Why does it require faith to overcome philosophical pessimism?
There is only a faith in your race and it's abilities, the genes, the natural circle of life, proven theorem.... everything else is not certain.
I mean if the world is created by a good God then why does observation, logic and reason lead to pessimism (because inequality, entropy, transaction and such fundamental laws of the universe lead to more suffering than joy) and why does one somehow need to overcome such observation, logic and reason?
>>18106628The best way to overcome philosophical pessimism is to have a nature that will never fall into it in the first place. Happy people tend to avoid the philosophy trap, everything is going fine for them, why question things?Its the sad fucks who are seeking answers for their suffering, justifications or solutions. When the world gives them nothing, the only choice is insanity
>>18106668>Happy people tend to avoid the philosophy trap, everything is going fine for them, why question things?Because there will come a time in their lives when everything falls apart. Their loved ones will die, their health will fail, their efforts will not have brought peace and satisfaction. If we're lucky then life will be kind to us when we're young, but it's inevitable that one day life will reveal it's cruelty to even the most fortunate. In hindsight, there will have been plenty of warning signs along the way. Yet they may ask: how can this happen to me?
>>18106628Entropy. Failure cost energy. Success cost more energy. >goal: make 1 million dollarsSuccess takes long time. Failures are near infinite. In fact, failures in life is normal. Success is rare. The power law, pareto's distribution curve, etc. Shows that in natural sense.
>>18106688>how can this happen to me?Asking this in the first place really only makes sense if you believe in skydaddy. If you don't, there's nothing surprising about unpleasant shit happening to you.
>>18106628>overcomeMy faith only made me more philosophically pessimistic
Faith in what?In people from the bronze age telling me they performed miracles and that some God who wants their foreskin talk to them?Nah brah. Aint gonna cut it for me.
>>18106628It doesn't, this is purely another godjak spam thread worth less than shit. You are shit, prove me wrong. Oh wait, you can't!
>>18106902Enjoy burning.>AHHHHHHHHHHH I SHOULD'VE BELIEVED IN THE HEBREW GOD
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>>18106628Because taking any one single faculty to its extreme will produce unbalanced results. Be it disoursive reason, faith, willpower, whatever.>>18106688>>Happy people tend to avoid the philosophy trap, everything is going fine for them, why question things?>Because there will come a time in their lives ... they may ask: how can this happen to me?You described the precise point where they are going to avoid the philosophy trap. "How can this happen to me?" is an understandable exclamation. What is not understandable, is the idea that you, with reasoning faculties barely fit enough to command grammar, will find an answer to this question through philosophical inquiry. The tragedy of philosophers isn't that they're too wise for their own good. It's that they're insisting on an obviously insufficient tool - human reason.
