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Book to make me cry. Go.

>> No.15910154

brothers karamazov

>> No.15910156

>Go.

this is so abrasive

>> No.15910160

Why do you want to cry?

>> No.15910163

>>15910146
This plus the slavery to carnal desire that sets in and becomes chronic by your late 20s. I'm the same as that meme but also am a slave to my dick which makes everything worse.

>> No.15910261

>>15910146
Life is marked by suffering and punctuated by death. There used to be love but we traded it for knowledge. So now you're lonely. Read War & Peace, hopefully you wil cry at how hollow you are and strive for something more, even to be a piece of shit at least that is genuine, your meme is gay loser talk.

>> No.15910271

>>15910146
Pottering around the Earth doing my thing sounds (and is) very comfy, actually. I wouldn’t wish for a better world nor a better life.

>> No.15910305

>>15910146
King Lear

>> No.15910365

>>15910146
Odyssey
Book 17 to be precise

>> No.15910374

>>15910146
I made a thread the other day trying to convey the sentiment of your picture, but I was too far into emotional instability. But I often feel like that and I hate myself for it. Why can’t I be content? Why do I view philosophy as a cope? Why do I want life to be interesting?
In general I do much better than I used to. I’m not suicidal anymore and I generally don’t think about how boring my life is. But sometimes something sets me off and I descend for a few days. I’m pathetic and the truth is that I feel bad that I cannot provide a more entertaining life my primal mind. It must suck having me as captain

>> No.15910393

>>15910374
meditate

>> No.15910551

>>15910146
Jeez what a blackpill to swallow. Stoner anyway, it made me sob a couple of times.

>> No.15910564

>>15910374
Meditation. Everything else will follow.

>> No.15910595

>>15910564
>>15910393
What kind? I have attempted mediation in the past and will often use it to quickly center myself throughout the day, but it’s mostly a superficial tool for me. I have Patanjali’s Yoga, the Upanishads, Plontinus, and some other things the proselytizing Hindus on campus gave me. What sort of stuff should I read to get to the heart of true meditation?

>> No.15910604

>>15910146
No, you go. Get the fuck out.

>> No.15910640

>>15910146
On the topic of crying, do you guys ever just start crying while just thinking about random things?
Today I was reading Journey by Moonlight and while I was taking a break from it I sat down talking to myself about random things and started crying saying "would you give up your life for happiness?".
I don't know who I was even saying it to, sometimes I feel like one part of my brain is trying to talk to another part of it.

>> No.15910667

Why would you want adventure, at the point where childhood experience and adult imaginative capacity already precludes any sincere sense of novelty which the adventure could provide? It seems to me to be yearning for external stimuli, but really who wants that other than the kind of person who is unable to control their libido / will to the point where it greedily hungers for more extreme sensations to provide it with temporary, increasingly hollow periods of delight or satisfaction? The mundanity of life is its beauty, and the essential nothingness of life (the noumenal lack of essence) is what unites human beings, which are essentially just a single consciousness fragmented a few billion times with each fragment trapped inside a biological host (i.e. the human body, the brain). Anything which attempts to attract us toward the phenomenal realm is either perverse or insincere, at best an entertaining distraction from the inevitability of our return to inessence. There is no purpose in longing other than the preservation of your own fragmentary consciousness, which is unique only in its relation to the phenomenal realm (e.g., biological disposition, childhood experiences, psychological perspective). In its ultimate form, life is a state of failure. We should not attack life, but rather retreat from it and assist others in doing so.

>> No.15910684

>>15910667
>should
Proof?

>> No.15910700

>>15910640
I do rarely. Sometimes I will remember something I saw, watched, or read and it will bring a tear to my eye. I have never really sat down and sobbed but with the right stimulus I can become emotional. It’s really weird because I used to never get involved with movies or books but nowadays, if it is a well made piece, they can elicit emotion from me. It’s kind of weird but it almost makes me feel human. I say almost because when this happens it is due to my never having experienced whatever is being portrayed, whether that be love, severe loss, triumphant overcoming. They are tears of envy, maybe

>> No.15910710

>>15910146
Independent People by Laxness, the Good Earth by Buck, Shakespeare

>> No.15910727

>>15910146
Atomised / The Elementary Particles

>> No.15910738

>>15910146
no longer human, a thousand splendid suns

>> No.15910740

>>15910146
all quiet on the western front

>> No.15910751

>>15910146

That same person would be entirely as unhappy if he was somehow magically transported to a fantasy world. Just because you were born into Middle-Earth doesn't make you Aragorn or Gandalf. You are the master of your own destiny. You could hop on a plane and go explore complex cave systems in Vietnam right fucking now. You could do an north to south biking adventure through Africa. Attempt to summit K2. Instead you sit on your ass and wallow in your misery. If you were born into Middle-Earth you'd be Bill Ferny, simply because you're too much of a pussy to be better than that.

>> No.15910759

>>15910751
>You could hop on a plane and go explore complex cave systems in Vietnam right fucking now.
Are planes even running right now? And would Vietnam let an American in? Also, did the costs of plane tickets and living in a foreign country suddenly become zero?

>> No.15910764

>>15910640
You should stop drinking from plastic containers or eating anything from a can. That sounds too similar to female PMS and hormornal inbalances due to estrogen overdrive. This is not a healthy mind for male teenager.

>> No.15910770

The Idiot

>> No.15910775

Zinky Boys

>> No.15910790

>>15910751
Based.

>> No.15910798

>>15910759

Real adventurous attitude mate. You think Batman would stop fighting crime because of slight inconveniences due to the Chinavirus?

>> No.15910804

>>15910798
>(((batman)))
At least I don’t worship comic book characters

>> No.15910813
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>>15910751
>Just because you were born into Middle-Earth doesn't make you Aragorn or Gandalf
i would be my self insert who is actually a friend of the elves after taking out a whole clan of orcs in the mountains east of rivendell

>> No.15910820

>>15910804

Neither do I but the image in the OP appears to be someone in real existential sadness because he isn't Batman or Gandalf. I'm merely trying to point out how dumb that is.

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>>15910146
As if we needed books to cry, just reading the responses in this thread is enough.

>> No.15910832

>>15910820
I mean, you have to admit that there is a big difference between being able to manifest lightning from your hands and fight dragons from swimming around caves

>> No.15910836

>>15910832
*fighting dragons

>> No.15910862

>>15910813
>ywn live as a fisherman in anfalas backwater

>> No.15910895

>>15910832

Yet I doubt Gandalf was constantly going "wow this is so awesome I love fighting dragons this is the most fun ever and way more exciting than an office job".
More specifically if that guy were to "become" Gandalf or Batman, but still also kept his own personality so that it was really him being Gandalf, it would fall entirely short of his dreams and he'd still be a sad cunt. If he were Batman he would soon stop fighting crime all together and just be Bruce Wayne sitting in his mansion watching TV, just like he does now in a room instead of a mansion.

>> No.15910924

>>15910374
This is literally me bro. I'm not content with anything in my life. And now that quarantine is here and I can't even lift anymore it really blows. I just play video games 8 hours a day and work. I'm not upset by it but man I wish I had more.

>> No.15910931

>>15910895
I understand and agree with you.

>> No.15911087

Uncle Vania or The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.

>> No.15911342

>>15910146
This is literally white fragility. White middle class men who feel entitled to white male supremacy, discovering that they no longer have a right to it.

>> No.15911498

>>15911342
>and that’s a bad thing
Now what? What happens next, after you tell white people that they are not special “anymore”? Is he just supposed to get a job, pay taxes to a country that hates him, and enjoy it all the while?

>> No.15911544

The Tartar Steppe

It describes that feeling in the pic.

>> No.15911549

>>15910374
Don’t meditate. Your whole view of life being boring and meaningless is an idea that has been passed onto you that you choose to believe. We are enslaved by society but if we can learn to experience reality without the brainwashing then

>> No.15911572

>>15910751
every single thing cost money you dumb fucking asshole

>> No.15911580

>>15911572
have sex

>> No.15911594

>>15911580
you didn't even acknowledged the biggest problem which is money so fuck off privileged cunt

>> No.15911606

>>15910163
Nice projection slave.

>> No.15911618

>>15910595
Contant mindfulness, never stop possessing yourself.

>> No.15911622

>>15911594
have sex incel

>> No.15911633

>>15911622
have kids my queen

>> No.15911681

>>15910895
You are correct.

>> No.15911686

>>15910146
Leave the US.
It has been designed to atomize you and turn you into the perfect consumer drone. There are nicer people and better modes of being outside of western neoliberalism.

>> No.15911706

>>15910146
- stoner
- flowers for algernon

>> No.15911712

>>15911618
it's there a path for totally beginners for this?

>> No.15912028

>>15911686
>leave the us
This is my biggest dream at this point. But between this quasi-lockdown and being poor, I probably won’t ever be able to leave. No where wants Americans.

>> No.15912457

>>15910667
I like this. Could you recommend some literature that has inspired this way of thinking?

>> No.15912545

>>15911686
Holy shit, this post really incapsulated something i've felt buy struggled to articulate.

I lived briefly in the US, once in the mid-west and once in california. Small town americans and urban americans, despite their divide, share their concern for success signalling through the collection of status signifiers: the salt of the earth countryfolk compete to recreate suburban luxuries they saw on tv while the "woke" urbanites of the west coast unabashedly dream of buying a mansion on the coast and voting "no" on the construction of social housing lest it lower their property value.

All ideologies and modes of life still circle around the same goal: i will be successful and i signal success through the collection of material status signifiers. They can't even tell how alike they are -- they both suffer from the same insanity.

As this anon said, they've been atomized and turned into consumers. Americans in their collective adolescent insecurities have designed a vast hellworld for themselves.

>> No.15913606

>>15911544
>>15910740
I had these on my list, I think I'll check them out first

>> No.15913630
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15913630

take up religion and sacrifice yourself to it in full. Be pure, be holy. Fulfill every sacrament, every devotion, every penance. Nothing stops you, you can pour in your whole, and find your true purpose in life.

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>>15910146
Chateaubriand
>We are undeceived without having enjoyed life... Imagination is rich, fertile, and marvelous; life is poor, arid, and disenchanted. We dwell, with a full heart, in an empty world; and, without having enjoyed anything, we are disabused of everything

>> No.15913718

>>15911572

Then get yourself some fucking money you daft cunt.

>> No.15913852
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The Children of Húrin

>> No.15913905

>>15910146
Even though I get down a lot I can't imagine thinking life is boring. Even the most mundane things are actually crazy interesting once you think about them. You can go on many adventures without needing money or anything as well if that's what you want, and if you're lonely most people are lonely so if you try it's really never too late to find new connections.

>> No.15914216

>>15913905
>Even the most mundane things are actually crazy interesting once you think about them.
This is a feel I can only access when high - and then it's too overwhelming and short lived. My sober self is bored shitless by anything that doesn't quickly deliver a dopamine rush.

>> No.15915615

>>15910595
TM maybe?

>> No.15915933

>>15910667
nice