/lit/ - Literature

Arthur Schopenhauer - the only German philosopher worth reading, the only German philosopher worth a damn.

Gdańszczanin. And not prussoid.

I've invented a new philosophy called "objective egoism."

This philosophy says that since everything is merely your own representation, you represented it for the sole purpose of benefiting yourself. Thus all objectively existing entities are being perceived by you only in a way that can benefit you. Pain and suffering are therefore an illusion, and insofar as suffering exists, it was created by you to benefit yourself. You ARE the will and therefore are absolutely free, and hence everything that happens to is your own choice. The material world, the world of representation, is purely ideal, and it does not separate us from the world as will.

I usually just shit on Copenhauer on this board but through a completely different route I've ended up at a metaphysics that is essentially identical to his in the main thrust. I still think that the way he introduces and defines "Will" is inexcusable and that representation is not bound by intuitions or causality but otherwise I have to admit he was completely right.

Schopenhauer told us that giving books that are way beyond children and teen's understanding will hinder their understanding and will give them a false meaning about live, More of a constructed meaning about life, Because Children need to seek for experience in life rather than indulging in information that is available in the internet.

An example for this could be how zoomers are now easily being a prey for LGBTq ideological brainwashing, they literally have constructed this ideal world for kids to play around, They have romanticized it as some sort of roleplay, Musical inspiration and marginalization (as of being different than the norm) which kids love so much. Schopenhauer predicted everything

He was right. He was so right.
You do something and it's just like "okay what's next?"
And most of the time you get no real outcome and are left wondering why you even did it but even when you do get an outcome it's the same thing "okay I got an outcome what's next?"
You want things. And you never get them anyway. And the worst part is even when you get the things you wanted it's still just "what's next?"
All of life is just a series of saying "what's next" and one day you can't take saying "what's next" one more time and that's when you die.
If you were ever satisfied you would just stop. If you were satisfied you wouldn't even have started.

>be me
>live in third world shithole on the left side of Gaza
>One day street orphan begs me for food
>give him something to eat
>cop sees me do this, decides to beat up the street orphan and calls me a faggot for showing compassion to an homeless child
This experience blackpilled me bros. Schopenhauer was right about everything

Hinduism is just retarded paganism for street shitters.
They literally worship krishna's penis and smear cow shit all over themselves
Why did schopie have such high regard for it? Did he misunderstand it?

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.