phyllo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:31 pm
Distractions and hobbies are lumped together in that question.
And it asks about enjoying existence instead of bearing existence.
Some sort of shifting going on.
Shifting some more, imagine you had not been born a human, instead you were born a cow, or a sheep. These creatures spend their entire lives standing or laying around in open fields with nothing to do but graze on grass all day long. They do not have the luxury of tv's, the internet, hobbies, etc...
Would a human be able to bear a life like that? I hardly think so, we've invented ways to distract ourselves from the truth, that life is but a hair's breadth away from pure nothingness. And is why human beings choose to fill up their void with whatever gets them through their nights, days, weeks, months, years, lifetimes.
phyllo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:31 pmI still don't know why life needs to be made "bearable".
Whatever life is, it is self evidently bearable, else humans would cease to continue the desire and will to live. Everyone seems to bear their lives, no matter what happens to them, people even bear their physical ailments, cancers, emotional and mental illnesses, and their pain. So yes, people do bear their lives in one way or another. They will always find something to distract themselves away from the the inescapable entropy of all living organisms.
phyllo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:31 pmMind you, I have been ridiculed on philosophy forums for saying that "life is good".
I might be a wacko.
On the human level, life is only good because it's not bad. But it's both, yet neither, in the grand scheme of things. No thing alive can outrun entropy.
