Preferably with logic. Give me the silver bullet.
Absurdism, but not for the innefectuate: nihilism.
I see the word "nihilism" thrown around a lot but not a single person so far managed to tell me what it actually is.
how are myths created. can we try again with our new reality?
Sure.
You can choose:
1. your death because life is meaningless as someone who subscribes to nihilism, therefore your death will have no meaning to the rest of the universe at large.
2. to find a meaning in your life that is bigger than yourself that is also feasible for you to personally achieve. I personally subscribe to the ideals that the American founding fathers prescribed to America: support the wider society in Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. This is just one example of an ideal to support that is quite feasible for individuals to achieve, it's not necessary for you to choose this.
Intelllectual understanding of morality.
from marketing: did you know i wouldn't breastfeed? That's fucking nihilism.
Religion? That's right! You gotta study religions (or philosophy)!
Recommended reading:
Bhagavad-Gita as it is: https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/
Zoroastrianism is also interesting: http://www.avesta.org/
The Bible (at least read the Gospels).
Early Christian writings are also interesting: https://www.earlychurch.org.uk/
So are the writings of Church Fathers: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/
How about some heresy? Read about the various Gnostic groups: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html
Here is a link to a site that contains a lot of classics (like Plato): http://classics.mit.edu/index.html
The Sacred Texts website is also full of various texts: https://www.sacred-texts.com/
There is also the Esoteric Archives website: http://www.esotericarchives.com/
Bonus site: http://english.grimoar.cz
Bonus site2: https://www.grymoire.com/ (this site contains content for both UNIX wizards and other kinds of wizards)
Also check out the "Reading Recommendations" thread and the "Books" thread.
>>9
What, no love for Buddhism?
>>9
Your list is missing the Principia Discordia.
Worldly wisdom, false religion, vain philosophy and trivial heresies are all insane gobbledygook and at best meaningless seduction.
>>11
I liked Prometheus Rising more.
>>13
I did not read that, should I? I see that it mentions Freud and Jung in the acknowledgements but not Reich, that makes me unhappy.
pills, porn, drugs, games, news, social media, diagnoses and ideology
you are passivated through your dependence on the state's substitute for a natural life
The way I look at it, after a lifetime of intermittent curiosity on the matter is that in the end we exist in a life that never existed forever before birth and, at least as we know it, will cease to exist forever after death. The situation is hopelessly cruel and profoundly absurd, meaningless in every sense of the word, beyond human measure. Maybe you believe in Christ, or maybe not, but there only two real possibilities as far as I am concerned: either we are an irrational cyst of nothing as nothing from nothing to nothing in love and pain, or we are all the dreams of the great mind/spirit/AI, whatever, YHWH and things are going to be carefully weighed and measured to the grain and made right in His eyes when the time comes. I haven't seen much else that has impressed me very much. Either way, things look fairly grim, and no one makes it out alive. Either way, it's heaven enough for me. For this hideous sensory cage to collapse on me in ultimate finality would be almost as good (as I would be absent of myself, and pain, want and confusion) as an eternity in an entirely new universe full of the hand selected minds suitable for eternity in service to the King. Nothing much bothers me either way, either way I don't much care about tomorrow either way, if the sun were to rise at all.
Love to me is the only thing.
>>15 what's the bright idea then? Show me a way.