/lit/ - Literature

I just broke this threads hymen. Everyone posting after me is a cuck.

>>20981523
Thats so hot. I wish you could post in this thread the first time over and over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mufdahgY2xY

As a new and noble knight,
some fearsome fiend I sought to fight.
To uphold pure-hearted pride,
I push my horse, and pounding, ride.

"A ruthless rogue", the poor folk wrote,
"Sacked and stole, and cruelly smote"
"and many men he happ'ly met,
did well with blood his weapon wet".

With this I travel on through thorns,
past brambles, briers, burnt bulls' horns.
Such pagan practice proves this path
the rightful road to ride in wrath.

Long and far, but fast, I flew,
to soon stop before a solemn slew.
Of grieves and greatswords, broken blades,
old bones to fill a hundred graves.

Thus, all astrewn, discarded arms,
truly chilled me - loosed alarms.
From out his den, a killer's drone,
the scraping sound of sharp'ning stone.

He stops the stone.
He stands and strides.
We quickly clash.
No cut collides.

A sword held firm, a fight to wage,
approaching reckless, dripping rage.
He stops the stone. He stands and strides.
We quickly clash. No cut collides

That defending, dodging, ducking, dance,
At slits of mail give a glance.
Valiantly, I hew a gap,
t'wards places plates don't overlap.

One-way through, I take my chance,
half-sword hold and trust my lance.
To pierce naught but empty air,
my sword in his stout plate ensnared.

His next blow fell much more square,
and then my life were taken there.
Imagine now, my horror when,
my fate's to haunt the armour's den.

>>20981541
Wtf this is awesome

i mentioned in an older thread that i started reading fidel castro's "autobiography" that's basically a 700+ interview by the actual author and holy shit it's so tedious. castro constantly repeats stuff he's already said and goes off on weird tangents that have nothing to do with the question that was asked and aren't even amusing or interesting, and the interviewer asks some of the dumbest questions about pointless minutiae.
finally gave up after 200 pages.

>Every man who produces a free act projects his personality into the infinite. If he gives grudgingly a sou (French coinage) to a poor person, this sou pierces the hand of the poor person, falls, pierces the ground, burrows through suns, traverses the firmament and compromises the universe.
>If he commits an impure act, he may obscure thousands of hearts that he does not know, who correspond mysteriously with him and who need this man to be pure, like a traveler dying of thirst has need of a glass of water of the Gospel.

>>20981491
>>20976706
>>20977631
>The only physical description of Jesus that does exist is from a copy of a letter from the Roman consul Lentulus to the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Scholars have historical verification that a certain Roman consul named Lentulus was in Judea at the time of Jesus' trial and crucifixion. His influential family is mentioned by the Jewish historian Josephus in his book Antiquities of the Jews. Lentulus' letter is presented an official report to the Emperor Tiberius. In his letter Lentulus describes the condemned man named Jesus of Nazareth as having: a noble and lively face, with fair and slightly wavy hair; black and strongly curving eyebrows, intense penetrating blue eyes and an expression of wondrous grace. His nose is rather long. His beard is almost blonde, although not very long. His hair is quite long, and has never seen a pair of scissors.....His neck is slightly inclined, so that he never appears to be bitter or arrogant. His tanned face is the color of ripe corn and well proportioned. It gives the impression of gravity and wisdom, sweetness and good, and is completely lacking in any sign of anger.

fair and slightly wavy hair. That could be light brown, reddish perhaps, or blonde.
And just wait until you hear this next one, fellas. This'll knock your socks off.

> Up to 70 percent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-tutankhamun-dna/half-of-european-men-share-king-tuts-dna-idUSTRE7704PB20110801

>>20981584
>Ancient Egyptians more closely related to Europeans than modern Egyptians, scientists claim
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-egyptians-europeans-related-claims-a7763866.html

>Some ancient Egyptians were natural blondes
https://www.baka.com.au/technology/some-ancient-egyptians-were-natural-blondes-20160426-gof9hn.html

Niggers BTFO

>>20981584
The Book of Isiah says that Jesus was an ugly mother fucker

>>20981529
>Yes. Have a class with her. Only problem is that next class we're taking a test. I'll only be able to talk to her if we happen to finish and walk out the door at the same time

Honestly anon that sounds like the perfect opportunity. If you finish earlier than her, wait around and you can discuss the test together. If she leaves first and doesn't stick around, you can just talk about the test next week. You've got an easy in.

>>20981611
When will he find the time machine, you think?

>>20981622
Thinking I'll show up early and just sit by the door. Otherwise yeah, I'll use it as a starting point for monday.

I'm starting a PhD program this fall in the classics and super excited about it. But all I can think about is finding someone to fall in love with. I just want happiness with another person and to be close to someone again. A girl I recently spent time with called me out for being "touch starved--" but I don't think that's it, because I get sated, at least physically, on the reg. I think it was a wakeup call for me though because I definitely come across as needy in all parts of my life.

I want to return to a relationship I once had, even though I rehearse the reasons why it would never work out all the time in my head. I want to return to it because I recognize that she truly cared about me, even if she wasn't the right fit.

So even though I have important goals to focus on and feel more creative than ever, I also feel more abandoned than ever before because none of this is leading anyone to fall in love with me, and even worse, I think if one person did, it would probably be the wrong person because this isn't the way I'm supposed to go about it.

I know that I'm supposed to just let things happen, but I don't want to just let them happen; I want to force it, I want close connection now, I want to move to the part of my life where I'm happy with someone I love, like I had, but for real this time and in a good way. It just is so annoying to me that all I can do now is sit and wait until my program starts and I'm back around other people. I'm just sitting here and waiting.

I think about talking to my ex all the time, but I feel bad because I know even if we did have a good talk, or if we got back together, I'd have to tell her the truth: that I don't believe that we're right for each other, but I really, really just need someone to lean on emotionally right now.

I can't go to sleep at night because I think about this so much.

>>20981647
>A girl I recently spent time with called me out for being "touch starved
Elaborate on this. How did she conclude that

>>20981518
Coffee and alcohol turning my mood to shit.
Binge drink like once or twice a month. I don't mind the physical effects, but mentally it puts me in the dumpster for days. I also think slower for the rest of the week.
Coffee is the same. I get an initial high for like an hour. Then the rest of the day im shidding and pissing & feel like crap. Im super over sensitive to it. So much so that if I have a coffee in the morning I'll have trouble sleeping that night.
I can't control myself. It's so good in the moment. The smell and taste of it.

>>20981518
Does anyone else like calling leftists liberals knowing how much it angers them(for some reason)?

>>20981686
Fucking weak. I can have 6 cups of coffee before feeling anything and then binge drink for three days in a row before I feel like shit

>>20981611
finna bouta make me wanna do some violent property crimes tbqh famalam

>>20981697
How much do you drink on a binge though?
For me I do a bottle of wine + a beer or 2.
Idk I must just be sensitive. When I was younger that wouldn't have affected me much. Now though for days I'll just feel awful.

>>20981653
>Elaborate on this. How did she conclude that

I think she concluded it because I was showing her a lot of affection. I give a lot and look people in the eyes a lot.

My conclusion was that I am just obsessed with making sure that every girl I spend time with (and indeed most people) wants to see me again.

>>20981518
>happy songs are feeling sad again
Come on, don't take the only shit I enjoy

>>20981770
I usually down between 10 to 15 beers

I desperately need to go to a doctor, like really really really badly, possibly even to an emergency room eventually depending on what exactly is happening to me, but even now for some reason I just cant push myself to simply ask my Father for a ride to the doctors (wall mart clinic lol). I think its shame or something, combined with the fact that I dont want to worry my parents. God, what have done to myself over this last decade? what waste of a life.

For a while now I have been fervently studying my favorite works of cinema and literature in order to figure out how art exactly works and what makes art successful. I agree with the notion that the success of art is mostly reliant on technique and composition. I still can’t figure out one single coherent method of creating good art but there are some basic rules that stand out to me.

>Good films and novels are supposed to excel on a chapter-by-chapter and scene-by-scene basis.
>Coordinated, scripted plot lines are often inferior and the best works of art generally have a loose plot structure, excluding theater and plays of course
>Art is supposed to evoke a consistent stream of feeling, the artist is essentially a manipulator and his illusion should never be interrupted
>Evoking boredom is the worst thing an artist could do
>Most art is the practice of concealing meaning through aesthetic representation
>Music is unique and totally unlike any other art form

>>20981822
Cinema isn't art

>>20981826
Cinema is a serious art form and currently the most relevant and successful. Most films are terrible but those that are great are truly fantastic works of art.

>>20981806
>>20981770
Just chiming in, fellas. I'm in my mid thirties and hangovers seem about ten times worse than they were in my twenties, and I have to be very high maintenance about heavy drinking now. Most people in their thirties are like this, as far as I can tell, despite their overall health. I used to think it was because I'm less fit than I was ten years ago, but I know fellas that are jacked and still can't handle their liquor anymore.
As an aside, the people that seem to get the least bad hangovers have alky families and so it's genetic. My crackpot take on that is my weakness about hangovers is at least a sign that I'm not predisposed to alcohol -- I tend to drink heavily -- but at random times -- and I've never been addicted.
The only time I was questionably addicted is when I was depressed after the death of a family member and I basically felt nothing except when I was getting psyched to buy my 3rd bottle that week. That went on for only a few weeks, thank God, because I quickly started gaining weight and started naturally cutting back.
People who can drink a lot are fucked because they don't have those speedbumps that prevent them from destroying their health.
My neighbor is a raging alcoholic. He tried to throw his elderly mom off a balcony, and he talks to his chickens.

Are INTPs good at philology?

>>20981806
You must have a liver made of steel. If I did that three days in a row I think I'd die.

>>20981822
The Poetics might help. Most great cinema to me has echoes of Greek tragedy. It's perfectly reasonable to chalk up great art to "technique", but it doesn't account for SOVL.
I'm also a Jungian so feel free to dismiss me.

>>20981850
I think it’s mostly technique, but we have to keep in mind that the only people worthy of utilizing artistic technique well are people that are inspired and intimate with the human condition. If they have no soul then they can’t create good art no matter what. It varies with different art forms but I always think of the Soviet Union and how it produced almost no great artists compared to the prior generations of Russian composers and writers. The ones that were successful artists were not soulless atheists or commies.

>>20981831
I'm only 22...
I did go through a period where I'd binge drink like crazy when I started college for about 2 years. Makes me worry i might have slightly damaged my liver. Cause these days the hangover I get after even just a bottle of wine after is terrible. Physically the hangover lasts only a day, but mentally usually 2-3 days of muddled thinking.
Weirdly though I also have these weird hangover very rarely where I become super energetic. Like I'll suddenly become super studious and my thoughts incredibly clear.

>>20981865
It's probably the wine, all the sugar. I can't do wine because I always get hungover, like those queasy stomach hangovers that i don't get from tequila or whiskey. Wine is my last option.

>>20981812
Explain further

>Armenia has called on the CSTO to come to its aid
>Azerbeijan has a mutual defense treaty with Turkey
>Turkey is a member of NATO
Well lads this is it. Might very well be WW3. I am sickened that I wasted my time posting with all you fags.

>>20981831
Yeah I do come from a family of alcoholics. They laugh when I pass out on my 15th beer and go back to chugging vodka

I wish I was dead, but I don't want to die. I hate my life and I want to not want to be dead. I can't get a job and the girl I was hoping to marry has moved on. I want life to be good again.

>>20981694
Stupid fascist posters

>>20981915
I don't want you to die.

>>20981694
>(for some reason)

>>20981922
Just some relief from this mortal coil would be nice I think. But I appreciate it and you, anon.

>>20981694
That's the rarest Pepe I've ever seen. It sure would be a shame if I... saved it.

>>20981931
yeah it would be a shame because presumably you're an adult. you shouldn't be saving pictures of cartoon frogs.

>>20981694
lol like deadass lmao even, you think I'm a liberal? I'm a freakin' Marxist-Leninist my dude lmao

>>20981942

>>20981518
>Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us Now
actually made me snort. it's true, but the super rich would rather die than help

>>20981865
Wine hangovers make me feel 100x worse than beer or even spirit induced hangovers. I think that's true for a lot of people.

im going to kick a poofer in the knee this week

>>20981518
Autistic bros I don't feel so good

>>20981694
Yeah I get an erection from doing it as well

Making dictionaries sounds cool. I wish I could do it.

You think cellphones are so convenient until you get to work and realize you forgot yours at home, and you got someone you need to call that morning whose number is in said phone.
I walked little over 3 km to work. I walked that much back home. I walked that much to work again.
My legs are about to go on strike.

I like to tell myself that I will turn my adversity into strength and become my own hero. What I feel in my bones is different from what I tell myself. Every misfortune chips away at you, reduces you, makes the light a shade dimmer. Time alone is the enemy. Time without action is deadly.
Nevertheless I somehow find the horror of my mortality exciting. Almost entertaining in a twisted way. Guess that's the metal in me.

>>20981868
It's not any different with other alcoholic beverages for me.
I usely find wine the best. I've never vomited the day after from wine. The drunk i feel from wine is way better too. With beer you have to drink way too much & i feel bloated.
Vodka I stay away from because it has little to no effect on me so ill drink way too much. The drunk i get from vodka I remain weirdly clear headed like I could easily solve math problems or write a paper even after having 6 shots.
These days the hangovers are just different somehow. I get this ebbing awful pang in my left abdomen days afterwards. Takes like a week to go away.
I don't even drink that much compared to other young people i know. Starting to feel like ill have to cut way back at which point what's even the point of drinking. I already drink very moderately. Feel like an old man and im still in my 20s.
Just sucks cause im still young and want to enjoy myself.

I've written my first honest to God song and I'm pretty proud of the little number. It ain't much compositionally but there's some depth to it lyrically I think even if the subject matter is about as cliche as it can get. Special shoutout to bourbon for letting me write it (what is it about alcohol that makes writing so much easier?) and this anon >>20982032 for putting "I feel it in my bones" in my head. I'll thank you all when I win a grammy, or at least get one buy on bandcamp.

>>20981518
----- Solaria ----
199
(assorted cars)

Opera indifferent except for the sum effect of it.
Hadrian in Baiae wishing for such efficiency in pleasant dying that

To dream without the slightest pain--
Grave beyond magnificence, serene forever in everything scenic, whatever the season,

Is the optimum one can engineer.

is the kindle paperwhite good? i have a kindle fire and it fucking blows for anything but reading ebooks.

Bob Dyland really came up with something when he wrote "Mama, You Been On My Mind". I think just for the way he was able to tap into and describe the most human emotion of longing after a breakup, perhaps long after a breakup, is just worthy of admiration at the very least.
>perhaps its the color of the sun cut flat and covering
>the crossroads i am standing at
>or maybe its the weather or something like that
>but mama you been on my mind
and
>i aint asking you to say words like yes or no
>please understand me
>i have no place i am calling you to go
>im just whispering yo myself so i can't pretend that i dont know
>mama youre just on my mind
these both just do so much for me. and he didn't even release it until like the 90s.

>>20982069
---- Solaria ----
200
(EDM)

My friends watched out for me
Like lovers to whom I brought back

The gold of indomitable will, happy amid
Gardens as instrumental music

That felt shining
As the look of things in high summer.

>>20981541
Wrote something to go with this, what think anons?

The cavern's chill seeps through my soul,
I hear the flutt'r of deft wing-voles.
My limbs are caught in steel embrace.
What is this place? What is this place?

A pile of skulls rolls 'round my boots,
Too great to count. Above, the roots
of mighty oaks writhe through the stone.
Whose are these bones? Whose are these bones?

There! The marrow yields a glint,
three feet in length, as keen as flint.
The swirling iron at once I grasp -
I know my doom. I know my task.

Then out! Through briar, through field and fen.
Though I shall never taste again
the free-born winds upon my face...
to different freedom now I race.

No hearth unturned, no home unspoiled!
No necks are spared my iron's coils!
My only warmth is splattered red,
my only joy the rolling head!

Now back! To that infernal cave,
so many souls' untimely grave,
so many bones' last resting-place,
to patiently await the chase.

I sit and wait.
The whetstone rasps.
The brambles crack.
I fix my grasp.

Through rattling bones there comes to me
a worthy foe. His hair is free,
His eyes betray an ice-blue wrath.
What fortune, that entwined our paths!

I drop the stone.
I stand and stride.
We quickly clash.
No blow collides.

Around me, through my blows he weaves,
How swift! How nimble! Now he cleaves
a mighty blow towards my helm -
I stumble back, near overwhelmed.

He comes again. I meet his charge.
I splinter his beleaguered targe,
Yet in that act my doom is sealed,
He lunges forth! The armour yields-...
...
...
...
The cavern's chill seeps through his soul.
He hears the flutt'r of deft wing-voles.
His limbs are caught in steel embrace.
What is this place? What is this place?

I was washing out my mug so I could drink another coffee earlier, and an unfortunate event occurred. My sister is staying at my place for a few days, and she had some friends over—one of them is very attractive. Well, while I was washing this mug over the kitchen sink, a hilarious thought appeared in my brain. It was the phrase "universalized particulars." Still gets a chuckle out of me; it's just so absurd and pointless. A completely meaningless thought. Anyway, a big grin appeared on my face as I was cleaning the mug—just as the friend was walking by. She asked me "what are you laughing about?"
This circumstance at once rendered me a mad, stuttering dog. Do I tell her the truth? Do I make something up on the spot that isn't schizo-sounding?? It was over for me.
I decided to tell her the truth, and she just looked at me confusedly. It was a nightmare.

>>20982182
----Solaria ---
201
(infrastructure)

There are about a dozen feral cats coursing
The porches and the huge stand of trees
Behind where I sit, or rather lay.

These kitties are terrified of me--slowly, gently, as I approach, from the porch of a most formal garden. Nothing spooks me, except night of destroying frigidity, polar vortices, etc.

>>20982182
it's very nice

>>20982245
Chill, anon, she was most likely just wondering what "universalized particulars" mean and was feeling very self-conscious about not knowing it.

>>20982182
Amazing stuff anon.

>>20982271
I can't tell if that's an ai image or not

For some reason, I'm banned from posting in my country so I'll ask here. Which series should I read from these two? LOTR or Dune? I really like vast atmospheres and desolate ambiance so I'm leaning towards Dune, but I dispise politics and can't bear to read a single page regarding it. How heavy is Dune on the politics, families, etc? How is LOTR in this regard? I like the non-political, no-family relations part of worldbuilding so I think LOTR would fit me better in this regard. I've also read The Hobbit and it barely left any impression on me. It was a really fun read, but I can barely remember anything I've read and I read the book about a year ago. So, LOTR or Dune?

>>20982286
Yes, it is.

>>20982300
The Hobbit is quite a different creature from the Lord of the Rings, mostly because it was Tolkien's first published novel and he was hesitant to release such fantasy stories in anything other than a children's book. In LotR he got a free hand, and could aim for more mature themes and prose. If you dislike politicking, scheming, plotting, etc., you'll have no problem with LotR.
That said, Dune doesn't focus solely on interdynastic politics, and although its style, with lots of inner monologue and descriptions of what the characters are thinking, certainly enables the author to describe those schemes and plots with more detail, the other motifs like loyalty, family, faith, and the innate power of the human mind and voice are also an important part of the story. You might just find yourself interested in those overarching themes even if the detailed politics bore you.
That said,
>porque no los dos?

>>20982300
read both!

>>20981584
>>20981611
Based fuck racists and atheists

>>20982320
>>20982326
I'm actually planning to read both since they're on my reading list. Perhaps the question should've been: "Which one of the two should I read first?" I'm going through a stressful time, switching programmes at college, starting lifting, going through a lot of changes so I might pick the easier of the two, which is LOTR. Thank you for the description. This made me more eager to read Dune. LOTR, for now, seems like something I would enjoy no matter what.

>>20981518
----Solaria ---
202
It's as if I live in a mausoleum of suave light
Designed for the slowest possible decline into oblivion.

Yet every change of season, however slight, comes as a shock to me
Brings me back to life, is redolent with holiday.

>>20982339
>starting lifting
godspeed anon, I started a little over a month ago, always was skinny, now I have abs and arms, still need to work on legs and chest

My problems are insignificant if not outright superfluous, and I live well materially. There is a roof over my head, and plenty of food available. But I am not happy, and have been so unhappy for such a long time, that I have come to the conclusion that I am a fundamentally unhappy person. I don't think I can ever be happy.

I think I rather hate happiness for myself, even just the idea of it. Especially the idea of it. If I feel happy, I stop and think, "This isn't me, this isn't who I am" or that "Things are going so well, I must be suspicious, as I am sure to have missed something, this isn't normal, this cannot go on" And so on and so on.

Sometimes I do things I know is harmful, self-destructive, and of course a source of unhappiness, but I do it anyway. Why? But I cannot seem to ever help myself. What is there for me to do? I am also a coward, a great coward, and I am not so certain what weighs more on me: The thought that I have but a lifetime left of living with myself, or the act of cutting it short.

And yet, I think to myself, I am too old to be having these kinds of thoughts. I should resign to merely working, eating, sleeping, rinse, repeat, until I expire naturally. But on some nights, like this one, the gravity of my way of being hits me and I am struck: I am drowning and I should do something. I must do something. Until I get tired and return to a life on auto-pilot, like clockwork till next time.

>>20982407
May the gains be with us.

>>20982434
Reconnect with nature. Now that you're doing fine materially and don't have to worry about that sphere of life, you could try to rediscover the beauty in nature. This might sound gay, but maybe orient your life in the way that it is more in accordance with nature? Wake up to natural light, use less social media. Visit natural environments such as forests, creeks, plains, beaches and mountains regularly (multiple times a week). You don't need to hike or do anything specific, just sitting there or exploring those environments is enough. Focus on what is around you, not within you and eventually, you will be surprised how similar the outside is to the inside. I don't know enough about your current situation to give good advice, but ever since I started aligning myself with the outside (natural, not artificial) world and seeing how my mental state is a reflection of it, I became a person who is much more at peace with how things are, and many problems that I had like yours, simply vanished because they became non-issues that didn't matter. Just my 2 cents; I'm not trying to tell you how to live your life.

>>20982434
I glimpse my future in you. Tell me everything, so that I may know how to escape this fate

>>20982057
Just push through it. To be honest, I don't think that hangovers really get that much 'worse' it's just that as you get older your tolerance for them gets lower. In other words, you were more willing to push through a bad hangover at 18 because it was still new to you. In my mid-20s my hangovers aren't more painful than they used to be, but they are more annoying in the sense that I have less patience for them.

>>20982484
You're more likely to get dehydration when you're older. Some people's hangovers get better when they get older because they realized this and hydrate more often even when not drinking. It's why a lot of people recommend a large glass of water before bed as a hangover cure.

>>20982245
same thing happens to me when i think of "failed possessions" from white noise. i break out in a big smile and then people think something funny happened and i have to anti-socially say "oh no it's nothing hehe"

>>20982434
I feel like I've written this exact post in one of these threads before.

do you ever wake up in the morning and just hate yourself and your family? my whole life is a waste of time. my family didn't help, but my failings are my own, like they say at the beginning of academic manuscripts. i'll feel better once i get to work and start slacking off, but right now i just think how my life didn't have to be so generic.

>>20981100
>the 1% of the population that understands where the food comes from is dead

>>20982080
Maybe it was too personal for him.
I always thought this was a very beautiful thing to say:
>When you wake up in the morning, babe
>Look inside your mirror
>You know I won't be next to you
>You know I won't be near
>I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
>As someone who has had you on his mind.

My coworker is going on a trip for two weeks and I'm working 10:00 - 18:00 at the library. Brought up digitalisation to my boss because physical bookkeeping is so tedious. She agreed and I'm finally making the library a bit easier to run. It's not only books we take care of, but publishing graduate theses etc. Bored right now because there's not much people around. College hasn't started yet.

It really does blow my mind sometimes at how much society and people in general hate unsuccessful men.

I don't really want to parrot any of the "incel" or "god I hate women so much its unreal" stuff but it kinda blows my mind how large the gender double standard in this regard. Like ugly, short, weak men are hated so extensively- society even wants to bend over backwards and excuse the actions of criminals by saying society has failed them, psychopaths always have bad upbringings and poor genetics though they aren't forgiven, at least an attempt is done to empathize with them. But literally everyone shits on the "incel" stereotype and the only pity or understanding they get is from other incels.

They say I shot a man named Gray, and took his wife to Italy. She inherited a million bucks, and when she died it came to me. I can't help it if I'm lucky.

Procrastinating again lads. Won't work, won't read, won't study.

>>20982728
always loved the lyrics but hated the execution, me

That really is the question. Can I squeeze in one more round of candy before the diabetes sets in? I have to be right on the edge of it.

>>20982740
will you write?

>>20982744
I like the acoustic one.

>>20982745
I was honestly quite pleased with the human body when I began to actually legit smell different when I started to become diabetic/prediabetic from being a fat faggot, and when I started going to the gym more the smell went away. It gets harder and harder to keep up the older you get but your body has ways of telling you that you're being a retard and need to change.

>>20982745
Why would you want that?

Stop using singular 'they'. All of my friends started using it. I can't take this fucking shit anymore.

A nickel ain’t worth a dime any more.

Why are there no longer any geniuses, and why were there so many circa 100 years ago?

>>20982874
sometimes it's useful if you're talking about a singular individual whose gender is unknown, but aside from that yeah it's pretty weird

>>20982881
mass access to information and interconnectivity have allowed people to decide for themselves who is genius and who isn't, and as they often decide poorly, true genius has been sidelined
also they just don't use twitter or post on the 'chan

>>20982911
>if you're talking about a singular individual whose gender is unknown
No it's not. In that case you either make an educated guess (informal), or go with a slash (formal). Singular 'they' is incorrect.

>>20982925
go with a slash? what does that mean

>>20982929
oh nevermind i figured it out

>>20982929
"He/she". It's used in legal documents. Or it was, because now it's just singular fucking shit-eating 'they' everywhere.

>>20982929
they mean the stroke, oblique, or forward slash, ie. "they/them"

>>20982938
imagine saying something like "well, maybe my neighbor, whoever they end up being, will also be a fan of neon-blue fences..."
it feels natural in that instance. maybe it is technically incorrect, but i don't see any good reason for becoming enraged about it. it's just more convenient

>>20982944

meant for >>20982932

>>20982944
>it feels natural in that instance
Does it? Not to me. It sounds wrong. It confuses me, you're starting off talking in singular and then a plural pronoun suddenly shows up. I have to do a double-take to figure out how many neighbours you're expecting. You have become conditioned. It is unironically over.
The correct way is "Maybe my neighbour, whoever he or she ends up being, will not be as grammatically repugnant as the last one."

>>20982951

>>20982944
>it's just more convenient
How is it more convenient when you're substituting an assumption with an ambiguity for the sake of ambiguity? The purpose of language is to deliver information, not to obscure it. The other two languages that I speak don't even have any gender neutrality at all, and they work just fine. The masculine pronouns double as neutral. You should try that.

Especially because English has that feature also, behold the picrelated.
>>20982954
Yes, yes, I'm aware there are proponents of this mistake. That's whom my posts are aimed at. Don't appeal to authority me, you slut.

>>20982925
singular they for unknown gender has been common English for hundreds of years

>>20982954
1 is correct, 2 isn't.
This also doesn't mention how so many people lately have been spotted using "they" for animals, which just doesn't make any fucking sense. Animals of unknown sex use "it".
It appears that singular 'they' is not just an error, it's more of a parasitic fungus which overtakes your brain and spreads from person to person.
>>20982965
Yeah...

>>20982966
i can appreciate the firmness of your conviction. i wish i cared this much about things

>>20982974
Why live, if not to care for things?

>>20982976
>Why live?
i don't know. it's really a shameful state of affairs

>>20982966
>>20982960
Hypocrisy. There is a nuanced difference in using "they" when referring to a general term that could represent both a male or female (servant, slave, friend), and in using "they" when a gender has been provided or is intrinsic to the concept (girlfriend, boyfriend, seamstress, smith). The inability to properly identify and differentiate these two uses, only one of which can be deemed correct, is exactly the problem you are raving against.

>>20982979
>is exactly the problem you are raving against
No, it isn't the problem I'm raving against. The problem I'm raving against is using singular 'they' in any context, because it's a plural pronoun that has no business referring to a single entity. And there's no hypocrisy.

Both of these are incorrect. Yes, sure, "friend" is a word that doesn't imply a gender, but if you're talking about a specific person "I have a friend and they stream Fortnite for a living" - that person has a sex. There is no good reason to make it ambiguous, as if you're talking about a genderless entity. People have sexes. There's no genderless friend.
You can argue that using 'they' for 'girlfriend' is even more incorrect than using it for 'friend', but that doesn't help your case all that much. Both need to be gone.

>>20981518
https://wonderfulmind.net/
what is this website, how does it have so many articles about everything and seems to be programmatically generated, except it's fairly coherent and cohesive

there's no explanation for what it is

>>20982979
>a general term that could represent both a male or female
"He" works just fine. If you don't know sex, say "he". If it's a hypothetical person who may be one or the other, use 'he/she'. If you know some things, but don't know for sure, assume 'he' or assume 'she'. If it's an animal whose sexual characteristics are unknown, use 'it'.

>>20982994
>it's a plural pronoun that has no business referring to a single entity.
It indicates the plurality of possible singulars

>>20983001
If you're telling me about a single specific friend that you have, don't use 'they'. There is no plurality there, except maybe the plural amount of worms in your brain. There's no "possible options". That dilemma has been resolved 20 years ago when that bitch was conceived in her godless mother's womb.

3dpd do nothing for me anymore and i'am not going back.

>>20982994
Your example highlights exactly the inability I mean. Why would anyone ever use "they" when referring to an individual whose sex they know, instead of immediately establishing their gender in the context of the conversation? That is blatantly incorrect.

>>20983000
I agree. "He" was used as a general pronoun for a person whose gender is unknown for hundreds of years. However, the usage of "they" dates back to the 14th century, and was used widely and written about in academic works since the 90s.

Nice trips, by the way.

>>20981518
New academic year at uni, i wanna fuck some first year arthoe pussy so bad is unreal

>>20983008
>Why would anyone ever use "they" when referring to an individual
Stop right there, this is enough.
>>20983016
Unfortunately, you are correct. Many people use singular 'they'. They need to stop.

>Many people use singular 'they'.
that's what makes it correct :^)

>>20983034
Based descriptivist.

Whenever I meet someone individually they're mostly okay. Whenever 1 becomes 2 and 2 becomes 3 and then 3 becomes a group and group becomes groups and groups become this wretched thing called Public.

Fuck I hate when everybody more than 1, fuck you subhumans fucking pieces of dogshite, Public is another word for subhumans. People in groups are subhumans, The Man is an abyss and Men are external, just the difference of A and E makes them into pigs, fat fucking pigs bitten by rabid dogs.

>>20983032
>Many people use singular 'they'
Stop right there, this is enough.

Philosophy for the most is utter dogshite, every man is whatever he says is the Truth. Fuck every single shite eating dead faggot piece of shite who I am suppose to worship. He said this, he said that. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU. Every man whatever he says is a blatant lie.

It is interesting that no one (ok maybe a daoist) would choose weakness over strength, and yet this is dualistic thinking. Wanting to be strong will make you sick. It's interesting because one of the two so obviously seems better than the other.

>>20982635
I wish I worked in a library.

>>20983101
I don't want to flex or anything, but it's actually really comfy. There's not a lot of people since it's a small library and most of the books are topics in economics, which is a field I have 0 interest in. A bonus is that I got to learn quite a lot about the concepts in economics, accounting, finance and business because most of the students that come here aren't looking for a specific book but rather tell me their topic of interest or what they're writing about and I'll find them the books that have the most written about the thing they want to write about. Most of the time I'm just chilling reading my own shit, doing sudoku, browsing /lit/.

>>20982997
maybe the next horizon for human exploration will be navigating all the bullshit that various AIs vomit out

>>20983108
Sounds rad, I’m jealous. Construction only affords you so much time to read and I hope one day I can get out of it.

>>20983118
what kind of construction work do you do anon?

The bird is a bard
Best of the best, the elite
Listen ladies I go hard
An aficionado of bird feet

>>20983108
Well how much does it pay

>>20983123
Electrician. It’s tough but it pays well. Wish it was quieter, though.

>>20983132
I'm a student, it's minimal wage. If I told you, it probably wouldn't mean anything to you since I live in another country. It's €3.89/h.

>>20983139
how'd you get into it? Trades pay extremely well nowadays, it's kinda ironic. I should take one up, lord knows the house needs work, but I'm not sure how well I can do without actually going to a trade school

Gloves

If only I could have touched your face
Or felt the dust of my life
With a naked finger
A single time

>>20983173
I like big butts and I cannot lie.

>>20983139
What kind? Do you work in houses, get sent off to building contracts?

>>20983164
Left uni once Trump got into office because every class/professor became fervently politicized. Just finished trade school this year, actually. Yeah, I get you. Everything’s expensive nowadays, too.

>>20983192
Commercial and industrial, so mostly warehouses, plants, office buildings, etc.

>>20983214
Maybe this is because I've never had to do actual work in them, but I've always found the vibe of industrial buildings and plants pretty nice. It feels so sterile, yet so dirty at the same time. Sort of liminal. I'm sure you get sick of these places after spending so much time in them.

>>20983186
Good taste

i feel empathy too strongly. it gets in the way of my life sometimes. once, at a party, a young man had burn marks all over his arms; i was curious so i asked him about them. he told me that he would put cigarettes out on his arms when he was feeling angry as a way of calming down. disturbed (and very drunk), i cautiously probed for more information. his home life was very rough, although i won't detail it here. i could detect a lot of suffering bubbling up beneath his social mask, gasping at the seams here and there. i ended up leaving the gathering because this frankly brought me to tears—i wasn't sobbing or anything, but a tear or two did escape.

this trait of mine seems better suited to a woman. i don't want to be arguing with someone and suddenly feel compassion for them, or become remorseful during a conflict out of respect for the opponent. a useless and inconvenient personality trait, not to mention gay

>>20983290
Own it. Why would you need to be confrontational. You can get what you want and remain firm and respected by others, even if you are an extremely passionate person.

>>20983290
>this trait of mine seems better suited to a woman.
Same

I hate this womanly fag mentality of mine.

>>20983301
the main difficulty of it is that i can't feel comfortable hating anyone. my father, for instance, was a very cruel and depraved man, but i still cannot bring myself to hate him. i remember reading something from notes from underground that captures the issue well. it was something like "one cannot rightly blame anything; only the laws of nature can be blamed. all that can be done is to put one's hand through the drywall."
it's just an inconvenient thing, really. feels like it has no upsides. why feel pain watching an animal get eaten, when you're perfectly safe from danger yourself? i still don't know what the function of pity is supposed to be; it seems like it's just an unnecessary burden

>>20983337
I'm getting off from work now, but I want to respond later to this. I have a similar situation with my father, and although I have hated him, I've realised that it's not necessary to hate anyone. I want to elaborate further, later.

>>20983343
i'll make sure to check back in on the thread

>>20983250
No it definitely can be like that, especially with mandatory ear plugs so everything is dampened or completely silenced.

My best friend these days is a neighborhood cat. He lights up when he sees me and looks disappointed when I leave.
He knows things I don't and calls me naive for not understanding the way of the world.
His wisdom is ancient, beyond time while I can only tell him pointless things some Greek guy told me.
He is around 4 kilograms.

>>20983173
This one's good.

>>20983290
This is a fine and human trait. Stop beating yourself up. Being at odds with it is what makes you a wimp. You shouldn’t feel comfortable with hating. Try to ignore people like your father. Hopefully unaffected by their depravity. Wasting time on hating them is a victory for them.

>>20983464
The inter-cat politics in my village are a thing to behold. The white-and-yellow one is an all-round cool guy to everyone, mostly because nobody fucks with him. Must be cause of his buddy the fox.

Scratched me cornea lads

>>20981518
As a son of a single mother, I have nothing I can hold onto. I'm permanently damaged by the absence of my father, unable to defend myself or show an ounce of fight when looking at someone in the eyes. This is really who I am at this point in time. I will never have the true trust of a woman because I'm simply too weak and they instantly know I am totally unable to defend them. Even the women who loved me resented me for this.

There is nothing masculine inside of me. I'm mentally and physically weak. This is the truth of the world. The only thing I have is a bit of culture about everything but that won't save my ass when someone will threaten to punch the shit out of me in a supermarket.

>>20983644
do you lift?

>>20983644
i had a father yet fit your description exactly

A bitter pill to swallow realizing the routes closed off to you if you simply did not excel right off the bat.

>>20983624
that sucks. vision is for idiots anyway

>>20983624
what are the ramifications anon?

>>20983649
I don't lift. Give me a huge body and I still won't be able to fight anyone when it really matters. I see it in the street when I see ripped incels walking around. I instantly feel the "pretty sure I can fight him and win" thought and it's the same for everyone. Still I won't fight anyone because I'm mentally weak, doing push-ups won't change that.

>>20983661
lifting changes your head-space in ways you wouldn't expect. you should try it

>>20983658
No reading for me for a few days, I suppose.
That and it looks like I'm crying hard out of one eye only. Not very fashionable.

>>20983678
sounds poetic and romantic, like those tear drop tattoos.
go talk to some females and act very mysterious and intense

>>20983678
Very fashionable. Procure an eyepatch immediately and stare wistfully into the distance in public spaces.

>>20983683

make sure to insist that it isn't pink eye but rather a mysterious poetic malaise

>>20983611
Have you weighed them? The objective world is what matters, not petty politics. I bet they're around 4-5 kilograms.

>>20983700
based Thucydides enjoyer

>>20983700
Judging by the bulging muscles, your 5 kilo guess may fall short

>>20983706
I actually love cat politics. My friend is also the white and yellow type. All the cats are my buddies but this one is especially friendly, I knew him since he was tiny which helps but he's also just generally friendly.

>>20981541
I love this, great work anon

>>20983644
Have some agency faggot

>>20983841
my cat is a stray picked up half the world away and I'm proud that she keeps a firm grip on our land despite being half everyone else's size

Im going to say a prayer before going to sleep and first thing in the morning from now on.

>>20984165
what prayer anon?

>>20981647
You said many things that overlap with what I feel right now. Personally, I ran into a girl I fell in love with in summer, but really had no way to see again completely at random. She seemed genuinely happy to see me. But despite spending a night wandering the city, I couldn't gather the courage to message her and I really didn't know what to put in the message - I didn't want to confess, but I didn't want to write something stupid like hey either.

Wanted to put my cucked up feelings out somewhere, been brooding over the tightening of the chest for a few days now.

>>20984168
Just a simple catholic one.

Barred from the bar
They said my bars went too far
Woke up jarred by a door ajar
Sparring in a pit of tar

>>20983066
Based. This is my feeling as well. Ever notice how even in a conversation with two other people how you can feel lines being drawn--verbally positioning yourself closer or farther from one or another person.
I don't like it. I wish people could just get along.

>>20982944
I'm with you anon. Sounds fine to me. Truth is these people wouldnt be enraged by it 10 years ago. They just don't like it because of its new association with tranny shit.

Reading my old notebooks from years ago back when I was optimistic . Looking back at the old you can be a head trip.
>I won't be the plaything of fate, a weightless mote at the mercy of the weather. To get anywhere requires dedication, grit, and sacrifice. The life for me is out there, in potentia, waiting for the right elements to be put in place and crystalize.
How wrong I was! Lol

HOW DO I GET RID OF A MEALMOTH INFESTATION
I THREW EVERYTHING OUT AND THEY STILL POP UP

I don't think I've ever been clinically depressed but I have reached that point.

>>20984325
put everything into airtight containers
buy moth traps to catch adults
cry yourself to sleep at night

that's basically what worked for me. good luck anon this shit sucks

>Most people IRL think I'm weird
>People online don't claim that I'm a normie
I don't understand it why can't I just be a mild manner nerd? Why do I have to pick one or the other?

>>20984422
>don't claim
*claim

>dance
Feel nothing
>Work out
Feel nothing
>Look at or make art
Feel nothing
>Read book or watch movie
Feel nothing
How do i start feeling? My gf also says im emotionless.

>>20984512
shrooms will make you feel something

>>20984512
hurt yourself today

>>20984519
Then i feel some pain but no emotion

>>20984523
https://youtu.be/bExFkJezqxE

>>20984325
bro speaking of infestations what's up with all these fucking bugs in the tristate they're all over the sidewalk after it rains you'd think they're berries fell of a tree but they're bugs that leave red shit when they get squished what the hell are these things

>>20984512
How do you feel about not feeling

The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

My feet hurt. I think I’ve been wearing the wrong size shoes my entire life.

I am once again pooping on the clock.

In Vitro

"You were born shattered, good luck."
The elevator made no noise as it moved.
"Shattered?"
The knife twisted as he turned it.
"Saturn in the Twelfth, Chiron on the cusp of the First, within a degree of your Sun, also in the Twelfth. I don't even need to look at the rest of the chart. You're shattered, from birth."
She screamed in pain.
"What's it like? Well, you wouldn't know, without knowing how things could be different. I don't think you have emotions. Good on you for getting along with people anyways. Those differences between yourself and the rest of the world must be stark."
'I love you. I feel like I'm going insane. I love you I love you I love you I love you.'
"Go on."
'Keep saying it, get it all of your chest.'
"No emotions. No opinions. No beliefs. Something like the man without qualities. Disquiet. Protagoras. Heine. Stoker. Good ol' Bartleby."
He opened the door. I stopped. He said something about walking away if I wanted. I didn't listen. He smiled. I stepped inside.
"I see. So, what do you suggest?"
The floor was covered in notes and drawings; self-portraits, sketches, diary entries.
"There's nothing to suggest. You're on the other side. Maybe if you had stepped over of your own accord at some point there might be a way for you to find back, but you were born on that side. There's no point in giving you advice, nothing can harm you. Nothing can comfort you."
She threw her arms around him and shivered in excitement, remembering the previous night.
"Fair enough."
He relished in the frailty of her bones.
"You did pay me. If you have any questions... or just things you want to talk about, go ahead."
She shut her eyes when she died, ruining the point of it all.
"Yeah. A thought experiment, if you want to call it that. Let's say you could press a button that ends the whole universe, absolutely everything. That includes whatever notion of the afterlife and god you might have. You press the button and everything goes dark, for eternity. No salvation, no loopholes; that'd ruin the point of the thought experiment. A reset without the restart part. Would you press that button?"
'No.'
"No. You would?"
'Would that please you?'
"Yes."
'If I'm cursed, what are you?'
"That's the Saturn inside you talking."
'Your curse <3'
"Better than being empty I suppose."

Will this trash stop bothering me if I get it out of my system like this? I just want to write about little girls.

Man, sometimes I just fall into this anxiety and it blocks me from concentrating and from enjoying life for a couple of days or weeks.

It was my mum's birthday yesterday. Last night I dreamed I was walking up this long, upward sloping road and coming down the opposite direction was my mother, holding me as an infant. The infant version of me must have been no more than a year old, he was smiling this joyous, happy smile; as was my mother. There were friends and acquaintances of mine around and they were all blown away by how beautiful my mother was, holding me in her arms. I could only agree with the onlookers. It was very beautiful.

I am going to date an older woman in return for her paying my bills.

Love is a very strange thing. There was this girl I knew who I met through friends. She was absolutely perfect on paper: beautiful, erotic, same interests, same worldview. What's more is that she was obsessed with me. We tried things out for a little while, but it ended in her hating me because she could always tell the infatuation was not reciprocated and I always ended up hurting her feelings. So we haven't seen each other in a long time.

Of the girls I've dated, I tend to look on all of them with a certain fondness or quiet regret. But this girl I still feel absolutely nothing for. I do not miss her, I do not even think about her - except for just now, because I saw her post something on instagram. But it does just strike me as strange. If you were to look at my life from the outside, it would seem obvious that I would end up with this girl and yet I never felt anything the slightest for her. I guess there is some truth in 'opposites attract'. Maybe she was too well suited for me, too similar, and that is what turned me off.

>>20984852
Kek you're a prostitute

Reading modern literature gave me diabetes.

>>20981580
>castro constantly repeats stuff he's already said and goes off on weird tangents
Yeah, that's called 700+ interviews. Let me see how you would have responded 700+ times asked 3 same fucking questions having you only career being a puppet.

>>20981694
epic trolling brother, upboated

>>20981518
Just finished Aristotle's Nickelodeon Ethics. Am I going to make it /lit/?

>>20984852
I keep thinking of doing this.

think im going to do mushrooms rn

>>20985192
Is doing drugs all the time a fulfilling lifestyle?

Does /wwoym/ like to read books?

>>20981518
>wwoym
I am vehemently transphobic and this thread I stumbled accross made me sympathize with a tranny >>>/lgbt/27606314
I cant get it out of my head, its really bugging me

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_X1l9mcdE
is avalon emerson cis? she's so cute

Maybe I am getting too old for this site. I just can't stand most people on this site these days and the way they talk. The whole style of communication that has taken over this site is extremely annoying and tiresome.
For example I hate this generic meme format of posts where for a subject X they say something like
>oh no no no X bros... I don't feel so good
>X sisters... not like this
>X chuds... we lost
It's not even funny. It never was. Maybe the site is mostly stupid zoomers now. I don't know but I am just sick of these awful posts.
That was just one example. There's a lot more.
This site has dropped in quality severely over the years. This place is poison to the mind and spirit.
I think a big part is a purposeful demoralization agenda and brainwashing. But I think also a big part is regular anons just doing this nonsense for free because they are so mentally and spiritually dead.

>>20985372
Bros, we've been called out...

yo the grocery store charged me $2.79 for a rainbow sherbet flavored reign energy drink, wtf! those are by far the best energy drinks, but like last time i bought it was $2. man, i feel ripped off.

>>20985372
Brosisters.. not like this.

>>20985372
how will we recover from this one bros...

>>20985372
Posts like that are pretty much only ever used in the OP subject, it's just a funny way to get a proper conversation going

>>20985252
no i wish my life was as fulfilling as yours

>>20985372
>I hate this generic meme format of posts

Do you know what website you're on? This is all it has ever been.

>>20985372
Anon, remember that time you were a teen and spoke nadsat.

>>20981980
I doubt the depression male one very highly

>>20985438
a winrar is you fission mailed epic win epic fail over 9000 internets shoop da woop inb4 orly? fake and gay bawwww peanut butter roodypoo waha! roflcopter goes soisoisoisoi

>>20985538
Depression male and female is just normies

>>20981518
class was pretty awkward until I remembered my prof would literally give away all of his possessions to taste my piss

>>20985558
Are you a cute girl

>>20985581

more on stoicism later

One time my ex gf accidentally pissed herself and left the underwear at my place. I'm almost ashamed to tell you guys what I did.

In the land before cyber
When consequences were still the same
Troll on a bridge over Tiber
Claimed to have no name

Legions on the riverbank
Powerlevel overloaded
Redpill overdose
Faith corroded

Every time I come back here, I’m appalled at what the board has become. What happened to the older anons? Is it just a changing of the guard and the younger anons haven’t read as much, or don’t read at all? I don’t think many read here. /lit/ was better when it was gatekept. Too many culture warriors and blatantly off topic threads now

>>20981518
>take some time to make a detailed effortpost on a thread
>This thread has been pruned or deleted
I hate this board

>>20981694
Was this some kind of Van gogh AI at work here?

>Right wing philosophers
Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, numbers, Platonic forms, essentialism, universals, the soul, the nous, the nature of reality, God
>Left wing "philosophers"
We need to talk about gender identity and BIPOC representation in late stage capitalism - here's why

>>20985714
>Is it just a changing of the guard and the younger anons haven’t read as much, or don’t read at all?
Yes. Most of the best people have left. It's rare to find a collection of people like 4chan used to have, and nothing lasts forever. The only thing out of sorts is your surprise that things have changed.

>>20985768
/lit/ was very steady for a decade plus, so yeah, I’m kinda surprised how quickly it went downhill. The torch wasn’t so much passed on, as it was dropped. Guess the newer crowd of anons scared away a lot of the good posters

weed smoking time ahahah
https://youtu.be/V2z1o1W62n8

>>20981518
I had a religious experience today
>depressive episode centred around being isolated
>havent had friends in years
>after mulling it over decide to reach out to guy i just met the other day to go out for coffee
>he ends up being a fruit with no hobbies so it gets a little quiet and awkward
>already regretting decision
>girl shows up out of probably heaven, she recognized him and said hi then introduced herself to me
>she joins us and we start talking
>she extremely well read and we both have the same favorite author
>end up with her number

I dont believe in coincidences. Not a larp I feel like im dreaming

>>20981918
Liberal

>>20985778
"There are no bad students, only bad teachers." I hope you decide to stick around.

>>20985857
I think the newer wave of /lit/ mostly cares about agendas and slants. Nothing to do with “teachers and students”.

>>20985816
That's called "socializing" and often ends with "meeting other people".

>>20985821
They're big supporters of fascists. I dunno if you voted Biden or support Ukraine, but yeah. I called it right.

Is it ever a good idea to get together platonically with a former lover ans confess all the guilt you have for your failed relationship? Maybe it's cathartic or something? And then end with a "I'm not ready for anything right now but if you would ever want to get together in the future, just let me know"? I've only just started to realize how much my failed relationship and the guilt that came with it has shaped my life for these past few years. I feel like if I did it it'd be cringe as hell, but extremely helpful.

>>20985937
And I'm talking just a taking a big fat emotional shit all over her chest and hitting her with a peace out. A real trauma dump.

>>20985891
True enough, I guess. Isn't everyone these days? What's the cure?

>>20985937
fag

>>20985937
I have no clue.
I had a similar thought once, I wonder if I dredged those old feelings up and spoke to her the way I once did if she could help herself. If she was single, probably not.

>>20985989
I dont really care about getting together in the present day. I just cant sleep at night because i feel so incredibly guilty. I dont know why, but I just do.

>>20985968
Part of me says this is the end of the internet as I knew it. It will never go back. The other part says that once the youngins grow up they’ll mellow out as everyone does. The easiest immediate solution would be for jannies and mods to do their job. I would start a crowdfund to clean this place up. If that happened, I feel we would see a massive persecution complex and “muh free speech!!” sect fight back. Niggas don’t know how to follow rules and post on appropriate boards

TLDR, we are fucked

>>20985778
The internet - but particularly 4Chan - has been bad since 2016. Aside from the general effects of rose coloured glasses when looking at the past, this is obviously true. But what can be done? Que sera, sera.

Isn't it weird what's happened in the past six years? It's not like there hasn't been controversial politicians before. Surely George Bush was more controversial than Trump, on a policy basis at least. It's not like people never talked about it on the internet, either. One of my earliest internet memories is that game 'Beat Up George Bush'. But the way people talk about it seems different now; its far more annoying. Is it because it seems inescapable? In the past, politics got discussed but it was generally accepted to be boring. OK, we all hate George Bush / we all hate Obama, but keep it separate please. We're here to talk books. Now it is part of every god damn conversation on the internet. How did that happen? It is obvious that /pol/ bullshit began infiltrating the rest of the boards around 2016. The question is *why* did it start happening? Why was /pol/ an effective containment board prior to 2016 but no longer? Obviously Trump and specifically the fact that he was appealing to young, 'online' people in a way that previous politicians weren't. It was never cool to like Bush.

>>20986009
I’m the anon above you but besides getting outside help because /lit/ can’t police itself anymore, the best I can think of is a collective effort by anons who truly care about literature and don’t post with motives.
>make threads about current reads, recent reads or favorites
>bump on topic literature threads
>ignore shitposts and bait
>report threads

/lit/ needs to regain a semblance of a board culture related to literature to draw in readers or old anons who left

>>20986034
>draw in readers or old anons who left

Why would older anons want to return? They're free.

>>20986028
As far as 4chan goes, the Reddit migration after the trump sub closed can’t be ignored. In general though, I think a lot of people are restless. Things aren’t good and people want to point fingers. There is a lot more angst than in the 2000’s and people want a scapegoat. The internet is very mainstream now (duh) and is tied into all other forms of media. It is the perfect battleground for this culture war between all the restless people. Everyone feels like they can make a difference and they perceive that they have more skin in the game, so they take it more seriously. Too many people have political direction brain at this point

>>20986046
True. I forget there are lots of cross posters who let 4chan take over their lives. Personally I only come here because it used to be the best place to discuss one of my favorite hobbies. I never really fell victim to this site.

>>20981869
I used to get heart palpitations after binge drinking which forced me to slow way down in my drinking habits, but over the last week it started happening for like several days straight seemingly unprovoked with a very notable shortness of breath. then it stopped and I was able to go to work, then it started again in the evening after work, then it stopped this morning and I went to work again today and it has been fine since. I guess it should also be noted that "feeling fine" for me is still feeling relatively sickly, which has effectively destroyed my social life because im afraid to drink and afraid something may happen

The novels set in my town are about how soulless it is.

I don't know what to do lads
I did 10 months of unpaid internships at a certain company just so they would hire me, but then they didn't back in 2020 because "covid", despite them hiring other interns, they most likely had connections.
and now two years later they're offering me another unpaid internship of 3 months before they hire me, the thing is while I do need a job I am honestly too proud to go back after 2 years and bring coffee/do paperwork for the people who were interns with me back then but are now employees, keep in mind that they only had a bachelor degree while I held a masters.

what would you guys do in such a predicament?
I want to refuse but I'm afraid of regretting it down the line, do I suffer the 3 months of humiliation for "maybe" getting a position there, or do I just forget about them.
btw unpaid internships are the norm in my shithole country

>>20986454
Is there a reason why you can't use your unpaid internship experience to apply for a job at a different company in the same industry?

>>20986473
I try, but it's quite hard to find a job despite my internships & degrees, most recruiters don't take internships as "professional experience" for some reason

Look at this.
Tell me this is not a mental illness.
Ok that might be too dramatic, but tell me this isn't just a shitty habit that people don't think about.

Starts off with singular 'they', then realizes that nobody will ever think that "just work and video games" gives away that it's a man anyway. Funny. This is how funny you look when you use this shitty pronoun.

I don't think I have achieved anything this year

>>20986479
Yeah I ran into the same problem. I lost my internship role mid-2020 due to covid staff cuts and I wasn't able to get another job until mid-2022. It's frustrating when everything you see in the news is about how desperate employers are for workers. Yeah, they're desperate for software engineers at one end and desperate for part time baristas at the other - neither are helpful to my situation.

You and I sound similar actually. Funnily enough, I also turned down a different unpaid internship out of pride. I sometimes regret it, because I realise that turning it down probably set me back a bit careerwise. But I don't let it bother me too much because you never know what might have happened had I taken it, I could well have ended up in the same position I ended up in anyway or worse.

Anyway, I don't know what your industry is but I ended up (eventually) getting a job in the public sector. It's not exactly what I want to be doing but it pays well for the work and it offers good professional development and pathways into other work. Also, I received a reply from every public service job I applied to, compared to private sector which I received maybe 1 response for every 50 applications if I was lucky. If you really don't want to take the internship (which I would understand) then I think you should put all your effort into getting A job - even if it's not directly in your field - because at least then you have a foot in the door somewhere and you might find it easier to transfer later. As they say, it's easier to get a job once you have a job. Kinda like women in that way.

Gf missed period for 3 days now...
Im scared bros. But pregnancy seems impossible at the same time.

>>20986957
Hello father
Hello mother

>>20986957
You are too early to worry. Wait at least a week also maybe she got covid. Some women skip period with covid

>https://nypost.com/2022/09/13/one-injured-from-possible-package-explosion-on-northeasterns-campus/
>Holmes Hall, which is home to the university’s creative writing program, was evacuated and the school community was told to avoid the area shortly before 8 p.m.
>Sources told CBS Boston the package was in a Pelican case and contained a message that ranted against virtual reality and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
ted poster?

>>20986957
>>20986977
not just covid, there's a lot of women having late periods after getting vaccinated too, so that might be part of it

>>20986957
As other anon said, three days too early to worry. Reminds me of this time I nutted in my girlfriend off birth control and a few days later we broke up and she blocked me on everything. Scariest month of my life wondering if I was going to get that call.

>>20986494
Yes it looks almost jarring when it's obviously being used to withhold information (I feel similarly about the use of 'partner' to refer to their significant other), but it has its place, especially in modern PC contexts that we have to pay deference to or face financial consequences.

>>20986957
For your sake I hope she is a "pro-choice" liberal.

>>20986494
i'm actually kind of jelly of people who are able to just work and play video games. i always have this nagging feeling like that i should be doing something more productive or creative. in reality i'm neither productive nor creative, so might as well enjoy some video games right? so annoying.

>>20986494
Reminds me when people use 'they' to obfuscate the gender of whoever (THEY) were hanging with so as not to arouse suspicion in (THEIR) significant other.

>Who were you with?
>Just a friend
>How do you know them?
>I know them from school.

>>20987042
>this nagging feeling like that i should be doing something more productive or creative
>in reality i'm neither productive nor creative

Hence the feeling

>>20987139
so why not just be my authentic uncreative unproductive self and drop the farce? is this like those dudes who feel nagged by god every time they wack it? those dudes seem so lame, but maybe i'm not better being nagged by some creative ideal while i try to enjoy some gaming.

>>20986977
Thats scary stuff.
Last time we fugged i used a condom and it was 1-2 days before her period. Then she had her period. But now were in waiting for the next one thats too late. I hate this shit.

i gotta take a mad shit from this coffee

>>20987361
update: holy smokes that shit was wild

I wish I could do my career over.

>>20987494
tell me about it anon

I'm a reasonably normal guy but I have dreams that make me feel like a schizophrenic when I wake up. They seem to go on for years, I see all sorts of weird shit in the them. They sometimes sort of start before I go to sleep, like I had this vivid image of a zeppelin made out of the pieces of golden stone statues of angels come into my head before bed the other night. Is this cool or concerning

how did melville get so good at writing

>>20987511
cool af try to interpret them and see if it gets you anywhere

>>20987505
There's not much to tell really. I am just not happy with what I chose and I think I spent too long on it. In retrospect, there were obviously better choices.

>>20981518
I just had a dream where someone said "with all the arrogance of someone who doesn't know the story isn't over", and I think that's a pretty baller quote

>>20987817
that does kinda slap. reminds me of a dream i had a few years ago where i conversed with this mysterious alien scholar-woman who was like 8ft tall. she told me that "intelligence is the process by which chaos is converted to order." for some reason i remembered it verbatim. during the dream i was in awe (i assumed she was a real alien telling me divine truths), but after waking up and reflecting on it, i don't agree with her definition. if i could talk to her again i'd tell her she's cringe

Headcanon: boss baby is Gigachad as an infant

Should I buy a gram of cocaine right now?
First response might tip the scale, I'm completely 50/50.
On the one hand, it is fun.
On the other, it is a huge waste of money.

>>20987886
no

>>20987886
no.
chances are you have made up your mind already, though. usually when i'm in that kind of spot (where i think i am 50/50 about something) i already have an answer subconsciously

>>20987891
>>20987895
I told myself as I wrote the post that I would do the opposite of what /lit/ recommended, lmao
nah, jk, I'm gonna go for a walk instead, it's a fucking wednesday

>>20987886
What are the chances of each gram leading to a win that exceeds the investment? What's the expected value per gram? Is it higher than the price per gram? Then go for it.

>>20987864
I don't usually have beings of higher intelligence talking to me, but my subconscious is a little bitch sometimes. One time I was in the passenger seat of a cabrio, going down some california, ocean side highway and the driver turned to me and drawled, "You know, the meaning of life is-" and then I woke up.

>>20987886
flip a coin. when it's in the air, you'll know what side you hope it lands on

>>20987909
kek, you got trolled by the primordial archetypes

>>20987915
yeah, and I'm still bitter about it, lol

>>20987523
he was gay and read a lot of shakespeare

>>20981518
So I see threads can no longer last a night before they drop from the catalog

>>20981888
oh fuck them digits. its fucking goin down.

>>20982010
you can. just dont expect anyone to ever look at it.

Just finished reading The Diary of a Nobody.
It was a nice little read, not something to leave one roaring in laughter, but an occasional chuckle is a sure thing.

I went to a college small group and it had a white woman Methodist pastor leading. I've always had a bit of a bias against women preachers, but this woman basically was the biggest case of confirmation bias I've ever seen in my life. She refused to use "masculine pronouns" for God, insisted the ancient hebrew was gender neutral in reference to God, and kind of ignored it when anyone pointed out that Jesus is male and refers to Him as Father and in the masculine. Like sure, God conceptually has no gender because He is a spirit, but there's no reason to change tradition because she hates the "patriarchy" and the traditional maleness of religious orders.

She didn't say this aloud but because I was sitting next to her, I saw the sheet she was reading from and it mentioned that no one will go to hell because hell is incompatible with a loving God. Like what in the fuck?

Someone make a new thread

>>20988107
>He is a spirit
No, he's not. There's a reason one of the Godhead persons is called "The Spirit of God" It's not the Spirit of Spirit.
> it mentioned that no one will go to hell because hell is incompatible with a loving God.
Apocatastasis, an origenian heresy. Protestants are heretical.

>>20988231
>There's a reason one of the Godhead persons is called "The Spirit of God" It's not the Spirit of Spirit.
Makes sense. So God the Father is simply the "I Am" part, Jesus is God made man, and the Holy Spirit is, the Spirit of God?

>>20988261
>God the Father is simply the "I Am" part,
Not really, Christ says "I am" too ("Before Abraham was, I am", For unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins", etc.)
> Jesus is God made man,
Complicated because he's also fully God, not just man.
>and the Holy Spirit is, the Spirit of God
That's the clearest one because it says so in the Bible, but it's also God the Spirit not just the Spirit of God.

Overall, the trinity is a very difficult concept, so people have moved to apophatic theology.

>>20985262
I sure do.

>>20988227
A little early, but okay.
>>20988318
>>20988318
>>20988318

>>20988107
>methodists
Well thats your issue

its a hell of a thing to realize your entire personality from birth has been built around apologizing for being superhuman

>>20988760
you're not superhuman

my fanfics were liked by a writer of fanfics that I like a lot and I am very happy about it and I want to share it with somebody but I can't tell it to any of my friends because I don't want them to know I'm into this kind of shit

>>20988786
maybe its confusing because I don't act like I'm waiting for you to torture me to death

>>20990594