offensivelyme

philosophy and literature mostly

[midsommars-deactivated20201109]

The Best of the Kids [1/5]: Will Byers 

An easy step-by-step guide on why he is a smol bean.  ( requested by anons )

[thelovejournals]

…Just because people aren’t in our lives anymore, doesn’t mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.

Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

[thelovejournals]

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Jess C. Scott, The Intern

[wordsnquotes]

When someone is going through a storm, your silent presence is more powerful than a million, empty words.

Thema Davis

[philosophybits]

Freedom is, both in itself and in its relation to these other goods, the best thing that political and economic conditions can secure.

Bertrand Russell

[anamorphosis-and-isolate]

I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say.

Albert Camus, The Fall (via anamorphosis-and-isolate)

[jenniferslookingglass]

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung (via jenniferslookingglass)

[beauvoiriana-deactivated2020041]

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life. (via beauvoiriana)

[tooyoungtoreign]

“If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? The state of nature from which he has been removed. Imagine wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech and without home.”

—Rousseau

[studentsofphilosophy]

Oh sorry, part of the question did not send. I was asking 1. Your view on Schopenhauer's thesis on desire? And 2. I find Nietzsche's philosophy really optimistic and wanted your view on it.

No problem! 

1. Schopenhauer and the thesis of desire. This was never a big thing we did in my units of Schopenhauer but basically, he hated desire, correct? I hope so or else this whole answer will be wild. He thought human desires were wasteful and futile, even harmful to us. His beliefs echo stoicism for me and I appreciate stoicism. I’m not a stoic because I simply don’t have the disposition for it but I really, really wish I could be. I don’t think desire is the root of human suffering, but I think it’s a definite contributing factor. Schopenhauer argues that desire prohibits us from achieving peace (tranquility) because we’re never content. I can see how that is very true for some people. 

His work on desire correlated a lot with asceticism and took inspiration from Eastern philosophy. There was a lot of minimize physical desires in order to achieve a higher state of thinks, etc. Again, I can see the value in this for some people, but not necessarily for me. I’m someone with a lot of crap (especially shoes and clothes) but I don’t think my ‘stuff’ prevents me from thinking or hinders me at all. I don’t connect a lot with his ideas regarding desire, at least not on a personal level but this summer, I’m moving to Miami and I can only take one suitcase so who knows…maybe I’ll see the value in minimalism soon.

2. Agreed. Nietzsche is a very, very optimistic philosopher and his philosophy offers people a lot of hope (same with existentialism!). For me, the most positive aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophy is the idea that humans are free to create their own systems of value. No one is in charge of us, nothing dictates how we think…It’s all up to us and that’s empowering. 

-Bar (also, the person who asked this has a nice blog with philosophy-centric posts…people are always asking for philosophy blogs to follow, well, this guys got one.)

[offensivelyme]

Thanks a lot for your input and the small advertising ~

[ablueorangeintheocean]

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre — middle 30′s

[criseidentitaire]

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly. I love you with a touch of distress: with need and urgency.

Simone De Beauvoir, Letters to Jean-Paul Sartre (via zelittle-frenchie)

[thelifeisabsurd]

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. - Jean-Paul Sartre

(via thelifeisabsurd)

[shitmystudentswrite]

Pro-choice

If Nietzsche was unexpectedly pregnant and he did not want the baby, I believe he would without a doubt abort the baby

[shitmystudentswrite]

Re: the Holocaust

I personally feel that the Germans went too far.

[dailynietzsche]

“We have measured the value of the world according to categories of reason that refer to a purely fictitious world. The faith in those categories is the cause of nihilism.”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §12B (edited excerpt).

[coolpeekaboobthings]

Think big, be free, have sex … 10 reasons to be an existentialist

The existentialists asked the essential questions – and still have much to offer us today. So don your turtleneck and make like Sartre and De Beauvoir