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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning


What remained was the individual person, the human being — and nothing else. Everything had fallen away from him during those years: money, power, fame; nothing was certain for him anymore: not life, not health, not happiness; all had been called into question for him: vanity, ambition, relationships. Everything was reduced to bare existence. Burnt through with pain, everything that was not essential was melted down — the human being reduced to what he was in the last analysis: either a member of the masses, therefore no one real, so really no one, the anonymous one, a nameless thing (!), that “he” had now become, just a prisoner number; or else he melted right down to his essential self.
~Frankl

Frankl then turns to the question of finding a sense of meaning when the world gives us ample reasons to view life as meaningless — the question of “continuing to live despite persistent world-weariness.”

Writing in the post-war pre-dawn of the golden age of consumerism, which has built a global economy by continually robbing us of the sense of meaning and selling it back to us at the price of the product, Frankl first dismantles the notion that meaning is to be found in the pursuit and acquisition of various pleasures.
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Frankl begins by considering the question of whether life is worth living through the central fact of human dignity. Noting how gravely the Holocaust disillusioned humanity with itself, he cautions against the defeatist “end-of-the-world” mindset with which many responded to this disillusionment, but cautions equally against the “blithe optimism” of previous, more naïve eras that had not yet faced this gruesome civilizational mirror reflecting what human beings are capable of doing to one another.

Both dispositions, he argues, stem from nihilism. In consonance with his colleague and contemporary Erich Fromm’s insistence that we can only transcend the shared laziness of optimism and pessimism through rational faith in the human spirit, Frankl writes:

"We cannot move toward any spiritual reconstruction with a sense of fatalism such as this."
~Frankl
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you may be forced to decide and if death is your choice you may be forcefully taken of the sinking ship and placed onto another ship for your own safety and the well being of roman

I'm just using Titanic as a metaphor.



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yes
it is unimaginable bad for you cos you can not hide how you feel about what you see

true

that is within your means to be true

It really isn't that bad for me..atm.

What is bad is how I'll have to watch others suffer because they didn't listen. Hence, Cassandra's Curse.

I've never been one to find solace in schadenfreude. As being right..isn't what I want. I want to avoid being right. Precognition thing. It gives me a sense that the future is not set.


With that said..I don't think it is an accident I stumbled on Frankl today.

He's making me feel like a real ass..which is fine..I probably needed that.



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yes
amazing man first time for me to knowing him

respect

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To know the future..is to be trapped by it..

..Free of future predetermined..

My first nephew was born 1 month after 9/11/01.

He is a very tall, very accomplished scholar, athlete and musician. This is was his senior year in high school.

He has a full-ride scholarship for next fall to university.


We received his graduation announcement in the mail, yesterday. It is hanging on the fridge with a magnet. HIs smiling face staring back at me every time I go to the fridge.

Being school was canceled several weeks back..and I can't help but feel sorrow for him..ending his senior year, without his peers, without a prom, without yearbook signing, without a commencement ceremony..and facing this uncertain future.

I graduated from university when he was 6 months old..and like him entered an uncertain world..rocked by 9/11 less than year passed. It hasn't been easy..but then I'm not sure it ever is.


But here we are..18 years later..and I am raging at this future he is receiving.

I don't know who or what to direct it at. No where/way to channel it..

What I do know..is the youth will write the history of what goes down over the next 2 years. This world belongs to them.

Everyone else..is on borrowed time.

If I lived closer I would totally help you finish it off. I say eat some pie and ice cream if you want it. I'm over here eating potato covered in cheese and drinking my daily caffeine..nothing beats a perfect cup of coffee. If nothing else came out of this dumbass virus I can say I've gained skill points in the coffee dept. Also perfecting the family cornbread recipe.


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Hu delete the tweet but we still know what it said.

That's the real witchcraft. lol

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mandate of heaven thing believed in beijing

could be jinn

Aether was right. Gambling with my stomach issues..isn't worth it. Even if eating half a pie, is flipping the bird to prudence.


I love potato..and cornbread. My partner is slowly loosening his Keto restrictions.

He ate some of my black beans last night for the first time in a year..and told me how amazing they were.


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He sounds really gifted and bright. No I don't think it's ever been easy for anyone not even when things seemed they were 'normal' and honestly when things were supposedly normal they were still fucked up. Nothing was ever normal after 9/11. I believe the kids are ready for it being they were born into it.

The Riker Lean

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Riker sits down

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He is. He is also very gentle and kind.

Not anything like how memes try to portray the youth..

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That sounds really good. I watched this lady make a hamburger (veggie burger) out of black beans. It looked great.

The memes have really been pissing me off lately.

They make no damn sense.

Heh.

He's flexible..or maybe found a good way to unstick his man bits from his leg, in those uniforms.


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Few want to make sense anymore.

They're just looking to self-serve their beliefs, while sitting firmly in the justification that they were 'right'..even if they aren't and a long way from it.

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I haven't had a good black bean burger. They always fell apart into a mess.

Doesn't mean they don't exist.


The Morning Star grillers..were very close to what tasted like..burger pucks..you know the ones.

Soy though..is no bueno on the body.


It's weird how I think consuming half a pie as an affront and not eating a burger.

I don't know what this world is any more..


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Last Edited by Seer777 on 05/19/2020 05:54 PM

How I stumbled on Frankl earlier..

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I used to get those morning star chicken 'pucks' they were spicy and I would chop it up over a salad. It was good. I guess that was probably made of soy all I remember it saying was something plant-based so maybe it wasn't soy.

I mean the pie sounded good for a minute. For mother's day we had this chocolate pie that came from the frozen section at the grocery. Had the chocolate crust. It was pretty good. Rich but good. Also if you're still craving something sweet..you might like this. Sweet salty combo.

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Judas tree..

You need to be punched directly in your lying face.

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That's how that bastard aether is gonnna look when I finish with him.