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user-inactivated  ·  3360 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you convince a completely miserable person that the world isn't such a terrible place?

    Your hypothetical person does not realize yet that all he can do is make the statue.

Even if that's true - why? Why bother?





oecolampadius  ·  3360 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Because to do otherwise is to become rotted meat, and at that point, why do anything? He must find a way to become so disgusted in the taint of the outside world on him that is becomes his only need to remove the filth. Apathy is filth, hopelessness is filth. They are not part of the sculptor nor the statue, they are parasites, and he must recognize this.

user-inactivated  ·  3360 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What isn't filth, then? Is frustration with life filth? Is learned helplessness filth?

oecolampadius  ·  3359 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Negative emotions are filth. Part of becoming a pillar above the world is removing them.