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Anonymous No.82541678 >>82541704 >>82541706 >>82541709 >>82541734 >>82541751 >>82541776 >>82541802 >>82541869 >>82542007 >>82542025 >>82542037 >>82542202 >>82542264 >>82542296 >>82542325 >>82542400 >>82542436 >>82542604 >>82542625 >>82543429 >>82543683 >>82543777 >>82543819 >>82543976 >>82544133 >>82546354 >>82546638 >>82546780 >>82546882 >>82547557 >>82548547 >>82549124 >>82549832
Why is life so bleak and meaningless?
Anonymous No.82541704 >>82541743 >>82542296
>>82541678 (OP)
Because you refuse to do the things that give life meaning.
And instead to opt into the things which remove the meaning from life.
Then complain that your choices nullified the meaning of life.
Then you lie and cope and say it wasn't your choices that did it.
Anonymous No.82541706
>>82541678 (OP)
liberalism and capitalism eroded everything that made life meaningful in the past and now theres nothing left but to consume and produce for the benefit of the ruling elites
Anonymous No.82541709 >>82545227
>>82541678 (OP)
I solved that question already. Basically, take a look at a wild animal. It looks so fucking cool, but you wouldnt want to actually be it. Theres somebody in the sky who created us. Because it looks cool. Hes reading this dude, im so fucking paranoid.
Anonymous No.82541718 >>82541780 >>82541780 >>82550478
The agricultural revolution is the short and most accurate answer
Anonymous No.82541734
>>82541678 (OP)
Because it is.
But I don't care, I'm just here for the broads
Anonymous No.82541743 >>82541863
>>82541704
>the things that give life meaning

Which would be what?
Anonymous No.82541751 >>82541774
>>82541678 (OP)
civilization is unnatural and anti human
Anonymous No.82541769 >>82543725
>Get NEETbux. Pursue hobbies. Enjoy life. Be free.
Anonymous No.82541774
>>82541751
Yeah because aliens made it for humans, sorta like how humans make a hamster cage
Anonymous No.82541776
>>82541678 (OP)
You all seem to idolize it when Japan does it though
Anonymous No.82541780
>>82541718
>short
>>82541718
>agricultural
Anonymous No.82541802
>>82541678 (OP) Because Jews turned you into a tax cow who they milk to keep their fiat currency global financial system ticking along.
Anonymous No.82541810 >>82546606
Females always going travelling because they can leech off some man for most of their life or get given easy, well paid jobs. When did you realise that men like us are just meant to work, get no pussy, no fun, never have enough money to advance life and be grateful for the opportunity of existing?
Anonymous No.82541863 >>82542245 >>82542691 >>82543434 >>82545627
>>82541743
That really depends on what you mean by "meaning".
I suspect what you mean is really "purpose".
And purpose means something like "acts which acquire a meaning in terms of a future they are leading".

Or to put in simple terms, getting a job and earning money is meaningless or has no purpose, unless you have something you wish to spend the money on. The act of acquiring money simply to hoard is meaningless and does nothing but fill an empty void in one's own soul which will grow as more money in put in.
The same applies to sitting around playing vidya, shit posting, doom scrolling. All these things are meaningless, without purpose. They lead to nothing other than temporary satiation, which in the future, will require more to be equally satiated.

So the real question you need to be asking yourself, not me, is:
What is it that I want in the future that would make the work I do today worthwhile?

Now, I do not know that thing. I am not you. Only you know that thing. No one can tell you what to do in order to make your life meaningful. It's something that only you know. And of course, people of your type, typically response to this with one predetermined phrase:
>wew lad that's an empty platitude
Anonymous No.82541869 >>82541989
>>82541678 (OP)
>have friends
>have girlfriend
>have wife
>have kids
>see the world
>learn new things
>create something other people enjoy
>make your community a better place
>make the world a better place for your offspring
Any generation boomer or after could never understand.
Anonymous No.82541989
>>82541869

There are no friends in this world. There are no good people, and there is absolutely nothing worth liking about people. That's why I have literally zero friends and I try my best to keep it that way. All relationships form the way that they do based on power dynamics, and anyone who you think is your friend will turn on you in a heartbeat. All people are intrinsically rotten to the core.

Honestly, the older I get, the more I truly, to quote a certain infamous video game trailer, "just fucking hate this world, and the human worms feasting on its carcass".
Anonymous No.82542007 >>82543798 >>82543879 >>82543913
>>82541678 (OP)
Go to church, thats your problem.
Anonymous No.82542025 >>82542782
>>82541678 (OP)
>Pay off debt
I skipped this. I just got a job and didn't move out. My parents will never kick me out and I'll inherit their place and savings. I'm saving over half of my paychecks and putting them into safe investments. I'll retire sometime in my 40s.
Basically have nice parents, don't move out, don't marry, don't have kids and live in a country with cheap higher education.
Anonymous No.82542037
>>82541678 (OP)
>vacation for 2 weeks
If only you knew how bad things really were
Anonymous No.82542173
Life is an endless abyss with no purpose that we were all born to slave away and die in.
Anonymous No.82542202
>>82541678 (OP)
This is why I'm into gardening and hunting. It's seasonal so it gives me something to look forward to.
Anonymous No.82542245 >>82542528
>>82541863
I disagree, if there was a giant firey sentence in the sky for all humans to read that dictated what we need to do and how to do it, that would be meaning. Having to work on a farm to protect your community and family where living to serve them and help each other is enough for you to never question "purpose" or meaning.

If you have to search so hard and go through so much introspection to find this "purpose" then I would say that life as it is in the modern age is meaningless and without purpose. There is no prime directive we follow to make our civilizations propser, we are just the serfs in an economic zone atomized and isolated away from everything. There is no family dynasty we contribute to, no shared directive or family clans. Hardly any real traditions. Having to look and search for purpose is just cope, anon. That shit should just come naturally. If you have to get metaphysical and philosophical to dream up an answer then the answer is just cope. It is meaningless for many.

Its whatever anyway. Doesn't need meaning. Everyone could lay down and die and its just whatever. Earth keeps spinning. Find "meaning", get high all day or just die like every other organic lifeform. Whatever. Absurdism, daoism, and hedonism are enough for me
Anonymous No.82542264
>>82541678 (OP)
Because it's purposely set up to make you suffer. It is a prison meant to keep you stupid and docile. It will all come tumbling down just like it has every other time in history.
Anonymous No.82542296 >>82543766
>>82541704
>>82541678 (OP)
>grind hard! Hardwork is the key to success!
I rather have been born rich and never had to work a day in my life.
>young people don't want to work. Depression is a luxury!
Working hard is what rich people brainwashed the poor to do. I should be free everyday of my life!
School, college, jobs all this shit are slave labour that boomers were brainwashed into believing is their worth. Now with the internet, we can see all the things we are missing. I should be allowed to stay in bed all day I should be allowed to bask in the sun, to go for a walk.
This cycle of suffering is ending with me. If I'm not rich then I'm not having children
Anonymous No.82542319
The caste war overshadows the possibility of it ever getting better for millions of people. People grounded for life and shit, right from the get go, pity sex and money gets thrown around from time to time yes but ultimately people get boned with pin addiction lifelong, they take their drugs and are given a sentence wrongfully and a joint while they do sex work because we were "meant to bear your caste or get oppressed with the bedlam of your prison and cronies need given to the state". For the sexually active elite, selection of victims and manipulation are key mechanisms to the destruction of their targets will to live and acquisition of more girls orgasms to manipulate their biology. Sometimes people... Just gotta go because they cannot bear the shame brought to them and there is nothing but downward mobility. They host carrot parties where they make the object of their need, the carrot impossible to achieve for low caste. It's a careful oppression for the unwelcome and the daft. Even the president admits oppression of key victims.
Anonymous No.82542325
>>82541678 (OP)
because you do not yet have a tranner gf
Anonymous No.82542400
>>82541678 (OP)
>vacation
>yuropoor that doesnt know how good he has it post
Anonymous No.82542436
>>82541678 (OP)
Because we exist by pure random chance. Why would there be a "meaning"?
Anonymous No.82542518
It's weird cause normies will deny the unworthiness, wretchedness and absurdity of existance. They'll spout platidutes like
>Life is good! Life is what you make of it! Enjoy the little things!
...and yet, they destroy themselves with alcohol and other addictions and have few or no children.
Having kids is the lithmust test. It's the penultimate denial of the world, the only bigger one being suicide, and yes that includes all self-destructive attitudes
Anonymous No.82542528 >>82543408 >>82543979
>>82542245
The problem you are highlighting is in your own disbelief in God and your own fear of death. You want life to be meaningless because you're going to die.
Which is effectively like saying you want the reward before doing the job. You want the purpose (God) to be proven to you by the purpose (God) itself in order to make believing in the purpose (God) "worthwhile" by your own estimation.

Sure, it would be easier if things were just handed to you. It would be very easy if it just came naturally, or there was some big fiery message in the sky. But that's not how it is, and it never was, and likely never will be.
But, all the things that you're saying don't exist, do exist. You have places like this, right here, where you're currently at. Where there are people who have more life experience than you telling you how to make life meaningful, and what do you do? You rebel against it. You call it cope. Most likely just like you would do in the real world if you lived in another time, inside of a family with a tradition. Your elders would pass on the traditional knowledge to you, and what would yo udo? Rebel against it, and call anyone who offers the answer a "normie". Just like so many other people. You have an invitation into an initiation being offered, and you spit on it as if you're above it. While at the same time loathing yourself, and the entire world for not offering you such an initiation.
That's not a dig at you personally, it's just human behavior. Maybe you never got to rebel against a father in your youth, so now you rebel against the hekkin evil system, God, and purpose itself. But it doesn't do you any good, and only digs you further into the trenches you hate.

Shits up to you, at the end of the day.
You can deny and cope and be depressed and aimless, and blame God for not handing you the answers.
Or you can accept reality and start making something yourself.
Anonymous No.82542604
>>82541678 (OP)
Congratulation, you've discovered existentialism.
Anonymous No.82542625
>>82541678 (OP)
This only happens when you speedrun life like society wants you to so they can make you their slave as fast as possible
Anonymous No.82542691 >>82544016
>>82541863
>What is it that I want in the future that would make the work I do today worthwhile?
A wife and kids. Too bad its impossible to have one because i was born an ugly man
Anonymous No.82542782 >>82542824 >>82542858
>>82542025
I lived with family until 23 when I got my own apartment, having your own place is amazing though even if it's a one bedroom, it's such a huge QOL boost to be fully in control of your living space
Anonymous No.82542824
>>82542782
It's amazing if you can actually OWN and pay minimal taxes. I'ts slavery if you have to give 1/3-1/2 of your income to the parasite landlord, and suicidefuel when the landlord is your age and just inherited/manages it for his parents.
Anonymous No.82542858
>>82542782
But it isn't your place. In my case, even with my substantial savings, I'd be stuck paying off that place for at least 10 years, along with living paycheck-to-paycheck instead of investing to retire early and living like a richfag. I could ask my parents for money and bypass all of that...but what's the point? Why would I buy a place in the same city I was born in? Why come home from work to an empty apartment?
You see, at home I have a mom who cooks for me, takes care of some of the house chores and we split the bills, so it's cheaper for everyone. I also have my own room entirely for myself. I get along well with my parents and it's living like this is better for all of us.
There is simply no good reason for me to move out, unless I find employment in another city/country. And if that happens, I'll rent because I don't want to be stuck in one place, getting ripped off by a bank. Mortgages are insanely scummy where I live. Most people end up paying twice the amount they took.
Anonymous No.82543408 >>82543718 >>82543823
>>82542528
My entire point was that modern life doesn't have clear purpose like back in the dark ages but the idea of needing a meaning or purpose to live is a flawed concept to begin with.

I think your entire post was just you talking to yourself and using me as a mirror. I don't even know what you were trying to say. Hope you can work through it, man. God bless
Anonymous No.82543429 >>82543763
>>82541678 (OP)
life is what you make of it
>get cool job
>play video games
>have purpose
>vibe with friends
>pound femboy bussy

life is what u make of it
Anonymous No.82543434
>>82541863
>What is it that I want in the future that would make the work I do today worthwhile?
To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their cuntoids
Anonymous No.82543683
>>82541678 (OP)
>climb the ladder
yeah right, lmao
>pay off mortgage
LMAO
you gotta update this meme, reality has outpaced it in misery
Anonymous No.82543718 >>82543862
>>82543408
I'm fully aware of what you were saying. But you're contradicting yourself quite blatantly. You said:
>life doesn't have clear purpose like back in the dark ages
>but the idea of needing a meaning or purpose to live is a flawed concept to begin with.
And it actually, in a nonsense sort of way, proves the point I was trying make. Modern life lacks purpose, yet you also say needing purpose is flawed. Which is it? If it's a flawed concept, why are you so hung up on the fact that you don't have it? The two things cannot be true at once. This is the true root of your unhappiness, and your cope of it in the same sentence.

Proof that needing purpose isn't flawed.
What is a nail without a purpose?
It's nothing more than a hunk of metal. It has no use.
What are you without a purpose?
A aimless, depressed, anxious hunk of meat.
Anonymous No.82543725
>>82541769
As a former NEET, I'd like to point that is very little to enjoy and that you're actually more restricted than a wagie.
Anonymous No.82543763 >>82543795 >>82544065
>>82543429
>life is what u make of it
No it isn't. There's plenty of stuff that is simply out of my control.
I can't get the job I want, doesn't matter how many times I have applied. It's out of my control. Rather, I wish I never had to work in the first place. I wish I was born rich. "Work hard and just believe" it's bullshit
Anonymous No.82543766 >>82546642
>>82542296
>i refuse to do anything ever because i wasn't born into the optimal circumstance
lmao retard thinks optimal circumstances exist
Anonymous No.82543777
>>82541678 (OP)
It's because we made fiction that gave you desires you can never fulfill. Our stories and entertainment will always be better than real life. Real life is a struggle to survive only to die in the end.
Anonymous No.82543795 >>82546568
>>82543763
I never understood the argument that
>omg things are out of my control therefore I should do nothing at all including the things within my control
Just doesn't make sense. Is it a learned helplessness thing or just pessimism disguised as pragmatism?
Anonymous No.82543798
>>82542007
Going to church is probably not a good idea if you are burnt out from shit people
Anonymous No.82543802
I dont know if there is any meaning to life but it is possible to feel that life is worth it. you might be in some sorta drought where everything feels mundane, but maybe in the future there will come a point where youre in ecstacy. life can surprise you
Anonymous No.82543819
>>82541678 (OP)
>omg grug have to hunt and gather berry life so meaningles
>what toil i have to farm and work the land
>egads i have to run a haberdashery to support my clan
>omg school and jobs this isnt bussin fr fr
Anonymous No.82543823
>>82543408
Life back in the dark ages was the same as it is right now except they called the parasitic elites "nobles". You need to go much further back than the fucking dark ages to find human beings who lived with a clear purpose.
Anonymous No.82543826 >>82543876
im surprised nihilistic black metal is not more popular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvGPAVTYfXI&t=1167s
Anonymous No.82543862
>>82543718
Reading comprehension is a bitch to live with and to deal with
Anonymous No.82543876
>>82543826
Polska stolicaa nihilizmu? Nietzsche tez Polak
Anonymous No.82543879 >>82544098
>>82542007

Jesus is a cunt, priests are pedophiles, the Bible is toilet paper, and the crucifix is a dildo.
Anonymous No.82543913
>>82542007
Why a church? Mosques look more lively, and whatever the fuck hare krishna is
Anonymous No.82543976
>>82541678 (OP)
It's because life persists without reason, humanity was a mistake, there's too much intelligence. It's gives man the ability to reason, to pierce into truth which goes against his own instincts and common sense. Seeking truth, deep thinking is a self destructive process. Evolution gave man the tools to deal with life, the ability to fully believe in anything without any real justification. But to take advantage of this it involves seeking comfort over truth, in the interest of self preservation. You are supposed to egocentrically create your own meaning. Make reality a reflection of yourself rather than what is real or true. Or you can project your own ego onto a God figure, be granted divine supremacy and immortality. That's what normal functioning people do. Stop seeking truth and suffering idiot.
Anonymous No.82543979 >>82544149
>>82542528
>you can accept reality

>god god god
>purpose, family, tradition

All abstract concepts humans made up in the last 10000 years. "Reality", actual reality, would be accepting you're a freak mutant spawn of the life web that is far more intelligent than it ever needed to be to find food. Spawn who now uses his excess brain power to invent reasons to exist and invent authority figures that live in the sky to watch over him.

Life exists to fuel it's own replication ad infinitum. Anything you do besides that is superfluous use of your freak brain to help you cope with being a finite organism. Yes, cope.
Anonymous No.82544016
>>82542691
>i was born an ugly man
Not special. Most men with girlfriends, wives and kids are also ugly, which is why you look the way you do. Attractive people are a minority for a reason.
Anonymous No.82544065 >>82546747
>>82543763
>I can't get the job I want, doesn't matter how many times I have applied
i wrote the post you replied to. today i finally got a job and ive been looking every day since may. ive applied so many times without hearing back from anything. literally today i got something. keep going. it will happen to you too
Anonymous No.82544098
>>82543879
>the crucifix is a dildo.
Good idea
Anonymous No.82544133
>>82541678 (OP)
Because plebs keep giving tax cuts to the rich in the rather childish hope that eventually out of the kindness of their hearts the wealth will trickle down.
Anonymous No.82544149 >>82544268
>>82543979
This is the equivalent of saying the purpose of a car is to burn fuel. Which is obviously incorrect. Burning fuel is a byproduct of its purpose, which is to generation motion.
In the same way that, replication is a biological byproduct of life. But that replication does not define the purpose of life.

Without reproduction, the machine that is life ceases. Much like a car without fuel.
Anonymous No.82544268 >>82544282 >>82544489
>>82544149
>replication does not define the purpose of life.
Replication literally defines life. "Purpose" is bullshit made up by copers.

Every human could die tomorrow and the web of life would pick up the slack and go on like nothing happened. In 100 years you couldn't tell that we were ever here. Dinosaurs ruled the planet for 200 million years and now their effigies are toys for our children.
Anonymous No.82544282 >>82544375
>>82544268
>there is no such thing as purpose because things happen without my input or consent
very low iq
Anonymous No.82544375 >>82544483 >>82544489
>>82544282
>pleads with people to accept reality
>deals entirely in the abstract
>insults you for understanding the difference
Anonymous No.82544483
>>82544375
sorry youre so low iq that the concept of purpose seems abstract and ephemeral to you. im sure youll grow out of the whole 'nothin matters because the universe is big' when youre older
Anonymous No.82544489 >>82547231
>>82544268
It quite literally does not define life. Does shitting define life? Does eating define life? Does talking about things define life?
No. These are functions of life. Not the purpose of it. These things have a purpose. But these purposes are smaller than the purpose of life itself.

I'll use the car metaphor again. It's like saying burning fuel defines the car. It does not. Burning fuel is a function of the engine to create energy which can be transferred into the wheels to create motion.
A car is defined by locomotion. The ability to move.

>Every human could die tomorrow and the web of life would pick up the slack and go on like nothing happened.
How is this at all relevant to the question of life's purpose? I could torch a car into nothing, does that somehow refute its purpose to move you from point A to point B?
No.
>>82544375
That was not me, and you literally do not understand the difference. You hardly even understand what purpose itself is.
Anonymous No.82545218 >>82546306
LoL nice demonic ramblings. This doesn't make you a genius. Emos, wagies and everybody think life sucks but it is still beautiful and existing is still good. Life is worse if you live in sin. Nature is so beautiful.

Christ is King.
Anonymous No.82545227
>>82541709
God loves you. He knew you as in your mother's womb.
Anonymous No.82545254
meaning imprisons the free spirited mind. in other words. now that you recognize the absurdity of reality you may do a little dance!
Anonymous No.82545627
>>82541863
ai-tier postt
Anonymous No.82546306
>>82545218
>be a slave to landlords and employers and taxmen even though you're supposed to exclusively serve jesus
ok hypocrite
Anonymous No.82546354
>>82541678 (OP)
because my bitch whore ex egf didnt want me
Anonymous No.82546568 >>82549824
>>82543795
>therefore I should do nothing at all
Oh I didn't know I wrote that? I keep reading what I wrote over and over and I just can't see it.
My point really is, if you are a crackhead, who came here illegally. You will NEVER be the president. However, nothing keeps you from trying. I want to be a millionaire. I probably never will because it's beyond my control. I just have to accept it and deal with it
Anonymous No.82546579
My thing is we get one life lol who the fuck wants to go through life experiencing nothing but sleep and work? Like fukk women, anons are talking against having purpose or finding things they enjoy? lol I enjoy boxing and sometimes travel solo fight fights and always spark up convo with people around me ,male or female. Going to a bar to watch some event yields the same. Shit, I went and saw Wu Tang and Paramore solo and had convo with the folks around me.

Being well rounded and enjoying shit means you can find happiness within yourself and not that toxic shit where you need a woman to make you happy because you aren't anything but a worker drone. And shyt being a man who is into some thing literally wins you over with women cause women mold to who they with and you end up putting her up on things and youre enjoying shyt together, vs you feeling like its a chore to be around her and keep her entertained.
Anonymous No.82546606
>>82541810
it's what Trump and the Oligarchs want for you
Anonymous No.82546638 >>82546893
>>82541678 (OP)
seeing the two human together in such a soulless environment is kind of nice though, even when life loses it's spark we still have each other
Anonymous No.82546642 >>82549824
>>82543766
>i refuse to do anything ever
Why do you guys keep saying that? WHEN have I said "do nothing"?
My point is:
You can bet on the lotery a zillion times, but the results will always be beyond your control.
Anonymous No.82546747
>>82544065
Congratulations!!
But by "the job I want" I meant "being hired on the spot, since I shouldn't have to endure more then 3 No's"
Anonymous No.82546780
>>82541678 (OP)
capitalism, and the drones that endless support it by licking the boot on their neck
Anonymous No.82546882
>>82541678 (OP)
idk I'm having fun and would not mind having days like today every day
Anonymous No.82546893
>>82546638
Just don't have children cuck. The world is hell for those with souls. Let the browns breed and inherit the earth. They're the only one who can't see what's wrong with it.
Anonymous No.82547231
>>82544489
>It quite literally does not define life
Life : organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction. -Merriam-Webster

Things can live without reproducing, but reproduction is the reason why there's so much life and that it's still here 3 billion years later. It is one of the prime characteristics of something that is classified as alive (as well as eating, growing, moving, etc).

>A car is defined by locomotion. The ability to move.
Wasn't that my point?

>How is this at all relevant to the question of life's purpose?
It is a statement backing purposelessness. The Earth, the Universe, and reality itself is not expecting some special purpose to pop out of humanity. Evolving intelligence very well may not be life's purpose. It may be a statistical anomaly since there's been intelligent life (at human level) for less than 180000 years of the 4.5 billions years that Earth has existed. You'd think if this was entirely about us, we'd have evolved a lot sooner and life wouldn't have wasted 200 million years of big mean lizards eating each other.
Anonymous No.82547557 >>82548577
>>82541678 (OP)
spoke about this with a friend of mine. idk man. living day to day is the only thing that seems to matter, can't think long term for too long. and frankly the only thing that seems actually long term important is experiences with other people and drinking with friends
Anonymous No.82548547
>>82541678 (OP)
>Why is life so bleak and meaningless?
Because globalism has turned workers into wage-slaves, or NEETs, and it will only get worse.
Also, fuck apps and social media ruined everything for non-Chad men and made them incel.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Anonymous No.82548577
>>82547557

There are no friends in this world. Anyone who you think is your friend will turn on you in a heartbeat.
Anonymous No.82549124
>>82541678 (OP)
bro i honestly wouldnt mind this if getting a job wasn't such a nightmare.
>companies complain boohoo not enough 'educated' people
>universities pump out more 'educated' people
>boohoo not enough educated people that fit our arbitrary/niche requirements
in fact a lot of them are just lying when they cry about this so they can meet the requirements to hire immigrants instead which are often cheaper and shittier, among other things.
Anonymous No.82549824
>>82546568
>>82546642
Let's be honest for a second. A majority of anons who post here use 'its le out of my control' as a cope for not trying ever. Please tell me there aren't daily posts about kids crying about how they're 21 and it's le over and now they refuse to do anything at all ever because nobody touched their peepee
Anonymous No.82549832
>>82541678 (OP)
these two people look like they love eachother, and thats enough to outweigh the meaninglessness :)
Anonymous No.82549876
Life has no meaning!

How lucky I am to choose my own destiny.
Anonymous No.82550478
>>82541718
These seniors are just like the Zoomers and their Gacha scam games, even down to the absent-minded button mashing.