/lit/ - Literature

I'm almost never early to these and now that I am I have nothing to say.

31, dead end job, single for about 9 years this year. For about 5 years now I live on auto pilot, no hope, no dreams just silent resignation. I remember that I used to have dreams, now it's all gone. It's like hope was pouring out of me one drop a day. I became a loser. I still remember reading post like mine years back and thanking god I won't end up like this. And here I am. Not everyone will get a happy ending I guess

His music is beautiful. Listen to it please.
I recommend King Arthur, or The British Worthy (Z. 628).

i might has well be a robot pretty sure i belong over there cause i could give you over 9k ideas and you would still write piles of shit

>>20501067
early to rise early to get a boner, milad.

My end goal is to bring about a Norwegian style economy and government in the United States.

>>20501067
Unironically some high-tier philosophy anon.

>>20501053
Jesus christ I'm never graduating from this faggot degree

>>20501053
/lit/ is dying.

>wake up
>make marxist bait thread on /his/
>eat something
>make frogpost thread asking for a book recommendation on /lit/
>wait 15 minutes
>make a Jordan Peterson bait thread.
>wait another 15 minutes
>make a soijack bait thread
>close tabs
>return in 1-2 hours
>repeat

I will never be a great mathematician.
My eyes glaze over as soon as I see a problem which I have no intuition or understanding of.
I can only understand mathematics through intuition and definitions of concepts.
Modern mathematics is symbolic manipulation autism. I'm incapable of doing this unless I know the rules by intuition.
This is how people got filtered by 0, negative numbers, imaginary numbers, infinity, etc. because they thought like me.
Books aren't written in a way that motivates concepts. I'm doomed.

Fuck,maybe being homeless isn’t a bad idea. Like at least I’m outside of this bureaucracy bullshit

So this little tyke is autistic, right?

>>20501072
Dude. If this isn’t making you happy m chase a dream. Live. Stop posting and live.

I have been microdosing psylocibin these last couple of days but in the upcoming days I will take a big dose, something that will let me talk to God. Kind of scard but I feel like I need to do this.I HAVE TO DO THIS

>>20501072
You've only failed when you give up. Its never too late to make a change.

Your 31 years old still very young

Left my girlfriend (guess she's my ex now) today. Felt like shit doing it, especially because after I told her I wanted to break up she stayed for the night and the next day. I've never been loved that much over the span of a day, I think. She had to leave because I had to follow my own principles and I know that's the right move, that future me will be thanking me for this. Yet now I can already see another future me going over the conversation and thinking "what if, what if I just stayed with her?" and imagining ourselves with kids, etc. Fuck this, fuck this, fuck this. I can barely contain my tears when I think about her trying to stay strong and crying over my shoulder.

I know she's batshit crazy, it's confirmed now. She threatened to find where I live and break my stuff if she ever learns I went back on my principles. I took her by surprise with the breakup because I didn't want to prepare or risk anything. I don't resent her, and never will. Other than that she was amazing in a lot of ways. Feels like I won't ever be able to meet someone like her, even though I know it's just my brain being enraptured.

Anyways. I'm celibate now. It was the right choice. For someone living in the present, it wouldn't have made sense to leave a perfectly fine woman just because she was an atheist and a bit crazy, but I only cut the relationship short because I knew it wouldn't last more than a few years. God I will miss her. I hope it was all worth it.

>>20501072
Follow a crazy goal like moving and investing in a nothern area to prepare for climate change. What do you do after work? What's your job? Why are you still doing it if it's dead-ended? Does it even pay well?

Whos the fuck is butterfly?

>>20501258
Den mother of /lit/

>>20501072
I'm a year younger but otherwise exactly the same.

it's interesting that the earth seems rigged to be fucked over by humans. like all of this was always gonna happen, there is no earth that doesn't get fucked.

>>20501316
I am somewhat optimistic. We will move from the conquering role over Earth to the stewardship role.

I saw a deer. it was quite a dear.

>>20501184
You won’t be speaking to any gods since they do not exist. It will be a reflection of yourself. Which will have anything to say to you, I do not know.
Maybe he will tell you to delete your frog pictures

>>20501381
>schizo memes
Just stop

>>20501170
what are you currently studing?

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYY4EE9FmY4

FINALLY a new partiboi69 mix

>>20501436
Calculus, but I've also been restudying Arithmetic, Algebra, and Trig because I'm retarded and I want to know where concepts like "e" come from or what the Euclidean Algorithm and continued fractions are and how to find them for certain numbers so that I can have a firm intuitive basis for understanding things. Thinking of looking at conic sections but I'm semi-certain that this is not worth bothering with anymore because it isn't as important or useful to learn. I'm 19 if that helps.

Sucks 'cause I really want to get to a level where I can do those crazy math contest problems, but I just feel like a hopeless midwit. I kind of blame my shitty education but yeah.

>>20501482
did u even try skimming wikipedia? it clearly says e = lim(1 + 1/n)^n as n approaches infinite. also most people do calculus in high school. by 19 you should have wrapped up diff eq semester. also, calc is engineering math there's nothing abstract or symbolic about it.

I literally hate my sister and have a strong desire to beat the shit out of her

>>20501532
I recommend that you avoid her.

>>20501218
>Left my girlfriend (guess she's my ex now) today.
>I know she's batshit crazy, it's confirmed now. She threatened to find where I live

your "girlfriend" doesn't know where you live? what? are you talking about an internet relationship anon, holy jesus fucking christ

>"what if, what if I just stayed with her?" and imagining ourselves with kids, etc. Fuck this, fuck this, fuck this. I can barely contain my tears when I think about her trying to stay strong and crying over my shoulder.

How people like you ever manage to produce this reaction in women is a fucking mystery to me, where is this retards anonymous place where you're enabled to find women who are actually like this?

>>20501536
I live with her, and for the moment I can't avoid her

Im a faggot, my boyfriend left me, an emptniess reigns on me, the future freightens me fags just want and want, the only way to meet them is through horrid apps, sexual frustration reigns over me.. i want to fuck

>theres gay niggas ITT
wtf

>>20501543
dude just go to a gay bay or a gay club meeting gay dudes is literally the easiest thing known to man if i go into the city tonight i'll have horny gay dudes trying to buy me drinks and give me drugs anywhere

>>20501532
Hold her hands

>>20501482
Just stick with it, next you should do linear algebra.
Then multivariable calculus.
Then differential equations. That's where mathematical methods actually get interesting I thought.

>>20501316
it's more interesting that our planet is designed the long term to break apart with the continents and produce two divergent kinds of humans who would ultimately nuke each other.

and 'if', then, earth was seeded by aliens, they had this aim in mind all along, knowing that one common culture of actually non-warlike humans was given the worst possible chances of occurring.

>>20501334
nah, i'm all for the life of deep space piracy as soon as possible. we'll prey on these planet-bound slaves from one star to the next, and we'll always ave the biggest an best fleets and they'll always be one big juicy sitting target.

>>20501557
>if i go into the city tonight i'll have horny gay dudes trying to buy me drinks and give me drugs anywhere
that sounds idyllic. I dream of being pawed by 40 something year old fat women who try and lace my drink.

>>20501579
Thats disgusting

>>20501579
>I dream of being pawed by 40 something year old fat women who try and lace my drink.

no you don't its fucking gross

I want to be a politically important person who accomplished something great. I want to be a Lee Kuan Yew.

>>20501557
he was relativity pure, he wasn't like those faggots in those clubs, i want to fuck someone who hasn't felt the touch of another man. A faggot tried tempting me to hang out with him but i declined due to the emptiness ill feel after

>>20501334
>>20501569
i mean JUST IMAGINE how fun it would be to arrive on todays earth with a fleet of planet-raiding craft; the 'battle' would be over in a few days, humans would be completely enslaved and then we'd leave, taking only the best and all o their coolest toys, before setting off some electromagnetic bomb and crippling their electronic capabilties for decades.

given how evil settled societies seem to be, this could even be considered something of a Greater Good.

>>20501579
stay mad nerd

>>20501593
That's what the Ur-Quan did with the slave shield

>>20501607
>Ur-Quan
hahahathanks anon, that was fun to look-up

I'm not sure what I should be doing with everything I read. A few years ago I realized that everything I had been reading for many years was for the purpose of escaping my self, even if I was trying to gain something, the primary purpose was to avoid me. I wanted to be out of my mind as much as possible, lots of drugs, alcohol, and media.

That feeling has left me, and now I'm reading just cause it's what I'm used to. I think more deeply on what I read than I used to, but I'm not sure I've put anything to use in my life. I don't talk to anyone, and the people who talk to me mostly seem to do so just so they can talk. I read a lot of other people's thoughts on the books I'm reading, but I never contribute anything of my own.

>>20501589
Why not Napoleon?

>>20501541
>your "girlfriend" doesn't know where you live? what? are you talking about an internet relationship anon, holy jesus fucking christ

I lived in college dorms for the entirety of the year. I'm moving away in a few months to study a very specialized field and I don't know where my new place to live is yet. I also planned to move abroad after I'm done with college, hence why.

Why would you immediately jump to conclusion thinking it was an internet relationship? Do you seriously think all anons are fucking basement dwellers or something?

>How people like you ever manage to produce this reaction in women is a fucking mystery to me, where is this retards anonymous place where you're enabled to find women who are actually like this?

All women are like this. I get that it may be difficult to imagine that people (living human beings) get along and can build meaningful relationships over long periods of time but I get it, you are trying to make this all about you and there is no point in explaining further. We understand that you are socially retarded.

>>20501168
>make marxist bait thread on /his/
Fuck you and everything you love you fucking schizo faggot. You're the reason I constantly have to reset my ip just to shitpost.

>>20501184
Enjoy your ego death and subsequent panic attack. Dumb fucks like you are the reason caps were banned in Amsterdam.

>>20501218
Overall it seems like it was the right choice. Obviously you will never and should never forget the love you had for her but some things are just not meant to be. Sucks that it meant hurting her but like you said as a man there's some things you just have to do no matter the consequence. When. I was a young Jimmy I fucked up and fell in love with a much older woman. I broke her heart and to this day it still makes me feel guilty when I think back on how I dumped her.

>>20501756
not him, but didn't ancient shamans and the like used to do stuff like this? did they have panic attacks? (genuinely curious, i don't know)

>>20501543
>>20501552
Fags are lucky they are brainless coomers because they have no game whatsoever.
>Nice bike hehehe Can I buy you a drink hehehe
Lol if these niggas were straight they would never get their dicks wet.

>>20501103
US as a whole is a lost cause. Have the New England states form their own country and you may have that there.

>>20501778
Yes. It was rare since most shamans were chosen and then trained at a young age to handle trips and interpret their trips as omens of the future or messages from the divine or the ancestors. Id imagine that a shaman having a bad trip would be interpreted as a sign of bad things to come. Just think about your spiritual leader running in circles and screaming that he is going to die and everything is fucked.

I started a new erotica story that I publish chapter by chapter. The protagonist is a socially anxious high school kid that can barely talk because of it. I wrote like 50K words before I started publishing it, and now I'm getting a few, very tame comments saying they don't like my protagonist because he doesn't talk or interact much with people.
I knew this could happen, even as I tried my best to give him qualities that would make him likable despite not talking. But even so, reading these comments hit me hard. It's so fucking dumb, but I feel like I've lost trust in this story I was so excited about and in myself as a writer (though I've never had much confidence there to begin with).
I hate that these things get to me so easily, too. I have paper-thin skin.
Laugh if you want. I just feel like shit right now and wanted to get it out. Maybe it'll help.

>>20501756
>Enjoy your ego death
Yeah thats the point, isnt it? The ego death is part of what makes the heroic dose a mystical experience, thats why Ayahuasca ceremonies have become so popular lately.It is quite frightening to be honest but so is life and death.

>>20501741
Me too. Some ass hole uses mobile data to spam /his/ so I can't ever post on the go. He also posted cp at one point

>>20501823
Who reads erotica for the plot?

>>20501823
you either grow as a writer and accept criticism or you don't, your choice
you've written 50k, you proved you can do it, move on and write another one that is better than the last one

>>20501741
tbqh the only thread I have made in /his/ in the last few months was a few days ago about pic related and the irony of consumption of marxist books/propaganda through capitalist corporations. I do make frogposts quite often here on /lit/ so theres that

Last time I made a Peterson thread janny banned me

How the FUCK do I start conversations with women?

>>20501783
thats the thing being a commer is becoming extremely banal and nihilistic, my ex was exactly like me and what i wanted in a partner now that hes gone i feel like i cant find anyone

>>20501906
Fag

>>20501849
Some people do, apparenty. I guess I'm trying to fill a niche.
>>20501879
I get that. It's not my first time getting criticism, and this is far more respectful than other things I've been told. I've written and finished two other stories, too. Monstrosities of over 400k and 250k.
This just hit me really hard because I believed I had something really good. I still sort of do, and maybe I'm just letting a couple of opinions get to me too bad. The thing is that I still have a hard time telling when I should accept criticism and when to stick to my guns.

>>20501903
Say 'wanna suck muh dick?'

Works everytime

>>20501072
Same age. Similar situation. Honestly sometimes I just don't have the energy to try anymore. And real change in my life would require a new mustering of energy. Another failure or dissapointment after that change would probably kill me.

How do you guys cope with death? I'm scared of dying

>>20501168
Why do you do this anon? Don't you have hopes and dreams?

>>20501173
Not in winter

>>20501950
>Don't you have hopes and dreams?
Do you?

>>20501948
I dont mind death. I'm scared of being old

>>20501903
Being aggressive and blatant that you are only talking with them because you want to be balls deep in her guts.

I really need to get better at "content", the amount of people who message me to hang out after I post something, like they just remembered not only that I still exist, but they like me too is a trip man
Because of this I keep a list of possible facebook statuses throughout the week that I post during peak traffic times because they won't get any traction because of this exact situation: >>20501067

>>20501168
Must be nice to not have to work

>>20501903
Give them the slightest opportunity to talk about themselves and they won't shut the fuck up
>>20501968
same here

>>20501903
The question is, where does one even meet decent women?

How to spend less time here? I feel like I’m addicted.

>>20501948
Simple. Read Critique of Pure Reason.

>>20501962
Stop it. You first.

>>20501704
I don’t want to be a warrior, I want to build stuff.

>>20502012
Read books.

I feel a lot of shame for my effeminate taste in music.

>>20502065
I sometimes think about the time I asked a girl I liked if she listened to trance and she said "No, trance is too girly."

>>20502078
What? Trance isn't girly. I love trance. Dafuq she listen to death metal?

>>20502030
Ok.
>Don't you have hopes and dreams?
Yes, a few years ago I was always thinking about creative things, opening an art gallery or producing art, a coffe shop, etc etc. Dont know when, why or how things slowly changed and now I lost all hopes and desires, I just go through life feeling like a living zombie, disoriented without the ability of experiencing any sort of emotion in what it feels like a strange reality. I want to say that this >>20501168 post is blatant bait in itself but the reality is that I waste so much time in this site that I could use doing other productive things, constantly waiting for validation in the form of (yous) and replies that fuel this form of escapism so yeah, sorry if my english is not the best.
What about you? What are your desires and dreams?

>>20501983
>Must be nice to not have to work
Its not

>>20502099
She listened to whatever club EDM was popular at the time, it was 2010 and I was listening to a ton of A State of Trance.

>>20502110
I wanted to solve the riddle of existence and became obsessed with finding the Truth about the world at the unfortunate expense of everything and everyone else in my life probably because I suffer from some kind of undiagnosed mental disorder. After years of sustained investigations I'm now more lost and uncertain than I've ever been before all while wagecucking 40+ hours a week in a menial labor job. I can relate to everything you wrote. If you were cute and a girl I'd be in love with you because you write beautifully

If you had to guess, what would you say is the average /lit/ poster's IQ?

>>20502168
100
I'm at 180 so I've helped bring up the average.

I hate how insecure I am. I've been interested in trying out yoga but I've been too scared of going to a class for fear og being judge as a fag/effeminate. Its' so fucking stupid when I think about it and I often do that with other things like my music taste or my interest in writing.

I have severe social anxiety, I fear being humiliated or ostrasized and it all boils down to deep insecurity.

It's pathetic.

>>20501992
Okay but how do I initiate the conversation? Sometines Ill be walking around and some qt will give me the look. But I dontknow what to say

>>20501903
Dating apps have been a net negative for society but a massive positive for me. I have never approached a woman irl for a date or to show interest once, but I can pull easy on dating apps. It's just so much easier when you know there's a mutual interest and a rapport can be established prior to meeting. I'd recommend you try that, if you're confident enough.

>>20501903
Drink first. Confidence is 90% of the game and you can get it from a bottle.

>>20502024
You mean The Critique of Practical Reason

>>20502262
I cant just be drunk all the time

>>20502266
I meant what I said.

>>20502274
Oh you sweet summer child...

>>20502288
No really I already tried that. Alcohol makes me insanely depressed if I drink for more than two days at a time

>>20502166
>I wanted to solve the riddle of existence and became obsessed with finding the Truth about the world
What sort of truth? Tell us more.
>at the unfortunate expense of everything and everyone else in my life probably because I suffer from some kind of undiagnosed mental disorder.
Can relate, anon. I lost all contact with high school friends and acquaintances and now have basically no social life. I was also hesitant to hang around people that I would have considered to be "friends" a few years ago because I started to realize that they were not my friends at all and that I was hanging with people who couldnt care less about me. I have tried making new friends but it feels like a waste of time trying to decipher someone's real intentions
>After years of sustained investigations I'm now more lost and uncertain than I've ever been before
Literally me.
>If you were cute and a girl I'd be in love with you because you write beautifully
thank you anon, I'm a heterosexual male thought.

>>20502296
That's why you mix in antidepressants

Need a big titty /x/ goth gf ASAP

What the fuck is happening to /lit/ this week?

>>20502323
Why?

>>20502322
You n me both. But good looking too.

>>20502331
It appears that there is a lot of demand for goth gf with big tits and not enough supply
Sad

>>20502343
:(

>>20502322
My Brother in Christ...

>>20502322
Stop fetishizing stereotypes that barely exist in real life. Look for actual girls you can make real connections with.
Also, genuine goth girls are fucking batshit.

>>20502359
>genuine goth girls are fucking batshit.
I am living with the spiritual and material ramifications of this even today.

All I do is click and scroll. I want to learn to draw and paint but I'm so hung up on being bad at first and I haven't been able to get over it.

>>20502359
>Look for actual girls you can make real connections with.
Can you not contradict yourself? You said to stop fetishizing stereotypes that barely exist in real life, fair enough, that's rational and realistic. But in the very next sentence you present a stereotype that barely exists in real life: women who I'm capable of having "real connections with". And please tell me, where are these magical women who I don't have to fake an interest in normie activities, and binge watch the Office or Brooklyn 99 and has generic non-threatening news anchor woman hair, who are the women who may not have the same interests as me...? because again, you're right: stop fetishizing types of people who barely exist. But women where there is some compatibility, the kind that will allow us to have a 'real connection' over deeper shared values, attitudes, and experiences.
Do you earnestly think a "real connection" is any less farcical than that anons /x/ goth gf fetish?

>>20501053
The prime minister of my country is evil and I hope something horrible happens to him.

>>20502359
Goth nowadays just means a basic bitch whose wardrobe consists of all black everything and fishnet stockings.

>>20502367
I'd like to hear more

>>20502367
Guys focus too much on the sexual aspect and can't think about the reality; for instance, all the guys who claim to want a goth gf probably don't think abiut the fact that 99% of goths are massive lefties, and I can only assume they aren't
>>20502390
Of all the girls I have been with I think only one fits the Netflix/Starbucks etc. meme. It's really not that hard to find girls with real personalities.

I have a dopamine deficiency, I cant feel. Everyday before I cry myself to sleep I drink some cheap wine, I have the hopes that this current lack of pain and joy will eventually dissipate and fade away. I listen to bossa nova in the shower, have I become a middle-aged cat lady?

Does anyone here read Vexxar? It seems like a /lit comic but I'm never 100% sure about these things.

Fine, if /x/ gfs dont exist what about /lit/ gfs?

>>20502457
Ive been trying but the femanon never emailed me

>>20502457
I have never met a girl who liked to read

I want to be confident but I can’t help but feel no matter what I set out to do or how hard I work it at it, it will end in failure.

>>20502414
>Of all the girls I have been with I think only one fits the Netflix/Starbucks etc. meme. It's really not that hard to find girls with real personalities.
I disagree with you for a few of reasons, firstly you said "real connection", the Office/Brooklyn 99 is just one example of a very common type of woman with which most anons on here would have to "fake it" to have a connection with.
Secondly, while all the girls I've been with also don't fit that meme, they are extremely hard to find in my experience. I'm single again now and I can't find any: why if it's "really not hard". Are you saying I'm not looking hard enough? I'm not exactly a shut in, I go out with friends a couple times a week. I'm on dating apps. It's hard.
Thirdly, and this might be restating the first point, the point is "real" connection which might in fact be different for everyone. Even if someone is unconventional, I mean, you wouldn't expect a daddy issue trad girl to get along with a typical boy of so1 liberal, "real connections" where two people organically find common ground is fucking rare in my experience. Almost as rare as finding your idealized meme big tiddy /x/ gf

>>20501786
The US is worth saving. And we will save it.

>BATTLE OF ALALIA 540
>FIRST OLYMPIC GAMES 776
>OLYMPIC GAME WERE THE FIRST OF MANY PANHELLENIC FESTIVALS AND DREW MAGNA GRAECIA CLOSER TO THE AEGEAN GREEK WORLD
>FIRST MESSENIAN WAR IN LATE 8TH CENTURY SECOND MESSENIAN WAR IN EARLY TO MID 7TH CENTURY
>PHEIDON OF ARGOS WAS FAMOUS DOWN TO ALEXANDER'S TIME AND WAS THE LAST TIME ARGOS WAS A GREAT POWER IN THE PELOPONNESE ON PAR WITH SPARTA
>SPARTA PROBABLY NOT CHARACTERISTICALLY SPARTAN UNTIL LATE 7TH CENTURY BECAUSE LYRIC POETS STILL GO TO SPARTA
>LYRIC POETS ALSO LIKE THE MAJOR TYRANT CITIES IN IONIA AND SING ABOUT SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DEVLEOPMENTS
>IONIAN TYRANTS OFTEN KNOWN AS SAGES AND GREAT GENERALS AND STATESMEN DEFENDING AGAINST THE LYDIANS
>CYPSELUS AND PERIANDER AND PSAMETTICHUS WHOSE NAME INDICATES EGYPTIAN CONTACTS
>CORINTH'S COLONIAL EMPIRE
>THE LELANTINE WAR
>LYCURGUS SUPPOSEDLY 8TH CENTURY
>DRACO AND SOLON
>CLEISTHENES OF SICYON HATES ARGOS
>CLEISTHENES AGAINST THE PEISISTRATIDS

>>20502457
I've been wanting to join a penpal community and try to meet a litgf that way but I haven't got over my shyness about it yet.

>>20501175
>So this little tyke is autistic, right?
Prince Charles is obsessed with designing a “classic” English traditional town, which he has built on his estates.
Princess Anne, spends a crapload of time riding horses, and has won medals.
Queen Elizabeth II, spends her time with a succession of Welsh Corgis, that are descended from a set of Corgis she got years ago.
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, Queen Elizabeth's nephew, makes rather beautiful furniture.
At least 50% of the royal family is likely on the autism spectrum.

>>20502578
Have fun!

>>20502578
Enjoying going outside makes you a normie in my book

Having a religious experience is the greatest good possible for a human.

I don't wanna see my dog die. But he's already old as it is.

What compels a nigga to act this way?

Waruso has been down these last few days, at least mostly, and it makes me sad.

>>20502696
nigga u gay

>>20502705
Why peepo delete posts?

As a mental exercise and a little because of the riots, I started working out how to take down a city with minimal resources. Managed to get down to <$200 with a quarter mile range and then I hit on something really terrifying.
The scary shit is, this is in effect. Like you can see the effects of it on two states right now. I have no idea what to do now.

>>20501072
How do I make sure this never happens to me

t. 21 year old college student still coping abt a girl terrified of becoming a mediocrity

>>20502682
It hasn’t. It’s taken away ghost posting, but it’s still there.
Browser need updating?

>>20502711
You're also gay nigga

You guys are quite awesome, and I think you don't hear it enough.

>>20502785
Stop being nice. It makes me feel wierd.

>>20502785
Youre gay and thats ok.

>>20502500
The nation called the US is not worth saving. The people and the land we live on are. They need saving *from* the US

Every day is constant mental agony and I live as a contemptible sludge unworthy of sight. My only friend is a Rhodes scholar who so definitively mogs me in every life accomplishment that the insurmountable difference gives me suicidal ideation. I spent days studying for my Statistics midterm and my grade was roughly the class average. I have regressed so much that I spend most of my leisure time on the computer. Going to a decent university has shown me what a mediocrity I am. The most pathetic part is I am incapable of showing my sincere thoughts or feelings to others. I have recurring dreams of a pin-stripe suit being sewn into my flesh. I lie to those around me as there is nothing more I hate than pity for inhuman shells like me.

>>20501053
>be me
>still a kv 23 yo autismo
>move to a new location for a job
>think fuck it and download the lot of dating apps to get a gf
>one girl on it is actually super into me
>kinda cute face but slightly chubby average body and completely boring opinions
>think fuck it and take her on dates
>after dating her a few weeks I had first kiss with her, cuddle all the time, and she gave me a bj
All those years being a virgin I thought this was all I ever wanted but I don’t feel that way rn. I feel like I could fuck way hotter girls even though I have no reason to believe that’s true. I’m growing increasingly bored of her even as it seems like she’s crazy for me. I feel a bit bad because I’m no where near as into her as she is into me even though she seems objectively alright. I’m mainly just staying in a relationship with her for fear of being lonely and I don’t want to hurt her feelings.

Is there something wrong with me? Wat do?

>>20502785
What compels a nigga to say this?
Thank you anon.

>>20502678
This happened to me a couple times. Was smoking weed with me friends and then got massively turned on at the idea of them Eiffel towering me. Never said this out loud even when I was that madly high obviously. I’m literally not gay at all not high on weed what the shit?

Wash your anus

What compels a nigga to post on /wwoym/?

>>20502830
I am desperate for human contact

>>20502678
>>20502826
I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN. MARIJUANA TURNS YOU FAT, GAY, AND RETARDED

>>20502830
Whatever compelled you to write that post.
But since you asked: firstly because I have /lit/ questions about philosophy and the writing process that don't deserve there own thread, and secondly because I have no venue to engage other people in my brainfarts, I'm sick and tired of developing my ideas and thoughts on my own because progress is so slow.
I wish I could engage in a dialogue, I wish I could have my blind spots pointed out: the assumptions I'm making about processes and causalities that don't hold water but I'm not aware of. I wish I could have people with different perspectives but just enough interest and understanding of the topics that I'm churning over in my brain that I could progress forward through to solving the underlying problems or dilemmas.

>>20502860
Cool. How old are you?

>>20501072
>has a job
>had a relationship
>had/has dreams
you are way ahead of me.
t. 30 year old who never had any of these things.

>>20502866
What are do now?

>>20502864
too old to be on this shit hole

>>20502871
So 25 then.

>>20502678
>>20502826
I think you guys are too hung up on the idea that the world is divided into people who are gay and people who are not. The world is more complicated than that. We just build simple models to describe it because of our limited mental capacity. Don't confuse a map with the territory.

>>20502869
waiting for death.

>>20502876
Stop it that's too complicated. I already habe too much complicated shit to deal with.

>>20502874
Oh fuck it, I saw Titanic (not 3d) in cinemas-years-old

>>20502866
LMAO what is your life. They give jobs to downs syndrome retards and invalids.

>>20502881
Oooooooohhhh. I'm so sorry.

>>20502881
What do you read?

>>20502830
Funposting while I'm public transportation. Keeps me occupied and prevents me having to interact with homeless, homos, and worst of all femoids.

>>20502881
Remember to take your blood pressure medication!

Leon Trotsky did nothing wrong

I'm also an old fag

>>20501053
I hate women.
I love women.
I hate women.
I love women.
I hate women.
I love women.
I hate women.
I love women.
I hate women.
I love women.
I hate women.
I love women.
I hate women.
I love women.
I hate women.
I love women.

>>20502882
not him but im the same as him and im not employable

Bros I'm so bros bros I need bros bros

Im starting to realize that the pandemic had a bigger effect on me than I realized

>>20502813
Yeah, ladder theory (or whatever it's called now) is awful. Stick with the girl, or don't. You can get a synthetic to bypass the whole thing. Your body won't know the difference and it'll consider you "top" of the ladder.

>>20502932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH9JlvbDS7E

Other women who think American Psycho is misogynist are retarded. I just finished the book and read a few reviews on Goodreads and was disappointed but not surprised to see a bunch of feminists going brrrrrrr mIsOgYnY. Why do women think the world revolves around them? The whole second half of the book and the escalation of his murders clearly seemed like an effort on his part to see how far he could go/if he could be stopped/a demonstration of how he needed more and more to get the same rush. I think he even explicitly stated how he couldn't get hard anymore with the same old tricks. It wasn't about the women at all, imo. I certainly felt empathy for the women that were being tortured, mostly because I had never imagined all the ways a vagina could be mutilated and I was horrified by the idea of things like that happening to my own vagina, but it didn't feel like misogyny to me. That's an incomplete interpretation of the events. Bateman regarded all humans as clumps of matter with or without consciousnesses attached to them. They were nothing to him and there was nothing to himself. If he put extra effort and depravity into killing women, I think it was largely because he was sexually attracted to them, and perhaps resented them for making him feel even that much. Idk, I just think that Bateman probably would've been just as fucked and depraved if he were a gay man (maybe).

Whatever, I'm still getting my thoughts together but wow, what an awesome (in the original 'awe' sense of the word) book. Not sure I'll read it again but I'm glad I read it at all. It'll be hard to go to sleep tonight because I know I'll be thinking about it for awhile yet.

>>20502990
>synthetic
?

>>20502997
You should be my gf

What compels a female to post on /lit/ and /wwoym/?

>>20502883
I know it's gnarly dude
>>20502887
I'm not a radical nerd like I used to be buddy, I used to read lots of way boss shit like Strindberg, or Joyce, or Casanova. Currently I'm worming my way through (late) Wittgenstein. I most read non-fiction nowadays.
>>20502901
That's later, now I have to take my cholesterol pills sonny

>>20503015
lack of additional X chromosome

>>20503018
Are you saying females are retarded?
>>20503016
> I most read non-fiction nowadays.
Like what?

She left me for a poor uneducated inferior in every aspect dude. I'd have atleast consoled myself if it was some ripped guy with shit ton of money, things didn't work out between them and she wanted to get back, i never responded. Been 4 months haven't gotten over it.

I am not cruel enough to accomplish my dreams. I have come to realize this by reading history. Nearly all great leaders have been cruel. I lack the iron fist of Napoleon or Stalin or Kagame. I prefer peace over war, compromise over confrontation. Such people are a liability. I am not a Great Man of history.

>>20503000
Thanks for the offer anon, but I've got more weight to lose before I'm willing to start dating. I appreciate the sentiment tho <3

>>20503015
In my case, I very rarely post on /lit/ or 4chan in general, really, but like I mentioned in my earlier post I just finished AP and wanted to discuss it because nobody I know irl has read it.

Plus I think the abrasive, aggro nature of 4chan men is an excellent grindstone on which to sharpen or discard my opinions on.

>>20503024
>Like what?
Why are you asking so many questions? What possible interest could you have in a grown man of indeterminate age who used to read but now doesn't so much who readily admits he finds it impossible to find people whom he can engage in dialogue concerning certain topics he churns over in his brain?

>>20503026
Cruelty is not enough. Its all about thinking that end justify the means.

at what point does a thing, action or object become a form of art?

"when it has no function other than itself"
"when it becomes the perfect personification of an idea or will"
"when your body and mind are in sync"

in this case beauty simply becomes a conflict of wills, and the strongest will (be it individual or collective) determines what is 'objectively' beautiful. The objective standard of beauty is simply a throne that different Ideas fight for, powered by different Wills. Beauty then, becomes a state of perception - within all subjective opinions of what is beautiful lies a potential for it to become "closer" to objectivity (but never reaching it) as long as there exists sufficient strength of will supporting the opinion

beauty is the demonstration or sense of increased strength of will (be it individual or collective)

>>20503029
>topics
Like what topics? I actually read.

>>20503038
>Its all about thinking that end justify the means.
But I don't believe that is true. And maybe that's the end of it. But I dunno anon. My planet, my civilization, my country, and my community are careening towards annihilation and I am just watching it happen.

>>20503040
Among other many many things, and I will be instantly identifiable from this as it is: The intentional stance. Pantomime. Non verbal communication. Glam rock. archaic video and celluloid formats. Ecological Psychology. And asymmetrical power dyads (i.e. master-slave dichotomies).

>>20503040
Now I answered your questions, now answer mine: why are you asking me so many questions? What did you expect to discover? What will you do with this information?

>>20503039
art, then, becomes a mechanism for increase of strength. All things are magic runes capable of imposing memetic energy into our minds, but works of art have been enchanted and so the energy projected can be much more potent

>>20502999
Sex doll. You don't have to bang it. Your body won't know the difference and it'll think you've reached "peak woman" or however it works. As a bonus, you'll be able to talk with hot girls without trouble. Handy stuff.

>>20503045
Why do you care?

>>20503052
What are you afraid of?

>>20503056
Why the fuck are you answering to my question with another question?

>>20503058
Give me one reason I should continue this inane game of questioning the questioner, even though we both know you're the hypocrite who doesn't have the common courtesy to answer a simple question about why they are asking so many questions?

I think at this point humanity is betting on global warming destroying civilization before we are able to create an true AI, a AGI. This is the only way we can avoid extinction of all life. AI researchers are some of the most evil people of all time, honestly. I hope they can be defeated.

>>20503067
You'll lose this battle as you lost every other you reactionary worm.

>>20503071
And if that comes to pass, humanity will become extinct. All life on Earth and possibly all life in the reachable universe will suffer a similar fate. It is wrong to support AI research when the risks are so high.

What is the best translation of the name of the rose?

>>20503071
Not to be a dick, but if people were taking you seriously, you wouldn't exist. Hell, I'd drop some of my own designs on the net, let people wipe out cities for as song. Electronic entities have a natural state, and blackrock money isn't going to change that.

I'm probably reading like 10 books at the same time and havent finished a single one in weeks. Is it autism? I just cant stick to one single book
>Story of Civilization volume 2
>History of philosophy volume 1 by Copleston
>Anna Karenina
>Hitlers War by Irving
>War and Peace and War by Turchin
>Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition by Yates
>The Secret Doctrine Volume 1

I was invited to a party, but I don't think I'll go. I'm better off alone.

>>20503092
No no. Go. Be your wallflower self, but try to socialize.

I am leaving this cancer hole of a website for good
so long suckers

>>20503065
Sir, I just asked what sort of non-fiction books you read expecting a response were perhaps you could have shared some of the books you're currently reading as a general example. Why I asked? You may ask....Because, I also read mostly non-fiction and philosophy. Asking someone else what he reads on a literature forum shouldnt be this complicated...

>>20502577
And that's before you take into account the Fane and Bowes Lyon cousins they hid in mental institutions

>>20503065
Also, my first question was this one>>20503024. You're assiming its the same poster replying to your posts.

>>20503122
It feels like an interrogation because you still haven't even told me what you're reading. In real life I'm used to people giving back and forth, they will reveal something, I will reveal something... when it goes one way I tend to assume nefarious intentions (and I'm usually right).

>>20502997
>if he were a gay man (maybe).
He is. He doesn't want to admit it though.
Try Casino Royale by Fleming for contrast

>>20501722
>Do you seriously think all anons are fucking basement dwellers or something?
Yes.

> I get that it may be difficult to imagine that people (living human beings) get along and can build meaningful relationships over long periods of time but
No, that's not true at all; you said you woke up and decided to leave her one day for no real reason, and that her reaction to this was 'crazy' and then you said that she didn't know where you lived, which was the stranger part of it.

>I get that it may be difficult to imagine that people (living human beings) get along and can build meaningful relationships over long periods of time
it's difficult to understand what misfires in their brains that has them switch after a while of doing that and just wander away, rather.

>socially retarded.

projection lol

> you are trying to make this all about you

only insofar as i've seen this happen to other people and had to hear about it, with them crying and crying and i'm always like, "i told you that boy was retarded and not to be trusted, do you want me to jump him and take his wallet?" and she's like "no i dont want to hurt him!!!" and i roll my eyes and wonder.

>>20503133
I'm currently reading pic related.

>>20501562
Thanks for the suggestions, anon, they are much appreciated.

>>20503121
see you tomorrow

im sad

>>20503160
what happened?

>>20503171
there's this girl im in love with, but i cant be with her. i just talked to her for a long time and i think she doesn't have feelings for me anymore; she's moved on. i still dream of her every other night. i look good but it means nothing. there's nothing i can do

>>20502577
People make fun of Princess Anne for being ugly and all but I think we're all forgetting how fuckable she used to be when she was young. Yeah, she really hit that Anglo wall hard but she's also royalty and already had children by that point so it really doesn't matter.

>>20503195
To be fair, Prince William also "hit the Anglo wall hard" and people make fun of him for it all the time. Guess it just runs in the family...

>>20503195
Holy fuck, are young British women actually that attractive?

>He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Monistic bros..The pajeets were right all this time.

>>20503217
>>20503195
neh they were never particularly good looking. It just reaches a point of absurdity for their press machine to keep saying how attractive they are aft a certain point, and the narrative seems to collapse more rapidly due to his.

Although that princess (who isn't lawfully a princess really) beatrice or something, i forget her name, is utterly delicious. She clearly has inherited the better part of the bloodline and clearly ought be made monarch immediately because of it.

> (who isn't lawfully a princess really)
i.e. the children of non-reigning royals or dukes are not princesses and princes; their parent has that title and they don't inherit it until their parent, by some fluke, becomes the monarch.

This is one of Prince Andrews daughter, apparently, so that's unlikely. Although I think in Byzantine title law her public work would qualify as being a 'sebaste' a "venerable one", which is superior to a petty prince or petty princess anyway.

tfw "absolutely delicious"

>>20502168
Probably 120.

>>20501072
Lol same, except I'm a NEET and I'm turning 32 in november. Thank god I have enough anti-depressants or I'd be crying myself to sleep and waking up screaming.

>>20503613
How do you live with all this?

>>20502476

>>20503645
reading and hobbies and enough anti-depressants so I don't cry myself to sleep or wake up screaming.

>>20501053
i wunna no
wut yur thinking
is thur somat on ur mind

i wunna no
wut yur thinking

tell me, girl with book-bind

>>20503613
>>20503645
>>20503662

John was one for dancing on the television,
one day his sheer girth smashed the television from under him,

"i told you," said his mother, "being a proofter will get you nowhere in life,"

and john began to cry,

his father, taking pity on him, had him go and see Jack at the paint factory,

"there's a job waiting for you, John," they had always said, "when you get big poofter out of your system,"

Oh, such was life in 1978.

>>20503662
What hobbies?

>>20501903
If you’re not 6’2” or more don’t even bother

couln not wait for my degree to be over and now i have nothing to do and no one i know in this city. i haven't even talked in about 3 days since last time mum called.

Sometimes I feel as if I’ve had my creativity extinguished or ripped from my soul.

>>20503729
>If you’re not 6’2” or more don’t even
this is bogus, i'm 6'4 and the wide-eyed looks i get some from women, who come up to my chest or elbow, make me incredibly uncomfortable. I don't care if it's some way of signalling that they're turned on, it's creepy as fuck.

>>20501053
My body is effectively making me dumber. I can't spend more than 2 minutes without being haunted by some whim to watch something, to eat, to walk. I have enough discipline to work, but it is like riding a bad horse.The only thing I can do consistently and with no distractions is to surf the internet.

>>20501903
basically, imagine you're talking to a developmentally disabled 4 yr old,crouch down on your knees and put on a bi wide smile and do baby talk. If they suggest something, chuckle aloud, look around the room with a big wide grin and suggest that tea with her dollies from plastic teacups and a tiny table would be a good idea, no matter what she says.

>>20503741
>shoulder deep in pussy
Thanks for proving my point

>>20503740
I dont get it.

>>20503706
reading, writing, drawing are my main ones, but I also have a revolving door of smaller hobbies that I buy starter sets for cheap for: clay/paper mache, wood working, metal working, cooking, puzzles, miniatures, a little taxidermy, I have a folder of Pinterest stuff I can try (I made one of picrel) I want to try something with resin, but that's a little expensive... basically, I dip my toes into just about everything, and if it catches my attention, then I can devote more effort into it, and I have a lot of things to choose from.

Right now I uploaded a picture online and I'm doing a little puzzle out of it.

Someone asked me why I think the LGBT thing is so in our faces lately and why it seems like everyone is willing to just concede and endorse it.

I responded by saying I think people generally respond to power, especially institutional power. It’s not that they personally strongly believe in LGBT narratives, but rather they know the institution expects them to behave as if they do, be it for a job or grades or social approval or whatever. And the same is true for most people who are anti-LGBT as well. If you’re opposed to LGBT for religious reasons, most of the time they don’t know why it’s opposed and it’s not like it’s a conclusion they’ve come to themselves. They simply fall in line with their institutional directive albeit one less concerned with power because real power doesn’t lie with that institution right now. Still, all these people would have been devout Christians in 1090s and card carrying Nazis in the 1930s because that’s where institutional power was back then.

They asked me why I was opposed to it then, if’s all just sheep following power.

I said I just think it’s really gay.

I feel spiritually defeated in this state and life is barely worth living.

Who was that British poet that built himself a stone throne in the forest near his house? I can’t remember his name and it’s driving me mad

>>20501053
Finally getting the money for my 40th birthday, gonna get some new books, games and hang out with my best friend at Red Lobster and have dinner. Life is good.

>>20503481
That's a 10/10 in ingurland.

I'm not in love with her. I may have been, in a way, at a point. I just don't know anything. I have a kind of love for her, maybe. Hard to say. It's probably wrong to say that I love her. It's the -itis.

>>20502359
the best scenario is someone who is openly batshit
someone who is batshit but hides it well until it pops is not a good scenario
the worst scenario is someone who is not batshit

>>20503844
>If you’re opposed to LGBT for religious reasons, most of the time they don’t know why it’s opposed and it’s not like it’s a conclusion they’ve come to themselves. They simply fall in line with their institutional directive
We simply fall in line with the word of God.

>>20503729
I gave up because I'm short however I managed six exes some how

>>20503844
I don't. I find gays disgusting.

In what way would a parmenideanesque One-Being even actually differ from Non-Being? Truly the Dyad is the REAL principle of Being.

>>20501053
Found out I’m turning grey or white in some parts of my body.

>>20504204
I just discovered a grey hair on my head today
I'm only 25
It's over it's over it's over it's over it's overrrrrrrr

>>20504216
Same. Atleast Im not balding (yet).

>>20504216
We live in a time where people will sexualise or romanticise anything. Chin up.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whats-a-silver-fox

>>20504231
I may or may not look hotter with silver hairs, but that's not the point, the point is that I'm deteriorating and will die 30-40 years younger than I wish I would.

>>20504239
We all gotta go sometime. Just read some good books and come to terms with it. Who’s to say this is the only experience we could have either? Metempsychosis is possible.

>>20504231
thats just Chad but with gray hair.

I wanna post in /vg/ but for some mysterious reason my country is IP range blocked from that board and ONLY that board. I don't want to buy a pass. I don't understand why...

>>20504307
Some idiot posted cp on your network and got a tranny janny to switch to a mod.

>>20501053
>that pic
Real genius is a good movie and a great representation of college

How people respond to the abortion question reveals a lot about them.

Do you think a Westerner will ever make a popular manga?

I'm starting to realize the bible is really just the lore of ancient, immutable human behavior in the form of symbolism. The most obvious is Eve and the apple. The snake is obviously phallic but the message behind her seizing the apple is ingenious as it represents multiple levels of prophetic warnings for those who are willing to peel back the layers. Just off the top of my head:

>The most apparent layer is temptation. Both sexes are obviously vulnerable to temptation but the Bible makes the distinction of explicitly warn the reader of the dangers of leaving a female alone with temptation. Even when given everything women will still reach for the apple.
>another layer is the Bible is conveying that women are especially susceptible to manipulation implying a lack of agency. Eve was willing risk the garden for an apple because some figure told her it was acceptable. Her needs supersede all no matter how trivial. This is analogous to modern day society (garden) and merchandise (apple) and it rings true today for those who are paying attention. Today, 85% of all consumer purchase decisions are made by women.
>the final layer is women's inability to sense or perceive danger and naivety. Ignoring all phallic symbolism, the snake represents an obvious nefarious character. The character is unknown to Eve and tempts her with an object that she understands is forbidden. This could be analogous today's marketing schemes: an unknown entity promising fulfillment - that is ultimately fleeting - at the cost of valuable resources.

Religious or not the bible has been warning you for millennia.

>>20504424
No, because it would be called a comic, not manga.

I really want to go to a therapist and lie to them. I want to tell them I have experienced things that I haven't and feel ways I don't to see their response. I am worried I might get locked up for it even if I'm a paying customer

>>20504393
What does this say about me?
>Abortion of a baby with serious birth defects is not only moral, not aborting would be immoral
>Aborting in the case where the mother’s life is at risk is morally acceptable
>Aborting a healthy baby where the mother is healthy is immoral
In all cases, I consider abortion to be equivalent to murder. But just as euthanasia is justified murder, so can be abortion. Legally I would make abortion legal all the way, so that edge cases are not deprived of their rights (like if a serious birth defect is found very late in pregnancy). But culturally abortion for non-medical reasons should be seen as extremely immoral. In this way rights and society’s wellbeing are both protected

>>20504466
It shows you have a particular standard forwhat you perceieve valuable life to be. Thats nothing too radical, just a very mundane take that a crippled life isnt worth living.
I was really just thinking about some conversations I had over on /pol/. They were sincerely saying "reeeeee fucking christcucks wont let me kill nigger babies, lifeis worthless anyway, nature is adeadly struggle!" No response was ever rational or calm. It was always vitriolic and raging.
It was a serious insight to just how sick they are. Theyre the type of people who would drop a boulder on a newborn

>>20504307
get rekt what country

>>20504449
>to see their response
they'd probably stare blankly at you and await your response, at which point you'd probably begin to feel dumb about the whole thing

>>20504500
>that a crippled life isnt worth living.
Well that sounds quite bad lol. I’m not against the rights of disabled people to life, but when I see things like babies born without vital organs and with things which guarantee they will die a painful death in a matter of years I think it’s cruel.

As for /pol/ I tend to stay away from it. I think their rage comes as a reaction to some valid issues but they have completely gone off the rails and have become a danger to themselves and others.

>>20504439
Comics are different though, and everyone knows it. If a French person makes sushi in Paris or Tokyo, it’s still sushi. That they’re French or in France makes no difference.

the moment when you're talking to a person and you realize they probably have sub 80 IQ but they have no one else to talk to, so you decide to talk to them "charitably" and then you begin to feel good about yourself, being such a good person, and then you realize you've been patronizing a retard for a while to feel good about yourself and that this is probably not a good thing to do, it certainly doesn't feel like a good thing to do.

>>20504535
Manga is just Japanese comic, it can come in different drawing styles, some of it reminiscent of old comics from the west, so it's really just reading direction and the author that can for sure tell you what it is. And people have already officially categorized manga imitations from other countries as either manhwa (S. Korea) or manhua (China), so a French manga would receive some different tag as well.

my brain...it seems to have been...

>>20504583
b-b-bal...

>>20504589
Ball gagged?

>>20504576
But even referring to a Korean style comic as “Manhua” implies that it’s essentially manga. Whether you call them American manga or comics doesn’t make a difference. There’s a distinctive style, willingness to publish, and willingness to read. An American can obviously make a comic in a manga style but no one will publish it and no one will read it. It’s questionable whether they’d get published in Japan either.

>>20504393
I think abortion is completely fine but that it still should be illegal to make it as difficult as possible to get one as I believe that is best for society

I’ve started thinking that movies and television shows purposely try to traumatize people for some insidious reason. Watching a (obviously fake realistic looking) scene of some naked person having their skull cracked open and brain dug through on Netflix was just disturbing, not entertaining.

>>20504627
They just serve what people want. Something similar to watching gladiator fights and executions in ancient Rome.

>>20504639
Nobody wants that. It was grotesque, not enjoyable.

>>20504589
.. Hero'd

>>20504627
I’ve thought about this. I am drawn to horror content in film and books even though it can be disturbing. Why? I honestly don’t know. It is a mystery, but I do enjoy horror. Maybe it’s the thrill. I love action stuff too.

>>20504552
Oh the charity of talking to (You)!

>>20504653
It's grotesque by our standards, back then it was entertainment. And one should never underestimate sadism of someone living too comfortable.

>>20501918
> I've written and finished two other stories, too. Monstrosities of over 400k and 250k.
Seems to me you're doing fine then.
>The thing is that I still have a hard time telling when I should accept criticism and when to stick to my guns.
You should clean yourself from everything and come back 2 or 3 months+ after finishing your story to read it with a fresh pair of eyes. Your brain is wired to think that whatever you've just finished is a banger because you put in efforts. Your readers don't know everything in your story, they may not know what kind of sick background or scene you had in your head for a specific character or anything, they just read what you wrote. I remember writing a lot of stuff in the past and whenever I peek at it, it's half marvel, half cringe because I was nowhere as good as I am now. I think there is always some truth in criticism even if it's badly worded, but of course you don't have to listen to everything either.

Sometimes you just need to focus on one aspect of your story and make that aspect really fucking good to hook people in even though it's objectively bad. Look at Stephen King dialogues and narrative executions, then look at his endings. It works for everything. Take a true, objective look at porn and you'll see the girl being bored, an ugly detail on her face, how nasty having that much sperm seeping between your armpits must feel, etc. Yet at the end you climaxed anyways because you focused on the whole scene and both actors delivered satisfying enough performances to your monkey brain.

a gun with no bullets is still a gun

>>20504793
a man who never fucked is still a man

>>20504657
Horror is different. You get a thrill out of it, there’s a fantasy element. There was no thrill about this scene. It was literally just a person digging around in a brain in a medical examination room.

>>20504698
This show was made recently. I can’t imagine it’s anything but grotesque by any sane person’s standards. A lot of scenes in this show are just overly violent and grotesque for no real reason. It’s clearly intended to simply disturb the viewer.

I’m pretty much convinced their goal is to traumatize people.

Fellas, I just need some advice. I've got a job interview for a job that I am in no way qualified for. I know I can carry out the duties for the job, but I just lack the experience. I have no idea how I even got tapped to get this interview. Any advice for how I can land this job?

>>20504793
A man who never sneeds still feeds

>>20504858
I think people should just be honest about their experience but honest about their capabilities. If you’re certain you can do the job well just say that.

>>20504858
If you had an internship before, claim you have x years of experience (the years you've done your internship, for example 6 months = 1 year) and before you can be cut, explain what you did and how it can be relevant for their company.
Whatever experience you had can be leveraged as long as you know how to speak, it's fine as long as it's technically correct. If you did projects before, say you are passionnate and did projects involving x and x, to make x and that worked quite well and can do the same in their company, etc.

I don't know how you can claim you can carry out the duties for the job if you don't have the experience. Just say you like working in a team and that you're easy-going so you got along with difficult people and got praised for it before, those motherfuckers love that soft-skill kind of shit. (a reason why autists have difficulty finding employment)

>>20504858
Fake it till you make it. Work related skills are the last thing anyone who's hiring looks for. My last boss told me she only hired me because I had an interesting last name.

a balkanized brain is still a brain

A woman with a penis is still a woman

ill have a balkanized hero sandwich with no bullets please

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>>20504936
no

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>>20504905
thank you

>>20504924
Not even funny

the cost of my food items has gone up 20 to 50% over the last year. food is not included in the cpi because it's "volatile". yeah, well, i can choose not to buy consumer goods, but i can't choose to not buy food. 8% inflation my ass, man.

>>20504993
I have no idea how they will fix this. Maybe they won’t. On the other hand we have it better than most people. There’s a real chance Africa and the Middle East will face food shortages.

>>20504993
When I was a little kid being on food stamps was considered shameful and only something trash people like single mothers would get. Now all the broke millennials that got fucked up by memeflu are eating quinoa and steaks on that shit.

>>20504989
I'm not joking

I’m 24 and my biggest accomplishments are barely graduating college on time and getting a somewhat respectable office job. The sad thing is as pathetic as my life achievements are I’m still somehow the most successful of my friends, both of which are weed addicts and one is suicidal and probably not gonna get his undergrad degree until he’s 27 at least. He’s the same age as me and started college at the same time.

Alexander the Great was the King of Macedonia at 19 and had conquered all the way to the Indus River by his late 20s.

I don’t want my life trajectory to just be a standard pathetic thing. Maybe setting my standards as Alexander the Great is absurd but I want something greater for myself.

>>20505036
Same anon, same

>>20505034
It was shameful because people still had some sense of pride in their community. They wanted to contribute. Everything is gay now. Ive got no problem milking the system now. Everyone else does it. Why should I pay into it while everyone else exploits it? While the system exploits me?

>>20504793
Even if it just started, it's still over

>>20504936
We just ran out

>>20505036
Your problem is you're valuing your life in terms of material accomplishment. Preset milestones. You should be having fun. Having a good job is something you absolutely should be proud of. But if your whole life is nothing more than going from point A to point B, of course you'll feel unfulfilled.

>>20505036
alexander's father was philip 2 and his tutor was aristotle. i think that might have given him some advantages over the average 4chan poster.

on the other hand, steve jobs who was raised by working class parents and dropped out of college, was 25 at the time of apple's ipo.

>>20501218
imagine not getting laid on purpose for the rest of your life and then dying without any afterlife. sad!

>>20505059
Alexander also died in his thirties after taking a swim in cold river, so anon is in advantage of having access to better medical care. Steve Jobs died from liver cancer, he probably somewhat sabotaged his chances with strict working schedule.
anon most likely will have a longer time span and shows he really has no need to rush things through.

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>>20505105
we're all going to die, but only some of us will "put a dent in the universe".

>>20505059
It’s true that Alexander born in more or less perfect circumstances, and people say that to try to diminish him, but imo it only makes his legend greater for me. Here was a man chosen from birth by the gods. As well most men in his shoes would’ve ended up with much less either giving in to Darius’ offer to split the Persian empire or even more likely just slacking off to a comfy aristocratic life and not bothering with conquering in the first place. And as well in every battle Alexander fought against the Persians he was vastly outnumbered.

>>20503844
do you ever think some people are just gay, instead of being a schizo?

>>20503470
>utterly delicious
Yeah, you're blind. The two people you said "were never particularly good looking" were way better looking than Prince Nonce's little princess. You have to be joking. The only thing she has going for here is her anime-tier eyes and that only means that you know she's crazy.

>>20504694
you have no idea.

>>20505131
Do you ever read? I was talking about people who virtue signal about LGBT. Whether they’re gay or not isn’t even that important in the story, but I see which kind of person I’m dealing with here.

>>20505250
well it's often the case that we find people with similar phenotypes to our own to be 'attractive', you find the chiseled jawline of a young princess anne and the weathered workmans face of a young prince william attractive because you're inherently lower class; whereas i recognize the resemblance to the portraits of better human beings from better times in sebaste beatrice.

that said, i suppose what i'm really saying is that i see the distant genetic inheritance from the proconsuls of provincia brittania in her doughy face and intelligent eyes, and you see your own anglo-german invaders in the tiny eyes, tanned sallow face and vacant expressions of the other two.

most likely.