/lit/ - Literature

Then stop bitching and so something that you are going to be remembered for. Write a ground breaking book, conquer a country. Invent the cure for cancer.

Ugh baby's first existential crisis threads are so dull.

edgy

>>3763828
even if i write a book nobody reads books anymore

>>3763828
No one conquers countries anymore, you pleb. What the fuck do you think this is, 1184 A.D?

>>3763838
A nihilist dodge for pussies.

You man the fuck up soldier! I don't wear kid gloves and especially not for whiney pussy's like you!

You have to beileve that what you will write will matter! So what if all the hip little shits today don't read. Then go make a fucking movie! Show them something they WILL look at!

It 30-300 years only YOU are going to live your life. So do something with it you sniveling little fuck. Or get out of the way of the rest of us so we can!

>>>/fa/

>>3763840
Sounds like you're just a pussy to me. Last I recall someone in Germany made some pretty big land grabs in the 30s and 40s. Then someone tried to 'annex' Kuiwait in the 90. North Korea vows to 'unifi' Korea.

1184?

Grow a pair son.

>>3763848
what have you done wiht your life

>>3763869
Told you to get off your ass and live yours.

>>3763869
i understand you, Coooltop
i understand you and i don't know what to really do

>>3763853
Hahahaha, that ended so well for all of them.

even if im successful im stilla monkey and none of this matters

>>3763879
So they failed. But you know WHO they are, and are likely to be known 300 years from now.

Think of how many times a week or month Hitler gets brought up among your friends. Now think about the fact that the very life you live is because of the war waged by him and others.

You shave because in WWI it provided a better seal than a beard did for a gas mask.

>>3763887
Monkeys are pretty swell creatures though
take pride n being a monkey, become a nihlist, and just do things without worry

>>3763887
Cry me a river bitch. It matters because without human observation the Universe does not exist. Without human perception the very being of the cosmos is another event unrecorded.

What's the alternitive? Die? What a waste of DNA. The monkey's that were your ancestors fought saber-tooth lion and jackel to move up the food chain, to hope that their children would find the answers they had not yet learned to seek.

Millions of years of pushing against the tide of death have lead to YOU.

Now give your children a fighting chance to ascend to the stars and make us monkeys immortal!

>>3763889
why

>>3763894
maybe we've evolved to the point to realize how pointless evolving was in the first place

>>3763894
>The monkey's that were your ancestors fought saber-tooth lion and jackel to move up the food chain, to hope that their children would find the answers they had not yet learned to seek.

no. those monkeys fought because they were scared of dying, and no longer existing; to bad, I guess. They had no higher philosophical goal, and nor do you. the only that could ever conceivably matter is that one day you and I will cease to exist, and maybe even that doesn't matter so much anymore.

>>3763895
why not lol

>>3763912
i mean you need a reason to do something more than a reason not to do something

>>3763901
>Thinks we're the pinnacle of evolution

Another pathetic dodge. This reeks of high school or neckbeard psudointelect

You are not just a monkey, you are not just a smart primate. You are a collection of atoms that through some yet to be understood mechanic of the universe has gain the ability to LIVE and sentience.

Let me say that again.

YOU ARE A COLLECTION OF MICROSCOPIC BALLS THAT IS SOMEHOW ALIVE!

Until humans have figured that out, we don't know shit.

like...I just want to give up, personally. and so many others seem like they need to as well. A community of drop outs from society, a rejection of modern philosophy and code.

>>3763913
you already sound like you're finding purpose, bucko. you'll cheer up or commit suicide

>>3763913
Cooltop...weren't you /mu/'s foster child?

>>3763908
>Thinks that emotions usrup instincts.

Humans still think crimes against women are more heinous than against men because of the biological instinct to value the ability to reproduce.

Personally that primate may have feared death. His survival ensures the survival of his genes.

>>3763919
no that was someone who took my name ironically

im gonna go make a microwave dinner and think about how great my life is

>>3763923
dont go

>>3763926
ok i wont

>>3763914
>This reeks of high school or neckbeard psudointelect

>YOU ARE A COLLECTION OF MICROSCOPIC BALLS THAT IS SOMEHOW ALIVE!

>>3763933
Even better are those tiny balls are made up of clouds of electrical dust that are held in check by the strength of their nucleus. When broken down further, none of these things can be proven to exist. Furthermore those tiny bits of dust for some reason stay together for periods of time and create self locomotion.

We all maybe monkeys, but we are all forged from the heart of the burning gods in the sky.

Stars.

>>3763949
wow you read bill bryson youre a genius

>>3763955
Nope.

70s text book on space travel.

Also according to your pics you are likely at some college campus and feel this way because your major isn't what you thought it would be or have failed a crucial class you didn't have the option to.

>>3763961
not really i have a 4.0 at stanford i bet youre not a psychology major

>>3763964
>4.0

Whoppdy shit.

I have friends with a 5.0 Sudecom Lade

>>3763965
my friend is a janitor

>>3763967
Least he's in the right place to clean up the shit.

>>3763970
You know what. I take back what I said about the 4.0 and your friend the Janitor.

Because these are things that identify YOU.

And that does matter.

I was remiss to say otherwise.

>>3763828
The whole "don't be depressed—make love to a beautiful woman, go fly to Brazil, fight a shark to the death" advice is what's dull.

>>3764037
Or you could get a 9-5 job, work yourself to death in the employ of someone that doesn't care you exist till your 75. Retire, shit the bed till your 80 then die and have your meager earnings pay for your pine box in a cemetery next to a trailer park.

And people thought I was bad.

Read this book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sickness_Unto_Death

>>3764042
>>3763828

>Thus when the ambitious man whose watchword was "Either Caesar or nothing" does not become Caesar, he is in despair thereat. But this signifies something else, namely, that precisely because he did not become Caesar he now cannot endure to be himself. So properly he is not in despair over the fact that he did not become Caesar, but he is in despair over himself for the fact that he did not become Caesar. This self which, had he become Caesar, would have been to him a sheer delight (though in another sense equally in despair), this self is now absolutely intolerable to him. In a profounder sense it is not the fact that he did not become Caesar which is intolerable to him, but the self which did not become Caesar is the thing that is intolerable; or, more correctly, what is intolerable to him is that he cannot get rid of himself. If he had become Caesar he would have been rid of himself in desperation, but now that he did not become Caesar he cannot in desperation get rid of himself. Essentially he is equally in despair in either case, for he does not possess himself, he is not himself. By becoming Caesar he would not after all have become himself but have got rid of himself, and by not becoming Caesar he falls into despair over the fact that he cannot get rid of himself.

>>3763887
>even if im successful im stilla monkey and none of this matter

>Here there is in fact a certain degree of self-reflection, and so a certain degree of observation of oneself. With this certain degree of self-reflection begins the act of discrimination whereby the self becomes aware of itself as something essentially different from the environment, from externalities and their effect upon it. But this is only to a certain degree. Now when the self with a certain degree of self-reflection wills to accept itself, it stumbles perhaps upon one difficulty or another in the composition of the self. For as no human body is perfection, so neither is any self. This difficulty, be it what it may, frightens the man away shudderingly.

>>3764042
hey, why not join the army and die in a pointless war?

>>3764056
beautiful book

>>3763888
Africa is the only place you can conquer countries anymore without a massive shitstorm from the international community. Meh and even then they might still overthrow you....

I sort of feel like this sometimes. I wish I had a short term goal like "complete your next assignment" or "pass this class", instead I have "decide what you want to do with the rest of your life". Basically I miss university.

Its not that hard...

a) become random fag and work/live like everybody else
b) do something that will outlast the times aka. art
c) become a hermit/religious fag
d) kill yourself

>in 30 years the clothes i wear and music i listen to will be considered stupid like people from the 1980s
Thats not necessary and why would you care about it in the first place?

>in 300 years no one will care that i ever existed and the world will be overpopulated
Doubt many people care in the first place, so if you have a problem with being irrelevant, become famous.

>>3764231

Build a pan-African empire? Sounds fun. I'll sign up, on the condition that when our victorious army arrives on the north of the continent, we take our horde on a small detour and do to Israel what the Romans did to Carthage. It'll be the second Shoah they've been mewling about.

>>3764241
>Thats not necessary and why would you care about it in the first place?

he's a /fa/ trip

despite being bored

i am still just a

monkey on an orb

i miss /mu/ cooltop :(

>>3763825
>sometimes i think im depressed because whenever i dont have vacuous short term goals working toward societally-established points of success
You're depressed because you still want to have such goals. Get over this need and you're free at last.

>>3763888
>You shave because in WWI it provided a better seal than a beard did for a gas mask.
Also because Romans.

>>3764303
Are the Pumpkins still relevant? Tell me yes, so I don't feel old.

>>3764489
We don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around

Introverts think too much.
Just take a deep breath, exhale and do something that you like doing. And maybe that make you feel like you have purpose

>>3764306
me too.

>>3764056
Just finished it. I'm danish, and i've read most of Kierkegaard, and i must say it's some of the best.

It's page 107 in a danish version, where he says that no person is born 'spiritless', and even though many bring this (spiritlessness) with them into death, it is not the fault of life.

He also said something about the person who have no comment on Jesus. It was some of the best descriptions for the post-modern man i have read in a long time, centered around "if you have no meaning concerning God, have you no meaning about that either?"