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01-05-2013 Btw, if you happen to be tortured to death (along several days, and by experts, preferably) in the near future, just let me know about your impressions on the following:"it seems rather ridiculous and disrespectful to assert that you and your modern ideology, which refutes the necessity of the processes that enabled your thinking to even exist, have come to the undeniable truth that suffering is an intolerable consequence of life and renders non-existence preferable." If you haven't changed your opinion by then, sign up for the Guinnes Records... |
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11-05-2013 Why are you even letting this troll post his hateful diatribes? Frankly I wouldn't even have let him post the first one. He's obviously not interested in discussion, just in shaming you personally and as an antinatalist. |
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27-05-2013 This Jonathan Strongarm is the same asshole who posted months back under 2 different names. Same phrasing and egotistical non-listening preaching.What an ass.. I even agree with many of your points, but you are such an ass I don't want to give you more credit. 'i hope you are well in the future! |
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27-05-2013 Personally, I think this unending biological success leading to this precise and intelligent brain is exactly what is giving Irina and others like her, the ability to reflect upon our condition and make new changes.This is a new era in which looking at things realistically can be done with more precision because of our advanced knowledge. There is a difference between being negative and honest. Being honest is very hard but sometimes is depressing because delusion is a powerful and proven mechanism in the brain used to further our survival by boosting our hope and mood irrationally. It is hardest of all in my opinion, to look things squarely in the eye, and that is what I believe (and hope) Irina is doing. Through this suffering of the facts, if more people employed themselves to do it, we may actually change the future. Ignorance and going with the flow will do nothing new. |
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12-11-2013 Hey Irina! I guess this statment from Nietzsche shows us very clear the absurdity of\"the argument from nature.\"\r\n\r\nYou desire to LIVE \"according to Nature\"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power--how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live--is not that just endeavoring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, \"living according to Nature,\" means actually the same as \"living according to life\"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature \"according to the Stoa,\" and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise-- and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves--Stoicism is self-tyranny--Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature? . . . \r\n\r\nGreetings |
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29-12-2013 You are a rare phenomenon: physically you embody those qualities (youth, health, beauty) that drive the life force most fiercely, but at the same time you see what life really is with a clarity that defies that unfortunate instinct. You should read my novel (see link – this is not a sales pitch, you can borrow it for free); the heroine is very similar to yourself. It may appear to be about a shark and a woman who wants to protect it, but it has something to say about the tragic accident of human consciousness, the victory of the id and the superego’s despair at this victory, and the often subconscious antinatalist impulse within the most refined of humans.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shark-J-D-Douglas-ebook/dp/B00B1ETVHW/ref=sr_1_3_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1388327438&sr=8-3&keywords=shark+douglas |
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30-12-2013
Thank you, John. 'A rare phenomenon' sounds nice :D Your novel sounds interesting and I am glad the link to it will be in this disqussion for others to pick up but honestly I only read non-fiction and even that costs me some effort. ADHD maybe :P Couldn't even make myself read Yalom's novel "The Schopenhauer cure" even though I was interested in the subject. |
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