How can modern man go on in life without going insane?

The same way we always have: by relying on God.

>virgin
Ironically, married guys with kids are the ones that suffer the most.

God, why would anyone choose to live in New York?

new york rules. just avoid the tourist traps

Who says he isn't insane?

It's so ugly though. I'd hate to be surrounded by all of those enormous eyesores. I feel bad for the Londoners and Parisians who grew up without skyscrapers and then got older and saw their the beauty of their cities diminished as those hideous towers of commerce were erected.

By not being a cowardly loser like you

>saw their the beauty of their cities diminished
Yeah but that wasn't because of the skyscrapers, idiot.

Fellowship with Christ.

It's certainly one of the reasons.

You need to "create" or "mold" yourself to an image of your ideal self and set out ways to achieve it.
Then you start progressing and start enjoying a new lifestyle where you give meaning to your life by constantly trying to become the ideal as an objective.

You also need to add some 'mysticism' into it though, having a fully materialistic cosmo-vision is both boring and a very ignorant/obtuse way to look at things, because you are ruling out all that is not inherently chemical/physical in your body and life. It's not necessarily believing in God either, but it can be Buddhism, taking Psychedelics, Magick or whatever.

I'd say you also need to face your demons, since I'd say that the post-modern social life has made it harder on us to always project our good side and the disconnection between both makes people more irritable and immature. It's generally knowing yourself to the point where you understand all your weakness and don't hide under insecurities. I'd say that's the easiest step for most people on Veeky Forums, since they have a lot of time for themselves so they should be able to at least notice when they react badly to something and follow the process to understand why.

Finally, have at least a semi-healthy lifestyle. It's not about powerlifting every day and trying to become the narcissistic Veeky Forums type, but at least eating well, quitting hard drugs and going out often enough.

>sprite and netflix
that will make you go insane after a while as well.
Then
>How can man go in life without going insane?

sane is overrated. become a schizoanalysts.

How to be disappointed with life 101. You sound like you're young, I pity you.

Heavy weightlifting

You forgot the "psh nothing personel kid"

But for real, it's quite the opposite of that, I've had depression for years and seen everything as inherently materialistic, trying to fix the world without fixing my issues first. Just now I've quite understood how to ground myself and have an objective for life.

depression and an existential crisis are two different things.

Yeah, taking meds is a difference I guess.

>fat
Projection

just drink a pepsi you bigot xDDD

It helps to have goals. The more concrete the better. And when all else fails, there's always alcohol.

Because we'd be living lives which had nothing of importance in them, and would have been entirely empty and like the life of an amoeba if not for suffering.

I found more dignity in going mad.

Mein Sohn

tear it down.
for real
in a society that has abolished all adventures, the only adventure left is to abolish itself

What exactly don't you like about modern life?

Jesus fucking christ, whoever made that should be shot, but not fatally.

maybe just get rid of yourself
vimeo.com/25952876

Explain why.

or if you are not yet ready for it
at least censor yourself pitiless
youtube.com/watch?v=QF2q8KnIpRk

i sure didnt do it. but i reposted it for giggles. he probably doesn't like it because it posits lanza right next to someone highly regarded. however if you like lanza you will love travis the chimp.
soundcloud.com/nydailynews/sandy-hook-shooter-adam-lanza

I see stoicism as pretty flawed for the same reasons nietzsche pointed out. But man do I like me some aristotelian ethics. Have a (You)

Realizing that there is no such thing as insanity or even mental illness

If you look at the world from a rigorous epistemological perspective, how can you escape a materialistic understanding of the universe and get to something mystic?
>inb4 leap of faith

I read evola for a while but this was thw6 issue I couldn't overcome. A system of thought has to be grounded in reality, otherwise it's fragile. You can invent an awesome cosmology, but it'll shatter before long unless properly grounded.

I agree with the rest of what you said.

>placing literary greats next to the likes of Elliot Rodger and other random r9k retards
it should be apparent why

the shot shouldn't be fatal so that they may continue to live their life, the truest punishment of all

Don't overthink life. Find your vices and let them distract you from the reality of consciousness.

We are all... Insane... In the membrane...

I know this feeling all too well. I can't stand modern life or society, and nothing depresses me more than the idea of a " normal " life here.

Only thing I've found that helps is to gain purpose. I've found my purpose in leaving Canada for good and moving to Eastern Europe. So I'm currently working backbreaking physical labour to save up enough to make a safe move. If everything goes according to plan in 2 years I'll be in Europe working an unconventional job supporting myself and travelling the world for months at a time. After I actually make it to Europe my goal will change to seeing as much of the world as I can, once that bores me I imagine I'll change gears to working towards a little hermitage in the woods of Eastern Europe where I can live the rest of my days in peace away from society and people, my only companion being my faithful hound and solitude.

I feel bad for you..

Wanting has to go. Wanting to be free from something that is not there is what you call "sorrow.” Wanting to be free from sorrow is sorrow. There is no other sorrow. You don't want to be free from sorrow. You just think about sorrow, without acting. Your thinking endlessly about being free from sorrow is only more material for sorrow. Thinking does not put an end to sorrow. Sorrow is there for you as long as you think. There is actually no sorrow there to be free from. Thinking about and struggling against "sorrow" is sorrow. Since you can't stop thinking, and thinking is sorrow, you will always suffer. There is no way out, no escape.

Read this book. You need to unite with others against our destructive society.

I think I survived by compartmentalizing my empathy for so long it disappeared. I remember I used to care very much about suffering, but I cannot remember why.

The issue is that the world is usually interested in goading us into taking it seriously. Not just the elite, but the people who subscribe to the schema of life they espouse. Good company goes a long way; otherwise, the absurdity just isolates you.

>>sprite and netflix
>that will make you go insane after a while as well.

wrong.

the latter is the most common cause of the former in the modern world

You have tons of books, papers, television shows, movies, games etc. at your fingertips in the modern world. The main thing that is unfortunate is that we don't get enough free time to enjoy it all. if I was rich I would just buy a beach house somewhere nice and read all day. I've never understood this infatuation with "meaning" in life. Some people are just butthurt I guess. Could they even envision a meaningful life?

SSRI, lamotrigine, benzos, being born with good genetics and rich family, etc.

lol what a cuck

no it isn't. physiological or clinical depression is still the number one diagnosis in the western world.

>This video is unavailable

Hmmm, I wonder if taking meds would had prevented most of those guys from creating their art.

By fighting back. Do small little acts of violence whenever possible. Always make sure it wont lead back to you and then cause the maximum damage that has the acceptable risk level of not getting caught. Focus on long term projects against your worst enemies and opportunistic possibilities with chance encounters of people that need suppression. The little things go along way. Putting nails in your ex's driveway, starting fires against bad businesses. Dumping buckets of paint into expensive cars with the windows down. Then just escalate, slowly working up to the murder of the man who raped you as a boy.

Also super glue giant black dildos to he hoods of peoples cars is hilarious and buys me a few weeks of happiness.

Sane and insane is insignificant. All that matters is survival

Kill yourself

Not op but I do tm, takes 20 mins and feel much more energized afterwards. 900 bucks yea

>rigorous epistemological perspective
which can lead nowhere but solipsism. you do understand materialism is itself a metaphysical stance, right.

Materialism is fucking retarded.

>new york rules
It really doesn't

>trying to fix the world without fixing my issues first
The world can't be fixed and neither can your issues. You don't fix them. You either learn to deal with them or you off yourself. That's how depression works.

i had the best 6 years of my life in NYC

then live in brooklyn.

kek

stop constantly trying to find meaning. Don't be consistent.

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no I just do it at home and nothing like transcendental wank shit is more for emptying your mind I imagine

I don't empty my mind or use a mantra, I just let ideas pass like birds on the horizon without focusing on them
I actually started meditation after reading Francis Loyola's text on Christian spiritualism.

Underrated post

get laid desu senpai

Stoicism or some version of it works for many.

this guy gets it

Veeky Forums - literature
fuck off with your irksome whining

true

> irksome whining

This is all that's holding Veeky Forums together

see your sorrow face to face and then you'll be free.

Freddy's critique of Stoicism was ill-informed and extremely poorly argued. It's quite possibly the least convincing thing he's written. I'm not a Stoic btw, just calling it out for what it is.

Do you have any arguments for that?

what a bunch of losers

this

I unironically do this. I feel the sugary potion of neoliberalism slide down my dry throat and I look at the bepis and say WOW, they put neoliberalistic dreams in a can. I always drink from the can.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

The vast majority of people are psychopaths. The contemporary society is a nightmare.

Who the fuck actually walks through Times Square?

Escapism

I don't think about you at all.

Read Ecclesiastes.

Have enough distractions so you never realize how miserable you are... If that doesn't work then embrace the absurd and accept lunacy for what it is: a different way of thinking

Yup. The world has always been fucked up, people have always been retarded - but life is easier now that it has ever been.
Modern humans have been around roughly 250,000 years. Only 6,000 of those have we had written word, only 150 have we had combustion engines, only 25 have we had vidya and tendies. I think we should all be a little FUCKING grateful for our vidya and tendies.

Me too, I used to hurt so much, thinking about suffering, both mine and others, until one day I didn't want to think anymore (or more specifically, feel anymore). And now, I don't experience many emotions throughout my days, I guess it's a good thing not being depressed but I no longer feel the positives such as excitement and motivation either. So life has become very boring without emotions.

I honestly don't know which is better.

Nootropics, Meditation, Healthy diet, Exercise and fucking drugs.

Start with the classics

>Selegiline
>Tianeptine
>Fish Oil
>Galantamine (or Huperzine A)
>Piracetam (any racetam, or even Noopept)
>Bacopa Monneri
>Lion's Mane
>L-Theanine (Green tea)
>Vitamin B complex

All you fucking need, for attention, motivation, neuro-protection and neural growth factor increases to make sure you stay at max. If this doesn't work for you, consider micro dosing LSD.

I forgot to remind you all that none of this is going to work long term if you don't do what humans have done to have meaning in life since the beginning of civilization.

>Acquire and master a skill that you can use to give back to your community
>Be social
>Acquire a partner
>Form a family you can support

It sucks, but you have to settle down at some point. We are not going to find meaning in the stars, we are creatures of Earth.

>We are not going to find meaning in the stars, we are creatures of Earth.

>Dont think about stars goyim, we have everything you want and need in our banks.

Nice try (((user))). We will leave Earth and your millennia old economic cartel will loose control of human future growth. Your stranglehold of progress will end and we will conquer every planet and slaughter everyone we find there. We will find meaning again in biological growth and diversification. The most primordial meaning to life will again be realized.

Olympic weightlifting.

> manages to make this about the jews
> thinks the jews won't own space

I don't know which of your crimes is the greater.