/lit/ - Literature

Anyone have a philosophical issue that theyve ever had an obsession with? You know what i mean, that ONE problem that you spent weeks or even months wrestling with, and if it wasn't a crisis it was something that never really left your thoughts for weeks on end.

I know mine was Solipsism. As a teenager, it destroyed me, knowing that nothing can be known for sure. Even after i decided to swear off philosophy, whenever it popped up id immediately equate it with this one idea instead of its totality. Shit still scares me sometimes.

Oh and also if youve ever gotten out of it, how did you? Usually, i just tired myself out so badly that i stopped caring, and went back to a normal life.

What do you do when reading and research and consumption of art has left you burned out? Do you take a tolerance break or just keep looking for the thing that will bring the richness and color back into your life?

I spent the last 5 months being obsessed about free will and i came out of it as a naturalistic pantheist who finds unity and freedom in all things.

did i meme myself or nah


ALSO:
Spinoza aint shit
Emerson's gay as hell
Walt Whitman was a fucking hack

Which book would be the easier to understand, or gateway of his ideology change trip?

I know he morphed his POV over time, but I want to understand his trajectory without drown myself in alegory at the first second.