Disease Leading to Death
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Completely enlightenment thought, but in the end it's like "it's all about feelings!" which gives a sense of complete faith in oneself and is very good "The only way to atone for your sins is to enjoy your daily life. And your melancholy is nothing but an excuse to not face life head on." This is what Kierkegaard said about despair. Text when introduced
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Below is the Kindle highlights imported from Glasptkgshn.icon*2 "Death is the end of all things from a human perspective, but as long as there is life, there is hope."
"Not knowing something terrible is the first sign of a child's immaturity."
"Is the self something that is determined by oneself or by others?"
"Of course, we should not talk about despair as if it were a disaster that comes from somewhere (it is like a person who is dizzy and talks about something on top of his head or something falling on him due to a nerve illusion, but in reality, this weight or pressure is not an external thing at all, but a distorted reflection of an internal thing), and if there is anything like trying to remove despair with one's own power alone, he is still in despair, and his struggle against despair, no matter how much he intends to fight it, will only drag him deeper into the more serious despair."
"Is despair superiority or defect? Purely dialectically, it can be either."
"The fact that humans can contract this disease is a sign of their superiority over animals. This is far more essential to human superiority than walking upright."
"Being able to despair is an infinite superiority."
Not being in despair is not something more or less than not being in despair, for if one denies the possibility that one can be despairing, to that extent is one already despairing. Not being in despair means that one has not denied the possibility of being in a desperate situation.
Despair is a divided relationship to itself (synthesis) in relation to the self.
- If we were to constantly tell a patient, "Sick person, you are the one who is inviting this disease to yourself at this moment," it would be a terrible and inhumane thing to do.
- The reality of despair moments should return to that possibility. The desperate person is bringing despair to themselves at every moment of their despair.
- Despair does not emanate from a divided relationship but from a relationship with the self, so one cannot escape from one's own self-relationships any more than one can escape from oneself. (Both are one and the same, and the self is the term for one's relationship to oneself.)
- In other words, this disease does not end with physical death.
- The person lies there dying, but cannot die. "Dying only sickens me" means that the person cannot die. However, this does not mean that there is still hope for them to live, but rather that all hope has been lost to the extent that they cannot even achieve the final hope, death.
- It is precisely because they cannot consume their own self, cannot escape from their own self, and cannot make it nothing that they are in despair.
- While the body can be consumed by its own illness, the soul cannot be consumed by its own disease (sin), as Socrates demonstrated the immortality of the soul. Likewise, we can prove that despair cannot consume the human self and that the self-contradictory agony of despair exists in the fact that it cannot do so.
- That affectation is despair, and he is keenly insightful of the fact that this affectation is nothing but despair. He also keenly understands that these ill-humors and the like are of little consequence, but that it is the fact that they are of little consequence that constitutes despair.
- As soon as despair becomes evident, it also becomes evident that the human being had been despairing from the very beginning.
- No one can ever say anything decisive about the state of that human being at any single moment.
- It is for this reason that it also becomes evident that he had been despairing throughout his entire life up to the present time.
- However, this can also imply a state in which one has overcome despair and found peace.
- In order to endure the reflection of nothingness, or rather more accurately, infinite reflection, superior reflection, or more accurately still, great faith, is necessary.
- Even if it succeeds, such good fortune is of no use because it is nothing but despair.
- If they want to hide it, they can hide their despair to the point where no one, absolutely no one, can notice it. It does not only mean that, but that despair can be deeply hidden within a person to the point where the person himself does not even notice it.
- A person without any will is no self at all; the more will he has, the more self-consciousness he has.
- And imagination is reflection, that is, the reproduction of oneself, and therefore the possibility of oneself.
- Because oneself is the least problematic thing in the world, and if it is noticed even a little that one has it, it becomes a kind of thing that is most dangerous, like nothing else. Losing oneself is really the most dangerous thing, and it can happen very quietly as if it were nothing in the world.
- Thus he falls into a unit, a symbol, an imitation in the midst of the crowd.
- Those who know what is fearful must fear the sin/guilt that does not leave any traces outside but is taken internally as a course of action, more than anything else.
- If my adventure is wrong, then my life will save me by punishment. But if I didn't try any adventure at all, who would save me? Especially if I lost my own self by avoiding the best possible adventure (which is nothing but staring at oneself) to gain all earthly benefits.
- To repeat, it is a battle of madness for the sake of possibility. Because possibility is the only savior. When someone faints, we cry out to bring water or eau de Cologne or Mr. Hoffman's solution. But when someone is about to despair, we cry out, "Create possibility! Create possibility!" Because possibility is the only savior.
- In the end, faith is the problem. He just believes that everything is possible for God. It is impossible for humans to believe in their own destruction. It is faith to understand that it is one's own destruction, and still to believe in possibility.
- The more consciousness increases, the stronger the degree of despair.
- He helps to complete the system by living in the midst of error.
- Therefore, even if a despairing person does not know that their state is one of despair, it is not a problem. They are still in despair.
- The opposite of despair is faith.