While you're all coping with your various flavors of hopium and religious cope, the truth is that philosophical honesty (even when it makes you want to rope) is objectively superior to your comforting delusions. Yes, staring into the cosmic void and realizing existence is a grotesque carnival in the world's graveyard is going to give you existential dread that makes your worst depressive episodes look like a mild case of the blues. But here's the thing: choosing to live in pleasant self-deception makes you literally no different from a pig rolling in mud blissfully unaware of the slaughterhouse. When you embrace therapeutic life lies and let some shrink feed you cope about meaning and purpose you're trading away the one thing that makes you human, your capacity for authentic self-awareness, for the psychological equivalent of a lobotomy. Sure, philosophic honesty might drive you to despair and make you a cosmic pessimist who sees through all the bullshit but at least you're living with dignity instead of being a spiritually neutered normie who thinks their participation trophy existence actually matters. The choice isn't between happiness and misery, it's between being authentically human or being a well-adjusted animal, and anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows which one has actual value.
>>24747959Schopenhauer got me into philosophy since his ideas are immanent but expand on the greater nature of base reality, although his philosophy will always be unsuccessful to the public because it doesn’t have any room to expand beyond pessimism unless you incorporate Gnostic or radical ideas that reject Schopenhauer’s conclusions and advice on how to deal with the world
>>24747994Some people have made connections between him and Gnosticism before, actually.
>>24747959>uhh yea being authentic is important so believe what I believe and drop trvth nvkes and stuffTruly revolutionary; inb4seethe
TLDR.You retards who make these long winded wall of text threads need to understand that this isn’t your book or blog so learn how to get the point and be concise.Faggot
schopenhauer never answered the "what now?" question so i dont really care about him unless you can convince me otherwise.
>>24748100can you name me one person who successfully answered that?
>>24748104in the modern day, no. but its their job to try and answer that question and until some truly grand and great philosopher answers that, then i do not care. wake me up when that happens.
>>24747959i loathe faggots like you that think we should all become nihilistic pessimists like you. i fell for the reading meme and accidentally blackpilled myself to where i have gone beyond the pale. i would rather be a pig gleefully rolling in the mud, and if you want to "save" people from that state, then you are a misanthropic evil person and should just fucking kill yourself. i wish every day that i could return to religion and the satiety that it brings, but faggots like you just ruined everything for the sake of horrible and cold truth.
>>24748111my point is it's impossible. even if someone came with an answer, told you what to do and presented logical rigor to back it up you still won't do it anyway so you're just being a busy idiot with these lines of thoughts that go nowhere.
>>24748116He possesses an inverse truth indicator; if something is repulsive and averse then that is a stronger indicator of its objective. In exact opposition to the supposed truth indicator of his nemeses.
>>24748116>I am so smart and read so many books that I became cynicalget real loser.
Holy shit. I just realized something about Schopenhauer. The sort of high and mighty talk he does sometimes, like "Heh, the intelligent man...knows when to speak" or whatever other bullshit like that, is literally just an attempt to larp as Plato.
>>24748116Regarding your pic, why are Scots so predisposed to being simps? This makes me sad. John Knox seemed like the only redeemable one.
>>24748157wow what a discovery
>>24748163i think hes based personally. i just used him as a pic as he is emblematic of my young idealistic christian years. i cant justify believing in any of what he stands for now, though.
>>24747959Type of shit I used to say at 14.You need to go outside and look at trees moving in the wind, this worldview is a coping mechanism, not philosophy.
>>24748169Fair but I just find women's "rights" advocates to leave a bad taste in my mouth. Three of my buddies have to pay alimony to spiteful ex-wives and I got cheated on a lot growing up as a young man so I guess im biased.
>>24748175>You need to go outside and look at trees moving in the windyour enlightened 18 year old self doesn't sound any better
>>24748175been doing this since age 18 and am now 28. when does this start solving anything.
>>24747959If what you say is true, all philosophers would agree with each other
>>24748182AD HOMINEM [Medium: Failed] - You take a wild stab at their age
Filtered by Hegel, hated by his own mother, a wife beating NIGGER named Schopenhauer
>>24748014Tiktok raped you.
>>24748183Caring about shit that could or could not be true that you cannot fix is a choice. Make a choice not to care.
