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Seriously what's the point of life? Love? Is that the greatest thing to strive for? I'm tired. Ass chasing is not fulfilling I'm beginning to realize. Neither is money chasing.

>> No.17665305

striving for aesthetic bliss

>> No.17665325

>>17665292
The "purpose" or "point" to life is not some specific object-centred thing. Though language can arrive closest to it with statements like "to follow God" or such, but you simply are on the wrong road trying to condense it into a sentence, before you even know it yourself. But by and far am I not advocating for a relativistic "create your own meaning bro!"

As Plato rightly knew, beauty is often the first path on our way to the purpose of our lives.

>> No.17665330

YOU WILL NEVER KNOW ME

>> No.17665337

>>17665305
fpbp
This is my personal "meaning of life"

>> No.17665362
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>>17665292
perhaps the real point of life is the friends we made along the way

>> No.17665370

Striving to experience. The vain pursuit of godhood.

>> No.17665377
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discovering your ancestors

>> No.17665380

>>17665362
This but unironically

>> No.17665388

>>17665377
forgetting them*

>> No.17665394
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>>17665292
Live up to your Fathers expectations

>> No.17665395

>>17665305
extremely based

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To experience and to explore.

>> No.17665416

>>17665377
These paintings are only superficially good.

>> No.17665436

>>17665292
Getting what you want.

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17665441

Striving for the Absolute

>> No.17665442

>>17665292
Ass chasing belongs to the Earth Mother, it is a mere animal ideal that has been proliferated into obscenity by the introduction of Yoga Pants and mans reckless abandon to the sensuality and beauty of woman. Modern Man is chasing an Animal ideal and he will return to an Animal state. See: African Races.

Money chasing belongs to your need of it to live in this modern Era as the Economy has accelerated out of control into the only tangible Ideal.

>> No.17665452

>>17665305
This. I argue that cultivating beauty is one of the highest forms of living because it implies you're content with your other needs.

>> No.17665459

>>17665305
what does this mean

>> No.17665528

>>17665459
Stop feeding your addictions and create something for the sake of creating it.

>> No.17666358

>>17665459
find and create beauty

>> No.17666370

>>17665292
To find the activity in life that makes you stop wondering what the meaning to life is, and then wait in tranquility for the end

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>>17665292
Power. Or at least that's the closest thing I can think of to a "point". Power, Glory, Legacy.

>> No.17666390

>>17665292
The point of life is what you do. If you do nothing, your life is nothing. If you do plenty that doesn't involve anybody, then your life is something no one knows about. If you do plenty that influences a lot of people, then your life is something many will know about.

Whether you're cringe while doing stuff or don't care about doing stuff hence being nothing, you choose what you want to be.

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>>17665377
which way white man?

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>>17665377
nice

>> No.17666469

>>17665292
Chasing ass is not love you retard.

>> No.17667082

>>17666469
I didn't say it was.

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17667098

Thanks for the responses, /lit/. I don't come here often but I do like to ask you guys philosophical questions from time to time. I don't feel very good. I've always chased my passions but I'm realizing some of those endeavors do more harm than good. Life is hard and weird and I'm just trying to cope. Also sorry for the blog.

>> No.17667535

>>17665325
>>17665452
>>17665528
>>17666358
>Beauty

Any books that explore not only the concept but the search for it?

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>>17667535
Symposium. But pretty much all of Plato anyway.

Read the artists of tragic Greece. Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides are essential. Any great artist though.

>> No.17667952

>>17665292
Currencies of all kinds become like pointless cold water in a bath that you want to get out of. Because like the bath, it exists by hopping in, sitting, and then hopping back out. All forms, books, money, women, even your own art. If you work by stacking it up and up, you will never actually be, because you are measuring all these things by the same metric that you are making some impenetrable plastic eternity - it will never be. Each small movement to halfway is interrupted by death while you still push beyond. That all is already inside a single point, and you need to spread out your own being across everything you possibly can, for you, like the sun. Every time I find myself longing, I sink into dread. Only when I realize that I must, can, will do what I do, is when it is good.

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>>17665416
what do you mean
t. not an artist

>> No.17668049

>>17667098
Kierkegaard. The three states of life are Aesthetics, Ethics and Faith.
Desire is inevitable but it depends according to the state in which you are.

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>>17665292
Yes it is about love.

>> No.17668102

>>17668028
The one you have now posted is much better. The other one bordered on painting and comic book, it was essentially just a very well drawn pop/pulp painting.

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>>17668102
and why is that bad? I think that's the intent

>> No.17669248

>>17665292
not /lit/

>> No.17669275

>>17668122
It's not bad if that's the intent, as I said they are superficially good, but it's not high art which I suspect many anons seemingly take it for.

And to be clear, I don't mean these two photos you've most recently posted.

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>>17665292
Will to power and poesis. The question you're asking, is literally the question Nietzsche asked himself when he realized that the loss of religion will leave humans without purpose.
Money chasing can be a decent goal, because it may indirectly lead to power. There is a difference between using money to make more money and increase your independence and influence, and using your money to buy a new sportscar though, that's why people are confused with this "money don't buy happiness" bullshit.

Make money.
Use money to seduce a highschooler.
Make 7 babies.
Raise your babies into strongwilled uebermenschen.
Die fullfilled with glorious bliss.