/lit/ - Literature

I think /pol/ is fantastic and people who don't like it genuinely got filtered

The more I learn about Hinduism the more I hate the Indian people

>>17597768
>I think /pol/ is fantastic
How? Its funny, thats for sure, but the majority of people there are just racist zoomers

I've been researching anime, manga and japan and could help that saudi Arabian guy that made a thread on it. But I don't want to so Im not.
Don't tell him though, this is just between us.

>>17597772
holy based

Bloody hell, I can no longer see the name Raoul in any french work without immediately thinking of Lupin.

>>17597765
New threads should be posted once bump limit is hit, but I'll let you have this one.

>tfw have to read a bunch of shit I don’t want to read just to get the degree
>have to balance all this garbage literary intake with the kino I actually want to read and then work and social life on top of that
University is a meme bros. Why the fuck am I, a euro, having to read and write an essay on contemporary African feminism novels and shit? Just let me do what I fucking want!!!!!!!
Next is “reading gender and sexuality” and I have to read a bunch of novels by nobody women and literal trannies (all from the last 20 years of course) about “lgbtq” shit
FUCKING KILL MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! KILL
MEEEEEE KILL MEEEEEEEEEEE

>>17597799
based OP posting the thread early to stop the kpopfag from making one with his waifus

>>17597772
Indian here. I hate Hinduism too. If my people would ease off the fanaticism, we'd actually end up being superpower one day.

alright, trump is gone (who knows if he will run again or play kingmaker), gop will return to being milquetoast neocons who appeal to no one and democrats will be neoliberals, there is no difference between the two parties besides cultural wedge issues that dont effect the rich.
In all likelihood, the Democrats will do very little to make people’s lives significantly better, as the party’s main leadership answers to their own set of Wall St and corporate lords.

With the demographic shift it will be impossible for republicans to gain office again, the entirety of america will be transformed into California. a bunch of slums filled with junkies while the rich live in gated communities. The total victory of the neoliberal democrats will lead to an advanced decay of just about everything.

After all is said and done build a new route to China if they'll have you


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB6sXiZ1ldw

>>17597774
>they're creative and productive (you can now see even very big political figures retweeting memes or adopting language that has its origins on /pol/)
>it moves very fast and generates content by trial & error (anything that doesn't bait hard enough 404s rapidly so it's speedrun evolution)
>they are not pretentious and don't consider themselves intelligent so they have no shame or standards that would impede them from speaking their mind
>they redpill newfriends en masse on jews despite every other website being politically correct
>they make every other board seethe, they're incorruptible from pure autism, an deep down they're nice people once you get to know them
>they're just funny

>>17597799
A little rule breaking is okay if it means we get to see a nice bird

>>17597799
But the other thread hit the bump limit retard

>>17597814
nope, just bumped it.

>>17597892
Is 300 not the bump limit anymore?

>>17597919
310 or 320, I forget which. One board I am on is one this one is the other.

I feel like Nietzsche's philosophy is a way for him to cope with his self-admitted Germanic barbarism and inferiority complex. He knows Christianity is not barbaric and he knows he has an impulse to attack it and he knows it's wrong and he knows he's a good person and he just hopes to pose himself as an antagonist justified by creating opposition to advance the Good.

>>17597768
I occasionally post on /pol/ and engage in their banter as though I was one of them and like minded, but only because of my schizotypal tendencies that refrains from adhering to or retaining a cohesive belief system. More than half the time I am posting in leftist threads and arguing the polar opposite perspectives.
I attribute my behavior to one of three causes
1. Schizoid personality disorder
2. Anarcho-egoism
3. A metaphysical recognition of the multivalence of truth and the convergent aspects of all realities

>>17597986
you sound more like you're just underage and have yet to grow up no offence

>>17598003
Thisola. Self diagnosing with personality disorders is peak 15 year old.

>>17597810
Have sex

>>17598003
>>17598013
Fags. Say something smarter next time.

>>17597765
I posted this in the /WG/ thread (and the last /WWOYM/, but nobody answered. Can someone in here help me out?

I have a question: A character of mine (16-17) is orphaned in a car-wreck. Assuming they just emancipate him because he's so close to 18, what would he have to deal with? ie. paperwork, funeral costs, debts, hospital costs, etc. etc?
Is there a website where I can look this up?

Is learning to code just a meme now? What's the next 'just learn to code' that will net me a decent career? It seems like there are fewer avenues for getting a good job every passing day.

>>17598100
Learn to kiss ass

>>17597802
>REEEE WHY DO I HAVE TO STEP OUTSIDE OF MY ECHOCHAMBER TO GET A DEGREE ON A SUBJECT!?
it's a fuckin' mystery bro

My obsession with death, suicide, and disappearance is sick.

I used to go to this park as a kid, it was full of many large wooden sculptures, a good amount of them easily the size of a person. An immobile bestiary of ridged, sinuous shapes, a sea serpent, a giraffe, an Indian woman, triceratops and a Neanderthal man clutching a sharpened stave in his left hand. Each of them staring fixedly in whatever direction they were first set, those placed facing west forever chasing the setting sun with their gaze at it dipped below the propylaea of a municipal transit overpass. I didn't have a favorite sculpture I could mention here, in fact the lot of them used to creep me out. If I had to guess the reason why it was the way each sculpture was painted, it was how they were given identity, the false life breathed into each, golems made of inert matter, homunculi. The uncomplicated paint job applied to each, demure arboreal notes of ocher and dark green punctuated by sprightly Aztec pigments, dashes of blood red and luminous Incan gold demarcating dorsal spines of the sea serpent and the feather headress of the Native American in rustic broad strokes. I'm not sure how to go about describing it right, from close up it resembled a child's work, but from afar, when you could see how the gestalt came together the level of skill involved in painting these homunculi was clear to see. The eyes especially, great white saucers done up as bugged-out sclera, a simple ensconcing of paint in their center making the iris, simple configuration but what eyes they were! Gaze upon one of these golems, and it gave the impression that it were looking past you, you were insignificant, one was gripped with animal fear at some fact of life only a sea serpent or Neanderthal man could ken. As a child I couldn't meet their gaze, not with these Gorgon-victims not turned to stone like in the myths but to this artfully besprent wood. To match their look was to be petrified yourself, become one of the park's carvings, to stare mutely east for an eternity with simple, sclera painted as sterling white as albumen.

>>17598100
No such thing as a decent career. There won’t be one.

>>17598100
You should learn to code because coding is neat. At its best it is an encapsulation of thought in symbolic form. You literally see your thoughts become reality and control phenomena. At it's best, it's a godlike. At its worst, and like most things it is more likely to be shitty than good--it's a horrid chore.

As someone in the field let me give you some sage advice. If you're just in it for a job stay clear away. The market is saturated. Code "boot camps" pump out hapless suckers by the bakers dozen on the regular. The market is heavily in favor of highly skilled, proven coders. There are virtually no junior roles unless you are blessed by dumb luck or have a connection. All job offers highball, asking for the world, and given how the market is today, they can afford to hire a single wiz who solves all their problems rather than a team of a dozen junior programmers who need training and direction.

If you aren't naturally drawn to computing or programming languages don't subject yourself to this hell.

>>17597951
I think that Nietzsche’s hatred for Christianity was, in fact, driven by a longing. Where Eastern and Nicene Christianity has always held that the goal of life was theosis, Western Christianity (Catholicism, Protestantism) created this image of life where the goal was some sort of moral perfection and thus, the moral arms race of the West was created. Nietzsche’s hatred of this poorly considered morality is revealed in his On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense. He was actually rather obsessed with morality and saw it as something which was occluding whatever he saw in the Greeks, Germans, and truth generally. But this means Nietzsche only ever had any ideas in relation to that morality. He only ever had any ideas in relation to Christianity. If Nietzsche was actually an atheist, he would’ve called himself as such and moved on. But he rejected scientific man, retreated into a world of myth of mystery, and called himself the anti-Christ. Fr. Seraphim Rose notes that it’s in precisely this that Nietzsche proves his intense hunger for Christ and I think that’s true. He never espoused a full on rejection, but rather a lashing out against what he had known as Christianity precisely because he intensely desires a more complete, more satiating experience of God. In his parable of the mad man, he is the madman.
> Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!"

>how long do you think you could survive hanging upside down?

why doesnt it sound grammatically correct? ;( how can i rephrase it so it sounds better

I am not at peace.

>>17598141
Good effort post.

>>17598100
Its not a meme

Don't get me wrong, it is sad that it is not a meme. Society forced it not to be a meme. But the people seething and calling it a meme are just coping with the fact the current market doesn't give two shits about their degree

>>17597765
Do 22+ year olds even watch youtube creators? I'm not even talking about the average content, even niche creative content gets mainly watched by 14-17 year olds.

>>17598243
Red letter media are definitely watched by people in their 20s. Also you’re underestimating the amount of simp men of all ages who watch cute girls.

>>17598243
They do, teenagers are just louder about it.

>>17598141
>Where Eastern and Nicene Christianity has always held that the goal of life was theosis, Western Christianity (Catholicism, Protestantism) created this image of life where the goal was some sort of moral perfection
But these are pretty much the same thing

>>17598243
I watch dunkey

>>17598269
based

>>17598243
I only use youtube for music. I hate the aesthetics of all youtube videos they're too americanised

I'm a demoniac insomniac
Paranoiac hypercondriac
Blitzkrieg, always on the attack
Back to back I never slack
Eggshells, my enemies skulls they crack
Devour your soul like a snack
Stretch your soul out on a rack
And that's that, it's a fact.

>>17598300
>black culture

>>17598266
You’re mistaken.

As much as I recognize how much of a waste of money it is and all its devilry I could sure use a bump of cocaine right about now. It would honestly start my day on a fleet foot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeJDIzPxd0M

Should I join the Army? I don’t really want to do anything else and I don’t really think I’d fit in anywhere else. It’s either that or I go travel abroad by teaching or something.

>>17598355
We can't decide for you, anon. You'll just have to sit down, weigh all the pros and cons and make your own decision.

>>17597809
P O L I T I C S

At this point it doesnt matter. Both sides just get you all heated up about the other side (once THEYRE in control everything will go to shit). It doesn't matter, they're gunna do what they're gunna do. Best to ignore it and keep on keeping on.

>>17598374
Yeah, I know. I’m struggling to weight my pros and my cons is where I’m at.

>>17598349
How so? Theosis requires moral perfection and moral perfection results in theosis.

>>17597809
>The total victory of the neoliberal democrats will lead to an advanced decay of just about everything.
It’s going to be maddening watching how it’s spun though. Like when crime is up, when there are more rolling blackouts, when there are more homeless, how will it be brushed off?

>>17598428
Let’s not get hung up on the term “moral perfection” since really, that is ambiguous. What you see in the West is a situation where Christlike morality is the ultimate end goal where in the East what you see is union with God as the end goal. The implications there are totally different and it’s not even clear that the sort of catharsis required for theoria are necessarily via the same morals as those that became the be all end all in the West. In fact, they’re clearly not if you ask me. Consider that “perfect” can mean different things in these different churches.

Sex is actually not appealing or beautiful. Imagine how bizarre many aesthetically beautiful romances would be if they were brought down to perverse realism of pornography. The beauty would be sapped.

>>17598445
>Consider that “perfect” can mean different things in these different churches.
But that's just a corruption of understanding. In principle, 'perfect' is one and only. I think I get what you're saying but it sounds to me that you don't speak of different principles but rather different understandings of the same principles. Or rather just a corruption of the concept and thus Nietzsche was angry at a misunderstanding and not the essence. I don't think Nietzsche was so foolish to be led astray by apperances like this.

>>17598463
Maybe but when misinterpretation becomes doctrine and praxis, what then is difference? There’s a whole number of examples you can point to but I think the two which illustrate this best are in church attitudes towards war and love. In the early Church as in the East, neither of these are things which are considered immoral in themselves. War, a just war, could in fact be something consecrated and become sacred as can love and sex, both acts which could actually bring a person closer to God. Yet, in the West what you’ve seen is a total moral rejection precisely because the Western goal is moral perfection. Catharsis doesn’t necessarily imply universal pacificism, at least, I don’t think it does. In the West these have become universally gross, despised even. The Western church that is obsessed with turn the other cheek morality, prima Scriptura or sola Scriptura morality, universal moral values is precisely the church that Nietzsche knew and that’s, I think, one of the many reasons Nietzsche was obsessed with morality, if not for morality itself, then as something which occluded something.

I wish I learned guitar when I was younger.

My contempt for people and social interaction has reached an intensity I never knew before. My view of life has never been more hopeless. I had a surgical operation two days ago and ever since I feel a deep hatred towards the fact that I have to endure life. And the fact that most people enjoy life mindlessly. The fact that most people get old and still affirm life in all regards. The fact that most people never have to deal with pain and a body that doesn't work like it's supposed to. And also the fact that people who have to deal with pain and physical illness have a loving family and loved ones and friends whom support them. The fact that in addition to my failing body mental illness makes it impossible for me to even feel relaxed for one second. I wish the anesthesia would have lasted forever. Now the wounds hurt and this morning I fell almost into faint. I'm literally on my knees from the pain. Maybe I should use this opportunity to pray. Yeah. Haha.

>>17598568
I don’t know what else to say other than to say I sympathize. I somehow came across this last night and almost cried when I realized what it’s about.
https://youtu.be/NIqm73xsias
I guess we can know there are others out there even if we’ll never be real to each other. Maybe I should pray too. I’ll pray for you.

do you think any kind of polical arrangement can be not awful? maybe somekind of theocracy

I wish incest and cannibalism were normal :(

>>17598590
no, all that matters is that the rulers are well-intended and competent. you can't have this for long because corruption exists. it's just a fact of life that we go through bad and good times. doesn't matter if it's democracy, monarchy, fascism, etc. bad leaders will still take control at some point. but that's ok that's how we evolve as a species and become stronger

what is my political orientation? i am for anarchist primitivism under ground, so that big business cannot find you. if that can't work, and, frankly, i don't think that it can, then i am for politics by chance – i don't think there is a name for this system yet. it draws its legitimacy from the fact that there is no political system in which corruption does not sooner or later run rampant. human nature runs counter to the moral organisation of large masses (over 100 people). therefore, fate should be left to rule by dice – a chance-based democracy.

>>17598631
>what is my political orientation? i am for anarchist primitivism
12 year old-ism

>>17598631
You might like Ernst Jünger.

>>17598568
You're not alone. Many, many people have experienced and experience what you are right now.
I don't know if that validating for you, but it is for me.

>>17598106
>reading feminist and lgbtq literature is essential to having a literature degree
Imagine being this brainwashed kek. Theres literally not enough time in life to finish the canon, why waste enough precious time on shitty books

What causes someone to develop such vitriolic contempt to the world? I think back on my own youth and from a young age I too felt alone, despondent, misunderstood. I hated the world and the people around me, but I was never bullied. For me, that turned into not a vitriolic contempt for the world and people around me like you see in school shooters but rather a vitriolic contempt for myself and my seemingly total inability to adapt to the circumstances of the world and modern life, but still, not to the degree of something like cutting although close. What causes someone to go where I went as opposed to where they went?

>>17598739
>kek
all of your opinions are worthless

Getting drunk with qt malaysian girls is a good time but also incurs a karmic malus that must be attoned for

>>17598778
kek

>>17598587
>>17598729
Thank you brothers. It ain't much as lastly everyone has to go through this alone. The best we can do here is to remind ourselves that even though we ultimately are alone, as individualized beings, we share a common experience of suffering that transcends us as individuals. This is what Schopenhauers concept of compassion was aiming at I like to believe. Paradoxically I find solace in Schopenhauers words in times like these.

we are all in the same boat. when one laughs, another cries, i feel neither joy nor pain, but i think to myself silently: these ones feel for all of us. i cannot bridge the difference between me and the others, but i ask myself why it should not be enough for me if they feel joy and sorrow. a little sad, a little happy, a little left out, watching.

What do you say in this situation

>>17599099
GOETHE IS BASED AS FUCK

>>17597802
Those kinds of assignments/classes are a breeze though. You know exactly what they want you to say, making it no problem to let it slide in one ear and out the other.

Most people write badly because they don't write the way they speak. The advantage of writing is that you can say what you have said again and better.

Each day I doctor up a workable fiction of myself. It is hard going.

How do you know if you have talent in something? Does it really only appear in young age?

>>17599230
You try doing that something, going through tutorials or whatever to help you learn how to do it. If you make fast progress and give out better and better results, you have talent.

>>17599230
I don’t know. The only thing I’ve ever consistently gotten praise and compliment for is my writing ability but well, here I am.

>>17599230
if by talent you mean something you're born with, then it's probably a bit late to acquire a new one – nevertheless, time enough to find a talent that was hidden.

>>17599267
>nevertheless, time enough to find a talent that was hidden
But is that true? I’m in my late twenties and I’ve discovered several things I’m now interested in which I wasn’t in youth. I don’t see how I could possibly even explore all of them let alone a dedicate myself enough to prove or disprove any sort of talent especially given how prevalent distractions are.

>>17599230
you compare your progress to others. for example when i learn a new language i can notice i don't learn it faster than other people so i'm not talented at this. when i started doing programming in high school i noticed i was learning much faster than my peers so i identified i was talented at that.

i had no idea the 9th and final skywalker star wars movie came out already like 2 years ago

Another morning. Time to work on my skills. Thank God above I have this wonderful life that allows me to enjoy the blessing of being a fool.

>>17599491
>>17599491
>>17599491

>>17599475
it's awful

>>17599267
>enough to find a talent that was hidden
how do you do it?

going through some kind of religious doubts. I have been talking to other practitioners but I feel bad about it. It's like I'm arguing against their faith commitments too. Still I don't really know what else to do. At the same time the whole thing mostly just manifests as some kind of brain-fog. I'm not even sure what I'm doubting any more, but I'm pretty sure I am.

>>17600214
Not him but I suspect it’s a process of self discovery. You need to pick up the thing and apply focused effort and not just for a fleeting moment, but actually enough to move beyond beginner engagement. It would probably become clear then if you have a natural talent for the thing or even if you don’t, and it’s still worth it anyway.

I’m fat :(

>>17600256
same here.
115 kg.

>"The sketch of Parsifal which Wagner read to us recently is filled and permeated with the essence of Christianity . . . I am willing to confess that most of our poets who are regarded as Christian-Catholic stand far behind Wagner in their religious sentiments."
- Franz Liszt

Why aren't you READING Wagner?

>Wein und Brot des letzten Mahles
>wandelt' einst der Herr des Grales
>durch des Mitleids Liebesmacht
>in das Blut, das er vergoss,
>in den Leib, den dar er bracht'.

>Blut und Leib der heil'gen Gabe
>wandelt heut zu eurer Labe
>sel'ger Tröstung Liebesgeist
>in den Wein, der euch nun floss,
>in das Brot, das heut ihr speist.

>Nehmet vom Briot,
>wandelt es kühn
>zu Leibes Kraft und Stärke;
>treu bis zum Tod;
>fest jedem Mühn,
>zu wirken des Heilands Werke!

>Nehmet vom Wein,
>wandelt ihn neu
>zu Lebens-feurigem Blute,

>froh im Verein,
>brudergetreu
>zu kämpfen mit seligem Mute!

>Selig im Galuben!
>Selig in Liebe!

>Selig im Liebe!

>Selig im Glauben!

https://youtu.be/dzeNnoMmsjM?t=5764
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-xxhBia0s

>>17597810
I'm glad another anon has been able to see the obvious in the value of /pol/.

Too many pseuds insecure about their intelligence on /lit/.

>>17598109
Have you written anything else Id be able to read?

>>17600246
but dont you have a leaning towards a certain thing first?

The tree is so high ooven
So, so hooven

>>17600596
not really, I like to make shitposts here from time to time so maybe you've already read something of mine in that way. why? should I write more?

I am fundamentally severed from mankind almost all the time. then some very few times, I am perfectly in tune and charming. I believe I am given those times to keep me going

I don't know what to do with the rest of this day, and I'm dying

>>17598552
why not now rather than when you were younger?

>>17601137
you should read

>>17600434
You doing anything to lose it?

>>17600925
Sure but “leaning” is a vague term. Do you mean to imply to you don’t have any one thing which at least looks appealing to you?

>>17601212
>Do you mean to imply to you don’t have any one thing which at least looks appealing to you?
Actually no, hence my stupid questions.

>>17597772
This but the opposite way.

>>17601304
The more you hate Indians the more you learn about Hinduism?

>>17601277
Well, surely there are things you feel an affinity for. You’re on a /lit/ board. Do you feel an affinity for literature?

>>17601194
>>>/pol/

>>17601356
I like reading as it helps (atleast i want to think that) to understand myself better and exposes to different new ideas and perspectives. However, i dont lie to myself regarding writing because i just dont have any ideas regarding short stories or books nor i have any capacity for interesting and captivating writing style to make in any /lit/ related field.

>>17601389
Is it not possible that, just like reading, writing can help you understand yourself and expose you to new ideas and perspectives?

I guess my point here is that I kind of know how you feel. Personally, I suffer from what I guess we can call depression and anomie. I have for as long as I remember. In me too, that’s caused a feeling like I’m not innately interested or talented in any thing and honestly, that’s probably true for me and true for you. But just like you, I’ve found something valuable enough to at least cope in literature, reading it, writing it, escaping into it and to a lesser extent, other arts like music and painting. I don’t really fancy myself to be any sort of naturally talented writer. It wasn’t like I had this deep affinity for books as a 15 year old. I just write because I’ve found it’s what helps me keep rolling so that’s what I want to do. I just removed the rationalization and felt it. So what I’m trying to say to you, is when you feel like there’s nothing you are talented at, or nothing you feel you want to do, maybe look for something you feel like you have to do. That’s what I’ve done and in the least, it’s given me something as opposed to nothing so can keep rolling.
https://youtu.be/NIqm73xsias
(I know this is the 2nd time I’ve posted this here, but message resonates a lot)

If none of this is helpful to you please disregard me. I’m only trying to help.

When I was around 12, my father lent me a textbook from his college psychology course since I was curious. It was a fascinating book, and there's things from it I still remember today. The most revelatory section for me though was the handful of pages on sibling psychology. Based on your position in the sibling hierarchy, it goes, your personality will steer itself towards a set of traits. The oldest brother of a set of brothers will be the most masculine and develop some leadership skills in watching over the younger ones. A lone girl in a family of boys is also likely to turn out more rugged. Predictable stuff, you know.

It surprised me because the prediction it gave for me was true. I'm the younger brother to an older sister, and it said that guys raised this way will have an easier time connecting with women. Until reading the book, I'd never considered it, but I realized it's true. Not in a romantic sense, but in a way where it's really easy to make acquaintances with girls because they don't seem to have their guard up around me to begin with. Pretty much everyone I got to know in my last year of high school was a girl for that reason, it just unconsciously happened. Still, I dunno if it's a good thing. I have a harder time connecting with other guys, and I'm not sure girls being open to you as an acquaintance translates to romantic success at all. It's just a slightly weird thing with me I haven't seen other guys mention having. Wish I still had that book.

Dad is asking me if he can come visit again tomorrow. Why? Why is he like this? 11 years I didn’t see the guy. Why didn’t he want to visit when I was 16? When I was 20? Where was he then? Now he’s all about coming to be helpful or give advice or whatever it is he wants and whatever, I don’t know. I’m uncomfortable. I don’t like this. It makes me seethe thinking he fancies himself a mentor or something. I love my my father, because he’s my father. I don’t love him because he’s ever given me good advice. He hasn’t. I don’t love him because he’s ever been there for me. He hasn’t. I don’t love him because I think he’s an admirable human. He isn’t. How can he not realize this?

>>17601544
what was that book?

>>17601544
that sounds like adlerian psychology

>>17601585
Wish I remembered the name. It came out in the 70's I think, college textbook, the cover was ivory-colored and the pages had black-and-white illustrations. Some of the pictures were pretty creepy. There was a fascinating section on sleep deprivation that taught me of the DJ Fripp and his "Wake-a-thon" where he stayed up for 30-40 hours and began to see spiderwebs covering his vision. I doubt that's enough info but it's all I remember.

>>17601527
>writing can help you understand yourself and expose you to new ideas and perspectives?
that's a good question. i try to write a diary but my writing style is like 13 year old, there's just no style but rather mechanical thoughts.
>maybe look for something you feel like you have to do
i try to find the natural leaning without forcing myself into something but that clearly doesnt work or i'm too dumb to notice.
you do help anon.

What were some good nazi sympathizing writers apart from Hamsun and Celine?

It’s another day waiting for something else to arrive. Not much changes in the slightest sense. You get a bit older, feel a bit less energetic. Is this really what the champions of life proclaim to be the good life? Quite clearly there’s been an additive buffment of sorts which idolizes a meandering abouts of which we aren’t even sure why to be the case. Will it ever end? Is this life doomed to be repeated? Is reincarnation possible? I am rather enthralled with the fact that we’ve been unable to answer even the slightest perturbation into the narcissistic writers who proclaim such grandness.

>>17597765
tfw had genuine and potent profoundly beautiful religious experience from an Aristotelian argument that I know to be certainly false. One of his that modern knowledge certainly proves wrong. The sheer beauty of his thought though caused me to have a profoundly reverent few minutes, I felt as if the heavens had descended into me for a moment. Yet I know his argument wasn’t truthful, how can this happen? I have very mixed feelings about this.

>>17601762
Schmitt, Heidegger, Junger (yeah I know he wasn't a Nazi but close enough for modern culture), Jung, etc. A whole array.

>>17601944
>Jung
>nazi sympathizing writers
what?

>>17601933
I had exactly this type of experience repetitively (if you follow that strand you'll have more of them) when I was younger, of course I didn't understand it but I always followed it in some way, or made sure to try to frame and remember it. Just ponder it for a few weeks, and after mulling around and fermenting in your head, you'll have an answer at least for the time being.

Unironically read Jung, it's not about taking literally what Jung says, but understanding what he provides for understanding your own experience.

>>17601954
Yes, it's still slightly controversial but he was luckily able to slip out of it post-WW2 because many people just took his philosophy/psychology in a secular humanistic way. But not just what he said and did prior to and during WW2, but what he continued to do after makes it a fact.

Jung believed in the racial character of the collective unconscious, he believed in the inferiority of the jewish psyche, he believed they never created their own culture, he believed Hitler was a mystical prophet and the personification of the Wotan-God among the German peoples. There's also a kind of interesting interview with Jung about world dictators:

https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2020/11/13/carl-jung-on-diagnosing-the-dictators-2/#.YDGIRmgzbIU

>>17601201
I'm trying but it's too hard. My life is very sad and food is the only source of happiness.

>>17601944
Heidegger was a carrierist and a Christian theologian much more than he ever was a nazi

>>17602184
>Heidegger was a carrierist
Why do people (you) keep saying this?

>>17597802
this sounds too ridiculous to be true. post proof

my logic professor went berserk a few days ago because apparently too many people cheated on the online tests. He wrote an email saying everyone will have to do it again, this time irl. Thankfully he pulled back but man now I kinda regret cheating on the first two of the three tests. The e-mail read like he was genuinely hurt

>>17602063
I often eat as a coping mechanism with stress, anxiety, and depression. I’m the total opposite of the much more romantic skinny depressive aesthete. I’ve had success with fasting in the past. Maybe you could try it.

>>17601944
> Jünger
Anon, I...
He wasn’t “close enough” at all. Heidegger was at least at one point a card carrying Nazi.

>>17602266
What was the format? If it wasn't a locked browser then he's a fool for expecting anyone not to cheat. Being free to cheat is one of the small recompenses students get for putting up with online courses.

Today was another day of me struggling to get through the day. I don't know what I want out of life anymore other than it making me tired enough to sleep well. That's my philosophy: I live so I can sleep. Obviously I want things to be different and start living a more satisfying life somehow but I don't know how. Well, not smoking would be a start but I can't bear my (lack of a) life without cigarettes. When I don't smoke, I feel how empty I am and how nothing is real to me/everything is like a joke to me. When I smoke I don't feel it, I just think about it like its ok, just facts of life to work with.

So actually, I know what to do but I don't really want to do it.

>>17602266
how did they cheat?

>>17597765
today i went to the city, got some art stuff and took photographs. today was a good day.

>>17602288
But is fasting sustainable in the long run besides quick weight loss?

>>17601083
Different guy. You and I write similarly and I've won contests and got published etc etc. You could absolutely make it. Just have a good idea for a story. What is true? What is a genuine, cool observation you've made? Go for it bro, just say something BIG.

I want a baby. I love their little hands and fat faces!

>>17602510
Then have a baby, I would love to be a father one day. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. It is a gift directly from God, who loves you immensely.

>>17602478
I think it so. I actually think it’s the most sustainable way and the only one that’s ever really been very doable for me. The e biggest hurdles are just the willpower to start and the willpower to see it through.

I really don’t want to move to a foreign country and write in its language that I’ve been learning for several years but I feel like a fraud doing that. It seems like I should just somehow end up there incidentally.

>>17602366
>>17602441
the test was run on my uni's own platform. You had 30 minutes for one test, each had 100 points and you'd need 150/300 ultimately to pass. The way they were constructed was actually fucking retarded. Most of it was multiple choice type stuff. Once you're done with a task the test will show you which answer was the correct one, even if you're not actually finished with the test.
This was obviously open gates for people to meet up on discord or whatever and giving each other the correct answer. They could've used other established online test platforms which are 10 times more secure but no they wanted to create their own, and that's what they've got. The fact that the tutors and my prof (who created this shit) did not think this through and basically expected everyone not to cheat is just hilarious desu. But still, I feel bad because the tests weren't actually hard and I could've gotten my 150 points without cheating.

I think the people in these threads read the least on /lit/ and they're the dumbest on the board too

>>17602614
Now that you’re here, probably.

>>17602614
who cares, let people vent r*dditor

>>17602596
Sounds stupid
It really blindsided me how much I hate online learning once we began depending on it
I feel that professors should understand easy cheating and multitasking are just natural parts of online classes, and it's pointless to try and fight it since their resources are better spent on something else

>>17602570
Thank you. I agree. The gift of life and the ability to create it is the one of the most special and beautiful things God has given us. I cannot wait to meet my future children and to love them, teach them, learn from them, and raise them right. God bless you, anon!

>>17602774
God Bless you, anon.

>>17602614
UPDOOT

A day or two of deviation from my routine and my habits, and I'm plunged into dark territories and old sadnesses, suddenly I can't carry my past anymore, and I cannot see the future.
It's so terribly, what? Fragile, feeble, stupid? How much of clarity depends on banal routines, clean habits of living, it feels so dumb that it must be this way, and so little can destabilize it, how much it hurts to really know that everything matters

>>17601527
posts like these is why I keep coming to 4chan rather than any other social media platform, you're not trying to scam someone, or talk endlessly about nothing, you're just helping. Thank you

The debacle in Texas proves once again the catastrophic social consequences of public divestment in infrastructure and the total failure of a privatized system to effectively coordinate in the event of a crisis. Seeing these disgusting people in the Texas state government scatter like cave insects exposed to light as they shift blame over the crisis and dissimulate only reaffirms my belief.

>>17602266
Happened to me last semester with a theory of computation teacher. First time I saw a teacher getting hurt. Fags were so dumb, they didn't realize the teacher was in the whatsapp group where they talked about the course lol. I didn't cheat though.

>>17603022
apparently there were multiple whatsapp groups in my class, some of which got caught, but the tutors couldn't identify the phone numbers with anyone in particular so nothing really happened I guess.
>>17602683
Yeah I just hate the whole digital learning shit in general. trying to focus in a zoom class is oddly hard. sometimes I nearly fall asleep. Something about it just makes me so tired.

>>17597799
it's okay bro, I got the next one

>>17603063
KILL YOURSELF

Is a Masters degree in a STEM field worth it even if it comes with debt?

>>17602774
I’m terrified of being a father.

>>17603290
In my opinion, no.

>>17603290
Yes, you'll be able to pay that off in no time.
>>17603316
why?

>>17603328
I don’t have a positive view of college overall but I think masters degrees are particularly valueless especially in this case since I’ll assume you already have a bachelor’s degree in the field.

>>17597765
I can't wait until you faggots all get absorbed into your own pretentious hateful phantasmagorical hell, and we'll have a cattle branders to give you your favorite fucking subversive parasite star inside and outside your being. You fucking losers.

>>17602614
it's true
these threads are filled with students, it's truly nauseating

>>17603290
no, only do upper degrees if you're funded

>>17597772
I find Hinduism interesting and insightful but I don't like Hindus

>>17597772
not all of us are Hindus
no religion is perfect
pls no bully

>>17597772
>>17603897
I know one indian girl online and she tells me emphatically that indian men are the worst of the worst, so I feel completely justified in any type of anti-curry racism

>>17597765
I'm confused on how to achieve true control /lit/ on one hand there is the school of thought that denying pleasure is a form of self control but I've heard that through true debauchery you can actually achieve a higher state of mind. I don't know which to believe as I've both gone very long on little food, no alcohol, no sex, etc. Yet I have also had long bouts of hard sex regularly, hard drugs, binge drinking, and violence. In both states I felt a greater sense of self though a different self. The first left me feeling physically well but stagnant somehow as if a part of me was starving as the rest was healthy. The other made my body strangely vital in a way but sick. I felt my pulse more, felt better in the moment but had days of sickness. My mind was at a similar state of true clarity in both one a feeling of true calm the other a high so great it almost went full circle and I felt like I was close to a great truth about the human condition. In the latter I felt both as less than a dog and more than a man. I was vital, I was strong, I was out of control. But I was dying somehow. I can't tell which feeling I preferred but right now i'm neither as I've neither returned to hard discipline nor gone back down the path of hedonism. I miss feeling one or the other and just feel sort of hollow now...

>>17597765
'yeah mama this surely is a dream' is constantly looping in my head, help pls

uuuu

>>17603914
>one indian girl
>one

Man, I’m a pretty cold person, emotions are hard to really strike into me. But I just learned about the concept of a “comfort character” and as I google it, I see images of funko pops and people talking about how they imagine characters from their favorite media comfort them when they’re alone, don’t have anyone, depressed and so forth, and it really hit.

This stuff is really the friend, family and even spiritual comfort for a sizeable portion of people. Even seen people talking about how they have dreams about these characters being there as their friends and helping them.

I get the waifu thing at some level, I get the /a/ and /r9k/ types, they’re romantically starved and partially joking, many moved by just libido. But this is just, raw loneliness and lack of fulfillment, with funko pops as their only escape. I think at least with higher art it’s more respectable, they’re still doing an intellectual and ideal activity, they’re not grasping at what amounts to a rag-doll to comb its hair and pretend it’s combing their hair.

Just hit me, you know?

>>17604000
yep, she's quite amazing

/lit/ just isn't doing it for me anymore. sometimes it's so addictive, but lately i'm not feeling it.

I'm going to be 22 years old

>>17603912
Any pages on it being a doll?

>>17604331
yes but that was discussed more in volume 1. volume 2 mentions wickermen

>>17604313
It only goes by faster and faster. I’ll be 26 this year and I have absolutely no fucking clue what has been going for the past 7 years. It seems like one day I was 18 and then all of the sudden my 20’s are more than halfway done. It’s actually quite disturbing. I know it’s the vaguest shit I could say, but I just hope you aren’t wasting time.

>>17604313
>>17604473
The cult of youth is a falsehood. Life is here in one moment and in the next moment the life withers away without consideration or note.

Stop worrying about Youth, lack of youth or age. If you act like a young man who has time and has to live a young life, you will be found a fool when you have aged and it has proven pointless.

If you live the life of an old man as a youth you will also have wasted and ruined your life, finding you are not satisfied with how you have lived.


You have to live as a good man, a consistent man, and that is only possible by living life based on unchanging laws, an eternal foundation. Doing good in accordance with what you believe is eternally good never becomes sour in your mouth, you never look back in shame or waste of what is always Good. Only those temporary goods which are revealed to be evils must be done away with.

Obey and follow the Good, only then can you look at yourself and think “I have lived a good life”

>>17604473
I do all sorts of crazy shit normies don't even believe if I tell them but I'm pretty much entirely solitary and tfw no gf still sneaks up on me

>>17604313
Ever think of being an Ai sperm donor?

>>17604566
not him but I wish I could but can't because adhd and autism but it's fine because I've reconciled with the fact that I won't pass on my genes

>>17602587
I spent years waiting to end up in places I’ve always wanted to go to just by accident. But it never happened. I just had to go. Doing it spontaneously and with little planning made it feel better. I don’t know if that’s actually the best way though.

I feel like learning Italian. It's not quite as /lit/ as French or Russian but I believe northern Italian women are the most beautiful women in the world. Italian films are by far the most aesthetic too.

>>17604473
I feel this bro. Turning 25 soon and the quarter life crisis is creeping up on me. I am of course still very young, but for the first time in my life I no longer feel "freshly an adult". I know exactly what you mean by being one day 18 and then suddenly your mid 20s. I am no longer experiencing those adult things for the very first time (e.g. booze, drugs, sex, travel, moving out etc.) and there is now enough of a distance between now and then to be feeling a certain nostalgia. I'm not whining, since there is so much of my life left to go of course, but it is a unique feeling and one that is quite strange.

>>17597986
Very cringe 17 year old

>>17604674
What are your favorite Italian films? It's a bit of a blind spot in my watching so I'd like to see more

>>17604429
Title pls

i love you

>>17604875
You love the idea of me, not the real me.

>>17602577
Do you have in mind like 16/8, 20/4 fast or the classic no food for a day or two one?

>>17597765
Trump I kinda miss you, you crazy bastard. Also I saw our hare that hangs around our property tonight. I am happy for him. I hope he finds a nice hare female with some big tiddy of his liking.

>finds some free ebooks site
>covers look nice, non-related classical paintings, but at least my eyes don't hurt
>"Memoirs of Arsene Lupin"
>what's this, never heard
>turns out it's first translation of Countess Cagliostro
>Ralph d'Andresy

It's Raoul d'Andresy, he's French, their version of the name is Raoul.
My autism is flaring, since Raoul is literally his most used alias in the series, with various last names, Raoul d'Andresy being Lupin's real name from the time his mother had already abandoned his father and took back her maiden name (according to Queen's Necklace).
Makes me wonder what else did this translation change.

I love writing on a paper with a pen in cursive

>>17605142
>You love your idea of me, not my idea of me.
Fixed that for you.

It’s hard to write down everything I’m thinking. I’ve just been chillin recently. Logged off IG and SNAP. Haven’t really been uploading as much. Kind of just been lying around thinking about life. This whole pandemic thing sucks ass. Usually I’d go about in town but since the lockdowns I haven’t been able to really do shit. Been Smoking a lot of weed too, wondering if I should stop or if it doesn’t really matter. Haven’t really talked to any girls since the last girl I was talking too from over 6 months ago. There is this one girl but she’s my friends ex and she’s one of those girls that just sends a “hey”. Literally have been broke and jobless since I graduated high school. Bouncing around to different houses like my uncles, grandparents, moms, the car sometimes.

>>17605818
Stop smoking, hook up with the broad, get a job, get your own place.

>>17605816
But isnt that true?

>>17605870
Some people believe they are useless; then an outsider comes along and opens their eyes. Whether you are a good child or not, is something your parents can perhaps judge better than you can yourself. In some ways, your doctor knows more about you than you yourself do. Who we really are is a collection of stories, partly told by ourselves, partly by others. More precisely: we are the entire works of a writer - not the selected works.

>>17605934
How come one can have problem with truly evaluating yourself when you spend the most time with yourself? If anything other people see just a part of you.

>>17605934
>Whether you are a good child or not, is something your parents can perhaps judge better than you can yourself
Anon, think of your audience.

>>17597765
last night I dreamt that there were about 800 pepe thread's on this goddamn board.

Running out of patience with the midwit old men who think they’re transmitting some sort of wisdom for me.
Things might become explosive very soon and quickly.

>>17606181
It’s getting dangerously close to revenge time.

I don't want her i don't want her I don't want her I don't want her I don't want her

>>17606181
With Amy luck, you'll eventually be in their position. Young people are always retarded, and it takes a former young person to really understand how.

>>17606120
Last night I dreamt that I owed a blood debt to a yakuza boss. He strung me up from the ceiling and carved enormous chunks of flesh out from the sides of my body. My parents watched the whole thing, refusing to pay the ransom because it was too high. I kept calling on them to help but they wouldn't do anything. Then, just as the boss was about to slice open my belly I managed to get away. I ran away through labyrinthine hallways to safety. The dream ended with me alive but feeling incredibly betrayed by my parents.

What did it mean?

>>17606120
last night i dreamt about being under extreme pressure in the inside of body. it was so uncomfortable that i woke up in the middle of night.

>thread deleted immediately

fuck you jannies

>>17606197
It doesn’t matter. You cannot interfere in another adult’s life just because you think you know better. It is not your place to be doing that.

My patience is rapidly running out.

>>17606238
And it’s an ego thing with these old men.

Yes, soft skills are important. STOP INTERFERING IN MY LIFE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO FEEL LIKE YOU’RE HELPING.

You are not helping, period. It’s time to stop.

>>17597810
Your mistake is thinking that what happens on /pol/ is organic or that 'value' determines the survival/success of threads. It's not evolution but the effects of coordinated groups, bots, and shills that guide the discourse on pol. There is no evolution, only devolution.

>>17606201
you're dissatisfied with the relationship you currently have with your parents. The yakuza boss represents a persistent stressful situation, either personal, or just life in general.

>>17605142
I know you more than yourself.

>>17606279
I also never said I wanted these positions of influence.
You cannot just decide this for me and force it on me.

I am rapidly losing my patience and things are about to change very abruptly soon.

>>17606313
No way

>>17606294
seething leftshit detected

Are these the primordial feelings?

>love
>hatred
>fear

It feels like "fear" is out of place cause the other 2 are supposedly opposites and thus "fear" should perhaps be reducible to "hatred" or the other way around, but they feel different still. But then what's the opposite of fear? The opposite to fear seems closer to love than fear is close to hatred.

>>17606347
>But then what's the opposite of fear?
Maybe "lust".

>>17606337
It's hilarious how off this is. I think human rights is the worst thing to have ever happened to the west. I think it could easily be argued the left benefits from the existence of /pol/ if anything.

Lacadamonian

>>17597810
The most interesting thing about jews is that they are just like the nazis.

>>17604034
Based currycunny

>>17606362
seething nazi larp then. same shit. /pol/ is not your personal army. just because they're not promoting your idiocy it doesn't mean it's the effects of bots, that's just you coping. go ahead, shill some of your retarded ideas. it won't work. people invested a lot of money in swaying /pol/ and it didn't work

>>17606074
The mere fact that my subconscious is hidden from my view means that there is a blind spot in my self-perception, i.e. a missing piece of the puzzle of my real, objective self. So even if my self-perception were completely factual, a lot of things (of which my subconscious is a part) would remain hidden from me. All observations and explanations I make about myself suffer (in this example) from my ignorance of my subconscious, just as a mechanic's explanation of a car suffers from his ignorance of what is under the engine hood. This is just one piece of our ignorance and assumes that our perceptions are factual (though incomplete) and that our analyses are correct. However, we are mediocre observers and unreliable analysts, both of the world around us and the world within us. Our observations, even of things we can see (unlike our subconscious), are fuzzy, and our analyses soaked in emotion and fluctuating daily attitudes...

I ramble on and on because I can't quite put my finger on it. What I am in my own eyes has changed too often, too rapidly, too vehemently, from day to day, sometimes in an instant – I cannot with good conscience take my own opinion of myself completely to heart. What I have achieved, what I am worth, what I can do, what I want - these are all stories that I tell myself every day. Admittedly, there is a bit of truth in all of them, sometimes more, sometimes less, just like in legends. But between me and objective reality (I don't believe there is an objective reality, but only the totality of subjective reflections of something untouchable, but let's call it objective reality for simplicity's sake) between me and objective reality hangs a veil, a milky glass, a transparent mosaic, and I squint my eyes and try to make sense of the specters I see; but I never get a clear grasp of the image, and it is too vast to capture in a single glance, and I have to let my gaze dart from point to point, while the colors and shapes move around so quickly, ever changing, never being quite the same when I return to a point of the picture previously observed.

>>17606347
>But then what's the opposite of fear?
courage?

>>17606412
is courage a feeling? maybe spirit like Plato said

>>17606391
Can you truly understand yourself through others?

Should I study abroad in St Petersburg for a year bros?

>>17606431
I'd definitely say yes if I could. I always wanted to go to Russia

>>17606418
We can ONLY understand ourselves through others

>>17606418
In my opinion, there is no true self, no true understanding, only a multitude of interpretations which we perceive, rightly or wrongly, as more or less accurate. One will do well to give some priority to one's own interpretation, just as one will give priority to a scientist who has been working on a certain matter for some time over a second scientist who is just beginning to deal with the same subject. But that doesn't mean that the one who has been around longer has found the truth, nor that the one who is at the beginning can't make new discoveries. And neither of them will ever be able to claim to have discovered the truth, the one, unquestionable truth - they have read too much philosophy on the epistemology of science for that, or at the very least have heard of Kuhn's paradigm shift.

mods keep deleting threads about literature..

“Plebs annoy me,” Anon hissed. “They watch their Studio Ghibli and read their Harry Potter. It’s cringe!”
He spat his bitter words with due, erudite rage. His disdain for plebs was so strong, he felt as though the spirits of Achilles and Hercules had possessed him for a moment to allow him to pull off a heroic feat.

I can't even remember what I'm thinking about all day long. And yet, all I do is laying in my couch and think. Can I be happy ? Do I deserve to be happy in the first place ? My very nature is vile, all my words and deeds are inappropriate or nasty. When I try to finally give it a chance, when I try something different, it fails, because it was well-decided, way before I was born, that I had to be a failure, and that my very existence as a failure is a necessity so that life's machinery can continue spinning.

>>17606485
I dont have any idea about the self being as a fixed point but rather a person specific cognitive patterns.

>>17605283
I’ve done everything from 16 to 72 hours. They all work. Do whatever is the maximum you can actually do consistently and do binge in meals. It’s really that simple. It works precisely because it turns dieting into just 99% discipline.

I wish I could disappear.

>>17606646
Thanks anon, i'll probably start with 16/8 and take it from there.

I haven’t slept well in ages. Every morning I wake up with groggy, tired, irritated eyes and a feeling of lethargy so deep that I want to go to sleep forever. I know I can’t. I can’t even take a nap.

>>17606704
Go to a psychiatrist and tell them you’re probably bipolar

Ah shit, Slaves of Paris is 530 pages. Not really motivating, I'll have to look at it as string of chapters rather than one whole.

>>17606381
>doesn't mean it's the effects of bots,
imagine actually believing this

>>17598600
Incest I agree, but not cannibalism.

Recently I've started regaining a little bit of hope. Doing a few blind dates in the up coming weeks, nothing amazing but you know I'm getting out there again and that is fanning that little spark in my chest.

Really hoping I can get set up with a cute girl into books, I really want to sperg about the latest fantasy novels I read with someone. Or just to sit on a couch with a cup of tea and read together.

Well inside I know its probably not going to amount to much, but getting out and meeting some girls will be nice either way. So until then, I have at least a little bit of warmth and motivation to keep me going.

>>17604535
>I do all sorts of crazy shit normies don't even believe if I tell them

gib example

The internet is not the place for learning about politics or ideologies of any kind. It's for hanging out and a few laughs here and there. Nothing but a warped, vulgarised worldview based upon sophistry can come from prolonged political engagement online, one that falls to pieces when exposed to questioning irl.

>>17606729
I’m not bipolar.

>>17607039
Politics in general is just a slippery slope that leads to the nonsense we have now.

At the end of the day we all want the same thing, the only 'real' difference politically is the method in which you get there. The shit people whine about on /pol/ and other political areas aren't actually anything to do with politics or things people care about.

What people care about like things like jobs or the economy are things we can and should be able to have a meaningful dialog on. There is merits to both sides of the political spectrum.
>Hey I believe by giving tax breaks to businesses it'll allow them to expand and decrease prices for their products allowing more people to get jobs and increase the likelihood they put money back into the economy by buying these now cheaper products.
>That sounds like a good idea, however from past experience and what we can see currently that doesn't necessarily appear to be the case. When we look at what businesses actually spend their tax breaks on, it tends to not necessarily go back to the average employee and tends to go toward their upper echelons rather than going into new factories or research. Instead we should spend the tax money from what would have been a tax break directly to the citizens so that we know for sure its going where we want.
>Cool, but by giving it to citizens we see less of a long term impact and people aren't known for being intelligent with their money. Plus how do we determine who gets this money and for what purpose they get it?
actual politics has plenty to say on both sides and there's no reason anyone should be 100% invested in their way of thinking. Whether you agree or disagree with how to better the economy, you should be able to look at both sides objectively.

Things like trannies or BLM aren't real politics. Its things people posture about for the sake of moral high ground. And people don't hate those things because of a valid reason to hate it, they hate it because of 'principle' which is code for wanting to hate something for the sake of hating it without being personally affected by it. And if you actually went outside instead of reading twitter/4chan all day, you'd see literally nobody actually gives a fuck about it beyond putting a bumper sticker on their car.

>>17606527
HP is shit tier content, Ghibli is genuinely great and some of the best animated content ever created, how are the two comparable

>>17602494
thank you random stranger on the internet. you say you're published, is it possible I've heard of something of yours before? if I was going to write something longer, i would probably write a story about this place i dunno

I wish i'd be good at something to compensate my complete lack of intimate human relationships.

>>17597765
Value doesn’t seem to exist. All we can truly ‘achieve’ is contentment with our lot in life. All pursuits of virtue and vice are fundamentally flawed, leading nowhere but back to the base instincts of a human.

Once you understand you are human and nothing more, just as all humans are human, you truly understand your life, your being and can finally feel content. If you can not find contentment in your humanity, you are doomed to a life of pain and suffering.

Judge others not for their lot in life nor their contentment with life. They too are human and, as a result, are nothing to you another human. After all all humans are fundamentally self-centred. There is no such thing as selflessness as even good deeds are for one’s own ego and the furthering of their objectives, such as improving the conditions of a people to better the world you yourself live within.

To be human is to be selfish. To be human is to be ignorant. To be human is to be stagnant. You are you. They are they. Do not ruminate on they, understand and accept yourself. That is all you must do to be happy.

Or just be a whiny little faggot on the internet with pseudo-intellectual shitposting. I mean if that makes you feel fulfilled whatever, that’s your lot in life I suppose.

this game is so fucking fun

my head hurts so much that i can only lie down

>>17601933
what argument

>>17607989
me too bro. I can also hunch over like a cripple and that helps

veritas, claritas, brevitas

>>17607132
nice write-up teenie, I hope you don't mind if I economically ruin your country and "democratically" change your regime for my own profit. Politics is just a slippery slope after all and it's all about moral high grounds anyway, so why should you care, right?
Go consume your japshit like the nice little consumer boy that you are.

>>17608136
The soul is a principle of activity, the soul is what moves itself. Animate things move themselves, inanimate things do not.
Whatever moves itself, moves without being moved by another, has a soul.
The planets move themselves, the stars are fixed.
The planets are/have souls.

Bare in mind this is Cicero quoting and elaborating on an Aristotelian argument. Of course we now know that a planet is moved by physical things it’s just that there is nothing to stop it, also an animal takes in physical fuel which it uses to generate movement

i hate myself. i can't write. i can't enjoy anything for long. i can't grow up. everyone is a piece of shit and everything is depressing. going outside for walks is useless. i'm just going to give up. who cares?

>>17597768
I reallllllllly miss old /pol/. nu/pol/ is just edgy redditors with no depth

i wish i had a friend to spend time with.

How to escape this mundane reality into a reality where I’m the hero protag?

>>17608321
filtered

>>17608158
Its a weird feel when i start moving my head or eyeballs, it immediately starts twitching for a few times in my head. There are also hot and cold flashes.

>>17597768
pol just makes me sad like most people on most of these imageboards. it's not fun anymore. say cope and seethe and everything else you want but i just don't know anymore. the more i spend time on these sites the more i interrogate myself on the state of things and the more i feel like fucking killing myself. my brain is mush now because of all this.

>>17608351
me too. i feel like there's nothing out here where i live that i could find somebody like that. i don't want to bother people online. it's hard to find someone who genuinely cares.

>>17608521
You didn't say what you dislike so not sure if you should cope or dilate

>>17608521
/pol/ is absolutely neutered by shills directing the discourse there, there is never anything of value explained or accomplished or organized there. The mere fact that it's allowed to exist in the current internet is proof of it not being a threat. In the recent wave of deplatforming it was confirmed if it wasn't already obvious that fairly milquetoast Twitter conservatives are considered a bigger threat than /pol/, along with sites like gab and parler. The reasons for this should be pretty obvious, those sites have accounts that allow for stable networks to spring up, they reach the ears of a large number of normies, etc. /pol/ is a much smaller group of mostly alienated people who can't coordinate anything because the forum is anon and ephemeral, and spend most of their time replying to slide threads.

>>17608586
What shills schizo?

>>17608586
>anything of value explained
What's there to explain lmao

>>17608618
The hordes of 1 post by this id threads about inflammatory distractions. I open up the board right now and the first threads are
>shitpost about bullet proof glass in corner stores being racist
>conspiracy theory about crypto being a scam
>a thread literally discussing the absurd amount of shills
>a thread about the fucking Kinder egg
>a white nationalist pastor thread
>a thread about Covid masks
>krautpol
>''what are the racial demographics of hell'
>3 threads in a row complaining about things in the UK
>''niggers ruined miami beach''
>syria general
>a blogpost thread
>a thread about news tabloids of Ted Cruz


do you think anyone is even vaguely threatened by this nonsense?

>>17608539
i have a couple online friends who i talk to regularly, but I've never organically made a friend in person that i connected with. i agree that it seems like an impossible feat.

i don't have family and my work is done remotely so i rarely interact with anyone. it's hard to go so long with no physical interaction or companionship. i find myself wishing for someone to go for a walk or watch a movie with sometimes - such inconsequential activities that i feel a bit pathetic.

>>17608677
They usually just post shit like pic related because it's what they're interested in. Anti-white related content

>>17608682
that's not pathetic. someone might think it is but they're probably retarded pieces of shit anyways. it's a fine thing to wish for and do with someone. it's something i kinda wish for too myself.

it does feel like an impossible feat. every interaction is either awkward or strained, like everyone's in a hurry or nobody knows any better, or worse it just flat-out sucks when you realize you aren't actually talking to a genuine person but someone who's gobbled up dumb buzzwords and talking points from other people or places without a hint of interrogation, and that can be anybody, ranging from libtard to rightoid too. some people i know including my last psychologist was like this.

i have a family but i can't get my socialization from them only all the time and besides they're not my same age. i love them and i love talking to them sure but it's not the same. i wish there was a place designed for young adults where you could go to to actually meet people that wasn't work or church or bars.

Only a few hours left before 8 am Monday, the usual time I start waging and contemplate suicide. WFH had made my job hell too.

Im considering starting a cult to make money. I heard the jap cult in the 90s had almost a billion dollars in funds.
Whats the best way to go about this?
Any books to help me with this?

I don't understand why I am so profoundly un-enlightened. I think all I have to do, really, is stop making moves. Maybe explore being a degenerate (within bounds) for a while, not chase so much

>>17597765
>grey folds seething

>>17598141
Sabellienism is key to knowing why he regarded Jesus as an Overman, nonetheless

>>17608879
you're not gonna make shit

i think i made too much homemade hunter sausage, i can't stop farting
the pineapple did not help at fucking all

>>17608974
Yes i am, just you see

>>17608825
I'm a NEET stuck in job search hell, and I wish I was in your position. The grass is always greener, huh?

>>17609405
>job search lasting for 2.5 years now

My philosophy is the following: [blank]
The closest approximation to this is that my philosophy makes no claims, but that's also wrong because that in itself is a claim. So any kind of elaboration is infinitely far and away from and exactly my philosophy, but this claim itself is false as is saying it is false. I can only say nothing? Don't think of anything. Maybe. No. Yes. The more I try to elaborate the further and closer it gets to my philosophy, that is my philosophy. .

I have been given some peace and I am thankful for it. I'm in a pretty good mood. pretty... pretty... pretty good mood.

>>17601762
is that death in june on the right?

>>17608363
Start reading all the books on swords and other melee weapons you can find, check these links

http://myarmoury.com/feature_books_team.html
http://myarmoury.com/feature_books_nihonto.html
http://myarmoury.com/feature_books_polearms.html
http://myarmoury.com/feature_books_scot.html

Also just check out the myarmoury website in general, lots of good stuff in there.

>>17609942
looks like it.

>>17609405
Not really. Stuck between shit and shit isn’t exactly grass is always greener. Besides, if you’re a NEET you’re affording it somehow aren’t you?

>>17606951
I go for solo night dives, huge hikes or freeclimbs, normal people are too inhibited to do alone

Every time I think I’ve moved past racism, they go and do something that reaffirms it again.

I wish I didn’t have family so I could just feel okay about letting go already.

>>17610262
You ought to have realized that all people struggle, all people are bitter pieces of shit in general, and it is only their flavor that differentiates along borders like race and class

>>17609725
Empty sophistry

>>17608250
It's *bear*

>>17606919
I hope you get rejected by all. Fantasy readers are manchildren. You deserve nothing

>>17610331
Unfortunately, that really doesn’t seem to be the case when I take a good hard look at it. The trend has been consistently the same across multiple environments, multiple scenarios now. They make it pretty damn hard to deny it.

>>17610406
I hate you so much for even daring to try to dash that man’s hope.

>>17606521
That thread isn't lit. It's >>>/trash/

>>17610438
>books i don't like don't belong to /lit/
Kys

I’m really torn between ending my life and having a family by 35.

>>17609969
How is this going to help?

After socialising and taking a break from this board, I can no longer take the posts or advice on here seriously, and have decided this board is mostly full of massive retard faggots.
The trolling is extremely tiresome also

>>17610849
agree

>>17610849
you took it seriously at one point? sad

I'll kill myself soon and then become a great but depressed writer in the next life and then kill myself too, but be remembered for my tragic life and great work, only to be reborn as some failure retard destined to kill himself. An endless cycle.

>>17610407
just admit you want to be racist because it makes you feel better about your own insecurities. then kill yourself

This is the most interesting author in the contemporary literature scene.

>>17610898
No sorry. I try not to be racist but when I move from a shitty inner city to a high income country town and the only people committing crimes and acting like scumbags in both places are a certain race, it’s a bit hard to just ignore. I have eyes and hears so therefore I see and hear. I know you’d have me pretend otherwise, but I cannot.

>>17610743
>family by 35
decent band name

>>17610075
I hate being a leech on my parents and want to earn my own keep. Shit sucks when you have to take care of your health first.

>>17610849
>massive retard faggots.
this guy gets it

Bump limit. New thread.
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>>17606650
>I wish I could disappear.
From yourself?
Anon. That’s easily done. You haven’t done this because it scares you. Good. It’s inevitable anyway. Stop being scared and depressed. Get your shit together and go enjoy your time here.