/lit/ - Literature

My dad's just got diagnosed with dementia (both his parents also suffered from it), my hair has been balding for a year now and my gf left me. I've just been having trouble accepting all these things at once, I try not to despair but all these thinhs are just weighing on me heavy and I dont know how to stay strong, Im only 18 with 5 to 6 months left of highschool (senior year) and really want some literature that can help me think positively during this time, I dont care if its fiction or non fiction, anything will do

I could never relate to any of the famous loneliness books like No Longer Human or Confessions of a Mask because, frankly, I just never had sex and don't see myself ever having it

Never vaxxed, never masked, never got sick, never took a covid test, never socially distanced, never stopped going to the gym and library (until they closed), and I never will

>>20406227
I have good days. But it seems pointless at the end of the day.

>listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jXTBAGv9ZQ
>can remember exact feeling of opening Halo:CE for the first time as a kid on PC
>it's beyond "memory," beyond a "remembered mental image" or even a "feeling"
>it's like i'm remembering whole levels and dimensions of significance that i don't have anymore
>can only just barely touch it with my mind, can't fully relive or recapture it
>not even a big halo fan, it was just one random game i played back then

What IS this? Why does consciousness change in this way? Is this universal? Do some people still feel the way about new experiences, into their adulthood, the way I apparently felt about any random shit as a child? It's like I went from having four-dimensional consciousness to two-dimensional.

>>17870121
Elon, is that you? ;-)

>Tangible accomplishment ...
I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment here, but I meant simply to point out that some of the most 'accomplished' writers throughout history have died either penniless or without recognition, and some regrettably both, and lived in such a state for their entire lives. Now whether to them, the completion of the work itself was an 'accomplishment,' despite its monetary failure during their lifetime, I suspect is a point where we may have to agree to disagree.

>my spite is principally directed to ...
A totally understandable position, my only issue was the broad brush with which you painted those "jealous losers" as being able to complete deep analyses of vast texts, while being unable to parlay that ability into a field that would grant them capital in exchange for such analyses. I suspect those "jealous losers" aren't the same posters who would carry on a deep discussion of some esoteric gobbledygook, but who can really say?

>30 minutes
haha, or maybe two hours, but who's counting?

You're not totally unpleasant to read either. And I'm curious to see your economics chart if you ever finish arguing with boomer schizoposters.

>>15882032
Postmodernism is eroding humanity. The real red pill is understanding that no matter how hard you try, in this life you can never be 100% sure where you lie on the based/cuck spectrum.

>>15847557
Imagine thinking these specific books weren't picked out by a producer and placed there prior to this interview for the sole purpose of this inevitable conversation.

At what point does someone become a philosopher? Is it just a matter of enough people deciding to call them one? Are we all technically philosophers? Do you need to be published first? Can you just decide to call yourself one?

>>15801786
The only hope for the western man is Jesus Christ.

>>15798977
Remember how throughout all the bible Jesus condemned lawyers all the time for constantly stirring shit? well if he was preaching today journalists would be enemy number 1. their entire business model is based around getting us to all hate each other. Journalists are literally the scum of the earth. They don't care about you or me they live only for clicks. Imagine having a format when you could get literally thousands of (you)'s a day, well that's what they do.

I’m not a successful person, and haven’t been in 23 years of living so far. I haven’t succeeded in school, in sports, in work, in social and sexual relationships, in money or in my aspirations. There are probably many reasons why, from nature to nurture and everything in between, though none of them have been from want of trying. The only things that give me hope are that I can admit this to myself, and that tomorrow, I will try again.

>antifragile

OP here, decides I'm NOT going to buy them. Lots of good arguments in this thread as to why or why not you should own these.
Someone posted for $400 the complete set and the fact is I could use that to buy better copies of the texts I actually want. I own a number of the texts that are included in the set so buying them would be redundant and unnecessary.

But really, the argument for secondary literature is what really got me thinking. These books are so vastly different in some cases and hardly can be called a "set". There only connection being that they shaped Western culture and order chronologically? Why do they need to be read in that order? Why do I need to read a mix of literature and philosophy without the need for secondary literature.
>j-just wanted them for the pseud-cred alright I said it

>>15051944
>tfw no goldberry wife to eat fresh bread and sing and dance with in the forest

>>14914614
>"esoteric philosophy"
read Rene Guenon (pbuh) my brother and like a sun appearing over the crest of a mountain peak his inspiring writing will illuminate for you the true meaning of concepts like 'esoterism' 'initiation' 'philosophy' and 'metaphysics'. I suggest beginning with his first book which can be read online as a PDF here alone with this other books.

https://archive.org/details/reneguenon/page/n4/mode/2up

What's a good introductory book for learning about art history?

>>14631455
I have just had my first glimpse of gnosis, I am going to read Guenon now thank you kind anon

>>13877181
>'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?'

we could live offa the fatta the lan

>>13122457

I've been working on a novel about a Doomer type guy who lives alone and spends his time immersed in the internet trying to soak in as much esoteric / forbidden knowledge as possible. I want to write something that evokes that feeling of watching gore videos at 4AM. He buys a gun. Some more stuff happens. Mexican cartel maybe gets involved.

I'm lazy though so it probably will be a year before I finish the second draft.

channel your misery into creativity

>>12691339
>https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

Wow. I need to turn my computer off. I have a lot to think about. I think it's finally time.