How Philosophy Complements Sanity and Can Heal You
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Article Synopsis By Mr. C. Kingsley and Co.
"How Philosophy Complements Sanity and Can Heal You" is an insightful article that explores the relationship between philosophy, mental stability, and rational thought. Mr. Tomasio argues that philosophy can help maintain mental health and enhance one's grip on reality by providing clarity and resilience in the face of life's uncertainties.
The article draws on ideas from ancient philosophers like Epictetus to emphasize the human tendency to desire control over the uncontrollable, which can affect mental health. By integrating philosophical principles into everyday life, individuals can achieve a healthier mindset and greater peace of mind.
The article emphasizes intellectual modesty and the need to constantly challenge our assumptions and expand our understanding. This aligns with the essence of philosophy itself—a continuous search for knowledge, understanding, and self-improvement. The philosopher's writing style is distinctive, blending personal conviction with philosophical reflection, making the piece more engaging and authentic.
The article serves as a powerful call to action for readers to engage more deeply with philosophical thought. It critiques superficial engagement with philosophy and encourages readers to cultivate curiosity, embrace their ignorance as a starting point for learning, and pursue philosophical inquiry with passion and persistence.
Overall, "How Philosophy Complements Sanity and Can Heal You" is a compelling piece that offers a unique perspective on the intersection of philosophy and mental health.
The one part in philosophy people seem to ignore is its ability to restore us back to sanity. Sanity is imperative for our ability to successfully understand ourselves and the world around us, as well as distinguish between reality and our own illusions/delusions. Making sense of ourselves and of reality is the thing that can set us free from the tyranny of irrational anxieties and fears.
Much of our irrationality stems from thinking we know what we don't really know. When our mental health improves, so is our ability to see things rationally, hence the connection between health and philosophy. As we become less mentally stable, it may hurt our rationality, even if we have understanding of logical reasoning and critical thinking.
Sanity and insanity are collective as well as individual. A bad company can deteriorate your mental health, therefore your sanity, therefore your grip on reality. Then, as much as becoming more logical is imperative, humans are not simply containers of knowledge. The grip on reason could always slip away by the unhealthy mind.
Behaving is for others, for those who refuse understanding beyond the shallow display that is behavior. It fuels people's lack of critical thinking. Being yourself is not infantile. Lashing out at people with temper tantrums and being at their necks for the smallest of things, is the infantile thing around here. It's merely normalized. That, and threatening people over one's own ignorance like we're drug lords.
As much as we promote mental health awareness for the sake of mental survival, what we should also focus on is the survivability of our own grip on reality. That is the one benefit of better mental health people seem to ignore when discussing mental health issues.
Despite having different understanding of reality, our ability to understand isn't concrete and is always prone to change, more than just change in knowledge, but also based on our mind's health. Understanding is therefore dynamic and fluid as water is, and can never be completely crystalized. We are all fighting not only to succeed and to prevent, but also to retain.
Humans are designed to be worried, and the need to be worried is amplified in the contemporary world as it is always changing. Furthermore, much of it is beyond our control, but in the control of elitist minorities.
We want to change things but we either can't, we are too incompetent to do it, or that it is too hard for us, or that thinking of such things bores us. The ancient philosopher Epictetus claimed that much of reality is beyond our control. Yet, we seek to control it for our irrational sense of certainty, that is rarely quite accomplished.
As it is getting harder to increasingly succeed in this world, a lack of balanced approach beyond the external and internal world, is something that can paradoxically ruin our health. As we try to be better, we can easily worsen ourselves back again. That is the liability of poor physical and mental health. Not only the external world corrupts, but also the internal world of our illnesses. Dominion corrupts, illness corrupts. Corruption would only erode the very things you may work so hard to get in life.
Sanity is like a sword. It is to be maintained regularly. Regularly studying and practicing philosophy is how we all can retain our grip on reality, no matter who we are and what position we are in, in life.
I'm a mysterious man and I did a lot in my life without telling most people, yourselves included. I care not for your validation or appreciation. I attempt to do the right thing regardless. The right thing does not need to be conditioned by feedback. I'm a moral thinker, not a Pavlov's dog.
My mind is dark and traumatized per the darkness I managed to prevent in this world. Deem my fatigued tendencies and dark mentality as the product of Isaac Newton's third law. The more you remember his third law, the better sense you can make out of reality, beyond mere physics. Anyways, the fact I've not been telling most people, has left many of them thinking I am an arrogant megalomaniac who only cares about promoting himself. This goes to show how curiosity, creativity and the sense of wonder, die off with time.
How can anyone appreciate philosophy without being curious? Without appreciating creativity? Without looking at it like an adventurer who is about to explore whole new islands they have never seen before?
Why do people keep pretending that their knowledge about things, philosophy included, is sufficient? Where's the hunger for more? Where's the excitement that stems from realizing one's own ignorance? Why is our own ignorance seen as a liability, rather than an opportunity, to always, always seek new knowledge? To understand, that philosophy is vast as the sea itself, containing many islands, both habitable and inhabitable?
Hohoho, of course this is one of the many reasons that compel me to leave humanity alone, and live in darkness, as I hide in plain sight. I want to ban most of them from the Mr. Tomasio club for irrational behavior (reference). I don't even need to deceive. People deceive themselves by constantly arguing with knowledge they merely deem as sufficient. From the very people who are newcomers to philosophy, to philosophy experts. You are both overly confident in your knowledge. Such confidence ruins philosophical inquiry itself.
I don't care about your trophies and about any testimonials I receive that praise me. I only put it because I am merely trying to be nice, polite, grateful, without feeling entitled to it. I don't deserve anything. If I want something myself, I will work on myself to get it. End of story.
Behold how people's very lack of intellectual modesty had made them lose their grip on reality. Not saying this out of pride, saying this out of sadness. People often mistake my words with pride. I am a depressed man, and I've been depressed since childhood. I am criticizing everything that moves, philosophy included, out of sadness. Yet, this sadness originates from optimism. I criticize for a better world, not to whine.
Philosophy is about solving problems logically. What more relevant function can a niche have, other than solving problems? I am trying to solve problems, and will go ahead and keep doing it, regardless of any inaccurate feedback I receive. I am constantly cringed by people's blindness to their own lack of knowledge. I kill off my emotions, thus I kill my cringe, as this emotion merely amplifies people's guideless rage at me, with a confirmation bias they fail to be aware of.
I understand appreciation and validation fulfill social functions, as well as emotions themselves. I do not care for social functions. Social functions preserve the very world I wish to rectify and "dominate" with philosophy. I've abandoned my time on social media platforms without telling most people about it. I don't care. I don't need to condition myself on feedback just to keep on working on this site and improving my ethics further and further.
True strength comes from within. That's part of sanity, you know. To be strong enough to overcome one's inner monsters. To learn how to not to over-react to actions and people I am too powerless to change morally or socially. I am not a social warrior, I'm an ascetic as my true master before me, and as her own parents, before her. I fulfill her wishes as her spiritual executor no matter what people think about it.
My mentality is set, and it is forged to be concrete in the depths of my voluntary isolation. My sanity has been forged in the shadows of humanity, as I built myself to be independent from my medication, and independent from my misophonia. No, I'm not saying this out of pride, stop deluding yourselves. I am merely explaining how writing philosophy since 2013 could change anyone.
I philosophize to have a sense of grip on my identity and on reality, and to mourn the early departure of my granny. I do not act on willpower, and often forget my true, personal desires. I just examine in solitude, what is the right thing to do, and I go ahead and do it if my energy allows it. You can be a good empire builder with discipline.
The wise warrior avoids the battle, as said by Sun Tzu. Hence why I care not about people's true hubris, as they claim I'm the one being full of it.
Those who wish to overcome their internal illnesses, will pursue curiosity. It is a basic drive behind deep thinking, behind self-learning and behind philosophizing. The auto-didact is curious enough to study no matter what others think about it.
Knowledge, like love, should be treated like medicine. It should be seen for what it is: As something that can heal one from their insane thoughts and ramblings. As something that can heal one from their foolish delusions, and act upon these delusions too. People are more delusional than they think, and much of this delusion stems from impulsivity.
Knowledge, not impulsivity, is the healthy thing to act upon. People act on their primal impulses, they find themselves imprisoned like animals in a zoo. Of course this is sad to see! I laugh at such things to try and improve my health, but deep inside there is mainly sadness. My laughter is like a fresh breeze of air within a large, underground industrial complex.
I laugh out of wonder, not out of mockery. I laugh because I am amused, sometimes cringed, sometimes confused. Your lack of understanding fuels your irrational resentment. In autistic people, their irrational beliefs can make them fall into meltdown, illness and hospitalization at the nearest psychiatric ward. Of course I'd attempt not only to leave humanity, but "my kind", the autistic, in particular.
As you attempt to judge than to understand, as you are driven by the attempt to protect yourself from perceived threats that aren't even there in the real world, you only fuel your own insanity. I have no desire to be the environmental factor to any of your awful genetic tendencies to personality disorders, like NPD or ASPD and your whole personality disorder clusters.
So, I just remove myself, the perceived factor, from your presence, because turning you even more insane is the opposite of what I'm trying to do. What I'm trying to do, is to heal people using the clarity of philosophy. The rest who don't want to, are free to delude themselves under their foolish impressions of bravado, as their wrong thoughts about me, and reality in general, would only fuel their anxiety, and ruin their own health.
I'm an ethical isolationist. I help you, most likely you should leave me alone. Most people should stop trying to bond with me unless I accept it. I'm not interested in friends. The fact I've been helping people doesn't mean I am interested in their friendship. Study the para-social fallacy before jumping into conclusions. People merely think they know how to be friends, yet do not consider reading nor looking my Rubinshteinic Guide to Being Friends With Philosophers. You don't read it, nor bother to look for a guide, namely because you don't think you should bother.
I have no desire to deteriorate the mental health of those who see myself as their friend. That's one of the worst things for me to do when it comes to shooting myself in the foot. I am not keen to shame people for their illness, either. That would only fuel your illness, right?
Behavior is contagious, and that's why stress is so infecting. Spare me your uncritical thinking and primal behavior. Philosophy is civilized, not a shadowy predator in the jungle. I've no desire to pose a perceived threat to anyone just because I'm different. Question your initial impressions and you can spare yourself better from the next psychiatric hospitalization.
Thank you.
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