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/lit/ what are some good books on existentialism that might give a young adult some direction in life?

>inb4 philosophy debate shitstorm

>> No.5746860
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>>5746854
I enjoyed Camus
>Inb4 it's Absurdism

Also pic related

>> No.5746861

>>5746860

Thanks anon

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>> No.5746971

>>5746860
It is absurdism though.
Camus himself said he's totally not an existentialist.

>> No.5747055

>>5746971
Come on man, i inbf4'd

>> No.5747060

>>5747055
>>5747055

I did too

pls no arguing

>> No.5747064

Thomas Ligotti - The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
All reads lead to death's direction, OP.

>> No.5747074

>>5747064
roads*
Works either way though.

>> No.5747079

>>5747064

Thanks man I'll check it out.

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>>5746970
>you have to be an ubermench to create your own values and meaning

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>> No.5747220

>>5746854
No book is going to give you direction in life.
If it's a shit book you'll forget it, if it's a good book it'll messes up your life even more.

Go outside and fuck some chicks.

>> No.5747222

>>5747220
>hedonism
do you even will to anything than your dick?

Abusing your endorphins? Is this the meaning you have created?

>> No.5747224

>>5747222
I don't.
And that's why I'm a miserable fuck.

>> No.5747229

>>5747224
Create some meaning.

If you can't rationalize something, don't bother. Be irrational. Follow your heart. It will bring fulfillment, even if you fail. Or maybe not. It's the best thing you've got.

Do you even Hume?

>> No.5747235

>>5747229
the point is that you shouldn't care about meaning
like how billions of people don't.

I already went through all the philosophical mumbo-jumbo, hell I'm getting a philosophy degree, and it doesn't help one bit.

>> No.5747239

>>5747235
Seeing as you wasted money on a philosophy degree, you are already living irrationally.

If you are set upon nihilism, then I would suggest suicide. That is the closest thing to meaning you can achieve. Don't worry about pain, a gun to the side of the head will kill you instantly. Just make sure you use a high caliber as to completely blow the fuck out of your brains.

Maybe post a live stream on /b/, then you can at least entertain some people

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>>5747239

>> No.5747247

>>5747239
I'm not set upon anything.
And I lack the constitution for suicide.

Thanks for the advice tho.

>> No.5747252

>>5747245
Great. Thanks.

>>5747247
Lack of will, eh? Go travel around the world, fucking beautiful foreign women, eating exotic foods, doing drugs, and seeing nature's beauty. If you want to be a nihilist but won't kill yourself, than just sedate yourself with pleasure.

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>>5747252
Also, Nihilism can be conquered with Skepticism. How to know there is no meaning? Embrace Pyrrhoism and acheive that Ataraxia baby.

idk why we're here, idk where here is, idk what we are. I don't even know if I know that I don't know. Why fret though? I don't know of any reason to haha!

Happy travels to all of you, may you glide merrily along the stream of life!

>> No.5747378

just do what seems right to you OP

>> No.5747388

>>5747306
I've wanted to read some skeptic texts lately. Can you recommend some?

>> No.5747438

>>5747388
Nigger there is a reason like zippo of the Skeptics actually wrote anything, and historians put their shit together from verbal accounts of them by others.

Literally embrace doubt. Keep digging deeper into your psyche about anything and you'll realize we don't actually know anything about anything cuz how could we? I'm being hypocritical as fuck right now, simply brcause someone else did what I'm doing for you right now - and abandoned skepticism to make a bunch of claims and introduce me to all this. But really when you get down to it, the only way not to talk bullshit is to not talk. Eventually you'll come to peace of mind in your doubt, then life will be more like a ride than a puzzle (maybe, idk. That's what happened for me, who knows what it will do for you... idk I'm trying to make sense here but what I'm spewing is contradictory to what I've been practicing for months).

Read wiki's and bios of the ancient skeptics, maybe some quotes. Search ancient skeptics on Wikipedia for list of the guys.