I can't believe she cheated on me, why would she do that?
Have you heard what US Companies are doing to the environment in China?
That isn't a burger you're eating, its a murder victim.
Will you marry me?
Anyone who supports the vile filth coming from Trump should be hanged.
Listen carefully to the opening theme, later in the third act it's played in the minor key, which changes its meaning.
All of these powerful thoughts and opinions and perspectives are swirling around on a tiny marble inside the universe and none of it matters.
1. If you consider time as a line, you've already made your mistakes.
It is hard to describe consciousness and plenty of people come up with metaphors to help get our minds around it. To me, the example of it that makes the most sense by comparing time to another dimension, like length. In that sense, you are not a 3d ball rolling down whatever path you choose, but rather a snake lying still with a beginning and an end. Our minds are simply moving through that snake inch by inch, but instead of a dynamic moving creature, we are static and our consciousness is what moves. We simply exist.
2. All morality is invented if not heavenly ordained.
Without a God, what is right and wrong? Even still, with a God, are you not able to choose to follow? The rules set before us in some cases offer comfortable paths in life. (e.g. Brush your teeth to have a healthy smile). Others simply keep you from maximizing your self at the expense of others (e.g. Pay taxes, don't cheat)
3. You only know you.
At the end of the day, you will never know another person's feelings and they will never know yours. When you are happy, that happiness is just for you. When you are sad, you are the only one who knows your pain. Everything you are told that matters in the world means nothing. Why should you abstain from infidelity? If you get away with it, it increases your joy at the expense of someone else, someone you will never know like yourself. Why not steal? That directly benefits you, at the expense of the Other.
4. You get to decide.
Reading up on Nihilism, I think there is a VERY important detail missing. If nothing matters by design, then you have the power within you to assign importance to things. You exist, you are real, and the things that you place importance on gain exactly the amount of importance you grant it.
5. Take Away:
If something bothers you, take away its meaning.
Spend time reflecting on the positive things in your life, give them more meaning.
You, unfortunately, are alone. We all view the world as our own person, and while our existence cohabitats with others, our existence starts and stops with ourself.
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but, if you have a consciousness (which science still cannot explain) who are you to say that that very consciousness doesn't move onto a new state of awareness, or repeat its cycle again when its host is no longer inhabitable.
You're still two rungs too low on the Philosophy ladder to understand what you're talking about. For instance:
Time is way more complex but for all rights and purposes is linear as far as we can manipulate it.
Taxes benefit you directly. Cheating on them is generally cheating yourself. Honesty benefits you directly. Exiting that system harms all parties for short-term gain.
If you need Divine Command to set your principles you're an amoeba. Even basic economics shows the problems with lying and the like.
You've also never read Nietzsche. It isn't "missing" because that was the entire point.
Go back to your pillow fort and pretend to "think". Maybe* you'll come up with an original thought.
*False hope.
Character limits keep myTakes brief, skimming surfaces. Nothing is original. If you can cheat taxes but have everyone else pay them, you yourself benefit.
This was a fun post, not a serious one.
I see that you're aged "45+". The fact that you're going around forums online being mean to people is worrisome to me, seems like something important might be permanently missing from your life. I hope you find it, I hope your day gets better.
There is only one circumstance in which tax evasion is meaningful. Also, even for a fun post, you're still not a very smart man.
I'd agree with 1,2, and 3. This was a very philiosophical MyTake.