Free advice from an anonymous benefactor.
Someone sent me an email through an anonymous remailer telling me how wrong I am about pessimism, how contradictory my arguments are (without pointing out any contradictions), and in the process making a lot of unjustified assumptions about me. I tried to reply, but then I realized I didn’t really understand anonymous remailers. They’re one-way. You can’t respond. Now, I don’t have a problem with anonymity, but I’d like to be able to respond to people who write to me, especially when they tell me how wrong I am and how shallow I am and all that stuff.
But that’s not really what this post is about. This person clearly doesn’t want a conversation, and I’m not about to post a public response to a private email. You see, this person was kind enough to point me to the way of enlightenment in a short list of “better thinkers”. Here, then, is some free advice from an anonymous benefactor.
If you are a beginner thinker, read this:
Myths about Life
Demolished by thinking, passion for truth, and courage
I need to have a job to earn money to support myself.
You need more to consider the biggest context: do you know what you are, in relation to the Infinite? Is this not wisdom? Is this not most important? Thus, wisdom is your job. If society prevents you from fulfilling your job, then you cannot pay any attention to what society demands of you. It is your business to be wise, and to encourage all to have faith in reason - which is most reasonable!
There are many options to support one’s true job. For example, if there is a welfare system in your country, use it with no shame, since you have chosen the highest: demolishing ignorance wherever it is encountered. If you choose this option, you must be resolute and bear-up under much suffering, for many will try to coerce you to work like everyone else. (…)
Does the world need more children? Is love wise? Does your girlfriend want you to become perfectly wise as soon as possible, without compromise? If not, it is better to give it up now.
Love and happiness are both myths about life, and are not necessary. In fact, life is better without them. Have you not noticed how insanely repetitive love-songs are? One moment the lover is in heaven, the next in hell. Ditto for happiness: it is an endless rollercoaster going up and down, pulled about by the nose by the emotions.
Do you want to live in a vicious cycle? Reach the age of forty, find you no longer love, and feel cheated?
My Views on Women, by Kelly Jones:
This exposition of the premier religion of humans is simple and direct. It is no game. I haven’t the time to waste on pretty words and padding. The worship of Woman is a serious problem, because just about everyone denies it. Solutions cannot be offered for social problems unless they are recognised.
Woman is a symptom of a serious disease: the worship of unconsciousness. I will not stop using the word ‘Woman’ to represent unconsciousness, because women generally display unconsciousness most strongly.
Unconsciousness means, living obliviously, lacking in reflection, not thinking, and the like. Women display unconsciousness in the way they lack internalised, persistent values, and in their go-with-the-flow behaviour, that is driven by emotions, sensations, and anything in their environment.
I remind the reader this is not a game. I am not aiming to tease, whine, shock, or be satirical. It is not complicated. I am telling reality as it is. The reality is: to be truthful, one needs to be conscious. So if women are unconsciousness as I say they are, then they are organic liars. Think about it.
There is a chance that women can become conscious. It is when men first stop worshipping Woman, who is the carefree, ethereal, otherworldly figment of their own psychology. They must leave women alone. For only then, women, who embody Woman most strongly, will be allowed to grow-up and leave the cage of unthinking, and only then can we have hope for the future.
I title this ‘Atheist Memoirs’ because I am an atheist. An atheist knows for certain that a personal, eternal God, is impossible. Furthermore, an atheist does not worship any Gods, including Woman. I am female and show that there is a chance that a woman can become conscious, but let no one imagine it is easy. Becoming conscious is a deliberate and conscious decision to know Ultimate Truth, applied constantly, day after day. It is an act of individual will, not a group activity. And women are group entities, who are not happy in solitude or capable of resisting peer pressure like a man is, so consciousness comes hardly to women.
About Kevin Solway (who is not the person who wrote the above, but the two seem to agree on a lot):
I settled on a purpose for my life: the survival of wisdom. I always wanted to do something BIG, and this was the biggest anyone could ever do. It meant that not only would I have to become as wise as possible, but I would have to drag other people with me, who are my larger self. The problem was, I had only met one or two people in my whole life who had any genuine interest in truth and wisdom. So my first task was, and still is, to get people to a level where they at least have some respect for reason and truth.
Increasingly I realized the inseparability of reason and masculinity. At the same time I could not help noticing the increasing feminization of society. The only course open to me was to attack femininity at the root. My life’s work, I decided, would focus on making people aware of the shortcomings of femininity and the great benefits of masculinity. For there to be wise men, there must first be men.
Otto Weininger, quoted on Kevin Solway’s site:
In such a being as the absolute female there are no logical and ethical phenomena, and, therefore, the ground for the assumption of a soul is absent.
Since the soul of man is the microcosm, and great men are those who live entirely in and through their souls, the whole universe thus having its being in them, the female must be described as absolutely without the quality of genius… . There is no female genius, and there never has been one … and there never can be one. Those who are in favour of laxity in these matters, and are anxious to extend and enlarge the idea of genius in order to make it possible to include women, would simply by such action destroy the concept of genius… . How could a soulless being possess genius? The possession of genius is identical with profundity; and if any one were to try to combine woman and profundity as subject and predicate, he would be contradicted on all sides. A female genius is a contradiction in terms, for genius is simply intensified, perfectly developed, universally conscious maleness… .
. . A woman’s demand for emancipation and her qualification for it are in direct proportion to the amount of maleness in her.
I don’t even know where to start, so I won’t. If someone else has something to say about these thinkers, clearly better thinkers than me, do feel free.
