/lit/ - Literature

how do you decide between re-reading the same book vs reading a new book on the same subject

reading the same book ingrains the phrasing in your mind so it sticks

but reading new books offers new perspectives

what should the ratio be of reading the same book to reading new books

Previous thread >>19401702

Thread theme? https://youtu.be/mPZkdNFkNps

Should I keep dating a girl if I plan to break up with her but now would be a bad time for her and I can do it more gently in a few months?

>>19407570
I don't want to live this life but alas too cowardly to end myself. I'm stuck. I can't get out.

>>19407612
No. With your deception you are spitting in the face of Love itself.

>>19407612
Talk it over with her. See what she thinks.

>>19407613
It’s cowardice to kill yourself, anon.

>>19407623

>>19407623
>It’s cowardice to kill yourself

...No it isn't

>>19407570
I just had major surgery on my leg to repair a torn ACL and Meniscus and it’s made me completely rethink my entire concept of what the human body and mind really are. It’s striking to me that I can make a decision with my mind to have my fundamental self hacked open and rearranged by complete strangers and to be perfectly okay with that. A piece of my quadricep now resides in the core of my knee. While I know perfectly well that in 9 months I will be able to hike run and rock climb again, my autonomic nervous system has woken up in a rage and transformed my left quadricep into a swollen, angry bag of pythons, writhing on hot coals. I feel as though my femur has been bludgeoned with a sledgehammer, it’s so convincing of a crime committed. Yet I made the decision to do this, and to do so without opiates, and no matter what I do I cannot align these two components of my spirit, these two selves within me that are at war. My body is not fully my own, it belongs to something much more archaic. This too is a part of me, but one I have no say over. It is the lack of agency over the pain that is harder to handle than my current disability. My limbs are not my own, I merely have access to them.

>>19407570
Hypothetically speaking, is it better to drop out of a class (which will lead to me dropping out of the degree due to uni rules) or getting a C?

>>19407612
I'd wait a while to do it.

im going to set it on fire

>>19407667
I hear ya. Went through something similar with my arm.

anyone know anything about writing a ballet? i don’t know much about it and i’ve no interest in dancing myself but i’ve recently become interested in ballet, i think it’s a very beautiful art and want to make my own

>>19406201
i felt like crap when my sleep routine was 5am-noon

waking up at 6am and seeing the sunrise feels good

>>19407712
Where I live I wake up to the birds, something about the air in the early morning tastes so good too.

I am not anti-technology. I am in fact quite pro-technology. Despite this, I feel we as a species need to be more thoughtful about how we introduce technology into the sphere of mass use. For example, social media has its upsides, but at the same time it has introduced major social ills, weakened privacy, etc. People like Zuckerburg and Dorsey should have carefully weighed the consequences of their inventions before releasing them to the world. Perhaps they would have realized these things do more harm than good, and need to be fixed or not made public at all. It's the same with AI, with automation, with tracking/surveillance, etc. The inventors/scientists need to evaluate whether or not introducing something is really good for the world.

>>19407695
Are you still going through with this LARP? How many hours have you spent with this fake internet persona? Do you feel gratified impersonating this fictional lesbian? Is it really worth it to you?

>>19407759
Stop engaging, it’s what the creature feeds off of. I guarantee you if everyone on this board ignored it, buttertroon would shrivel up and die.

>>19407745
But think about how much money there is to be made

>>19407623
>It’s cowardice to kill yourself, anon.
huh. here i was thinking you were some kind of bleeding heart liberal radical

>>19407770
If someone were to ignore it would reply to itself until someone replied to its reply(replies in some cases). There is no way to kill it

>>19407789
I’m a life loving anarchist radical.

>19407795
I do not reply to myself. I don’t have persona problems that anonymous does. I do not identify as a butterfly irl. Stop engaging with it and talk to me like an actual person. Or stfu maybe.

>>19407776
There needs to be a system in place in which money is not the primary motive. I wish such a thing existed.

>inb4 "communism bro"
They might obfuscate it but it's all about money at the end of the day. Chinese companies want profit just like their capitalist counterparts.

Girl I'm dating has had one night stand before
Even had a 2-year-long friends with benefits relationship
She told me about all the types of birth control she took
She told me about how she had something surgically implanted into her arm
It makes me sick
How am I supposed to date her now that I know she was such a whore?
How can I connect with someone whom strangers have thought of as nothing more than a cum rag?

>>19407822
You're not, you tell her how you feel and you get rid of her asap. If you feel that natural disgust I don't need to link you myriad of statistics showing the correlation between number of sexual partners and negative life and relationship outcomes.

>>19407806
i don't think there's anything worth even critiquing in abrahamic theology it's boring af
only thing you need to know about abrahamic religions is that people convert to them for social mobility

Yesterday, I read "The Little Red Book" by Mao. There was various things in there of varying levels of usefulness to a member of the American petit bourgeoisie (or perhaps high bourgeoisie), but I'll keep those to myself. One thing I'll share is the amusing passage where Mao seethes about Khrushchev. Mao didn't react well to de-Stalinization, it seems.

im vastly superior to most people yet hardly ever get recognition for it

>>19408068
we all are, anon, we all are

I wish I had more people to talk about literature with. I study literature so in theory there should be many, but most of my peers don't read very much and get defensive when you mention someone or something they haven't read. I keep coming to this shithole because this is the only place I know where to talk about it, but most people only care about fighting than talking about books. My gf listens to my ramblings and I convince her to read some of the shit I like but it's still a more one-sided conversation. These threads are nice though.

ah` todya was so fucked. baree with me bros its gonna be a real degeneratepost tognith. ll strt with myself
i wokeup today not wanting to drink or smoke , gues what'? i went to a party and drank a shit ton and smoked. i smoked a shitotn of cigarettes too. anyways. i smoked the last if my weed so im out now. if im lucky i ll only buy weed on the weekend but desu i might catch mysekf in a daze and buy somtime before then. i often catch myself in a self-dusticutve daze. anwyays....onto the party now.,
ah fuck it, i wont write anymore.

>>19408068
How are you superior? Genuinely curious.

>>19407612
I waited till after new years. Don't want to make her sad during the holidays

>>19407570
ITS COMING HOME ITS COMING HOME ITS COMING, MY BOOKS COMING HOME. I thought it would never make it out of Poland.

>>19408352
KEK nice
>>19407570
I might have to go to a doctor and check myself. This getting old thing and seeing my body slowly breaking apart isn't good. And I'm still 30+, maybe I should start doing more exercises or wahtever.

>>19408360
WOOOOOOOOOO
WE’RE HALFWAY THERE
WOOOO-OOO
LIVING ON A PRAYER

>>19407570
How do I approach the cute autistic girl who sits in the corridor between our classrooms (I do maths and she does art) and reads/looks at her phone while never talking or making eye contact with anyone.
Do people like that just want to be left alone or would she be ok with it if I tried to engage her in friendly conversation?

>>19408109
>I wish I had more people to talk about literature with.
Me to desu. I live in a deprived semi rural shithole and the only “culture” people my age are interested in is music (which for some reason brings in a lot of trannies) I’ve looked into joining book clubs and writing/art workshops but they’re all entirely comprised of 60 or older women.

>>19407623
Marry me butters.

Excited to read Infinite Jest in December

> crave religion
> not convinced by what’s available
> don’t think monasticism is for me
> at a loss, feel lost

I hate gay faggot nigger jews. I also hate gays, faggots, niggers, and jews.

>>19407612
No, it’ll never be a good time for her. Rip off the bandaid ASAP.

>>19408623
Same for anna karenina

I'm totally addicted to the internet, I can't stop scrolling and just keep reading mindless shit online
I have online courses but neglect them and I just lie in my bed and keep browsing the web
I'm getting skinny fat, Im starting to neglect my health and keep eating garbage
Whenever i pick up a book I get this massive urge to pick up my phone and SCROOL
How do I snap out of this?

>>19408970
Eat better, do exercises and change things around you. As in, browse /lit/ on your phone or something and keep changing it.

It's so easy to access footage of misbehaved naked ladies these days. So easy it's almost hard to avoid even.

>>19409010
What is wrong with you?

>>19409010
Same. I have two big addictions and that’s pornography and food. Between the two, I find pornography harder to renounce.

>>19408607
Or at least let me tittyfuck you.

>>19409015
I get distracted by pixels on my monitor on the regular.

does anyone else practice sexual magic? I harvest the energy from female orgasms but I don't cum

>>19408800
>don’t think monasticism is for me
Well what's weird about that? It isn't for most people.

>>19409036
Maybe consider getting rid of such devices, at least for a while. Or moving to "lighter" stuff, and keep doing that until you manage to quit it.

>>19409041
Wish I was able not to cum.

>>19409047
>Or moving to "lighter" stuff
There are photos of attractive women in underwear even on the streets. And then you go on the internet and even news sites show images like that. Not even speaking of this place.
The distractions are countless. Not actively searching for 'hard core' stuff is easy for me.

God I’m so glad I get to live in a world of talkers.

>>19409062
That is regular shit, anon. Consider getting a girlfriend or something, it is no big deal.

>>19408068
https://www.reddit.com/r/NPD/

>>19408623
after knowing about it for almost 10 years i've also started to read it

i got a few pages in a month ago

that's good progress

>>19409074
No girl that I find attractive will ever be with me for more than a year. I know that for a fact.

I have neglected my body.

>>19409098
Work on it or suffer with random mild shit on the streets.

>>19409041
I harvest the energy from (MY) female orgasms

>>19409106
If it could be improved by working on it, it wouldn't be a fact that it will always hold.

Is it so terribly inconceivable to comprehend God with one's senses? Why does he hide in a cloud of half-promises and unseen miracles? How can we believe in the faithful when we lack faith? What will happen to us who want to believe, but can not? What about those who neither want to nor can believe? Why can't I kill God in me? Why does He live on in me in a humiliating way - despite my wanting to evict Him from my heart? Why is He, despite all, a mocking reality I can't be rid of?

I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.“

>>19409180
Just do some therapy or whatever. There is nothing wrong with being pessimistic, but fatalism isn't going to bring anything good for you.

>>19408970
>I can't stop
https://youtu.be/4BjKS1-vjPs

you can, but you choose not to and instead choose to browse the internet

you are what you repeatedly do

the more you do something, the more you want to do it

every time you decide to browse the internet, you are strengthening that habit, and making it harder to do other things

you just have to force yourself to do what you want until it becomes automatic

start doing a little bit of something (reading one paragraph, doing one problem), if you get bored the you can take a break, but keep trying to go back to whatever it is you need to do, and do AS LITTLE AS YOU CAN but KEEP GOING BACK TO IT

habits are strengthened by FREQUENCY and DURATION

>read
the power of habit
the slight edge
the willpower instinct
the one thing
deep work
digital minimalism

>>19409262
>read
>the power of habit
>the slight edge
>the willpower instinct
>the one thing
>deep work
>digital minimalism
I always wonder if stuff like this will help more than just getting an official adhd diagnosis and getting some medication for it.
(I’m not him but I have a similar problem).

Did anyone try Jungs active imagination technique?

>>19407675
Obviously getting a C is better. How could dropping out look better than getting a mediocre grade? You know this, you are just looking for an excuse to not have to do the rest of the coursework.

>>19407822
You’re also having casual sex with someone to whom you are not married, it sounds like you’re both whores and that you deserve each other.

I consider myself lucky that I genuinely care about virtue.

my left arm feels like it's being squeeze by a belt or something and my chest hurts. i'd write it off as vax induced heart damage, but i just ate a piece of cake a student gave me. u don't think this undergrad piece of shit tried to poison me with some shit do u? i dumped the rest of it in the trash.

My horniness is making me borderline suicidal

>>19406476
The Terror is amazing. It has stellar casting and cinematography.

>>19409302
Maybe especially if you're on 4chan

>>19408577
Are you from the US, anon? I'm from an industrial city in the third world so you can imagine most people don't really value culture here either.

I want to get into stocks but there's no noob friendly guide, everything is just too advanced for my dumb head.

idk how to deal with feeling unloved and inadequate in so many ways

>>19409470
If you lot gave everyone As, you wouldn’t have to worry about things like this

>much grade inflation
Stfu. Grade inflation is inevitable.

>>19407570
Some nigger wrote the shittiest nigger code that's ever been niggered in the entirety of the nigger history of this nigger world that I have to fix for work. And I'm not happy about it. Few things are more frustrating than a simple solution to a problem which has been needlessly niggerfied and overcomplicated due to niggerization.

Shame incapacitates me. Memories continue to appear in my mind and i keep suffering. why am i so sensible? Fuck i was akward and utterly humiliated myself in front of my friends and the girl i was writing with. I'm just Tired. i'm browsing and finding ways of escapism Just not to remember but It Is impossible. Only sleep gives me peace. I'm so pathetic, i cant even look myself at mirror. I dont want to exist anymore. I just want to sleep forever

>>19409499
I’m in a small southern english town in the middle of nowhere but I don’t envy you if like you say you live in a third world country (which country btw).
The conciliation is that I can leave pretty easily when I go do my degree in September.
Would you be able to get out of your situation if you wanted to?

Looking for obscure poets I can safely plagiarize to impress arthoes

>>19409283
well here's a thing about adhd

1. it's overdiagnosed (because...)
2. abusing drugs and poor habits (browsing the internet, watching porn, playing video games) can give you adhd symptoms

>issues with being reliant on dopaminergic medication like adderall (from hearing about others experiences)
1. if you don't have your habits in check, you'll waste your time jerking off to porn for hours or still mindlessly browse the internet
2. you will then be reliant on the drug for motivation

so maybe medication can help you

this channel(How to ADHD) might be all that you need
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvq9Tp5JZ8oAV-GAZmvEoYj9ntBaabKMj

>my take is:

so you want meds that give you a high for motivation

but, if you fix your habits and stop overindulging in:
-the internet
-porn
-video games
-drugs (coffee, alcohol, nicotine, weed, etc)

if you stop doing those things you'll have a HIGHER NATURAL PRODUCTION of neutrotransmitters which will improve your mood and motivation

you'll enjoy things MORE because you're not abusing your reward system with highly addictive artificial stimuli

the mistake people make is thinking that they need more more more

when the reality is LESS IS MORE

abusing your neurotransmitters is not the solution

good habits are the solution to feeling better and being more motivated

>eat healthy
>exercise
>socialize with friendly and supportive people
>work towards goals
>read books
>meditate

my own experiences of quitting stimulating shit and then having higher levels of energy/mood/motivation have come from avoiding drugs, porn, excessive internet browsing, and video games

there are communities that can help you with quitting a lot of things
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf/
https://www.reddit.com/r/stopdrinking/
https://www.reddit.com/r/leaves/
https://www.reddit.com/r/StopGaming/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pornfree/
https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/miscellaneous-resources/start-here-evolution-has-not-prepared-your-brain-for-todays-porn/

>more books
atomic habits
the shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains
your brain on porn
easy way to stop smoking
caffeine blues
the mind illuminated
the upward spiral
getting things done

(god bless /lit/ having a 2000+ post limit)

>>19409631
watch out for what you eat too. artificial dyes and colorings are known to trigger adhd in people. watch out for red #40 and blue 1. but there are other things that do it too. when i eat cheeseburgers or burritos from the dollar store my concentration plummets. when i look at my github or leetcode activity graph, i can see the times i went shopping at the dollar store. that week will be empty of any work.

>>19409045
It’s not that it’s weird. It’s just that I have this impulse to piety but I feel I don’t have any means available to actualize it. It’s a question of devoting yourself to God or gods (I’m not sure to be honest), but outside the monastery. Religious feeling is the most important thing to me and I have to orient my life around that somehow, I think.

>>19409482
It needed to have a monster for it to be entertaining, lame.

>Rather, the sheer force of the collision between the two realities, the pure voltage of the dissonance, yielded me those sweet neuro-treats. Because my political sensibilities had only ever been vaguely felt, never conscious enough to be entrenched, and the reactionary arguments were cogent enough, I was able to think through these deeply right-wing thought experiments alongside my pre-existing assumptions and experience the ideological friction without one side prevailing. Every taboo, reactionary idea that I entertained gave me a little dopamine bump, and it kept me coming back to that YouTube channel, hitting up the British robot night after night, looking to cop some more rightist thoughts. The epistemic vertigo paired with cocaine like fish with a Chardonnay.

I feel the same way when I read Deng Xiaoping to be honest.

>>19409652
>when i eat cheeseburgers or burritos from the dollar store my concentration plummets

that might also have to do with tastier foods triggering a larger dopamine high, which then leads to downregulation of dopamine receptors

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-food-addiction-works

>The problem with modern junk food is that it can cause a reward that is way more powerful than any reward the brain can get from whole foods
>Whereas eating an apple or piece of steak might cause a moderate release of dopamine, eating a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is so rewarding that it releases a larger amount.

HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME

>>19409675
i'm not eating it for pleasure, just to not be hungry, if i were eating for pleasure i wouldn't be buying stuff at the dollar store lol

>>19409686
i never even said the word 'pleasure' or contended why you were eating it, brother

begome haeggelian

>>19409695
i'm not getting a dopamine high of dollar store burritos dude, i'm talking about shitty processed food causing adhd not about whatever relationship fat fucks have with their food

>>19407570
I took my daily 200mg dose of modifinil that my psychiatrist prescribed me to help me with wakefulness and to help me with reading with ADHD. I took 400mg of caffeine from caffeine pills. I'm really focused and I feel good.

All I've done all morning is effort posted on 4chan and gotten troll replies. At least I thought through some things I guess. I should have read something. I need to read the Bible again, but I'm stuck in Leviticus and Numbers and those are really boring books and I don't want to read them.

Help me. Thank you for reading my blog post. I wrote what was on my mind. Maybe what was on my mind was the friends we made along the way.

>>19409707
okay, brother

Anarchism in politics, and skepticism* in epistemology are the easiest positions to take — which is taking no position at all — and the preference of the midwit, the timid, the unprincipled and the mediocre.

* Note for retards: skepticism is probably not what you think it is; it’s not synonymous with critical thinking and fedora atheism; it’s specially not what the FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE nerds believe, but in fact the furthest thing from it: it’s the denial of the possibility of knowledge.

>>19409620
oioi whereabouts do you live lad? Also live in a southern English shithole.

>>19409785
Isle of wight. It's not exactly terrible here, there's not much crime but that's because it's mainly just a retirement home for oldies who want to live by the sea. The economy is almost entirely based on the summer months and there are so few other opportunities that most people just turn to drugs to occupy themselves.
It's basically a situation where everyone with any skills or prospects immediately moves away leaving behind the absolute dregs. The only youth culture is drugs(i try not to partake too often) and shitty music clubs (not my scene).

>>19409620
I'm in Mexico, I'll have to stay in my city til I graduate but I hope to go as soon as I do. I don't mind Latin America but the only good places here are the big cities so I hope to go to one of them, though I'll also try to do a PHD somewhere in Europe.
>The conciliation is that I can leave pretty easily when I go do my degree in September.
Will you stay in England or will you try going somewhere?

>>19409470
Why are you posting about it on the Internet instead of going to a hospital lmao. Forget heart damage, you’re going to get brain damage.

>>19409619
Try ketamine.

my brain has been balkanized

>>19407570
Nice turtles.

>>19407570
Every single thing I despise about myself I see in my father and I'm worried that I may be doomed genetically to live a shit life forever.

>>19410171
you can escape that fate, just better yourself and be your own person finally

>>19409301
Where did he say that he's fucking her

Garreth's Life Part 2

Walking down the streets of Kansas City, Garreth comes across the nice looking parts of town. He sits near a store.
"Hey get out of here! We don't like your kind here!" yelled the store owner at Garreth while he was outside.
Garreth then decided to move. He went up to an Italian restaurant before it's closing while only a few employees were throwing trash in the dumpster.
"You all got any food I can eat for free?" said Garreth.
"Yeah, Ronnie give him a breadstick." said the restaurant employee to Ronnie another employee while he was smoking a cigarette throwing out garbage.
Ronnie gave Garreth a breadstick. Garreth ate it.
"Now get lost!" yelled the restaurant employee.
Garreth walked on his way. Soon the streets were getting darker and darker. Garreth fell into the wrong part of the city. He walked into a dimly lit bus stop bench under a street light that was dim and sort of broken. Graffiti was all over the bus stop bench. Suddenly an African American with a blue bandana and his homie approached Garreth. One of them had a switchblade.
"You got any money! Don't be lying to me!" yelled the gang member. The homie grabbed Garreth by his arms and the gang member put his knife near Garreth.
"I oughta cut crackers like you!" said the gang member.
Garreth elbowed the guy holding him down in his groin and ran off successfully. Running further down into the dark streets. He found himself with some drunk teenagers carrying baseball bats.
"We gotta find a homeless man to beat. This will make us go viral on Youtube." said one of the drunk teenagers
"Shit man you right!" said the other teenager.
"Oh look there's one right there!" they said looking at Garreth.
Garreth backed away from the teenagers but one of them was behind him and hit him in the head with a wooden plank. One of the teenagers brought out his phone to film the entire thing. Garreth was about to get pummeled with a baseball bat to death. Sweat was going down his face. Suddenly a girl wearing skimpy clothes yelled out,
"HEY!" she yelled at the group of teenagers. The teenagers looked at her and ran off. Garreth got up.
"You look messed up." she said as she approached Garreth. He looked at her,
"Thanks."
"Let me take you to my apartment."
"Uh-huh." Garreth said.
Garreth was in the kitchen of the apartment with a bandage over his head. The home was rugged looking but still looking clean. It was a small apartment too.
"How'd you afford this?"
"I had some fun with rich men, and I'm just going to leave it at that. Don't tell anyone. My pimp gave me some money to take care of the building."
"Ehhhhhhhhh...." said Garreth looking a bit disgusted.
"Don't worry I'm still a clean and healthy girl... Doctor said so yesterday."
"Now how old are you? I'm having a hard time telling your age but you act sort of young."
"How old are you?" responded Garreth.
"I'm 18, you?" she said.
"17..."
"Now just what in the fuck are you doing out here? You should be in bed now!"

>>19407570
Definitely NOT twinks. I'm asexual now

>>19410202
Garrethbros i dont feel so good....

>>19410202
>"Ehhhhhhhhh...." said Garreth looking a bit disgusted.
Classic Garreth!

>>19410192
>be your own person finally
How anon? I really have been trying and I know about CBT, self-love, etc. but I keep reverting back to crippling social anxiety and self-loathing. It doesn't help that I'm a NEET living with my father after failing at normiedom and every single interaction with him just has me feeling so defeated inside. Pretty much just fishing for advice I guess.

>>19409863
fair enough lad, I remember a few people from there going to the same college as I did. Am a Bournemouth/Poole gobshite myself, youth culture's pretty much the same, maybe just a slightly higher risk of getting stabbed.

>>19410243
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>>19410386
Don’t worry Anon, I (different anon) love twinks

>>19407806
>>19407695
>>19407623
>>19407611
>>19407570
Just a reminder that Butterfly is a male transexual who stole those pics to pretend to be a “real” woman on the internet. That’s why it’s been the same handful of pictures since like 2011. Lol!

>>19407612
youre wasting her time. kys

>>19410386
I was joking, my dear <3 replier. But swiping through Tinder I notice every local guy is bland, average and out of shape. Where have all the twinks gone? Are they even real or do they live only in fairytales?

the idea of Authenticity is one of the worst things to come out of "secular" philosophy

>>19410453
hotties are all taken by other hotties. do with this info what you will

>>19410120
Haeckel draws beautiful animals. I didn't even know there was a long neck turtle.

>>19410517
I dated some nice twinks at university and was in a long-term relationship with one. I always seemed to find something I liked but now I don't.

>>19410453
I've seen a few on tinder. They're rare but when they crop up they're always better than any of the 7/10 girls that mostly show up on tinder.

>Jonathan Davis costs $400-$1000 per finished recorded hour

I had no idea producing an audio book could be so expensive.

>>19410505
Why's that

>>19407613
Its really tempting to kill myself, but my pastor said I cant go to heaven if I do that.

>>19410573
it's basically the Abrahamic Soul but reskinned

>>19407570
Anyone have the Wittgenstein A Memoirs Quotes/meme I had it on my pc but I just don't know where I left it.

Some people think racial conflict is the result of class conflict. Some people think it is innate to a person, that on some level they will always dislike other races. I do not want the second person to be right, but sometimes it feels that is the case.

I would like to propose the following experiment. We would take 100 newborn babies of various races and raise them together in an environment where they grow up being taught race is just random, that there is no deeper meaning behind it. Race itself would not be given any attention at all, unless absolutely necessary. Would these children grow up thinking race doesn’t matter at all? I like to think so. It would be proof humanity can move past racial conflict.

Eilish thread got deleted.

>>19410642
>she isn’t that impressive in contrast to some of the women in real life.
No, I agree completely, I don't think she's exceptional. The problem for me isn't that I want her, it's that I can only access "women" as a formless haze of sex. I'm like an alcoholic with a symbiotic relationship with alcohol. Someone saying "I just don't get it, this booze tastes terrible, don't you want a nice liqueur?" just confuses me, I am not drinking to taste Bailey's, I am drinking to be normal. If the Bailey's tastes nice, that's a bonus, and there are certainly sources of alcohol I wouldn't drink (ugly girls are like mouthwash, only for the most desperate), but fundamentally, I'm drinking to drink, not to taste.

I don't want to fuck Billie Eilish in particular, she's fine at best. Actually if I'm being honest, the universal availability of women and super sexualization of femininity has deflated rather than inflated my interest in specific women because it's made it obvious how interchangeable they are, and how much of their allure comes from stock makeup, clothing, and presentation.

The magic no longer comes from specific women for me, I can no longer be bullshitted into thinking my love for my girlfriend is because she's uniquely beautiful and all the woman beauty things she does are extensions of that, because I know that most of what she's doing is generic "young attractive woman." Any woman who isn't fat and doesn't have a dog face could basically have the same effect on me.

Seeing Billie Eilish say eat my ass doesn't make me want to eat Billie Eilish's ass, it makes me want to eat women's asses all day. That's what drives me insane. I want to be free of WOMEN, not of any particular one.

I was looking for a job and then I found a job. And heaven knows I'm miserable now.

>>19407613
Then live a different life. Change something. If you're hopelessly unfuckable, then roleplay a as a different kind of character till you die, and then pay more attention when crafting your next character. Life is a game. Treat it like one.

>>19410701
Imagine writing all this shit because a celebrity posts a tiktok, you are as obsessed as zoomer normies

>>19410758
What do you mean? I'm talking about how I'm a degenerate and asking Frater for his opinion.

Did you just see what you thought was someone overreacting to a tiktok and overreact to that?

>>19409262
>AS LITTLE AS YOU CAN

oops i meant as much as you can

>>19410765
You wrote four paragraphs about a viral celebrity who does emo music for zoomies and transposed your impressions of said celebrity upon bland commonplace pseudo-reflections on le women + le sex + le you who is sexually frustrated. Now you are asking the low life tripfag monkey fuck retard for its opinion about your sexuality. You are fucking pathetic in my opinion

>>19410453
God, I wish that were me.

>>19410765
The thread's OP was a tiktok, which triggered your entire take here, so you are indeed overreacting to a tiktok

>>19410886
But I'm overreacting to myself being a degenerate. I said a random picture of Billie Eilish made me horny and it makes me sad that it has an effect on me. Frater said she's not that hot. I agreed, and explained that exactly what annoys me is that I'm so easy to make horny. I am susceptible to stupid tiktok sluts.

The whole premise of the post is that I'm overreacting. I'm discussing my disproportionate reaction (desire) and calling myself degenerate. I said nothing about tiktok, I wasn't writing a cultural critique of Billie Eilish.

It's a bit unsettling to me that this isn't obvious, like I'm talking to someone with alzheimer's. You can call my post shit or retarded for a lot of reasons, but LMAOOO YOU CARE SO MUCH ABOUT TIKTOK is not one of them, because that's not the content. The content is that I'm a coomer simp and hate myself.

>>19407595
easy. sometimes I want comfy, sometimes I want new.

>>19407667
This is why we need to study pain.
I'm convinced that turning off pain using nothing but thought is possible.
It all comes back to the brain.

Pain is a nociceptive event even if a c-fiber (pain fiber) does not fire, also the inverse is true. We ultimately "decide" whether or not to treat an impulse as pain. This is why you can fire a nail into your boot and scream in pain even though it just went between the toes. Its also why you can have your arm ripped off and calmly call an ambulance.

Anyway, well wishes, I've been there.

>>19410453
I'm racist, unvaxxed and gay. I already know I'm fated to a lonely life.

Dealing with my divorced (twice) single mother’s continuous problems even as she approaches senior age is well… it’s something.

>>19410997
post her feet

>>19407570
The animal wrests the whip from his master and begins whipping himself in order to become his own master.

>>19410906
No one here gives a fuck about your rants stupid bitch. Get the fuck out of the thread

>>19411025
Only if you make a normal post that doesn't sound like a crazed ESL

>>19410652
I definitely feel that the prevelance of racial conflicts in the US has to do with how obsessed the country has been with fhe concept of race since the 19th century. Just compare with Latin American countries, which are also multiracial but never cared that much about race and also have less racial tensions and conlicts.

>>19410701
>it's that I can only access "women" as a formless haze of sex. I'm like an alcoholic with a symbiotic relationship with alcohol.

You give too much control over, I doubt it’s really even women necessarily so much as the internet and pornography which has designed so many of your interests, And of course that there are so many common whores I understand, but you can always choose to not look at them, you can choose not to consider them, you can simply replace the desire with a real woman and then cutting cold turkey or replacing the desire with a more healthy one. You are spiteful against women not because they are women but because they have control over your desires to the point your reason is crippled, so withdraw, give power back to your mind if that is the problem.

>and how much of their allure comes from stock makeup, clothing, and presentation.

Realizing that is one thing, remembering it when you see them is another but again you should ask yourself why are you so bound, if you do have a woman, or even if you don’t, there’s no reason to ruminate over these things.


>The magic no longer comes from specific women for me, I can no longer be No, I agree completely, I don't think she's exceptional. The problem for me isn't that I want her, it's that I can only access "women" as a formless haze of sex. I'm like an alcoholic with a symbiotic relationship with alcohol

Cont

>>19411068
What is behind these words is something much darker and a worse account of your identity than what you realize, you don’t need a woman to be unique and you don’t need her to be this divine creature, her being generic, attractive and good for you is fine, the actual problem is you have no real meaning in your life if I had to guess, so you try to derive value from women. Let me explain, man has always had the question of not having a purpose or a reason to live surround him, people claim it’s some contemporary problem but that’s only because they don’t realize the old solution has been crippled beyond philosophical/religious belief. By this I mean to say, man when he has not founded his identity on will and not on reason and not on religion has instead founded it on other humans, through the community, and this is the origin of the worship of honor and fame, why all cultures idolize heroes, because the heroic man is the man who truly appeals to the group by being most considered by the group in some regard (now heroes need not and often didn’t consider this but many did actively seek this fame-recognition.) so this was the old way of gaining value, being both a part of the community and being outstanding enough that your name lives on, this degraded eventually (really kicking off during romanticism but also much older honestly.) to a belief that as long as you’re important for a strange woman who you don’t know, who happens to be beautiful, then your life and days will have meaning. The truth is this isn’t true. Erotic desires and beauty fades, loneliness isn’t solved by having a girlfriend/wife and meaning isn’t gained in any long term capacity from other humans. It is an animal desire to breed sure, but I can tell from your paragraphs you’re stuck on the “I value nothing unless some woman of value gives me value.” And this is why you despise them, you see a master-slave relationship because you put the woman on the pedestal.

>>19411068
>>19411077
You are right in diagnosing me, I'm a product of the pornography age although not an addict or anything. But actually my problem is that I have a really fulfilled and fulfilling non-sexual life and frankly I'm bored of women. I've dated and "hooked up" a fair amount and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything, I have a girlfriend and she's great, I've even had several great girlfriends. I don't measure my self-worth in women or sexual success, and I don't even resent women for not fucking me, although I did when I was young and inexperienced.

My problem is that despite all this, the desire for women is still there. The best way I can describe it is to say that it's like certain former junkies who kick their drug of choice but then always live in its shadow, even if they never use it again they are still trying to ignore the gut feeling that nothing will ever be as good, and everything else is therefore a cope.

But the weird thing is, I never even enjoyed sex or women that much. I was neither a casanova nor an incel. I objectively don't care about women all that much, I view relationships in a healthy way as partnerships. So why haven't I matured out of feeling unignorable pangs of "I want that" when I see stupid thot culture? Other people acknowledge the urges and then replace them, but mine are always a burden to replace, like a cigarette craving while trying to quit cold turkey, almost unbearable. I can keep ignoring them my whole life, but I really wish they'd just die already.

My biggest gripe, and I hate myself for this, was living in LA. I won't miss Angelenos much.. When I lived there in 1994, I drove the #4 bus to the Boston Pizza almost every day.. Enrique was a regular bus driver, and we'd hang out, have a beer and discuss baseball. He was a homosexual Latino that
I regularly received handjobs from. He was a nice guy, and I miss him.. Last time I visited, I rode the bus and the new guy is a fucking asshole. And that pisses me off, the contrast in service that we have lost over time and politeness.

I'm not whining here. Just looking for opinions. I hate the Democrats too just like you MAGA folks, and I'm a homosexual boomer. What's wrong with it?

>>19411232
You miss your hookup partner

>>19411232
based faggot

>>19411232
I'm latino too and I need an american visa. would you like to fuck my ass, sir?
I would prefer to do it while roleplaying as an anime girl, just in order to protect the real, heterosexual part of my personality.

>>19407570
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ7L2H84jDM

anyone else officially entering winter yet? we got almost a foot of snow this weekend and next weekend is looking to be another good dumping

>>19411404
>snow
Makes me sad to know there will be a time within my lifetime where snow won’t fall anymore. Damn I hate global warming.

How do we reconcile faith and hope in the age of science and materialism? I'm starting to become concerned that Darwin and neuroscience has BTFO salvation and that the world will never recover.

I'm losing my mind.

I don't want to know things anymore. I literally do not want to know all the so called erudite or smart thing rolling around in my head. It either makes me frustrated or unhappy. I feel like I don't know enough about any topic enough so if I start a conversation it end up with some fractured nonsense and no one learns anything and we all go home feeling like plebs. And if I know a little more then I just feel depressed that I cannot have a conversation at all.

Outside of conversation I feel terrible knowing certain things like philosophy. It has just made me despair. It makes me look at ordinary things and feel like I know some dirty secret about how it is a lie or a sham. I see through much and have not enough wisdom about how to actually go about handling the thing I am seeing. I wish I just spent my time at the gym and playing video games and going to the pub and have fewer thoughts.

I sometimes catch myself mumbling my thoughts and taking to myself under my breath in public then I have to pretend that I am chewing gum so I don't look weird. I am like a bookish Lovecraft protagonist that isn't actually smart enough to be an academic (I got mediocre grades as school despite being smart) and have already gone a little bit mad from seeing an Italian or something.

I have a manic desire to get rid of all my possessions and even get sick knowing I have any sentimental things that would hurt to throw out. I wish I had newer had to acquire them in the first place. I think this all has gone on long enough and feel I have seen it all now and much has lost its lustre. I am only 30. It is going to get worse.

>>19411423
idk man winter still gets pretty crazy sometimes. i think we'll be ok

I need to get my weight under control.

>>19411433
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s.

HEY EVERYONE! THIS GUY (>>19411478) IS IMPLYING HE IS FAT AHAAHAHAHHAAA

Any good book reccs on science as a new religion?
Ideally pre-covid

>>19411501
HOOOOOOOOLY LOOOOL

>>19407675
Cs and Ds get degrees you anxiety-riddled faggot. Unless you're just looking for an excuse to get out of school, in which case, just be honest with yourself and do it on your own terms.

>>19410199
It’s clear from the context. If he isn’t then he’s being used by the whore as some kind of beta provider which is even more pathetic.

>>19410352
CBT is pseudoscience, you can’t find a single large, well-designed RCT proving it works. Even the many small poor-quality positive trials only show minor effects.

>>19409293
>>19411744
Context is that it’s my first semester in grad school. I got As and Bs in undergrad, and I’m wondering if I should take the C or drop the course. If I drop the course they’ll kick me out of the program, if I stay they’ll put me on academic probation. I’ve thought about it and I think I’ll be staying, but it’s not as dumb a question as you guys make it seem.

>Anon, how’d you end up in this position
I just let it get away from me until it was too late

>>19411818
I don’t think your graduate school transcript matter very much, it’s all about your research.

i can't relate to people all they do is project onto me or just ignore my existence entirely. all i do is listen to music, read books, watch movies and tv shows
i'd like to be a person one day maybe
i'd like to become a person eventually

>>19407675
You can't take an incomplete or negotiate? Can you talk to the admin and figure out a plan? There are human beings behind these things.

>>19411876
>i can't relate to people
>all i do is listen to music, read books, watch movies and tv shows

maybe have more experiences with people so that you can relate to them

do you try to understand them?

what do you mean by "they project onto me"

if you consume a variety of books/movies/shows, then that's giving you vicarious experiences in which you should be able to relate to others

ex: if someone likes skiing and you've never skied before, but you've watched a video or movie about skiing, you should be able to come up with things to talk about with them from just that

https://socialpronow.com/blog/books-making-conversation/

>>19411904
i’ve done a monumental amount of going out of my way to understand people, there just wasn’t a lot there. pretty bleak. i hope my experiences later on will be better though

>>19411435
>It makes me look at ordinary things and feel like I know some dirty secret about how it is a lie or a sham.

>"All things chain together in causes and effects, and everything he wants to grasp dissolves before the testing thought. Soon he sees mechanics even in the so-far whole and dear, in the smile of his beloved – there are other smiles as well, a torn boot with toes."

https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah

I can't stop fapping to Eyla 4 BTS, where she is trying her best not to cry after barfing up 90 or so loads of jizz. Just continually washing her face off in the sink and then shaking as she washes her face, mouth, and chest over and over again in the shower. Her suffering is exquisite. Her facade of a sheepish smile almost breaks as she waves by in the end of the scene, her body just about vibrating as it holds back tears. You can tell it was a sloppy cry after the camera switched off. I usually cum imagining her breaking down, sobbing, sitting on the floor of the shower as she dry heaves.

>>19411433
You use whatever tools you have inside of you to insulate yourself from suffering.
If this universe might do nothing but throw shit at you, you have no option but to harden.

How do I put up with the idea that a person I absolutely loathe is in many ways very similar to me?

>>19411959
can you give an example of a conversation you struggled with

>>19412039
accept them or change yourself

>>19407570
That are cool turrtles

i'd like to apologize to religious ppl on this board who've seen my edgy atheist posts, i get alittle dumb sometimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XkLaDTBXM

>>19412141
idk if examples would be useful
just like gaslighting, stuff like that

>>19412225
It's too late, I put a hit out on you

>>19412240
o_o

>>19412225
its not too late, I've put a prayer out for you.

>>19411232
wow back in the 90s the bus drivers even gave you hand jobs, that's a level of service we won't see again

>>19412268
these lazy millennials just dont want to work

>>19407806
The butterfly hate seems grounded in mostly nothing at this point. It's just seething at her for the purpose of seething at her, and because that's the norm.

Realistically whoever the tripfag is behind their trip should be irrelevant, since the idea is to engage with people ideologically. Even if it was some crafted persona, so what?

I had to comment this since all the fucking threads I open are full of people seething at butterfly and clogging the thread for no reason. The seething is more irksome than the few sentences she posts.

>>19412337
shut

the

fuck

up

what do you guys think of Italian Medieval song 7?
https://youtu.be/mRlgjVMvcoI

>>19412454
wow sounds really modern in a way, wonder if it's just the rendition or Landini was a really timeless composer

>>19412481
what about Italian Medieval song 8? i like this more
https://youtu.be/K0-WmaoQ7Pc

>>19412490
>>19412454
early-middle baroque is my personal favorite era but i wish those big drums stayed in style

>>19412454
>>19412490
how u like dufay?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48JIDBNko0k

>>19412481
>One of the most revered composers of the second half of the 14th-century, he was by far the most famous composer in Italy.

>>19412490
sounds nice, but 7 is really jazz or electronic-esque which is really cool

>>19412527
i think #4 will really blow you away then
https://youtu.be/0pB6XdrbOo4

> writing
> have no inspiration
> have no talent

>>19412527
it's cuz 70s prog rock dudes were influenced by it and bit his style on their synths and/or video game dudes making rpg music used it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5EztLcSVo

like think how much that solo at the beginning sounds like the guitar solo from "shine on your crazy diamond" by pink floyd

Think I'm going to go to church this Sunday. I haven't been since I was a kid

>>19412560
actually the synth solo not the guitar solo my bad, i hadn't listened to it in ages

>>19407709
You'd have to learn dance notation probably if you mean choreography.

You know how people have those methods for quitting porn? Is there anything like that but for food?

>>19407820
China's emphatic it's socialist not communist despite what they named their only party.

>>19412548
that string (or wind?) instrument is cool sounding

So, butterfly isn't single anymore. Get fucked, :3.

I'm in pain. My pain meds always stop working after a while and I shouldn't take a lot of those.

hmm even the Germans are pretty based. this one has 4 interludes and feels like a whole journey. very nice
https://youtu.be/_9h6NjFw_zw

>>19412599
Quitting food?

>>19411404
I literally fucking love winter. It's peak aesthetics for a while and in general I just love the cold as opposed to the warmth of summer. We had our first snowfall last weekend for about an inch, really looking forward to more.

I’m in love with sex.

>>19412778
she's ugly but nice bazongas

>>19412778
shes pretty and also nice bazongas

>>19412784
she’s cute

>>19412698
Well, just eating less of it I guess.

>>19412784
Whatever, she’s ours little white boy.

>>19412778
Bad nose but cute enough besides that. Nice mamaries.

>>19412712
it isnt winter anywhere in the world right now.

>>19412235
well i'd like to help you brother but you're not giving me much

how do vaccine passes work to go in regular public places? do they just have a guy look at your card and that's it?

>>19412833
I can't take this or porn in general seriously anymore after realizing the women and men in the videos are being paid to have sex.

>>19412866
i reach out to people but give them space to reciprocate however they can, but it's not worthwhile because they're just deeply malicious people who can't be appealed to
i always try to start conversations about stuff but it's never to any avail

>>19412893
Mods are going hard in the paint in pruning threads today. Yet, for whatever reason, they let /sffg/ have two threads up. Don’t they usually prune a thread when that happens?

FDR and JFK are my favorite presidents

Mods are going hard in the paint in pruning threads today. Yet, for whatever reason, they let /sffg/ have two threads up. Don’t they usually prune a thread when that happens?

>>19412599
https://www.google.com/search?q=reddit+books+food+addiction

>>19412893
what have people said to you

>>19412907
for me, Nixon.

I fucking hate poor people. Why do they have less money than me? What are they trying to accomplish? Fucking creeps. I want a car. I want a house. I want money so I can get those things. I can't post this on Reddit because they'll downboye me.

>>19412944
it's hard to explain and it differs, man
i just wanted to vent, that's all

>>19413007
you'll get 5 golds minimum on there for posting that

>tfw when you're watching Rick and Morty with your cringe friend
>scene references book that's well-known on /lit/ but probably unknown to any of its viewers
>look through all the reddit posts discussing meaning of the scene to see if anyone else caught it
>nobody does
autistic and cringe I know, but feels kind of good desu

>>19413126
Yeah, i’m thinking it’s time for you to go back. To Plebbit.

>>19413126
what's the reference

>>19413148
brother, posts like this are really dumb. you can visit more than one website

>>19413007
To be rich is glorious.

Today was my first day back at a job I hate. Really I hate any job. I'd like to off myself but I feel duty bound to out live my parents. Sobriety for the last year has not improved my life, I'm only more conscious of my own misery. I wish I had a big dog to play fight with. I hope Elden Ring is good. If I'm not going to have children anyway, do I really need to outlive my parents? Why does butterfly use a trip code if so many posters are mean to her for using a trip code? If a regular dog can kill a regular man, can Superdog kill Superman?

>>19412911
Just checked the second thread. It's dead as fuck, why is it still alive?

>>19413160
rick creates some kinda monster that physically looks exactly like "The Thing" in natural form. the creature keeps absorbing and conforming around everything it encounters to grow stronger. morty asks why the monster enjoys it and Rick responds "it's a metaphor for capitalism"

references the popular qoute in the "Capitalist Realism" intro by mark fisher:
>This makes capitalism very much like the Thing in John Carpenter's film of the same name: a monstrous, infinitely plastic entity, capable of metabolizing and absorbing anything with which it comes into contact

>>19407822
You mean a subdermic implant for birth control? That's hardly surgical anon, it's literally a 1 min procedure done without any major procedure, you just pop it in and its done. You are overblowing that particular thing, nitpicking aside it's probably the best for both of you to stop seeing each other, people excersice their sexuality in different ways and you need to be comfortable about it with your partner, and people with a long list of partners do carry their own problems

I need to grow up, mature, get my shit together. I've coasted through a pretty sweet and easy life , but if I desire more than I got, or to be able to hold onto it I need to start putting in the work and stop being so goddamn lazy before the consequences of my apathy catch to me
I can't keep saying "that I'm a failure" or "that I'm not good enough" as an excuse to not try harder.

>>19413309
>people excersice their sexuality in different ways

harmful ways

>>19413351
based, do better

Time for sleep, and once again, I pray for the big sleep.

>>19412962
same, his only mistake was restoring china-u.s. relations

I'm constantly disappointed with everything, but especially myself. I just want one things to work out and not immediately be miserable five minutes later

>>19413287
sounds like the human will is the problem, not capitalism

Does anyone have a reason why mods pruned several threads?

Finally proud of my music. It's taken years but after some real lows this year, I'm seeing a glimmer of light. It's all thanks to a failed relationship and a psychotic state of mind after years of trial and failure. Even if it fails to take off I know that it is at this point in time an undeniably good piece of art.

does anyone think the absolute crushing soullessness and "moral decay" of life under "progress" is a small price to pay for the social freedom, and lack of wars, disease, persecution etc.?

>>19413540
They probably took over more control after getting upset with the jannies for allowing last week's legendary thread to hit bump limit. Speaking of which I hope someone has it archived.

>>19412337
Thank you

>>19413561
No. Because there’s a plethora of wars, disease and persecution.
You were joking?

>>19413569
>>19413576
Please shut the fuck up and stop pretending to be a woman on the internet tranny

Xo

>>19413556
Based

I spend every day here, smoke weed, read, and am a neet.

>>19413561
a lot of the people complaining about "moral decay" tend to be the most awful people around.

>>19413576
both as individuals and as a collective, human progress happens along on multiple paths simultaneously. seen through the widest lens, humanity has vastly improved in a lot of ways. It's only on the human scale that you see problems.

In america, you can see these multiple paths side by side. For some, human rights causes are advancing at an astonishing speed, while for others there's multiple separate paths where human rights are declining at a frightening rate. these can happen even on individual bases. The same person who finds their company now lets them change their pronouns in the company registry might see themselves fired for liking a call for unionization on facebook.

jah ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZfaIx57UqU

>>19413626
>might see themselves fired for liking a call for unionization on facebook.
That's not rights which matter at the end of the day, at least to them. I guarantee you most of the people similar to what you describe would gladly dissolve all unions if it meant they could change their pronouns. Never forget, class struggle is a secondary cause for many. They value cultural conflicts more.

i just scraped together a bunch of weed crumbs from my desk to form a smokable amount. i am currently smoking it. this is not the first time ive done this but its been a long time. not proud of myself.
https://youtu.be/ViHWwY2XqNQ

>>19413576
lol nigga what? all of those this have reduced dramatically throughout most of the world. i sure hope YOU'RE joking

>>19413561
>Let me tell you all about how soulless and immoral society is, in between rants about embracing the white genocide conspiracy theory, attacking lgbtq people and denying science because muh iron age fairy tales, and all around endorsing fascism.

I’d like to work a lowly, unskilled job that allows me to walk a lot, then go home, read Whitman, meditate, exercise outside in the grass, eat lots of healthy foods, then go to sleep in complete darkness and silence with fresh air coming through the window. But then I think of her. And that I don’t want anything more than her. But to have her and be content, I owe it to her and myself to be the best me possible, and this includes studying, being serious about getting a well-paying job, making my body more attractive, and in general cultivating more self-discipline. All day long I obsess and obsess about the things I’m not doing. I juggle so many concepts of motivation, relief, of self-improvement, of no-self, doing and not-doing, caring about the world, and wanting to transcend it. I just wanna be perfect, and have no regrets.

>>19413626
Both the human (individual and collective) and inhuman (bureaucratic) have come a long way, and they’ve changed. Some not for the better, some not at all. What is meant by “progress” in this world is a branding term from reformist capitalists. It’s a sales pitch for their product. A gimmicky product overall. Whenever there’s a good one though, it comes with strings attached. Advanced healthcare and longevity for insurance. The people don’t suffer ill health and death of preventable ailments because of anything they did wrong.

>>19413699
You’re insane. Stop reading Pinker (heh. You don’t read)

>>19413691
how much do you spend on weed a month man? I want you to get better but your posts are just a chronicle of a downward spiral. do you even manage to read and retain information from books when you're high so far? asking unironically - not trying to put you down

>>19413767
hey butters remember that updyke thread where you got BTFO over a small joke and seethed so much you had to defend yourself by samefagging without your trip? and an anon shared a screenshot of you posting a picture of your underwear after you shit your pants?

>>19413778
i dont actually spend much because i dont actually smoke much(quantitywise). i usually spend like 30$-60$ a month.
i dont read high.
i can read and retain information

>>19413691

You say it's a shame
Then only life is to blame
Your mind is a cold world
Faces may change
Different names
It's the same words
The same gestures
Eye to eye, face to face, lips to lips and tongue to tongue
It's such a cold world

The words that you say
Aren't just a game that you play
Your choice is sincere
But the feelings you show
Make no difference at all
To those
You call the creatures
Eye to eye, face to face, lips to lips and tongue to tongue
It's such a cold world
You call it the communism
Call it the communism
Call it the communism of love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LFmM0uB5IM

>>19413838
(thats a m1 carbine, not an sks)

>>19413785
A joke like that doesn’t btfo people. Pointing this out isn’t seething.
And there’s no such pictures of this.
Troll rating: 0/10

To me the ultimate goal is not necessarily to seek an endless state of happiness, but a near consistent state of contentedness. That is to say, when one merely enjoys their day-to-day state of being without worry of such a lifestyle being disrupted.

And how does one achieve this state? I believe the Buddha had the right idea, that by eliminating desires one can achieve such a state of pure acceptance onto a mundane bliss. Simply put, if one does not desire to break away from being a wagie, but accepts being a wagie for life, then they no longer worry about ever "making it" to a kind of pseudo-NEET hedonistic lifestyle.

Of course, this may be the ultimate wagie cope, but it is a very realistic blackpill applicable to many individuals, myself included.

>>19413767
uuh, what? im insane because i point out that diseases, wars and various forms of persecution have been massively toned down in much of the world? these are literal objective material facts.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZ3s8XWJlA

>>19412337
Whiteknight faggots are the worst. Butters is an avid socialists and probably marxist. She's completely devoid of anything useful and just larps as avant garde. When questioned her fucking posts fall apart like her fragile ego.

>>19413941
Lmao he got filtered by Marxism.

>>19413864
>no such picture exists

>>19413985
Read Part 1 of Human action you fucking fool

>>19413864
>A joke like that doesn’t btfo people.
Yeah it was just a joke. But your seething is hilarious. Picrel Just take the L I'm too lazy to find the archived thread right now, maybe I will the next time you shit up this general you insect.

>>19411977
Thanks pal. Will read later. Got a tldr in the meantime?

>>19412389
>>19413585
>>19413941

Kek, look at this. It's like the seething is reflexive at this point. You devolve into crying about nothing at all. I'm a white knight for saying your constant seething is annoying?

>>19414030
>t. Butters

Every single night for the past month without fail I've had a sex dream. Each night its a different girl I know from real life. I'm so goddamn horny.

>>19413867
You're on the right track anon. Happiness in the modern world is based off an some Anglo concept made to sell merchandise. It isn't real. To be "happy" you always need more. That's why you're sold dreams you need to "make it" to be successful. Everyone wants to gain the highest status and almost everyone fails. Those who do succeed are rarely at peace on the inside too, you'll see this in celebrities on a large scale but it's true for many people who seem to have it all in your own life. My friends who grew up on Anglo standards of "making it" and became lawyers, doctors, etc. were the same kind of status-driven people and they're still rarely happy inside. Hedonists are spiritually broken and corrupted by materialism, vanities, validation from others, clout, and the fruitless chase of an endless high of euphoria that will never last. They keep chasing "happiness" and moving goalposts thinking they'll reach a level of inner peace.

This kind of standard of happiness you probably grew up with makes one neurotic. I've settled for finding satisfaction. Once you reach it, you plateau into a state of stability. This state is consistent. It comes from reaching reasonable benchmarks controlling and caring about your own sphere of life alone. You'll see this in middle class, simple people who just want to own a home, raise their families, and live a stable life. No delusions of grandeur whatsoever. No growing up on Anglo pipedreams.

Is satisfaction attainable? Not for depressed over-thinkers, no, which are radically over-represented among philosophers, and their peers. For ordinary people, satisfaction isn't an abstract category which demands endless scrutiny and semantics.

The same goes for most feelings, which the over-thinker will always fail to grasp and appreciate as such. "Belief" is a great example of an ordinary feeling which philosophers beat to death, because they demand exact delineation of the phenomenon. This is your problem. I don't care much for eastern philosophy but it might help you escape this problem. You won't "make it" anon. That doesn't mean you'll always be a wagie. I hope you find a job you can find satisfaction with but I don't know how old you are or anything about your situation. My advice is still the same - it doesn't matter where you go when the problem is inside. So consider these things before setting unrealistic goals or needing a "benchmark" for anything. You might not even read this but my effortpost is made out of the small chance you or the many types like you (to be blunt your problems are painfully typical) do.

>>19414095
>watches Mad Men once

Just kidding anon, I think you're correct

>>19410421
>calls himself butterfly
>hangs out on 4chan
I'd never have guessed

>>19412337
Just respect the Anonymous nature of 4chan. Anyone who doesn't is deliberately just refusing to engage in the etiquette, and thus should be rightly shunned and mocked. It's like turning up to a country barbeque drunk. You know the etiquette, but your pathetic ego is more important?

>>19413864
Just stop tripfagging, and all these problems will vanish

Camus' Myth of Sisyphus (or at least its apparent verification by the state of modern living) is more of an acknowledgment that suffering has been eradicated than it is an assertion that suffering is all that brings life meaning.

>>19413729
Literal redditor

>>19414595
Elaborate more on your statement

>>19414644
GRRRR NOOOOOOOO AHHHHHHH LE PLEBBIT

>>19413561
Define moral decay.

>>19413561
Yes, we have it better than whatever. It was fucking shit "back in the day".

>>19414728
Don't even attempt to tell this to the retarded moneys ITT. They love to play victim SJW-style and blame all their shortcomings on le sociedad, le decline of civilization, le (insert here).

>>19414870
monkeys* kek

why does God want me to be in pain?

>>19414870
>they love to play victim
>xer says after ranting on twitter how trannies and minorities are victims of society

>>19414916
>xer says after ranting on twitter how trannies and minorities are victims of society
Lmao are you talking to me retard? Who are you arguing with? Have fun seething at a strawman and projecting

>>19414933
Yes clearly I'm the one seething here

>>19414941
Yeah clearly you are because you took the time to respond to my post with an off topic paranoid projection.

>>19413561
Yes and no. The only thing which is really good about being a modern westerner is not having to fight modern wars, which are fucking terrible since you can die a meaningless death in a splitsecond to a random shrapnel, having access to most of humanity's knowledge in the form of the internet and there being plenty of oppurtunities for those who want to self actualize and have the brains and the will required for it (which isn't the vast majority of people, so on the whole this is a bad thing since it comes at the cost of the lack of a more "structured" form of collective life). Not having to work some highly physical job is also nice, not because of the physical fatigue they require (humans can quickly learn to tolerate it) but because I know from first and secondhand experience that working that kind of job almost always numbs the intellect, that being said we have a similar thing in the form of the office drone job which numbs not the intellect but the soul, your joie de vivre. Life beings so easy also means most people aren't particularly prone to self reflection which personally makes it hard to connect with others. Apparent scarcity (not actual scarcity) having everything to do with the sphere of the social (jobs, position, fame, an internet following that can be monetized, love interests) means people are extremely conformist.

>>19414991
Define "westerner" exactly

>>19414952
You originally said that "people ITT" "love to play victim" and are tEh rEaL SjWs for pointing out very real problems with the state of western society. Clearly you have some sort of ideological bent here and your original statement was literally a strawman about what "people ITT" love to do and then you projected what I presume are your own "SJW" tendencies on to them. Do you have no self-awareness?

>>19412337
>the few sentences she posts.
I have no dog in this fight but she posts quite a lot. It becomes annoying seeing the same person respond to 80% of the posts in a thread.

>>19415167
You assume every anonymous post is a different person, and that 3% of the threads where I post 1% to 20% to be “80%”

>>19411404
Going to stay in a cabin in the northern woods of ME in a month with my gf. Can't wait

>>19415160
No, your response logically makes no sense, let me explain why.
My original post criticizes victimhood mentality.
My original post uses SJWs as an example of the victimhood mentality that it criticizes.
My original post compares SJW victimhood mentality to the victimhood mentality assumed by 4chan dwellers on /wwoym/.
Therefore, I am making an overt critique of both SJW victimhood mentality and the victimhood mentality assumed by 4chan dwellers on /wwoym/.
THUS, you cannot presume that I have" SJW tendencies", since I make an overt critique of SJW victimhood mentality.
Thus, your post is nonsensical, it is as simple as that. Fucking donkey.

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>>19415205
>>19415205

>>19413995
Ew what the fuck

>>19415160
>very real problems with the state of western society.
Very real, says who? This is your personal bitch ass opinion, nothing more. Be humble.

>>19415180
I assume because it's anonymous, duh. Tripfags are rare and tend to be annoying because of their obvious desire to be noticed. This is my interpretation before even reading what they posted.

Also shitting your pants is fucking disgusting.

>>19415212
Anon, you are clearly not very intelligent and there's no point in engaging with you.

>>19415224
>are rare and tend to be annoying because it’s so easy to just not read them, if not run a filter.

The annoyed are the most annoying posters. The lengths they go to include repeatedly posting scat in order to slander. Shut up, troll.

>>19415203
Yeah but you just asserted "people ITT love to play victim" like a fucking retard. Care to point out who these "people" are and do you have proof they love to play victim? Do their critiques have literally zero validity, and they're only compensation for their own shortcomings? None of them are good faith why? Because you said so?

I guess I just didn't understand your insightful, original critique of "victimhood mentality."

>>19411988
I did it again this morning. Made my wife watch the scene while I prone boned her in the butt. Swallowing/bukkake part made her wretch, and she wasn't thrilled with the morning buttsex, but she liked the borderline crying BTS as well.

I feel like there is something deeply wrong with me and this fetish, but she tells me not to worry. You like what you like I guess.

>>19413051
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=asmr+its+okay