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Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:33:53 2018 No.10936594 [Reply] [Original]

Any books about a wasted life? I tried Google but only Christian shit comes up. Please don't post in my thread if you're going to say my diary desu.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:34:29 2018 No.10936595 my journal desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:37:17 2018 No.10936603 >>10936594 Your diary desu

Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:38:51 2018 No.10936604
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>>10936603
>>10936595
In all likelihood these are correct answers, but not the kind I'm asking for. It occurs to me that this thread might have been more successful if I omitted the last sentence.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:39:14 2018 No.10936605 sick goat pic

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:40:50 2018 No.10936607 >>10936594 any girl's diary desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:43:04 2018 No.10936611 >>10936607 your diary desu hahahahahahahahahahaha

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:43:56 2018 No.10936612 >>10936594 Desu: A Novel

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:45:10 2018 No.10936615 File: 10 KB, 225x225, download.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Very funny guys. I've read The Remains of the Day if that helps.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:46:12 2018 No.10936617 >>10936615 Maybe try Oblomov

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 04:54:54 2018 No.10936640 >>10936617 >"He was approaching thirty and...stood precisely where he had ten years before - in the wings of his life's theater without setting foot on the stage." Yep sounds like what I'm looking for. Thank you.

Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:06:05 2018 No.10936660

>>10936594
Well the transcendent self does not exist. So while many past yous may have wasted their lifes you can use your life to makesomething valuable future selves will be thankful for.

I.e. you don't feel regret you feel anger at past selves long dead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:09:42 2018 No.10936669 >>10936660 What did you read to arrive at this conclusion? Or did you inherit knowledge that your past selves cultivated?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:11:32 2018 No.10936674 >>10936669 >Or did you inherit knowledge that your past selves cultivated? Yes. MostlyHazlitt and Parfit. Camus and Nietzsche for application. Personal identity is a large subject though. Would love to discuss it with others on here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:12:37 2018 No.10936677 >>10936674 Clever; in that case I bequeath my thread to you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:15:26 2018 No.10936682 >>10936677 I'm not sure what you mean. Want me to explain why I think that or explain how I derive "meaning" for my life out of that?

Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:22:13 2018 No.10936692
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>>10936682
Sorry, I'm being disingenuous with my replies. That's only because I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at, so I'd appreciate if you could expand on what you've said in any capacity.

I know this board espouses a strong grounding in philosophy, but I don't have that. Your ideas sound a bit like those of Alan Watts (who, I understand, basically just recycles eastern spitituality).

I hope I don't sound too clueless I'm a bit drunk. If you decide to share any of your ideas I'll screenshot them and revisit them in the morning when my head is clear.

Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:39:21 2018 No.10936721

>>10936692
Yes Alan Watts tackled a lot of these subjects I heard but I haven't read him yet so I can't comment on him.
Basically what we define as "us" is only the stream of consciousness we have. And since this stream ends whenever we fall asleep or otherwise unconscious *we* really only live around one day. Only connected to past yous by memory and only to future yous by association.

To get meaning in such a short life is to dedicate it to the concept of a perfect version of you I'm sure everybody has. Through the short time of your life every activity thus becomes a conscious decision tofurther your meaning to life.
This makes you feel content with your existence and the work you have to put in. While bodily pleasures cannot give you happiness in this shortlife things that "smooth" your day are allowed. In fact they feel much better knowing this is the only time you will truely feel this pleasure.
I'm on mobile right now I intend to express myself more clearly and thoroughly when I'm at a computer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:42:02 2018 No.10936731 Why don't you want to read the Christian stuff?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:43:18 2018 No.10936735 File: 33 KB, 307x499, 41bVP3kVA6L._SX305_BO1 204 203 200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10936594

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:44:46 2018 No.10936739 >>10936594 Stoner

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:47:17 2018 No.10936749 >>10936594 what do you mean by wasted life? Like, a self help book? A novel about the mc lamenting his bad choices? A book that helps you come to terms with it?

Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:47:23 2018 No.10936750

>>10936721
Thanks so much for replying. I realized after I posted: it was supremely shitty to ask for your thoughts and say I'd screenshot them for the next day. This board is about discussion.

>>10936731
I'm not opposed to reading Christian stuff; I just thought it was weird that ONLY Christian stuff came up in my search results. Maybe Google got their profiling algorithms mixed up, or maybe "wasted life" is a common search term among heretics.

Anonymous Mon Apr 2 05:50:59 2018 No.10936761
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>>10936749
Anything man. Coming to terms with it, lamenting it, celebrating it, I just want a realistic profile of squandered potential.

And to the guy who said stoner, that always seemed to me like more of an ordinary life than a wasted one.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 08:13:35 2018 No.10937137 >>10936594 steppenwolf

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 09:21:29 2018 No.10937325 The Death of Ivan Illyich.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 09:29:06 2018 No.10937348 The Tartar Steppe >The Tartar Steppe

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 09:55:36 2018 No.10937425 Butcher's Crossing desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 10:28:15 2018 No.10937545 >>10936605 forreal curious about it

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 12:34:13 2018 No.10937999 >>10936594 >books about a wasted life the eulogy of any careerist

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 12:39:33 2018 No.10938019 File: 133 KB, 510x510, 1313424401001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10936594 No longer human by Osamu Dazai Notes from the underground by Dostoyevsky Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino Mars by Fritz Zorn

Anonymous Mon Apr 2 13:07:09 2018 No.10938137

>>10936594

BOOKS WITH CHARACTERS WHO WASTED THEIR LIVES

>A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
Sydney Carton is a chronic under-achiever & hates himself for it. Cool ending.

>The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
Obvious

>Absolom, Absolom! (Faulkner)
Most of Faulkner's characters have pretty wasted lives, but it's most noticeable in this one.

>Something Happened (Heller)
Some might claim Bobby Slocum hasn't wasted his life - but *he* thinks he has.

>Under the Volcano (Lowry)
Gotta love some of that sweet self-destruction.

>Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Orwell)
Man wastes about 15 years trying to be a poet; eventually accepts he hasn't really got what it takes and resigns himself to living a normal life earning a living. Perhaps too upbeat an ending to count as "wasted life" proper :)

>Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Women can waste their lives too!

>The Snows Of Kilimanjaro (Hemingway)
Man lies on his deathbed wishing he'd written good stuff instead of messing about.

>The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
Time-wasters gonna time-waste.

>Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)
Man realizes he's been a mother's boy all his life and now he has nothing. Unlucky.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 13:09:52 2018 No.10938156 >>10937348 Came to post this

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 13:10:34 2018 No.10938159 >>10936594 >A Fan's Notes - Exely a semi-biographical recounting of Exley's wasted first 40+ years of life. He did eventually find some success as an author, though, so that takes a bit of bite out of it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 13:13:25 2018 No.10938166 >>10936617 This. The book, unlike Dostoevesky's, does not rely on extensive knowledge of what went down in the Russian Empire at the time they were written and is still incredibly relevant

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 13:16:10 2018 No.10938180 >>10936735 Came here to rec this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 13:17:21 2018 No.10938185 >>10938137 Good fuckin' post

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>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 16:16:49 2018 No.10939135 >>10938832 kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 17:16:54 2018 No.10939420 >The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy >Prufrock?? >A Little Cloud by James Joyce

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 18:10:37 2018 No.10939671 >>10936594 The Loser by Thomas Bernhard

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>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 19:34:39 2018 No.10939985 >>10936594 The Great Gatsby, Revolutionary Road

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 20:04:14 2018 No.10940133 >>10936594 Sentimental Education by Flaubert. It's a life about chasing women.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 2 23:08:57 2018 No.10940880 >>10936594 my diary desu

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