[scorpion]

After enough deep thinking it becomes clear that the entirety of your existence - everything that you know, and are, and have experienced, in sum - is just a giant black pill. This is because the act of pondering the existence of everything that is, and that you are, necessarily invites the uncomfortable cognitive exercise of pondering the nonexistence of the very same. And in doing so it becomes terrifyingly clear that everything that you are, and know, and have experienced is not only entirely ephemeral in nature but completely beyond your capacity to control. Your existence is so utterly fleeting and meaningless in the face of the abyss of nonexistence that its impossible to properly convey. It's like a single spec of dust compared to the entire Earth. The void of nonexistence is infinite and all-encompassing and will erase everything that has ever happened on this planet. This is the inevitable conclusion any philosopher ultimately reaches after lengthily pondering a godless, material universe. The weight of this conclusion is so overpowering and oppressive that there are only two ways to deal with it. The first is basically to ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist. Denial and distraction. The second is to look outside the material world - which is intrinsically and inevitably doomed by its very physical structure - and seek the Eternal which exists beyond it.

tl;dr God is the only actual escape from the black pill that is what we know as reality. Everything else is denial, distraction, or despair.