/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Ya hanging in there, /jp/?

The face of disappointment in Teruyo's face as she opens the /jp/ catalog and sees the sudden influx of shitty newfags and underaged brats making hundreds of threads and sticking out like a sore thumb instead of lurking like good little children.

dun take away my neet threads

Rise and shine!

"All because of me"
Do any of you ever feel bad about being a NEET?
Living sounds so easy when you have nothing to do. You don't suffer anything but mental sanity. You have nothing to worry about, nothing to live for. You just live an everyday life, seldom asking for much other than junk food, a place to rest your head, access to games and other entertainment, an internet connection and something to block the light from outside if you have an odd sleeping pattern.

Apparently some of you grew up or gave up the NEET life, but this is my question to some of you remaining NEETs, or the recent new additional NEETs. In which case, I welcome you to the longest blank of your life.

>>22015750
>The idea that there is no afterlife sucks the capacity for hope out of me
Well, unfortunately you'll have to reconcile that problem yourself. However, a newborn baby inherently does not believe in the existence of the afterlife or some God. More often than not, they are indoctrinated into a religion by their parents, guardians, or surrounding community and culture. If a person was raised unaware about the idea of the afterlife however, I'm pretty sure they still have the capacity to feel hope.

>Nothing to prove this place has meaning, or it even exists, how do we know this is real if we will never look back on it in hindsight?
Maybe we're all stuck in a simulation or maybe you're the only self-conscious person in the world and we're all biological robots with artificial intelligence, who knows? Whether or not our reality and world is real doesn't really impact my satisfied lifestyle of playing games and reading manga.

>If you believe in subjective meaning, why wouldn't you believe in an afterlife? Why wouldn't you believe that all religions are either parallel or all true and objectively reigning, all at once?
Subjective meaning to me is just to live a quiet, peaceful life that grants me a satisfying amount of happiness. Nothing supernatural and nothing extravagant like wishing for some surreal grand paradise. Just because the idea of a religion or God makes you feel hope or feel good about yourself does not add to its validity. 1+1 =2 remains true no matter how much you lie to yourself. And I'd rather not waste my single life by living a lie.

I had Catholicism shoved down my throat since I was a child and avidly believed it because that's all I knew. My family was Catholic. My friends were Catholic. I was forced to go to Catholic school. I had to go to church every Sunday. I was basically brainwashed and avidly defended my religion from people who disagreed.

But they got me thinking and sometimes I would posit questions to my parents about questionable things in the Bible and I'd be met with cold stares. Reasonable enough arguments like how the Old Testament would clash with the Science I was learning in school and my Mother deflecting all my observations. Questioning the sheer amount of contradictions in the Bible and how cruel and genocidal God actually was. Questioning what's wrong with gay people even though the Bible thinks being gay is a sin. Presenting the idea and evidence for evolution and my Mother retorting "Were you there to have seen it?!"

As an aside, I did martial arts since I was 5. I had a karate instructor that I looked up to and had known him for 10+ years. He's a genuinely nice person and I respected him. My parents also took karate lessons too and were friends with him. However, I'd overhear my parents talking about how disappoint they were about the fact he was a Jew and how he would burn in hell. Coupled with the fact that my mother said all Muslims were evil, even though I had good Muslim friends, I just lost respect for them at that point. If religion was capable of making people that close-minded and disrespectful, I wanted no part of it.

Over time after listening to people who speak out against religion and reading numerous books that made me further question my faith, I basically stopped believing in God. I've heard stories and seen how religion damaged people's lives. Mormon's cult-like society, Islam's oppression of women, having the Westboro Baptist Church protest in front of my school, so on and so forth. And there's also the issue of evidence. Religion is entirely faith based and I'm a rational enough person to recognize that religions lack the evidence to prove their God is real.

So yes, religion as a whole left a chip on my shoulder as I've seen firsthand how insidious and manipulative it really is.

> Besides, this is /jp/, and we have 2hu, the perfectly and infinitely subjective and individualized modern religion that demands only continued faith in it's reality, no other strings attached, so why skip out?
Can't go wrong with 2hu though. It drives a pretty hard bargain.

How's life treating you NEETs?

>>16165205

Found Ringo IRL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ybIULvUCdc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWEPnZREgtE

>>15250069
Actually, it's about princess Kaguya.
Aren't you glad?

Historically we've had trouble getting games going on Sundays, but who cares?

Lobby is up /jp/! Pass is /jp/dots as usual.

>>13930650
>Windows 10
Well there's your problem.

>>12275201
oh hay mokou