Anyone else spend 90% of time just thinking about random shit in their head all day, life's biggest problems, and you feel like somehow it's all gonna click one day and you'll realize something incredible? Both Schopenhauer and Nietzsche led lives like this, they just spent all their time thinking, but it doesn't really seem like it worked for them. I'm wondering if maybe this is just a form of mental illness
I actually do and I'm very close of revolutionizing Heidegger.
Godspeed
you are clearly incapable of forming even the most basic of sentences so I am instead going to believe that you are both moronic and schizophrenic
My english may not be perfect, but I speak three languages fluidly and I'm learning a fourth, while you're most likely an american who can barely speak one.
Nice one, keep up your work anon and don't get a brain aneurism!
I read Kierkegaard once had an episode of "waking sleep paralyses" so just paralysed I guess. But I literally couldn't move, my limbs felt like lead and I had to fight for control. It also caused a stutter in my speech that lasted a day or so.
Care to share some thoughts?
yeah introspection sucks big time all I want to do is vibe and go with the flow like a woman
It is so frustrating. I have destroyed myself in this process and now I am in great pain and I actually feel like I am dying from some internal illness.
I was being ironic you SHOULDN'T think like a fricking woman
I agree. I have tried the normalhomosexual "just go with the flow man" thing but it felt dishonest and cringe. I have melancholic character and I am in panic 24/7. I am trying to accept that
Yeah, same.
I recently gave that aspect of my life a name, i call it “security guard anon” and he is very concerned with keeping his surroundings under control…. If i was a betting man, as someone who is experiencing it and seeing my parents hit the plateau, we are probably developing Alzheimer's disease which will plateau in our 60s due to below-average social activities. Just my take. Unless we all start meditating and joining active social activities like AA NA as well as gym groups to workout together with yoga FOR LIFE… there’s no turning the ship toward becoming senile. Yes im putting ppl into digestible forms and yes it is a word spaghetti. Dont @ me zoomies. Yall are a bunch a gays.
>we are probably developing Alzheimer's disease which will plateau in our 60s
Don't eat sugar and you won't get it, dummy, Alzheimer's is brain diabetes.
It's ackshually the opposite, read Ray Peat and understand that all disease is just metabolic malfunction at the most basic level; inability to efficiently oxidize glucose, chronic endotoxin overload and free radicals liberation through polyunsaturated fats consumption, among other things.
Anon, may i ask why do you have tendancy to control things in surrounding?
>THIS is what HAPPENS when (You) don't TAKE your MEDS (doctors hate him)
But seriously don't take psych meds
based introspectoooors, i doubt literally every decision i make and i cannot go with any flow, not even my own, it's not good kek
Click as in making sense? Who ever told you it's gotta make sense? It might not make a lot of sense, but the world is simply not to be reasoned with.
>I'm wondering if maybe this is just a form of mental illness
yes
Thinking for oneself is a mental illness in npcs eyes. Being an NPC is a mental illness in the thinking man's eyes. Are you an NPC?
Thinking as a goal-oriented activity theoretically never reaches an end. The “consummation” of thought is reached in a transcendental state beyond thought but not necessarily as a neurotic, harried battle to permanently “end” thinking, rigidly and forcibly to suppress one’s thoughts, resolve to never think again, etc., as even these are simply thoughts about ending thoughts, trying to use thought to transcend thought, which leads to further neurosis.
This is a different orientation or “praxis” (a praxis-which-is-not-a-praxis, as in the Taoist conception wei wu wei) from thinking, which is as if orthogonal (at right angles) to it, whether it’s found in Vedantic yoga and self-inquiry in the vein of Ramana Maharshi, the teachings of Buddhism, like Tibetan Mahamudra practice or shikantaza (just sitting) of the Soto Zen school, the choiceless awareness of J. Krishnamurti, or what-you-will. On this path (the path-which-is-not-a-path), the journey itself is the goal, and right-here-right-now is the consummation of all seeking. One can still continue to eat, take care of one’s body, work, socialize, read and partake in serious philosophical inquiry or religious study, etc., instead of fleeing to a cave or ashram and indulging in one’s solitude, it is simply that one has a different attitude towards these and higher, inclusive awareness working in all of these activities.
>Anyone else spend 90% of time just thinking about random shit in their head all day, life's biggest problems
yes
> and you feel like somehow it's all gonna click one day and you'll realize something incredible?
no
i feel like everyone just wonders why there's something instead of nothing, and the irony is that it's not even a valid question despite being the only one that matters.
Yeah that's pretty much me. Also how didn't it work for them? We still study what they wrote to this day. Their influence has been widespread and profound to say the minimum.
>thinking too much is... mental illness
Compared to what? Is the ideal person someone who only thinks a little? According to what values? What gives those values authority over my values? Do you have an objective definition of health and illness that applies universally to everyone? What if I became a dictator and declared that everyone who only thinks some arbitrary amount is ill? In that case my values would prevail over yours and be in the right. What then?
>Do you have an objective definition of health and illness that applies universally to everyone?
Interestinf question anon. Are you up for discussion about it?
>I'm wondering if maybe this is just a form of mental illness
No but it is a known way of escaping reallity. Irony huh?
Juat be aware anon. The story we tell ourselfs is the story we live. You better make one hell of a story that is not disconected from reallity. Or its meds for you.
I might be moronic, but I think that is actually a good insight.
Yeah. I think it’s been exacerbated by the fact that we live online lives and are plagued by boredom. I barely have to work for a living, for example. I’m free to think my life away on whatever I please. The trick is to find something “productive” (for lack of a better term) which is free. Art is the quintessential example.
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