That’s what I got out of it … @tlgains - after you research nihilism, research stoicism … actually, just read Nietzsche
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If you read Schopenhauer, at least the decision to not date and reproduce will be an ethical one.
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I am christian so I won’t implant stuff against my beliefs in my mind.
I doubt stoicism would go against your beliefs … read up on Seneca and his (possible) correspondence with Peter - especially with Seneca, a lot of over lapping similarities between the stoics and the early church … just a bit more direct (a lot of references to Nature/God)
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An interesting way of phrasing burying your head in the sand.
If Leo only knew all it took for Inception was to have the person read a book he’d realize the whole elaborate dream creation plot is completely unnecessary.
Have you considered Kierkegaard?
Help. Summer just started today. This stuff is really getting to me. I feel lonely and sad.
There is a difference between being alone and being lonely. Alone is okay, lonely is not.
Get out, go to the pool or the gym, say hi to a a few people.
Connect with yourself. Read this article:
Ultimately, all you have in this world is yourself, so be your own best friend.
Focus on accepting yourself and being, just being. Check out this meditation - put your headphones on and lay down and listen to it.
You’re all good bro.
Do you have any friends?
Troll level 8. Well done.
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We’re words on a screen. We can only offer suggestions. Only YOU can take action to help yourself.
So you’re saying you have time on your hands to improve yourself and practice a new hobby? AWESOME!! Congrats - wish I had that free time, my piano skills and vegetable garden would be aces…
“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
Replace “injury” with lonely and sad…
“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside.” Aurelius
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You mean despair?
See: Kierkegaard WAS the answer.
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I always dreaded reading that, I thought it would only make me want to kill myself
And now we come back to Schopenhauer, haha.
Kierkegaard was tough to read. Always fascinated me how such great thinkers could be such muddling writers.
That’s because they’re wicked smaht…
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Look. I am going to be real tea with you. At high school, its all about smashing pussy, not about forming serious relationships. The only people I ever saw at high school forming serious relationships were the goth squad. Just man up, talk to her and smash. Then move on.
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That would absolutely conflict with his Christian values.
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well, according to him, so would reading beyond his beliefs…
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Does that mean he only read the comments he agreed with?
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Non-Serious answer: He uses the grace of God to correctly identify those posts which coincide with his world view and beliefs…(I’m joking OP - I think you’re a good guy).
Serious answer: it means he won’t read something written by a philosopher b/c he thinks it contradicts his beliefs … or something like that