Is the solution to existential dread just getting laid?
sex without the intent to procreate is a mental trick to protect the ego and is cope.
Procreation is just a placebo for existential dread. It won't change your mortal nature.
>>24887844You wouldn't feel existential dread if you weren't alienated and isolated from the rest of the world. The main character re-entered the world and thus was healed from his isolation.
>>24887844The solution to existential dread is to experience as much of it as possible. Think about it, wallow in it, allow it to consume you. After some time, you will come to accept it.Eventually, you will overcome it.
>>24887844Is that what this book is about? I haven't read it yet
>>24887844It's merely a cope, not a solution, actually there's no solution to it.
>>24887926>Think about it, wallow in it, allow it to consume you.Wrong, this how you keep spiralling downwards. Key is to experience dread while detaching from it, realising that you are not the dread. This is psychic protection 101, wallowing in it is allowing yourself to be a victim of 5th generation warfareAnyway, the real solution is to just do things.
>>24887844not inherently. the post nut clarity after having sex with a fat and/or nonwhite woman is worse than anything any human can ever experience. sex with an actual attractive woman that likes you does make you feel better though. >eat fiber & healthy food & drink water>avoid toxic processed foods that will give you mental problems>don't watch porn, don't do drugs, don't gamble>become proactive rather than procrastinating>clean your living space
>>24887982I‘m a third through and so far it‘s just been continuous restatements that he has a dark side in his nature.
>>24887982Kind of yeah. One of Hesse's weakest books for me. It's loved by american baby boomers that were ground zero for the sexual liberation movement. It is cringe.
>>24887844Kino poster.
Might like this one
>>24887982No, that's not the message.
>>24888090Yeah it kinda loops until the other characters are introduced then it goes faster
>>24887844If only it were that easy
>>24887914hmm. that's not what happened
>>24888082i wish being fastidious were the magic bullet everyone says it is but as with most things involving the wisdoms of the common man, it's actually fucking retarded and wrong.
>>24887844ITT:> Nobody actually read the book> the one anon who drunkenly half-read it thinks its about wolves>everyone just want to spute their trite little philosophy on the sex they haven't had > at least one anon has to reiterate that you should, indeed, clean your room, drink water and lift weightsSo the usual
>>24888517>t. guy who is obsessed with making it and will die in extreme anxiety realizing it was all pointless and stupid like everyone else
>>24888517Enlighten us, Dr. Peterson
Not on the long run, no. It comes back with a vengeance.
>>24888474i was an addict, got out, got into reading, and lead a terrifying life of deep existential dread for two or three years before straightening myself out. the only reliable means I have for remaining okay and not slipping back are habits for health and order. my dumb ass slowly figured out what behaviours helped through observation and reflection on my more or less well being. my conclusions are boring, tedious, slow, obvious: yoga, meditation, diet, walking, thinking, reading, and regular creative expression. if you can manage to stay financially afloat while maintaining those daily habits, you'll probably be fine. it is a regimented life, as if one lives with terminal disease, but one no longer laments and dreads and fears every waking moment. the mind follows the body and vice versa. if your existential angst instills enough fear, you will have the willpower to move. move your body. move your mind. free yourself through an endless cycle of demanding habits for the sake of okayness, anon
>>24888699you stupid fucking retard. the implication is not that doing all that is like, so impossible and totally difficult. the implication is that doing it didn't affect shit for me. go back to sucking dicks for drugs or whatever the fuck it is you do.
>>24888699You are so awesome!
>>24888826sorry anon i didn't realize you are a genuinely vile and spiteful person. i have no idea what your kind can do for yourselves when you aren't successful enough to sadistically ruin the lives of others. i do however sincerely doubt you managed to sustain healthy habits for a meaningful period though, and still recommend it
>>24887982>>24888094SpoilersIt seemed to me that Harry got involved with a lover and/or prostitute and started to drink and smoke strange drugs and spend all his time and clubs. But he eventually grows tired and dissatisfied with hedonism too, and this forces him to realize that he has to let go of the desire for death and totally detach from life if he wants his enlightenment. That or he was drinking alone the whole time, and the other characters are pure figments of his sick mind. But I could be misinterpreting it
>>24888901I love that you retards can't conceptualize a person who is healthy but also not happy with everything their fellow humans do. it's literally anethema to you because you're weak minded fucks.
You can’t just avoid thinking about mortality and lack of meaning with cheap pleasure. I mean, you can but that doesn’t make it go away.
retardsbook is actually about tomboy gf fixing your life
>>24887856Let me guess ... your repulsiveness to the opposite sex is actually a sign of your inner strength and disdain for earthly concerns.
>>24887982Please don't. We already get enough midwit threads about Steppenwolf.If you don't know what individuation is, the book is not for you.
>>24888082OK dad.
>>24888834I dunno, he sounds like he needs to get his bone smooched.
>>24887856Sexual frustration is the catalyst for any number of neuroses. If you repress the sex drive, it represses you right back.
What's with the scene at the magic theater when Harry enters a battlefield with his childhood friend and starts killing drivers manically? It went completely over my head. A few pages before this Pablo tells him to completely let go of his personality before stepping into the theater rooms. He sees the face of Harry and the Steppenwolf dissolve in the little mirror. But then in this scene he takes again the side of the anarchists and reinforces his staunch anti-war and anti-nationalist stance he was known for as a writer.Any smart anon care to weigh in?
>>24889790Normally it's taken as an integration of the violent parts of your shadow. That's for pussies. By the time he walks into the theatre he's already an absurd man. Life's just a series of random events. Smoke the non-filters. Don't you forget that car crashed.
>>248897256'5 Scandinavian chad actually, if i post on soc i get a 8/9.there goes your argument, huh.
>>24890015sure
>>24887844Yes.
>>24887913wrongprocreation changes your mortal nature, or at least the way you conceive it you see that your bloodline will continue, and that is no small thing
>>24889740i have serious mother issues, and even when women like me i cannot enjoy affection nor sex. i once had a strangely intimate connection with a blonde new yorker referred to by my friends as a "dumb slut," which i consider the only good sex of my life. we spent a week together in 2023. i saw her again this spring and none of our connection remained. life is idiotic
>>24889725No it's actually the fact that 90% of my interactions with women were negative despite my best efforts. And trust me I really honestly tried but I was only left with the conclusion that millennial women are trash
>>24890511*irredeemable trashSorry I should really proof read my posts
>>24888517It's about the bad guy from the Justice League movie.
>>24888152Finally, the alternative to getting laid: drowning in a lake.
le based centrist Hesse
>>24887844worst book i've read in years.
>>24887844The solution to existential dread is having real problems.
