Happiness is an illusion
Unhappiness is an illusion.
When free of illusion,
You are left with nothing at all.
And you could think of this nothing as ‘peace’
If you had to think of it.
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#Idea – 02.04.18
#Idea – ‘Enlightenment’ is a trap, set by your ego / 20.03.18
If your ego is invested
In not being invested
Your ego is still invested.
In this way, ego turns ‘being more spiritual than others’ into yet another way to assert its devilish agenda.
In this way, the very idea of enlightenment could be considered a trap for the mind.
#Idea – Travel / 21.03.18
Try to think of travel as ‘discovery’
(…or perhaps rediscovery)
Not ‘escape’.
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George A. Moore
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#Idea – Turning 30 / 03.03.2018
Turning 30 is like a horror movie.
All tension and worry in the build-up
And then anticlimax after the big reveal.
The monster is not as scary as you think it is.
One can only wonder what 40 will be like.
And if I will still be around then.
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#Idea – The negativity bias / 05.03.18
It is your birthright to experience sporadic moments of joy, blissfulness and transcendence,
And it is your curse to forget how often they happen,
(…and perhaps how great they were. )
Put another way – you would be more happy, more often – if only you could remember how often you had been happy before.
This is perhaps a chicken and egg problem.
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#Idea – Atheism vs Science / 05.03.18
It’s not ‘scientific’ to be an atheist (that is to say, to be 100% certain that there is no God)
Because scientists, on a philosophical level, do not deal in matters of complete certainty.
Unless that is to say that your atheism is a hypothesis that you would like (…or not like) to be disproved.
On a philosophical level, this makes you an agnostic – whether you identify as atheist or not.
In its most hardcore form – atheism could be described as faith (or belief) that there is no God – perhaps not too dissimilar from the religion it is ideologically opposed to.
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#idea – Morality / 17.02.18
Religion is not the source of morality,
Empathy is the source of morality.
#Idea – What happened to philosophy? / 06.02.18
Pharmacology and psychology fill the space that philosophy once occupied,
Taking the onus to find meaning and happiness away from the individual,
Moving it to external sources.
The proposition:
Live better with the assistance of various substances and biochemical manipulation
Or with the help of someone else shrinking your head.
Meanwhile, philosophy has become associated with irrelevance, a kind of intellectual masturbation.
It is no longer considered practical information that can help us live happier, more meaningful lives.
And yet,
To a great extent
Your thinking got you where you are
And,
Your thinking can get you out of it
And that is what philosophy is all about.
Philosophy is not dead. It’s just gone to sleep for a while.
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#Idea – Fuck The Meaning Of Life / 06.02.18
Instead of asking for the meaning of life (…which lacks a definitive answer, due to the utter subjectivity of meaning).
Ask what your reason(s) for asking the reason of life is.
Put another way:
What is your meaning,
Instead of the meaning?
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#Idea / #Aphorism – Recession Mantra / 20.01.18
Don’t concern yourself with making more money,
Concern yourself with reducing the amount of money you think you need to be happy and healthy.
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