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Is/Ought
by Asterion
08 NOV 2025

Recent events in my life have led me to a particular mental state. I've lost my main source of socialization in my otherwise isolated life because of a dumb thing I did. My job has made me miserable, and has proven to be another dead end in this Labyrinth rather than an exit.

Because of this, I've been thinking again. Actually, I've been wanting to think for a while now. But I was just never motivated enough to get around to it. I never had a specific goal in mind for what I wanted to achieve by thinking, and what I wanted to think about. Now, I do.

Here is what I think I should do. Here is what I think the purpose of my blog should be.[1] I want to make thoughts, find thoughts, and share them with others. Thoughts that I like, find useful, and so on. I will probably use thoughts I find to express what I try to think, or to say what I say that's already been said (Ecclesiastes 1:9). I will give credit, of course, even if "it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another"[2].

What do I want to think about? What comes to my mind now is my life. What it is. What makes it what it is. How it is. If the other creatures I see that resemble the creature I am (or seem to live in) have them. Why things in my life make me unhappy. What I want to do to stop being unhappy. Why I want to be happy. What happy is. Etc., etc., etc... But I will most likely have other things to think about.

Someday, I will take the best thoughts I collect here, and compile them all into one book. I don't think I need more than one book——I don't think I'd have enough wisdom in my lifetime for more than one, anyway. Harper Lee had the right idea with To Kill a Mockingbird. Once the book is done, that will probably be the end of my blog.


[1] Having found it is why I slightly rennovated my blog yesterday, if anyone noticed.

[2] From the preface of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I like his definition of philosophy in this book, and it's the only work of his I've read. I imagine my eventual book will be like TLP in format and purpose. By purpose, I mean that after Wittgenstein had written the book, he had thought philosophy to have been finally solved, and sought to occupy himself with things like designing a house. I don't think I will achieve something that grand, but with that book I will have made the best of what I could in this life.