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"We Must Remember That Our World Contains Hell" by James Brobin
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- Aug 22, 2026
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Summary
This is a crosspost from my blog post. It's meant as a bit of an introduction to an extreme-suffering focused worldview. We spend most of our lives caught up in the boring details of our everyday life - thinking about what we’ll have for lunch, how to complete that assignment for work, and what we’re going to tell our friend after that awkward interaction from a couple of days ago. From this perspective, our world looks a bit better than purgatory. It has its ups and its downs, but the ups...