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[papshooshing]

Here's a question for the masses to pause and let stew in their think pan juices before replying:

What's the point in living?

Before anyone goes on about "oh don't think like that Karkat!" shut the fuck up. I'm not about to off myself or anything so mind boggling stupid. It's just no one else on this rock will give me one second of their time or lend a auricular sponge clot just for my fucking vitriolic purposes. Thus I pose the question to this community in hopes that at least someone gives two shits to listen and maybe, just maybe, converse so I can get these useless thoughts out of my system.

Because seriously, what's the point in struggling to live if death means an eternity of floating around in your memories and meeting other dead shit stains? Fuck, you still exist in the end!

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[thekidsare0kay]

Um...

[papshooshing]

It's true though! I've been out here for fuck knows how long now and we've slipped through so many dreambubbles. They seem so goddamn happy.

[thekidsare0kay]

uh...

[papshooshing]

Some of those grubfuckers even had wings! Wings! Not only do they get to chill with all of their dead friends, but they can meet other dead fucks from different time lines.

[thekidsare0kay]

hmm...

[video]

[croibhristeoir]

...that is a very good question, if such an end is what awaits in your world.

[Give him a second.]

[video]

[papshooshing]

I think the worst problem is, the inevitability factor. If my current self isn't within the alpha timeline, the timeline I am in is doomed to fucking die off. But there's no way of knowing which timeline is destined to taper off and which one is going to stick around.

So again... Why fight?

[video]

[croibhristeoir]

[He thought that over carefully, considering things the best that he could with how little he really knew about the situation. It was an unusual approach to an afterlife, to say the least. And if that was the case, he could understand why one would be a little lost as to the exact point of it all.]

Because you can?

[It wasn't anything concrete, clearly. If anything it sounded more like Lancer was wondering it himself.]

It's not much, but existence--whether it should be in life or death--should have some kind of purpose to it in my own opinion. Death is inevitable for anyone, no matter the world or the fate that awaits after the fact. And I suppose I can understand a lack of interest in giving a particular amount of energy and effort to put it off, given what you've said.

But on the other hand, life itself can possibly be reduced to 'how much one can accomplish before they die' at its most basic. Surely there must be some things one can do in life that can not be done in your world's version of death. If it was me, I think I would stay alive as long as possible and experience all that I could before seeing what existence after death could offer.

Living the best that one can is better than simple apathy, I think. It's difficult for me to say anything definite one way or the other, yours is a difficult situation at best.

[video]

[papshooshing]

Doing what can't be done...

[ give him a moment to think about that. ]

[madeitsquare]

There are a lot of things you can only do while you're alive.

[papshooshing]

Like?

[madeitsquare]

Set a goal for yourself, and go about reaching it.

[papshooshing]

I'm floating around in space for like two and a half fucking years. What goals could I possible set?

[voice]

[scanningutterly]

...How do you know that?

[voice]

[papshooshing]

How do I know what?

[voice]

[scanningutterly]

[A breath.] What happens when you die.

[voice]

[papshooshing]

Uh, duh? I've talked to the dead? While passing through a dream bubble.

[heavenlyhome]

To make new friends, have adventures and explore. Take part in the little things. Create something new. Strive for a goal you set for yourself. There are many reasons.

[papshooshing]

Make new friends. Ah huh, sure. There's a great idea. Once again, I'm in the middle of fucking outer space. There are no more adventures to be had for another two and a fucking half years!

[heavenlyhome]

That may be true, but you have this place, don't you? New people come very often. Adventures find you too. We have trips as well as viruses, after all.

[papshooshing]

The Internet is vastly different than real life.

[loyalbound]

If I were to be trite, I could say "you have to find that yourself", but that's not helpful. But I suppose that if death means an eternity of memories, living at least gives you the opportunity to forge something new while you can.

... Your afterlife sounds remarkably close to the way things have been arranged for the human portion of Heaven, incidentally.

[papshooshing]

[ funny how 'opportunity to forge more' makes more sense than what other people are saying. ]

That's because it is pretty much exactly like your Heaven. Only mobile, I guess.

[loyalbound]

People can move between one another's memories? That would make things less confining, I suppose.

[papshooshing]

Yeah, they can. I mean that's essentially what's going on here. While my friends and I are zipping through the Medium on this asteroid, some dream bubbles get in our way. So we end up passing through them and see the dead inside.