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The closest to Don Quixote humans will ever be able to witness.
What are some other characters that are analogous to him?

>> No.14411312

>>14411299
Guenon

>> No.14411661

Sneed Griffin

>> No.14411726

my dad

>> No.14411731

my dick

>> No.14411751

>>14411299
i think there is nobody like him alive today and it makes me sad
i saw a funny thing on here earlier today, a link to some medium post "Living By Purpose — How To Find Your Meaning In Life", by some fucking nobody, i didn't even read it quite honestly but it made me think, what the fuck does some dork with an office job and an apartment and a girlfriend and a tv and video games and a "life" as they call it know about meaning? what could some "writer for medium dot com" possibly say about living a meaningful life when his life is the same as everyone else's in every respect that matters? is there even anyone alive today whose life is radically different from that? and i couldn't really think of anyone and it made me feel a bit depressed
but then i saw this post and thought you know terry didn't have an office job or an apartment or a girlfriend or a tv or video games or anything resembling the ubiquitous "modern life" as it's lived by the typical westerner, and it made me happy that at least one person managed to escape it, whether by choice or not
i don't know if his life was meaningful or good, whether what he said was divinely inspired or the effect of a debilitating mental illness or a bit of both, but at least when someone like terry talks about "meaning" there exists even the slightest possibility that he's right

>> No.14411778

>>14411751
wow pretty deep bro

>> No.14411810

>>14411751
You think it's necessary to be some shut in loser to be able to write how to live purposefully? Or do you need to be some travelling braindead hippie backpacker?

Judge not a book by its author, lest ye be judged on Uzbeki goat milking forums.

>> No.14411826

>>14411810
fuck off glownigger

>> No.14411846

>>14411810
>You think it's necessary to be some shut in loser to be able to write about how to live purposefully?
Yes.

>> No.14411865

>>14411751
You should have read that article to see if your preconceived notions were right. Terry is a warning. He is icarus. He flew too close to the sun of "meaning." He was amazing but also led astray and his life went from something good to bad quickly. You need to live in this real world, you have to.

>> No.14412283

>>14411751
>if you live like other people your life has no meaning
ummm sweetie...

>> No.14412349
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14412349

>>14411751
Uh oh boys... looks like we gotta break out the water.

>> No.14412364

>>14411661
lold irl

>> No.14412390

>>14411751
>fetishizing the mentally ill

>> No.14413875

RIP

>> No.14413887

>>14411751
I agree with you except where you point to modern life as the culprit.
The thing Terry had that these fucking imbeciles didn't was a sense of purpose first, and then the conviction to actually chase it which is what separated him from the plebs.
It's not enough to just be right about what purpose or meaning. You have to actually get up and go do it, and follow it through to the end, and that's what Terry did that almost nobody else does.

>> No.14413890

>>14411751
>hurr you haven't truly live if you aren't homeless schizo nutjob
back to school kid

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14413956

mishima

>> No.14413976

>>14411299
REMINDER Terry Davis' definition of work is NOT everyone else's. He considered being homeless a form of work that would bring him glory.
>This is not by the standards of men

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_lYnUir0Ko

>> No.14413990

>>14413976>>14413887
>>14411751
>>14411299

>bourgeois are so bored that they play little homeless knowing full well that if all goes wrong they can go back to their comfy home


hmmmmm

>> No.14414322

>>14413990
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?

>> No.14414328

>>14413990
You do realize your retarded rambling has nothing to do with anyone you replied to, right?

>> No.14414331

>>14413990
>>14414322
https://youtu.be/yuTMWgOduFM
It never ends.