/lit/ - Literature

i can't fucking read philosophy i tried starting with the greeks and it is really boring it takes me forever to go through a few pages because i end up just daydreaming

>>11221178
I cannot reconcile this... I have committed sin upon your mother and sister, and I cannot fathom how the mother's hole of damnation could be as nearly tight as the daughter's... Help me, father. Is it kegels?

>>11221178
Literature and its conceits -- the frivolity of seeking to push the novel beyond its limits, the endless chasing after wind that is literary fame, the struggle for relevance -- is no longer one of my interests. Only theology and mystical works excite me now. Pax et Bonum, brothers.

>>11221178

Every time I post I pretend to be some other character so that if people insult me they are just picking up on him

I am a degenerate burnt out drug addict and I've permanently fried my brain.

>>11221178
I rubbed my clitty through the fabric and made squirts in my panties but I disobeyed goddess and didn't release my hand to ruin it

>>11221178
I only enjoy reading non-fiction

>>11221189
Kek

>>11221178
The only thing I've written in months have been scenarios for my tabletop RPGs and reflections on the romantic relationships I pursued.

When I do other writing, it's all dark fantasy.

>>11221284
Same. I get really bored reading fiction.

I write and read cheesy, goofy, sexless romance fiction and shipping fanfiction, usually in sci-fi/superhero and fantasy settings.

I greatly enjoyed the Lord of the Rings films but found the books unappealing.

>>11221189

I've dropped the last 5 books I bought within the first 50 pages. I haven't finished a book in over a month. I'm reading teh Iliad at a snail pace right now and don't know if I'll finish it

>>11221178

I've only read 5 books this year. My writing is garbage. I dunno what else to confess.

I took the brown pill.

I talk about Romance Novel culture here for fun.

I was a NEET at one point. Then I became a normie Janitor with a desire for a BF and no money for anything. Not even a car. So I learned to cope and develop my own taste in Romance Novels.

I'd like to offer a bridge to NEETs who want to get into soccer mom books. And make sure they can speak weird American English fluently in case they run into an SJW.

There's an autistic obsession with happy Endings in the romance novel community. So as long as you learn the distinction between a Love story and a Romance story, you'll be fine.

>>11221178
I'd join the priesthood if I knew I had a good chance at becoming pope.

I’ve read more than 60 books this year and I don’t know if continuing is worth it.

I started reading just for social signaling purposes.

>>11221185

me too anon, me too ):

>>11221686
list 10 of them

>>11221713
These are the first ten books I read this year. The titles are in French and I didn’t want to look for the specific translation of each one.
- Le premier cercle
- Le loup des steppes
- Tarass Boulba
- Atala, Réné et les aventures du dernier Abencérage
- La recherche de l’absolu, la messe de l’athée
- Les carnets du sous-sol
- Ferragus
- Le père Goriot
- Crime et châtiment
- Le cousin Pons

i havent read an entire book in 3~4 years

Lolita gets me DIAMONDS

I'm getting a pet frog and am about to spend 100$ on a collection of books on herpetology.

>>11221178

The only thing I want to write right now is fetish porn.

i can't do it, i cant forget her

>>11221284
I can't imagine how a book could beat a movie when it comes to fiction.

>>11221178
I browse 4chan

>>11223561
Movies are for people who don't have the time to read books, play video games, or watch a TV series

>>11223640
I meant movies and TV series together. But when it comes to video games, not every story is suited for them, although I do agree that a good video game can beat any movie or book by a long shot.

I hardly have the attention span to read anymore. I have like 5 books that I started and want to finish but I have not read them in almost a year because I always stop-and-go read when I eventually do pick them back up

I skipped the greeks and went straight to deleuze

i dont know what to do with my life and im currently doing nothing

>>11221178
I want to drop medschool and go into writing

I'm finishing the first semester and I'm already failing it. I had no interest left a month into the career and showed up to class because I felt obligated to. Opened my laptop, and either read, or wrote. Did group project to the best of my skills though, so as to not be dead weight, but still. My mom is all about "OH, YOU WILL ADAPT TO IT. EVERYBODY DOES WHEN STUDYING MEDICINE, AND I HAVE TONS OF FRIENDS WHO KNOW PEOPLE THAT WENT MED AND STRUGGLED WITH IT"

It's not that I'm struggling with it. It's just that it's not what I want. And now I have to find something else to study that I like. As much as I want to have a degree in a STEM field, it feels as if it wasn't for me.

I am attracted to pubescent girls.

>>11223694
Name five

>>11223811
Kek... if being serious what are you doing with this fetish... are you seeking help?

>>11221185

Did you start with the Iliad, the most bad ass story ever? It's impossible to be bored except for the chapter where Homer just lists armies and names for like 30 pages. But other than that, it holds up to any story today and influenced a fuckton.

The way I see it is if we're always on guard to be either affirmed or down-voted without a potential for conversation simply based on chaining together observation there must be a serious and pervasive disagreement in all topics unrelated to murder mysteries and dogs. Perhaps we should all take a step back and consider nothing we know is true then let one fascist teach us all our new basic assumptions.

>>11223822
Not really, I'm hardly going to try anything, I'm not retarded nor am I a monster. They just turn me on is all. I'm quite sexually underdeveloped (shocker) so its probably a reaction to that - I see teenagers as "on my level" while women my own age's experience creates a profound sense of unbalance.

>>11221178
The only books I really enjoy are The Golden Compass and the Discworld saga, I can't get into any other books

>>11221178
i masturbated to george orwells 1984 in high school

>>11223928
We've all done that though

>>11223812
witcher, stalker, metro series

Instead of writing and reading this week, Ive been stalking the new girl at my work online and been dropping not so subtle references to things she likes as if they are my own in some vain hope that she'll be attracted to me

>>11223904
iktf

My heart, my brain, my life experiences, and my emotional maturity are like 10 years behind the rest of my body.
Maybe if I can appear to be younger than I am I can pick up a cougar though

>>11224065
Even my body has ossified. I still look exactly the same as I did when I was 15, nearly ten years ago.

>>11223694
>I do agree that a good video game can beat any movie or book by a long shot.
I agree too, but a portion of this is probably due to Stockholm syndrome. Easier to forgive and overlook the faults of a 20-100 hour story than a 90minute movie or 5 hour novel.

>>11223833
i read that twice for a class i mean mostly shit like plato and aristotle the epics and plays are fine

>>11221178
i haven't read a non-STEM book in years and I think everyone on here is an insufferable low IQ pseud, but I like posting here anyway

t. math grad student at top math uni in US

>>11223720
How'd it go?

>>11221178
Classical Russian literature is fucking too long and generally just fucking bland as all Hell. Why would you want to read1200+ pages of fucking pillow talk?

>>11223367
It will get better

i have a hard time reading because im slow/i get distracted and need to reread lines. i wish i was able to go through books like some of the people here :(

>>11224388
If he truly cared, then it never will.

>>11224169
You haven't read a book in years and we're the pseuds?
Piss off with your "top level university"

I begin reading because I needed an escape, then I fell in love it. Now after a few years I only continue to read because if I don't, I would just be an aimless loser

>>11221185
This is what masturbation and sexual excess does to your brain. It ruins the motivation and focus pathways. All your dopamine connects are squandered on senseless pleasure pursuits. I'll argue that the effect sexual excesses has on the developing mind is worse than drug use.

>>11221178
I bought maps of memeing.

i can't respect any form of non-skepticism in philosophy. Metaphysics seems to be top sophistry and philosophy in general (except anti-philosophies - such as Witty - or self-consciously affirmative and non-foundational seems to be a waste of time.

>>11221178
I hate being a NEET, but I love it too.

Anyone else does this?
>pretend I'm explaining topics of History, Philosophy and Literature to friends or even a qt girl
>sometimes in this fantasies I go into long jaded pessimistic rants about the decline of the West and the inevitable fall of civilization, and everyone recognizes me as some kind of nihilistic Houellebecq-type
>by the end, it quickly devolves into self pity and crying, by that stage it's me talking to my therapist
>this is followed by a meta-explanation of these fantasies and quirks
>quickly close the loop so I don't go insane
Not gonna lie, I'm losing it, lads.

>>11224827
Yeah kinda, though I loath to admit it. Even on an anonymous anime forum it hurts to type out.

>>11221653
Why? What would you do if you were Pope?

I love magical realism.

I read so many books at once that, while I finish a multitude, it takes fucking forever. I recently finished Anna Karenina, Blood Meridian, The Idiot, Notes From the Underground, The Crying of Lot 49, and Ficciones. It took me a goddamn year and a half.

I'm a pedophile. there I said it. I find little boys attractive. It pains my soul to know that I am this monster that arose from the murky black waters of the swamps of my past. Most days I feel as if I have come to accept it, however there are those moments when I see a boy and feel the rush of excitement then the sharp dagger of guilt pierces me and I begin to think I would be better off dead. I don't want to hurt anyone. I definitely don't want to pass on this curse. I have already given in to my urges by fapping to shota and sometime real pics of boys, and I hope to God I can keep it right there and move no further, however there is this other art of me that fears that this will come back to haunt me, or that I may not be as strong as my nephews grow older. It's not ike my life is going anywhere anyway. I have no talents, no skills. I fuck up even the simplest of tasks. right now I live in the good graces of my Brother working a shitty manual labor Job at Fedex. on top of all that I am generally unattractive. Short, ugly face, and a small penis. I have absolutely no chance of attracting anyone of any gender. so that is what is on my mind. Chances are this post will be ignored, but I'm used to it at this point. Even on an anonymous imageboard people can see how boring and socially inept I am

>>11224920
Do you feel attracted to little girls also? What about adult men and women?

>>11225043
>little girls
I occasionally fap to thoughts of that.
>adult men and women
less often than the other two. but yeah both, mainly those who have boyish features

I have no idea how to write a scene of my character walking on a street or a footpath. I feel like I should describe the forest-lined trees first but it feels so disjointed how it basically jumps to another subject

>>11225047
I hope you can find peace, anon.

>>11221178
I only read Japanese porn.

>>11221242
hell yeah dude same;
it was the adderall that really did it to me. Four years of taking it everyday. Once, I did 200mg in one single day.
My brain ain't working too good no more

>>11224827
I do this but with inane topics.

>>11224920
this is going to read like like i'm attacking you, but this is sincere. you should genuinely consider chemical castration. if the urges are removed then you stand a better chance of living a semi-normal life.

>>11224827
lmao nice bait

>>11224169
princeton? umich?

>>11224912
same, except i never finish
curretly reading:
ulysses (a bit into nausicaa, began the past spring)
moby dick (90 or so pgs, began in the fall)
the canterbury tales (p2 knights tale, winter)
book of the new sun i-ii (claw of the concillator (winter))
re-read/chronological progression through all of borges, havent finished universal history of iniquity yet
infinite meme though idt i want to get back to it

I fucking hate non-fiction, but I still need to read it eventually

>>11225333
I'm the opposite.

>>11225293
What do you mean? are you sure you're replying to the right post?

>>11221178
Everything I've ever wished for has become reality, no lie I've ever told stay that way for long; now I have cancer and Im going blind.

i dont read, i just listen to audiobooks while walking my dog

I haven't read a book in several months. I was reading The Histories but I burned myself out way fucking hard basically trying to teach myself a full college course on the material, and all the other books I've got that I haven't read I feel no motivation to read.
I made the mistake of buying a bunch of modernist classics and then realized I fucking hate modernism. I also picked up Stranger in a Strange land as my 'guilty pleasure' between higher concept books but Heinlein's voice just sucks horsecock compared to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

>>11225726
>but I burned myself out way fucking hard basically trying to teach myself a full college course on the material
How to spot an American. University is a socialisation experience more than a knowledge-learning undertaking. You will find that if you cast your memory back to the history project you completed at high school, that you will not be able to remember dates or occurrences. However, you will know how to go about completing a history project in terms of accessing information. Education is HOW, not what.

>>11224564
This. I get so much more done on nofap not because it gives mystical powers, but because I have the most recovered the most basic of motivation.

>>11225747
What the fuck are you talking about. I'm not actually IN a university class on The Histories.

>>11223928
Brave New World was the more patrician fap, the savage's description of her tempting soft skin and perfume is too good.

>>11225748
How long is the withdrawal period for Nofap? I went nofap for a few days a while back and Urge to Fuck was only rising.

I masturbate to the thought of Plutarch writing a lives about me

>>11225755
Of course you aren't. I'm telling you that you're wasting your time 'trying to teach myself a full college course' because higher education is about experience and not remembering details like you think it is.

>>11225769
Nigger I still have no idea what you're on about, I was learning The Histories and creating a reference material for myself to use for other historical works for the time period. I'm trying to learn ancient history not whatever the fuck you think I'm doing.

>>11225781
You can't learn anything. And don't call me a nigger.

>>11221651
Talk more about that. A self aware fan of romance novels is someone I’d like to hear from. What are the tropes, the secret sauce to writing a good one, how has the genre changed over time?

>>11225761
It really depends. You shouldn't concern yourself with that anyway, just don't fap.
For me I know I'm making good progress when my appreciation for clothed women in public returns, then I turn inwards and use the extra motivation to work on my goals.

>>11225799
You're a nigger

>>11225332
you must read less than an hour a week on average... why?

>>11225805
>when my appreciation for clothed women in public returns
But see I'm still turned on by women in public even though I masturbate a lot more often than I should. Maybe not to the point of popping a boner - is that what I should be going for?

>>11225805
>masturbating so much that your appreciation of a clothed woman decreases

Bruh

Instead of starting with the Greeks, I did the reverse: I went from postmodern philosophy, into modern philosophy, into medieval philosophy, into the Greeks. This has left me within the conclusions that I somehow created a hyperstition, where the linearity of my studies, and the studies appearing into the linearity, moved into the positive feedback of my logic, without my intuition guiding it. Here, my studies are now an inhuman monster, turning itself into the Anti-Greeks. God help us all

>>11223935
>>11223812
kotor 1

>>11225835
This is the most pseudy thing Ive read in a while

>>11225835
>I started with postmodernism, misunderstood everything before it and now believe some coked-up Max Headroom bullshit
And this is why we Start with the Greeks, anon.

>>11224872
True power with little to no restraints. If playing fairly (i.e. no martial law), the pope is the most powerful man in the world. There are no checks and balances to a position of life long power.
There are 1.2 billion Roman Catholics the world over.
I could start a holy war if I pleased, stir unrest, reinstate the Vatican's death penalty and expand its applications, meddle in foreign affairs, etc. What you can do is only limited to your imagination. Imagine the Holy See as a nuclear power.

>>11225843
You don't understand, I am Plato in the flesh. Prove me wrong, nigger

>>11225814
>>11225817
If you haven't experienced shit like that, then I wouldn't expect anything but minor benefit from nofap.

>>11225853
Plato is a man,

You are a faggot,

Plato is not a faggot,

Therefore, you are not Plato

>>11225852
You're assuming people will just do as the Pope tells them to but that hasn't been the case in hundreds of years. You could start a lot of ineffectual controversy though.

>>11225855
I masturbate on occasion but I've been given over to procrastination, video game binging, and overeating for years now since I was a NEET. I've heard it's beneficial but I tend to feel like I just masturbate less when my life is going better, rather than that my life goes better because I masturbate less.

But yeah, it's entirely possible that you're all more degenerate than I am.

>>11225858
Plato is not a faggot, and you say so,

My name is "Plato not a faggot",

Plato is assumed to be within the continuation of "not a faggot",

I am in the flesh,

Therefore, I am Descartes

>>11225864
Masturbation is a practice of the idle, who often have no hope of any other kind of relief or avenue to express their sexuality.
You sounds fine my dude, just keep your porn habits in check since that's the first step to getting proper fucked up.

>>11225761
The trick is to practice mental continence too.
Dismiss any sexual thoughts and remove all sexually stimulating material from your life. It's tough but it's the only possible way to make it work. Otherwise you'll just be horny and frustrated. Many writers, intellectuals and scientists produced their best work during abstinent periods. It was easier to do before the sexual revolution- there wasn't a constant bombardment of sexual material.

>>11225880
Masturbation is more often a symptom of existing depressive trends, especially where the regulation of dopamine is concerned, than it is a cause.
Drug use, esp. Alcohol, and overeating are more likely to fuck you up first.

>>11225883
Well no one said fapping causes you to make bad decisions, it's more like you don't make ANY decisions.

>>11221189
impressive

I skipped a short story in an anthology because the introduction made it seem like a hack job and the first two pages didn't grab my attention well enough.

>>11221185
This is me. Some philosophers make it interesting like Nietzsche, Foucault, and Hegel during his lectures but I just can't read something like the Phenomenology without struggling or loosing interest quickly.

>>11225817
The opposite has happened to me. I masturbated so much that naked women bore me.

>>11225882
Can you give examples of those writers and intellectuals?

>>11225932
This

I have built myself up to appear to be an emotionally strong person that anybody can turn to for help but now I realize I'm unable to talk to anybody about the difficulties I face in fear of them thinking I'm fake. This sucks.

There is simply too much to read.
By the time I have finished one novel there are already 2 new ones that have piqued my interest. And even in choosing those I know there are 10 others of the similar style that I also should read and would enjoy but jsut don't have the time for all these goddamn books.

>>11225929
>loosing
Don't worry, you're just a brainlet

>>11224906
>>>>>/r/eddit

>>11225943
>"The greatest intellectual geniuses in both ancient and modern times led continent lives, and there is yet to be recorded one individual who freely expended seminal fluid who ever amounted to anything. In most cases, individuals who have achieved have been forced by necessity to abstain from sexual indulgence, as Cervantes, who wrote Don Quixote while in prison, or Dante who wrote his Divine Comedy while in exile. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" when blind and when he did not indulge in sex. Sir Isaac Newton, active in intellect until the age of 80, led a continent life from birth, and so did Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, both of whom retained their creative genius [until] an advanced age.

>>11225943
Tesla, Pythagoras, Kant, Spencer, Hitler even (his room mate stated he despised sexual talk and never witnessed him bring anyone home, let alone masturbate).

I got horny reading the rape/sexual abuse scenes in A Little Life

>>11221178
Everything in contemporary society is offensive to me. I feel isolated and alone. There seems to be no Ernstfall anymore, just a bunch of last men blinking blissfully at abortions and pederasty. And every opposition against that is already infested with the same modernist poison. Humanity is beyond redemption.

I think we need a war to remind us of what it truly means to be human. And this idea scares me.

>>11225943
It was either Watson or Crick that commented on abstaining one time, I'm at a loss for finding the exact quote. Their conception of the double helix structure occurred under the influence of LSD and during a period where they were both abstinent young men.
Watson made slightly racists comments later on in asserting darker skinned people made love more frequently, which impaired their ability to work well.
From this, we can surmise they practiced it during their best moment in life, despite not necessarily preaching it as lifestyle for others. After completing their life work, it was clear, especially Watson, fooled around afterward as the 1960s progressed full swing.

It's been established that the seat of reason and the sexual urge stem from two distinct parts of the brain, that compete with one another. When one is activated, the other decreases. The brain isn't one cohesive entity. We're a product of what we repeatedly do. Cease listening to the biological perfectionists who think that the body, much less the brain, has no penalty for what is done with it. There is always a toll to be paid. We now see that the sexual drive is a product of behavioral reinforcement, dependent upon ΔFosB induction. People report desensitization however, this simply is not the case. Perhaps to old stimuli but the act itself is merely reinforced with every orgasm undertaken. I recall a time whenever I could look up some pornography actress and turn arousal into disgust. Now, even typing the name in results in arousal. If that doesn't show the behavioral conditioning of this, I don't know what will. People like to foolishly indulge in pleasure, thinking there isn't a cost, thinking they are in full control, rather than predetermined biological drives. Now, I am not deterministic in view of the mind; however, if left to its own natural pitfalls, we can be stuck in what is largely a predetermined set of actions. This is why monotony and mediocrity invariably creep in. People are cemented in a routine of eat, work, eat, come home, masturbate or sex, go to sleep and their life is nothing but a gigantic habit loop.

>>11226653
Grow the fuck up snowflake if youre so offended by everything

Youre the rightwinged version of a tumblrina

>>11226653
incel

I think my gf wants to have sex with me, but I don't want to because my penis is small. I'm afraid she'll leave after she finds out.

>>11226676
Eschew and rise above sexual inclinations and drives and put the mind to work. Sex divorced from procreation is little different than injecting heroin.

>>11226670
I'm not so much offended as I am simply unable to empathise with the larger social structures. Oh, I blend in alright but my internal convictions cannot be deconstructed.

>>11226672
Go away, Freud.

>>11221178
I don't think belief in God is a choice.

>>11226682
But I think I love her.

>>11225929
Yes. Hegel on aesthetics is straight forward and interesting yet phenomenology is so dense and the writing style horrible.

I've only read seven books so far this year and two of them were Agatha Christie.

>>11226702
Then marry her.

my shelves are filled with books i havent read and most likely will never read

>>11226700
we already know that people dont choose to be mentally retarded, theyre just born that way

>>11226676
How small are we talking?

>>11226415
>who was Eva Braun?

You guys are unbelieveable.

>>11226669
>It's been established that the seat of reason and the sexual urge stem from two distinct parts of the brain, that compete with one another. When one is activated, the other decreases.
lol

>>11227109
The relationship began well after his most productive years.

I unironically support humanity ending itself.

>>11227034
About 11cm

>>11227215
That's not THAT small.

>>11221178
I spent the weekend reading manga smut and had a wet dream.

We are attracted to each other, but it will never happen. So I spit in his food and drinks. It brings me pleasure.

>>11226682
Shush, let his gf smash

Nihilism is destroying everything inside of me. I can't even believe in anything anymore.

Also I don't actually read books.

for years i have been spending most weekdays in a library reading while my parents think i am attending university to get a degree in chemical physics, they believe i have just finished my third year exams.
i expect i will kill myself next year before i am forced to expose the pathetic truth to them

>>11227417
At least you're reading. I did the same thing except replace the library with literally fucking nothing. Wasted my best years.

>>11221178
I repost 4chan and plebbit memes on 9gag and almost everytime reach hot. And I feel guilty about it.

>>11225882
What about falling in love with a woman and cultivating a monogamous relationship with her, instead of only actively abstaining from sexual desire? I'm personally torn at the thought of it. On one hand, searching for 'true love' is also an act of abstinence. Finding a woman that compliments your own personality and interests is very rare, and often I think most people enter relationships out of their own impatience for this anomaly of 'true love'. They sacrifice their own ideal vision of a partner, and their instinct of love, for a sexually attractive woman with some common interests. What good is it to be an asexual when deep down passion still exists in every human? On the other hand, I've seen people get bogged down by relationships, losing focus on their personal pursuits to engage in social events with their partner. A man can no longer spend hours on end reading and writing without neglecting his partner, and he will be forced to change his priorities if he wants the relationship to continue thriving.

Do intimate relationships really corrupt the mind? Does heartbreak benefit man than true love?

>>11227417
Seems like you need to make a plan to GTFO anon. Move to another country, get a job teaching english in SE asia or something.

But, if you do reveal the truth make sure to post how it goes.

>>11227492
Just treat it like you would any other aspect of self improvement. Dating for true love is a grind just like physical training or reading critically.

>>11227599
"true love" is a spook desu

>>11227417

Read Savage Detectives. Leave everything and bring a knife with you. It's going to be ok.

>>11221225
>mfw my post got no (You)s

>>11227620
I used to think the same thing, then the fever of love occurred. I recommend reading Turgenev's First Love.

>>11227680
Ok I will anon. Not going to lie I'm pretty fucking jaded.

>>11221225
That is a good thing, embrace your new interests.

>>11227668

because you sound like an obnoxious fuck who saps fun of every room you're ever in

>>11221178
I read Harry Potter for the first time in my 30s and really enjoyed it.

>>11227567
It would probably be easier to just live in a car than for him to move to another country, it's better than being homeless anyway

>>11227726
>mfw my post gets mean (You)s

>>11221178
I've yet to find a book I love.

>>11227774
what do you mean by mystical works, lad? like aleister crowley or something?

>>11227812
These.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mysticism

I have not read anything in days because I caught an STD from fucking some drunk sloot up the ass bareback. It's making me depressed.

>>11227874
feel like i need a degree in theology to understand this
do you feel the presence of god or are you just interested in this stuff?

I recognize Virtue Ethics as the best but I'm a complete mess and although I am aware of all my faults I can't seem to fix myself but always try and push it on others.

>>11227897
>presence of God
Sometimes. More and more. When I appreciate something, or a moment. I consider the beauty I found, and thereby sacralize it. Because it is divine, it is God's gift. I think about God a lot, and philosophy, and Christ, and the importance of sacrifice. I feel I'm being called to forsake a career and enter the religious life. But I'll probably have to stop shitposting.

>>11221225
Yikes. You must be real fun at parties.

>>11228090
>imblying i am ever invited to parties

>>11228113
we should party, /lit/ meetup when

>>11227492
If this is your goal in life, by all means proceed.
Relationships, if limited to monogamy and perversions forgone (by perversions I mean introduction of novelty to artificially elevate sexual frequency), intercourse will usually moderate to once a week in line with the natural ebb and flow of testosterone in men after the initial mating period ends during the onset of the relationship.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12659241?dopt=Abstract

Most people will still be able to lead very productive lives if the sexual frequency is kept in check as it should be.
However, even sex, confined to monogamy can be taken to an excess if it's an immediate replacement to the masturbatory habit OR if perversions are introduced (oral sex, foreplay, etc) which serve as artificial means to increase sexual frequency.

>>11223337
That's quite nice. Don't name it Pepe.

>>11223799
How I hate this image. The idea that a fully armoured man with half a spear, including a metal wight in one end, should not be able to beat a naked idiot with a club is insane.

>>11228283
uh bro let me bump your head with a club and you lemme know how it goes for you

>>11221178
I'm 19 and I've read some stuff but definitely not as much as I'd like to
I don't want to waste my life away not learning every possible moment
I feel like it's already too late...

>>11228318
There's no reason the hoplite can't bump the bum in the head, the only difference is that one of them is wearing a helmet.

I enjoy banging heroin then reading Pratchett books

I bought too much manga as a kid so now I don't have any space for actual books

>>11228905
you can give them to me m8

>>11221185
try seneca

>>11221178
The majority of 'books' I've read have been audio books

>>11229171
this is myself

>>11225648
I listen to audiobooks on double speed. Really increases your comprehension.

>>11225852
*blocks your path*

>>11229709
*inspires 30,000 heretical cults*

ftfy

>>11227492
Relationships should be on your own terms. If a girl wants you to drop hobbies she's not for you.

One of the end goals of nofap IS intimate relationships, since porn/excessive masturbation saps your ability and desire to persue them.

>>11221651
are you N. from goodreads?

I pick my nose and rub the boogers into my rug. When I step on one, I grind it in with my foot so that it turns to a fine, sticky dust-like substance that pastes itself to the carpet fibers.

>>11227346
I browse /lit/ barely read though jej

I don't read the introduction if it wasn't written by the author of the book.

>>11221189
you are forgiven.

>>11227417
Learned more than any undergrad program in the country. Don't end it. I'll be rich one day and hire you.

>>11229801
I CLOSE MY EYES AND SEIZE IT
I CLENCH MY FIST AND BEAT IT
I PICK MY NOSE AND RUB IT
I AM THE BEAST I WORSHIP

>>11229801
I rub the boogers on the wall, I have a booger wall that I clean every few months when I get disgusted enough with myself.

>>11227480
Vade retro Satana.
I declare you excommunicated.
Further confessional privileges and all other services of the Church are herby denied.
May God have mercy on your soul.

>>11223833
>philosophy
>the iliad
..excuse me?

>>11221225
Enter the priesthood.
Most dioceses will pay for seminary and even college if you're poor and serious.
It's my plan B in life if my career prospects take a turn for the worse or if I can't find a decent wife by like 40.

I only finished like 6 books this year and working on two
I don't like reading fiction a whole lot, so I put that on the back burner
I hate reading philosophy,feel like I'm wasting my time on it, so I don't bother.
Aside from the classics, war novels, memoirs, tech manuals and operations books, most of what is discussed on /lit/ doesn't really interest in me in the slightest. I find studying Eastern theology much more interesting than Western theology, modern philosophy and post-modernism.

>>11229978
Thanks for your reply. I'm in the discerning process right now, and have been for several months. I've stated my intentions to a religious order and am feeling really good about it. I honestly don't see any good reasons not to, and even when I was a bad Catholic as a teenager I was still obsessed with metaphysics and the spiritual. It feels like I'm being called. Thanks for your support my man.

>>11223337
Actually pretty neat.
What kind of frog?

>>11228264
Thank you. I was thinking of naming him Khufu, Gorf, or Kip. I can’t decide on what it’ll be

>>11230039
It’s a Pac-Man frog or ceratophyris.

>>11221185
Good, you passed the test advance to literature.

>>11221178
All the /sffg/-tier fantasy I write is imagined in my head as retro anime.

>>11221789
Were those good, list authors

I've read way more manga and comics than I have literature.

>>11221242
r/nootropics/ not all is lost friendo.

>>11230142
what are your favorite mangos fren?

I haven't switched to 8ch dot net/litpat/ yet

>>11224090
That could really just be some bodily- dysmorphia caused by the lack of perceived mental progression. If not, then I'd seek some real help.

I have read almost every single Naruto fanfiction ever written in English

>>11230197
oh and a decent amount in Russian

>>11230199
>>11230197
...WHY.

what is it about that mental deficient teenage head-plate wearing moron that makes people want to consume that garbage fiction?

>>11230160
I read A LOT of Go Nagai and related materials (i.e. Getter and side stories/sequels to Devilman)
Other than that, usually just adaptations or related materials to stuff I like (so robots and sci-fi horror)

>>11230019
You're welcome, friend. I think you should go for it. Seems like something that is both an interest and a calling. I think you'll have a satisfying life.

I'm diving into Murakami's literature Just because of the pretty covers from the English versions

>>11230208
i don't know, I don't even like most of it. I only care about one character (Kakashi) who barely shows up in the vast majority of it. Life is hard.

>>11225810
i have trouble focusing when i read. i was also finishing school with lots of CS work so that took time, but it isn't an excuse.
basically, when i read, ive gotten able to suppress external distractions, like phone or noise, etc, but can't stop my mind from wandering, or getting excited about some idea the work provokes, etc. and so I put down the book to start thinking about that, and eventually get sidetracked, or, i just lose attention after the interruption. i take meds for """adhd""", but they don't do much to help with the former sort of distraction.
i've really been trying to waste less time. i deactivated facebook, and got off reddit entirely (((pseud))). still working on youtube and here.
but it's depressing how little i read. hopefully when I start working this summer and in the fall (if i get a job), I'll be better about it. but its also laziness and lack of willpower to stop consorting with those distracting media. thanks for asking, anon.

I don't remember when was the last time I read a book
following on from that, I can remember even less when was the last I read a book and finished it
I always pick something up and drop it at around 30%

I read Ready Player One.

>>11223799
Oh boy i'm a fellow medicine student too. I'm about to graduate and i'm literally on the verge of killing myself. Six years and I couldn't adapt for shit. People have no idea how absurdly difficult medicine is. Only an idiot could dream of becoming a doctor.

>>11225747
This is more a decay of education than anything else. Universities once were centered around knowledge, science and discussion. Nowadays it's just get through that shit, get your credit points and become an academic.

>>11232434
But did you like it?

>>11227238
>mfw no one absolves me

>>11221178
I haven't read any prose for a month.

>>11221185
Same. I got through Republic 3 or 4 pages at a time by using it as a "bore myself to sleep" book. I tried reading Sartre but it felt like he was packing about 3 sentences' worth of information into each sentence and I got brain-fried before long. I fear I might be stupid.

>>11221178
The last few years I have gone back and read some classics I never got to before (Siddartha, Steppenwolf, The Fall), felt a connection with them, but I couldn't fucking tell you what they were about or why they felt important to me if my life depended on it. Again, I fear I might be stupid.

>>11221178 (OP)
I haven't read any prose in a month.

>>11232531
But it's just memorization, there's little problem solving and critical thinking involved, unlike Mathematics or even Computer Science.

>>11232593
No, it was incredibly mediocre and reddit to the core. Hell, it didn't even do Ultraman justice.

>>11232656
There's a lot of memorization involved, true enough, but medicine is like 60% chemistry. I don't know if you could say that chemistry requires the same level of critical thinking as mathematics, but you need to be really, really good at it to wrap your head around physiology, and you must be able to predict what effects certain things can have on the body, which requires a fair deal of critical thinking. You also have radiology, statistics, and medical physics to deal with too. There are freaks who can memorize the names of hundreds of chemical compounds and the things they do, but usually you'll have to consciously contemplate why a certain thing does whatever it does. Even diagnosis is not as straightforward as people imagine.

>>11232774
Fair enough, you seem to know what you're talking about. I was just a bit concerned because I've seen way too much bullshit on /sci/

>>11230019
God bless you. Any tips for a lapsed Catholic for how to reconnect with the Church?

>>11226409
>Leonardo da Vinci
Lmao has to be bait

>>11232953
Sorry, not really. For me it was discovering faith in a creator by way of the Greeks while studying the Bible and praying. Go to a church and attend a mass. If you like it there, go to confession and start receiving Holy Communion again. And pray ofc.

>>11232774
this is the most pseud ignorant bug post ive seen all week you dumb fuckwit
>memorization
is all med school drones do. they don’t have even vaguely as much chem experience as biophysicists do you fucking nigger. they know less math than quantitative biologists, die

>>11233129
yikes

>>11233129
Most med students get through school by sheer memorization, but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, and it could only take you so far anyway. Try memorizing eight hundred pages of pharmacology if you don't believe me.

>>11229918
I have this too. I also had a blood wall, until recently, when it took on a muted green hue and I cleaned it.

>>11233175
no one cares about your bug skills you fucking leech, you mentioned being in med school because normalfags are impressed by it lol at you

>>11233175
I learned it on my own before ever stepping foot in med school. Pharmacology is undertaught if anything. You're making medical school out to be more difficult than it is. It's blatantly obvious that most students don't belong there and simply could not get the dream of becoming a doctor out of their head. Look at all the medical school subreddits. Cretins. Literal low IQ cretins. Look at their post history, interests, etc and it's painfully obvious they aren't cut out for it. High IQ people find it easy. Even MD phd students are shit tier if you look at their post history and how stupid they appear.
Maybe the problem isn't the so called difficulty of the program but the pool of applicants in it.

>>11233241
>mfw I knew a brilliant MD PhD student on a forum almost two decades ago and while he was very well read and quick witted, he was also definitely on the spectrum somewhere and blogged about losing patients and what he could have done better to save them

doctors are ALL lunatics to want that job

>>11226653
what's the Ernstfall?

I think Rayuela is nothing but pretentious drivel.

>>11225852
You'd have to get through through all the mason jesuit satanists there. But by the look of what you want to achieve, maybe you'd fit right in with them.

>>11229938
Not gonna make it

I skipped a bunch of poems in a collected poetry book but still claim to have read it

>>11234011
There are only 5 Jesuit cardinals.
I think they're all aware of the Jesuit problem after Francis.
I think the next conclave will result in a very conservative pope.

I unironically think Umineko no Naku Koro Ni is one of the best works of the 21st Century, and I wish more people read it.

>>11227222
4 inches is pretty bad desu

I don’t enjoy anything. When I read, all I can think about is getting to the end of the chapter. When I watch a movie, I can’t wait for it to be over. When I’m at work I can’t wait to get home, but once I am I don’t feel the least bit satisfied. Nothing satisfies. I never have anything to look forward to because I know the way my mind works, how I always wait for the next moment because the one I’m in is too painful. I guess what I’m saying is I’m depressed.

>>11223337
Good for you
I own a Pixie, thing is a unit

>>11224711
This.

>>11221185
you don't care. it's ok. you don't have to do what the chain smoking pseuds of a hungarian hat making image board tell you to do.

>>11235731
I'll read it next, anon. I'll finally read something other than a porn novel. I promise.

>>11221178
I'm a dumb, pretentious dilettante

>>11224920
Get away from your brother and his family. You are a monster anon. Those desires are not right. You know what your capable of, so do the world a favor and get away before you harm people who have shown you nothing but kindness

I rate my books on goodreads but never actually write reviews.

>>11236134
me too

>>11227881
Story?

>>11236386
he did unprotected bum sex with a prostitute

>>11236395
Woah. Intense.

i picked up smoking because of some explainable attraction to pictures of qt anime grills doing it

>>11236562
that's enough posting for today

>>11221178
memerson seems like alright dude.

I hate /lit/ and I'm moving to 8ch dot net slash litpat

>>11236592
No one cares about your shilling.

I'm a >tfw no gf shitposter

>>11230164
>I haven't stopped shilling that shitty site

>>11230019
You will change your mind about this eventually. Maybe it will take a month, maybe it will take a decade, but one day you will realise that joining the priesthood was a mistake. It is, however, entirely up to you how much time of your life you lose for the sake of that mistake.

>>11237253
Do you really think that no one to ever join the priesthood has ever been happy with that decision?

>>11237285
I don't think anyone that has ever browsed 4chan and then joined the priesthood has been happy.

>>11236366
thats m3

>>11221178
I write smutty self-insert Yogscast fanfiction to quell my longstanding romantic desires towards Hannah and Kim.

I've always wanted to be apart of the Yogscast when I was a kid, and writing fics seems to give me the temporary feeling of satisfaction that I'm part of their close-knit group of friends who record let's plays in their free time. It makes me feel like I could just ask Simon to come to the local chippy with me after recording and maybe we could go have a pint later. I imagine us meeting up at Simon's mother's house for Christmas to exchange gifts, thawing ourselves off from the cold by the warmth of the fluid-like fire, and sipping on frothy eggnog after all the gifts have been given and thanks have been said.

I wish for a life where I have friends, not just friends, but friends who care about me just as much as I care about them.
Friends who text ME first. Friends who ask ME to hang out. Friends who invite ME places. Friends who care about ME.

Though, my life has been decided since day one. None of this shall ever be, and I remain a loner who writes fiction of his fantasies of true happiness.

>>11237821
>I've always wanted to be apart of the Yogscast when I was a kid
You must be 18 years or older to post here.

>>11224827
Yes, I often do that, am reminded of the underground man

I skipped the entire of "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill, I get it's an important book but it's so fucking boring

>>11237943
>>11237943
You only need to read chapter 2

>>11221178
I´m going to be an NEET soon, I´m addicted to porn, I started to drink more, I orbit girls and I didn´t finish Stoner which I bought some months ago

>>11237300
>>11237253
kek, okay.

>>11237821
You deserve the fate you get for writing smut filth that infects and ruins people's minds.

>>11237253
False. It's a much better alternative to a marriage that stastically will lead to divorce. Promiscuity, trash culture and all negative qualities abound. Unless you're indepedantly wealthy or have the income of a physician needed to seclude your children from the horrible state of decline humanity is in, it is better for that your would be progeny to never have been born.
Priesthood will be a life of bliss in comparison. No financial worries. A life of doing good. Respect from others. It's a fantastic choice of career.

>>11237821
>true happiness is dreaming about big ginger beards

yikes. i've never even heard of this yogs faggotry. stop daydreaming about having dumb internet tv show friends and go out into the world and make your own friends. you have some good qualities i am sure.

>>11234305
I can't judge that, but I hope the next pope will be a true believer and have the spine to follow through the doctrine of Christ.

>>11234305
>I think the next conclave will result in a very conservative pope.
Can't wait for the church to finally kill itself

>>11238288
>you have some good qualities i am sure
Yeah like writing yogscast fanfiction

>>11238169
>A life of doing good
Like what? Singing hymns with old ladies in church everyday?
>your would be progeny
comment officially discarded

>>11238945
You didn't discard the comment, though. You did the opposite and replied to it.

>>11230087
Khufu is nice

>>11238302
yeah and allow more rape and murder of children by church leaders wow i love god so much and don’t mind my leaders raping kids wow

>>11234305
>I think they're all aware of the Jesuit problem after Francis.
This sentence intrigues me. Any more I can read about it?

>>11239063
They have lower rates of abuse than public school teachers.
The only reason it got so bad is because they let homosexuals in the clergy. Fags have the statistically highest rates of child molestation.

>>11221234
faggot

>>11227109
the cunt he married in the bunker 20 hours before he offed himself?
don't make me laugh

>>11228090
leave him alone

>>11221178

I really want to buy a bottle of very good rum and a gram of high purity cocaine and just hang out with my mate and shoot the shit until sunrise.

I’m on my second Master’s degree in literature, or fifth year at university, moving on to the sixth (although I am funded by a studentship). I’m too scared of actually applying for a PhD for fear of getting rejected, and also because I don’t have a coherent idea for a research proposal.

I can’t enjoy fiction. At the end, I always think about how these aren’t real and thus meaningless.

>>11239141
not that anon but: Jesuits are the least Christ-like of the religious orders. They are scholars, apologists, and intelligentsia more than doers of good works, and having one as a Pope is bad for traditionalists who want the Church to stand against open border globalists and other (((enemies))).

Unless by "Jesuit problem" he means the child slavery and pedos and all that, as put forward most notably by Fr. Malachi Martin.

>>11239850
my friend have you heard of BRAIN FORCE?

>>11239899
They have ridiculously strict and draconian schools, too.

t. someone who went to a Benedictine school

>>11221234
>>11239351

Meta

>>11233241
Med student here, this post is 100% correct.

>>11226676
Then she’ll have to leave you right now before it’s too late. Because she’ll find out anyway and you don’t want to get broken heart when your feelings are already really invested in her.

It’s a really sad life for us. I wish I could just remove my urge to pursue women and just move on with life. Women is a trap, they don’t become homosexual when they’re with us, they can still be turned on by other men, and even though they won’t cheat, I still can’t tolerate it.

But I also wish I was bigger. I can imagine the great things that I would have achieved if I loved myself.

>>11226731
What if she cheats on him you idiot. Marriage is a trap if you’re not sexually decent. What I mean by that is having a decent sized cock. Technique can be learned, actually women like teaching virgins.

I'm 160 pages into The Brothers Karamazov and I am not enjoying it.
Why do Russian names have to be so autistic and similar? Why refer to a character by their christian name, christian name and patronymic, last name, nickname, AND their nickname and patronymic? It makes no fucking sense.

>>11240083
What a pathetic pity party you're throwing.
The only people upset about their size are those who sleep around or those who look at hardcore pornography.
Maybe if you weren't such a degenerate and waited until marriage, it wouldn't have even been an issue.

>>11240112
I knew some Russians and every fucking one of them was called Alexander or some variant of it. Having nicknames makes sense when half your family is Alexander Alexandrovich. It's like a nation of George Foremans.

>>11240099
>muh dick logic, the post

>>11240133
But if my partner also waited until marriage, what if someday her friends make her curious about big dicks? Women talk about penis sizes.

>>11240147
There is no point of even engaging with you if you are going to refer to your reproductive organs in such debased terms. You're clearly obsessed with getting off and have a hypersexualized mind.
A relationship founded on pleasure is going to collapse regardless.

>>11240161
Well how big are you? If you’re bigger than me, would you trade yours with mine? What a waste of a big penis, to not be sexual.

>>11239034
The discarding was unofficial up until that point

>>11240133
Abstinence is blue pill

>>11240112
I don't know about autistic because 5 year old Russian children already master the naming system without issue. You might be the autist here.

>>11239843
Just do it? I suggest Diplomatico rum.

I have Infinite Jest on my shelf and get a boost when someone comments on it, but stopped reading at page 2.

>>11232980
?

>>11224564

not that guy but not wanking doesn't make me wanna read philosophy. it's boring nontheless