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Blaise Pascal: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

fox-martin

June 21, 2018
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https://qz.com/1309242/the-most-important-skill-nobody-taught-you

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Title Blaise Pascal: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Author

fox-martin

Upvotes 39
Comments 31
Date June 21, 2018 10:40 AM UTC
(8 years ago)
Subreddit Posted in /r/MGTOW
Original Link https://old.reddit.com/r/MGTOW/comments/8sqtyd/blaise_pascal_all_of_humanitys_problems_stem_from/
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[–]Ipride36213 points14 points15 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Well, all of humanity's existence stem from a man's inability to sit quiet in a room.

  1. Sitting in quiet cave.
  2. Wanted to eat. So, went out for some food.
  3. Ran across strange man with sagging chest and missing pee thing.
  4. Get weird, funny feeling in stomach
  5. Throw strange man on ground and stick pee thing in weird gash
  6. Many moons go by. Strange man come back with tinier man.
  7. It hungry. So, go out for some food
  8. Run across other strange man.
  9. Get weird, funny feeling again.
  10. Many moons pass and now two strange men with strange tinier men follow me around asking for some God damned attention when all I wanted was some peace and quiet.
  11. Found a place for all of us to live, call it city.
  12. Strange men want to join club of other men.
  13. Found religion to keep them busy.
  14. We men setup a nice quiet room where we can read or chat with each other.
  15. These strange men, now we call them women, storm in and demand we pay attention to them.
  16. Get strange, weird idea. Take shovel and turn it into way of killing other men.
  17. Us men go out into the great beyond to conquer other men and their women. Live in god damned peace and quiet with other men in camps.
  18. Other men get same idea. We must kill them before they kill us.
  19. Holy shit, we have the Mediterranean under our control.
  20. Build big places for women too go spend this stupid shiny coin thing so us men can lay around all day doing nothing.
  21. Oh, fuck, they've developed tanks and we're gonna have to put a stop to it.
  22. Oh, fuck, they're letting their women have equal rights.
  23. Fuck, there is no more peace and quiet and everything is run by women.

[–]fox-martin 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

LOL

[–]MGTOW199511 points12 points13 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Hard to sit quietly in a room alone when there's a bitch nagging you 24/7. Go Mgtow.

[–]Coluphid2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

In a relationship you can always find loneliness but never solitude.

[–]Tdeezi1 point 8 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link

Favorite quote of renowned gangster Arnold Rothstein

[–]WolfgangBreitweit -2 points-1 points0 points 8 years ago (22 children) | Copy Link

All problems are opportunities. Men are here to take opportunities. We’re not women.

[–]fox-martin 7 points8 points9 points 8 years ago (18 children) | Copy Link

You sound like a self-help zombie. Not all problems are opportunities.

[–]WolfgangBreitweit -1 points0 points1 point 8 years ago (17 children) | Copy Link

I give a sh*t on how I “sound like” to you. Give me an argument. An example. In my life all problems were opportunities.

[–]fox-martin 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (16 children) | Copy Link

Genocide.

[–]WolfgangBreitweit -1 points0 points1 point 8 years ago (15 children) | Copy Link

How’s that a problem. It’s per se an opportunity. The very reason to undertake genocide is to gain resources, control and eliminate an opposing culture or race. If you are on the side of the ones being attacked, you have the opportunity to stand up against them. Maybe even win and get their resources. Take the Kurds or Armenians.

Without Hitler, Israel wouldn’t exist.

[–]fox-martin 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

I guess we should encourage more of it, then.

[–]WolfgangBreitweit 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago* (4 children) | Copy Link

Why? Problems will pop up automatically, and so will opportunities. The world isn’t onesided dear.

Btw, if you’re the one encouraging problems, you can stop it. I don’t have to, because I’m not encouraging any kind of problem. But I live from the opportunity to solve them. As all folks with a job, I guess.

[–]fox-martin 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

I thought the sarcasm was pretty clear, but here you go:

/s

[–]WolfgangBreitweit 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

lol 😂 don’t worry. Everything is amusing for me.

[–]SimplyKaz0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

All problems are not opportunities.

Most problems create opportunities.

[–]WolfgangBreitweit 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Problems and opportunities are two sides of the same medal. Call it as you like. It just depends on which side you are looking at. In my job it was always both sides because I was a trouble shooter by profession. Some people stare at the problem and hire me to flip the coin over.

[–]fox-martin 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (8 children) | Copy Link

I guess I should rephrase my original statement. Not all problems are desirable opportunities. If someone shoots me in the face, I have the opportunity to die, but I don't find that opportunity desireable.

[–]WolfgangBreitweit 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

Right. I wasn’t qualifying problems anyway. I can either cope with them or not. The desirability is not in our hands if we talk about problems.

To sit in a room lonely and do nothing in order not to cause problems also means that you don’t solve any. It’s all about that stupid citation.

[–]fox-martin 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago* (6 children) | Copy Link

LOL. It's not about sitting in a room and doing nothing in order to not cause problems. It's about the benefits of self-understanding that come from being able to eliminate distractions and fear of boredom.

Edit: And you did seem genuinely confused that anyone could classify genocide as a problem.

[–]WolfgangBreitweit 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

The citation explicitly states, that humanities problems stems from man’s inability to do nothing than sit around and be quiet. I can’t read about self-understanding or distractions. Maybe he should reformulate it.

[–]fox-martin 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

I mean, there was a link to an article that explains the quotation in more detail, but if you can't read it, fair enough.

I'll just go ahead and dig up Blaise Pascal and let him know you have objections.

[–]WolfgangBreitweit1 point 8 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link

😂 yea! That’ll be great. I was only concerned about the header. That’s the essence I guess. But I will read the article. Somehow overlooked the link.

[–]WolfgangBreitweit1 point 8 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link

He’s dead. Didn’t have much experience imho. This citation on itself has no value. I’m sitting alone most of the day. Stopping my inner dialogue, and what not. It’s neither causing major problems nor solving any. Whenever one does something, no matter what, it’s influences the cosmos. In good and bad ways alike. To the same level.

Blaises’ words have only meaning, if there is no humanity at all. But then again, nobody could sit anywhere, quietly and meditate. It’s a typical way to see bad and good as separate states. Not understanding that these terms are concepts.

[–]fox-martin1 point 8 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link

How ironic that you possess in great quantity the skill that Pascal was promoting.

[–]WolfgangBreitweit1 point 8 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link

Didn’t knew it’s a skill. I call it a chill.

[–]HorusEyeDrops2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

I'd stick with the quote, "necessity breeds innovation."

[–]WolfgangBreitweit 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Good one. Thanks bro.

[–]WolfgangBreitweit 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

I would assume, that there is so little innovation in the female department, because all necessities are covered by men’s efforts for innovation. How female innovation works has been showed impressively by Mrs. Holmes and her Bloodtest of the future.

[–]PotatoWielder9001 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Sitting quietly in a room alone is a time for introspection. We don’t have that very much besides maybe in the shower but even then people try to bring their phones or whatever with them. I think this is what has lead to some of the more crazy females we see today. Without a reason to engage in introspection all problems must not be their fault. I think this is what happens when “the switch” is flipped. A woman’s time that would be reserved for introspection was filled with making sure the kids were taken care of and so all the problems became “not her fault” and she would go crazy. Men have an instinctual drive to improve so they manage to avoid this. But women don’t so unless that introspection time is basically forced on them they don’t do it at all. And that’s what the smartphone has done. There are other factors of course but if 90% of your time is spent getting dug out and instead of doing nothing for the remaining 10% your mindlessly on your phone. Then you never stop to think about what your doing now and how you could improve. Could be crazy talk but it’s just something I cooked up after reading the article.

[–]vwolf800-1 points0 points1 point 8 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

Hard to apply it in our time, since we have computers, can read/watch/play games, can visit other parts of planet through google maps, all from the comfort of our room. But definitely true in his time.

[–]fox-martin 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Pascal was talking about the need to be able to sit quietly and reflect without distraction in order to better know oneself. Those things you mention are making the problem worse, not better.

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