Doctor Mike
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They can come to the conclusion that there is no meaning.
And finally, they read a philosopher who said in 1890 –
there is no essence.
And they're like, aha.
That's the truth.
And that's a bracing truth.
That's an empowering truth.
Unfortunately, there's no good that comes from that.
There's nothing beautiful that comes from that.
There's no relationships that come from that.
Even, by the way, even Nietzsche didn't believe that.
Nietzsche proposed marriage to the same woman over and over and over again his whole life.
And she always said no.
And he went insane.
Yeah.
And the reason is because he, why was he proposing marriage to her?
Because there was an essence that was in human love.
There was essence.
The reason he said that life, he probably went home and wrote another chapter that life has no meaning every time she said no.
It is.