Everything needs to be fixed, maintained, created, synthesized.. — schopenhauer1
In the process of fixing, cleaning, maintaining we are in effect applying what we have learned along the way, to do it different, to do it better than we did last time. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Everything needs to be fixed, maintained, created, synthesized.. — schopenhauer1
No.We are sadistic beasts.. — schopenhauer1
Not really.Think of the Viking beserkers mentality.. We are all that inside. — schopenhauer1
Nah. Just sit still and observe. Just learn to observe.Why? Because..toughen the f*** up right? The world isn't perfect so you have to LEARN through TRIAL and ERROR... — schopenhauer1
Nah. No formula. Learn Schrodinger's cat experiment.You have to follow some formula.. — schopenhauer1
They were not indifferent. They just knew when it's a losing proposition.the Indifference of the Stoics.. — schopenhauer1
Live under the bridge and let the engineers maintain the bridge.You have to DEAL...Everything needs maintenance..needs fixing.... — schopenhauer1
perfect world with no challenges? — Baden
If someone never suffered, they would still be movement. They would do doing (or not doing) whatever they were.Your understanding does not grasp boredom, it rectifies all movement as boredom. Rather than just hating suffering, it hates life/movement, turning every moment of it into a suffering-- "Ah really, I have to do or not to do today. Woe is me: I exist. — TheWillowOfDarkness
Well then there would be no need for consciousness, and it never would have evolved. So your perfect world is essentially death, or at best a living death. And your argument is because we're not dead, we'd be better off dead. Or life is bad because it's not death. Pointless to anyone who enjoys life. — Baden
Yeah, sleep without dreaming is an unconscious state that if it continued indefinitely would be indistinguishable from death. So, your ideal form of life is death to begin with. There's nothing to be said to that. — Baden
There's nothing mystical about it. There is no view. No consciousness. No subject. No view. Nothing. Death. — Baden
I'm not talking about an after-life or lack thereof. I'm talking about Schope's proposed "perfect" life, which is a state indistinguishable from death. — Baden
We are sadistic beasts..Think of the Viking beserkers mentality.. We are all that inside. — schopenhauer1
Why?
...toughen the f*** up right? The world isn't perfect so you have to LEARN through TRIAL and ERROR...
You have to follow some formula..
It’s [Acceptance of life is...] like a form of Stockholm syndrome. What other choice is there for most of us? — schopenhauer1
A perfect world would have no challenges and no need for them. — schopenhauer1
You've been rightly likened to a broken-record. You keep repeating your same complaint and beliefs, quite oblivious to all the answers that have been posted by others. — Michael Ossipoff
And, because, then, eventually you will be without identity, time, events, problems, situations that need dealing-with, menaces, lack, need or incompletion, or any knowledge or memory that there ever were or even could be such things...
...then it can be said that there will be timeless identity-less-ness and absence of needs, menace, lack, situations needing to be dealt-with, etc. — Michael Ossipoff
And, because, then, eventually you will be without identity, time, events, problems, situations that need dealing-with, menaces, lack, need or incompletion, or any knowledge or memory that there ever were or even could be such things...
...then it can be said that there will be timeless identity-less-ness and absence of needs, menace, lack, situations needing to be dealt-with, etc. — Michael Ossipoff
Why does it wait through this reincarnation process? — schopenhauer1
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