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>>9782705
Shieet

>>9782700
>egoism without egotism

please explain these subtleties to me

Jojo's bizarre adventure part 6

>>9782700
Why is this so filled with people who think reading a book will magically cure all their mental illnesses. Sure books have a therapeutic value, but they aren't that meaningful when it comes to treating seriously a mental disorder. You'd be better going to a therapist or a psychiatrist if it'ss more serious

>>9782700
>only cares about himself and only himself while remaining content and happy.
Impossible since you're a human, we're a social primate that lives in group. Isolation is literally torture to us.

>>9782715
Hey it's a bonus. Kudos if you can do it.

I am not too sure myself.

http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/goldsay.html

http://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/analects.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14328/14328-h/14328-h.htm

ligotti maybe

well minus the happy part

>>9782720
Nobody said anything about isolation, anon.

>>9782700
>What would /lit/ suggest for reading except for Rand and Stirner?
Fuck off and ask them, this is for history. inb4 "me being a douchebag is part of the humanities"

saged and reported

40 power laws

>>9782738
Lel. Crossboard shitpost gone viral.

>>9782741
Does Machiavellianism help with the narcissism or is it just complementary reading desu

>>9782734
Social/emotional isolation as well as physical isolation. Egoism and happiness are incompatible, your reward system isn't made for it. All the truly selfish cunts got banished and killed.

>>9782785
I'll try to be one of those who don't get banished and killed.
Have a wallpaper for the goodies.

Thanks Dr.Peterson.

>>9782700
You could read textbooks about diet and the risk of cancer, it made me increasingly anti-social, because most people eat in a way that greatly increases the probability that they will get it. Some are unlucky but it isn't true that the majority is.

But you have to care about your long-term health and many actual people on the dark triad (narcissists, psychopaths and machiavellians) only care for instant gratification. So, it doesn't exactly fit what you look for and isn't that cool, but it is in your self-interest to be healthy.

I could give you much more fun readings if you want to become a misanthrope, I have some feelings that resemble it, but I wouldn't consider myself one, humans are unique in their way of experiencing the world, and are to be cherished; they are just doomed because of their nature (which has nothing to do with cliche that is greed) and systematic properties. But perhaps we will make it through the Great Filler, I can't know.

>>9782838
I am not too big on the instant gratification part. It's just that sometimes you've gotta work on yourself first so that you can act as an unaffected authority when you act over a medium. You know, to make the interaction not-so-symmetrical and translational.
Not so much of a stoic either. Something that partakes in the virility of the world yet remains ultimately detached, lucid and authentic. True to himself.

Hit me up with your reading list Anon. The cancer helps.

>>9782791
Tbh there are reasons to suspect that contemporary society (industrialised, urban, individualistic, anonymous) possibly selects for psychopathy rather than against it like traditional societies do.

Psychopathy/sociopathy is way higher among successful CEOs than among the general populace. We may have created a world that rewards it.

I still don't think they're happy though, even if conventionally materially successful.

>>9782932
Hmmm. I don't think I have an overtime interest in becoming materialistically satisfied. Cause you know greed.
Just an steady life to take care of the necessities and a few leisures.

>>9782992
the stirnerist neetbux exploit might be for you.

>>9782720
>What are hermits?
>>9782700
>while remaining content and happy.
Practically impossible.

>>9782700
>I want to turn into a total egoistic
>No egotism
you might wanna get that checked out

>>9783005
>>What are hermits?
Very rare exceptions.

I wonder how many of them are truly happy rather than schizos on the run though desu.

>>9782997
Hmm. Suggest some of the non stirner related books desu.

>>9783005
>Practically Impossible
Damn it. I thought there was a way.

>>9783014
Yeah. Just checking if there's a way. You know, like being so self absorbed that you don't really care for what people think of you. Like diogenes maybe. But not like cynics.

>>9782700
>I want to turn into a total egoistic, narcissist shit head who only cares about himself and only himself while remaining content and happy.

That's impossible.

>No egotism.
..What?
>I want to turn into a total egoistic

>No cynicism.
You're entire intention here is the very basis of cynicism.

>>9783022
I think you misspelled Zen woke-man as schizos.

>>9783031
>Yeah. Just checking if there's a way. You know, like being so self absorbed that you don't really care for what people think of you. Like diogenes maybe. But not like cynics.
I meant the budding schizophrenia, but okay.
It's called healthy self-respect, by the way. What you're looking for.

>>9783049
Literally, read prior messages in the thread, my dude.

>>9783031
>Hmm. Suggest some of the non stirner related books desu.
This is a classic in the field:

http://imgur.com/a/OyOid