/lit/ - Literature

>>13951132
Absolutely not. Anguish is all there is, there are only coping mechanisms and they are all legitimate.

>>13951140
this, dezensitation is always running behind you with a spear, life is like a good painting you can only apreciate standing still but if you stop the spear fiend will creep up and stab your ass

New Age has devolved into a slur for anything that goes against radical materialism. Read Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. You don't have to believe everything in it but you should at least try some of the exercises.

Any ancient scripture that preaches a love of God.

Plotinus

>>13951132
Kierkegaard

>>13951132

This is actually a really exact description of me. I'm even 27. A woman on the bus once offered me a night in a hotel. I don't get the Erika reference tho. But anyway, my inner energy comes from the indwelling Christ. Read the scripture anon and bloom.

Philosophy threads on /lit/ have to pertain to a specific text, otherwise >>>/his/ is the correct board for this thread

>>13951976
>I don't get the Erika reference tho.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_(song)
https://altcensored.com/watch?v=n8oFKS84-yc

Yes, there are ek-static and euphoric strains throughout all of classical and modern philosophy

Deleuze-Bergson-Nietzsche-Spinoza
Postmodern theology
Plato's orphism
Neoplatonism>>13951949
Hegelianism

Sloterdijk is a recent philosopher of "emotions" and "self-improvement".

>>13951132
This is what i've come up with as far as categorizing the philosophies behind the Wojak Doomer/Bloomer and the clown pepe.

Bloomer = Existentialism
Doomer = Nihilism
Clown Pepe = Absurdism

Of course if you are looking to develop your own philosophical worldview you should probably look beyond semi obscure internet trends.

>>13952046
Bloomer = Christianity

>>13951953
I really like that pic/list anon. Has anyone read any of those and can say which one's are great to add to any "to be read" list?
I haven't read a single one of those.

>>13953876
It's a good list, Tao is lovely and a good intro to "bloomer". I would recommend, TBK, The ethics, interpretation of dreams to add for your own "to be read".

Proclus. There's something about Neoplatonism that out of every philosophy I know it's the one I most associate with light and radiance. Reading Proclus feels like drinking a summer day

>>13951132
Whitehead is king bloomer.
I made a memepunk anime about him teaming up with Bloomer Gang to destroy the frog god of 4chan: https://vimeo.com/364552986

Hey turds
\Learn to fucking read

>>13953927
cringe

>>13951923
>Robert Anton Wilson
Nice 23. Also look into the philosophy that inspired the art project he participated in.

>>13953927
I knew it was going to be Aminom/Eris posting this. Keep killing it man

>>13953940
Thanks friend, I will. Just noticed the 23.

>>13952514
ok grandpa

>>13951132
Bob Wilson, Tim Leary, John Lilly, Robert Monroe, Gurdjieff, McKenna, Crowley.

These are some of the guys who affirm life, affirm that change is possible, that we can live our most fully realized lives, and show you how.

>>13954573
By Crowley do you mean John Crowley?

>>13951990
>Sloterdijk
cant someone redpill me on him? im halfway through "You Must Change Your Life" and enjoying it so far, just curious if anyone has read Spheres or beyond that?

>>13954573
Remember to watch Serial Experiments Lain while reading Prometheus Rising.

>>13951976
>A woman on the bus once offered me a night in a hotel
Tell me more

>>13951132
>Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.
https://hermetic.com/legis/index

>>13954573
>that isn't new age trash

>>13955237
I studied these writers, put the knowledge into practice and my life is incomparably better now, but I guess you tell me

>>13955237
Define new age trash

>>13951132
Read the Bible, get to know Jesus Christ

>>13954573
>>13955252
Any particular recommendations if I found TPON really useful?

>>13955271
"Telephony over Passive Optical Network" "The Power of Nightmares" or "The Philippine Order of Narnians"?

No seriously, don't recognize the acronym.

>>13955294
The Power of Now

>>13955302
hmm, not familiar!
Well, I would reiterate about Prometheus Rising. It's become a really solid foundation for me, I basically filter every bit of data I come across through Bob's guerilla ontology. It's especially crucial in this field because we have to wade through the commercial new age stuff people on this thread are yelling about. Clearly they don't know how to discern the actual trash from the good stuff, but they are right that there is a lot of trash out there..

But you're talking about useful, I mean, the Monroe tapes are incredibly useful. And if you think you can get access to safe LSD, Lilly's writings are fucking crucial.

>>13951976
The Erika reference is just the influence of braindead /pol/acks

>>13951132
Absolutely, minus the drug abstinence

>>13951140
You are so weak and pitiable

>>13955336
it's a very wholesome song though so get off your high horse

>>13951132
Described me pretty well. I'm also 27.
t. Catholicism

Christology, death-positivity, Reason as the subsuming of the Empirical.

>>13954755
The old beast Aleister, pal.

>>13955237
Make fun of it but you're still missing out.

spinoza!

Stoicism

>>13951140
But you can't actually prove anguish or suffering is any more 'real' than pleasure or joy. So isn't labelling one 'cope' and the other 'realism' an entirely arbitrary decision? You can argue that one is more motivated to see the positive so thus it is a more disingenuous position, but this is not a very intellectually rigorous position. You cannot really divine a persons true motivations without a certain degree of psychoanalysis which is fundamentally too subjective. I personally am miserable as a result of my own vanity, I wish I was taller and richer and more attractive so I am miserable about not being those things. However this 'suffering' is rooted in vanity, specifically that if I were to actually accept my own mediocrity I would be mediocre, whereas if I rage against it I am somehow 'better' than the body I am in. So again how am I any less delusional than an excessively optimistic person? In conclusion the word 'cope' cannot be accurately ascribed to any belief system as it would require an insight into the believers psyche which is impossible. A person could be happier in the absence of their beliefs yet still cling to them.

Peirce's doctrine of agapism

>>13951132
Purpose creates these kinds of people, but in order to find true purpose you have to cultivate your garden, experience the world, and from that construct your own meaning. The nihilist hasn't seen or done anything worth note, he chooses one lens through which he sees the universe, he is the author of his own anguish and lethargy, and the one that explores the summits and ravines of experience, who rides the rollercoaster of life with his eyes open to the beauty as well as the ugliness, and chooses to embrace the former is a true chad. The nihilist is a fucking cancer to society, and should he persist in his crusade to erode meaning, he should be steered toward suicide by the hands of society.

>>13955336
>t.salty cuck