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antoine sugar
@joedan346
I've attempted all kinds of things in life but they all failed because I would eventually quit because I guess I didn't really want it. Now, I don't know what I want, which might be what I really want... to not know... to not want... #desire
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Olivia Dresher
@OliviaDresher
To me there's a wide gulf between not knowing and not wanting... But you have developed knowledge of antinatalism which seems to be your "life's work"... You have not failed at that...
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antoine sugar
@joedan346
When one understands that there is nothing to know (nothing one can know), then, seeking, the desire to know, ends. Antinatalism, in my opinion, is pure logic. It's simple arithmetic. No birth = no suffering, no death.
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antoine sugar
@joedan346
You can't know anything. You can talk about it, exchange signs and symbols, make diagrams, develop nomenclature and so on. But, you never know anything. Not a single thing. It's like chasing a carrot on a stick. It's Sisyphus, over and over again.
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Olivia Dresher
@OliviaDresher
I agree. And yet we "know" language, we use it. We talk about not knowing. So we "know" that we don't know. We don't even have to say anything. To be alive is to be Sisyphus. Even you, even me.
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antoine sugar
@joedan346
We don't even know what the letter "t" is. Or, "m". Or, "f". And on and on. We don't know language. But, we use it. We make sounds with our mouths and throats, contort our lips and tongue and emit gases and vapor out of our pieholes. And we call this language
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Olivia Dresher
@OliviaDresher
Language is one of the major things that separates us from other animals. If human animals know nothing, what about lions, deer, monkeys, spiders, rabbits, cats, birds, etc.? Do they "know" through their instincts?
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