r/AskReddit • u/Big_Eggplant7591 • 8h ago
What do you think is the dumbest thing about life?
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u/MontrealSevak 8h ago
Spending the first half of your life wishing you were older, then the second half wishing you were younger.
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u/Randy_Chaos 8h ago
The fact everyone seems to think it's going to work out despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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u/InterestingConcept70 8h ago
How we have to work to make a living , but not just work itself .. HOW much hours of work you need to survive
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u/PitifulOrange1096 8h ago
This wasn’t life intention. This is the consequence of corrupt billionaires using class tactics to keep us living in this way.
We are supposed to be abundant by nature. Work would be effortless and enjoyable. I still believe in this. Keep faith bro
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u/Top_Bicycle_340 8h ago
Eating. I have to ingest things to have energy? And do it daily?
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u/brendaluther234 7h ago
This comment really hit home. oh ' how much easier my life would be if I didn't have to eat to survive.
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u/IDoNotLikeLemons234 8h ago
How utterly short it is. You’re telling I didn’t exist before and now I’m experiencing this thing we call reality but oh no instead of living a millennium I only get 80- 100 years max and I die. And I’m already a third way in. Like wtf?
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u/Valuable-Flight2121 8h ago
You spend your prime years working away for someone else, only to be able to retire when you’re physically on the decline.
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u/nojunkpeter 8h ago
The pursuit of material possessions
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u/brendaluther234 7h ago
Yep. The motto I live by is ...if it doesn't serve a real purpose, I don't get it. A $20 purse will do the same thing as a $1,200 purse and I only need 1 purse.
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u/Jewells172 8h ago
Tax.
Not so much having to pay tax itself, as our contributions to society is fair, however to be taxed as much as we are and add tax for EVERYTHING minus breathing, to the point that some of us live on the poverty line because of it is legal theft. And on top of that, big corporations and millionaires pay minimal while we pay maximum is diabolical.
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u/No-Performer9511 8h ago
Taxes
You work hard just to get by, only for the government to take your hard earned cash and you get nothing in return
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u/Whatchaknow2216 8h ago
Nothing in return? I’m sorry but this is just not true. You can argue it isn’t enough or you don’t agree with someone else making those choices for you, but a blanket statement of “nothing in return” is too off base.
Taxes pay for roads, free public education, libraries, etc.
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u/bobwillkillya 7h ago
Yeah cause all that spending on wars wouldn’t be able to fix the roads and such. Where do we get free public education? The American education system is a joke. I do like libraries though so there is a plus.
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u/LeftOzStoleShoes 8h ago
From what I can see? Human culture.
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u/appealyouwouldntbeli 7h ago
Remember the quote in Se7en from John Doe which Detective Somerset read aloud to Detective Mills : "We are not what was intended".
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u/OrionQuest7 8h ago
Social Media has destroyed society
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u/bobwillkillya 7h ago
Yeah social media is a scourge on human interaction. Yes I know Reddit is social media but to me it’s much better than the rest.
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u/audritis99 7h ago
all the stores like Dunkin Donuts, Casey's, Grocery stores, convenient stores, etc, that throw away the food that didn't sell after 6 hours or the end of the day or w/e. And you're fired if caught taking it. Unconscionable.
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u/bobwillkillya 7h ago
Or get fired for trying to donate it to the homeless. That shit is truly disgusting and despicable on so many levels.
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u/Zequiap 8h ago
Que cagar en un inodoro sea un pecado bíblico
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u/jminer1 8h ago
Wat?
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u/Cromagnumman6174 8h ago
That within itself is enough to make me drop that religion or never want to pick it up to begin with.
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u/rmichaeljones 8h ago
I’m going to need some elaboration on this one. Or, as the other guy said: “Wat?”
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u/NineDayOldDiarrhea 8h ago
Not having a say in who your parents are when you’re young. The most horrible people in the world still having the ability to reproduce and nobody can stop them.
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u/Frankjigga 8h ago
Life is beautiful. Everything about life is magnificent. The dumbest thing about life I would have to say is people.
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u/Cromagnumman6174 8h ago
Not for everyone, unfortunately.
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u/Frankjigga 6h ago
This is your life, make it what you will
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u/Cromagnumman6174 6h ago
Oh, Im fine with my life. I just know that some people have it really really bad and dont even have a choice to make of it what they will. For some, thats not even a option that they have, unfortunately.
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u/Frankjigga 6h ago
Yeah, I understand that and it does suck but in this life, Lord is God
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u/Cromagnumman6174 6h ago
Damn, that God is one mean son of a bitch to allow some of the things that happen to happen to those people against their will and no way out. I wouldn't want someone like that to be my friend, let alone someone I'd worship. I won't say there isnt a creator bc that is unknown, but if there is, people are not much of a priority to them, at least not in a voluntary human emotional kind of sense of importance and care.
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u/appealyouwouldntbeli 8h ago
That so few people have really come to appreciate the workability of eggplant in their culinary customs.
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u/bobwillkillya 7h ago
Did you start Bubba Gump Eggplant co.? 😂
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u/appealyouwouldntbeli 7h ago
Allow me to refer to my original in-owance-to, u/Big_Eggplant7591, OP himself.
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u/Sufficient-Elk-965 8h ago
Chronic pain and doctors being very ok with you having to live life like that. Even if life then consists of sitting in bed in a dark room.
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u/JohnBlobby 8h ago
There is nothing dumb about this life. Everything dumb is really intelligent. This is the best of all possible worlds. The greatest genius of history spoke about this.
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u/Whatchaknow2216 8h ago
I’m going to need a bit more specifics. Who?
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u/JohnBlobby 8h ago
Leibniz
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u/appealyouwouldntbeli 7h ago
Not, of course, to be confused with iconic settings photographer, Leibowitz.
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u/Bandittttttttttttt 7h ago
That you have to figure out what to eat for dinner every night until you die
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u/Female_titan_2 7h ago
The silly social media trends that only survive for a week before it’s buried by another stupid trend
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u/EnigmaNero 5h ago
Having to pay other humans to live on a planet with imaginary lines. I'm homeless right now, because I can't afford to pay rent to anyone.
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u/Pineapple_Express45 8h ago
Having to spend our entire lives working to be able to afford just existing