/lit/ - Literature

>>23255136
> why not just kill yourself

How do people still not understand how any of this works.
No animal can will themselves into being suicidal through pure internal thought. All animals have an inbuilt survival instinct that overwrites absolutely everything. That is the "natural" state of life that 99% of organisms exist under. The survival instinct can get overwritten but only through what you can think of as a freak accident via external factors. Suicidal ideation is an uncontrollable mutation not something you can choose to have no matter how much you suffer.
The irony is Schopenhauer is right but you don't understand why because you don't understand this and this is exactly why. The never ending desire is your survival instinct. You are literally like a machine that cannot break its programming. You are fully trapped because there are aspects of your being that are beyond your control and beyond anyone's control. It doesn't matter if there is a point to living you are forced to live or forced to die and can only delude yourself into thinking otherwise.

>>22920605
Like a walking talking causation==correlation error.

>the matter of people who are failing to notice how the world works
This part anon. Where you say all (living?) philosophers don't understand your little argument. That's the part I'm calling you a pompous fool about.

>>22898423
It helps to get your thoughts written down, if you're too dysfunctional to accomplish it another way.

>>22858887
Dualism/monism feels like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

>>22831500
Well said anon. Its Amazing, the amount of coping and seething over this simple fact