Message from @metal_mango

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2019-03-02 06:50:14 UTC  

Life is pain and suffering. In order to survive you must endure and overcome.

2019-03-02 06:51:01 UTC  

i think there's more to it than that... but maybe the frogs are gay now

2019-03-02 06:51:17 UTC  

It's a caution against the suffering of others being your drive and refuting that moralism requires you *must* be a "good" or "selfless" person to do good things.

2019-03-02 06:51:28 UTC  

no I dont think that all suffering is necessarily good

2019-03-02 06:52:10 UTC  

Pain and suffering is necessary, but yes it isnt necessarily good or evil either

2019-03-02 06:52:37 UTC  

I said if you want to achieve your goals, it will require suffering and that suffering will be good for you after you've achieved your goal

2019-03-02 06:52:50 UTC  

I agree with that

2019-03-02 06:52:54 UTC  

like coding there are libraries, those libraries were built by others who "suffered"

2019-03-02 06:53:03 UTC  

Self inflicted suffering for self improvement

2019-03-02 06:53:05 UTC  

we code on top of them

2019-03-02 06:53:22 UTC  

I just don't get how you pulled "suffering is a good thing and putting yourself through hardship will make you a better man" from a passage discussing the flaws of altruism as an absolute good.

2019-03-02 06:53:35 UTC  

a higher man obtains his goals through suffering

2019-03-02 06:53:43 UTC  

Sorry my sentencing was all chopped up

2019-03-02 06:54:04 UTC  

letting the words flow through me

2019-03-02 06:54:23 UTC  

in my context it made me think

2019-03-02 06:54:28 UTC  

There's "letting the words flow through me" and "using entirely unrelated words to make a logically flawed point"

2019-03-02 06:54:40 UTC  

A logical flaw, by the way, that Nietzsche directly addresses.

2019-03-02 06:55:09 UTC  

Its not flawed when you read it how I meant it and how I rephrased it for better understanding of what I meant

2019-03-02 06:55:26 UTC  

if you want to achieve your goals, it will require suffering and that suffering will be good for you after you've achieved your goal

2019-03-02 06:55:56 UTC  

And if achieving a goal does not require suffering or suffering hinders you from achieving a goal?

2019-03-02 06:56:20 UTC  

you fail

2019-03-02 06:56:25 UTC  

Then it is probably a goal of the last man

2019-03-02 06:56:31 UTC  

On what ground?

2019-03-02 06:57:05 UTC  

it is probably an insignificant goal

2019-03-02 06:57:43 UTC  

And not a goal at all, without going through the suffering to achieve something great

2019-03-02 06:58:07 UTC  

If it is a lofty goal the suffering you experience will be there

2019-03-02 06:58:07 UTC  

Then would suffering be an objective human experience?

2019-03-02 06:58:33 UTC  

And what of goals where your fulfillment surpasses your suffering?

2019-03-02 06:58:51 UTC  

lottery

2019-03-02 06:59:03 UTC  

Is experiencing pleasure, even in the act of suffering, turning your goal into an aim of the last man?

2019-03-02 06:59:38 UTC  

no, once your goal has been achieved, experiencing its reward is what makes it worth it

2019-03-02 06:59:46 UTC  

The problem is becoming stagnant in that comfort

2019-03-02 07:00:19 UTC  

If my goal is to buy a house and to retire and I achieved it with no other goal in mind, I am the last man

2019-03-02 07:00:24 UTC  

And if you find reward in the act of suffering? Or find comfort in refusing stagnancy?

2019-03-02 07:00:52 UTC  

Goals are ever evolving

2019-03-02 07:00:55 UTC  

In your example, you are the last man because that's a goal of consumption, not because you didn't have any further goals.

2019-03-02 07:00:56 UTC  

For the higher man

2019-03-02 07:01:02 UTC  

Alotta "if's" going around

2019-03-02 07:01:32 UTC  

Obtaining a house is not a goal of consumption necessarily

2019-03-02 07:01:40 UTC  

It can be an investment

2019-03-02 07:01:49 UTC  

@The Crooked 1 Welcome to philosophy, more "if"s will be forthcoming.