Dao de jing
Zorba the Greek
Steppenwolf
zhuangzi
The Collected Works of Heidegger
Musashi
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Bhagavad Gita
The Collected Works of Carl Jung
The Collected Works of Nietzsche
The Collected Works of Bergson
The Collected Works of Whitehead
Good taste my Black. Feels like my life project since my early 20s has been reading this stuff to escape my cynical, atheistic jaded, sarcastic, pseud cringe phase that was my teens and early adulthood. Add the bible to that list though
Thank you brother it’s not a compressive list but it’s what I think has the biggest potential impact. I would also add more Zen Buddhism books and the Kyoto School of Philosophy but that’s less universally applicable. I have also struggled since my teenage years with many personal problems and it wasn’t until my mid twenties that I started to heal myself.
Stop wasting time here and in any other "intellectual" places
Go find a picture of yourself when you were a young kid (say at age 6). Look at him! He is smiling gleefully without a care in the world. He doesn’t know he is going to turn into the sad adult that you are now. The only difference between you and your youthful shadow is that you are flooded with hormones and in a state of chemical madness. Your youthful shadow knows better of the joys of life. It is no wonder parents find their offspring such a wonder as they reframe the dull life of bills, appointments, and responsibilities with the fire of youth. Older people get an error in the brain called PHILOSOPHY that speaks bubble swelled words like ‘relativity’, ‘revolution’, freedom’ and pop with the scent of rotten eggs of pious moralizations, bumper sticker arguments, and rambling dissertations. It utterly ruins their personality and makes them into gay losers with NO BALLS and who are thus unable to use their BRAINS right. (For Balls and Brains are like Yin-Yang, a lack of balance always means disaster)
>Your youthful shadow knows better of the joys of life.
My youthful self doesn't know the things I know. Everything was new and fresh, now everything seems the same or worse. I tried playing the games I did back then, doing the things I wanted to do back then, travel to the places I wanted to many years ago, but I feel nothing. The fire inside has burnt out and nothing seems to rekindle the embers.
>My youthful self doesn't know the things I know.
Are they things that effect you? I'm not doing the "it's just the collective wellbeing of society, mind your biz" meme. It's perfectly fine to answer "yes", especially if you can do something about it. I've just known so many people who were constantly angry about some injustice somewhere, and it's just a waste.
I certainly haven't turned back the clock on my own jadedness, it isn't possible, but it is important to not burden yourself with things you can't do anything about.
Any real life biography should illucidate the plethora of different impulses and spectrums on any topic in particular. there is always some mix of idealism and practicality, love and hate, attraction and repulsion, respect and disagreement, impetus x and impetus y, pettyness and nobility, truths and falsehoods.
Its only morons that like to get off to simple sensationalization, or dont like the complexity of things and want to reduce it to antagonism that are either jaded or cynical in total.
Get a job doing something small but measurably good. Be careful in your day to day actions to leave everyone you meet feeling a little better. Pay attention to others.
Read for enjoyment or concrete goals instead of enlightenment. Don't listen to people on IQfy.
The book of Job but it's also sadly a filter
Job is such a midwit marker. Nothing but platitudes.
Infinite jest
Surely you jest
Infinitely
Checked
The bible
Dao de jing
Zorba the Greek
Steppenwolf
zhuangzi
The Collected Works of Heidegger
Musashi
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Bhagavad Gita
The Collected Works of Carl Jung
The Collected Works of Nietzsche
The Collected Works of Bergson
The Collected Works of Whitehead
Good taste my Black. Feels like my life project since my early 20s has been reading this stuff to escape my cynical, atheistic jaded, sarcastic, pseud cringe phase that was my teens and early adulthood. Add the bible to that list though
Thank you brother it’s not a compressive list but it’s what I think has the biggest potential impact. I would also add more Zen Buddhism books and the Kyoto School of Philosophy but that’s less universally applicable. I have also struggled since my teenage years with many personal problems and it wasn’t until my mid twenties that I started to heal myself.
Stop wasting time here and in any other "intellectual" places
Go find a picture of yourself when you were a young kid (say at age 6). Look at him! He is smiling gleefully without a care in the world. He doesn’t know he is going to turn into the sad adult that you are now. The only difference between you and your youthful shadow is that you are flooded with hormones and in a state of chemical madness. Your youthful shadow knows better of the joys of life. It is no wonder parents find their offspring such a wonder as they reframe the dull life of bills, appointments, and responsibilities with the fire of youth. Older people get an error in the brain called PHILOSOPHY that speaks bubble swelled words like ‘relativity’, ‘revolution’, freedom’ and pop with the scent of rotten eggs of pious moralizations, bumper sticker arguments, and rambling dissertations. It utterly ruins their personality and makes them into gay losers with NO BALLS and who are thus unable to use their BRAINS right. (For Balls and Brains are like Yin-Yang, a lack of balance always means disaster)
>Your youthful shadow knows better of the joys of life.
My youthful self doesn't know the things I know. Everything was new and fresh, now everything seems the same or worse. I tried playing the games I did back then, doing the things I wanted to do back then, travel to the places I wanted to many years ago, but I feel nothing. The fire inside has burnt out and nothing seems to rekindle the embers.
>My youthful self doesn't know the things I know.
Are they things that effect you? I'm not doing the "it's just the collective wellbeing of society, mind your biz" meme. It's perfectly fine to answer "yes", especially if you can do something about it. I've just known so many people who were constantly angry about some injustice somewhere, and it's just a waste.
I certainly haven't turned back the clock on my own jadedness, it isn't possible, but it is important to not burden yourself with things you can't do anything about.
there's no going back
Any real life biography should illucidate the plethora of different impulses and spectrums on any topic in particular. there is always some mix of idealism and practicality, love and hate, attraction and repulsion, respect and disagreement, impetus x and impetus y, pettyness and nobility, truths and falsehoods.
Its only morons that like to get off to simple sensationalization, or dont like the complexity of things and want to reduce it to antagonism that are either jaded or cynical in total.
You cannot retrace your steps once you've taken the path to unhappiness; it is the path of no return.
Wrong it just takes a commitment to reevaluation. I did it myself and drastically changed over the course of a few years to a bloomer.
Get a job doing something small but measurably good. Be careful in your day to day actions to leave everyone you meet feeling a little better. Pay attention to others.
Read for enjoyment or concrete goals instead of enlightenment. Don't listen to people on IQfy.
The virtuous ones are mundanely sated by slight delights; the vicious ones are perpetually jaded from seeking major joys.
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