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June 18, 2021 at 8:49 pm #381682AnonymousInactive
My friend..
Take some time to quietly contemplate what I share..
Your ideas about life, death and suicide are full of mistakes from not seeing clearly the Laws that control each life.
The mistake of everyone in Suicide is that they only see the appearance of their suffering. From emotions attached to the appearance of the life they suicide thinking they escape all troubles.
But my friend..
You do not escape.
In Suicide only the body is destroyed.
But the Soul continues to pay everything.
Your life, my life and everyones life follows the Law of cause and effect.
Meaning..
Everything that is your life, and absolutely everything within it is the appearance of your effect from causes you put before.
When you begin to see and understand this Law. You then discover the courage and confidence to face everything that is your life and accept everything that you feel is not.
My friend..
A person is born for example with the cause and effect of 70 years of life. But in that time.. They must pay through many difficulties..
Let’s say at 40 years of age.. They suicide.
What is the effect from the 30 years they cut away and lost?
The effect is they do not escape. They create deeper suffering for the Soul. Sometimes the Soul is lost forever. Or they are born again in darker circumstances..
Without the body the Soul did not have an occasion to practice to grow and pay everything.
The life always has 2 spaces. 2 opposites.
The person who suicides can not imagine that only one more day everything would change.
Suicide is not the purpose of any Soul. It is the mistake from delusion of not seeing clearly the purpose of the life and the Law of cause and effect.
Emotions Kill! Emotions are like the dirt that covers the mirror of awareness.
Clean the mirror my friend.
Come back to awareness.
So I share with you..
Do not against your life. As it is your effect and effects always come right without any discrimination.
When you can peace inside with this idea. You begin to allow for new conditions to begin growing. You begin to change your life from within and with patience, courage and confidence..
On the time, you will overcome and escape the inner prison from your false seeing, habits and thinking.
You only practice to put down your attachment and discrimination of seeing your life as good or bad.
The only true right you have in this life is to practice grow up your Soul.
Before I Enlightenment.
My life was also full of darkness and suffering caused by my own delusions and habits.
Many dark forests and hells I had been through.
Until.. I had payed enough.
Patience my friend. Relax with difficult situation and know that the life is always moving and changing.
Emotions attached to suffering or the feelings that the life is against you is a thief of your energy. Vital energy that is needed to overcome everything and begin to see clearly the possibilities that wait you.
Suicide is volunteering your own Soul to enter the dark space of suffering on a level you can not imagine.
You do not escape.
Everything in this life moves to follow the Law of the time.
On the time.. Everything Opens and appears.
Behaviour is important detail. Your behaviour in difficult situations are the seeds for tomorrow.
My friend..
Keep going.
Always remember ITS OK.
Its ok means we are not against our circumstances and accept everything that is right now.
Then.. In the peace of acceptance.. The space of change begins to appear.
Courage.
Thank you so much.
June 19, 2021 at 8:11 am #381696AnonymousGuestDear Murtaza:
“She is just too beautiful, she suffers a lot, and I want to help her… I feel her pain, I want to make it less… I told her I love her”.
“(My love) only seems to bother her….she told me she is not interested in love, she just wants to live.. she misunderstand what I meant by love”-
– what comes to my mind: it is painful to love a person who is suffering. You want to take away her suffering, you’ll do anything for her… because her pain is your own. But your love, your most beautiful, powerful emotion that can move mountains inside of you- makes no difference to her, it doesn’t take away any of her suffering.. instead, she doesn’t understand it, it bothers her. She doesn’t want it.
This is what I felt for my mother who was suffering. Loving her was too painful for too long. By the time I was a teenager, I decided to never love anyone ever again. To this very day for me, love and anxiety/ pain go together, hand in hand.
“There is a person on the other side of the world, listening to this, actually talking to me, and what a wonderful person this is”- as wonderful as you are.
“She is also from Iraq and had similar ideas, she is just too beautiful”- as beautiful as you.
“I wish that I actually do something for such person, something that somehow benefit him”- that’s what love wants to do: to benefit the one loved.
“It hurts me to know that I can’t help her, I tried everything”- love hurts when it does not benefit the one loved, when it makes no difference.
“I always like to imagine my love for her is more like an artist loving a painting he saw, just admiring the details, appreciating it”- it is safe to love a painting. It is often dangerous to love a person. A painting will not punch you or call you names, it will not humiliate you, it will not falsely accuse you, it will not call you Unworthy and turn its back on you, facing someone else who is deemed Worthy.
“I felt guilty for not doing what I can to be a better person, to be liked by her, maybe it’s the job, maybe it’s my pessimistic views, maybe its my desires and goals, I wish I was exactly what she wants, maybe she will love me then, what would that cost? To me, everything”-
– a young child needs the love of his mother/caretakers (the adults living with him) as much as he needs oxygen, and he will pay whatever the cost. When for too long, whatever he pays/ gives-away makes no difference (no love is coming his way), he stops paying the price, and he guards what is left of him: he will not give away any more.
“When we first talked, I didn’t care much how you see me, but to just see me, the real me, then accept and understand, that’s the point, that’s the hard thing for me to do, since both my mother and uncle have this ‘this person have to like me’ belief, and I had to fight this. I might take it too far sometimes, but I see it as an absolute win, to be myself in front of people that I know exactly will hate me/dislike me”-
– I think that you decided long-ago, with passion, to never again pay the price, the price which you paid as a young child: trying to get your parents/adults in your home to like you (and stop hitting you) by smiling at them, saying words, doing things).
I think that you and I, in our respective childhoods, tried very hard to be liked and loved but we did not succeed, we never received the merchandise we paid for (love). Fast forward, we get glimpses/ moments/ snapshots of the experience of love, but neither one of us knows how it feels to love and/or be loved on an ongoing basis, without fear and pain being in charge, do we?
anita
June 20, 2021 at 7:21 am #381769MurtazaParticipantmakes no difference to her, it doesn’t take away any of her suffering.. instead, she doesn’t understand it, it bothers her. She doesn’t want it.
Its true, i remember the first time i actually thought i loved her, not at the beginning of our talks, but lately, i just woke up i remember, and i said “i want to marry sara” its just came to me, and i was ready to work, maybe my chances will get higher, i wanted to buy a motorcycle since its essential for work in iraq, but that meant i could no longer afford my medication, and i said “so be it” i was suicidal at the time, i felt that her love might be worth it, and i must make my chances higher, give no excuse to the other gender to not love me, but that meant i go against my values and goals, i felt so much self loathing for even choosing such path, i said “maybe then i can actually do it”, when i started to care about her, and i saw no point, no matter how much i show care and love, no difference, no response, so i stopped
love and anxiety/ pain go together, hand in hand.
Im glad that you shared this with me, this is true for me too, whenver i think about her, i feel anxious, my stomach/chest hurts, it actually been this way for a long time, whenever i actually love someone, but lately, it’s been clear, when i love her, and know that i can’t do anything for her, it hurts, i actually stopped talking to her out of the idea that i might bother her, and if not talking to me means less suffering so be it, i don’t care
it is safe to love a painting. It is often dangerous to love a person.
I think that its because i believe that females won’t love me, in this scenario, its a one sided love
a young child needs the love of his mother/caretakers (the adults living with him) as much as he needs oxygen, and he will pay whatever the cost.
Im glad that i didn’t pay anything for love, im glad that i didn’t listen, and kept my self respect, and im glad that you pointed out this problem, now when it arises, i will know that its my programming, and i must fight it
whatever he pays/ gives-away makes no difference (no love is coming his way), he stops paying the price, and he guards what is left of him: he will not give away any more.
“No love found, No love lost”
Its funny because you described exactly what happened to me and her
but neither one of us knows how it feels to love and/or be loved on an ongoing basis, without fear and pain being in charge, do we?
And we will never will, its the price for living that we must pay, everyday, though i like that i have something similar with you
I had to digest your replay, and let it sink in then actually replay
June 20, 2021 at 9:29 am #381774AnonymousGuestDear Murtaza:
Smiling to be finally writing to you again! I want to re-read your recent post later, in a few hours, when I am more focused and reply further (whether you reply to this post or not). But for now, regarding the following: “I felt that her love might be worth it.. give no excuse to the other gender to not love me, but that meant I go against my values and goals, I felt so much self loathing for even choosing such path”-
– the self loathing is about giving in to societal expectations, and giving up your individual values and goals. Your values and goals are (1) to not conform to societal expectations, including to not work/ be employed, (2) to have as much leisurely time to do as you please, and to otherwise, make your life as easy as possible.
You value unconditional love (a love that is not conditioned on societal expectations), but you don’t believe it is possible for you.
I can’t think at the moment of more values and goals (and I am not very focused presently). Am I exact in what I wrote above, and did I not mention any other goals and values?
anita
June 20, 2021 at 11:13 am #381779MurtazaParticipantYou value unconditional love (a love that is not conditioned on societal expectations), but you don’t believe it is possible for you.
I value a love that come from understanding and connection, a one that doesn’t need external things in order to be met, if money is a requirement for love, then it doesn’t matter to me, since i won’t be loved for myself, but for the money i have, i like myself right now, i don’t see any problem in it, and i don’t understand the need to change in order to be loved, i don’t think unconditional love exist in a adults relationship, and if it does then its not healthy, it should be conditional, but for me not by external things, but internal, i acknowledge the need for external in my situation, but i don’t see it worth while, especially when im expecting unconditional love
The why i don’t think its possible, is more like a guess, a guess based on evidence, lots of evidence, i wanna actually see other evidence, but anytime i try to talk to a girl, a lot of pain comes up, the last time i tried the girl said “not worth it”, just because i was vulnerable, “you are even more girly then girls themselves”, and this was a person who could speak English, and bit educated, thats why i approached her
when this happened, i had the desire to change and work, she told me something “that’s the difference between us, i work to satisfy my goal, you don’t” i felt so much guilt, and then i thought of working, making my desire possible, and not wait for a miracle, it was good, and i thanked her, even when she was mean to me, she made me feel love, she was also suffering, and i wished i could help her, “you will never understand how to be emotionaless” her words, she assumed so much about my life
A friend of mine (by friend here i mean a person i talked to) also talked to her, and now she is his girlfriend, nearly, i felt anxious ofcourse, pain like no other, he is younger then me, but he works, i guess norimes likes each other, i actually was glad i didn’t continue talking to her, knowing she is just another norime, just another robot controlled by society ideas and beliefs, but i didn’t stop talking to her, she did, i never underestimate people, or make them feel inferior, i actually understood why she treated me the way she did, and i don’t hate her, i actually still feel her pain, and feel sorry for her, not in a bad way, but i understand that her behavior must come from a lot of pain, she is just not compatible with me, norimes aren’t compatible with me, they aren’t inferior or superior, maybe in some areas, but overall we just dealt a different cards
This is what happens when i speak to a norime, i had so much guilt, i was suicidal, and out of self loathing and hating my life, i wanted to work, to disrespect everything that i stand for, the ultimate betrayal, to go against everything i value and like, just to fit in, and have the basic needs, maybe, then i won’t need people like her, i will buy a wife (yes actually in iraq it does work like that) but it wouldn’t mean anything with this mind
Am I exact in what I wrote above, and did I not mention any other goals and values?
Yes, everything you say is a goldmine 😀
June 20, 2021 at 6:45 pm #381787AnonymousGuestDear Murtaza:
I read just a part of your recent post and once again, I am smiling reading your words, thank you for making my evening a better evening! I will be back to you in about 13 hours from now.
anita
June 21, 2021 at 11:14 am #381822AnonymousGuestDear Murtaza:
“I remember the first time I actually thought I loved her, not at the beginning of our talks, but lately, I just woke up I remember, and I said ‘I want to marry Sara’. It just came to me, and I was ready to work.. I wanted to buy a motorcycle since its essential for work in Iraq”-
– It was a beautiful sentiment, to feel love for her and to want to marry her. It’s a good thing that we get a chance to reconsider our sentiments and make choices considering the bigger picture. The bigger picture includes your values and her “no response”: no response to your expressed emotions for her and to your expressed impulse to marry her (?)
You reacted to my sentence: “love and anxiety/ pain go together, hand in hand”, this way: “I’m glad that you shared this with me, this is true for me too, whenever I think about her, I feel anxious, my stomach/chest hurts, it actually been this way for a long time, whenever I actually love someone, but lately, it’s been clear, when I love her, and know that I can’t do anything for her, it hurts, I actually stopped talking to her out of the idea that I might bother her, and if not talking to me means less suffering so be it, I don’t care”-
– it hurts to love someone and see her suffer, not being able to help her. It hurts when my/ your love has no power at all. I remember loving my mother so much, so intensely for so long.. and yet, it made no positive difference to her. According to her behavior- it looked like the only difference I made in her life was negative.
I wrote to you: “it is safe to love a painting. It is often dangerous to love a person”. Your reply: “I think that its because I believe that females won’t love me, in this scenario, its a one sided love”-
– I’ve been thinking for some time now about what is true for many children: their love for their parents being a one sided love, a love that’s not returned. It breaks a child’s heart when that happens. Fast forward, it breaks the adult’s heart when love is not returned by a romantic interest.
I wrote to you: “but neither one of us knows how it feels to love and/or be loved on an ongoing basis, without fear and pain being in charge, do we?”, and you responded: “And we will never will, it’s the price for living that we must pay, everyday, though I like that I have something similar with you”-
– I agree: I don’t expect my anxiety to ever disappear or to lessen drastically. I don’t expect a life of mostly calm. But my life now, on an ongoing basis, is and feels better than it used to be. Giving up on hope that life will get better, as you have done when typing the sentence above (“never will”)- is a good thing when indeed, there is no hope. Hope in a hopeless situation fuels misery.
“I value a love that comes from understanding and connection, one that doesn’t need external things in order to be met. If money is a requirement for love, then it doesn’t matter to me, since I won’t be loved for myself, but for the money I have”-
– I agree. I suppose we should have money not so to purchase love, but so to purchase food and electricity to keep the air conditioning going!
“I like myself right now, I don’t see any problem in it, and I don’t understand the need to change in order to be loved.. especially when I’m expecting unconditional love”- makes sense, glad that you like yourself (at least when you wrote what I quotes here)!
“The last time I tried the girl said ‘not worth it’, just because I was vulnerable, ‘you are even more girly then girls themselves’, and this was a person who could speak English, and bit educated, thats why I approached her”-
– that she figured it’s not worth it for her is fair, just as you figure changing yourself so to be conditionally loved is not worth it for you. That she criticized you for being girly, that’s nothing but rude.
“she told me something ‘that’s the difference between us, I work to satisfy my goal… You will never understand how to be emotionless’, her words”- I think that you wrote earlier that she told you that she doesn’t want to love, that she just wants to live. And you mentioned that she suffers a lot (if it is the same woman)- what does she suffer from, and is she having a difficulty staying alive (?)
“This is what happens when I speak to a norime, I had so much guilt, I was suicidal, and out of self loathing and hating my life, I wanted to work, to disrespect everything that I stand for, the ultimate betrayal, to go against everything I value and like, just to fit in, and have the basic needs, maybe, then I won’t need people like her, I will buy a wife (yes, actually in Iraq it does work like that) but it wouldn’t mean anything with this mind”- better not talk to normies then. I imagine you putting together a Normie Questionnaire (NQ), selecting candidates for communication with you based on their answers to the NQ. Maybe I will be willing to answer your NQ myself, lol.
* The above rare lol is my first lol in my communication with you!
anita
June 21, 2021 at 12:45 pm #381828MurtazaParticipantno response to your expressed emotions for her and to your expressed impulse to marry her (?)
I cared for her, and she only felt botherd, i told her that i want to do something for her, anything, i don’t think she wanted anything
is a good thing when indeed, there is no hope. Hope in a hopeless situation fuels misery.
Finally, the truth, it feels so good to hear those words
I agree. I suppose we should have money not so to purchase love, but so to purchase food and electricity to keep the air conditioning going!
Sadly i have all that, but it doesn’t buy love, money does, well not love, but marriage, lots of money, sometimes i wish i had all the money in the world, just so i can have no excuse not to be loved, but there is always something
I think that you wrote earlier that she told you that she doesn’t want to love,
No thats a different girl, the one i was talking about (sara) is very respectful, thats why i loved her, still do, she is not a norime either, this one i talked to her before i wanted to marry sara, after she told me that its not worth it, i had the desire to work, to marry sara, but i guess it didn’t last long, and wasn’t for a good reason
That she criticized you for being girly, that’s nothing but rude.
Its also true, by the standard of being a man in iraq and being a girl, this is why i said she was a norime, because she believed that this behavior (being vulnerable) is girly, i never assume someone is a norime without evidence, sara in the other hand, never said anything like that, even though i showed her vulnerability early on, and maybe it was too much, i only love a person who is worthy of my love, and i thought she is worthy, but i tried and got no result, there is no point to care about her, it will only hurt me because i will try, she already got what she want, and not looking for help
she told me something ‘that’s the difference between us, I work to satisfy my goal… You will never understand how to be emotionless
That one said by the norime girl, the one that assumed my whole life based on the cover, typical norime move, she also is younger then me (18), sara is (28)
what does she suffer from, and is she having a difficulty staying alive (?)
Sara suffers from a lot of mental health issues, OCD, Anxiety, General anxiety disorder, OCPD (perfectionism) at least in her opinion, when i talk to her, i see her bad qualities as something good, they made me laugh, not in a bad way, but i think of them as cute, i told her that i see her as perfect, the whole her, she told me that she is far from perfect, i feel like there is nothing much to say about her, since its very much looks like a dead case, i should say that i never form an opinion about something from bad experiences, i had plenty of bad experiences with women, i still love them
when i think about sara, i just see beauty, i can’t turn away that easy, though i never think of the consequences of my actions, always late, when the damge is already done, she already told me that she only see me as her friend, and that’s it, the thing is, i don’t want a romantic relationship with her, although i wish, but i know that it won’t happen, i just want to make her life easier, somehow
I imagine you putting together a Normie Questionnaire (NQ), selecting candidates for communication with you based on their answers to the NQ.
Lol, sounds fun honestly
Maybe I will be willing to answer your NQ myself, lol
You already passed, with an A+ 😀
Your last replay made me laugh actually
June 21, 2021 at 1:37 pm #381829AnonymousGuestDear Murtaza:
I think that you are a true Lover (a person who loves), I never thought of you and this word together, but now I do: love is your essence (unlike, unfortunately, too many men who lost their loving essence for trying to meet the social expectation of being tough, insensitive, uncaring.. socially-manly).
Thank you for the A+. “I don’t want a romantic relationship with (Sara), although I wish, but I know that it won’t happen, I just want to make her life easier, somehow”- I want to reciprocate your generous grading by handing you an A+ for being a Lover.
I wrote: “It is a good thing when indeed, there is no hope. Hope in a hopeless situation fuels misery”, and you responded with: “Finally, the truth, it feels so good to hear those words”.
You wrote about Sara, a 28 year old respectful woman (not a normie) who “suffers from a lot of mental health issues, OCD, Anxiety, General anxiety disorder, OCPD (perfectionism)”: “I cared for her, and she only felt bothered, I told her that I want to do something for her, anything, I don’t think she wanted anything”
– read like she was/ is hopeless, that she was not able or willing to imagine that you can help her, that your love for her can make her feel better (?)
anita
June 21, 2021 at 4:18 pm #381833MurtazaParticipantread like she was/ is hopeless, that she was not able or willing to imagine that you can help her, that your love for her can make her feel better (?)
I don’t think she want my love, she said that she only like me as a friend, there is a whole persona she don’t show me because she knows i don’t like it, for example her liking to philosophers, in our conversation before i was dumb enough to say i don’t like them, she told me that i make fun of her interest, its just make my heart fall apart, i want her to share her whole persona with me, but she already think i won’t like them, and she don’t like talking about something knowing the other person doesn’t like it, or not interested, she thinks i don’t care about anything (which is true) but for her i can care, i don’t know how can i explain this to her, maybe she don’t even want to, i should ask her actually, im thinking making another account, but i hate liying, maybe i could see her for herself, without filtering, she filtered herself and our conversation
June 21, 2021 at 4:43 pm #381834AnonymousGuestDear Murtaza:
“she thinks I don’t care about anything (which is true) but for her I can care, I don’t know how can I explain this to her”, “for example her liking to philosophers, in our conversation before I was dumb enough to say I don’t like them”, “for her I can care”-
Ibn al-Haytham was an Arab mathematician, physicist, and astronomer of the Islamic Golden Age, born July 1, 0965 in Basra, Iraq, died at 75 years old. He is best remembered for his contributions to the principles of optics for which he is called the father of modern optics. He was the first person to explain visual perception. He also wrote influential books on philosophy, medicine, and theology.
Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī was an Arab Muslim philosopher, physician and musician, called the “father of Arab philosophy”, born in Kufa in 801, educated in Baghdad, died at about 72. He was a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom, also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad. His greatest contribution to the development of Islamic philosophy was his efforts to make Greek thought both accessible and acceptable to a Muslim audience. There is a whole entry on him in Wikipedia.
anita
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June 22, 2021 at 4:13 am #381841MurtazaParticipantShe is more into western philosophy, specifically existentialism, such as Albert Camus, Freud, fredrick neichze, also nihilism, since she feel like it could help her, i raed the first half of the stranger by camus, i just didn’t like it, i can’t read it just because she likes them, although i mean i can care for her when she talks about them, in general i don’t like books, for various of reasons, one that i don’t see it interesting to read a man thoughts about the world, two that i know that everything that they say, is somhow a product of thier life and age, back then they were very influenced by religion and traditions, the ones that aren’t will say stuff that has no proofs (just like what Freud did), i was stupid enough to tell her that, she was very defensive about it, “Freud started mental health”, to me if he didn’t then another man will do, there is no great man, or a genius, but she think otherwise, i don’t like the fact that we follow authorities even when they say dumb stuff, its more like a religion then logic, and i don’t like when we drop our logic and mind, just for authorities, because they must be smarter then us and therefore we should submit to thier ideas and beliefs
I talked to her, told her about what i meant by love, she didn’t response really, we talked for a few time then i went to sleep, i guess we will stay friends, i don’t mind really, as long as im close to her, as long as i could be nice to her
I think that you are a true Lover
I guess it comes with the package, its because im true to myself i guess, although there is no one to love, maybe my sister, i really think that if i get in a relationship i would be a good partner, not physically maybe, but mentally, a proof is that my relationship with my sister, i can’t think of anything would happen that will make us apart, even when she gets angry and say bad things, i don’t get mad back, i just understand that this feeling is uncontrollable often, we are very open to each other, and if i gets bother by any actions of hers, i would just tell her, that easy, thats how you build a good relationship, by communicating, the good and bad, by understanding each other
June 22, 2021 at 8:03 am #381844AnonymousGuestDear Murtaza:
“She is more into western philosophy, specifically existentialism, such as Albert Camus, Freud, Fredrick Neichze, also nihilism, since she feel like it could help her”- if Ibn al-Haytham, an Iraqi, is “the father of modern optics” then he is the origin of western optics. The western philosophers you mentioned studied the published work of pre-modern Iraqi philosophers.
I will be writing the following because it interests me, you are welcome to skip any of it that doesn’t interest you:
You mentioned Albert Camus, a French philosopher born in Algeria who died in 1960, at 46 years old. In the plot of his novella, The Stranger- the main character, Meursault, a French settler in Algeria, killed an Arab, but in court, the prosecutor, trying to prove that Meursault was guilty, focused not on the killing, but on the socially condemning fact that Meursault did not show any indication of grief after his mother died. Albert Camus wrote in 1955: “I summarized The Stranger a long time ago, with a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: ‘In our society any man who does not weep at his mother’s funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death.’ I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game”-
– the hero of his book is a Stranger, he does not play the social game.. he is not a Normie (Murtaza’s term!)
Wikipedia: “Philosophically, Camus’s views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism, a movement reacting against the rise of nihilism. He is also considered to be an existentialist, even though he firmly rejected the term throughout his lifetime”.
Absurdism is about people looking for a special meaning for human existence while the world/ nature is indifferent to human life, it does not participate in a human’s search for meaning.
From Wikipedia (this is very relevant to the title of your thread and to a lot of your thoughts expressed in your thread): The question then brought up becomes whether we should resign ourselves to this despair. As beings looking for meaning in a meaningless world, humans have three ways of resolving the dilemma. These 3 ways are described in The Sickness Unto Death (1849) and in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942, Camus).
They are: (1) “Suicide (or, ‘escaping existence’): a solution in which a person ends one’s own life… Camus states that it does not counter the Absurd. Rather, in the act of ending one’s existence, one’s existence only becomes more absurd”, (2) “Religious, spiritual”- taking the “leap of faith” that although this world is meaningless, the next world (heaven, and any such intangible and unproven world) will be meaningful, “Camus regarded this solution, and others, as ‘philosophical suicide'”, and (3) “Acceptance of the Absurd: a solution in which one accepts the Absurd and continues to live in spite of it. Camus endorsed this solution, believing that by accepting the Absurd, one can achieve the greatest extent of one’s freedom”.
Back to quoting from your recent post and commenting: “I read the first half of The Stranger by Camus, I just didn’t like it, I can’t read it just because she likes them.. in general I don’t like books.. I don’t see it interesting to read a man thoughts about the world, two that I know that everything that they say, is somehow a product of their life and age, back then they were very influenced by religion and traditions”-
Camus referred to religion as “philosophical suicide”, that’s somewhat a product of his time, and of earlier times, and it is somewhat independent thinking (I say “somewhat” because no thinking can possibly be independent of current and past times because no thinking individual has ever lived in a vacuum).
“I really think that if I get in a relationship I would be a good partner… a proof is that my relationship with my sister… we are very open to each other, and if I get bothered by any actions of hers, I would just tell her, that easy, that’s how you build a good relationship, by communicating, the good and bad, by understanding each other”- beautifully said. I am impressed, and I too think that you would be a good partner (a very good partner, I think) to a fortunate woman (if a partnership was possible for you).
anita
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June 22, 2021 at 8:44 am #381849MurtazaParticipantThe western philosophers you mentioned studied the published work of pre-modern Iraqi philosophers.
Its true, one of the earliest philosophers were from iraq, from the great school, though most of them was influenced by islam, i think islam set a limit to the question one can ask, but again there is a type of Islamic people
I will be writing the following because it interests me, you are welcome to skip any of it that doesn’t interest you:
I will read anything you write
the hero of his book is a Stranger, he does not play the social game.. he is not a Normie (Murtaza’s term!)
While i try to avoid philosophers and thier philosophy and followers, i do admit that they have ideas similar to mine, and they say it even better, im not very good with words, my definition of a non norime is similar (i think) to the definition of frederick Nietzsche (Übermensch), while i don’t like that idea, because it removes my individuality, the thing i worked hard for, and just so you know, most norimes do read Nietzsche, in here there is a thing for “educated” people to worship both Nietzsche and Freud, and some of them are musilms, thus i dislike when someone compares me to a philosopher that norimes read about, i rather have the worst but original idea, then to follow a good one that most people does
June 22, 2021 at 8:59 am #381850AnonymousGuestDear Murtaza:
I am taking your recent post’s thoughts with me on my hour walk outside this 9 am (before it gets too hot), and will reply when I am back.
anita
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