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We make hope narratives whenever we go through difficulty. For example: "My grandfather died, so I must live to make him proud".
These narratives we create for ourselves give purpose when its running out. Narratives vary and can be anything from raising kids well to improving a golf swing.
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No matter what your narrative is, what you believe in, it'll have the same implications as all other beliefs:
These ar...
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We've never been wealthier in terms of materials and it's only getting better, yet we're still hopeless.
"The wealthier and safer the place you live, the more likely you are to commit suicide."
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"To build and maintain hope, we need three things: a sense of control, a belief in the value of something, and a community."
We need to believe that we're in control of our own fate, we need to know that there's some greater value we can strive for and we need support from other be...
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"People flock to religion, because religions acknowledge this permanent state of unknowing and demand faith in the face of it."
Religions remove the need to develop a personal manifesto. Your life will be figured out as long as you believe, and the Uncomfortable Truth will loose it...
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One day, you and everyone you love will die. And beyond a small group of people for an extremely brief period of time, little of what you say or do will ever matter. This is the Uncomfortable Truth of life. And everything you think or do is but an elaborate avoidance o...
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It feels as though the world has some sort of greater importance, yet in the scale of the infinitely expanding universe, we are nothing but another cluster of atoms.
You are the one who cares. You convince yourself that things matter in order to avoid the Uncomfortable Truth (the idea that ...
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"Something needs to matter because without something mattering, then there's no reason to go on living."
Hope is what keeps us going. If we have no belief in the future being better than the present, we spiritually die.
There needs to be some source of hope giving us a reason...
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