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Why is there something, when there should be nothing ?

Any books that address this question ?

Who's the modern day Diogenes?

>>15654693
free thinkers can be hardly found in places that we call academia
a bum on the street has more insight into the world than 1000 professors combined

What book will tell me how to live my life?

>>15073839
The best timeline was the ancient Greek period.

I don't believe women are sentient enough to insult.

A man can imagine some argument to be made about how they are lacking in some way to be insulting. A man can imagine something going against what they believe to be right or appropriate to be insulting. It is objective reality which is insulting to a man.

Conversely, women are creatures that cannot understand argumentation or fact. The concept of presenting some logical rationale as to why something is objectively one way or another means nothing to a woman. It is only social influence that can insult women. A woman has a purely superficial reaction to judgement by society. This is all that women can conprehend and nothing else.

Therefore, women are not sentient enough to be insulted directly and social control is required to offend women.

>read more books
>get neurotic and depressed
>milquetoast progressive / socialist
>read even more
>become completely misanthropic
>become unironic fascist
>epistemology is an unsolvable problem and you can't really comprehend politics
>Stop reading, start drinking and jerking off to femboys
>become apolitical
>not much happier
What do?

>>12575051
>He used to reason as follows: 'Everything belongs to the gods; the wise are friends of the gods; friends hold all things in common; ergo, everything belongs to the wise.'

>The Greeks after this assembled at Corinth and agreed to invade Persia with Alexander for their leader. Many of their chief statesmen and philosophers paid him visits of congratulation, and he hoped that Diogenes of Sinope, who was at that time living at Corinth, would do so. As he, however, paid no attention whatever to Alexander and remained quietly in the suburb called Kraneium, Alexander himself went to visit him. He found him lying at full length, basking in the sun. At the approach of so many people, he sat up, and looked at Alexander. Alexander greeted him, and enquired whether he could do anything for him. "Yes," answered Diogenes, "you can stand a little on one side, and not keep the sun off me."

shitposting peaked in the 4th century BC

START WITH HERACLITUS THEN IMMEDIATELY GO TO HEGEL, CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE DONE WITH READING

Birth of Tragedy is actually his best work
After that read On Wagner because they tie together
Then the Gay Science for some comfy aphorisms
Then Geneology for his edgy hammering of morality
Then be done

>>10167655
>>10167665
Start with the Greeks or get the fuck off my board
That's not a meme by the way, we've got enough idiots posting here as is

>>10152112
Maybe I should consult Diogenes and start shitting in the theater.

>>9980722
destitute minimalism is also cool anon

Senpai.

>>9870262
pic related
>>9870323
also, nice meme tits

>>9868355
>What? They both emphasise:
>>living with virtue
>>living in accord with nature
>>rejecting conventional desires like money, sex, reputation
>>simple life
Absolutely wrong, Diogenese lived in a bathtub not a cave, if he lived like an animal it was through organic coincidence not because he strived towards living according to nature, thats a significant difference.
Again you're failing to recognize how tremendously opposed the schools are, a Cynic would find any of these things laughable as a desirable "virtue". If they ever allign with them it is through abritrary circumstancial chance not through intent. I would go as far to say a Cynic is the direct antithesis of a Stoic.

>>9438483
Peter kropotkin

>>9438719
nihilists fuck off, you have never thought deeper into an argument on God than the top layer "muh hes not omnipotent got em'"

I literally never see discussion on philosophers like Diogenes, aka philosophers that are born without a fuck to give out. and are passionately against giving a fuck. Diogenes invented Cynic Philosophy and is a much better philosopher than you can ever be

Tell me a good collection of Diogenes.

Stop adhering to societal norms and rules.

>>9252863
Literally nothing wrong with looking like a bum