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How do you go sigma hustle grindset mode but keep your soul intact? I want to excel but I don't want to turn into a bugman, especially considering I work in tech.

I'm unemployed until possibly March, so this will be a nice way to spend my time.
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But don't I risk loosing my pseud status if I actually read this instead of just arguing with anons while skimming the wikipedia page?

Anyone else has problems understanding descriptions of places in books? Most of the times they don't even make sense.
And if the writer tries to get all poetic with the description its even worse, then I literally have no clue what they are talking about.
Unironically, is it autism?

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hey, it's very nice! but i posted the wrong one, that's an edit. i just prefer glow much more than shadows

I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense. My name is John.

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Here's the real truth bomb:
Only White men and women are capable of understanding true beauty.
They hate us because they will never be us.

After reading the Greeks (not finished yet) and some other works, my belief in some kind of divinity and afterlife was cemented, but this did nothing for me on a practical level. I'm still a depressed and neurotic blackpilled loser.
I have nothing to look towards aside from death. I cannot kill myself, because I believe I was put here for a reason, but I don't know where to go from there, as I can't bring myself not to suspend judgment regarding metaphysical matters (and so I can't adhere to any religion).
Have any of you dealt with a problem like this and how did you fix it?

Maxfield Parrish, I really like his coloring and the serenity in his pieces, gonna dump a few

Joseph von Eichendorff - Das Marmorbild

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Post more art

Is there a difference between intimacy and smut? When does a story stop being a romance and start being pornographic?

>>11959805
These are as basic as figures and scenery can get. Maxfield Parish did it way better (and this isn't even one of my favorite paintings)

>>11381909
>Bible
>zhuang zhi
>Kafka - Das Schloß/Bau der chinesischen mauer
>Dosto -The idiot (only first part though)
are sort of the few works I can think of that aided me through my slump. Don't expect any one work to be your miracle work and don't expect to ever fully recover neither
>Daoism and love for nature (and DMT once or twice in your life)

OP's pic related is up there for sure.
My top three are On the Road, Moby Dick, Lolita.

What is the thoughtprocess I should go through when deciding wether I should use the Roman or the Greek name for their Gods?
Example:
>Owl of Minerva
Why did Hegel use Minerva not Athena?

Can I use a Roman name and later a Greek for a different mythological figure in the same writting?

>>11349459
I am starting my philosophy degree next wintersemester in a European country so the courses will be free, and my parents are too kind and said they are willing to pay for my housing. I plan to as soon as I have finished my degree to move back to the US and go live in a remote area in some forest region and off of easy jobs every once in a while afford my cheap life away from everyone, abandoning family and responisibilites. The only thing that might alter my desire is if I somehow manage to kick off a writing career in my time in Europe.

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