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Why Do We Live For No (Real) Reason? - Nihilism & The Philosophy of Emil Cioran
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@FriedFreya

3 years ago

"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?" That was an excellent quote to end on.

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@AlexBlank

3 years ago

Nihilism doesn't have to be negative at all. On the contrary, it can give us the freedom not to take things so seriously.

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@earthling03

3 years ago

"If nothing matters then it shouldn't matter that nothing matters."

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@globalnomad1221

3 years ago

this video was an accident, why should I take it seriously....

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@ogbm4338

3 years ago

My thoughts before this video: “I need to do my school work.” My thoughts after this video: “School work, there is no point in doing it.”

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@1999_reborn

3 years ago

Lol I’m lying down in bed just feeling lost in life. 21 and don’t know what I’m doing. I have no goals. I kind of just take it day by day. But it’s getting boring.

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@mozambique9113

3 years ago

I have a thought when I was a little kid. "Who is the father of my great grand father?" Nobody in the family can answer me. I have learned so much from that lesson that when we die, within 100 years nobody will ever know or remember us anymore. "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain." - Roy, the blade runner

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@Cupo22

3 years ago

I found his writings weirdly uplifting. ˝What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself¨ EC

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@TheBuri00

3 years ago

The irony in feeling happy that I'm not alone in feeling meaningless and miserable during bouts of insomnia, depression, sleep paralysis, and drug abuse

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@user-vr5zk9ox8d

3 years ago

I’m a simple man. I see Pursuit of Wonder, I click for no reason.

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@drjimnielson4425

3 years ago

"Everything that is formulated becomes more tolerable." Thank you.

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@ArichiKulukatoo

3 years ago

This episode coming exactly on Romania's national day is such a great match (or coincidence).

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@0kam210

3 years ago

What a good way to start off December

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@jayjohns1391

3 years ago

Had a death in the family yesterday, this helped put things into perspective. We all have to die of something, pain only exists in the living. For whatever reason, these "dark" thinkers have always seemed to bring a certain comfort. Or maybe it's the totality of a lack thereof that makes it all even out. Either way thank you for this, I needed it

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@Eternalised

3 years ago

This hits home. “Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” - Albert Camus

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@InTheI

3 years ago

“After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.” —Emil Cioran

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@mtg_phoenix698

3 years ago

I have a simple philosophy. I see a Pursuit of Wonder notification, I click it.

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@aqwandrew6330

3 years ago

"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?" - Emil Cioran

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@QuietlyMagnetic

3 years ago

When I think about the purpose of life, the following comes to mind from Jordan Peterson ― “The purpose of life, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”

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@nicolae-stefancurpas2490

3 years ago

Happy National Day Romanians everywhere!

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