/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17572947]

What are some books to help one escape mental prisons?

[Anonymous No.17572953]

>>17572947
have you tried going outside

[Anonymous No.17573918]

I wish I knew anon, my whole life is cages within cages

[Anonymous No.17574253]

I miss him bros

[Anonymous No.17575389]

>>17572947

[Anonymous No.17575420]

>>17572947
These are true words and yet half of the people here will keep masturbating themselves over "the unexamined life is worth living" and "muh greeks" meanwhile chad will fuck, eat, love, cry, get mad, have kids, experience the full range of emotion life has, and die happy.

Philosophy is a stupid. Life is a dead end, there is nothing at the end of it all, and when you finally get there you'll wish you had spent your life living it instead of examining it.

[Anonymous No.17576208]

>>17572947
The mind is never a prison, it is our vehicle to true freedom. As long as you can think freely, imagine, contemplate, be conscious, you are free

[Anonymous No.17576283]

>>17575420
>Philosophy is a stupid. Life is a dead end, there is nothing at the end of it all, and when you finally get there you'll wish you had spent your life living it instead of examining it.
I live to examine it. It's a shame there's so many subhumans.

[Anonymous No.17576291]

>>17572947
Just believe in something, pussy. Have a fucking opinion. Move.

[Anonymous No.17576331]

>>17575420
lol this retard doesnt get it

[Anonymous No.17576563]

>>17572947
read ug krishnamurti or watch some of his barking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v76CUAQNw58&ab_channel=korlimarlachandrasekharbabu

[Anonymous No.17576573]

>>17572947

[Anonymous No.17576623]

>>17572947
I don't get how people see this as an anti-philosophy quote. It literally says "we can't fully get it but we should do the best we can, whatever that best ends up being."

That's literally a Kantian argument, in a sort of vulgar way.

[Anonymous No.17576697]

>>17576623
>Kantian
Leave you're no longer welcome.

[Anonymous No.17576708]

>>17572947
Letting Go by David R. Hawkins along with a pranic breathing practice

[Anonymous No.17576910]

>>17576697
?

[Anonymous No.17577020]

>>17574253

Terry is my hero
He was a true philosopher king

[Anonymous No.17577090]

>>17572947
>discovers π and e
refuted

[Anonymous No.17577199]

>>17575420
>fuck, eat, love
I have an idea for a new book

[Anonymous No.17577201]

>>17576283
cope

[Anonymous No.17577228]

>>17575420
This. Read Sun and Steel, then stop reading books and lift. It's not improving your life, lift and interact with the world, bang chicks, learn something practical that doesn't involve sitting on your ass ingesting another man's lexical semen. Books are gay and you're gay for reading them.

[Anonymous No.17577274]

>>17577228
bet you don’t do any of these
in fact you probably spend hours a day lurking on 4chan posting chad vs virgin memes

[Anonymous No.17577592]

>>17577274
Nope, dead wrong. I have a wife and 2 beautiful children. Plus I lift more than you could ever dream of.

[Anonymous No.17577729]

>>17577592
How much can you bench

[Anonymous No.17578055]

[Anonymous No.17578263]

>>17575420
You can do both you turbo sperg. That's literally what the fucking Greeks did.

[Anonymous No.17578529]

>>17577228
>This. Read Sun and Steel, then stop reading books and lift.
>Read a book by someone who did nothing but read and write his entire life,
>Read a book by someone who start lifting until he hit 30, long after he failed out of his military service that he never tried harder to accomplish.
this is your brain on /fit/. fitness is great, but it isnt some magical cure all panchea like you retards think.

[Anonymous No.17578556]

>>17578529
Sun and Steel was a form of "self criticism". He strongly criticizes neglecting the body infavor of the mind. Faggot.

[Anonymous No.17578637]

>>17575420
Why? Of course if you aren't authentic to yourself you will die unhappy. 'Chad' is a specter of a caricature that only exists in the shared consciousness of circles whose denizens are repressed and resentful to map an idealization of a perfect individual onto to the point that it becomes disfigured and uncanny. The full range of emotion reveals itself in each individual across the spectrum of life. Philosophy is love, there is no other reason to do it, just like there's no other reason to fuck. The instruction manual lies within the heart and mind of each anon, not in a chart thread or an advice post where anyone tells you to do a single thing. After seemingly endless threads the blue boxed confines of this site dull and make limp the mind just like the grey corridors of the city. Frog posts turn into gargoyles and wojaks the discarded statues you walk by each day. Nobody becomes different from anyone else and even possesses the potential to be called by a given name so long as you depend upon anything but your own sense of self.

[Anonymous No.17579116]

I guess Stirner is an obvious answer, but only if you read him correctly. Most retards end up building a new mental cage out of what they perceive to be Stirner's ideas and limit themselves to never believing in anything.

[Anonymous No.17579336]

>>17576208
>The mind is never a prison
whatever you say bro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4PTf7LgsIE

[Anonymous No.17579707]

>>17575420
American Pastoral by Philip Roth is a good critique of this kind of both cynical and nihilistic outlook on life.

[Anonymous No.17580071]

>>17579336
>the virgin neurotypical vs the chad severe autistic

[Anonymous No.17580098]

>>17572947

The cube unfolding into the cross is not "just" a metaphor.

[Anonymous No.17580119]

>>17578263
>>17578637
Only good responses in this thread.

[Anonymous No.17580209]

>>17580119
Including this one.

[Anonymous No.17581074]