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There is no salvation
« on: January 28, 2017, 09:51:25 pm »
I think we may be able to accept that there is no intellectual salvation; that is, there is no rational solution to Schopenhauer's Riddle of Existence.

Part of the arrogance of humanism is the belief that all problems are soluble. 

There is no solution to the riddle of existence.  Life is simply a brute fact.  Seeking salvation may make matters worse.  Maybe it is better to acclimate ourselves to the real situation and find some small inner delight in Bildung - the inner development of the individual, a process of fulfillment through education and knowledge, an amalgam of wisdom and self-realization.


Quote from: in the summer of 2014, I wrote ...
It's funny, I seem to write out of having a problem and wanting to be alright with the fact that there is no solution.  Isn't part of the arrogance of humanism that our species seems to think that all problems are soluble?  Maybe what I am looking for is a certain degree of "mental and emotional power" to help me get through this life, knowing that countless others have endured it.

That's what I mean when I say I don't mind being miserable.  I don't want to think I have to snap out of it ... but to be able to deal with it without projecting it onto imaginary enemies.

Amazingly, becoming comfortable in misery relieves the misery slightly.

An analogy might be a dark cave, not Plato's cave ... a different one.  Suppose one were to panic in the dark. This could be horrifying.  The imagination could have one running into the walls, breaking one's bones or poking an eyeball out, which would make the situation considerably worse.   It would be better to crawl like an infant and adjust to being blind as calmly as possible.

That's what I am trying to do.  I want to face the possibility that life is a horrific disaster and take a deep breath, and forge ahead ... cautiously.

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