Propose books on the meaning of life.The title of book in Pic attached but I don't wanna read stuff about the holocaust.
>>25319868>Man's Search for MeaningThis is a solid one but it's mostly about the power of meaning in general, it doesn't necessarily help you articulate meaning in your life if I remember correctly... except for some bits in the second half, which is not about the holocaust, so you can check that out.>meaning of lifeI guess it depends on what your question really is. What power comes with meaning? Frankl helps you understand that. How one psychologically and spiritually develops towards this meaning? Wilber's Atman Project details the stages and corresponding experiences. What challenges a post-enlightenment Western person faces when trying to establish this meaning? Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (I believe there is a book) does a great job addressing culturally passed down and psychologically predisposed traps you encounter on the way. His lecture series were probably the most practically useful thing I've ever encountered in regards to meaning in life.What I've never seen a book or a lecturer do is give the audience a proposition about meaning in life. I mean, I've heard priests say that God is the point and Jesus is the Way, and as I get older I'm surprisingly starting to see what they mean, but apart from cryptic insights like these, there's might not be much out there in terms of texts.
>>25319892I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact everything is ultimately meaningless since everyone that is born also dies
>>25319913okay, so what? what a retarded thing to say.
>>25319934Stfu phaggot
>>25319913I don't see how that follows... since this very sentence will have discernable meaning that isn't negated by the fullstop. It's natural that you fear death, and there are many reasons why one would: the absolute unknown, the inevitability which induces feelings of fate and futility, the absurdity of trying to compare your embodied perspective now to having no perspective at all... It's a scary thing to grapple with no matter what one happens to believe in. But settling on the worst possible meaning of it all is luckily not warranted by what I'm seeing and what these wise dudes were seeing.
>>25319937Didn't understand what you meant
>>25319937Something having an end doesn't imply it's meaningless. Something being scary doesn't mean we gotta be all gloomy about it. All these problems have valid solutions.
>>25319950 meant for >>25319942
>>25319950The only solution is immortality. That's why religions that promise it are popular
>>25319935I'm gonna make you swallow my sperm
>>25319966You won't do jack shit
>>25319954An infinite life is faced with the exact same questions of meaning as you are... except for infinitely longer. >religions that promise [immortality]Many of those religions see immortality as something metaphysically given, not necessarily as an added benefit that is supposed to solve meaning. If Judas Iscariot is to be forgiven and live forever or if he is to live eternally in hell or if he is to cease existing altogether, I cannot say that his life was particularly meaningless in either case.
>>25319971Eternal hell is not a biblical concept..
I would say Heidegger, but Husserl is also great especially in the Crisis of the European Sciences.>We existRead both, they soothe the soul.
