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How do I destroy my ego, lads? I’m an uncontrollable narcissist who convinced everyone around me that I’m not. I’m addicted to posting my body online and having whores with mouths watering message me, as well as picking up retarded tinder sluts who do nothing but demoralize my spirit and make me even more suicidal. How do I become pure, brothers? I need literature to purify me.

>> No.14900720

>>14900711
>Start with the Greeks

>> No.14900728

>>14900711
Lock yourself in an windowless room for 24 hours. No food, no water, no stimulation.

>> No.14900744

>>14900711
Post body faggot

>> No.14900752
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>>14900711

>> No.14900771

9-12 grams of mushrooms

>> No.14900845

>>14900711
You have to care about someone else so much that in the face of them you forget yourself. In other words, fall in love.

>> No.14900884

The Bible, particularly the letters of Paul address these issues, as does The Confessions of St. Augustine. It can be a gradual process.

>> No.14900891

>>14900711
>How do I destroy my ego
Ur a faggot.
Just did it for you

>> No.14900914

>>14900711
Godspeed, Anon.

>> No.14900930

>>14900711
based on the way you express yourself, which gives clear indication on the way your brain has become hardwired to think, you are either a lost cause or a LARPer. either way, good luck. anyone posting here won't be able to reach you at this time.

>> No.14900935

>>14900711
Maybe the first step is realizing this is a paradox. The desire of the self to destroy the self is still a desire of the self.

>> No.14900953

>>14900711
Do shrooms, faggot.

>> No.14900954

>implying this isn't just another one of your narcissistic schemes to convince yourself that you actually want change and to have people pat you on the back for it
You should kill yourself.

>> No.14900969

>>14900954
the narcissism lies in him believing he has a keen level of self-awareness which will let him control the very thing that makes him the way he is

it's an immature perspective and will only perpetuate his pathology, as you say.

>> No.14900993

First get rid of your delusions faggot lol also you need to come with me to /x/,that is containment board for schizos

>> No.14900998

>>14900728
not long enough

>> No.14901031

>>14900711
Do it with a gun.

>> No.14901064

>>14900711
What you're really talking about, all this destruction of the ego stuff, is developing such a profound indifference to the world that you no longer have any reason to do or not do anything in particular. Where you're left adrift, with the power to do anything but all the things you could do are hollow. And you lay in bed in the morning trying to remember why you get out of it.
You won't find this in a book. I think the only way to get there is through, for lack of a better phrase, severe acute social trauma.

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>>14900711
Your not meant to destroy your ego. That will make you like an animal or vegetable. Just realise your enjoyment of your life isn't the purpose of your existence. Find the higher cause.
Read either the bible- obviously-, the quran, the bhagavad gita, something from the Buddhists- I recommend these: https://www.buddhanet.net/audio-lectures.htm - (a proviso. Buddhists regard the ego as illusory so learning and practicing in that school will weaken what they would say we perceive mistakenly as the ego- but really they're just making themselves into vegetables in my opinion).
>>14900845
This is in the right direction. The heart is more primal than the head. We are governed by sentiment not sentience so >>14901064 is somewhat right but this can be achieved without trauma. All it takes is mental training- which is a lot harder than physical training believe it or not. But this isn't the direction I would recommend. Its still essentially the same hedonistic nihilism (which i regard buddhism as participating in). You need to cultivate the humility to be able to admit to yourself your ignorance of why you exist and the courage to believe that you are here for a reason and pursue the discovery of that reason.
Do you really want your lack of legacy to be you banged some walking worm food?

Life flies fast,
But death the faster,
What shall be of you,
hereafter?