Not dying quite soon enough can be extremely bad. Like, if the stroke you had while driving had been just a little bit worse, death would have ensued immediately, but because the stroke wasn't quite bad enough, you lived just long enough to experience what it is like to find your delightful self engulfed in flames, and one's skin (then deeper flesh) being charred, and one's lungs filling up with hot, horrible smelling smoke, and yet you still aren't quite dead... — Bitter Crank
That's fairly bad. Even worse are Islamic terrorists causing sewers to back up and explosively ejecting great quantities of feces into the toilet stalls of America, including the very one you are occupying, drenching you in indescribable, unimaginable slime and filth. — Bitter Crank
Only in an unfortunate world would someone like the pessimist exist and actually be wrong about their pessimism. By its very existence, pessimism validates itself. — darthbarracuda
Interesting.. can you explain further? The self-validating pessimist.. Isn't it a bit strong to say though that being wrong on a theory proves the pessimistic point? Or is it rather that being wrong about pessimism is bad because, even if pessimism is wrong, the mere fact that others can feel this way proves that a world exists that has people that feel this way and thus shows the non-idealty of the world to allow people that can feel this way about the world. The pragmatist would just chortle that this is simply thefault of the pessimist, not the universe. — schopenhauer1
The universe produced us. And thus it is capable of producing such harmful ignorance. And like you said, more pragmatic visions essentially boil down to victim blaming. Even the victims themselves are willing to blame themselves, as a method of maintaining order and stability. — darthbarracuda
According to scientists, there are at least two trillion galaxies. Each galaxy has 1 star around which a life-supporting planet revolves, and on which intelligent life now exists. That makes two trillion planets loaded with intelligent beings who are much more subject to harm than they are benefit. There are, thus, billions of trillions disappointed and annoyed individuals nattering away about the unfairness of life -- RIGHT NOW! — Bitter Crank
- realizing that after all that has happened, nobody knew the depths of sadness that you've been through, and nobody else would probably know; life goes on, the world does not seem to care, and by the way, you have to better get ready for work tomorrow as if nothing just happened! — OglopTo
I'm not so sure about the worth of pessimism. Whenever I think about all this stuff, especially how suffering greatly outweighs pleasure, and pleasure itself seems mostly just a reduction or cessation of some pain/suffering experience or another, I feel like I should just kill myself. I mean if life really is how the pessimist describes, why live? — dukkha
I think you're probably better off not being aware of any of this, like a child, or a cat. Being aware that you suffer is itself a type of suffering. — dukkha
I call this the stress of procrastinating the inevitable and wishing you'd have dealt with it sooner. — Hanover
After weeks of watching the roof leak
I fixed it tonight
by moving a single board — Hanover
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