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Tag Archives: pain
Oh no, not me, we never lost control
There’s this scene from Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver that I particularly like. Actually, I like it so much that I even imitate it from time to time. But anyway. This scene that I’m telling you about, it’s the one immediately … Continue reading
Posted in Films, Personal
Tagged death, essay, food, friends, grunge, health, jogging, martin scorsese, nirvana, pain, pastries, pessimism, self-improvement, sugar, sweets, tarlac city, taxi driver, the man who sold the world
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Might as well
Ernest Hemingway is often quoted in the internet—particularly in Tumblr—as to have once said that “When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead.” Usually that quote comes with a picture of a man water skiing … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur schopenhauer, ataraxia, boredom, ernest hemingway, essay, f. scott fitzgerald, friends, fun, happiness, happy, pain, woody allen, writing
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The Solace of Solitude
A pdf copy of my undergraduate thesis The Solace of Solitude could be downloaded here. 15 May 2014
Three Schopenhauerian reflections
I. On life Human life is accidental. It is full of suffering. And we will eventually die one day. Out of nowhere we are thrown into existence. We are forced to live in this world, in this reality, and no … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, arthur schopenhauer, boredom, denial of the will to life, essay, human life, life, loneliness, pain, philosophy, reflection, stoicism, suffering
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Exposure
One thing I realized while having one of my crazy walks this afternoon is that the suffering that makes our lives miserable is dependent to the things and people we are exposed with. I mean if we do not expose … Continue reading
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Tagged arthur schopenhauer, bussinessmen, compassion, doctors, egoism, essay, evil, exposure, fellow-sufferer, human association, individualism, interaction, lawyers, lumpen proletariat, pain, petty thieves, philosophy, politicians, predation, predator, prey, reclusion, schopenhauer, self-reliance, solitude, suffering
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