Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer 

siqqqqqqqq

EI’m p

😘

😊lol

Please

....ha.... ha..... ha!

Ahahaha 😂

Dude is top shelf!

@Chlem Elisha haha

Mine too

“Life is fucked, but we can make it better” - Albert Camus

“Life is fucked but who cares!". Slasian Z Mankrian

“‘Life’ is fukt because you like it that way & wouldn’t have it any other”

"Life is fucked or life is not fucked.. it'll regret both" Søren kierkegaard

"Life is fucked, but stop being such a little bitch about it" ~Marcus Aurelius

Amazon shifts are no joke

@@precisi0n86 Phones/music/headphones aren't allowed on the floor :/

I hope you find a better job. Warehouse work suffocates the soul

I should be starting at Amazon soon.

Phew twelve hours, that's a stint, just finished a 8 hour at the recycling plant, yuk

it's both funny and sad that majority of this still holds true, he did get it.

Same. It's because it's absurd.

I believe because it's absurd

Yes. It’s actually more fun when you remember there’s ultimately no point to any of this

i love pessimist literature because the honesty is so comforting, its so much sadder to hear someone pretend the world is actually so happy

Quiet down

😆

Nothing he wrote was random.

What do you find comforting? It honestly sounds like a man desperate to intellectualize his depression and misanthropy

This book shall be the consolation of my life and the consolation of my death. Thank you schopenhauer for speaking directly to me. You and karl popper have taught me so much.

Please don't call him shopie...

@@juanpablomontalvo4715 hope is a disorder that makes us struggle for longer than we need to, and this man gets it.

​@@juanpablomontalvo4715 You say that as if depression and misanthropy are somehow undeserving of contemplation and articulation.

Offer ends soon, but wait: there’s more… - Soupy Sales

Yet another example of based Schopenhauer

How tho

I do too.

Its a paradox but he is the most comforting Philosopher

Much like Spinoza, whose Ethics seem inaccessible to so many first time readers-later, people often realize that Spinoza’s soft-determinism is actually consoling because of its accuracy.

So do I! It's a little like black metal music, comforting.

I do understand what you mean, nature is a pretty brutal game. A game that existence is playing with Itself. But there really is no winner or loser at the end, just existence.. should read a bit of philosophical daoism. Interesting stuff.

@@cloudfloat4179 I agree with you there. If you think of yourself as separate from nature, then yeah like is hard and things try to eat you. But there is also the though that we are the thing eating

Yes, if I understood you correctly. Every individual, that being the lion or the gazelle, has the feeling of being an individual "i", though not as sophisticated as humans self awareness but this "i" is the Self, existence it Self if you will. Of course every one thing or individual is different through different types of DNA, experience, patterns of vibration etc.. but let's say vibration itself of on and off is existence. I hope you understand what I mean... 😆 🤣 😆 🤣

I agree with you in general, but I must say... you need a new front lawn

@@cloudfloat4179 This is what puzzles me. I resonated with your second sentence; A game that existence is playing with itself. Everything is made out of the elements. Then they 'decided' to form and differentiate into other forms. Some became sentient others not. The sentient ones thrive on eating, fucking and killing each other and exploiting/manipulating the inanimate for the same purpose. I cannot for the life of me figure why. It seems it's a game made to get rid of boredom. The game absolutely sucks!!!!

Lol. There's no remedy at all.

@@ConcreteJungleSickness care to elaborate

@@elia8544 An lol kind of guy is not the elaborate type. We have to at least philosophize to draw any conclusions about the value of life-even if it be the inherit meaningless of existence, or the lack of free will. When I say remedy, I don’t mean an opiate.

You either become strong enough to rise to the occasion or die like scum for letting down the culture that gave birth to you. Philosophizing on the "meaninglessness" of existence is a cop out. Calling life itself meaningless is a cop out.

It isn't such human stuff that an exacting High Culture can use to further its Destiny. The common man is the material with which great political leaders work. In earlier centuries, the common man did not attend the Cultural drama. It didn't interest him, and the participants were not yet under the Rationalistic spell, the “counting-mania,” as Nietzsche called it. When democratic conditions proceed to their extreme, the result is that even the leaders are common men, with the jealous and crooked soul of envy of that to which they are not equal, like Roosevelt and his coterie in America. In his cult of “The Common Man,” he was deifying himself, like Caligula. The abolition of quality smothers the exceptional man in his youth and turns him into a cynic.

Att: Nietzsche

@@abortodedios My username is a quote from his Beyond Good and Evil. I know Nietzsche well, señor.

That's very true i agree.

There is no enlightenment. Sorry.

There are many paths to enlightenment. It is a personal journey unique to you.

​@@gointomexico But ones that do not suffer do not become enlightened...so is it...

Same for me, although it was surely another video which this a clone of since it was almost 8 years ago. Completely changed my life. I can barely put it into words and this is an experience common among many people, both common and uncommon, that came across this guy. We all felt as if hit by a train. As if God came down and explained to mere mortals in otherworldly clarity the workings of his world. It feels as if it's wrong for a human to understand this much. Unholy, alien, forbidden knowledge. I'm an absolute physicalist, these are just figures of speech. ..Sokrates and Plato, Kant and Shopenhauer, they are the most original funmakers of the universe. The others are just chewing on them. Or try to. I have PudelMan`s:"The world as will and imagination" for 12 years now. Never got beyond page 100, though i made 3 attempts. This book scares me. Really. Too much truth at once, such density, it definitely lessens the common ground you are standing on with "the others". And at such speed, that you have barely the time to adjust your feet. A Bukowskian poem of a Bukowskian fan I found on the internet. Schopenhauer's works are exemplary of the saying "what has been seen cannot be unseen". Utter revelation and disillusionment. Like Adam an Eve biting from the Tree of Knowledge.

Something else can change your life: Getting the crap beaten out of you by a MMA fighter, minus the injuries. Hands down the most uplifting experience I've ever had in my life.

@@nativeamericancowboy5028 ok?

True indeed

@@nativeamericancowboy5028 Curious, did the MMA beatdown experience expand or deplete the masculine ego? Or, perhaps, _refine_ it? (I'm assuming it's about ego, but maybe that's not what changed in your case)

@@No_Avail it subdues the ego. It mellows and relaxes the ego. You tend to desire things a lot less. It puts you in a state of mine that everything is fine just the way it is, and no changes are necessary.

Kashmir?

Yes, but we have to wait a long time until we are dead. So we have to find meaning otherwise what is the alternative?

@@aj5424 idk, it would be nice to free oneself from the suffering of life, from the anxiety of existence. In a way the acknowledgment of nihilism, nothing has any meaning or value and the belief in nothing frees you mentally. If we are to die in the end, if all of our efforts, all of our sacrifices, all of our suffering in the present moment are essentially pointless and meaningless. Then as the observer and experiencer of the present moment, why should I shackle myself to a dilution of meaning that will only increase the amount of suffering I experience. Why not affirm life’s meaningless? At least I hope that in practice nihilism can lead to mental or psychological freedom. I would hate for the meaning I gave to life to make life seem so serious that it becomes a misery worse than death. Also, the understanding that nothing matters, that death will eventually come for us, although it is sad, it is a part of life and when I have anxiety or life seems unbearable that thought is comforting and freeing. I’m not sure if I explained it well tbh I am still thinking about this, but it would be nice to be mentally free through nihilism, and then you would be able to strive for something in life without it feeling too serious and causing suffering.

Row row row your boat…

Play sports. That's the only, true relief from the hardships of life.

We do. That’s the problem.

Well said

Some do, but it's a minority interest.

itll make enemies, who usually dont like talking

people hold on to their delusions for dear life

It's because propaganda is making people ignorant. Do you think content like this would even have a chance on social media?

@@joeybeannwhat’s your email, we can start a philosophy discussion group

you're not supposed to fall asleep, you're supposed to listen and reflect about pessimism and pain.

You’re supposed to wake up !!

Excellent comment.Thank you.

I think he was virtually a recluse

btw are u an optimist? just askin cuz im curious and scared to read Schopenhauer

Indeed.

Solomon Ecclesiastes rang out to me as some of the first nihilism writings. I have sought after knowledge and madness, And with much knowledge comes much suffering

true

So what if a modern day philosopher were honest about the nature of women? Yes, that would be refreshing as Schopenhauer's chapter on them.

there’s no such thing as a modern day philosopher

It's mgtow now

They are all over the place in the Twitter manosphere. TellYourSonThis is one of them. Just not mainstream so they don’t attract a lot of hate.

Thats why the modern world sucks, fake and lies

Oh no I will also be buying a copy for the shelf

100%

Problem is in the 'men' that lead the 'men'. Being the men created by men. Its the snake biting its own tail again and again

Do you know why it was deleted?

😂

Can't. Dead.

Haha yeah

Don't do it Anakin

«Good, let the hate flow through you»

Thank God for the Wayback Machine lol

The yes to life.

@@mikemo2168 Clearly you have an inability to comprehend what you read because I wrote 'few willingly choose death over more life...'. Anyway, people who commit suicide don't hate life as much as they hate themselves.

@@mikemo2168 The real coward is the one who cries 'life is too hard'. Really ? But there you are still alive ! See, that's the proof, you rather cry and feel something, than to die and feel nothing at all. Every breath you take affirms life, and proves that you still give a damn yourself. Why would anyone emotionally invest (aka, give a damn) about someone who might commit suicide ? If you don't love yourself, then don't expect anyone to care about you. If you are not willing to care about yourself, why do you expect others to care what happens to you ? Are you really expecting people to feel sorry for you, when you don't even have the self-care to love yourself ? Life can be hard, yet most people are strong and courageous enough to go on living and find joy in it. A few weak people who don't even have the self-care to love themselves expect others to feel sorry for them. Life requires self-care, self-love, love of life, and the strength and courage to daily face adversity. You can cry all you want, but life will go on, and most people will continue to find real joy and happiness in just being alive. If you kill yourself because you hate life, then life still wins because your hatred was itself part of your life ! You have the chance to love yourself.. are you worth it ? If your answer is 'no', then why should anyone disagree with you ?

@@mikemo2168 No time to read your long-winded rant... unlike you, I actually have a life that I love.

@@mikemo2168 You're still alive ? What are you waiting for ?