/lit/ - Literature

>>13789872
Even with the circle, I can't tell what the fuck I'm looking at. Also, all of us are just a bunch of interests and ideas tied together. The one that stands out is the one people use to show who they are. But if they're all of equal interest, then you end up more measured, but harder to label. Labels are needed to judge a person, so without them you're better off I think.

>>13789885
I just get judged as retarded because people think I don't do, think, or enjoy anything. I'd actually like to be judged as something other than "that idiot with no interests."

>>13789895
Then stop being an idiot with no interests

>>13789872
Then go get a data entry job and stop posting here.

>>13789872
There's an app for that. And a T-shirt too. Buy them

>>13789895
Then use one interest as bait. If the person takes it, then you can open up to them more. I take the general "art" interest and that let's me get friends that I end up keeping. It doesn't represent you, and as long as you don't always talk about art, you're good to go.

>>13789885
>Even with the circle, I can't tell what the fuck I'm looking at
It's a salad in a bowl. You are looking at a closeup of part of the bowl

>>13790214
I know that, but a circle implies something is out of the ordinary and should be taken into closer consideration.

>>13790218
Looks like cabbage to me

>>13789872
explain the picture to me

>>13790236
You look like cabbage.

>>13789885
I do not think generalizations are bad, you just have to remember they are general.

>>13789895
I would say that is a bit of a good thing. You dont tie down your identity to one trite aspect. Id recommend Kierkegaard about the self.

>>13789872
Read The Sickness Unto Death. It may be that you're suffering from despair of the first kind, despair at not yet having a self. But from your post I think this unlikely; you are introspecting and reflecting upon the self, and this is sufficient grounds to conclude that you do possess a self. Thus, you are either despairing at not willing to be oneself or despairing willingly to be oneself. As the latter is more the domain of the demoniac than the denizen of 4channel, I may conclude that you despair at not willing to be yourself. Then there is something else you will to be but are not. Manifestly, since the self is a relation between the self and its own self, you exist in a state of disrelation between your self and itself. That is, the relation between the infinite in you and the finite in you is a disrelation. The class of despair to which you seem to pertain is precisely that in which the will is towards the infinite, not the finite. You seek Art, Truth, Beauty, etc., on some level; this is why you come to our imageboard with philosophical questions. You will little or not at all the concrete or the finite. This is the usual position of young men. The corrective attitude is the double movement (described in Fear and Trembling). The first movement is one of infinitude and thus appreciable by you and accessible to you, the infinite resignation. Relinquish first your hope; accept that, though you were promised an entire self, you have not this. The second movement is that which few can make, since it is a move of finitude; it can only be made by those who by reflective nature are capable of the infinite but who have not fallen into the lure of the infinite. After the infinite resignation, one must recapture the self as a finite object, as if by virtue of the absurd. To do so is to recognize the self as transparently grounded in the Power which constituted it, and to be in such a condition is to be free from despair, or disrelation between the self and itself.