I believe in science.
Real science …not nonsense made up science.
A starting philosophy dictates a science.Science does not dictate to philosophy.Science came after philosophy.
Actually, Esqueleto, philosophy and science are married, and they never should’ve got divorced (in the public eye) (they’re still actually married).
Tell me what that means and how it resolved your depression and existential crisis?
Are you not also Gamer?
No, I’m not Gamer; ask Promethean.
ΑΘΕΛΗΜΑ is written in all-caps because the ancient Greeks only had caps. It transliterates to “athelema”, which is parsed as a-thelema, meaning “un-will” or “no-will”.
“There is no will”. (Nietzsche, The Will to Power, sections 46 and 715; cf. 1060.)
Specifically (for me), it refers to free will. And it did not resolve my existential crisis, much less my depression. I overcame my depression, for almost seventeen years, with the pride of the Sun—“sun” being what the proto-Greek *sawelios means (I just stylized it in a Dutch way. Also, the cardinal sin of Pride is traditionally ruled by the sun).
Do you see the connection between pride and free will?
The root of my existential crisis—and thereby, in fact, of my depression—is the lack of free will—the lack of a true freedom, a true power, to possess. I have tried long and hard to resolve it. My latest attempt is reflected in this image:
‘How good it feels to “march against a friend”—i.e., to fight for an unworthy cause—when one has good reasons and good music!’
Compare:
“Ye say it is the good cause which halloweth even war? I say unto you: it is the good war which halloweth every cause.” (Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, “Of War and Warriors”.)
Plus:
“Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. Their effects are known well enough: they undermine the will to power; they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic—every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization… These same institutions produce quite different effects while they are still being fought for; then they really promote freedom in a powerful way. On closer inspection it is war that produces these effects, the war for liberal institutions, which, as a war, permits illiberal instincts to continue.” (Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man”, 38.)
https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/nietzsches-stance-toward-system-an-essay/26448/21?u=zeroeth_nature
Song of Carthage - Epic Roman Music (Farya Faraji)
“[Political/pseudo-] liberalism’s Moloch is satisfied with nothing less than […] the victory of [true] liberalism over politics, [nihilist] science over philosophy, the West over the East, the rootless over the deeply rooted, the masculine over the maternal, [etc. … Its] Moloch requires that the political or philosophic meaning of [the patriarchal] family and city[-state, polis,] be erased from the soul.” (Harry Morris Neumann, Liberalism, page 257.)
“[Marx] followed the vision of a world society which presupposes and establishes forever [sic] the complete victory of the town over the country, of the mobile over the deeply rooted, of the spirit of the Occident over the spirit of the Orient; the members of the world society which is no longer a political society are free and equal, and are so in the last analysis because all specialization, all division of labor, has given way to the full development of everyone.” (Leo Strauss, “Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy”.)
The root cause of your existential crisis is your lack of understanding that existence is not life.
Nope! My existential crisis is that there is no existence:
‘The only thing you can experience is not existing. That’s the sole difference between life and death (lifelessness): life experiences not existing (though most life isn’t aware that that is what it experiences, of course), and death/lifelessness does not.’
Don’t be silly you need to exist to claim that there is no existence.You need to exist to claim that you don’t exist.You need to exist first to claim anything at all.
If you claim that you don’t exist then you are merely a liar who exists.
I am trying to to help you out of your existential crisis.
No. What you’re really saying—and delusionally reifying—is this:
‘Don’t be silly the finite verb “claim” requires a grammatical subject.’
And I’m trying to help you out of your animistic superstitions…
You need to exist to claim that you don’t exist …this philosophical argument was won ages ago….where have you been?
It’s in the complete idiots guide to truth.
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Forget about Nietzsches views…he knew nothing…he went mad.
Anyone who claims that they are a misrepresentation of reality (an illusion) clearly has psychological challenges.
What do these two things have to do with each other? In fact, he may have gone mad because he knew too much…
Oh no! Having psychological challenges is even worse than not existing at all…
Seriously though, it’s you who misinterpret Neumann’s “dreams” etc. as misrepresentations of reality. That is, you believe in a reality beyond the appearances, e.g. a subject beyond the “activity” of claiming.
Nietzsche went mad because he drove himself mad because he didn’t understand reality.
He believed that he was a misrepresentation of reality (an illusion).
He never read the idiots guide to truth obviously.
I understand real philosophy,science and psychology and not a fake interpretation of it.
Come again, please?
Multi tasking…apologies…edited.
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All of these statements are mere claims.
I agree …no different to your claims but my philosophy,science and psychology is sound.Your’s aren’t which is why you have an existential crisis like Nietzsche had.
Well, I contend that one cannot have a sound philosophy, psychology, or science without having an existential crisis… For the crisis—krisis, “discerning”—is precisely between existence and nonexistence!
The difference between our claims is that the emptiness of my claims reflects the emptiness they claim about reality, whereas the emptiness of your claims contradicts the non-emptiness they claim about reality. 
I don’t have an existential crisis at all.
There is no life in existence and non existence.
The problem isn’t an existential or non existential crisis.
The problem is a life …non life crisis.
“The only thing you can experience is not existing. That’s the sole difference between life and death (lifelessness): life experiences not existing (though most life isn’t aware that that is what it experiences, of course), and death/lifelessness does not.”
What an awesome way to put it. Now that’s a quote. Even though we can’t be that eye that sees eons pass in a flash, in a moment, we know intuitively what it would look like… we can see the boundless black space in every direction to no end. And when we imagine this, we become that eye and see ourselves through it. And in the blink of that eye, we are… gone forever (sans ER). So technically that whole meager 80 years of life was like an imperceptible fraction of time, not even long enough to be a New York minute.
This disturbs me very much, and I’m actually unable to cry for us all anymore, having grown cold, sardonic, cynical. Offended even that we should be put into this preposterous position (life, i mean). I’m like Ecmandu,.bro. Why was I even woken up at all? Everything was fine until the goddamn big bang happened.
You need to exist to claim that you don’t exist….so you can exist and claim that you don’t exist if you want but that means you are a liar who exists.
You really need to move on from claiming that you don’t exist, you are wasting your time.That philosophical argument has been lost already.
If you want to sort your psychological crisis out that is.
A single big bang never happened.