/kind/ - Random Acts of Kindness

You'll never wake up to this if you sudoku.

> Life cannot simply be something to cling to. This thought skims through everyone at least once. We have a possibility that makes us freer than the gods: we can quit. This is an idea to be savoured to the end. Nothing and no one is obliging us to live. Not even death. For that reason our life is a tabula rasa, a slate on which nothing has been written, so contains all the words possible. With such freedom, we cannot live as slaves. Slavery is for those who are condemned to live, those constrained to eternity, not for us. For us there is the unknown—the unknown of spheres to be ventured into, unexplored thoughts, guarantees that explode, strangers to whom to offer a gift of life. The unknown of a world where one might finally be able to give away one’s excess self love. Risk too. The risk of brutality and fear. The risk of finally staring mal de vivre in the face. All this is encountered by anyone who decides to put an end to the job of existing.

> Our contemporaries seem to live by jobbing, desperately juggling with a thousand obligations including the saddest of all of them—enjoying themselves. They cover up the incapacity to determine their own lives with detailed frenetic activity, the speed that accompanies increasingly passive ways of behaving. They are unaware of the lightness of the negative.

> We can choose not to live. That is the most beautiful reason for opening oneself up to life with joy. ‘There is always time to put an end to things; one might as well rebel and play’—is how the materialism of joy talks.

> We can choose not to act, and that is the most beautiful reason for acting. We bear within ourselves the potency of all the acts we are capable of, and no boss will ever be able to deprive us of the possibility of saying no. What we are and what we want begins with a no. From it is born the only reason for getting up in the morning. From it is born the only reason for going armed to the assault of an order that is suffocating us.

> On the one hand there is the existent, with its habits and certainties. And of certainty, that social poison, one can die.

> On the other hand there is insurrection, the unknown bursting into the life of all. The possible beginning of an exaggerated practice of freedom.

>>25086

Not for me, I have things I need to do, and someone would be very sad if I died before them.

Also, this kind of cheesy, but I want a good death, one fit for a hero. Not an-hero.

>>25091

That's beautiful, friend.

I looked it up. Apparently it's anarchist philosophy written by an anonymous author?

It really rings true with what I've always felt. Life is not an obligation. No matter how boxed in you may feel, no matter how hopeless things may seem, you have the freedom to quit at any time.

Suicide is often thought to be "the coward's way out," but I feel this is unfair. Your life belongs to nobody but you. So if you decide that you're done, for whatever reason, then that's all you. It's entirely your decision. Nobody has the right to guilt you into staying.

At the same time, it emphasises that we are born free. Because we can quit at any time, that is the true meaning of freedom.

>>25095

>I see no reason why it can't be both.

Fair enough, but I don't believe that this is true in most cases. The reason that people call it a cowardly act is that they see it as an easy way to get out of one's responsibilities and obligations. Specifically, the obligation one has to one's friends and family. The idea being that only a coward would leave them all behind to suffer and mourn without you.

I just don't think that's fair. Take Robin Williams' suicide. Obviously, he loved his daughter very much, but he still chose to go through with it. Maybe it is generally an impulsive decision, but depressed people are usually stewing in their desire to end it for a while.

Of course, OP didn't post this on /suicide/ so we can still hope that our friend changes his mind.

>>25111

> Should one kill oneself? Killing oneself, though, implies some sense of resistance: one must possess a value that one can destroy. Where there is nothing, the destructive actions themselves crumble to nothing. You cannot hurl a void into a void. "If only a rock would fall and kill me," wrote Kierkegaard, "at least that would be an expedient." I doubt if there is anyone today who has not been touched by the horror of a thought such as that. Inertia is the surest killer, the inertia of people who settle for senility at eighteen, plunging eight hours a day into degrading work and feeding on ideologies. Beneath the miserable tinsel of the spectacle there are only gaunt figures yearning for, yet dreading, Kierkegaard's "expedient," so that they might never again have to desire what they dread and dread what they desire.

>>25125

I get that this is a place for your leisure, your happy place even, but that kind of statement is terribly iffy to me. A board about kindness that shys away from any sort of negative feelings or subject matter is completely lacking in empathy or real respect and more about playing a game of pretend. Real kindness is being selfless in the end. Help others is even in the banner, people shouldn't be afraid to ask for it.

That said a thread dedicated to suicide stamped on the front page does put a rain on the mood everyone wants to pass around. I've seen it done before, threads asking to let your problems out but none seemed to have the right attitude about them. At any rate when this thread gets thrown away after more tinkering on the site gets done I propose there be two threads to handle this kind of thing. One for having people listen to you express your feelings and another for morality and ethics and whatnot. Those sensitive to less upbeat ideas should know well enough to stay away.

>>25088

>>25088

>oppai piggu 3d

number puzzles it is!

>>25375

Disgusting!

>>25352

>>25355

>>25375

blah blah blah I was just trying to help, I thought this was the kind board

well next time I won't even bother helping

In Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus, the reader is left to the question of whether or not it is ethical to go to sleep. According to Camus, all people, like Sisyphus, have the burden of living in a world in which they can never find meaning for any of their toils. As Sisyphus is left to wonder what reason he has to push a rock up a hill for all eternity, so too, do we as people have to wonder the reason that we are never gratified with an answer for our existence. Existence, according to Camus, is absurd, and there is nothing that we humans can do to change said existence. After all, existence existed before us; what recourse do we have to change that which we are but a small insignificant speck of?

Camus' conclusion is this: Though an escape from existence (suicide) may seem a logical recourse to an unfulfilling destiny, the act of doing so does not address the problem at hand. Suicide is an escape, not a confrontation. To confront the absurdity of meaninglessness, and therefore make attempt to change our reality, we must embrace the absurdity that is our existence. Camus suggests in his essay that every time Sisyphus walks back down the hill, he does not do so because he is forced to, he does so because he WANTS to. Absurdity gives birth to humor, which in turn gives birth to pleasure. And if the world is absurd, as Camus suggests, there should be no end to the amount of joy that can be derived from absurdist, mirthless tedium. Therefore, even if the world is crooked and torturous, a new perspective can create a positive connection to a negative experience through the lens of absurdity.

>>25326

was never the biggest fan of this fellow. Never to blazing anger, but he just seems to feel like all of his views are correct without realizing there are other views and perspectives for other people. Also, he certainly doesn't know boundaries. I remember his joke video on 9/11. Now, I know most here aren't offended by something like that, but if you want to be respected for your serious views as how you present them, it's probably a bad idea to joke about 9/11, or insult a suicidal fan when you don;t know the situation. The list goes on..

Not to be rude, I appreciate your input. I have to say, though. I'm not sure if I agree with this man being a source of reliable advice.