Quiet in Voice, Loud in Mind, Desperate to Learn
- Overthinker
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Quiet in Voice, Loud in Mind, Desperate to Learn
"Man is literally split in two. He has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever."
Pondering such thoughts in silence is a heavy weight that makes depression almost inevitable. A lake of thoughts overflowing can find relief in even the small streams that let it share its burdens. Anyways, I look forward to learning from everyone!
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Re: Quiet in Voice, Loud in Mind, Desperate to Learn
It seems to be a play on words about mortality.Overthinker wrote:Hello everyone! I've never excelled at beginnings, especially in introducing myself. I joined this group in hopes to learn others' views in philosophy. I have much to learn, but my mind is open and flexible, and I'm eager to learn all perspectives! One topic that drove me here, one I consider both mortifying and beautiful, is best said by Ernest Becker:
"Man is literally split in two. He has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever."
Pondering such thoughts in silence is a heavy weight that makes depression almost inevitable. A lake of thoughts overflowing can find relief in even the small streams that let it share its burdens. Anyways, I look forward to learning from everyone!
We all die and dissolve (or are cremated) eventually.
It has been happening to humans for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years.
It is a morbid thought and creepy if you think about the odors involved in mammalian decay.
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Re: Quiet in Voice, Loud in Mind, Desperate to Learn
This is very true, but we might move beyond Becker. We experience a split inside our heads, between the "thinker" and the "thoughts", that's the split that forms the foundation of the human condition.Overthinker wrote:"Man is literally split in two.
Um, we don't stick out of nature, and I'm not sure I'd call our suicidal antics a "towering majesty". Ok, I'm quibbling, sorry.He has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty,
Rotting can be confirmed, disappearing forever is just an unproven theory some of us have....and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever."
Philosophy that leads to depression is philosophy in need of challenge and review. Even if we knew the truth, which we most certainly don't, and even if the truth is tragic, embracing a tragic truth we can do nothing about would not be an act of reason.Pondering such thoughts in silence is a heavy weight that makes depression almost inevitable.
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Re: Quiet in Voice, Loud in Mind, Desperate to Learn
I would recommend grabbing hold of something modern and reading it cover to cover in order to understand the language used. It is often the biggest hurdle to overcome in philosophy.
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