The Maya of the Ego - /lit/ (#24485465) [Archived: 874 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/21/2025, 8:13:50 PM No.24485465
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>โ€œThe necessity of death is to be inferred chiefly from the fact that the human being is a mere appearance, not a thing in itself, hence not something that truly isโ€
>โ€œFor, if it were this, it could not perish.โ€
>โ€œBut that the thing in itself can only manifest itself in appearances of this kind, which it underlies, is a consequence of its disposition.โ€
In three sentences Schopenhauer said what all of Oriental Philosophy could only point towards and try to touch upon.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 8:37:39 PM No.24485511
Where do you think he got that idea from?
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 8:38:37 PM No.24485512
>>24485511
>could only point towards and try to touch upon.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 8:51:27 PM No.24485544
>>24485512
Only if you got filtered, plenty of verses that can reveal the truth, even pictures.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 9:04:25 PM No.24485583
>>24485544
yet he cant name one
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 9:06:52 PM No.24485591
>>24485465 (OP)
Ok. Now what? I still have to go to work.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 12:20:32 PM No.24487028
>>24485591
That is a blessing
>โ€œWork, worry, toil and distress are indeed the lot of almost all human beings their whole life through. But if all wishes came true no sooner than they were made, then what would occupy human life and on what would time be spent? โ€
Without work you would have to tackle the second problem of life: the boredom of existence
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 12:30:28 PM No.24487034
>>24487028
tackling boredom beats having to work, by far. retard.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 2:53:24 PM No.24487195
>>24487034
People kill themselves because they can't find purpose (they are bored). If you are working on something you won't have to kill yourself because your focus is in the work โ€“ something outside of you. Right now you have free time and what do you do? You're on 4chan complaining, instead of doing something you like... unless you like complaining... well, then this is your being
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 2:58:37 PM No.24487204
>>24485465 (OP)
He's wrong though. The soul is eternal.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 3:39:06 PM No.24487284
>>24487195
how many people kill themselves because of a shitty job vs. lack of purpose? 1- you are a retard 2- you need to go back to your shitty job and stop littering this board.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 4:33:32 PM No.24487412
>>24487284
Not what I said. Learn to read or gtfo of this board
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 4:42:04 PM No.24487428
It's just too big of a world. I don't know what there is to be done with it. There are billions of people out there. They are all suffering in some way or another. I wish I could help you all at the same time, to bring a lemonade to everyone working in the heat, to be at all funerals happening right now and console people who might be having the worst day of their lives.

Then there are animals, plants, fungi all around us, trillions of ants in that park alone. Some insect's whole life may last a week, and that guy may spend most of it flipped on its back, grasping for something. If only I could flip all of the insects at once, to protect them all. I wish I could save the entire world, but not only is that not possible, it is simply not conceivable. There is nothing to save things from. There is no such thing as satisfaction.

The proportions are also insane. Maybe a microbe doesn't have the same nervous system as a person or a cat, but a drop of alcohol on a table kills trillions of bacteria. Should we not care about them? On the other end: if there is an upcoming bloody war on an alien planet in the year 3000, is it our duty to get there and stop it before it happens? These things are totally impractical, and so we disregard them easily. But they are real events in real places, with real beings, it's not a movie or a fantasy, we really do have trillions of galaxies out there, it's all going on. I wonder how many insects are out there, flipped on their back, struggling just like us.

I look at the ordinary human world of politics, work, society, history, and there is so much to be done to make things better. But we cannot evade death or change. Why be vegan or not be vegan? Why adopt religion? Why watch a movie? Why meet, marry, move, struggle, engage? Why take part in any battle, in any game? Why learn? If you smoke and die of lung cancer at 50 or stay healthy and live to 100, what difference does that make? Who was happier? And what good is ten thousand years of pure bliss and joy, if it ends.
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 8:34:54 PM No.24487915
>>24487034
go into a solitary confinement cell for a week and you will change your mind
you underestimate boredom, because you quickly find an activity to cope with.
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 8:53:56 PM No.24487972
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>>24487204
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 8:55:34 PM No.24487977
>>24487972
>posting this mentally ill schizo
Not the "own" you thought it was.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 1:14:08 AM No.24488596
>>24485465 (OP)
lmao the buddhists don't need words and will simply show you a picture. In any case, this very idea has been spoken of in a single verse in their philosophy, so checkmate.

>also, materialists laughing in the background having transience in their philosophy as well without any idealist "appearance" bs
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 2:16:00 AM No.24488721
>>24488596
>materialists laug-
Nope, they're retards.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:35:47 AM No.24488865
>>24487977
NTA. You didn't even get what OP is talking about.