>I have set my cause on nothing >That is why I feel so

No obligations, no reason to worry. The world is shit, so if you don't care then you be happier.

>>8476775
the union of egoists

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>>8476792
But specifically what? Perhaps I didn't put it clearly. How do you overcome Nihilism without setting your cause upon something?
This is something that I didn't get about the Tao Te Ching either. If living life to it's natural end is the goal, then I agree in many points. But why is that the goal?

>>8476848
"Setting your cause on nothing" in Goethe's sense, as far as I understand, doesn't literally mean shunning the outside world and all external joys.
Like in the poem, he enjoys a glass of wine with his friends, but he hasn't set his cause on it. That is to say that he could also find joy elsewhere, that he isn't attached and dependant on it.

He's just joking about how all the shit he tried to do didn't work out, but once he stopped trying to get rich/laid/famous, it all fell in his lap, and it's time to finish the cup and die (the title biblical quote is common in funerary art). Remember, Young Werther made him famous, but didn't give him much cash (pirating of his book), and he had a few nasty times in love.

>>8476775
>I have set my cause on nothing

So you don't have a cause at all?