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Anonymous Tue Jan 3 05:43:17 2023 No.21471986 [Reply] [Original]

>'You are not an evil human; you are not without intellect and education; you have everything that could make you a credit to human society. Moreover, I am acquainted with your heart and know that few are better, but you are nevertheless irritating and unbearable, and I consider it most difficult to live with you.
>'All of your good qualities become obscured by your super-cleverness and are made useless to the world merely because of your rage at wanting to know everything better than others; of wanting to improve and master what you cannot command. With this you embitter the people around you, since no one wants to be improved or enlightened in such a forceful way, least of all by such an insignificant individual as you still are; no one can tolerate being reproved by you, who also still show so many weaknesses yourself, least of all in your adverse manner, which in oracular tones, proclaims this is so and so, without ever supposing an objection.
>'If you were less like you, you would only be ridiculous, but thus as you are, you are highly annoying.'
Literally an incel

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 05:44:38 2023 No.21471990 >>21471986 Check out his tractandum on cannabis.

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Anonymous Tue Jan 3 05:57:38 2023 No.21472015
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>>21471986
>you have everything that could make you a credit to human society
Like what? Being a banker? I'm sure she'd love that.

>and are made useless to the world merely because of your rage at wanting to know everything better than others;
Notice how justification of the individual rests on how useful you are to the world. The world makes people "good" or "bad" based on it's usefulness to itself in that present moment.

>of wanting to improve and master what you cannot command
She's referring to truth and wisdom here. She also makes it seem as if truth is just an arbitrary game and not the purpose of life itself.

>With this you embitter the people around you, since no one wants to be improved or enlightened in such a forceful way, least of all by such an insignificant individual as you still are
Sounds like their problem. And what a horrible thing to judge someone by their "significance." I bet she hangs on every word of the rich and powerful just like the rest of the world. Imagine rejecting truth because of who said it. Imagine rejecting enlightenment at all. She is right those, people are too good for his wisdom.

>who also still show so many weaknesses yourself, least of all in your adverse manner, which in oracular tones, proclaims this is so and so, without ever supposing an objection.
Why suppose an objection if it can't be voiced. She never voices an objection and others don't either because then you'd be playing the game. The game of truth. It's a game they can't win because it's the game they hate. They want the game of life, of power, of pleasure. All else are judged in relation to these values and not in truth. They cannot truly win an argument against a truth seeker because while the world-lovers love their ego and the feeling of winning the truth seeker only loves truth. Lossing an argument is just another win towards greater truth. This so annoys the world lovers.

>If you were less like you, you would only be ridiculous, but thus as you are, you are highly annoying.'
Meaningless. Why do they fear the truth?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 06:08:35 2023 No.21472042 >>21472015 >imagine writing all of this unironically Lmao

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Anonymous Tue Jan 3 08:08:59 2023 No.21472344

>>21471986
He was a genius. He's allowed to be an arrogant eccentric. He could back it up. His mother wrote this letter at a time when she was one of the most celebrated authors of Germany, hosting literary salons with the intellectual crop of German high society. He told her that in a 100 years time, no one would remember her drivel and that his work would still be studied. He was right; and today Joanna Schopenhauer is only remembered for being the mother of her son, not for her books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 08:52:59 2023 No.21472449 >>21472344 Based

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 08:58:56 2023 No.21472462 File: 287 KB, 975x1383, 1650100070858.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >wow, schop is LITERALLY me!!!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 11:42:32 2023 No.21472820 File: 83 KB, 412x600, 61c9162cab920503962536fc_platos-cave-allegory-578587.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21472015 Because they love their chains.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:13:21 2023 No.21472919 >>21472462 Your pic but not in any ironic way whatsoever The west has fallen

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:14:12 2023 No.21472924 >>21472919 >Sent from my iPhone 20!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 19:30:31 2023 No.21474445 >>21471986 All this tells you is incels have contributed a lot to the literary world

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 22:40:27 2023 No.21475384 >>21471986 The word incel is meaningless.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 22:59:44 2023 No.21475465 >>21471986 Check out his tractandum on cannabis.