Thisabsurdworld

The fundament of truth collapses

Are we doomed to be childish? Are we limited in our being-a-child, in our growth?

[We will not reach complete maturity]

The near death experience of mental brokenness

It’s harder to change the system than it is to live in it

I like to think I can think outside the box but probably not because the box is ruthless. Actually it’s indifferent but it’s hard for humans to escape it and that’s why we experience it as ruthless

Why do we want to be remembered?

In daily functioning we automatically reduce each other

Introversion and depression; [are we] genetically doomed to be like that?

By absurd I mean we experience something now that we will never experience again

When I was a kid
I thought adults ruled the world
Now I see
Humans don’t rule it

You look at this and see nothing while there is infinite imagination within it

Deviating from the ‘normal’, prescripted way of deviating

[There is an expected way of being different, but to defy all expectations we must be different in a different way]

We start from our human systems and definitions and go from there but we never think back to how those systems and definitions came to be

Every word implies the existence of something else

Being against order in an orderly way

What should we do with the systems? Should we have new systems? Or strive to be systemless?

How can you reach people?

Stoicism and awkwardness in action

[How to remain cool-headed when doing something you are not skillful at]

Sometimes a philosophical life seems like an unreal life (theoretical life)

Our definition of normal is so wack

Philosophy is the intellectual religion

Laws and rules are necessary but very dangerous

But is surviving necessary?

I wonder what my parents would think of sexual identity if I wasn’t queer

Treat yourself as a friend

[Why don’t you take the advice that you give your friends for yourself also?]

The key on how to treat others lies in how you treat yourself

We don’t call it absurd because we are used to the absurd

Saying the world is ordered (by a greater force) is comforting, but saying it is absurd and utter chaos is also comforting. Both extremes on that spectrum are comforting

The emotional philosopher

I love you so much but your death should not shake me

That which people ridicule is perhaps the closest to the truth

[488]

Of course I ponder suicide

[See also 278]

And what do you think of it now?

A world where [homosexuality] is not even an issue; a world we could be in if we could collectively change our mindset

We do not like collective silence

The capabilities of my brain seem to be a factor in my happiness. This feels troubling.

Is anything weird?

[The weirdest thing is only weird by our definition of normal]

The impossibly absurd is consoling
[to a ‘broken’ life]

Reflection is taking a step back

Denial of the absurd
Acceptance of the absurd

[We have only two choices]

Do you ever watch yourself from like the fourth dimension or a void-like pocket dimension? Just watch yourself while life happens to you

It might be easier to ‘fit in’ by lying but then who would you really be? It might be easier to lie about knowing something, but then so would their view of you be a lie.

Who do you know the best? And who knows you the best?

How well should you know your parents?

Philosophers and poets are discoverers and describers of life. For no one knows what life is.

Whether or not we can doubt an object’s existence is not a property of that object

It remains a desire for wisdom; a philo-sophia. [And so not a possession of wisdom. Just as in religion; there is a desire for holiness but not a possession of it.]

Something new can give a shot of motivation/inspiration

I know not all parents could ever be called heroes

In some weird way, ‘the answer’ is not on the bookshelves of the philosophy section

Knowing someone’s smell is one of the most intimate connections you can have with someone

What is there and what have humans made up?

The goal of life is not an end goal but a continuous goal; every day and every moment. Exist. Live. Wanting to live. Being happy.

We keep trying

[Should we be] dependent on technology or independent?

No longer remembering phone numbers; is that bad?
Jobs are being taken over by technology

[We have] technology as slaves

I have no authority. You must consider what the things I say do with you. [Do not agree and follow blindly]

The way to maturity, whose end no one reaches

You have to be lost to find your way

‘What? You didn’t know that?’ is a remark easily returned
and is therefore stupid

When we are happy we don’t give a shit
When we break, we do everything we can to get back
We realized that we were lost all along

‘It’s all I have’

No. Sorry. All we have is nothing. And that’s okay.

‘I would never have thought of that.’ Is that so? Are there things that we can never think of ourselves?

If superiority exists, how would we decide who is better than who?

[Deciding that you are better than someone already implies that you are better than someone because you say you have the power to make that decision. This means that before deciding that you are better than someone, you had already decided that you are better than someone. This goes infinitely on and is absurd. And so we see that no superiority actually exists, but that we have merely created it.]

What is progress?

[How do we decide if we are going in a ‘better’ direction? Is technology progress? Progress already implies some definition of good and bad or some goal that must be reached.]

Homelessness: who are we without a home?

And when ‘the cool boys’ do it, it is suddenly something that is cool

How stupid

Is happiness always built on the misfortune of others?

Is there a mental state for which we don’t have a word yet?

We are all exceptions to ‘the rule’; to the stereotype

Everything is wrong but that’s alright

Admitting you don’t know something is true intellect

And pretending to know something to look smart is actually pretty dumb

I am a mess of thoughts

Love is weird

Hope clouds observation

Aging is wack

Illusion embellishes reality

If a specific day fades from everyone’s memory, did it still happen?

[480]

Everyone has their own unique perspective

Some things are hard to do and that annoys me

I’m sick and tired of impossible love

Hindsight makes fools of us all

You ever just do random stuff and something good comes out of it? Cause that never happens to me.