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>>20663936
And where do the pessimists fit in? Or did you just forget we were here because its easier that way?

This guy was considered a thinker? By his logic, we came from “nothingness,” then become something, and then return to “nothingness.” You’d think, being a thinker, he’d be able to follow the basic logic here that if we became something from “nothing” then it’s likely we’ll become something from that nothing we return to, correct? He does realize this right? It would be an embarrassing blunder if he didn’t realize that to paint the time before one’s consciousness as symmetrical to the time after one’s consciousness we’d immediately have to assume that the consciousness itself would occur again just the same

>>17181666
>I literally never even think about death
Kek, read The Last Messiah:
>Isolation ... a fully arbitrary dismissal from consciousness of all disturbing and destructive thought and feeling. (Engström: “One should not think, it is just confusing.”) A perfect and almost brutalising variant is found among certain physicians, who for self-protection will only see the technical aspect of their profession. It can also decay to pure hooliganism, as among petty thugs and medical students, where any sensitivity to the tragic side of life is eradicated by violent means (football played with cadaver heads, and so on.)

>In everyday interaction, isolation is manifested in a general code of mutual silence: primarily toward children, so these are not at once scared senseless by the life they have just begun, but retain their illusions until they can afford to lose them. In return, children are not to bother the adults with untimely reminders of sex, toilet, or death. Among adults there are the rules of ‘tact,’ the mechanism being openly displayed when a man who weeps on the street is removed with police assistance.

>>17167381
>Stop spamming your shitty quotes
Have you been upset by these words?

>>17107209
excuse me? we're talking about the reality of the materialis universalis

>>17107219
>instead of say Pyrrhonism and that is because they are looking for Cope not Truth
I have literally no idea what that is

>>17107423
>buddhism
Just a higher level of cope

damn bros..

Damn.

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>>12383550
>>12384157
yes.
>>12383550
pic. rel is you reading this before school.

>>12204189

Is this the power of anti-natalists?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaUdfzdfRxM

Thoughts on this work by Zapffe? And is On the Tragic worth reading?

Anybody wants to read "The Last Messiah", here's the link.
Zapffe was a very clear thinker, nothing unpleasant at all.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah