Give me hope

[Anonymous No.15225988]

I’ve been filling my head up with as much knowledge as possible throughout my life, but I just can’t shake the feeling that none of it matters. What’s the point of collecting all of this information, when there is a chance that I will lose it all upon death? It’s so hopeless. Wherever I go after my time is up, I hope I can bring this with me. If I go anywhere at all, that is. Otherwise, it’s all pointless.

[Anonymous No.15225991]

Oh cruel universe, tell me it doesn’t end so soon. I seek immortality.

[Anonymous No.15225996]

>>15225988
Just read Phadeo

[Anonymous No.15226008]

>>15225996
Phaedo***

[Anonymous No.15226014]

>>15225988
>Give me hope
No. Contemplate your despair.

[Anonymous No.15226041]

>>15225988
>I’ve been filling my head up with as much knowledge as possible throughout my life, but I just can’t shake the feeling that none of it matters.
Heh. Kiddo, I've got news for you.

[Anonymous No.15226045]

>>15225988
This >>15226014, hope is a vice. If you really know that much, which I doubt since information is not knowledge, read Faust.

[Anonymous No.15226074]

>>15226041
Medicine, and Law, and Philosophy—
You’ve worked your way through every school,
Even, God help you, Theology,
And sweated at it like a fool.
Why labour at it any more?
You’re no wiser now than you were before.
You’re Master of Arts, and Doctor too,
And for ten years all you’ve been able to do
Is lead your students a fearful dance
Through a maze of error and ignorance.
And all this misery goes to show
There’s nothing we can ever know.
Oh yes, you’re brighter than all those relics,
Professors and Doctors, scribblers and clerics;
No doubts or scruples to trouble you,
Defying hell, and the Devil too.
But there’s no joy in self-delusion;
Your search for truth ends in confusion.

[Anonymous No.15226081]

It's not about the ash, it's about the fire, king.
You can't shine without glowing first. Take the ticket because we all have the same ending, doesn't mean we all have to get the same ride.

[Anonymous No.15226113]

>>15225988
this is why you embrace nihilism and moderate hedonism.

[Anonymous No.15226142]

>>15225988
Fed

[Anonymous No.15226169]

Get out of your room, do something fun. Yes, everything is futile, but that shouldn't dictate what you feel. I ride bikes, it's fun.

[Anonymous No.15226464]

>>15226074
Damn

[Anonymous No.15226485]

>>15225988
You're right, all that knowledge doesn't matter if you dont use it to live a life and instead choose to waste away on 4chan

[Anonymous No.15226556]

Useless knowledge is still useless knowledge. Meaningful information that will serve you in day to day life makes you far more useful than a scholar who has spent years studying for the sake of studying. A farmer who has an in-depth knowledge of agriculture is equally as important as a university professor, for example.

[Anonymous No.15226577]

>>15225988
>What’s the point of collecting all of this information, when there is a chance that I will lose it all upon death?
how can you even entertain this possibility? what good is your earthly logic and knowledge after death?

[Anonymous No.15226586]

>>15226485
very muddled thoughts in this sentence

[Anonymous No.15226651]

Stop waiting for some greater meaning to come find you. The greatest meaning in your life comes from whatever you're doing in any given moment. Choose to do something worthwhile and meaning will follow

[Anonymous No.15226686]

You do realize other people find putting effort enjoyable, right? Check with your mom. She fucked your psyche and you are trying to ignore it by coping with pseudo existential questions

[Anonymous No.15226700]

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”

― John Williams, Stoner

[Anonymous No.15226712]

>>15225988
Keep doing it, never stop learning and seeking something new, it's how you bulid up intellect and get to the truth.

[Anonymous No.15226716]

>>15226700
>shattered
more like reassured

[Anonymous No.15226806]

>>15226074
that's good

[Anonymous No.15227023]

>>15226712
No u never get to the truth u are just a donkey chasing a carrot on a stick which never comes, its all an illusion a simple trick of the mind to keep you hooked on a bait

[Anonymous No.15227423]

>>15226586
youre just a brainlet

[Anonymous No.15227430]

>>15225996
Philosophy is the preparation of death

[Anonymous No.15227788]

Either reproduce and pass on your knowledge or use what you know to contribute something to the great human endeavor. We are all but links in a chain no one more or less important than the other.

[Anonymous No.15228755]

>>15225988
The acquisition of knowledge for the simple sake of acquisition is peak bugman beheavior, and no better than any other form of mindless consoomerism. Reading only matters so far as it brings about something (e.g. happiness) within you.

[Anonymous No.15228923]

>>15226712
>truth
good meme

[Anonymous No.15228953]

>>15226074
That's it. I'm dropping my pathethic Spanish translation of Faust for one that at least actually rhymes.

[Anonymous No.15229106]

>>15225988
kinda feel the same anon. praying helps for me

[Anonymous No.15229150]

>>15227423
Lmao

[Anonymous No.15229674]

>>15226081
I liked this, is it original?

[Anonymous No.15229907]

>>15225988
You need to have more engagement in your life. Absorbing information like a sponge isn’t a bad thing per-se but it can easily lead you into being distracted of what it is that will make you fulfilled in life. Aimless wandering helps only if you try out everything that is. Doing absolutely nothing but sitting down and reflecting and meditating is key to finding your destiny I’ve found. And when I say absolutely nothing, I mean it. No screen time, intermittent fasting, meditation, no books to absorb information, no talking or any kind of distractions. It is not easy but I promise you will end up with more sense of direction on the other end.

[Anonymous No.15230910]

>>15226686
what if your mom refuses to admit any fault/engage you on the level you need? genuine question

[Keynes No.15230961]

>>15225988
>he has never read Ecclesiastes, which is basically about this precise point exactly.
You haven't read nearly enough, fren.

[Anonymous No.15231081]

>>15230910
It would be nice but either way it wouldn't make a huge difference. Even if she disappeared you'd be still conversing with her, that is, filtering your irl relationships through these dysfunctional relational modes.

Neglectful parents rarely admit even partial guilt. She will boomer talk you about responsibility and the real world ™...the past is the past, now you're a big boy anon, bootstrap etc.

[Anonymous No.15231095]

>>15225988
Did you enjoy the process?

[Keynes No.15231108]

>>15225988
Here's what you're talking about; look for the rest of Ecclesiastes to find the conclusion that he discovers on the same crisis that you're having right now :

16 I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief.

[Anonymous No.15231514]

>>15231108
>proto-stoicism
As kino as Ecclesiastes (and Job to an extent), reading it isn't going to help OP if he doesn't already have faith in God, nor is it going to result in some divine revelation. It's simply going to reaffirm already existing beliefs (i.e., life is vapor).

You should read it regardless, but don't expect any miracle cures.

[Anonymous No.15231540]

>>15225988
one MUST imagine OP happy

[Anonymous No.15231562]

>>15225988
>I’ve been filling my head up with as much knowledge as possible throughout my life, but I just can’t shake the feeling that none of it matters. What’s the point of collecting all of this information, when there is a chance that I will lose it all upon death? It’s so hopeless. Wherever I go after my time is up, I hope I can bring this with me. If I go anywhere at all, that is. Otherwise, it’s all pointless.

WHY ARE YOU HOARDING INFORMATION IN THE FIRST PLACE?

[Anonymous No.15231677]

>>15225988
Sounds like you need to turn your knowledge inward. >>15229907 is exactly right.

If you are worried that you will lose knowledge upon death, you imply that knowledge's purpose is to fulfill some goal, since if knowledge were good in and of itself, it wouldn't matter that death may eliminate it someday. What is your goal in knowing? This is a question that you necessarily have to answer on your own; it exists outside every book.

Books may increase your knowledge, but remember that knowledge is valuable because it serves YOU. If you are not master of your thought, you must become so.

[Anonymous No.15231691]

>>15225988
bro I don't get your stance
you understand that it doesn't matter, but you're worried about it? how come? this should be liberating

[Anonymous No.15231705]

>>15225988
>caring about losing it
>discovering the lack of a why and finding anything other than sheer freedom
You demonstrably have not learned enough.

[Anonymous No.15231796]

Find your own thing. Wash your Dick put it în some pussy and ull sleep better. Its the only thing that worked so far for our species.

[Anonymous No.15232479]

>>15225988
lift weights. your ancestors weren't depressed because they didn't have time to be, they were consumed by action and survival

[Anonymous No.15232503]

you might lose it all but if you synthesize it into something original and write it down that can live on. if you're just memorizing to memorize then its pointless anyway

[Anonymous No.15232610]

>>15225988
knowledge shouldn't be an end to some sort of higher goal, unless you are an artist or something. It is merely a means to be more valuable in society and work and live better. I'd reccomend you finding another thing to do with your free time, unless studying is fun to you. So yeah, it's pointless to a certain degree. Why search for meaning in an anime imageboard when you can make it up yourself?

[Anonymous No.15232657]

>>15231081
any advice on how to function in spite of that, in stead of merely coping?

[Anonymous No.15232698]

Hope is a hallucination. Despair is a hallucination. Stop living for emotion. Stop living for cognition.

[Anonymous No.15233359]

>>15232657
Therapy and this >>15229907. It's an arduous long term process

[Anonymous No.15234182]

>>15233359
alright, more true silence and meditation. that's a good place to start. thank you anon.

[Anonymous No.15234229]

>>15226074
Well shit

[Anonymous No.15234237]

>>15225988
collecting info is definitely not the goal my dude. protecting and expanding your own highest interests is the goal. go out and win

[Anonymous No.15234255]

>>15226074
which translation pls

[Anonymous No.15234278]

>>15234255
The one in Princeton's Essential Goethe