• baker
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    It's the philosophical position of pessmism that makes one hate life and wishing one would never have been.
  • schopenhauer1
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    It's the philosophical position of pessmism that makes one hate life and wishing one would never have been.baker

    Or those who already have those intuitions gravitate to a more formalized philosophy which makes sense of the vague thoughts they have already intuited..
  • schopenhauer1
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    Also, pessimists don't always just "hate life".. Even Schopenhauer, the ARCH pessimist, liked playing flute, plays, his poodle, and going to concerts.. It doesn't mean that his philosophy of life's suffering was thus wrong.
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