“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” (Goethe)
If a man believes he is at his prime mental and physical state, he must realize that he is also stuck in a state of stagnation and rotting, for he cannot rise any higher, only remain where he is, or worse yet, descend. On the other hand, when you take a man that is broken, sickly and weak... You look at him, and you see before him, how much he can overcome, how high he can ascend out of his current state, how high he can rise, how much he can improve. How lucky he is, that the future is so promising to him, that while the first man is only going to rot in his current state, and cannot go any higher, this man who is sickly and diseases is rewarded with the path of ascent.
Man is never at a point of perfection, he is always changing and overcoming. Everything is always changing, to think that once you reach a certain point, that you will be contempt and happy, is to doom yourself to stagnation, misery, and decay.
A man should never seek to be something, but he should instead always seek to be on a constant path of becoming.
And if every mans ideal state is not that of being and stagnating or occupying a certain point on the human experience spectrum.... rather the ideal state is that of constantly becoming
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Identifying is the chief obstacle to self-remembering. A man who identifies with anything is unable to remember himself. In order to remember oneself it is necessary first of all not to identify. But in order to learn not to identify man must first of all not be identified with himself, must not call himself "I" always and on all occasions.. He must remember that there are two of him, that there is himself, and is "I" in him, and there is an other with whom he must struggle and whom he must conquer if he wishes at any time to attain anything. So long as man identifies or can be identified, he is the slave of everything that can happen to him. Freedom is first of all freedom from identification - George Gurdjiev
In order to be born... a man must die, that is, he must free himself from a thousand petty attachments and identifications which hold in in the position in which he is. He is attached to everything in his life, attached to his imagination, attached to his stupidity, attached even to his sufferings... He must free himself from this attachment. George Gurdjiev
Life is given to man, not for his own personal enjoyment, rather nature gives life to all her creations so that they could fulfill her "higher cosmic" purposes.
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Really don't have the time to write anything meaningful or coherent, although I do have things to say. ( I know
no one really reads a long block of text, except for a small number of people)
The thought of making a youtube channel with "blackpilled philosophy/reflections"... or just philosophy, in general, has been at the back of my head for awhile now. (Since such an effort would reach a wider audience, and you can encapsulate ideas into a mood and setting with images/sound for better "absorption".)
Maybe in a couple of months, I'll buy a camera so I can record. I am very much antisocial and non-verbal at this point(since I'm a low social value male and have been castrated from the "herd" ), and my faculty of speech has atrophied from the "social alienation/isolation" that I inhabit. I am not sure how well I would be able to
narrate(orate) my own videos... I am not a fluent speaker anymore, since I inhabit my inner world, and not the outside world so to speak... and this condition is rather severe...
I would not make videos for the sake of making videos, or saying something that has been said a thousand times and is well known to everyone. I would make videos like
"no one else" (
well maybe not cheap regurgitated, sensational garbage). Rather I would produce content with substance and depth and meaning--- not for the many, but for the few.
