Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage...

Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.

I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.

History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.

I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.

I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment

And obviously I have an existential crisis but Veeky Forums is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.

Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.

Apart from money, health, and time, there are very few non trivial concept.

1/Read the Dao De Jing
2/Compare all available translations
3/????
4/Profit

>read the dharmapada
>read the bible
>read
>start closing your eyes and counting to 100 to start meditating
>repeat

It is pasta
Makes me realize I spend too much time on Veeky Forums, I've seen it on other boards as well

I know Veeky Forums will probably react indifferent to OP or call him a pleb but I think he has a point. I myself recently (year ago) started my "literary journey" thinking it would give me at least some added value but I can't help but feel reading non-fiction, and especially fiction if it doesn't have any direct application in real life is a waste of time.

I can't help but think whilst seeing friends and people in my surrounding who are "making money on the side" in their freetime (evening and weekends) have it by the right end. Whilst you are reading "The Western Canon" they are making money, starting potential businesses, studying/learning marketable skills or are on the road to finanical independence. I think I couldnt bear the sight of one of them driving a nice car (for instance) past my house after 5 years whilst i'm still masturbating to Dostoevsky or Faulkner in my living room.

I know there is a thing called balance, yes reading 1 or 2 hours a day wouldn't hurt but the returns on the time invested in reading are just to meager. I personally have way more fun spending a 120 euro's with friends that took me 8 hours to earn then reading a book in that same time. Yes, I work 40 hours a week and yes I earn a good living but I feel striving for a more "Bilzarian" lifestyle (with the lack of a better example) by being more enterprising in your free time in the end is more fullfilling then becoming a "literary/wise/knowledgable" type like Bloom or Wallace.

*excuse me for my grammar

>because of all the unfalsifiable garbage.

t. Popperian Retard

What's your problem with having no interests?

The belief that all true beliefs must be falsifiable is an unfalsifiable belief.

Hold the fuck on, this is a copypasta. I remember this post.

Fuck you.

I'm not saying unfalsifiable stuff is shit, only that there is obviously an infinitely large amount of it, so stop saying I should care about Nietzche or famous academic 9001

t.potato shill

Ok there's a lot going on here:

>I kind of agree about novels desu.

But, at least for me, they provide a stomping ground for philosophy that you have learned. You can pick out the philosophies of different characters, and when one foils the other it teaches you about gaps in their philosophy

>You have a philosophy, you just don't know what it is.

This is one of the many reasons to study it

>You hate having a job

Yeah, so does everybody else. I went to law school and practice solo in a small town. I usually get to read for 3 or 4 hours during the day, because I bill for research that my para does. I have money, respect, and no boss. You'd probably do fine as a lawyer or something similar where you don't have to have a boss.

>Monotheism

Faith doesn't happen in a vacuum. You have to understand that it is tied into a community of people that you see 2-3 times a week. You help each other out, work together, play together, and feast together. You're not going to have an epiphany that makes you validate it

So what is the problem? change what you are doing.
Spending time with friends and blzing it is simply not an option for some of us, we become writers...
Go study STEM or start a buisness.

>I le posted it again xD

>disagreeing with Popper
>being retarded

choose 2

There is no problem, OP asked for similar thoughts and I felt like sharing a recent experience. But I agree with you, it all comes down to each individual situation. Yet I hope people will look at their own actions critically for sometimes I feel people are moved by false motivations. Looking more at the "why" instead of the "what"

Philosophy inundates all. Economics s a very ethics-drenched subject, for example.

I'm sure you think you're smarter than most people around you, by your post its likely you are, but do not become so arrogant that knowledge and different disciplines start to seem dull or boring.

One of the most beautiful things about mathmatics, for instance, is that it is floating out in the universe - waiting to be discovered. The universe is honest, all her secrets are on display - its the introspective, intelligent people who get to discover them. but we must have a light heart - too much despondency obscures vision.

It sounds like you're in a rut...bored. "abandoning pretension" is a great idea, but I don't think you've even aware of the depth of your prejudice.
Go take some into classes at the community college. ignore all the plebs, but maybe you'll create some new neural pathways, have an epiphany - you need to get excited about knowledge again.

Great reply! So glad anons like you are still on /lit

"Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate"

holy fucking shit lmao

>Europeans systematize science
>centuries pass
>hurr durr, you forgot to create a theory of how to do science
When will these fagits bother to learn about the culture they have recently become a guest to before they begin writing? It's patently absurd.

dum retard