/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8094824]

Could you recommend some books for a 25 years old with existential crisis?

Optimistic vital literature is welcome

[Anonymous No.8094833]

[Anonymous No.8094837]

>>8094824

How the fuck does anyone under the age of 40 have an existential crisis?

Fucking go get a beer, pay a stripper to bounce on your dick, fucking anything.

[Anonymous No.8094843]

>>8094824

Sidhartha. Maybe even better En-Route by Huysmans.

[Anonymous No.8094895]

>>8094833
Five-star post.

[Anonymous No.8094896]

>>8094837
I'm not OP but I am literally 25 and have been in a deep depression for a couple years. I have difficulty connecting with other people on a meaningful level, I've been estranged from my family for years, and I have maybe a couple friends whom I would only really call aquaintances due to my tendency to alienate anyone I want to get close to. This makes me question what I could have done wrong to deserve to feel so lonesome and all the time, though I know it is in futility due to the lack of any cosmic karmic regulating force in the universe. I then feel guilty because I know that in the supreme unfairness of reality, many have much more egregious hardships to deal with than myself. But this does nothing to make me feel any better and I sink into a worse depression out of my sympathy for the world. I don't know if that constitutes an existential crisis, but it is a deep sadness dealing with the nature of my existence, so I would say that it is

[Anonymous No.8094905]

>>8094896
do you smoke weed

[Anonymous No.8094913]

>>8094837

Maybe they don't have money for those things.

Maybe they feel like they're exploiting strippers or like me get no unique titilliation or permanent fulfillment out of the act. I look at my empty wallet and grasp my still tumefied penis in regret.

Maybe beer isn't quite the antidote to social anxiety we think it is. It's common knowledge that alcoholics are almost universally depressed, that people frequently look back with shame at the shitty things they do drunk, and again comes the issue of money: the ephemeral thrills can't last forever, we need something more.

Maybe the person in question has some predisposition that makes them feel isolated and different in the company of others.

plenty of reasons I can easily conceive of but I'm a
>FUCKING WHITE MALE
and suffering that isn't a result of being an oppressed victim from birth isn't real, we're all just faking it because we like doing this.

[Anonymous No.8094923]

>>8094833
fpbp

[Anonymous No.8094929]

>>8094905
I used to, but it doesn't do much for me. The only drugs I've ever really liked were mdma and cocaine, but I have a heart condition and can't take them anymore because of their vasoconstrictive effects. Liquor is ok

[Anonymous No.8094937]

Notes From The Underground

[Anonymous No.8094962]

Either/Or,
Sickness Unto Death,
The Stranger,
The Fall,
The Plague,
Der Steppenwolf,
Anything by sadboy Nietzsche,
The Ego and Its Own,
Notes from the Underground,
Notebooks of Albert Camus,
Studies in Pessimism,
the short stories by Oscar Wilde,
Siddartha,
Being and Time (if you can read it),
Straw Dogs (contemporary philosophy tho),
Better Never to Have Been.

Oh and literally ANYTHING by professional sadboy Emil Cioran.

[Anonymous No.8094964]

Honestly OP, read your favorite genre fiction for escapism. I've never read a book that has made me feel better about my existence from its message or content. At best I have felt a sympathy and kinship with the characters due to mutual suffering, but that doesn't make you feel happy. Read something with an adventure and the prospect of the new in it. If you like westerns I would recommend Lonesome Dove or the Gunslinger, if you like SciFi I would recommend the Hyperion Cantos or Dune Series. If you like historical fiction I would recommend The Red and the Black or The Name of the Rose

[Anonymous No.8094965]

>>8094896
Seriously, I'm in a worse position and I'm closing forty. No friends to speak of ether, but I'm well past that self pitty period. Get a thing that you like to do and do it. No matter if it's lame sport watching, fooling round internet, pets, mindless religion, or walks in nature. Just find joy in trivial things.

I spend few hours of every other day just running around. Slow, mindless running in my overweight body, like the jappies and fitness freaks, and it gives me joy just sitting on some field listening to the sounds around me. Hardest thing was starting it up. It's hard thinking what everyone would think when they saw me, it still is sometime, but mostly I just don't care. I have my own thing to do, let them worry about theirs.

[Anonymous No.8094968]

>>8094929
alcohol will just make you more depressed. try smoking weed again, and do meditation, and get out more, and do some light exercise before you get in the shower, and stop browsing this site

[Anonymous No.8094972]

>>8094962
ill second steppenwolf, it handles existential loneliness pretty well (which i think is at the heart of nearly every existential crisis/quandary)

[Anonymous No.8094977]

The Castle
Notes from Underground
The Stranger
Stoner

[Anonymous No.8094995]

>>8094972
it's my favourite book.
It's not just a matter of loneliness, but identity.

[Anonymous No.8094998]

>>8094833
kekked

[Anonymous No.8095004]

>>8094995
what about identity? Ride the Tiger is good if you feel unmoored from a sense of purpose

[Anonymous No.8095015]

>>8094824
The only way to be happy is to love

[Anonymous No.8095031]

>>8094824
If you want something about getting over an existential crisis The Foutainhead by Ayn Rand is great. All the characters have an existential crisis except Howard Roark who gives the rest of the protagonists the strength to fully embrace who they are. Atlas Shrugged is alright too seeing that the whole world has an existential crisis, but it's less about existential crises than The Fountainhead.

Rand has an blunt in your face writing style that some love while others don't so it's kind of hit or miss on whether or not you like it. Also they're quite long.

[Anonymous No.8095036]

>>8095004
Fuck off with Evola, fascist.

[Anonymous No.8095042]

>>8095031
>capitalist fascism by a B-list actor who no philosopher takes seriously

>>8095004
>fascism fascism by a guy who wrote a book on how to do magic

[Anonymous No.8095043]

>>8095015
fuck outta here

[Anonymous No.8095052]

>>8094995
Take stock of and embrace heritage, tradition, roots, place, family, ancestors, religion, country, myths, heroes. Obviously cast off what you truly feel is dead and gone. But DIY type identity creation is for bluehairs. You're a man.

To know your own value, you must first give value to the world.

seek knowledge, seek experience, knowing these things are value-creation and that your image of self and your life's 'meaning' will be constantly changing as you grow old.

[Anonymous No.8095083]

>>8095036
>>8095042
say what you will about fascism, I think a strong sense of nationalism is a necessary evil for some when it comes to unregulated nihilism. It's not the only way that people involve themselves in the great struggle (other methods are religious fanaticism, overzealous hobbyism, scientism, etc.). It's all about feeling like you're taking part in something larger than yourself. The Bhagavad Gita is another good book

[Anonymous No.8095089]

>>8095043
not him but I agree. To love and be loved in turn was the only time I felt what I would consider to be happiness

[Anonymous No.8095179]

>>8095042
>Hating on Rand

Is this le fresh new meem?

[Anonymous No.8095199]

>>8095015
Then I'm fucked
>>8094962
>>8094977
Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.8095206]

>>8095083
>it's the "lol we need something to protect us from nihilism" meme
>it's the "lol people need 2 feel like they're taking part in something greater than themselfs" meme
The two stalest memes in history. The horse has been beaten plenty, thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.8095527]

>>8095206
What's your solution then? And how do you explain disproportionate levels of suicide among developed nations?

[Anonymous No.8095605]

>>8095527
>What's your solution then? And how do you explain disproportionate levels of suicide among developed nations?
I don't have a solution because you haven't identified a problem. Nor do I have to explain anything about suicide among developed nations because I'm not concerned with it. If my friend is talking about killing themselves, then I'm concerned. But a bunch of people I don't know or care about, and who don't know or care about me? There is no necessity and no purpose. Nothing 'needs' to be done and there is nothing to drive people to do it.

[Anonymous No.8095621]

>>8095605
I was arguing that a stronger sense of collective identity helps prevent nihilistic and idle-provoked self pity potentially leading to depressive tendencies and suicide. All you did was poison the well by intentionally misspelling quotes to disparage what I was saying, and then when asked for an alternative proposition to the one you childishly lashed out at, your response is 'le I don have to do nuffin' (see I can do it too). Yeah dude congrats you are so smrt

[Anonymous No.8095625]

>>8094972
Steppenwolf is shit if you don't know Goethe/Nietzsche super well.

>>8094824
OP, read Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann. Best text on finding yourself that exists. Massively underrated.

[Anonymous No.8095905]

>>8095015
this, happiness only exists when it is shared

[Anonymous No.8095914]

>>8094896
Just go talk to people. People of your age need to be less critical. Go drown your sorrows in alcohol, have you tried that yet? Then learn how to fake being alpha to try to fill the hole with women. Then when you have some life experience you can actually have an existential crisis. Right now all of your thoughts are like Watts-kun says; based on other thoughts and are ultimately pure conjecture.

[Anonymous No.8096002]

>>8094962
These will likely make you feel worse.
Good recommendations though.

[Anonymous No.8096022]

>>8095042
Did you read the post, he wants something about existential crises and everyone else is posting kill yourself novels. I'm not going to discuss philosophy here but The Fountainhead is literally about existential crises, but its about beating them not succumbing to them. Your post has no relevance.

[Anonymous No.8096031]

>>8095914
>you aren't allowed to be sad unless you try alcoholism first
are you baiting or retarded

[Anonymous No.8096062]

>>8095527
Its the little pond big fish effect. Within developed nations is the stigma of happiness, so if you are not happy, you are inadequate to your fellow man. Higher happiness levels in a country means more suicide because of the severe contrast that one suffers within a society. Underdeveloped nations have lower levels of happiness, so when one becomes depressed, they look around and see everyone else along the same lines, so therfore they feel adequate, normal. Feeling a sense of listlessness, anomie, or inadequacy, causes suicide.

[Anonymous No.8096246]

>>8096031
I'm totally fucking straight on. It isn't physically addicting like hard drugs, and virtually every good artist ever has boozed hard at at least one point in their lives. Do it! If you're questioning whether life has any inherent worth to it, or your ability to interact, or what being a "person" means etc. you need more life, not more squeamish "this is bad, that is bad".

If it won't kill you, or make you physically addicted, fuck it. Do it all.

[Anonymous No.8096330]

>>8094837
lol more like how does anyone older than a teenager have an existential crisis? eventually you have to come to terms that you just need cognitive behavioral therapy and are no longer just pondering your meaning

[Anonymous No.8096338]

Moon Palace by Auster

[Anonymous No.8096361]

>>8096246
You sound like you just finished your first Henry Miller novel and think you had an epiphany

[Anonymous No.8096380]

>>8094913
you're a fucking idiot

okay, you don't have money? try making some - who knows, you might like it. or go ahead and make up another excuse as to why there's no point in it.

>some predisposition that makes them feel isolated and different in the company of others

if this is true, then it is probably due to some chemical imbalance in your brain than some special outlook on life.

literally no one said anything about your race or gender but you've already spooked yourself into thinking that the world is out to get you based on ephemera

get help pussy. stop whining on 4chinz

[Anonymous No.8096385]

>>8096380
>you've already spooked
I really hope you're just shitposting and didn't actually fall for the Stirner meme

[Anonymous No.8096393]

>>8095052
i would go one step further. if one really craves an identity to draw upon themselves, then they should do it critically. do not treat your identity as an either/or scenario. you will not be perfect. learn that there will be a good and bad to whatever person you become. the moment you think you've arrived is the moment you stop growing in this world

[Anonymous No.8096399]

>>8096380
>okay, you don't have money? try making some - who knows, you might like it. or go ahead and make up another excuse as to why there's no point in it.
>but you've already spooked yourself

Well, that's enough classical /lit/ hypocrisy for me tonight.

[Anonymous No.8096401]

>>8095083
this anon's worldview is a perfect example of an either/or outlook. his thinking is binary (he uses words such as necessary and only) and he deludes himself with believing his simple actions are actually symbolic of extreme struggles. they are not, not completely at least.

[Anonymous No.8096403]

>>8096385
>didn't fall for the Stirner meme
It's like you haven't even gotten the memo that we're all about New Sincerity on this board.

Also,
>believing Stirner is a meme
literally kek.

[Anonymous No.8096406]

>>8096401
Even Nietzsche describes the necessary delusion of struggle in becoming a part of something larger and, in effect, giving life purpose.

Are you new here or something?

[Anonymous No.8096418]

>>8096406
Again with the language of the necessary. Oh ho ho, my friend. And you say even Nietzsche - the meme fruit eater? Golly jee,

>Are you new here or something?

how empty your inner-Nietzsche must be to take pride inthe lost time spent meming

[Anonymous No.8096421]

sartre, anyone from the theater of the absurd, kafka

[Anonymous No.8096434]

Read the later works of the oracle Martin Heidegger

[Anonymous No.8096444]

>>8096399
lol

your mom has bruised lips stupid ass

[Anonymous No.8096621]

>>8094824
Thiel's 0 to 1, there are several "whoa" moments in this book.

Neither optimism nor pessimism is not the answer. Instead one should focus on figuring out what is the answer, planning how to act on it, and acting on it.
> Extreme pessimism, or extreme optimism on their own terms, are not terribly healthy attitudes to have, because extreme pessimism tells you there’s no point in doing anything. Extreme optimism tells you there is no need to do anything. They converge on doing nothing.

Substance over status. Don't get caught up with appearances.
> Always prioritize the substance of what you’re doing. Don’t get caught up in the status, the prestige games. They’re endlessly dazzling, and they’re always endlessly disappointing.

also obligatory sperg quote
> What is it about our society where those of us who do not suffer from Asperger’s are at some massive disadvantage because we will be talked out of our interesting, original, creative ideas before they are even fully formed?

[Anonymous No.8096629]

Just watch videos of brazillian torture executions and be happy you don't live there

[Anonymous No.8096677]

>>8094824
OP, you're getting some depressive recommendations in this thread. The following are serious and optimistic tips:

The Power Of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman
A Path With Heart, by Jack Kornfield
The Three Pillars of Zen, by Philip Kapleau
Loving What Is, by Byron Katie.

[Anonymous No.8096722]

>>8096677
you read WESTERNISED DILUTIONS

while CHAD reads 首楞嚴三昧經

[Anonymous No.8096779]

>>8096722
And?

[Anonymous No.8096794]

facesofsuicide.com

real cheery stuff there

[Anonymous No.8096812]

>>8094824
here you go

[Anonymous No.8096819]

>>8096812
binary thinking has no place in literature

[Anonymous No.8096824]

>>8095179
No, Rand has been hated for ages

[Anonymous No.8096825]

>>8096812

top shelf rage bait

[Anonymous No.8096872]

>>8096819
>>8096825
it's funny how true it is though

[Anonymous No.8096881]

>>8096872
but it's not. It's a stupid 9gag copypasta that tries to be edgy and profound

[Anonymous No.8096890]

>>8096872
People on the right just donta complain as much, handle your crisis like a man and go fishing or something.

[Anonymous No.8096907]

>>8094824
id recommend getting your head out of your arse and doing something useful with your life.

[Anonymous No.8096965]

>>8095179
we had a fucking rule, pleb

[Anonymous No.8097035]

>>8096881
It actually is
It's not trying to be profound at all, it just in a simple and humurous way clarifies the supposedly problematic existential crisis concept, so I so suppose only people like me who understand the more comprehensive clarification find it hillarious in its truthful depiction and uniformity
oh and it's not from 9gag btw

[Anonymous No.8097039]

This book is salvation against nihilism.

[Anonymous No.8097048]

>>8095036
>>8095042

>evola
>fascism

Pick one

[Anonymous No.8097055]

>>8096812
What a shit image. Kinda shit you'd find on your uncle's Facebook profile. Be ashamed.

[Anonymous No.8097095]

>>8097055
whoaah
insecurity = realized
nerve = hit

[Anonymous No.8097101]

>>8097095
you = mad
butt = on fire

Gotcha, kid.

[Anonymous No.8097109]

>>8097035
hauling out sweeping generalizations with cherrypicked images supporting each assertion isn't what someone with a brain would call a sound argument. If I gave enough of a shit about your opinion being wrong I would just cherrypick my own images and make a similar one with the captions reversed and it would be just as apt. But I don't care enough to put that kind of effort into debating a /pol/ teenager

[Anonymous No.8097116]

Lol man I hate new /lit/, everybody's a know-nothing edgelord.

Sage

[Anonymous No.8097129]

Will /lit/ have time for my cheap existential crisis?

I'm 26 and before a couple of years ago I was ambitious and I wanted money and power. Since the last few years my whole vision of the world changed, but I'm no communist hippie, I want to like money I just realized is a vain thing but I really miss the drive I had before.

I lost interest in the things I liked before (computers and stuff) because now I consider them not as important in life, I think falling in love (but not doing anything because 4chan) has something to do with it but now living with a friend's family I realize that is not the way I want to live.

TL;DR: Was ambitious but lost drive (and fell in love, never did anything with it) now I consider almost everything vain but I know I'm probably wrong.

[Anonymous No.8097136]

>>8097129
that's not an existential crisis, it's middle-class r9k babbling

[Anonymous No.8097148]

>>8097136
That's why I say it's cheap, I just want to like money like before. I've been traveling a lot for the last few months and everything feels the same and smaller than I expected

[Anonymous No.8097167]

>>8096246

>Alcohol not physically addicting
>won't kill you
>"some artists did it too!"

Oh man, i hope you are actually baiting.
(Alcohol is a harddrug, that our society developped and distributes, which is why it cause relatively fewer problems in comparison to other harddrugs. But it is both more addicting than cocaïne and more demanding on your liver. So allthough it's relatively safe hard drug, it is not a safe 'problem solving tool' )

[Anonymous No.8097175]

>>8097129
Well, you are kind of right. All life is suffering/unsatisfactory. That's the fist noble truth of buddhism. There is still a worthy goal to strive for though, namely enlightenment/liberation.

These >>8096677 are good books.

Best wishes.

[Anonymous No.8097177]

Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Existential Crisis Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Self Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha

[Anonymous No.8097191]

>>8097109
Nobody was engaging you in an argument dude, you're the one who shit your pants when you saw the picture and took a reactive (slave) position replying to it

The picture makes a pretty good point though, it's ok if you don't see it though

[Anonymous No.8097193]

>>8097177
That was a good one

>>8097175
The problem with measuring thing like that is that I have a hard time picking some activity I consider important enough to dedicate the rest of my life.

[Anonymous No.8097208]

>>8096812
>prince william
>married a fucking commoner
>obama
>mixed race progressive liberal opportunist
>""""orthodox"""" jews
>recently invented religion
>mecca
>abrahamic revival 3: eclectic tourist trappery globalist savage remix
>any of this
>traditional national cultural and religious values
>implying

[Anonymous No.8097213]

>>8097191
I too remember when I was 17 and thought I knew everything. It's ok kid, you'll grow up one day

[Anonymous No.8097225]

>>8097193
You could become a monk then? : )

dedicating one's life to reaching liberation and then helping others is a worthy path. If that does not suit you, I'm afraid I can't tell you what you should do instead.

Meditation usually makes you happier though, whatever you do on the outside.

[Anonymous No.8097241]

>>8094896

He I am 24, and kind of in a similar situation. Not exactly an existential crisis maybe, but a crisis of me not knowing which mindset I should pursue life with, to say broadly. I had quit my job after college a few weeks ago, and go to the library each day to read, and blew a large portion of my savings on a solo trip to puerto rico.
Would you wanna swap burner emails or something, and we can maybe stay in touch and recommend books, or give each other tips and stuff?

I lost my bestfriend and girlfriend around the same time a year ago, and haven't really quite found another good friend yet.

Just let me know bro!

[Anonymous No.8097256]

>>8097116
>new
Don't kid yourself

[Anonymous No.8097338]

>>8096434
>the later works
tfw poetically dwelling on this earth

[Anonymous No.8097378]

>>8097225
I like the part of helping others, but I do still enjoy mundane things but it makes me sad that I realize they are not important.

Monk maybe is not for me, it seems like you are not actually participating in the world around you

[Anonymous No.8097434]

>>8097378
Maybe it's not necessary to decide right now what you should dedicate the rest of your life to? Maybe you could just take some part time job and live cheaply and read and think and perhaps meditate until perhaps you get more clarity?

Things not being important can be liberating too. If nothing is that important, there's nothing to be afraid of. But you can still enjoy the beauty of life.

[Anonymous No.8097464]

>>8097434
Talking about the beauty of life: a normal mind is like a house with very dirty windows. Meditation cleans the windows, and lets you see that the world is much more beautiful than you thought.

[Anonymous No.8097567]

>>8097177
got me in tears, fantastic memeing friendo

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC No.8097626]

>>8094824
Epicurus, Lucretius.

I mostly got through mine by bits and pieces from all around, but the ideas of the materialists impermanent life led me to a greater sense of my life and its place and allowed me to live a happier life despite it all.
My personal crisis, the I'm-going-to-die-&-it-means-nothing junk, was followed by a societal one when I read something very disturbing about climate change, but I live madly, happily now with long bouts of ataraxia. Life is blissful and fun for me now.

>>8094837
People have them at any age, and depending on how they react they may have relapses. I think pessimists and manic-depressives might actually wallow in them on purpose.

>>8095625
>Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann.
Okay, I'm gonna have to get this.

[Anonymous No.8097939]

>>8095625
>Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann

I know fuck all about Goethe, will I be good to read this?

[Anonymous No.8097949]

>>8097177
good job sid

[Anonymous No.8097967]

>>8097626
How old are you?

[Anonymous No.8098001]

>>8097626
>manic depressives wallow on purpose

When I last had a mental health episode, I'd much rather have an existential crisis.

[Anonymous No.8098029]

>>8097626
>Life is blissful and fun for me now.
all because you left us?

[Anonymous No.8098040]

>>8096380
i dislike you

[Anonymous No.8098042]

>>8094962
Fuck off Rebel

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC No.8098047]

>>8097967
I'm an old lady, though not fully greying yet.
I grew up a Christian conservative, and home schooled. So while trying to get my life started I went through a dumb spiritual quest that led only to giving up on those big three spooks. By then I was pretty much apolitical. Hated 'em all. I started to drift to the ideological left more and more, but upon further examination only accepted Anarchism during my time on /lit/.
I knew climate change was pretty bad, but this latest thing I learned was pretty devastating. I hadn't felt that bad in a long time. It was a residual of the existential crisis I just hadn't thought through initially.

>>8098001
I rattled that off too hastily. I don't think all of them do it on purpose. Sorry.

>>8098029
No, even during. My positive nature rankled some. Leaving has been good too though.

[Anonymous No.8098059]

>>8098047
>this latest thing I learned was pretty devastating
please share

[Anonymous No.8098065]

so what do i do if im convinced the purpose of life is to suffer. everything ends in pain. no matter how many good things happen, there always be something dreadful to happen next. how do i stop thinking like this

[Anonymous No.8098089]

>>8098065
unite it to a higher meaning

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC No.8098097]

>>8098059
It was enough to make me believe that we only have this century left at best. This disgusts me all the more since it's the kind of crap my old faith pushed deep into my head. I want a future for us. Even if I won't be there. We're in the fight for our lives, if you want to live.

[Anonymous No.8098107]

>>8098047
It's alright lol

Which Lucretius did you read?

Hackett's is p decent.

[Anonymous No.8098151]

>>8098097
link?

[Anonymous No.8098171]

>>8098097
Even the worst scenarios might wreak havoc but won't kill off all of humanity. We're like roaches. We'll just start over again.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC No.8098183]

>>8098065
Life is a process, it decays, it regenerates, you die. So what? It's not all bad.

>>8098107
I have a Bennet and a Humphries. I've heard good things about Slavitt's and Englert's too. I'll look into Hackett now.

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[Anonymous No.8098203]

The trouble with a lot of english lit students, including myself way back when, is that you have a predispotion to be creative, and to appreciate creative achievements and values, but you lack a masculine side to your character which reinforces the desire to create with the self-discpline to strong will to facilitate your creativity. My no bullshit advice to you is to get into a routine of waking up early, reading, studying, completing your work, and writing. Organize your day and get all of the embarrasing writing out of your system as soon as possible.

Too many young beta white guys lacking a strong father figure allow their potential to be squandered by a casually nihilistic view of the world and a needy, self-pitying impatience because the fruits of their alleged genius isn't handed to them on a plate the same way all their childhood rewards were

[Anonymous No.8098213]

>>8098203
Are you a published writer?

[Anonymous No.8098215]

>>8098213
Yes, I am Karl Ove Knausgard.

[Anonymous No.8098216]

>>8098089
the only things i can have faith in are provable facts, anything that can be confirmed. there's no point in believing something that could be entirely untrue, e.g. heaven/hell vs. reincarnation. if youre wrong you've wasted your entire life waiting on something that wasnt there in the first place. the things i cant know, i dont attempt to.

>>8098183
it is a process wrought with anguish. what is the point of a cycle that only harms its constituents?

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>>8098216
then how can you be convinced that the purpose of life is to suffer? unless you meant this is a less than literal way.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC No.8098262]

>>8098151
I don't recall a link, but the evidence included the latest about the Russian sinkholes, the methane gas leaks in the Arctic and how Greenland has gotten lighter and in lifting, is creating tremors.

>>8098171
I would like to die feeling that we were on a path to dealing with this.

>>8098216
The is no meaning to life, only an array of purposes to choose from. The challenges do keep coming at us, but they serve to make us stronger, yes, until they wear us down, but, if done properly, we weave through it. We are a part of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaTIK82LgnU

[Anonymous No.8098271]

Just live for the aesthetics

https://youtu.be/lmFKyXiOa6g

[Anonymous No.8098279]

>>8098203
how does one become more masculine and "alpha"?

[Anonymous No.8098297]

>>8098279
ROIDS, BRAH.

BTW, I DIDN'T EVEN PRESS THE CAPSLOCK KEY. IT JUST COMES OUT THIS WAY WHEN I TYPE.

[Anonymous No.8098318]

>>8094824

see

>>8097039

Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

In Ride the Tiger, Evola argues that the modern world has become totally corrupt and that the institutions and traditions of the ancient world that once allowed a person to fully realize his being have been lost

The principal metaphor of the book is its title. Evola argues that in order to survive in the modern world an enlightened or "differentiated man" should "ride the tiger"

it is a testament to his belief that no matter how lost civilization may be, there always exists the ability for the individual person to live his life always looking "above" himself and thus achieving enlightenment

[Anonymous No.8098324]

>>8098318
Sounds like garbage.

[Anonymous No.8098343]

>>8098318

>looking "above"

>>8098159

>achieving enlightenment

...Sheldrake’s theory of morphic field resonances between “an atom, molecule, crystal, cell, plant, animal, pattern of instinctive behavior, social group, element of culture, ecosystem, planet, planetary system, or galaxy”...

...“Matrix Energetics… a huge morphic field that allows you, with minimal effort, to step into a unified field of consciousness….and amplify each other’s desirable momentum and abilities, in service of the collective good” ...

[Anonymous No.8098372]

>>8098343
Spot the redditor

[Anonymous No.8098423]

>>8097241
Sure, man. Send me an email at
[e-mail] and we'll start a discussion

[Anonymous No.8098730]

>>8097177
Wow

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[Anonymous No.8098835]

what is this business?

[Anonymous No.8098863]

>>8094824
what movie is this?

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[Anonymous No.8098933]

>>8097939
Yes, you'll be fine

[Anonymous No.8098942]

>>8094824
"Man's Search for Meaning" by Franz Kafka

[Anonymous No.8098969]

>>8098805
Can anyone recommend a good starting point for zen buddhism? I have no idea where to begin but the principles resonate with me.

[Anonymous No.8098976]

>>8094837
>not going into depression your first year of high school when you have an existential crisis
The only reason I read and play music now is so I don't keep thinking about it

[Anonymous No.8098993]

>>8098969
Zen Bones, Beginner's Bones

Or something like that

[Anonymous No.8099004]

>>8097177

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>>8098942
Fuck you

[Anonymous No.8099158]

>>8098901
Who is the nihilist guy?

[Anonymous No.8099163]

>>8097177
lol

[Anonymous No.8099173]

>>8094833
high guarantee reply desu

[Anonymous No.8099175]

>>8099158
marky de sade