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How much will you donate over your lifetime?

For the average person, that number is between $2,500-$30,000[1]. You may personally be able to donate a lot more over your lifetime: assuming you donate $300 per paycheck, two paychecks per month for all twelve months of the year every year for sixty years, you will be able to give $432,000 in monetary contributions to charity over the course of your life. That's a lot of money, isn't it! But how much does it really help?
Roughly 1260 people are raped per day, or around one every 68 seconds.[2] The average cost of a rape, in numbers alone, is $122,461[3], and even more if we count the legal costs of the state prosecution (but let us ignore this). That means that you contribute, at least, the total cost of three rape victim's expenses (ignoring the unseen costs) to the good in the world, or 0.3% of the total monetary cost of rape per day, or again roughly 0.0007% of the cost per year in the USA alone.
That doesn't look like much, does it? But it is even worse than that. Every year, roughly 25,000 people are murdered, or 68 per day[4]. If we assume the average value of a human life is 6 million[5], that is 410 million dollars worth of human life lost per day, or 150 billion per year. Quite a lot, huh? Totalling the cost of rape and murder brings the contributions to charity over the course of your entire life to 0.000215% of the monetary costs of the evils of rape and murder every year in America alone. This is an incredibly optimistic number: I do not think a human life is worth merely its economic value, nor do I think the evil of rape is solely the cost of medical and mental health care afterwards. With these numbers now out of the way, it's time to address the elephant in the room: You cannot possibly hope to bring even a sliver of good into this world through charity alone. But what else can you do?
Yes, there are things that can be done, but none of them are legal.

[1] https://www.definefinancial.com/blog/charitable-giving-statistics/
[2] https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence
[3] https://www.nsvrc.org/blogs/cost-rape
[4] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
[5] https://www.theglobalist.com/the-cost-of-a-human-life-statistically-speaking/

If Evola lived until today he would either kill himself or he would write a second edition of Ride the Tiger titled "Stab the Tiger in the Fucking Neck"

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Meaning is given to life by death alone. In fact, the fruit of life is death.
What you are doing is living under the notion that the purpose life is to live; in reality, the purpose of life is to die. When one lives for life itself, they chase meaningless pleasures and vacuous memories. In the end, all of those pleasures and joys will be twisted into suffering as age robs the body of its every faculty; inevitably, everything that one has ever done will be proven fruitless on the day of their death.
This is not a nihilistic idea. It is the most optimistic philosophy possible. The life-affirming religions of the world are simultaneously death-affirming; meaning, of course, is manifest through death alone. The life of a Christian is spent in preparation for death; repentance, purification, and worship, all for the single moment of truth in their lives; death. The very namesake of Christianity completed his life through death- Christ became the Redeemer through crucifixion. Buddhists hold true the same death-affirmation. It is only through a life lived for death that one can achieve enlightenment. True religions affirm the single meaning of life- death.
However, suicide is a meaningless form of death. Suicide itself is an expression of life. When one believes they desire death, what they really desire is life. The life of pleasures they didn't or believe they cannot experience, or perhaps a life free from suffering. Nevertheless, those who kill themselves do so for life, and thus even their death becomes as meaningless as their life.
It was not too long ago that I believed I desired death; perhaps the same as you. I realized that not one person who is yet living has ever wished for death. Anyone with a true desire for death has already committed suicide. To speak that desire is to betray its nonexistence. I spent a good few years in this sort of conundrum of lying to myself- telling myself again and again that I wanted to die. It is poetic, in a way; I only needed to give up on life to gain it again. If one desires happiness, they will find none. One must revise their unrealistic expectations and live for death.
A Christian merely larps until he proves that his faith prevails unto the end. Mishima larped until he proved his words with a splash of blood. The meaning of one's life only becomes true when it is crystallized by death. I was a cringe larper then and I am a cringe larper now. I will always be a larper, perhaps, until the day of my death. As it is with everyone.

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Holy epiphany
Women are soft, pristine and angelic on the outside, yet their souls are as hairy, sweaty beasts. Men are the inverse, which is why both are attracted to each other.

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I hardly leave and have books strewn across my apartment, with one always in arms reach.
I also consider myself to have an intellect so strong that I can hardly function in normie society

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>300 word essay due this Friday
>have only written one sentence
Should I just leave the country and never come back?

>tfw fell for the law school meme

This fucking Cat Person meme man.

My girlfriend just text me saying she wants "some time apart" and I know it's because of this fucking story. She read it yesterday and pointed out some things I had in common with Robert. Her friends have been tweeting / facebook posting about toxic guys and shitty men in general and I FUCKING KNOW it's why she just dumped me.

Two years. TWO FUCKING YEARS.