Giant evil gods

I really like the movie Cabin in the Woods. There's something about the premise of humanity having sacrificed young adults/children over centuries to appease great evil deities that will crush the planet that appeals to me. Must be the miles wide optimistic nihilism that seems to run through me.

Something in me finds it very comforting that if nothing else, someday the sun will expand into a red giant and swallow the earth. This probably won't happen in my lifetime, but still comforting for me to think about. The idea of eternal existence, while amusing to me to toy with, seems like it would be a terrible bore in the long run.

Despite how quickly things change technologically, and to a lesser extent sociologically, much of day-to-day existence is quite repetitive in the current norm of our society. There are two real cures for this. The first is through an act of creation, which is not as easy as you would think. Most of what we call creative isn't truly new, but a recombination of existing things that appears new to us. Something truly new and creative is far rarer. Honestly I can't think of anything recent that wasn't either prophesied through fiction or is directly related to something previous. Maybe this is a lacking on my part, and if anyone can point to something please post it in the comments below.

The second is active destruction. This happens every day on our planet and in the rest of the universe. New life is fertilized by the destruction of old and the cycle continues. It's very Buddhist in its cycle, and may be the true answer to existence.

I'm done now, but for the record, most of this was dictated while I was finishing a bottle of tequila. Feel free to disregard if necessary.