/lit/ - Literature

Your future wife is having sex right now

>>20084223
The black ones look like monkeys

the trickster archetype overpowered every other source of vigor my entire life - and I've tried to keep it at bay.

I shall embrace it from now on

>>20084232
weird how it's like that for most of 4chin users

>>20084232
Theres no other way but laugh. I say this as ENTP.

>>20084232
Theres no other way but laugh. I say this as ABDL.

>>20084236
I'm the tragic kind of ENTP that was blessed with every possible gift people of our age could imagine - and yet I've only ever felt true connection with the world and myself through subtly wreaking havoc, dancing with the flames and dionysian songs, childlike eyes full of excitement towards what will rise from ashes.

>there's no other way but laugh
..no, there's no other way but creating that which sparks laughter

Good thread

>>20084268
This sounds like something Dakota Warren would write

>>20084276
Ha, you're right. As another anon said in the last thread about "art heaux":
They are how I feel inside.

>>20084276
Maybe because it was written by her

>>20084223
Joke's on you. No woman, not even the most desperate used-up whore would want me

>>20084268
>creating that which sparks laughter
I wish I could do that but Im out of ideas. Also, Im out of time and out of touch.

She actually says tik tik tik boom

Eating bussy desu

>>20084332
do I have to call you newfag now like those who reply to the '360 and walk away'?

>>20084223
God, I need a zoomer fucktoy

>>20084223

I need everything taken from me. I need to wander this world with little but the shirt on my back and my wits and senses. To march through the seasons and lose the trail of the past. I want my past to become obscure and all the memories tying me to it to become indecipherable and foreign. Most of all I want to step outside the framework that makes yesterday resemble today and today tomorrow. I seek reinvention but first I must have discontinuation. Only this way can I regain the hunger to experience which drives me to discover the possibility hidden in the unknown.

>>20084367
you're in luck, wanderer: there seem to be quite a few tricksters itt wishing nothing but exactly this fate for you

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>>20084383
Is there a soccer game tonight or something

>>20084223
Gotta love the shameless symbiotic relationship between the famous white one and the black hangers-on; the latter needing fame and the former street cred.

>>20084477
A post-racial utopia.

>>20084223
why are they like this bros

>>20084477
fuck, why are organic /lit/-phorisms always better than anything else I come accross????

>>20084418
No. I just like Belgium and I feel they don't get enough love

>>20084513
you gotta remember that the only people you see are the people who do this shit on camera. you're never gonna see the people who don't. I used up all my IQ for this so don't ask me for anything more please.

>>20084521
it's gonna have to be like this

I'll wait for the night to come
So far, suicide at home
For I'm not the man you know
This love is about control!

so few introverted people where I live in, most people are extroverts here

>>20084713
>contol!
don't put your "!" right there after the "l"
distracting

>>20084715
that kind of bias has a name, as you might suspect

I hate the sound of birds chirping

>>20084727
do you also feel intimidated by singing children?

>>20084223
Gross.

>>20084367
This happened to me once on a train in the Brenner Pass. Only lasted a few seconds sadly.

>>20084734
Singing children are often very annoying.

>>20084727
I hate knowing "people" like you exist. Go back the sewers, lizard.

>>20084840
I gotta say there comes a point with the chirping. like when you can't sleep and you're awake long enough that they start up and it screws you over even worse

The loneliest people, throughout history, have always been most genuine and sincere of our kind, they are the best individuals humanity has ever produced. I don't know what I really want to say about them. It's tragic really, — their solitude. Each day is passing them by, not having given them any appreciation, and yet they live on, hoping, trying new things.
"If only", "you never know", "one day, yes, it is so unpredictable, you never know" — still hoping desperately. Many many days.. month, years, some survive even decades, and then one by one off they go, never having known the pleasantries a human life has to offer. It's important to understand here that I'm not talking about those that turned bitter and never crawled out the slew of their resent for the injustice they have been born into, but rather about those who have went past cursing their own luck and have settled for sedated tragedy of continuing on their hapless existence. Poor people. If any of such people are reading this, hear this and believe this!:
It's gonna be aooowwwwwlllll rahhhhhhhhhhhgggttt!
oaoooooooooooaoaoaoaoooooooooowwwwllllll riiiiggggght!
OOOOOOOOOOOAAAOOAOOOOAOAOOAOAOAOOAOAOAOOAOAAALLL right.

In less than a month I have put 120 hours in to Elden Ring. And now I am sitting here thinking like what if I put 120 hours in to learning Kant, or studying a language, or literally anything else with that same kind of dedication. But it is hard to find. For the record I rarely play video games, at all, but the ones I look for are the ones where I can loose myself for weeks at a time in what feels like a kind of trance-lobotomy.

>>20084844
Ah, underaged, got it. Get off this site.
Anyone who sleeps past the crack of dawn is a child.

Time only exists inside the universe, so an entity that created it could be anywhere on the timeline, therefore, some event will happen the the future of the universe that will lead to its own creation

When the blossoms bloom,
When the material world quietens,
The soul whimpers with yearning,
We've moved apart long time ago.

This heaven above our heads
Is a shadow of a canopy,
A tower on the heavens,
Is inside our chests.

The spring is inside us,
When it melts with tears,
And the desert blossoms,
Showing the image of paradise.

Swing of the axe
Swing of the axe
Cry all you want, but the blade soars today
Swing of the axe
Swing of the axe
Swing of the axe
Even a killer has to get paid
Swing of the axe

>>20084210
I miss her. The glow hasn't left my face. Tragedy, how often love leads the charge.

At last I am free. I have been liberated by the leaf. Last night I smoked weed and it was nice. There is a palpable air of regret present, but maybe the only regret is ever stopping in the first place. 4 months and 1 day. It was a good run but that era is all over now. We've entered the relapse arc.
https://youtu.be/855klBq2fnQ
also i fell and fucked my wrist up last night. have to go to clinic later

>>20084210
Thinking I should take a break from philosophy for a bit. Got major brain fog. Should I read epic poems or some of the sci fi horror stuff I own?

>>20084844
>oh noooo, the ancient wisdom of nature and its cycles won't adapt to my absolutely meaningless existence, kill all the biiiirds, I need to go to McDonalds at 4am without interruption
I wish Putin had the balls for nukes

Ill ask it again:
Does anyone know a good book about the decomposition process after death in various cirucmstances? Something with pictures.

I have conflicting interests and can’t decide where to invest my time and effort.

>>20085037
I think this is what you're looking for

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Body-Decomposition-Jarvis-Hayman/dp/0128036915

>>20085093
Sex

i need to stop drinking to a point of vomiting because i keep breaking blood vessels in my face and it looks really bad

how do I filter underaged tripfags again?

How can I learn to critique? I struggle to put my opinion into words. Suppose I read a book. I like it but I can't tell why I liked it except some vague shit like plot. What do I need to read to have this ability to reliably explain what I liked and why I liked it? Do I really start with the Greeks?

>>20085230
Nah you just need to really start taking yourself more serious and trust your opinions more. I‘m not sure if there‘s a book on that. There probably is. But you don‘t need it. It‘s simple but not easy.

big dicks will rule the world

>>20085243
Loose pussies control the culture

>>20085243
>will
They already do

One of the things that rarely comes up in literary circles despite its importance is the topic of memory. This is pretty trivial for fiction, since it is not "meant" to be remembered, but non-fiction is essentially worthless if we cannot remember it or synthesize it to some degree in our working body of knowledge. Without some kind of deliberate method, we'll probably forget everything we read in a work of non-fiction after a while except its main point. This means, ultimately, that we remain believers in an idea long after we've forgotten what convinced us of its truth. This knowledge then becomes "dead knowledge" in a sense, since it is no longer being questioned, and if someone were to challenge its veracity, we would struggle to rejoinder since we've forgotten why we believe it in the first place.

The point here is that memory is not some trivial element in reading. What you get out of reading scales proportionally with your memory. The crowning achievement of knowledge is what we call "synthesis", but we cannot perform synthesis without a wide and complex body of knowledge to draw upon at will. If you're not working on your memory, but you take reading seriously, you're basically wasting your time.

>>20085262
The brain keeps what it thinks is important. If you forgot it, it wasn‘t important to you personally. That‘s why you sometimes find new wisdom in non-fiction that didn‘t stick the first time you read it. You weren‘t ready yet. I wouldn‘t worry about forgetting since your brain is very good at deciding what‘s worth keeping and what to discard. Trust it‘s wisdom.

Thank God this website is anonymous. Please disabuse me of my desire to draw comics in a certain Asian country. It’s a ridiculous desire and I know it is.

>>20085270
Why would you not listen to what your heart wants? That sounds like a recipe for disaster. No good thing ever came from people not following their dreams.

>>20084861
>>20085011
for you two:
>>20084902 (the lyrics)
this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5IZRcI417w

>>20085282
My heart wants a lot of things but I don’t know if I can call them dreams.

>>20085270
don't they work a gorillion hours a day under some creative director anyway? like what's the win-scenario here?

>>20085269
This is partially true, but still, the amount we retain from non-deliberate reading is pathetically small. Probably over half of you guys reading this have read Plato's Euthypro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, but how many of you could recall what happens in each one? Socrates argues for the immortality of the soul, yes, but why? If we can't remember this off the top of our heads, then we don't really have working knowledge of these dialogues. This is why it's common knowledge we shouldn't read non-fiction the same way as fiction, but out of habit too many of us ignore this advice and do it anyway.

I also hesitate to accept the idea that the brain always keeps what's important. By that logic, the brain would always remember information it hears during a lecture, since we know we're going to need it for the test, but in reality it doesn't actually work that way. We have to force ourselves to remember it.

>>20085297
They can. It depends on the artist, the specific work, and the publishing schedule.

>>20085305
alright, well shit anon, if it's possible it's a good idea what am I supposed to tell you?

>>20084840
>>20085011
>not muh heckin birbarinos!

I am a piece of shit

my brain has been balkanized

>>20085253
>>20085243
I don't believe for a second that any prominent world leader has a truly big dick. Slightly above average, at most.

>>20084949
>start smoking weed again
>immediately fall and hurt yourself
Lol dude

I should go outside.

>>20084210
I am growing increasingly disillusioned with the Academic world. It hasn't changed, I have. I no longer find that spark of fascination that compelled me to study and write, I now only move by inertia out of the fear of flunking out. I'm lacking in passion and I cannot recall most of what I have learnt. I feel like a fraud without purpose who is growing increasingly insecure and ashamed despite myself. The future is uncertain, but it does not seem to be a happy one.

>>20085389
not how the meme works
anon was seething about chirping first, so it would go like:
>nooo not my heckin sleeperiiino

gtfo my board

>>20085476
the fall occurred before the relapse but yea pretty ironic.
it was such a bad fall too. my wrist is in a tremendous amount of pain and clinics arent taking walk-ins

>>20085300
>By that logic, the brain would always remember information it hears during a lecture, since we know we're going to need it for the test, but in reality it doesn't actually work that way.
No the brain keeps what is relevant to you on a personal level, iow, what has created en emotional response in you. Remembering boring shit you don‘t care about just because it will be in the next test is not what‘s important to the brain. What‘s of importance is stuff you come across that is tied to an emotional response. If you do not care about the immortality of the soul (yet), then you won‘t remember the argument. If you do, then you will. It‘s that simple. The issue is that most learning done in school is mere memorization, which even plants can do as experiments have shown. Understanding is not the same as memorizing, and memorizing can be made simpler by tying it to an emotion, like impending doom because you‘ve procrastinated until the night before the big test. Then it suddenly works. Or when your parents threaten you to give you a whopping if you bring home a bad test, that‘s also an emotional situation that will make your brain suddenly very eager to memorize stuff it doesn‘t actually care for. Trying to learn for learning‘s sake is pretty nonsensical. One can only do that if learning is for example tied to the expectation of being seen as intelligent and thus more desirable by the opposite sex. In that case, learning is tied to the emotion of impending loneliness if not done and thus possible. In that sense, one should always check what one is trying to learn and why and if it is aligned with one‘s values to proceed.

Some /lit/ faggot posted his tinder photo here before deleting the thread lol

>>20085485
glad I'm an autodidact

>>20085499
>NOOOO YOUR MEME DOESN'T FIT A PREFABRICATED FORMAT!

>>20085635
What was the post number? I wanna find on warsou

>>20085664
He deleted it before it archived as soon as the 1 minute timer expired lol. I have the image opened in a tab, but I won't post it. I'm just waiting for him to make the thread again to laugh at his hairline, but he probably got scared off.

>>20085656
you didn't even include a soijack maymay, so you made me seethe twice
happy now?????????

>>20085678
I'm never happy

>>20085688

>>20085688
at least you got dubs and another retard replying without content

>>20085694
I‘m not a retard
I‘m a genius
Try replying without content

I just want the late 90s-early 00s back.

>>20085712
d

>>20085712
>>20085722
fuck

>>20085575
Have you considered that being able to memorize information when its use is not immediately obvious is highly valuable? Considering that our long-term memory capacity is practically infinite (as demonstrated by savants), when we have the ability to inscribe information into our brains permanently, the only argument for why we shouldn't be doing this is either (1) it takes too much time, or (2) we simply don't know the method. Given what we know, when you think about its consequences rationally, we should all be striving to use memory techniques proactively on everything we wish to know.

>If you do not care about the immortality of the soul (yet), then you won‘t remember the argument. If you do, then you will. It‘s that simple.
Surely you can see how this doesn't always work out in our favor, right? It's only biology's compromise for helping us remember what matters most in practical terms. Existential/artistic aspirations are not practical concerns, and we don't have to be limited by this biological function anyway, so let's not force ourselves to be limited by it.

>>20085716
I want the 19th century back if not the 5th century BCE.

>>20085737
do you wear glasses?

>>20085747
I'm not a seed oil consuming, dysgenic, neotenous bugman, so no.

>>20085716
00‘s fashion was something else

>>20085762
Pirates of the Caribbean was a mistake

i completely forgot menstruation is a thing
women literally bleed out their pussy for a whole week every month
that's so fucking gross holy shit

I can’t make sense of anything. How do people just live without making sense of their existence?

Today while I was driving up I came up with this paradox. Maybe someone's articulated this before idk. I call it the voting paradox.

1. If I vote in a national election, my vote will not do anything to change the outcome. Eections are never decided by a single vote, so no matter whom I vote for the outcome will be the same. My vote is essentially meaningless.
2. I do not want to do meaningless things.
3. Therefore I will not vote.

Now this line of reasoning applies to every one of us INDIVIDUALLY, but not COLLECTIVELY. The paradox is that it only holds if we refuse to accept it, because obviously if everyone accepted it and stopped voting, then that line of reasoning would no longer be valid (as 1 vote WOULD decide the election in that case). So we have an argument which is only sound if we reject it.

Maybe it's not that deep, but these are my "driving thoughts", as opposed to shower thoughts.

>>20085791
it's a great way to get your gf to become submissive:
constantly remind her of it

>>20085802
Whenever my gf acts up I just tell her to take a midol and walk away. It makes her even more enraged but I bet she secretly likes it.

Pictorial turn in philosophy

>>20085810
is something balkanized?

>>20085747
If he does, it's because of 21st century lifestyle.

>>20085810
Isnt that memes

I have the personality of North Korea

>>20085806
>and walk away
I can't stop having sex with my gf whenever she "acts up".. I fear it has become habitual, where the answer to every single one of her minor discontents is just plowing every hole. doesn't help that we're locked up since 2020...

Dear Editors of Splimpus Dimpus Magazine,

I am submitting for publication three poems. These poems are meditations on grief, loss, and longing, through the lens of city life and the bygone principles of belief/education. I'm hoping you find these poems worthy of your efforts and time, and that they might find a home at your magazine.

Warmest regards,
Anon

P.S. I have a magnum sized dong and honestly never read lit magazines EVER. I looked through your catalogue and everything you publish is dogshit. Please accept my poems and start turning this shitpile of a magazine around so I can be proud when I tell my mommy I got published.

I remember when I was in seventh grade I had a teacher that would talk to us a lot, and she was a nice person. She was one of those teachers that's always about compassion and listening, but then gets her feelings hurt really easily, so it's kind of obvious that her preachy values are really just there to protect herself.

She told the class once, or maybe it was just a few of us actually, that she believed in reincarnation. Now I was like twelve years old, but I knew what reincarnation meant. It was a religious belief... about people having past lives, and people being reborn. But then she said, "I believe in reincarnation because I believe in giving people a second chance." Now I can't say enough about how pivotal this moment was in my development in how I think about people. I remember what I was thinking: How odd, that this is her religious belief, something she believes to be a reality, something as true as God, and Heaven and Hell, and all those mysteries of the great beyond... "because she believes in giving people a second chance." How quaint. It seems to not make any sense. Yet it makes sense if you realize that a lot of people out there don't know what they're saying either, or they mean different things when they throw around words like belief. She thinks it's a nice idea is what she's saying. I still can't get over that people actually think like this, or assume facts about the world in this way.

What was so perplexing about hearing her tell us her belief in reincarnation was that, in a way, she misspoke. She accidentally revealed something important. She accidentally, for a moment, made it painfully clear that people sometimes believe in things because it makes them feel nice.

>>20084210
i'm not a weak person but I wish I could kill myself so, so much

>>20085820
>being caged with an angry and horny gf for 2 years
Living the dream

>>20085933
reincarnation is irrefutable though

>>20085964
Me too. I don’t have the balls desu. I can’t even stick my finger down my throat to make myself throw up.

>>20085973
Irrefutable does not mean true, bro. Russell's teapot and all that.

Everything is as it seems.

>>20085964
I know this feeling all too well. Too cowardly to live or kill myself. Only brave people actually do it.

Posting on /lit/ is a video game.

>>20086039
it's more like I know that people would disrespect me if I killed myself. They would all think that I was a loser and a weakling. I just don't want the attention. If I could kill myself without anyone knowing I would do it

>>20085973
no its real

>>20086028
>Irrefutable does not mean true
The fact that reincarnation is true is irrefutable. Happy?

>The mechanical philosophy of Descartes was refuted in the 17th century by Newton. When Newton showed the existence of occult forces, interaction without contact, he made irrelevant the mechanical philosophy. Rather than exorcising the ghost in the machine, Newton rid us of the machine. Ever since, Science has been reduced from trying to find an intelligible world to trying to find ineligible theories relating to a humanly unintelligible world.
We've known the world to be non-material for centuries. We have mathematical models, many of which are deterministic, but there is, as there always has been, unaccountable behavior and incohesive theories that cannot absolutely coexist. Science does not depend on "determinism" the same way that science does not depend on the mechanical philosophy. We study and search for accurate models, but the world has proven to be humanly unintelligible.
As for whether I "feel" in control and my thoughts on human behavior, I think the question is meaningless. Personal introspection is a futile exercise more fit to be labeled "navel gazing." Neuroscience is certainly a worthwhile field of study, but one would be amiss to say it is humanly intelligible. The fact that we've debunked determinism has nothing to do with "free will."
We have an innate sense of determinism and we have an innate sense of "randomness" which shape our view of the world. This enables us to construct models such as the impressive works of Descartes, but it also limits us from comprehending the nature of our world. Being reduced from finding an intelligible world to finding scientific theories is significant and cannot be understated. It is clear that we cannot conceive of anything other than determinism.
Personally I think that "free will" is a concept riddled with problems of undefined and incomprehensible to science notions such as "self" and "choice" which are probably just artifacts of our introspective mechanisms and our need to model our organism within our model of the world around us. Compression artifacts, if you would. However it is abundantly clear that determinism is a false assertion.
Is this true?

I went to Reddit after many years to make an account and I've browsed it a bit, and honestly it wasn't nearly as terrible as I remember. I did not make the account and went back here to tell people to kill themselves. Why do I stay here? Reddit is literally better, it just has more interesting shit in it and that's without digging very much. This place is only shit. It isn't even real shit because jannies and trannies astroturf the conversation to hell and back. Then why do I stay here? Why can't I fucking leave? Is it Stockholm Syndrome? Is it some kind of gut reaction that I have because I know the site is fake as fuck and completely astroturfed and filled with shills? Do I just not want to make an account anywhere? Is it maybe that what I really need is to leave the conversation entirely?

Is it immoral to purchase texts like picrel when they are widely available for free?

I wish i was smarter. I want to under wtf Hegel and Kant are talking about. I want to visualize it. I can’t.

>>20086133
visualizing is what midwits do to feel smart and to think they understand something. kant probably used "visualization" like once the entire time he was writing the critique

>>20086100
Reddit is worse they ban you for disagreeing or going against their dogma there’s no freedom of speech there whatsoever. Recently they banned the Russia page because people on there were supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They literally banned the page dedicated to Russia for that reason.
There’s no diversity of opinion there. You get a lot of retards on here sure but at least people showcase independent thought. On there there’s so much circle jerking and virtue signalling.

>>20086141
and it was at the very beginning of the transcendental aesthetidc when he abstracted everything away to find out that space is the prerequisite for sensibility. literally the only point you will benefit from visualization

>>20086141
How can a midwit like me understand?

>>20086167
have you read plato, aristotle, plotinus, hume, leibniz first? nobody (except me because my iq is 200) can fully understand kant without reading prior philosophers. if you can understand plotinus you can understand kant. even aristotle is harder than kant

>>20086152
Yeah I know. I know this and I agree that it's worse, I know it on an implicit basis, but I am driven to hobby related subreddits anyway. In any case I am just incapable of making a Reddit account and participating, like I am unable to participate to Instagram, social media or Discord. I don't know where my revulsion ends and where my fear of social dynamics begins, because I know that both contributed to this self-annihilation. I just hate it so much that you need to be online to meet new people or even exist. I just don't want to do this shit but I'm so fucking isolated. I think this place is taking a toll on my mind although I know that all the pessimistic shit circulating here is completely right. Maybe I reject this shit because I know it means drinking the cool-aid and submit to the lies of a stupid retarded system that wants to enslave me.

>>20086176
I have read there Wikipedias.

>>20086217
just spend like three months reading plato and if you still can't understand anything kant is saying then go back read Aristotle's categories (directly relevant to Kant), nicomachean ethics, de anima, and metaphysics (you won't understand this, even professional academics don't, just read it) and then read the enneads and then kant will be like a baby to you. kant is honestly not that hard if you just take notes on what he means by synthetic and analytic and sensibility and intuition and whatever. obviously if you read his definition of sensibility and don't understand it but keep reading anyway you aren't going to understand anything he says after that because you didn't understand what he meant by sensibility. Every term Kant uses is something he's bent to his own highly technical purposes, so pay attention every time he introduces a new concept or else you will get lost. Proportionally you should spend the most time on the introduction and the transcendental aesthetic because these are where he introduces the most novel concepts. If from the very first page you never move on until you have a good idea of what he is talking about, it will be a breeze. At the same time you also don't HAVE to understand every single thing that he says and you won't anyway. It may take until page 400 for you to understand something he said in the first section because the concepts all slowly leak into your brain and you come to intuitively understand them after he has been hammering you with his autistic vocabulary for so long. You could even skip Aristotle and all that and just read Plato, and then read the COPR twice instead, because by the end of the book you will start to have a better understanding of things he introduced at the beginning. IT's like language acquisition, you need a basic level of vocabulary to understand anything, but once you have that you can just consume a bunch of content in the language and you will learn it naturally through osmosis

>>20086269
also the reason i'm not talking about hegel is because i haven't read him. another thing you should check out is Kant's Prolegomena which summarizes the critique of pure reason for lazy retards

>>20086269
>>20086276
Thanks anon. I’m going to give it a real shot. I hope i’m not too stupid to understand. My mind always sees things in a realist way. Tough for me to grasp much else. I must be a brainlet. I’m sending myself to tard jail.

>>20086330
look at it this way, the fact that even know who kant is already shows you are probably smarter than 99% of the general population

>>20086343
Thanks fren.

Soma is such a great game. Replaying it and enjoying it immensely.

>>20086343
deeply embarrassing post

Once you realize that 95% of the vile garbage on the internet has america as it's origin one calms down a bit, unless you're american.

>>20086431
you mean once you assume that it is american to cope by constructing a vague bogeyman in your mind that allows you to garner a sense of superiority?

Maybe if I had married a Jewish man he would have been submissive to me. What a mistake my life has been.

>>20084232
>>20084268
>it's a 'entp is trying to express his endless emotional introspection and self doubt which ends in some sort of affirmation' episode again
You'll forget about this in a week. What is built purely on imagination, while endearing, wont last as any serious way of life.

>>20086470
Intp here. I love talking to entps. They're like me but with a social circle

>>20086461
I thought gay marriage was forbidden to practicing jews

My country is one of the few in the world where engineering doesn't mean good money, it is actually quite the opposite

>>20085933
Well if there is in fact an ethical imperative that a person must have second chances then reincarnation would make sense. You're assuming her moral framework is invalid because it is a cope. It may well be a cope, but that doesn't make it wrong.

>>20086075
Why dont you just kill someone else?

>>20086215
>you need to be online to meet new people or even exist. I
Thats false though. I meet people without the internet. Just go outside

>>20085964
I think you're a beauteeeful lightning bug, and I hope you shine for a long ol time.

This commercial speaks to the soul, tugs at it, makes you yearn. I think this was the secret, silently unnoticed peak of western civilization and that this fact will only become more apparent as the west descends further in to twilight and sloughs off the bulk of its chaff. In many ways the greatest works of a civilization are not for its own people, but those who come after to marvel out. I believe this commercial is one such case, that it will function as a kind of spiritual rosetta stone for the soul of our civilization for those yet to come. They will look upon it and know, know in a deep intuitive, wordless, way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YqXkoRwvwM

I don’t like my personality. I think others don’t like me either.

>>20086031
So you are in fact a faggot?

>>20086424
think he was being fellatious

I am Indian and my parents have been going after me about getting an arranged marriage set up for me. Makes me anxious as fuck since I know I could never be a good husband or father to anyone and I know my parents are only going to keep hounding me to get married more as the years go by. Also makes me feel pathetic knowing I can't make any relationships of my own without the help of my parents.

>>20086215
Your first mistake is taking the internet seriously

>>20086934
Find out if she’s hot. If she is get it and then get a few goomah’s on the side. Stop being such a neurotic faggot. All you gotta do is make sure your son ain’t no bitch and daughter ain’t no whore.

>>20086917
Haha fellatio am i rite

>>20086424
Fuck off

HELP LIT THE RIDDLER IS HOLDING TV HOSTAGE. WHATS THE ANSWER?

Bravo! Now try this one for "size"!

Pillars of men,
Bedazzle this circus of fools.
The performers are delighted,
Yet they don't realize they're tools.

>>20085037
Whatcha planning, anon?

>>20084210
Well you didn't wake up this morning
'Cause you didn't go to bed
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red
The calendar on your wall
Is ticking the days off
You've been reading some old letters
You smile and think how much you've changed
All the money in the world
Couldn't buy back those days

You pull back the curtains
And the sun burns into your eyes
You watch a plane flying
Across the clear blue sky
This is the day
Your life will surely change
This is the day
When things fall into place

You could've done anything
If you'd wanted
And all your friends and family
Think that you're lucky
But the side of you they'll never see
Is when you're left alone with the memories
That hold your life together like
Glue

You pull back your curtains
And the sun burns into your eyes
You watch a plane flying
Across the clear blue sky
This is the day
Your life will surely change
This is the day
When things fall into place
This is the day (this is the day)
Your life will surely change
This is the day (this is the day)
Your life will surely change
This is the day (this is the day)
Your life will surely change
This is the day (this is the day)
Your life will surely change
This is the day (this is the day)
That your life will surely change
This is the day (this is the day)
Your life will surely change
This is the day (this is the day)
Your life will surely change
This is the day (this is the day)
Your life will surely change
This is the day (this is the day)
Your life will surely change...

>>20086757
this really was the initial message of vaporwave in its inception. take this for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki-fATpXa00
you can think whatever you want of the song itself, but it is highlighting the grandiose dream, the lofty intoxicating leap towards the unattainable heaven that is tying all these clips together. it's so beautiful.

As you drive to the farm, you pass by a Contemplation Chamber.
In this space-- the psychically gifted attempt to control the outcomes of random number generators. Their kind are great assets to the State.
Psychics are common among the sacerdotal caste and the monastic orders, especially that order of Lord Boehme.
The military and the sacerdotal caste under Guenonfag govern society in harmony.

The life of the monastic is far from easy, and few are suited for it.
Discipline is indispensable on their path. Many are unable to tread it, their neurons fried by dopamine or the pleasures of the flesh.
A common ritual amongst the monastics is to reenact debates between presocratic thinkers, as Heidegger would have wanted.
G-loaded as this task is, only the top few percentiles are any good at it. The rest are philosophical hylics, just as most humans are hylics in more than this way. You thank the Self that you are no hylic.
To those who can resist the lower temptations, liberation comes in deep contemplation, as they enter into the Satchitananda of the Godhead.
The glory of Hyperborea has been restored. A new Satya Yuga dawns.

I need to develop a personality

>>20084210
Just curious, how many people here regularly use their local library? I prefer reading physical books sometimes and have pretty much read everything I own.. haven't been to a library since school.

>>20087195
I use it for new non fiction books so I don't have to spend $50 on them

>>20087195
my local library is tiny. if i still lived in the bigger city i might go there

I was first exposed to nhk ni youkoso about three or four years ago, and while i loved it, it was mostly for the laughs, the absurdity, and the general atmosphere. But now, as a 21 year old neet, it's such a bitter ironic twist that i relate to that fictional character more than anyone else. I laugh with tears raining down my face as i realize that i finally did become him.
Hitori Bocchi. I even a girl who tried her best to make me someone better, was always there for me and pushing this sack of shit towards at least trying to make something out of his life, because for some reason she saw something in me, yet, much like everybody else i've ever known, i pushed her away until we went out separate ways, out of pure cowardliness.
This is just a copy and paste but i want to share a post that the author of nhk ni youkoso (pic related's source) had left in 2016, which i find to be incredibly beautiful and one of the most purely human things i've ever read.
Due to its length and the character limit on /lit/, i'll put in the next post. so this is 1/2 (cont.)

>>20087221
It's been over 10 years since I wrote "Welcome to the NHK." For me, the author, it was a damned novel, a curse that has plagued me until very recently.
From the moment I wrote it, I felt a sense of failure.
If you are wondering why I have to suffer, for a novel that I wrote with all my efforts, I can say that there are many motivations.
A first big reason is that I have betrayed the story, because I could not write what I wanted to write. I have been stuck for years in this sense of failure and frustration.
In Chapter 9 of "NHK" I realized that the protagonist feels and suffers of my own sadness. This is a valuable knowledge.
Until that time, the main character had never inspected into his own inferiority. Then, in a moment, he climbs this wall in his heart and suddenly realizes his sadness. Nevertheless, in the next chapter, it begins a story that has completely removed this episode of unveiled solitude.
The problem is that strangers start to snoop into the main character's loneliness: I'm referring to Misaki's story. This is an escape from the personal drama of loneliness. This escape from writing directly about loneliness is therefore also the author's escape. I used the "race" method with which they are able to finish the story, entrusting myself to how I felt at that moment. The "race" method is a technique that, using an emotional sense of urgency, it makes the characters "run" to get into the climax. In the last chapter, the protagonist runs, quarrels, makes a little action and through that, he reaches catharsis. Then, the story ends.
Instead, the problem of loneliness remains unresolved, because I have not written anything about it.
At that time, I did not have the ability to write about loneliness. Even now it is not obvious I have it. Therefore, I wonder whether the conclusion that I found was the best possible ...
Dead or not, the final indifference of Sato and Misaki is very realistic.
But didn't want to write a realistic story...

To be honest, I wanted to write a story full of dreams and hope.
If I applied myself better, could I do it? Maybe not!
Even today I can't stop thinking about it.
I have a few things to consider about Sato in the final stage of the novel.
First:
Meditation.
Through meditation you can heal yourself and get the strength to sustain the burden of your personal world.
Second:
Resist autoeroticism
Third:
Take concrete actions to fill that feeling of inadequacy that afflicts you. If you're sad, you have to react and do something to change.
It all depends on the mood.
(sorry i miscalculated, it's gonna be a 2/3)

>>20087221
>>20087231
>To be in harmony, psychologically speaking, it means finding new skills within ourselves. Well, this would be the perfect solution to the problem of Sato, but it's probably the moment of meditation that you can't achieve.
>You need a direct action to fill the void of loneliness, such as the practice of "Nanpa". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanpa))
>In this case, because it's probably very difficult to talk immediately to someone, the first thing you should do is walking with your head held high. Probably, Sato would take 4-5 years to speak to some stranger in his city. But, even if slowly, you can measure your progress even doing the little things, like going out every day and walk with confidence.

>The most important thing is to know that you can change.
>Anyway, the path that leads to happiness exists. The key is, precisely, to trust in its existence.
>But the story of Sato who acquires confidence in this hope would take another 5 volumes, and it was not possible to write them at that time.
>On the other hand, in a story not everything has to be directed to a perfect understanding.
In the middle of the road is fine to deviate and take a side street. And so it is with life.
>So, maybe it's a good thing that happened like this.
>It's a good way to end, after all: to feel that there's still space for a future development.
>But there's one thing that I really wanted to write and that I haven't written. Even if a person is in the situation described in "Welcome to the NHK", there is always a way out. A path leading to a happy ending.
>I want to tell you, now: Sato, Misaki, Yamazaki, and the Senpai as well, they all succeeded in finding happiness in a happy ending. For sure they have already found it.
>And with them, a new world has already begun.
>What I wanted to describe, is not the weakness of men.
>Even in the labyrinth of a confused heart, no matter how a person may feel weakness and loss of energy, in the end it's possible to find a way out and rediscover herself.
>This is what I wanted to write.
>This conviction that I have not expressed while working on "Welcome to the NHK", I write it now.
>And, with this, my novel is finally complete (3/3)

Hey femanon, looking foxy

One of the biggest problems with contemporary fiction is that writers just don’t have interesting lives anymore. Like it or not fiction is necessarily influenced by real life experience, and the modern writer of fiction leads an incredibly boring life, which doesn’t let itself to compelling fiction at all. He is probably a cloistered academic or a suburban white collar professional, a quiet type, monotone. He goes nowhere and does nothing. Nothing interesting happens to him. I don’t know how to overcome this.

>>20087279
Aristocratic society benefited the literary world enormously, even though no one likes to talk about it.

>>20087195
My uni's library is pretty damn big but if I care enough about reading the physical version of a book I'll just buy it for myself.
Libraries to "trial" books is obsolete in a world where libgen exists

>>20087279
either work in the blue collar field with the real people for a while, or move to the third world for a while, and sharpen your observation skills as much as you can without letting go of empathy. things don't necessarily need to happen to the author, just watch and absorb. people really are very strange once you pay attention, with tiny stories written on the creases of their skin.

I want to believe.

>>20087302
You make it sound like moving to the third world is simple.

reality is so fucking ridiculous. the fact that all these particular things exist

>>20084210
What’s the point of having jannies if they don’t do their jobs?

>>20087323
that's because it is, you just need the cojones. where i live, the average living wage averages to 150-200$ a month, and I'm sure it gets even cheaper elsewhere. that amount of money can be made through bullshit online jobs if you don't have any savings. you have no idea how much deification westerners can get in those places, especially if you're american. and it makes you sharper as well, because you'd have to be more alert, more present, more observant. you'll become better at reading people by default.
i always recommend this option to suicidal people from the first world, and it works very much in the same way that forestanon's advice does. what is there to lose when you're dead anyway. you might not want to do it now, but just keep the option floating in your mind.

By and by the geese will fly, to another home far away, and as the days stretch longer looming pressures grow stronger, but soon will they will fade away.

>>20087350
Not that anon but where should i go?

------- Floriana Requiem ------
XXIX

F)

On a ride through Chicago I met an old broad whose voice I instantly recognized as
One of the favorites of my radio youth. She is literally dying, and looks terrible,
But still sounds wonderful, and we talk very fast together
As the scenery around us changes while we ride,
As if architectural styles changed like weather, As if we will always be as one to watch
It changing, like building-clouds in Wellsian fiction,
Always masters of abstraction,
Natural aesthetes,

I saw two furry cows licking each other's faces on my commute to work. It's been over two weeks and I still smile thinking about it.

I'm beginning to realize that all my problems are just in my head

Putrid foul zombies make their ghastly approach
A dreadful horrid feeling sets in
Scrambling for weapons, an attempt to defend
Against a gruesome horde of undead
Shower them with fire, make them burn in the flames
Somehow they continue to march
Ravenous savages they'll tear you apart
They'll eat your fuckin' guts and your brains
How do you kill what is not alive?
Break them down to stop their descent
Smash the bastards into the ground
And when they're down, shatter their bones.
Shower them with fire, make them burn in the flames
Somehow they continue to march
Ravenous savages they'll tear you apart
They'll eat your fuckin' guts and your brains
How do you kill what is not alive?
Break them down to stop their descent
Smash the bastards into the ground
And when they're down, shatter their bones.
Shower them with fire, make them burn in the flames
Somehow they continue to march
Ravenous savages they'll tear you apart
They'll eat your fuckin' guts and your brains
Shatter their bones

>>20087426
Credits to Cannibal Corpse
song: Shatter Their Bones

>>20087379
depends on what languages that you speak and the way that you conduct yourself. i'd say north africa is one hell of a solid pick, save for the libyan mess, because they're in that sweet spot for a westerner. not too detached from the occident, yet still retaining a pure heart once you go for the deep cuts
further down south you have the joyous wonders of nature like tanzania, which is severely underrated. mozambique was a wonderful place as well before it got infested with (((ISIS))) "coincidentally" after somebody found a potentially prosperous shale gas extraction point in the north of the country.
i would recommend kirghizistan if you can speak russian too.

>>20087437
>mozambique was a wonderful place as well before it got infested with (((ISIS))) "coincidentally" after somebody found a potentially prosperous shale gas extraction point in the north of the country.
To be fair isn't that only in the far north of the country? There's still FRELIMO mines inna bunch of the country though

For the will to exist beyond space and time, beyond necessity, in a state of true freedom…then what is the meaning of so called “evil” choices? If the will really possessed the aforementioned qualities and choose evil nonetheless as a free choice, does this mean that evil possesses legitimacy? For if evil was chosen by such a will, and this evil did not possess the same legitimacy as good, then this chooser must have been either insane, ignorant, or weak to choose such a thing, and what will with the qualities of complete freedom would choose weakness, ignorance, or insanity unless such things were integral to the nature of the will itself (in which case the will is not really free but is coerced by a nature not of its choosing).

------- Floriana Requiem ------
XXIX

c)

Toad chorales, sonorously ringing treefrog mists behind enormous buildings, forests,
Or the brown-violet edginess of raging cicada firestorms
On a high oak hill, monstrously

Framing the house my car glides past in the night, alien and beautiful all around.

I park in a remote place, and witness, wheeling in delight
An ancient tree occult winter stars in dazzling round, while my car hums nearby like home--

Too serene to care despite the terrifying cold.

>>20087451
This is exactly what i think too.

>>20087578
------- Floriana Requiem ------
XXIX
g)
The only thing I lack in life is a friend
Intelligent enough to comment on the senery I took in today---

The unblelivable scenery of this place and tine--
The most prosperous place on earth, ever, distances disappearing like dreams--

>>20084861
I am an adult and I used to have this problem when I lived in a different house. Now, I don't hear birds chirping when trying to sleep after dawn. Some annoying daytime birds make lots of noise at night too.

Does /lit/ have mods or jannitors? Honestly?

>>20085115
What does your trip mean, that you smoke so much weed you go Chinese?

>>20087451
>and what will with the qualities of complete freedom would choose weakness, ignorance, or insanity unless such things were integral to the nature of the will
You're not getting what "complete freedom" means. "Complete freedom" is abstention from all essence, pure potency. It encompasses all possibilities. In order for it to be limited by essence it must actualize itself, which is a limiting of itself and removing of itself from the its source. This already becomes problematic because will cannot be two things simultaneously with contrary attributes, not can will be entirely indeterminate and still be considered "will" in the sense we imagine. Which is why "will" is not actually something which is absolutely unconditioned, or "completely free." Will is actually at the root of necessity and so is not "beyond" necessity.

Secondary orality, tertiary literarity. Primary? Transpondersifizerifkationarity.

>>20087759
I agree. So this is correct:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche_and_free_will#:~:text=The%2019th%2Dcentury%20philosopher%20Friedrich,his%20opinion%2C%20does%20not%20exist.

>>20087451
Another, possibly more accurate way to view free will, is instead of seeing it as a choice between "good" and "bad", see it as a primordial choice of form. The primordial choice is what form to take on, after this choice is made and the determinations are cast, the will, entirely depending on its ability to master the influences set upon it from without, either masters its chosen form or decays and is unable to achieve what it originally set out to achieve. It is not a question of "good" or "evil", but potency or lack thereof. It's a test of a very primordial kind of vitality.

>>20087786
>>20087771
merely a question of strong or weak, I agree. But what is free about this? What would choose weakness save for weakness itself?

I just can't feel excited to be alive anymore. I'm just so disappointed in the world and myself

>>20087804
Turn it around.

>>20087824
turn what around?

>>20087833
Your disappointment in everything.

>>20085243
Big dicks are like clits. Women understand big dicks, big dicks are for women despite the logistical impossibilites of reifying their existence. Only men understand what being flaccid feels like. Only men, of a certain caliber mind you, understand the joy of flaccidity. Not asexual, yet, not sexual. Just imagine how insulting it would be for a girl to see you flaccid in front of her hot body. How insulted some fag would be when you just sit around naked with a flaccid cock, grinning. Some tranny, that your cock hasn't been turned into a vestigial lump. Just pissing out of your flaccid uncircumsized cock is enough to drive so many men into a fury; their circumsized cocks are violated because they are made to appear permantently sexually aroused. This is why circumcision is a kind of rape by the way, only made worse that it is done without consent. It is in horror that one will realize why women (just like fags) like uncircumcized, hard penises - it is for the same reason they have become infatuated with the existence and purpose of the clitoris; here's the jist: one can only pleasure the clitoris externally.

>>20087838
how?

>>20087874
You’re going to have to be more specific first

The reason society always has critics is because humans naturally focus on the negative when in fact society always has a mix of negative and positive. I personally prefer to focus on the positive.

I have made grave mistakes in life. Yet I am so young. I hope to turn it around

>>20087881
Criticism is to help facilitate improvements

>>20087875
my hobbies no longer have anything stimulating to keep me occupied and i feel like I've grown boring and slow-witted

>>20087881
When I eat ham and shit sandwiches, I prefer to focus on the ham, but the overwhelming taste of shit makes that impossible. I can't help but taste shit.

>>20087906
I don't mind the dirt when I'm given a kiss by a cute farm girl.

>>20087897
Different anon. Try new hobbies

>>20087897
What are your goals in life?
Make a list of your five best friends.
Pet’s name?
What’s your favourite sport or activity?
Sex life?

>>20087771
No, because it does exist, just not in the way most people (non-essentialists) believe.

>>20084210
It astounds me that the jannies and mods allow a single no-life faggot to spam endlessly on /sffg/ without banning him, but they ban someone for making a thread about philosophers and philosophy

>>20087917
>be a successful novelist, open a restaurant, do something scientific
>a friend from college, a friend from middle school, two friends from dnd and a childhood friend I never see anymore
>don't have one
>don't have one at the moment
>legally impossible

>>20087884
How young anon? I recently realized that im not as young as i thought i was.

>>20087921
explain further

>>20087921
How would you explain free will?

Typo-laden books will become a dominant aesthetic.

>>20087936
I'm 23. I contrast myself to my teen self and feel old but have enough perspective to know Im young

>>20085269
>The brain keeps what it thinks is important.
I can remember each and every line from the Simpsons Seasons 1-9, including the commentary bits about who pitched which joke or punchline, but I cannot remember appointments or recipes for food I love which obviously are personally important
>>20085802
>>20085806
Why are girlfriends so reluctant to say they are on their period, why do they say 'sorry' when they mention it? This affects her mood, her appetite, and when we have sex - of course I want to know when it's happening.
>>20085933
That kinda describes most motivated reasoning, she was just much more honest and self-ware about her motives
>>20086100
On Reddit people project their own insecurities by shouting at you platitudes that "you are good enough" or that you should do whatever you want to do: because they want someone to tell them that.
On 4chan people project their own insecurities by shouting at you insults about how you're a manlet bugman virgin and should take a long walk off a short pier
Reddit really isn't better, it's just saccharine

>>20085282
>No good thing ever came from people not following their dreams.
Alvin Dahn, John DeLorean, John Hinckley Jr., John Allen Chau, Timothy Treadwell are all examples of people who followed their dreams and it ended horribly, sometimes in death.

I wish I was that kind of autistic where I could act in a totally fake and performative way, and not care if it appears totally cringe because I logically determine that it simply is not worth worrying about. That these labels of what is 'cringe' or 'embarrassing' are totally arbitrary and subjective.

>>20088084
Whats so great about being an honest autist?

>>20084210
For once I’ve been totally honest in my life about what I felt and it made one person cry, others denying me in disbelief, left speechless or simply not caring. I will talk to my good friend soon and kill myself after.
My world view that I don’t fit in, that I only bring suffering with me unless I pretend, my greatest fear has been confirmed.
The reason for why I am as I am doesn’t matter. The end result is the same: unhappiness and forever unfulfilled.
Thanks anons who gave me cope material and helped me take the leap to express my true feelings.

>>20088090
Shamelessness and Liberation. I was thinking about it in terms of being in a bar or night club and just dancing with random circles of people. Of course you *could* do that. But I don't for a number of reasons. But it applies to many things, just not caring.

>>20088116
Isnt that just picking the good part of autism and dismissing the more problematic ones? I guess the grass is greener on the other side, although I can see the benefit of being completely self-conscious free.

>>20088130
Maybe 'autistic' wasn't the right word? But yes I was specifically looking at this behaviour or lack of self-consciousness (but not necessarily a lack of self-awareness) in exclusion.

Ripped yet another massive hole in my trousers whilst squatting today. Really need to get some better fuckin gym trousers

>>20088159
Did your plump cock flop out to the cheering adulation of the gym thots? Cause that's what always happens to me.

Most of you are still fucking kids

>>20088476
let's eat, grandma
or
let's eat grandma?

>>20088535
I'm your big dick daddy boy

Ever since I got back into reading a few years ago I have faced some pretty grim revelations about life. People believe they can justify literally any crime against someone by calling them a peasant and they will use violence or threats of violence to prevent "a peasant" from enjoying things that they have access to and can afford like cheetos, snickers, hamburger helper, chalupas, popcorn chicken, all-dressed chips, barbecue hoops, etc, because "it's too good for them " or "they don't deserve it".

Same thing applies to anything at all that can be considered remotely good in life like having a gf, going to college, having a white collar job, speaking well, owning a website, hosting video game tournaments, exercising and trying to look good, etc.

Basically the aggression threshold is set extremely low because it doesn't take much at all to threaten someone's sense of superiority when they don't have much of a reason to feel superior. They literally think it's acceptable to say that someone is irish when they aren't then will get angry when that person says they aren't irish because they view it as a challenge to their ego if they aren't allowed to lie about other people and identify them as something that they view as inferior to them. They also believe they should be allowed to decide who a person marries and believe that violence or harm is justified if a person refuses to marry.

Imagine living in a world where things like highschool diplomas, walmart brand great value food, thermal hoodies, women who aren't overweight, identifying as english/scottish, movie theatres, "sit down" restaurants, condos/apartments, etc are gatekept and viewed as "for rich people" or "for your betters"

Does that sound like a world you want to live in? "Jimmy's going to go the city and go to college when he's older but you're a fucking peasant so I better not ever catch you eating spicy food or drinking rum instead of beer, if you do well in school I'll starve you" these are literally the kinds of things rural people say to their children.

It's a pretty heavy burden once you figure all this out. Maybe it's better for them to not read and remain ignorant

I am not a human being, I'm a robot without true feelings. I can't connect with anyone, I can't take part in social games, or conversations that aren't about objective things like work.
I just wish I was a normal person with a normal mind and a normal heart. I'll never feel this void.

>>20087350
Countries have immigration, rules, visa requirements, even poor third world countries.

>>20084210
>Write What's On Your Mind
Sex

>>20088658
Why sex? I've never got the appeal of it.

God I hate this pseudointellectual world. It's not only that we have no good intellectuals left, we also have retarded sophists and leaders still pretending to value intellectual thought. Either promote actual intellectuals or just drop the pretense. We have the worst of both worlds.

>>20088676
Have it and you'll understand. Bitches are soft and warm, their pussies tight and wet. Most of them watch porn and have plenty of experience nowadays so they make it worth your time.

>>20088676
That's like me with reality TV and ASMR, two things which are wildly popular yet can't stand either of them. Don't know why people like them, even abstractly.
Like is Reality TV about the caricature of human interaction? Fucked if I know.

>>20088690
sounds pretty gay desu

>>20084210
Just thinking how much easier life would have been if I was like a billionaire's grandson. Not having to worry about financial problems would have completely changed the direction of my life, for better or worse.

>>20084210
Man, that cut and those colors suit her so much better

It seems even if life isn't meaningful in some somnambulistic way, which it shouldn't have to be anyway, the stakes on how we live, even from an incredibly myopic and individualistic way, is very high. We are who we are in the way in which we live, think and choose to act. These actions have and will continue to be us. I face big decisions in life and one of them is who I'll wed in the future. It's such a huge decision..wonder what Kierkegaard had to say. I also keep thinking about the cat and mouse story by Kafka.

I dont get hard looking at porn, only when I touch myself

>>20089040
Stop touching yourself for a month, then get a gf and ruin that pussy

Am I a fag for disliking how people in college dorms randomly play music that leaks into my room all the time? I don't want to hear that shit

I touched some grass today.

>>20085282
The heart can want immature things and total fantasies.

>>20085310
I was hoping someone would convince me it’s a stupid fantasy.

>>20087734
nah when i chose it i was high and it was mostly a statement on being a powerful smoker but what you said is funnier and makes more sense. i wish i could change it though

what is your favorite talking heads song?

I don't think I'll ever let anyone know much more than about 5% of what there is to know about me. I don't think anyone, at this moment, knows more than about 2%. They never wanted to know. I've gone through horrors alone, alone and while being humiliated and gaslighted. You wouldn't believe me if I told you. This is how it is. I'm 30. Much of it I'm only remembering now, only processing now. I asked for help, they never wanted to know. It would be truly astonishing if I ever trust another human being.

>>20089189
Once in a lifetime

https://andymatuschak.org/books/
Thoughts on this? IMO it's not a question of whether it's true or not, but how true it is. That books are a flawed medium is undeniable, the modern age only exacerbates their flaws

>>20089079
Nah, most of us have been in similar situation. Some of the stuff my neighbor would play could be counted under torture by sound.
It's rather self-centered to bother neighbors when headphones can be acquired real cheap.

>>20089198
Welcome to the lost & damned.
Despite people saying they care and wanting to be inclusive you’ll quickly face the reality that the actual weird or others are not welcomed lest people’s worldview comes crashing down.

>>20086141
Guess you missed the parts about the imagination. Root word is image.

>>20089174
How's the hairline holding up?

>>20086343
>girl you're checking cute and valid :)
Kys

>>20089300
what

>>20089335
Can't you read? It was a simple question.

>>20089338
my hairline is fine

>>20089345
That's a relief. Still, you should keep an eye on it.

My 21st birthday is coming up. I hate birthdays, especially significant ones. They just remind me I’m a loser with no friends that has wasted another year of life. My family always does something big for my birthday even though I’ve expressed that I would prefer something smaller. I appreciate the thought and love them for it, but making a big deal out of my birthday makes me feel even worse about it. I can’t remember the last time I didn’t cry myself to sleep on my birthday.

Jeb is a mess.

>Congresspeople buying stocks in oil and defense industries prior to passing laws to provide military aid to Ukraine and oil sanctions against Russia
These people need to be launched into the sun.

Dementia is a very scary thing. Imagine being a prisoner of your brain without even realizing it.
Is there a way to avoid it?

>>20089463
I've seen articles claim one should do this, eat that, but it seems to me the only foolproof method to avoid dementia is to die early.

>>20089463
There are things you can do to protect your brain against it . Bear in mind that dementia has multiple subtypes with differing etiologies (causes). Generally, good diet and exercise is recommended . Eat plenty of omega-3 fatty acids, as the brain uses these lipids to produce myelin, which is an insulating substance that wraps nerve fibers that helps brain cells carry signals properly. Also, there is the "use it or lose it" principle. Challenge yourself intellectually and expose your self to novel experiences . This will keep your brain active and flexible .Cardio helps too as blood flow refreshes the brain. Don't smoke or drink too much. Sleep well and regularly, as good sleep allows the brain to clean itself up of molecular junk which may accumulate and impair function.
What you need is called "cognitive reserve" a buildup of functionally redundant neural resources so that if one system fails there are backups. As you age you start to burn through this reserve. If it is thin you will eat through it quickly and start experiencing cognitive decline bordering on dementia.

>>20089152
you will never be an oriental

>>20089424
Jeb is a disgrace

>>20088690
>Most of them watch porn
Jow has this disrupted their sense of sexuality

>>20089527
>novel experiences
what does that mean?

what phone do you guys use?

>>20089685
I've had iPhone 5S for 8 years and it's only started to die now. Marvelous little thing to be honest, it survived unspeakable abuse and damage during my raging alcoholic bouts.

>>20089685
google pixel 3, bought second hand for pretty cheap and its very good

>>20089712
no way the battery is still useable after 8 years

>>20089672
nta you replied to but in my view novel experiences are just experiencing new things, or doing things that scare you or challenge you in some way. it doesn't have to be something crazy or expensive but just something that could alter your view of life or the world, even just slightly

>>20089725
It lasts a whole a day, and I'm using it as music player for 2-3 hours as well.

>>20089685
For the past 8 years, I've just been getting whatever cheap Xiaomi the smartphone general on /g/ recommends. I don't even browse /g/, I go there just for that general, click the pastebin in the OP, and choose a phone from there.

What's the usefulness of this device? I was gifted it and apparently it lets me voice control other electronics in my home and use my voice to Google or activate a music player. But I don't want to say out loud what I want to do or the music I want to have played or whatever. I also don't like Amazon having centralized control of my stuff and potentially listening to me. Likewise if I want to Google something or play some music I just type it into my computer or phone.

So it's basically useless for me, right?

>>20089757
interesting. why Chinese phones? why xiaomi? are chinese phones better? are xiaomis the best chinese phones?

>>20089779
Probably, it sounds like something for lazy people, a situation for example where one lays on couch and doesn't want to lay down their book just to turn the music on.

>>20089779
>What's the usefulness of this device?
useful as a useless gimmick to a late stage consoomer society. Also, useful as spyware

>>20089685
ishit because I can buy one and use it for 6+ years. Old model 7plus still running and supported.

Any works that explore the decline in overall quality of a society? For example, in the last decade or so in the west, there has been an observable decline in the levels of service, intellectual output, quality of goods, and availability of non-commoditized elements in general.

>>20089959
bible

it helps to know that God fully well can and likely will forgive them

On my last note I wrote a date at the bottom, and it terrified me: "19/03/22".
It was the thought that one day I will write the last two numbers as "27", then "35", "43", "57", god, just writing out "19/03/68" scares me, the thought of ever having to associate my thoughts with that age scares me. People live, people die. Jesus Christ.

>>20084210
>friend in highschool said I walk like an NPC from morrowind
>sister regularly mocks how i walk
>random women comment I walk weird
>dad says I walk funny
>mom says I have a "distinctive" walk
>film myself walking
>mfw i look like a fucking retard when I walk

Can any of you recommend me decent books with a plot similar to Persona 3 or 4? Perhaps something more mature and with harsher consequences. King’s It kind fits, but he is a shit writer.

>>20089807
They're cheap and good. Chinese phones are cheaper and still good because they force their insects to make them at low cost. Xiaomi are the best low budget phones afaik.

>>20090091
Yeah man Ive been tripping about being in a new century for a while now

------- Floriana Requiem ------
XXIX
j)

There is something inexorable about the warmth of personality:

Without the slightest pain I raced, today
In an exquisite land yacht
Across oceanic land,

Gossip of incredible cities reeling in my head.

>>20090105
all you need to do is to own that shit. it's all a matter of attitude and counterpoint. be frank about your weird walk instead of fighting your nature, you'll radiate the positive energy that you seem to be yearning for.
>t. anon with a weird strut

I only like hanging out with my brother and his friends or my parents and their friends. My own friends have given me so much shit over the years, and done things like set up situations so they can watch how I deal with them, like getting girls to hit on me, so I always feel observed and uncomfortable with friends. Plus, I feel like they just want to talk at me and my own thoughts don't get much acknowledgement or consideration.

I guess it's not a bad thing that I have family and their friends that allow me to feel comfortable and free, but my friends always try to talk to me and do things and it gives me serious anxiety attacks about turning them down or just ignoring calls and texts.

Any femanon wanna wear a sun dress and frolic in wheat fields with me

>>20090297
Sure :-)

>>20089741
Correct. Don't be a creature of habit if you don't want brain rot

new thread soon

any moment now

>>20090311
Kant was a creature of habit and I have a feeling he had double your IQ.

>>20090346
He literally died from dementia retard.
>Immanuel Kant, one of the most brilliant minds of the XVIII century and of western philosophy, suffered from dementia in his late years. Based on the analysis of testimonies of his close friends, in this report we describe his neurological disorder which, after 8years of evolution, led to his death.

>>20090353
>made up source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
>ctrl + f dementia
>0 results

>>20090365
Eat a dick
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20451446/#:~:text=Immanuel%20Kant%2C%20one%20of%20the,evolution%2C%20led%20to%20his%20death.

who is a king

>>20090375
> His cognitive decline was strongly associated with a parasomnia
So it was genetic retard

someone make the new thread

Thank you, God. I love you.

>>20090433
No worries mate

>>20090452
Could you fix me God?

>>20090467
You're beyond fixing son

>>20090474
thanks God :(

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------- Floriana Requiem ------
XXIX
k)

While thinking about who this patrician neighborhood is for--

Beautiful without as I am within he stopped
As I sat in its most peaceful center
To ask me why that is.

I told him, without irony, completely matter-of-fact
That this is a rare evening, one of best I'd ever feelingly seen

In experience far longer than my appearance or

Under any circumstance, favorable as this is
For any purpose.

Doubtless he's a young doctor of some sort, and not used to Haydn symphonies and such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGm30dBfE0U

>>20089220
he's certainly confusing the medium with the stylistic and structural choices. But arguably the act of reading has changed with The Gutenberg press, before that if you wanted a book you had to either manually transcribe your own copy, which you'd adorn with the scholia of successive copies; or you were rich you'd have a slave read it out aloud to you.
Some books are really fucking terrible at conveying their point, so of course all you'd walk away with is a few sentences.
Many modern books, self-help books are super guilty of this, the actual information once you strip away the self-congratulatory rhetoric, promises, and anecdotes amount to only a few sentences.
But here's the thing he's missing: sometimes because of the way we process information, that's not filler, that's actually helping you retain those few sentences worth of information.
The irony is, he has this longwinded essay which I didn't even bother to finish because it was apparent that he wasn't going anywhere with it, to complain about the inefficiency of books!