THE ETERNAL SCHOPENHAUERIAN WISDOM I often remind myself that we’re all puppets trapped in a decomposing cage of flesh and bone, with a million desires whirling around us at all times like sirens attempting to lure us to our doom. That these desires are nothing but the conjured demons of economics, society, and evolution and while they promise fulfillment they will only use you to their own ends, increasing their strength over you, leaving you a slave and a broken human. The world of phenomena is a test, projected by the noumena, and to conquer it you must conquer yourself.Although I might try to convince myself that life has some external value, after a night drinking with “friends” or a sexual encounter with woman, it quickly becomes apparent that most friends are not worth having, and that woman’s sexual desires are so perverse and banal that their even having desired you bears the weight of a bad conscience. What man does not disgrace himself by submitting to a woman’s desires? He becomes a fool, a brute, a scoundrel, a cuckhold, all at once— and looses himself in the process. What man benefits from society? He devoured his life’s work to the machinations of warfare and industry, he trampled the earth, he becomes bound up in stories told to gullible children, he is sold slavery and like an idiot wears his chains with pride.Service originates in the Latin word "Servi”, meaning slave. That’s what society, friends, woman the whole world, asks from you, your slavery. In English, the familiar for of “you”, “thou”, has long since died from the language. For those lonely men in Anglo countries seeking company, this should be (with honest reflection) enough proof that you will never find it. We live in a civilizational world-spirit which lacks even the words to express friendship, closeness.There are two things in life worth their weight in gold: freedom and silence. How many men exchange these treasures for paper? Or for a soft touch of flesh? Or for some false sense of meaning to disguise their emptiness?In books, there is the peace of forming a genuine connection with another person. If you cannot read, write. If you cannot write, read. If you are still lonely, hire a whore; it is less demeaning and less expensive than going to clubs. Logos is the breaking free of the soul from the flesh, embrace this and turn your eyes from the treachery of desire.
dude theres been 10 threads of this guy for like the last week, talk about someone else please
>>24716504They're butthurt because the idealists keep making them look like pseuds. Their response is to spam the board.
>>24716486>looses himself in the processbro tried to sound wise but doesn't know the difference between loose and loseL
>>24716486>Or for a soft touch of fleshHave you ever had intimate skin to skin contact with someone? That is worth it man.
>>24716653Gross
>>24716486You call this Philosophy? I get why he isn’t taken seriously in academia.
>>24716704>taken seriously in academialmao
Here's another place Hegel retroactively refutes Schopenhauer for you."Self-subsistence pushed to the point of the one as a being-for-self is abstract, formal, and destroys itself. It is the supreme, most stubborn error, which takes itself for the highest truth, manifesting in more concrete forms as abstract freedom, pure ego and, further, as Evil. It is that freedom which so misapprehends itself as to place its essence in this abstraction, and flatters itself that in thus being with itself it possesses itself in its purity. More specifically, this self-subsistence is the error of regarding as negative that which is its own essence, and of adopting a negative attitude towards it. Thus it is the negative attitude towards itself which, in seeking to possess its own being destroys it, and this its act is only the manifestation of the futility of this act. The reconciliation is the recognition that the object of this negative attitude is rather its own essence, and is only the letting go of the negativity of its being-for-self instead of holding fast to it."
>>24716928>they are metaphysicists rather than scientistsgood, which is exactly what made einstein different and special. he was influenced by schopenhauer.this kind of reminds me of galileo, certain theories of science, have to fundamentally be contrary to science or come from a place non within science, to truly advance science.i went into this quote hoping to be convinced by tesla against einstein, by I've always been a proponent that philosophy is underappreciated. obviously, not in its whole analytic philosophy tossing aside later Wittgenstein, proves its cringe
>>24716983This would be more helpful if you translated it into normal talk.
>>24716983>Self-subsistence pushed to the point of the one as a being-for-self is abstract, formal, and destroys itself.You can think of reality as an interplay of unity (being in general) and plurality (various kinds of being). Neither of these exists in its own right, each is immediately the transition into the other. But many philosophies take unity and set it off on its own in its own world; religion also does this.> It is the supreme, most stubborn error, which takes itself for the highest truth, manifesting in more concrete forms as abstract freedom, pure ego and, further, as EvilAs you can see unity can be determined as being different things - freedom or pure ego in Fichte, evil in Schelling's freedom essay and also in Schopenhauer who plagiarized Schelling in retarded form.>It is that freedom which so misapprehends itself as to place its essence in this abstraction, and flatters itself that in thus being with itself it possesses itself in its purity. Again freedom (or the Will, or substance, etc.) is being set off to one side from everything else in abstraction.>More specifically, this self-subsistence is the error of regarding as negative that which is its own essence, and of adopting a negative attitude towards it.In reality the many are the negative of the one, but they're also part of the one's own self and process as it were. Philosophies like Schopenhauer make being-for-itself into an abstraction that negates reality in just this way.>Thus it is the negative attitude towards itself which, in seeking to possess its own being destroys it, and this its act is only the manifestation of the futility of this act.Should be self-explanatory with what was said above.>The reconciliation is the recognition that the object of this negative attitude is rather its own essence, and is only the letting go of the negativity of its being-for-self instead of holding fast to it.Ditto
>>24717072>also in Schopenhauer who plagiarized Schelling in retarded form.Youre supposed to defend SchopGod retard >>:(
>>24717072>As you can see unity can be determined as being different things - freedom or pure ego in Fichte, evil in Schelling's freedom essay and also in Schopenhauer who plagiarized Schelling in retarded form.You're supposed to defend Fichte retard >>:(
>>24717049>goodlol. einstein was a hackfraud kike, he was "influenced" by many>have to fundamentally be contrary to science or come from a place non within science, to truly advance science.galileo shifted away from a less scientific, metaphysical view not toward it. People like tesla and schope aren't taken seriously in academia because modern academia is a joke, shrimple as
>>24716486gae midwit cope
