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Has any literature given you a sense of purpose in life? What are your broader goals? Wealth? Happiness? Health? Accomplishment? Knowledge? Love? How would you prioritize them? Interested to hear what you think. Suggested reading appreciated as well.
>>7672153
>Has any literature given you a sense of purpose in life?
No, but it has taken it away many times
Although one of my backup plans is to live a Hunter S. Thompson-esque lifestyle for as long as my money can sustain it and hopefully die of overdose as soon as possible
Why is literature so fucking depressing
>>7672153
Evola and Mein Kampf
My goal is to reestablish a white conservative society where men rule and without degeneracy
>>7672153
Happiness is my one goal, I would view Wealth, Health, Accomplishment, Knowledge, and Love as merely accessories to happiness that I only seek if they are necessary for happiness.
Right now I'm going for Wealth on account of how being dirt poor is endangering my Health, and being unhealthy makes me unhappy.
Also all literature did was teach me to derive happiness from reading.
Finally, The Ego and its Own.
>>7672177
based sankt max
>>7672153
>Stirner
All things are nothing to the Self.
>Daodejing
The Self is itself nothing.
>trying to resolve this
fuck
>Has any literature given you a sense of purpose in life?
Hagakure.
>What are your broader goals?
Jam myself into the best paid hierarchy that I can get and make a cog of myself.
>Wealth? Happiness? Health? Accomplishment? Knowledge? Love? How would you prioritize them?
No priority on wealth, thanks Epictetus.
No priority on happiness, thanks Zizek.
No priority on health, thanks Seneca.
No priority on Knowledge, thanks Sextus.
Yes to love, thanks Plato.
Yes to accomplishment, thanks Stirnerbirder.
Accomplishment and love being equally significant.
>Suggested reading
I did this, as far as ethical philosophy goes, in this order
Plato
Nicomedian Ethics
Epicurus
Seneca, selected letters,
Epictetus, all writings,
Marcus Aurelius
Sextus Empiricus
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Daodejing, Red Pine w/ commentary
Zhuangzi - reading now.
Publisher priority Cambridge/Colombia, Hackett, Oxford World Classics.
For Asian stuff, Colombia, Hackett/Shambhala, Tuttle/Kodansha.
Don't get Penguin and don't get Loeb.
>>7672284
And Stirner, Spinoza, and Dogen. Stirner is a should-read, Spinoza I didn't care for, and Zen Buddhist stuff is fantastic for Daoism. Very stoic and skeptic. The Buddhist parts aren't so good. At least they don't pray to fucking Amida.
Mumonkan and Hekiganroku are the ethical-philosophic endgame for me.
