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Was he based?

>> No.13628114
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>>13628077

>> No.13628123

>>13628077
yes

>> No.13628139

>>13628077
based on what? you forgot to finish your sentence anon

>> No.13628161

>>13628077
In a sense. He was DE-BASED

>> No.13628196

Yeah, he spend his days lazing around, reading and going to the dinner parties of his friends and acquaintances and whenever he felt down, he wrote his little nihilistic essais to get out of that mood.

>> No.13628239
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Here's an experiment if you consider yourself optimistic which proves pessimism is reality.

>imagine the worst kind of torment you can possibly conceive of (example: scaphism)
>imagine the greatest pleasure you can conceive of (example: a passionate romance)
>Now put these experiences on a Roulette Wheel, giving the pleasurable experience 60% of the options

Now you can decide if you want to spin the wheel or you don't want to spin the wheel. I guarantee the 40% chance of dying a horrific death takes precedence. Okay, well that wheel, in its spinning, is the most generous case for existence.

>> No.13628774

Yes. Yes, he was.

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i also have chronic insomnia and i feel the same

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>>13628077
I've read On the Heights of Despair and it was an accurate, deep and lucid introspection of suffering and struggle. Where do I go from there?

>> No.13629212

>>13628796
We don't live in a language or country, we actually live in a society.

>> No.13629238

>>13629034
Kierkegaard and find a way out /spoiler/ its unconditional commitment /spoiler/

>> No.13629251

>>13629034
Can't go wrong with The Trouble with Being Born

>> No.13629255

So fucking based I want to kill myself cause of him

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>>13628077
I don't know who the fuck he is.

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>>13629238
Already read Aut-Aut.

>>13629251
Ok, recently I've bought three other books by him including that one. The other ones are The Temptation to Exist and The Evil Demiurge.

>> No.13629362

>>13629261
read and lurk more