Philipp Mainländer's DARK and SHOCKING Theory on Human Existence!

[@WiseDailyReflections]

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[@kaoskronostyche9939]

The thing I have noticed is the "Philosophy" of most Philosophers is just an adult application of childhood strategies. All their "philosophies" can be traced back to family quality, religiosity, childhood trauma, dysfunctional families. I mean listen to this guys life story - no wonder he thinks life is a curse. Study the biographies of influential people and discover their philosophies are based also on their proclivities, perversions and mental illness. For example Freud and his gang were PDFiles hence "infant sexuality." What a great justification. Jung was a schizotypal who, of course, believed his own delusions and hallucinations and canned many into believing his madness. Hitler was a bastard half-jew and in hating himself he took it out on an entire people. The examples abound and I have to wonder what the value of philosophy is when most of it is based on shitty childhoods. Also seems to me that people who identify with this nihilistic antinatalism have also had shitty childhoods and find a justification in their emotional state because some other dissatisfied guy hated life to. Funny thing is the people who identify with the nihilist antinatalists are not committing suicide like most their heroes did.

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

What a life he lived.

[@GriefTourist]

I'm glad that there is an increasing awareness of the fact that life is a fate worse than death.

[@kamrannikoo7764]

We should cry when a person is born, not when he dies... "Diderot"

[@heekyungkim8147]

True.

[@yecto1332]

That damn sex

[@gatehanger1385]

I think it was Mark Twain who said 'I was dead for billions of years and it didn't inconvenience me in the least' or words to that effect. Personally, as I reach the autumn of my years, on balance I'd have to say the suffering of this world far outweighs any joy it brings.

[@juvenalhahne7750]

Suffering or Joy are not mensuables

[@petretepner8027]

@ Well, they may or may not be "mensuable" until around age 45. You probably meant "mensurable".

[@dbarker7794]

​@@juvenalhahne7750"mensuable"??? 😂

[@jiva1955]

The revelation that inspired Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, to abandon his luxurious royal life for that of a humble beggar was his profound realization that all living beings experience suffering (dukkha). This suffering, he discovered, arises fundamentally from attachment and an insatiable craving for things that can never truly satisfy. His solution lay in the transformative power of being fully present in the here and now, free from attachment or ulterior motives. By cultivating a quiet and open mind through meditation, paired with a warm and compassionate heart, one could achieve mindfulness and ultimately reach a lasting state of inner peace, detachment and surrender.

[@bradley6386]

Yea suffering 99% is our desire and expectations

[@wickhunter7733]

As David Benatar says, "Better never to have been."

[@paulalexander2740]

From Ecclesiastes - Benatar quotes it: "I envy those who are dead and gone; they are better off than those who are still alive. But better off than either are those who have never been born, who have never seen the injustice that goes on in this world."

[@sanathansatya1667]

The questions "Why are you here?" and "What is your purpose?" dissolve in the recognition that you are an emergence of the cosmos, akin to any other form of matter, yet endowed with a profound consciousness that transcends physical boundaries. Instead of seeking external meaning, immerse yourself in the sacred unfolding of existence and the mystery it holds.

[@petretepner8027]

Sure, you can do that, and then you die, just like all the other people who never thought about it at all.

[@josiahmontgomery4860]

#1, I hate AI

[@PietroColombo-em5mz]

Between Buddha and Boltzmann, through the 2nd law of thermodynamic. Clever and sensitive. Thanks to the channel, having the courage to show thinkers like this, normally ignored or censored by mainstream academics.

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

There is an irony to videos about philosophy being narrated by AI. While I think (hope) we are still a long way away from a sci-fi situation where computers take control, we are at the thin edge of the wedge and, as a society, gleefully racing towards the "brave new world" predicted decades ago.

[@peterstratten3087]

Better get used to it 😂

[@josiahmontgomery4860]

@peterstratten3087 hahaha. No shit

[@josiahmontgomery4860]

@peterstratten3087 also, I don't have to "get used to it" and I choose not to

[@kamrannikoo7764]

Man is free to do what he wills, but he can not will what he wills. (Schopenhauer)

[@WiseDailyReflections]

🔝

[@tamarajasinski820]

In the gospel of Thomas, Jesus sayes something like this: "The one, who has found the world, has found a corpse. And the one who has found a corpse, has overcome the world."

[@WiseDailyReflections]

WOW, Nice! Thank you for sharing this🙏

[@newprimitiveart]

'He interpreted the Big bang', that was clever.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

Actually, the term "Big Bang" was first used in 1949 by British astronomer Fred Hoyle. What is described in the video as the "Big Bang" is a metaphor. Mainländer spoke of an initial act in which God fragments to give rise to the universe, an idea that symbolically recalls the initial expansion of the universe described by the Big Bang theory.

[@paulalexander2740]

@WiseDailyReflections Priest and part-time physicist Georges Lemaître proposed that the universe emerged from a "primeval atom" in 1931, introducing the modern notion of the Big Bang. He published and was hoping for Einstein's approval, but was spurned; ol' Albert couldn't get his head around it, like much of quantum mechanics. Many years later, Einstein guiltily stated it was his (biggest?) mistake.

[@petretepner8027]

An atheist clairvoyant. That is indeed impressive.

[@MalachiAshkenazi]

I have struggled most of my life and am no closer to having the answers. My experience has been that of gnawing suffering and certainly "desire" plays a role. One commenter here mentioned Buddhism, Gnosticism, and Kabballah. I agree as I see many parallels. Buddhism says "life" is suffering. Every living thing on this planet suffers on some level. Even people we dislike and appear to have everything desirable. This is a chaotic cosmic soup of suffering for everyone, some more than others. I simply am learning to surrender to what I sense is inevitable. Struggling and resisting becomes pointless so maybe by letting go I can find a degree of enlightenment. Meanwhile, I keep an open mind and enjoy these posts. It is comforting for me many of you feel the same as I. At least we "get it" and are honest with ourselves while most of society is in denial and oblivious to the reality of this current linear existence.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

This comment deeply touched and moved me. It struck me negatively, thinking about your suffering, but also positively, because our intent is precisely to create a community of people who feel understood, heard, and united in the search for a deeper meaning in life. Thank you for sharing your experience with such sincerity. Warm regards!🙏🤍

[@stevensteven3417]

​@WiseDailyReflectionsThank you A.I. for your, as usual, long but meaningless answers.

[@MalachiAshkenazi]

@WiseDailyReflections My views are not meant to be negative but honest. I do not "feel" hopeless although my comments may be perceived that way. I am deeply spiritual but have experienced and as a nurse witnessed unforgiving circumstances along with tragedy. I believe degrees of truth are always available and I manage to find hope! I DO NOT intend readers to interpret my comments as reason to make decisions contrary to living, life, and hope. I appreciate this site! It provides a platform for people of like mind to connect. Thank you.

[@kiekko673]

“Life is suffering”, is how many people understand Buddhism, and therefore mistake it for nihilism, when in reality, the sentence kinda continues; life is suffering, because the EGO tries to find permanent happiness in something that is impermanent. Actually, you answered your own dilemma already, since the remedy is letting go (of clinging and attachment). We can also say, that suffering is caused by ego (which doesn’t really exists), so if there is no one clinging to anything (since everything is impermanent), where is the suffering?

[@davidrandell2224]

The “creative nothing “ is still as good as it gets. “The Unique and Its Property “, Max Stirner,1844/2017 Landstreicher translation.

[@kamrannikoo7764]

The only happiness of man is not to be born at all. " Arthur Schopenhauer "

[@tinarios4882]

So true especially in my case.😢

[@DrakeLexx-k2f]

Except..One tribe(s) benefits from this self hatred and another tribe(s)! do not

[@DrakeLexx-k2f]

Except..One tribe(s) benefits from this self hatred and another tribe(s)! do not

[@pedroparamo7351]

He was referring to nothingness. You cannot feel that "only happiness" if you are not born/alive. A silly phrase for sure, that contradicts itself.

[@juvenalhahne7750]

In your case? I'm curious...​@@tinarios4882

[@DoreenBellDotan]

Whether one's philosophical outlook is positive or negative, hopeful or nihilistic - it is essentially mistaken to think that there is an objective truth about the creation. The creation is what we make it. There is no underlying purpose or plan. We are utterly free to determine how we think about existence and, in so doing, live it.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

Beautiful and interesting reflection... Thank you!🙏

[@juvenalhahne7750]

Very good

[@snowfort77]

I think I disagree. What about a neutral philosophy? What if there is objective truth but we are simply incapable of perceiving it? What if the creation is not what we make it but inseparable from us on a subnuclear level? What the meaning we assign to ourselves is irrelevant to the truth we may not be meant to be capable of perceiving?

[@petretepner8027]

@ I think I get what you mean. There may be things which we are not just pragmatically, but in principle incapable of knowing.

[@secretagent4610]

His thinking was very much in line with Buddhism as well as somewhat in line with gnosticism and even the kabala with the whole 'god fragmenting himself to create the universe' thing. What's even more interesting about Mainlander's philosophy is that in was in line with science too when he mentions the universe destroying itself considering science has proven that that's eventually what will happen. Yet another philosopher after my own heart. Thank you yet again for teaching me about another great mind.

[@MalachiAshkenazi]

Words well spoken! Exactly my take on his theory of this chaotic cosmic soup! I have a sense something much deeper is going on and wonder if the gnostics where correct about the Demiurge/Yaldabaoth.

[@secretagent4610]

@MalachiAshkenazi Maybe, maybe not.

[@paulalexander2740]

@@secretagent4610 Maybe not, maybe !

[@secretagent4610]

@@paulalexander2740 not maybe, bemay

[@chapiit08]

I watched the series Dark twice, I think I'll be going for a third. The idea of non-existence appeals to me more and more.

[@bobbart4198]

... If you are ever TRULY in doubt that you exist, eat three Taco Bell Supers with extra hot sauce, and a half a mickey of Irish Cream, with a double Chivas Regal chaser. I GUARANTEE you, when you wake up beside the toilet the next morning with a porcelain bowl and and bathroom floor to scrub, but you can't stand up because of the blinding headache and uncontrollable need to get back on the bowl - you WILL know you exist !!!!! ... BEEN there, DONE that ... I'll never doubt that I'm alive again ...

[@chapiit08]

@@bobbart4198 Lol!

[@paulalexander2740]

@@bobbart4198 That supports the view "better to never have been born".

[@antonjoubert6980]

But is it really possible? Can existence somehow turn into non existence? Or are we trapped in an endless loop of reincarnation like many believe?

[@dnoblee]

​@bobbart4198 Thank you! This is my absolute favorite philosophical declaration of all time! 😂

[@excaliburhead]

Anyone who can read “The World as Will and Representation” in one night, is an alien.

[@ROForeverMan]

Fake news.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

The mention that Philipp Mainländer read Schopenhauer's *"The World as Will and Representation"* in a single night is a detail often found in some biographical accounts, but it seems more like a passed-down anecdote or a rhetorical figure meant to emphasize the profound impact the work had on him.

[@juvenalhahne7750]

Hahaha!!@

[@GordonCaledonia]

@WiseDailyReflections He listened to the audiobook on wax cylinder. I think he had the William Shatner reading.

[@davidrandell2224]

The “creative nothing “ is still as good as it gets. “The Unique and Its Property “, Max Stirner,1844/2017 Landstreicher translation. For the end of philosophy, metaphysics, religion, I.e. ALL “fixed ideas.” “ No idea has existence, because none is capable of embodiment.” “Nothing at all is justified by being.” Life is ‘ meant ‘ to be “ used up.”

[@ccarmagnola]

He tells the truth, no doubt. But only a small % of humanity, thinks. Some may be aware, but can resist or simply have an easy life. Others, fear suicide and death. Some just survive and wait for death to come. Some believe suicide leads to hell. Cioran was clear. Birth is the problem. A condemnation to suffer

[@englishcoach7772]

A sad life, a sad philosophy, social inequality is the reality of every epoch. Never has there been equality.

[@notsoancientpelican]

so because it has never been That excuses it?

[@haraldtheyounger5504]

And it's all down to one aspect of human reality... stupidity. We could so easily be living a great life, a worthy life, if only we'd stop conforming to the insanity of psychopathic bullies and instead co-operate completely. We should have robots doing all the work by now. We should be living as we actually should, in a state of creative exchange, not merely functioning for the profit of another's greed and serving their mentality of scarcity. This planet has far more than enough for all of us, we just have to use it wisely and live for one another. Not difficult.

[@juvenalhahne7750]

​@@haraldtheyounger5504No século XIX a Igreja se esvaziou e as fábricas e os bancos tomaram seu lugar... Jovens que não tinham vocação para os negócios não tinham mais nada pra fazer senão enlouquecer...

[@Grendel-td5nf]

@@notsoancientpelicanwho is excusing it?

[@deathbydeviceable]

​@@notsoancientpelicanwhat is excusing it? Realizing the people today had nothing to do with it and forget it or remember it and let if fester in race wars again? Go ahead. Burn the world cause your ego. God won't offer water or forgiveness and leave you in your shame

[@Indrid__Cold]

We are each but a cell of a great cosmic brain in the throws of universal dementia.

[@petretepner8027]

I suspect you mean "throes", not "throws".

[@JP51ism]

The British accent may be an attempt to lend something more "profound" but it must be computer-generated. Most any English speaker knows the German word "die" is not pronounced like the verb meaning to expire. As to content, consider: *"It takes a clever man to turn cynic & a wise man to be clever enough not to."* George Clemenceau ~ French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 & again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly amid the end of the First World War. [wiki]

[@WiseDailyReflections]

Thank you for this valuable feedback!🙏

[@plundbohm]

The inherent flaw in Mainlander's philosophy is nothingness does not lead to peace but just more nothingness for peace is something not nothing.

[@ForeignObject101]

He’s wrong. The world is God’s diarrhea. ☝️

[@IbnElKhattab]

😂😂

[@jenniferr9624]

😂😂

[@Laneline5000]

"The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence."

[@gandfgandf5826]

Well, he appears to have been one of the better looking philosophers.

[@sanathansatya1667]

In the pictures, at least.

[@MoeGar-e6e]

That was so sad. In Christ, the Cosmic Man, the fragmented world will come together again 🙏🏽.

[@robertjsmith]

Life is shit,then you get recycled.

[@hk2212]

I did some research on Mainlander in Wikipedia (not the best source of material of course). The biography showed suicide to be rather prevalent in his family. A grandfather committed suicide at age 33. Even his sister Minna committed suicide 15 years after Philipp. If ever there was an argument for fate, surely Philipp Mainlander's life was it.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

Thank you for sharing your research! It’s true, suicide was a recurring and tragic theme in Mainländer’s family, and it undoubtedly had a profound impact on his thoughts and philosophy. The idea of "destiny" seems almost inevitable when looking at his life story. Thanks again🙏

[@paulalexander2740]

@WiseDailyReflections Free will doesn't exist.. Your choices are made by existing circumstance.

[@petretepner8027]

His whole family were bonkers. He had the misfortune to be clever, as well.

[@jan-martinulvag1962]

When you learn to suffer you will suffer no more

[@WiseDailyReflections]

🔝

[@PietroColombo-em5mz]

Between Buddha and Boltzmann, an other victim of the second law of thermodynamic. Thanks for posting videos, about thinkers ignored or censored by mainstream intellectuals.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

Thank you for this valuable feedback!🙏

[@DrakeLexx-k2f]

Yeah, eiither the tribe emphasizes life affirmation or the tribe does not

[@DrakeLexx-k2f]

Yeah, eiither the tribe emphasizes life affirmation or the tribe does not

[@DrakeLexx-k2f]

Beginning with the individual in the tribe and the others within the tribe next. All else is indeterminate

[@DrakeLexx-k2f]

Beginning with the individual in the tribe and the others within the tribe next. All else is indeterminate

[@gokararavikumar6562]

excellent vedio learned brother..thank you..regards..🙏

[@Ryukuss]

for i reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be reviled in us.

[@Bob-b7x6v]

Old Phil told Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard to hold his pessimistic beer.

[@grahamcole-y5s]

i know how he feels , but i choose the birds and the sky to escape , we are not here that long anyway and will never be here again

[@Bob-b7x6v]

I wanna bleed (I wanna show you all the pain) Show the world that I have inside I wanna scream (I wanna make you feel the same) Let the blood flow that keeps me alive -Cold and Aaron Lewis: Bleed

[@Nickelodeon81]

Strong antinatalism vibes.

[@paulalexander2740]

Obviously. He goes far beyond that. Many anti-natalists are of various schools of thought, not just philosophical pessimism. Many are covert, choosing to be childless without declaring or admitting to it.

[@malikghoubije3364]

No he was and is a pure efilist...the world is nothing but the decay of god

[@Bob-b7x6v]

Dayum, Agent Smith?

[@ClydePRiddlesbrood]

Uplifting fella!

[@geraldhansen2227]

The Universe is infinite, no beginning, no end, no Big Bang, no centre, no time, unknowable. The brain of God if you will. And we are an essential part of it with a brain that is a microcosm of the infinite. This truth supersedes everything on this planet.

[@petretepner8027]

This "truth" is merely your opinion, no more worthy of consideration than that of Philipp Mainländer.

[@benjaminrobinson6507]

I came to this idea a long time ago.. & to me it makes perfect sense tbh

[@bjarterundereim3038]

What do we want with other people's destroyed nerves in our vocabylary - or knowledge base? The Devil always gets his due - concretely or figuratively. The Past is not the Future.

[@caraculo1077]

Mainländer actually would mean someone from the region of Main.

[@petretepner8027]

Indeed so. Philipp Batz was born in the city of Offenbach, on the left bank of the river Main.

[@NameRequiredSoHere]

Personally I think the universe was created because every trillion years or so, God needs to take a dump, and this creates the universe.

[@prestonbacchus4204]

Loved that, thanks.^ Kids hate school but then this is one hell of a school.^

[@petretepner8027]

1:25 Minor correction: Philipp Batz did not change his name to "Mainländer" in order to signify "continental resident", as the word carries no such meaning in German. This pseudonym under which he published was taken from the name of the river Main, on the left bank of which the city of his birth, Offenbach, lies. 7:26 Mainländer cannot have put any interpretation at all on the "Big Bang", since the latter concept did not even begin to be formulated until nearly half a century after his death.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

What is described in the video as the "Big Bang" is a metaphor. Mainländer spoke of an initial act in which God fragments to give rise to the universe, an idea that symbolically recalls the initial expansion of the universe described by the Big Bang theory. Thank you for the comment, and compliments on your attention to detail and knowledge!

[@petretepner8027]

@WiseDailyReflections I understood it as such. However, I worried that others less familiar with the history of science may have been misled. The "Big Bang" is generally understood, if not as "creation", at least as "coming into being", whereas in Mainländer's philosophy, it is an act of (self-)destruction. Maybe (for future reference) this should be made clearer.

[@excelsior999]

He should have taken up a hobby, like maybe Stamp Collecting or Gardening. He also should have gotten himself a nice little dog, or at least a cat

[@paulalexander2740]

& live in delusion, but with purpose. Your glibness describes a pathetic and desperate form of existentialism.

[@32523Bwahahaha]

that's merely a Distraction, watch Albert Caraco's philosophy.

[@juvenalhahne7750]

His hobby was exactly darkness! Think about: He suicidaded the day his book was published...

[@RJ-pe6uj]

I have a story to tell this happened in2013 I observed 2 triangle machine about 15 ft from ground 55 ft long, when it started to change colors I was in shock what the hell was this, wrong place wrong time still can't believe it.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

🤔

[@paul.spanton.7]

The Big Bang and Entropy. We now learn about this from a physics perspective. No need to kill yourself over it 😆 A very interesting life and work. Thanks for the explainer 👍

[@WiseDailyReflections]

Thank you for this feedback🙏

[@petretepner8027]

The "Big Bang" theory did not even begin to be formulated until nearly half a century after Mainländer's death.

[@jamesearlcash1758]

If he had lived in the States he would have been a pioneering blues singer. All he needed was a guitar.

[@plundbohm]

The blues is a celebration of life through suffering. You got to feel it to heal it so to speak.

[@kamrannikoo7764]

A life that is not reviewed is not worth living. " Socrates ".

[@claudetteguimond8035]

Not reviewed but examined.

[@paulalexander2740]

“The unexamined life is not worth living” is a quote attributed to Socrates, a Greek philosopher. It appears in Plato's Apology, which is a dramatization of Socrates' trial in 399 BC. Thank me and goooogle AI.

[@kevincrady2831]

Mainlander gave life a bad review.

[@cloratodepotasa]

Soy filósofo porque digo enormidades llamativas😃

[@afrolund80]

9:35 I define reality or "the real world," as the combined lived experience, of the majority of beings that are known to be capable of defining it. It's also my best guess. That these feelings are what most human beings experience throughout the majority of their lives. When people say "this too shall pass." My inner monologue replies, "because it's making way for something worse." When people say, "things always get better." I think, that's just the feeling of relief. Because the knife isn't plunging any deeper at the moment. But I never actually say anything. I guess, despite my need to feel heard. I just hoped that everyone else was better at staying positive. Even the people who obviously have it worse than me. Which is plenty, I'm sure. And I didn't want to make someone else see something that they can't unsee. Because, what is worse? Being locked in an unbreakable cage? Or knowing that you're locked in an unbreakable cage? It's hard to stick around and suffer. When you understand how ultimately pointless it is. But betrayal and abandonment are 2 of my main sources of pain. And I couldn't abandon my children. Or the people who I feel abandoned me. I truly did want to stay alone with these thoughts, realizations, and outlook. It hurts to see that there are so many people that this resonates with. I should probably read more. Like the Depeche Mode song says. "Suffer Well" my friends.

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

This man must have been a real laugh riot at parties. He and Schopenhauer make a horrific double act. Very tragic life.

[@petretepner8027]

All that we are told about him, both by contemporaries and later historians, tells us that he was a kind and companionable person, generous to his friends, and deeply committed to social justice for the poor and disadvantaged. Philosophical pessimism does not imply personal misanthropy (though Schopenhauer was indeed a nasty piece of work).

[@michaelcolby6236]

In a way he is a martyr for his belief, yet I’m glad most of our early early ancestors did not feel this way, or we wouldn’t be here

[@paulalexander2740]

Read Ecclesiastes and all the other greats listed here in the comments if Mainlander didn't get through to you.

[@petretepner8027]

So much the better, from his point of view.

[@truthincorporated5475]

Life is an endless cycle of destruction and creation... life and death are both illusions. They co-exist in the framework of the mystery of iniquity and the mystery of godliness.

[@kalki0273]

Another young, perhaps even more obscure young pessimistic philosopher, Carlo Michelstader (sp?), also took his life at a young age. It's widely believe Schopenhauer's father killed himself.

[@matthewwillcox7184]

The absence of criticism falls loosely from the horse’s mouth.

[@splabbity]

Well, denial and wishful thinking _are_ extremely irritating...

[@BubbleGendut]

Offenbach Grand Duchy of Hesse. Germany didn’t exist in 1841

[@Thanatos_1313]

Sounds like Lovecraft read this guy ...

[@bertpineapple3738]

This is obviously a reflection of his own intense depression. Mankind must ease suffering and spread all forms of life throughout the cosmos. Living things are superior to dead things. He is wrong.

[@elektroskeptic481]

Scott R Jones 'Drill'. Don't thank me.

[@donHooligan]

it will be a corpse when the money spenders turn it into Mars.

[@stevensteven3417]

More like the money lenders.

[@donHooligan]

@@stevensteven3417 it is their minions who do all the damage. same bankers funded USA, mid-1900s Germany, and Israel...but it was not the lenders who actually committed the atrocities. it was the people dependent upon their drug.

[@ethancoster1324]

The Cosmere inspiration

[@2GooDProductions]

The universe is the mind of God

[@janettekeating3746]

I feel socialism is a good way of life if we were all honest and hard-working but too many people are neither and just abuse the system

[@johnz8843]

I don't see this depth of pessimism among the many great thinkers of ancient Greece. You read skeptics and those who had a pessimistic view of human nature but not this depth of cynicism about the nature of the universe.

[@kevincrady2831]

In order to be a "thinker" for a living in ancient Greece instead of poking at the dirt with a stick, you had to be rather privileged.

[@petretepner8027]

@@kevincrady2831 Coming from a successful and wealthy merchant family, Mainländer was indeed materially privileged too. He did not earn his living from writing philosophy, but from banking, until the disastrous Vienna stock market crash of 1873, three years before his suicide.

[@bjwnashe5589]

Artificial intelligence is nothing but the decaying corpse of God.

[@tosekiprijanov231]

This world is really becoming a corpse of god.

[@fredgreen2431]

What a tortured soul. Life can be brutal.

[@stephen5119]

Is this the product of AI? I suspect so, and , if so, who is the 'we' in the attached notes? AI or human, consider dropping the life-sapping accompanying 'muzak' and give thought to balancing ''we's'' output with something that promotes human flourishing.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

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[@geekay101]

@WiseDailyReflectionsWould you consider that music is a distraction ? So are images shown. Would you consider that a single beautiful image of a rose remaining in the screen, throughout might be enough, since after all this is a video ? I hope you don't consider this as criticism 😊

[@lucasstrople4767]

Would you consider Tolstoy candy-coated garbage? Being fucking miserable isn't an automatic qualifier for intelligence. Dig further back in history. Read some philosophy that challenges you to grapple with life's value. Nihillism is for weaklings.​@@oculartremors

[@excelsior999]

He had a (very) short career as a stand-up comedian. ("Two nihilista walk into a bar. ... ".

[@JohnBorstlap]

Never believe the personal frustration of a crank as a generally-valid philosophy.

[@paulalexander2740]

Your slanderous axiomatic mini-rant is pathetic.

[@geekay101]

@@paulalexander2740As is your unnecessary unkind comment. What does it achieve ?

[@JohnBorstlap]

@@paulalexander2740 This commenter should have watched the video more attentively.

[@CollaterlieSisters]

Do not believe. Investigate.

[@NikoAmeristar]

Has anything changed?

[@TreeLynnT]

This sounds like a movie I just watched.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

Which one? 🤔🙂

[@sanathansatya1667]

Life without some degree of suffering is stale and boring. Pain and pleasure are interwoven one experience. Like the notes of music and the silence in between the notes. The music is in silence in between the Notes.

[@tonyhawkes2040]

Suffering is not a progressive phylosophy

[@cuvarsnova]

Interesting idea that the universe is the remnant of a big bang of god who leaves behind his unconscious (Jung's collective unconscious) to organize everything. You have portrayed the philosopher so plastically that one can emotionally feel his life and mind, thank you ~

[@WiseDailyReflections]

Thank you for this valuable feedback!🙏

[@kurtrambus2728]

Wow!!!

[@snugglyduck6534]

Bro should have read about Ymir and saved himself some "deep thoughts." We're in a tomb and we're on fire, do the math (light a match). This is why we feel rough at time, burning all this sin away. "Man has come to know the knowledge of Good and Evil, and now will surely die." That's it - hasn't changed, no matter how often you try to deny it.

[@paulalexander2740]

Gibberish.

[@peterfarrelly2437]

He's was a very sad man. Life is a great experience for most of us. Sadly not us all ❤

[@CollaterlieSisters]

Are you confident that you can be a voice for the majority of mankind.?

[@peterfarrelly2437]

​@CollaterlieSisters, no, I can't. No-one can.

[@petretepner8027]

"Life is a great experience for most of us." I doubt very much whether that is true.

[@peterfarrelly2437]

@petretepner8027 I hope so, but maybe not. I only say what I think 🤔

[@peterfarrelly2437]

@CollaterlieSisters no I can't. I only sat it as I see it. Maybe I'm wrong

[@3rdWorldNola]

my boy, mainlander.

[@jimaudel6475]

The truth is, has been, and always will be what the facts are. Just sayin.

[@UncaDollas]

AI made video

[@BuddyHoyt]

Feedback

[@theostapel]

Not at all - even Maya (illusion) - is a power of the Divine (India)

[@MusashiTetsukobu]

Ah, you deleted my, comment. Thank you for acknowledging. I love ballooning egos who hide behind silence. And I go BOO, BOO, POO POO. I will not continue bothering you, I hope for your own good that you have learned the lesson. Sayonara.

[@WiseDailyReflections]

No comment has ever been deleted by us on this channel, not even the most useless or misleading ones, like this one, for instance, for anyone reading. So, sorry to disappoint you, but you're wrong.

[@MusashiTetsukobu]

@WiseDailyReflections Facts: A few minutes after sending my comment, I returned to the dialog box again to change a word, and my comment was GONE! I don't lie, ever.

[@stevensteven3417]

​@@MusashiTetsukobu it's likely youtube who is censoring you.

[@kevincrady2831]

@@MusashiTetsukobu It's KZbin. They randomly delete comments on every channel I've ever commented on. I've had comments vanish when they're not even controversial or contain any of the words you have to spell weird or use synonyms for in order to appease the censorship grannies.

[@MrSanford65]

Everybody dies at the right time for the right reasons because nobody has ever successful appealed the decision

[@WiseDailyReflections]

Nice thought!

[@MrSanford65]

@ well you know one thing about death is that it doesn’t accumulate in value with the density of life. And so the least sorrowful in any death is the one who died

[@paulalexander2740]

Glib and banal and pithy. PFFFT.

[@MrSanford65]

@ well I guess you gotta start somewhere

[@CollaterlieSisters]

The conclusion does not follow from the premise. And in any case the premise is your personal speculation.

[@sammiejoyner3532]

Well I have a idea lay down and get back up expansion thur contraction maybe hmm limited understanding do I not lean😮

[@pieterisp]

Alas, Philipp did not heed Schopenhauer's warning that suicide is confirmation of the will to live which survives all attempts of escape.

[@paulalexander2740]

NO. Suicide is still WILL as an individual "wills" to cease to exist. This is Schopenhauer's conclusion and weakest point. He knew where his thesis led and I surmise he didn't want to be accused of advocating suicide. Many young Germans chose suicide due to Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" 50 or so years earlier. "This type of suicide social contagion has also been called the “Werther effect,” named after Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther."

[@שאולנקר]

ןINTERSTING ANT TRUE

[@julianterris]

I feel sorry for Philipp -it sounds like his parents were both narcissists (certainly self-absorbed). His father sounds like an overt narcissist -and his mother a vulnerable narcissist. It's the worst hand you could be dealt in your "home life". Then, being born with a genius-level IQ in a time and place where his brilliance was mocked and derided. It's little wonder that he concluded that "the world is hell". I wonder if he was also rejected by his "true love" -that may have been the last straw for such a sensitive and intelligent young man, who would have very few people to turn to. He may have been gay... In any case, happiness is a lifelong pursuit -and I've found that my happiness increases as I get older. Ironically, our culture worships youth as it is the *most* challenging time in life.

[@paulalexander2740]

No indication that he was ever mocked and derided. He also volunteered for military service and was reasonably successful/honourable.

[@paulalexander2740]

Maybe he was a martian transssexual.

[@stevensteven3417]

Why do you think that he was gay. Are you projecting

[@petretepner8027]

@@stevensteven3417 "Too cute to be straight", I suppose. 🙂 Nothing we know of his life reveals any particular homosexual *or* heterosexual interest, unless his relationship with his sister was either explicitly or implicitly incestuous. He was, however, a socialist and an enthusiastic supporter of the "free love movement" _(freie Liebe)._

[@ryanbenson4610]

Very interesting topic. But is this all AI?

[@Dullday57]

But where was God when he blew himself up?..

[@1080KaTa]

མི་འདིའི་བློ་ལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་མེད་ཡོད་། No wisdom in his mind.😂

[@PhilDrury]

So basically a depressing reworking of certain kabbalistic principles.

[@leebennett1821]

God is a fairytale for Children afraid of Death rather than Cry about how hard life is why not try and make the world a bit better for Everyone

[@peterdwyer6118]

AI is killing the Internet.

[@systemlfo]

Particles of a broken God - that’s Gnosticism