/lit/ - Literature

>>19643387
>25 feels too old to be a virgin
At least you get to save yourself and be some whore's first

>>19643399
they're not all whores

>>19643399
I don't think I'll ever have sex with a virgin, not sure why you think I would magically be some girl's first just because she'd be mine, if anything being a virgin seems like it will only make things harder as women in my experience look down on male virginity

>>19643387
>stop jumping from thing to thing every month or so
Nagarjuna

>>19643412
stop caring about what they think

It's just a book it won't do anything for you

>>19643420
I've read the Bhagavad Gita and found it very compelling but despite how intellectually compelling I find it books like this never seem to lead to any kind of actual change in my aloof and anxious demeanor. I'll have no problem crossing the street in front of a moving car that has yet to slow down but I stay incredibly anxious even in just an interaction with a clerk at the checkout line of the store.

>>19643421
How?

>>19643424
What will?

>>19643451
the Gita is unrelated except for the fact that they are both products of Indian philosophy, which is as broad as our Western philosophy. I do think reading Nagarjuna can help us recognize why it is you can pass so easily from one conception to another, which is precisely the problem, yes? Understanding that you are then all the more free to really think about what it is that you would value

We need to quit the internet en masse.
Cancel it, learn to focus. Meditation or some other physical activity to exercise. People used to read and write more in the past because they didn’t have the electronics, duh.

>>19643528
Obviously.

>>19643551
Yeah.
Read whatever you like once free time is yours again.

>>19643387
Like a hobby or craft? If one is broad enough you cannot escape your craft. Like an artist might have a fit and tear down all their work to be burned yet they will continue to make images, even if they had a rage every week, and every week they choose to have a new mind and new eye, they cannot escape. The record is written in the meter of thier hand and peddles of their judgement

>>19643528
>We need to quit the internet en masse.
Cool, you start. Practice what you preach

>>19643569
I don't see myself getting free time again. I want it. I know how to get it. I just don't think it's going to happen. Deep down I don't truly believe it, I suppose.

>>19643579
I don't feel like I have a craft though, how do you get one. Like I'll obsess over something like crypto for a couple of months, then completely lose interest in it and start obsessing over learning to code, then completely lose interest and start obsessing over growing mushrooms, etc. I never find something that is so enrapturing and consuming that I don't get bored of it after 3 months.

>>19643409
Yeah but you shouldnt fuck your mother mutt

>>19643607
There are other's out there. I've met some of them.

>>19643603
That's because at a certain point it is not just a facet of interest or a small focal you peer into but the entire logic which structures your complete interface. Its like the religious, or the political ideologies, or people who deal with "techne" like craftsmen its hard to recommend one a book because becoming set in a way requires one to well... do something way too much. Maybe at some point you will see what you have been returning to even if it is all too subtle of a constant

>>19643634
Yeah I guess my question is how do people find something that they're willing to do way too much that isn't completely useless like video games or jerking off? Do you just try things on a whim and hope eventually you find something you want to keep doing?

>>19643645
Of course not idiot, there's an app that helps you.

>>19643653
Which app?

>>19643666
life

>>19643645
Im bias to my own returning habits which are literal in thier self inscription, a naked literalness which reveals some truth. Yes the arts and all means of production undress many faces. Outside of that singular facet of the vast array of things one can pick up and throw I have little conjectur. Like of the man who makes nothing but exchanges only the works of others and wrings dry the cloth of commerce for its pooling swell, is there any truth there?, Or the wandering eyes and step of those fixated on only sights, the stooped archivist, the list goes on... Their acts do not involve the recreation of the familiar, an act of self reflection which is easy to digest for lucky brushes. I too do not know if the laborer ruminates till death or I am obscenetly lazy because I shirked those duties at first chance, so many mysteries

>>19643682
I wish someone taught me how to live I feel wholly unprepared and in the dark as to how to go about doing things, like a certain will to just make things happen was never instilled

>>19643686
Whenever I attempt art I find myself so utterly unimpressed with what spurts out that I cannot go on doing it for any worthwhile amount of time.

>>19643387
Don't worry too much once you hit 30 you ascend and stop caring about sex, it just becomes one-of-those-things-you-missed-on-but-oh-well.
t. 33 yo virgerino

>>19643703
Art is very cruel. I have sat thru hours and hours of its attempted birth. Painters, draftsmen, sculptors, Architects, but it is a pregnancy which short of a miracle ends in miscarriage or abortion or maybe the initial conception was completely forgotten. It has more sins than have ever been recorded in every holy book and rules by a law several thousand times harsher and fairer then Hammurabi, yet I can see no other way. Do nothing, do something there will always be a connection among desperate elements greater than the disconnection of others.

bunch of faggots

>>19643528
You’re proof that self-awareness is a muscle that atrophies when you stop practicing.

>>19643709
I believe if you havent had sex by 30 you probably never should. Otherwise youd realize what you missed out on and probably kys. Sad but true.

>>19643387
Touch on the gargantuan literature available under the heading of philosophy. There’s enough diversity and enough length to keep you going beyond a lifetime. Not sure if it’ll get you laid or not, but enough 20th century French philosophers and psychologists will score you some with the arthoes or the academic types.