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[Anonymous No.15683138]

Is everything a cope? Philosophy, logic, reason, nothing really matters. Since we are irrational beings, beauty and feelings are actually more important than the stuff listed above.

[Anonymous No.15683145]

>>15683138
define cope

[Anonymous No.15683149]

>>15683138
Beauty and feelings are cope too, you will die regardless

[Anonymous No.15683166]

the idea of a cope is a cope

[Anonymous No.15683182]

>>15683149
Being afraid of death is a cope.

[Anonymous No.15683193]

>>15683182
Everything is fleeting, its not about being scared. Cope.

[Anonymous No.15683410]

>>15683138
Ludwig here. If everything is a cope, then nothing can't be a cope. But it makes no sense to say anything is a cope unless it is possible to say some things aren't cope. Therefore, either some things aren't cope, or 'cope' is meaningless.

[Anonymous No.15683840]

>>15683138
Nearly.

[Anonymous No.15683933]

>>15683138
>Since we are irrational beings
the sooner you accept that reason is just there to make sense of feelings and is pointless without them, the sooner you will find peace and happiness
being smart means nothing if you are emotionally an unstable wreck

[Anonymous No.15683971]

>>15683166
This. I mean, at the end of the day pointing something out as a cope is almost always treated as a means to distinguish oneself as someone who doesn't cope, or to distinguish other activities and values as "non-copes", but that sense of pride in non-coping or "facing reality" could in itself could be considered a cope, rendering the whole concept meaningless.

[Anonymous No.15683984]

>>15683138
Yes.
>"Life is a whole bunch of vices"

[Anonymous No.15684015]

>>15683840
Damn, that's very different from the Arnold translation.

[Anonymous No.15684165]

>>15683138

Spoken like a true brainwashed materialist.

[Anonymous No.15684177]

>>15683410
Yeah, but this isn’t true.—Davidson

[Anonymous No.15684181]

>>15683138
Good morning OP

[Anonymous No.15684667]

>>15683138
Read Plato, "Protagoras"

[Anonymous No.15684715]

>>15683138
They aren't copes they're modes of being.

Nobody is 'right' they just have a particular set of value structures, beliefs (regardless if you're the religious type, principles etc. all influenced by a multitude of sources, external environment, experience, internal unconcious ideas and the genetic makeup that may or may not have you already pre-defined who you are, all of these place a certain importance, strength and activation event on beauty & feelings we experience in a moment.

Humanity itself is a cope, but so is the idea of cope.

We're all doing just what works for us, like an algorithm iterating upon itself to get better and better, we always want more. But life isn't about that, life just is, its far too strange for us to conquer with what we've made, so we should just use it to help ourselves function in a world we cannot control, as opposed to wanting to control it.

[Anonymous No.15684723]

>>15683138
Of course, since everything you do exists within a matrix of opportunity cost, there's always an infinitude of unrealized options, and every action an infinite cope.

[Anonymous No.15684879]

>>15683138
everything you do outside basic survival and reproductive needs is cope

[Anonymous No.15684887]

>>15684879
but basic survival is surely the most obvious cope? what are you gonna do, survive forever..? of course not..?

[Anonymous No.15684899]

Don't get trapped into stupid semantics, the meaning of this word is gone and you feel bad for using it.

[Anonymous No.15684919]

>>15683138
>is feeling joy, love, peace, cope?
No, they are the product and pinnacle of the experience of living a successful, proper, balanced life. Sure, basing your life around 'figuring out' or 'knowing', especially based upon the categories you outlined, is cope, but that doesn't make everything cope.

[Anonymous No.15684929]

>>15684887
that's innate instinct. you don't have to think about it. even if you wanted to die, you are still afraid of dying. everything else is coping with this circumstance

[Anonymous No.15684940]

>>15684929
i think you would find if you spent a weekend alone in the woods that you do in fact have to think about it

[Anonymous No.15685079]

>>15683138
>everything is a cope because everything is meaningless and irrational
Then what's so bad about coping according to this proposition? What transcendental ideal can you point to? Might as well continue to cope.

[Anonymous No.15685122]

>>15683138

This is why striving towards rationality is not a cope it's evolution

[Anonymous No.15685126]

>>15683138
be very wary of how most 4chan boards use the word cope.

an example of coping would be listening to your favorite music after losing your job.

coping is not taking all or nothing stances as "facts are meaningless!!! it's all consensus!"

[Anonymous No.15685142]

>>15683971
My nigga....

[Anonymous No.15685146]

>>15685126
cope

[Anonymous No.15685169]

>>15685146
Very clever.

[Anonymous No.15685434]

>>15683138
>>15683145
>>15683149
>>15683166
>>15683182
>>15683193
>>15683410
>>15683840
>>15683933
>>15683971
>>15683984
>>15684015
>>15684165
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>>15684181
>>15684667
>>15684715
>>15684723
>>15684879
>>15684887
>>15684899
>>15684919
>>15684929
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>>15685079
>>15685122
>>15685126
>>15685142
>>15685146
>>15685169
cope.