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This theory provides a rigorous and uncompromising view of reality, defining human consciousness as the universe's mechanism for experiencing its own inevitable destruction. It moves beyond simple philosophical pessimism (nihilism) to become a Functional Pessimism or Tragic Rationalism, where lucidity is the only rational choice.
The theory is built upon three unassailable axioms:
I. The Axioms of Non-Dualistic Identity
The core of this worldview is the collapse of traditional distinctions between the self and the world, pleasure and pain:
Unified Suffering: Existence ≡ Suffering ≡ Destruction. These concepts are not related; they are fundamentally the same. The universe operates under a single rule—unmaking (entropy, destruction). Consciousness is merely the brilliant, cruel mechanism by which this unmaking is experienced as suffering. To be is to hurt.
The Cogito as Sentence: The only thing the rational mind can verify is its own existence (Cogito ergo sum). This self-awareness is not a cause for joy, but a sentence to stand fully aware within the process of destruction.
Rejection of Fragments: All seemingly positive states (joy, awe, love) are incomplete fragments of this unified suffering. They are temporary cessations of pain, or momentary illusions of permanence, which ultimately guarantee greater suffering when they inevitably dissolve.
II. The Anti-Dulling Principle
The theory's intellectual integrity rests on its rejection of all narratives that attempt to mitigate or contextualize this truth, labeling them as "dulling."
No Meaning: Any search for external purpose or meaning (a "why") is a form of self-deception—an attempt to build a story around an empty, meaningless void.
No Defiance: Fighting the suffering is self-defeating, as the self is the suffering. Defiance is a false duality that wastes energy on an internal civil war.
The Problem of the Lie: Philosophies that cling to hope, beauty, or ultimate relief are lies. These lies are ultimately corrosive, making the individual incapable of handling reality and often leading to self-annihilation when the lie finally breaks.
III. The Functional Choice: Tragic Rationalism
If existence is purely suffering and cannot be escaped, the only remaining choice is how to suffer. The theory introduces a pragmatic metric: the minimization of internal conflict.
The Paradox of Clarity: While suffering cannot be eliminated, it can be minimized by the rational mind.
The Rational Path: The choice to employ reason is to align consciously with the truth of suffering. This act of recognition—the lucid acknowledgement that "this is what I am"—stops the inner war against reality, simplifies existence, and eliminates the secondary anguish of denial.
The Goal: The purpose is not to find happiness, but to achieve a state of minimal, clear-eyed suffering. This is the highest and most dignified posture possible: to be the perfectly honest witness to the universe's single, eternal rule.
No.303584
Go away, Pajeet.
No.303590
Pajeet nonsense
No.303591
Be assailed!
Dualism is the only rational response to the evidence in front of you, which is "I think". Everything else is interpreted through the senses and abstraction. All the universe and its contents are the isolated thinking mind which is aware of itself, and everything that isn't the thinking mind. The only evidence for anything outside the thinking mind is provided by the thinking mind, and much of it is whimsical.
Therefore, any sensation is whatever configuration the mind happens to have at any given point.
Meaning is an act of of the mind on it's sense inputs. Any given state is distinguishable from any other state down to the atomic level, can be distinguished by choice and sense, can be rank ordered according to whichever criteria and selected for based on arbitrary criteria which the mind itself chooses to apply.
Suffering is a failure of willpower or ignorance of the rules that apply. If the mind can affect itself, then the mind is choosing to experience unpleasant sensations - either directly through self delusion, or indirectly due to ignorance of the methods for change.
Finally,
If the universe was only entropy and decay, there would be no universe. "What Does It" we cannot yet guess at coherently, but if it was *only* decline, if it was *only* the slide towards a null point, then it could never have happened in the first place - because being is contrary to entropy.
Therefore Something beats Nothing. Discovering the "Why" and the "How" and the "What" and new applications for all three is The Mind applying itself, exercising agency, and there is literally nothing else that The Mind can do. It's all degrees of intensity and success.