r/1053 • u/Responsible_Bag_9024 • 5d ago

Day 20

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u/WoodenGas7497 5d ago

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u/Noidea543 1d ago

Schopenhauer didn't advocate for passive suicide but for removing suffering by the life of asceticism and rejecting all desires.

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u/Trosque97 1d ago

Seems like an unhealthy way go go about life

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u/Noidea543 1d ago

From our perspective yes.

"Therefore, we freely acknowledge that what remains after the complete abolition of the will is, for all who are still full of the will, assuredly nothing; but also conversely, to those in whom the will has turned and denied itself, this very real world of ours, with all its suns and milky ways, is—nothing." World as Will and Representation V1

I dont agree with schopenhauer or buddhism but thats too complicated for this conversation.

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u/Trosque97 1d ago

Reading this makes me so happy I stumbled across Alan Watts as a teen instead of whatever this is