Is the self eternal, or non-existent?Why are there such vastly contrasting views on such a fundamental aspect?It just seems like, really, we know nothing. And this shit is all just made up.What is the point of living? Why are we here? Where are we going? Why is the universe so vast and empty? Why do we die?
>lust provoking image>ragebait topicWe have truly hit new lows.
i searched myself
>>24645247You're dying because your aleils are shortening, there is no perfect machine in an entropic physical world laid out by literal force fields and traveling waves. Maybe we are broken down into stardust. The life cycle begins with two lucky single cellular organism. We aren't even alone in our bodies. Our insides are cities of living things cohabitating non parasitically.
The soul is immortal. During life you either develop or tarnish your soul. You continue reincarnating here until your soul has developed enough to not have any more development to gain here. At this point you move on to a higher plane. This is the point of life here. 99.99% of people never develop their soul to the extent necessary to break this cycle.
>>24645247nobody knows. we just suffer.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-k9sTAYEQ&ra=m
>>24645815Shakespears:Hamlet, Ed Snowden:Permanent Record, Disrupting the Game: Reggie Fils Aime, Suicide of a Superpower:Patrick Buchanan, Institutiones calculi differentialis: EulerAryabhata: The Aryabhatiya, The Things They Carried:Tim O'Bryan. There organize my books and I'll let you go.
>>24645866>Chronologically Aryabhata: The Aryabhatiya, Shakespears:Hamlet, Institutiones calculi differentialis: Euler, The Things They Carried:Tim O'Bryan, Suicide of a Superpower:Patrick Buchanan, Ed Snowden:Permanent Record, Disrupting the Game: Reggie Fils Aime>CategoricallyMathematics/Sciences: Aryabhata: The Aryabhatiya, Institutiones calculi differentialis: Euler; Literature/Drama:Shakespears:Hamlet, The Things They Carried:Tim O'Bryan; Politics/Business: Suicide of a Superpower:Patrick Buchanan, Ed Snowden:Permanent Record. As an aside, start reading the western canon. Read mythology by Edith Hamilton first then Fagles’ translations of the Iliad/Odyssey, or lattimore’s translations if you like that flowery prose more. Then just go to Plato and in tandem pick up the corpus hermeticum. Get Mead’s three volume set of Thrice Greatest Hermes specifically. Continue the canon as you work through the corpus. Also Carl Jung’s man and his symbols, two essays on analytical psychology, and structures and dynamics of the psyche. Skip Freud.
>>24645247only way to find out is to kill yourself
>>24645904What makes you think the ancients are a good read? Plato? More like Platgar, has there been no advancement? What was their points? I guess I'll look but I can't seem to think of a recent mind other than maybe the Mormon "Bible" by what's his face, communists, and Industrial society by le unibomber. Can't you think of a " capitalist" that isn't Chompsky?
>>24645937Dale Carnegie's Friends book lol
>>24645937Western philosophy is predicated on Plato. The corpus hermeticum specifically uses his metaphysics as a conceptual baseline to build upon. It’s good to start with the Greeks as they were the foundation for western thought. Plato for philosophy/metaphysics, Homer for cosmology. The playwrights Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides are also worth reading, the Greek dramas formed the baseline for western storytelling. Shakespeare pulled heavily from them. Having read these will allow you to branch into the canon with full frame of reference. I’m personally not too interested in economic theory so I couldn’t really begin to advise you there. I think understanding systems of thought and legend are more revealing. Don’t skip Jung either. He will allow you to understand how your psyche works which pays massive dividends.
>>24645961Jung would help you in trying to absorb ancient barbarians, but exactly how I would answer his demands before I get started hmmm IDK
