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What books about cynicism, death, and existentialism should I read before I kms? Planning to do it in a few months.
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
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>>8990417
What a shame you chose to spend your brief life in the darkness of existentialism.
Protip: try reading something enjoyable instead.
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>>8990537
What's wrong with appreciating the fact that you are alive?
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>>8990417
Read some Maigret novels. Dark, yet comfy.
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>>8990537
This.
OP read
On the Nature of Things - Lucretius
Euphythro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo - Plato
The Golden Ass - Apuleius
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>>8990543
>appreciating the fact that you are alive
This must be why existentialists are such happy-go-lucky types: they truly appreciate being alive.
(cf. our proto-suicide OP.)
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>>8990543
A lot, because there's nothing to appreciate in having life thrust upon you and being forced to live
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>tfw Buddhism will never be understood in the west
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>>8990657
Then quit, who's going to stop you?
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