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18221548 No.18221548 [Reply] [Original]

So everything is a cope, but where do you go from there?

>> No.18221569

>>18221548
Embrace the cope. It's what everyone does anyway you're just aware of it now

>> No.18221582

>>18221569
But I struggle to figure out which cope is the best one for me.

>> No.18221887

>>18221548

There is a passage in this book that I found very interesting. The author talks about how certain Eastern religions - such as Buddhism and certain branches of Hinduism - have found an ingenious tool to deal with the fear of non-existence: making non-existence, the cessation of the current of birth-death-rebirth the ultimate end of human wisdom, nirvana.

They pretend to aspire to what which they actually fear the most

Do even "enlightened" people still have to deal, in their own way, with the fear of dying? Certain historical and even contemporary monks do seem to have achieved unshakable serenity and are, I venture to say, people that we could consider to be truly wise.

And yet ... I wonder if they don't secretly wish "nirvana" to be more than just ceasing to exist.

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18222023

>>18221548
Go for a walk.

>> No.18222034

>>18221548
The end of this book felt like a let down, like it just suddenly ends without him stating the logical conclusion of his theories being that we ought to all just kill ourselves.

>> No.18222039

>>18221569
>It's what everyone does anyway

No, they don't.

>> No.18222048

>>18222034
>like it just suddenly ends
Just like life

>> No.18222062

>>18222039
Read the book. Everything is a cope to avoid thinking about death

>> No.18222083

>>18221887
Author is a retard then, Nirvana is not non-existence.

>> No.18223049

>>18222083
yeah it is, keep up the mental gymnastics

>> No.18223347

>>18221582
eastern philosophies like Taoism and Buddhism are generally a good cope imo.
Stoicism is pretty good too

>> No.18223361

>>18223347
Buddhism is a depressing cope

>> No.18223541

>>18221548
Take the Klages pill

>> No.18223568

>>18223361
how? just do what the guy did and then hope you end up in the nice place

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18223597

>>18221548
To be or not to be

Isn't that the question, friends?

Whether it is nobler in the mind to SUFFER the slings and arrows of all of this god damned outrageous fortune

Or to end it all by taking arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing all of it, to end it all. To die is to sleep, no more. And when we say sleep, we say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is subject to. Dying is a consummation devoutly to be wished, OP.

Yes, to die IS to sleep, but to sleep, perhaps the chance to DREAM.

Yes, my friends. There is the rub. That is the catch.

FOR IN THAT SLEEP OF DEATH

WHAT

DREAMS

MAY

COME