/lit/ - Literature

>>16544145
Read The World As Will And Representation, it's not hard to understand.

As long as you've created meaning, there is nothing to move "past". I suppose you could try and go full Buddhist monk and strive to remove desire.

by posting on-topic threads

>>16544160
I just flipped through WaWaR last night and read the section on humor + irony (in Vol. 2). Got-DAM Schopenhauer is a breath of fresh air, especially after being stuck reading Hegel. My guess is that—unless he's deeply expository in the text—one would want to familiarize themselves as much as possible with Plato and Kant. And, to understand Kant, one would want to read Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and probably Leibniz too.

But OP, why is "freewill a meme"? Compatibilists are fucked (even the Frankfurt-type ones) and determinists are not much better. Mostly, the issue with determinism is that it dares to put free will on the backfoot: I side with Thomas Reid, who claims that when a proposition is believed so strongly and by so many people, the burden of proof is on the skeptical theory. Hell, even Hume admits he couldn't reason his way to actually doubting free will in his mundane affairs! Read Peter van Inwagen if you need more assurance against determinism.

>>16544145
Have I found myself subject to the Barnum effect here or is this picture describing a very specific and not generally relatable archetype?

>>16544308
>lack of communicability
"oh em GEE, mercury's totally in retrograde rn!!!"
>family feels like strangers
Yeah, ICP made a really strong case for this in their song "Homies." Total loomers.
>can't find him on the internet
Only weirdos are concerned with privacy, especially after the 2013 surveillance leaks.
>ambiguously autistic
Everyone now is retreating into their personal world (whether or not they curate it), and so is autistic.
>has never owned an umbrella
lol Africans are loomers

Yeah anon, I think you're on to something. The -oomer memes reek of Barnum-type bullshit.

>>16544145
Separate yourself from desires and outside distractions, seek deep within, there the answer lies.

>>16544145
Where did you get this image of /literally/ me?

>>16544145
Read this and perhaps and some footnotes along with it as it gets dense and it helps. I am praying for your search anon as i have gone down this road before

>>16544403
Respectfully disagree. The Sickness unto Death is much more appropriate for this kind of concern. Concluding Unscientific Postscript is probably the richest defense of subjectivity we have. Fear and Trembling has the lingering influence of Hegel too much for an introduction; I have no idea why it gets pushed as such.

>>16544443
Very true. The one i have is both in one book so i kind of conflate them as the same work. I do agree with you

there is no solution to the problem of biological and/or physical determinism.
Physical determinism has a strong case, but even if we ignore this, we are still animals with desires outside of a control, be it shelter, food, love, community, sex, novelty etc.

>>16544495
If a way to modify the organism is found how is that not a solution? If you're able to arbitrarily modify your own brain doesn't that cut out the middle man?

>>16544356
>>16544190
Don't listen to these fucks

>>16544384
Surprised there are others like this

>>16544384
>>16544537
same

>>16544145
Have sex

>>16544145
>this description of vague insecurities everyone feels amped up to 11
You're a mean person OP.

>>16544145
>le nihilism
go be cringe on reddit retard

>>16546095
this. put your dick in the vagina and all your problems in life will be solved forever. have sex