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What books celebrate existence?
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What books celebrate existence?
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Most books on mythology and religion desu.
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>>7591794
the dhamma
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i twisted my ankle on my birthday today

fuck demiurge
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>>7591794
Childhood's End counts, I guess. (It's Clarke)
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>>7591794
notes from underground
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>>7591794
Ur mom. Lol
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Siddhartha is the first that comes to mind desu.
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Ur mom. Lol
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>>7591794
One hundred years of solitude
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>>7591794
my diary, desu
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>>7591822

In this cosmos, Demiurge fucks you
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How do you mean that, OP? I mean, you're sending some very mixed messages here.
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>>7591794
define "celebrate". i know books that make it a point that we exist, but typically those books are existentialist and are pretty depressing and i wouldnt say they celebrate existence. if anything, they do a great job acknowledging thats existence exists.
Read Nausea by Sartre btw
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Anything by Walt Whitman
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>>7591794
Stupid ones
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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Candide
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>>7592653
Ow the edge
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Look into the transcendentalists, OP. Hell, just read Emerson's essays.

>OH BOY, EVERYTHING IS GREAT! THAT TREE IS SO GREAT! I'M THAT TREE AND THAT TREE IS ME AND WE'RE BOTH GREAT TOGETHER! GOD I FUCKING LOVE TREES! GOD I LOVE GOD, AND ME! ALSO I'M GOD!
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Ulysses
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>>7591822
The demiurge too is trapped in his own creation, and we must also have compassion for him and yearn for his salvation.
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>>7592677
This post was fun to read, much like Emerson.
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>>7591794
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>>7591794
bhagavad gita my homie
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Childhood's End. Is so bitter sweet. It treats us like we are something special in a universe where everything dies in the annals of time. The ending always gets me; the Earth is destroyed and forgotten about for the rest of time but man lives on forever as part of a God-like conscious whilst the Overlords live on for eternity forever trapped in eternal life.
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>>7591794
Manalive by Chesterton.
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>>7591794
Whitman
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Shantaram.

Not in the narrow sense of celebrating existence, but goddamn it makes you feel alive
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>>7592662
I don't know how edgy it is most religions believe that life is suffering, that this world is a vale of tears, that all is vanity
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>>7593380
:,)
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>>7591794
The world as Will and Representation
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>>7591794
i got you OP
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