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Of course. But why should Russia be a ninny?

Psychology and psychiatry take a dim view of humans.

Bhava tanha. This is New Age stuff. I'm not touching that with a ten-foot pole.

It's how capitalism works: Get the people to focus on their private lives, and get them to believe that every failure, every problem in their lives is...

It seems self-evident, one just needs to connect the dots. Other than that, William Styron recovered that way, for example.

Substantiate your accusations. Copy paste evidence from out post for all four items.

1. Because they get bored of the depression. 2. Because the treatments for depression they've tried are worse than the depression itself.

Contemplating such topics brings madness and vexation.

How can that be, "to too much emotional sensitivity"? It seems likely that his "social difficulties" came from him taking his work seriously. Most peo...

Millennia of philosophy down the drain!

So people who are satisfied with their lives say such things to others as you do here to us? Interesting this, this "satisfaction with life" ...

So how come that you have this awareness of qualitative variability, while Arthur Schopenhauer didn't have it? Were you born with it? Or did you learn...

The West has indeed shown a remarkable commitment to never looking at itself. So you set up hardcore weapons along the border with your neighbor, the ...

I agree. But it seems the West will rather destroy Russia than admit to this.

Exactly what the West is doing.

And so the alternative he suggests is ...?

It seems this has always been the main approach most people used, and used a lot. Remember, for the greater part of human history, human life was "sol...

No. He figured out his life philosophy before he was imprisoned, so he had an absolute advantage. What would be relevant is if he would develop a mean...

It does apply to you.

One party's right to self-determination includes their right to make themselves an enemy to another, but that other must simply stand by?

Americans love drama and they love to overstate the obvious and try to present it as something special.

What do you gain by bad faith and misrepresenting others?

What could we as observers do? It's not like we can actually reach the decision makers and share our ideas with them. So our efforts are doomed from t...

The same thing the West planned to do anyway. It's strange how so many people think that this is somehow a "one-man show", as if a president is someho...

The heavy airplanes fly above relentlessly, one about every 10 to 15 minutes, day and night. What American president would pass up the opportunity to ...

For starters, unless one is a Candidean optimist who desires everything he has and who has everything he desires, a Randian egoist is oddly similar to...

Covid has come, and it seems, mostly gone, and people haven't learned anything from it. This Ukraine crisis has come, and it will go, and it seems peo...

So counselling sometimes teaches people to come to terms with being homeless, dying in the gutter? How do they do that? Natural selection.

Indeed, this is also called karma, and keeps the round of rebirth going. All three of your examples (the ascetic, the suicide bomber, and the sage) cr...

In other words, keep yourself busy. Of course. It's like this for most people most of the time anyway. The difference is how deeply one analyzes one's...

Which still doesn't change that you started out as bored.

In order to externally test Schopenhauer's concept of boredom, we would need to interview people directly when they are in dire situations where they ...

There is no will to do so, because Europeans have become too entitled, too greedy, too thankless, too short-sighted. They've become like a bunch of sp...

Look at the level of your discourse.

In the EU, a kilogram of zucchini costs about 1,80 Euros, often more. The Spanish zucchini farmer who grows them gets about 5 cents for a kilogram, an...

It's "silly" only in the sense that it comes too late. Most Europeans have sold their souls to the US long ago.

I live about 1000 km SW from where it's happening. Day and night, heavy cargo airplanes are flying over, NE bound, a few per hour.

Watching television, fantasizing, and such are still under "keeping oneself busy". Or can you really sit quietly, doing nothing -- not even fantasizin...

Won how?

It's easy to underestimate boredom, and it's easy to fail to see that we do so many things just to relieve our boredom. Shall we test you by placing y...

What a twisted irony. War is also business. Nothing gives the economy as much boost as a war. Even if it seems counterintutitive at first. During the ...

The name "Ukraine" has the meanings 'land, province, region' at its core (I actually can't think of an exact English equivalent; there is, for example...

The West is operating on the premise that people will do anything for money, for any amount of money. Those who don't see the problems with this premi...

A: Tommy, why did you hit Harry? B: Because he then hit me back! Is Tommy the victim here? How about we discuss the complexity of the matter. That whe...

How self-righteous, and actively so! You assume entirely too much and allow too little room. But perhaps we think that those might actually not be "er...

You were the one to make the claim, so it's on you to provide the evidence. This would take a bit to explain, but it's not clear that "all religions" ...

No. The psychological effect of debt and indebtedness can be overwhelming. It's not just about the money or particular favor per se. If one has receiv...

No, it's about the normalization of bad faith, ill will, and dishonor.

They've always had their claws set on Russian resources. That's always been clear. There comes a point when one has to decide between perishing on one...

No, it's only the former. Ever since I can remember, Slavic people have been put down by the West. In every international setting I have been, there w...