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[Serious] What keeps you sane in these troubling times? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nihilism and the fact that it's highly unlikely that humans will destroy the ability for earth to sustain life, just make our society collapse.

Humans lives aren't as important as life itself.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would go a step further to say life isn't that important as a whole in the grand scheme of the universe

We as humans place value on it because we're part of it, we rely on it to carry on existing, and we're curious and find it interesting

Could argue that intelligence/sentience is important but it's only important from the perspective of beings with intelligence

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I suppose I'm not 100% on Nihilism in that sense.

I still value life of course, but the climate change existential dread which I feel pretty constantly is alleviated when I tell myself its only complete societal collapse/mass extinction event, rather than total destruction of life on the earth.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say I'm a nihilist, I still care about sentient life and am also a vegetarian so can't really say I don't care about animals

Just in the grand scheme of things if the earth blew up tomorrow it's no biggie for the universe

Generally put those kind of issues out of my mind by just reminding myself it's out of my control anyway

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah, the circles of influence are definitely helpful for your mental health.

And true, I suppose even the earth blowing up doesn't matter in the scheme of the universe.