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Originally Posted by Cherry Raven
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Literature has some amazing answers to the questions you're asking. If you haven't read all of the classics, you really haven't begun to explore human nature and the process of finding the answer to your question.
We all love Kant and Friedrich.
I think Kant is a overly rigid cock, and Nietzsche is a brave but ultimately foolish person. He went to hell and back to come to a conclusion you could figure out in a day of letting go and having some fun. These people are dickheads - they're not worth listening to. Their mental processes are interesting as an aside, but there's no wisdom there.
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I love philosophy maybe part of the problem in why I ask such questions in the first place when I know I need to take action. There my journey stops because I don't know what action to take.
I'm talking about literature, not philosophy. Philosophy is poison for a guy like you IMO.
Literature teaches you that in whatever you're foolish, many people before you have been foolish in exactly the same way. It teaches you this like nothing else can. Your existential struggles have been resolved a million times in a thousand ways. And another million, never resolved but forgotten. There is a larger game being played outside your existential reality, but you can't see it. The parts of your mind that need to be lit up to see it, aren't lit up. The best way to get to a different place is to meet new people in real life, until you find someone who sparks something emotional, intellectual, something exciting and challenging.
You seem to be stuck in a loop of measuring life by your financial success. If you had a lot more money, and could look at the world from a higher perch than the one you feel you're on, you'd feel different I think. So there are two things you can do:
- Get a lot more money
- Learn to see the world in a different way.
Those are your two functional options. The third is to continue to be miserable and lost.