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[Anonymous No.11820128]

How do I practice proper mental hygiene? What are recommends for this project?

I feel as though I have been thrown into a life and a society which encourages enfeeblement and denies the greatest aspects of life. How can I reprogram myself? How can I learn to forget the worst aspects and strength the best?

[Anonymous No.11820168]

Accept that you will never be the sort of man you think writes great books, has great, expansive experiences. Then meditate and exercise.

[Anonymous No.11820169]

Cut off internet and porn. Whenever you feel the need to waste some time in those change it for contemplating some kind of art form or take a walk or just take a nap. I can't sleep during day time but just laying with your eyes closed for 30 minutes can do wonders.

[Anonymous No.11820184]

>>11820128
Read prometheus rising and do the exercises

[Anonymous No.11820187]

Rinse your mouth with bleach while doing a handstand.

[Anonymous No.11820218]

>>11820187
Will defs do this tonight.

[Anonymous No.11820603]

>>11820168
I'll still try to write, think, and live. Meditation I do not do, and I recently hurt my left shoulder. I'll resume exercising when I can. I'll try to find some peace and quiet to meditate on the daily.

>>11820169
But it's hard! I have slowly made strides, but as my victory is not total, I feel defeated.

>>11820184
I'll put it on the list, but I still feel skeptical.

[Anonymous No.11820666]

>>11820128

[Anonymous No.11820682]

>I feel as though I have been thrown into a life and a society which encourages enfeeblement and denies the greatest aspects of life

As opposed to what? Being a slave? Being a peasant farmer? Being a manservant? What could you possibly want out of life and society that you don't have the potential to reach?

[Anonymous No.11820685]

>>11820682
Condemned to freedom.
I'm absolutely a coward, and I want to pursue a more enriching life, internally and/or externally, but I feel lost.

[Anonymous No.11820758]

>>11820685
Yeah, I bet it was so much more fulfilling being a plantation slave than being a 21st century NEET.

Jesus fucking Christ, you've been lucky enough to be born into the most advanced, most healthy, most free society ever, and you've got the gall to say you're "condemned" by it?

[Anonymous No.11820764]

>>11820169
This. I was exposed to some today and my subconscious feels ruined. Sexual images are within it. Ideas and creativity gone. Pornography is worse for your mind than hard drugs.

[Anonymous No.11820774]

>>11820168
>Accept that you will never be the sort of man you think writes great books
so lay down like a dog?

[Anonymous No.11820783]

>>11820758
What anon means is although he is liberated to do anything he could wish, most of it seems loftily unattaible or not even worthwhile to pursue. The circumstances of his freedom are that he must find meaning in a society that is increasingly frivolous and petty.

[Anonymous No.11820792]

How about you just find yourself a non-prole occupation

Learn Latin or draw instead of spending your free time playing videogames like a worthless piece of trash

[Anonymous No.11820824]

>>11820792
>latin
He doesn't live in provincial Imperial Rome m9

[Anonymous No.11820854]

>>11820783
>a society that is increasingly frivolous and petty.
When has society not been?

[Anonymous No.11820898]

>>11820128
>>11820685
>>11820758
Anon here gets most of it right >>11820783
Look, I'm appreciative of the opportunity, I really am, and I'm not merely an unskilled plep or NEET (see below), I just find the gears of whats happening difficult to manage.

My girlfriend works 10-6, and I'm doing 6am-2pm, and I put in my time at the gym, and I read, and I write (I literally have over 400 poems in metre, a full length play, and I'm working on a novel), but the time we have together is so sparse, and the only thing she can discuss after her day is work because of the lack of time to read, think, create.etc On the weekend, all we want to do is relax.

Politics is a joke. Philosophy is a joke. Poetry is a joke.
In my opinion, the three most noble pursuits have been bastardized, and for me to seek a standard of excellence literally ostracizes myself, yet I am unwilling change, for that would be ignoble.

I just want to purify myself, attain virtue, and equanimity in this life of banality which neither possess fame and praise.

I feel useless because I don't have a craft. I don't have a physical way of manifesting myself in the world. My family is small and fragmented; my friendships are dispersed across a country post-Uni; and my country has no genuine culture with which to engage and maintain.

>>11820792
I already learned Latin. My ability to draw isn't that great, but I used to do it aplenty when I was younger. I've reduced my vidya hours considerably.

>>11820824
I'm still pro-Latin despite all of this.

[Anonymous No.11820906]

>>11820774
WILL YOU FIGHT?
OR WILL YOU PERISH LIKE A DOG?

[Anonymous No.11820912]

>>11820854
I am basically an idiot on this but I would say before (or at times when) people were not concentrated in the highly urbanised settlements.

[Anonymous No.11820932]

>>11820824
So what?

[Anonymous No.11820933]

>>11820898
What's your country/region?
There are other options to staying. Leaving your country is simpler than you might convince yourself.

[Anonymous No.11820955]

>>11820912
You mean when people were spending most of their days foraging for food?

[Anonymous No.11820971]

>>11820682
If he even knew what he was reaching for, he wouldn't have the potential to grasp it.

Modern society has bred its own unique losers and many of them come here to wilt away into nothing.

For the weak man, freedom is it's own tyranny.

[Anonymous No.11821046]

>>11820128
>>11820898
>>11820971
Sure, but I was (un)lucky enough to get near-absolute freedom as a child -- I'm finally at an age when I'm wholly responsible for my person, and I don't like what I see. I have to overcome the chains which the tyranny of freedom had imposed on me. Now, I'm struggle with several addictions, and I'm trying to sort myself out.

I just want recommends of works or behaviours.

[Anonymous No.11821055]

>>11820955
No because society didn't instantaneously advance from neolithic hunter-gatherers to high-density induatrial metropolises you fucking brainlet

[Anonymous No.11821155]

>>11821046
sounds like you need some ol' JBP :^)

[Anonymous No.11821218]

>>11820666
agck agck agck is that a murdoch murdock reference!?!? :--DDD I love his animations bro so funny

[Anonymous No.11821235]

>>11820758
reddit is that way

[Anonymous No.11821246]

>>11820128
Good question. I would start by limiting your internet usage to a bare minimum. Seclude yourself in a reading room or scriptorium without any gadgets or phones. Force yourself to be alone with your thoughts and the quiet.

You'll notice your thoughts are much more clear and sound, as they are allowed to assemble through sustained concentration.

Additionally you want to be outdoors at least for a few hours a day. Go outside, be in nature, contemplate and appreciate it.

Be with good people who tell you important and insightful things. Limit anger and resentment and envy and unruly yearnings.

[Anonymous No.11821575]

>>11820758
>most free society ever
wat

[Anonymous No.11821579]

>>11820774
thinking that you're the sort of man that will write great books is a surefire to guarantee that you won't

[Anonymous No.11821598]

>>11821579
You aren't paying attention. The proper outlook to take is "you don't know if you will or not". That is what I'm trying to get across. A corollary to this is "Keep trying if you feel that's what you want to do".

[Anonymous No.11822054]

>>11820169
Contemplate how. I've been a STEMfag all my life. I feel like I can't think of any art analytically.

[Anonymous No.11822076]

>>11822054
I wouldnt reccomed experiencing art analytically. At least not in your first engaging with X work of art.
Do you happen to have autism?

[Anonymous No.11822209]

>>11822076
Maybe

[Anonymous No.11822224]

>>11820758
>Yeah, I bet it was so much more fulfilling being a plantation slave than being a 21st century NEET.
your confusing the word fulfilling with comfortable

[Anonymous No.11822228]

>>11820169
I hate porn so much. It taints the mind and lowers it to a sex obsessed state.

[Anonymous No.11822255]

>>11820169
For some reason I feel worse than baseline when I watch porn but better than baseline when I jack off to my imagination.

[Anonymous No.11822482]

>>11820128
>>11820783
I just want to say that I have the same thoughts, but have never been able to communicate them nearly as profoundly. Whatever that’s worth.

>>11822076
I think there are people who have an “art gene” and people who don’t. Not everybody who finds STEM more intuitive than art has autism. I’m a smart guy, don’t have autism, and I can never interpret the “meaning” of books, movies, or art on my own.

[Anonymous No.11822502]

>>11820128

[Anonymous No.11822606]

>>11822482
Autism is either complete psuedoscience or I'm a false positive, or I "outgrew" it. I don't know, it seems like such an umbrella term that it barely means anything to me anymore.
I was diagnosed with autism at a really shitty point in my life a few years ago. Basically, I had no job, no motivation, no drive at all. I was living with my mother a couple years after high school. I played a lot of video games all the time, watched porn every day, and smoked weed on the daily. My mother wanted to check with a psychiatrist that especially analyzed only autistic people. So I go in there, answer the lady's questions in that mindset, and she tells me after a couple trips that I have autism.
Fast forward a couple months ago, I am getting my own place, and I just fucking change all my shitty habits at once, mostly by demand of the new place not having internet. I started a journal, bought a book for the first time I think ever (Basic Writings of Nietzsche) and committed to finishing it, got a job at a call center where I'm forced to talk to people daily, stopped smoking weed, looking at porn, and stopped playing video games. All at once. And it was a journey, cause now
/end blog

tl:dr autism means nothing, stop shortcutting happiness with porn and drugs

[Anonymous No.11822609]

>>11822606
cause now I'm a completely different person**

[Anonymous No.11823517]

>>11820758
>dude just ACCEPT your lot in life and be happy

[Anonymous No.11823520]

>>11822606
t. doesn't know etsubatsu