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Anonymous Fri Jun 29 16:05:24 2018 No.11391561 [Reply] [Original]

I turn 22 years old in October. Are there any essential books I should be reading at my age?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 16:07:22 2018 No.11391569 Bump and, do you feel old Anon? I've just turned 23 and I do.

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 16:13:48 2018 No.11391588

It really depends if you feel that you are "complete", and by that I mean complete in "inner" way. You can learn all the useful skills (like cooking or doing taxes), but without the sense of some kind of fulfilness all of this will look bleak to you. Do you enjoy everyday? Do you sometimes stop just to appreciate the weather, the trees, beautiful flowers or blue sky? Are you in peace with yourself? Do you strive to change? All of this questions are really important. I will be turning 22 in November as well, so I know the feeling very well. Luckily, about 6 moths ago I really got into buddhism, taoism and hinduism, which really helped me, both spiritually and in a material way. Do you have any specific topis on your mind, anon?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 16:16:21 2018 No.11391598 >>11391561 The Pale King about what you'll be facing in the next years and whether you agree with it

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 16:16:55 2018 No.11391601 22 in 4 days. Feels good because I turned my life around last year. Also feels bad because I should have done those things 6 years ago

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 16:27:32 2018 No.11391627

>>11391569
Sometimes I do but lately I've found that by learning new things everyday I've managed to slow my perception of time. It's kinda cool because the past 3 months have felt like a year. Sometimes I feel like an old man but these days I've come to appreciate that I'm still young and can do anything with myself.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 16:29:02 2018 No.11391634 >>11391561 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._de_Ropp

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 16:30:25 2018 No.11391639

>>11391588
Nothing in particular, I just like to see what sort of things people my age read and see if there's some sort of trend. I too have gotten into East Asian philosophy lately. It's influenced my perspective on life a lot. Daoism is a trip! I'm glad you're reaping the benefits as well!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 16:58:26 2018 No.11391712 >>11391601 28 and still haven't turned my life around

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 17:04:08 2018 No.11391730

>>11391569
>>11391627
>early 20s
>feel old

How? You’re literally at the prime of youth. This is where you’re at your physical peak, have reached maturity al and supposedly out of college so you’re finally in the real world and not with your parents. This is suppose to be one of your most fruitful decades.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 17:06:54 2018 No.11391739 >>11391639 If you like Daoism, you should definitely read about Zen, the beautiful child of Daoism and Buddhism, it has some really intriguing concepts to think about.

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 17:16:25 2018 No.11391767
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>>11391730
fuck off fucking normalfucK RRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 18:31:55 2018 No.11392013 >>11391561 Brave New World Communist Manifesto Lord of the Rings Atlas Shrugged Those should give you a good primer on society, and politics, as well a sense of adventure and activism (so you won't stay a NEET).

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 18:41:31 2018 No.11392049

>>11392013
A lot of material out there is just jacking off or ramblings just to sell something. Your hardest job reading wise is sifting through the trash.

Your life is short, so read something inspiring that will move your butt to do something -or- give you an honest view point from other people to either better understand people or change your own views.

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 18:52:18 2018 No.11392082

>>11391561
Bumping for interest, I'll turn 21 next week and I have no idea what I'm doing with my life. Hang in there buddy, you're not alone on this journey. But if you still care for some juvenile advice, I can very much recommend you "The Art of Loving" by Erich Fromm. It hugely influenced the way I think about the concept of love and the human condition in general.

>>11391588
Cool, I also got into Hinduism and Buddhism recently. Currently I'm reading the Baghavad Gita, it's really enjoyable and the metaphysical speculations are very entertaining, but I don't think I got much out of it in terms of life advice. Any recommendations for introductory texts in Buddhism/Zen? (Siddhartha is on my reading list for quite a while now btw)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 18:54:50 2018 No.11392085 >>11391639 I've read The Way of Zen by Alan Watts when I was your age and througly recommend that and other works by him.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 19:02:20 2018 No.11392105 >>11391767 this tbqh.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 19:08:13 2018 No.11392125 >>11392013 Don't think you need to read atlas shrugged its literal ass paper

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 19:21:04 2018 No.11392158 >>11391730 If this is how the prime of my life feels I'll get the rope ready.

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 19:25:12 2018 No.11392172

>>11391561
Are you a realist or an idealist? The idealist doesn't mind reading something that appears of little or no practical value because reading is then about satisfying philosophical and spiritual curiosity, which may have practical value in theory, but rarely is anything that you can use as a skill for making money. Soft power yes.

Realism favors literature that is pragmatic and of use in the real world. Hard power.

As a young person, you are in a dilemma between balancing the need for spiritual curiosity and sharpening your practical skills to remain stronger and smarter than your competitors. This inherent need to remain more knowledgeable comes with the competition of capitalism.

My advice is be pragmatic, but dont forget to have values and core principles, but none of that cringy Aurelius /pol/ pseduo-philosophy. Develop your own sense of perception of the world by critically examining your own as well as the thoughts of others and always remember how painfully incompentent and unwise you are forever.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 19:38:31 2018 No.11392219 >>11391569 Same thing here

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 19:43:44 2018 No.11392237 >>11392172 What if I'm an absolute realist who yearns for idealism, but knows it's a fruitless pursuit?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 19:46:04 2018 No.11392246 Debord, Weininger

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 19:51:19 2018 No.11392261 >>11392237 >What if I'm an absolute realist who yearns for idealism, but knows it's a fruitless pursuit? Same

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 19:57:27 2018 No.11392279

Shoutout to any anons whose value systems are predicated upon their capacity to create things. When I'm not completely in a flow state I'm either reading some entry-level finance books by Robert Kiwosaki, some Robert Greene ("Mastery"), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Camus' "A Happy Death" / "The Plague", some Kerouac, Paulo Coelho, Hermann Hesse, Huxley...whatever. Been too busy to sit down lately to actually read though-- been composing and filling a journal off of a massive literary cram I did 6 months ago.

>>11392172
well said

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 19:59:06 2018 No.11392286 >>11392013 Poor bait

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 20:00:48 2018 No.11392293

I would say Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde. It changed my life. The story is not the same as the movies would have you believe. Dr. Jeckyl is just as nasty as Mr Hyde but he refuses to let others see it. It is a fantastic book about hypocrisy and deception. It showed me a dark mirror of myself that I did not want to admit existed

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 20:09:49 2018 No.11392309 File: 63 KB, 675x601, 1530103254713.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that 22 year old boomer who reads to "improve" himself

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 20:14:12 2018 No.11392327 Idk what you think of the Art of Manliness (if you have even heard of it) but they have a pretty great list of books for people to check out. I highly recommend the article https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/100-books-every-man-read/

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 20:15:46 2018 No.11392330 File: 34 KB, 348x330, 1530294678531.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11392309 >that zoomer who visits /lit/ but doesn't read

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 20:18:25 2018 No.11392336 >>11392237 >>11392261 Idealism and realism are projections of our brain that has the logical and creative parts. The dialectical nature of the relationship means that the other needs the other to be relevant.>>11392261

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 20:19:07 2018 No.11392340 >>11391561 The Yearling

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 21:21:23 2018 No.11392502 >>11391561 Unironically David Deida

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 21:24:15 2018 No.11392515 >>11391561 Mein Kampf. See how the Zog have been fucking you your whole life.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 23:07:50 2018 No.11392801 >>11392172 I'd say I'm a bit of both. I have days when I'm extremely pragmatic and days where I'm curious about everything and anything. I'd like to strike the perfect balance between the two as I'd imagine they compliment each other quite nicely.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 23:11:47 2018 No.11392812 >>11391561 Fuck books. You need to be slaying pussy at that age

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 23:14:04 2018 No.11392818 >>11392812 Kerouac did both, so...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 23:15:03 2018 No.11392821 File: 103 KB, 650x1040, Stoner_2048x2048.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Stoner is essential reading for young men Probably Blood Meridian, too

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 23:20:26 2018 No.11392835

>>11391598
Read it last year. Enjoyed it very much.

>>11392082
Dude, thank you. I jewed a PDF of "The Art of Loving" and I'm already 30 pages in. There's something disappointing but comforting in reading this. I really appreciate the rec.

>>11392085
I read Watts' "Wisdom of Insecurity" when I was 19 and enjoyed it. I know he's considered reddit-tier but his lectures on Buddhism are very interesting and make for a great "Westerner's Intro."

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 23:38:44 2018 No.11392878 >>11391561 Are you a Libra or a Scorpio? I gotta get my shit together.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 23:43:26 2018 No.11392883 >>11392878 I'm a Scorpio. I feel that. It takes time but it's rewarding.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 30 10:09:32 2018 No.11394143 >>11392821 >/lit/ memes are essential reading for young men

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 30 10:20:38 2018 No.11394174 >>11391561 OP read Riddley Walker Then you'll have one great book under your belt that nobody else has read, but everybody should have

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 30 10:21:42 2018 No.11394177 >>11394143 Wow that made so much sense when i read that as 'women'

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 30 16:33:10 2018 No.11395338 crime and punishment is the ideal book for the jaded 22-24 year old male demographic

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 30 16:40:00 2018 No.11395359 >>11391767 underrated post

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 30 16:41:02 2018 No.11395362 File: 26 KB, 82x109, 644444444.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11392013

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 30 17:00:47 2018 No.11395434 >>11395359 how?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 30 17:12:08 2018 No.11395491 infinite jest

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