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Walilamdzi

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This is a relatable quote of his: "If I am hungry, reality is nothing more to me than an ensemble of more or less edible things. If I am thirsty, reality is more or less liquid, and more or less potable. If I am sleepy, it is a great bed more or less hard.If I am not hungry, not thirsty, not sleepy, and do not need any other determinate thing, the world is a large ensemble of grays that are I don't know what but that certainly are not made to cheer me up."
 
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I'd never heard of Carlo Michelstadter until now. I'll certainly be reading up on him now

He practised what he preached, that's for sure
 
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Wow, I'm 23 but I haven't accomplished even 1/10th of what he did, kudos to him :O
 
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@Elek Hey, I wouldn't oversimplify it and compare yourself like that, everyone's lives are so different. You've had a different life/opportunities and I think a lot of people would have accomplished different things given the right nurture and circumstances.
 
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Carma

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Similar to the young Philip Mainlander. (Who was the true inspiration for the Nietzschean God is dead)

He hanged himself upon receiving his philisophical / existential treatise, literally on top of his book, very young.

His theory was that God killed himself, and we are rests, parts of him. God saw existence as wrong.

 
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I actually agree with his philosophy (for the most part) and I too, share similar sentiments too. I do not wish to live to old age and suffer through decades of decline while spending exorbitant amounts of money just to sustain (a shitty, low quality) life. I also do not have another SO (significant other) nor dependents (children or people that I am legally responsible for). Furthermore, the thought of being dependent on others terrifies me more than death itself and I have seen the elderly suffer through (granted, some were still happy to be alive and more power to them, but not for me). That is not something I would want to go through.

The moment life becomes too hard and is going to continue to decline would be when I check out, barring the fact that I don't die before reaching old age; all depends on the circumstances at hand, health, time, and a few arbitrary factors.

@Carma interesting philosophy and he is also quite a deep thinker too. He approaches life from a pessimistic point of view thus death, being the neutral state would be a positive state to ascend to.
 
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I've also seen the elderly suffer, in "care" homes, with nothing to do each day, and crap on the television or worse, severe neglect in these places. Why extend life so someone is in an unpleasant limbo for far too long, before dying anyway?

These are quite good philosophy things
 
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