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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 12, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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I agree with @Corvos that this is a clear ringer for clinical depression. I'd know, I'm clinically depressed and a psychiatry resident.

The facts are facts, but the implications can vary widely. Do you want to spend your life feeling like a clock slowly coming unwound, as the world blurs into a grey smear around you? I don't.

The world lacking "objective" meaning is all the excuse I need to make my subjective one all that matters to me. Even if the universe cools and congeals till each hydrogen atom is alone in the observable universe alongside dying photons redshifted till eternity, I want my time in the sun to have mattered. To me.

It doesn't have to be this way. I can't force you to seek help, but I can recommend it. What have you really got to lose?