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Therefore, what we call overthinking is simply "mental tunnel-vision" or "mental shortsightedness." You can only see the things in front of you, and too close to you, i.e. you only focus on your inner world and its content, failing to see the rest of the visual field.
So every now and then, leave your room (literally and metaphorically). Go outside. Get sweaty, or get cold. Pet a cat, or catch a dragonfly.

Refill the mansions of mind and memory with new souvenirs from the outer world, and rejoice in them.
Forwarded from The Shire (Tetania)
Forwarded from The Shire (Venom)
Forwarded from Sado zone
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language

~John Brown
Forwarded from N0N9 (محمد جواد)
كل ما يحتاجه الانسان كي يقتل ربه , أن يسبه

_ عشتار / ملحمة كلكامش
_ تميم البرغوثي
These advocates of political revolution thought that humans would enjoy expanded freedom and happiness with the abolition of property, leadership, unequal social status, and privilege.
But, Nietzsche points out, the complaints and desires of the anarchist [revolutionaries] are the complaints and desires of those who want revenge on a world that has denied them what they are too weak to seize for themselves. “[T]here is a fine dose of revenge in every complaint.”

- Laughing at Nothing
Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving for ever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time. (It is certainly not the solution of any problems of natural science that is required.)
We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched. Of course there are then no questions left, and this itself is the answer.
— Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Forwarded from Labyrinth (Tuqa Qassim)
(وَأَنَّا لا نَدْرِي أَشَرٌّ أُرِيدَ بِمَنْ فِي الأرْضِ أَمْ أَرَادَ بِهِمْ رَبُّهُمْ رَشَدًا)
the humorous attitude involves an ability to create and adopt novel and unexpected perspectives from which the otherwise painful, frustrating, and threatening incongruities of life may be revealed as potential objects of merriment.
Humor is not simply an emotional response. Rather, it is an ability, talent, or capacity for interpreting life’s incongruities in a manner that brings pleasure rather than pain to the humorist. It differs from the easy pleasures involved in enjoying a joke or a comedy in that humor takes work. The humorist has developed the capability to step outside of a rigidly self-centered and self-interested viewpoint in order to imagine the ways in which seemingly isolated and unrelated phenomena might be connected in previously unanticipated ways. This ability is associated with feelings of competency, mastery, and superiority.

- Laughing at Nothing, Humor as a Response to Nihilism
Approaching the experience of nihilism with a humorous attitude does not serve to eliminate or do away with the nihilist’s suffering, but it helps to make sense of that suffering, allowing the nihilist to endure the unavoidable frustrations of life.

- Laughing at Nothing, Humor as a Response to Nihilism
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the humorous attitude involves an ability to create and adopt novel and unexpected perspectives from which the otherwise painful, frustrating, and threatening incongruities of life may be revealed as potential objects of merriment. Humor is not simply an emotional…
أنْ يتّخذ المرءُ موقفًا ساخرًا من تناقضات الحياةِ المؤلمة والمُحبِطة والخطيرة هو أَمرٌ يتطلب القدرةَ على إبداع وتبنّي وجهات نظرٍ جديدة وغير متوقعة، ويتضمن تحويل هذه التناقضات إلى مواضيع مُحتملةٍ للبهجة. لا يمثّل حسّ الفكاهة والسخرية ردًا عاطفيًا فقط، بل هو القدرة والموهبة على تفسيرِ تناقضات الحياة بطريقةٍ تَجلِب المتعة بدلًا من الألم للفرد. لكنّها تختلف عن المتعة السهلة التي يحصل عليها المرء من سماع نكتةٍ أو موقفٍ كوميدي من حيثُ أنّ السخرية تتطلب جهدًا، إذ أنّ للفردُ الساخِر القدرةَ على أنْ يترك منظوره الفرديّ الضيق فيتخيّل ارتباطاتٍ جديدة وغير متوقعة بينَ أحداث وظواهر تبدو منفصلةً عن بعضها وغير مترابطة.
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Approaching the experience of nihilism with a humorous attitude does not serve to eliminate or do away with the nihilist’s suffering, but it helps to make sense of that suffering, allowing the nihilist to endure the unavoidable frustrations of life. - Laughing…
أنْ يواجه الفردُ العدميةَ بالسخريةِ هذا لا يعني أنّ السخرية سوف تخلّص العدمي من معاناته، بل أنّها سوف تعطي معنىً ما لهذه المعاناة مما يسمح للفرد بأنْ يحتمل إحباطات الحياة التي لا مفرّ منها.
Forwarded from 0/0 (Haidar A. Fahad)
Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

- Watchmen, Alan Moore
Tbh, I disagree with many of the book's ideas, but still, humor has very strong therapeutic possibilities, and that is very interesting.