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"birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering;
#PhilosophicalPessimism #Buddhism #Dukka #Antinatalism #Suffering #Sentientism
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Quote from 'John Dies At The End': "This place, it's a horror show. If the guy next to you decides to knock you out of this world forever, he can do it with just a piece of metal or, hell, even his bare hand. You blobs, you sit there, chillin' in this room and I can smell the rot of dead animals soaking in the acid of your guts. You suck the life from the innocent creatures of this world just so you can clock another day.."
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Falling down the YouTube rabbit hole of watching videos on Liminal Horror.....
#Horror #Uncanny #PhilosophicalPessimism
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bitdizzy is absent @bitdizzy.bsky think Al hype is excessive and ignorant- not for the reasons you think, no. No, it's not the distance between language models and human cognition but their proximity. Cognition is a disease and we're trying to give it to rocks.
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As a philosophy, pessimism needs no defense. If anything needs a defense, it is life itself. And there is no shortage of defenders; it is enough to take a walk around any bookstore to see that there are entire sections dedicated to positivism and self-help. Thousands of books and millions of words that seek to convince us that happiness is possible, that success and well-being are in our hands. That we have power. That we can achieve what we want. That we can succeed and we can win at life, because life is good and worth living. Look closely at what they tell us: life can be won. It seems to me that, without realizing it, these optimists do nothing more than confirm what every pessimist already knows: that life requires effort and that it is a constant struggle and sacrifice; that it is a contest, a confrontation, something that must be won. On this point, Schopenhauer's sentence is overwhelming: if life was designed for our happiness, then it was poorly designed, because everything in life seems to shout loudly: death, pain, illness, sacrifice and endless struggle.'
#IgnacioMoyaArriagada #PhilosophicalPessimism #Schopenhauer #Quotations
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Into every life a little ax must fall. Every dog has its choke chain. Every cloud has a shadow. Better dead than fed. He who laughs, will not last. Sticks and stones will break you, and then the names of things will be changed. A stitch in time saves no one. The darkest hour comes.
'Verities', by Kim Addonizio
#Poetry #PhilosophicalPessimism #KimAddonizio
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I Have A Special Plan For This World, by Thomas Ligotti (music & narration by 'Kuma') #ThomasLigotti #Poetry #PhilosophicalPessimism #CosmicPessimism
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This is a depressing idea. A universe with no conscious entities would have been better. #PhilosophicalPessimism #Sentientism #SentiocentricAntinatalism
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Thomas Ligotti, horror author &.….…proto-Vegan!??
#ThomasLigotti #PhilosophicalPessimism #Sentientism #Vegan
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'Anguish': a Painting by August Friedrich Schenck.
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"...Look at Ukraine. Look at Gaza. I haven't changed a solitary thing. I mean it. I feel as if I've been riding on other people's pain over the last 60 years, and their pain hasn't helped prevent this kind of tragedy. We've learned nothing." #PhilosophicalPessimism #War
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A music break for sanity's sake #music #classical #symphonic #opera #romantic #philosophicalpessimism youtu.be/N0PpTPvbr-4?...
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I Have A Special Plan For This World, by Thomas Ligotti Imagine he said all the flesh that is eaten The teeth tearing into it The tongue tasting it's savour And the hunger for that taste Now take away that flesh he said Take away the teeth and the tongue The taste and the hunger Take away everything as it is That was my plan My own special plan for this world But what was demanded in a way of a plan Needed to go beyond tongue and teeth and hunger and flesh Beyond the bones and the very dust of bones and the wind that would come to blow the dust away And so I began to envision a darkness that was long before the dark of night And a strangely shining light That owed nothing to the light of day That day may seem like other days Once more we feel the tiny legged trepidations Once more we are mangled by a great grinding fear But that day will have no others after No more worlds like this will follow Because I have a plan A very special plan No more worlds like this No more days like that
I Have A Special Plan For This World by Thomas Ligotti... #ThomasLigotti #PhilosophicalPessimism #CosmicPessimism
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The Winter Palace by Philip Larkin Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder. I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university. And refusing to take in what had happened since. Now I know none of the names in the public prints, And am starting to give offence by forgetting faces And swearing I've never been in certain places. It will be worth it, if in the end I manage To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage. Then there will be nothing I know. My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.
The Winter Palace #Poetry #PhilipLarkin #PhilosophicalPessimism
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Pretty much the same reasons why I never wanted kids myself.....
#PhilosophicalPessimism #Antinatalism
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