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Re: A Question for Herr Hauser and Senor Raul
« on: April 07, 2020, 09:36:13 pm »
On second thought, maybe Arthur Schopenhauer was simply not suited for marriage.  I suppose had his parents insisted he marry, he might have succumbed.  He was rather practical. 

Maybe some of us are just too quarrelsome, sensitive, or otherwise peculiarly wired to be forced into traditional, purely biological or socially-defined roles.  No one really knows the nature of reality.  If one is steadfast against matrimony in order to spare oneself the thorny emotional entanglements, then this would be betrayed in one's mannerisms.  In other words, there would be no "getting along," there would be discord.   Or, perhaps, some kind of partnership develops.  It appears you are speaking of business-oriented marriages between parents, as opposed to actual chemically-inspired pair-bondings, which would be the more difficult to resist.

I am "too deep" for marriage or anything like military service.  My intellectual honesty puts me in danger, for I wish to speak as a unique and autonomous entity, not simply be instructed, trained, directed, ordered about ...

I'm not fucking around.  I tried the "playing house" cohabitation with concubine, two canines, and a kitten, and I witnessed that House of Cards tumble down along with my own sanity --- but in the midst of it, there was an intellectual rebirth.  Another part of me was continuing to pursue education in Mathematics and Computer Programming.  The monk in me is fond, not only of mind-altering substances (connecting me to the spirit that moves in all things), but also of life-long learning.

Programming enhanced my interest in mathematics, and visa versa.

A monkish-type man does not attract the ladies since he does not sell his leisure for money, nor does he believe in "financial security" nor in the "security of matrimony" nor in the future of the species or any other organic life, for that matter.

My outlook may be rather grim, but it is not foreign to individual members of our species to have come to similar conclusions. 

If an individual man or woman, for that matter, found fulfillment and stimulation within their own Inner Life, and they gracefully dodged the trappings of traditional lifestyles, then they will not only reap the rewards of solitary existence (less bickering over petty and meaningless BS), but would also be free to explore darker aspects of true boredom, without shame, without fear of being judged.

One shows defiance in refusing the social trappings which turn one's life into a lie.

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