/lit/ - Literature

you are a brainlet for wanting one and also for not already having one

All existential crisis means is you haven't found something to occupy your time that you enjoy doing and look forward to doing it again tomorrow

Find your local international dark sky authority and do some stargazing. The words of brilliant minds are cool, but nothing is quiet as reality crushing as staring the universe in the face.

>>13212862
Life is an existential crisis

>>13212862
have sex

it will unironically cause one

>>13212862
Read Kaczynski

look for datura

>>13212862
What’s a community topic on the idea?

The universe being so big and the subject so microscopic

The idea of Existence after death

Someday you, I, everyone we know, will be dead.
Someday no one will know of Shakespeare, no one will know of Jesus
Someday humans will vanish. And even if they self-evolve into demigods of some sort, they too will pass away into that void.
None of it will matter in the big scheme of things.
So?

>>13212862

You have to hear the reticient call of conscience from attuned anxiety, this will reveal the uncanniness of being-in-the-world and the nullity inherent your existence. That's what Marty Highdigger thought.

>>13212862
no you dont.
Imagine feeling that life is meaningless, death is empty, and that you wish you were never born. That's what it's like

More like the cure to existential crisis but I guess it can give you one then cure it.

I've been having them periodically since I graduated college. I can mostly thank Kierkegaard, Cioran, the book of Ecclesiastes, and my first girlfriend.

>>13213379
thankyou

You should really ask yourself: do you want to become an alcoholic?

I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

>>13212862
No, you don't.

>>13213938
I know this is pasta, but I hope the source it spawned from was genuine and that he's still doing well

>>13213371
Meaning is just social adaptation, it's meaningless for nature. So it's not a problem if nature is meaningless.

sounds like you're having one right now, anon. don't tread too far, sport, you can't seem to tell where your feet are.

>>13212862
Drink energy drinks nonstop and spend a couple nights up.

>>13213163
>meanwhile

>>13212862
easy. read kaczynski. then you wont want to get out of bed for a year...you'll be in shock. then you'll get up and move to the woods or network for some kind of revolution, or both.

>>13212862
be thankful you dont need to have one

its fucking shit and not respectable at all. its just stupid as hell

>>13213938
Oh yeah? Well I just nutted. >>13212895

>>13212862

you haven't had one? how old are you? what's your IQ?

>>13213163
Ugly tranny tripfaggot.

>tfw you realize being an angsty neurotic that nobody can stand is actually pretty fun

>>13214245
I've been an angsty neurotic my entire life how the fuck do I get out this is not fun at all.

>>13213048
this is true. The time I saw the moons of jupiter, the rings of saturn and the core of the andromeda galaxy for the first time with my own eyes, is when I started being nice to other people.

>>13213938

>>13213938
>at your expense.

Men of the world casually admitting their vampirism.

When did you guys have your first existential crisis?
I had mine at five or six. Not bragging about that by the way, its been an entirely bad thing so far.

>>13212862
Hahah
Existential crisis just means you take seriously your mortality. Then you evaluate that you may have done bad life choices considering your limitedness. Existential crisis or how they call it just exists within a culture that denies death, those of us that knew all along don't have existential crisis because they've always been conscious of it.

>>13212862
Stop having sex. Seriously. The longer one goes without sex the more one feels that life is meaningless/pointless. The goal of every living organism is to reproduce and not having this goal fulfilled is the worse thing that can happen to a living thing.

>>13214442
4, I just started crying in the car and saying I don't wanna die, made things very awkward.

humans are just animals with an overly complex mating ritual.

>>13214442
Is this gonna be a competition, where the younger you were, the more intelligent that makes you or something?
That's just retarded, some children experience trauma from a young age so they stop living in that childlike bliss a lot earlier than other kids. I think it's just a matter of what you're exposed to as a kid.
I've been depressed since I was about 10-11, stopped believing in god a couple years later, and started having existential panic attacks around the same time. This was mostly due to my physical illness that alienated me from everyone and forced me to think about this stuff.

>>13214622
Yeah I'm >>13214608 and I can definitely see how I was traumatized.

>>13214622
Like I said, I'm not bragging. I'm really just curious.
I had a rough upbringing and childhood and always attributed that to my early development and existential realization, and wondered how other people might match up, if perhaps there would some commonality.

i gotcha

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>>13213163

>>13214633
What's your damage? I have a psychopath mom. There's a family video of me trying to stand up for the first time and my older brother kept knocking me over while my mom laughed behind the camera.

>>13212862
If you havent had an existential crisis by the time youre six youre low iqed

>>13212862

Trust me, you don't - but you most likely will

>>13213050
based and underrated

>>13214633
But I think you ARE subconsciously bragging though

>>13214442
5-6, it was the same as >>13214608 but I was about to go asleep, and I thought about how the blackness of sleep would be like dying but forever. I wasn't raised religious so I thought there was nothing after death, and I was afraid I'd randomly die in my sleep. I remember bawling profusely and my family comforting me in the living, my older sister mentioned something about how Egyptians believed in life after death, at some point I got tired and went back to bed.

>>13214695
>I wasn't raised religious so I thought there was nothing after death
Same. I wonder if it's not good to introduce religion too early?

>>13214442
My first cry straight out of my mother's womb was out of pure existential angst

>>13214608
I had the same thing at the same age but in bed and not in a car

>>13214672
My father was physically and emotionally abusive to the whole family, and my mother was domineering and disliked males, which was palpable to me even as a kid. She was also very nurturing, oddly, and had a rough life herself so I don't blame her. She's one of the reasons I became interested in literature. She'd read to me and encourage me to read from a very young age.
I recall having suicidal thoughts at around ten or so.
>>13214684
Well excuse me anon, I wasn't trying to. I don't think its been terribly useful to me. I also had an early sexual maturation, likely due to abuse and learning by proxy.

>>13213915
fuck yeah, being an alcoholic was one of the best and worst feelings ever, then my pancreas quit and i had to switch to drugs

>>13213938
you're exhibiting dangerous levels of narcissism