If your parents had threatened you that either you get married or else they will never speak to you again and disown and disinherit you and adopt someone else in your place as their legal heir and never ever help you again in any way at all ,or ever see you again, then what would you have done?
What do you think Schopenhauer would have done?(Mind you,in this scenario he loses all his inheritance if he refuses to marry ). Essentially, what I am trying to ask is that do you think Schopenhauer was strong enough to withstand this economic blow and work to earn his daily bread and live all alone in the world?Are you?No help from parents or any of the other relatives.You are completely on your own , financially, socially, emotionally.
Schopenhauer does not get so much as a penny,if he says no to marriage.You get zero support from your parents and relatives.
THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
Edward Louis Bernays (/bərˈneɪz/; German: [bɛɐ̯ˈnaɪs]; November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations".[3] Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life.[4] He was the subject of a full length biography by Larry Tye called The Father of Spin (1999) and later an award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC by Adam Curtis called The Century of the Self.
His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom" and his work for the United Fruit Company connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954. He worked for dozens of major American corporations including Procter & Gamble and General Electric, and for government agencies, politicians, and non-profit organizations
How difficult life is, how very stress-inducing.
We breathe in anxiety and panic.
Every organ of the human body can malfunction in zillions of ways.
But even the smallest and the weakest creature wants to live, to live for as long as possible and to breed too.
Once one has read Schopenhauer, there is no going back.
There is no inherent pattern, our minds project one.
Then there is sheer bodily pain which can get so intense,
so very intense, that one can easily go raving mad.
I also love ice cream, particularly chocolate.
Did you ask many questions at school when you were a child? If you did, probably you were considered a nuisance in class.
Hello Holden,
One cannot run from oneself. Yes, I've had to learn that in the past. No matter where one goes, if you are not observing the contents of your thoughts and feelings - if, you are not understanding why you are thinking that there IS someplace to go that will free from the miseries and drudgery of life - then there is no understanding, only warm wishes and idle hopes. I for one cannot live life high on the drug of Hope.
We can understand the childish impulse of religion/spirituality because of this. We can understand why the telling of stories could be an adaptation of our species in order to bear What Is. Different stories for different tribes (cultures), yet many of them revolve around a delusion of freedom and rest from a weary world. We hide away in the mythical Other, a dreamworld free from misery and enslavement, so conveniently polar opposite of What Is.
Yet, as you say, we may further the illusion by actually physically moving to a different location, thinking that the Other, the Paradise/Utopia can be found. And when we finally rest our feet and look around, the spell of our dreams is crushed by the Sameness of the reality of our predicament. Our feet are as sore here as they would be had we never left. The drudgery continues.
A primate animal who lives in two different worlds at once. What can one do but laugh when the biologists call this an "adaptation?" If anything, it shows our specious cowardliness. I can see this because I am one of them.
You see, it is not difficult to come across articles in the internet telling the reader to master painting in 20 hours. Learn German in 20 hours. It drives me insane.
Such a sick joke. It takes thousands and thousands of hours drenched with the blood of one's heart to truly learn something.
]Another thing that I find absurd is that people have started to believe that technology can put tragedy to pasture.
Life does not deserve sons and daughters.
A playful homage to Bruce Springsteen, this song was written by Bob Dylan. It bears a strong resemblance to Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts, except for the constant Springsteen references. The chorus features the other Wilburys on backing vocals.
It’s an excellent piece of storytelling from Bob Dylan. A pair of anti-heroes desperately try and escape justice for dealing drugs.
With so many references to Bruce Springsteen songs, some critics felt the supergroup was poking fun at the singer. Petty insisted the opposite:
We weren’t trying to mock anybody, Dylan said he wanted to set a song in New Jersey and use references to Bruce Springsteen songs. He meant it as a praise.
He is without ambition and he has no desire for fame. To become anything of a public figure would be deeply distasteful to him, so it may be that he is satisfied to lead his chosen life and be no more than just himself. He is too modest to set himself up as an example to others. It may be, he thinks, that a few uncertain souls drawn to him like moths to a candle will be brought in time to share his own glowing belief that ultimate satisfaction can only be found in the life of the spirit, and that by himself, following with selflessness and renunciation the path of perfection, he will serve as well as if he had wrote books or addressed multitudes.
In one the previous messages, I told you that when you shared the excerpts from Razor’s Edge, it reminded me of something. Well, I reminded me of my visit to an old building which was built in 1847.I visited in the spirit of Lovecraft. The architecture was gothic. It had a lot of memorial plaques.
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
I have been labelled as insane for one reason and one reason only-they failed to manipulate me.
They are married, they have reproduced a number of times ,they are frustrated. So, in order to feel better, they target me. I am an easy target.
Yet, unfortunately for them, when I really concentrated upon the true nature of existence, then the arrows they shoot, fail to hurt me. My body gets hurt. It is an animal after all. It weeps and it whimpers.
Yet, there is something within me which stay aloof. It looks upon the poor body, shivering and suffering, the poor animal body looks at “that which remains aloof” and it begins to reach equanimity.
In all likelihood, these scoundrels who never leave me alone and yet, there is something within which shall remain untouched. Unaltered.
They are angry that I do not fall for the mirage that they fell for. They are jealous,and wish to see me in pain. That is okay.
I know this body would not endure. They would not endure. They are animals.
I do not talk to them because there is nothing to talk about.
There is nothing to be said.
The old genuine Cynics, Antisthenes, Diogenes, Crates, and their disciples, renounced every possession, all conveniences and pleasures, once and for all, in order to escape forever the troubles and cares, the dependence and pains, that are bound up with them, and for which they are no compensation. The genuine Cynics put up with what they could get for virtually nothing. They begged occasionally, but they did not work. Independence in the widest sense was their goal. They spent their lives resting, walking about, talking with everyone, and in scoffing, laughing, and joking. Their characteristics were heedlessness and great cheerfulness. Since they had no aims of their own, no purposes and intentions to pursue, enjoying complete leisure, they became councilors of others.______________________________________________________________
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
“Philosophy,should be more than a sop to the pathetic twinge of human self-esteem.”
“The earth will be incinerated by the sun 4 billion years hence; all the stars in the universe will stop shining in 100 trillion years; and eventually, one trillion, trillion, trillion years from now, all matter in the cosmos will disintegrate.”
“The subject of philosophy is already dead,” Brassier writes, “and ... philosophy is neither a medium of affirmation nor a source of justification, but rather the organon of extinction.”
“Existence is worthless,” he writes, “and nihilism is ... the unavoidable corollary of the realist conviction that there is a mind-independent reality which ... is indifferent to our existence and oblivious to the ‘values’ and ‘meanings’ which we would drape over it in order to make it more hospitable.”
Are your neighbors tormenting you?
I ask myself if I love her and I have to answer: No, I reproach her for having castrated me ... and besides... she threw me into the world and I profess to hate the world.
It seems to me that this is a rather unusual love language in a man who pretends not to love his mother, these contradictions are natural, I am full of meanders, in short I write and that says it all, I get lost in my own path. Love or lack of love? Let's put them together or one after the other, the truth is, I ignore it. While Father sheds a few tears, my eyes remain as dry as ever, it is true that I never cry, I should not be labeled as indifferent, my ideas forbid me the pathos, my style forbids me even to contemplate it.
... Jews thank God every day for having made them men.
Attention to women is therefore natural, we strive to comfort them from the misery that comes with their sex, commonly our laws serve to redouble it, starting with moral and religious laws, women seem to be their victims, even more deplorable by making them consent in their condition. For centuries, we have forced them into permanent pregnancy and instilled in them the most inhumane ideas: and what could be more atrocious than our ideal of fertility? We degrade women to the level of impersonal instruments and force them to produce those to whom they immolate themselves.
Blessed are the chaste! Blessed are the barren! Christ and Buddha were of the same opinion and since one and the other have died, how many of the billions of humans coming into the world seemed worthy of envy? A tiny number, no doubt. What did Plato say? That the happiest man of his time, the Great King of Persia, counted some few days as beautiful as a night without dreams. When I look at those who swear that life is a delight, I find them neither beautiful nor well-born, neither reasonable nor sensitive, neither fine nor wise, nor profound, but very similar to what they exalt.
My uncle became a father again in 1996 at the age of 55. I suppose things will change a lot for my youngest female cousin.
I told her I am not a bachelor but a confirmed bachelor.
I am going to bed now and hope that I never wake up.
Heck, why to sell myself short,maybe one of these days Schopenhauer’s ghost would ask Gauss’ ghost to possess me and I’d end up solving/proving them all!( and then collect the prize $)
Then,very soon,one fine morning, there would be a knock on your door and it would be me with your flight tickets. Then, we would first travel to New Jersey, request Herr Hauser to accompany us.
Then, we would go to Spain and visit all the relevant places and then go to Germany, pay our respects at Schopenhauer’s grave.Then, go to France and say pay our requests at Cioran’s grave and then, we can go to India, and you can interview a couple of Aghoris over here.
Stranger things have happened you know!
"Discovery" and "Encounter"
Another Columbus Day has come and gone. Another year, now more than 500 since the Pope divided the world between Spain and Portugal, laying down the doctrine of discovery and conquest:
INTER CAETERA, MAY 3, 1493 -- "Among other works well pleasing to the Divine Majesty and cherished of our heart, this assuredly ranks highest, that in our times especially the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself. ...
- ur beloved son Christopher Columbus, ... sailing ... toward the Indians, discovered certain very remote islands and even mainlands ... . [W]e, ... by the authority of Almighty God ... do ... give, grant, and assign forever to you and your heirs and successors, kings of Castille and Leon, all and singular the aforesaid countries and islands ... "
An earlier Papal Bull had declared the legitimacy of Christian domination over "pagans," sanctifying enslavement and expropriation of property:
ROMANUS PONTIFEX, JANUARY 8, 1455 -- " ... [W]e bestow suitable favors and special graces on those Catholic kings and princes, ... athletes and intrepid champions of the Christian faith ... to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and ... to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate ... possessions, and goods, and to convert them to ... their use and profit ... "
We might look at these ancient documents with amusement or condescension, confident in the modern view that church and state are separate. This would be a mistake. These Papal Bulls are part of the fabric of United States and international law.
The fact that Papal authority is the basis for United States power over indigenous peoples is not generally understood, even by lawyers who work with federal Indian law. This is due in large part to the sophistry of John Marshall, one of the greatest figures in the pantheon of the U. S. Supreme Court. Marshall borrowed from Papal Bulls the essential legalisms needed for state power over indigenous peoples. He encased Christian religious premises within the rhetoric of "European" expansion:
JOHNSON v. MCINTOSH, 21 US 543 (FEBRUARY, 1823) -- "On the discovery of this immense continent, the great nations of Europe were eager to appropriate to themselves so much of it as they could respectively acquire. Its vast extent offered an ample field to the ambition and enterprise of all; and the character and religion of its inhabitants afforded an apology for considering them as a people over whom the superior genius of Europe might claim an ascendancy. The potentates of the old world found no difficulty in convincing themselves that they made ample compensation to the inhabitants of the new, by bestowing on them civilization and Christianity."
Steve Newcomb said it succinctly:
Indian nations have been denied their most basic rights ... simply because, at the time of Christendom's arrival in the Americas, they did not believe in the God of the Bible, and did not believe that Jesus Christ was the true Messiah. This basis for the denial of Indian rights in federal Indian law remains as true today as it was in 1823. [Newcomb, 309.]
Johnson v. McIntosh has never been overruled. "Christian discovery" remains the legal foundation for United States sovereignty over indigenous peoples' lands. But it is concealed, as most foundations are, because Johnson v. McIntosh acts as a Laundromat for religious concepts. After Marshall's opinion, no lawyer or court would need to acknowledge that land title claims in United states law are based on a doctrine of Christian supremacy. From that time on, in law and history books, "European" would be substituted for "Christian," so that schoolchild and lawyer alike could speak of the "age of discovery" as the age of "European expansion."
Marshall knew what he was doing. After writing that "Christian princes" could take lands "unknown to all Christian peoples," he admitted that the doctrine was an "extravagant ... pretension" which "may be opposed to natural right" and may only "perhaps, be supported by reason." Nonetheless, he concluded that it "cannot be rejected by courts of justice."
The "discovery doctrine" was not self-effectuating. It required force. As Marshall wrote, "These claims have been maintained and established ... by the sword." The (in)famous Spanish Requirement of 1513 is perhaps the most straightforward example. It was called the "requirement" because royal law required it to be read before hostilities could be undertaken against a native people. In Latin and/or Spanish, witnessed by a notary, the Conquistadors read:
On the part of the king, Don Fernando, and of Doña Juana, his daughter, queen of Castile and Leon, subduers of the barbarous nations, we their servants notify and make known to you, as best we can, that the Lord our God, living and eternal, created the heaven and the earth, and one man and one woman, of whom you and we, and all the men of the world, were and are descendants, and all those who come after us. ...
Of all these nations God our Lord gave charge to one man, called St. Peter, that he should be lord and superior of all the men in the world, that all should obey him, and that he should be the head of the whole human race, wherever men should live, and under whatever law, sect, or belief they should be; and he gave him the world for his kingdom and jurisdiction.
...
One of these pontiffs, who succeeded that St. Peter as lord of the world in the dignity and seat which I have before mentioned, made donation of these isles and Terra-firma to the aforesaid king and queen and to their successors, our lords, with all that there are in these territories,....
... Wherefore, as best we can, we ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you, and that you take the time that shall be necessary to understand and deliberate upon it, and that you acknowledge the Church as the ruler and superior of the whole world, ....
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But if you do not do this, and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their highnesses; we shall take you, and your wives, and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey, and refuse to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him: and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their highnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us. ....
It is fashionable, especially around Columbus Day, to speak about the "encounter" of the "old" and "new" worlds, as a way of trying to forget exactly how bloody this event was. But, as Michael Shapiro wrote, "National societies that ... have thought of themselves as a fulfillment of a historical destiny, could not be open to encounters." [Shapiro, 56.]
Michael Dorris wrote:
The pre-existent variety of Native American societies ... has been consistently obscured and disallowed. Every effort has been made to almost existentially enclose the non-Western world into a European schema, and then to blame unwilling elements for being backward, ignorant, or without vision. ***
Federal Indian policy was ... shaped from the beginning at least as much toward deculturation as acculturation.
I think you might have read everything that Lovecraft published under his own name but he contributed to a lot of stories which were published under the names of other people (he sold them the stories, he gave up his intellectual property rights as he was poor and needed money for basic necessities).You might want to look that it up.
I am afraid those stories are not in there.Some of them are here( but not all):
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/
The stories which have the suffix( With X...)
But all of them are not here. I would continue to leave links here.
One might like to start with :
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cy.aspx
What Lovecraft writes is not pedestrian fiction but philosophical fiction.