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cultofmetatron
The world is a vast meaningless cruel existence that cares nothing about your accomplishments, trials, laments and accomplishments. The important thing is to set an endless string of arbitrary goals to distract yourself until you die.
schaefer
I care about you and your delightful sense of sarcasm, friend.
copperx
That’s a great summary of what life is about in the first world. If you think that’s depressing, you’re taking it to literally.
downshun
What do you mean by meaningless? :)
gintery
I mostly agree, but we really have no way of telling if its meaningless or not.
tim333
That's a rather negative take. There are more upbeat ways to view it also.
[dead] mamon
The simplest way to achieve happines is: have a half of your brain surgically removed. The stupider you are, the happier you become, because happiness is basically the ability to ignore reality.
Gollapalli
Lol, as if the unhappy bastards at Yale have any business teaching happiness.

Look up how many of their students are on SSRI’s