/lit/ - Literature

What is a KHV?

>I've moved out of my parent's house, cut processed foods, cut porn, cut television, begun a disciplined exercise and meditation routine and started up a reading habit.
You're doing great anon.

>1. Is unconditional happiness possible
No. Your brain chemistry depends on fear and anxiety for survival and does not allow unconditional happiness. Stay the FUCK away from heroin. It will destroy you.

>2. How does one make peace with death?
This means different things for different people. Imo peace with death comes from recognizing one's place in the human species. We are awfully short-lived, and much of our youth is spent suffering. A Jungian would say the answer to your question lies in the individuation process. Self-discovery and acceptance.

>3. How does one properly handle the uncertainty inherent in life
Same answer as #2.

>Are there any works that specifically address these questions?
I recommend the following:

Jung - Man and His Symbols
Freud - The Ego and the Id
Eliade - The Sacred and the Profane
Jung - Seven Sermons to the Dead
Campbell - The Masks of God
The Bible

A portion of these are comparative mythology, but it's important. Understanding the primitive, impulsive child-like mind is the first step to properly dissecting the adult psychology.

For Greeks, start with the quick and easy. Enchiridion (means handbook) of Epictetus is an excellent primer on Stoics. You may enjoy Epicurus as well, he speaks on how to live well. Plato and Aristotle are metaphysicians and essential, but maybe not what you need right now.

Good luck in your quest OP.

>>10369971
>I choose love.

Then choose love. /thread. But it's not that easy for you apprently. Why are you bothered by something that happened before your relationship with her? If this thread is sincere and not bait, I think you're looking for an excuse to drop her. And you would be right to, because what I said about you forever being concerned about your ability to please her and what >>10369966 said about tension is absolutely true. Resentment grows like mushrooms, family.

>>10203057
10/10 quality bait my man I must return to refute it but just this once.

>He preached hell for the unsaved
Don't you know, anon, that salvation (or hell) are immanent?

2Cor 6:
1As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. 2For he says,
“In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

>he said any man who even looks at a woman with lust is already committing adultery
Pic related. He was warning against the bad kinds of love that are not agape, not writing moral law. That is a later misinterpretation which you have adopted.

>>10203050
You are mistaking Christianity for a religion tied to your own ethnic tradition and values.

>>10203080
>He probably thinks discrimination is inherently wrong
>who twists religion and history to fit his liberal ideologies.
I voted for Trump you silly UK fucks. And I think discrimination IS wrong, and against Christ's teachings. Affirimative action is discrimination, just like Jim Crow was discrimination. Discrimination cuts both ways, and is unfair to someone in the end. That's all moot though since we have separation of church and state in my glorious country. Christ said love. I love. I did not receive his grace in vain. You may continue in your personal hell, or climb out. I have shown you the way.

>From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
>my (good) man
>British English, old-fashioned

>spoken used when talking to someone of a lower social class – do not use this phrase

You're not of the upper crust yet, poseur. You may never truly be received there, in fact. Wouldn't that be some egg on your eyes-too-close-together genetically plebian face?

>>9027276
>>9027276
I've read it twice in the past eight years, and it's about time to read it again. To be honest, Campbell meanders at times. But those wanderings are not always fruitless. He frequently references Leo Frobenius, who is slightly dubious, but Campbell's own analysis is remarkable. He makes connections of numbers, names, and themes across civilizations as a matter of course. Lots of pictures, but not too many. Masks of God, as you might discern from the volume titles, follows human systems of belief from their geographic origins and by epoch. My take away: we're entering into an age unlike any before, and a [proper, ethical] system of belief that can survive it has yet to appear. Maybe someone can make an app.

Apologies for my decrepit word association. I'm mostly thinking out loud taking notes and drinking Ricard. Cheers m8. Sage'd.

>>8801477
Dubs of Certitude, checked. Well said anon.

>>8800915
>be me
>Texasfag
>34 years, army vet, no college

Reading: Us & Them by David Berreby, an examination of the tribal nature of man. Non-fiction by a layman in the field. Seeing how it goes.

Also reading Livy, because his version of early Roman history is basically an action movie and the themes and archetypes of the eternal city are still powerful today.

Knut Hamsun's Hunger was great. Growth of the Soil I could not finish. Dostoyevsky's Idiot was p cozy. I've not read Oblomov but that sounds like it could go on the list.


>>8801599
>>8801706
My fellow 30-something anons. I believe in you. Go get what you want. (For myself, I know I don't want to be married til about 50. Got close once. Need to publish a novel first.)