Is he right?

Yes, just be bitter, thats sure intelligent. I mean, theres probably no afterlife but yes, go ahead and think that trying to enjoy this short time is being stupid.

If you have trascended that much you wont be here

The last nail in the coffin, sorry.
>Philosophy comes back in modern times.
>Great thinkers
>Subject is human's reason
>Everything around that
>We get around the whole thing within a few centuries, basically waiting for neuro-science to gives us more answer
>We're its little bitch
I miss the old days.

what about the buddhist concept of "bodhisattva"?

Shut up, old man!

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Of course. Emotions are the biggest impediment to discussing ideas. A person's happiness or sadness only obfuscates the information infront of them.

Great

Yes

spbp. anyone that refers to themselves as "high minded" is probably a huge douchebag

I'm not familiar with that but I dont think buddhism glorifies a lack of empathy and psychopaths. The problem is thinking that this attitude will be real useful and fullfilling, they think that pain comes along with desire and deep needs are just your ego wanting things and behind all of this is the believe that you can stop coming here and reach Nirvana but what if theres no afterlife in any sense?
I would love to know Rusell explanation of being "high minded" whats the high think of not wanting to be happy, maybe is fear of not succeding or something like that

I can see that. Is that all though? Is argumentation or discussion all? I mean the people who are having a discussion are one thing, the world outside of them might be something else?

> If that's true then having a part of it deactivated as that image implies might perhaps be a result of having transcended some aspects of the physical world?
that deactivates my almonds
is deactivating your brain what led to this post?

NORMALIZING AUTISM

Niggaz, the 4th Reich would get rid of all the retards first so I'd be trying to fit in rather than trying to make being a sociopath a thing.

Betrand Russel was a complete spastic, who got schooled by the continental philosophers. His whole life was a joke.

I should have added
>bodhisattva: a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so through compassion for suffering beings

kek, both of you have a point. i think there is a middle path here. free your brain from attachment, but not so much that you literally deactivate any semblance of humanity.

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Of course you are right, but these emotional states are factors in idea implementation, or if you want to market something.

Think of developing a product for sub Sahara Africa, think about havinf a development team working on this project and the conversations you would have to have.

You would have to understand that the Sub Saharans have an IQ of around 68, and as a result their engagement with the world might be extremely restricted as they don't under simple things like causality.

Think of all the liberal graduates who would be emotionally unable to engage in such discussions, imagine all the bullshit and false hood, the anger you would have to deal with, just to meet the truth that these people are different and have different needs that we should attempt to consider from their limited perspective.

I would imagine this is partly why so many infrastructure projects fail in Africa, why they take the transformers down for cooking oil.

As a people, they are not ready, and we as a people are emotionally and linguistically handicapped because we have been conditioned to see them as equals, but they are not, and the modern day education system robs an individual of the tools he needs to confront this fact.

So, yes. Feelings control thoughts, put an idea in a box of taboo and watch how little it is opened.

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Too true. This is the crux of our struggle.

Elite psychopath justifying his own psychopathy.

That's called Asperger Bertrand!

Stupid stupid person talking stupidly.

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No. They just don't make it their primary goal and are willing to sacrifice it.

Modern society is truly cancerous with it's depiction of happiness. It enforces this worldview where you always need to be happy or the idea that one must act with their feelings.

Yeah, both are sociopaths.

I'm not too sure what you mean by high-minded but anyone intelligent knows that happiness comes from within. I guess you can care if a loved one is happy, but honestly not much you can do about it if they're not other than something temporary.

Sorry, an elite SOCIOPATH justifying his own SOCIOPATHY. Is that better, butthurt fanboy?

Emotions are an impediment to ideas in the same ways understanding is an impediment to memorization.

E.g., I've taught lots of (mostly Chinese) students who are wicked good at proving theorems you give to them, but will never be able to do research because they are incapable of asking a question worth answering.

he wasn't right about a God damn thing

youtube.com/watch?v=kPWkPEb8rPc

This. and also probably has aspergers

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Sounds like a sociopath

he is almost always right, and this time so. also, i think nobody on pol will ever understand that quote.

My mum says that life is about finding happiness but I think that’s selfish. Shouldn’t life be about accomplishing something or creating something?

Don't overcomplicate things. He's as plain as day. He's a sociopath. Read his political books. He's all about the New World Order and the global elite turning the people into human cattle.

They're not mutually exclusive. In fact, one almost presupposes the other.

This men books are the first relief a had in 20 years of depression.

Because he was one. He was also a sperg. Probably quite literally.

I have always felt a weird sort of way about old people. Imagine the difference that just 100 years can make. Some examples (in no particular order)
>American revolution to the American civil war
>Scramble for Africa to radical decolonization
>Total segregation of the races to importing people specifically because of their race
>From Hitler to Merkel
>From an agricultural society with homesteading to urbanization
>From swing music on the radio to rapping about muh dick on SoundCloud
>From letter writing being a primary source of communication to Snapchat
From horses to highways
>From transatlantic travel taking months to now taking hours
>From puckleguns to AR-15s
>In 1920 you could buy a machine gun through the mail. In 2020 you can only get a used one after a 6 month permit
>From Felix the cat to the bachelor
>From radio shows to television
All of that happened within some people's lifetimes. It is fucking crazy to me. I can't imagine being that old yet one day I will be even in the past 30 years things have changed so much

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Ok, then let’s talk about something that would be necessary but that could cause unhappiness. Like fighting for your country

i know them very well. for starters, he is an anti-communist. secondly, he never wrote one single sentence pro-egalitarianism. he was a pacifist for his own complicated reasons, not the same as modern sjws.
his quote on happiness marks the difference between a life spent for the sake of happiness, like that of animals or women, and a life fulfilled by thinking and seeing the beauty of the universe, which has nothing to do with emotive or psychological states.

Nothing sociopathic about that quote. Being indifferent about happiness can be a very noble thing. I’d say most people aren’t indifferent. Most people are hateful towards happiness of others.

that's called being a degenerate yuman filth and that's as far from being a high minded person as the sun is from pluto.

Yes. Fetishizing happiness will leave you no better than a dog + ball consciousness. You will be trapped in the eternal now seeking amusements and meaningless comforts to satisfy yourself. Being anti-happiness is similar bullshit. You are still defining yourself in terms of being contrarian to something meaningless. While the struggle might leave you more awake than the former, you are still unable to rise any further above it because you are still defining yourself in terms of it. To really see what's out there, you must stop thinking in terms of realizing your base goals and set to your reason.

Can you expand on the last part please? I'm intrigued.

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NWO is the opposite of egalitarian, tard. It's not communism, either.

Read Aristotle on happiness before you post here again. You don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.

Is being content different from happiness?

> NWO
take your meds.

Happiness isn't some fleeting pleasure like a good shag or a delicious meal. Read Aristotle on happiness then come back to Yas Forums.

Will you tards go read Aristotle on happiness before you fucking post here? JFC.

Stoic af

He was a midwit so how would he know? Wittgenstein exposed him

I can't believe a beaner has more intelligence than the European and American posters here. The absolute state of Yas Forums.

No, that's psycho cope. Intelligence without empathy leads directly to nihilism. Russel's epistemic structural realism is a perfect example of nihilism given articulated form.

Have you been in a war zone?
It’s depressing, you see people die everyday

Suck a dick, Shlomo.

i also love how he doesn't say "don't be envious because we all must get along together" but : "if your IQ is high enough, you won't envy others' happiness".

wittgenstein worshipped him like god.

He's making an observation that feelings get in the way of rational thinking and that carrying a rational thought to its conclusions might hurt your own, and other people's feelings but that does not mean that it should not be done. Get fucked you emotional child.

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Wow, this explains a lot about China and the Asian races in general.

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Except he wasn't. He was a sociopathic and rather spergy member of the ruling class. Read his biography and you'll find he didn't exactly live an austere monk-like existence. He was born into wealth and privilege and died in it. Pumped and dumped a lot of women, too.

There is a middle path. Realize your emotions have very little impact on reality except for communication. I've managed to get to this point and I think it works out great..

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Havent read that.
So, they despise empathy? Didnt know that!
Its pretty weird, how does compassion stops you from reaching nirvana? Whats the lesson you got from that?
Wasnt messiahs from different religions transcend beings full of empathy?
What about the karma? If you lack compassion someday because of something thatll make you come back to earth, I think

Whoosh. Go read Aristotle. Please. You miss the point so much it's painful to watch.

Yes geniuses are too mentally evolved to be controlled by empathy. A geniuses brain has so little simian impulses that they can behave morally without the need for empathetic reinforcement.

>>the world isn't here to make you happy,
while i agree with that the rest is bullshit

stupid retards btfo

You think being miserable and dont wanting to be happy is intelligent?