what are some some resources for bloomers? videos, books, pdf's, anything at all.
What helped you on your journey from doomer to bloomer?
>Not looking for self help books
Bloomer Resources
what are some some resources for bloomers? videos, books, pdf's, anything at all.
What helped you on your journey from doomer to bloomer?
>Not looking for self help books
Infinite Jest
Stoner
Against the Day
I just allowed myself to get annoyed at doomers and consoomers both. I don't always have the best feeling about the future but I came to this naturally:
>I don't want to feel guilty for being alive
>I am tired of hating others
>I am sick of feeling constant suspense
And I don't care if this doesn't make sense.
Exit doom. Enter bloom.
Ecclesiastes, John's Gospel, Augustine's Confessions and Soren Kierkegaard's work as a whole.
What helped me:
>properly practice my Buddhist-religion rather than "philosophically agreeing" with it then living a secular existence.
>overdose on Taoism one weekend and learn to see the weirdness of everyday life, helping to take it less seriously.
>get a job that is fine. Not amazing or anything but don't hate yourself doing it everyday. There's no need to get rich.
>realize you're enough and with a bit of food and dry shelter you have enough
Reading list:
>Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
>Book of Chung Tzu
>Bodhicharyavatara
>The Tao of Pooh because it's cute
>Collected Poetry and Prose by William Blake
>Selected Poems by Byron
Stay away from poisons you can avoid and laugh at those you can't (yet). Even if it's hours, days or weeks later, laugh.
how into taoism?
Mainly Blake and Shestov
Off the top of my head, my list:
>Henry Miller
>Emerson
>Whitman
>Thoreau
>Nietzsche
>Van Gogh’s letters
>Cellini and Casanova’s autobiography
>Dhammapada
>Bhagavad Gita
>Upanishads
>Siddhartha by Hesse
>Tao Te Ching
>I-Ching
>Chuang Tzu
>Montaigne
>Rabelais
>Boccaccio
>Heraclitus
>La Rochefoucauld
>Lichtenberg
>Proust
>Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>Epictetus
>Epicurus
>Plutarch
>Rilke
>The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
>Mysteries by Hamsun
>Niels Lyhne by Jacobsen
>Wind, Sand, and Stars by St. Exupery
>The Dharma Bums by Kerouac
>Don Quixote by Cervantes
>Nijinsky’s diary
Talk about being well read
How can you put Nietzsche and Stoics in the same list?
Because they are helpful in different situations. I will never buy wholesale into one philosophy but will use their ideas when applicable. I have no care to remain consistent as life has many variables and how you deal with those variables and trials is different every time. The Walt Whitman paraphrase “did i contradict myself? Very well I did. I am large, I contain multitudes” springs to mind
This is true. They are tools to use depending on the situation. A person can own a swimming pool and a fire place. And a person should have a philosophy to cool themselves off, and also a philosophy to warm themselves up.
Exactly
>Cellini's autobiography
Could not get into this book for the life of me. Besides a few parts, all of what I read boiled down to "I am great and everyone is jealous of me". Very boring and repetitive, unless I missed something
>actually reading ripplebreasts autistic rambling
it's simply the best book introduction to physical culture
and its not even close
The two authors who help me are Wodehouse and Chesterton
Buck Breaking
What's doomer and bloomer, and what is the difference between the two?
The difference is that your "God" was nailed to a cross, and mine wields a hammer
I don't know what it is but whenever people go against the Christian God they can't help but be condescending or bitter. I don't get it. Not even Allah generates that level of derision.
doom + zoomer, bloom + zoomer
Doomer is pessimistic. Bloomer is blooming and optimistic
Real life lessons taught me to become a bloomer. Studying what I really wanted helped too.
>-oomer
Please stop
I feel like I alternate between doomer and bloomer phases.
Currently in a doomer phase, haven't been reading, been watching porn again. I know how much happier I am when I'm not in a doomer phase but it feels hard to get out of it.
That is pretty normal as you can’t have the good without a baseline or the bad. Key is to work on getting out of the doomer phase. You don’t want to be a slave to externals and it is really our outlook and perspective that makes a big difference. A doomer and a bloomer will interpret the same situation in opposite ways
Debussy, art, park.
The Bussy
gratitude training
>before you fall asleep think of at least 3 things you're grateful for
>can be as simple as a baby smiling at your, or seeing a homeless person and being grateful you're not in that situation, or having a good day at work etc, or a beautiful sky and clouds
>by doing this before sleeping, your SUBCONSCIOUS MIND will be processing this as you sleep. there is a lot of psychology studies that back this, and it is proven to impact your subconscious mind during the day. so as you keep doing this you'll be more grateful and positive throughout the day
>this is a classic taoist practice for centuries, that has been proven by science at length
Last Question
"Gogetters" customize their crashes, thus, exacerbating their struggles; Bloomers customize struggle, thus, becoming increasingly crashfree.