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