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Pantheon (2022) – On the uploading process
Discussing the uploading process as portrayed in the anime. Read the full page
https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/06/the-catastrophe-of-birth.html[🡕] Continue reading
The Suffering of the Everyday Banalities of Life
r/Pessimism, u/forestofdoom2022 Continue reading
I don’t want to play the game of life
The most frustrating part is that there doesn’t really seem to be a real solution for this problem because every piece of advice people usually give is like, self-contained within the parameters of life if that makes sense, like every piece of advice people give still involves having to participate in life. Read the full page
And what do those philosophers who oppose our resenting life propose? The forging of new myths such as the übermensch or the deification of human history. However, changing gods won’t make a difference, just as returning to medieval or ancient times won’t make a difference. Eventually, these new myths will die, too, because some of us are intelligent enough to see through them. Read the full page
https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/09/excess-lucidity.html[🡕] Continue reading
Is it actually possible to assert anything?
Is it actually possible to assert anything with 100% certainty? Read the full page
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https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/05/essay-about-giving-up.html[🡕] Continue reading
Do you think schizoid can be “fixed”?
u/Fun_Researcher4035, r/Schizoid Continue reading
u/Kunigunde9467, r/Pessimism Continue reading
Have you ever had a crushingly agonizing crush?
r/Schizoid, u/iwalkinthemoonlight Continue reading
If one thinks about the (obviously made up) religious scenarios, or any other kind of hellish stories invented by humans, it’s obvious that most real lives don’t even come close to that. Continue reading
Most people accept work and take it for granted, like the air we breath
Just try it. Say «All work sucks» to someone. See how people contort themselves philosophically to defend this “striving” belief system. Read the full page
Non-Snap Firefox in latest Ubuntu-based distributions
How to remove the tragedy that is Snap and install a normal Firefox on Ubuntu and its flavors. Continue reading
Applying “that’s subjective tho” to that rings very, very hollow. To criticise them, you have to take the claims apart; […] Read the full page
We are daily slaves to the mitigation of suffering
What can even be done? Happy or sad, you still need to eat, you’re still aging, and you’re still going to die. Read the full page
Volunteering is the way, kek. Read the full page
Why is living a constant torture?
Rant on Reddit, with good comments. Read the full page
Allowing two objects (or persons) to have a different arrow of time and to cohexist in the same consistent timeline is impossible even just theoretically. It’s not sci-fi and not even magic, it’s simply something that doesn’t work. Continue reading
File backup in Windows – Robocopy
In Linux, you probably use the amazing rsync to back up your resources. Continue reading
Windows 11 tray bar links – And Microsoft keeps getting worse
People don’t know how to use computers, so among other things, they put links on the desktop. So you have a desktop full of icons, in some cases reaching half of the screen, zero organization, you almost don’t see the background, and most importantly, you have to minimize all windows to be able to use those links. Continue reading
The loner is the one who withdraws his presence so as not to distress or bother others, to let them live their illusion, because truth brings nothing but pain. The lover who steps aside to let the other live, the Oblomov who doesn’t even try to make things work because he knows they can’t. How absurd it would be for time to fall in love with a girl, or for death to write her a love poem. Continue reading
Virtual reality and augmented reality have always been so much behind in the technological development. Today we are still so far behind that it’s downright ridiculous, albeit understandable: shit is hard to build. Continue reading
On responsibility as the solution
It were the old family men of the pre-nihilistic-era, that believed in a future, and that told their children their morals, their hopes, their beliefs. Read the full page
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The historical weight of bullshit
I’ve been asking myself what really differentiates a random conspiracy theory, ufologists, and religions. Because to a reasoning mind, the presence of religion in today’s world seems incomprehensible, and since the function of all three is ultimately the same – offering consolation and distraction to the ignorant masses – one struggles to understand why religion still holds such an important place, seemingly more than conspiracies or UFOs. Continue reading
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Realistic experience howto
How to have a realistic MGSV:TPP experience, excluding the Bollywood story and cutscenes, and the Fulton system with humans – it can be disabled too if you want – which after all are just a fun aside. Continue reading
It’s 2023, and newspapers are still talking about Berlusconi, and about the pope too. Okay, let’s not even get into politics, that’s a matter of mafia. But they’re still talking about the POPE (complete with vestments) of the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Continue reading
Brief and simple guidelines to navigate the mental health system
The human being is by nature incoherent and inconsistent. Read the full page
rm is a lovely command, isn’t it? Especially when you make a typo in a shell script. Let’s see how to recover deleted files. Continue reading
They carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. Read the full page
Think of a shell not as a programming language, but as a program meant to run commands, one after the other; every line is an instruction, a command. Continue reading
For the situations where one is forced to use modern crappy software and/or if you want a ready-to-go solution, this is the new big outstanding thing. Isn’t that an obvious thing to do?: a working WM that out of the box has tiling, and you can switch tiling on and off. So you don’t need to program a configuration file which is more a source code than anything else, just to open some goddamn windows… Continue reading
William Shatner: my trip to space filled me with “overwhelming sadness”
William Shatner (Captain Kirk in Star Trek), after his trip in Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space shuttle on Oct. 13, 2021. Continue reading
Why I don’t kill myself: an essay about beliefs
r/Pessimism, u/finitemode Continue reading
An idea about why most people are so irrational
r/Pessimism, u/Wanderer974 Continue reading
Discerning gullible people, with judgment
In these last decades, conspiracy theories blew up. Stuff inside vaccines, UFOs, chemtrails, but-you-can’t-see-the-stars, it’s weird for a building to collapse just because a large airplane crashed into it at 750 km/h, and so on… Continue reading
Installing macOS Sierra 10.12 in VirtualBox 6.1 to use audio-related platform-dependent software
A lot of audio creation and manipulation software exists only for Mac, because of an historic reason where musicians always went around with Mac notebooks to play stuff (or maybe I’m making up stuff, I don’t know). Luckily, nowadays most of the good shit is for Windows too (luckily between quotes, I mean, Linux would be the ideal goal), see e.g. FL Studio. But if you ever need a Mac install for some small obscure software, here is my quick howto. Continue reading
Underestimating Suffering & Suicide Thresholds
r/pessimism, u/CardinallyConsidered Continue reading
Psychiatry is a pseudoscience (a collection of posts from Reddit)
Disorders are not included within the DSM based on any objective evidence, and are always a reflection of the normative biases of the society. For example, homosexuality was in the DSM until the 1970s, but neither its inclusion nor its removal were based on any kind of objective evidence. Read the full page
Against the idea that suicide is not worth it, like some important authors say instead
In reality, we don’t kill ourselves because the rationalized suicide is basically impossible for everyone… Read the full page
My take on the ending of “Martyrs” (2008)
Lots of discussions on the Internet. Continue reading
Derek Muller went to visit Chernobyl… Read the full page
There are some women whose face radiates light, emanates happiness. Just meeting their eyes, even before close interaction, you are hit with a transcendental contentment. Continue reading
Aella on fetishes and the myth of trauma
My guess is also that fetishes are less malleable and controllable than most people seem to assume they are. Read the full page
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pessimism/comments/u8t6dy/there_are_no_personal_victories_or_bittersweet/[🡕] Continue reading
My personality with the pills from The Matrix
Memez are fun. Read the full page
The Origin of the Intrinsic Human Ridiculousness – Astutillo Smeriglia
In coma è meglio[🡕], re-posted in 2022 under my suggestion Continue reading
FF8 Level 100 before Ifrit – Notes about the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGoZbYvlQIg[🡕] Continue reading
Why “We Are the Flesh” has a deeper twist ending than “The Sixth Sense”
filmcolossus.com, review by Jordan C. Johnson Continue reading
The infamous VLC logo – How to change it for your PC (Xfce)
This is how to change the VLC’s icon in your PC if you use Xfce. Read the full page
The infamous VLC logo – My thread in the official forum
It’s undeniable that VLC’s logo is the worst logo in the entire history of software. Read the full page
I envy people who commit suicide
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About the movie “Melancholia” – Florin Flueras
All other sorrow in comparison with this is a travesty of the real thing. For he experiences true sorrow, who knows and feels not only what he is, but that he is. Read the full page
Of course everyone knows, on an intellectual level, that they won’t live forever. But that doesn’t mean that they really acknowledge it. Read the full page
The first time I watched Buffalo ’66 – Matteo Gagliardi
https://www.vice.com/it/article/znj883/buffalo-66-vincent-gallo[🡕] Continue reading
The Gift of Life – Astutillo Smeriglia
https://incomaemeglio.blogspot.com/2013/09/il-dono-della-vita.html[🡕] Continue reading
Suffering is not just an intellectual game
https://reducing-suffering.org/the-horror-of-suffering/#Suffering_is_not_just_an_intellectual_game[🡕] Continue reading
I want a simpler network, newborn, with few people living there. I want it monochromatic. I want that only a few are able to browse it. I want for it to hide something that only a few chosen ones can and want to find. Internet is boring instead. There’s everything and so there is no curiosity. Even though there’s everything, there is nothing really metaphysical. Years ago I was dreaming of drifting with my body inside the cables. Continue reading
I told him, at that time already, that my “not living” was dissolving the fear of dying… Read the full page
2000 – Dialogue with The Dreamer
We have been in a mental crisis since 2000. Read the full page
I’m noticing that I have a skull inside my face. Read the full page
We have created so much material, so many movies, so many books. We have covered the Earth with works of hope, sadness, love. Today they mostly make garbage; the sirs of the past wrote about man’s pain; now men enjoys themselves in the middle of the manure and those texts are seen more like work rather than pleasure. Continue reading
People think that life is something else, but that’s not true, life is not your coin collection, it only is by illusion, once you have a wife by your side. What about after? Afterwards, everything around you is as if it didn’t exist and never existed, it has less value than a turd. Continue reading
And the radiation tells you things that are true and at the same time absurd, cold, and above all rough. Read the full page
I noticed that it is not possible to go back. I could not step down from the throne nor undo what hitherto slipped before my eyes and was now as written in stone. I attached the utmost importance to the truth, and unconsciously found myself writing a cruel pact with it. The sensations tasted different. The features of reality were clear and cold. Corroded by a gray light, the walls showed the wrinkles of time. It is not raining. But the sun still hides behind the bare buildings. That sun that hides its true essence with all that light. So much light for so much darkness. Continue reading
The famous geologist said, on television, that our heads are too big, and it is difficult for us to get out of the pussy; the ribcage protects only a few organs; the veins in the legs struggle to hold up the whole body; the back, for it to keep the erect position, it needs to arch, and therefore back pain, etc.; vision also has several problems, etc. In short, we are shit. We are not as wonderful of a machine as they say, we have a thousand flaws. And therefore we are not the result of a divine plan, blah blah. Obvious stuff, it was a speech against religions, but I was more interested in the fact that evolution is still ongoing and we are currently far from perfect; his words: «we adapted as best as we could». Here you are. Difficult evolutionary natural adaptation. Interesting parallelism with social adaptation, which is ultimately strongly linked to it. And someone makes fun making memes that show how, in a certain sense, we are now living an involution. Very in tune with the cyberpunk world, which sees the end of man coinciding with the maximum technological development. Continue reading
Nothing happened this month. Nothing relevant, really. I wonder what’s relevant right now, though. Continue reading
Once that which is in fact an illusion has fallen, you will suddenly find yourself thrown into reality. Read the full page
Emptiness → Distraction → Dream → Desire… Read the full page
Everyone was staying confined to those narrow mental spaces. And I, like them; I only knew that small world. And everything was goddamn gorgeous. There was passion, challenge, dialogues, workaholism, and satisfaction. Continue reading
Why is there something rather than nothing?
https://skepticalinquirer.org[🡕] Continue reading
Excerpts of interviews to Thomas Ligotti
Three interviews. Read the full page
Gavazzeni: “Music worsens the man”
Alberto Sinigaglia (“ttL”, La Stampa, insert) Continue reading
Umberto Galimberti – The success of philosophy
But for those who, adapted to the world, and with a moderate self-awareness still do not find a meaning of their existence, and therefore come into contact not with this or that pain, but with the essence of pain, for those there is no remedy in the pharmacy and perhaps not even in psychotherapy. Read the full page
Fishermans Horizon – A tribute
Music and pictures for the nostalgia of that place. Read the full page
Reviews of “The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace
Wonderfully modeled on the depressing spiral of searching within oneself to find an answer to a problem that IS oneself. Read the full page
The Last Messiah – Peter Wessel Zapffe
«Know yourselves – be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.» Read the full page