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Anonymous Mon Apr 18 17:55:15 2016 No.7938114 [Reply] [Original]

Can someone recommend me interesting philosophy/psychology books that will give me answers to the meaningless void that is my life?

Much appreciated

Anonymous Mon Apr 18 18:09:11 2016 No.7938162

Most people are not nihilists. If they were then they would likely kill themselves. People are attached to pleasure and emotions and existence. They say everything is meaningless but they don't believe it. It's just a way to deny the obvious meanings when you can't attain them. What is the best philosophy? Success. Divine your desires and attain them. I was unhappy once. I was an edgy loser nerd with no hobbies and no fashion sense and no girlfriend. Following a psychedelic experience where I learned the true meaning of ego death and nihilism, I have been cultivating myself both physically and spiritually. I am now in med school and am engaged to a 9/10.
I would recommend Jung, von Franz, Edinger, Eliade, Evola, Guenon. Coomaraswamy, Huxley, and Watts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 18 18:16:01 2016 No.7938183 >>7938162 Thank you anon, your post means a lot

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 18 19:06:48 2016 No.7938348 File: 42 KB, 309x400, 14610165151881.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] As a /lit/izen first and foremost, I feel indebted to recommend you our Messiah, John von Dorf.

happy person Mon Apr 18 19:52:11 2016 No.7938500

>>7938114
Good psyche books that give you hope and insight into humans and our purpose. The Art of Loving by Fromm and Becoming a Person by Rogers.

Emile an Education by Rousseau, and many other books about education can give you perspective on how important it is and how we can make it good like: How Children Fail by Holt, Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Weingarten, and The Schools of Tomorrow by Dewey.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 18 19:53:06 2016 No.7938505 >>7938114 If you're a critical thinker, nothing will give you answers. It's your job to choose what you care about and live for that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 18 19:56:27 2016 No.7938515 >>7938114 >answers ahahahahhahaha

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 18 20:09:28 2016 No.7938557 If you want answers you dont study art or philosophy, these are just representations and their derivatives of the different questions you ask. If you want answers you study cosmology or biology or chemistry.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 18 22:29:21 2016 No.7939012 File: 1.68 MB, 4961x3508, 1438481149240.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7938114 This is actually just a great reading list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 03:01:43 2016 No.7939728 File: 347 KB, 492x500, 1446859003457.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Listen here buddy, I became a Christian because I wanted to do magic, but instead I got the secrets of the universe. You don't always get what you want ya shitter.

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