Can a book save me from existential nihilism? I don't want to feel this way forever.
only death
KJV
>>7495999
Start with the Greeks.
>>7495999
You could try reading buddhism or some variant. Although it won't remove the nihilism, just makes it more bearable.
>>7495999
the only cure is to revert back to pleb ways, my friend. Im not even joking, either.
DFW t b h
>>7496030
This. Buddhism can get you through any philosophy.
>>7495999
Principia Discordia.
It's good for a laugh too.
think less
do more
>>7495999
read this
http://prahlad.org/gallery/nisargadatta/books/Nisargadatta%20Maharaj%20-%20ebook%20-%20Consciousness%20and%20the%20Absolute%20-%20searchable%20PDF.pdf
>>7496540
if you are able to chew this stuff correctly it will literally turn your nihilist view upside down
>>7496096
oh jesus
I haven't seen this cliche posted on /lit/ unironically in years
>>7496564
honestly tho weed had done more for my existential anxiety than any book
>>7495999
Or you could man the fuck up Philosophy 101 student.
The Ego and His Own
Embrace Egoistic Nihilism
Almost anything by G.K. Chesterton. "Heresy" and "Orthodoxy" especially.
>>7495999
How old are you?
I have never understood why nihilism is making so many people depressed
Read everything by Sartre. He explains how you can be really free because life is meaningless. Before I was a pessimist, now I'm almost an optimist.
>>7495999
Read books by Robert Anton Wilson.
He'll remind you of the mysteries of the world, thereby reinjecting the world with meaning.
>>7495999
Read the poems of Walt Whitman. Analyse them as leisurely or as strenuously as you please, but you can't only dissect the poems for technique or semantics. Instead, you have to look at them ideologically. Try to interpret Whitman as a voice of nihilism and you'll come out with life's meaning I promise.
That or just read Plato.
>>7495999
Pic related.
>>7496606
mean
>>7495999
My diary desu
>>7495999
You just need ataraxia.
>>7496940
What is good to read from plato?
>If you're an existential nihilist and you feel bad about it, you misunderstood existential nihilism
>>7496976
If you think Nietzsche was an existential nihilist, you misunderstand Nietzsche.
>>7496974
Bump for this
>>7496030
Nah stoicism would be better. Less aimless
>>7496911
where do you start with sarte, my family?
>>7495999
Make your own meaning.
>but what if I'm wrong?!
You're probably not very important to many people and humans are short-lived in the big scheme of things. Just prioritize shit that seems to work for you.
Read the "fun club" of nihilism:
>Camus
>Stirner
>Special Guest: Friedrich "Get sum will" Nietzsche
>>7496952
How do you feel about people who say that quietism is "giving up?"
>>7495999
Wait until your balls drop kid, then come back if it persists.
Unless you're a woman, then your only option is to get married and give birth to 2-3 children.
>>7497203
That's kind of like saying someone is giving up on scoring when he stops playing football, I think, while he is not so much giving up on scoring as he is giving up on the framework in which scoring is a goal in the first place.
The 'giving up' is giving up on the meaning/truth searching game here (if I interpret you correctly) but giving up is only bad within the game, not outside of it. When you no longer play the game, the rules of the game don't apply to you.
First read Notes from the Underground to understand what your nihilism is getting you into. Then read Nietzsche. Start with The Gay Science or Twilight of the Idols. The man was a genius like no other who ever lived.
>>7497198
For Camus, read in this order:
Myth of Sisyphus
The Stranger
The Rebel
>>7497092
just read Nausea
if ur a whiny little shit ur gonna get even more depressed
if u actually try to understand the book beyond "life is meaningless everything sucks" then ur gucci tbqh senpai
>mfw when i finished Nausea
You need spirituality, nigga.
>>7496977
If you read Nietzsche, you misunderstood Nietzsche.
>>7495999
Yes, read Nishitani's The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
Someday some breath just like that will be your final breath.
What will you think of then? How will you face it, it all, on that final breath?
This is my crippling fear/thought that resurfaced because of stupid fucking TV-show showing death over and over and over again.
It paralyzes me. That someday you will have to face dying, death, on that final breath. Not the breath before the final breath, not the nothing after the final breath.
But the final breath.
That's the one that keeps crippling me. The one breath.
>>7497896
you just die nigga, it's nothing really
you just can't breath for some seconds and puff, you are gone and unconscious. if you have got unconscious before you know it's very fast and you literally don't feel anything
>>7497932
but every joy and every fun thing and everyone you know, your memories vanish at that moment and then nothing you cant ever experience them again
its terrible really
>>7497961
it's terrible because you are thinking now about it
when you die you don't have time to think about it, you don't feel anything about it, at most i think you will think "so this is it huh?", maybe laugh a little and then die (if you don't die you would start crying though, that would be terrible)
>>7496586
This.
>>7497961
you've already forgotten many fun days you had as a child, but you're not grieving for them. the fact that you had them in their own moment was enough.
>>7496555
Meh, it helps me
>>7498043
remembering is a worthless act, a poor imitation of the memory's subject, something derivative to do when you are bored or when you can no longer replicate the act but wish to. Forgetting a memory is trivial, the memory is of infinitesimal value compared to the experience within the same moment of the act.
Don't worry about forgetting.
>>7498073
It matters to me.
>>7498097
you are being irrational and causing yourself pain because of that
>>7498113
this is the most interesting line i have seen today
it's deep as shit man
slightly related :
What if you don't give a shit about dying but are intensely scared of being trapped in a coffin?
is it still possible to be pronounced dead incorrectly in 2015 and put in the ground with no way out? Or can you just get cremated or something?
>>7498127
it's really not?
>>7498136
Human error finds away anon
>>7498142
how comforting, senpai.
>>7498136
Make sure to the right people you want to be cremated.
Worst case scenario you'll be burned alive, trapped in a coffin.
>>7495999
Buddhism, stoicism, cognitive behavioral therapy and new sincerity to be quite honest family. Your opinions are a reflection of your mental state more than anything OP. You're probably just depressed as shit and are intellectualizing it
>>7495999
steppenwolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pGaz_qN0cw
just read the phenomenology. hegel will make you feel better.
>>7498493
alternatively, the sickness unto death
>>7496564
What are you doing in /lit/ if you think buddhism is about "dude weed lmao"?
the rage against god.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3ly2dAXTI
>>7495999
Only you can write the book that can save you.
[SPOILER]nice trips[/SPOILER]
>>7497492
Seconding Myth of Sisyphus, but just the first section. The rest is just Camus stretching out his main argument.
>The main argument is really good though
Bump, we need more and better contributions to this thread
>>7498875
T H I S
Why would you want to be saved from your freedom? Do you seek restriction? Do you desire slavery?
>>7497436
>When you no longer play the game
Yeah because you gave up!
>>7501437
From the perspective of someone still in the game, sure. But it's sort of like screaming 'offside' from the football field to someone getting a beer on the patio next to it.
>>7501483
Everyones on the field playing the game from the start, and if you're not on it then you either won, lost or gave up.
