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I struggle deeply with the meaning behind the chaos of it all, humor helps, but I waste a lot of my actual present thinking to hard and having existential things bother me.

It's made me a pretty good ranter. But thinking only gets you so far.

It's all infinitesimal and so deeply tragic and beautiful all at once if you're not laughing what are we even doing?
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Sedj 2y ago

If you want to go hard at this, read these two books. Then you'll see where I come from with my disregard of "reality", and maybe some ideas that leave me with something more rewarding than nihilism.

The Case Agsinst Reality - Hoffman

Existential Psychotherapy - Yalom

Either one of these assumes you've been wandering down this path for a while, have some philosophy under your belt, maybe read Frankl, Kierkegaard, Jung, etc.

In some way it bring me back around to Mises and human action. Praxeology is pretty interesting, and even @knut svanholm's recent book is a good intro.

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poe😱 2y ago

Bookmarking and screenshotting this. I'm admittedly pretty uneducated. Ive had to embrace audiobooks recently as I just can't read without my mind wandering from once sentence as I continue to read but not process the information.

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Sedj 2y ago

I doubt you'd find either as audiobooks. I use kindle, and there are defintely nights that I couldn't get through even a page of Yalom before needing to put it down because of mind wander. I totally get it, and going at your own pace is highly suggested.