/lit/ - Literature

>>17326168
You don't have a mental disorder.

Read the Book of Ecclesiastes, honestly it's the best book for what you're experiencing.

>>16607497
The Church says that suicide is a sin so obstinate that it cannot be forgiven. But instead, I would say that it is just the mark of an uneducated man. A man who is not educated in religion or philosophy seems to grow up only naturally to believe that there are such things as failures that are too great. Also he acts like he's not even properly educated about the fact that he has only one life to lead, and that no honours or achievements in his life will make him any more alive once he's dead.

When such people consider philosophy they think more highly of metaphysical speculation and deride copes. What they don't know is that what is good in philosophy is entirely copes, what is truly worthless in philosophy is speculation. Copes allowed Diogenes to live in poverty, they allowed Epictetus to live as a slave, and they allowed St Paul to accept all manner of misfortunes. If copes can do all this, and speculation cannot turn a single grey hair black again, then the world is just the opposite of what the uneducated think it is like. And this dissonance between their opinions and reality must drive them to suicide just as much as misfortune.

Therefore suicides are uneducated people. How odd that most suicides seem to come from prosperous and well-educated backgrounds? I suppose it shows how far education has fallen in the modern world.

>On seeing someone behaving in a craven manner in the face of poverty, Diogenes encouraged him to be of good heart by quoting these words from Homer:
>Come now friend, stand at my side and watch me at work (Iliad 17, 179)