good and evil — Gnostic Christian Bishop

If you accept that humans are not "bad" but in fact "selfish", you can see that, in fact, "good" is just a reflection of someone's selfish nature. So, in conclusion, good is unnecessary, but in order to exist as an option in life, selfishness is bound to exist.

Christians and Muslims have yet to progress away from their immoral thinking. — Gnostic Christian Bishop

I would say that the muslims are even more backwards than christians. Christianity today is just a new pantheon religion, but a pantheon of interpretations of God.

That or Peter, James and Paul had visions of an angel they called Jesus who they thought was crucified by the devil in the firmament, and the next generation turned that into a historical narrative. — Marchesk

Interesting. Where did you find this hypothesis?

The "eternal return" is more like an allegory to make people re-think what they're doing with their lives.
Should you live this same life again and again, would you be happy about it? If not, them make it worth...

Abdicating their responsibility for their sins and riding into heaven on their Jesus scapegoat is what Christianity is all about.

Strange how so called good Christian people follow such a vile and immoral ideology. — Gnostic Christian Bishop

As Nietzsche has already said:

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Just as important are claim rights (your right against being punched in the face, for instance). — Pfhorrest

You don't need a bigger bureocracy telling you that you have the liberty to defend yourself. You should already know it.

And if you're punched in the face, your freedom says to you: - Strike back!

Human relationship is one of egoism, a competition for power, and in some cases, aggressive behavior is acceptable.

God given rights. Do you really have any? — Gnostic Christian Bishop

Rights are freedoms that the State allows you to have. We don't need rights, we need freedom to the individual. God is just an early phase of the embodiment of the State.

atheist churches — Gnostic Christian Bishop

I read your text and for sure these people are not in reality "atheists".

They are simply people that have lost faith on their previously established god, but still need a higher power in their lives. Is sad that a great majority of people still cling to this metaphysical concept of "afterlife","god", "absolute truths", because they're not self-suficient. They outsource their responsabilities because they think they are unable to "be".

I do agree, that our society today is like Roman society in the time of the early Cesars. Bread and circuses, cater to the lowest. — Becky

I would say that we are more in the time of the Principatus - From the first Emperor, Augustus, to the death of Marcus Aurelius -. The Pax Romana is our "Pax Americana". The only difference between the roman world and our world, is the scale of it.

can you elaborate on those other problems?
Anger maybe? Which ones did you have to deal with, and which ones are you aware of? — Emmanuel

Humanity is composed of a will to power, a will to have some question to be asked, and eventually, to be answered, it needs the search, the purpose. And that purpose is much more easily found externally, in others, in other societies, in other lands, etc ... The problem in question is that, in moments of a civilizatory apex like ours, the external searches, or have already been made completely unnecessary by the wealth implanted in society - here I refer to the West, the new Imperium Romanum - or are very far from being conquered - such as space exploration, for example -.

Faced with this situation where the external factors of purpose are unreachable, Man gets lost, his ground collapses, and he himself begins to create and develop problems, to make things more bureaucratic, problems that would not be "cured" because they do not really exist. Depression, nihilism, political extremism, ethical extremism, tare for malice - things that we knew to be wrong, however we do them of our own free will - etc ...

These and other problems eventually lead to the end of such a society as we know it. I have as an example, the history of the roman civilization, however, because it is another very long paragraph, I will let you decide whether or not you want to continue to argue.

Should I reduce it to what? 10000 is enough?

Is it therefore more important to be seen as good, than to actually be good? — Marchesk

In the kind of society that we are included, it is visible the "theater" of good deeds that everyone preaches, and meanwhile, internally hate. The act is more importante than the performance.

It's interesting how our stated moral systems say the opposite. — Marchesk

Of course it does. - Doublethink - Doing an act of "goodness" is seen with good eyes, it is rewarding, both to the person doing the act, as to the one seeing it. The former will be seen as virtuous, and the later as responsible and good-willed.

As for length, between around 2000 and 5000 words is good, but that won't be strict: the first article, published two days ago, is over 6000 words — jamalrob

What if one of my articles is more or less 35000 words long? XD

Why are you here? — Pfhorrest

My thoughts cry out for their stamps in existence.
I see the poor existence of the ego, the torment it has suffered and constantly suffers for all those who claim to see the colors of the world, but in reality only feel the cold and dead gray.
Before publishing a book, I came - as a form of research - to see the reaction of some in question to some topics in my first work.

The reactions were as expected ...

However, the mask "signals virtue"; it says "this person is responsible, and cares about the health of others. — Bitter Crank

Pure egoism. We all do this consciously or unconsciously not because we are in essence good people, but because we all want to be "seen" by others as good people.

Depression is a luxury — Emmanuel

Indeed, times of prosperity and peace tend to make the masses bored. When we don't have any external problems to get our heads on, we create them internally. Depression is one of these problems...

"Great Ideas in Philosophy. Explore some of the biggest Questions Asked" — Ross Campbell

Try describing this long phrase in less words for the title. Have fun - or don't - writting it.

atheist religion. — Gnostic Christian Bishop

Atheism is not a religion.

Empty white space devoid of anything? — JoeyB

Pretty sure - read sometime ago in a scientific paper - that if this brain had the life, the existence that an human normaly has, it would eventually adapt - if the consciouness didn't go mad in the process - to this new kind of existence of only perceiving the world with the "power" of psyche. This is one of the problems of future body transplant. What if we constructed a artificial body - not organic - and just putted the still alive brain of a person in it, and then connected the nervous sistem to this encase. It would eventually learn to live again like a child learns when it is growing up, or it would break completely?

Or perhaps you would build a universe in your mind, develop language, and eventually end up reading posts on a philosophy forum? — JoeyB

Every mind is already its own world. We pick information from the physical world, and process it to our own "conscious world".

Communism — TheDarkElf

Communism was a political, and social philosophic theory of the 19th century that was tested, and went really, really, really, really bad. It can't work.

Interested in hearing various interpretations. — Xtrix

- What is philosophy? There are several minds, which when considering themselves "certainties" take for themselves as fact that philosophy is neither formulas nor processes. And really, no, it is more than that, it is much more than any other concept or conviction, it is transcendental in its own idea. Philosophy is not something palpable, something to be bought or used on a daily basis, something mundane or inflationary, and for these and other reasons it is more tasty in the eyes of those who have never tasted it. For this reason, the only way that was “found” to project it to the world was through thoughts, questions, ideas, concepts, senses. However, there will always be those who intend to give it a body, a physical existence - seeking to limit it - through ways of formulating it. There is no such thing - and how could there be such a thing! -. Philosophy is not something logical - it can be used by logic, however, it does not arise from logical reasoning itself -, it is not something that could be built and placed in a physical encasement. Philosophy is nothing but the tired look of the ego that says: - Enough! To all the opinions of others, and that decides to build her own language, her precious and unique language so that it can understand itself in this way .... It is an incessant search for the answer to the whole, which in the end, always returns to the starting point . Itself. - What is philosophy? The simplest answer? - The question itself.

This is an argument that we will experience identical lives over and over again. — Devans99

Eternal Return - Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the best definition of entity? — Monist

"Entity" is the concept of being itself, there is no such thing as a "self" without the "entity". You can say that "entity" is what makes us, "Us".

"Guide your ego through the farthest and roughest paths and deviations, so that in the end it may guide you along the path to your true purpose. Homo Sentiunt." - Gus Lamarch

REMINDER: My philosophical thought will, for every reader, afford little confort, and is not recommended for the easily offended, and/or closed-minded.

Life always enchanting the paths it passes through, with the charms of growth, aggregation, and finally eternal solitude, but don't make it an amusement park where everything is possible and everyone who lives there smiles at you with amounts of happiness. Life for a long time - and still, this view endures today - is seen as a burden by some, as a brief moment of existence by others, but in my view both positions are wrong.
They are wrong simply because they are already contaminated by the "virtuous" thought that it itself already has a purpose. Ah! What an empathetic naivete, the act of wanting everyone to be able for a brief moment, to feel embraced by hope, and that they need to never leave. " - The ancient Greeks would be shocked! - "
Life, is but a cycle - if it suits you the "dogmatic scientific" answer - of reproductions of species, where the most apt to their environments flourishes, and to others, only death awaits them. But we, as thinking beings - who I judge as thinking beings - have the ability to differentiate, to question "God", to seek the Stoic maxim, to want to contradict "Mother Nature". - We have the ego to guide us -

Is it tragic the moment you pass?
It seems like an impossible situation to reverse?

Dear fellow brother, fly, feel like you are owned by fate, and make yourself seen, and then shine as brightly as possible...

God, is all good, all knowing AND all powerful. — TheMadFool

It seems to me to have been very easy for "God" to give life to the whole creation, and right after that same committing a mere deviation from its plans, abandoning it. Does this prove that "God" is omnipotent? No, it just proves that one of your biggest weaknesses is resentment.

"God is as flawed as he is, for he does not understand what it is to be human." - Gus Lamarch

REMINDER: My philosophical thought will, for every reader, afford little confort, and is not recommended for the easily offended, and/or closed-minded.

It seems to me to have been very easy for "God" to give life to the whole creation, and right after that same committing a mere deviation from its plans, abandoning it. Does this prove that "God" is omnipotent? No, it just proves that one of your biggest weaknesses is resentment.

"The affliction of the other egos is what keeps you from accepting your own." - Gus Lamarch

REMINDER: My philosophical thought will, for every reader, afford little confort, and is not recommended for the easily offended, and/or closed-minded.

It is very comical, the case that I am constantly plagued by a feeling of emptiness inherent in the daily contacts that are forced upon me, and on others as well. Ever wonder what could cause this constant feeling of strangeness - That in the view of others, is of indifference - about everything and everyone, could that be because of the ego? Of a strong call for recognition of the common? If so, an "Negative Ego" would be forming.

In these thoughts full of figures and concepts, I can say that Nietzsche was mistaken, his mistake was to believe everything that his brilliant mind confided to him. Humans are not moved by the "Will to Power", for that same will is nothing more than the projection of the true nature - and which many discredit, and that in the end this disbelief is the fruit of itself - human, that of "Egoism".

You see, I do not deny that the greed for power is an invention, yes indeed it exists, and it can be proved by the study of human history and sociology, however, my point is that everyone is wrong to believe that behind it, there is nothing else, that she is not a mere puppet of some "God".
Would you be devastated if the claim that your true nature is that of selfishness? If dear reader, you indeed has become afflicted, you're not being a good altruist!

"Tears wasted because of others, are not tears of a true mourning." - Gus Lamarch

REMINDER: My philosophical thought will, for every reader, afford little confort, and is not recommended for the easily offended, and/or closed-minded.

It's not funny, when you find yourself in the situation, in the scenario where you end up saying goodbye to people, other beings you have been in contact with for a very short time, of only professional and social relationship, and in the end, in the farewell occasion, they, the others, end up in whimpers and howls of sadness, which to weak minds may seem of the purest and truest feeling of affection. People pour their deluge like it is the end of time, and they use beautiful phrases like: "We'll see each other again", "Keep in touch", "Our relationship won't change", etc.

Falsehoods! Affirmations that, in my view, are nothing but false promises, so that their last moments with others are prestigious. Every moment, everyone wants to be the center of all attention, "que e falso domine", and in those last moments with you, it seems that everything they did that was negative, falls away from their tears. Ah! A cleansing cry that brings lightness to the soul, or in the case of this nihilistic youth, to life.

Don't they seem to feel guilty? They feel a weight, a "necessity" that needs to be destroyed when the contact between you perishs. Doesn't that make you feel weird?

Among the sea of ​​unloving tears and hugs is me, the statue, the "egotist", unaffected by the waves of the red sea like Moses as he opened it.

"Is a small pair of followers close behind?" - You question yourself.

I answer you:

- No.

My followers have either perished during the search for true selfishness, or are already on the other side of the sea, just waiting for me, and waiting for the right moment, where they can shout to the world:

We were right!

a situation beyond both selfishness and altruism. — mcdoodle

Great isn't it? Why should we not be egoists? Why should we not want everything good for ourselves?

I think the notion that we only really 'care' for ourselves is a modern narcissistic myth. — mcdoodle

If that's what you took of my writings, you sir, have misunderstood everything...

I find it hard to imagine that a mother of an infant, for example, cares only about herself. How would you explain her care for the infant? — mcdoodle

Imagine the situation:

You have gestated another being, a dear other human being. Had carried him for nine months, fed him indirectly for that period, and flattered him, and had being flattered by others for being on this difficult journey that will eventually reward you as being"mother". After this time, you give birth to this "blessing", this "happiness", this independent bit of life that used to be part of you, and will forever be part of you. There is nothing more selfish in this case than to love, and to worry about your child's life. If you don't care about yourself, adn only about yourself, you are not being a good parent.

The virtues of selfishness is an Ayn Rand concept from years back. — 3017amen

My philosophical thought is in no way inspired by Ayn Rand writings and thoughts. She was of the "Objectivist" school of thought, I am of the "Positive Egoist". If some phrases, ideas and concepts are similar, its just simply the result of coincidence

1. Relationships v. friendships — 3017amen

On this publication, my criticism was only about the conflict of the "modern" connotation of "friendship", that I see as degenerated and poor, and that we need to reinvent the concept of "friendship" with the virtues of past times, but accepting that it is rooted on self-interest, so that we can make the better of it.

About relationships:
Relationships, yes, we need them for society to work, but I think you conflated the topic of my writing about friendship with relationship.

The first clause of the sentence is not true. I am confident in saying that it is not true because you made it universal ("everyone") and you made it extreme ("only"). We do and ought to care about ourselves, but we gain too much from caring interactions with others to leave it there. Yes, friendships do have functional qualities, one of which is as an aid in self acceptance. — Bitter Crank

I'll quote myself on this one

I do not say that lasting, good and inspiring relationships cannot come into existence, what I want to say is that everyone cares only about themselves, their friendships are but a functional structure that facilitates the acceptance of both their shortcomings. It is something we should embrace, and thank ourselves for building, because only then, affirming this ego projection, will the negative mass cease to be bad, and ultimately, to have rotten and short relationships ... — Gus Lamarch

We have been discussing the argument for/against Purgatory in my philosophy of religion class — robbiefrost

"Purgatory" doesn't exists as much as "Heaven". All we have is our planet, our home, Earth, and we tranform it on abstract ways unto a Paradise and/or purgatory.
So, what are you doing for Earth? Do you want it to be "Heaven" or "Purgatory"?

I experienced quite a shock when acquaintances who I barely even spoke to would say without doubt or hesitation that we were "friends". — Judaka

This is what i'm criticising, in my opinion, this type of relationship is toxic, stagnant, and make people doubt of "true friendship". They end up surrounded by people who calls them "friend" but they're none. This has to stop.

unenlightened — unenlightened

What's the name of the song? Loved it, i'll search more about the musician.

It is an attempt to escape loneliness and boredom. — ovdtogt

I would say that this are sensations and emotions that society, the mass, wants you to be with, why? Because you think differently, you are not "more of the same".

To survive I have had to be very selfish and that has left me very few friends. — ovdtogt

Same thing here, but i can only feel more happy, because they're the ones that can truly accept, and understand my philosophical thought.

All I have are my ideas to keep me company. And all I am able to share are my ideas. — ovdtogt

And that what is all worth living, to "own life" and to shout out your own way of perceiving and comprehending the life you own. - Don't give attention to any opinion, unless it enlightens your already constructed one, that of your ego. -

I think that you would find my writings very interesting, even if in the end, you don't agree with everything.

Most here think I am nuts. — ovdtogt

Different thoughts tend to make people angry. If they don't understand, why would they bother to do it?

Whatever I believe, serves my purpose. — ovdtogt

Surely my friend, we agree.