/lit/ - Literature

Funny, outgoing, lazy

I constantly think about being murdered to the point where I can't sleep in fear that somebody will break into my house and kill me, and I also think about what if I had super powers

Introverted, left handed, apathetic.

Memories and how much privacy does social media really entail us?

Arrogant, entroverted, way too rational

Difference between emotionality and rationality, movement and lack of it, chaos and order, becoming and being. Dionysos and Apoll. Too some extent: female and male.

Materialism. How everything is only matter, and living beings are not different from other chemical processes.

Angsty, diagnosed with Asperger's, introverted.

I constantly worry that I'll never be successful in life.

I also worry that if I get married, my partner will become a major bitch, divorce me and bankrupt me.

>>4351749
The Holy Bible

>>4351753
Sherlock Holmes

>>4351767
1984

>>4351771
Something something Nietzsche

>>4351781
The Great Gatsby
Optionally: your local phone book.

Come on, guys, give some actual recommendations!

>>4351940
>Recommending 1984. to >>4351767

Are you trying to subvert my freedom again?

Don't listen to him
Brave New World is better, closer to the truth and more similar to the stuff you put down.

Moody, unsatisfied, procrastination

(The reason for) death and suffering

>>4351945
>(The reason for) death and suffering
Oh, you don't need a book recommendation for that! Just visit a biology class!

Introverted, self-absorbed, pragmatic

Human behaviour and fairy tales.

introverted(by nature)
outgoing(As a child I was a terrible shut in. Learned to control myself and now I'm good at socializing, but don't feel the need. )
mild

How life is short and what does it mean to spend it well etc.

Rascism. I'm not obsessed by the issue. In fact, where I live there are barely any other races, yet there are all kinds of racists, zionists etc. I'm fascinated why. I never found it natural to hate or abhor someone just because, I wonder why they do.

outspoken, extroverted, witty


How strange reality is or what reality is or what the "isness" of reality is. Propaganda, in all forms.

Although, to be quiet honest, since leaving my wife I think about her a whole lot.

>>4351749
>Blood Meridian

>>4351753
>Blood Meridian

>>4351767
The Man who mistook his wife for a hat

>>4351771
The Ego Tunnel by thomas metzinger

>>4351781
The Tao Te Ching(read by jacob needlemen)

>>4351940
The Black Swan - By Nicolas Taleb

>>4351945
>Blood Meridian

>>4351955
The Dresden Files all 14 of them

>>4351956
The Unbearable lightness of being

Outgoing, friendly, doormat at times

I think a lot about people's thoughts and motivations and my partner.Even though I have a very positive personality I constantly think about what will it feel to be nothing once I'm dead. But thats usually when I remember it...

Probably the lamest thread I've seen in months.

Intense.
Ambitious.
Mutable.

My mind's either in creative projects or the future.

>>4353768
Tai Pei by Tao Lin

Sure I will give it a go

Pondering, Optimistic, Adventurous (yearning for it)
Fortune (as in luck/fate), Life (What makes a life successful/worth living)

anxiousness, competence, lonliness

why I want what I think I "want" and what I should want to want

Idealistic, Confident, Preservering
Future, History

>>4351955
peer gynt
the iceman cometh
>tfw nobody on /lit/ reads plays

Confident, unimaginative, serious.

For a specific topic, the difference between group psychology and individual.

For an overarching topic, if philosophy is the best form of knowledge that we have, or worthless questions.

Funny, confident, care-free

I am absolutely love learning and thinking about dreams and Greek mythology

Quiet, indecisive, easy-going
Meaning and morality/ethics in general.

>>4353813
Hegel.
>>4353808
Camus.
>>4353801
The Catcher in the Rye.
>>4353782
Me.
>>4353763
The Unnameable.
>>4353726
Jarry.
>>4351956
How to Kill a Mockingbird.
>>4351955
Borges.
>>4351945
Dante's Inferno.
>>4351781
On the Road.
>>4351771
Celine.
>>4351767
PKD.
>>4351753
Solaris.

>>4353849
Hume

>>4351753
Crime and Punishment

>>4351767
Any grammar and style guide, you malapropism prone pleb.

>>4351771
Stumbling on Happiness

>>4351781
The Birthday of the World

>>4353763
Meditations

>>4353782
Taipei by Tao Lin

>>4353850
I've already read enough camus

Awkward. Gullible. Curious.

How small businesses manage to stay afloat when you see them with one or two customers an hour who don't buy anything. How the economy manages to function without entire portions of the world collapsing under the weight of others. How we haven't consumed the natural resources of the world up already.
Whether or not I'm faking my depression. Identity. etc.

A leader, introvert, thinker.

I'm a fantastic leader. I organize my workers, do big, work hard, and include my team members, as well as incite them all work together.

I just don't have a lot of friends, prefer to be alone with my own hobbies and interest because at the end of the day I am so far ahead of my peers that is embarrassing. My professors are my only peers in the classroom.

Community college is insufferable to people like me. I found myself later in life, and I have reaped its benefits. My professor asked me to a national philosophy conference so I could preform speech with her.

>>4353869
Mein Kampf

>>4353869
pretty full of yourself for a community college student

Confederacy of Dunces

loving, solemn, meditative

adventure, the state of reality

>>4351944

Already read Brave New World and i've obviously read 1984 too.

>>4353747

That looks interesting anon, I actually studied psychology last year so it definitely has me interested.

>>4353850

Why PKD book would you recommend? So far i've read The Man in the High Castle, Martian Time Slip and Valis.

>>4353855

Any grammar guides that will help me better my prose or should I just keep reading prose writers?

Bold, Adventurous, Romantic (as in Romanticism movement)
Glory, Power

>>4353905

I Meant >which Philip K Dick book would you recommend?.

I should really proof read more of my posts.

intelligent, vitriolic, compassionate
how to improve myself
what the future holds

>>4353877
hence my contempt for my classmates.
Unfortunately, I had changed dramatically after I turned 20 and because of that I am surrounded by the lowly students of city Colleges.

My professor offered vouch me a scholarship to Columbia after a single course with her.

anime, masturbation, love

how (in what manner) to be afraid of death

>>4353931
jesus, can community college teachers even do that?

What exactly did you do to get such high praise?

Neurotic, ironic (that's what other people have said), empty.

I think about never being happy in life, nor being anything great. Wanting to loving someone more than myself.

>>4353920
>vitriolic

pls b in london

hm, let's see

traits: pessimistic, politically anti-moderate, introvert

on my mind: transforming civilization, behind-the-curtain occult societies

All of my weekly journals for assignments were over 10 pages, and my final report was practically a dissertation. I just happen to be extremely passionate about my career choice, and knowledge of history, literature, and politics(non shitty linear America mumbojumbo)

I did all this because I knew she was the head of her department and was the president of 2 organizations. She is a leader herself, and she sees herself in me. She tests me in class as well, putting me in charge of some of the worst students so that I can help them.

I do enjoy it, and to be honest, she inspired me. I found a lot of career direction from her. I had it all, but she was my entry, the person who could open doors for me. I saw the opportunity and I seized it.

She is really attractive, but I don't want to risk it. I wouldn't even chance it, not at least until I get into Columbia. Regardless she is a future peer, a friend, and contact for life.

>>4353931
>My professor offered vouch me a scholarship to Columbia after a single course with her
yeah i'm sure thats both a possible thing to do and something that happened to you, bud

>>4353931
>>4353958
what happened to you at age 20 that was so life-changing
and what is your career choice

Laid-back. Melancholy. Self-loathing.

>How important it is to be good to others, even when you have no reason to.
>How people can meet in the most random of circumstances, and how that can alter the world.

>>4353969
My girlfriend left me at 18 and I became a recluse, hating my choice of college career, and after a year of unsuccessful dating I turned to my education. I changed my major despite being 10 credits from associates in administration. After I fell in love with the entry courses because of my political understanding.

Soon I read dozens of books, breezed through my entire textbooks. At 20 I realized that love, my personal desires, friends, all that could be put on hold. I lost 50lbs and got in shape, started a new job and learned a trade, and now here I am, well on my way to where I want to be.

>>4353965
Have you never heard of a teacher recommendation? I'm sorry if being dim witted caused your lack in awareness about the possibility, but it does exist.

Apathetic, lazy

When I can go drink

How much work I have left in the day till I can sleep

>tfw the guy who gave recommendations left

>>4354010
Dostoyevsky (The Idiot maybe the best choice here)
>>4354054
bukowski obv

>>4354119
I'd also recomend some Irvine Welsh.

extroverted, uncommitted, lazy

How am I going to support the lifestyle I want to and what I can do to leave a mark.

>>4354479
every woman on earth detected

>>4354486

Idealistic, aloof, emotional

The sentience of the universe and what to do with a life

>>4354591
Hesse

Anti-social Lazy Illusions of Grandeur

Space Economy

Thanks for asking, OP. I'm:

Results-oriented, Enthusiastic(!), and Reliable, and I just - for the life of me - cannot stop thinking about:

How I can make the most out of every situation; and, How I can make even more situations to make the most out of!

Look forward to hearing back from you! :)

Signed,

Jesus, G.

painfully low attention span, loyal, moralistic

how to fit in the world, ethics
I feel like douche.

>>4354655
Read some Dostoevsky brah

>>4353956
Someone answer this guy, pl9z

>>4354666
didnt you see my first property? I tried, man, I really tried, but I cant sit through the fucking LENGTHS this guy goes through with no consideration for the reader!

>>4354670
Just read NFTU, then.

Curious, Questioning, quiet

The use of words. for example the word democratic which is overused to such an extend that it doesn't mean anything anymore. Every country wants to call himself democratic since in today's world being democratic is being good. However no one wants to clearly define the word in fear that with a good definition they won't be able to use it anymore.

Preconceptions. Why do we believe what we belief. Why such a great number of people don't question everything around them.

Holistic, confident, upholds my own morals.


History and our place in it, quantum mechanics (oddly enough) and their philosophical impact

fear fear fear
fear fear fear

Lack of shame, confident, constant feeling of guilt.

How I can help/entertain people and whether or not my existence would be worth it.

Relaxed, anixious, lazy

Constantly worrying about whether I will amount to anything

I think how I just want to be left alone and going to live somewhere in isolation

isolated, overwhelmed, determined

how can I improve myself, & why am I unable to connect with anyone on any meaningful level

>>4351749
Introverted, visionary, edgy.

Ontology, i cant get my mind of establishing how we "create" the World through Language.

How the World Works, contemporary politics and political philosophy. How to 'fix' the world

Both contemplations reveals itself to me in 'vision sessions' that can Best be described as "drinking coffee wile stearing out the window" where all kinds of mental imagery flashes before my eyes induced by the 'theme' of thought I'm currently concerned with

anxious, ignorant, introspective

the pursuit of artistic success in modern american civilization (particularly with myself) and the desire humans have to create, how it may be calculated, judged, and compared

loneliness

i wish i had recommendations for people, unfortunately i am not very well read.

>>4354040
Have you read Confederacy of Dunces, though? You talk exactly like Ignatius.

genius, patrician, godly

why am i 2deep4everyoneelse
why is life is so easy

Calculated, manipulative, ambition
-How can i get what I want from him
-What can i do to escalate my position

curious, idle, hedonistic

what would be the best way to live/ars vivendi/lebenskunst

That's really the only thing, I perpetually contemplate the good life.

>>4355043
>ars vivendi/lebenskunst
what are these? can't find their english wiki articles

>>4355059
The art of living. The part of philosophy that deals with how to live well.

>>4355061
oh cool i guess

feels good not to need reading books to understand life

>>4355059
>2013
>not knowing latin or german

the plebbest of the pleb

>>4355059

>can't find their english wiki articles

get out

>>4355063
>understand life
>not realising that any understanding is interpretation
>not realising that interpretation is creation

It's like you haven't even located the rabbit hole.

>>4355072
yes, it's an interpretation that works. how's this an issue?

skeptical thinker that likes to brood long and hard over everything I plan to do which also leads me to be anxious about all my choices, procrastinator, introverted

The nature of man and what part I want to play in the future of our species.

>>4355083
How to tame your Fedora

>>4355083
Are you a nice guy too?

>>4355074
others may work better

>>4355090

Very

>>4355094

I like to think I am. But I don't go out enough to let people know that. Which is my own fault.

>>4355115
i'm happy 100% of the time, and got everything i need

there is no "better"

nice, depressed, unfocused

Future scenarios and dialogues involving me and my environment. Sentences, words, formulations flicker through my mind and I try to hold them in it till I can write them down.

anxious, melancholic, sharp

I spend a lot of time thinking about when my teeth will start to fall out and whether or not it's too late to start brushing them. This also serves as an example for many other things I think about. Thematically, I'm quite caught up in the point of no return as an idea.

I don't think there's much rhyme or reason to our existence, just that we may make our own lives worth living through both deed and attitude.

>>4355144
>I don't think there's much rhyme or reason to our existence, just that we may make our own lives worth living through both deed and attitude.

such deep 8>

>>4355146
Are you accusing me of being pretentious? I don't think what I said was pretentious at all. It was a simple idea said without much gilding. Would you have preferred a pithy phrase, such as, "life is what you make of it."

>>4351749
humorous, creative, fatalistic
cake, rules of acquisition

Lazy, timid, and outgoing
The right way to look at things, and how things can progress.

>>4355152
To the bitter end - Johannes Mario Simmel

Enjoy feeling trapped.

>>4355125
share your secrets m8

>>4355162
Do you have a pdf version available? I don't think I'll be able to find it in the library.

>>4355174
I´ll try to find one. Normally you can just order it in the library I guess.

>>4355174
Nope not even in german...

Temperamental, introverted, hyperactive.

I constantly think about children and paranoid ideas.

>>4355181
>>4355186
I will try. Thanks for the suggestion.

>>4355192
The Midwich Cuckoos

>>4355198
Seems interesting, thanks.

>>4354971
Finnegans Wake.

>>4354971
Ecce Homo

>>4354637
Nick land

Angry, kind, lonely(feeling not state)

Relationships between people, the fear they have of exposing their self.

The illusion of a world in order when the world is made by 7 billions confused human beings.

Bit of a controlfreak, determined, empathic.
My duty, purpose in life and what love means.
Many thanks in advance.

>>4355313
Read BNW and view it as a utopia.

Perfectionist, unmotivated, extremely subsceptible to mood swings.

The uncertainty of our future and (lately) ideologies in the context of hyperreality.

self-conscious, honest, lazy
-Unwilling to pass final judgment on anything because my perspective is limited
-Thoughts alone don't change the world, but they will change me

narcissistic, self loathing, curious

I think about suicide regularly, and about how others may perceive me or judge me. How people think of me in the street and whether or not they hate me yet.
I think about physical processes a lot. I obsess over machinery and can't move on until I figure out how it works. I know the mechanics and mathematics of every part of a car and often take apart menial devices to feel familiar and comfortable with them.

I am scared of disappointing my father and I fear becoming a failure

Rational, introverted and solitary.

The state of modern day society, and where I will be in the future.

>>4351753
the wasp factory

>>4351767
molloy

>>4351771
one flew over the cuckoo's nest

>>4351781
catcher in the rye

>>4351955
his dark materials

>>4351956
the knife of never letting go

>>4353726
the picture of dorian grey

>>4353763
my family and other animals

>>4353782
ulysses

>>4353808
the divine comedy

>>4353813
animal farm

>>4353844
the odyssey

>>4353847
don't know mate

>>4353849
>>4353856
seconding hume

>>4353865
the road

>>4353869
harry potter maybe

>>4353884
treasure island

>>4353956
some sherlock holmes shit I dunno

>>4354010
war and peace

>>4354054
bukowskiskiskiski

>>4354692
brave new world

>>4354811
the language instinct

whelp I'm done for now

>>4355566
oh yeah, forgot to add:
>plz respond

>>4355630
the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime

>>4355644
I have read it and did very much enjoy it.
I wouldn't relate to christopher boone personally though.
it was a long time ago so will do again. thanks for the response

>>4355566
The Supermale

>>4355653
I'll buy it, if I can't find a pdf. thanks for the rec

>>4355650
Try Antic Hay.

>>4355670
just downloaded it. will read it tomorrow once I've finished dubliners

>>4355566
'Mefisto' - John Banville

funny, anxious, lazy
death, insignificant daily things

Boring, shameless, genuine

Gee why do I have to be such a dipshit, why are people so saddening.

Docile, Anxious, Awkward

-Girls
-How to make myself less boring and more confident

Lazy, cold, outgoing, introverted, intuitive, can't count properly
Human nature and human behavior, what things are and how to look and them and how things can develop and progress, and why numbers are confusing, especially '2'.

>>4355818
Hawkline Monster
>>4355720
>>4355711
Stargirl
>>4355709
Hunger

Aesthete, curious, anxious.

I'm interested in the portrayal of sociopathy in fiction.

relaxed, lazy, inconsistent

I'm constantly thinking about 'The harms of capitalism' and 'Do I really hate capitalism because it's bad or because I'm poor'

funny/witty, slightly extroverted, anxious


-girls
-How2Alpha and self improvement

SOMEONE HEEEEEEEEELLPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

>>4351749
I think you would definitely like Notes from Underground .

>>4355143
I´d like a book suggestion please.

>>4355083
Maybe some David Foster Wallace non-fiction like A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. He's interested in over-analyzing decisions and how that connects to anxiety. Those essays are basically over-analyses of various experiences.
>inb4 no discernible talent

ambitious, depressed, self-conscious

consciousness and whether or not I'm wasting my life

>>4355323
Nobody?

Angry, Depressed and optimistic

I worry about death.

>>4355323
Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling
The Romans: Ovid, Virgil
The Divine Comedy

>Apathetic
>Self-consious
>Depressed

The two things I constantly think about is where I'm going to be in life and how I'm most likely going to die single and alone.

Alright, Sane, Simple

Changing dichotomies of the middle class, self reliance

>>4355987
Steppenwolf
The crying of lot 49
The importance of being earnest

>>4356206
Emerson's essays
The Grapes of Wrath
The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea
Ordinary People

depressive, sincere, absurd

human relationships and memory

>>4356278
DFW

handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

my prosperous future

quiet, relaxed, empathetic

All the oppression going on in the world.
Free will

>>4356310
Nope
Read everything Salinger ever wrote, then hang yourself.

>>4356311
Oh wow, you sound like me aged 18.

If you're anything like me you'll probably learn not to care so much about "muh oppression" and look out for yourself

>>4356323
you sound stupid and jaded

>>4354889
what does that mean. implying that I haven't rwad it.

Shit this is hard.

-Minimal in work unless it catches my passion, intelligent by test-standards though (apathetic?).
-Vacillatingly talkative/tight-lipped, probably overly talkative around friends.
-Socially confident (i.e. questions in front of large audiences, asking strangers if they'd like to have casual sex)

How to add another 65 jokes to my bad-puns list so I can reach 365 (desk calendar)
Suicide (some days, not all), I'd never do that to my family/friends though

Curious, meticulous and passive
Languages
Lack of free will

Apathetic, bleak, solitary.

Fuck I don't know what I think about.

Get me back into reading, I haven't really read for years but now I'm enjoying it again and I have nothing else to do.

no thank you but somebody please recommend me a book

>>4356465
Taken by the Pterodactyl.

Curious, calm, aloof.

How can I improve and be a better version of myself?

Also I tend to think a lot about ways to trascend my ordinary life; as routine depresses me a lot and makes me lose focus on the things that I really care about, but I find it difficult to break free from it, as I don't really know how.

Introverted, secretly very emotional but always hard faced, above above above average intelligence, but not a "genius".

Human relationships (as I hardly have any, even though I'm very good at reading people), why are people evil and ignorant (people can overcome ignorance)

>traits

Indecisive, anxious, abstract-thinker

>2 things that you constantly think about

What to write about next
Consumerism

reserved, confident, messianic

what is my purpose and sex

blithe, gregarious, miscellaneous

Reconstructing the nature of knowledge, people, and the world we continue to create for ourselves and bitches.

>>4356635

The Bible.

>>4356599

Vaclav Smil

>>4356585

Hume or Middlemarch.

>>4356457

Read Tinkers.

>>4356395

A Clockwork Orange if you haven't already.

>>4356373

The Pun also Rises or I and Thou.

Neurotic, humorous, removed

College/law school; what will make me happy/how heavily I should pursue wealth

>>4356673
Danke

self-assured, doubtful, flippant

what other people are probably thinking about me and music videos I make up to fit whatever song is playing in my head

i am self-diagnosed with self-diagnosed bipolar disorder

>>4356655
the moon is a harsh mistress

>>4356510
Anyone got a recommendation for me?

Sardonic, funny, exaggeratedly narcissistic for the purpose of self deprecation.
I think about how reality is distorted by perception and if losing concern in politics is enlightening or foolish.

Insecure, solitary, idealistic

The politically + economically motivated destruction of the environment/nature

The grand narrative of history, how I can use personalties of the past as models for righteous living.

Extremely optimistic to the point of fault, extremely pessimistic to the point of depression and I'm fucking hilarious in person

I think a lot about how being a parent is basically about filling your child's mind with propaganda and how children eventually become their parents which means parenting at its core is fucked. And I think a lot about whether I should inflict my ego on a child in the future.

I examine the disposition of things more than the actual substance to a harmful extent
I'm pretentious and intimidated by those smarter than me
I'm co-dependent and attracted to those mean to me

Why do I embrace nostalgia as an ideal
Will I ever have a friend ever again

>>4356770

The Corrections

>>4356761

The Recognitions

>>4356724

Thanks, you should try Perfume

>>4356756
Foolish.

Over analytical about myself, what I say, how I think I'm perceived etc
Emotional, easily overwhelmed by the pessimistic fate of humanity, culture, the environment.
Romantic somewhat, or prone to seeing things in grand, abstract terms, often to the point of being absent minded.

How I can find fulfilment and enlightenment in life.

How I can devote myself to the mending of the world's ailments.

>>4356728

Meditations if you haven't already

Funny, Lazy, Calm
Wanting to just leave and drift around the country.
All the crime taking place around the globe, how many people are in dungeons/basements being mutilated and they will never be found.

Optimistic, chill, constricted

Authenticity of human senses and experience and the vast amount of knowledge and experiences available in the world

Forgetful, Excitable, Overly Meta (if that's a thing).

Constantly adding my own head cannon to media and life

The little grooves in your teeth that your tongue just can't quite reach.

obsessive, solitary, anxious

I often wonder if I am a piece of shit and if I'll die unfulfilled.

>>4356869

Wow, you sound a lot like me, which is great, especially in regards to what you think about.

If you haven't read Gödel Escher Bach, then you should get on that ASAP. Otherwise try some Vaclav Smil, info dense non fiction, or Last and First Men, a beautifully written sci-fi with a no-less-than-impressive scope.

>>4355946
Anyone?

>>4353801
The Consolation of Philosophy

Energetic, panicky, introspective

science, specifically the our understanding of the scientific method, and trying new things.

>>4356869
I recommend some sort of negative hedonism.

>>4356911
Stirner.

>>4356910
Also sounds like me. Gonna read those.

If there was a /lit/ reunion, would we get along? Seeing that most anons here are very alike

Insecure
Hopeless
Anxious
Pretty much how secluded I am.

>>4356959
http://www.hermitary.com/

>>4356910
Awesome, thanks so much anon.
Good luck with the search for purpose.

>>4356945
What is that exactly?

>>4355001
bump

I'm having a very tough time thinking of appropriate recommendations for everyone, but here's my contribution:

adventurous, curious, introverted

What I should dedicate my existence to.

The unfortunate disregard of morals, of personal dignity by society

Calm on the outside (at least that's what people tell me)
Well poised / big vocab (everyone always thinks I'm an honors student. I'm not)
I'm good at classical bass performance.

I constantly think about Christianity and morality.

I think there's a higher power, but is it the Christian G-d? I've seen some crazy stuff that would convince some people, and my christian friends are the reason I'm alive today (drugs, suicide), but as much as I try I just am unable to accept Jesus into my heart. I'm afraid it's the placebo effect, and sometimes I think it is, but other times there's something there.

I have mild homosexual tendencies, but I'm not gay. I just crave cock every once and a while.

I'm a naturally vile and sinful person, so I've composed a code by which I live my life.
(((No pork
No shellfish
No meat with dairy (fish doesn't count)
No drugs/alcohol
No promiscuity/hook ups
No sex without love or marriage
No pornography
Don't do something just because you can. Don't do it because you can
Do it because you need to, or if it would better you or someone else
Tell people how you appreciate them, show love to those you love
Use "the claw" sparingly but fearlessly)))

But that has prevented me from being with the men that I've loved. I feel dirty whenever I do something homosexual, as I was raised that that was bad. But the thought is more on morality in general.

>>4357106
>"the claw"
the what

>>4357146
you should practice building your friends up. Encourage them, affirm them for kindness and insight and hard work. But if they're being self destructive or stupid, sometimes you need to give them a serious reality check. This is the claw.

quiet, procrastinator, angry

How shallow the world really is. girls.

>>4357180
Some would tell you the two were related.

introspective, reserved, nonchalant
-how to talk to strangers

-whether my imaginagination is just a camera peering into one of many parallel universes which my form inhabits.

>>4357106

Can't tell if you're trolling or not.

>>4357183
I know man. fuck.

Just be nice to them to stay safe from karma. If you are nice to them and they cheat on you so they can get more testosterone, yes.

>>4357193
Apart from the last point you're very much like me. Hopefully you'll get some recommendations, because I could probably use them to.

emotional, egotistical, neurotic

i'm always thinking about how i only have some 20 years with my parents left. the thought of death terrifies me

captcha: who diedvic
fuck me

>>4357209
I don't think it's too lopsided, but since I isolate myself from most people they all mostly meld together. I'd just say act according what you actually want to do with them, and not what you think you want to.

>>4357244
oh, two things i think about. i guess death x2. or death plus what others think of me (i'm paranoid as hell)

>>4357241
too*

Idealistic, quick witted, curious.

I'm very future oriented. I think about the future of the human race and how technology will change our lives. When I'm 60 what will the world look like? How will we cope with overpopulation and climate change in a non-renewable consumerist society? But most of the time I think about my future; will I find a woman? Get a job doing what I love? Pass my exams? Get laid next weekend?

>>4357244
>i'm always thinking about how i only have some 20 years with my parents left.
This is depressing.

Observant, Steadfast, Undeterred

Permanence, Health

>>4356984
Philosophies that strive to do away with suffering rather than pursue active pleasure. Epicureanism and Buddhism and Schopenhauer's philosophy would be examples. Therapeutic philosophy, so to say.

>>4357258
Future-oriented refers to people who aren't impulsive and plan ahead (realistic future), not thinking about the future in your vague, existential sense.

>>4357278
Thanks.

turbo Introvert,but still sociable
becoming a stuck up because I'm surrounded by retards
anxious

-I wish I was alone in my room
-Killing myself instead of getting a job when the time comes

Hateful,Jovial,Tired

Getting old, dying just

withdrawn, witty, down-to-earth

the two things I think about the most is what I would like to happen and past memories (mostly the sad ones)

Well fuck this thread is full of all kinds of feels right now, oh well might as well join the herd.

Confident Independent (emotionally) Indifferent

Why should I care what people think when I control myself.

How much karma really affects our lives.

>>4357183
crawl back to /r9k/ if you want to whine about how you got rejected that one time scumbag

>>4357293
>becoming stuck up
i think it's a bit late for that m8

arrogant, charismatic, mildly bipolar

I constantly imagine entire delusional stories of either me or someone else. Oftentimes involves something super-human, like dominating the entire globe, or making trillions of dollars. Other times I have super powers. Also, I really like cartoons and the mafia.

>>4351749
Bad wit, "Hater", works hard/play hard

Dumb things - bad jokes, bad conversations everyone has, cheap beer dives crappy towns loser friends; weird old people; awful I cant wait to move to NYC types

Having to stay in New York for high paying job; why am I hanging out with people with no direction in life not that I don't like them or would want to not hang with them.

reserved, unambitious but confident

how most positions in life don't require or reward competence/effort and how broadly-accepted ideas are ofen just socially constructed nonsense

>>4357348
>how broadly-accepted ideas are ofen just socially constructed nonsense

There's a bittersweet point one reaches when all one can do it stand back and observe reactions to things because one knows those reactions are totally dependent on social construction.

For example, the Kanye West "Bound 2" video.

>>4357018
bump once more please

>>4357283
Focussed on the future then. It's 4am gimmie a break.

>>4357325
I'm not bitter about women, but it's easy to make the connection. Forgot I was on /left/.

>>4357358
the Art of War

Depressed depressed depressed

How to escape solipsism

>>4357371
Men are just as shallow.

>>4357330
I don't act it yet though.

>>4357375
I didn't say otherwise.

>>4357354
I specifically tend to get to thinking about stuff like how almost everywhere almost everyone is deeply prejudiced against introversion in every way (and I am pretty introverted), and amidst all this modern social push for acceptance of everything it's still like that

and how although I stubbornly think that I don't want to "change" the fact that I'm introverted (as nearly everyone would tell/has told me to try to do) that it really is just meaningless arbitrary shit either way and there's no real sanctity in the previous formation of my personality

I just end up feeling like I want to distance myself from all these notions and how that can't really lead to anywhere but something like a stoic worship of rationality, but that in the end it's just another notion too

it's become my nature to shy away from myopically focusing on these things and try to "de-socialize" myself but god damn so little ends up seeming fulfilling

>>4357375
The men girls want to have sex with.

The girls men want to have sex with.
Sex is the devil and killer of all innocence.

>>4356957

I can get along with anybody, I can't say the same for everyone else here however. I would be willing to bet, though, that there would be a lot of damaged egos and intellectual intimidation.

>>4357331
you should watch Baccano!

Easygoing, Lazy, Detached
I constantly think about nothing, in the way that I can't stand the thought of the next moment, and I block it. Also, happiness, and adventure.

>>4357288
I suggested it because you seem 'tormented'. Perhaps some Wittgenstein for that quietism.

Playful, contemplative, humorous

Classical music and psychology

Traits
>Black
>Fat
>Unemployed

Thoughts
>Is life worth living if you have no real reason to live?
>Will I ever understand my peers and will they ever truly understand me?

Why does my soul feel so bad?

A mix of being introverted and extroverted, slow with spoken words but a relatively good writer, creative.

The purpose of life, if there's any meaning to anything and about music, as I'm a musician.

Avoidant, compliant, easily confused

Inability to connect on a real level with others, video games

Never takes sides, loves the shit out of everyone, everyone loves the shit out of.

Always thinking about improving, always trying to find artistic value in stuff.

>>4357552
> A mix of being introverted and extroverted
Wow, welcome to being like every other person

>>4357375

3.5 billion people aren't shallow. Seven are.

>>4357671
Am I shallow?

>>4355603
No love for Jack?

>>4351749
Eccentric, narcissistic, happy

I think about how to improve myself and what tasks I have to do

Shy, socially incompetent, unmotivated.

What happened to the Space Age?
Am I ever going to achieve anything?

>>4351749
socially-awkward (though refusing therapy), lazy as fuck, passionate

Do I have any right to be depressed and angsty when people are litteraly dying from worse situations.
How will we live/survive seeing how we are fucking with the planet.

Narcissist, cynical, sapiosexual.

Does selflessness ever exist?
Who am I? *depersonalization disorder*

nervous, self-destructive, dumb

myself, where to get my drugs (new city)

>>4358168
Selflessness doesn't exist because self doesn't exist.

There you go.

>>4358168
max stirner

Creative, Lazy, Unmotivated

Will I survive my country's mandatory National Service?
Will I get laid?

>inb4 Catch-22

>>4353956

I'd say Spengler's "The Decline of the West".

spiritual, dreamer, kind

context
will

>>4351771
Any other recommendations for this one? Pretty please?

ITT:
>copy/paste
it's like there's only one guy posting on /lit/

Self centered, Machiavellian, Lost.


The future, is in my mind in every way.Will I change the world?Do have the genius to do so?I am getting older is it too late?What must I learn to do so?To which gods should I pray to?

I want to escape these vanities, I want to come to terms with the void.diogenus has more virtue than the alexander and ozymandias is the name for all people who lose the way in my path.Yet, I still beg god to allow me to steal the fire, without flying too close to the sun.

>>4356310
god I hope that this isn't really you.

I would consider myself all of those things also but the difference is I'm quite certain that I'll be a complete failure

>>4359173
Cynics are cool but you probably don't have what it takes. Most people don't. Epicureanism has many of the same virtues but isn't extreme enough to make you cry and have it backfire. Try Eppy.

>>4357670
>implying I said otherwise
Wow, you must have shitty reading comprehension.

stressed, lonely, arrogant

work and things at work that I need to do and sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night stressing about work, wondering how I can learn typical social protocols that most other people have been able to learn but for some reason I still stumble with.

Ok why not.

Indecisive, idealistic, disciplinarian

Comparing/ questioning structures and sources of order. Every belief system, every social convention.

What is the nature of the process that gives me identity? How do I define myself as "I"? How has nobody tried to kill the human race yet? Have they? Should I worry so much about everything? Is it good for me or not?

>>4359935
You need some friendly humble people in a garden taking it easy and enjoying life philosophy.

>>4358625
Gide's L'Immoraliste. It's not necessarily an obvious recommendation, but it feels right intuitively.

inb4 your alarm bells go off at that expression
tricked
now you must read it

>>4359917
It's no big deal, but he likely figured you'd choose something more defining to him.

>>4359173
By Machiavellian, do you mean a Republican statesman who worked tirelessly for the good of his people even against his own personal interest and an enormous, tenderly moving classiboo?

>>4353869
>Introvert
>No friends
>Doesn't like people

>A leader.

>>4353869
>My professor asked me to a national philosophy conference so I could preform speech with her.
if u know what i mean

>>4356839
À la recherche du temps perdu

>>4360257
Io rido e il rider mio non passa drento,io ardo e l'arison mia non par di fore.

Good night sweet Principe.

>>4357479

>Is life worth living if you have no real reason to live?
Ask Sisyphus

>>Will I ever understand my peers and will they ever truly understand me?
No and no. You can only hope to understand yourself.

>>4353835
I think you mean The Nightman Cometh

>>4353869

I hope to Cthulu your first language isn't English because your manner of speech indicates either a severe delusion of grandeur, language deficiency, or that you were not born in a primarily English speaking country.

Either way I'm recommending my pic to you friend.

>>4360257
No in the sense having irrational supra relation to the law, and hysterical distance towards others.(male btw)Sometimes I create mores in social groups for my advantage, promptly discarding them when I see fit most cases getting away Scott free due to my amazing ability to rationalize everything and other social skills.

Isn't tranquility spook? Isn't happiness a spook as well?(likely a misuse of term "spook", I am learning the terminology through (mis)usage and would be ever so "happy" to be corrected if incorrect)There amazing feelings, however like all states and all feelings is temporarily, also the buddhist paradox one can look at the striving for tranquility as an act of disorder.

Even more so, why be happy when you can be interesting?Struggles and striving are help have a life affirming quality, after all desire is never truly for the object.The Calvinist say that it takes the intervention of god for humans to even to desire what's good, within that, could be secular truth.Maybe, "a good life" isn't the only intrinsic value humans want.

I am interested in what Epicureanism would say to such ideals.

>>4361171
responding to
>>4359419
aswell

Clever, depressed, anxious

Gender, History

>>4351749
>existence (why are we here) and death
Holy shit, the same as me.

As for traits, Introverted, Humorous and Curious

mellow, unconfident, lazy

nothing lol

>>4351749
Sociopath, bipolar, bigoted.

I look up people from my past on social media and burn with jealousy if I come across someone who is in a better job than me, is in better shape than me, is more socially successful, etc., to the point that I want to kill them in brutal ways.

>>4364037
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

>>4364055
God dammit.

>>4365919
>௵.jpg
நீங்கள் திருக்குறள் வாசிக்கவேணும்.

>>4365955
Please, Bateman, just fuck off.

>>4364055
>>4365955
>>4365966

Self Doubting , Loner , Coward

Why are some people so stupid and what will happen after death

>>4366011
Whatever makes you a coward has made lots of other also cowards so man up and be nice, my friend.

>>4366036

meh i'm generally afraid of everything and people

>>4366068
Stop being such a coward, nothing bites unless you attack them. You're too much of a coward to touch them, never-mind attacking them, so there you go.

>>4366088

if i could i would have , i don't like being do i ?

>>4366100
Then do it, you coward, because you can.

>>4366110

if I were more , I'd be more.

>>4366123
You are not, but you can become.

Heavily introverted, egotistic, pleb.

I constantly think about how I can stop being being an egoist pleb, and how I want to go trainhopping in the spring.

>>4366011
A book won't help you, you just need to get out there and do shit and meet people. Face your fears or waste your life, seriously.
Same goes for >>4366147 to an extent.

>>4361175
>Holy shit, the same as me.
DAE wonder why they le exist?

everyone with a functioning brain wonders about existence and death
you are not a special snowflake

Blindly optimistic, capricious, intense

Sex and contemplating my moral stance on things, what I truly believe is right and how congruent my ethic code and moral actions are

>>4366174
'Candide' - Voltaire

Ennui, Mundane, Surreal

>>4366203
I have it lying on my shelf. Should I?
I am the one which can't count, if you aren't too lazy to check.

>>4366174
surely if you think you are blindly optimistic, you can't be

>>4366203
Hm, yeah, maybe. I just have this knee-jerk aversion to books written centuries ago by philosophers and such. Always imagine them to be really dry and tedious. But since I don't read such books I won't judge beforehand and pick it up asap, thanks man

>>4366212
>outgoing
>introverted
are you one of those cheating personality types that gets the best of both worlds or something

anyway, maybe try something from eastern philosophy like the zhuangzi or the daodedjing. they should make numbers, especially 2, less confusing.

>>4351749
Atlas shrugged, generation X


>>4351753
The picture of dorian grey


>>4351767
Generation


>>4351771
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance


>>4351955
Jpod
>>4364037
Walden and Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.


>>4361173
Jane eyre


Quiet, too serious, lonely

Think about why I can't be more outgoing and what would make me happy in life.

dreamy, brave, spontaneous

Memories; their significance, their shape.

How to spend the few vague number of years I have left to live.

>>4366244
>zhuangzi or the daodedjing
I've read both.
>cheating personality types that gets the best of both worlds or something
Maybe I am, my friend.

>>4366228
Well, I always think situations will turn out for the best, throw caution to the wind and never learn from the experience when shit fucks up because I didn't want to consider a negative outcome. I got enough self-insight to realize this, but partly I'm too apathetic to do anything about it, and I also have a strong tendency to forget/supress negative experiences and memories. I guess this makes me kinda impervious to being beaten down by life, but it also makes failure and plans that never come to fruition a worn path for me

introverted, forlorn, inventive

I often think about the human race as a whole and where we are headed.
I also think about being lonely or having a failed marriage.

>>4366329
>I also think about being lonely or having a failed marriage.
Are you those, or do you just like to contemplate it?

>>4366695
I'm lonely in most sense of the word. As for marriage I just think about it quite a bit, but I blame that based on the fact that I'm half way through "Stoner" right now.