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Nikokaro

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Lost philosopher... searching for a way out... From Nautilus (under) Lake Como, Italy 🇮🇹
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  • Nikokaro
    "Many people are under the illusion that they are unique, original, masters of themselves, while instead they are merely repeating...
    Nikokaro
    "The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day." Bertrand Russell
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    Soo... like a different one every day ?
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    This is a controversial saying by England's greatest thinker. It is an exaggeration. I do not agree with it fully. It can be misunderstood. It needs to be discussed.
    Nikokaro
    "The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. We never actually live, but hope to live..
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    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    For this decent pun you have earned my first like towards you.
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    Your posts are like random philosophical topics over at the intjf.
    Not bad.
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    They are not random topics, but moral and psychological subjects by authors I know well, mostly eastern thinkers, but not only. These are opportunities for confrontation and discussion. But many make a joke and leave...hehe.
    KleinesSinchen
    "The teachers always look at a dead student with different eyes than at a living one; for a moment they are convinced of the value and irrecoverableness of every life and every youthfulness which they carelessly sin against otherwise so often."
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    We had very few good teachers in the sense of moral, integrity, fairness -- few teachers with conscience. Most of them were arrogant, self-centered and had the sensitivity of a sledgehammer in psychological things.

    From the perspective of skills and knowledge in their subject many of them (not all) were good -- this is much more than can be said from today's average teachers here.
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    You mentioned one of my favorite books, and I didn't realize it. All his books and short novels prior to Siddhartha are my preferred, where the author is influenced by the melancholic and sentimental atmosphere of German Romanticism:...
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    ...Hermann Lauscher, Demian, Camenzind, Gertrude, Knulp, Klein and Wagner, Klingsor's Last Summer, Beneath the Wheel.
    Nikokaro
    "To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh...
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    ...always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor."
    Krishnamurti
    AkiraKurusu
    AkiraKurusu
    So in short, "to be free of authority is to die".
    Time to purchase some cyanide!

    Disclaimer: do not actually buy cyanide. Do not actually die. Please seek help if you're thinking of it.
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    You have interpreted the text in your own way, that is, you have distorted it.
    To die to what concerns yesterday is not to die; it is just the opposite, to be reborn in every moment, to be always young and ready for anything, always open to new things. The center of the discourse is awareness, constant and uninterrupted, without judgment or condemnation.
    Nikokaro
    "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves" La Rochefoucauld
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    "I am a forest, a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."Nietzsche
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    "Woman is not yet capable of friendship: women are still cats and birds. Or, at best, cows." Nietzsche
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    You should have posted this in some female user's profile to see her reaction. I'm certainly not surprised, he was a known misogynist.
    Nikokaro
    Anyone like my melanchonic, poignant avatar? Joe Yabuki on the road to sunset. Dedicated to master mangaka Tetsuya Chiba...
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    Nikokaro
    ...and the wonderful 70s/80s anime series "Ashita no Joe", which I fear, sadly, no one knows here, and will ever know.
    benone
    benone
    It's a boxing anime, right? Heard it's a real classic, stumbled yesterday on the info of this serie.
    Nikokaro
    "If the body is strong and the mind is weak, the body kills mind. And you become insane...
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    ...If the mind is strong and the body weak, then mind kills the body. And you commit suicide.” Taisen Deshimaru
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    "See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought... It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge...
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    I think the author mainly criticizes complaining internally, in the mind, brooding, not with other people.
    On complaining to others, but rationally, constructively, I fully agree...
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    ...As for me, I don't entirely agree here : "leave the situation or accept it."
    I would have rather said, "take action to change the situation; if you can't, accept it and think no more about it." Hard to reason in generalities. You need a concrete example.
    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    "Hard to reason in generalities. You need a concrete example."
    That is what makes short statements on complex topics so problematic. The quote is not outright wrong, just missing context. Complaining, speaking out can be good and helpful, useless or counterproductive depending on the example.
    Nikokaro
    Shocking. My neighbor passed out in the yard. We tried to help him. To no avail. Stroke. R.I.P. No one was ready. A warning to all.
    Nikokaro
    "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life..."
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    ...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life...to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..." Henry David Thoreau
    FAST6191
    FAST6191
    I am not enjoying this remix of the bare necessities.
    Nikokaro
    Nikokaro
    "Bare necessities" are at the core and nodal point of human existence. Sooner or later we will return to these, like it or not ... others, however, will be lost among their toys, until the end.
    Nikokaro
    "To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." Robert M. Pirsig
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    “You become what you think about all day long.” R. W. Emerson
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    "I believe that none can ‘save’ his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives,.."
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    ...with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion. The knowledge and awareness of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an individual all his hidden energies and put him on the path to choosing respect for ‘life’ instead of for ‘death.'” E.Fromm
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