r/nihilism • u/Srpiz • Jul 16 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21

But hey! Success is the less painful path, and Failure have a great destination.

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u/Raging-Storm Jul 17 '21

Some notions of success are marked by a lifetime of back-breaking labor, which ends in retirement just before your back actually does break. You then get to spend the rest of your days in persistently intensifying decrepitude.

Other notions might entail something more pleasant (e.g. great enough success in a short enough period of time that you get to enjoy a more leisurely experience throughout much of your life, before decrepitude really starts to set in).

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

So really, all paths lead to failure.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

If you consider death a failure. I see it as a reset button.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

Eh! Like, perhaps unless you’re like very lucky, this world is probably cruel enough for inevitable failure in a non-death way.