Posted by SLS on September 24, 2009, at 6:14:25
In reply to Depression or existential despair? So lost..., posted by uncouth on September 23, 2009, at 18:55:14
I couldn't read your entire post. That kind of volume is still beyond me. I am hoping that I recover the ability to read as my recovery from depression continues.
Of course you are lost!
My first reaction to your post was to "keep it simple". Most of your questions are complicated and largely unanswerable. Furthermore, your thought time and energies are being tied taking all of the Universe into consideration when it might be easier to live in the moment and take care of yourself first. Pondering philosophy is often a luxury to indulge in when it is not pertinent to your immediate needs. You will have plenty of years left ahead of you to indulge in what is often an academic exercise. Deal with what you know and those things knowable that affect you immediately or directly.
Keep it simple.
Live in the here and now.
Create your own philosophies as you go along.
This works for me. Of course, it might not work for everyone.
Another aspect to all of this is that a depressed mind will not be able process answers to such large questions as it must work with cognitive deficits and negative colored thinking. Perhaps now is not the best time to take on such an enormous project as developing a philosophical framework that encompasses all that exists along with all that does not.
Keep it simple.
- Scott
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