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>>18564381
I think I have a “philosopher” for you.

Does anyone know what this feeling is?
A few years ago I used to be a huge fucking faggot, always going against opinions that weren’t “proven by science”, second guessing shit all the time and I thought this was a healthy way of thinking cuz “nothing in the universe was ever 100% certain” or some shit so I should always doubt everything.
I got depressed, life started sucking, none of my goals felt meaningful or worthwhile. Tried reading Nietzsche, Sartre, stoicism because I thought our philosophies would match. Didn’t help.

A couple months ago I fell down the rabbit hole of “spirituality” after reading an old generic manga, started reading about the weirdness of perception and it’s relation to the body, hypnosis, etc.
Read Joseph Campbell’s book, read the Mahabharata. started reading Jung’s books, started seeing Nietzsche in a new light and started reading his works from the BoT. Reading Schopenhauer now and I’m finally starting to feel that sense of excitement I haven’t felt in years.

I’ve come to the conclusion that a huge chunk of my life was wasted trying to be “correct” about shit.
I’ve also realized that a lot of people that I used to call schizos or delusional were happier than me and better than me because they realized the secret to life without having to go through all the shit that I went through.

Anyway, I respect schizos now.