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I did a bunch of reading on the illusion of the self (particularly Eastern philosophy). I've also done a lot of psychedelics recently where I experienced ego death.

I've come to the realisation that the way I perceive the world is an interface like you'd see in a video game and that there is no "me" to experience it, just the experience happening and physical reactions within my body presenting it in a meaningful way to my brain to comprehend. As a result, I've concluded there's nothing intrinsically meaningful about anything.

Is this the final form of philosophy? What do I read to go from here?

>> No.12718445

>>12718435
You fried your brain with drugs. From now on your opinion is irrelevant

>> No.12718460

Where do you want to go, friend?

>> No.12718462

>I did
>I've also done
>I experienced
>I've come
>I perceive
>my body
>my brain
>I've concluded
Nigga there's more ego in these four sentences than in entire Rupi Kaur's poetry collection.
Sure sounds like ego death to me.

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12718466

>>12718462
> having no ego means you can't use the word I

>> No.12718468

>>12718466
>having no ego means you go on 4channel internet forum and type self-absorbed blogposts begging for attention.

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>>12718468
> your blogpost doesn't adhere to the high standards we aspire towards on the literature section of a Tanzanian blanket weaving imageboard

>> No.12718476

>>12718435
>reading on the illusion of the self (particularly Eastern philosophy)
Titles?

>> No.12718489

>>12718475
>>12718466
Boy, sure is getting defensive for someone without an ego

>> No.12719073

>>12718435
put down the pipe you joe rogan listening 17 year old philosophy student

But seriously if you havent read these id recommend at least an introduction Wittgenstein, Derrida maybe lacan and Foucault (meme)

>> No.12719096

seems like you are disempowered, or jaded about what you can accomplish

>> No.12719116

>>12719073
jokes on you im 21 but thanks for the recommendations
>>12719096
I think the early 20's is the time your naive youth is stripped away with the realism that life is a drudgery march towards death

>> No.12719201

>>12718445
False. He needs more drugs. And reading deluze and Heidegger

>> No.12719509

>>12718435
ego-death shouldn't bring you to nihilism...it should do the opposite. you have realized now that u aren't this tiny person, here living a finite life which there is nothing past. you are infinity itself, having a finite experience. if you really had an ego death, you'd be spending your time loving others now, for the rest of your life. no more prejudices, no more cynicism, none of that. you have to love everyone you encounter

>> No.12719533

That's basic bitch David Hume shit. Congrats on being a pleb, OP

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>>12718489
well kek'd

>> No.12719781

>>12719116
>I think the early 20's is the time your naive youth is stripped away with the realism that life is a drudgery march towards death
Right on the money! The high going into your early twenties, with all the existential crises and whatnot, are relived as you go down your *peak*. But it's like watching a movie of your most transformative experiences: you don't feel anything near what the original experience made you feel like.

Around 25-6 all the major things and big questions have faded by now. Stereotypical "what is the meaning of life?" questions gives you the reaction of : "LOL I remember being 18..." as if you're already 60 or something.

>> No.12720016

kill and maim all wojak posters

>> No.12720040

elf on the shelf