/lit/ - Literature

Tao Te Ching's pretty short.

Pretty much anything by Camus or Sartre.

>>5241806
>life's absurd, so suck a dick and push a rock up a hill

Gee whiz, thanks Camus

>>5241812
Yeah, but you get to choose the rock! Isn't that awesome?

>>5241795

The Pali Canon
The Heart Sutra
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Diamond Sutra
The writings of Shinran
The teachings of Bodhidharma

I don't get why people are afraid to die. It's like being afraid to go through puberty.

Are you guys actually, sincerely afraid of this shit? Fear of death just kind of seems to me like a platitude society tells us to engage in, but nobody really cares that much about it--like enjoying 3D movies.

>>5241879
I ain't afraid of death itself...merely what occurs afterwards.

>>5241795
The leopard has the single most beautiful description of death that I have ever read. Anytime I get anxious about my own mortality I take the book off the shelf and read that chapter and immediately feel at peace.

>>5241879
>in denial of fear of death

It's healthy to admit you're afraid of death and confront that fear. That doesn't mean it disappears though.

>>5241894
I'm the opposite. I'm not afraid of oblivion because I can't really conceive it. I'm afraid of the slipping into it. I can only imagine the experience being terrifying and something I'll fight with whatever strength I have left.

>>5241918
Nah dude, I'd slit my throat open right now just for kicks if it weren't for the nothingness

>>5241908
I wouldn't waste my time nor energy being scared of dying. I could die right now and think "all right".

Y'all are the creeps. No other creature goes around fretting about some abstract notion of some day not being. Shit, what a dumb thing to worry about.

>>5241918
My biggest fear, in all of life, is the fear of waking up one day merely to realize that I'm the last man on Earth. Now, let us assume that after death, my 'existence' becomes just that...a void.

Jesus-fucking-Christ.

>>5241940
>not wanting an eternal consciousness

>>5241947
>Wanting to roam about in nothingness.

Anon, I would much rather burn in eternity for my degeneracy.

>>5241933
>I wouldn't waste my time nor energy being scared of dying.
You divert that energy into other worries to distract you. You haven't overcome the fear of death. No one does.

>I could die right now and think "all right".
No you wouldn't. You'd cry like a bitch.

>No other creature goes around fretting about some abstract notion of some day not being.
And you know this how? Even if that is true, that's because other creatures don't have high consciousness like humans do. Are you really advocating having the same awareness of the abstract that a worm or fish has?

>>5241947
>eternal consciousness

Right, because everyone knows that your consciousness remains the same when something happens to your brain.

When someone gets hit hard in the head they can become completely retarded, yet somehow when the brain decays in the ground, your consciousness still functions like nothing happened.

Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid.

>>5241959
>You haven't overcome the fear of death.
Because I never had it.

>No you wouldn't. You'd cry like a bitch.
Hah, nah.

>>5241973
this.
for tards who believe in the afterlife or any such experiences post-brain death.

i find it pretty liberating actually.

>>5241980
>Because I never had it.

>being this in denial

>>5242090
>i'm right about you
>if you think i'm wrong about you, you're deluding yourself

not that guy, but do you see how this might be kind of a shit argument?