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...
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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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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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And yet you know that: that there is nothing to know. That is, perhaps, the only thing to know.
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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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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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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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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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There is plenty of evidence that animals communicate, maybe not with abstract linguistic symbols, like humans, but they have other means:
google.com/search?ei=l56_
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Yes. Everything alive communicates in some way.
What this says about knowing, I don't know.
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I don't know, either. All we can do is bandy these little signs back and forth on the Twitter feed. Haha