I don't know anything about this person, but I am enjoying his videos on TikTok, e.g....@kentofrancisco i like to think of em as different tools for different circumstances
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@kentofrancisco schopenhauer is a debbie downer, i tried my best to put a positive frame on my boy
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…yah it’s about the chase. One nil Camus…
…the flea market/used furniture store backdrop offers so much more than trying to divine meaning from bookcase tchotchkes…
What is the sport?
If we’re playing hide and seek, Buddha won’t fit in many places, but Camus would question the game and quit playing.
Both/and not either/or.
I tried. But it's just influencer click-bait. And that felt ahistorical, and thus repellent. Brain drain, not novelty.
RSM: exactly. We live in the quantum mechanical Universe where multiple things that are diametrically opposed to each other can all be true at the same time. I think it's the virtual particle that makes all of this possible, LOL
"We didn't start the fire." Billy Joel
"multiple things that are diametrically opposed to each other can all be true at the same time"
Two things can't be "diametrically opposed" and both exist at the same time but both things can exist in our minds as possibilities at the same time. Apply the driver's test. You are in an old time car. A car was behind you and in one second between your glances at the mirror it vanishes. It is or it is not in your blind spot moving forward to pass you. You can move into the left lane safely or you cannot. In this example, It isn't true AND you know it that you both can move safely left and you cannot. The car exists on your left or it doesn't. You will or will not crash if you move left.
In this example, you see truth as a human being sees it. This is what we try to explain. There are two possibilities at a certain moment in time but only one truth.
I crave the Buddha, but I am Camus. Even in retirement I am busy with lofty goals and self-pressure to keep producing. Why else are we here? Oops...Buddha calling. Gotta run.
Just exactly what does Camus want us to crave or cling to? A thick volume of his correspondence with his mistress came out this year. Maybe the answer is in there.
Camus's influence has faded over the years. He was sort of a masculine icon, inspiring young male radicals and later appearing (if I recall correctly) in ads for pants. Masculinity isn't fashionable in today's world.
Non-attachment as its own attachment?
I've been studying Buddhism the last couple of years (mostly the Zen variety) and that dichotomy struck me as well, although it took a while. I suppose Buddhism, when considered as a whole, is all about achieving Nirvana and the end of endless cycles of reincarnation. So, yeah, in an ultimate sense maybe being completely without want is The Way to go. But. . . I suppose that depends on whether you believe in the whole Nirvana/reincarnation thing. Of which I am unconvinced.
I mean, I get it, more or less. Not wanting anything and all. But. . . .I have some old typewriters. I adore them. I like seeing them still work after decades. I like writing things on them. It's a bit irritating when they break, but I derive great satisfaction out of fixing them. I love music. Someone has to be unsatisfied with their playing ability and want to get better and better and make sounds that bring them (and me) joy. What if Bach had said "Meh, major keys are just fine. . . ."?
I think perhaps I'm more drawn to Stoic philosophy for that reason.
." I suppose Buddhism, when considered as a whole, is all about achieving Nirvana and the end of endless cycles of reincarnation."
Then what you need, Anthony, is a motorcycle.
Rick Rubin, producer, quotes a book called "A Course in Miracles", and he says the book is about there only being two things in the world, love and fear. And fear doesn't exist. So, all there really is is love. Fear is like a false indicator in some way. If you feel it, it means you're not connecting to the love that's really there in place of that fear."
"When met with the illusion of fear, we have two choices. We can cling to what's out of our control, or we can accept
what is and move forward. Rick relates this idea to the Buddhist concept of duca, the idea that much of our suffering comes not from what happens, but from our resistance to it.
It is like what Sonja said to Natasha in this clip.
I mentioned instrumentalism the other day.
These are both useful tools. You can switch between them as necessary.
"Fear is like a false indicator in some way. If you feel it, it means you're not connecting to the love that's really there in place of that fear."
Tell that to that girl that got stabbed on the subway?
“" I suppose Buddhism, when considered as a whole, is all about achieving Nirvana and the end of endless cycles of reincarnation."”
It doesn’t seem like much of an achievement, since we will all get there without even trying.
" 'We didn't start the fire.' Billy Joel"
"The Stranger" (novel) -- Albert Camus
"The Stranger" (album) -- Billy Joel
Rustygrommet said...
." I suppose Buddhism, when considered as a whole, is all about achieving Nirvana and the end of endless cycles of reincarnation."
Then what you need, Anthony, is a motorcycle.
Only if is always non-functional, else I am certain I'd be starting the next reincarnation cycle way earlier than planned. . . .
"Tell that to that girl that got stabbed on the subway?"
I don't think that's the same kind of fear.
It all sounds like weasel words to me.
Camus got chicks. So, I'm with Camus.
Somebody was dissing Sartre the other day. "Where's your Sartre now?", he sneered. "He's not only not being, he's nothing".
He's still big, I said, Its Philosophy that got small.
Camus died before he had time to get bored with everything. He had a young man's view of life, the invincible summer in. the midst of winter. Buddha took the long view and imagined the day when nothing would be new or appealing to him anymore. Goethe at age 82 was also probably fed up with endless striving.
Sartre asked a lot of big questions about being and nothingness, but the only thing people want to know from him now is how a wall-eyed dwarf with rotten, tobacco-stained teeth was so popular with the ladies.
If you want to experience both worlds get a Moto Guzzi basket case. You will at the same time understand the futility of existence and the patience of enlightenment.
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