List: Existential Angst | Curated by Brooks Park

Feb 8, 2025
26 stories
Existential Angst
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Greener Together
by
Richard Lowenthal
The Worst Has Happened. Now What?The time for hope and despair alike is OVER. The time for ‘deep preparation’ has arrived.
Nov 30, 2024
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Nov 30, 2024
55
Alex Mathers
Seven things almost no one does that will attract people to youI’ve learned that a significant part of attraction is rooted in standing out from the crowd.
Sep 12, 2024
152
Sep 12, 2024
152
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The Taoist Online
by
Ryan Frawley
If You Wouldn’t Live Your Life Over Again, You’re Living It WrongLessons from Christopher Hitchens, Bertrand Russell, and Friedrich Nietzsche
Jan 10
30
Jan 10
30
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StoryAngles
by
C. L. Nichols, Author
The Rise of the Rebel: How Antiheroes Took Over LiteratureTheir moral struggles and personal failings mirror our own.
Nov 4, 2024
5
Nov 4, 2024
5
Grant Eaton
An Isolated Planet Where They Worship Narcissistic Morons & Conspiracy TheoriesSkepticism and critical thought disappeared along with Atlantis. Now ‘beliefs’ reign and facts are fake news. The Earth is flat; Obama was…
Apr 6, 2020
4
Apr 6, 2020
4
In
The Ugly Monster
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Lady Horatia
‘Office Space’ and Bullshit JobsHuman beings don’t want to spend their days doing nothing
Aug 8, 2024
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Aug 8, 2024
24
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ILLUMINATION
by
Mario Braendle
Be Better TomorrowLet’s run a hypothesis: Complicated Men Must Die Exhausted.
Jun 9, 2023
61
Jun 9, 2023
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Brooks Park
A County NightBrooks Park
Jun 18, 2022
Jun 18, 2022
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The Unexpected Autistic Life
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McDopper
Autistic Monologues and the Modern Art of ConversationSo, you know the scene, if not from recent history, then from sometime in your autistic past…a group of your co-workers are gathered in the…
Feb 10, 2024
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Feb 10, 2024
19
In
Grim Tidings
by
Benjamin Cain
Must Civilization be Saved by Neoshamans?When social progress and distractions meet the lingering existential predicament
Oct 16, 2023
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Oct 16, 2023
9
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ILLUMINATION
by
KnowledgeCollective
How to Live in Alignment with the Path You ChoseI feel the call to embody my pure essence. To shed layers of fear and limiting beliefs until my true self shines through. To walk the path…
Aug 22, 2023
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Aug 22, 2023
4
In
Grim Tidings
by
Benjamin Cain
How Even Science is as Arbitrary as the Taste in ArtThe false dichotomy between objective truth and subjective opinion
Jul 11, 2023
45
Jul 11, 2023
45
In
Interfaith Now
by
Benjamin Cain
The Dread of Pantheistic EnlightenmentAnimism, decadence, and transhuman vision
Feb 17, 2021
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Feb 17, 2021
16
In
Mystic Minds
by
Sanghamitra Moulik
How My Existential Crisis Triggered My Self-DiscoveryBefore then, I swayed through life directionless
Jun 18, 2023
16
Jun 18, 2023
16
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Science & Meaning
by
Hermes Solenzol
In Defense of PleasureHow mindful pleasure and avoiding the trap of the Ego lead to a happy life.
Oct 3, 2021
6
Oct 3, 2021
6
Jessica Bovee
Is There a War on Consciousness?Banned TED talks, psychedelics, and the truth.
Aug 7, 2022
6
Aug 7, 2022
6
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Eddie Ejjbair
Faust, Nietzsche and the Psychology of InspirationInspiration is often depicted as a possession. In-spirare, to inspire, is literally to ‘breathe into’; that is, to animate, to give spirit…
Jul 2, 2021
4
Jul 2, 2021
4
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The Labyrinth
by
Brenden
A Singularity of the Inevitable Pastwith Carl Jung, Nietzsche, and Deleuze
Jan 11, 2023
3
Jan 11, 2023
3