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From the anime Texhnolyze.

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This is a clip from a good psychological horror anime Texhnolyze, which deals with themes of existence, nihilism, and free will. This one stood out to me because it reminds of Nietzsche's Übermensch, especially the way he deals with the situation gives me Zarathustra like feeling. I mean this technically Amor Fati, because of the way he accepted it and moved on. What do you guys think about this?

So if you do not know about the eternal recurrence, also known as Nietzsche's demon thought experiment, it is basically a small thought experiment that Nietzsche did in his book The Gay Science, where he asks you to imagine a demon telling you that you will live your exact life over and over all eternity, down to every joy and sorrow.

Now the question lies whether will you be happy or will you be filled with despair after you hear this. Your first impulse for people with despair, they might be terrified. They might curse the demon as a fiend. And most people realize that they carry too much regret, boredom, quite misery to want an infinite replay. But if you are a true lover of life, you would answer to the demon, You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine.

Here's the exact quote:

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!'

"Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.' If this thought gained possession of you, it would change you as you are or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, 'Do you desire this once more and innumerable times more?' would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life?"

Now tell me, how cooked are you?

The Waste Land by T.S Eliot.

Is this applicable to you?

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library edition.

Meme. Breaking Bad.

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Beserk 1997 [4]

Texhnolyze [10]

Mushishi [7]

Vinland Saga [3]

Chainsaw man [17]

Dorohedoro [12]

Rainbow [15]

Your Lie In April [21]

Devilman Crybaby [9]

Ergo Proxy [8]

Made in Abyss [16]

Pluto [13]

Steins;Gate [5]

Kaiji [19]

Grave of the Fireflies [20]

Parasyte [18]

Neon Genesis Evangelion [2]

Paranoia Agent [14]

Monster [1]

Death Note [6]

Code Geass [11]

What other animes should I try?

Many philosopher like Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Satre, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Thomas Aquanias, Barauch Spinoza, etc. built the large modern philosophy. Many problems that they tried to solve, was what consumed them.

For example, we can see in Nietzsche that he advocated for self-overcoming, amor fati, and affirming, suffering, and becoming who one is, creating one's values, and his ideal figure that was the Übermensch. But history tells something else. Nietzsche himself experienced chronic illness, which we can attribute to his health state, but also he received migraines, isolation, academic failure, social alienation, and he had an requited attachment towards Lou Andreas-Salomé. And he also had several psychological collapses.

We can see similar thing with Albert Camus. He argued that life was absurd, and that the universe offers no inherent meaning, and that we should rebel against absurdity. And from his Myth of Sisyphus, he proved that one must imagine Sisyphus happy, but he himself suffered with tuberculosis. He had political disillusionment, and there were several conflicts with the French left, and estrangement from former allies. He had guilt and anxiety during the colonial crisis in Algeria.

And with Hegel, we can see that he envisioned history as rational, progressive, and dialectical, and moving towards freedom. He also said that the real is rational. But his life, he experienced a lot of instability in early life, struggled professionally for years, he witnessed wars and political upheaval, sometimes accommodated existing power structures.

And same thing can be done with Arthur Schopenhauer, Jean-Paul Sartre, and many other people. And I can truly say that the struggle is in everybody's life. Even in my life, I cannot become the sort of figure that my philosophy has.

But as far as we can see, there are several of these philosophers who had their struggles but in many situations could not apply their philosophy as properly as they should have been able to, even though their life contained suffering, but they could not apply their own philosophy up to much greater extent. My idea is not accusation, it is about analysis, about seeing how Solomon's paradox can affect philosophy and other philosophers in history, and how one can learn from it.

With the photographer.

I mean that's the first spell I learnt in 8th Grade.

This video asks the same question. But, my question is: "What is Philosophy?"

When you realise that you barely use the notes you write before the exam and end up watching English For All videos instead.