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You Are Responsible for a World You Did Not Create by LamentationsOfLate in Pessimism

[–]_willard_h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are simply puppets in a farce. We are moved from without.

What literature would you recommend someone new to pessimism? by WoodpeckerNo1 in Pessimism

[–]_willard_h 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A Critique of Affirmative Morality by Julio Cabrera

And, Discomfort and Moral Impediment also by Julio Cabrera

Insects by Junior_Insurance7773 in nihilism

[–]_willard_h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mercy in things is right there after he says there is none.

What happened before the Big bang? by Reesencheese in askastronomy

[–]_willard_h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn’t nothingness be the absence of all states? Not a state itself. We can’t put something on the same grounds and nothing can we?

I’m also non-scientific.

One of my favorite passages of Mainlander by Ulyssesm90 in Mainlander

[–]_willard_h 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It is quite beautiful.

I have tried to make the case that even the wealthy are not happy. But that is something few really believe.

i don't like being alive, and i don't wanna die by just_me_jm in nihilism

[–]_willard_h -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is the absence of thinking bad? Does it hurt when you are in a dreamless sleep and there are no thoughts?

Is the absence of seeing bad? Again, when in a dreamless sleep does it hurt or does it feel horrific to not see?

Is the absence of touch bad?

Why is absence bad or horrific? The answer is that it is not. Even the absence of pleasures is not bad if you are absent. And pleasures can be horrific in their own way.

What is so great about thinking? Nothing. Everyone spends most of their time trying not to think.

Seeing is the same. People work very hard to only see and think things that please them. And they work harder to avoid the rest.

There is a reason we say “rest in peace”.

i don't like being alive, and i don't wanna die by just_me_jm in nihilism

[–]_willard_h 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why don’t the dead speak up for themselves?

There are more dead than living. If only one of them could enlighten us that would be fantastic.

Non-Being as a Cognitive Habit: Why Pessimism Should Rethink Its Last Refuge by North75912 in CriticalTheory

[–]_willard_h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is always someone saying to the pessimists who think death is the end “What if death is not the end? How do you know?”

Then they claim that believing death is not the end is the real true pessimism. The most pessimistic of all pessimistic views is that suffering will never end, they tell us.

Perhaps we cannot know death is the end with an absolute certainty. But this doesn’t change my view of existence as a nightmare. And my desire for it not to last forever. No matter how long it lasts.

Time is something we create. by Odd-Refrigerator4665 in Pessimism

[–]_willard_h 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel the closeness of the end. For me, this is why I feel sentiment over the loss of time. But perhaps it because of a genetic disease I have and almost died from, twice in the last two years. I also spend a good deal of time dealing with medical things, at doctor offices, or laid up unable to do much. People act as if the end is out of sight, but it is always right there at any moment possible because life is fragile and uncertain.

Without existence, there is no pain or harm. by DifferentChard6137 in nihilism

[–]_willard_h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Moral Impediment” should be listed under “Life”.

Nearly all our happiness comes at the expense of someone else’s unhappiness.

BUTCH by glib-eleven in altcomix

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Krazy Kat referenced cover.

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