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Old Dec 02, 2014, 02:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Just keep swimming View Post
I've often thought that smart people need help knowing how to deal with being smart. I think there are certain challenges that smart people need help dealing with. Have your read any of the existentialist philosophers? I can't promise that you'll feel better but you'll get an idea of how other thinkers have dealt with the absurdity of life and the fear of meaninglessness. Kierkegaard wrote an interesting essay on Sisyphus. It's a little dense, but thinking about it helped me. Personally, I ended up liking Voltaire's approach: Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing on the lifeboats. Trust me, you have interesting ideas. Why not make a college counselor's day and share some of them. It's free. Why not? Oh yeah, and there are some things which you're written that sound like what I say when I'm depressed. Have you read up on depression yet?
I'm not a smart person so I have nothing to deal with in that department. I don't like philosophy because it makes me feel more stupid than I already am due to the fact that, philosophically, I am always the black sheep (I always have the unpopular opinion, the incorrect perspective on an issue, and everyone thinks I am a devil's advocate when really I'm just wrong all of the time). What would talking to my councelor about my ideas do? Finally I have read up on depression and it just doesn't really seem to fit me. It is similar, but distinct enough that I feel that the title befits me.