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46 schools answering: "When will it become easier?"

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Immediate

Absurdism

"Never, and caring about this question is the error."
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Months to years

Advaita Vedanta

"When you realize Atman equals Brahman (Self equals Absolute)."
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Months to years

Buddhism (Theravada/Mahayana)

"When you extinguish craving (tṛṣṇā)."
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Weeks to months

Classical Hedonism

"It won't unless you engineer pleasure dominance."
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Weeks to months

Cognitive Science (Dennett)

"When you optimize cognitive algorithms and improve mental models."
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Cynicism (Diogenes)

"Immediately, if you abandon convention."
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linguistic
Days to weeks

Deleuze & Guattari

"When you deterritorialize yourself and become body without organs."
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linguistic
Immediate

Derrida (Deconstruction)

"The question presupposes metaphysics of presence that deconstruction dismantles."
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Immediate

Early Wittgenstein

"When you recognize your question is nonsense."
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Weeks to months

Epicureanism

"When you eliminate unnecessary desires."
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Immediate

Evolutionary Psychology

"It doesn't because evolution doesn't care about your happiness."
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Existentialism (Sartre, Camus)

"When you accept responsibility for creating meaning in meaninglessness."
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linguistic
Days to weeks

Foucault (Post-Structuralism)

"When you recognize power/knowledge created your subjectivity, making "you" and "easier" disciplinary constructs."
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Months to years

Freudian Psychoanalysis

"When ego mediates id and superego effectively after years of analysis."
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Eschatological

Gnosticism

"When you escape Demiurge's prison through secret knowledge."
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Heideggerian Existentialism

"When you confront Being-toward-death authentically."
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Weeks to months

Hermeticism

"When you ascend seven planetary spheres and transmute base nature."
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eschatological
Eschatological

Islamic Philosophy (Avicenna)

"When intellect actualizes through philosophical contemplation."
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eschatological
Months to years

Jainism

"When you burn off all karma through radical non-violence (ahimsa)."
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Months to years

Jungian Psychology

"When you complete individuation and integrate the shadow."
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Kantian Deontology

"Never in the way you mean. Duty doesn't care about your feelings."
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Months to years

Lacanian Psychoanalysis

"You can't escape lack. The question reveals misrecognition."
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Immediate

Late Wittgenstein

"Depends on your language game and form of life."
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Weeks to months

LessWrong Rationalism (Yudkowsky)

"When you eliminate systematic biases through Bayesian updating."
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Never

Ligotti/Conspiracy Against the Human Race

"Consciousness itself is the problem. There is no solution."
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Days to weeks

Logical Positivism

"Your question is literally meaningless."
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Months to years

Madhyamaka Buddhism (Nagarjuna)

"When you realize emptiness (śūnyatā) of all phenomena."
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eschatological
Eschatological

Maimonides (Jewish Rationalism)

"When you achieve devekut (cleaving to God) through intellectual perfection."
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Immediate

Metamodernism

"Never fully, but that's the structure."
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Weeks to months

Neoplatonism (Plotinus)

"When you complete henosis (union with the One)."
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Immediate

Nietzschean Philosophy

"It doesn't get easier. You get harder."
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Immediate

Object-Oriented Ontology (Harman)

"Objects withdraw from all relations, so "easier" never fully applies to you-as-object."
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Weeks to months

Phenomenology (Husserl)

"When you bracket presuppositions and experience phenomena purely."
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Weeks to months

Platonism

"When you escape the cave and perceive the Forms."
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Days to weeks

Process Philosophy (Whitehead)

"Constantly, because reality is perpetual becoming, not static being."
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eschatological
Eschatological

Pure Land Buddhism

"After death when Amitabha brings you to the Pure Land."
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Pyrrhonian Skepticism

"When you suspend all judgment and achieve ataraxia."
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Never

Schopenhauer's Pessimism

"It won't. Life is suffering, period."
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Weeks to months

Spinozism

"When you achieve intellectual love of God (amor Dei intellectualis)."
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Weeks to months

Stoicism

"Never. And that's not the problem."
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Months to years

Sufism

"When you annihilate ego (fana) and persist in God (baqa)."
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Weeks to months

Taoism

"When you stop resisting flow (wu wei)."
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eschatological
Eschatological

Thomism/Scholasticism

"Grace perfects nature. Full ease awaits beatific vision after death."
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Months to years

Yogic Philosophy (Patanjali)

"When you achieve kaivalya (isolation) through eight-limbed practice."
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Months to years

Zen Buddhism

"This question is the problem."
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Zoroastrianism

"When good defeats evil at Frashokereti (final renovation)."
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