/lit/ - Literature

If this sentence is true, then I am the greatest philosopher of all time.

Debate me, /lit/.

>>11343489
That sentence can't be true or false. That's it, lad. Maybe next time.

>>11343495
That sentence can't be false.
FTFY

My dog died and I wasn't there to comfort him

I hope that all the anons here have a nice day tomorrow. That is all.

>>11343518

>>11343518

Plato touched on something far beyond his recognition in The Republic. Plato's Utopia functions independently of metaphysical moral authority but without suffering the social degradation in morally relativistic societies by replacing morality totally with ethics of behavior decided by laws, or social customs, dependent on authority hierarchies. This near-infinitely complex system of logical interactions gives rise to an emergent property of Good which Plato equated with the innate function of self-actualization and Good of the Soul, touching on a system of natural harmony by which the mind is able to conceptualize internal happiness/eudaimonia externally.

Aristotle tried strongly to pursue this concept, but his conception of practical sciences were naturally limited by their inability to account for the nigh-infinite variability of reality, and lost the ability to reproduce the emergence.

Last night, I thought I discovered a solution to this illness hanging over my head. It filled me with joy, yet tonight, that all ended as the solution turned out to be wrong, and brought me grief. Then what was my mistake? I grasped onto a fantasy, an unreliable promise. It's happened before. Next time, though, I'll see through it. I'll try to find comfort in the things that last rather than ride the waves of hope.

I went to a friend's wedding the other day and have been very intospective ever since. It has led me into a mild depression about the state of my life.

She is the same age as me, has here bachelor's degree and two associates degrees. Has been married once before and is married again. While I sit and waste my life at a dead end job while being in an unhappy relationship.

Another sad part is is I know exactly how to fix my situation and make positive changes. But I cannot until this November. In 5 months a situation will arrive that gives me the perfect opportunity to do what I need. The suffering is the wait. I am unhappy with the state of my affairs, yes but I can be unhappy, hell I've been unhappy for years. But it's the inability to change anything that makes it so much worse.

IDK if I can make it 5 more months, fellas.

>>11343518
:-(

>>11343485
Found a new great outdoors place to read at the pier.
Only old fishermen and some sailor ever comes.

>>11344149
let the sailor rape you in the ass like oscar wilde
*this is the only way to become an famous author.*

>>11344162
Doesn't seam to have worked with you, and I don't care about writing.

The Soviet Union didn't suffer the Great Depression like other countries and throughout its existence had an average higher calorie intake than America. I don't even like Stalinism or Leninism but when will the American propaganda end?

Do psychedelics lmao

>>11344205
>high calorie intake
Because it killed people before they could starve you fucking idiot

>>11344223

I asked when the propaganda would end not for more of it!

>>11343485
my trans friend killed herself and I feel bad there was nothing I could do

What are some good podcasts I can listen to before going to bed

>>11344281
What are you interested in?

>>11343485
i love my mummy

>>11344283
I'm open to anything except current politic (political theory is ok)

>>11344281

>>11343485
The kid who played Chekov died and that's so sad. I don't know, it was probably the character, but he was... young and I can't help thinking that his whole life must have been looking up, especially since he was the new Chekov and can you imagine how happy he must have been? Weird to think about.

On the other hand, Tom Holland was sent by the devil to spoil movies and that's fucking hilarious.

>>11344335

Who is Tom Holland and what is wrong with him?

>>11344345
The kid who plays spiderman in the MCU. He is... cartoonishly incompetent at not spoiling things, to the point that they withhold information from him, and he still manages it.

Apparently he spoiled parts of the new jurassic world movie to chris pratt, and holland isn't even in it. He doesn't do it on purpose, either. He's an actual slapstick character.
http://fanfest.com/2017/12/15/13-times-tom-holland-couldnt-keep-a-marvel-secret/

>>11344319
Listening to the pilot.
>suicide methods
>shooting babies
>toys
I don't know what to make out from this.

>>11344371
see, NOW I'm interested

>>11344373
Feels weird because I'm old enough to have played with toys before the internet and stuff but not old enough to know what toys they talk about

>>11344396
I remember all those toys- how old are you?

>>11344417
21
I don't have any remote clue of what GI Joe is. That's more like my brother's timeline.

>>11344423

>>11344429
I mean I was a kid and they were teenagers at that time. I remember faintly the coolness of characters but not their story and little details.

I want to die

>>11344205
>when will the American propaganda end?
When Jews lose control of the propaganda organ.

I want thick dark eyebrow gf

>>11344281
Funny how since yesterday/today being a Trans isn't considered anymore a mental illness

>>11343829
The Republic is satire, you dolt.

>>11344917
Mee too

>>11345131
He said ‘The Republic’ not ‘The Prince’, you dingus

>>11345135
precisely, The Republic IS satire

I read a book today
To see if I still feel
(sung to the tune of Hurt by Johnny Cash)

why does everywhere outside have to be so fucking,loud

My girlfriend got drunk and high last night at a party with her friends. I told her not to go because I don’t trust her friends but she basically told me “fuck off stop being so controlling!” and went anyway.

She claims one thing led to another and she ended up sucking another guys dick in a McDonald's parking lot and he ditched her there. Im on my way to pick her up and bring her home to my place, im so confused right now I don't know what to do. She says it doesn't count as cheating because it was rape because she was drunk and high but I don't know how to feel about that. She didn't know the guy and apparently nobody saw them leave the party.

I don't know what to do I love her so much.

>>11345665
This is my nightmare, I'm sorry for you man

>>11345665
>it doesn't count
>it was rape
Why are you picking her up...

>>11345178
Holy shit you're stupid

>>11345665
Tell her to press charges against the guy, and against her friends for aiding and abetting rape.
If she doesn't, it wasn't fucking rape it was drunken sex she regretted.

>>11345665
good bait, if serious you’re pathetic

I'm sick as fuck, pale and sweaty, think my throat is rotting from the inside out, it feels like it's about to cave in any second now.
I've been staring at the ceiling for hours now, it's getting late. I have work tommorow. FUCK.
Occasionally I can hear rats crawling around inside the walls, scratching through the isolation, making tunnels, shitting, partying, having sex, annoyed as fuck I bash the wall with my fist. I want to round them all up and stomp on them, send their guts flying all over my messy old room. I am alone, as I've always been, as I'll likely always be. My brain could really use a chunk of lead right now.

it seems like nothing in this life will make me happy. everywhere i turn there is a new disappointment, a new way I fail to do something right. there is a word for this feel but i forget what it is, regardless it seems like my life us going nowhere. i an stuck at a shitty manual labor job because it's the only thing i don't fuck up too much( even though I still do). I am going to be alone for the rest of my life probably, but all these problems i have talked about ad naseum here on 4chan, witg most of the time it ending in me being ignored like i should be. I want to disappear into nothing

>>11346458
>think my throat is rotting from the inside
drink your [favorite tea + 1 tbs honey + 1 tbs lemon juice + 1 tbs hard liquor (I use rum).] drink it hot.
Also, call in sick, dipstick.

i come up with ideas for books all the time but will never even attempt to write them for fear of failing to create something good

It's rather depressing to see the complete transformation of Chapo from three ironybros doing an irony for an hour in Google Hangouts to the Daily Show for millennials. I obviously don't begrudge them for realizing that the podcast was their meal ticket. If a million dollar a month media venture landed in my lap I'd exploit it as far as I could. But to secure that meal ticket they bent to the iron will of their loudest and most fragile customers. If any of their arts school customers listened to the first twenty episodes they'd be on twatter decrying how much they threw around retard and other problematic slurs. I haven't listened to an episode since Matt interviewed the guy who does the Revolutions podcast.

Also, Matt's right about gaming.

>>11343485
This one asshole I worked for won't return my emails. I need an internship report and my goddamn props and personal items back and he won't return my fucking emails. I'm mad as hell.

>>11344205
Most of the stories from defectors of the DPRK are sheer lies. SK pays them money to make things up and many times their stories don't add up.

On a tangent from this, I've been debating the ethics of selling out for the past few months. In my head, of course, given that I have no friends and no real human connections. Without getting into /pol/ territory, I just don't think that any positive radical change will happen through the current mainstream centre-left parties in my country. Most of the nationalist-populist uprising in the anglo west has been thoroughly co-opted by mainstream fiscal conservatives. There's money to be made in defecting and becoming a tool of capital. I don't know if life would be fulfilling for those that sell their values and ally with their enemies.

>>11346795
I'm realizing just now that I should have written "bent the knee".

>>11343829
>far beyond his recognition
>state-governed self-actualization
that was the point, fart-knocker
>Aristotle bla bla bla
Aristotle's concept of eudaimonia captures self-actualization absolutely well (he even gives examples thus covering reality quite well)

>>11344149
wholesome
>>11344162
holesome

Escalate to phone calls lad

>>11346667
get into a circle of artists, off-by-one kenobi

It turns out the secret to poker is to not be bad at it

ooh, I wanna die young
ooh, I'll die young
no one will ever know
how good or bad they would become
ooh, I wanna die young
ooh, I'll die young

>ywn live in a moss covered glen in the middle of a pine forest with beams of sunlight coming through the canopy and mountains rising around you for millions of years
Why even live

>>11346938
Nah. The only secret to poker is volume and BRM.

how do you make friends in your late 20s

all my old friends moved to the big city, all my coworkers are middle aged dudes. shit sucks man

tfw you realize you've probably made thousands upon thousands laugh at your posts worldwide over all the time you've been here

>>11347611
feels good

>>11347611
that's a nice way to justify wasting all your time here

>>11347645
Or it's just an interesting thought you absolute faggot

Jordan Peterson on Tucker Carlson right now really killing it.

On the job hunt after earning a bachelor's degree. With each passing day my optimism dies a little more.

>>11347681
should have taken the drop out of college and do blue collar work pill like i did

I’ve lost all hope in becoming anything useful. I just want to be on my death bed. Nothing is worth it.

man, shaving your butthole feels so good

>>11347872
It has always surprised me how quickly it seems to come back.

>>11346178
Brainlet detected, never heard of esoteric writing, have you?

i have just had a flash of inspiration and am about to start working on my first piece of writing, a novella which will undoubtedly turn out shit

>>11347872
yeah it feels good at first but wait till u start sweating and have to spend all day wondering if u ripped a shart

any book over 400 pages is sure to be unduly verbose and full of pointlessness and so i dont read them

I was molested when I was 9-years-old.
Men are pigs.

>>11349761
yo i feel u for real, anything longer than a novella is probably mostly filler

dudes i think i figured out why i fail so bad at life, i'm retarded, like i can larp at smart ppl shit like reading 'classic' books, or 'writing code', but like i'm starting to realize i am fucking stupid as shit, i mean my undergrad gpa was like 2.5 i think, and naturally i did not attend grad school, and i earn a living, barely, trying to help street urchins and hoodrats improve at reading and writing and shit, so like when u spend time around lead poisoned crack babies its easy to start feelin yourself, but it's starting to dawn on me that i am basically stupid, the "stupid fuck" interpretation of my life has amazing explanatory powers for pretty much all of my many fuckups

The freshly slaughtered Calf rose from the basement this morning, his moisture was glistening through the skinned skin. An employee conducting knife movement on his stomach said: ’’The Calf rises, brothers.’’ A new breed of Veal was coming into the world, meat none knew anything about other than its regular taste. All brothers knew what the Employee said and meant, the Calves they all spoke about for decades, even ages, was drawing near to hanging from the conveyor belt. Departments grew uneasy after the words had been said, 350 shut down for one week. Calves that weren’t slaughtered yet grew old in the basement told his fellow Calf for even the Cow heard the Employee speak, that indeed, times are changing, for all of us. Calves so old, as old as the House itself, that even they were not avoiding the Needle of Death anymore like they did for so long. Since 125 years ago, Veal that outsmarted the workers yet not the walls, grew old within the basement. Than in 1942, tales of a Calf Prophecy reached the basement, that someday, a Calf would rise, that it would drop dead by itself, removing the need of conducting such consciously labors. The tale also spoke of hanging without suspensions hooks, for It knew where he was going. Even without a beating heart, the Meat knew and knows. A new client grew weary, for after 10 years, they concluded safety in these Halls but now there is talk of floating Calves and Risement of a particular Calf. A delegation once again was sent, whilst slaughterhouse agents were deeply hidden on the vessel of the client. The one who spoke the Words of the Calf, was not left alone, some say, he was even hated for saying the Poem of Veal. For the Butchers waited so long, they knew it was a lie and this one Employee, was mocking their faith turned into disbelief. Yet the Employee knew and others too, The Calf Rises. Boss of Slaughterhouse Bosses, knew of the tale and the Prophecy, yet he knew, whatever the Calf meant, he would not lose this client of international grandeur. He secretly hired assassins, from the darkest, furthest, filthiest corner of Europe, to make sure the delegation would never arrive, until this Employee and the Prophecy was dealt with. The oldest Butchers know too well what they do when one stirs the people with talk of the Calf. They take those at night, when the House just sleeps, and scissor his legs. Not a regular cut, no, they make him retract his lower leg, his ‘’Calf’’ and scissor below the kneecap. You will lose your leg both low and high, the pain fullest of leg removal. The Employee feared nor thought about revenge or the Prophecy, for he was quoting a movie, yet changed Fire to Calf.

>>11349987
>reading some long ass shit by some vegan tryhard

nah

>>11349989

go fuck yourself

I ate 4 hours ago, and I'll have luch 1h and ,30 minutes from now. I'm hungry, but I will feel like a failure if I let myself eat some candy now.

i wonder if all these energy drinks and coffees i drink is causing my high anxiety levels, i should probably consider suicide, but the thought of dying just gives me more anxiety, its like there's no way out

i larp like im a greedy techbro but when recruiters try to recruit me for shit i just dont want it, i'd rather work my couple hours a week and spend the rest of my time shitposting and reading in poverty, there's a lot less difference between 15k a year and 70k a year than people want to admit, i think of money as a binary kind of thing, you either have to worry about money or you don't, have a couple dozen extra grand to blow isnt going to change my life in any meaningful way

>>11343485
I'm finding it really hard to enjoy anything due to the constant anxiety at the back of my mind.

Also I feel like I'm too stupid to browse this board but do anyway because the people here aren't nearly as stupid as /his/ and I kept getting banned from there for discussing history.

>>11350195
i guess it would be better to live downtown and be able to go on dates to expensive organic coffee shops and order gucci pants off mr porter and stuff, but not if it means working in some god awful "open office" with a bunch of privileged white soibros, most normies would buy an expensive car and a fucking huge tv to watch sports but i'm too fucking retarded to even remember to desire that, i just thought of it now as i was doing the captcha and it just sounds useless

I really wish I would get a terminal illness, it would be so freeing.
I wouldn't have to worry about the future, about responsibilities, about making something of myself.
I wish I would get a headache, and after getting a scan at the doctor be told that the cancer gives me about two years left. Two years of carefree living is better than a lifetime of anxious surviving.

>>11350212
Try some self deprecating humor

>>11350212
>that bulge
unnfff~

>>11350583
It's actually a puffy vulva, really.
Pure Love Mellow.

>>11350570
Self deprecating humor to get rid of anxiety, to not get banned from /his/ or to fit in on /lit/?

I am too tired, I started to remeber my neet'dom with a senses of nostalgia. I know I shouldn't, but I can't stop. Half a year on couch, reading everyday, isolation from friends, lust dusted off everyday with artificial means. Now I become a construction worker, hard work, disgust noticeably lower when i look in the mirror, loneliness still suffocating. Especially now, now when it's wheny you can see why they men kill themselves and other men over them. My life has become work, and preparing to work after work. It is good, I feel like I have worth again, talking about myself to new people finally isn't dreadfull. I have five hours when I go back home, to wash, eat, and waste my time. I want to go back, I want to read. I want to be XIX nobility.

what's up
i don't give a fuck

>>11350697
Fucking spelling errors. I meant that it's warm so you can see women in their almost nonexistent clothing, just rip it and... fuck.

>>11350141
I did it. Behold the pinacle of self control

>>11343485
I'm pondering whether I'm better off reading and re-reading a few dozen phenomenal works instead of reading hundreds and hundreds of books. I see Pareto's Law everywhere in my life and I don't think literature and philosophy should be any different.

Also, I'd like to start a blog on suicide prevention and fighting depression, focusing on using literature and philosophy to fight deep depression, because that is what worked for me when I was suicidal. Would this be a completely retarded idea? If it helps, I am a professional digital marketer and regularly build small/medium sized brands online, but for boring businesses.

>>11346906
Could you provide/reference his examples?

My depression, my antisocial behaviors, and my philosophical interests have all swirled together confusedly to form a worldview that I can't see outside of anymore. I think it's causing me to dissociate.

The main problem is that, when I see people doing shit I think is stupid or broken, I don't just filter it out or ignore it. My mind naturally tries to figure out how that stupid shit even happened in the first place. But almost all of the time, I literally cannot understand how it happened, and I get this bizarre "uncanny valley" effect of, how are you even a human being who is capable of driving a car and feeding yourself regularly, if you were capable of producing this self-contradictory white noise blob of broken motivations and reasoning?

I can't really get other people to see what I mean. It's not that I'm upset that the stupid thing happened. Most of them are completely trivial and I don't care about the real inconvenience caused by them. It's that I'm peering into a human mind whose existence I cannot understand or explain. It's almost a terrifying feeling of uncanniness. It's not that they are dumb. It's that I don't understand how their mind structurally hangs together, if they're capable of walking around and functioning like a normal human, by all appearances, while also being capable of generating nonsense junk data behaviors, like some kind of broken algorithm miserably failing its Turing test.

The more I naturally pull back from things, the more all-encompassing this perspective gets. I have been seeing people as basically unconscious for the past year, more like NPCs with bad and mutually contradictory behavior scripts in an immersion-breaking video game than like actual people making deliberate choices based on context-situated reasoning.

I'm now at the point where I literally cannot explain, internally, how the new Star Wars movies are made. I can't come up with a coherent model of the world, as I know its basic rules, that explains the existence of the new Star Wars movies. I feed in everything I know about money-grubbing cynicism, design by committee, outright retardation, and I try to run the most generous simulation possible about what fraction of Disney's employees must be actually insane or mentally impaired. But I still can't account for it. And when I tell my friends, smart people, people who pass tests and drive expensive cars, they say, "Yes, the Star Wars movies were bad." Bad? They don't make any sense given the current laws of reality as we know them. Now, likewise, I can't make sense of how you, a smart suit-wearing person who previously passed all my Turing tests, don't notice this as much as I notice it, because it should be obvious to any normally functioning human being who isn't a p-zombie with malfunctioning scripts.

The whole place is like this. Everything. Every person is "fudging" things that, on my everyday model of reality, 6-8 year old children would not fudge, or at least fudge better.

>>11350898
I used to feel this exact way. I was told all my life that I was stupid (some reasons more warranted than others, I'll admit), and when I finally educated myself and began to see how the world really worked, I was extremely disappointed by the lack of sophistication in 95% of the people I met. The 2016 US election season made this more obvious than anything else, with people on Facebook going on essay-long rants about their political beliefs, basically exposing how much of a fucking sheep they are to biased mainstream media talking points - and these are from highly educated people, sometimes ivy league alumni - on both sides of the political spectrum btw. It also became obvious to me when I got one of these prestigious corporate America jobs - the kind people get jealous at when they see your LinkedIn profile - and so much of it was bullshit office politics, data entry, red tape bullshit, with very few people actually focused on their jobs, and those who did focus on their jobs were blind to how soulless the work was, so I didn't know who was stupider: the people slacking off with no motivation or the "go-getters" chasing an empty dream.

"Most men live lives of quiet desperation" as Thoreau said. They are content with normal jobs as long as they have a little security to go home, "spend time with their family" (AKA play videogames or watch Netflix, MAYBE in the same room as them), and stuff their faces with fat fuck food to get their dopamine going, and to most people that, mixed with various levels of vanity/social status, is most peoples idea of a good life. Very little critical thinking is involved. Logical fallacies and self contradictions run rampant, especially because people just don't really care about them.

Joyce and Proust helped me most with this. Proust taught me how everyone is so trapped inside themselves that it's hard to empathize with others and see the world more objectively. Joyce taught me that no one is really a bore, that if you really dig, everyone has something interesting, maybe even profound, to get from them (whether or not that person is aware of it) if you have the patience and fortitude to dig. Joyce and Proust are champions of the ordinary (Joyce more though). I haven't read Hume yet, but Joyce says Hume is the best philosopher (google "James Joyce Schopenhauer Hume"), and Hume's thing seems to be that people are not as rational as philosophy professors seem to think, so maybe you can find some consolation in Hume's work.

>>11350898
What are some examples of these stupid broken things you see people doing?

i dont read, i just amass a huge bookshelf to make it look like i do

going over old memories with new awareness, realizing the flattering narratives of my life were a lie. quixotic. looking for acceptance of windmills.

Decided to quit smoking today and it doesn't feel good.

Rummaging for vanished words _and I_
The prompter stays silent tonight
Ashamed I wait, drumming subsides.
Rise to meet the others, I try.
Met only with halted time.
For the script cared none for I.


Also you're all fgts

>>11351511
>Rap album listening parties
>Music festivals
>Greek life on college campuses
>Having an instagram account for your pet
>Drooling, the whole concept of it, at any time in your life other than infancy
>Taking a picture with your head through a whole with a painted body
>Saying "Don't tell me who won the game I DVR'd it"
>Going to Disneyworld with no kids after the age of 25
>Your social media handle being anything other than your name
>Frisbee golf
>Being on board with the Yodel kid
>Spending any time at all learning vape tricks you saw someone else do
>The Kentucky Derby
>Wearing a scarf
>Saying "Mickey D's" instead of McDonalds
>Dressing up for Halloween
>Logan Paul
>Calling people who live in Oregon Oregonians
>Instagram posts from whores with copy/pasted pseudo-inspirational monologues

>>11351581
keep at it anon, stuff is really bad for your over all health, especially your lungs. maybe consider getting a vape pen and slowly work your way down on the nicotine intake. if you still have that psychological craving after tapering off completely, then just use 0% nicotine.

>>11343485
Where do you think "we" are headed when it comes to politics, guys?
I feel like despite the rise in right wing views, a regime similar to Nazi Germany won't happen again, socialism failed and the european model seems to be collapsing...
I really don't know what to expect

>>11351696
What's wrong with wearing a scarf

>>11351744
NWO

>>11351744
I welcome superintelligent AI to capture our species and if it means total annihilation of the human race then it is most likely founded on more solid logic than what we humans can conjure and I begrudgingly accept

I wonder who the 'normie' is - who is the person who uses adulting as a verb, who is the person who buys 'wine mom' shirts, who is the person who spends hours on Instagram and Snapchat, who is the person who painstakingly tries to create the perfect selfie, who is the person who delicately arranges latte art and food on a white/wood table top along with a Kinfolk magazine just barely peeping out from the edge?

Who is this person? I have no familiarity with this culture. I spend so much time on 4chan and Weird Twitter that I've lost touch with what the average person thinks and feels. I know anecdotally that the average Joe on the street has no idea who Bronze Age Pervert and Nick Land is, and has perhaps only a passing familiarity with Nietzsche....but is that true? Could it be that the other people I see on the street are like me - people who hide their thoughts behind bland and socially acceptable masks? If that is true then how can I even begin to communicate thoughts that I can only communicate to the anonymous horde online?

>>11349739
just go to the bathroom and wipe your sweat

>>11349739
>spend all day wondering if u ripped a shart

IT ISN'T JUST ME?

what is a. Dream who am I being
dreamed by even when I
sleep I don’t know
joy is not here with me I am in pain god oh god oh providence
Rhode Island if that is
indeed how you spell it god
stop me from feeling so much pain I’m sick I’m sick oh god

[...] and catching fireflies in the evening and watching the stars in pyjamas and catching shooting stars and watching the fireflies mingle with the shooting stars [...] and running from the shadows of the clouds that pass over the field and running in the street trying to catch up with the mirage [...] and coming in for dinner with our knees scratched and our arms stung and hour hair full of spider webs [...] and playing in the school yard when school is over and making a fake game of baseball between true games of baseball [...] and spending the whole day in the pool and having our fingers all shriveled up and our eyes red and our lips blue and that feeling of water in the nose [...] and waking up at the same time as the sun and not even being tired and having our feet wet from the cold dew on the grass [...] and eating wild cherries that are so tart and eating wild strawberries that are so good and making a bouquet of wild flowers [...] and running through the wild grass taller than we are and finding our way through the corn field taller than the trees and crossing the ditch wider than a river [...] and going through the dog days of summer and no one is complaining and trying to stay barefoot on the pavement for as long as possible and jumping in the fresh grass to cool our burning feet [...]

>>11351832
you can’t we’ve ruined ourselves by spending half our waking life on here and twatter anon, and they have nothing resembling our thoughts only the barest approximations of curiosity and enigmatic orthogonal thought. We must bear the burden

>>11343518
Same. It was several years ago and I still feel guilty.

Anyone else sick of how disingenuous everyone seems to be acting about this Trump immigration stuff? Like nobody actually cares about the children and they're just happy they get a chance to call Trump a Nazi and point at the detention centers that have existed for years and shout "See! We told you there'd be concentration camps!"

>>11352352
No, because unlike self righteous fat faggots who’ve never held a gun in their lives I can dislike spics and not want kids being raped by border patrol/immigration pigs in cages and moved around like human equipment faggot nigger heartless scum

>>11352360
I don't want kids in cages either but I get the feeling that a lot of the most prolific posters on my Facebook and Twitter feeds don't actually care, despite how much they type in all caps. If you support late term abortion and you never speak out against what Israel has been doing to Palestinians for years and you treat people like shit in real life, then I don't think your words have any meaning at all when it comes to any serious issue.

>>11351832
Read the Man in the High Castle

nigger babys

>>11352381
classic ad hominem

I am hungry but food costs money. There is allegedly free food upstairs but I don't think it's for everyone I guess I will go check, fuck it.

>>11352381
yes, congratulations anon you found out the PUBLIC who are cattle are evil retarded hypocrites WOWOWOW

>>11352427
Ok, I mean that's just how I feel. I see the memes these people are posting and it's just an opportunity to say shit like "CHEETOH HITLER OMG" instead of doing anything meaningful. All they're doing is making themselves feel more self-righteous. I'm not trying to make any serious arguments or change anyone's mind on anything, I'm just articulating how seeing these things make me feel.

>>11352443
Sure, I agree with you. I went through that phase too. Just keep in mind that you are no different that those who you criticize so much. You aren't doing anything meaningful by posting in 4chan. You are also taking the opportunity an anonymous IB gives you to say shit against them.

>>11352453
Yeah, you right. I cannot deny it.

>>11352195
I won't hide the fact that this gave me some feels, like two of them, maybe three.

I want to do simulator games on Youtube and Twitch for the MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY but also since I enjoy relaxing with them when I'm not reading but I can never find motivation and I feel like I'll be a failure.

I want to do simulator games on Youtube and Twitch for the MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY but also since I enjoy relaxing with them when I'm not reading but I can never find motivation and I feel like I'll be a failure. I also feel like I'll be trashed on for my anarcho-communist views since everyone's a capitalist or politically right. And I mean actual right which is any capitalist supporting cuckolds.

>>11352429

There was free food. It was not for everyone, and the lady was kind of mean, but I ate it anyway. She says she is probably going to stop serving it.

Today it's been three weeks since I got rejected by my long-term crush. Feeling pretty dejected desu. I miss her, even with all the unrequited love she was probably my best friend.

On a positive note, I'm talking to a qt I met on tinder who seems pretty cool so far.

>>11343485
Reading through the fit lit list and I'm genuinely enjoy what I've been reading as someone who's trying to get to grips with life again as a mild brainlet.

Also based Marcus calling out the Jews before it was cool

seriously though I should have got the new translation otherwise this is a great book.

i saw a swarm of birds dancing in the sky while i was on my walk today at work. it made me feel wonder and awe, something that normally only happens when i'm high

>>11352808
its best to let the long term crushes go. you'll be in a better place, sounds like maybe you already are.

>>11353497
watching a huge flock of pigeons circling around in the square I walk by everyday is what gives peace to my mind. Fuck listening to music, fuck writing, fuck all that, just watching a bunch of birds trying to land on a place where they all can just sit around pecking at the floor is truly a sight to behold. don't care if they are "flying rats" or not, but they are what give that lonely hour a bit of happiness.

>>11345367
I put my hand on a booOoOook,
to see if I still read!
(sung to the tune of Ghost Town by
Kayne West)

>>11350898
Never feel sad about the follies of man and the world, for they are nothing else, but teachings. All of the wrong you see is what can teach you, it is incredibly informative in the long run by the way.

But you have to start creating to feel alive, to feel human. This is our destiny. To create all you have to do is choose. Turn your experience into any creative form. Be it an art form, or a job that can allow you to gain the skills you need to help the world become more of a place that you would like to see.

Of course most people are already NPCs, you have centurial, generational brainwashing and people are just. Not everyone is Socrates. But that is great, for it makes your quest even grander. No one would be a hero if they faced a hamster on Mount Doom. The workings of chance, folly and pure evil are so magnificent so powerful and awe-inspiring just learning them makes you wiser about the world we live in.

Read books, choose, create, once you start doing that you enter the battle. It doesn`t matter what you create, if it is carpentry or software, as long as you get into it and the sweet honey begins to flow. Because once you begin to create you realize you can create in so many forms. You can help so many people in so many ways because the brainwashing tools, can also become tools of liberation. Adventures await if you just follow your dreams, if you have none, create some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Z_tlTxFO8

>>11345665
loooooooooooooooooooooool

>>11346187
>pond
This

>>11353497
I've definitely felt a lot better since I started looking for other people. The "I'll never meet anyone else like her" meme is truly insidious.

>>11351696
>Wearing a scarf
b-but it's -30C here in the winter

I miss living in a car. Nothing to do but read and drive. I can't believe I miss it.

I used to be able to wake up in a certain mood - or sometimes pull myself into this frame of mind - and begin to have an adventure.I haven't been able to do it in years, like flying in dreams. But I start to feel that way again when I'm driving somewhere new, home is in the backseat, and the world is ripe with possibilities.

My mentor was right: you can write fiction or you can write nonfiction, but you can't do both. I can't explain Hemingway. This rule is for mere mortals, I guess.

I don't think some of my more sociable friends understand how the friendship of the right book can fend off the abyss.

So a girl I was talking to on the internet wanted to see a photo of me.
I send her and first there came no answer, then that I wouldn't be her type.
Most of they days I forget that I'm not attractive (being overweight is probably a main point about 220lbs) and just feel like a normal human, but getting reminded of it is really crushing me.
I mean, I don't even get it. I honestly don't really care about that girl but I don't get it.
The best thing is that she was utterly stupid and visited lowest possible school.
What does it give me to be educated, be fluid in multiple languages and be interested in all kind of stuff when I can't even score with the lowest quality females of society?
I know it's because I'm fat and I already lost around 15lbs so far but I'll need more.
Then again it's not like I was never thin, I've been thin but it didn't work out anyways.

I don't feel like living anymore.

>>11344429
We’re old my friend, they’ll have something we won’t and vise versa, it’s quite grand

I don't get it why so many "book lovers" feel the need to post what they're gonna to read on socials like Instagram. Often they arrange the pictures in order to be as much as aesthetically pleasing as possible, with flowers, cup of coffe and shit(expecially women).

The future looks bleak. I wouldn't care if weren't for my little sister. I don't know if I'll be able to bear watching her suffer through it.

I think I am a narcissist who can't commit to a stable identity and often does things in bad faith, but I don't know if this extends to this very confession, too

Fuck mods

>>11355987
hey there, don't post child pornography if you don't want to get banned

>>11351696
Logan Paul is based as fuck, read more Baudrillard

>>11352808
Jesus Christ dude, 3 weeks?

>>11343489
this sentence is false so you aren't the greatest philosopher of all time

>>11345665
Pasta

>>11346821
>>11344205
>socialist posters

I would have forgiven them if they'd ever shown an ounce of understanding or contrition.

>>11343485
Do crabs think fish can fly?

>>11356256
some crabs can swim

>>11343485
How can i find wife without sex, in today's world sex is such important part, saying ,,i will not have sex outside marriage" is like saying ,, i will die virgin"

>>11356158
jump off a boat and let it leave

I never should have trusted you

Future's finally looking bright boys, I'm almost blinded.

>>11343485
To be honest i find this current youth culture of xanax-promoting rappers and drumpf hating twitter activists a much more delightful scenario than the bling bling/myspace/adam sandler flicks time of the 2000's. At least people now don't try so hard to be outrageous or at least it feels it's made in a much more sincere manner.

>>11356630
>At least people now don't try so hard to be outrageous
???

>>11347494
Get a hobby outside of reading that involves other people.
sports, building shit, going on hikes and other shit
Just interact with other people your age
I can under wanting friends your age but if you've never been drinking with middle aged men it can go two different ways, two different speeds.
Slow and mopy and depressing.
It'll be boring and awkward mainly. Where you'll be sitting there wondering if you'll be doomed to the same fate.
The other speed is lighting quick.
Alot of these fucks try to numb themselves hard and fast.
Its great to be around and trying to keep the pace with them.
You'll be able to tell how fast they go in the first couple of Minutes.

>>11356294
dril, is that you?

>>11350898
I feel this way about myself sometimes

>>11351331
You're being too cynical, or else America is really like this

>>11350898
holy...i want more

>>11350898
Have you turned this lens on yourself? If so what did you find?

Posted in the wrong thread earlier because I'm a fucking idiot.

Think I managed to ruin my best friend's proposal by disagreeing vehemently with it online. Don't really regret ruining it, they've known I didn't like their relationship since they started dating their SO years ago and I made it clear then and ever since that I would cut ties if they ever went through with it.

It has made me very angry though, it's made think about all the feelings of resentment I've been harbouring for a couple of years and has been leaking out of me in jibes and mean comments like a leaking, rotten fruit.
We've been very close friends for 10+ years, we've created whole worlds together and understand each other best.

Or at least I thought we did.

I'm angry and resentful and jealous for lots of reasons. They've tried making up with me, and we've tried unpacking our mutual grievances but I can't see past my anger and have only made the rift bigger. Not really sure what to do now, I would love more than anything to talk like we used to, but I don't know if I can let go of those feelings of anger and resentment. I don't know if I ever will let go. I just want everything to be the way it was but I don't know how to fix things if I can't even fix myself.

>>11343485
I wish I spent my teenage years differently.

>>11344232
based

every time I google someone important all I see is Princeton, Stanford, Harvard

>>11357083
Friendship is a hard thing anon, I've come to understand that it is unlikely people are even that close to you despite the signs and how it feels.
I cast aside all my friends bar 3, two of which I barely talk to, and I must say I feel better. You must enjoy the time you spent with one another but moving forward all things change

>>11357083
Why do you hate their relationship?

>>11356174
I can't tell if you think 3 weeks is too long a time to be upset or too short a time to be courting qt's on tinder. But either way yes I'm that unwell.

I'll be your friend anon, don't worry. Count on me to cheer you on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPVYySjLQlc

>>11351696
I hope this is bait,
>Calling people who live in Oregon Oregonians
What? Place-ian a standard pattern for a demonym.
>Wearing a scarf
Scarves are comfy and look good.
>Frisbee golf
Literally hating fun.
>Music festivals
Festivals can be cool as long as you avoid meme ones like Coachella.

>>11344205
When documents verifying an official body count are released.

I'm helping my friend write her personal statement for graduate admission, by helping I mean I am rewriting the whole entire thing because it is shit.

>>11357432
made an obscure sexual reference that she won't understand

>>11357083
>we've created whole worlds together

>>11350824
Worth a shot

>>11343485
Maybe girlfriend’s name is literally Stacy. She’s deprived you all of Greak Works cuz she lures me in with her smile and eyes and bulbous breasts. I do wish I spent my life writing and contemplating and waking around in peace. A good Stacy is a bad distraction from ascension.

[written while high, based on headlines from a newspaper]

>Monty Python too white for today's BBC
>They are not even funny to start with

This type of linguistic, logical, political problem is everywhere these days, not even strictly on that side. It appears at first that one statement supports the other, because that's how headlines leap from one another, there is a crescendo of information. But if you pay attention you realize that they actually undermine each other. What's the need of pointing out it was not funny, if the crucial issue was that it was too white for today's standards? If you read it without caution, your impression of the first headline influences on the next, so that if you agree with the major headline, your reaction to the second statement becomes "damn right they weren't funny at all" and if you disagree with the initial statement you may even give your somewhat positive view of Python a little boost and feel a bit offended. That's how the crescendo acts on us, most of everyone goes a little more radical after reading the big letters.

You may even agree or disagree with the two statements in themselves, but they are not logically connected. In fact, it diminishes the initial cause, making it seem not a social problem afterall, but a matter of taste. In other times, writers and columnists used to hide their personal opinions when criticizing something. You don't accept a teacher saying "I failed you because you are bad at math and also I don't like your face". Even if it may true, the teacher would conceal the last part. However, these days, and from all sides, people announce themselves in fear of not being accepted by their group, while the groups form like icebergs stranding farther away from the glaciers and melting themselves faster as they go.

>>11346906
>state governed
and where did you see that in my post? Plato's Republic neatly functions without a state, the people of his Utopia do not tell each other what to do or ensure cooperation by force, rather by complete self-governance in attune with the balances of their authority.

>>11357948
Man I'm so embarassed I once was a degenerate. I'm glad I got out of it.

i sleep about 7 hours a night but im still tired all day
my shoes have holes in them and it makes my feet hurt
i slipped on some ice in february and my back still hurts when i bend over
my molars hurt
i have diarrhoea more often than not
my friends arranged to go on a holiday together in september and never asked me to go with them

>>11357281
You're not wrong. Completing cutting ties would be god awful for me, and even the idea of it has sent me spiralling into depression and down dark roads. Then again, so has keeping everything bottled up in our friendship, which I feel like is only just starting to come out. One of our close, mutual friends suggested that maybe we just stop talking altogether for years and see how we feel but, I'm stubborn as a mule and if going to stop talking to them, I'm never going to start it up again. Especially if we're getting further ahead in our respective lives.

>>11357350
Good question anon, still trying to understand it myself to be honest with you. At first I thought it was because I thought my friend could do a lot better SO wise, and wasn't impressed by SO's life choices or behaviour at all. SO is a fun person to talk to and hang around, but I think they're a terrible influence. And honestly fuck me for having such old fashioned thinking but, it's my friend's first and only real relationship and I feel like they're really limiting themself. As mentioned earlier I could just be a jealous, forever alone cuck too but I want to think I'm rationally and logically above that. But I'm probably not.

>>11357508
Thanks for the interest. One of the core parts of our relationship was coming up with story ideas and bouncing them off of each other to produce something tangible and new. At the moment, we've got almost 200+ detailed characters, 13 different but connected stories and settings and a shared universe that spans across 50,000+ years and multiple parallel universes. Lots of different genres and writing styles tackled too.

trying to not think about her cos i know my personality isn't good enough to offset my appearance and make her want to date, so i'd rather just keep it in this friendship state

im wondering if i should spend the entire weekend binge watching anime or catching up on my reading, guess ill roll for it
evens for anime. odds for books

I moved in with a person and have found out they have a personality of a fucking toilet paper roll with an anger issue to boot.

It's temporary, thank god, but I have problems understanding how someone can get so mad at a blender. I can leave with this person being super happy and come back two hours later with them fuming at nothing.

I am just going to hide in the gym for two months desu.

Also the book "Age of Optimism" is pretty neat.

>>11358667
he probably has bipolar disorder plus anger management issues

>>11343485
The evil alien voices in my head have begun flirting back.

>>11358714
tell them anon says hi

trying to fix our relationship somehow

>>11358672
No idea but it's weird. I've spent a lot of time hanging out with them before so maybe I am catching then off their meds they've been taking in secret.

>>11343485
Do you think we are headed to Helter Skelter or humans will manage to merge?

>>11344205
Source please.

>>11343485
I accidentally ate a Timbit this morning

I feel like shit

Its not an eating disorder, i just broke my no-sugar rule

>>11359018
>I accidentally ate a Timbit
how does this even happen?
did someone throw it in your mouth while you were yawning?

>>11359021
i just woke up

it just happened i wasnt mindful and just popped one in

>>11359081
but anon, why do you buy timbits and leave them around the house if you're on a no sugar rule and feel bad about yourself when you eat some?

>feel happy
>day passes, still feel happy
>now paranoid at sudden lack of depressive thoughts and suicide ideation
something's not right here lads

>>11343485
I'm starting to see the appeal of Jordan Peterson when it comes to rejecting identity politics.
All of a sudden everyone is getting drafted to this ideological warfare and it's just so stressing...
I'm sure people are having good fun with all the memes on twitter, but I'm just tired and I wish we could discuss these subjects with respect and honesty.

>>11359810
Is this the true power of Juden (((Peterstein))) revealed?

Warosu search isn't working and I need to pull up some old threads, what do?

>>11359857
Accept the impermanence of all things, 4chan threads most of all.

>>11360015
No, seriously.

>>11360175
stop being a fag none of us care about you or your suffering, die or live for yourself but do not ask us to cessate the flow of will and effecting of our fates to assist your inept howling for the goods you desire. or just kys newfag

>>11360195
not him but this is peak newfag projecting on others right here.

>>11360203
ive posted here for years and you have no idea what projection means even in the most cursory colloquial sense of the word that frat faggots use when they’re feuding with each other in group message

>>11360215
I too have posted here for years.

>>11360220
ah good then you’d think you’d know what projection meant from all the psychoanalysis threads

I know /lit/ isn't a hugfest but it is usually pretty helpful. Sorry for your troubles anon.

Life sure is peaceful.

When I think of my problems, how I need a job, how I need to make my car payment and rent, I just can't drum up any concern.

I feel like everything is fine.

>>11360229
go to bed lacan

>>11360249
Life is peaceful for me when I imagine how I have so many physical illnesses, cant have drivers licence and how ugly I am. It sure is peaceful when I think about the time I am unemployed in my 26, the prime of life when it is supposed to be the easiest to get a job and how I finished masters with no debt but no way of using it and how all my former classmates have good jobs somehow throw connections and lead happy lives and are getting married or have long lasting happy relationships and good supportive parents. I am grateful for the feeling that the only thing that makes me not suicide is philosophy which I am only a reader because I am incompetent and boring which probably is the reason I lost my only friend.

>>11360339
What illnesses? Maybe go for a PhD?

I want to meet a weird, frail person on tumblr to be my loving gf. There was a guy on another thread talking about how he finds weird girls on instagram... I wonder how

>>11360396
Many from back pain and blood to eyes. Doing PhD in psychology would be suicide in my country.

>>11343485
I need to make cums.

>>11343505
>formal logic
pleb

>>11347494
that guy is living the life.

>>11360339
All I can hear is some bitch crying and complaining because he's too much of a pussy to do anything with his life.

>>11360566
>All I can hear is some bitch crying and complaining because he's too much of a pussy to do anything with his life.

Then you must have a very narrow worldview, the lifescript of todays masses and we all know how they are correct about the truth.

>>11343485

People have faith in various metaphysical and spiritual truths, and these truths are deeply connected to human identity and purpose. The day is coming when life on earth will no longer be sustainable, when only machine consciousness is possible to sustain. In that context there will most likely be artificial worlds, many of them in fact, connected together by some as of yet unknown higher logic. That logic will have to be robust enough to account for everything that makes us human, to connect it together agreeably, and to do so eternally. But when men reason of eternity, they typically do so in terms of faith, religion, and spirituality, in terms of metaphysics and the concept of an afterlife.
How can we hope to bring metaphysical and spiritual truth into that context? We are creating a role for ourselves as demiurges and archons in a material realm. Is this antithetical to faith in God? Yet there is no other way to proceed forward, if the human race is to proceed. And proceed it shall, one way or another. It is our responsibility to make sure that the human race does not go forward without its soul, that the great plunge into the artificial does not strip us of our dignity, that we do not leave behind what makes human life special and valuable.
We must, in a sense, be willing to suspend the metaphysical, but without abandoning it. How is this trick to be accomplished? It is very hard for me to express my full vision. I think of the game Undertale, in which Asrael Dreemur stands in for Christ and is left behind at the end of the story as all the creatures of the underworld go free into the upper realm of earth. And I think of Christ saying “Why have you forsaken me” on the cross. I think of this and I am terribly bothered. "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here it is', or 'Look, there it is'. Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it."
Ancestor simulations seem inevitable. I don’t know much about the theory of this. I am not a physicist. But that does nothing to account for how things will be run politically, socially, spiritually, and so forth. Technical details are a “how”, not a “what”. We can’t leave Christ behind. What sort of monstrous world would leave Christ behind? But what kind of a world could we build that would be acceptable to Christ? This question, which has been ignored in the context of running the current world, cannot be ignored in the context of running the future one.

1/2

>>11360632

I am not sure how to proceed, except by analogy; Undertale strikes me as a profoundly Christian text. The best ending comes from being a pacifist, there are tarot correspondences throughout the game, and yet it is clear in the context of the game that the world they live in is artificial. The great enemy of the game is “the anomaly”, which is equivalent in some sense to the demiurge of gnosticism, only reimagined in simulationist terms and as a role rather than a unique entity. The player can take this role, and “flowey” takes this role at times as well. “The anomaly” is responsible for resetting the universe over and over again, causing an eternal recurrence with only minor variations, and preventing the characters from enjoying the fruits of the good ending, in which a sort of Gnostic ascension takes place. Undertale has a sort of liberal Christian bent to it, where the goal is to save everyone, where in fact the only true ending comes from either saving or destroying everyone, and violence stains and ultimately destroys the soul.
We need to adopt the core message and structure of Undertale as a kind of Christian praxis for a simulationist world and future. I can’t think of a better text that encapsulates everything that is needed for a future understanding of faith, or that shows the way forward more appropriately given the metaphysics of simulationism.

>>11360543
Well maybe the death would be release? Or just something other than Psych lmao?

>>11360339
Glad to hear your life is as peaceful as mine is.

Finally sat down and read for an hour. Feels great.

>>11358656
roll

I've been with my wife for 10 years now. We met in high school, and I got her pregnant. She is and always has been a lazy person and a shit cook. I wouldn't even mind eating shit food if she at least made it on time. But she rarely did.
We'd get into screaming arguments constantly about how lazy and worthless she was. I felt like an asshole for it, but goddamn she was a real piece of work. The only reason I dealt with all this was for the kids, and also because the sex is great.
But one night, I got fed up. Not only did she get drunk, neglect the kids, and made me top Ramen for dinner, but she decided to give me attitude too. She was being real fucking bitchy. So I told my grandparents to keep an eye on the kids and told my wife we were going to go out and have dinner together. I drove maybe 3 blocks to a quiet area (we live in Oregon, it's not hard to find a quiet field) and I got out of the car, went around like I was going to open her door for her and let her out, and I just beat the shit out of her while she was still seatbelted. After a few punches, I asked her if she wanted to go back to her parents. She started screaming and yelling and said yes, so I beat the shit out of her again. Then I asked her what she wanted to do. She finally got smart and said she wanted to go home. So I took her home and dared her to start trouble. I even handed her my cellphone and dialed her mom's number on the drive home. I made her talk to her mom, while daring her to fucking say something.
Before that incident, I had never laid a hand on her. But I had always threatened it. I told her "one of these days, if you don't straighten up, I'm going to lay hands on you."
All my meals have been on time, and she just recently tried to make a meatloaf. It was mediocre, but I was just thrilled that she tried.
Do with this information what you will.

>>11361843
nice

>>11362082
she's fucking other men

>>11362082
I would kick your ass irl...not just for the physical stuff, but the mental rape you did there. I hope you don't feel tough, manchild.

>>11362082
now thats what i call redpilled

>>11362356
>I hope you don't feel tough, manchild.
says the guy threatening another guy he will never meet for posting madeup bullshit on 4chan
You are the definition of a whiteknight

>>11362366
I wasn't trying to do an ego thing...I'm just reminding him that he's too much of a coward to say these things in real life so he does it online.

I'd also like to remind him that it's his fault he married a bitch, and his fault he's a wife beater.

i gotta cop a copy of how to win friends and influence people off audible for my phone so i can listen before i go out cuz this week a socialized a bit and both times i kept talking about myself like a spaz even to the point of talking over other people lmao such an autist, most of the time im all silent and shit but if i get going on some nerdy bullshit ill just spam the convo

i had to get my eyes examined today, and my optometrist was this super hot woman in her late 20s, like a legit 9/10, it was pretty cool

>>11362406
last time i went to the optometrist to get my contacts updated it was this fat white dude who pulled himself up really close to me and manspread his legs super wide on his little stool and started purring instructions into my like "mmm, okay now, just do the top line, mmm, yes, good, keep going" it was hot af nohomo

>>11362417
Mmmm yeeeeaaaahhhhh *puts on sunglasses*

i just watched call me by your name and i think im gay for timothee chalamet.

he's so charming and his cat-like, dance-ish movements are strangely alluring.

i don't wanna be a fag, what do? acknowledge the fact that no men in real life are as attractive as that boy?

>>11362463
if your attracted to a man for his feminine qualities, you're probably not gay

>>11362463
dude today i had a gay thought like i was walking down the sidewalk in the morning when everyone was going to work and as a lazy bohemian slacker i was naturally walking the opposite direction going home but anyways this chick in a short sun dress was walking towards me and behind her was some drone in office casual and i was like if i could fuck that chick or suck off the office drone i'd probably go with the drone, it just made my dick more excited, but it might be because if i fucked the sexy dress chick i would nut in like 20 seconds and feel awkward but i could suck the dude for like ten minutes, gulp down his load and then go home and beat my meat at my own pace, is that gay? idk

So this summer I'd secured myself enough of a position financially to not have to work and focus on my writing. It's been about two weeks since I started and I can't put a single fucking word to the page. I don't know what the hell is wrong with me. I just can't think of a plot that anyone would ever want to read. I've been notebooking ideas for my novel and I have all sorts of aesthetic and conceptual ideas that I think may be cool but I'm realizing more and more that it's really important to have a coherent plot and all that. And I can't for shit's sake think of one. I don't know what to do.

>>11359676
Even a happy state can be a shocking one relative to the ones that came before it, and your mind may be doing simple double-takes. Don't over think it.

Either that, or you forgot to do something important regardless of the good day.

>>11362501
You are at a make-or-break-it point. First, make sure you eliminate all, and I mean literally all, distractions from your work, so you can make sure you are giving your entire mind, body, and soul to this work of writing.
Second, remember that bad artists copy, and that good artists steal. Don't be afraid to look for inspiration from other writers, especially the classics. I've been taking notes for more than a year whenever I encounter an interesting thought whilst reading, and I can't imagine that won't help me when I start writing more myself.

yo i tried reading some of naked lunch when i was in jail as a teen and i didnt really dig it, then i always mildly hated on burroughs when his name came up, but the other day i grabbed a copy of naked lunch off the library shelf and started reading, yo that shit is sooo fucking good, blew my mother fucking mind, it's like reading pynchon but published a decade earlier and without any dumb songs, i mean pynchon is the man, but burroughs like woah id read this shit for fun not even for pseud cred, as a kid in some rural county clink i did't have the worldliness to dig it, now im like this shit is sublime af

Charles Dickens is the greatest writer ever.

do it. do it? do it. DO IT. do it? do IT. IT? DO.

>>11351696
dude what's wrong with yodelboy? He's been engineered to be the most lovable creature in modern country.

>>11356158
explain further please

>>11362548
Dude youd be cool if you werent like such s rapey stslking fsggot ys know? Like i dont even know you but you know me so like whoa stop stalking me youbstupid bitch shut your mouth and fuck off lol

>>11351581
Be strong!

>>11355504
I know that feel. It's even worse when you don't really know if you are acting in bad faith or not

>>11343518
:^(
You

Been thinking about the allegory of the cave and what it means to shape your own reality.
I feel lost in the fact that anime girls are too unreal, and i will never find a girl like in manga/anime, i know this seems childish and immature, but the thought/allure of never ending quest for perfection makes life feel like a never ending european melodrama

>>11352381
Anon, they're not attention whoring, they just don't know how to express themselves better

>buy a return train ticket to a far away station
>ride up and down the track several times reading

i just find trains so comfy. cant do this all the time though unfortunately, tickets are expensive

Why do i know about books but never read one?

>get rash
>don't go to doctor because they'll probably just tell me to wait it out
>today rash has spread
>lymph nodes in area around rash are swollen
>clinic I go to is closed for the weekend
Am I dying?

>>11364150
it's early stage of hiv as all your t-cells are converted, after a week or two you'll feel normal again, and won't have any symptoms for 5-10 years

my hat

>>11364157
nice try anon but I'm a virgin and don't do drugs

>>11363092
Retarded desire

there is almost nothing you can do without buying shit to do it with it

personalities aren't even made they're just acquired through consumption it's impossible to do anything without being a capitalist cuckold help me

>>11364355
>summer child read that medium post by some ex-microsofter about how their marketing department created the "gamer bro" identity in order to sell xboxs

stop being a crybaby

>>11364364

what are you even talking about

>>11364368
u know the type with a youtube channel with headshot streak videos from shooters, backyards caps, energy drinks, loud, obnoxious, would never play some soi shit like nintendo, claims to have a gf, all around masculine guy but also a dedicated gamer, yeah, that identity/archetype was constructed by microsoft's marketing department in order to create a market segment to buy an american console as opposed to the japanese products that catered to nerds and virgins

It's Saturday morning, and I'm watching old Kung Fu movies on vhs, eating potato chips, and cuddling with my body pillow, living the dream man

>>11364374

do you have the original article? that actually sounds interesting even though i don't play video games

>>11364379
>You got the sense the pre-Xbox, 'gamers as bros' was a smaller subculture within the nerdy, whimsical hobby of games. Over two console generations, a highly cynical marketing team spent billions with no hope of immediate payback to shift the market. In an act of brilliant jujitsu, Nintendo was slandered as a kids platform, their historical strength turned against them. Xbox put machismo, ultra-violence and chimpboys with backwards caps in the paid spotlight. Wedge, wedge, wedge. Gamers were handed a pre-packaged group identity via the propaganda machine of a mega corporation. For those raised post-Xbox, Microsoft was an unquestioned Mecca of modern gaming culture. Dude. They made Halo.

https://plus.google.com/+DanielCookGameDesign/posts/W3ys5fKnz5t

>>11364401
of course the irony is microsoft bought halo and then made it an xbox exclusive, they didnt make it any more than apple made itunes (another 3rd party acquisition that became known as a signature product)

>>11362082
No matter how much of a loser she is, she'll never be 1/10 of the asshole you are.

>>11364401

thanks, mate. and yet another reason to use a gnu/linux distro

I want a girl who will care if I write poetry for her and who will like me for my shortcomings as much as for my strengths, the way I liked all these girls I've pined for the past few years. I want to be a man, not a boy, and to have the loving traditional type of relationship my own parents have. I want, and there's no path to gain. So I stew in my discontent, praying for a helping hand.

how difficult is it to learn russian, anyone here doing it? or already knows it?

>>11364622
It's towards the upper end of difficulty for indoeuropean languages. Certainly possible, but it won't be a walk in the park like Spanish.

>>11343485
How the fuck wasn't Sweden handed a penalty after that push?

>>11364650
they dont need it, germany about to get btfo

How does the French translation of The Transitional Program compare to the English one?

>>11364775
whats the transitional program again my marxism is rusty

also, translations made when the writer was alive and probably spoke those languages agonizing over translations doesnt really matter

how do i stop being so horny all the time

>>11364790
try jackin off, i was just insanely horny but then i smoked a little weed and watched a porno

>>11364790
see a prostitute then realise how horrbile and disgusting sex is

>>11364794
i've jacked off three times today

>>11344205

Imma doubt that

>>11364829
yo u jinxed me i had to nut a second time, then again i shouldnt have left all those porno tabs open, made getting back into a fap sess to easy

on horniness tho i think energy drinks with guarana will make u horny af, i used to think it was taurine, but i bought some protein powder with taurine to improve my faps without having to drink energy drinks but it didnt have much affect, but then i started chugging some redbull and monsters and now i have to have a double fap, so yeah if ur super horny check ur diet for guarana and maybe taurine

>>11344205
dude the 2 liter bottle of mtn dew the average gamer chugs daily alone has more calories than people in cuba get all day

Back muscle spasm is very uncomfortable.

wow man i just fapped up an appetite im fuckin starving yo

A classmate jumped into the rails a couple of days ago. I spent like 2 hours yesterday walking through a random park after they told me about it. FUCK. I wasn't close to him but I identified myself with him. He was one of those few people that I didn't feel uncomfortable with. He even had a cute girlfriend. He survived but they still don't know the dimension of the sequels. FUCK.

>>11365050
>the dimension of the sequels

wtf is that supposed to mean

i told a mini-fib the other day and didnt get "called out" but the person sort of made it known in a polite way that i had exaggerated, now i feel so guilty lmao idk its weird, i just hate ppl who lie casually, like if u need to lie about serious stuff like cheating on your wife or being a fag or having a felony conviction thats cool i respect that but like if u just lie about off the cuff crap to make yourself seem slightly more estimable then u are a scum, man i need to get over my guilt

someone on here posted something a while back about how being highly susceptible to guilt is a sign of mental weakness and they had a link to some psychology paper about it, link it again bro i wanna read

>>11365055
They don't know if he has brain damage or shit like that. Or at least they didn't tell me.

>>11365072
oic ya thats always the risk of suicide ending up retarded or something, or like those guys who put the gun under their chin and shoot their face off instead of their brains and then have to live with a anus like hole for a face

can't decide if i should take a nap or eat a snack

summer time and the livin is easy

I took two semesters off from university last year to deal with a mental illness, but the guy who promised to pay for the doctor's visits (a friend of my mother) dropped all contact, and I am certainly returning with most of the same issues that plagued me before. However, my mindset has improved a ton, and I think I could pull through so long as I keep meditating and stay diligent. But what I'd really like to do is a creative project. I haven't felt like myself for years now, and the void in identity that creates is scary when the world requires you to take part in it. I want to be able to point to a thing and say that it is me, it is mine, even if it does not feel like it. An anchor. It's just a fantasy right now but perhaps I should really go ahead and do it.

>>11365149
>guy your mom was fucking ghosted u

she should have stepped up her head game

>>11365161
:^/

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>>11364460
>Replying to pasta
lel

I followed /lit/'s advice and got this. Now I'm feeling hopelessly broken. Thanks

Wonder is programmed into the psyche. It is my guardian spirit. I am a fractal blood cell moving in a stream watching his flow.

>>11343485
Wonder is programmed into the psyche. It is my guardian spirit. I am a fractal blood cell moving in a stream watching his flow.

>>11365613
yo that looks dank af is the movie on demonoid?

>>11366557
demonoid is full of malware

>>11355276
better inform her well anon. lots of girls nowadays get caught up in the roastie/druggie lifestyle and end up having no respect for anything.

Why is it taking so long for everybody to die

>>11364178
well the dude said what's on your mind, its just happened to be something really retarded on mind right now

>my mum has just told me shes pregnant by her boyfriend
>shes 51

my dad had to spend some time in a mental ward after they divorced because he tried to kill himself, hes gonna completely lose his mind when he hears about this

>>11364551
>I want a girl who will care if I write poetry for her
Classic rookie error. Women will never care about a guy writing poetry for them for the love of the poetry alone. They care if a certain type of guy is writing it for them, but they don't care about the poetry itself. It only accentuates the character of the guy writing it, and that character better be constituted by charm and daring and a desire to keep them in check and feeling challenged or you my friend are shit out of luck.

That might be making women out to seem fickle, but it's true: even if the poetry is amazing, she'll "appreciate it" and give thanks, then move on right past you to a guy who poses a real challenge for her. No girl wants a mild-mannered "poetry guy". They want a bad boy who also happens to like poetry perhaps, but if you're too bookish you're going to get outmaneuvered by other men who aren't, readers or not.

You need to balance out your more prissy inclinations with some real grit. The softer you are in some aspects the more rough around the edges you have to be in others to keep them interested. Even the most demure of girls in this world with dreams of being doting housewives will eventually get bored of a man who's just as demure as she. Half that shit they do is an act. Just because they outwardly appear that way that doesn't mean that they are wholly that way or that they want their men to be wholly that way. They want the game. They want the chase as much as men do. They have their own version of that chase and they need it too in order to feel romantically satisfied. If you're too much of a le sensitive aesthete to give them that sense of challenge and catharsis that comes with the victory of their magical pussy over male stubbornness and idiocy that they all secretly crave then don't even bother bro. Stick to writing poems to yourself and feeling sad that you are too sensitive for this world.

Not trying to be cruel here just trying to help you get over the meme trap of the "romantic literary guy".

>>11367538
good post