Philosophy Life Happens and then you Die. Is it better to accept this as truth or think it a lie?

[KilroywasNOTHere]

It seems like a good 90% of human history can be summed up as "Man is in denial of the fact that it will die." We build gods & monuments to be remembered forever, we build nations with the vain hopes that it will last forever. All in attempt to deny the fact that life isn't glamours it's mundane and tedious at best and an outright pointless slog at worse. Thing is I'm not sure we'd be better off just accepting the truth or not. After all we've seen what happens with school shooters when people stop giving a care.

I do belive in a god, I do belive in an afterlife, but I ultimatly think this world is vanity, I think reality itself will be undone and we will all be judged according to a standard with priorties completly forgien to our own. So as far as the state of the earth and it's phisical kingdoms, well in truth it's a waste of time to put your heart into it. People will niether remeber nor care what happens to us 200 years from now and people will adapt and have thier own problems whether they live in an utopia or a wastland apocolypse because it will be all they ever knew. But as the old saying goes, "What would the world be if everyone could think like me?"

 

[ShieldWife]

This life is all that we have, all that our descendants and all future humans will have. We should work to make this a better world. Our ancestors did make the modern era a better time to live in most regards than what they experienced, we should do the same for posterity.

Would we be better people, would we make the world a better place, if we believed certain falsehoods rather than the truth? It’s possible, but I’m nervous about any claim that lies are better than truths, it’s an idea than can very easy used to justify exploitation and deceit. It’s probably better to uphold the truth and honesty, so that we can make informed decisions about how the world is and how to make it more like we’d want it to be like.

 

[MuddyAristocrat]

It is better to believe true things. If the true thing is that there is nothing after, that is better to believe. If there is something after, that is better to believe.
Have some metaphysics.

 

[Shipmaster Sane]

It seems like a good 90% of human history can be summed up as "Man is in denial of the fact that it will die." We build gods & monuments to be remembered forever, we build nations with the vain hopes that it will last forever. All in attempt to deny the fact that life isn't glamours it's mundane and tedious at best and an outright pointless slog at worse. Thing is I'm not sure we'd be better off just accepting the truth or not. After all we've seen what happens with school shooters when people stop giving a care.

I do belive in a god, I do belive in an afterlife, but I ultimatly think this world is vanity, I think reality itself will be undone and we will all be judged according to a standard with priorties completly forgien to our own. So as far as the state of the earth and it's phisical kingdoms, well in truth it's a waste of time to put your heart into it. People will niether remeber nor care what happens to us 200 years from now and people will adapt and have thier own problems whether they live in an utopia or a wastland apocolypse because it will be all they ever knew. But as the old saying goes, "What would the world be if everyone could think like me?"

Lets see, if people choose to pursue meaning aggressively over time, things tend to become better. If people eschew meaning and embrace life as a meaningless, arbitrary venture, you get almost instant death, on the historical scale.


I wonder which one of these philosophies is more useful.

 

[Syzygy]

I'll stop caring about living when I'm dead.