/lit/ - Literature

What jobs should be avoided at all costs, /lit/? "Professions" that get in the way of the /lit/erary life and such.

Femanon, femanon, wherefore art thou?

>>20038424
I currently work as a financial consultant and my experience so far is that it sucks out all your energy, making it hard to set aside time to read

I'm having a real asshole moment. I'm watching an average/mediocre hollywood thriller, and I am somewhat entertained, and I think to myself "just like regular people are!"

fucking look at everyman over here

>>20038424
All work does that. Just be neet

>>20038488
We all want to be normal anon

There is this sort of basic reciprocality that underscores interpersonal dynamics and is the foundations of all relationships that I am lacking.
A need to agree with others and be agreed with that seems to be the basis of most exchanges between people.
Without it much of society feels dreamlike and arbitrary.

>>20038510
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEu1dFLwf3E

>>20038522
I really wonder how many people really feel themselves to be well adjusted. not to belittle you or anything it's just I don't feel exactly the same, but kind of. I wonder how common that is, really feeling alienated.

>>20038401
history is a mess, everything we consider notable was brought about by disorder which we know worship, our current state is a democratized aristocracy, culturally speaking, woth aristocratic standards regarding knowledge and whatnot, yet it being obviously unsustainable for everybody, aristocracy is a space where disorder can roam freely for the fun of it, it has meaning in contrast to the peasant, democracy does not, it needs meaning, but is unsure what it is, which causes aristocracy, the mode from which it evolved, to infest the minds of the masses in their newfound passive luxury, and it is even encouraged, it is seen as good, but not everybody can understand a world where you roam freely, where you are outside of the bounds a point, not everybody can enjoy that, not everybody should enjoy that; i do though, i know i do.

have sex

I'm realizing that i don't really "know" how to be funny ; as in, I can't really construct a solid joke on the spot or make somebody laugh when asked to. But i do manage to make people laugh a few times everyday through pure improvisation. It's like being a "fox in the box" in footy: whenever the right opening for humor is available at the right time during an irl conversation, I seize it and succeed 9 times out of 10. I also tend to ruly on the absurd more than i would like to admit, but i justify that as the alternative to cheaply mocking people.
All these things seem like crutches in hindsight, and makes me feel like i haven't really gotten/understood the crown jewel of humor. I can't write a funny story without it seeming too forced. It's even harder when you're trying to craft a humorous situation that isn't just making fun of somebody (or a strawman), which is most of today's comedy. Maybe I should just turn to making movies.
Any other /lit/izens that struggle with crafting comedic writing? (Or with humor in general)

Ever since I started paying attention to neurotic and promiscuous tendencies of Jewish people I see it everywhere.

>>20038522
define yourself as positive/active, positive/passive, negative/active and negative/passive, seek out people who are the opposite of your energy and then people who oppose theirs and so on, you can go off of how well you converse with them, find them in the necessary clavicles of your life, if you live independently, you are bound to find people like this, just be a bit more aware of them, you dont need to have a 2 hour debate about immanuel cunt or whatever to feel good, if you match with a person, theyll match with your interests, maybe not with the practice itself, but the topic at hand

>>20038600
>and
**or- OR ANON, NOT AND, NOT ALL AT ONCE HAHA

>>20038596
I think they're different things. what you could do is write down jokes you've told irl, just so you have them somewhere and can use them if the opportunity arises. I think a lot of people who write stuff like that always have notebooks on them.

>>20038600
>>20038608
heres an example, the son of my landlord is around my age, he is into streetwear and fashion, im into history and humanities, what works about us is that im witty but introverted, and he's conversational but extroverted, what works about us too is that we'll have mock debates about local shit and things people in general have in common, what people tend to not understand is that common abstractions are worthless, common humanity matters, you really dont want to be friends with a fat sweaty philosophyfaggot

>>20038620
>>20038596
this way you could also try to see and map out your style and so on, really look at it

>>20038620
>what you could do is write down jokes you've told irl, just so you have them somewhere and can use them if the opportunity arises
holy shit no this is autism anon dont do this

>>20038624
>what people tend to not understand is that common abstractions are worthless, common humanity matters
this is cool

>>20038577
Make me

>>20038630
analyzing them is good advice, just don't parrot them again. be flexible according to your context, and pay extra attention to delivery (this is where i and many others get filtered).

>>20038577
Why? Im already a wizard.

>>20038630
oh I didn't mean in conversation I meant in writing! no no, obviously it's extremely context sensitive, it's more just to have a battery of ideas for WRITING

I think I fell in love for the first time.
I always thought that something was wrong with me as I never wanted other's affection and didn't even ever liked someone beyond simple sexual attraction.
Seemed like I had just an avoidant attachment style, schizoid or something, but I don't dislike that.
So now this experience is kind of game changing , it's hitting some foundations of my personality.
It really doesn't help that now that I realized this I'm beginning to act way too akwardly and feeling like she's detaching herself from me. When her friends say goodbye to me she is the only one not talking. When I greet them she's the only one not looking.
I don't know if this obsession is making me overanalyze everything but I started having nausea at the thought of her despising me. She was the one approaching me before, she was the one looking at me smiling, why is it that now you ignore me? In fact you showed so much interest in me and now YOU are the one going away?
Probably the me from 1 one week ago would not believe what I'm feeling now. It's not like I'm not used to depression and angst but this time the object of suffering is so clear that is making me mad.

>>20038699
you get to ask anon. don't give up before you have a "no". this is my autism but I think you get to ask twice, once cus you get to and once to show that you're sincere. more than that and you're probably overstepping (again this could be gigaautism). But either way: don't give up. It's possible she's waiting for you to try. Just be a gentleman.

My baby's in there someplace, love's rating in the sky
So hologramic, oh, my TVC 15

>>20038717
I will 100% confess in the two next months even if I know she will reject me. It's unbearable anyway so I really have no choice.

>>20038424
Anything that doesn't revolve around wood carving

>>20038401
Twenty posts too soon.

>>20038577
How?

>>20038699
It's called your brain playing tricks on you so you can reproduce.

>>20038699
Sorry anon infatuation sucks big time. Shot your shot and if it’s no make sure to stop seeing her, even casually, for a long time.

I'm heavily drinking again. I just want to lessen the anxiety about my inadequacy towards managing my life and current (future) economy. Everything is going to shit.

>>20039209
>MAN, IT'S A HOT ONE

watching Taxi Driver for the 20th time

>>20038973
Assume one of the three sex-having roles
a) Chad: easy pussy everywhere
b) Simp bf: regular pussy, but cuckold
c) Provider: regular pussy, but used up

>>20039306
what was Travis problem?

>>20039341
he's like a fish out of the water

>>20039395
Was it possible to put him into water?

>>20039449
no

my brain has been balkanized

>>20038949
a good carpenter cannot have more than four fingers in one hand

naps used to be my superpower
now whenever I close my eyes she's there
no more escape.

>>20038434
Here.

In the journey to escape the self there are shadows on butter-yellow walls. I'm nice and distant, smiling, patronizing, at questions.
In the quest to become part of the sky I stare and see and cry. There are glints in others' eyes, my love for him has sunk into the flesh and screens of our computers.
In the shit inside my gut there are lentils and bread and the cookies they gave me. There is a knotted stomach and a womb and some very disappointed gransmothers.
(the bell jar turned plastic and is shipped from china)

>IT WAS NOT UNDERBAKED
>Baby, it was raw.
~
She looked like on overstuffed burrito wrapped in blue tinfoil. Like one of those you get from chipotle where the retard doesn’t know how to fold the tortilla properly.
~~
The first one was a nerd. She wasn’t on anybody’s radar but she was cute and you could tell she was going to be at least an eight and a half, probably a nine, once her ass and tits filled in, which they were starting to. Her outfits were as conservative as they were unflattering. One day, in the computer lab, she wasn’t wearing her low-bridge.
>hey, you look good without your glasses
Mouth agape, she widened her emerald eyes and lifted them from her book to meet mine. She shut her mouth, looked back at the book, shut that too, then bent sideways away from me to get her pencil box out from her backpack, frantically jumbling her nail-bitten stubby fingers inside fishing for her fuchsia frames. Then put the glasses back on. They were smudged with graphite and sat lopsided across her head. I don’t believe she ever spoke a word or made eye contact with me again.
Maybe I should’ve stopped to see what she was reading before I said anything. It’s rude to interrupt one’s reading but I had never cared for books.
~
>Uh—I-I’m sorry, I’m going with a friend
This bitch had no friends.
Women are truly genius creatures, those sick fucks.

Do you have to be listening to something on the headphones for noise-cancelling headphones to work, or can they also work by simply putting them on your head?
I'm just looking for some peace while I'm reading man...

>>20039692
they can work without anything playing as long as the function is turned on

>>20038401

">Whales posses knowledge of advanced antediluvian human civilizations edition

They have no modern language spoken or written, so no they don't. this is why they keep getting hit by sjips and harpooned like idiots

I’m struggling with believing in free will. How can i be subject to the laws of physics and still have free will? Help me believe in free will again!

>>20039757
Do you think it'll dampen the noise from the upstairs neighbors moving furniture 15 hours a day?
Also which model are you using?

>>20038401
Hello /lit/ please remember to:

Have sex, go to gym, be yourself, seek a therapist , take your meds, meditate, go for walks, learn a trade, learn to code, get off social media, call a friend/family, read, listen to audiobooks, invest, write a journal, write 3 things you are grateful for everyday, make your bed in the morning, leave motivational quotes around the house, walk with your head and chest up and shoulders back, stop playing vidya, sneed, stop eating fast food, stop drinking/smoking/doing drugs, maintain a proper diet, keep a routine, compliment at least 1 stranger per day, travel, volunteer, have hobbies involving members of the opposite sex, limit time on phone/internet (especially pornography), dopamine fast, sleep at least 8 hours a night, drink water, pray the rosary 3x a day, think like a winner :)

>>20039763
>whales don't have language

>>20039955
sony-wf1000-xm4 are quite good at blocking any types of noise, I'm using the inferior wf1000-xm3 (not that good at blocking noise)

>>20038401
>>20040072
If you like the mystical dimension of the ocean and whales, I recommend the graphic novel Children of the Sea. It's very soulful. The movie is good to watch too after the graphic novel. The movie conveys the main theme and aesthetic of the graphic novel well, but it butchers too much. Here's a nice video:

https://youtu.be/1s84rIhPuhk

When it's dead silent I hear a loud humming, but when there's any noise, even if it's quiet, the humming is gone.

Throughout the entire relationship, I was never comfortable with the intensity with which you seemed to love me. I'd never experienced it before, and for the first time in my life I felt responsible for another person's feelings. I'd never held that power before. Constantly I doubted myself- "I don't love as intensely as you do- am I leading you on?". This led to another worry- "If at some point I need to break up with you, how do I do that? Could I do that to you? I don't know if I could hurt you like that." But we were in university and I really did love you, so I ignored it. Also, this topic seemed impossible to bring up without making you worry and hurting your feelings.

It became more difficult to ignore it after we passed the 3-year mark. I had barely turned 22, and you were almost 25. At that point I started seriously thinking about whether our relationship was going to last in the long term. Was I prepared to marry you then? No, I was 22. Would I be in 5 years? I wasn't sure, I was 22 and didn't really know what I wanted, and by then you'd be 29 and it would be unfair to waste your time, especially since I knew you wanted kids. Also, I still wanted to move to London eventually and sort out my career. Although you said you would be willing to come with me, that also worried me. What if you moved for me and it didn't work out, and I've moved you away from your family for nothing? For that year I tried to convince myself that it was just the jitters of a 22-year-old who didn't know what he was doing and when I got older I'd want to marry you. Eventually I couldn't convince myself any more, and it wasn't fair on you to keep you in a relationship when I wasn't sure it was going anywhere.

I researched the "best" way to dump someone, and I found the "School of Life" on YouTube. It suggested the kindest way to dump someone was to not be kind at all. By making them hate you, you're helping them move on faster. To try and be 'nice' makes the breakup bittersweet which makes it more difficult for the other person to move on. Also, I knew I'd be a blubbering mess, and I couldn't explain all this at the time (not that I really understood exactly what I was feeling, a lot of this has only come out through extensive journalling). I walked over to your flat, and told you I didn't love you any more, then left.

Another factor in this was self-esteem issues. Part of me identified my masculinity with whether I could "get girls", and I wasn't sure I was capable of that beyond you, as you were my first girlfriend and the only person I'd slept with. That was stupid, but it was part of my thought process.

I want to emphasise that at no point did you pressure me for marriage or anything, this was all internal to my brain. It was commitment issues on my part- the fear of 'leading you on' when I wasn't sure I wanted to spend my life with you. For what it's worth, I'm remorseful for all the pain and I hope you find what you're looking for somewhere else.

>>20040937
Shut up

>>20039624
Very beautiful. Thank you for that

>>20040944
I wrote what was on my mind

I'm so exhausted. I feel like I have no control of my life. Three times now some external force has come in and broke apart everything I had pieced together. Now I'm stranded. I'm at a dead end and I can't turn back. Theres no one here for me. There's nothing here for me. There's no place for me. I just have agonize at every wasted second and hope theres something better waiting for me after this life expires.

pussy :)

>>20038424
>>20038949
Unironically this. When I worked manual labor I was far more able to read and write after I got off, and I had plenty of ideas I'd been chewing on all day. I worked in a pseudo-intellectual capacity for 3 years and I was completely drained mentally at the end of the day. Just changed careers and I'm still in an office but it's mostly busywork, which has been better but not nearly as good as a physical job.

>>20041089
I do construction work and I'm too fucking tired to even watch tv after the day is over

>>20038401
I made a joke that got no laughs around my family dinner table. It has been on my mind.

The joke was,

"Politician X is a nice guy, but it was weird he solicited me for sex."

X is the name of a fairly well known politician here who got in trouble for trying to seduce minors.

>>20041370
It was a Norm Macdonald inspired sort of jest. I thought it was hilarious but my family did not.

>>20041370
>>20041375
Thats okay anon, I thought it was funny

Few things are more painful than realizing that it's already been 6 years since 2016. The Idleness is real. Will it ever be possible to finally put this thing in gear and get going without stalling? Is it reasonable to think about the concept of ''catching up'' already at age 21? I tried to read Proust but i get an inkling that i am not yet ready to process the harrowing nuances concerning the theme of time passing by you, which I know is inevitable, but there's obvious degrees to that.
Still, i'm here on 4channel. Still caught in that tar pit.

>>20041386
God I wish I was 21 again. You still have time

>>20041396
Please advise me if you can anon. With anything that you could say. This is limbo.

>>20041402
Literally just do something. Go outside. Join clubs. Go back to school.

I've been reading about the buddhist conception of hell and man is it brutal. It is much more detailed, precise, and measured than the Christian concept of hell partly because it is regulated by the karma and fits into the timescales of buddhist cosmology. Essentially you go to Naraka to work off some bad karma. This hell is well-planned and quantified. There are thousands of hell-realms and subdivisions separated into various categories like some great clockwork of pain. Your experience in hell reflects your sins. So murderers are forced to tear at each other with iron claws on a plane of burning coals for trillions of years. Every time they die they are immediately resurrected. The overly lustful are taken to a realm where beautiful men and women wave at them from atop trees that consist of blades and razors, so that as they are tempted to climb the trees they are eviscerated . As they reach the top, the beautiful people appear below them on the ground and wave at them down there. They repeat this for trillions of years as slaves of lust. Drunkards have molten lead poured down their throats, etc. It's a great time.

Presiding over Jigoku (Japanese buddhist hell, or "earth-prison") are Oni. Violent and brutal hulking demons who are angered by cries of pain and shrieks of suffering and p devour, and torture and pulverize with iron clubs anyone who weeps or screams.

I catch myself wondering how one might break the karmic logic of this hell system. I belong in at least a couple of these hells. I reason that, since this conception of hell is so systematic and highly specialized, what if the way to escape it is to commit MORE SIN so that there is no single hell into which one can fit? Or is there a notion of concurrent sentences? My death is a discrete event. Although my soul can respawn, it is bound to a single instance at any point in time. So if I commit all sins equally, I cannot go to all the hells at once. That's my get out of jail free card.

Nothing like living the life of the person you hated being.

>>20038401
Felt good finally getting physicals of philosophy finally

>>20038973
Through rape

>>20041417
The concept of hell is something I really struggle with. I mean, of course I believe in punishment and retribution but the idea of such an extended torture is abhorrent.

>>20041417
you have to understand that the realm of souls lies beyond our three dimensional understanding. ''at once'' is an invalid concept.

>>20041417
>I catch myself wondering how one might break the karmic logic of this hell system
Oh never mind. I'd just go into an even worse hell realm.

>Daijōnetsu Jigoku, the hell of great burning, is much the same as Jōnetsu Jigoku, only much hotter. The suffering here is equivalent to ten times more than all of the higher hells combined. This plane of hell is reserved for sinners who have committed all of the crimes listed previously in addition to physical crimes against Buddhist clergy—for example, raping a nun. The screams of the tortured souls here are so terrible that they can be heard up to 24,000 miles away. The power of this hell is so great that those who are to be sentenced here begin to feel their suffering up to three days before they actually die. The punishment on this level of hell lasts one half of an antarakalpa—a unit of time in Indian cosmology that is so unfathomably long that it defies mathematical description.

Better to just be a good boy.

>>20041417
You generally have to be pretty bad to end up in Buddhist hells though. It isn't like Mortal Sin which is a condemnation until you get it dealt with. At most you would likely get reincarnated on earth, or an earthlike realm, under shittier circumstances.
I really like Kṣitigarbha, he is a bodhisattva that is actually depicted as descending to hell to teach the dhamma to the various beings their and liberate them.

>>20041483
It gets worse:

Mugen Jigoku, the hell of uninterrupted suffering, is the eighth and deepest circle of hell. It is reserved for the worst of the worst—murders of their own parents; killers of saints; those who have betrayed every single Buddhist precept. The souls down here are so hungry and thirsty that they tear apart their own bodies and drink their own blood in a useless attempt to ease their suffering. Words literally cannot describe how awful this hell is; if Mugen Jigoku were ever accurately described, both the reader and the writer would die from the sheer horror of it. It is so deep that it takes 2000 years of falling, non-stop, at terminal velocity, for a soul to descend all the way into this hell. Some say that those who are sent here never come back, while others say that the term of punishment here lasts one full antarakalpa, after which the soul may reincarnate again; although, even after a soul is finally released from this hell, its punishment is said to continue on into its next lives.

>>20041462
Maybee it's just a metaphor bruh *hits bong*
But yeah there's something like a paradoxical immoral morality about the concept of hell that never made much sense to me.

>>20041486
Yeah but I also read that even if you kill mosquitos you could end up in the murderer hell realm. Seems pretty harsh. Maybe you reach a certain threshold of killing so if you kill 100 quadrillion mosquitoes its the same as killing one person? Idk

>>20041500
There are stories about Monks who accidentally step on ants, but incur no bad merit too.
Zen monks that eat meat because it was given to them.

Thing is, with Buddhist cosmology you can find a tale about nearly everything. People living a billion Kalpas of pain for killing a fly on one hand, then tales of Samurai who killed hundreds going to the pure lands because they chanted Amitabha once.

I think it is better just to focus on the actually teachings and trying to attain insight.

How do I get into literature if I wasn't all that much into reading when I was in high school or college? If I tried reading more nonfiction and literary fiction type works, I probably wouldn't actually gain much intellectually from it the same way that people who read those books and discussed them in class/wrote book reports on them did. Do I get annotated versions of some books? Do I look up analyses online and discuss the books with others online?
>inb4 form a book club
No

>>20038401
I have an utterly neurotic and violent hatred of leftists. There are some days where I fall into an inner trance where I just monologue about how much I hate them and why they're the dregs of humanity. How can I stop this?

>>20040937
Why the fuck would you do this to someone who loved you? This is so horrible and cruel.

>>20038401
I'm constantly uncomfortable. I'm uncomfortable during the day and at night. When I lie in bed I have a constant urge to move my back, my ankles, my knees, my hips, my neck, and my shoulders. My right ankle pops and snaps every time I extend it and both my knees pop constantly. When I lay still in bed it feels like my knees are going to explode. My right hip does a weird thing when I flex it like the hip flexors are moving over and snapping over a bone. My lower back is always sore. My shoulders feel really uncomfortable and I have a constant urge to pop them as well, I can crack them in about three different ways. My neck is worse than my lower back. Most of this is probably normal. But I am young and I work out or run every day and i've never even had any injuries. I go to bed almost as soon as it gets dark consistently and I use little electronics and live a low stimulation life style. I have near perfect sleep hygiene yet it takes me over an hour sometimes 2 or 3 to fall asleep every night. Even when I don't go to bed so early it still takes forever and is even worse. I don't even know if it's related to the physical discomfort or more to thoughts. In fact, I was just lying in bed and I couldn't sleep because I was composing this whole monologue I'm typing right now in my head. I have constant imaginary conversations in my head because I never say anything to people in real life I have thousands of things I need to say pent up inside me. The more people talk to me the worse it is. If someone talks to me during the day I almost invariably will not sleep well that night because I will replay the conversation in my head a thousand times and come up with a thousand things to say and a thousand monologues where I reveal my whole inner life to that person. During the day I want to kill myself from sitting around. by the time the day is almost over and I can go and move around and work out my lower back is destroyed from sitting around and my head is swimming. In addition no matter how I eat I'm always partially constipated and sitting makes it worse. I'm uncomfortable not just in my body but also in my mind. Every second that I have to be in public around people is torture, not in the reddit introvert way or even because I have "anxiety," I just am extremely uncomfortable around people. The worst part is that none of it is that bad and I am only here complaining because I worked myself up while lying in bed trying to fall asleep. and getting angry that I can't sleep. I try meditation techniques, I try not moving which I somehow manage for a while, I try visualizing things... when I was a kid, since I was probably 10 years old I used to imagine that I was bleeding out on a battlefield. That I had been completely impaled or otherwise incapacitated or that I was delirious and in out of consciousness on an operating table for a sever injury. This always used to help me fall asleep. Now I feel like I don't even have any imaginative power

>>20041814
Psyllium husk.

>>20041814
It does sound fairly bad. Visit a therapist once at the very least.

>>20041834
I couldn't care less about my mental health. in fact, I'm probably one of the happiest people alive at least when I haven't been forced to see other people for a day or so. it's only bad right now because it's the middle of the week. I would be fine even now if I could sleep

>>20041888
it's your mental state that's preventing you from sleeping normally, bucko. just pay attention to your thought patterns and you'll see.
good luck.

>>20041888
Its anxiety. Everything you described is textbook anxiety. If you learn a healthy coping mechanism, or even try an anti anxiety regiment, your whole life could dramatically improve

>>20038401
i love moby dick so much
>It is by reason of this cosy blanketing of his body, that the whale is enabled to keep himself comfortable in all weathers, in all seas, times, and tides […] How wonderful it is then – except after explanation – that this great monster, to whom corporeal warmth is as indispensable as it is to man; how wonderful that he should be found at home, immersed to his lips for life in those Arctic waters! […] It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a stronger individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! Admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole

i have a phone interveiw for some pottential job position tommorow morning but i went to the bar and got drunk. not sure if im gonna make it.
anyways. thats not whats on my mind. (you) know whats on my mind. its the one thing i cant have...god i miss it so much.
https://youtu.be/hNRHHRjep3E

>>20041417
>The overly lustful are taken to a realm where beautiful men and women wave at them from atop trees that consist of blades and razors, so that as they are tempted to climb the trees they are eviscerated
this happens to trannies on earth

i have tiredness, burning sensation in eyes, tingling jaw and cannot sleep
it's been happening a lot since last month

>>20041940
>Lately I had in my hand Moby Dick. It struck me as a rather strained rhapsody with whaling for a subject and not a single sincere line in the 3 vols of it. (Joseph Conrad --Letter to Humphrey Milford, January 15 1907)
You think he was just jealous?

The wavering quality of these threads, up and down over time, stand out posts here and there, a single stand out thread chain, maybe 5 in one, 7 in another, 50 great posts in one, 70 great posts in another, 100 mediocre posts in another, a short and sweet one here, one that makese laugh there, a smile, a tear, pain, joy, helpfulness, intrigue, mystery, whining, insight, despair, extasy, dread, joy, misery, elation, 44 cool posts in one, a few interesting post chains in another, time goes on, the thread returns, new anons, old anons, the same cast of characters, on this stage, on this thread, or another, some go away, some come back, the quality of the threads, like a graph of waves, up and down, up and down, up up, down down, up up up

>>20038401
i want to write for myself
but only if others will read it
which means i'm really writing for them, not myself
but i don't know what they want
so i have to write for myself
but only if others will read it.

>>20038401
How many years has it been since the human race hurled its great question into the vast unanswered chaos beyond the blank of their world? Since we challenged the trillion mile roads between here and nowhere, and flung our great seeds out into time? And where are they going, set out to chart destiny? What will be waiting when they get there? And is it worse to imagine that it will be Nothing or Something? Will we just be adrift and waiting until stardeath destroys us all and galactic fire wipes the slate free?
--No, but one ship found something, maybe at the edge of the universe's farthest disc; who can say?. In an unassumed corner of space and time, they drifted into a columnal place, a far-off pocket somehow unwashed by the heat of any near star. And yet light illuminated, there it was--the Great Mystery stood unrevealed beyond the pilots' radiation-sealed visor. The Ultimate Man. A perfect reconstruction of a human body in anatomical position, colossal & suspended in the starless blank. In two dimensions like a map of humanity itself, plotted down an unseen axis. It seemed to wave there subtly, like a flag blown by some interstellar wind. Its outline sparkled with a spectral incandescence. The architects were vanished or invisible, dead or gone. The pilots hung in their seats over emptiness and found that they had tears on their cheeks. They tasted themselves and the salt was sweet. Light-years away a star-flare winked in the quilted fabric somewhere outside the ship.

bump

>>20038577
Bitch is thick af. Fertility goddess physique. 6 inches won’t do anything to her.

Iron Age Greeks worshipped the Heroic Age Greeks
Romans worshipped the Iron Age Greeks
Enlightenment Europeans worshipped the Romans
Modern Westerners worship the Enlightenment Europeans

Do you think we have our heart in the right place? I think we're better off looking to the Romans personally.

>>20042504
Achilles was Pelasgian

>>20041940
>i love
>>20041940
>dick so much

>>20041370
delivery shouldve been better, emphasis on the "sex" maybe wouldve gotten more laffs

i successfully stopped myself from coming to 4chan by conditioning myself, for the first time, then i got the urge to come here and make a post about it and this is that post

Hey anons, I've been reading the Bed of Proscrustes by Taleb. Lots of great aphorisms but I can't figure out this one:

"Compliance with the straightjacket of narrow (Aristotelian) logic and avoidance of fatal inconsistencies are not the same thing"

Anyone know what he means here?

>>20040937
You are a sick, sick person.

Sometimes you're talking with a genuinely nice and sweet girl on a dating app and it's like ah I'm sorry I'm gonna let you down you don't deserve it

>>20040937
Been there anon

i want to finally read the iliad and the odyssey but there are so many translations that all seem to have their pros and cons that i just can't decide. are there any germans here who can recommend which version i should get?

>>20042861
modern dating is shit anyways

Ghosted

500 Days of Summer lied to me

to jerk or not jerk off that is the question my friends

>>20043028
dont jerk around this question

>Dugin supports Martin Heidegger's thought, notably the geo–philosophical concept of Dasein (Existence).[32] According to Dugin, the forces of liberal and capitalist Western civilization represent what the ancient Greeks called ὕβρις (hubris), "the essential form of titanism" (the anti-ideal form), which opposes Heaven ("the ideal form—in terms of space, time, being"). In other words, the West would summarize "the revolt of the Earth against Heaven". To what he calls the West's "atomizing" universalism, Dugin contrasts an apophatic universalism, expressed in the political idea of "empire".[32] Values of democracy, human rights, individualism are considered by him not to be universal but uniquely Western.[33]
Do we agree?

>>20043016
What was she even supposed to reply to? You’re supposed to carry the conversation, women can never be expected to keep it going ever, this isn’t the 19th century anymore

The professor and I have a different view of the project and I fear we will crash.

>>20043383
why does he have to try so hard? does Putin really listen to this stuff like they say or is he an old-wives tale that they like to meme for westerners? if so is he in on the joke?

to the extent that there is any kind of an explanation for why people exist, it genuinely seems like the story of Adam and Eve is it. Why is there particular consciousness? Shit you can't really say anything without sounding like a fag.... Well, why is there? "Because there was a tree in the garden they were not supposed to eat from, and God rigged it so they'd be "tricked" into doing so, and so they and the trickster were put in a restricted realm where meaning could arise out of" .... shit out of intention? Idk. But I bet it's in there somewhere.

>>20043383
I mean yeah I can see his perspective but it sounds more like myth and symbolism than philosophy

>>20043635
Who is it that says putin listens to him? Can't trust the media on anything they say

it turns out my ex was the big idol all along
well so far anyway
what did Abraham do with the big idol? He left it standing. He smashed the little ones and left the big one standing. And his tribespeople came and said "Whatever have you done man?!" And Abraham said "well I don't know about any of that- but if the big fella over there REALLY HAS POWER OVER ANYTHING AT ALL why don't you ask him (her)??????"
This begat consternation- and so is life for the idolater. "Why is she not here?" "Why do I feel so fucking bad?" You feel bad because she's finite and she has ended, and because she literally can not speak. When it seemed like she spoke it seemed like that was meaningful but now it seems (correctly) like she, in her finality, does not, and you put all your fucking monies on the bet that she'd keep on. There is no god but God, pal.

>>20038401
I saw a girl on the streetcar with the most perfect bum. It was "phat" (as those melanin-rich folk like to say) and I had the pleasure of watching it jiggle as she waited for the door to open. Black were the colour of her skin tight yoga pants. Such a thin piece of fabric between me and the naked perfection that laid underneath was, in honest fact, arousing. I felt as Dante did when he first laid eyes on his Beatrice. But instead of a meta-physical digression on beauty and God; I only felt pain and suffering. That I could not squeeze, grab, sniff, lick, and insert my very average phallic instrument into so delightful a specimen of the female figure was, in my mind, a psychological hammer to the head. Let it be known, however: the only thing stopping me from acting out on animal impulses was the social milieux and censure that has undoubtedly shaped my rather pathetic and lowly male personality.

my life was better during quarantine. I was making music, programming, taking walks, reading, exercising and generally living content. now nearly one year since the world started to open up again I've fallen so far. Desire rules my life now mainly due to an obsessive streak with an unavailable girl, a burgeoning business surrounded by people (mostly) unaware of their power impluse and a worsening health condition. The world of people is a whirlwind of emotions and a bitch to navigate. Yes, I've grown into a stronger person and I've experienced more of life outside the pages and pixels but I absolutely despise other people and would like to run away from them.

What’s the deal with YA reading bookstagrammers anyway? They just read about fake drama and boys who don’t exist to care about them; there’s no depth or philosophical insight into anything. You’d think we read to unearth hidden truths or reflect on our condition. But, for others, it’s just about filling a reading list and giving half assed, surface-level reviews on Goodreads.

thinking about drinking again today.

>>20038488
these movies are meant to tap into the most base intuitions that every human has. they're meant to exploit your emotional and sensuous self which is less differentiated and complex than your intellectual self. To be honest, I dove into arthouse, intellectual films straight away out of a feeling of superiority only to find myself enjoying the 'mediocre' (or more specifically the thriller/action genre) more. it suits the medium better overall. also another fun aspect of the truly mediocre Hollywood film is the game of trying to spot the ideological lense it is being shown through.

Marxism has no room for a designer god. We’re going to corner him and show him what proletarian might amounts to! *Sharts*

>>20043989
Western capitalism has already pushed religion into corner of irrelevancy. It’s a cultural relic in every first world country.

>>20043016
5.5/10
>>20043028
7/10 relatable
>>20043544
5/10
>>20043722
5/10
>>20043775
3/10
>>20043837
6/10
>>20043895
4/10
>>20043905
5.5/10

>>20043989
8/10
>>20044001
2/10

>>20043837
Just ask the girl out and start your better habits back up. Do the things you can control

>>20044003
2/10
>>20044008
5/10

Women are all whores, men are all helpless, demons hold all the power in this world.

>>20044039
Yup

are you guys my friends? do you care about me? be honest.

>>20044068
Yes. /lit/bros are my only friends and I care about all of you. Even when you call me cringe or tell me to have sex.

>>20044068
probably not, no. I mean it can happen that I care on some common human level. Sometimes I try to talk the suiciders down, or just add something I think worth hearing out of some general humanity. I don't know what friendship is but it can't be this.

cunny cunny cunny cunny cunny cunny cunny cunny

>>20044101
Feeling powerful lust after some braindead zoomer skank with nosering and firm squat ass.

Why do they call it a dirt hole if ontologically the hole is the nothingness? If dirt holes consists of a hole that is taken away dirt but also the dirt surrounding the taken away dirt, then how much of the dirt that is not taken away is part of the taken away dirt?

The porn ads on the NSFW part of 4chan get me off but not the actual porn videos themselves

>>20042114
>>not a single sincere line in the 3 vols of it
yes jealous or just a retard

What do I do?

>>20044456
a little jig

I was at work today and thought about something cool to post in this thread but I forgot what it was.

boxcar
box car
box-car
boxcar

"box-car" gives you an advantage in a photo-finish.

LMAO

Dumb bitch ex gf just visited my LinkedIn page. I assume she knows I can see it? She's a dumb asshole. I want to fuck her so bad bros.

>>20041375
>It was a Norm Macdonald inspired sort of jest
then shouldn't that kind of non-reaction have been to your satisfaction? norm loved that kind of stuff

>Who am I?

A letter written to the United Nations, using their very convenient online contact form (https://www.un.org/en/contact-us-0).).
Hello,
I am writing to you because the UN is a serious and important organization. Because of that, I need your help. I need clussy. There needs to be more clussy. I need you to use your powers as the UN to make there be more clussy. In case you don't know, clussy is clown pussy. Since you are the UN, who are a powerful and effective organization that people take seriously, and since governments never disobey what you say, I need you to bring about more clussy. The ways I would recommend are by either making more pussies clowns or by making more clowns pussies. In short, there needs to be more female clowns, or as I call them, clussies. I believe my human rights are being violated as long as there is not more clussy, and since the UN has always been effective at enforcing human rights, that is why I am contacting you. I suggest that at the next meeting of the general council, or perhaps the security council, the issue of increasing worldwide clussy is raised. If you don't do this, I believe I will have been failed even worse than all those kids your aid workers raped that one time, or rather several times, as seen in the newspapers. If you can rape kids you surely have the power to make there be more clussy, so please use your status as a capable and well-respected organization to make more clussy.
Yours,
Charles Sneed, proprietor of Sneed's Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck's)

black people

black "people"

"black" "people"

"black" people

someone stole my bank out my car today
was parked in a street full of houses author minimum value of like 3m
yet in the 10 minutes I left my car unlocked and out of sight some fucking nigger (most likely a rich white teen thinking he is a hard cunt, but thanks to nigger) stole it

>>20045716
bank card

If dubs or higher, I quit college

I wish I had a time machine, I'd go back and change everything. I'm condemned to this ruined reality I created around me, an animal trapped in a cage it built itself.

With a bare bodkin...

>>20045716
>>20045720
never mind. i found it under my seat lmfao.

>>20045790
You can eat my ass for a living

>>20044264
Behold, the power of philosophy majors

I have never enjoyed YA fiction, not even as a youth. The 'genre' always felt like pandering to me.

>>20045514
>>20045590
>>20045677
>>20045703
I think this is what Hegel called the dialectic.

>>20046029
kek'd

>>20039942
When I was in high school I decided to believe in free will. It's worked out pretty well for me ever since.

>>20046049
doesnt make a difference either wayyyy

I'm coming to a point in my life where I know I'll have to make a very harsh decision and maybe ruin everything. But it is strange, I feel anxious because the future is uncertain and everything can go wrong, I feel free, freer that I have ever felt.

>>20039942
The universe is too complex for our human mind to fully understand and calculate the outcome of things, so even if everything is determined, it doesn't really matter. You don't know the laws of physics, only the best approximations that we managed to come up and that we call laws of physics until we find out more stuff, you can't have access to the values of all variables with 100% precision, so you can never know the outcome of most things in the world, societies and your life.
My point is that it doesn't matter if free will exists or not.

>>20039942
Here you go. Overall a shitty webcomic, but this specific one makes a good argument.
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/70

>>20039942
>Looked at this way, Gödel's proof suggests – though by no means does it prove! – that there could be some high-level way of viewing the mind/brain, involving concepts which do not appear on lower levels, and that this level might have explanatory power that does not exist – not even in principle – on lower levels. It would mean that some facts could be explained on the high level quite easily, but not on lower levels at all. No matter how long and cumbersome a low-level statement were made, it would not explain the phenomena in question. It is analogous to the fact that, if you make derivation after derivation in Peano arithmetic, no matter how long and cumbersome you make them, you will never come up with one for G – despite the fact that on a higher level, you can see that the Gödel sentence is true. What might such high-level concepts be? It has been proposed for eons, by various holistically or "soulistically" inclined scientists and humanists that consciousness is a phenomenon that escapes explanation in terms of brain components; so here is a candidate at least. There is also the ever-puzzling notion of free will. So perhaps these qualities could be "emergent" in the sense of requiring explanations which cannot be furnished by the physiology alone (Gödel, Escher, Bach, p. 708)

I am coming.

Sometimes I suspect that everything I have written on 4chan will be exposed.

>>20046163
Thats a pretty scary thought desu

>>20046163
Almost everything I post on this is satire and does not reflect my sincere views.

>>20046163
I wish. Let the truth rain down upon an ungrateful humanity.

>>20046229
>Almost everything
we have printed out a random selection of 100 posts made by you. Can you please inform the jury which are satire and which are sincere?

>>20038424
any job that requires a lot of stress and hours.
you don't want a job that absorbs your energy and time 24/7

>Lawyer.
>Surgeon
>business manager
>air traffic controller
>Paramedic
>nurse
>pilot
>chef, Retail and hospitality sales staff
>some engineering professions

>>20046229
nice try

>>20046257
I could, yes. Whenever I use proper capitalisation and grammar, my posts are sincere. When I forgo proper style, it means I'm shitposting.

it's time to be ruthless

>>20046273
ok boardroom wolf :)

>>20046258
>some engineering professions
which ones

>>20046280
unfortunately I am about to make someone suicidal. it can't be avoided

>>20038401
I'm 21 years old and I already want to give up in my life.

I'm going to flunk out of college, I just know it.

Jesus Christ, where did I go so horribly wrong?

Why was I born?

What I do to deserve this?

>>20046268
>When I forgo

>>20046288
buckle up bitch before bitter realities befall you

i don't know what tomorrow will bring me, but i'm going to sleep now
good night anons, i wish you all well

>>20046288
calm down, anon
most people never did college or give up before the end, it is not the end of the world

I hate corporations so bad. Why has humanity settled on this inhuman organizational structure as the epitome?

>>20046297
I know what tomorrow will bring me.
>wake up early
>horrible headache on account of developing head cold
>bathroom remodel all day
>go home
>get too much beer at 711
>drink too much beer in garage alone
>sleep

>>20046297
I just want my decisions to not negatively affect my family anymore.

We live in a 3rd world shit hole with no hope of escape.

Going to college at the time I did was a stupid fucking decision, Jesus I am dumb.

We are all going to work ourselves to death before he get the chance to realise how fucked we all.

I wish I was never born.

Why did a bunch of Jewish celebrities make a film about Christianity being unironically right and Hollywood celebrities being evil and going to hell?

>>20046343
>We live in a 3rd world shit hole with no hope of escape.
If it's any consolation I live in a 1st world shithole with not hope of escape.

>>20046268
This post here... hmmm... yes here it is. It says "Kill all niggers." The punctuation and capitalization is fine. Do you mean to say this was sincere?

>>20046393
I didn't post that.

One's digital fingerprint is the modern version of the slave's chains. How powerful it would be to take a hammer to these shackles and rediscover the universe for yourself! All of digitality is a form vaampirism for the benefit of unworthy, horrid little benefactors who we should all band together to hang by their gizzards (in the metaverse). They are bloodsuckers, betrayers, cowards, ignoramuses. Their net worth speaks nothing to their worthiness. They want to steal your soul and feast on its corpse.

My girlfriend and I got pretty drunk last weekend. During which my degenerate fantasies manifested (again). She lubes up my cock and massage it until it's hard. Then I tease her tight little asshole by caressing my pulsating tip against it until I surprisingly squeeze it into her vagina. It takes only a minute or two before she cums once, if not twice. I ask if she wants to try for one more. I gently slide my swollen cock into her ass. She is still moaning. Now it doesn't take much for me at this point. The slow warm, motions envelope my cock with every desired sensation imaginable. I can feel a hard squeeze and now cum is dripping into her hitting the walls and triggering new sensations for her. As my cock is pulsating she tells me to go deeper. I thurst deep as the cum continues to drip in her as she cums again.

What kind of "free will" would "choose" weakness if the "chooser" was not weak itself? And the same of strength, or any condition?

>>20046399
Anon... you're under oath

>>20038401
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byb3ffrBYgU
What do we mean by race?

>>20046437
I didn't post that. Unlike many (most?) on this site, I'm not racist.

>>20046445
How about posting this?
Bomb all governments
Kill everyone in power
Hunt down every politician the world over
Arrest all police
Spy on all intelligence agencies

Lots of times I write a long, informative effortpost and then just don't post it because the thread and its posters are just too retarded to justify it

>>20046454
Nope, I'm very politically moderate. Please be aware that you've posted those phrases and are now logged to your posting history.

my brain is way too fucking big

>>20046470
Encephalitis is a serious medical condition, go to the hospital immediately.

>>20046470
Thats a problem. It needs to be divided. Wish there was an adequate term for that.

>>20046487
you mean like yugoslavia was?

>>20046464
>Please be aware that you've posted those phrases and are now logged to your posting history.
And please be aware they can suck my dick! They know i've got them got. Can't take a little satire or comedy? Way to prove the insecurity of your system. To arrest me is to prove me right. These glowies know I'm smarter than them and that I've permitted them to see what is visible. Because I don't value my own life. And that is what terrifies them.

I have no other weapons than words. If I can make them submit to me by giving me what I want (arresting me for saying the truth) I will have ultimate victory. Prove me right by victimizing me.

>>20046464
Do you think anyone gives a fuck about someone posting "phrases"? I've been to a secret service events and I openly posted pro jihadist and pro Kurdish stuff before.

>>20046494
I believe you are entitled to have your own opinion. In saying that, I believe in niceposting.

>>20046435
I have no idea what you mean, but there are plenty of reasons to choose to be weak. Mainly, if you believe you are weak, and choose to act like you are weak, then much of your responsibility is abdicated. In many ways I think depression is a feedback loop of choosing the weaker option.

>>20046494
>Prove me right by victimizing me.
Sounds erotic.

>>20046499
It depends on the country IIRC.

>>20046504
My question is really how the "indifferent substrate" of free will can decide anything without a nature to act as its foundation

>>20046163
This actually happens frequently on the Japanese 4chan (2ch/5ch). Back in 2013 there was an enormous data leak containing the names of everyone who had accounts with the site (you need an account for their version of 4chan pass), and several were famous people that lost their jobs. But it still happens today, because unlike here, their IP addresses are static and the IDs the site gives them remain fixed in place for a long time, so when someone accidentally self-doxxes, you can see their entire history of posts and it fucks people over big time. The site is also unmoderated so people spam the personal info over and over. It's kind of like old /b/ actually but worse

>>20046517
Well, you're right. I mean I don't know exactly what you mean by free will, but anyway humans can't act like this, because clearly one cannot act without motivation.

>>20046503
Niceposting! How about not-ruining-the-world-posting with your unconscionable greedy policies! Why ruin the world with your ignorance and greed! Why defend a system based on suffering and exploitation? Don't you believe there is more to human potential? That there is something better than the downward spiral you are participating in?
>>20046507
I'd bang an Agent Smith

>>20046571
I believe sustainable and greater change comes from many individuals choosing to do good and reforming systems from the inside, not radicals seeking to destroy said systems and replacing them with whoknowswhat.
I don't appreciate your accusative tone, by the way.

We've come a long, long way together
Through the hard times and the good
I have to celebrate you, baby
I have to praise you like I should

>>20046593
as a kid, i thought he said 'like a shoe' instead of 'like i should'

What's your favorite Picasso?

Was it one of you who approached me in the library while I was reading Kant?

>>20046615
I don't like PIcasso but my favorite of his are Garçon à la pipe, Acrobat (1930), Minotaure et jument morte devant une grotte face à une jeune fille au voile, and La baignade (1937).

>>20046725
>Thanks

>>20046725
Dig it. Not a great fan of the Rose period. Analytical cubism and the African period are my favorites.

Youtube comments are so often more entertaining than the videos themselves.

Is pornography as popular entertainment the final art form of a civilization? Is digital pornography the end of all ends?

>>20046754
PMV and HMV
Can’t wait for full length feature films of them

I want to shoot myself in the head with Chekhov's gun. I just read The Kiss, and I relate to the main character too much. Is this what reality is? Disappointment? Will nobody ever love me, and will I always be alone?

>>20046745
I'm just not a fan of the cubist style. I much prefer surrealism (Magritte, Dali, etc.).

>>20038401
I had my first first date since my ex cheated on me
Went great, we both talked and laughed a lot. She said she wants to hang out again - we just need to figure out a place to do so
I haven't had butterflies in my stomach in a while
We're gon make it bros

>>20046772
Feel love for yourself primarily. Enough that you won’t kill yourself.
Realize you are not alone, in these feelings nor in the world in general.
Go and enjoy

>>20046773
I love Dali, but I'm kind of over him, even though he was a big entry way into modern art for me. I think his techniques are far too conscious. His depictions of unconscious activity are too vast and intelligent. Magritte, too, is very high concept. These men were too educated, and they knew what they were doing, ironically because they were surrealists. I prefer the spontaneous, unacademic, childish work of Picasso. Picasso's pictures truly feel like pictures of dreams. Lots of Dali feels like what a college professor would use as an illustration of how the unconscious work. Both fine in their own right, but I find Picasso more satisfying on a gut level. I don't think I have a favorite Dali. Too balanced. Magritte always made me angry, and I don't know why. It's ugly.

>>20046772
good short story.

>>20046781
Based. How'd you ask her out anon? Real life or via text?

>>20046793
I can see how you could like Picasso more. Magritte seems more conceptual and Picasso more primal, like a scientist's thoughts vs. a villager's. Your pic is a nice one; I like all the Picasso's minotaur.

Been fucking a lot of Milfs lately bros. Its kind of fun if you can turn a blind eye to their cloying desperation. Otherwise it is kind of pitiful.

Marrying your high school sweetheart is the only way to go, everything else has a thrown out of Eden vibe to it.

Moral Generosity has no value now. The thing that is of most value now is craftiness and intelligence.

>tfw dating a tranny who is starting to bully me and forcing me to buy her clothes
so far im $1000 in with this bitch and its only been since december. shes like 6/10 but shes the horniest bitch in the world and she knows it and shes got me addicted
>she

I just finished Never Let me Go by Ishguro and feeling a wave of overwhelming emotions. Its a sad, horrifying and somehow wonderful novel that makes me want to scream and cry at the same time, maybe because I went through a breakup a week ago. Timid melancholy is the name of the game as such.

I have never cared for coming-of-age stories. I don't care about how some kid "found himself" (whatever that means) and I don't see how anyone's transition into adulthood is in any way significant or meaningful for anyone else.

>>20046886
ywncoa

>>20046814
Via text. We met on hinge and went to a local restaurant
We actually talked for the first time over a year ago via tinder but our plans to meet then went nowhere. I'm happy I got another chance to actually meet her. When I saw her on hinge I gave her a "rose" and said I'd love to go out for drinks sometime, and it actually worked!

>>20046918
Happy for you, brother

>>20046922
Thank you fren
Even if it doesn't last forever, it's good to have my last connection with a girl be anything besides a cheating ex

>Tfw O rhyme us! Haar Faagher, wild heart in Homelan; Harrod’s be the naun. ine kinder come, mine wohl be won. There is nothing like leuther. O Shee! And nosty mens in gladshouses they shad not peggot stones. Tip.

I am wrestling with whether or not to take the New Testament seriously. At this point I wouldn't call myself an orthodox Catholic even though I believe in the Sacraments. My belief is very much trending in the heterodox direction and I feel distinctly "outside" of institutional religion. The Church feels like an ex girlfriend who I still live with yet I'm comfortable around. It's a strange contradiction. The more I think about Christianity the stranger it becomes, it truly is a religion that very much is "outside" the world yet very carnal and worldly. I wonder how this will play out in the future.

>>20046855
good post.

if driving drunk was legal would you guys do it?

>>20046977
do you let the "law" dictate what you can and can't do?

>>20040048
People who casually rate things with numbers within large, spread sheet type systems (rym, movie reviews, chart threads) deserve a light, (physically) harmless, semi-playful and formally gracious yet intentionally dominant spank on the intellectual bum.

>>20046954
Christ Anon, if you'll humor me, I was told to ask this question to the next Christian I met:
What is the age of the earth?

>>20046977
I've done it thousands of times, legal or not. 12 pack of beer on the passenger seat floor, 5 or 7 joints rolled up, music, long drive in the mountains. Best

>>20047021
I'm not really sure, it's not of interest or relevance to me really. I'd assume however old the geological evidence says it is but of course there's no way to prove that metaphysically (look up Omphalos hypothesis).

>>20047028
I see, thank you for answering. That's much better than some of the other answers I've gotten.

>>20047033
Most christians will jettison bits and pieces of the Bible to dodge the big one, buying them some time to escape.

>>20046389
In an interview Seth Rogen said this film was actually based on what he felt was actual stuff that was straining the friendships of the actual actors in the film, like how some of them had gone "Hollywood" or began to flake on one another, and that the film was largely improvised because a lot of the arguments are real. I think judgement day is just window dressing, and the joke being about how Hollywood actors are vapid and mean doesn't really make any substantial critique of the film industry as a whole.

>>20047033
what answer were you expecting exactly? just curious

It's amazing to see how delusional many women are. Not saying men aren't either but the average woman is pants on head stupid about so many basic things today. They are, in general, looking for all the wrong things in men and you can see the trainwreck coming miles away every time. It's mind boggling.

>>20040937
>I researched the "best" way to dump someone, and I found the "School of Life" on YouTube.

>>20047068
>looking for all the wrong things in men
such as?

>>20047048
I've gotten some wacky answers from Christians, like how carbon dating has a margin of error so it's necessarily useless (margin of error is always noted by scientists), and how evolution couldn't happen because eyeballs are complicated (failing to understand how complex structures form over time and in stages)

Anonin, what is the music you first liked from your mom and dad?

>>20047079 (me)
That is to say, most or many Christians seem to think geology is a fraud and the earth is 6000 years old, and their 'evidence' is always some youtube video

>>20047083
Boomer rock, led zeppy, pink floyd, simon and garfunkel

>>20047077
thinking men care about a woman's career. focusing on career to the point where they outearn most men and price themselves out of a lot of relationships since most women won't date down financially. the career one is big.

also, focusing on "feeling passionate" towards men. generally speaking a dude who is gonna make you feel those emotional highs and spikes is not suited to long term stability.

in fairness to women a lot of dudes out there today are total garbage. no social awareness, no hygiene, video game addicts, engineer and computer science spergs, no "normal" hobbies, fat, feminine, etc. so it's partly reactionary but

women share the blame as well

>>20047079
>>20047091
literalist young earth creationism is an extreme minority view outside of American fundamentalist baptists and evangelicals. unfortunately American evangelicals dominate the culture of christianity in the USA and are very very vocal, so it's likely that's most peoples' exposure to what Christianity is.

evolution is not incompatible with Christianity as genesis was understood even by Origen's time to be primarily anagological. actually the literal process of evolution itself is of little interest to modern christians even though the genesis narrative is still extremely important for what it reveals spiritually, typologically, etc.

>>20047114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrH0os8iXjc
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.providence.edu/dist/4/182/files/2020/05/Thomistic-Evolution-23.pdf

>>20047114
Very refreshing, thank you.

Should I unsend this message I sent to a girl I know in real life who hasn't responded to it for over 10 minutes now?

>>20047127
the trads and evangelicals in the comments are so fucking annoying and mind numbingly pedantic. it saddens me these are the people who are steering the church in the usa today. they are ridiculously small minded. "evolution means dat there must be death, therefore you are saying death is natural! you are disproving genesis!". does anyone really think God is bound to physical laws in how he acts or creates? isn't it obvious that the creation narrative is allegorical, like the rest of genesis? why do trads like to pretend they know how god acts and set limits on his divine agency?

>>20047143
It's Americans. We're just really dumb. Even in the past, if you read travel journals everyone talks about how dumb Americans are. I've heard Italian Catholics hate American Catholics because we're infected by the Protestant mindset.

>>20046752
based Petrol O

going to paint this tonight, any alterations suggestions from anons accepted.

How long would it take to learn to play Greensleeves on the lute? I've a girl I'd like to serenade.

>>20047143
If you feel like being absolutely disgusted, go to anon.cafe/christian. They have an entire thread like this. Even worse is that there are one or two genuine Christians there who are intelligent and humble, and they get drowned out by the retards like you mentioned.

One of the genuine Christians makes these great comics, one of which I attached here. He's the only really valuable member imo

>>20047176
To get good enough to impress a girl takes a few years. If you want to embarrass yourself, then just learn the one song like you're planning to do.

>>20047176
>Serenading in the Year of Our Lord 2022

>>20046464
>I'm very politically moderate
Then of course you have nothing to worry about you fuckng retard

>>20047211
>Lording your year
>in the common era of 2022

Alas my love you doooo me wrong
To cast me off discourteeeeeously;
And I have loved you oh so looong
Delighting in your compaaaaaaany.
Greeeeeeeeensleeeeeeeves was my deliiiiiight...
*distant sound of police siren gradually approaching*

>>20047237
OH SHIT this bitch got my nose! Give it back!

>>20038561
You are not alone. I can only imagine how much conditioned depression, anxiety, drug abuse, etc. could have been avoided by the people I knew if they just realized How Limitless It All Really Is.

What do you do when you're at a social gathering and people start talking shit about someone?

>>20047410
Rejoice. That's some good ammo you've just acquired against the speakers. Also let's you know the person being talked about probably isn't worth your time.

>>20046288
haha yeah.
ive been there.

just find a full time job that requires no experience and work your way up.
do a trade. someone mentioned wood work before.
become a cabinet maker/carpenter
or redo the subjects/semester you failed in college

>>20046754
no, sex robots would be the end of all ends

https://youtu.be/3O3-ngj7I98

>>20047419
That's assuming the shit talkers actually have valid grievances against the person, and aren't just the type of people who use slander as a topic for casual conversation

My life is coming to a crossroads. There is just so little to finish college, but to do that an internship is obligatory and I failed all my attempts.
Time is ticking, life is getting worse, bills are arriving and prices are rising and this will only get worse. I'll try a little more, but if I see I won't get an internship soon I'll quit and get a shitty job to aid my parents pay stuff.

>>20038401
>>22213892
When Asian pussy makes contact with other Asian pussy you better beware: it can be like opening a dam and your bed may not survive the night!

NEW THREAD

>>20047690
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>>20047692
babygirl it hasnt even reached bump limit yet

>>20046710
BUT HE CAN BE A BIT OF A WHINEY-
if so, then yes.

>>20047410
I hate that. If you know the person you should defend them, you don't even have to be confrontational about it but just stand up for the person. If you don't the person then who cares just let them gossip and ignore it.

>>20047692
Why do you keep making new threads before the bump limit?

all romantic ideals of fate, 'soulmates' and love should be reserved for the rich.

>>20046591
Plebs from within the system cannot change anything, human nature rules supreme and its radical revolutionary violence that gets the job done. Contrarian circlejerks wont achieve anything but its a good feeling to belong somewhere.

>>20046087
Well should I believe in it or not? It matters because whichever I believe will have consequences for my future actions.

>>20046088
This doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t believe if we have souls we would have free will like the comic suggests. I’m saying free will is impossible as a concept. Choice doesn’t exist.

>>20047098
To be fair the outlook on dating is bleak from both sides

Men receive: used up hypergamous cunts raised on an infinite scroll of unrealistic social media inspired expectations

Women receive: either asshole chads using them for a quick lay who give zero fucks or pathetic betas ruined by addiction to pornography since a very impressionable age

Its all so tiresome. Can we reset society and start fresh.

>>20047692
Why does anyone cooperate with this tyranny? Wait your fucking turn

I'm having a whale of a time in this thread