Member-only story
- Moral aptitude is developed as a direct result of self-hatred. Self-hatred vitalizes.
- It is good to hate who we are. Too much bullshit builds up within. Lies and self-deceptions. Self-hatred is a cleansing process.
- The philosophical form of bad things are usually good. Philosophical self-hatred is good.
- The brain hosts any number of intellectual tapeworms which have accosted us via the internet. Much of what is intelligent in us is siphoned away.
- Imagine you are dead and that you must explain your life, your choices, to someone else — a judge, a divinity. That is the great thought experiment of Christianity; that our lives can be combed through, examined, and weighed. Christianity is the science of eternal judgement.
- It is not an accident then, that after philosophers declared the death of God, they had to provide means of weaning us off this tendency to examine the contents of our eternal soul. Psychoanalysis is one such means. The internet concessional is another, more recent invention for self-excoriation.
- It is easier to live with an infinite horizon than a finite one. Thus, we constantly invent infinities to serve as horizons.
- The fact is that we are largely operating in the blind regards to each other’s goodness and wisdom; which is to say that we simply do not have the perspective to make our opinions about each other anything more than guesses.
- Disappointment isn’t a choice, it’s an experience. Disappointment is something that’s either acknowledged or pushed aside.
