/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15585950]

is there a way to un-read this book? i want to go back. i want to get off this ride.

[Anonymous No.15587539]

>>15585950
holy shite lad why the fuck you read this monster?
anyway my condolences

[Anonymous No.15587551]

>>15585950
Why? Isn't it like psychoanalysis? Did you hate it that much?

[Anonymous No.15587563]

>>15585950
I felt the same way after reading pic related.

The good news is that over time you forget a lot of it and you're partly bluepilled again.

Also, read Nietzche.

[Anonymous No.15587604]

>>15587551
it's nihilism in it's purist form, the final redpill of psychoanalysis.
reading this book can fuck you up pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.15587654]

>>15585950
There is probably something you want to do, been meaning to do, but haven't done or worked towards. Start doing it and do it for yourself alone.

Read The Selfish Gene, Goodnight Punpun and Flow (which is actually positive psychology, but existentially harrowing in a strange way) to continue along this path.

If everything is cope, then at least cope on your own terms. The price of culture is a lie, after all.

[Anonymous No.15587679]

>>15585950
Stop buying into people's arguments so easily.

[Anonymous No.15587742]

>>15587654
>The Selfish Gene
Holy reddit

[Anonymous No.15587773]

>>15587654
I don't see how Selfish Gene works as self help but I agree with the overall sentiment. Searching for an absolute "why" behind everything can be destructive rather than motivating. When you apply yourself to basic things like cooking healthy food, getting some exercise, and pursuing a hobby, it's possible to find that those things provide plenty of meaning and purpose. You don't actually need an absolute philosophical bedrock to be fulfilled.

[Anonymous No.15587813]

>>15585950

I didn't get that feeling from this book, quite the opposite. I found it useful and motivating as way to identify -and partially fight- the source of all neurosis: the fear of death in all its shapes, and the awareness of human duality, first as an individual with a self striving to trascend, and secondly as a another living organism that belongs to nature.

[Anonymous No.15587905]

>>15587679
This.

Take this as an opportunity to refute it and in the process you might end up creating something life affirming for yourself

[Anonymous No.15587914]

>>15587679
>>15587905
I bet both of you savages haven't read the book.

[Anonymous No.15587937]

I swear that this is the one same guy making threads about this shitty book
Get a life, faggot

[Anonymous No.15587947]

>>15587914
Right on the money

[Anonymous No.15587961]

>>15587914
M8, do you know how often midwits come here declaring some shitty obscure book to be mind-blowing and eye-opening?

[Anonymous No.15587981]

>>15585950
>found about this book on Wikipedia
>found it interesting, matches with some of my own intuitions about life
>definitely want to read it later
>maybe discuss it, even
>/lit/ is going to meme it like there's no tomorrow before I get to

[Anonymous No.15588032]

>>15587981
Who gives a fuck about the shitposting of some autists on /lit/ man
Just read whatever you want anon

[Anonymous No.15588053]

>>15585950
Just pour some bleach onto your eyes.

[Anonymous No.15588156]

>>15587654
>punpun
This is actually pretty bloomer core. Asano’s interview following punpun says that the cult ended up turning around and saving the world following the leader’s realization that Earthly life is meaningful. He said that the leader is the true protagonist of punpun

[Anonymous No.15588201]

>>15587981
no one here actually reads books, don't worry about what people here say

[Anonymous No.15588582]

>>15585950
Lucky for you, there isn't. That book is only half the answer, in reality all your suffering is because of your denial. It's time to pursue enlightenment.

[Anonymous No.15588591]

>>15588582
>That book is only half the answer
What's the other half?

[Anonymous No.15588616]

>>15585950
What do you mean? My life improved immensely after reading this.

[Anonymous No.15588656]

>>15588582

How?

[Anonymous No.15588736]

>>15588616
How so?

[Anonymous No.15588912]

>>15585950
it's kind of midwit but he has some interesting ideas

[Anonymous No.15589393]

>>15588591
The acceptance of death.

[Anonymous No.15589422]

>>15587961
>pulitzer prize winner
>obscure

[Anonymous No.15589581]

>>15588582
Enlightenment and self-actualization is the only true path to accepting death, avoiding the fear and observing it when it comes like a sweet release or a doorway into something else.

[Anonymous No.15589617]

>>15587654
>Read reductive scientism, a comic book, and meme pop psy to shape your worldview
FFS, 4channers are the real redditors.

[Anonymous No.15589821]

>>15589393
Literally impossible

[Anonymous No.15589846]

>>15585950
In a previous thread about this book, some anons recommended this helped them

[Anonymous No.15590142]

>>15589393
More like the acceptance of suffering till death saves us

[Anonymous No.15590197]

>>15585950
nondualism is the cure

[Anonymous No.15590210]

>>15589846
>Yalom was born in Washington, D.C.[1] About fifteen years prior to his birth in the United States, Yalom's Jewish parents emigrated from Russia
woah..

[Anonymous No.15590219]

>>15590210
Huh? A lot of Americans' parents are immigrants. It's not that remarkable.

[Anonymous No.15590225]

>>15585950
ur just weak willed

[Anonymous No.15590245]

>>15590210
>tfw you realize all the /pol/ talk about muh jews is nothing but a cope and defense mechanism against a hostile, random, unpredictable world

[Anonymous No.15590296]

>>15585950
Look, I liked this book but I don’t understand how some people like David Berman killed themselves over it. It’s 300 pages of sperging about ‘the hero’ and the origin of schizophrenia, which is already a red flag for me, It being much more fruitful to read kierkegaard than to get his views filtered through Freud. Fear and Trembling + the Concept of Anxiety do it much better. The Otto Rank stuff is pretty benign imo but it made me kek at the preface when he says Art and Artist is more useful to psychology than all of Jung’s tomes on alchemy.

[Anonymous No.15590450]

dead does not exist, i can prove it, go get the baptism with the Holy Ghost and the gift of tongues, use the gift all you can like Smith Wigglesworth, then ask YHVH for knowledge about Noga and breaking the klippah, etc amd start practicing meditation, then one day the Holy Ghost will take you our of your body while u are awake and totally concious, you will see, hear, think, you will see your body and discover that the body is just a house, after that u will never fear death cuz it will be like blow in a dark room for 1 sec, otherwise death was horrid painful for unbelievers and i read even in this time somne unveluevers may e even experience it with horrid gore pain

[Anonymous No.15590501]

>>15587604
I'm doing a research project this summer and we're gonna read this. Exciting.

[Anonymous No.15591684]

>>15590450
What the actual fuck

[Anonymous No.15591742]

>>15589617
There's nothing good here.

[Anonymous No.15592174]

>>15590245
based and chaospilled

[Anonymous No.15592389]

>>15590450
Based schizoposter

[Anonymous No.15592498]

>>15590450
what did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.15593489]

>>15587937
Life Partner of the guy making the Taleb threads.