Books about futile struggles?
>>24773606Hunger by Knut Hamsun
My diary desu
>>24773606>get good grades so you can get into a good school so you can get good internships so you can get a good job so you can have a nice living so you can get a nice home so you can have a stable happy life so you can...I did. I did it all. And nothing worked out
>>24773606If you are always striving for more it will never be enough. Just enjoy what God gave you, nothin too hard about it.
>>24773625it wasn't futile. he won a nobel prize
>>24773740He was divorced and lost everything he strove for
>>24773606camus
>>24774086This shit happened to three of my friends. No fault divorce ban when?
>>24773727The destination is good, journey is flawed.
>>24773606>I advise you not to wake up and at age 50 something, and what have I done with my life!I feel like I'm having a strokeGoddamn oldniggers shouldn't be allowed to use the internet
>>24773606All struggles are futile. It's sad to see Boomers still falling for and leading others into "live your life for you and put the self first; life your truth." This also leads to suffering. Consider Musk and his perma-online rage posting, or the many of rich celebrities and billionaires who seem to stew in anger and a desire for honor and praise at all times.Wealth, honors, food, sex, even friends, health, and family, all these wither with time and can be easily lost due to the turning of the wheel of fortune. Even billionaires get cancer, or face the rejection of their children, or the guilt of their own moral failings.One cannot escape suffering. One can only learn to suffer with Christ and *transfigure* suffering. For theosis is the highest good and the Holy Spirit the only gift that cannot be lost.Consider Saint Boethius who was the second richest and most powerful man in Rome, who had both his sons made Consuls, and had a loving wife, and yet who suffered imprisonment, torture and death for doing the right thing.
>>24773606everything Kafka ever wrote
>>24773606Orwell's 1984
>>24774571>The destination is goodThis. Only in death are we truly free.
>>24774086>>24774569Do not feel bad for the house negros that fell for the marriage meme.
>>24774674Isn't that a justification for suicide
>>24774674>die>lose consciousness>lose ability to move body>get put in a box and buried into the earth or burned to ashes>freeBeing alive is the best way to be free. Regularly going out into nature, filling your time with exercise, reading books and socializing with friends/familyAvoid being subservient to (weak/evil/incompetent) people, avoid becoming a victim to consumerism, an obsession with hoarding money and buying luxury items is a way to have human cattle buy their own collar and chains also, try to avoid becoming emotionally affected by instigating people/media/outside influences You can achieve freedom during your life, why wait for your death
>i did everything everyone else wanted and wasted my lifeok but i did everything i wanted and still wasted my life, you can't win, when your life is winding down you're gonna think "damn that was kinda mid" and imagine all the other stuff you could have done, regardless of what you actually did
>>24774637Imagine if Boethius' wife divorced him and took everything
>>24773606Death of Ivan Ilyich
>>24775146He was locked in a dungeon, tortured into confession, and then had ropes twisted around his head until he died.I didn't know this but Boethius is actually Saint Boethius. He also shows up in the Heaven of the Sun among the wise in Dante's Paradiso, although Aquinas and Bonaventure are the focus (Solomon to a lesser extent).
>>24775918Was he betrayed though
>>24776313Yes, by the king he claimed allegiance to.
>>24775918>It is likely that he was tortured with a rope that was constricted around his head, bludgeoned until his eyes bulged out; then his skull was cracked.Goddamn.
>>24776349Sad, what would his advice be for Luther.
>>24774569Soon, the same time that we ban birth control and abortion. And gay marriage.
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