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[Anonymous No.17761911]

I don't know anything anymore

[Anonymous No.17761917]

>>17761911
You don't believe there are cardinal truths about life?

[Anonymous No.17761919]

>>17761911
I know that I know something

[Anonymous No.17761982]

>>17761917
Truth only exists as tautology or tool
A = A because if it didn't we wouldn't be able to think
The rest of ideas we assign truth values to based on their general utility but lack a fundamental structure

I can't go through life this way but I can't think otherwise, I try to have faith that there is a deeper meaning or test to life set by God but the only thing I know is the ontological necessity of the concept of God, life feels like a shallow mess of processes that i'm supposed to evaluate and control for personal utility

[Anonymous No.17761999]

>>17761982
> I'm supposed

There's a lot of other convictions in that post as well.

[Anonymous No.17762015]

>>17761911
>>17761982
Take the Pyrrhonism pill

[Anonymous No.17762209]

>>17761982
Once you've given up the ghost everything else will follow with dead certainty

[Anonymous No.17762986]

>>17761982
Anon, you're caught in a self-doubting trap of intellectual delusions. If you want your feet more straight, watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_os-ysZJM_I

This one isn't as good but it gives a good rundown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FvtrBSG8tk

[Anonymous No.17763002]

>>17761911
anon.. you're learning

[Anonymous No.17763025]

>>17761982
>truth only exists as tautology tool

you're in the right path and I'll give you a little push, you can find truth in the minimum action of an idea for example if i kill you die no matter how you put it there's an objective truth there you can argue we're never alive in the first place but then again you can also find a minimum action for that, once you find your truth you can build complexity from there

[Anonymous No.17763044]

>>17761911
read the pali sutras

Oh! Conditions are impermanent,
their nature is to rise and fall;
having arisen, they cease;
their stilling is true bliss.”

“Those who see the five aggregates
as other, not as self,
penetrate a subtle thing,
like a hair-tip with an arrow.

Those who see conditions
as other, not as self,
pierce a fine thing,
like a hair-tip with an arrow.”

“Like they’re struck by a sword,
like their head was on fire,
a mendicant should go forth mindfully,
to give up sensual desire.

Like they’re struck by a sword,
like their head was on fire,
a mendicant should go forth mindfully,
to give up desire for rebirth.”

[Anonymous No.17763227]

>>17761911
same.