/lit/ - Literature

>>12248982
Shakers are extremely based desu but I can live my practise as a hermit as well.

>>12179561
>Sure, learn to be content with as little as possible. That's fine. But the idea that a man can live without any novelty or anything worthwhile to do is absurd. Even if all you've staked out in life is a patch of wood in an apartment building and a gaming PC, you're still craving new things in the form of videogames--you can't play the same ones forever. And besides that, you'll never surpass a base level of suffering if all you do is play vidya, browse 4chan and wageslave your way to the grave.
I don't have a job or play vidya and still feel like I could fill my time with stuff that is interesting enough to keep me content for at least a few centuries. Even the internet and books and music often seems like too much novelty, I take regular breaks from them to just live without media for a bit and experience physical reality. I think it would be better to learn to sit quietly under a tree or walk around and be content with that than getting caught up in an arms race between your reward system and the video game industry and depend on that for your well-being.

>There are other experiences worth having that'll also induce suffering, much more suffering, but you get more happiness in turn. It's part of what makes us human.
I think most of these are actually not worth the trouble and based on tricks and social coercion because they serve the system but not the individual. A lot of the things generally deemed worth having are trash.