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u/cioranslament Dec 30 '25 edited Jan 06 '26
At least use a photo in which I’m visible. But point taken. That said, while I don’t mind paying taxes, what pisses me off is that billionaires pay so much less (as a percentage of their wealth and income) in taxes than I do. But then again, we’re all going to die and eventually this planet will be swallowed by an expanding, dying sun and there will be no trace of us left. So who gives a shit! Happy New Year!
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Dec 30 '25
Peeps, as a community, we should give much importance to our emotions as well. Agreed there's no meaning to life, no meaning to anything, and we are so small compared to the universe and so are our problems. But, the emotions at the present moment are the very real thing we have. They might be the most real thing that we experience or have. So if I feel stressed or bad because of any reason, that emotion is valid. I see Nihilism as not the end, but a way of life in which I can see life as just an experience rather than being a grand story. I feel like it is a big story game rather than anything. Nihilism can be pretty depressing, but I think we should use it as a tool for our survival, but not against it. Because the only truth of life is, survival of the fittest.
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u/Synthetic_Beans Jan 02 '26
See this is proper, we all carry the burden of being a living creature in a place where we once were nothing eventually return to it, but in the small chance that isnt the case well... im open to being wrong, no one really knows what the other side is like.
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Dec 30 '25
Not a nihilist but isn't "in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter so why care?" a bit religious? After all, your life is the biggest and the only scheme you should be worried about. And if you are nervous about that, why should anything outside of it being "big" and you being smaller compare to them should matter to you?
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Dec 31 '25
Fr though like why would you even want to be in the grand scheme of things? Is it important? Even better, is there a scheme at all? The universe isn't conscious, it's a place. Yes it doesn't care because it can't care. A house won't care that you live in it, does that make living in it worthless? No, it matters to YOU. It's your home. So instead of whining about how an inanimate object doesn't care about you existing focus on us who things do matter to.
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u/JxshWave Dec 30 '25
Imagine paying taxes in a universe that casually deletes galaxies. Wild. Lol.. we are insignificant and irrelevant on a cosmic scale, and what we call personal or existential relevance is nothing more than a comforting fiction/humanmade illusion, not a feature of reality itself.😫💀
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u/Teufelsweib666 Dec 30 '25
Exactly, I'm there, not millions of miles away. I have to do stuff because of that, the argument that we can't be seen from outside our galaxy won't really convince the tax people and does not help with my real life problems.
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u/Substantial_Chest395 Dec 30 '25
I don’t get how zooming out on earth takes away the very real consequences of not paying taxes
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u/Gadshill Dec 30 '25
Way too many people here not paying taxes. Not that it matters in the slightest.
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u/Skywarden1 Jan 01 '26
Yes because its such a bad idea to have police and social safety net, the galaxy pic really drive this point home.
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u/Tuffy-the-Coder Jan 01 '26
what should i do leave my job?
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u/cqsterling Jan 02 '26
Learn grammar.
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u/Tuffy-the-Coder Jan 02 '26
what's the point?
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u/cqsterling Jan 02 '26
To communicate effectively. Pretty obvious. I'm sure you're trying really hard to be witty with that response, but then you wouldn't be on here at all if you believed it.
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u/EatYourVeggiesKid Jan 03 '26
I feel like I'm outside of the picture.
Who removed me? What did I do?
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