Today a man with knowledge might easily feel like

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"Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres"

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"When anyone offends against you, let your first thought be, under what conception of good and ill was this committed? Once you know that, astonishment and anger will give place to pity. For either your own ideas of what is good are no more advanced than his, or at least bear some likeness to them, in which case it is clearly your duty to pardon him; or else, on the other hand, you have grown beyond supposing such actions to be either good or bad, and therefore it will be so much the easier to be tolerant of another's blindness."

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"It is some such line of thought that leads philosphers like McX to impute being where they might otherwise be quite content to recognize that there is nothing. Thus, take Pegasus. If Pegasus were not, McX argues, we should not be talking about anything when we use the word; therefore it would be nonsense to say even that Pegasus is not. Thinking to show thus that the denial of Pegasus cannot be coherently maintained, he concludes that Pegasus is."

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“The one next to us is not our neighbour but our neighbour’s neighbour”— that’s how every people thinks.

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"That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom; and that boredom is a direct…

[randombrethren-deactivated20231]

R u calling our conversations shallow I see through your tricks

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Of course not! I am merely expressing the emptiness I feel with your absence.

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On boredom

"That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom; and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence." - Arthur Schopenhauer

How often are we confronted with the 'emptiness of existence'? Throughout the day - in fact, throughout life - we are constantly exposed to the imminent danger(s) of boredom. I presume this is one of the chief reasons why human beings are social in the first place; to accommodate for each other's 'emptiness of existence' by the means of conversations. Even the most shallow conversations constitute eventfulness - yet, we cannot ever escape from our precarious state of affairs. The immediate dangers of boredom will be mitigated, yes, but never be removed altogether. Once your counterpart has left, you recede to your state of emptiness.

Well, all of this only obtains if you prefer human interaction. Some people - yes, they exist - can live in perfect solitude, without any forms of human or non-human interaction whatsoever. I commend them!

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"It's not that some individuals live in fancier apartments than others, or drive better made cars, or take vacations in more exotic places. These are conceivably the just rewards of market success. The problem is that inequality commonly translates into domination and radical deprivation."

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On insomnia

The inability to fall asleep is, I acknowledge, a very serious problem which demands everyone's immediate attention. People that do not suffer from these threatening symptoms of insomnia should count themself as lucky, for nothing is as dreadful as not being able to fall asleep during night, which results in sleep deprivation. The sad thing, however, is the fact that not everyone feels the urge to share their experience on insomnia, and so many people suffer in solitude! I encourage each and everyone of you, all my followers (1 person) to ask your friends if they ever suffer from sleeping problems! If yes, be sure to support them!

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On idleness

I do not think I have ever been as idle as I currently am... in fact, life does not get more meaningless than staying awake during the middle of the night, doing nothing but writing a paragraph on 'idleness'. Alas, being idle takes quite some skills, as it is a transcendental artform. Being idle is not the act of not acting, that is, inaction, but rather the act of acting in a way which does not amount to anything of value. But, unless this paragraph is useless, I am not really being idle right now, am I?

[diesvacantes]

"Veblen's account of "honorific leisure" suggests, indeed, that it can be a trying and hectic business (though it is never hard work). For it's not enough merely to loaf; one must pile up "serviceable evidence of an unproductive expenditure of time." What is crucial is simultaneously to do nothing useful and to make it known to the world that one is doing nothing useful."

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"When the lower ranks challenge the higher, we don’t call it a duel; it’s a revolution."