After Life – An Answer to Nihilism

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  @LikeStoriesofOld · 7 years ago · pinned

  What were your thoughts on Ricky Gervais' After Life? Let me know below!

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  @isabellabaloloy2877 · 7 years ago

  Ricky Gervais just tweeted this! And I'm glad he did! It's an extraordinary analysis!!

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  @PhilJonesIII · 5 years ago

  'Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.'    Thirteen years already.  I wanted to build some great memorial so no one could forget her. A better person than me.  I decided to become her memorial and try to reflect the qualities that made her beautiful.

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  @trellified · 7 years ago

  &quot;Happiness is amazing. It&apos;s so amazing that it doesn&apos;t matter if it&apos;s yours or not.&quot;<br><br><br>All I can do is smile :)

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  @lastplacerebel7774 · 7 years ago

  He&apos;s is like me for 17 years. now 3 years in recovery. not easy losing someone. RIP Melissa

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  @TheRandomMuffinMan · 7 years ago

  I agree with the story for except one key detail. The pursuit of happiness. I think people aim for the wrong thing since the problem about happiness is that it’s a fleeting emotion. It’s what makes it valuable and the pursuit of constantly feeling it will only make you feel despair when you’re not at the zenith of satisfaction. Instead you should find something that gives you meaning, that makes life feel full. I’m not saying you shouldn’t accept happiness, but instead you should cherish it when it comes your way.

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  @thrinay399 · 6 years ago

  &quot;I would rather live missing him than for him to live missing me, that is how much I love him&quot;<br><br>&quot;A society grows great when an old man plants trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in&quot; <br><br>The best lines in the whole season.

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  @FooFighter193 · 7 years ago

  The local free newspaper is indeed a nice metaphor for life. It has its banal stories of day-to-day people, just trying to be special.

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  @beadmecreative9485 · 6 years ago

  When I watched a documentary about Vincent Van Gogh, it amazed me how much he loved the natural world. The sun in the sky, the stars twinkling in the sky, the wheat swaying in the wind. He loved it so much, he tried to conveyed all that love in his paintings. Maybe happiness is fleeting but when you notice the small things like how the light plays on tree leaves on a windy day, you get to experience the small wonders that exists on this beautiful little planet. I read somewhere that Art is a way of observing, maybe take up art classes or start drawing, painting to observe the small things. That’s how you develop an appreciation for the small things. This is a bit in line with Mindfullness.

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  @chiaroscuro.7 · 7 years ago

  “It&apos;s only after we&apos;ve lost everything that we&apos;re free to do anything.” <br> <br>― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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  @farmpite · 7 years ago

  „Happiness is so amazing, it doesnt matter if its yours or not“

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  @MetricZero · 7 years ago (edited)

  I struggled with ideas like these for years, and for anyone who feels the same I would point you towards Alan Watts and the idea that life can be experiential, rather than existential. That in a way, we&apos;re all connected. Even as our consciousness ends, even as the heat death of the universe occurs, we were given a brief moment to experience a life filled with awe, wonder, and curiosities despite the astronomical improbabilities of such an event. Death doesn&apos;t have to carry the weighted fear of the unknown, because you&apos;ve already experienced it but in reverse. Billions of years passed by, and you woke up having never gone to sleep. Life will happen whether you make it or not. But our ability to be aware of the world gives us the chance to listen to music, to dance, to play, none of which are done for the end result. We can live to experience life. &quot;Dance to dance&quot;, as Alan Watts puts it.

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