Caught completely off guard

Casey Allen said:Using the word "learned" is kind of redundant here. It’s common knowledge that people act this way; very few people actually grasp just how frequently and overwhelmingly it happens.
There isn't some "other half" to find. Do you even know what hypocrisy means? It implies there's one side that's real and another side that's a complete facade.

But what if both sides are actually true?

Morgan Peterson6 said:He’s in such a dark place—some days he even messages me saying he just wants to be erased, to simply cease existing. He’s craving nonexistence. He’s been on this deep journey of awakening for years now, soaking up all kinds of literature and life experiences... and now? He just can't find any meaning in anything. He says he hasn't found a single thing that gives him hope that we’re here for any reason other than being food.
He honestly views this whole world as a flawed piece of work—like something went wrong during the Creation. He thinks we're just programmed, living in some kind of matrix where entities stomp all over us like we're characters in a video game with zero free will. He doesn't find any joy in life; he's just deeply, profoundly unhappy. He can't stand the injustice and the sheer pain of this dimension. I can feel his sadness... and it makes me so sad just being around it. He’s one of those truly good, gentle souls... how am I even supposed to help him?

He's swallowed far too many fringe theories, leaving him with nothing but mental and emotional chaos.

Just drop him off in Africa and let a lion loose on him; all those grand fantasies would vanish instantly. Hard physical labor is also a cure—intense manual work under extreme conditions like hunger or cold.

When a person isn't physically active and stays tucked away in comfort, they start drifting into delusions.
I often say that women need to stay busy with work, because if they aren't physically engaged, their minds overwork themselves and spiral into fantasy.

Was he ever actually stable before he started devouring all that "spiritual" literature?

hiddenpuma75 said:Well, if he decides to face the truth and its consequences, go ahead and tell him exactly that—and let him know it came straight from hiddenpuma75...

Tell him he’s incredibly sharp and perceptive, having grasped certain realities, but he’s also remarkably foolish and blind despite having perfectly good eyes.

Explain to him that he’s almost as smart as hiddenpuma75 because he’s managed to decipher one half of the equation: the fact that this world and life itself are overflowing with lies, false values, suffering, filth, sludge, injustice, terrible TV shows, awful people, and even bad moderators.

But then, point out his stupidity: he’s fixated solely on that one half of existence, completely ignoring the glaringly obvious fact that this world also holds a billion and one beautiful things.🙂 👍

If he continues—as we might expect—to whine about how he can't see those beautiful things, or how the bad stuff bothers him more than the wonderful stuff brings him joy, then give him the finishing blow...

Tell him he’s officially become a philosopher, and remind him that Camus once said the only truly serious philosophical question is whether or not one should commit suicide.

So, basically, tell him to finally grow up and embrace existence as it is, or to stop talking and actually follow through by ending it all—which would be his most consistent and final critique of life, the universe, and the number 42.😲

🤣🤣 Which book was that from?🍿