I'm becoming increasingly convinced I can't be happy for any significant stretch of time. what can i read that will convince me otherwise or convince me to try anyway? it seems like everything I do is wrong and i feel hopeless but I cant bring myself to kill myself. Even the happy people lose their health, loved ones & sanity by the end of this pointless struggle.
>>8249856
Those are good books to read, minus Harris. They won't help with depression though.
Harris's "Waking Up" podcast is pretty good. You can listen to that and get his ideas without having to read a whole book.
At the end of the day, OP, you just need to buck up and throw off your jew-induced millennial malaise, you fuckin pussy.
Your problem is you believe that people are only happy because they are deluded. You confirm this because you observe that people who are happy, also believe delusions (e.g. socialism, God, whatnot). You need to realize that is confirmation bias. There is nothing wrong with being happy with yourself or who you are (indeed, what else would you be happy with?). You don't need a good reason to be happy; being happy is enough reason to be happy.
Only self-help book I know you might like is Fuck Feelings by Michael and Sarah Bennett.
Goethe places some wisdom on Faust's lips:
"It's not refreshment you have won
Unless it springs from your own soul."
>>8249856
Mein Kampf was trash and the moral landscape does say happiness is everything. the whole point of the book is maximizing well being for the largest possible number of creatures. also you sound like you need to be locked up. killing nd discrimination doesn't led to the well being of creatures because their will always be people who want to kill you. everyone being n asshole doesnt make the world a better place sorry, im sure you work very hard maintaining the idea that everyone is bad but you one day youll grow up. i agree cultural relativism is bullshit but you really only increase the hate making negative experiences more likely
>>8249877
> buck up and throw off your jew-induced millennial malaise, you fuckin pussy.
so its everyone else's fault? if somebody is mentally ill it isnt them or their brain but the jews pulling the strings? by >>8249856 supremacist mentality doesnt that mean jews deserve to run the world if they supposedly do already? people do crazy things to convince themselves it not their fault their life sucks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4mb6gzu60U
http://www.bentoandstarchky.com/dec/rants.htm
>>8249901
> Your problem is you believe that people are only happy because they are deluded
true.
> You need to realize that is confirmation bias.
i dont believe that but ill check your book
>>8250024
>so its everyone else's fault? if somebody is mentally ill it isnt them or their brain but the jews pulling the strings?
I 100% definitely believe all mental illness is controlled by the Jews. You're spot on.
You read like you're under 20 years old. Get a job. Get a spouse. Start a family. If depression persists (it won't), keep doing what you're doing and live it out until you're dead.
>>8249856
Praise kek
>>8250060
>Get a job. Get a spouse. Start a family
that oughta teach them damn jews, right? ....right? im not crazy! the jews are just fucking with my head but i saw through with my superior intellect! everyone's wrong but me! the most complex organ couldn't possibly malfunction!
>>8249829
Zapffe's theory is that humans are born with an overdeveloped skill (understanding, self-knowledge) which does not fit into nature's design. The human craving for justification on matters such as life and death cannot be satisfied, hence humanity has a need that nature cannot satisfy. The tragedy, following this theory, is that humans spend all their time trying not to be human. The human being, therefore, is a paradox.
In The Last Messiah Zapffe described four principal defense mechanisms that humankind uses to avoid facing this paradox:
Isolation is "a fully arbitrary dismissal from consciousness of all disturbing and destructive thought and feeling".[3]
Anchoring is the "fixation of points within, or construction of walls around, the liquid fray of consciousness".[3] The anchoring mechanism provides individuals a value or an ideal that allows them to focus their attentions in a consistent manner. Zapffe also applied the anchoring principle to society, and stated "God, the Church, the State, morality, fate, the laws of life, the people, the future"[3] are all examples of collective primary anchoring firmaments.
Distraction is when "one limits attention to the critical bounds by constantly enthralling it with impressions".[3] Distraction focuses all of one's energy on a task or idea to prevent the mind from turning in on itself.
Sublimation is the refocusing of energy away from negative outlets, toward positive ones. The individuals distance themselves and look at their existence from an aesthetic point of view (e.g., writers, poets, painters). Zapffe himself pointed out that his produced works were the product of sublimation.
Pick your poison.
>>8250235
>the entire post
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>>8251840
>bumping for this
Post-2011 4chan was a mistake
>>8249829
>I'm becoming increasingly convinced I can't be happy for any significant stretch of time
That's called depression anon, and you should see a doctor and get medication and cognitive therapy.
>>8251840
name calling is what you do when you cant refute their points
