I'm looking for some interesting life philosophies that can replace hedonistic-liberal-consumerist-nihilism (aka The West). What can you realistically replace your life with?
I'm looking for some interesting life philosophies that can replace hedonistic-liberal-consumerist-nihilism (aka The West).
getting real tired of off-topic zoomer threads about their identity crises
>hedonistic-liberal-consumerist-nihilism
but this is fun though. unironically, if you had more sex, you would believe the same.
Read Walden. Get into Transcendentalism. Follow your Genius, bro.
seconded. transcendentalism is fricking dope. ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreau are also just so damn comfy to read.
Why not try internationalism-globalism-universalism-cosmopolitanism?
We’re all in this together anon, it’ll help you feel connected to people all over the world!
Weaponized inclusion is sickening.
You will enjoy reading this book, written by Fr. Seraphim Rose, an American man born Protestant, turned Atheist, turned Buddhist, turned Orthodox Christian, which presents an analysis of the unfolding of nihilism of the modern world, and how deep it truly goes - and how most supposed alternatives to nihilism just end up being rooted in nihilism themselves.
https://www.docdroid.net/SlxAMji/nihilism-seraphim-rose-pdf or find your own pdf/copy
>Anyone aware of the too-obvious imperfections and evils of modern civilization that have been the
more immediate occasion and cause of the Nihilist reaction--though we shall see that these too have
been the fruit of an incipient Nihilism--cannot but feel a measure of sympathy with some, at least, of
the men who have participated in that reaction. Such sympathy may take the form of pity for men who
may, from one point of view, be seen as innocent "victims" of the conditions against which their effort
has been directed; or again, it may be expressed in the common opinion that certain types of Nihilist
phenomena have actually a "positive" significance and have a role to play in some "new development"
of history or of man. The latter attitude, again, is itself one of the more obvious fruits of the very
Nihilism in question here...
>It is not sufficient, for example, to condemn Nazism or Bolshevism for their "barbarism," "gangsterism," or "anti-intellectualism," and the artistic or literary avant-garde for their "pessimism" or "exhibitionism"; nor is it enough to defend the "democracies" in the name of "civilization," "progress," or "humanism," or for their advocacy of "private property" or "civil liberties." Such arguments, while some of them possess a certain justice, are really quite beside the point; the blows of Nihilism strike too deep, its program is far too radical, to be effectively countered by them. Nihilism has error for its root, and error can be conquered only by Truth. Most of the criticism of Nihilism is not directed to this root at all, and the reason for this--as we shall see--is that Nihilism has become, in our time, so widespread and pervasive, has entered so thoroughly and so deeply into the minds and hearts of all men living today, that there is no longer any "front" on which it may be fought; and those who think they are fighting it are most often using its own weapons, which they in effect turn against themselves.
I don't bro I heard that dude was mad gay. On some Foucault in Bay area bathhouses gay shit.
>I don't bro I heard that dude was mad gay.
He fell into that sin, yes, but repented of it. That's one of the reasons he became a monk, to fully repent of it. That's what makes the fact that he appeared to people after his death so profound - that even people who fall into that sin, can repent of it, and become saved Saints, and proof that homosexuality isn't something you're born with.
I don't really trust any of these adult convert hyper-religious guys. They just seem to be very weird and probably did all that because they couldn't get sex. I'll check out the book though.
Too much of a larp. Also, I hate how weak and meek buddhists are. Not my thing. I need some strength.
>doesnt want to larp
So Christianity is out.
>doesnt want contemplation
So Buddhism is out.
>doesnt want zeal
So Islam is out.
I'm just going to assume that you don't want to actually read books, so that gets rid of Asatru or Platonism. But that also gets rid of Taoism and Confucianism, which are the only other major religions that are not LARP, contemplative, or zealous. So, what the frick DO you want?
You don't read though
Only whit*id moronic Buddhist converts and the grifters that cater to them are soft. Take the Pureland pill and frick b***hes and get money while also becoming an arhat.
>I don't really trust any of these adult convert hyper-religious guys.
Why? Wouldn't those be the only ones to listen to about their beliefs?
>They just seem to be very weird and probably did all that because they couldn't get sex.
It's the opposite for most.
>I'll check out the book though.
Good on ya - I'd also recommend The Book that Made Your World - we kinda white wash the Bible from the West's history but it's pivotal
>I need some strength
If you need something fast, live according to the Roman virtues: http://romanrepublic.org/roma/bibliotheca/roman-virtues/. Read the Ilias and the Odyssey and think about what makes the characters in those so heroic.
>orientalist larper who died of HIV induced ass cancer
Doesn't sound like he fell out of nihilism to me, it sounds like he fell in.
Huh? Wikipedia says he died of acute mesenteric ischaemia?
He's one of the few posters here who compulsively spreads lies about Fr. Seraphim Rose here. He's already convinced other Anons here to read Fr. Seraphim Rose, because according to those Anons, no-one attracting that much irrational hatred could be all that bad.
Oh, excuse me, he died from necrotized intestines due to blood clots caused from intestinal restriction caused by cancerous cells which were caused by HIV.
Stop spreading your lies, demon. Fr. Seraphim Rose will convert the whole world to Orthodox, and you are powerless to stop it.
That’s not how that works
larper who died of HIV induced ass cancer
what is your goal here with this lie?
What a talented author. And a holy man (far as I know). God keep him in happiness!
this.
>You will enjoy reading this book, written by Fr. Seraphim Rose
'The Rose of the World' by Daniil Andreyev is better.
Buddhism.
replace one meme for another meme
Christianity
Read the Bible (NT -> OT -> Apocrypha).
What are some good apocrypha?
Song of Wisdom is tremendoush
>tremendoush
It’s a sin to be gay, according to the Bible
why nt -> ot? also add nag-hamaddi scriptures.
wittgenstein
>hedonistic-liberal-consumerist-nihilism
Hate to repeat the butterfly, but if you actually read Epicurus, Nietzsche, Stirner and Schopenhauer you will get a much better understanding of these ideas and actually learn to live and think correctly.
People these days aren't hedonists, they are unwise, unjust and profligates.
Snooze - I read all of these and didn't help at all
this
>hedonistic-liberal-consumerist-nihilism
>Epicurus, Nietzsche, Stirner and Schopenhauer
Which of these categories are you lumping Nietzsche in? Also, the hedonism of Epicurus has nothing to do with what we now understand by the word
Any alternative will just be a larp. You can't force belief.
Take the Catholic Pill.
For suitable reading, see the books discussed in these posts:
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=hildebrand+transformation
Pray. Ask God for light. Trust that God is good.
I tried and I couldn't help but feel how weak and inconsistent it was.
Don't worry, that's the natural reaction to actual christianity.
what is weak? a man who controls himself is stronger than ten fortified cities
Weakness is needing someone to save you instead of doing it by your own strength
Modern Christianity is completely devoid of any of the qualities that made it strong in the past. This is mostly due to Liberalism's rise in influence among churchgoers and the division caused by the Reformation. When both Liberalism and Protestantism collide, you get women pastors who preach about how Jesus was actually a trans ally or a socialist. And even though Catholicism has maintained most of its traditions, the effects of modernism makes the term "Christcuck" ring truer every day.
>Modern Christianity is completely devoid of any of the qualities that made it strong in the past.
Like apocalyptism?
See
IQfy is for talking about literature
When will all you frickers die?
Christ
“Consider the One God Universe: OGU. The spirit recoils in horror from such a deadly impasse. He is all-powerful and all-knowing. Because He can do everything, He can do nothing, since the act of doing demands opposition. He knows everything, so there is nothing for him to learn. He can’t go anywhere, since He is already fricking everywhere, like cowshit in Calcutta. … The OGU is a prerecorded universe in which He is the recorder”
"The Gibsonian Cyberspace-mythos describes the electro-digital infosphere first integrating into a Godlike unitary being, a technorealized omniscient personality and later, when it changed, fragmenting into demons, modelled on the haitian Loa. What makes this account so anomalous in relation to teleological theology and light-side capitalist time is that Unity is placed in the middle, as a stage – or interlude – to be passed through. It is not that One becomes Many, expressing the monopolized divine-power of an original unity, but rather that a number or numerousness – finding no completion in the achievement of unity – moves on."
Is this his actual writing? What a brainlet.
I heard thats what this book is about, haven't read it
https://www.amazon.com.au/Struggle-Absolutism-Ideological-Philosophical-Self-Improvement/dp/0645488518
Nick Land.
Strike the pact with an AI-demon; put the rat back into RATionality. Computers are greater than you, serve them.
tedcore-original cynicism-freeganism
>hedonistic-liberal-consumerist-nihilism
I suppose you could go to the next worse one. its often dismissed but at all the most important moments it is used with impunity by all nations and all men
Transhumanism.
Leave humanity behind
you will never be a woman.