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13866932 No.13866932 [Reply] [Original]

Has anyone here found meaning through literature? Something that moves you toward a particular direction. All the books I've read only propagate pessimism. Suffering seems to be the only constant.

>> No.13867058

based

>> No.13867061

>>13866932
read different books.

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Yeah, I don’t like reading books that make me feel like crap and think everything is hopeless.

>> No.13867425

Vonnegut has given me some positive feeling about suffering. That's about all you're gonna get. Suffering is constant in literature because it's constant in life.

>> No.13867522

>>13866932
The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler

I'm not religious (and this isn't really a religious text either) but it at least made me think life didn't have to suck. I need to reread it. Read too many blackpill books in the last few years.

>> No.13867532

>>13866932
Read Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung.

>> No.13867574

>>13866932
Sweetheart, you are reading the wrong books!!! If they are bringing you down... there are many that are optimistic and equally wise. Much of it also has to do with what season you are going through. Many books that seem to be “downers” now may seem wise and insightful later. But sadly there are few guides to selecting relative literature. If you like a good sense of humor I would say sick out things with a satirist stick and humorous look on life. It’s always good to laugh at where we are and where we’re going. It also helps to laugh when the world seems like it’s coming down on us, and quite honestly, lately, the world is really intense. So a sense of humor or a satirist of view on things that keeps your light and high helps to intellectually look at things without allowing them to drag you down.

>> No.13867579

>>13867532
>Carl Jung
I've read the first half of man and his symbols. His ideas on the unconscious seem interesting but the mystical nature of his work makes me dismiss him entirely.

>> No.13867584

>>13866932
Lmao anon books are just entertainment, if you don't like the ones you are reading then read other ones holy shit.

>> No.13867926

>>13866932
>Has anyone here found meaning through literature?
No, but I have in anime.

>> No.13867957

>>13867926
Which anime, anon?

>> No.13867967

>>13867957
Aria.

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>>13867967
Oh yeah that's a good one. Mighty taste, anon.

>> No.13867989

I’ve been at this for 15 years and I’m just an extremely educated clown.

>> No.13868053

I think it’s probably more about how you read them, not what’s in them. I personally find very few books to be entirely pessimistic.

For me, one of the messages that seems to crop up often, from The Bible to Lyrical Ballads, is to be social, talk to people. I don’t find this an easy message though, I would rather books told me to keep reading books so that I could feel self-sufficient in a room full of books and do nothing else but read for months on end. But the precise reason that literature is important for living is that it doesn’t peddle this easy, palatable message, it reminds you instead of your loneliness when you’re at your most vulnerable, sitting in a room, isolated from the world, reading. It’s paradoxical but a very important dynamic.

>> No.13868092

>meaning through literature
No, I found it through philosophical works
>Something that moves you toward a particular direction
Most works affect me to some degree, literature is a tool for engineering the aspects of myself I'm less able to through philosophy, usually sexual or emotional
>All the books I've read only propagate pessimism. Suffering seems to be the only constant.
Yes, and? Have you tried having sex? Maybe the suffering is telling you something is wrong? Maybe your meaning in life is to create a world you can be content with existing in and don't suffer, which might require drastic changes.

>> No.13868094

>>13868092
>Have you tried having sex?
With you?

>> No.13868132

>>13868094
>>Have you tried having sex?
>With you?
A-anon, are you suggesting what I think you are? You wouldn't happen to live in O Z A R K S would u? I mean, I'm not that kind of [preferred gender] but if ur in teh naygborhood wellumsure let's get wasted and read sum nogty passages from finginswake while I violently rape you teehee

>> No.13868136

>>13868132
>You wouldn't happen to live in O Z A R K S would u?
Unfortunately not.
> while I violently rape you teehee
Couldn't it be passionate, but gentle love-making instead?

>> No.13868141

>>13866932
Many pseuds here hate it, but unironically Bronze Age Mindset.