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>>22000979

I've always wondered, why pessimistic philosophers who talk about inherent corruption of life itself dont just kill themselves? If life is so bad, just literally go and die? What is their reply?

"A recommendation for those gentlemen the pessimists and other décadents. It is not up to us to prevent ourselves from being born, but we can make up for this mistake—for sometimes it is a mistake. When one does away with oneself, one does the most honorable thing there is: it almost earns one the right to live . . . Society—what am I saying!—life itself gains more advantage from suicide than from any “life” of renunciation, anemia and other virtues—one has freed the others from the sight of one, one has freed life from an objection . . . Pessimism pur, vert [pure and raw] is first proved by the self-refutation of the pessimist gentlemen: one must go a step farther in one’s logic, and not just negate life with “will and representation,” as Schopenhauer did—one must first negate schopenhauers. . ." Twilight of Idols

>>19049747
>"The first condition of a good digestion is that the stomach should be active as a whole. Therefore a man ought to know the size of his stomach. For the same reasons I advise against all those interminable meals, which I call interrupted sacrificial feasts, and which are to be had at any table d’hote. Nothing between meals, no coffee-coffee makes one gloomy. Tea is advisable only in the morning-in small quantities, but very strong. It may be very harmful, and indispose you for the whole day, if it is the least bit too weak. Here each one has his own standard, often between the narrowest and most delicate limits. In a very enervating climate it is, inadvisable to begin the day with tea: an hour before, it is a good thing to have a cup of thick cocoa, free from oil. Remain seated as little as possible; trust no thought that is not born in the open, to the accompaniment of free bodily motion-nor one in which your very muscles do not celebrate a feast. All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life, as I have already said elsewhere, is the real sin against the Holy Ghost." - Nietzsche, Ecce homo

>"You can recognize a philosopher by his avoidance of three shiny loud things, fame, princes, women: which does not mean that they avoid him. He shuns light that is too bright, so he shuns his time and its ‘day’. He inhabits it like a shadow: the more the sun sinks, the bigger he becomes. With regard to his ‘humility’, he can stand a certain dependency and darkening in the same way that he can stand the dark: indeed, he dreads being disturbed by lightning, he shrinks at the lack of protection afforded by one all-too isolated and exposed tree which bears the brunt of the vagaries of the storm’s temper and temper’s storms <...> In the last resort, they ask for little enough, these philosophers, their slogan is, ‘who possesses, is possessed’ –: not, as I have to say again and again, out of virtue, out of a creditable will to moderation and simplicity, but because their supreme master so demands, cleverly and inexorably: preoccupied with just one thing, collecting and saving up everything – time, strength, love, interest – with that end in view. This type of person dislikes being bothered with animosities or even with friendships: he is quick to forget or despise" Genealogy of Morals, third essay, 8 section.
Does this describe philosophers or was it just a cope akin to sigma male meme?

>every existing ideal, idea, movement is a cope
how does one prove him wrong?

We didnt have a good Nietzsche thread in a while boys.
some questions to start off the thread:
-Your favorite book, quote, idea by him and why?
-If you could read one of his books for the rest of your life which one it would be?
-Which philosopher after Nietzsche is the most relevant to his thought in your opinion (and preferably why)
-Why is he so based?

>crypto-Catholic
It all makes sense.

This thread is made for all anglos, poltards, tradlarpers, sjws etc. who want to vent out on Nietzsche. Go ahead, say everything that pisses you off about him