So /lit/, what pulled you out of your first existential crisis?
>>8106382
religious existentialism
>>8106382
other crises
>>8106382
Ignoring it and then losing interest.
I'm still in it.
>>8106397
this and finding a vocation
>>8106382
Shitposting and memes.
Maturity
>>8106382
Throughout my youth I have been attracted to males and females equally. This wouldn't be complicated were it not also for the fact that I don't know if I want to be male or female myself. When masturbating I switch back and forth between a male and female perspective. Sometimes I come thinking as a man, sometimes as a woman. This was very frustrating for the longest time. I was sure that eventually I would "figure it out," that I would settle on one mode of thought, one identity to be. It wasn't until I read a bit of Virginia Woolf's"A room of one's own" that I realized, there wasn't anything wrong with me, that thinking androgynously is a boon, that the best writers are the ones who can sit comfortably in any characters head, male or female. Now I appreciate the lucid side of me, and it doesn't drive me apeshit anymore.
Masturbation.
>>8106497
That isn't an existential crisis, that's just gay.
>>8106542
It's half gay, you ignorant fuckwit.
I stopped being spooked.
>>8106551
The worst kind. Disgusting
Reading more literature actually
Heroin and books
You take the greenpill.
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol.
My second existential crisis
A noose.
>>8106913
Noice
>>8106382
I realized that I wasn't actually scared to be alone.
>>8106454
Buzz off, Christpest.
Embraced the absurd as a pleasurable affair and now spend my time pushing boulders up mountains and roundhouse kicking gods
>>8106382
I'm still in it.
Siddharta.
Its introduced me to meditation and yoga.I still eat like a pig and binge watch Netflix. I would like to quit my habits but I get distracted
always amuses me when people tally up their "existential crises," or claim to never have had one. either the mark of someone about to fall off the edge, or incapable of recognizing the edge in the first place.
>>8107139you might be right
I slept with a very attractive woman
Camus put a name on it for me. There might be inherent meaning to life, there might not be, there's really no fucking way to know, so might as well just fucking enjoy the ride.
>>8106382
>dude existential crises lmao
>dude i'm such a tortured yet enlightened soul lmao
kys you narcissistic pieces of shit
>>8107106
I don't see what the second two things have to do with the first.
>>8106382
Why is suicide not included here? It seems intellectually dishonest to discount suicide as a valid response to an existential crisis.
>>8107484
It's in the first paragraph.
>>8107198
>there might not be any reason to eat this moldy pizza but I might as well enjoy its delicious fungal goodness.
Albert Camus.
>>8107491
> Year of our lord 2016
> Not getting mushrooms, onions, green peppers on your pizza
>>8106382
reality
>>8106382
The realization I was born in a cult and that I wouldn't live forever like it was told to me since I was a kid. Accepting death when you're 20 is insane.
>>8107203
>t. some faggot who was pretentious as a teenager and feels like the only way he can convince himself he's "changed" is to project his younger self onto anonymous people on the internet
>>8107203
Yeah, no one knows existential suffering like you anon
>>8106949
That's not an existential crisis
>>8107132
Dude me to. That and fight club.
>>8107487
Its given the consideration of a gallows joke. Treating life as an accumulation of negative utility is as reasonable a resolution to an existential crisis as any.
>>8106382
Read more books.
Nothing, I just decided to live in it.
>>8106497
same
>>8107857
Then it's not a crisis. Maybe an existential itch.
>>8106497
>I don't know if I want to be male or female myself
What does it matter what you want to be? You are what you are, fate has already decided for you. Perhaps I'd rather be a beast than a man but that doesn't change my nature. It is okay to dream but don't let it become delusion.
>>8106435
>>8106397
failing to understand that it your hedonism which puts you in this situation and that ''finding a vocation'' remains entirely hedonistic and solves nothing.
>>8107934
Well, I settled the matter eventually. :P
>>8107934
This is a post about existential crisis man. Gender fits like a glove here.
>>8107944
I don't think it does. An existential crisis is much more fundamental than that.
>>8107964
For transgenders it's very much a crisis about the nature of their specific existence. It doesn't have to be about moral ambiguity or whatever your thing is.
>>8107484
How is suicide a solution to anything?
>>8107484
Whos to say you're ceasing to exist, instead of say just switching existences.
>>8107989
It has nothing to do with that. Its probably a more decisive solution to an existential crisis than any other, after all what person ever went on to have an existential crisis after death?
>>8107980
There is no such thing as "transgenders". And that's just a crisis, not an existential one.
>>8107982
How is it not?
>>8108007
You cease to exist, you don't get your answer but you are not there to care either, you are a hack
>>8108013
The answer is 'Ike.led myself because my life was nothing more than an accumulation of negative utilities with interstitial highs that occasionally tricked me into thinking it was equitable"
>>8108007
>Omg I'm going to die, everything seems so pointless and futile
>What am I going to do with my life, what gives meaning? What is meaning?
>Lel better kill myself so I don't have to answer any of these questions
>>8108013
>You cease to exist,
No shit, Sherlock.
>you don't get your answer
There are no answers - that's the whole point.
>but you are not there to care either,
Ya think?
>you are a hack
What the fuck did you just call me?
>>8107998
Well people literally swap genitalia, and it is absolutely a part of their existence.
>>8108027
There are no "answers to these questions", jackwagon. You either enjoy life or you don't.
>>8108047
Id say it's more of a spectrum
>>8108026
but thats not existential crisis, thats being a faggot
a person having an existential crisis senses there is something wrong in his valoration of things, he senses the puzzle is incomplete so he looks desperately for the missing piece everywhere
quitting the search is not even failing it, failing it is death finding you before you find the piece, if you go look for death you are not looking for the piece, if you are not looking for it you are not having an existential crisis, you are just being a little faggot
>>8108037
>There are no answers
okay master of the void
>>8108041
No they don't, cutting off your dick and taking hormones isn't "swapping genders." You're either XX or XY.
>>8108041
They just mutilate themselves but that is beside the point. My hair is a part of my existence but that doesn't mean I have an existential crisis every time I cut it.
>>8107964
For some, gender is a fundamental issue. Do you have any imagination?
>>8108062
It's swapping genitalia.
>>8108062
You don't have to "cut off your dick" to be transgender, shitlord. If a person publicly presents as female, she's female.
>>8108071
No swapping is involved.
>>8108067
Yeah because your not conflicted. I.e not a crisis.
>>8108072
>If a person publicly presents as female, she's female.
I can't tell if you're joking or not.
>>8106382
a testostertone boost desu
>>8106382
Nothing. I am forever a nihilistic who doesn't believe in the afterlife until it can be empirically proved to me that it exists.
We are just highly complex forms of matter. Beautiful, yes, but just matter. We live, we die, and then nothing happens. That is just observable logic.
There really is no meaning, and therefore you should never take anything too seriously in life. You are here while it lasts so just stop being such a serious minded cunt and think about the bigger pictures.
Fool yourself into the belief that everything has a reason and there is something after death, that's fine. Whatever makes you feel comfortable.
>>8108093
Depends how literally you take the "existential" part i guess. I think it would count, although it's not very compelling
>>8108071
>Swapping genitalia
I can glue a fleshlight to my forehead, but it won't make me a girl.
>>8108072
>Using "shitlord" unironically
Kys
>>8107998
Gender Dysphoria has been documented for a long time, regardless of whether or not one thinks you can/can't switch genders or whatever I don't see why people wouldn't just call a person like they wanted to be, if only as a courtesy
>>8106382
getting cucked 2bh
>>8108047
There are answers.
>You either enjoy life or you don't.
Now you're just being silly.
>>8108111
A lot of mental diseases have been documented for a long time m8
>>8108108
>I can glue a fleshlight to my forehead, but it won't make me a girl.
Well definitions of girl are subjective, but no it would not. Literally swapping REAL genitalia is another thing. Of course you can reject any definition you don't like, but yours seems to be the minority.
>>8108111
If gender didn't matter in many sports, fields of work, relationships, and many other things, it wouldn't really be a practical problem. But it does.
>>8106382
I read the Stranger because I was working in a library at the time and it was the closest book within reach I thought sounded interesting. Then I actually looked the author up and went on to read the rest of Camus stuff. A lot of my people I try to tell about it just say that it comes of very depressing, but I felt a lot of solidarity out of it
>>8108121
How the fuck do you define "real" genitalia? It's a piece of meat, it means nothing, your chromosomes are still the same inside. You can't change your sex.
>>8108111
>if only as a courtesy
How nice of you to both lie and encourage their delusional behaviour, truly your kindness know no bounds.
>>8108134
Is your genetics the only thing that makes you a women?
>>8108136
>And do you harass all of them too?
Why do you think he harass trannies?
>>8108062
>I have a lack of understanding about an issue therefore only an explanation which i can understand is correct.
>>8108139
I don't run into every bar and tell everyone that they aren't really happy either. I grew out of being a "Brutal honesty" edgelord 10 years ago m8
>>8108149
But most people in bars aren't mentally ill and unstable. I also fail to see how anything I've posted could be construed as "edgy".
>>8108144
Yes.
School responsibilities and other distractions
>>8108147
Well we're having a conversation about putting hypothetical people in their hypothetical places on a literal anime imageboard
Just call it a hunch
>>8108157
What a lame definition
>>8108136
I don't care about policing the terminology. I just think the official gender/sex/whatever shouldn't be able to be changed at a whim. It's an important element of a person that determines many things in life, and shouldn't be hidden from employers, friends and relationships, and the government.
>>8108164
Nice argument. What's your definition?
Female: Of or denoting the sex that produces ova or bears young.
Is there something wrong with that?
>>8108060
I sensed there was something wrong in the valoration of life itself and then I looked at the parameters of existence in terms of thermodynamics and realized life was a sham.
The piece in this case is realizing free will is a preposterous quantum anomaly, that in absence of free will there is no good beyond personal comfort and that there is no more positive state than the otherwise asymptotic zero of death
>>8108160
I will call it a blatant lie.
>>8108169
Here's another one: A person of the sex whose cell nuclei contain two Xchromosomes and who is normally able to conceive and bear young; a girl or woman.
You're saying these aren't good enough?
>>8108169
Well what about transgenders? How do they fit in?
>>8108164
Maybe, but it is accurate.
>>8108170
This is the most pretentious shit I've ever heard.
>>8108175
I'm sure there's some discrepancy
>>8108177
You must be new to this board then.
How can one experience an existential crisis if existence cannot be truly experienced until after nirvana is achieved? Also, I noticed something...
In my entire time of experience at a number of participating pediatric care facilities, talks with highly renowned medical doctors and neurotherapists, as well as countless hours of non-participant visiting on anonymous “anime” image boards such as this, I have really learned a lot about autism and my ability to gain any amount of personal experience with it, much more than I had bargained for, in fact. I have found myself rolling around the boards a few times here and there, addicted in a way, reformulating a billion planes of existential and out-right philosophical grounds on which thought is founded, and became a greater voice of intellectual indignation than Max Stirner or Frederich Nietzsche could ever hope to be, in this life or another, in this plane of existence, or any lower or higher one, in all space and time, and all under and above His mighty hand. That being said, I really think it is necessary and proper to bring up the white elephant looming in the black corner of the room. I think, personally, that the introduction of the theory that meaning and unmeaning are a dual relationship in a dichotomy that nearly never find themselves transcended nor passed over each other that it is completely certain that this level of autism surely would transcend the dichotomy just as much as Al-Karkei’s severely underrated “The Birds, The Frogs, & The Mosquitoes”, in which the periwinkle pursuit of principle and persistent processes put on by people and presentation as presented to us in the post-postmodern world is clearly contorted by a false sense of right brought by the rise of the left and the onslaught of the consistently overflow of degeneracy in society and its depreciation in decadence, thus easily and laymanly giving a clear example of the meaning/unmeaning dichotomy. In conclusion, it’s abundantly clear that anyone with any amount of regular brain function would realize how fucking stupid that sounds.
>>8108169
Male seahorses lay eggs. Definition is false
>>8108128
Camus has had the same effect on me. I really enjoyed the Myth of Sisyphus.
I think the term 'absurd' elicits quite a clear sign, it demarcates a way of seeing and a way of experience that rings with strangeness and familiarity of experience.
>>8108188
Can't tell if bait
>>8108189
>Definition is false
It still applies to mankind.
>>8108200
Not all xx females can produce offspring
I started being nice with people and making friends. Being social and changing your habits is something really amazing.
>>8108136
No I do not harrass transexuals, but I'll be damned if someone stands there and tries telling me being transexual is natural and that there isn't anything mentally wrong with them
>>8108188
>nirvana
Stopped reading there.
>>8108207
Fine, moksha.
>>8108203
So? They're simply not functional.
>>8108213
Doesn't fit the definition
>>8108205
This is a really good one
>>8106382
I forget what I did when I was younger, I guess just cried and then lied to myself that there is a good chance that my grandparents were going to heaven
But now I usually just get a pill of fluoxetina whenever I have that nasty feeling. I just tell myself that it doesn't matter what happens when we die because fear is a human emotion and so is sadness and every other negative feeling so there is no point in worrying about it since we lose those feelings when we die.
>>8108223
Just because some xx females can't reproduce doesn't mean they don't produce ova retard
>>8108228
If it did would they then not be women?
>>8106382
I never believed that I was of any importance and significance. This level of self-esteem has made the blow less brutal. I now feel justified for despising myself and others around me. I peacefully embrace the abrasive nature of life.
Also, I learned the art of letting go to ease all pains when I rode a rollercoaster at Knott's on my last birthday.
My sister.
Me being sad made her think she was responsible. That made me go into an "existetial review", and i snapped out of it.
I'm pretty ok, if a bit undewhelmed.
>>8108316
I'm not this guy and i agree with you but we where technically talking about gender not sexuality
>>8108316
>Sexuality is socially constructed
Kek
>>8108316
>Sex
>XX or XY
>Socially constructed
Socially construct yourself off a bridge.
>>8108316
Sexuality is a biological construct, a product of evolution.
>>8108350
Your thinking of gender.
>>8108350
Go back to /sci/, fedoralord. It's all subjective.
>>8106382
Having a kid and a career...something to focus on instead of being a self-absorbed faggot.
>>8108369
Haha modernist pleb
>>8108362
>Biology is subjective
>My feelings tell me I should have a dick
You should take your opinion and shove it up you ass.
>>8108395
>muh empiricism and scientism is always right
>can't actually prove empiricism without presupposing it
wew lad
>>8108373
We make our own meaning. For me, that was living for something other than myself.
To waste away pointlessly speculating on the meaningless of the universe was killing something inside me. Teaching a kid how to throw a ball is infinitely more rewarding.
>>8108395
Haha way to pick your arguments. Just scroll past the legit responses
>>8108400
See, I dont give a fuck if someone thinks they're male or female. I give a fuck if they start trying to force everyone else to pretend they magically changed their sex.
>>8108404
>Legit responses
>You can't really know nuffin so you should be able to do whatever the fuck you want
>>8108406
It's socially constructed, autist. Get over it.
>>8108402
I think your mis-attributing your happiness. People with kids are on drugs, the parent drug. It's unsustainable and unreliable. You made a wrong move and got lucky, for now.
>>8106538
Severely underrated.
>>8108316
Let there be no doubt; Post-Modernists/Structuralists are absolute trash.
>>8108402
There is nothing more nihilistic than the idea that one can redefine life by what he does within its confines. This is a sort of 'meaning' that is fundamentally meaningless as it is apparently so malleable it may change from one day to the next according to individual discretion. Such a concept of 'meaning' reduces the notion of meaning at all to a postmodern absurdity. But way to proliferate suffering in the quest for purpose family
>>8106382
1) Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.
2) Eternal recurrence.
That did it for me.
Thank you based Schopenhauer.
>>8108421
You sound unhappy, Sarte.
>>8108412
>muh serotonin
>it's unsustainable and unreliable
Of course it's a temporary fix, you dolt. People can still find meaning in the absurd after their kids move out.
Maybe Sarte would have been happier if he had settled down instead of being cucked by de Beauvoir.
>>8108462
It's just classic aversion. I guarantee having a kid doesn't make you happy %100 of the time. Didn't we learn modernism is Bullshit in the 90s?
> If you take all the steps you'll be happy. I.e kids, careers, marriage
"Remember how everybody grew up to successful" and not happy? Don't act like higher thinking isn't valid.
>>8108475
Remember how everybody grew up "successful" *
>>8106952
not him but wondering how many christposters there actually are
I feel as if it's like 2 dedicated guys who no one can be bothered arguing with so it seems like more
>>8106382
getting my dick sucked
>>8106497
I doubt you cant actually do that since you only actually have the one perspective. What you are doing is creating a fantasy on what the other might be like. You don't actually have a clue. You are simply one wanting to pretend to be another.
>>8108170
what?
>>8108174
They don't they are an anomaly, and do not damage or are worth conversation when figuring the norm.
>>8108528
This guy was born (and still has) a vagina. What is he/she?
>>8108535
A female freak. Outliers don't change the general rule.
>>8108563
Then you misunderstand rules.
>>8108599
No I numbers tandin them fine. Outliers reinforce the general trend.
Gender and sex are not separate amongst the mentally healthy. 99% of people have no issue regardless of sexual orientation a few outlier do not change this.
Oh an as for that poster. Bathrooms are divided by what type of genitalia you have not how you feel. That's why women's restrooms have no urinals. The issue is a silly one.
>>8108535
does the law make her use ladys bathrooms?
>>8108170
>free will is a preposterous quantum anomaly
literally nothing, just a fucking metaphor or deep autism
go outside faggot
>>8108316
Yes it is, but not biology, penis is penis, wether you call yourself woman or tranny really doesn't matter you are still a tranny
>>8108535
>"Come see the bearded woman! Is she a man or a woman? How can awoman have a beard! But how can a man have tits! Come see! Come see"
>>8108535
Female.
>>8108362
>It's all subjective.
No, it's all absolute.
>>8108535
thats a woman
hookers and lsd
>>8108492
Just a vocal minority, but pretty dedicated. A poison to this board, well and the human race too.
Also, the fedora meme or le u so edgy meme are their only defense while confronted with reason and logical thought. As expected of religious people.
>>8106382
Where is the postmodern "lol, just here to fuck about" option? Life can be pretty fun when you just laugh at everything.
>>8108938
How is worrying about sexuality and gender not also "high school" tier? How many people worry about gender before they've even hit puberty? People telling me it wasn't a crisis, without ever having met me, is pathetic. "What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly" and all that. I explained it as simply as I could so unimaginative plebs could grasp it, but apparently I made it too simple. It was an identity crisis that lasted years. Enjoy your "real" struggles, anon.
Currently I am having a general crisis that is questioning what I did during my past, growing up. I spent the last months thinking about wether videogames were worth the time spent, considering I ended up being physically maimed and with almost no real life skills. So I started thinking if I could just watch other people play games. The following are excerpts of a text gathering my thoughts:
Gaming feels like another medium for artistry and creativity. But how much important of that experience is playing them? You spent time in getting a result, but if this is a fictional result that you can now search on YouTube, what is the meaning of it?
Whats the meaning of videogame achievements? They stay in your hard drive, and rot away with time. You might delete them accidentally. The only reward you get is a false reward. The only positive thing you might obtain is entertainment.
But, is the entertainment lesser when you see it on a video? Is less rewarding watching other getting that Ultimate Sword? Cant I cheer up for the fictional hero bearing the sword, and not for me bearing that sword?
What makes this experience more false than playing the game? Why should I be considered a lesser being, when I am just searching more fun?
Its not like the gamer is showing any prowess. Its not like watching sports versus playing sports. Not like listening to music versus playing an instrument. In this list, doing the thing rewards you with tangible experience. But playing a game, what is the final reward? Being capable of slaying a digital dragon? Knowing how to swarm amongst menacing looking data? Having this considered, why should I be a lesser gamer for just watching the stuff on a video?
>>8111255
Cont.
This life can end abruptly, with an accident. Why should I spend hours in another life that can end easily as quickly as this one? Cant I become an indifferent deity that contemplates with amusement how a nonexistent person tries to avoid his ultimate fate, with flashy animations?
Now, one would say, I am spewing poison at the video part. But what about the “game” part? What makes a videogame different from a traditional game? A card game, becomes less traditional if it gets made into a videogame? Think about Pokemon TCG and its adaptation to a videogame, or games like Hearthstone or Valkyrie Crusade.
A videogame, a priori, seems like just another form of game. But, why do I feel it different to a traditional game? Why do I feel like games such as Baldurs Gate and Neverwinter Nights are different from a tabletop RPG, even though they share the same core? Why I feel like spending time with traditional games is less bad that surrounding yourself with videogames?
Is because of the gaming culture? Is because I am starting to perceive gamers as cultists of a demiurge? Acolytes that surround themselves with idols such as a PC, a Xbox One, a PS4, or elder gods like the SNES or the Sega Genesis?
Other cultures, like wargames, TCG, anime and RPG doesn’t seem to have that kind of devotion and following.
Why do I think of the videogame addict as a lesser creature than the TCG addict or the anime addict? What is the essential difference between a game and a videogame, what makes the latter drive me off? I try to apply my previous dissertations about the value of real experience to traditional games, but there is a difference, I feel it. But I don’t know where is.
With all of this said, what should I do? Enjoy videogames as another form of game? Or embracing that entertainment is the true reward, selling my systems and just enjoying watching others playing videogames I like without the burden of knowing that I am spending time and resources in an entertainment no more rewarding that watching anime?
>>8108947
*tips*
>>8106392
this
i stopped caring about "what it all means" when i decided whatever it meant i was still a friendless virgin loser failing highschool without any work experience
and in the years since i've continued to occupy myself with depression and occupational and financial cirisis'. adult life doesn't afford the care an existential crisis requires
>>8111258
Just don't give a fuck, bruh. One form of entertainment, whether it's the "intended" way or not, doesn't invalidate the other.
Sounds like you're mostly concerned about what other people think. Tabletop shit is typically more social and involves other people, so that's pretty self explanatory.
If social norms and whatnot are bothering you, then they're not serving their purpose. Go full autsy, make your own values or whatever. Or not, both paths are right, and don't necessarily make the other wrong.
>>8106382
what are the symptoms of an existential crisis? Like sometimes I feel depressed and shit but I dont know if its the real deal
My current problem is borderline existential crisis. I just feel terribly empty inside. As though I'm going no where at a very slow speed. Not depression, at least I don't think, but I can't even put into words what I feel right now. Just not happy, not exactly content, very irrelevant maybe. Anyone know what do?
>>8111305
You're a simpleton that should have occupied his time with religion because you failed in your pursuit of becoming an Ubermensch.
>>8111319
Its mostly about my own perception of gaming. Other people's opinion are secondary to me. Most of my friends are gamers, but not insuferable autists. If I told them Im quitting gaming and explain why, at least they would understand. And start flocking to my vidya collection.
My problem is about myself. I recognize that gaming is full of pretty stuff, but also a great timesink with no other reward than a digital achievement. So, because I dont want to throw away time, but want to enjoy the other things a videogame can offer, thats why I am in such a mental mess. Thats why I am questioning wether I would get the same satisfaction by watching somebody else playing a game in contrast of me playing a game. About how much my interaction is needed to get the intended experience.
>>8106382
A visit as an inpatient to a mental institution, where I was diagnosed initially with schizophrenia.
>>8108316
Read an elementary school science textbook. Sex makes babies.
>>8108316
sex = biology
gender = social construct
>>8108409
Saying it over and over won't make it true.
>>8111547
So why even bother getting surgery?
>>8106382
I didn't. I realized I was suffering from mental illness, self destructed, and I'm in the farthest hole from home inside myself. And I all I want is love. Never got out, it just destroyed me inside. It made something I never knew I had more harmful. I have nowhere else to go but down, and my mind is dragging me down the best it can.
>>8111629
I posted here before you, what did you get diagnosed with if you don't mind being asked?
>>8106382
I'll let you know in a couple years, trying narcissism and becoming a femboy
Even if we can't find meaning, we cannot deny that there is motion. Being still is not an option.
>>8111635
What do you mean?
>>8111706
You say you were suffering from a mental illness, do you think this because you got diagnosed or some other odd reason?
>>8111710
Oh, I got diagnosed. I'm not comfortable talking about what it is. I don't even know how I got it. It's in the personality disorder realm of things, I'm not really comfortable talking about how it is. One thing I was diagnosed with I'm comfortable talking about is amphetamine madness, from being prescribed adderall for too long throughout my life. It's made me question a lot of my previous writing since I relied on it so much. I wanted to make, and if all of my dreams of being a writer were just delusions of manic grandeur.
It's painful realizing that most of the inspiration you had left was built upon the logic of a faulty personality, and still trying your past dreams. With no way of knowing if your narrative cohesion just makes sense to you, and you alone.
Crisis lead me to explore knowledge, all the while I'm now left wondering if all I ever received wasn't funneled into myself.
I've made so many self destructive mistakes along the way in my life, if I was to ever become a writer, my closet of skeletons would curse me wherever I went.
>>8111741
Wow this is really fractured. I'm running on about an hour of sleep. I think you get the gist of it.
>>8111741
Sorry about that. Sometimes I go here or other chans to vent about my condition, and I got a new therapist. I can understand not talking about it fully but mentioning it briefly. I used to do that here before I realized that people don't really care about this sort of thing unless it's somewhat funny.
>>8106382
>So /lit/, what pulled you out of your first existential crisis?
Ageing, funnily enough.
When you're out of your teens/early 20's, you no longer feel protected by the imaginary bubble of eternal youth that seems to cloud your judgement on everything.
You're going to die and you don't have long left so you may as well get on with life whilst your parents and other loved ones are still alive.
>>8111959
This. STFU and enjoy the ride. It'll be over in a blink.
>>8107680
And why would you accept death, exactly?
>>8108189
>The male seahorse is equipped with a pouch on the ventral, or front-facing, side of the tail. When mating, the female seahorse deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch. The male carries the eggs for 9 to 45 days until the seahorses emerge fully developed, but very small.
>/lit/ in charge of biology
THE GAME
>>8108237
They are just defective. They meet all other criteria.
There will always be outliers they don't disprove the general rule.
>>8106382
I don't understand how anyone could not crave meaning
>>8112266
Well, what specifically do you find incompatible to your worldview with not craving meaning?
>>8112266
That always bothered me about that chart as well.
I craved meaning but the conclusions I drew are placed on the bottom of that chart
>>8112310
Well, in my mind, if you don't crave or seek meaning then you're just submitting to existential nihilism, so there should be nothing if you answer "no".
>>8112378
Well, there are several ways to go about existential nihilism, hence the options presented.
You don't need meaning to just have an interesting time.
>>8106382
I didn't have an existential crisis. I went atheist -> nihilist -> absurdist, but absurdism was boring. Years later I started reading up on Christianity and I liked it better. It was more clever and more satisfying than I'd been led to believe.
I was never a tortured soul—certainly didn't have a crisis—but I was very bored. There's nothing particularly glamorous about not believing in things. You can't go on doing it for long. It's dull.
>>8112503
You turned to religion because you were bored...pathetic.
>>8112503
What do you think an existential crisis is? I believe you to be confused.
>>8112503
I think your confused sir.
The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker.
Everything else pales in comparison.
>>8106382
Dank memes.
>>8106382
Started writing professionally and found the love of my life
THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY
My so called "self-interest", all my values, even my ego, are all shaped by the material conditions around me, not by myself.
>>8108111
I think people are getting sick of transgender pushing their shitty agenda
i.e. being able to use the woman's bathroom even though you have a penis
>>8108535
People are also born with 6 fingers or without a leg sometimes
>>8113178
The day of the rope is coming, commie vermin.
>>8107198
dude sweet post it on your instagram
like who even fucking knows man?
smoke weed bro
>>8113238
behind every pepe poster, there's a suicidal, distraught soul clinging to any petty reason to live.
>>8113178
nice slave morality
>>8113361
Also, interestingly pepe as a meme has gone through an existential crisis - or at least it reflects the collective crisis of the internet communities and the individuals behind those pictures: from feels good man to sad pepe to the smug frog it is now.
>>8113361
Amen, brother.
Can someone post the nigga how can you existential just step away from the self buddy pic
I have a voice at the back of my head asking me how do I know anything I think is correct to the point that I doubt everything yet find myself doubting the fact that I'm doubting.
I need something pure,not based on any axiom and any dogma,in order to feel sane again.Is there any system that withstands all my attempts to doubt it's consistency?
>>8108938
>ranking existential crisis
What the fuck is wrong with you? Where does this necessity to turn everything into an intellectual pissing contest stem from in your life?
>>8106538
as soon as you cum
you come to your senses
amirite white boi ?
>>8106382
Love.
I fell back into it as soon as my relationship ended. Love really is the purpose of life.
>>8108070
Defining your existential pain through the confusion you have regarding your gender is shallow and narcissisitic. Only a privileged piece of shit would consider it a valid reason to explain an ontological crisis. It's childish, a pure delusion and the sign of a mental illness.
>>8106382
Camus' route should lead to Stirner. He doesn't suit those who crave meaning.
>>8112059
because it is inevitable, so the sooner, the better.
>>8114247
there is no system, you just decide truths for yourself. i'm the same, but i've accepted some notions and have been feeling better lately. read The Myth of Sisyphus, the given explanation suffices
>>8114281
seriously, pathetic elementary school mindset
I accepted that there are subjectively better states of being than others for myself and most likely for others and I made an effort to make them a reality and continue to do so. Not that complicated.
Most people are just too lazy to take on the responsibility of enacting these things and get lost in useless, pedantic idiocy so as to avoid having to do anything. I did it. Everyone here is doing it and in all likelihood 99% of you will continue doing it because the 'solution' or rather the sane, clear answer involves responsibility, dealing with anxiety in a useful manner and letting go of a personality mostly consisting self hate and guilt.
>>8115341
*I should say response, not 'answer'
Being confronted by people that love me
And my ego
>>8114281
I think he's just having fun
>>8115341
stay strong, brother
>>8115341
Thread ended
>>8115286
And why are you so certain of its inevitability? Have you died yet?
I'm not sure, I think I'm still in it but that it more just underlines everything I do or think. The complete numbness I feel is probably a response. Mixed with the extremely narcissistic aspects of even having an existential crisis. Along with the patterns of thought I use to ignore it. Slap a lot of hedonistic impulse, apathetic inactivity, substance slavery and I think that'd give a good idea of how I "got out" of one. "Got out" being extremely tenuous at best. Or not at all, taking existence at its base level of appearance and the idea that any projection of self onto it whether that be having a crisis of purpose or being or whatever is a really nice blanket to wrap your head in and just sort of hum through everything. Livings sort of just purgatory now and the only thoughts that come are very self involved inward hate and anxieties over having no outlet of creativity to express the emotion/complete despair that's being probably ignored.
Living is really difficult isn't it Anons?
>>8115940
you might have misunderstood me or are baiting me hard. Death is inevitable. everything that lives, must die. unless you believe in reincarnation or life after death, then we're done here.
>the sooner, the better (acceptance of the fact of death)
>>8116179
You have very little imagination, it seems
>>8114738
cum on me bb
Practicing the teachings of the Buddha.
>>8116204
>what is entropy
but i'd like to hear your thoughts on the matter. do go on
>>8116242
I just don't see any reason to act on the assumption that entropy can't be either circumvented or evaded through means yet unknown to us.
Sure, it's fairly likely that entropy is inescapable, but that doesn't mean I intend to give up before that likelihood is a certainty.
>>8116280
then we are like minded. but living forever is not an option, at least not in our time. but i'm sure we'll live well past 100, if we don't get murdered. other than that, i think being immortal would suck, you'd get bored eventually.
>>8116298
>not an option, at least not in our time
There's more of the assumptive fatalism- that shit'll get you down, man.
On the problem of immortality and boredom, I don't particularly need to be happy or even entertained, as long as I'm alive.
>>8116318
i wish i was as optimistic as you. don't change, brother
>>8116329
thx bb
>>8107652
God tier taste.
>>8108475
The difference between my philosophy and yours is that I've been on both sides.
Those high peaks are fucking cold. It's not intellectually dishonest to dwell in the valley.
