Write What’s On Your Mind

[Anonymous No.20136081]

David Graeber edition

Previous thread >>20127235

[Anonymous No.20136093]

>found an academic article about renaming de Certeau's use of the term "poaching" as an analogy for reading because "poaching" is triggering

[Anonymous No.20136104]

I broke my month long no fap streak a couple days ago and cried like a baby after I came to my senses. I'm so pathetic.

[Anonymous No.20136112]

How tf are u supposed to make /lit/ friends?

I'm so lonely.

[Anonymous No.20136114]

>>20136104
is it really that big of a deal?

[Anonymous No.20136116]

>>20136114
Yes. Now I still feel like an abomination in the eyes of God.

[Anonymous No.20136118]

>>20136104
So do once a month. You’re not trying to become a priest are you?
>>20136114
That’s what’s pathetic

[Anonymous No.20136123]

>>20136112
The gym

[Anonymous No.20136125]

>>20136112
You could join my super friendly book club of people who actually read books and talk about books.

https://discord.gg/VGwXdWVSYX

[Anonymous No.20136150]

I miss actually reading books.

[Anonymous No.20136162]

>>20136112
impossible if you live in a 3rd world country.

[Anonymous No.20136164]

>>20136150

[Anonymous No.20136214]

>>20136164
I miss having a cat too.

[Anonymous No.20136298]

60s were good for lit...

>1960
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
>1961
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The Wind From Nowhere by JG Ballard
>1962
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
>1963
V. by Thomas Pynchon
and so on
>1969
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

[Anonymous No.20136301]

>>20136298
you've read none of these. be honest.

[Anonymous No.20136322]

Graeber her by the pussy

[Anonymous No.20136327]

There's four /sffg/ threads. Of which, two are trolls. When will jannies and mods deal with them?

[Anonymous No.20136340]

>>20136327
>Of which, two are trolls.
I'm surprised they haven't been dealt with sooner. Jannies and mods are usually on point with that, especially when it comes to WWOYM

[Anonymous No.20136351]

>>20136301
I have lol

[Anonymous No.20136360]

>>20136327
>>20136340
Any reason why they’ve been lax on that? Don’t they usually delete the second threads? Why allow two more?

[Anonymous No.20136370]

>>20136081
>Graeber
I remember butterfly use to worship this lefty Jew all the time despite being a professed lesbo. Crazy that she's gone now
R.I.P.

[Anonymous No.20136377]

I was curious on how people rated my looks so I posted on /soc/. I was satisfied with the results; I always thought I was an 8/10 on a good day and a few seemed to agree. Nice to know I'm not delusional. Weirdly enough most of the lower rating came from ugly goobers lmao.

Anyway gotta start approching more girls instead of sitting on my ass at home, I meet a few people with rockclimbing but another more social hobby would help. I was thinking maybe yoga, the combination of meditation + stretching seems good to me. Plenty of women there as a bonus too I guess which is kinda intimadating in a way. I don't know what I'm gonna do, I have to finish this semester first anyway since I don't have time for shit right now.

[Anonymous No.20136458]

It was then that I turned and looked at her, really looked at her for the first time. From her sudden silence and taught face I was told all I needed to know. My eyes were conveying all of the warning she needed. I imagined what she was seeing as I had many times before: a particular gradient of blue, like that of a deep lake with frothy shores that nobody dared to loiter around. For in the center was a deep black, darkness, the void, the place were monsters all the way from childish to cosmic lurked. Both patient and yet wound tight, waiting for the next adventurous fool to come close.
For a moment I thought she was going to plunge deeper just out of spite, but then some rational part of her finally caught her and she looked away. The bar and our friends and the banter all came back, and the night went on without any developments.
Settling down from work and rereading John Steakly for the third time.

[Anonymous No.20136490]

>>20136093
To whom? Chicken eggs? The children of African poachers?
>Look, my father did that, but that's because he was really hard up to find a job okay. I don't condone that, but you have no right to use that pejorative expression because you don't have no idea of the complex socio-economic conditions I grew up in
>>20136112
Tell everyone you know about the books your reading or read until one person actually knows what you're talking about and gets into an impassioned conversation about /lit/ with you.

[Anonymous No.20136507]

>find out that I won't grow taller and I'm going to be stuck at 5'4 for the rest of my adult life
>have existential crisis because I am a male
>suddenly have the urge to read the biographies of Napoleon (5'6), Faulkner (5'5), Kubrick (5'7), Picasso (5'4), Newton (5'6), Carnegie (5'3), and Churchill (5'6)
Any other biographies bros? How do I make sure to utilize my shortness to ensure that I make a mark on history?

[Anonymous No.20136560]

i feel like i could write something interesting if only i could divert the autistic energy i channel into arguing on the internet into writing about something i was genuinely passionate about. perhaps not of literary merit, but of some merit, an interesting failure with some mixed appeal to those who want to stare into autism incarnate and those who share my passion for the subject matter.
but all of my passions have long since been subsumed into arguing on the internet, any writing ability i have shot into finding new ways to tell people that they're wrong on the internet. if i had any merit as a writer, i could probably work with that. but i'm not a writer - i'm an imageboard user who maintains the illusion of one day becoming a writer without any of that bothersome writing.

[Anonymous No.20136574]

>>20136507
But you have to remember that height is increasing with time, so those people, comparatively speaking, were not as short you may think.

[Anonymous No.20136582]

>>20136507
Herve Villechaize was a absolute and infamous pussy hound. Dude had a chip on his tiny shoulder

[Anonymous No.20136601]

>>20136507
This tiny nigga wrote hits for the Bangles, the Time, and recorded 42 studio albums, and directed like 4 movies and starred in numerous films and tv episodes. He also slayed more pussy that those people who drown sacks of kittens at the dock

[Anonymous No.20136627]

>>20136507
Attila the Hun
> Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey; and he had a flat nose and swarthy skin, showing evidence of his origin
Porfirio Rubirosa
>5'8
Ludwig van Beethoven
>5'3
James Madison
>5'4
>>20136574
This. If you look at the armor of Phillip, of macedon you'd be like "this motherfucker was tiny!'. But then again they didn't have the advantage of nitrogen enriched fertilizers back then

[Anonymous No.20136679]

Crazy how neurodivergent people run the entire spectrum of humans, and you can be a downright genius or, what's more likely, a Wikipedia power user with over 1,000,000 edits

[Anonymous No.20136690]

>>20136507
Height doesn't even matter, none of those guys probably cared about their height. Whether you can do great things or not is unrelated to height unless you consider pro basketball a great thing
>Yeah but fighting!
just get buff lol, short males build muscle way faster. and pure strength is only part of it, you can also learn how to fight, self-defense techniques, maybe concealed carry if you have to. there is a reason no one cared seriously about height until tinder

[the xi jinping of weed smoking !!oqyjkIO5smI No.20136748]

i am a slave to a plant

[Anonymous No.20136770]

Not many of my problems would be solved by having a woman: but a few of them would be.

[Anonymous No.20136786]

I wrote smut once recently just to see how it turned out, I found out in the process that my own thoughts are much more arousing than any porn I've ever seen in my life, since then porn just doesn't do anything for me. The smut I wrote though didn't turn out very good anyway.

[Anonymous No.20136790]

Is it a bad idea to read commentary/analysis of a book you're reading while you are reading it for the first time? I am trying to read Freud and I'm unironically getting filtered, I've had to make notes and re-read the same stuff again and again

[Anonymous No.20136795]

I've started taking breaks from the internet and caffeine and exercising and meditating daily...

The change in my personality is radical. Confidence. Ambition. Motivation. Increased self worth. The way I talk, walk, the way I think, the way I approach problems or conflicts. My creativity. Personal planning. Its like the person I am finally came up for air under whatever disorders have been drowning me.

I'm amazing... but I have been left with a pre-occupying regret I'm having trouble shaking. Its almost a personal embarrassment. I've spent years living backwards. I cut out a few bad habits and do a couple healthy living memes and BAM! Everything improves.

I'm thankful I have this solution, but frustrated I'm the one who had the key to my cell for a very long time. I can accept it, but its gonna take time to forgive myself for simply not being the person I need to be. Its just right now, the success is a reminder of the failure.

[Anonymous No.20136796]

>>20136770
Now imagine her being a good cook

[Anonymous No.20136801]

>>20136795
It's incredible how much the internet rots our mind. I plan on not using the internet once this entire summer. We´ll see how it goes.

[Anonymous No.20136805]

I just realized that those "would you let a hobo fuck you in the ass raw for 5 minutes for 1 billion dollars" and "would you fuck your mom at gun point" questions are basically playground versions of Roko's Basilisk
Roko's B-ass-ilik
>A super intelligent and all powerful A.I. emerges in the future, to ensure that people in the past bring about it's creation it threatens that everyone who stands in the way of developing the A.I. it will force them to get fucked in the ass. If you in any way impeded the advancement of the technology that culminated in this all powerful A.I. it will find you and fuck you in the ass. Violently. Without lube. If you want to protect your ass from ruthlessly efficient self-fulfilling A.I. you need to stop doing anything that might interfere with it emerging, otherwise it will fuck you in the ass
P-ass-cal's Wager
>If you don't believe in god, he'll fuck you in the ass. But if you believe in god, he won't fuck you in the ass. Therefore if you don't want to be fucked in the ass, it is a good bet to believe in god

[Anonymous No.20136808]

>>20136790

No. In fact, you get a good enough compendium you can get way more out of the text: Digestible text as to not cause frustration/disinterest, additional notes, academic consensus, notable criticisms/disagreements, other notable works.

Admitting there is probably something of worth in something filtering you and being proactive to still get it is chad

[Anonymous No.20136814]

>>20136801

Good luck, pal

[Anonymous No.20136817]

>>20136795
Good for you.

[Anonymous No.20136850]

I’m experiencing major nigger fatigue. People on social media have managed to make the Chris Rock and Will Smith conflict - celebrity drama - about racial identity politics. I don’t even use traditional social media (Twitter, Instagram, etc.) But it doesn’t matter. If you’re browse the internet at all or watch any kind of major media, you’ll still come across it.

[Anonymous No.20136900]

Who is the final boss of philosophy?

[Anonymous No.20136903]

it just keeps getting worse... how did we even get here bros

[Anonymous No.20136914]

i think im falling in love with a girl i've gone on 5 dates left
I'm excited and scared

[Anonymous No.20136921]

>>20136914
>left
Meant with*.
Dunno how I fucked that up

[Anonymous No.20136924]

I had the best day yesterday. I wasn’t pissed off at anyone, I wasn’t over-thinking everything. I felt completely like myself, completely relaxed in who I was, completely relaxed at work. It was great. I recommend to everyone to shave your head. It changes you.

[Anonymous No.20136951]

>>20136924
I have a terrible head shape for shaving

[Anonymous No.20136958]

>>20136914
good for you anon. the nerves of dating someone new is always fun. don't fuck it up

[Anonymous No.20137020]

How many frequent /lit/ posters have died over the years and none is the wiser how many have become vegetables how many have forever moved on how many have been human trafficked how many have lost access to computers or the internet how many have been isekai'd how many have gone blind how many have gone mad how many have lost their memories how many have become forgotten

[Anonymous No.20137035]

>>20136914
The experience of the first few dates with a girl you really like is the absolute peak of human existence. The rest of what passes for life pales so markedly by comparison. The time of your life when just spending an hour with a girl means the whole world. As Burns once said, "...gie me a cannie hour at e'en , My arms about my dearie-o; An' war'ly cares, an' war'ly men, May a' gae tapsalteerie-o!"
My favorite time is the start of Spring, which always makes me recall my early college days, the first few weeks, sitting on a wall outside a girl's work and waiting for her to finish to walk her home. I was reading Murakami at the time, and I'll always like him because of that association. Norwegian Wood! The walk passed under bridges, down by the river, distant cars, the hazy sun, the intoxicating sights and smells of springtime, the hopes of better times to come. As Shakespeare once said, "In springtime, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; Sweet lovers love the spring."
It's funny and sad how fast times passes, a few exams here and there, an election, a few hours online, a bit of Skyrim and one fake pandemic later and all of a sudden youth has up and left you. I'm sure people can find something somewhat resembling love in their later years but the real thing doesn't wait around forever. As Herrick once said, "Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying... be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry"

[Anonymous No.20137044]

>>20136081
i am only attracted to women who treat me like garbage
if a girl is nice to me it makes want to vomit

[Anonymous No.20137050]

>Everything you like to do is a waste of time and money
>Everything people tell you to do to make yourself happier is definitely a waste of your time and money
Feels like my entire life is a revenge procrastination.

[Anonymous No.20137058]

>>20136914
>>20137035
how to get date with beautiful woman bros? And how to meet womens in the first place? Especially womens who don't scream at you for thinking the pandemic is fake.

[Anonymous No.20137078]

I have nothing to say

[Anonymous No.20137087]

Your future wife is getting dicked down right now

[Anonymous No.20137110]

>>20137087
FUCK YEAH, I'M GETTING MARRIED!

[Anonymous No.20137114]

>>20137087
Wtf? Am I getting wife?

[Anonymous No.20137119]

>>20137087
You can have her.

[Anonymous No.20137140]

>>20137087
at this point ive basically accepted that I have made a mountain of mistakes and I am not my ideal self, and the people I encounter will almost certainly not fit into my ideal either, and the best i can hope for is to find someone who is self aware and acknowledges the mistakes they have made the way I do, and the troubles of our time, and is willing to join with me so we can build each other up and try to make something good out of our lives. unfortunately my mistakes run very very deep and even this lower standard is a pipe dream for me

[Anonymous No.20137161]

>>20136370
>R.I.P.
is butters unironically dead or is this some kind of meme?

[Anonymous No.20137167]

i wanna come out to my family and finally admit that im a fag and a reddit user

[Anonymous No.20137318]

>>20137058
Getting dates via apps is easy as can be.
With spring coming on I need to find love again. Last spring/summer I spend working/alone. The one before that I was in a relationship and trust me, I’d give up 5 summers alone for just one summer with a girl i loved. Laying in the park, city trips, amusement parks, morning sex. I want it again!

[Anonymous No.20137324]

>>20137167
I almost ‘came out’ as bi when I was 18.
Turns out I was a lonely awkward guy and deluded myself into thinking I liked cocks as well. I thanks the Lord every day that I kept that shit to myself

[Anonymous No.20137366]

I feel a general sense of unease after uninstalling all my video games.

[Anonymous No.20137368]

>>20137318
>Getting dates via apps is easy as can be.
you don't exactly meet the cream of the crop there, do you? I'd prefer to see a potential mate in her eyes and thus be able to decide what kind of person she is? Is there at least a dating app better than the usual ones?

[Anonymous No.20137372]

>>20137087
Since when am I getting married? You mean that I will get laid again in the future? How do I know you're not lying to me asshole?

[Anonymous No.20137383]

>>20137368
The app is just to see someone irl. You’re not forced to go on a second date with her. You can’t tell if someone is worth the effort from either an app or on first sight irl. You get an idea after a first date, maybe 2. I’m not sure if there’s a difference in people who use what apps.
I do like bumble simply because the girl has to not only swipe right but also send you a message. Which means she is actually interested instead of with tinder where you sometimes get the idea that they accidentally liked you

[Anonymous No.20137395]

>>20137383
aight thanks. Reminds me I have to leave my parents house because I really don't want to stumble across people from my hometown on such apps.

[Anonymous No.20137452]

Since I became Christian, I stopped telling people on here to kill themselves. In fact, I also stopped calling people retarded. I stop myself and either rephrase or don't post at all. I was always wondering why I have no filter and say whatever I want regardless of how vile. And, at the same time, I was thinking you can have morals without God. I still think you can, but there's a distinct difference in having an external force that guides you when you're about to sin.

[Anonymous No.20137596]

I hate having Saturn on my Ascendant.

[Anonymous No.20137820]

>>20136081
I'm glad that I grew out of my pretentious phase, but I'm scared that one day I'll slip back into old narcissistic habits and become blind to how disgusting I sound. I really can't trust myself if I won't constantly check my habits

[Anonymous No.20137825]

>>20136081
The vivid imagination that was fueling my teenage days has devolved so pathetically that the only avenues i seem to explore are ones that involve my shitty little self doing something and getting respected for it ; having a grand old time with loved ones ; or banal intrusive thoughts. even when forcing my mind to come up with elaborate scenarios and possibilities, i can never go very far with it. it used to be the easiest thing in the world, and now i can't even do that.
What's the explanation for this sharp decline? Is it merely a result of bad habits and general neglect? How can those pathways become so rusty?
Those charmless humorless white collar guys in their mid 50s who never manage to say anything of note seem to be a lot more understandable at this point. Headed for a nightmare.

[Anonymous No.20137858]

I don't have a job starting tomorrow and boy do I feel like I have a new lease on life. It's absurd how oppressive a full time job is, insulting how much it deprives of the human spirit of the time and energy to develop its capacities and deepen its interests. Wish I could hug you all.

[Anonymous No.20137865]

We ought to give these write what's on your mind threads a rest for a while. Replace it with something else for a bit. Give a bit more direction to the self-indulgent whining that usually populates this thread.

[Anonymous No.20137867]

>>20137825
Been thinking along similar lines. I think that burst of manic imagination in the teen years is so you take an interest in the world and learn skills that allow you to survive, which in more modern times translates to finding an at least moderately satisfying trade or vocation, and as that initial bursts fades you begin to derive satisfaction not from novelty but from gaining skill and mastery, going deep rather than wide, and being able to provide from doing so.

If you miss the bus on actually finding something end up neither broad nor deep, nothing. Dull. Vague phantoms of emotions and desires that feel more like echos of the now gone real thing.

[Anonymous No.20137872]

>>20137858
This is what has been on my mind for so long. Some people succeed in becoming something new in spite of having full-time jobs yet it's draining like a treadmill, forcing you to keep walking. Hope life is going well for you.

[Anonymous No.20137879]

>>20136795
its a stupid question but would it be okay for a random anon to go on /fit/ and ask for advice on how to get started with exercising and what steps to take? im a bit stuck in a conundrum because in order to devise a ''workout plan'' you can't just copy somebody else's schedule, you have to adapt it to your body, your overall shape, your experience, your goals...etc, and to do that, you need some guidance. the contrasting issue is that these types of threads are made every hour on that board, and if they don't get deleted, they're just pelted with meme answers to force the inquiring anon to go out on their own and get a clue, which i do understand and support.
i guess the best thing to do would be talking with a gym coach, but there is no gym around these parts. im not even that interested in gains and all the obsessive parts of physical education, i just want to feel alive and capable again.

[Anonymous No.20137919]

>>20137867
so in other words, it's all over?

[Anonymous No.20137944]

>>20137865
It's a containment thread that keeps those blog posts off the rest of the board. As such it serves a necessary function. It may consist 90% of self-indulgent whining but that's better than the board consisting 90% of it.

[Anonymous No.20137951]

I feel so one dimensional around strangers and non-close circle people. I know that others do not care about my mood swings but no being able to show them makes me feel like an insincere person.

[Anonymous No.20137954]

>>20137879
They'll just tell you to read the sticky and "lift bro"

[Anonymous No.20138038]

Which should I read first?
A Tale of two cities
The Master and Margrita
Or 100 years of solitude?

[Anonymous No.20138042]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No9qHtuIvbk
*ahem* Fuck freud!

[Anonymous No.20138055]

>>20138038
The Bible

[Anonymous No.20138060]

>>20138055
Wasn't one of the option, christtard

[Anonymous No.20138082]

>>20138055
I just wanted an answer and I've read the Bible

[Anonymous No.20138152]

man I struggle to imagine spending your life trying to debunk a bad thinker like Freud
psychoanalysis was a mistake

[Anonymous No.20138189]

my brain has been balkanized

[Anonymous No.20138273]

mon cerveau a été balkanisé

[Anonymous No.20138275]

Graeber by the pussy

[Anonymous No.20138301]

>>20137020
Look just because they usually make money off human traffic doesn't mean they actually tried to traffic me. They'd have to be much shitter at their job if they thought I was any use. They just wanted to know how to find a way to waste a weekend or two off grid. Isekai could learn a thing or two from them.

[Anonymous No.20138306]

I wish I was 5 to 10 years younger, maybe 12 years but no more.

[Anonymous No.20138354]

>>20136081
I tried to read Organon. I bought 7 volumes of a 9 volume Finnish translation of Aristoteles main works and Organon is first 2 volumes. After reading Plato I wasn't expecting the contrast between these guys. So I just ended up skimming through them and read everything that seemed interesting. But now I started with the volume 3, Physics, and man this is the shit. This is actually readable and enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.20138439]

>>20137087
Good for her. I got dicked down half an hour ago so it's just fair

[Anonymous No.20138519]

There is probably more wisdom in the idea of karma than in 99% of human morality systems, since the latter attempts to avoid any challenge by natural law, while the former embraces it.

[Anonymous No.20138545]

>>20136081
I need a flat chested, blonde, goth gf.

[Anonymous No.20138554]

>>20138519
You can tell a lot about a persons disposition with regard to that concept, regardless of its truth value. Some people see it as utterly fatalistic, while others see it as the the complete liberation and empowerment of personal agency.

[Anonymous No.20138568]

I really like graphic design but, Jesus, what a shitty field of work. 95% of jobs are about being the design equivalent of a codemonkey making souless content for social media pages/add agencies. Anyone who wants to escape this has to constantly promote themselves on social media and/or contests, learn some arcane skills most designers don't have or luck out on landing a job that is in the remaining 5%. All of that for the privilege of being overworked and badly paid.

[Anonymous No.20138597]

>>20138519
I can't believe in karma after living in a third world country and seeing decent people going through one soul crushing experience after another during their whole lives. It seems like a system designed to justify why plebs live their lives being constantly fucked while the pampered upper class exists as such.

[Anonymous No.20138615]

>>20137395
When you move out you move in to a new hometown, at least if you live there long enough. If you don't, what are you looking for? Better yet, what are you hiding from?

[Anonymous No.20138626]

>>20138038
Master and Margey. Personally, I'd skip the dick altogether but then I really don't like Dickens at all. Thy mileage may very well differ from mine own, I readily grant thee.

[Anonymous No.20138636]

>>20138597
I think that's an over-simplification of the idea. Karma doesn't mean every person gets what's coming to them, obviously that's impossible, but it means we are fully responsible for our actions in life, and their consequences are a product of their nature, meaning you can anticipate the result of anything just by understanding its nature.

In other eastern cosmologies (like Buddhism), karma is more elaborate in its scope and does account for everything, meaning that plebs do suffer from their own actions in a prior incarnation, but what's compelling about karma is that it works to a very real extent in day to day life, so long as you don't expect it to explain stuff like innocent children getting murdered. It almost is like natural law in a way. And how you react to it does say much about your character, like the above anon said.

[Anonymous No.20138644]

"That's a nice cologne, Anon."
*The scent of Chanel N°5 Eau de Parfum poured off his Hawaiian shirt, the truth hidden behind his aviator sunglasses.*
"Yeah... Cologne."

[Anonymous No.20138721]

>>20138644
Based anon deconstructing the idea fragrances are either masculine or feminine.

[Anonymous No.20138775]

>>20137087
So does this sloot have a user name orrrr…?

[Anonymous No.20138785]

>tfw i got 10 dollar divident on my $1000 stocks
yeah im something of a tycoon myself

[Anonymous No.20138794]

>>20136490
It's pretty dumb. They want to change the term from "poaching-as-reading" to "wandering-as-reading", but the point of "poaching" is that it's a forceful forfeiture of something because de Certeau is making the point that readers can use a text however they want, whether by force against the author, like if you made a right-wing/left-wing political connection with the text of a left-wing/right-wing author; using the term "wandering" here doesn't give the idea justice.

[Anonymous No.20138806]

How do you talk to e-bitches (zoomers, female)? I've a feeling that women don't actually like it when you type "correctly" as I was, but rather they prefer it when u speak colloquially like dis fr, u feel? I basically want to know how I can downgrade my language so I can get some pussy, is there not a zoomer-speak manual for autists? I don't use social media and I think they can smell it through the screen

[Anonymous No.20138809]

>>20138806
If you have to ask it's too late

[Anonymous No.20138830]

>>20138806
Just fap, man. You don't want to deal with those subhumans.

[Anonymous No.20138833]

>>20138806
Why would you want to type like a zoomie?
I doubt it would land you pussy anyway. All you need to know about texting is how to meet up irl as fast as possible. Any extra talking online is a waste of time imo

[Anonymous No.20138836]

>>20138809
Perhaps you're right. Years of using 4chan as my primary source of socialisation has ruined me

[Anonymous No.20138838]

I want to experience Beauty more. Not Abstract Beauty, but Sensual Beauty as made by God and available to us only for a brief moment as part of His gift of Life.

[Anonymous No.20138858]

>>20138836
Nah, I've been here for over 10 years now and barely socialize.
But when flirting or trying to get pussy I can turn on a dime. You just have to act confident. Thinking 4chan has fucked you over socially makes it true. Just deny it had any effect.

[Anonymous No.20138891]

big dicks will rule the world

[Anonymous No.20138896]

>>20138891
Black ones

[Anonymous No.20138905]

The thing about working remotely is that if you have no family, no girlfriend, and no friends, there is no particular reason for you to live anywhere at all.

[Anonymous No.20138922]

>>20138905
If you aren't getting pussy you're barely alive desu

[Anonymous No.20138958]

I'm live.

[Anonymous No.20138999]

>>20138922
moron

[Anonymous No.20139008]

>>20136298
60's were prime but the 50's were also pretty great too.

[Anonymous No.20139102]

>>20138905
>there is no particular reason for you to live anywhere at all.

This was true for me even before I started working remotely.

[Anonymous No.20139113]

>>20138905
That's the funny thing when you see different people talking about remote work. Some people are so alienated/online they could live on the north pole

[Anonymous No.20139149]

assume someone likes futa and is not gay. what would be the reason?
no I'm not gay
no
no.

why a dick? you have a woman, why add a dick? no balls tho, really just a massive towering clit. basically I'm wondering if I was molested by a woman. My suspicion is that I was diddled by a woman up the ass and tha thta tcauses the confusion. Or that it's a symbol of strength, and that all the women I've known since early childhood have been pitiably weak and helpless, and therefore I look for a woman with strength.

[Anonymous No.20139180]

>>20136796
I didn't even think of that, but that would be a further two or three problems solved.

[Anonymous No.20139189]

Had to write some 3000 word essay about anything.
I just cant do it. I feel like a complete retard. Everything is too difficult.

[Anonymous No.20139217]

>>20138806
i can't tell you how to do it, but you're correct about people not liking proper typing. not that they're actively hostile, but it's sort of treated like a substitute for tone of voice. proper typing with capitalisation and punctuation is formal and serious, while dropping those is informal and casual. there was a tumblr post talking about this somewhere but i can't find it now.

can't tell you how to use stock phrases or anything because i'm equally out of touch, but just dropping proper caps and cutting down on punctuation (a one-sentence post does not, in fact, need to end with a full stop) are pretty big ones. the one punctuation mark i'd keep around is ?, people seem to love using question marks??? (and also using them to express uncertainty in non-questions?)

[Anonymous No.20139240]

>>20139217
Man I can feel my IQ dropping. This is accurate

[Anonymous No.20139484]

My mother has had a cough for the last 4 years that sounds like it’s been getting progressively worse. Doctors can’t really pin down the cause but they suspect that her heart isn’t strong enough to clear the fluid building up in her lungs. I didn’t notice it as much at first (in part because I was away living with my partner for a few years), but since covid I moved back into my family home and it’s really noticeable now, she’s constantly grunting and hacking and sometimes it’s so loud that it almost feels like it shakes the house. She plays it off like it’s a minor inconvenience, but I just feel awful for her. But then I also find it incredibly hard to read or write because it’s such a distraction, and then I feel horrific guilt at having had such a selfish thought. I keep looping through these cycles of frustration and guilt, and I feel as though it has completely stalled my ability to be productive. I genuinely don’t know what to do.

[Anonymous No.20139513]

>>20138545
for me, it's a big titty, dark brown (almost black) goth gf

[Anonymous No.20139519]

>>20136081
I am a wreck.

[Anonymous No.20139579]

How much should I be thinking about women? Living in a fundamentalist Muslim country it's hard to meet women unless you act like a fuckboy and at the end, you are getting a whore.

I don't know what to do with my life except having to get some bitches since I'm doing fine in every other aspect.

[Anonymous No.20139596]

>>20139579
Why are women whores for doing something you desperately want? You're pathetic and deserve being alone.

[Anonymous No.20139615]

>>20139484
Hug your mother and tell her you love her

[Anonymous No.20139635]

>>20138806
have you tried not being a groomer

[Anonymous No.20139638]

>>20139579
why is marriage not on the table?

[Anonymous No.20139644]

>>20139596
In case that wasn't clear. The country is very segregated and almost zero contact between the sexes is tolerated. It is hard to talk to a woman in a normal place, it is all done indirectly and women are generally the ones who make the first move. Only whores get out of their way to go through this

[Anonymous No.20139648]

>>20139615
I do anon. I appreciate everything she’s done for me throughout my life. I really hope she gets better

[Anonymous No.20139649]

>>20139638
who am i getting married to

[Anonymous No.20139650]

>>20139644
Ahahaha what the fuck bro. I'm so glad my mom left iran and married a white guy

[Anonymous No.20139652]

>>20139649
why would there not be anyone to get married to? surely there are traditions for things like this?

[Anonymous No.20139669]

Why do we get a Jewish edition?

[Anonymous No.20139676]

>>20138721
There's no deconstruction. I imagined a character that's insecure about their masculinity, and thus someone assuming their fragrance to be cologne is hilarious, as they only keep face with the veil of sunglasses.

[Anonymous No.20139679]

I have a lot of anger toward my mother. Much of it I somewhat understand, although it is hard to focus on an pin down. I suspect very strongly that there is some deeper reason, and that I need to know what this is before I can consider reconciling with her. It won't be done unless it's done from the roots. It's like she has some hold on my dignity from way down, and we can't have a relationship unless that is undone. It seems it could be from later things, they could perhaps sufficiently explain my feelings. But the thing is that it's hard to imagine those later things would happen out of nowhere, that she'd somehow just wake up one day and not care about me for 12 years or so. Meanwhile I know I've blocked out memories and feelings to do with her for long stretches of time before.. twice actually, as far as I know. Which also doesn't seem completely healthy. I don't want to do therapy. I'm not sure how to get these things to surface. I'm also not sure it should be rushed. I feel guilty turning away from her, and so I feel squeezed.

[Anonymous No.20139681]

>>20136081
how the fuck did "intersectionality" become buzzword for the sjw types? things are related to one another. how does a word indicating that become a loaded term? it seems so retarded.

[Anonymous No.20139684]

>>20139652
fuck man just thinking about our marriage traditions kills me... you talk to a girl your mother found god knows where and of course that's in the presence of a male relative of hers.. and I'm supposed to get to know her through that interaction.

I just don't like that, but I also don't have options unless I decide to live alone and I also don't want that

>>20139650
good for you man

[Anonymous No.20139691]

>>20139684
I heard the trad way was 3 meetings at least, and that the aim is basically to establish religiosity and compatibility, and expecting the rest to work out after the fact. I don't know if this was Islam or India or both desu

[Anonymous No.20139704]

>>20139684
Why do you care about getting to know her if you don't see women as people to begin with?

[Anonymous No.20139710]

>>20139704
not him but
why u heff to be mad

[Anonymous No.20139720]

>>20139681
> how does a word indicating that become a loaded term?
What do you mean by “loaded”? Elaborate

[Anonymous No.20139721]

Volume, hearing, etc. changes your experience of music, film, etc. That's participation. Your eyesight, brain functionality, knowledge, which are things affected by lifestyle, etc., etc., changes your experience of reading, which is also affected by pacing, etc., paintings, sculpture, which are also affected by your angles of eyesight, etc., etc. That's participation.

[Anonymous No.20139736]

>>20139710
It is an earnest question because he isn't making much sense

[Anonymous No.20139747]

>>20139681
It's about saying "just because you're a woman, it doesn't mean you can talk about the experience of *BLACK* woman" because of intersectionality. It's another strategy to attack white civilization.

[Anonymous No.20139748]

I can’t stop withdrawing from family and friends. I can’t even stomach saying “hi”. They try to talk to me but I’m just so disgusted with everything. They obviously notice and feel bad but I can’t seem to stop this. I’m really scared.

[Anonymous No.20139752]

>>20139736
>It is an earnest question because he isn't making much sense

sorry im high but where did I say anything degrading women? I might have called some whores but the guys are fuckboys too if thats the right word

[Anonymous No.20139753]

>>20139721
Is it controversial that you participte in reading when reading?

[Anonymous No.20139761]

>>20139752
>when i whined about whores and bitches it wasn't meant in a sexist way

[Anonymous No.20139769]

>>20139753
No. There's a privileging of reading over other media because of it's participatory intellectual involvement and thinking that media like film are passive ("turn your brain off"), but all media has mental and physiological participation.

[Anonymous No.20139781]

>>20139753
>>20139769
>subs v dubs
The eternal dilemma

[Anonymous No.20139809]

>>20139769
I thought it was also uncontroversial that reading is more demanding than cinema but perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point.

[Anonymous No.20139891]

My girlfriend really loves me and I really love her, but part of me feels a crippling impostor syndrome. I suspect I'm not good enough for her, that I'll disappoint or debase her, or throw her aside in years to come. But I've never felt this tenderness towards a girl. Are these feelings normal?

[Anonymous No.20139897]

This is a fake comment section of a scam site.

[Anonymous No.20139905]

>>20139748
You just need treatment for your depression anon. Read Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, read the full Astral Codex Ten post about depression and just follow whatever in that post you can afford. Eventually your mood will literally just improve, as long as there remains enough willpower in you to do that. Depression is exactly what's wrong with you and it's actually embarrassingly treatable. Then you can fight existential battles with assurance that no disease is holding you back from the truth

[Anonymous No.20139910]

>>20139897
nice

[Anonymous No.20139914]

test

[Anonymous No.20139970]

>>20136081
you ever dream about things that are so mundane that you just assume it really happened? last night i dreamed i reinstalled the graphics drivers on my laptop and it took me hours to realize i hadn't actually done it. and i once dreamed i got a voicemail from a friend telling me to call her, so i did, only to find out she hadn't called me at all

[Anonymous No.20140008]

>>20139970
Can you imagine an apple in your head? How realistic is it?

[Anonymous No.20140020]

>>20140008
strange question but yeah. it looks the way an apple looks irl

[Anonymous No.20140037]

>>20140020
There's a mental condition called aphantasia where the subject cannot imagine anything visually. I was just curious to see if that correlated with having unimaginative dreams. Sounds like you're stuck in life or something.

[Anonymous No.20140047]

>>20136125
Doubtless its full of trannies

[Anonymous No.20140052]

>>20140037
no i have freaky dreams too
most of my dreams are horribly vivid and unsettling
but i can usually distinguish those ones from reality, which is much more difficult to do with the mundane ones
i mean if you have a dream about someone calling you who actually calls you on a regular basis how are you supposed to know it didn't happen?

[Anonymous No.20140093]

>>20139761
was it sexist when he called guys fuckboys, you absolute retard?

[Anonymous No.20140108]

>>20140052
That is interesting by its boring nature. I've never had dreams so mundane.

I once had a dream where the solar system had been "contained" by some sort of advanced alien beings which amounts to being gigantic eyeballs with beige colored eyelids and flesh tendrils that spread between planets. They did not allow humans to leave the solar system. They would judge the various space faring civilizations against each other in some sort of contest where a losing nation would be wiped out whenever they made their judgement. Their arrival to our solar system was an event referred to as "The Thinining".

[Anonymous No.20140156]

>>20139905
Thanks anon. I’ll give both of those works a try.
>it's actually embarrassingly treatable
I must be be really embarrassing because I haven’t been able to treat it. I’ve tried psychotherapy and medications. Neither have helped and I’ve only gotten worse over time.

[Anonymous No.20140177]

>>20140156
There are more ways to treat it than those two and the specific types matter. Some forms of therapy work better for some than others, same with meds. And ECT will literally cure you instantly but it's a matter of procuring it

[Anonymous No.20140211]

>>20139761
Keep it on twitter, you whore bitch.

[Anonymous No.20140257]

>>20140047
Not at all! We have a lot of gay men but gay men are nice.

[Anonymous No.20140260]

a bowl is most useful when it is empty

[Anonymous No.20140270]

>>20140257
Discord is like a petri dish for mental illness

[Anonymous No.20140345]

>>20140177
>ECT
I thought about this. But I figured it would work for a week at most, so I decided not to.

[Anonymous No.20140390]

>>20136748
a plant like buckwheat or a plant like a factory that produces dildos?

[Anonymous No.20140392]

>>20136081
God has set me apart for destruction

[Anonymous No.20140408]

>>20140392
God has set Himself apart from destruction

[Anonymous No.20140415]

There's a faggot that's non-stop spamming /sffg/ and the jannies won't do anything.

[Anonymous No.20140431]

I need to draw, study, or do whatever productive in my life. Maybe that self-sabotage video will help me...

[Anonymous No.20140439]

>>20140037
i know someone who has aphantasia.
he's a writer for some comedy shows.

[Anonymous No.20140446]

>>20139720
people in that sphere seem to place a lot of emphasis on the intersectionality of different topics as a critical point for any argument they make, despite that term meaning very little to anyone outside that sphere. It makes it so the word seems like a catchphrase associated with sjw rhetoric, although it means "How much something ties in with something else" to the uninitiated. The whole thing seems really retarded.

[Anonymous No.20140455]

>>20136123
goddamn look at those freaking tiddies lads

[Anonymous No.20140456]

>>20140408
that stands to reason

[Anonymous No.20140461]

>>20136627
>>20136574
The height of the average American man is 5'9. The height of the average Roman man was 5'7. Two inches is a lot, but maybe not as much as you imply.

[Anonymous No.20140462]

Don't take advantage of women or children.

[Anonymous No.20140466]

>>20140462
Wrong, chud. Women are just as strong and capable as men.

[Anonymous No.20140535]

>>20140037
How do aphantasic people experience understanding what they read? When I read "he lit the balled-up newspaper on fire with a match" I know I understand what I read because I can see it happening in my head. If I'm unable to represent what I read to myself I would think I'd just glossed over the words. For non-physical description like "they were saddened by the news" there's no proper visual aspect of the content to be had (though visualization still might accompany it), but I still get an imagined sense of the sadness and of how it might be caused by the news as inherent to my understanding of it. Are aphantasic people unable to imagine sounds, or feelings as well? Do they have a felt sense of abstract things as I do if I read, say, "This principle is formal because it abstracts from all our empirical and individual characteristics."? I can't readily communicate how I represent a sentence like this to myself but it is still accompanied by certain shifts and tones in my imagination.

[Anonymous No.20140544]

>>20140461
The average tells you nothing, what's the Standard Deviation? What's the PDF?

[Anonymous No.20140545]

>>20140461
How much bigger are our dicks

[Anonymous No.20140569]

>>20140545
'bout tree fiddy

[Anonymous No.20140577]

>>20140569
But my dick is about three inches. Ancients must have had microscopic penises. Explains all the statues.

[Anonymous No.20140581]

>>20136081
"people" who don't value love and empathy aren't human. it's ok to kill them. God damn them

[the xi jinping of weed smoking !!oqyjkIO5smI No.20140607]

>>20140390
weed bro

[Anonymous No.20140614]

americans are so wacky and silly

[Anonymous No.20140622]

>>20140614
Really? I'm boring and dead inside

[Anonymous No.20140625]

I wish i could write dialogue, but I can't even speak like a normal human being. Let alone write in a way that feels natural. Or even unnatural, but enjoyable to read. If I worte like an autistic child it would be an improvement.

[Anonymous No.20140637]

>>20140622
Me too, but I'm not American.

[Anonymous No.20140647]

i have a 1000 word essay due in 10 hours time. i really can't be bothered to do it even though i know it wouldn't take me too long i'm just really unmotivated to do anything at the moment. save scrawling sub par poetry into my notepad and mindlessly browsing /lit/.

[Anonymous No.20140651]

I think I finally understand "Jouissance" - it's at it's simplest when pain is concurrent with pleasure. However there is still much to learn, words I still can't manage to understand and really need someone to break down for me include:
>Knowledge
>Dasein
>Qualia
>Mindset
>a priori
>Reification
And the difference between "Subject" and "Object".

[Anonymous No.20140655]

You wouldn't even shit your pants if you had the chance.
You could never capitalize on such an offer.
You don't have the balls for it.

[Anonymous No.20140672]

>>20140431
Didn't expect to see Shadow Hearts art here.
>Maybe that self-sabotage video will help me...
What video is this? I'm in the same boat as you.

[Anonymous No.20140675]

I'm more and more employing Cunningham's Law here on 4chan, not to troll. I just start giving wrong answers to things to see if anyone has a salient counterargument.

[Anonymous No.20140684]

>>20140655
I've purposefully urinated myself. It happened in gym class. I was in the bleachers waiting for school to be over. No one was around, so I decided to soil myself. I rode the bus home with urine-soaked shorts.

[Anonymous No.20140695]

>>20136081
I want to go the fuck home bro I hate it here

[Anonymous No.20140700]

>>20140695
same, but my home feels less like home everytime i go there.

[Anonymous No.20140705]

>>20136298
Reading Stranger in a Strange Land rn. Valentine Michael Smith is literally me

[Anonymous No.20140714]

>>20140700
iktfb

[Anonymous No.20140716]

>>20140695
>I want to go the fuck [sic] home bro [sic] I hate it here [sic]
You in college?

[Anonymous No.20140732]

>>20140716
no. I'm at a different house

[Anonymous No.20140742]

>download notes app on my computer like 6 months ago
>now have 200,000 words of schizophrenic rambling caused by my bipolar disorder
>periodically save notes onto usb drive
>fantasize about continuing to do this until I die
>release notes posthumously, biographers study them for insight into my mind
I may be retarded

[Anonymous No.20140743]

>>20140732
>[N]o. I'm at a different house[.]
What don't you like about where you live now

[Anonymous No.20140764]

>>20140742
not retarded, you just have bipolar disorder

[Anonymous No.20140821]

I was late for class and decided to skip. I spent the two hours reading, eating fries, and drinking several pints of beer in the corner of some pub. That is probably the most "student-like" thing I have done in the past two years. I was not aware of how much I missed that sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.20140823]

Dear LiveJournal,
>reddit space
My fiancée and I are watching Yellowjackets and I'm on episode four now and I just told her I think there's a Baba Yaga in the woods. Then I said "Baba Yaga" about twenty more times when I explained my theory. Said it a few more times after until she hung up. I crack myself up.

[Anonymous No.20140854]

>>20140684
So why not go to the next level? You like feeling like an animal dont you?

[Anonymous No.20140877]

>>20136914
I'm in the same boat, anon. I'm going on date number 4 this Saturday and it's all I'm going to be thinking about this week. On a similar note does anyone have any fun date ideas? We've done drinks, dinner, and a movie already. It's cold as shit where I live right now so outdoor stuff is probably off the table until spring.

[Anonymous No.20140993]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fIIqFpZdy0

[Anonymous No.20141118]

>>20140993
https://youtu.be/BV-bs5aEMRk

[Anonymous No.20141191]

I feel like "success" has to do with a little bit of shamelessness. I've read multiple 'self help' books and articles and one of the common factors of people not doing what they want to do seem to do with their inhibitions that make them fearful of failure. Hence, you don't bother trying at all. After all, you can't fail if you don't try right? I'm no different. I procrastinate a lot because, deep down, I'm afraid of fucking it up.

[the xi jinping of weed smoking !!oqyjkIO5smI No.20141223]

i smoke weed, therefore i am...

[Anonymous No.20141224]

>>20141118
That's some of the best ads I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.20141235]

>>20140439
That is fascinating. I know someone that I suspect has aphantasia. When he is thinking about something, he will act out two opposing thoughts with his hands, as if they are sock puppets.

[Anonymous No.20141242]

>>20140535
Aphantasia is specifically the inability to imagine visual imagery. There are various techniques they utilize to accomplish abstract thought. Language seems to play a key role in the human ability to abstract. If imagining characters, someone with aphantasia could probably still represent them as imagined voices.

[Anonymous No.20141257]

>>20136081
the fundamental psy-op that lies at the heart of women is that since their lives are constrained by their reproductive window (thus causing them to live 'faster') getting in a relationship with them drains you of time and effort that could be spent on your much 'slower' life. For men teenage - early twenties relationships are a historical anomaly and will unironically impair your ability to reach excellence.

[Anonymous No.20141325]

We laid next to each other, after our moment of passionate intimacy.
"What you do if I said I love you?"
She buried her face into my chest.
"Would you love me if I lied to you?"
"But you wouldn't lie," she said.
"Would you love me if I ran away?"
"You wouldn't run away," she said.
"Would you love me if I hurt you?"
"You could never anyone," she said.
"Would you love me if I told you I love you?"
She tightened her embrace, as if to say "I wanted to say it first".

[Anonymous No.20141348]

>>20140577
But those statutes have huge dicks. Unrealistically big.
...right guys?

[Anonymous No.20141358]

>>20136081
I'm obsessed with temptation and hypnosis. I have a sexual fetish for hypnosis, for the idea and the feeling of being hypnotized. I wouldn't call my fixation with non-sexual forms of temptation inherently sexual, but that fixation has as much power as the sexual one. My ears perk up when I hear of situations where someone is tempted to do something they shouldn't. Temptation towards gluttony, sexual immorality, adultery, self-abasement. I want to see the unrestrained Will, free to do anything, maim itself.

I want to see the downfall of myself and the downfall of others. I want to know how far I can fall. I want to see alcoholics tempted to drink, I want to see gluttons tempted to eat. I want to see a piece of trash in the road and leave it there. I want to consciously, and with full control of myself, do wrong. It really is a sexual urge. I just have my wires crossed. I think sex is wrong, and then I imprinted somewhere in myself that wrong is sexual too.

I guess that's normal. I know it's the devil talking in me. I just want to listen.

[Anonymous No.20141368]

I just had a pretty good idea. It's a website called 'comprehensible philosophy' or the like where it gives a very curt and accurate summation of the major philosophers, and features a discussion page where experts can intone and suggest revisions, but it's not a wiki so every change is filtered through the very high standards of the admin. Thus you have a philosophy site which avoids the problems of both Wikipedia's philosophy pages (sloppy writing, inaccurate info) and plato.stanford.edu (hard to read without a philosophical background in a lot of topics, lots of different authorial voices, often overly-specialized and only talks about one specific thing).

What do you guys think? I might seriously draft something up for this

[Anonymous No.20141372]

>>20141191
Almost every successful person fucks up a bunch of times. Fear of failure, like fear of death, is foolish because it's inevitable.

[Anonymous No.20141400]

The Internet has so much that wastes my time, yet attempting to be more productive at most things wouldn't satisfy me. Guess it's time to find something productive and enjoyable to do on the weekend because work kills any desire to do things on the weekdays.

[Anonymous No.20141463]

>If you're so smart, how come you haven't figured out how to be happy?

[Anonymous No.20141475]

>>20141463
Because happiness is temporary relative to all the things one might dislike.

[Anonymous No.20141482]

>>20141191
Self Help books are in the business of telling you what you want to hear and are not giving you the tools and instructions for your personal definition of success. As such they walk a fine line between framing success as a choice which gives the reader a feeling of agency, while also giving them an excuse for while they haven't exercises that choice: until now...
Do you really think if shamelessness and not being fearful of failure was all that stopped people from being successful that there would even be a self-help industry?
>I procrastinate a lot because, deep down, I'm afraid of fucking it up.
Your problem then isn't shamelessness, your problem is that you don't have enough faith in your abilities to succeed. If I was going to phrase this like a self-help book
>Deep down we always know what is best for us. We search for experts and peers to tell us what to do. But there's really only once voice deep down we should listen to. And when that voice is telling you to "slow down". You should listen. Don't that voice be drowned out by a high-speed tiktok world telling you that you need to "Just Do It!". Don't feel like you need to catch up with the images you see splashed across magazines and Instagram. It's all an illusion. When you're procrastinating, that is a sign from deep down inside you; that's an evaluation that you don't have what it takes to do it right now. But you're very lucky that you've picked up this book, because over the next 80 pages we will discover just what you need to change to be the success, to be the distraction and envy of someone who will rush too fast into something. Right now it's time to slow down. But as the old saying goes: Make Haste Slowly
In case my meaning was lost in all the satirical fluff: You're probably correctly evaluating your attempts at being successful as not being a good bet. The answer to that isn't going to be in a self-help book but instead developing the specific and narrow skills so that you can have (justified) confidence.

[Anonymous No.20141484]

>>20141475
You define happiness narrowly. Like an emoji. It’s more of a rainbow of subtlety

[Anonymous No.20141487]

>>20141475
I wasn't actually asking you. It was addressed to myself. But even so
>If you're so smart how come you haven't found out how to make happiness permanent enough to last a life time and to skillfully deflect all the things you don't like?

[Anonymous No.20141595]

>>20141484
Sure, not that it helps any because that's not happening either way.

[Anonymous No.20141622]

>>20141487
Of course you weren't asking anyone in particular, but still.

[Anonymous No.20141650]

>>20137825
>>20137867
>>20137919

It's not over anons.

It happens to everyone that lets it happen. It can come back, and it will come back, if you work to bring it back. As a youth you don't really need to worry about how you treat your body, it will always recover because you're young and healthy. The older you get, the less you can do this, as you run out of resources and your body begins to age. Your upkeep systems just aren't as good anymore. Ask anyone who drank in highschool and continued to drink until their late 20s/ early 30s. The hangovers only get worse. The same principle applies to other toxins, many of which we intake every day without thinking about it. It also gives your regenerative systems a massive boost if you're physically fit.

Unironically, get fit, avoid seed oils and other common toxins that average people ingest every day, get enough sleep, keep your stress levels down, make time for things you love... I don't think that the mental decline that you're talking about is really mental decline, it's just brain fog brought on by a myriad of issues.

I've been back and forth between the state you're talking about and it always tracks with physical health and stress levels. Start taking of yourself and see if things change.

Good luck anons

[Anonymous No.20141657]

>>20139669
It’s an anthropologist anarchist edition, you scared little twit

[Anonymous No.20141665]

on imageboards, when fully anonymous, i post normally.
once given an identity - my uncommon country on boards with flags, or in one or two regrettable instances, a tripcode, i suddenly become a terrific narcissist. i would say that when i do so i tend to be popular or at least feel as though i am popular, and so i am very comfortable in batting away those who tell me to fuck off, or who disagree with me in general. whether this is delusion, or whether i'm actually as good as i feel isn't so important. the feeling interests me. because it completely evaporates outside imageboards. when it's me, alone, playing against an anon or set of anons to an audience of anons, i'm in love with playing myself up, taking on this character with an ego the size of jupiter and complete and utter self-assurance.
yet the moment i'm put in a non-anonymous environment, in one where everyone has a username, i freeze up. i can't even hold a regular conversation. in a chatroom, i proofread every 20 word post more closely than i'm likely to do with this post. i perceive not being replied to, or even a slight disagreement on a factual matter where there's no personal malice in someone saying "no, actually...", as a gigantic personal rejection. it's like going from being an actor up on the stage, utterly committed to the role, to suddenly finding yourself down at a party where you're forced to "be yourself". i simply can't do it. whatever part of my mind finds it so easy on imageboards (and specifically when not being entirely anonymous on imageboards) simply vanishes once taken outside that context.

i couldn't say why. perhaps i am really am a narcissist deep down. perhaps i'm not really, but because i've been comfortable using imageboards for so long i've become arrogant, while i'm far less comfortable with other types of website. perhaps it's because you get more (you)s by acting in that sort of fashion, and i unconsciously act in a way that maximizes that form of attention. or perhaps it's just the nature of being one of the few identifiable individuals in a sea of anons that it turns you into a narcissist, feeling like you're up on the stage in front of an anonymous audience, and this happens to everyone in that position.
i'm not sure, and i'm not sure i will ever know, but it's interesting to catch yourself acting so "out of character", whatever that might mean.

[Anonymous No.20141675]

>>20137879
You start with schedules that are made for beginners and tailor it to suit you as you go. Starting strength is a good example of this but do not fall for the GOMAD meme unless you are literally anorexic.

If you're not interested in gains then focus on body-weight workouts, which you can do anywhere with minimal equipment. Look up bodyweight HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) circuits online. Invest in a chinup bar and a dip bar if you're feeling spicy and you're off to the races. Running, biking, and swimming are all great too. Cross country skiing or snowshoeing are good in the winter.

If you have specific questions about bodyweight workouts, HIIT in general, or cardio, post away. But don't post "how do I get started working out" because you will get told tae read the FUCKING STICKY

[Anonymous No.20141684]

>>20137825
I hate to beat this horse - but do you drink a lot? smoke marijuana often? masturbate regularly?
I had the same experience of dimming imagination, but quitting these things helped it come back.

This might seem like a stretch, but I swear it's true - reconnecting with and participating in my people's mythology (and forgiving the true believers for their irrationality) has put me in a different state of mind which seemed to kindle my imagination even further
Hope this helps

[Anonymous No.20141714]

>>20141622
It is interesting to note your response though. Certainly not the approach I would have taken.

[Anonymous No.20141729]

>>20141714
What's the approach you've have taken then? Granted, what I meant to say is that intelligence might lead you to happiness but awareness of the world around you might make you unhappier too. As some say ignorance can be bliss.

[Anonymous No.20141742]

You know that feeling when you care greatly about someone and trust them completely but you’re too broken to see how they view you, so in your insecurity you push them away and when it’s too late they say how they perceive you.
As a good friend they cared deeply for but no longer.
Why can’t I see this until it’s over…

[Anonymous No.20141796]

>>20141665
Time to read Pessoa

[Anonymous No.20141808]

its really starting to sink in how mentally ill I've become in my isolation. a decade+ ago i was regularly hanging with the boys and going to parties and having the time of my life, now im literally afraid just to go and have a few beers at my main bros house with virtually no social pressure or anything like that, im so dysfuctional and dissociative i feel like i dont even trust myself with even that level of human interaction and im afraid to live. what the hell happened? now that its warm enough to survive out, im going to try to spend as much time as i can this summer going around outside, even just to find places to sit and read, or getting drunk and hiking the cities park system. just, something to get me out of this room and into the world regularly and connect me with real life

[Anonymous No.20141812]

>>20141808
>picture
*closes post*

[Anonymous No.20141820]

Screw /a/ mods.

[Anonymous No.20141824]

>>20141729
See I get that approach, awareness and understanding how horrible the world really is by having the intelligence to critique and question norms and phenomena could expose one to "sad truths". However I also think it's negated by in the same way that same intelligence may make you see beauty and causes for happiness that a ignorant person wouldn't see.
Personally I don't follow that argument at all, I think a sufficiently 'smart' person would manipulate their immediate surroundings and exercise enough cold analytical indifference to the horrors of the world that they would "maximize" their happiness. Especially since happiness is personal and subjective. I'm not talking about rhetorical tricks or self-rationalization, I mean they would just figure out strategies to make themselves happy using their amazing intelligence.
So when it comes to answering that question personally and not hypothetically I an torn between two answers:
>1. Okay, I'm not smart, or at least not as smart as I thought I was.
>2. Intelligence can only reach it's potential when matched with a quantum of agency and resources. In other words, you may be smart but you won't know for sure until you're given sufficient opportunity to exploit it.
Now there is a counterargument to 2 which gets very vague and hypothetical that: "if you were smarter you'd create those opportunities."

[Anonymous No.20141825]

On one hand, I love when a long-running series acknowledges my favorite character, on the other that means fanartist will acknowledge the character as well, and between fetishism and attempts at humor that completely derail said character's reputation, one really has to ask themselves - is it really worth it?
And I can't just ignore it when people post it in threads.

[Anonymous No.20141835]

>>20140345
Mate it's a permanent cure. Read that blog post, there's a section on it near the end. Almost every study shows an improvement lasting longer than six months (the general cut-off point for permanent). It's "as close to a miracle cure as you're going to get". If you can afford it in any way just get it. The only drawbacks are expense and inconvenience when initially getting it. If I could fucking afford it I would

[Anonymous No.20141845]

>>20141824
Granted, even that is subject to various factors. I can provide an answer to what makes me happy after looking past my various coping mechanisms, but this knowledge in the face of my lack of ability to reach it makes me even more dissatisfied. Perhaps it helps to think of intelligence here as the insight to see past all the smoke and mirrors and cut to the chase, only when you have the truth can you have a chance to escape the maze of your own making.

[Anonymous No.20141852]

Are there any philosophers/books who discuss the phenomenon of modern people who assign everything under the care of 'government' or 'society' and who can't approach a problem otherwise?
For example, a man sexually abuses and mistreats his daughter for years. The story makes the news, and people immediately jump in with ideas about what the government should've done, what legislation could've prevented this, the patriarchy or other supposed backward notions held by our society at large, that encouraged this behavior.
It's hardly a matter of that particular man's upbringing, his own personal choices, lack of principles or other private issues that led to it. It's GOT to belong in the sphere of 'public discourse' and we can't brush it off as a singular case.
We discuss and measure one's morality in a similar fashion. It's not a matter of a man's conduct in his daily life or place of work, nor is it found in his loyalty to friends, family or community, his words and actions at close quarters. It's about his broader worldview on refugees, minorities, environmental sensibilities, political leanings, charity work or w/e else can be broadcasted to the public eye.

[Anonymous No.20141862]

So what did you all guys think on the Will Smith Oscar ceremony slap?

[Anonymous No.20141864]

>>20141845
>but this knowledge in the face of my lack of ability to reach it makes me even more dissatisfied.
If you were smarter you'd invent a solution so you weren't dissatisfied is my belief. Now the question is: can opportunities be created by most individuals by sheer intelligence/smarts alone? Or does intelligence only allow you to potentially optimize the opportunities you already have?
There's plenty of people whom I'm sure have developed impressive investment algorithms, but few have the capital to reap the profits. 100x profit on $100 is only $10,000, that's infinitesimal to a quant or a mutual fund.

[Anonymous No.20141882]

>>20141864
Alas, my proposed solution to my ongoing unhappiness is to cut almost every aspect of society out of my life (Not hard to imagine why that would be an uphill task). To me, I think a combination of intelligence, luck and tenacity is required for success though having the latter two alone certainly isn't enough.

[Anonymous No.20141888]

How to know what you really want as oppose to needing to want?

[Anonymous No.20141901]

>>20141862
I think he dindu nuffin

[Anonymous No.20141905]

>>20141862
A good meme for waifu wars, I guess.

[Anonymous No.20141911]

>>20141862
#oscarssoblack

[Anonymous No.20141927]

>>20141888
Arguably what you sacrifice or pass up to get it.
There's a continuum of 'wanting', if you "really want" it then if you know how to acquire it, then it will be a priority both in mind and action.
If you procrastinate on it despite knowing how to acquire it, then that hesitation suggest that it's not that important to you... or, at least not as important as the activities you are prioritizing ahead of it.

[Anonymous No.20141933]

>>20141657
>anthropologist anarchist
That's what he said

[Anonymous No.20141951]

>>20141862
/tv/ got it right. An obvious overreaction due to feeling emasculated. Ironically it only made him look even weaker. Like even immediately after the slap, it wasn't even a temporary thing of "Well he's just standing up for his woman". It was more like, "Man this is sad"

[Anonymous No.20141974]

I have a job now but I'm stuck in a rut again, a job was supposed to give me something to do some meaning but now I'm back in the same rut I was six months ago

[Anonymous No.20141979]

>>20141974
What sort of rut?

[Anonymous No.20141984]

>>20141979
Well cos of covid I'm working from home, for months now its getting up and moving a few meters to my computer, I only go out when I need to buy food or get something form the liquor store, I wanted to make friends at my job but now that the gimmick of being the new person has gone, no one talks to me when I do go to the office

[Anonymous No.20141990]

>>20141984
Is there anything they talk about that you can relate to at least?

[Anonymous No.20141991]

>>20141862
Its an embarrassment from Will's part. I don't care if anyone think it's faked or not. Will made himself look like a fool. A harmless joke that would've been forgotten once the oscars were done is gonna be remembered. All because he overreacted to protect his "wife's" ego.
I'm amazed Chris took it so well. Being able to keep joking after the slap takes a lot of self control that not a lot of people would have had. Which, for some reason people don't seem to understand.

[Anonymous No.20142007]

>>20141990
I wish, usually its just small talk never about interests or anything

[Anonymous No.20142099]

>>20141862
People were complaining about it being too white a few months ago and we already got black on black on crime. Part and parcel of divesrity, we have to accommodate for ghetto culture. Next year maybe we'll get some gunfires too. It's just part of living in a big city.

[Anonymous No.20142104]

I have an exam in 3-4 hours that I haven't studied for. I'll fail it like usual. I'm a 3rd year in a major I don't enjoy, wish I chose a different one but it's too late. Guess I have to force myself to study now

[Anonymous No.20142121]

>>20142007
Might be tricky then, especially if there's cliques.

[Anonymous No.20142123]

>>20141984
Find friends at the church maybe.

[Anonymous No.20142133]

>>20141862
If it hadn't happen, the event would have barely been talked about. Now everyone will pay attention next year to see what might happen.
And Chris supposedly sold out all his performances, so the slap was definitely worth it to him.

[Anonymous No.20142139]

>>20141991
>I'm amazed Chris took it so well.
Probably because he knew it obviously didn't reflect badly on him and all the attention was on will

[Anonymous No.20142151]

>>20142133
No one will pay attention to it lol. If something happens, people will see it on twitter. There's no reason to watch the oscars for the vast majority of us.

[Anonymous No.20142152]

>>20142121
Yeah man
>>20142123
Good idea, I've been wanting to return to Christ for awhile now

[Anonymous No.20142156]

>>20142152
You might do better at church since at least most people there have a common interest.

[Anonymous No.20142170]

>>20142151
News portals and blogs will be more interested, in hopes they will be the first to report on something juicy. The ordinary folks will refresh news portals and social networks in hopes of getting something juicy to post on their own feed. Every time you refresh those places, they earn a bit from advertising. Instead of 10 articles, there will be 20, regardless what happens. That all brings Oscars a little bit back from the bottom of irrelevancy.

[Anonymous No.20142175]

>>20141927
I might have phrased my question wrong. I meant how to unrepress desire? I do believe that I want something yet I cannot drag into the light of consciousness.

[Anonymous No.20142177]

Am I autistic if the first thing I think about when it comes to other cultures is their literature and art? Like someone mentions Germany and I think of Goethe and German Idealism right away. But it seems like stuff most Germans don't care about, and the same applies to every country. If I were to ask a Japanese person about stuff like novels no one would care, because what they actually care about is anime and vidya. Can anyone else relate?

[Anonymous No.20142227]

>>20141235
Most of his jokes are more about words and dialogues than like I don't know, hard to describe, but quite funny.

[Anonymous No.20142253]

I am drowning in my sorrow.
I have nothing of value to offer humanity.
I do not enjoy anything.
Why should I continue?

[Anonymous No.20142326]

>>20142175
Personally I'm suspicious of the notion that your unconscious already knows what you want but for some reason it's being hidden from you. I am more inclined to believe that any subsequent 'eureka moment' is purely retroactive justification.
However that doesn't help solve you problem and I think there's a few exercises that can help:
The first is basically to write down every commitment, incomplete task, all the items on your shopping list, even your laundry list and other tiny minutia along side books you want to read, travels you want to take and big fantasy dreams on a big piece of paper or document. After you have at least 80 items, you systematically go through each item and ask "why is it here?" eventually patterns will begin to emerge, you 'll have a clear idea of what your 'values' are and that should point you in the direction of what that undisclosed 'want' is.
The second exercise is to list five people you admire, then list the traits of each person that you admire about them. Try to avoid using nouns or adjectives like "courageous" or "largess" and instead use verbs heavy sentences to describe their behaviors that encapsulate those traits "he gives carefully chosen gifts". At the very least this will give you a clearer idea of what habits or behaviour you can adopt in your own life to be more like the people you admire.
If neither of those seem to work, then pick something that feels somewhat meaningful and just begin doing it. If you begin to excel you'll be surprised how often that can actually fill the void and become or replace the deep want.

[Anonymous No.20142341]

>>20141951
At first I didn’t think much of it but what made it sad was hearing that his wife has actually been cheating on him, so this man is literally just standing up for some whore that doesn’t love him. That’s fucking sad..

[Anonymous No.20142347]

>>20141862
Before the slap, I was not aware that his wife was bald and that he was an actual cuck. Now I know. I wish I didn't though because I really don't care about these people.

[Anonymous No.20142369]

>>20141901
he a good boy goes to church loves his mamma

[Anonymous No.20142399]

>>20141862
Will Smith resorted to violence as a means of censoring someone. He deserves to have his Oscar taken away from him. To allow him to keep it is basically Hollywood saying that anyone can censor Hollywood. That Putin is right to close down media in Russia. McCarthyism, was a-okay. That you should placate tyrants.
To allow Will Smith to keep his Oscar is to say that violence will always champion over art.
No one, whether they are a millionaire like Chris Rock or the young black kids who look up to him should be silenced in their expression.
Comedy is often the last refuge of true and fair criticism against Tyrants, the Jester is often the last to speak the truth.
But he mainly deserves to have it taken away because a slap is a pussy move, he should have slugged Rock with those moves he learned playing Ali and then just swaggered off.

[Anonymous No.20142603]

Rec me a book. I like horror, religion and myth.

[Anonymous No.20142629]

>>20142603
Will Smith - Will

[Anonymous No.20142635]

>>20136081
Why did I spend so much time thinking about the logical inconsistencies and the arbitraryness of social dynamics and thus that it is unreal in a sense if I could just inhabit a STEM viewpoint that everything is just matter anyways? Is this the midwits curse?

[Anonymous No.20142641]

>>20142629
is that the biography he made with the guy who wrote Models? lol also youre terminally online

[Anonymous No.20142656]

>>20142635
>he hasn’t yet grasped the most elementary truth that the world is made of order and chaos at the same time
>he placates his discomfort toward chaos with a naive scientism
Nerd alert

[Anonymous No.20142665]

>>20142635
I don't know, but you could've just found God instead of wasting your life away.

[Anonymous No.20142717]

>TFW you're too tired to really do anything

[Anonymous No.20142790]

I feel like I'm on top of the world. I feel like I could do literally anything. I feel so fucking confident it is insane. Just the fact that I have read such fucking intelligent and great books feels me with such fucking power it is insane. I am still incredibly interested in reading and this give my dick a 30 cm growth in length.

[Anonymous No.20143054]

>>20142790
>reads so many books
>his ego only increases, pride only grows, he only gets further and further from truth
>icarus flies higher and higher
>ecstasy replaces senses
>the wax start melting
>feathers turn bright red
>daedalus can only watch it crash and burn
Many such cases. Start with the Greeks and move on to the Bible.

[Anonymous No.20143162]

>>20143054
I have no idea what you are talking about mate, I only know that I'm so fucking awesome :)

[Anonymous No.20143265]

>>20141933
>Science bad!
Get off the computer already

[Anonymous No.20143278]

OP of the new thread didn’t even want to incriminate himself by linking his thread in as early as he did
Well here it is
>>20143006
>>20143006

[Anonymous No.20143302]

>>20143265
>computeres were made by anthropologist anarchists

[Anonymous No.20143317]

>>20143265
Social science is not science.

[Anonymous No.20143349]

>>20143302
>>20143317
You/he seems very afraid of people gathering knowledge about things. Very afraid of Jewish influence too. I’m quite sick of the hate. One group of them deserves flack, the other slack. Antisemites can’t even tell the difference, they want strong airyanne jailers I imagine.

[Anonymous No.20143355]

>>20143349
>I’m quite sick of the hate.
Not my problem, is it? Anthtropology hurt Western culture since Boaz and anarchism is Marxism for gentiles: both equally hostile to Western culture. I don't particularly care for your opinion, and I never asked for it.

[Anonymous No.20143381]

>>20143355
>I don't particularly care for your opinion, and I never asked for it.
why did you respond to him, you little attention slut

[Anonymous No.20143389]

>>20143381
Because he made incorrect claims about my motivations, so I corrected them. What's wrong with that? I meant to say I don't care about his opinions about "good jews" and "bad jews". I do care that people understand the evil that jews do.

[Anonymous No.20143396]

>>20142177
yep

[Anonymous No.20143400]

>>20143355
Anarchism isn’t marxism
>for gentiles
HA! Meaning you think all the Jews will become the Marxist lords over the anarchist serfs. That’s kind of how the Marxists see it.
But of course you’re for fascists owning your ass and assigning you a qt3.0 to abuse

[Anonymous No.20143402]

>>20142177
What else is to a country's culture other than their literature and art?

[Anonymous No.20143408]

>>20143400
No and no. There's no marxist revolution, no anarachist revolution, and no fascist revolution.

[Anonymous No.20143415]

>>20143389
You don’t have a name and neither does the other guy. Your not caring was actually covered in that post. You think whatever a jew does it has to be evil.
You an actual retarded child head.

[Anonymous No.20143424]

>>20143415
A jew can do good things. Jesus was a good jew and his apostles. Your posts are incoherent.

[Anonymous No.20143433]

>>20143408
So you’re for the liberal hegemony of the world as it is n—
Three months ago. Sorry to tell you, but we’re slipping into fascism.

[Anonymous No.20143439]

>>20143424
He was a fictional character.
Graeber was a good “jew” and so was Emma Goldman

[Anonymous No.20143453]

>>20143433
I don't particularly care about politics.
>>20143439
He wasn't a fictional character, and none of your pop figures are "good" let alone the Jews propped by the American Jewish media.

[Anonymous No.20144050]

Anyone here have experience using fetlife to meet women? I'm thinking about it but I'm a little apprehensive

[Anonymous No.20144376]

>>20142104
self sabotage, i know the drill.