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Jun 8, 2020

The Last Messiah is online. There are a few tidbits in Ligotti's book. But I think that's about it for English translations. Mainlander is even more obscure. This has some morsels: philosophy-of-redemption.blogspot.com and this is another resource: old.reddit.com/r/Mainlander/

Antinatalist

@birthisevil

Jun 8, 2020

Thank you!!! I’ll make sure to check them out :)

antoine sugar

@joedan346

Jun 8, 2020

Mainlander will be pretty heavy for a beginner antinatalist. You really should get that Ligotti book. It's such a great introduction and Ligotti's style is so witty and creative. In the last chapter, he goes into the art of writing horror fiction.

antoine sugar

@joedan346

Jun 8, 2020

Don't dismiss Schopenhauer. He's the Daddy of modern antinatalism. He was AN thru & thru. Was reading Book Four of his World as Will and Idea & there are some incredible passages in there regarding AN & pessimism. Those 2 essays cited above are a must read.

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antoine sugar

@joedan346

Jun 8, 2020

Nietzsche is questionable. Don't get me wrong. I love Nietzsche. But I don't think he was a dyed-in-the-wool AN. He was trying to save humanity from nihilism, which he saw was coming. He was definitely anti-Christian. But he wanted humanity to carry on.

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antoine sugar

@joedan346

Jun 8, 2020

I didn't know that about Tesla. Makes me like him more. lol. What about Leopardi? I haven't really read him but in bits and pieces. But he seems to be pretty hardcore AN. And de Giraud? And, of course, there's David Benatar. I read his "Better Never" book...

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antoine sugar

@joedan346

Same here. I was antinatalist before there ever was a word for it. lol. Benatar is a true antinatalist. But his writing is laborious. It's difficult, for me, anyway, to plow through. But he's the real deal. But I never got into his asymmetry argument.

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