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>Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri (Arabic أبو العلاء المعري Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, full name أبو العلاء أحمد بن عبد الله بن سليمان التنوخي المعري Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaimān al-Tanūẖī al-Maʿarrī; 973–1057)
>Described as a "pessimistic freethinker", Al-Maʿarri was a controversial rationalist of his time, citing reason as the chief source of truth. He was pessimistic about life, describing himself as "a double prisoner" of blindness and isolation. He attacked the dogmas of religion and rejected Islam. He was equally sarcastic towards the religions of Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians. He advocated social justice, and lived a secluded, ascetic lifestyle. He became a strict vegan, writing "do not desire as food the flesh of slaughtered animals."[2] Al-Maʿarri held an anti-natalist view, in line with his general pessimism, suggesting that children should not be born to spare them of the pains of life.
Is he *the original*?
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>>9063296
It's funny when Muslims claim that he's one of them.
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>>9063296
No, I am.
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>>9063296
he has the expression of zizek
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>>9063908
lol.
>>9063296
So he's like a yogi, but instead hates life?
Quite sad.
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>>9063714
Yea he sounds like the Nietzche of the Islamic Golden Age.
> "Years later he would travel to Baghdad where he became well received in the literary salons of the time, though he was a controversial figure."
At least they tolerated his kind those days,
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He's quite cool. Didn't ISIS blow up an old statue of him a couple of years ago?
>tfw dispensing butthurt to idiots 2000 years after your death.
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>>9063714
He is
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>>9063296
You'll find some r9k anti-lifers from Antiquity. I guess there must have been this kind of pessimism even in prehistoric times. In the end, it's an elaboration on the feeling that life sucks.
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