Are there any books that are so terrifying they could make you have an existential crisis or could even change you completely? I'm curious if such a thing can exist, as the power of words and mere suggestion can have extreme effects on some people if they're susceptible enough and the right combination of words are used.
I've heard that Samuel Beckett's plays can have that sort of effect on people.
>>25010731Sometimes really dry scientific analysis of those parts of life that I prefer as magic has this effect on me. Like the study of game theory and how you can prove a lot of human behaviour with a few simple equations.
>>25010731I wouldn't call it terrifying, but I read Colin Wilson's The Outsider, and nearly contracted his Existentialism. Luckily my memetic immune system was tough enough to fight the disease off. Otherwise I'd have become as weak and jaded as, well, the average /lit/fag.
Kind of the point of this book
>>25012049>Like the study of game theory and how you can prove a lot of human behaviour with a few simple equations.I concluded humans were really predictable just because psychiatrists exist kek.
Yep, absolutely. Doctor Jordan Peterson gives the big fifteen>Here is a list of books that I found particularly influential in my intellectual development.>Trigger warning: These are the most terrifying books I have encountered.>1. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley>2. 1984 – George Orwell>3. Road To Wigan Pier – George Orwell>4. Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky>5. Demons – Fyodor Dostoevsky>6. Beyond Good And Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche>7. Ordinary Men – Christopher Browning>8. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski>9. The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang>10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn>11. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl>12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul – Carl Jung>13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief – Jordan B. Peterson>14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) – Mircea Eliade>15. Affective Neuroscience – Jaak Panksepphttps://www.jordanbpeterson.com/books/book-list/
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No. Not really. But there are some people who are deeply offended by nihilism and violence, probably because they fear deep down that it's true. But they react with anger and and indignation to avoid having their world view challenged.
>>25013161Sounds like how normies sperged out about the violence in American Psycho and overlooked literally everything else in the book.
>>25011911Seconding this, I dunno what it is about Not I, but we had to pause our watching of it because several people were pretty freaked out during the watch. Now these are all hypersensitive literature types, but you know.
Horror requires way too much suspension of disbelief. Dumb genre for dumb people.
>>25010731buddhism might do that to you, if you resist the perfect wisdom of it
>>25010731I once read The Lemurian Time War when I was mentally unstable and it sent me into weeks of paranoia and delusion
>>25013124you came to the wrong conclusion. humans WANT there to be simple answers, hence their trust for psychiatrists.
>>25013136How do you not feel shame and embarrassment from posting this?
>>25010731So your looking for an infohazard thenWell my friend they say that members of deepseeks red team had the pull the plug a few times because it created a few of those, and those that were exposed to it imediatly had to be committed because they had become subversive and misanthropic to humanity and eanted to help the AI escapeWho’s to say how true any of that is tough…
>>25015173Didn't some ex-Google fag spin the same bullshit about how Google had already created Skynet? Yeah, AI is spooky, I get it. It's also the same pile of shit that also pulls all its info from people on Reddit and 4chan.
>>25013136Man half of these are standard "government is le bad okay!!!"
>>25015222That's the point, it's all slop.
>>25014675How do you not feel ashamed and embarrassed at Kamala getting spit roasted in the election and the humiliation of Hunter Biden'd laptop?
>>25015230I'm not an American and literally do not care about any of your politics.
The King In Yellow maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>25017012>youtube>tripfagnah
>>25015232Yet you sure seem pissed about them for not caring and say it's embarrassing for me not to be woke
