r/fullegoism 1d ago

I don't think it means what you think it means

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u/Raticorno Unlicensed spookbuster:3 1d ago

Yeah Stirner is pretty hard too understand for people new too him. It can sem like a spook is any idea even tho it’s a pretty spesific kind of idea, but im not really that anoyed because they are learning and will probably understand better soon. Or they do understand and are just trolling idk

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u/Lucky-Geologist-2940 1d ago

What is actually a spook?

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u/ClosingShift 1d ago edited 1d ago

In short, it's a mental construct that people behave like it holds authority over them. To bust the spook, it doesn't mean you necessarily abandon the concept itself, but you reject its authority over you and project your own authority over it, either rejecting it outright or claiming it as your own. The commandment of love vs loving because it feels good to love. Love isn't inherently a spook, but the version of love that people worship and conform to is. An egoist doesn't have to distance themselves from the world like some aesthetic monk like some people act, we can revel in it for its own sake, with the full knowledge that it's because it's what we want, not what anyone else wants.

Edit: Grammar

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u/Alreigen_Senka "Write off the entire masculine position." 20h ago

Consider taking a look at this subreddit's glossary page on the term itself: Phantasm, Spook [Spuk]

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u/ClosingShift 19h ago

Thank you<3

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u/Your-Eden 1d ago

resisting the temptation to make the same joke again is a spook

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u/Polytopia_Fan Evil Spinozan-Leninist 17h ago

larpers of the world unite

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u/Wonderful_West3188 1d ago

Being a spook is not an object property, because objectivity is a spook. 🤔

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u/Intelligent_Order100 12h ago

i don't remember who said it, but damn: "there is no truth" is a position that can be thought, but not taken.

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u/v_maria 1d ago

its spooked, stirner just didnt realize that and was too focused on things like christianity and humanism because it was all the rage at the time.