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Baby's First Existential Crisis

>>20868675
Here you go, champ

>>19714982
I had a similar experience after experiencing based Aristotle and analytic German idealists like Sebastian Rödl, when before I was caught up with sophistic pseudo-thoughts and despicable nihilism and anti-natalism. What also really helped was to employ the "principle of charity" on the things I read. Don't just become something, you have to be truly convinced, after all God could be real but the books, dogmas and traditions could all be a lie or a half-truth. People might laugh about it, but I became convinced with 26 of the one common God after I read the Oxford translation of the Quran when before I had vague pantheist ideas. To make myself clear, I consider my understanding to be mostly in line with Quranism (sola scriptura). Through that I lately also found new appreciation and interest in studying Old and New Testament.

Have a look at pic related, in case your search is more broad.

>>19523630
I don't know. I fucked up my first semester in school, at which point I realized that life is inherently struggling and I had to man the fuck up. I had to realize that no matter what path I take, it's always just going to be an endless struggle. Seeing everyone around me succeed while I was failing was a horrible feeling. Feeling the guilt and burden of having failed my family was crushing. But the next semester I fixed my study habits, worked hard, my grades went up by a lot, and I am a lot more successful now.

Regardless though I don't know how other people do it, I seem to have just accepted that life is pain. I think I might just be lazy, I dunno, but I hate studying. I hate waking up early to work out. I hate going to school. I hate coming back home just to study until night time. I hate it so much. But it's either this, or the future pain of having to work minimum wage. The relationship market is so competitive that if I want to find a wife, then I need to be able to provide for her. (My looks are painfully average) And even if I do find a girl to love on minimum wage, debt and financial shit will always be a source of stress, until the day I die. I want to be able to provide comfortably for them, and I want a job with good hours so that I can spend time with my kids and be a good father.

But I hate it, I hate working. I hate everything honestly. But what can I do other then super cope. Cope cope cope cope cope super cope. I wake up I cope. I live I cope. Nothing but cope day in day out. Unprecendented levels of cope. So I would read bullshit philosophy to help me cope, pic related. I can't really cope anymore to avoid pain, now I just bear it every second, and accept that that is what life is. To live is to consistently feel pain. But that's fine, if all life is complete pain, then the pains are comparable. At that point accepting that pain is all that life is makes it easier to bear. If I'm going to feel it, then I might as well get a degree and make my family happy in the process. If this is life, well then I can continue to live this for another 80 years. I look upon it with nothing but dread and misery, but that's fine, since there is no alternative. I have lived it, and will continue to do so.

>inb4 read my philosophy, join my movement, believe my ideology

No it's all bullshit, I've really read it all. In fact I think reading too much philosophy just made me less happy.

>>19482740
>>19482762
This isn't for homework though. It's from this image, I was reading through all of these texts one by one because I felt like it. I didn't have any problems, until I got to the Taoism section. I have read the Tao Te Ching and the complete works of Zhuangzi. I believe I have a fairly good grasp on Taoism as a philosophy. The problem is Heidegger, and his Being and Time. I was unfathomably filtered. However, I feel like I am not done until I realize at least why it was included, or what to take from it. Regardless, googling it just gives me scholarly articles, but if that's the only way, then that's the only way.

Can I get more of these? Like philosophy that specifically pertains to how you should live your life? Maybe similar charts with other ideas and other branches? To me, this should be the primary purpose of philosophy, to help one realize how exactly to view the world and live their lives, and I'm still searching. Recommend me some good literature or charts on the topic. Was anything important left out of pic-related? Give criticisms, suggestions, anything.

I just came over from reddit. I heard that people like books here, and that it's the best community online for it. I hope people on here aren't racist like the chuds on /pol/. Regardless, I was playing undertale, and the game gave me an existential crisis. So I looked for the solution on my favorite subreddits, and I found this image. Someone told me that it was made here. I am looking forward to some high quality discussion. Which path is the best? Which one or ones did you choose, or even just try? Which ones don't you like, and why? Discuss.

Look at this chart. It's time to settle this once and for all. What is the best life philosophy?

I just saw this chart and remembered it from a while ago. I decided that I want to read some of these books, because they represent a broad range of important philosophies in explaining meaning and existence. Now. Which of these are actually worth reading? Is the taoism section worth it at all? Should I read a secondary text of Being and Time? Then mabe those books under the hedonism section, then the books under the buddha section, then maybe that ubermensch section, then in politics I can read some evola and guenon for that, and then I can read the bible. Honestly I'm actually really excited, it seems like a pretty good reading plan. But before I start I want some advice. Has anybody actually read these? Am I missing out by skipping the fish thing? Like I tried reading some of those texts but they just seemed boring. What should I do?

>>19221871
And honestly, after that, I dunno. I was considering reading through the books in this chart. Not because of any existential crisis, but just because they seem to provide such a variety of different views/philosophies of the world, and it seems really interesting

>>17994061
Okay, this of interest OP, I'll give some others in a sec

>>17889851
See pic related, look at the book recommendations, research the books that appear as interesting, then read them