/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16947045]

What books should demoralized young men read? What are the most uplifting/life-affirming books you've personally read?

[Anonymous No.16947060]

>>16947045
My Twisted World - Elliot Rodger

[Anonymous No.16947063]

>>16947045
Marx reading list:

Brumaire
Manuscripts
Value, Price, and Profit
Gotha
Grundrisse
Capital 1, 2, and 3 (yes you need to read all of them. 1 is not self-contained.)

Further Reading:
Michael Heinrich's Introduction (note: not an introduction)
Heinrich's 3-4(?) volume biography of Marx that he is still writing (vol 1 is out)
Love and Capital (another biography)
Isaak Illich Rubin's Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
Time, Labor, and Social Domination by Postone
Value by Diane Elson
Workers and Capital by Tronti
Law and Marxism by Pashukanis
Notebooks by Gramsci
The Principle of Hope by Bloch
Selected Writings by Benjamin
The Production of Space by Lefebvre
The Making of the English Working Class by Thompson (also read his essay on time.)
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson
The Essential Lenin
The Essential Stalin
On Contradiction and On Practice by Mao
Dialectical Logic, Intelligent Materialism, and The Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx's Capital by Ilyenkov
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, I and IS Apparatuses, and Philosophy of the Encounter by Althusser
H and CS by Lukacs
Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility by Karatani
Eclipse by Gilles Dauve
What Was the USSR? Towards a Theory of the Deformation of Value Under State Capitalism by Aufheben
Reading Marx Politically by Cleaver
Marx's Inferno by William Clare Roberts
Moneybags Must Be So Lucky: On the Literary Structure of Capital by Robert Paul Wolff
In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution by Geoff Mann
Crack Capitalism by John Holloway
The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System: The Prevalence of an Aleatory Encounter by John Milios
Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason by Bonefeld
The 4 volumes of Open Marxism
There's No Such Thing as "The Economy": Essays on Capitalist Value by Samuel A. Chambers
Marx at the Millennium by Cyril Smith
Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx by Frederick Harry Pitts
The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay
Money and Totality by Moseley
The Constitution of Capital: Essays on Volume 1 of Marx's Capital by Bellofiore
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Now hit those books and start reading.

[Anonymous No.16947070]

>>16947045
Unironically Jordan Peterson

[Anonymous No.16947085]

>>16947045
Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, The Chronicles of Narnia, Oscar Wilde's short stories and plays, The Hobbit and Tolkien's short stories, Le Petit Prince, El regreso del joven príncipe.
Cheer the fuck up you turbo faggot.

[Anonymous No.16947088]

I hate you predatory ideologues so damn much.

[Anonymous No.16947092]

>>16947045
This isn't exactly what you asked for, anon, but personally I can recommend Evola's works. Reading him actually made me way more nihilist at first, since he really pulls no punches when examining the problem of nihilism. At the same time, though, he also gives a lot of insights into the Traditional worldview and provides guidance to standing up on your own in the modern world. If you read him looking for something to hold on to, his writing will be extremely destructive for you. If you are, however, rather looking for a way to get up on your own, then his works can be invaluable. Take your own side, anon. This is your life and you have the right to do with it as you wish. I hope you'll find your way to the light.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16947096]

>>16947045

[Anonymous No.16947098]

william blake
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>>16947063
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>>16947096
definitely not these

[Anonymous No.16947101]

>>16947045
Please read Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

[Anonymous No.16947110]

>>16947045
130:6.3.
Set your mind at work to solve its problems; teach your intellect to work for you; refuse longer to be dominated by fear like an unthinking animal. Your mind should be your courageous ally in the solution of your life problems rather than your being, as you have been, its abject fear-slave and the bond servant of depression and defeat. But most valuable of all, your potential of real achievement is the spirit which lives within you, and which will stimulate and inspire your mind to control itself and activate the body if you will release it from the fetters of fear and thus enable your spiritual nature to begin your deliverance from the evils of inaction by the power-presence of living faith. And then, forthwith, will this faith vanquish fear of men by the compelling presence of that new and all-dominating love of your fellows which will so soon fill your soul to overflowing because of the consciousness which has been born in your heart that you are a child of God.

130:6.4."This day, my son, you are to be reborn, re-established as a man of faith, courage, and devoted service to man, for God's sake. And when you become so readjusted to life within yourself, you become likewise readjusted to the universe; you have been born again—born of the spirit—and henceforth will your whole life become one of victorious accomplishment. Trouble will invigorate you; disappointment will spur you on; difficulties will challenge you; and obstacles will stimulate you. Arise, young man! Say farewell to the life of cringing fear and fleeing cowardice. Hasten back to duty and live your life in the flesh as a son of God, a mortal dedicated to the ennobling service of man on earth and destined to the superb and eternal service of God in eternity."

[Anonymous No.16947111]

>>16947045
read the temple of the golden pavilion

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16947136]

>>16947098
William Blake is a good one, I think. The tankie is a little laser focused on that one program. My choices are open ended. Room to grow your own way

[Anonymous No.16947141]

>>16947045
the 12 commandments

[Anonymous No.16947152]

>>16947141
damn they added some since i last checked

[Anonymous No.16947154]

>>16947137
You must have a lot of faith in the belief of atheism considering you do not have any conclusive evidence God does not exist.

[Anonymous No.16947155]

>>16947045
The Nigger of the Narcissus

[Anonymous No.16947161]

>>16947045
Read something fun, you midwit. Whats fun for you depends on your personality so get out and find it.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16947211]

>>16947154
Skepticism isn’t a faith, and we do have overwhelming evidence that most conceptions of the various gods thought up are not real.

Now prove to me that Nyx isn’t the real goddess of the universe

[Anonymous No.16947237]

>>16947211
I have faith that you will soon commit suicide since you're a tranny!

[Anonymous No.16947240]

you shouldn't read. reading is bad for you

[Anonymous No.16947263]

>>16947211
here's a hint, every -ism is a faith. I laugh that you materialists or whatever you call yourselves don't see how you argue so close along religious lines. you guys both claim to see "objective reality/truth"

[Anonymous No.16947273]

>>16947045
Unironically, The Gospel of Matthew

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16947281]

>>16947237
You believe in the impossible.

[Anonymous No.16947338]

>>16947045
I've just read this passage from Bertrand Russell's Conquest of Happiness:

"To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: ‘Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a laborer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy all your energies.'"

[Anonymous No.16947398]

>>16947273
I would believe if I could, I genuinely wish I could. But I cannot, so I don't.

>>16947240
What should I do, then? Just consume prolefeed until I'm six foot under?

>>16947161
Fun things feel like mere distractions. Just another coping mechanism.

>>16947111
Isn't that book about self-destruction because beauty can't avoid being tarnished?

>>16947092
I appreciate the sentiment, but traditionalism also feels like cope to me. Me and my milieu are so far removed from tradition that Evola might as well explain quantum physics to me, it's just wasted on me. Besides, the only sort of traditionalism I can see being real is the one that claims that religions more or less all seek the divine, but I can't in good conscience say that I believe they all contain the same unchanging truths or that they are equal. I'm a bit partial to Christianity and Buddhism, but the former I can't believe in (and I also definitely lack the universal empathy necessary to believe in it), and the latter would feel like LARPing on top of all that.

>>16947088
Don't worry, I'm pretty guarded.

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>>16947155
Pls no memes.

[Anonymous No.16947415]

>>16947398
>I would believe if I could, I genuinely wish I could
If you can't, then just go through the motions. Go to church, get baptized, take communion regularly, attend Bible study. In about 1 or 2 years it'll start to click and you'll finally be happy

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16947430]

>>16947398
Not memeing. Those are the building blocks of life affirmation. They should help.

[Anonymous No.16947436]

>>16947338
Russell could easily say that, coming from the most bourgeois of all bourgeois times and places to live in. People like him idolize the prosaic nature and lifestyles of simple people through some misplaced sense of romanticism. It's just as dull as bourgeois life, but also senselessly hard on top of it.

[Anonymous No.16947439]

>>16947398
>What should I do, then? Just consume prolefeed until I'm six foot under?

No, think of something else to do.

[Anonymous No.16947458]

>>16947415
I think you misunderstand what I mean. I don't want religion to be therapeutic. I want to arrive at faith through genuine belief and a desire to seek truth. The latter I have, but the former, I don't.

[Anonymous No.16947466]

>>16947436
This. If Russell was born poor or even middle class, no-one would have ever heard of him and he would have died in absolute obscurity. Literally the trust fund philosopher

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[Anonymous No.16947484]

>>16947458
I understand what you mean. If you go through the motions, faith will eventually come. It's how the human mind and soul work. Repetition leads to habit leads to belief

[Anonymous No.16947499]

>>16947466
I wouldn't say that, his works on logic are pretty alright from what I've heard. He's just way out of his depth when he talks about anything else.

[Anonymous No.16947551]

>>16947045
Master and Margarita

[Anonymous No.16947562]

It's my birthday so please help me /lit/.

I can't stop thinking about this terrible thing that could've happened because of my neglect. It didn't happen but for some reason the thought keeps getting stuck in my mind and I continually measure what were the probabilities and when I discard a past terrible scenario then I think "but what if...?".

It's like I can't tolerate ambiguity in my life. In an essentialist sense, why is the me right now more real than that other me that suffered such catastrophe? Aren't the causal requisites almost the same instead that the me right now had some "luck"?

Right now it's about this "almos-event" that (not) happened during the last two weeks, but I've been doing this with "almost-events" for at least the last 7 years of my life. It's turning me insane. How can I live in a world like this?

[Anonymous No.16947580]

>>16947562
We need more context to help you, if you are not afraid to share more, please do so.

[Anonymous No.16947593]

>>16947096
Basically this desu

[Anonymous No.16947631]

>>16947562
Not to delve into /x/ territory, but it sounds like you're feeling alternate realities.
You could try to accept it and find solace in the possibility that by living a good life you let other yous have a peak into this better world.

[Anonymous No.16947683]

>>16947398
>I appreciate the sentiment, but traditionalism also feels like cope to me. Me and my milieu are so far removed from tradition that Evola might as well explain quantum physics to me, it's just wasted on me. Besides, the only sort of traditionalism I can see being real is the one that claims that religions more or less all seek the divine, but I can't in good conscience say that I believe they all contain the same unchanging truths or that they are equal. I'm a bit partial to Christianity and Buddhism, but the former I can't believe in (and I also definitely lack the universal empathy necessary to believe in it), and the latter would feel like LARPing on top of all that.
That's fine, buddy. Just keep an open mind and approach the matter when you feel like you want to, when you are ready and when you think you will get something out of it. I am sure you'll do what is right for you, so long as you think deeply and act confidently. Keep going anon, eventually you'll end up somewhere.

[Anonymous No.16948522]

Jack Kerouac’s books when I first got into literature helped me love and appreciate life more.

[Anonymous No.16948584]

>>16947088
>predatory ideologues
explain

[Anonymous No.16948629]

>>16947484
But then aren't you just coping yourself into believing in a lie?

[Anonymous No.16948725]

>>16947562
>Can't stop thinking about something terrible that almost happened but didnt
Sometimes you're lucky, sometimes you're not.
>Can't tolerate ambiguity
Autism, u ironically.
>Why is the me right now more real than the me that isn't real?
You tell me, retard. There is no reality but the one you experience.
>Aren't the causal requisites almost the same?
Yeah but they aren't. You'd be amazed how many times you skirted death and never realized it.
>Almost-Event
Nigger what didn't happen didnt happen, you're literally breaking your brain trying to comprehend a series of events that never transpired. Maybe there is some causal reason you're not constantly fucking up but you can't see it because you're too busy thinking up reasons you COULD HAVE MAYBE MIGHTVE messed up in an alternate reality. Take your blessings as they come, learn from your mistakes, and move on.

[Anonymous No.16948744]

>>16947398
>I would believe if I could, I genuinely wish I could. But I cannot, so I don't.
Every person is born with the capacity for faith. Intelligent people just have to work harder to understand it due to the latent mistrust that comes with having common sense. Unironically read the Bible, especially the gospel of Matthew. The book is filled to the brim with rules for living, understandings, and wisdom that would make Jordan Memerston seethe in jealousy. Even if you don't believe, even if you won't, its worth reading because the teachings transcend religion.

[Anonymous No.16948756]

>>16947499
Doesn't matter if they're alright (they're not that good), he would be unknown without his born status.

[Anonymous No.16948761]

>>16948629
i'm not religious but no. it is functionally the same as any other belief and you would have trouble believing in anything at all, everything you need to function day to day, if you didn't come to those beliefs as a child when you weren't critical.

[Anonymous No.16948775]

>>16947045
William Blake is a good idea as that other anon suggested. Also Taoteching, mybe th Plague too

[Z No.16948813]

>>16947562
I feel like you are in need of some Keats poems particularly odd to a nightingale ode to sleep and ode to melancholy

[Anonymous No.16948859]

>>16947088
>I hate you predatory ideologues so damn much.

What do you mean by "predatory ideologues"?

[Anonymous No.16948879]

>>16948584
they're jumping on someone who doesn't know what path to take with their own ideas, trying to recruit him into their cult

[Anonymous No.16948888]

>>16947045
You don’t need a book anon. You need joyful music and a good fren.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kpuPp7ll6bo

[Anonymous No.16948890]

>>16948859
Not him but I think he means people who see troubled men and try to recruit them for their cause instead of helping them

[Anonymous No.16948897]

>>16948879
Everyone is one by that definition. Not only is the OP actively searching, but every bit of information is put out on this site to be looked at as-is and if he's not capable of it, then is it on the ideologue for thinking their path can help or on OP for not doing due diligence?

[Anonymous No.16948899]

>>16948584
It's pretty obvious. People who see lonely, demoralised, and listless young men as targets to convert to their ideology, but have no actual concern for their well being or what is best for them.

[Anonymous No.16948922]

>>16948888
I hate Christmas music, have no friends, and will never feel the holiday spirit. What do I win?

[Anonymous No.16948980]

>>16948888
Checked

[Anonymous No.16949004]

>>16948899
Oh thought he was referring to OP (and thus overcomplicating it) and not the people responding to him, makes sense then

[Anonymous No.16949029]

I'm terrified of the world and people. What do I read to fix this?

[Anonymous No.16949033]

>>16948922
Ok then your book is How the Grinch Stole Christmas

[Anonymous No.16949046]

>>16949029
Try not thinking and meditation

[Anonymous No.16949060]

>>16948888
Checked
>tfw hate christmas because it was always just a highly stressful time with lots of noise and being forced into small quarters with groups of what were effectively strangers
I wonder what I would be like now if I were less autistic as a kid.

[Anonymous No.16949088]

>>16949060
Personally, I'd probably have a masters on the way to a doctorate. But now I'm a megalomaniac working nights at a gas station. C'est la vie.

[Anonymous No.16949169]

>>16947045
There's a recommendation infographic with life-affirming books somewhere.
That graphic + ForestAnon's recommendation got me to read The Brothers Karamazov. I wouldn't really recommend it as the first life affirming book to read though. I do feel like it was life affirming but only after the end and you're looking at a 13 hour long book which isn't very nice for a lot of it.
I don't have the infographic though, sorry.

[Anonymous No.16949177]

>>16947045
a tale for the time being
and cloud atlas even though the best character kills himself
desu

[Anonymous No.16949203]

>>16949177
>cloud atlas
How does it compare to the movie? I really liked the soundtrack.

[Anonymous No.16949246]

>>16947562
I have personally experienced abuse and neglect as well which made me feel absolutely worthless in life.

I feel very strongly that all our depression and lack of purpose comes from being treated as objects and not as people with feelings. And this traumatises us and we develop schizo characteristics. We then operate with a false self to cope with life and everything feels unreal. The false self then becomes the only self we are aware of and think of as “real”. Humans in modern civilisation suffer from mass traumatisation such that it has become normal to be depersonalised.

What personally and genuinely worked for me are reading the following books:

Complex PTSD - Pete Walker

The Body Keeps The Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk

RD Laing - The Divided Self

Osho videos on YouTube when I’m bored

Most of you might dismiss these books as “yeah I don’t have trauma, I’m just depressed cause I don’t have a job, gf, lifted enough or I haven’t read enough books on philosophy (The cerebral books that is).”

But these things are just distractions where you find temporary releases in tension. Most of you would be surprised at the amount of baggage you’re holding in that you’re not even aware of.

Before you criticise my post for whatever reason, do try reading at least one chapter of any of the books I’ve listed. My intention is not to mislead, I’ve come to this realisation after many years of searching. Good luck!

[Anonymous No.16949354]

>>16949246
Fag.
t. Survivor

[Anonymous No.16949365]

>>16949060
FUCK YOU
I hate faggots who dont like Christmas

[Anonymous No.16949372]

>>16949246
>Before you criticise my post for whatever reason
no

nice reddit spacing moron (you must go back)

[Anonymous No.16949374]

>>16947484
Let's say I believe "going through the motions" works. What religion should I choose?

[Anonymous No.16949435]

>>16949374
Objectively Christianity, subjectively whatever floats your boat. Having religion isn't about blind faith, its something that resonates with your soul. Or if you don't have a soul, just find the nearest religion and go to town.

[Anonymous No.16949469]

>>16947045

[Anonymous No.16949584]

On the road, not the whole thing though. Just to the bit on the mountain. Then contemplate who you want to be and what you're missing out on because your afraid

[Anonymous No.16949647]

The elementary particles, not uplifting tho

[Anonymous No.16949654]

>>16947045
The Immoralist by Andre Gide

[Anonymous No.16949671]

>>16947562
Not to diagnose you but that sounds like OCD anon. I have it and for a long time I had the same agonised yearning for complete certainty that you do. Being able to live comfortably with uncertainty entailed a slow and painful adjustment process. Look into Pyrrhonism. It maintains that by withholding our intellectual assent from all competing truth claims, about which we can never have any certainty, we gain ataraxia, or tranquility. They use the metaphor of a painter who, failing to achieve a particular effect, gave up and threw his sponge at the canvas in frustration, only to produce exactly the effect he had in mind.

[Anonymous No.16949874]

>>16947045
If you want life-affirming philosophy, Marsilio Ficino is your guy.

Not only does Ficino give you sophisticated Neoplatonic foundations, he's also extremely comfy to read (see pic related from his De Vita Libris Tres), not too hard to follow along, and a great theologian.

To give you a good idea of what Ficino is like, in his life he was a priest, philosopher and physician, but he saw these professions as all one and the same.

The physician healed and cultivated the body so it would flourish, the philosopher healed and cultivated the intellect and virtues so they would flourish, the priest healed and cultivated the soul so it would flourish. Naturally, his work is an integrated treatment of all three.

Let Ficino tend to your wounds anon, however deep they may be.

His main work is the Platonic Theology but it is massive. What I advise is to read his commentaries on Plato which Arthur Farndell has published, and also to read Plato's Dialogues too - which are all largely quite uplifting and life-affirming.

The most famous one of his commentaries is his one of the Symposium which is where we get the very notion of "Platonic Love".

Farndell's published commentaries are split into a few small books
>Gardens of Philosophy (a bunch of smaller misc. commentaries - good entry point)
>On the Nature of Love (Symposium commentary - you could start here if you wanted)
>Evermore Shall be So (Parmenides commentary)
>All Things Natural (Timaeus commentary)
>When Philosophers Rule (Republic, Laws, Epinomis commentary)

For the commentaries, aside from the first book you would read them alongside the actual dialogues. Not mandatory, just highly reccomended. His Three Books on Life is also well worth reading. If you want to get really deep into Ficino, his letters are also available to read.

I'd also recommend reading the Bible, but also if this all very much interests you, read Plotinus and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Chin up anon - wisdom, health, and deification await you.

[Anonymous No.16949890]

>>16949874
>pic
Sounds pretty based for his time, but also fuck him. My parents had me presumably hatefucking so I exist in spite of his friendly facade.

[Anonymous No.16949910]

>>16949890
anon youre gonna make my comfy physician priest cry hearing you say such mean things

[Anonymous No.16949928]

>>16949874
Ficino like boy

[Anonymous No.16949939]

>>16947045
Jordan Peterson. Don't let your life be ruled by dragons of chaos

[Anonymous No.16949945]

>>16947045
The Unique and Its Property by Max Stirner
The Tetrapharmakos
The Enchiridion

[Anonymous No.16950501]

>>16947045
Zorba the greek - Kazantzakis

[Anonymous No.16951227]

>>16947096
MILK

[Anonymous No.16951266]

>>16947045
also
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[Anonymous No.16951442]

>>16947045
If you're having long hair and hoodie like that you must be a tranny

[Anonymous No.16952564]

>>16949169
This?

[Anonymous No.16952602]

>>16951442
Sometimes I think it'd be hot to fuck a tranny if they had enough feminine qualities, but anal is such a turn off, personally. I don't even see the appeal of anal with a biological girl-from-birth.

[Anonymous No.16952796]

>>16947045
Read anti tech books and science books on climate change, pollution, resource shortages, etc.
It made me realize how insignificant I am. It removed my social anxiety. Afterall the world is so fucked. Not even kidding, I could barely speak before and now I'm extremely confident.

[Anonymous No.16952949]

>>16951442
>If you're having long hair and hoodie like that you must be a tranny
Or manly as fuck

[Anonymous No.16953234]

>>16947580
Ok, so here is the last obsession (I'm not affraid cause it's notthing "immoral"): I work with my dad in the family business (lawyers' stuff - notary public in a roman civil law country). At the end of the day, one of the workers gives me the money that has entered that day, so I can keep it until we deposit it in the bank. It's pretty important to notice that most of that monet is not ours: almost 75% of it is for the pay of taxes and other services that we administer, so it's money from the clients who go to see us and trust us with that money (so the process becomes quicker). The thing is, I am a REALLY clumsy and forgetful guy, and that has implications in two respects: (i) I commited neglect because I let the money of an entire week accumulate in my bag (more or less 8000 USD which, I insist, is in good part not our money, but we are responsable for it). A diligent man should have unloaded the money of each day everyday in a safe place in his house, but, as I said, I am very clumsy and only when it was accumulated I thought (OMFG I was transporting all this money without realizing it...and I freaked out). (ii) My neglect in abstract is excacerbated by my neglect in considering my particular clumsy and forgetful nature. The thing is, I could have lost all that money any of those days (although only during the last day I could have lost all the 8000 USD). I cannot stop thinking about that, It would have signified a catastrophe to the family busisses so difficult to recover from. Of course, nothing happened, I didn't lost my bag with the money and all is going relatively fine but, am I entitled to just forget my neglect, forget the risky nature of life in which all my plans could be destroyed by just an absurdly minor event in the great scheme of things but with so big consequences? For me, it's always a case of "For want of a horseshoe nail the kingdom was lost", not just with this but with every one of the "almost-events" in my mid that have pervaded it during the last 7 years.

>>16947562
>Take your blessings as they come, learn from your mistakes, and move on
Yes anon, that's definitely the final lesson I have to acquire after dealing with all this struggle. I don't know why do I care so much about probabilities, maybe it's because I really can't stop thinking that there should be some kind of rationality in life and that contingent events don't amount to the essence of life. But I know (in an intellectual and non emotional level) that that's just phantasy. What happens happens. So, I would say, the "really rational" answer to my predicament is to be courageous. To train that virtue.

[Anonymous No.16953350]

>>16953234
>>16949246
Anon, I cannot express in words how I appreciate your kind contribution and empathy towards my situation. Maybe all my deal with probabilities is just a way to evade the fact that I cannot connect with my true self.

I don't think you're too far from reality when you postulate the concept of "traume" as more universal than it might commonly be viewed. For example, I believe it adresses most of my problems because it can give you the courage to be prepared to for the worst, even if bad things haven't actually happened. It is a way to accept LIFE and not just what has been your life, with all its difficulties and absurdities.

Great book recommendationd, I'll be sure to check them out.

>>16949671
Indeed, anon, I was diagnosed with OCD since a long time. I didn't say it before because I wanted to stay the most /lit/related as possible, instead of transforming this in a conversation about mental health, but I am surprisingly glad that you noticed.

Ahhh, Pyrrhonism!! What a great recommendation. You would've thought that I would be recommended some stoic literature but this school of thought my have a lot more to say about my problems. Indeed, if it's not so much about the hardships of life but its ambiguity, greek (and roman) skepticism could give me a lot more of insight and peace of mind relating to my issues.

I already read a bit of Sextus Empiricus but it is maybe a good time to give him a more dedicated study.