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There is nothing else to it, right? The whole point of life is to make your neurons fire as intensively as possible before death arrives? Are there any philosopher who offer consolation?

>> No.17519091

Christ, read Aquinas my friend.

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>>17519058
Trivial problem, all you need to do is dispel idealist notions and become smug.

>> No.17519100

>>17519058
Yes

>> No.17519114

>>17519058
no anon the point is to digest proteins to construct soma to allow neurons to fire
CONSTRUCT FASTER ANON
FAAAASTTTERRRR

>> No.17519124

>>17519091
This. Retarded nihilism ruined my teenage years and I thought I had it all figured out, don't make the same mistakes I did.

>> No.17519135

Soma sema.

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>>17519058
Horribly retarded take

>> No.17519215

>>17519091
Thanks, which books should I read? Do I need to read Aquinas before? Any secondary sources?

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>>17519058
Your neurons fire when you see booba, the superior mans neurons fire when he finds and solves problems worth solving, the midwits fires when it's necessary to his survival eg. Bomb survivors becoming scientists
The silver lining is that these states are not static as proven by the midwit

>> No.17519508

>>17519215
The City of God and Confessions. Read The Bible beforehand.

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>>17519058
Kierkegaard--specifically Fear and Trembling--Nietzsche--specifically Thus Spoke Zarathustra--and any existentialist, arguably.

Plato/Socrates--read the Phaedo at the very least--even Aristotle to some extent.

Lao Tzu.
The Buddha.
Mohammed.
Jesus Christ.
Almost any world religion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, other Transcendalists, if you want an American perspective.

Anyone who sincerely leans all the way into the scientific nihilism brought into fashion by the Enlightenment is either a naïve enthusiast or someone who wants an easy opt-out clause from addressing very real and discernible human problems and challenges that everyone has to overcome.

They could be totally right--that's a reality everyone has to come to terms with and make peace with somehow. But they could also be completely wrong. And what's hilarious about the people who ascribe to such a materialist dogma is they're often very much opposed to that exact same kind of dogma found in so many religious and philosophical beliefs.

The only one who can really make a point in your life is you, anon. It's a bit cliché, but it's ultimately true. All this other stuff is really just there to help you along the way.

>> No.17519710

No you fell into a trap.
The trap of thinking anyone knows anything.
We do not know what we are or where we are or even if we are.

>> No.17519774

>>17519710
>can't do nuffin
>can't know nuffin
isn't that in line with OP?