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Books that will help me stop being a doomer and turn me into a glass half-full kind of guy?

>> No.22179044
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>> No.22179050

https://www.youtube.com/@jonathanbowdenarchive335/videos

>> No.22179086

Spinoza's ethics and then Nietzsche's gay science

t. someone healed by these two books

>> No.22179108

>>22179086
the most important part is to dissociate yourself from the doomer identity, you are not a depressed individual, you are an individual going through a depressed phase, be careful not to make it a part of your identity, do not make it something eternal you've "always been" and "always be forever"

You have to rebuild yourself a completely new understanding of yourself

>> No.22179144

>>22179037
Just be practical. It might not even be true, but it makes things easier. In the end, you are just making things harder for yourself for no reason at all.

>> No.22179286

>>22179086
>>22179108
These. Gay Science is my favorite book of all time. If you are up for the challenge read Thus Spoke Zarathustra, or for something a little milder read Steppenwolf. Both are ideal for the stereotypical young man who is an atheist nihilist type and prone to pessimism.

>> No.22179296

>>22179144
And also, it is not like you can just change, you have to practice this shit everyday.

>> No.22180580

>>22179086
>>22179108
>>22179286
Would these help if im someone who's perpetually existentially anxious?
No better way of describing it other than a feeling cutting through every other feeling that it's not quite right im here at all

>> No.22180586

>>22180580
You know what, im just gonna start with ethics because i can ask questions endlessly and never get anywhere. thanks for the reccs

>> No.22180615

the baburnama, wheeler thacktson translation.

>> No.22180616

what is some anhedonic or just completely miserable literature? i liked thomas ligotti but i already read all his stuff

im completely anhedonic, i cannot feel anything that isnt neutral or negative and reading miserable shit provides some sort of catharsis for me.

>> No.22180625

>>22180580
>it’s not right that I’m here at all
Why does that matter? I have existential concerns but it’s mostly that life seems irredeemable in all its suffering and that there’s possibly no escaping “being”

>> No.22180646

Steppenwolf

>> No.22180763

>>22179037
The oeuvre of John Green

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>>22179037
picrel helped restore me from general meaning crisis to a functioning person that loves being alive. some people are turned off by the religious themes but you dont need to become a christcuck to get what dosto is saying

>> No.22180790

The foreword from “BOOK-LOVER'S
HOLIDAYS IN THE OPEN BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT”

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34135/34135-h/34135-h.htm

>> No.22180807

>>22179037
Fix the physiological first.
Stop drinking and smoking. Switch to coffee. Exercise, sleep well and eat good food. Do this for 6 months. You will find yourself calmer and a half-full kind of guy.

>> No.22180822

>>22180783
i had kinda similar experience reading dosto in general, particularly crime and punishment

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>> No.22180933

>>22180783
I read that book and it didn't have that effect on me. What did I miss?

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>>22179037
Helps you realize how full your glass really is.

>> No.22181118

>>22180783
Dosto and Nietzsche helped me too (I read them before JBP became famous)

>> No.22181128

>>22179037
If you don’t want to be a doomer, don’t do what doomers do.
1. Don’t masturbate.
2. Don’t watch anime or read comic books
3. Don’t be obsessed with Internet forums
4. Don’t waste your time with video games and cheap movies
5. Don’t isolate yourself from normal people
6. Don’t pretend to be more intellectual than you are
7. Don’t lie
8. Don’t quit when things get hard
9. Don’t leave things until later when they can be done now
10. Don’t forget to call your mother
11. Don’t be a disappointment to your father
12. Don’t think about having a girl friend, but about being a father
Doomers don’t have families. Be a man. Build a family.

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