/lit/ - Literature

>>1974489
How can one train?

I never had the habit of reading the news and now many things are taking place in the world but I do not know how to follow. So, how can I stay in touch with the world and follow what is taking place?

I know you are going to tell me to buy a freaking newspaper or following a motherfucking news website. The thing is, which and how? What are the things that are important to follow?

>>1973274
Implying you can feel sadness, which means you are capable of feeling! I, on the other hand, am almost devoid of feelings :(

I want to be happy, /lit/. I really want to replace the void inside me with love and affection :'(

What did you have to do to obtain that copy? Did your butt hurt?

>>1973270
Well, I do know how to act "normal" around people in order not to irritate (or upset) them. Excuse me if I have a stereotypical mental image of people with autism, but don't they fail to act "normal"?

>>1973263
Implying that I have anything I want to do with what remains of my life :).

Since I almost don't feel anything I do not have anything in mind that would make me feel happy (or anything else), so I just ... live.

>>1973254
I saw one and he told me that sometimes one hides oneself inside a shell or something like that. He concluded that I do not need further help since I do not pose a threat to either myself or the others.

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Oh my! I do not commit actions which the society in average conceives as morally wrong!! Still, I do not do that because I feel fear or guilt afterwards, it is because my logic says it is not right to do it :(

>>1973218
mmm, so what would a Wikipedia page on "emotional auto-pilot" be called?

Hi /lit/,

All my human interactions are based on conscious decisions rather than feelings. For example, I don't feel anything towards my parents but I know that they feel happy when I show them signs of love, so I do that because that is what should be done. I do not have any feelings towards my girls, but similarly I do things that they interpret as love/affection because it makes them happy. I do not help people who are in need because I can feel their pain or even care, I just know that they must be in pain and that they will feel better afterwards.

What is this called?

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>>1971729
I see. Let's assume I am :-)

How do you manage to organize your random notes? I myself have been jotting them down in notebooks for years, but without any form of organisation I have ended with hundreds of pages of successive unrelated paragraphs.

>>1971724
Why?

I hate the sounds my father makes when he chews his food, it makes me feel real angry as if I want to burst. I thought about it and I think it is similar to Ivan Pavolov's experiment where a dog is trained to relate the sound of a bell to food, but in my case the sound of my father chewing his food is related to anger. It also brings to my mind the way the sound of chalk screeching on a blackboard brings about a negative feeling.

So I do have two questions for you:
1. How do you think me relating the chewing sound to anger? How is the sound of chalk is usually related to a negative feeling?
2. How can one liberate himself from a conditioned reaction?

I used to be religious, then i renounced my faith and became an atheist after months of deep thinking. However, I still feel hurt when I find somebody else criticizing the religion which I used to follow, even using arguments and results I have reached on my own during my contemplation. It still hurts to hear them from someone else :(

When/how does this feeling go away?

>>1969791
Our military consists of a bunch of old stupid men who have been left in the hot desert for a long while. They do not know how to handle things but through brute force.

Their sole purpose is to keep the privileges they have gained over the last 60 years, and they do not know how they are going to make it. They are as lost as everybody else themselves :P

>>1969775
The elites are as lost as anybody else. The thing is, everything is a wreck here, even the intellectuals and the revolutionaries.

>>1969751
That's true. What can be done about that? Egyptians, like this guy, think that enough has been done and now it is time to see the military sort everything out. How can you deal with a population that does not want to exert mental effort to come up with a plan?

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>>1969730
Ok. So did the Russians back then prefer stability over anything else? The people here are favouring a totalitarian military regime because it is promising them with stability and nothing else, can you believe that? People don't mind their rights being violated as long as "everything runs the same old safe stable way"

FML

>>1969689
So what's different? I don't think Russia was as backwards as Egypt back then (or was it?), but still its revolution gave birth to real revolutionaries?

I met the "revolutionary leaders" here and they are nothing but rich bored kids who think it would be cool to wear a scarf and go protest. They are as shallow as fuck, without any sort of vision :(

I am not happy with what I see, but at the same time I don't see a leader in me

>>1969685
The thing is: it won't! The military is using the Islamists to scare both the outside world and its own people. A fucking old tactic that the military regime has been using over and over again since the 1952 coup.

>>1969680
I wish I knew what has to be done :( How did Lenin did it?

>>1969667
It is pissing me off that Egyptians were protecting the regime while they were bringing it down! The only thing that happened was dismantling the police, otherwise it was a regime fixation :(