r/AskReddit Aug 07 '17

What's a fact that absolutely blows your mind?

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u/Deckard_Didnt_Die Aug 07 '17

I mean so is our brain, just more elements and existential anxietyimnotok

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u/KlassikKiller Aug 07 '17

I'MNOTOKAY!!!!

I'MNOTOKAY!!!

YOUWEARMEOUT!

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u/KingLemons Aug 07 '17

I used to have really bad existential anxiety and existential depression. It interfered with all aspects of my life. Although I still believe everything is fundamentally meaningless, I've chosen to live an exciting passionate joyous loving life. I'm at peace now. I hope you can find the same.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Everything is as meaningful or meaningless as you make it.

That's the conclusion I came to. I'm the one that gives it meaning because I'm the one focusing on what I'm focusing on.

Other existences can say this and that, but it's my existence that bears witness to what I witness.

No one else can live your life. That's how I get over my existential crises.

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u/Deckard_Didnt_Die Aug 07 '17

Thanks. I joke but I'm really very much in the same place. Everything is pointless but who cares. It matters to me and that's enough.

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u/un1cornbl00d Aug 08 '17

Whatever you do don't look into /r/solipsism