Proof that life is shite
Step 1: Think of a tormenting death (for instance scaphism)
Step 2: Think of the most pleasant experience you can imagine (for instance winning a billion dollars)
Step 3: Put these on a roulette wheel giving the good thing 2/3rds of the share.
Now you can spin the wheel deciding your fate, or you can forgo spinning the wheel and continue in your banausic existence.
>he thinks pleasure and pain are two distinct concepts and not an integral whole
Brainlet detected
Life is shite if you accept it to be.
If a billion dollars. is the most pleasant thing you can imagine, you. lack imagination. That must be the root of your beliefs.
how does it prove anything?
Oh HHAHAHAahah
I've already seen this post before with a frog picture and accompanied by the words "This will make you a pessimist" (or something to that effect)
Very well, I'll bite. First of all, life is not a dichotomy between a distinct "worst pain" and "best pleasure." The matter is far more nuanced in that there are various grey areas. Take for instance now; the pain or pleasure that I feel when responding to you is so small that it is negligible. I am not feeling any notable emotions. So is life; you are not constantly swinging from scaphism to billions of dollars.
Also, a man who seeks worldly pleasures will be left with suffering. A man who seeks otherworldly pleasures (in God) will escape suffering and emptiness.
There is no wheel, it is an aberration that exists only in OP's mind.
I am a huge fan of Cioran's writing but holy shit OP, it's such a tremendous oversimplification that I can smell sarcasm from here
I've read On the Heights of Despair and The Trouble with Being Born by him, both were tremendously lucid and straight on point of the things. What do I read next?
There is nothing so good in life that its worth potentially suffering extreme torture for days over.
Stop Mads posting. This is a Chad Mortensen board.
Yes there is- Christianity. I would suffer for my faith. Additionally, you assume that in everyone's life their sufferings outweigh their pleasures or neutral moments. Your entire "argument" is an oversimplification and a reach
/thread and fuck anti natalism
You can't "/thread/" on your own post.
Kierkegaard convinced me suffering is anagogical and sotierological. It takes you outside the world and connects you to the will of God. Other Christians have talked about this as well. And yes, I get the idea that it’s one massive cope.
Billion dollars isn't what will make life good. If something so material and extrinsic is supposed to be a meaning to your life, then that is only proof of your status as a utter brainlet.
The extreme suffering you mention won't happen to you because life isn't like fiction, it's boring and mundane.
By choosing not to spin the wheel you choose life, you clown. If the wheel had 2/3 death 1/3 best pleasure imaginable most won't spin, again preferring life.
Transfiguration of Romania
Not available in my country.
If you read French there's an epub on gen lib
Ignoring differentiation and placing all meaning in the cumulative is how we got into this nihilistic madness in the first place.
>There is nothing so good in life that its worth potentially suffering extreme torture for days over.
This can be either true or false depending on if you've actually experienced things worth such suffering. Have you considered that your cowardice may be preventing you from finding things worth caring about?
Just did
Suffering departs you from society because it changes you. This allows you to observe society and its workings better because you are observing them from a distance. You can also find God because man does not like remaining in suffering without some so-called "cope," whether alcohol or a higher truth. Of course, the latter is not of a worldly nature.
Billion dollars will make you unhappy. It's the struggle for bread that keeps you going, just don't let it define you.
Sorry I don't. Another book?
>Of course, the latter is not of a worldly nature.
This is the biggest mistake in history: higher truth is entirely natural and worldly. Life is a living thesis of its own value: it's every struggle affirms the truth that its pursuits are meaningful. The role of God is fulfilled in the relationship between an organism and the horizon of its potentialities, "God" _is_ future-directedness. By making God an actuality, the role is reversed: God as past-directedness that is realized in human activity as indebtedness to the past. God as popularly known is a God of debt, to one which owes infinite gratitude which must be paid via the sacrifice of the soul ("salvation.") Capitalism is a sect of Christianity when it comes down to real processes, and its project is to resurrect the dead at the expense of the living. It's just variations of death-worship that is compelled to engage in human and biological sacrifice.
There is no cope from this, but instead an imperative to wipe Christianity and Capitalism off the face of the Earth, with the only effective weapon being that of knowledge. The death-worshipers will ultimately be remembered as having led meaningless lives that were governed by the negation of all life, profoundly broken people who were infected by the greatest cowardice and stupidity. Fuck religion and capitalism forever.