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username135 on Aug 31, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life...

I've visited that space before. Its greatest tragedy isn't the ideas it births, but how seductive the nihilism becomes. You recognize its smallness once you've outgrown it.

saulpw on Aug 31, 2025 [–]

If it's nihilism, it's not enlightenment! There is still/more meaning in impermanence.

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