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Any books to help me figure out why I should continue living? Or maybe why I shouldn't?

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>>8654502
Pic related should prove useful. Good luck.

>> No.8654555

>>8654502

Man's Search for Meaning

>> No.8654594

Phaedo.

>> No.8654606

Just watch a whole bunch of Alan Watts videos. I recommend the series Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life.

Also, go see a psychanalyst.

>> No.8654657

>>8654555
Frank's whole method of finding a purpose and then immersing yourself is difficult for me because I can't find a purpose. His philosophy starts off with it as a necessary precondition but I think it's the hardest part.

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>>8654555
Frankl was a hack. Stop recommending him.

>>8654657
use chart.

>> No.8654686

>>8654502
The deak shouldn't continue

>> No.8654700

>>8654674
I've seen this chart before and none of the options seem appealing I've even given a couple of them a shot in my teenage years.

I've been struggling with this for awhile now and I wouldn't really call it my first existential crisis. It just gets unbearably engrained in my head every few months or it might last for months. Is just a constant nagging in my head, "What are you doing?"

>> No.8654702

>>8654502
fuck off back to mu dumb underage.

>> No.8654733

>>8654702
I'm not underage and I've browsed this board for about five years now. I knew this thread wouldn't be favoured here but it was eating at me. You are free to sage or hide this thread if you want

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>>8654700
Just watch My Dinner with Andre. Where does the chart take you if you answer honestly? Nietzsche? "Political existentialism"?

>> No.8654770

>>8654702
You belong in /v/ with that attitude.

>> No.8654781

>>8654702
>implying Deakin isn't patrician-core AF

>> No.8654786

>>8654757
I was devout orthodox Christian, tried getting into Buddhism, and anarcho-communist. All of these at different times in my life.

I've seen my dinner with Andre. It was interesting. I think a lot of people side with either one but I see them as both having views that work for their own lives. However, for me, i can't quite seem to find some ideology or whatever that I can stick to for life. I think everything is kind of underwhelming.

Perhaps, in a life where I was more intelligent or strong willed I would have been a shut-in astrophysics nut.