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It's a very important question you have asked OP. But you need to figure out the answer for yourself. Big stepping stone my bro (y)

>>12043802
hmm, Darwinian evolution that we can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, or woo woo feely feels... which way shall we go?

>>12043811
>strive for the Good, or be a slave to my programming?

this is what you sound like

>>12043808
some of the greatest artists and philosophers were miserable, childless loners. and yet, there's nothing more insipid and neutered than the pasty, sexless intellectual

the rush of getting a girl's number or killing it at the gym will almost always eclipse intellectual activity. and yet, the chaddest of self-aware chads always complain about the emptiness of hedonism

it is an interesting question

>>12043802
Cope and weird that you associate Darwinian logic with sex, wealth and fame but you're stupid so it can't be helped.
>>12043866
If the latter is at all real (which you tacitly admit) then you by definition cannot do otherwise especially within the context of the whole species and life itself.

>>12043879
the point I'm making is they're both real and unreal

>>12043802
>Is spirituality cope
Can be, depending on the person. But ultimately its one of two possible attitudes to the world--naturalist and supernaturalist. A choice must be made, and neither is full satisfactory. But I will say that the choice of naturally paints a terribly bleak view of our situation, that our spiritual impulse, perhaps the most glaring aspect of our interface with the world, is a delusion.

dive in headfirst, right now, before it's too late. this is your only warning

if you don't, you'll end up a necropsy like >>12043879

>>12043879
'darwinian logic' is associated with 'ego' which includes sex, wealth and fame because personality is submission to spirit.

i'm not sure why you say he's so stupid that he can't be 'helped', as if your materialist paradigm is 'truth'... i guess thats the cult of scientism at play.

>>12043895
well its unreal in the sense that Darwinian theory is just a representation of what we call the physical world, specifically a descrition of the mechanics behind living systems, their genealogy and dynamics. But its not unreal compared to nearly anything else that is not simply a harder science like physics. You’re relativizing, which is fine since we admittedly cannot know objective truth as finite, mortal and easily misled organisms, but mendacious in the sense that what you offer or seek has such a paucity of credibility or predictive power, requires so much less dedicated study and contains significantly less information, that frankly you might as well ignore it entirely. You may intuit the limits on empiricism and the deductions we derive from empirical study but that doesn’t imply you or any spiritual person has anything like a more useful, or veritable teaching.

>>12043936
that's gonna be one big [citation needed] from me jeff

>>12043947
am i here to do your homework ?

>>12043946
lol no dude, I'm not talking about darwin's theory of evolution, "darwinian" itt is a catch-all for a strictly worldly standard of success: sex, fame, wealth, as this anon pointed out >>12043936

dismissing spirituality on account of its lack of "predictive power" tells me everything i need to know about how well-informed you are about the traditions you are dismissing out of hand: not very.


it's like you're telling me i shouldn't listen to the advice of a sagely old grandfather because i could not prove it in a controlled setting, you sound so disconnected from what's real it isn't even worth aguing with you

>>12043956
wtf i love my soul now

>>12043802
You are ready for it

>>12043974
what's he say about this topic?

>>12043956
>not speaking about Darwinian theory, but then eludes to social darwinism and darwinian informed behavioralist paradigms
Seems dishonest, but you are stupid so dishonesty isn’t a severe offense from you.
>how well informed you are
I spent 5 years reading mysticism, spiritual texts and philosophy, you will find nothing there.
>its like this meme stereotype of a brainlet rustic elder’s divine wisdom you’re dismissing
If you defer to others for guidance past age 18 you deserve to be taken advantage of by other stupid people.

>>12043979
>I spent 5 years reading mysticism, spiritual texts and philosophy, you will find nothing there.

I'd be a bit more careful about calling others dumb if I were you.

>>12043979
'know thyself'

>As the riches of this world do not make me happy, so neither do its truths. It is now no longer Satan, but the spirit, that plays the story of the temptation; and he does not seduce by the things of this world, but by its thoughts, by the “glitter of the idea.”

>Along with worldly goods, all sacred goods too must be put away as no longer valuable.

>>12044000
>If you find the Buddha on the road, kill him.

Stirner isn't that profound for me.

>>12044003
then you already made up your mind

>>12043979
this guy's a real jerk

>>12043979
>If you defer to others for guidance past age 18 you deserve to be taken advantage of by other stupid people.

you'd be doing more to convince everyone itt you've blazed your own path if you weren't reading us off the brochure for your scientism cult

>>>12044035
>distrusting your own egotistical confirmation biases is blind adherence to scientism
Again, this is a misconstrual. You're stupid, though, so it's to be expected.
>>12043984
>be a bit more careful about calling other dumb
You're as complicit in the offense you've taken as I am in giving it.

>>12044048
you spent 5 years reading mysticism and the occult and you walk away with cookie cutter positivism.

you wasted your time.

>>12044048
https://www.panspermia.org/neodarw.htm

here you go, since you feel the need to insult people in order to get others to do your spiritual homework.

>>12043979
you're wrong and a gay cunt I'd give you an atomic wedgie then break your wrists so you can't pull it outta that jizz stained asscrack of yours
and I'm smarter than you

what you think about that anon? huh? bitch ass

>>12043979
>I spent 5 years reading mysticism, spiritual texts and philosophy, you will find nothing there.

then its clear you did it just to feel smarter than others LOL

>>12043866
>implying you can strive for good if it's not already in your programming

>>12043802
The notion of deconstructing a tradition to see if its a "cope" is in itself a cope. You're a beta cuck faggot for trying to outsource this question to a bunch of random pseuds