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What are some books not by Jordan Peterson that will help me find my meaning in this life?

>> No.13372477
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St. Augustine - Confessions.

>> No.13372482

>>13372477
no christfaggotry

>> No.13372484

Viktor Frankl.
How new are you to books?

>> No.13372485

>>13372474
The Bible

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The bible. Religion is the best way to give your life meaning. If you're an atheist retard then you can follow this pic.

>> No.13372500

Book of Ecclesiastes

>> No.13372501

>>13372482
It deserve serious consideration. St Augustine isn't a retard.

>> No.13372509

>>13372482
I'm an atheist and I derived immense value from it. One of the greatest books ever written in my opinion.

>> No.13372518

>>13372474
Demian by Hesse, Narcissus & Goldmund by Hesse, The Young Hitler I Knew by August Kubizek, Originals by Adam Grant

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>>13372474

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>>13372519
>the only books I know are by Richard Wolff and Stirner

>> No.13372525

>>13372519
Fly home butterfly, I work alone.

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>>13372474
The Secret

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>>13372519
He's back. Again.
It was nice those 3 weeks when he was gone.

>> No.13372540

You have two human perspectives to solve your problem:
1. Christianity and loving your neighbour
2. Existential absurdism à la Camus and solidarity with your neighbour.

>>13372519
Stierner, Ayn Rand and Nietzsche etc. are the anti-human pseudo-satanic options.

>> No.13372558

>>13372474
this is terrifingly accurate.

baltasar gracián - the pocket oracle and art of prudence

Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho

>> No.13372572 [DELETED] 

>>13372519
You realize both Nietzche and Stirner were Satan right?

>> No.13372576

>>13372474
Realising materialism is false helped a bit. Didn’t find meaning but it opened the door to meaning. Read Bernardo Kastrup.

>> No.13372595

>>13372540
>>13372572
You realize this is a board for literature, don’t you?
Not the bible and it’s supplicant works. All of literature. You don’t belong here. Go tell Kirk Cameron he has lost.

>> No.13372602

>>13372595
You're mentally retarded. Time to dilate, sweetie.

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>You realize this is a board for literature, don’t you?
>Not the bible and it’s supplicant works

>> No.13372610

L'Etranger

>> No.13372726

>>13372602
Why the meme concern for My eyes?

>> No.13372944

>>13372482
the brainlet reveals himself.

>> No.13372966

>>13372944
The brainlet reveals himself

>> No.13372974

>>13372966
The brainlet reveals himself

>> No.13372979

>>13372535
You keep track? Fucking loser

>> No.13372980

>>13372974
The brainlet reveals himself

>> No.13373051

>>13372482
count your shekels or pray to trees or whatever

>> No.13373062

>>13372979
>removes trip code
Not fooling anyone, idiot.

>> No.13373069

>>13372980
>>13372974

religion is the opiate of the masses

>> No.13373071

>>13372474
Nothing grants meaning; it's a psychological phenomenon that you determine. Evaluate your life and ask what you really seek to express by such a vague term as 'meaning.'. Do you want happiness? Joy? A raison d'etre to wake every day? perhaps begin by asking what you mean in your question first.

>> No.13373074

>>13373062
sorry, but Butterfly is basically /lit/ royalty and if you can't get behind that then you're better off staying on redd*t

>> No.13373088

>>13372979
>not subconsciously knowing tripfag hasnt posted in a while
ok dumbass

>> No.13373097

>>13373074
Butterfly is reddit and is despised here.

>> No.13373113

>>13373097
what is this, redd*tor posting day???

>> No.13373116

>>13372474
>>13372519
Epicurus is good. Read letter to Letter to Menoeceus.
Also recommend Aristotle's Nicomachia. Ethics and Mill's On Liberty, since it also describes the ideal enlightenment life for the individual while discussing the ideal limits of government.

>> No.13373127

>>13373113
t. :3

>> No.13373226

>>13372474
The broken Bloomer is the Bloomer who goes to image boards when he's sad, although he knows that there won't be any good ways that will make him truly happy for that true happiness comes only from within. He is broken today but Bloomer tomorrow.

>> No.13373364

>>13373069
the brainlet asserts himself

>> No.13373496

Thomas Bernhard. Meaning doesn’t always come from finding the ‘right value system’ or some new philosophical outlook. It’s about tuning into your obsessions, to what really drives you (it could very well be questions like ‘how do I find meaning in life’) and exploring it unapologetically. Also read Leon Wieseltier’s review of AO Scott’s collection of essays in the Atlantic. Leon Wiesetier is hit and miss politically but he knows a thing or two about taking your own passions seriously.