer.

20-40 billion people have lived and died before you were ever born. They all had lives and dreams. Now they're gone. One day you'll be gone. So will I.

Better to enjoy what time you have than worry about non-existence. You were non-existent for 13.8 billion years before you did exist, and it didn't bother you then.

You sound like a total faggot. Eat a dick.

but muh 72 virgins in heaven

I don't have existential dread because I'm past the point of not giving a shit. Also my life doesn't suck that much.

Happenings.

A lot of interesting things will happen in the next few decades.

lifting and video games

By doing anything human and thinking about the little people that look like me and their fucked up multicultural future.

If I sit on the couch and try to do nothing for 5 minutes, pretty much since age 16 (when nothing traumatic happened, just cuz), I start thinking, "Cosmic dust. We're all just so much cosmic dust. I don't need to wake up in the morning."

Pic related is for fucking, sperm collecting, and bastard donating, not for marrying or making babby with white man.

This, grow the fuck up and handle it.

It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything-
Chuck Palahniuk

this is the thing. if there is life after death (however that would be set up) then ok, whatever.
>potential for eternal suffering
If there isn't life after death then you won't be there to acknowledge or bemoan that condition. ok then too
>no suffering possible
it's actually a better deal all round

It subsides on its own. Try and see for yourself how long you can think about it continuously until your mind wanders. It is neither possible nor necessary to combat it. The only way existential dread can cause you any inconvenience is if the reality of death conflicts with the narratives you construct to justify your actions. That's not such a big deal, however, because the narratives you construct to justify your actions have little influence on the actual motivations behind your actions. Existential dread is mostly confined to the language areas of the brain. The rest of the brain can keep on ticking no matter how convoluted your narratives get.

By not saving faggot comics from reddit.

Honestly Jordan peterson has done wonders for me. If I start to feel like I am questioning my existential state of being, which usually gave me anxiety and a sense of depression, I just create responsibilities.

Because no matter how good you think you are, you always have room to improve on. And that room or space for improvement gives your life purpose. It may feel like it sucks, because it does. But that's the point. Meaning isn't worthwhile unless it's painful and has a goal. You could stay at home jerking off and play video games all day but you know how empty that feeling is. And similarly, you can't just beat yourself up and get meaning because that is literally self-destructive and you don't like pain. It is only when we align our intentions to surpass roadblocks do we have a sense of value. It proves that we have strength, and it proves our worth in the dominance hierarchy.

Theology is fun, but at the end of the day I don't think a deity capable of creating the universe along with us would ever require an esoteric rule set for everyone to abide by, otherwise they're fucked and tortured for eternity. If such a deity were to actually exist, then by definition they would be evil, which of course would invalidate any reason for worshiping them.

So either an afterlife of paradise exists for everyone without question, or death is just a dreamless sleep.

>death is just a dreamless sleep
The decades of life left are little comfort for impending non-existence.

There's no reason to get freaked out about it, though. When you're asleep, you're basically dead, insofar as being unaware of your surroundings. Sure, things can wake you back into consciousness. But for however many hours you are 'unplugged' from consciousness, you, as you define yourself, does not exist. You're a mound of atoms on auto-pilot.

If the thought of non-existence was truly all that terrible, then the act of going to bed should be terrifying, because for eight hours of every day 'you' are not here.

Maybe you knew his and maybe you didn't, but you just paraphrased Marcus Aurelius. Truly an awesome philosopher. "Meditations" really helped me with existential angst.

I only really get it when I'm going to sleep and waking up.

Stop being so solipsistic, narcissistic and egotistical.

Because I'm smart enough to not care about things I cannot control

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Existential angst is some seriously pussy ass shit. Act like a man and it will cure itself.

Seriously. Go do some hard labor. Get a job as a construction worker busting your ass for 12 hours a day lifting heavy loads in the baking sun. You won't give a shit about existential angst any more.

It's like Molymeme said. If you have someone who likes pound cake and offer them some pound cake, they eat it. They don't say, "oh, what use is it to bother. In a thousand years we'll all be gone and none of it will matter anyway." They eat the cake.

Go eat your cake.

Philosophy etc. Many have had their shot at this question... read them and try to see what works for you.. youll find yourself coming closer and closer to different philosophies that align with your own soul after a bit of searching.

By realizing I have no soul and am simply an amalgamation of the different parts of my brain.

Keep gazing into the void, it's comfy.

I put on some decent clothes and walk around Walmart for like 30 minutes. Even if I don't want to be there anymore I force myself to walk around for at least 30 minutes. Try to interact/smile at a few people along the way.

This will sound like the strangest thing but learn how to flex your ass. Whenever I've been caught in a state of despair or felt generally unpleasant I'd do a few sets of anal flexing (pulling the asshole in and pushing out) and my state of dread would vanish.
Sounds weird but it works. I'm doing them right now as I type this. Go ahead user try it out.

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I only do this when it gets really bad, like panic attack, trouble breathing.

The answer to this doesn't come with thinking, but the lack of thereof, it's the kind of thing where you either get it or don't. If you have to think about it, that proves where you stand in this: you're a clueless baby faggot.

You don't combat it you embrace it. You make it a part of your persona and only once you've truly committed will you start to see the world for what it really is. Red pills and blue pills aside all it comes down to is the world is shit and your average 99.9% human being is trash. Embrace the knowledge. Use it against them to better yourself.

It may feel like you're looking down on everyone with a superiority complex but you're not. There is nothing "wrong" with seeing reality for what it really is - a whirlwind of garbage.

Currently trying to combat it by searching for religion.

Nihilism

I'm a contraction worker. Specifically millwright and my lack of a degree makes me have existential dread all the time while I'm busting my ass all day whole some cockbag sits in an office and makes 3x more, even though my skill set is infinitely more useful

Death-acceptance, this world is nothing but evil

by realising that in death we return to the source. life makes us separate and life is the suffering which only death will resolve.

Do something constructive. Learn a language, grow a garden, draw, music, carve wood, whatever the fuck just do something. Make something new.

As a contraction worker, you've got a job of which they'd be envious.

But seriously, though, you have nothing to be dreadful about. You are merely experiencing jealousy and misinterpreting it as dread.

It is.

There's a killing to be made in millwork and trim carpentry, but you've got to run your own work. Start a business once you've learned enough to be able to do it.

I remember that Christ is real.

Other than that, I see no point in living. Its just an endless pursuit of gratification that will never be quenched, and wherever humans go they ruin, lie, cheat, steal. People are worse than animals because atleast the animals have the excuse of being too dumb to realize what they do. We can realize it but "we" carry on anyways with our pointless, unending sin.

>constantly disappointing parents
>every time I say I'll do better I make it 2-3 weeks into the semester with motivation and then it collapses until exam time
>have been either getting 60s/70s or barely passing for every course
>physically getting out to go to lectures is hard even though I live on campus
>this has been happening for years

It's not going to be easy but how do I fix this lads? It's the single biggest thing that makes me suicidal because it's a constant reminder that I don't have my shit together

Keep bettering yourself and the world around you. The rest will take its course.

By not being so A.I.

Get Vyvanse, life really will improve.

>1. Find/form a tribe
>2. Start a family
>3. Work out
>4. Become comfortable with being uncomfortable
>5. Quit degenerate behaviors
>6. ?????
>7. PROFIT

acetaminophen is your closest friend. it brings an end to your existential dread

Fascism

Nihilism is unfalsifiable and thus not worth accepting

I don't want to start relying on drugs as a crutch though, I feel like this is something I should be able to overcome myself

when shit in your life goes wrong and you're pissed off the fact that you exist doesn't really feel all that amazing to begin with anyhow

>I remember that Christ is real.
But, that's not true though. There's no such thing as Jesus.

Get your fear out of your system.
Wig out, go on a drinking binge, pray (or yell) at any God you choose, consider transhumanism, wig out again.

Coming to terms with death is all part of being a sapient being.

You certainly should be able to overcome it. But if you've found yourself consistently failing to do so, well it might be time to try another avenue.

I've started to do this by planting trees and shrubs in public places. If I see a patch of empty soil while driving around during the day, I'll go there at night and plant a lorapetalum or an oak tree. Linden trees are my favorite and I'm planning to start planting some in the spring - they will need to germinate in my refrigerator for four months beforehand. I've ordered a bag of seeds from the Ukraine. They are uncommon in the states, so I hope to plant as many as I can to propagate the species here. The Linden is an eternal symbol of beauty, love, and truth in Germanic and Slavic folklore.

I can't believe how many of you faggots are just realizing you consist of a bag of shit and organs and are one gay going to die with almost no proof of your existence. Welcome to adulthood, yes we all die and there is nothing you can do to prevent it. Fucking kids these days.

I go /out/. Out there when you are working on survival you don't think about much else.

Seriously though

psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/experiencing-existential-dread-tylenol-may-do-the-trick.html

sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130416085431.htm

livescience.com/28770-tylenol-eases-existential-dread.html

healthland.time.com/2013/04/19/tylenol-fights-fear-of-the-abyss/

theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/whats-tylenol-doing-to-our-minds/275101/

businessinsider.com/tylenol-pain-existential-dread-2013-4

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tylenol-fights-headachesand-existential-angst-25636081/

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You need to UNDERSTAND that you will die, your loved ones will die, your achievements will die to combat existential dread.
If you do not believe in your own death you cannot comprehend existence and hence you dread it.

Also don't be a hero okay

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>You can't always get what you want
>but if you try sometimes, you might find
>you get what you need

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My Christian faith

but when you go to bed you expect to wake up. it'll happen eventually and you feel no time pass between going to sleep and waking up. if this scenario is true then you will NEVER have that waking up event. just think about it. it is literally the definition of terror.

Myth of Sisyphus is better for getting over the anxiety of meaninglessness.

Also, Being and Time

I got a BA in Philosophy and literally fear nothing anymore. Might also have been the extensive psychedelic use in college too.

No! Bad Russia! Bad! Do not post French postwar atheist existentialists!

>Dude lmao just be an unthinking cog in the societal machine
"no"

>Diogememes of Kekistope

Let me just speak for the countless Sup Forumsaks that ended themselves: we didn't.

That's called having balls, in men talk.

Muth of Sisyphus is indeed goat, but it's not really a good introduction imho.
Why? Existentialism is literally the outlook that makes the most sense.

You can go back to overthinking things later. Do the manual labor first, and you will develop a whole new appreciation for existence.

A hundred fifty years ago 99% of people lived on an inflation adjusted less than $1 per day. They literally had to work constantly just to not starve to death or die from the winter because they couldn't afford fuel. And in horrific conditions compared to what we have today, too. Did they have existential angst? No they did not. Because working hard just to survive does not allow for the self hatred and depression of existential angst. Act like them just for long enough to get a sense of their perspective, and you will no longer experience angst.

Of course, everyone in Eastern Europe still lives that way.

This

He's literally saying to take the blue pill while we are in Zion. I wonder what his iq is.

this, basically. the answer is get interested in the processes that come together to give you the illusion of self.

>The Ego Tunnel | Thomas Metzinger
>Waking Up | Sam Harris
>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race | Thomas Ligotti

Best of luck, friend.

>if you're not depressed about dying, you haven't properly examined life

Or maybe I did and have come to terms with it? It's like any other unfortunate realization; you realize it, ponder it, and accept it. There's nothing you can do about it, why worry? You ultimately have no control over the situation, so there's no reason to even bother thinking about it. You will never get an answer until it happens to you too.

I play with my dick

rare diogenes

>You were dead once.
>You are alive now.
>You will be dead again.
If you went from dead to alive once, who knows, maybe it'll happen again.

if you accept that life is meaningless, then being depressed or morbid about your existence is also pointless.

Just live your life, we're all dead anyway

I remember being 17 too. Remember that Sartre only taught so he had access to a pool of college coeds to fuck, and Camus died in a car crash despite being paranoid of cars.

Realistically, though, existentialism is such a self absorbed philosophy that it stuns me that any thinking adult would follow it. You may as well just be a full blown nihilist at that point. Meanwhile, the Bible teaches us that we shall know a tree by its fruit. What is the fruit of existentialism? Who has ever been made better by it? What has anyone accomplished from being inspired by it

Nothing.

Beyond which, the major premise of existentialism, that existence precedes essence, may have been a cute idea in 1950, but at this point it is empirically false. Humans are not tabula rasa, but instead there's a very large part of you, perhaps the largest part, that is determined entirely by genetics. Remove that component, and the rest of existentialism is completely meaningless. Especially atheist existentialism, and of that ESPECIALLY the French variety which was a god damn abuse of the idea anyway.

So in other words, bad Russia! Go back to reading Dostoevsky instead.

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By only existing within itself. That's how you make your reality real.

Good on you, user.

by realizing that nothing means anything until you make it

and if you do nothing or make your life worthless itll be worthless, if you do things and find ways to occupy your time and give yourself something to strive for, then existential dread never becomes a problem

Once you come to terms with your mortality and realize it as the gift that it is you become much happier.

We only have to be on this world for a short time, then we are free.
We are not eternally bound to suffer from our mistakes for, well, eternity.

how is it blue pilled to be an existential nihilistic mess that never accomplishes anything?

Sure you're going to die, but to say that nothing you do matters is asinine.