ITT: Books that ruined your life.
I'll start.
>>8186684
Nietzsche fucked me up.
I took the 'Will to Power' to its logical conclusions in certain situations.
Explanations of your posts would be of interest.
>>8186684
>reading this
>get massive erection
>someone notices
>never heard of lolita
>couldnt piece together why i was hard
close call
>>8186700
OP here. Stirner should be self explanatory. I'm no expert, but essentially everything we know comes through some sort of medium, except that which we percieve by our own senses. Even then, I think even our senses are spooks by Stirner's standards. I could be entirely wrong, correct me if so. Have not read him myself. Gathered this from what others have said.
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186684
When you say ruined... ?
>>8187276
The individual will determine how they wish to define ruined.
eugene onegin
I read it at a very vulnerable time in my life and it hurt me. I haven't recovered since, and I'm not sure that I ever will.
For solidarity, Lolita also ruined me, but in a different way. The Double broke me down, and Lolita sort of helped put me together again. It's hard to explain, but I'm glad to see others were so deeply affected by it.
>>8187292
go buy a dictionary you goddamn tumblr faggot
>>8186703
fuck me corn daddy
>>8186703
'please no, corn father'
>>8186722
Nah dude, to Stirner a spook is any kind of "idea" or "cause" that you put above your self. He basically says that any group that you belong to that you place a higher value on than your own interests is a spook. Any religion, state, government, or social relation that exists "above" an individual without his enjoyment of it is hypocritical to Stirner. Any kind of social relation should be "used" by each individual person to his liking, and each is to be free to leave this union of egoists as soon as he feels it no longer pleases him. There isn't much of the metaphysical in his main work, more ethical, at least in the usage of "spooks"
>>8188322
no wonder stirner is a minor hegelian no one but autists cares about, that's the least insightful shit anyone ever thought of...everyone joins identity groups because it pleases them, a lot of times you hear people say they are excited to be gay because it lets them be part of something "bigger than themselves" people like these kind of grand projects because it can give your life meaning beyond masturbating and watching cartoons....
>>8186703
Alas poor corn father, I knew him well a man of infinite memes. But even writing notes from the underground I have not failed to see gravity's rainbow. Like fine Ulysses i have traveled far upon the mountains of madness to taste the sweet Lolita nectar in this brave new world. You may say that I have a heart of darkness, but I assure you that this republic was built to last. Corn father, you simply do not understand that I see you as an infinite jest, use that in your meditations. In search on lost time, I instead found the Ego and his own. Atlas Shrugged, corn father, but what say you to my critique of your judgement?
Microsoft Excel 2007 Inside out.
>>8186703
please no, corn father
Green face- Gustav Meyrink
Kinda an occult novel of an jew.
Also Masks of Illuminati by Wilson
My diary desu
>>8187296
And this
>>8186684
Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Can A Book Ruin Your Life Hahahaha Nigga Just Set The Book Down Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha
when I was in 9th grade, a friend from the internet I would teamspeak with rec'd me lolita. it all started there
>>8188255
What someone considers ruined for them may not be the same as ruined for someone else. I own a dictionary.
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
fuck you corn father, all hail faulkner.
>>8186684
i think that i have an actual humbert humbert complex due to similar circumstances but that's not the book's fault
>>8186703
Please no, corn father
>>8188371
This. The fact that there is no closure, no denouement, the implication that the pain just goes on forever
Pic related: somehow I convinced myself I could only find a meaningful redemption if I committed a crime. So I absconded with some money from the 711 I worked at and left town.
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
'please no, corn father'
>>8189773
>Not realizing that accepting Christ was the answer all along.
>>8189257
topkek
>>8186703
My prose is shit - mediocre prose is an improvement
seriously fucked my shit up
Camus helped
but its not like it was before I knew
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8189257
Tyler The Creator is legitimately the voice of a generation.
>>8186703
please no corn father
>>8189773
The book is kinda brutal, it makes you reassess your worth, certainly. That whole debate on who is ordinary and who is extraordinary that Raskolnikov has with Razumikhin's buddy, regarding Ras' article, it's pretty unsettling when applied to one's self.
The overall redemption indicated in the end is powerful. One of the greatest books I've ever read, no doubt.
>>8186703
Please cum, corn senpai.
animorphs made me a tranny :(
>>8186696
you're an idiot. You either didn't read Nietzsche or embarrassingly misunderstood him
>>8190345
Elaborate.
>>8188349
>the extent of my knowledge of Stirner is reading a shitpost by an anonymous faggot on a Macedonian spit-roasting message board.
Kill yourself my child
>>8190350
a description is not a prescription. Beyond telling you that I'm not going to spoonfeed Nietzsche to you
It had a lot of good discussions about power dynamics and ethics. Changed my views on many things. Made me realize that humans have no actual power to change one another, through any sort of event or process, we will be who we were meant to be.
>>8186703
'please no, corn father'
>>8190370
>we will be who we were meant to be
Mein gott
>>8190286
The secret being that only ordinary men are capable of redemption.
>>8190370
>we will be who we were meant to be.
You got that wrong mate. We will be who we choose to be.
The only person you have the power to change is yourself.
>>8186703
Please no, corn cobber
>>8189257
This is the best post.
Thread needs to SHUT DOWN desu.
I'm not sure why, I just know it's best not to think about it.
>>8190370
Anon, love can change people. :)
>>8189257
Mopey Schopey ruined my life too t b h, once you read his stuff on women its hard to forget
>>8191185
Nietzsche is the first step out of that pit anon.
Schopenhauer's view of women makes perfect sense in light of life denial. The female is synonymous with being entangled in the passion and sorrows of life. If your view is that life is a horror and should be denied then of course the female has little value.
If you are life-affirming then the female gains her dignity again.
>>8188247
check em
>>8191194
>If you are life-affirming then the female gains her dignity again.
Heh, you're outta luck punk. I didn't forget my whip.
>>8191212
I get the reference, and I honestly lol'd a bit.
The whip Nietzsche talks about is to be taken in a slight sado-masochistic light. Life is painful, but you can enjoy it at the same time.
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8190814
>implying free will
jeezy-kableezy
>>8189257
you stole my ''ignant'' shit posting shtick, you motherfucker!
>>8190814
>implying you weren't always meant to change
next thing you know, he's gonna say time is linear.
>>8191502
same fag here. I actually don't think time is linear, merely our perception.
I get your meaning, but you seem to suggest that there is only 1 possible outcome.
>>8186703
Please no, corn father
>>8186703
Please no, corn father
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
please no, corn father
Books didn't ruin my life,
I did.
>>8186703
Bls, no corn poppa
>>8186703
'please no, corn father'
Do VNs count?
>>8186703
'please no, corn father'
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
please no, corn father
I don't understand the corn father meme.
Is it from his Faulkner comment?
Where does paternity come into play?
>>8186703
please no, corn father
1984. Make me waste a lot of time
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8192815
This, along with Gulliver's travels, Clockwerk Orange, Blindness and Seeing made me lose faith in humanity. When I got to Nabokov, it was just sensible chuckles for me.
>>8186703
Hail Caesar!
>>8188349
>everyone joins identity groups because it pleases them
Stirner is in favor of that, because it is your own cause, it pleases YOU. When it becomes a cause itself, which you no longer enjoy, it is a spook; e.g religion.
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
please no, corn father
>>8186703
I am the Corn Grandfather.
All curses be damned. My prose is G.
>>8186684
This and also his plays fucked me up senpai. I know he always ends up with a hopeful theme at the end but the "We shall have rest" prospect in itself is depressing. Sent me to the psychiatric hospital.
Well after I've finished Lolita I was heavily depressed for like 3 days.
>>8195643
>drinking crown royal
nope
>read Camus and Cioran early in life as well as Kierkegaard
>literally immune to fuck my shit up tier lit.
>>8191212
you will note that a woman says this to Zarathustra
>>8195876
you will also note the nietzsche died a virgin
>>8195891
Did he?
>>8195894
He did not.
It is believed he died of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease, which he contracted in brothel. He was never married or had a long term romantic relationship. He may have had an unrequited love for a women named Lou Salome whom he spent a summer with, but the accounts of this are mixed and I'm really skeptical of the broken hearted Kierkegaard image being applied to Fritz.
>>8195901
Most scholars nowadays think his symptoms were more consistent with some sort of brain tumor, not syphilis. People speculate the syphilis rumor is the result of anti-Nazi propaganda (there is a great irony here). I suspect he did die a virgin, but I wouldn't be surprise if he did avail himself of prostitutes instead.
>>8191985
Thunderrated toast
>>8186703
'please no, corn father'
>>8186703
It would be hard even for the least pedophilic guy in the world to not get aroused. The brain can only do so much to distance itself from words like "supple" and "caress". I wouldn't overthink it anon.
>>8186684
World as Will but I kind of fucked myself up on purpose because I realized I'd have to be a chump to live the rest of my natural life and therefore must keep myself in a state of constant philosophical pessimism.
>>8190277
The idiots need someone to speak for them too :^)
>>8195891
there is LITERALLY nothing wrong with male virginity. NOTHING
>>8189257
But that's wrong. Schop supported suicide more openly than any major philosopher. He wouldn't try to talk anyone out of it because he recognizes its not his place to do so.
>>8186703
Please no, corn father
>>8195722
Did you check into Ward No.6?
Fucking loved The Duel.
>Norton Masterrace
So basically Nietzche embodies tfw no gf?
>>8197659
... so that feels guy is Nietzche reincarnated?
What is pepe then, Schopenhauer?
DOGBOYS: A Farce in Two Acts
>>8186703
p l e a s e n o c o r n f a t h e r
>>8186703
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and here I was thinking lit was better than b
>>8189257
genuine LOL
>>8191194
What are some other authors that are "steps out of that pit"?
Been in a very dark place for a lot of my life, made some friendships recently and started learning a lot about what it means to fill your life with your own purpose.
I'm about to start going through a phase of reading a bunch of dark material and then try to rise out of it.
