/lit/ - Literature

They aren’t written any more for those who experience loneliness in the 21st century.

pessoa

>>19500224
why is this magician sad?

>>19500245
The Confederacy lost the war

>>19500245
He accidently cast a spell that let a demon possess him and kill all his frends leaving him completely alone

>>19500224
Cheer up wizard

>>19500245
Dropped his wand down the toilet

>>19500224
4chan is endlessly fascinating to me because here there are no identities, every post is it own. this is perhaps the only internet community where we are all alone.

>>19500667

A website is not a "community". 4chan is not "social media". It is a very particular kind of phenomenon. It is a premise, the idea that people will only be completely honest with one another when they have reasonable expectation of anonymity and no stakes in the interaction.

Living in a shitty house only intensifies the loneliness. Why would poor people have children? I wish I had a bedroom as cool as Pepe's.

>>19502444
In a better bedroom you wouldn't feel any less lonely. Definitely comfier though

>>19502466
It's a strange feeling. You get out, work, do productive things and in the end go back to a hole in the ground. My dad was earning a considerable amount of money and my mother got carried away. She asked for a huge house. My father then lost his job, but he built the house - the foundation at least. We moved in and got used to it. I'm helping to get stuff in order. It will take a long time, but it will be finished. Meanwhile I can blame not having a house for my lack of friends.

I was super lonely even after I got married to a woman my age. The I went through a divorce and I’m still lonely. Now I’m marrying a girl a little over eleven years younger than me a couple of months after meeting her family and she loves me. Suddenly not lonely. Wat mean

>>19502364
And there are still lies!

>>19502513
>I can blame not having a house for my lack of friends
Why? Would friends buy you a house?

>>19502546
that there is a reason men in every previous age married younger women and you found out the hard way

>>19502561
Maybe I wasn't clear, sorry. I meant that because my house is shit I can't invite people over. I imagine that the same applies for gfs.

>>19500667
>this is perhaps the only internet community where we are all alone.
Yet, paradoxically, all together in our aloneness.

>>19500224
wtf man since when did the wizard age become 30, I thought it was 40? I need more time dammit!

>>19502744

It's always been 30 since the meme became widespread circa 2010, around the same time that /r9k/ became virulently misanthropic. Now that a good decade of slut apps and high quality, readily accessible porn have passed we have a statistically significant cohort of men pushing 40 who are either straight up virgins or can count lifetime sexual encounters on their fingers. The 40-year-old-virgin (or something close to that in terms of near total lack of lifetime physical intimacy) is now a much more realistic figure for society since mainstream society has come to grips with the vocabulary of incels, beta male rage, herbivore men etc.

>>19500224
Island of the Day Before, kinda

I would also add that apart from not being in an advantageous bargaining position, there is also a widespread understanding among men that marriage isn't worth the gamble (as opposed to mere sex/relationships). It's PARTLY/mostly sour grapes/lack of bargaining power for sex, but not entirely that. Undesirable men don't want the hassle and hazard of jumping through hoops for a 3.5/10 out of all things. Add in covid culture and its deflationary influence on sex having and you exacerbate the problem.

On a more anti-natalist and pessimistic side, the old saw "How could I possibly bring a child into this awful world?" is a bit more serious these days. For my money the single, number one absolute worst thing about covid, more than anything else, is that young children have been socialized into wearing these stupid masks. I work with the public, I see toddlers every single day wearing the things and it angers me that this is the world that they were brought into and are being socialized into.

>>19502770
I have sexual encounters with my hand dozens of times a week.

>>19502858

Please. It is obvious that the encounter is to involve another person. "It takes two to tango".

>>19502891
I have two hands

For me it's that this hard to meet women. I can generally hold my own in conversation with someone else if it centers on a topic we're both passionate about. But the shit I like to do - reading and writing - simply isn't conductive to meeting women. How the FUCK do you meet people like that anyway?

I don’t have any friends anymore, but even the friends I used to have I always felt as though they were quite shallow friendships. As for a girlfriend, well, I had one. That ended a while ago. I’ve not even met a young single girl since. I think I’ve been conditioned by fiction and anime/manga to have unreasonable wants in that area as well. But I’m 28 now. I’ll be 28 soon. I do hope this isn’t the case forever, but I suspect it might be. My family is starting to make comments about it as well. That doesn’t bother me so much, but it’s really just one more thing to feel bad about it. There’s many these days.

>>19500224
Gravity's Rainbow

DFW wrote a lot about loneliness in the modern age. Try his Oblivion.

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>>19500667
You have it the wrong way. This is the only internet community where we aren't all alone precisely because we're anonymous.

>>19502744
It's only 40 in Japan

>>19502364
> the idea that people will only be completely honest with one another when they have reasonable expectation of anonymity and no stakes in the interaction.
That’s a stupid idea and this site proves why it’s wrong.

>>19500224
my diary desu

>>19500224
Fat City

>>19502702
Sometime around 2008/2009, /r9k/ was "/r9k/ - Together Alone".

>>19502770
>the vocabulary of incels, beta male rage, herbivore men etc.
This conveniently filters out women from any responsibility. Continue blaming the problem, not the symptom, and maybe she'll read this, bro.

>>19502513
Your home means jack shit, better a home with no one than no home with a bunch of assholes that abandon you in the end anyway

>>19500255
Only if that dummy went over that hill bruh

only one book mentioned in the whole thread. no wonder you are all lonely.

>>19505790
> He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not deserve it either, because he was letting it waste. It was getting away from him and he made no effort to stop it. He did not know how.

It's ogre

>>19500224
I'm 26 now
I can feel my powers growing. When I was 25 there was a big jump in wisdom
also to keep it on topic, check out the Emerald Tablets of Thoth, but stay away from the Kybalion is fanfiction trash

>>19500255
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>>19505877
Based and Checked KEK wills it
Also check out Chaos magic, start with The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley
Then look into Thelema
After that start with lvl 1 normie Buddhism with Alan Watts book, The Way of Zen

>>19505890
Looks like a big cope for getting zero pussy desu

>>19505904
oh course it is retard, I need my schizo delusions to keep going

>>19505934
based schizo cope

>>19505890
I'd say I'm inbetween levels 4 and 5

>>19500224
I want a girlfriend but I don't trust any of you except JS. I think you are all evil and cruel.

>>19505160

No and no, wrong on both points.

>>19505853
mmmm.... Swedish meatballs....

>>19500224
your diary.