/lit/ - Literature

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Kierkegaard--specifically Fear and Trembling--Nietzsche--specifically Thus Spoke Zarathustra--and any existentialist, arguably.

Plato/Socrates--read the Phaedo at the very least--even Aristotle to some extent.

Lao Tzu.
The Buddha.
Mohammed.
Jesus Christ.
Almost any world religion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, other Transcendalists, if you want an American perspective.

Anyone who sincerely leans all the way into the scientific nihilism brought into fashion by the Enlightenment is either a naïve enthusiast or someone who wants an easy opt-out clause from addressing very real and discernible human problems and challenges that everyone has to overcome.

They could be totally right--that's a reality everyone has to come to terms with and make peace with somehow. But they could also be completely wrong. And what's hilarious about the people who ascribe to such a materialist dogma is they're often very much opposed to that exact same kind of dogma found in so many religious and philosophical beliefs.

The only one who can really make a point in your life is you, anon. It's a bit cliché, but it's ultimately true. All this other stuff is really just there to help you along the way.

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