/lit/ - Literature

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>>20854421
>I ching
>I chong
>I ping zing zanxi pong

What are some essential books on the soul?

>>20018001
LMAO
Why don't you personally finance your own flight to NK and pledge allegiance to your self-chosen Supreme Leader?

Man eating rice edition
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>>13795390
haha you really are fucking stupid

>>13645036
>Nothing. Therefore nothing. There's no good reason to live and no good reason to die.

So this is the power of nihilism? To do nothing? Why do you live, then? If there is no reason to live, why is there a reason to respond to my post in this moment, seeing as we are descendants of monkeys on a rock in a vacuum. When the world dies, everything, all the great works, the Shakespeares and Platos (or whoever you consider great) gone, forever, as if they had never even been there. No permanence to anything, at all. Are you a sheep who lives in ignorance of this or do you (like me) believe in a soul, which negates what I just said in its entirety.

>As opposed to walking around in delusion? It's not a choice for some of us, we just are this way. We can't even pretend to think like you.
If you dig deeper, my chicken, you will find the delusion is in you and not in me. Even it is not a choice, you can still change. A man does not choose to be born without legs but he still works around that insufficiency. If you find yourself pretending to think like me, you have already failed. I am no example.

>>13645187
>Is life is worth experiencing for people who are affected by rare genetic diseases, deformity, chronic pain, malfunctions of different type and gravity, relentless illnesses which can constitute nothing but an existence made out of burden and absolute misery?

Depends on whether or not you believe in a higher power. If there is a higher power, then yes, such a life is worth experiencing (assuming that the higher power is beneficent). If not, then it doesn't matter because nothing else matters. They will die just the same as you will die, and your/their suffering will have been as good as if it had never been.

>It always seems that people who claim out radiant positivity like you are relatively lucky and in the adeguate spontaneous position to make those positive assertions. Misery is a part of life, for a guy that is living happily with his family there's another one who's killing himself in his basement because no matter how he tried he couldn't reach happiness.

The guy living happily with his family might get a divorce and have his children taken away. The termination of his marriage might result in suicide. Misery is everywhere, and often those who experience great misery try to escape it while those who experience tolerable amounts of misery glorify it and extol its virtues.

>I do think that human existence is a trick. I don't think that life is inherently not worth to live, but exactly the human life is nothing but a dice game; you actually have control over small insignificant things but the most important ones are completely aleatoric and out of your reach. At the end of dices' throw it is decided if you are born to live and enjoy or struggle and suffer. There's no out.

Suffer well