/lit/ - Literature

>>17410344
more like /lit/ tourists thread

>>17410344
Just keep pushing the Boulder, and reach the summit of achievement for whatever makes you happy

>>17410352
This post reeks of existential dread

>>17410366
I do have a lot of existential dread, however, I can appreciate the beautiful things life offers. I think that keeps me going amid the horrors

Smoke weed, drink good wine, workout, eat healthy and delicious food, fuck hoes if you can, hangout with bros if you like to. Desu

>>17410378
if you admit your mind is clouded by fear how can you ever trust your reason?

Most nights I can’t sleep. I try to pray to God, but there is only a terrible and constant silence. I have no answers, yet I cannot keep living this way

>>17410398
I think some fear is healthy. Not totally clouded, but I’m certainly wary at the very least.

>>17410410
Reread your second sentence back to yourself, out loud.

>>17410418
I genuinely hope you find peace anon.

Existentialism and essentialism aren’t the neat divide you think they are, the simplistic essentialism you are thinking of is disproven in Plato’s Parmenides dialogue. Hegel’s idealism has the only rational essence being that which has existence. Husserl demonstrates that essence and existence occur at once phenomenologically. Heidegger is restating this doctrine with slight modifications, Sartre is misinterpreting Heidegger on this which is why Sartre only has major points and credit on a literary level to people with the smallest amount of interest in philosophy who are more interested in the aesthetic and not the actual philosophical systems and questions.

>>17410378
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and is rooted in reason, there is in your existentialism no inherent beauty to the world. Bleeding pus and pain and all manner of ugliness have just as much the title of beauty in the existential ontology which is why Art has become in many cases much uglier when existentialism is the basis. There is no inherent beauty or reason within your ontology. Happiness Is also fully arbitrary.

>>17410344
The only way out of existential dread is to touch the universal ground inside yourself either through deep meditation, or psychedelic drugs, or perhaps some other peak experience.
Once you've done this and internalized in a personal way that you are no more than a wave of the universe, ultimately no more or less special than any of the other formations you see around you though with the unique ability of being able to reflect on these formations, then you learn acceptance and peace. There is no birth or death, just the universe oscillating in it's myriad ways.

Sartre only held these beliefs because he was a hideous looking goblin of a man. Prove me wrong.

>>17410421
I just did

>>17410458
Wow. Imagine actually sincerely believing that utter fucking garbage.

>>17410471
he got pussy and was one of the greatest writers of the century

>>17410484
Ugly people can get pussy easily, it's called money/influence. You still know deep down people aren't physically attracted to you, that you're ugly.
>and was one of the greatest writers of the century
even assuming that's true, he basically had no competition

>filtered
Perhaps someday you too will understand anon

Maybe life is the jewel. The wanting for eternal only shows how much people diminish life.

existence does have a meaning
you are the spawn of fucking
the purpose is to fuck and reproduce life

>>17410555
based biological determinist

>>17410344
refuted by the bible, read ecclesiastes

>>17410352
>reach the summit of achievement for whatever makes you happy
You're missing the point of the myth, anon.

>>17410796
What did you think the point was? I saw it as struggling, suffering being part of life, but when reaching the top, and achieving something, making said struggling and suffering worthwhile before repeating the cycle

>>17410816
Yeah and your understanding of that myth is as flawed as your other concepts. Have you considered suicide? Not as an end to your existential dread but as a courtesy to the rest of us?

>>17410835
>flawed

How? I only asked a question why are you seething

my existential dread is that i developed the habit of avoiding work by feigning physical ailments when i was a child. since then, i've been living as a lazy bohemian, at my parents' expense, dragging out my studies and passing the time with art criticism (which i do most carelessly). everything is superficial. my morals flutter like a little banner, depending on what i'm reading at the moment, sometimes Wille zur Macht, sometimes Ich-Losigkeit - in practice, i'm a conventional opportunist.

>>17410835
Being in a world with no objective meaning makes interpretation of the myth just what it is, not wrong or right.

>>17410344
Just go back to the Cartesian substance dualism and watch its implications with awe? There you will find that the limits of our consciousness are interesting things to be best buddies with. There you will find that the balance for the 'right' view on life was achieved, but overlooked at time. We can just reach back to that time now that we have some perspective on the question of life.

>>17410445
>literary level to people with the smallest amount of interest in philosophy who are more interested in the aesthetic and not the actual philosophical systems and questions.
Well, from my angle you kind of look like a history-of-philosophy kind of nerd.

Besides, shouldn't one study filosophy of mind if they wanted to find out anything meaningful about life and its meaning...

What if we would get free from the need of finding meaning?
If you're content with how things are, not dwelling in constructs, but constantly witnessing the perennial perfection of the here and now: How could you get your jimmies rustled again?
To think that you own even a single iota of your thoughts / constructs / phenomena instantly makes you into a cuck.

>"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. " -William Shakespeare

>"Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison," -T.S. Eliot

>>17410344
Take the wager and believe in God because there's nothing to gain by disbelieving if there's no God and nothing matters

I don't care if anything matters. I'd rather live than die.