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What are some Mind-Blowing books which will change my view of life - and perhaps lead me to something tangible and substantial.

I am feeling dejected and demoralised, I feel like I have no purpose and the circumstances that I have found myself in only worsen this condition of helplessness (I am 20 I have no education, or employment, no friends and a family which despises me, all my younger siblings have already far exceeded anything I have achieved, the possibility of any change seems to be nonexistent)

>> No.20738750

>>20738741
You’ve locked yourself in a cage and put the key in your ass.
You either read something like Nietzsche and change or you reject it. Books can help you only when you want to help yourself.
In short, delete these old ass ugly memes and get off failchan

>> No.20738764

>>20738741
The death of Ivan Ilyich isn't really mind blowing but it can be a good way to start appreciating life.
I like the mcduff/briggs translation

>> No.20738893

>>20738741
Start running/jogging. I started three times a week, a few minutes at first, you get better quickly, after two months I ran 10 kilometers. Improves your physical and mental health.

>> No.20739127

>>20738741
Redefine what success is to you by realizing that we live in a society (Brave New World, Huxley). Then learn a trade from someone in a good white neighborhood or something similar.
Or just go AWOL in Alaska.

>> No.20739158

>>20738741
Mein Kampf

>> No.20739723

Journey to the end of the night

>> No.20739764

Journey to the end of the night

>> No.20739831

Thinking books can change your life is a definition of magical thinking. This is common in children and mentally ill adults.

If you have triple digit IQ (statistically you dont, people tend to forget this, they believe facebook tier iq tests where literally everyone is above average, makes you wonder about the average when EVERYONE is above it) get an engineering degree, if you dont join the French Foreign Legion.
Third option is suicide. Society is full of mediocre retards who cant get an engineering degree or join the FFL and no one needs these types.
Without a real degree and without joining FFL, you will cement yourself into minwage/welfare gulag. Minwage/welfare gulag is just that, gulag. Its an utterly meaningless life where you will be treated as a retard/child all your life and railroaded into unproductive meaningless activities for no pay.

>> No.20740611

>>20738741
Doubt your views, understanding and logic. Doubt everything you deem tangible and your knowledge as it is. Don't dare to answer any question. Study philosophy extensively and in its entirety. If peer pressure is painful, I will allude to you that if you read just Plato and your siblings haven't, I will deem it far greater achievement than anything they've ever done and I will love you greater.

>> No.20740657

>>20739831
you forget alcohol & drugs. like, might as well pursue those if suicide is already on the table.

>> No.20740660

>>20738741
Schopenhauer, Seneca and Journey to the end of the night.

>> No.20741052

>>20738741
Outlines of Scepticism by Sextus Empiricus

>> No.20741098

>>20738741
Read books by Greg Hartley
You will understand social dynamics, why people do what they do and how you can find things to do in real life

From what you say, you are extremely isolated and have no sense of belonging. Your perception of yourself is created by people around you and a lack of people around you. Read the books, then you will know how to get out of this

>> No.20741106

>>20741098
Start with How to Get People to do What You Qant

>> No.20741109

>>20738750
>You’ve locked yourself in a cage and put the key in your ass.
That's a pretty good metaphor

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>> No.20741484

>>20738741
Proust - ISOLT
Musil - MwQ
Faulkner

>> No.20742030

>>20738741
Feeling Good the New Mood Therapy
4,000 Weeks Time Management for Mere Mortals

>> No.20742059

>>20738741
Start running/jogging.

>> No.20742073

>>20738741
>The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran

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>> No.20742237

>>20741109
this. integrate the content of your anima into your ego-consciousness by milking your prostate. its the only way

>> No.20743224

>>20742218
Fucking kys

>> No.20743393

>>20738741
I have been here. What I think you have to realize is that no book, experience, or idea is going to mirculously 'change' you. It might push you slightly towards the right trajectory, but real change take time and is heralded by action. That is all. Just do (it).

What you are experiencing now is solely the consequences that follow inaction.

>> No.20743709

>>20738741
>20
AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHHAHHAA

(Breaths in)

AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH

>> No.20743737

>>20738741
Read Crime and Punishment, then realize your life has only just begun.
>20
I didnt have anything going for me until I was 31 and I had only turned the ship around at 27. You are still really young, dont be hard on yourself.

>> No.20743774

>>20738741
Nagarjuna's middle way.

>> No.20743783

>>20743774
lol, peak pseud choice of buddhism to focus on
>le wittgenstein le enlightenment is when you dont think metaphysically simple as
stfu

>> No.20743842

>>20743783
You haven't read it. That's peak psude.
Also all that le shit makes you sound like a degenerate.

>> No.20743852

>>20738741
New Testament, specifically Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

>> No.20743855

>>20743842
i have, it's elementary and does nothing but add to some mystical "wew wow deconstructive mysticism" image to some despicable internet jackoffs

>> No.20743889

>>20743855
>i have, it's elementary
>wew wow deconstructive mysticism
>despicable internet jackoffs

Peak psude. Learn to frame your thoughts in a less pathetic manner. Your wording reveals your self masturbatory manner, projecting jack off on another while calling Nagajuna elementary.

>> No.20743925

>>20743889
it only leads to embarrassing pseudo-realizations. nagarjuna is the reddit of buddhism and if you cant see this then, well, best just stop trying

>> No.20744008

>>20743925
>pseudo-realizations
Meaningless
>nagarjuna is the Reddit of Buddhism
I don't know what this means either.

>> No.20744043

>>20738741
>What are some Mind-Blowing books which will change my view of life - and perhaps lead me to something tangible and substantial.
textbooks on demographics and population biology, then move to a more demographically viable area with higher birthrates, even if lower socioeconomically
reading text on paper or an e-reader screen will not change your situation