The very last weekend of the year has arrived.

How has the year gone so far? Any significant memories that you want to share?

Maybe share a new year resolution as well.

Last Weekend: https://devrant.com/rants/10039274

well, I'm gonna continue the tradition telling you to fuck off.

It's not gonna change be it 2024 or 2025 or 2033.

since the "end of the year" is completely arbitrary, and not tied to any meaningful event, it's just another hollow rite.

so what makes the "last weekend of the year" any different from any other, except for a meaningless number?

@tosensei OP just can't help themselves but ask us this stupid fucking question every weekend. It's a psychotic behavior if you ask me.

@tosensei I would say this meaningless number can motivate someone to kick off a new healthy habit. Otherwise, there would not be "new-year resolutions." I guess

@tosensei why are you such a nihilist? It’s a downer man

I’m an alcoholic this weekend

@shovethisrant Cool. what about resolutions for the upcoming year?

@shovethisrant the more important question is: why AREN'T you a nihilist?

@sandeepbalan given that the vast majority of new years resolution don't work out in the end, that's not really a good argument IMHO

@tosensei Yet a number of people come up with new-year resolutions, if I am right. They hope that they can bring something to their lives with a new habit or by keeping their existing healthy habits.

As Henry Ford says, “Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.”

@sandeepbalan ford's wrong, though.

@tosensei I don't have enough knowledge to agree or disagree with that. But I found the quote meaningful

@sandeepbalan he's meaningfully wrong, then.

@tosensei Would you be interested in sharing some awesome proofs / good reads to back up your theory?

@tosensei because I don’t like being a depressed person who causes the people around them to be annoyed and sad as well

@sandeepbalan the statement implies that if you think, you can do a thing, you CAN do a thing.

no matter of thinking or believing or whatever else could change the fact that human beings are physically incapable of, for example, flying.

simple logic proves him wrong.

@shovethisrant - please don't be THAT simple and confuse nihilism with depression. the fact that life is inherently meaningless doesn't make me sad. on the contrary. how could i give it meaning otherwise? how could i write on a page that's already been written?

@tosensei but the problem is that you made your meaning to be a grumpy and sad soul

@tosensei That sounds interesting.

Considering your example or any other similar examples, A rational human being would not think something that they could not physically achieve without the help of equipment

Going back to the start of our discussion. A new-year resolution should be something that is achievable and realistic.

It should not be something we cannot control.

Consider an example from the tv show FRIENDS (I assume you are aware of the show)

Ross' resolution is to be happy in 1999 and to do something he hasn't done before every single day and make life better, and Phoebe's resolution is to pilot a commercial jet.

Ross thought HE CAN DO IT because he knew it was physically and technically possible.

Phoebe also thought SHE CAN DO IT without considering the limitations and technical aspects.

Hence, there is a difference.

@shovethisrant oy.

only grumpy, and by choice.

not sad.

@tosensei fair enough - glad ur not sad then