what is the point anyway

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i think it will be the dream that never ends... which is why i practice my lucid dreaming... so that i can make the transition smoothly and learn to live in another way... which, failing at, is how i view hell... an inexplicable nightmare.

i think people who are certified crazy (as in NOT THERE) have already made the transition, just not in body... which i think can sometimes disturb the transition and have bad effects... much like i think suicide interrupts the transition...

i get these weird sensations of waking up in my dreams... not waking up FROM them... but an adhering sensation almost... like the tingles your legs get as they wake up from falling asleep.

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I think its the truth.

It's easier to be strong when you think you know what everything is about. I don't have any reassurance that my life has some greater purpose. I found out that I can't believe something just because it makes me feel more secure. I don't blame other people for searching for security through faith, but it just doesn't work with me. I have resigned to accept that many things in this world are unknowable. We only get small glimpses of meaning through our own experience. I wish to go on living because the world is an interesting place, full of wonder and beauty.

Life is a classroom. Your problems are your tools to become someone who can handle problems in the best way you can. Yes, I know that's weird. Whatever you don't learn in life you have to learn in the afterlife. It's easier here because time breaks things up into bite-sized pieces. You experience the happiness and pain you caused others. People who did meanness and didn't learn better will relive the meanness as the victim until they learn why it's wrong and regret it. We really do make our own hell.

We're supposed to help each other learn where possible. Otherwise, we'd be here one at a time.

This is what I think, too.

I'm in something of a nihilistic tailspin at the moment and was wondering today about how much longer this is going to go on before it's all over - no more constantly trying to do the right thing and be the right person. I saw a sign on a car today which read "One Life - Live It". Yeah, yeah, but how and why, when it all comes to nothing in the end? Maybe the meaning of life lies in our relationships and interaction with other people and the differences we bring to their lives, but what if you have the social and family life of a hermit?

Not that I'm suicidal or particularly depressed, just realistic. And I need to find new things to amuse myself and lift my mood as the usual stuff isn't working. Sometimes I really wish I could switch my brain off for a while.

What is the meaning of life for a chicken or a cockroach? Is a human's life anymore meaningful then the lives of these critters? We're just animals that live as part of an ecology, our bones and sinews meant to be recycled back into the Earth the same way a chicken's guts are. The only difference between that dead chicken your eating and a dead human is that they look different. We're just animals and have no more of a soul than a bacterium. What happens between birth and death is irrelevant. For most other animals you could say the meaning of life is to reproduce before dying. It's pretty much the same for humans even though I hope a lot of people can fight their instincts and not have children to reduce population pressures.

because the point is you have to experience it.

I like the quote

But why do we have to experience it, if the experience is pretty crappy for the most part?

I would love to just fart around (whatever that means) but can't because I have to meet certain societal expectations and responsibilities. Maybe my 'farting around'/'being responsible' ratio is out of balance, which has set me on downward spiral.

I totally agree with Drool_Thingy that whatever we do between birth and death is irrelevant. We're just passing time until it's all over.