Then, couple that with being a philosopher, noticing there are probably an infinite amount of galaxies, with infinite amount of lifeforms, and being able to reincarnate into lifeforms in that galaxies, you start to hate and despise existence and the universe itself…
doesn’t help that this world is garbage, not a good look for the universe.
Yes, I would. I don’t think God gave it to me, I think it’s just there for the taking, whether God exists or not.
I’ve been addicted to computer games for years. And you are right, games lose their novelty. Kierkegaard once famously posited that “crop rotation” was the best way to happiness for those who derive satisfaction from satisfying the self. IIRC Kierkegaard also posited the way of life that seeks to be dutiful and the third way of life is the religious way of life that seeks spiritual awakening. K seems to have suffered from extreme depression.
If God does not give serenity, then why do you pray to God to be “granted” serenity?
I don’t. I don’t pray at all. Replace the word “God” with “Life”. For me, same result. I didn’t interpret it literally, I think it just highlights the futility of worrying about things that cannot be changed, and the merits of concentrating on what can instead.
Was he ever cured or went with depression to the grave…?
I believe he went to his grave depressed but he believed in the Bible. He called it “good tidings” for those in despair.
Sounds like a sad lost man.
Was he an incel or did he have a wife?
I’ve spend my whole life yearning for female companionship. And yet, I’ve been a bachelor all my life. Never had a steady girlfriend and never had sex until the age of 46.
I find myself still yearning for female companionship. Really, it’s the only thing I want out of life. I had some savings but I gave it all to a female I’m currently attracted to. I don’t miss the savings. I live with my mother so I still have a roof over my head and don’t buy much of anything for myself other than food. But I feel a lot of frustration and emptiness over the fact that it didn’t seem to win her affection for me.
Not sure why but finding female companionship has always been the biggest thing on my mind and something I have never had come to fruition.
He had a single love interest in a woman (I believe she was a neighbor or something, I’ve forgotten) and it didn’t work out well for him. There’s a lot of speculation about it. Apparently they were due to get married and he bailed on the marriage. But she was the only woman I’m aware of that he ever courted or had strong feelings for. IIRC, Regina was her name.
I think it’s less to do with you, and more to do with the expectations of society. If you were to learn anything about relationships or attracting females from watching movies or series, then you would learn nothing at all, in my opinion.
Also it’s considered somehow “unhealthy” to live with a parent at that age, I say why? A billion Muslims would disagree, as would much of the rest of the world. I lived with my parents when I came home from DK with my tail between my legs, and stayed there for two years. If my Mum (who is getting on) asked me to move back up north to keep her company, I would.
I live alone and get lonely sometimes, and I’d like female companionship, but maybe just at the weekends or something, and I don’t think they would put up with me very well these days, I always have my head in something else and wouldn’t pay enough attention.
But if I was looking for someone at my age, I would probably join some group, like a local book group, or a painting or photography class, something creative, something that established a shared interest right from the start. I wouldn’t go on Tinder or any of that crap, it’s a meat market and a recipe for disappointment.
I have a friend in much the same situation as you, only it’s worse, the woman he loves comes to visit him sometimes and doesn’t even know he loves her..
Most of life or living is about compromise. If you’re unable or unwilling in life to compromise you’re going to have a bad time.
Life requires extreme patience, the hardest lesson of them all.
If you couldn’t have a communist dictatorship, would you compromise for a democratic communist society?
Perhaps, but when I was younger I went to many hippie communes revolving around democratic values. Virtually every single one of them collapsed overtime, none of them withstood time.
Grass always grows back after you mow the lawn. Did you replace yours with astroturf or something?
All too common, in great thinkers, scientists and philosophers, a life of celibacy and romantic failures..
He’s not wrong… I too once was an optimistic political activist, joining a hippie political movement… they were just drunkards, not getting any shit done, disorganized… chaos… Only found 1 person there on my level, was some kind of philosopher type, an old white man. It was like we both could sense the hippies were a joke and going nowhere, and what a total joke it all was.
What do hippies have to do with democracy? Only hippies believe in democracy?
Beta bux alpha fux.
My advice, ditch the bitch and find someone new. If your avatar is actually you, I think there’s hope for you, there are some women who are into the middle age white man trope.
We may note that many an existentialist, nihilist, pessimist, and skeptic philosopher of antiquity had girl problems. Ever notice that? The french existentialists like Voltaire, Camus and Sartre got pussy because they were dirty french nihilists more or less. But Schop, Kierk, Nietz, Spinz, Witt, all the ones that had personality issues in some way.
That’s what happens to good men when consequence and fate have removed romance and love from their lives. Or they turn gay like Wittgenstein because somehow the brain cross associates sexual arousal with intellectual prowess and so only smart af guys turn them on. Females are so below the male genius as to not even solicit sexual attention from them. That’s how smartly gay those analytical british philosophers were. A chick could walk by naked and wouldn’t draw a single glance from those guys unless she could riff on a chalk board about atomic propositions for ten minutes.
Irony: it’s us heterosexual men who are primitive and crude because we’re the ones attracted to that inferior and duplicitous half-man called ‘woman’.
But goddamn bro call em what you want i love em. And i accept that maybe I’m just too dumb to be gay.