/lit/ - Literature

Do NOT have sex, dear friends. Resist the temptation of those poisonous holes, they devour all your talents and dreams.

>>20185117
Rei Ami is a rip off artist but she's hot in that one Snowcone song

>>20185117
And on the first day Lucifer created woman and he saw that there was no need for further damnation.

>>20185124
>>20185152
>>20185152
good morning gentlemen.

>>20185133
Rei Ami is great and so is Audrey Nuna

>>20185124
Ah yes, “szkh”

>>20185207
Her songs are OK but forgettable and not original at all. Her aesthetic is just subverting her cute Asianess with hyper sexuality which feels cheap to me. But she's not bad, just very average.

>>20185318
To understand Rei Ami you need to understand more about her life. She lived in a very Christian household and felt insufficient and always blamed for things and told she'd go to hell. So she has some sort of split personality/aesthetic (that's why she's attached to her gemini sign): one is her younger sad and insecure self and the other is her trying to silence that self and be a "bad bitch". Where it gets interesting is that she sort of developed a vague god complex and would like to be worshipped just as a reaction to her religious household. So in her "bad bitch" personality she created a sort of narcissism (that she's ashamed of) but her music allows her to think of herself as someone great (greater than the God that was forced upon her as a child). When you get the right perspective, her music becomes more than forgettable and mediocre because it's a very good representation of who she is.

On the other hand, Audrey is a Christian who maintained her faith because her parents were supportive. That's why Audrey is more coherent in her aesthetic, because she doesn't have to fight with herself. They're both interesting and their music is made more interesting by their life stories and their personalitites.

/lit/ what kinos will make me feel?

>>20185352
Billie >>> the rest of zoomer roasties

>>20185380
bruh

>>20185352
I love Rei Ami. Her songs are great. My favorites are Ricky Bobby and Mac&Cheese.

Logic is over...

>>20185399
for jews it never even started

>>20185425
>da juice!

>>20185440

>>20185117
>want to year my cute bow headband
>headbands give me headaches

>>20185352
why would this be interesting

>>20185117
Ok so why don't we just create companies that sell nothing for high prices so we can profit from economic growth without hurting the planet and won't get fucked over by other countries strong economies instead of trying to change our economic system?

>>20185352
Christ

>>20185504
NFTs?

>>20185460
How about a gangbang, slut?

china will never be numba one because no one will ever bother to learn reading chinese. they will always have to use english

>>20185517
Those are ruining the environment with high electricity usage

Conversations with my roommate are so tedious. He's nice but we have nothing in common, so our conversations just go in circles. I feel bad because I would be perfectly happy just existing in silence 90% of my life but I can tell that he likes to chat and have a conversation so I try my best. I can't wait until I can live alone.

>>20185468
Because it shows the interactions between art, humans, and divinity.

>>20185519
they give me headaches too

>>20185535
I don't think it does.

You now remember from middle-school chemistry that by weight, water is mostly oxygen.

>>20185558
How so?

>>20185591
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow

>>20185117
I miss college, purely for the aspect I could walk, bike, take reliable public transit, and in general just feel more connected to the community there.

The suburbs are truly hell, maybe I should get a job in the city.

>>20185117
dout dosent have a b in it and 'you and i' is fake

regret is on my mind

we live in a simulation created by an AI but not like the matrix

I have the ability to legitimately cancel a local minority religious community, and permanently limit their ability to do business in the area (think Hasidic Jewish and you aren't far off). Have the receipts on some real vile shit that happened from the 70s to now. Thinking about publically exposing them.

Not sure why I'm thinking of doing this. Justice? Revenge? Because I can? I wouldn't get any benefit out of it. Not sure how to approach this. Do we have an obligation to expose immoral behavior? Or am I just thinking about doing this for selfish reasons

>>20185946
Also thinking of waiting for the economy to downturn in the next year or two to really go for the coup-de-grace and completely restrict their flow of money when they are most vulnerable.

>>20185117
The fuck is the matter with you?
Make the links. This thread has nothing to do with the other!

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Dogs look like their owners

>>20185117
Some people don't ever think about the future and ignore uncertainty while I'm here, sitting just next to them and being drilled by stress.
It's like I don't belong in this world. I keep making plans for everything. I automatically assign malevolent intent to anyone or anything that has to do with selection. Work selection, opportunities selection, everything that has to do with ways to get money and ultimately comfort is constantly being churned inside my head. Writing a CV or talking to someone important that can decide my fate is always a game of wits between me and the job boss demon in my mind. I bet I'd fear about losing my job if I ever find one as I live in constant fear of finding myself destitute.

I live in fear. I'm a pessimistic, paranoid near-schizo idiot. When will I ever enjoy life?

One more day until its socially acceptable for me to drink my sorrows away

>>20185468
Something about self representation through aesthetics as a response to upbringing. Wish these analyses coukd take into account how much of those dispositions are inborn desu

>>20185528
I wish people were content to not talk

It's over

>>20185656
>t. Oversocialized
Truly a lesser life form

Im truly hopeless about my future and economic prospects. Suicide seems like the best solution with each day.

>>20186019
No wait! It started back up again.

>>20186133
She looks off. Not sure what it is.

>>20186151
Bourgie upbringing

>>20186218
I see nipple

>>20186218
Not sure why I agree with you but I also feel like I can smell rich cunt just by looking at them

Not sure exactly what it is, they all take selfies and use social media 24/7 but rich girls radiate that they live in a bubble somehow

>>20186218
Thats a man isn't it?

>>20185946
You should do it, justice is a virtue.

>>20186225
The fashion industry was trying to get women to wear more sheer tops a few years ago. In light of the legality of going topless, they thought this was the time. Only the most daring did it, but most girls contented themselves with visible pocky nips, and piercings.

>>20186227
Oh yeah. Total bubble. Rapunzel doesn’t want saved.

>>20186239
No.

>>20186277
Thats definitely a man. It has an Adams Apple.

>>20185946
>letting jews steal from your country

my brain has been balkanized

>20186294
>I SEE THING NOT THERE!

>>20186352
Its right here>>20186218
Tell us it's name anon. Go ahead.

>>20186365
Still not a male throat, anon.

>>20186344
What's that mean?

>>20186294
It's not a man, it's a severely bogged woman like most young whores who get 5 seconds of attention on social media.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lip-fillers-are-taking-over-but-should-we-be-worried-about-tweakments_uk_5dc01694e4b0615b8a962d12

>It’s hard to know just how many people are going under the needle in the UK, because non-surgical cosmetic treatments are not regulated. But surgeons anecdotally report an increase in clients seeking out this work. Consultant surgeon Niall Kirkpatrick, a member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), says demand is increasing for lip fillers in particular, “especially in the young 18-24 year age group”.

>the use of Botox (and other brands of anti-wrinkle injections) is up 3% since 2017 in the US – or 845% since 2000.

>“It’s the celeb and influencer impact on social media that initially got me into it,” says Nadine of her own tweakment habit. “I think my interest in lip fillers started when Kylie Jenner started posting with her new plumped lips all over social media and Instagram. Obviously I had tried over-lining mine previously, but I knew that she’d had further work. I would never have considered it before.”

>Most dermal fillers used in the UK contain a natural substance called hyaluronic acid that is injected into the area being treated, which is then massaged. The treatment usually takes less than 30 minutes to complete. It’s this ease and the relative cheapness of the fillers that is driving demand, says Niall Kirkpatrick – combined with developments in the injections themselves.

>Some women who’ve had tweatments report only positive impacts on their wellbeing. Rebecca, 28, from London, had Botox for the first time nine months ago and says she feels more confident as a result.

>“I frown naturally all the time, even in my sleep, so I’ve always been quite concerned with developing a very deep frown line – which is happening – so I took the plunge,” she says. ”I didn’t notice a huge difference regarding body image [after the treatment], but I fretted over it less when I looked in a mirror and liked the way I looked in photos much more.”

Pity the roastie, in five more years botox and "minor tweaks" will be normal for teenagers

Male gaze

Male gazelle

It’s moids who socially pressure young insecure women into cosmetic surgery.

>>20186418
No, it's me.

>>20186436
You’re the moid

>>20186443
what's a moid

>>20186445
A toxic little pile of entitlement

>>20186454
is this the femcel language?

>saw the Mummy in theater when it released, 8 years old or so
>got so scared of the flesh-eating beetles I just shut my eyes 35 minutes in or so (I've seen it again since, it's ok) and just kept them shut
>everyone had to assure me scarabs don't eat flesh after the movie
>watching a documentary on Texan bats
>sometimes baby bats fall into the guano beneath
>there are hordes of flesh-eating beetles in the guano that devour them
>there are flesh-eating beetles

I find it strange how difficult it is for me to pull myself out of my lazy habits, like I can not find anything meaningful to do; and it's been like this since my teenage years. I've always had dreams, and I still do, however it more and more starts to look like I come back to this limbo-state in which I do nothing to progress myself while stagnating my mind with rudimentary forms of media.

Exercise really does help against depression.

I have been granted: calm.
Thank you God.

animals are so beautiful. how can there be so many crazy critters.

>>20186418
It's this naive and simplistic thinking that causes women to be so happy in the first place. Women have just-world goggles, they think things are naturally good and conducive to their petty happiness by default. In reality society and life in general is a space of competing interests and compromises, and weak entitled people (like women) will be crushed. Entitled people can thrive if they are strong, weak people can sort of thrive if they aren't delusional about being entitled and accept that they are weak, but women are something that only extremely naive, manchild men are, namely weak and entitled at the same time. Even most "manchildren" are less entitled than women, because at least they understand they are the bottom of the totem pole.

Women don't even understand sexual selection pressures despite presiding over them. Talk to any woman who gets most of her self-worth and validation from being in a relationship and having flirty flings with potential partners in between relationships, and you will realize, they think men have the same experience. They don't even understand the hypergamy thing. Men understand the hypergamy thing by instinct as soon as they think about it for five seconds. It's obvious that the scarce resource (women) would be choosy. Women have such powerful just-world goggles that their mind just goes "but that would be mean! I don't like that! Must not be true then!"

Women simply cannot function without a special role and a special space where men can't intrude, where there is no illusion that they are "the same" as men. Men and women need to be kept away from each other most of the time. In any space where women mingle with men freely and without formal distinctions, they will become like Nietzsche said:
>Are you a slave? If so, you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? If so, you cannot have friends. In woman, a slave and a tyrant have all too long been concealed. For that reason, woman is not yet capable of friendship: she knows only love.
They become slave-tyrants, worshipped by millions of simps and short mediocre men they would never give the time of day to, but total debased slaves to their vanity and their obsessive need for validation.

God is the idealized conception of mankind, and women are a derivative of man, greater than beasts but lesser than spirits, the general will of all mankind is to approve or disapprove all acts against the harmony of nature without conceding to authority, but rather reinforce acts which are constructive to the harmony of the state and excise outward the acts which divide men among themselves. Amen.

>>20186510
Modern women are far worse coomers than modern men, at least modern men are only hypersexed for part of the day (see pic related). Women are basically queen bees, so fattened up by taking in validation and giving out gaudy sex appeal that they can't even move, surrounded by drones they don't even see as individuals. The difference between men and women is that men at least get to spend some time outside the hive. They may be at their worst when they are groveling like drones but at least they still have outside time where they can be at their best.

Segregation is the best move for everybody. Accept that women are different from men, accept that there are extreme differences between the sexes, accept that both men and women have two sides: men are degenerate coomers and rapists who will turn an entire society to mush as long as pussy is on regular display, but they are also builders and soldiers and fathers who can be trained to respect or at least protect women at a distance, while women are wonderful nurturing people who could probably create a lot of distinctly feminine things if they weren't constantly being induced to remain perpetual adolescent whores. Accept that this will never be fixed by saying "WELL STOP SEXUALIZING WOMEN THEN" or "WELL STOP BEING WHORES THEN" to the respective parties. Accept that human beings need structures in place to keep them away from their worst vices.

Go back to those first wave feminism ladies who wanted to make all-female bicycle hobby shops and shit. Gas the flappers, the whole '20s and '30s period was just men being degenerates and women being whores. Men and women both function best when they are in productive tension at a productive distance, not commingled.

>>20186445
Online radfem answer to femoid, they also say "scrote" as their counter to roastie.

>>20186512
Good post.

>>20186510
>>20186516
These two posts go together in case it's not clear.

>>20186512
Fucker.

>>20186386
Oh thats terrible. Poor girl will be a suspected tranny for life

>>20186510
>>20186516
You must be fun at parties

New feminism is good.

>>20186418
I think its funny how quickly women will deny their own agency

I will be attending a small law school in the fall. I have decided that I will be the valedictorian. I understand that some other students will have to work hard to keep up with me, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make for them. Do not try to convince me otherwise, for my word is final. I have never been wrong, so it simply must happen.

>>20186530
Once you see the archetypal bogface you can't unsee it, you'll start realizing it's every single actress, influencer, musician, etc.

The weird thing is just how normal it has become for young women. My girlfriend's thot sisters have all had fillers and other minor tweaks in their early twenties. Two of my exes got them, that I know of.

We are headed for a very scary world when they perfect this shit and make it indistinguishable from real youth. The wealthy and spoiled children of the wealthy be superhumanly "perfect" and youthful while the plebs are visibly, tangibly distinguishable as an underclass.

>>20186560
Its obvious that it isn't real youth

They sang the song that elevated humanity. Hundreds of thousands of inspired voices emerged from the global crisis and spoke powerful testimony about the value of life and the wonder of the universe. Their communications would touch the souls of billions and inspire incredible personal and social transformations. They would give birth to a generation of creatives that would outshine even them.
This event would be known as "the memetic singularity."

im very very angry and i don't know why. im at a breaking point. i cant keep living like this. i just played animal crossing for 9 hours. sex isnt pleasurable. im going to kill myself. i hate how dramatic that sounds

>>20186467
The ones associated with Egypt are shit-eating beetles instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarabaeus_sacer

the following is a paraphrased PSA i heard on the radio yesterday
>*classical piano playing*
>"Sounds like an old song right? Actually, this piece is being played by an 8 year old, Claire. It was taught to her by an 82 year old woman, Joanne."
>"Seniors are an important part of Quebec. Please protect them. A message from le gouvernement du Quebec."
What kind of propaganda do you have where you live?

>>20186693
>this guy is Canadian
Suddenly it all makes sense

>>20186519
>>20186510
samefag

I have too many hobbies and I will never focus on anything in particular. I'm a 30 year old rich neet. There's gotta be something more out there.

I hit a point in my uni career where every semester I basically stop attending classes halfway through. A lot of people do this to some extent, but for me I also miss some assignments because I just don't want to do it anymore. It's like I'm mentally checked out of the whole "university" thing and it's not really possible to care again at that point, you just want to GTFO from there as soon as possible

>>20186638
Living like what? Sounds like you have plenty of free time and at least the opportunity to get laid.

>>20186560
>The weird thing is just how normal it has become for young women
Maybe among the wealthy. I don't know anyone who has gotten fillers or other cosmetic surgery

>>20186722
Just pick something man

>>20186735
I've been saying that since I was like 16. I just can't.

>>20186519
thanks, that was all me

>>20186693
just the usually wear a mask nonsense. I have autism, I can't

>>20185380
> Makes sure the only hot girl on the vid is off screen

>>20186707
What else could i have been lol?

>>20186767
Assumed you were from Colorado or something because of how obsessed you are with weed

quebecois are subhuman, watch any of their TV commercials and you will realize they have a carnival funhouse consciousness

also try watching five seconds of juste pour rire: gages and listening to the howling deranged insane manic laughter quebecois people think is a normal reaction to mild confusion

>>20186737
Why can't you? Or why not just enjoy your life if you're rich and don't have to work?

>>20186512
God is an infinite substance consisting of infinite attributes each of which expresses an eternal and infinite essence.
Humanity is confined to the realm of the finite, and is therefore only an attribute of the divine essence, secondary and subordinate to it. The divine pervades humanity, not the other way around. The finite cannot pervade or subsume the infinite such that it inherits its properties.

>>20186789
Because I always have this internal battle about what it is I truly care about. I have no idea how to filter. I think I've approached every kind of creative outlet I have an interest in and nothing sticks. By and large I do enjoy my time, but sitting around all day doing nothing got old after about two years.

>>20186791

>>20186732
that's precisely the issue. there is no room for an authentic struggle, everything feels hollow. i think i remember dosto saying somewhere that "man would rather destroy himself than live in paradise."

>>20186791
this sounds cool and all but does anyone really believe this

>>20185399
Help me understand this.

>>20185380
this is we sell sex for free

>>20186797
>creative outlet
By this I assume you mean writing, music, art, etc, right? Have you tried anything that is on its face less "creative?" I have a friend who breeds tropical fish for instance.

>>20186803
Sorry your intellect is too crude to comprehend Spinoza.
>>20186820
I do. Spinoza did. It's called pantheism. It has its adherents.

>>20186817
Go cause some problems for yourself then

>>20186835
Only thing that has stuck with me is fitness. I used to be fat and I've corrected a lot of my bad habits with lifting weights. I go to the gym about 6-7 days a week, but it doesn't consume all of my time. I don't want to be some trainer influencer person or anything, I just wanted to fix my fattie ways. At some point I'd like to buy some land and learn to homestead, but I feel like I need to do other things first, like finding a wife. No way I'm gonna go live innawoods by myself.

>>20186842
i guess that could work

>>20186560
I read in a book by a medieval islamic scholar (Ghazali) that it is forbidden (whether or not at the point of being punishable I don't know) to color gray hairs in order to hide age*. The more interesting saying he quoted that I like to think about vis-a-vis the modern world was from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and goes:

> "The best of your youth are those who resemble your elders and the worst of your elders are those who resemble your youth."
Narrated by Tabarani.

but also
> "Dying the hair black [is a mark] of the people of hell" or in another version "of the unbelievers."
The footnotes are a little unclear but as I understand it this is narrated by al Hakim. Of course they all had naturally black hair.

And God knows best.

*except if you're going to jihad, where it is sound to hide your real age from the enemy.

>>20186775
Canadians love weed, especially people from BC and Quebec. If you go to rural towns in northern Quebec literally everyone is a weed smoker.
Also BC is known for producing some of the best weed in North America. I would say after California, BC grows the best weed. I order my weed from there when i get tired of government dispensery weed.

Does the story of politics and the story of philosophy correlate in anyway?

>>20186850
>At some point I'd like to buy some land and learn to homestead
Do you garden at all? I see a lot of anons and other disaffected young men daydreaming about homesteading when they haven't even grown a tomato successfully. I have about 1000 sq ft where I grow vegetables and have a couple fruit trees, and even maintaining that is like a second job in the spring and summer. I get a good bit of food from it but it's nowhere close to enough for self-sufficiency. It's alot of work and it's easy to make mistakes. Best to start learning what you can now. And either way gardening is a lovely way to pass the time, and it feels fulfilling to grow even a small amount of your own food.

>>20186923
I help my mom grow some fruits and vegetables in her garden, but nothing very time-consuming. This is also why I haven't pulled the trigger on the land, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

disenchantment with my intellectual upper middle class upbringing finally set in as I watched Manon des Sources with my family and realized the only reason we watched this to the end was someone had said the director was a cool guy

>>20186932
just a couple pegs below "new money"

>>20186912
oh yeah, bigtime

>test

>>20186937
How? Books that talk about this?

What do you guys think about video essays? For as bad as most of them are (IMO), it's a step in the right direction to me. I can't imagine the boomer generation sitting down and listening to some guy go in-depth on a topic for 1+ hour, but to zoomers this stuff is great. Ideally this could evolve into a new wave of Lincoln-Douglas style debates where one person speaks for an hour, and waits for a video response that's of equal length going over every point in detail and responding to it. Right now it's mostly just schlock I will admit.

To put it a different, McLuhan-esque way, the content is bad but the medium is good.

>>20186937
i haven't read anything that puts the correlation on a timeline, so i don't have any recommendations, though i'm sure there are many books about this. an easy example of the two stories correlating would be existentialism emerging after ww2, with its origins tracing back to political struggles in russia (i think). maybe read the republic if you haven't already

>>20186962
meant to reply to >>20186948

>>20185117
As age approaches infinity, every object, word, sound and concept will eventually be associated with bad memories until everything brings one back to at least one disturbing memory.
I don’t know how people deal with this. I want my memory wiped.

>>20186989
sounds like you've experienced trauma

>>20186926
If you have even a small amount of outdoor space of your own, I highly recommend growing some vegetables. If you live with your mom, you should help her out more

>>20187073
>If you live with your mom, you should help her out more

I will this summer. She mostly grows tomatoes but I'm going to see if she can teach me to grow some herbs and whatnot.

Hi /lit/ I don't really know why I'm posting this, but for some reason it would just feel nice if someone out there is reading it. I don't really feel the best right now, but I know these times will go. I guess if anyone sees this I will be updating it daily with kinda whatever

>https://pastebin.com/ATZNdcEx

>>20187085
Most herbs are easy

>>20186962
Thanks anon and yea i would love for a book to put it on a timeline.

>>20185117
I’m heading to a semi estranged family member’s wake and I have to get up early tomorrow morning to attend her funeral. I hate having to get all dressed up and having to make polite small talk with people I don’t even really like. I know I’m a shitty person, but it is what it is.

>>20187196
reminds me of the first part of the death of ivan ilych. i guess that guy was ivan's best friend though so it's kinda different

>>20187065
not him but those two things are known to be connected?
asking for a friend

>>20187196
Is there gonna be booze at the wake? Usually when I have to go to some family function I'd rather not be at, I slam a few drinks right at the start to get in a good mood

My life is a labyrinth that makes no sense and goes nowhere

>>20187065
from my experience, yes. when something traumatic happens to me, my brain constantly makes bridges back to that thing from whatever stimuli i see in the environment. for example: imagine your best friend dies, who happened to be a big fan of a particular movie. you see a movie with similar themes or style or something; your brain remembers the movie your friend liked, and you suddenly feel sad. when it comes to traumatic experiences, this seemingly happens with everything, no matter how loosely related the stimuli is.

>>20187244
I don’t think so, but I don’t drink anyway. Addiction and mental illness runs heavily in my family.

>>20187248
Keep your left hand against the wall

>>20187255
hey that's pretty smart

>>20187258
It's a very old trick for navigating mazes

>>20186693
I was watching an Adidas ad. It was usual sports wear shit.
>be strong
>be fast
>be confident
And the randomly thrown in there
>we support trans women athletes
I actually started laughing because I thought it was some kind of parody.

Another piece of propaganda is a radio ad
>some people like country music
>*country guitar twang*
>some people like punk
>*punk riff*
>some like classical
>*violin and piano*
>whatever music you like, everyone needs to do their part to get vaccinated
There was some subtle fear mongering thrown in there too. That ad stands out because of how jarring it was in tone shift. It goes from music genres to pharmaceutical hysteria in one line

I recall a billboard that was around during the healthcare debate. It was communist style art, a bunch of badly drawn mystery meat individuals with their fists in the air. It said something like "the health of one depends on all"

>>20187268
you should have pretended you came up with it, i was very impressed

>>20186767
I thought you were dutch.

>>20186797
Life isnt about creativity. It's about productivity. Start building things, producing things, adding materially to the world.

I love kratom so much, bros. Genuinely saved my life after a decade of self-destructive boozing.

>>20186954
The alt right basically did that back from 2016 to 2018. Then censorship hit hard

>>20187284
Cucked by capitalism

>>20187324
Creating, conquering, and exploring are not intrinsically capitalist. Capitalism would rather endlessly generate gdp and stock value which is even less meaningful than the poetry of a superfluous man. Get off your ass, imitate Gods divine Act, and generate reality.

>>20187285
what is kratom, exactly? i've heard of it but never looked into it. i guess i could just google it. i don't want to though

>>20187350
Powdered leaves of a southeast asian tree, it’s related to coffee it’s legal in many countries and easy to order online elsewhere. Small doses are stimulating and similar to coca, larger ones are deeply sedating exactly like opiates. Kratom does exactly what I abused alcohol for but without the debilitating side effects. Tolerance builds up fast and withdrawals are surprisingly nasty though, I take a break after 3 weeks and stay sober for a week, then repeat.

I made $5 off dividends in 2 years.

>>20187371
thanks for the info. sounds interesting, i might try it out one day

>>20187391
You’re welcome. Not sure if I’d recommend kratom if you’re content with sobriety - it’s addictive after all - but for struggling drunkards or potheads it’s a life changer.

>>20187324
Wealth is necessary to create good art.

>>20187376
Capitalist scum

>>20186693
Hearing a lot of ads about sex trafficking and how we need to do more in my state (mid-atlantic USA) because we imported a bunch of third world beaners. I just say not my problem every time I hear it.

>>20187065
I mean more mundane things than that, like someone being mildly mean to you because you said something stupid and one of the words you said then being “tainted” and getting brought back to that place whenever you see/hear it. Nothing traumatic, just unpleasant.

>>20187284
That's fine too, I just don't know what to build.

I rehearse what I expect will be topics of conversation before meeting people. As in I walk back and forth and literally talk through what I would like to say in different scenarios. It's more or less compulsive. It really takes a lot of my time. I don't want to "fail" the meeting, that would be crushing to my self-esteem.

>>20187557
honestly i think it's the same thing. stuff like that only continues to bother you if you never come to some kind of internal resolution. for instance, i can think of one time when a teacher of mine in the 8th grade banged on my desk and screamed at me in front of everyone because i was sleeping during class. i woke up and thought it was a joke so i laughed, but the guy was not joking. this bothered me a lot back then—i remember being really distraught for like 2 weeks. eventually, though, it wore off. now i think back on it without anything negative emotion attached. time heals

>>20185124
That picture is so stupid.

>>20187570
Do you really not know, or are you just averse to taking the first step?

>>20187345
Fair enough. Usually when people talk about "productivity" it's about "optimizing" their life in a way that ultimately leads back to making money

>>20187631
I really don't know. I don't have any practical skills. I dropped out of college, and was just really good at saving money before investing it.

>>20187633
Would it make you feel better to send me $10,000?

I think I've come to the conclusion that it is fine to let my silence speak between me and my family. I've worried that in all actuality I had actually abandoned them, and that I was just avoiding the conclusion, but I don't think I have. I have no idea how we're supposed to reconcile, but I think the best way I can communicate the seriousness of the situation is silence. Because I definitely can't tell them, and if we meet and I don't I will feel horrible.

>>20187611
I’m still bothered by things like that a decade+ later. They just keep accumulating until everything is tainted.

>>20187647
Tell them what?

>>20187646
No. Unless you have a cool business idea I could be a part of.

>>20187570
Start by building planters for your mom. Do little projects around your house. Ive been doing construction since covid started. I can drive around my neighborhood and point out all of my creations. Theres a nice feeling to know that I added to my area.

>>20187659
How do I know you won't just give up on it like you have with everything else in your life? Give me the money, I will actually use it for something

>>20187669
Begone crab

>>20187685
Give me the money and I will gladly climb out of this bucket

>>20187652
think of it like a poisoned river. the source of the river is far off in the mountains somewhere, but all you see is the poisoned water miles downstream infecting everything in sight. the solution is not deal with the downstream consequences; it's to find the source of the river and address the root of the problem. there is some unresolved internal issue that is plaguing other parts of your life, and it's probably a pretty old issue. therapy would help i think, but really what will fix it is a period of serious, focused self-reflection. i hope this helps; it's what helped me

>>20187276
A dutchman could never smoke weed like i do. Never.

>>20187570
Or you could build a sprinkler system for her. Those are pretty cool and not that difficult

>>20187669
Maybe an outside vision inspires me to see something through, anon-kun.

Good afternoon, dear fellows.
I hate niggers so much I can't breef. They are a parody of the human race.

>>20187706
How much you smoke in a week?

I love the idea of reading and I like to spend time browsing and finding things to read, but I get home from work and I just don't feel like reading. I just mindlessly browse 4chan until it's time to go to sleep.

>>20187907
You're reading right now. But the difference is that it's inconsequential garbage that actually makes you dumber

>>20187907
>reads about reading
>never reads
Get help, Anon.

>>20187922
I was going to argue with you, but your post is totally self-supporting.

>>20187933

for real you guys it has to be metaphysically important that water is 80% oxygen by weight. water is metaphysically important. breath is metaphysically important. it has to be important.

>>20187625
no u

90% of people who walk around every day fit into one or more of these three categories: nigger, faggot, and whore

The other day, while rereading Finnegans Wake, I was ruminating over the lines, "Or be these wingsets leaned to the outwalls, beastskin trophies of booth of Baws the balsamboards?" I got up and turned my speakers to Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart, and while I gazed at my print of Picasso's Dora Maar au Chat (pic related), suddenly it happened -- the transcendent, sublime, eternal essence of being appeared before me in a cloudburst, and I could feel the world in all its ages turning in indescribable ecstasy. In a moment, it was over. This experience made me a spiritual being and a fuller man, and I owe it all to Pablo Picasso's divine masterwork, Dora Maar au Chat.

>>20187979
And you, most unfortunate /lit/poster, fit all three.

>>20187376
That means you lost money due to inflation kek

>>20187933
Glad my superior rhetoric convinced you

>>20187967
Oxygen is a minority in the air you breathe

>>20188041
Diversity is air's strength

I got sent a text that said my bill was paid and a link to a sketchy website. I'm not opening the link, but is there a way to see what's on it safely?

I hate how much cooming helps soothe my anxiety.

>>20188065
I used to do this, but then I got boners from being stressed.

i recently got my doc to give me both viagra and cialis
the last partners i had been sleeping with i could get it up but there was 0 chance of a round 2 in a night, so figured me dick was broken
but now i found a girl that i actually like and could see myself with and after i nut i basically stay hard and she taps out well before i do
so, bros, if you think your dicks broke then maybe you just arent that into the people youre sleeping with
my recent experience

>>20188041
it's the point of the breath though

>>20188090
>2022
>having sex
get a life

my brain had been balkanized

>>20188044
Air is like 80% nitrogen, so diversity really isn't its strength

Being torn between professionalism and artistry. Don’t need to go 100% towards either, but one can’t serve two masters. Plus, the idea of a non-full-artist pursuing artistry is always a bit pathetic, to me. Like, the 40 year old optometrist who plays bass. 50, 60 year old. But also my artistry ship has sailed. And wanting to attain certain levels of comfort in my life that professionalism can afford me but artistry cannot. I just feel that it kills my soul though, favoring professionalism over artistry. There’s more to it. It’s a killing of hope, of wildness, of soul. An acceptance of fate, of predictability. Of walking efficiently and forgoing admiration of the roses.

>>20187506
Not really

Visual artists, when writing their "philosophical" thoughts", create some of the dumbest stuff ever known to humanity. I don't know why they're allowed to continue this meme.

>>20185117
do women WANT to kill men?

the third smartest woman i fucked is in law school at columbia. she always wanted me to wear makeup, dress in drag and peg me. sex with her was violent. she was rich, filthy fucking rich and had daddy issues. she would scratch the fuck out of me with her jewelry when we fucked. she lived outside the city and i would have to drive then march around and through her farm through the horse pens and shit just to get into one of her houses (she had like 3 homes on the property) just to see her. she made me sneak too because her parents were catholics. we stopped seeing each other before she turned me into a tranny. she also made me cry and used my depression against me, almost made me kill myself.

the second smartest woman i fucked was fascinated with male birth control, studying worms and shit. idk what she's doing now. major daddy issues. fucked hard and soft. i loved her.

the smartest woman i fucked, well i'm not sure if she was human. she was valedictorian. she only fucked the best male athletes in the school: her former bf was a distance runner who broke some school records, she broke up with him not long after i broke the high jump, 100m and 200m records, and started fucking me. it wasn't sex. it was fucking. she was a top and refused to enjoy the sex. she never allowed me to finger her, go down on her or do any position that was remotely intimate. she fucked like an absolute animal. she seemed to have pleasure blue balling me and torturing my penis and only let me come when i begged her for it. she was obsessed with female autonomy and planned parenthood. i remember her saying something about sex cells in bones and i found out she's at uchicago with a grant to study stem cells and mammal bones. i think she's trying render the male sex obsolete. she used to say crazy stuff like "you XYs dont know shit" she spoke like 6 languages too.

>>20188154
It is perfectly fine to keep "artistry" as a hobby while persuing a career. Some of the best musicians I know are indeed 40 year olds with boring jobs. There's nothing sad about it, everyone has to make their way in the world

I’m too old to start something and get really good at it.

>>20188182
What you experienced has little to do with "women," these wealthy elite types are barely even human, cut off from pleasure by their own obligations and ideas.

>>20188204
i can't wrap my head around it, especially the third and the first girls. they broke up with elites to fuck me. girl 1 wasn't elite either, she was very middle class, nothing pretentious or meretricious about her. girl 3 dated a jazz genius that went to julliard before she started dating me and girl 1's ex bf ended up being a yale physicist. i almost had a threesome with girl 1 and girl 3 too but I didn't have my own place at the time (due to being depressed and shit and coming home for the time being). i'm not trying to be vain because i really don't think very highly of myself. i'm attractive but not beautiful, i'm kind but flawed, i'm smart but certainly no genius, i have good taste but am certainly no artist. my dick is average too. it just doesn't add up outside the sports and athletics which is really fucking grim.

>>20188182
AMAB hands typed this unsolicited troon erotica.

https://youtu.be/M7fFe9OtSFg

>>20188182
cool story bro

>>20188197
Me too buddy. Me too.

>>20188309
bro where have u been, its been a while

I have no idea how to fix my life. I don't even know where to begin.

I'm a male in university who just turned 20. I got a 134 on the WAIS a while ago (which is nothing special for 4chan standards but should be sufficient for success in most disciplines, I think).

But I am lazy, incompetent, weak-willed and aimless. I should be making great memories with friends, having sex with a girl who loves me, studying to work in some high-paying engineering/scientific field. Instead, I have no friends, have never kissed a girl, and am "studying" (I have a 4.0 with a few hours of effort per week) for a less-than-worthless psychology degree. I spend the majority of my days browsing stupid content on the internet to distract myself from my miserable state, and my Herculean duty of resolving it.

I have no idea where to begin with fixing my life. I could drop out (I'm 1.5 years in with a decent amount of transferable credits, I think) and go to a local school where I can get actually valuable skills in a scientific field (Software Engineering?). I could start a high-protein diet with regular heavy lifting to try to fix my total lack of will and virility. But I don't know if it would work. And if I'm honest with myself, I don't know if I have what it takes. I don't even know if it would make me happy if I were to succeed.

I wish I wasn't so repulsively weak and pathetic. I think the solution to being this way, adopted by everyone who eventually achieves great happiness in life is "don't be born that way". But deep down, I still can't shake the feeling there HAS to be some solution for me (other than "commit suicide and hope to reroll better stats"). Something that could fix me and let me live a generally happy and fulfilling life. Exercise? Religion? Some pill(s)? I don't know, I have no idea. But it's driving me fucking crazy. I need to find it IMMEDIATELY.

>>20188344
waiting for spring i guess
this board stopped amusing me for a bit

>>20187993
10/10 bait

>>20188360
Just from my reading of this you come across as a pretty smart guy anon. My advice might be worthless, but at least it's advice.

I don't think there's any quick fix to such a state. Some of the things you listed (diet, exercise [maybe add in meditation if you'd be willing - really helps me], etc. are a good start). But don't expect things to change quickly. It might take months or more before you feel closer to what your ideal is. Oh and btw, things will still go wrong, but you get stronger in the process, and learn how to adapt and overcome problems better.

Sorry, I know some of that might see like cliche bullshit, and maybe it is. But from what I've gathered from your post, you seem like you have the ability to pull yourself out of this mess. I don't mean to trivialise your suffering, I actually believe its doable (not easy - doable). The fact that you even are thinking of a plan to switch degrees shows that you haven't given up on yourself entirely yet.

I know I'm just some fag on the Internet, but I do mean what I said. I hope things get better anon.

I realized most humans are dumb and don’t know what they are talking about.

>>20186560
>no more freckles or that blood warmth red chicks get across their noses

I just came to realize the source of my distaste of "pretty" rock music, with The Strokes as an exemplar case. The members of The Strokes are all generally very good looking and well dressed and come from wealth most likely. They're very attractive. Women like them. They have never had a problem attracting women. For their entire adult lives. Sex and beautiful women and beautiful times and moments have always been accessible to them. They likely have not known deep loneliness, sadness. Or, at least they haven't know it in the way I have, and all the many uglier, less well dressed, less affluent, and less attractive men have. I don't have them for it. Good for them, I guess. But I fundamentally can't relate to them. More than that, it's the resentment. It's like watching people stuffing their faces with food while you're starving. For years. Something like that. Maybe.

>>20188495
more generally, i'm a jealous resentful person. for relationships. relationships with attractive beautiful women. and i don't even have it that bad. i'm dating someone now. i've been in a long term relationship. i've dated many people, had many beautiful nights. i've slept with not a few women. but that only makes me see how good it is. and when i have a multi-month drought of that, it fucking hurts. and i'm resentful of those whom i perceive to not experience said droughts of beauty.

>>20188440
>most humans

You in contact with aliens anon? How smart are they compared to us mere humans?

>>20188508
>multi-month
Holy fuck dude. My condolences. I can’t even begin to fathom a life that sad.

>>20188508

>>20187780
Not about quantity, but for the record probably like 7gs.

People fantasize about Netherlands as some epic weed haven but they are just uninformed. The weed culture there is so overhyped. The amount of Dutch people actually smoking weed is so miniscule. Its also not even legal in the country. There's no dispensaries, you can only get it in coffeeshops. Also weed quality is dogshit. Its heavily regulated in Netherlands (along with mushrooms) but also Europe in general does not have good weed. I'm sorry to say eurobros but you're either buying cheap and shitty Albanian weed or spending a fortune on mediocre weed.
Now compare this to Canada where weed is legal, relatively popular in every age group and grown by huge farms in factories where they maintain a consistent quality(https://youtu.be/IBW34r4JbWA).). And the best part is, if factory grown pesticide weed scares you, you can always order online from illegal dispensaries through Canadian MOMs (Mail order marijuana) or you can drive to a native reserve like Kanesatake, Oka, Quebec where the government is too afraid to intervene due to previous history...Anyways...truthfully the weed is often better from those illegal sources.

So ill say it again, a Dutchman could never smoke weed like a Canadian.

>>20188495
I agree with most of what was said but The Strokes remain one of my favorite bands and interestingly for precisely the reasons you've stated. Jules is a brilliant songwriter and imbued in his music is an unmistakable 'fuck' energy that is hard to imitate. The energy plus the straight to the point structuring makes truly masculine music. I cant speak for the rest of the members but the guy for one reason or another suffers from loneliness and sadness all the same and in fact anyone who needs to be creative quite often has some deeply oppositional character traits which causes them to suffer.

Anyway I'm in your position to but when I'm outside I try to maintain a cool Jules demeanor despite my manlet, status-less self.

I know Ray Dalio is a meme. But I've started to write down my 'Principles' in a document. I have 12 original principles of my own. I only select observations or imperatives that give consistent results, things I'm absolutely sure of. It's kind of sad that I'm 30 and I've apparently only realized 12 things with any certainty. What's really weird is it's overwhelmingly soft skill stuff, like the only skills I have are people skills.
I then have an appendix of 16 principles that I have copied from other sources.

horny beyond logic and reason

My hands and feet are always cold

>>20188642
Are you tall? Are you skinny?

I black pilled myself on my future,

>>20188182
Bro where are you finding these women. I am rock hard

>>20188622
I just jacked off and I'm still horny

>>20188575
Yeah well I'm Californian. Lmaoing at your life

>>20188721
I could never smoke weed like a Californian. Never.

>>20185117
I think that tomorrow the girl I've been seeing for the last month and a half is going to ask me to be her boyfriend.

>>20188749
Say no

>>20188762
Why? I like her and want to date her. I agree that rejecting women is based but eh I still wanna be with her.

>>20188182
fake and gay.

Me and my girlfriend are setting some guy up. My gf will lure him easily since he’s a simp, and I’m going to rob him and fuck him up

>>20188360
>And if I'm honest with myself, I don't know if I have what it takes.

This is the first hurdle you need to overcome, the fact you're self aware in this respect is a good sign. In order to develop good habits you need to begin by orientating your own vision of yourself. You need to believe that you can be the type of person that you aim to be. Where most people fall down is that they've developed such deep and engrained feelings of self loathing that their attempts at improvement fail because they haven't truly convinced themselves yet that its worth it. In other words, they've already convinced themselves they they'll fail and so they inevitably do. What's more, they ARE OK WITH FAILURE because they've convinced themselves that they are a failure and they've accepted that. That is comfortable to them because even though it sucks it's familiar. Even though it sounds paradoxical, it is legitimately a bit scary trying to improve yourself because it means destroying the old habits and mindsets that are familiar to you and as such somewhat define your identity.

So how do you convince yourself that you're capable of improvement? I think the path is different for everyone. People who believe in manifestation use vision boards and stuff which ironically can end up working but not for the voodoo mystical reasons that they state. I think a healthier place to start is by reminding yourself of your good qualities and really, genuinely learning to love yourself for those qualities. This can be hard, maybe a long process. Acid can maybe help here. Then once you've accepted that there are parts of you are that are worth loving, you work on expanding those. You get fit, you study something more useful to you etc. etc. You accept that life isn't all or nothing and that there is room for mistakes. You also accept that there is no end goal and that so long as you are moving forward you are moving in the right direction. Good luck brother.

>>20188812
based

>>20188812
You should kill yourself instead.

smoking weed and eating 2 pounds of salad. what are you guys up to?

>>20188927
Shitposting and ruminating. Might read a book

marijuna junkies should be shot like their heroin counterparts.

>>20188927
Trying to decide whether to do some kratom or something to cope with insomnia or just ride it out.
Watching random wildlife documentaries as background noise.

>>20188927
I've got covid and just made a chicken soup. Gonna nap now and then read Programmed to Kill.

Theres so many indians on omegle. But they're friendly

>>20185117
I'm bored of everything and terrified of climate change. I guess I believe a revolution can bubble out of nothing, and that I would be able to recognize an effective movement. Maybe it's extinction rebellion. Maybe it's extinction resignation.

>>20187625
imagine being this intellectually stunted.

Five days locked inside with covid has left me with nothing to do but stew in my negative thoughts. Feeling very shit about my life but need to remind myself that it's not that bad and I'll feel better about things once the sickness is gone and I can go outside again.

>>20188971
I have a strong urge to be snarky and say I’m terrified of everything and bored of climate change.
For better or worse it will be over soon.

>>20188980
I imagine the intention was to be very stupid. I was pointing out that it succeeded in being exceedingly stupid. You have a problem with that?

How do I smoke weed. I have weed. I may smoke it. What's the smartest way to smoke a marijuana cigarette and have a nice time if you've never done it before?

I don't want to do a lot.

I like walking. Sometimes (a lot) I don’t know what to do. My circle of stupid distractions grow smaller and smaller each day. I feel like a snake shedding it’s skin, only it’s activities and past hobbies. I’m alone all the time except for a dog. I don’t drink and don’t like being high. So whenever I have a dull moment I just assume I’m going for another walk. I average 5 miles a day and generally feel bad if I miss a day too.

I found that through walking I do my best thinking. I think bodies were made to move and blood was meant to circulate. I plan on walking a lot tomorrow since it’s Friday and I don’t have any plans. I’ll probably take extended walks Saturday and Sunday too. Don’t tell anyone but I just love walking, chain smoking and laughing like a retard when someone says something funny in the podcasts I listen to.

I must look weird to the people in my neighborhood. I walk around and often have to hide a smile. People must think I’m smug but truth is i just love fucking walking. Spread the word

>>20189084
Based woolker

>>20188360
Your early 20s should be spent accumulating as many different experiences as possible. Get into philosophy, hop on trains, put yourself out there, make stupid ass mistakes. Don’t stay in your room, just walk around. Work on treating yourself well and the way you view yourself, only you are stuck with you for the rest of your life so you might as well like yourself

>>20189065
Honestly what you'll want to do will probably change once you're high so don't feel too beholden to any one thing. If it's you're first time avoid anything where you will have to interact with other people because that'll probably wig you out. I would just pick a comfy movie like a Ghibli or something to watch or maybe pick an album you want to listen to. Like I said though you'll probably change your mind once you're actually high though.

>>20189084
I like walking too anon. I remember reading about Jesuit priests sent to Japan and they liked to go for long strolls around the countryside. The local Japanese thought it was some sort of self punishment thing because they couldn't comprehend why someone would walk for leisure. Funny cultural difference.

>>20189084
Picrel has a really comfy bit about long walks in the countryside.

I posted about this a few weeks ago, but someone should really make a website that's a soft introduction to major philosophers which (1) condenses all their major beliefs and revelations in an orderly format, making it actually readable to the average person, (2) has a single authorial voice which prioritizes readability and transmission of understanding (a problem with plato.stanford.edu which can often be obscure), (3) takes suggestions from informed sources such as academics but does not have open editing like Wikipedia, so it doesn't turn into a poorly-sourced and poorly-written mess like philosophy wikipedia, and (4) trims out all of the fat, so any information you absorb is actually important.

The fact this still doesn't exist in some form is crazy to me. I'm a dilettante in philosophy but I may take up the mantle myself since I firmly believe this sort of thing should exist.

>>20189206
Have you ever used earlymoderntexts? It's not quite what you want but it's still pretty handy

>>20189210
Very nice, thanks man. Bookmarked

>>20188932
There's a lady smoking pot in my house right now

>>20188488
You'd love my mom then

>>20188488
She’s been avoiding the sun and is wearing makeup there.

>>20188932
Not a smoker, but turds like you should be locked away from civil society.

Says a sesame me.

That Chomsky thread reminded me of when ex-friend (long story) told me that in order to be a real "right winger" you had to have spent some time on the left.....:/

I have everything i could ever want and I am still not happy

>>20189283
Maybe what you're missing is this*unzips fly*

>>20189289
Looks like he's not the only one lacking something, haha

>>20189268
The old story of the young man who loses sight of his punker independence once he starts making money and fitting into the capitalist mold. It has worked oit that way. Feeble minds get corrupted this easily. The US used to provide a little slice of the pie and security. Now it’s out the window. Now more and more white neighborhoods are ending up like the black neighborhoods. The SS see this and cooked up the latest episode of the race war…

I grew up rightwing. I’m real leftwing now.

>>20189283
Epicurus and Taoism, anon.

>>20186418
Almost all men would date an average-looking women. It's just that women are hypergamous by nature and ignore at least 80% of men. So they undergo bimbofication to attract the top 20% of men who have insane standards because they can get women so easily. Women being greedy is the cause of their obsession with cosmetic surgery, not men. You're just a retarded whore with ridiculous standards who's going to have to settle for a fat beta male or die alone because of your hubris. Maybe if you dated within your league and stopped whoring yourself out you could avoid this fate.

>>20187284
This is your brain on materialism. Nothing but a nihilistic drive for "productivity".

>>20189423
>materialism
Capitalism *

I've lost momentum when it comes to writing in my diary. I used to write in it every night but now it's more like once a week. I don't right about my life experience like most diaries, instead it is usually ideas and introspection, but even then I expected to have something to right every night. I don't know if I've just run out of ideas or if my brain is broken and I can't think of anything worthwhile anymore.

Saw my crush on tinder, posting in this thread to manifest a match. I will aks her out no matter what it takes

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>20189485
Don’t let crushes boil over to this point. Ask out asap. And take a rejection with an easy heart.
But yeah, good luck.

>>20189065
Start off with a VERY little bit, my first two times I barfed from motion sickness.

Also keep your thoughts positive. Whenever I smoke it brings up repressed sad thoughts and makes them feel fresh as FUCK. Like, my last ex I broke up with months ago, I've been over it for months (I initiated the breakup) and she was abusive. When I'm not high and I think about it, I'm bummed it didn't work out but I'm optimistic for the future. When I'm high, my mind always thinks about it and then I have lots of regret about it ending, wondering if I should've given her another chance, wondering if I'll ever find as good of a match for me, etc. My thoughts get circular and I get super, super depressed.

I'm able to get myself out of it but it always happens starting about an hour after getting high. So, recognize if something like that happens and tell yourself to chill and relax.

>>20189463
Materialism

I don't know why I was postponing reading Caroline Graham until now, even if I weren't fan of the show, this stuff would still be mighty good. I can see why she is compared to Agatha Christie.

>>20189498
That’s being materialistic. Not the same as materialism

man I was just on /mu/ and man is that place the most reddit place on 4chan. sucks because I really like music and even make my own since long ago and everyone seems like a petulant faggot one way or another and it just makes me irritated so I come back here.

>>20189628
/mu/ is a trash can. Underaged twitter trannies.

>>20189558
They are fundamentally the same. It's impossible not to be materialistic if you're a materialist, because that's all there is.

Is Marvel's Doctor Strange & The Multiverses of Madness a reference to Howard Philips Lovecraft's (racist) The Mountains of Madness?

>>20189648
yeah it sure seemed like that, everything had a feminine cadence to the way they spoke, unless you were in the metal thread. and yes, I enjoy quite a bit of that stuff. got Brutal Truth on currently.

>>20189653
You’re fundamentally wrong.

Surprised this book doesn't get more traction here

>>20189660
No, they already made that into a movie

>>20189688
Why? If we do choose to make a distinction between "materialistic" and "materialist", then the former term, as the comparative, is less absolute than the latter, meaning a materialist is more materialistic than someone who is merely "materialistic."

>>20189700
You chose the wrong word, accept the L, and move on nerd. Read a book in the meantime too.

>>20189700
The philosophical term isn’t referring to a that sorr of person. Philosophy does this all the time with words.

>>20189708
So you have nothing to say.
>>20189722
It's not referring to it, but it implies it, assuming the person acts according to what they profess to believe (which is a big if for materialists).

>>20189689
Hum a few bars.
And are your arms swoll now, D&E?

>>20189745
No, dear. Philosophers aren’t implying it when they use the word. That’s the thing, see?

>>20189745
I'm a materialist and not materialistic. You're illiterate.

Glorious New Beginnings Await!
>>20189757
>>20189757
>>20189757

Hello tech support my internet ran out of passive aggressive plausible deniable bullies

Can you get someone to torture and molest innocent women for me? I need a genius to rape women for me

or commit other heinous acts against mankind

i don't think forestanon is doing well right now

>>20189751
You haven't presented any reasoning for your assertion, I'm still waiting. You can use as much passive aggressive language as you want, it doesn't change anything.
>Philosophers aren’t implying it
Yes, they are. Like someone who is invested in romanticism is necessarily a romantic, assuming that they are actually invested in romanticism (most "materialists", unless they are actually doing things and not just arguing about ideas, are not actually materialists).
>>20189753
You're either not a materialist (ie, you're a materialist only in word but not in action or real thought) or you're lying. My guess is the former because you're so stubborn and ignorant about basic semantics and are unable to provide anything to support your view.

>>20189798
Meaning?

>>20189803
I have. So here we are again. You are either a head of bone who can’t understand plain English or a head of bone troller have a spot of fun.
Either, eat your own shit.

>>20189803
I have. So here we are again. You are either a head of bone who can’t understand plain English or a head of bone troller having a spot of fun.
Either, eat your own shit.

>>20189805
apparently his friend just died in some kind of accident today and his girlfriend left him right after due to him having an fbi file. he's talking about walking back into the desert for a little while

>>20189817
Still nothing to say and fails to comprehend basic semantic logic. I'm guessing you think the sun is less bright than the moon too, because the sun is not illuminated, only illumination.

>>20189803
>You're either not a materialist (ie, you're a materialist only in word but not in action or real thought) or you're lying.
Well you're wrong
>My guess is the former because you're so stubborn and ignorant about basic semantics and are unable to provide anything to support your view.
Support what view? The world is material i.e. matter exists. Yet, I don't care about material belongings because I like art more. You're just not as intelligent as you think you are.

> Yet, I don't care about material belongings because I like art more.
Art is a material belonging.
If you are actually a philosophical materialist, that is you think that only matter exists (actually, and not just hypothetically, which is not materialism properly or absolutely speaking but only hypothetical materialism), then, assuming you operate at all in the world, you will be operating under the assumption that there is only material wellbeing, because there is only matter. Material wellbeing requires production to be satisfied, because one can only live best if one has the material and products required for it, which includes art. Therefore in the practical realm, a philosophical materialist is one and the same thing as the theoretical realm, again assuming that the person is a genuine materialist and not a hypothetical one. To be "materialistic" is to presuppose that one is, at least to an extent, a materialist, to be a materialist is to presuppose that one is absolutely materialistic. But real materialism, and not hypothetical materialism, generally does not exist, because as soon as it becomes philosophy it ceases to be concerned with matter and becomes about "truth" or "likelihood", something which is not found in matter.

>>20189232
trust me, I already do

>>20185656
I'm in a similar boat. I live in a large "city," but it's really just a smallish downtown area connecting four or five "town"-like areas. There's nothing to do where I live, so I must drive twenty minutes to downtown for work, which has little to do recreationally anyway. I hate my job, but mostly because niggers on the highway make driving really fucking annoying, and I'm guaranteed to be angry on the drive to work, and often angry driving back home. I had a bit of dandruff around tenth grade, and it's flaring up real bad now, which I believe is because of "stress" from my commute. I miss college partly because I had actual peers, people my age instead of being twice or three times my age, but mostly because I have no reason to walk around, or even no place to walk comfortably. I've even considered going to grad school just to have a place to walk around.

>>20189819
His gf literally left him the same day his friend died. Focus on yourselves kings.

>>20189423
>>20189463
I'm neither a materialist nor a capitalist. Stop putting me in your gay little boxes

>>20190875
No one’s saying you are either.
Why do rightwinger nuts believe there’s only team A and B?