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Do you think there is any point to life? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I keep wondering why my life turned out to be so hopeless and miserable. Did I do something in a past life and this is my punishment? Is it bad karma? But then karma has never made sense to me. If you murder someone, and karma decides you then need to be murdered to pay for that, it requires someone else to commit murder so you get your karma. The cycle would never end.

Is the New Age idea that we choose our lives before birth true? Do we choose everything that will happen to us in advance so we can learn something from it? Or is that just cope?

Are we just evolved pondslime who mutated into humans by chance and none of this means anything?

Why is life so incredibly awful for so many people?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It seems like the struggle will never end then. At least not for thousands or millions of years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah.. it certainly feels like it will take a long time. There can be improvements sometimes that come quickly and feel like out of the blue, but often it does seem slow. And it seems this way for so many. There is a type of suffering that permeates this place. Fostering love for ourselves and others in the struggle, and doing what we can to build the struggle with others can help give life that sense of meaning. But this current moment makes it hard, it takes a lot of effort and this system definitely acts against those tendencies. Always easier said than done. I hope you find peace comrade. Wish I had more to offer that was helpful.