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How do I learn to wrap my head around philosophical texts?
Whenever I had to read anything philosophical back in secondary school or try reading something philosophical that was posted here, I just never really could and can get to the deeper meaning of most texts.
It always just seems like walls of text I read, but never really understand the abstract concepts the authors were talking about.

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How do I learn to wrap my head around philosophical texts?
Whenever I had to read anything philosophical back in secondary school or try reading something philosophical that was posted here, I just never really could and can get to the deeper meaning of most texts.
It always just seems like walls of text I read, but never really understand the abstract concepts the authors were talking about.

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>>14404928
>be born
>realize you're living towards death, that you're a mortal being
>sacrifice yourself by: giving your body, your youth, your time or your mind to become something
>Become forever a part of that something
>die

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Before we talk about it we have to presuppose what your values are. If it's all about maximizing pleasure or thinking we all die anyway, then there's no point in changing anything. If you want a more fulfilling virtuous life, then the point is to do things.
Video games and alcohol took away a lot of my teens and twenties. Having my heart broken repeatedly and then coping with booze and sleeping with women I didn't love filled me with even more regret.


I hate that I never focused on one skill for long enough to get good at it. I can play a handful of instruments, games, graphic design, socializing, write, and hell, I'll be a lawyer later this month hopefully, but jesus christ I'm not GOOD at anything in particular. 2000 hours in DOTA 2 and CSGO really don't provide much for living a good life. I could have finished a large chunk of the western cannon, or practiced a real skill.


Go do things. Go get good at things. Don't go overboard with coping mechanisms. Read more. Practice something. Fall in love. Make friends.

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>>13921553
i started with zarathustra, then read BGE then Genealogy. would def remember starting with either of those two simply because they are simpler and more interesting imo.

rly had to push myself to finish Zarathustra, its just wavy af and interesting passages are very well insulated with waffle

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>>13644552
One eye closed I hold myself to the dark and would not relinquish my sight for the sake of all that live. I had observed the world is both the dark and light, and had seen that one was comfortable and the other joyful.
I did not desire Joy, for the Joy I had seen was greater than I could recognize; That life was not meant for me, so I remained blind in one eye that was once open and my other eye closed. I will not afford myself that place of solace and contentedness. I had made the willful choice to remain in my small place that I had resided in. Though my choice is not of my own inclination. I did not mean to observe that greater world but my eyes are not my own for I can not see. As I remained still and blind, my closed eye began to open. Despite this I turned away from the light. But as the darkness the light surrounded me and I was kept still by my own delusion. What is it that keeps me here? I do not control my body, I had seen and felt. But as I had recalled, The touch I once felt was in truth a sensation that I recognized. I was not alone, yet I had seen no one else near to me. "What is that touch I had felt" I asked myself. Was it of the light or the dark, I could not know. No, This too is wrong. I felt no touch. The touch must have been a thought that comforted me in my loneliness, though it felt real; Something my thought is not able to convey, a physical feeling. I had remained lost as I stood still only feeling this sensation of motion, for my mind moves more than my body. I was kept still, but for why I could not know. I had let go of my ambition and could only see what was in front of me, yet all I saw was the unrelenting dark. Blinded yet still aware of the nature of my circumstance. I hide myself away by the closing of my eyes and still am too unfamiliar with the light to observe it, as It holds me back from my own desire. I am hungry for the dark and I must always be. No...this is not right once again.

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>>13429409
>the first gf i had i was literally 2

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You can argue anything you want when ignoring practicality, this is pretty basic stuff guys.

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Does anyone get the "Salad days" reference cause I'm going to post another reference and I don't want to be banned again.

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>>12664720
im him wait a few years

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Im a writer but Im really not. Im not an author nor a poet. What I am is a thinker and an idealist. I think of abstractions and concepts and the fluidity of consciousness. I perceive, contemplate, and interpret the world around me. I will never write poems or novels or any theories of thought. I only write my thoughts in their abstract form. Some are significant and some are absolutely bizarre. I am both inspirational and sorrowful, sometimes at the same time in a single thought.

What would you call me?

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I have a chance at happiness right now. These last few years have been a torrent of mistakes and dysfunctional moments, from blowing all of my money on Filipino whores and strip clubs to starting an affair with a married student at my adult education teaching job to seedy late-night drunken massages from Chinese teenagers in the arse-end of a mainland city - goddamn, but right now my girlfriend loves me and thinks I'm the best person in the world and she doesn't know any of this. Everyone loves me and doesn't know any of this. My father is a serial cheater and a sociopath and everyone loved him too. Everything is suspended on a thin sheet of glass and I can see the hell below that's waiting for me if it breaks.

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How do I get over my crippling writers block?

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>>11907622
I get that feel, anon. The best thing you can do is to produce things creatively to fill your time, continue to put yourself out there, and try your best to mature your views on both platonic and romantic companionship. From there it's just a lot of hoping. Maybe it will come, and maybe not. But if it does not, at least we can take comfort in knowing that there was nothing we could have done to potentially change that outcome.

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Chapter 15 has a most beautiful poem in it, and then a savage reply to all the nice guys out there from a hit girl named Marcela, whom I wish to rape.

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>>10681717
If you're lucky, you'll find someone as equally delusional as you, and you'll both die together before the love runs out.

Conditional love can never be eternal

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