Thread 24857004

"No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive."
I think this is a great quote that emphasizes the importance of remaining content and optimistic about building back up, while still acknowledging the imperfect and broken present you find yourself in. That part is important. The reality. I need more of it.
I need some hopeful shit like that to read, a la Disco Elysium's Volition, to keep me out of my winter funk or else I'm going to spiral and it won't stop until the sun comes back.

I'm going to piggyback in this thread because my IP range is banned from posting new threads, which I think might be my own doing for a thing I did against the jannies, which is ironically related to my request.
Anyway: I need catharsis porn and divine retribution. I don't want a morally grey or multifaceted protagonist, but one who targets evil, and I want to see that evil completely obliterated to make room for divine beauty. I want a book about beauty's triumph over ugliness. Is there anything like that outside of the Greek myths? Because all authors seem to be worshipers of the grotesque these days. I am so tired of it, you know? I sorta wanna fucking obliterate those people, too. I love beautiful things and I want all the ugly things and people who sympathize with them or endorse them out of cynicism to be crushed mercilessly and erased from existence, fully and completely removed with holy fire, not even the thinnest ashes behind. But everything today seems to be quite the opposite, and I am very tired of that. It really makes me weary in my bones and fills me with a certain hatred. So please tell me if I can read anything like that, I really need it.
But please not the Bible, for obvious reasons I don't want to read things made by Jews. I know you still want to LARP and troll, can you please not do that for once? It just doesn't work on me. I just want a little recommendation and then I'll fuck off for a week. So just try to answer in earnest for a second

>>24858322
Lord of the rings

>>24858421
Done it already

>>24858322
Written by Jews =/= written by Judaists. The Christian Bible stands quite firmly in direct opposition to Judaisim and literally has a whole book about how it's completely wrong (Martin Luther, the founder of modern-day Protestant Christianity, was also notoriously anti-semitic). You seem to be LARPing on account of Lord of the Rings borrowing its themes heavily from Christianity and you saying you've read it. You also owe it to yourself to read the Bible anyway, literally the most widely-known literary work in the entire world's history, even if you still hate Jews.
Unfortunately if that's still not your cup of tea, Christian themes have a monopoly on the kind of books you'd like to read.
I get you, but you're falling under the same terminally-online spell that turns people into furries and transsexuals by staying on here. Do yourself a favor and go outside, talk to your parents, sit on a park bench, or have a cigar out in nature. Something like that. Enjoy yourself and witness the changing of the seasons. That's my recommendation if you don't get anything else from this.

>>24857004 (OP)
>the importance of remaining content and optimistic about building back up, while still acknowledging the imperfect and broken present you find yourself in. That part is important. The reality. I need more of it.
Ulysses

>>24857004 (OP)
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_Transience.pdf?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template
Also Kierkegaard Edifying Discourses, and the section of Zarathustra with the tightrope walker

>>24858322
the only thing I can think of like this is the brothers K but that is religious, or some fairy tales about dragons, i might also recommend sun and steel, though it doesnt exactly fit the bill, maybe harry potter or percy jackson is perfect for you

>>24858322
Don Quixote