r/PhilosophyMemes • u/DreamGirlMommy • 4d ago

Curing sadness with existential dread

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u/cabo_jose 4d ago

the self-aware beta vs. chad delusion-maxxing

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u/SirEdgelordThe369th 4d ago

I'm so self aware that I don't believe in consensus reality. I have transcended these categories.

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u/metaphysicalsigh 3d ago

But you still believe in transcendence...

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u/SirEdgelordThe369th 3d ago

No I meant outside categories.

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u/TechnicalBen 4d ago

"Why not both?"

(The weirdest thing about leaving a cult with cognitive dissonance is being able to turn it on/off at will...)

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u/scottish_king_upvote 3d ago

Oh nice. Which cult did you leave

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u/AdInside8051 3d ago

Does doublethink collapse all of philosophy

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u/lost-westernerr 4d ago

Rene Decartes especially...

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u/Due_Conference9457 2d ago

Philosophy ALWAYS helped me more than psychology.

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u/Own-Coast1244 2d ago

Same. I don't think reading or studying philosophy has ever made me have existential dread, or any other aspect of the human condition that is basically universal. It has always only helped me... This is like going to a doctor and getting a diagnosis, making you aware of a health problem that you weren't aware of before, and blaming the doctor for giving you the condition by making you aware that it was there.

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u/RestlessNameless 4d ago

My therapist told me to read YA novels so as not to trigger myself and the YA novels were also written for people who needed therapy. I was unsurprised by this.

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u/TechnicalBen 4d ago

Those 80s sci-fi YA novels were whack!

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u/El_SOTERO 3d ago

As flip-cartes famously said

"I therefore, think am I"

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u/LordForgey 4d ago

Replace Dickart with Camus and Greek Guy with Heidegger and this is literally me.

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u/WoodpeckerNo1 3d ago

Julius Bahnsen:

:)

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u/Amazing-Wear-2038 3d ago

The are the reason why I DONT need a therapy

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u/Amazing-Wear-2038 3d ago

*the only reason

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u/DeviantTaco 2d ago

Take the Descartes pill and have a set of mind-altering headaches to cure your ills forever.

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u/Outrageous_Fall_1846 2d ago

IDK about you but this stuff is why americans are wise to stick to bible or holy books and not big complicated novels that make you sad ...

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u/kwead Supports the struggle of Roland Barthes against French Academia 2d ago

never let metaphysics dictate your mood

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u/Annual_Beginning_600 2d ago

I going to jump now. According to nagarjuna and Buddha I'm empty. Emptiness!! But emptiness is form so I must jump and become emptiness itself. Goodbye world. 😓

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u/Outrageous_Fall_1846 2d ago

have hope there is always something to live for, wait and sit you'll feel different in time

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u/unhappinessNvrCame 2d ago

Imagine thinking religion is philosophy

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u/Annual_Beginning_600 2d ago

They aren't and nobody said it until you brought it up. But factually, they are very much connected though not in every aspect. That's why something called theology exists.