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>>17952723
>tfw I never experienced that true carefreeness as a child and was always burdened by all the anxieties and crisis of adult life
thanks mom and dad for making me aware of money and its necessity to survive from a way too young age and instilling in me a constant sense of instability and dread. I had for the longest time planned on killing myself by 35, for the reasons Hulahoop describes.
Only recently have I rejected this philosophy towards life, and when I think back on my former worldview I feel embarrassed for being so stupid. I love life and look forward to every new experience, painful or otherwise.
I am only sad that I never was able to truly enjoy the exclusive pleasures of childhood. I feel like I have been an old man forever.

>>17710928
you cannot refute the eternal return, it has the indestructible logical armor of all theories of afterlife; cannot be proved, cannot be disproved. Kaufmann is a retard for thinking otherwise.
It's far and away the best theory of its kind. It is ultimately true, regardless of wether or not it is real. What we do in this life will always be what we have done.

Is it possible to be truly happy as a Christian?
My mom is Catholic and my dad Protestant. My dad is agnostic (like many protestants) and my mom, while no longer a regular church attendee, still clings to her faith. Outside of this both believe very strongly in Christian morality. They are, generally, unhappy people who have had tough lives, although things have recently started getting better for them.
I wish that I could liberate them from this life-denying ideology. As happy as they may be currently, I fear they will always be plagued by the resentment and guilt inherent to the religion. I see it in them, especially in my mom, who is a smart person but is stubborn and will stick to her faith because it is what she decided upon a long time ago.
I have thought about having them read Nietzsche-my mom reads a lot and could definitely handle it, my dad maybe not so much, so I mainly refer to my mom here. But I foresee no positive outcome from this.:
>They don't understand it
>They understand it but choose to deny it---my mom most likely would never admit to it changing her mind, but it could hurt her, I think
>They understand it and have an existential crisis and become depressed for having lived so much of their lives by something so terrible and fundamentally anti-life
>They misunderstand it but still lose faith, causing them to slip into nihilism
None of these seem worth it to me, and even the best of these options is not worth the possibility of one of the worst.
I was raised Catholic. While I began doubting the existence of God from a young age, I still believed wholeheartedly in the ideology. This unwavering belief that, even if not based in fact, the Bible is correct and the dogmatic acceptance of morality left me, among other things, unable to handle the "evils" of the world, resulting in extreme depression/mental illness and, ultimately, nihilism. It wasn't until, not merely rejecting the idea of God, but rejecting the Christian morality that is rooted so deeply in western culture, that I have been able to be happy--and it is a happiness, and a fulfillment, unlike what I have experienced ever before. Not because I am atheist (I still consider myself agnostic) but because I am specifically untethered from Christianity. Even still, I catch myself moralizing every now and again--it is by all means a difficult thing to shake.
Can Christians experience this fulfillment, even under the oppressively toxic dogmas of Christianity? Is there hope for my parents? All I want is for them to be truly happy and love life.

>>11285783
You're too late anon, in a few years you will be dead. Why bother at this point?? Just leave the reading to the younger kids

>>11169993
Nope, he wanted to start a revolution to stop the industrial society and clearly stated in the manifesto that people will need to kill others during the revolution to achieve it, he himself killed simply to get his manifesto published. I don't see this as following societies virtues and thus he wouldn't be oversocialized in my opinion.