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>You want to do as far opposite from this as reasonably possible. And be crushed by the arrogant, cruel jerks. (I realize becoming the enemy is in no way defeating the enemy , but using the enemy's tactics to advance better principles and achieve a just outcome is War 101 stuff. "Not giving a fuck what other people think" does not imply being mean or rude to people. If anything, the people who need this advice the mo…
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”The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head. “
Not that you have to hitchhike alone to the Alaskan wilderness! Thats extreme of course.
This is bad. The advice given perpetuates the myth you are an individual completely separate from the world outside of it, the very feeling that alienates you from other people and the feeling behind the animosity that we feel towards others. The only way to be at peace with world( and people who live in it) is to realize that you are the world not a part of it.
Aren't you?
You were born alone, you will die alone, nobody can live your life for you, nobody can share the responsibility for your decisions.
You are alone. Everyone else is a script. The only thing that matters is whether your actions make you happy without a hangover. Why would you worry about anyone else's judgments?
(Sick people, who are made happy by abusing neighbors, will always exist, but they are, luckily, not numerous.)
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Exercise-and-Depressi...
Religion used to be like this (and still is in many developing countries, along with an uncomfortably large segment of the US), but it has to some extent grown much more milder in portions of the community. However, cult like thinking takes many forms, and inadvertently contradicting a cultist may very well become an aspiration crushing torment to the novice idgaf-er.
I guess it's all about taking baby steps at first. And sometimes antidepressants.
This is bad. The advice given perpetuates the myth you are an individual completely separate from the world outside of it, the very feeling that alienates you from other people and the feeling behind the animosity that we feel towards others. The only way to be at peace with world( and people who live in it) is to realize that you are the world not a part of it.
>> the myth you are an individual completely separate from the world outside Aren't you? You were born alone, you will die alone, nobody can live your life for you, nobody can share the responsibility for your decisions. You are alone. Everyone else is a script. The only thing that matters is whether your actions make you happy without a hangover. Why would you worry about anyone else's judgments? (Sick people, who a…