Anguished_One

GUYS!!! I'M FINALLY SOMETHING FROM WARBREAKER!!!

I was going to edit the post but it didn't work Thanks again!

Agreed! (thank you for imputting )

Noooo-?

We never found out what color my bones are-

She also fought them. @Scars of Hathsin

What is your opinion on The Philosophy of The Abyss, and would you like to join this thread to discuss it?

How can we use words to describe other words?? I NEED TO SOMEHOW WRAP MY DUMB LIL HOOMAN BRAIN AROUND THIS!

"Thanks!" Ashton said, shooting him a grateful glance.

I didn't feel like editing it to make it smaller

The Philosophy of the Abyss Samuel · Follow 4 min read · Sep 8, 2023 The tremendous void is the essential core of all phenomena; representing the result of infinitely distilling the sensory world down to its basic truth. This void is representative of the ‘why’ of reality. The boiling, separating and eternal reduction cycled forever and forever produces a Truth of an ultimate and final nothingness — nothing at all. So often is the culmination of a philosopher’s life work the uncovering of a darkness at the heart of all things. At first, the world materialises to the philosopher shrouded and bursting with bright things and lightness — yet the crust of reality is cruel and deceptive for underneath a deep endless nothingness hums. Philosophers cyclically pursue the Truth of all things. One after another they deploy different methods and techniques in the process, only to realise we are no closer to finding lightness at the core of reality than when we first began. Since this realisation calcified, it was disseminated widely for all men and quickly did searching for the ‘why’ of all things cease as an preoccupation of philosophers. Philosophers have resigned themselves to a whole and embodied rejection of this cause. Philosophy today is only concerned with deconstruction through a gaze that seeks the lowest of perspectives — viewing from the base of the mountain, the roots of trees, the weeds and grasses in their most microcosmic and atomic form. Like Strauss says, we have lost the philosopher who is willing to chase the ‘whole’; who stands atop the highest mountains as a purveyor of the cause of the heavens and earths. First, the question must be posed; why does the deployment of philosophical thought and scientific inquiry only uncover this tremendous void of nothingness when it thinks itself closest to locating Truth? It is the ‘why’ that once drove philosophy after all, but this seems today a secondary endeavour. Why something rather than nothing? The same feeling is evoked when interrogating this question as when one stares longingly into night. The immanent response is blackness and terror without end. Nietzsche once warned us the horrors followed by staring too long into the abyss: My interpretation is that fighting monsters is the same as willing for knowledge and increasing one’s understanding of the world at any cost — a descent down the rabbit hole into the monsters’ lair. In this lair you encounter these monsters as harbingers of the universe’s deepest secrets and only once defeated does the revelatory knowledge of the monster release itself. Most weak races cannot stomach this newfound knowledge and will become a monster themself, of the spindliest and lowest order. They have utmost faith in expanding their understanding of the world, but these Jungian shadows and depths that lurk when one pursues the ‘why’ can quickly take over. So then men have either resolved to leave out the ‘why’ all together, and set out only for knowledge found in crags and crevices. They become evasive to the Truth and focus attention on particular knowledge. The orthodoxy prizes knowledge of the specifics like market efficiency, multilateral organisations, government enterprises and the like. We look at leaves and wood but forget the forest. Only the highest races can trawl through the depths of the abyss at the feet of its most formidable beasts and see that the tremendous void of nothingness does not consume them but they rise above with this new knowledge in use of overcoming and expansion. So most are comfortable leaving it to the highest races. After all, the tremendous void of nothingness is the universe’s most powerful weapon. It is most often used for ill, though within it a goodness lies waiting. The philosophy of the great man is plumbed both in the dark trench where monsters lie waiting, and atop bright mountains overlooking picturesque landscapes. Nietzsche believed himself the darkness was not as bestial and malevolent as most have it. All it takes is courage. The quiet crucible of loneliness, self-introspection and a deep and enduring longing is where one might locate the ‘why’. A night spent under stars with a gaze directed beyond earth and into the heavenly realms beyond, where the cosmological insignificance of oneself that usually streams beneath the surface of consciousness is brought outwards and scrutinised with prying and probing eyes. One cannot make themselves smaller and this itself is liberating. One cannot transcend the harshness of reality and this itself is liberating. One cannot negate the inevitable knocking of the reaper at the end, and the turning of oneself in for the grave that must follow. The utter absurdity and unimportance of it all. This itself is liberating. Alternatively, it is on top of mountains where one looks outward and feels the significance of the iron shaking and movement of man that another abyss is overcome. One treats the question of ‘why’ so indifferently and thrusts themself upon the world. This pursuit of the ‘truth’ is not an insurmountable nor even impossible task but a pursuit comfortably at hand. The indelible impression upon the annals of history is an inevitability of such a rare breed. Caesars, Napoleons, Hemingways, Woolfs, Christs, Kings and the like transcend their spatio-temporal constraints and force themselves into the collective consciousness for the history of our race. Confronting Your Abyss. Gaze upon that which you are most terrified. Thinker Boy · Follow Published in ILLUMINATION · 3 min read · Mar 3, 2023 235 2 Image by Mid Journey AI and Author. We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us. ~ Charles Darwin In mythology, the Abyss is a dark and bottomless realm where heroes make their last stand. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche used the Abyss as a metaphor to personify the infinite depth of our psychological complexity. He saw it as a place of untold danger where we struggle to confront the deepest, darkest parts of ourselves. But he also saw it as a place for growth and transformation. If we dare gaze into the Abyss, we are not just looking into a void of emptiness but at our most deep-seated problems and emotions: Our demons. But he believed we could help ourselves by dealing with them. Facing our monsters is a terrifying prospect, but it has the potential for profound and transformative discoveries. Our responsibility (and maybe even our destiny) is to want nothing more than to embrace our Abyss, confront our anguish head-on and purify ourselves of the pain. The darker alternative is if we can’t find a way to free ourselves from purgatory, the Abyss will consume us. Psychologist Jordan Peterson believes you can find yourself at the edge of the Abyss in one of two ways: (1) you take yourself there voluntarily, in measured proportion, or (2) events outside your control will take you there when you least want to. The latter is destructive and can potentially destroy you, while the former is a more transformative and curative approach. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. ~ Nietzsche. Confronting and destroying your monsters requires repeated trips there, and the deeper you descend, the more it wounds, but the closer you get to the monsters. It is a challenging and emotionally taxing journey, leading to sensations of anxiety, dread, defenselessness, and doom. Failing is turning away, swearing never to return, and resigning to live with the pain. In the worst case, it can lead to suicide. If thou gaze into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into thee. Nietzsche. If an animal can recognize itself in a mirror, it’s been said that it has self-awareness. Nietzsche’s haunting words suggest something similar about the Abyss. If you can dip into your pain enough, and expose your vulnerability, the gloom of the Abyss becomes a mirror and reflects back at you an image of who you really are. What you see gazing back is truth. You know you’ve bottomed at this point, and there’s only one way to go from there.

I just made this up. What is a word? A collection of letters strung together to make... what? A vessel to carry meaning. What determines that meaning, but other minds who can interpret it based on their worldview and all the external factors making up their life? Words are my medium to evoke emotion. But why? What is it about a tiny string of letters that can make people do things? If you controlled the words, could you control the world? After a while, the words lose their meaning and become harder to use. We must learn word-conservation, not throwing them around so headlessly. If they are used carelessly, we will lose their power. Even now, they are disappearing. I beg, prethe, conserve them with me. Bring back the old ones, those lost to the waves of time. Fulfill your destiny, and join me on the quest to discover the depths of a word. Many of you use them, but do you care enough to discuss them with me? I guess we'll find out.

"Me too! But fear isn't a bad thing, I don't think-" Ashton yelped as one of the spiders landed on her.

Then you're in good company!

"Are you okay?" She called, unable to turn and look at him because she was still trying to fight off the spiders. She shivered. Anything but spiders.

Has anyone heard of The Abyss Philosophy? Here's the links if you don't know. I'm reading these articles and really trying to understand them. As is my comrade @WhyEverNot_8. It's kinda hard to wrap my mind around but I wanna understand. Anyone wanna enlighten me or debate/discuss/fling_smart_words with me? Please don't let this die! I want a discussion! Philosophy! I also think maybe @Shardwatcher01 might be interested judging by the philosophic question threads he's posted lately. Anyway, please join me in my quest for answers! ~ Stick

"Lucid!" Ashton yelled, swinging the borrowed sword at the spiders. "Breathe you idiot! You can't do any good if you pass out!"

Uhh... Acting that's what it is

it's either in an SU or my writing thread... you can dig if you want

Oh... uhhh... i wrote a story bout that one time... got called a serial killer by multiple people

why's dat concerning? Fair, fair