/lit/ - Literature

Give me an enjoyable movie from the 70s right fucking now

I reached a personal state of enlightenment but I’m not gonna tell you guys how cuz I’m evil. (:<

Okay third post

Seriously though, I recommend King Arthur, or The British Worthy (Z. 628).
> https://youtu.be/9NcKOBM-0Xs?list=OLAK5uy_kvJ0ZmKKS8Eb0ZfNHmp00CHXP4hYy_nxQ

>>20507673
https://youtu.be/hHUO6_2gLeA

>>20507673
preferably on criterion channel rn

I lost my fear of eternity.

Give me a deep aesthetic, maybe even philosophical film with good music right fucking now.

He shall rule the world.

>>20507694
Dark City?

>>20507694
Dario Argento’s Inferno

>>20507673
killing of a chinese bookie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHFLJm7VXOw

>>20507673
Shaft?

>>20507673
>>20507688
>>20507694
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4J2XPFCcE

>>20507694
Knight of Cups

I still hate landlords. But just as much, I hate boomers. They got theirs and we don't get ours. Honestly, I think even the younger boomers got somewhat shafted. Some of them have post-retirement age jobs and that isn't fair. Is social security just a fucking farce? Yes, I think.

>>20507668

Glad you used the image I posted for the OP

>>20507694
Neon Demon

>>20507673
The Wicker Man

>>20507694
Upstream Color

>>20507668
I felt hopeless and weak today but then I remembered that I am strong and can shoulder responsibility for anything that comes my way. Everything can be resolved, and I am in control.

>>20507725
I'm pretty ignorant about boomer lore (why they are the way they are), but as far as I can tell my aunt and uncle are the perfect boomers.
>uncle got a free job handed to him when he was 18 (says they were literally handing out jobs at the park one day), ended up in the same company for over 40 years
>invested in real estate boom, basically got free money
>bought his first house at age 24
>buys a duplex, rents it out for passive income
>married a woman who was a nurse but then quit her job to raise children, never worked a day since
>believes everything the tv tells him
>has a warped view of the world, never having left the suburbs
>has to be right about everything
>if you disagree with him, the fact that he is rich is proof hes right
>never gave a penny to his kids
>insists on paying for everything all the time
>entertains multiple decades long bitter disputes over having not been able to admit he was wrong
>throughout my twenties he would only talk to me to ask me how much money i was making
>finally i tell him im making an amount that doesnt make him furrow his brow in disgust
>he asks me why im not investing it in real estate

Хоббит, или Туда и обратно

>tfw have a work spouse
Is there a better feel? I like it more than dating.

>...We neither discover an objective reality nor invent a subjective reality, but that there is a process of reciprocal evocation, the world 'calling forth' something in me that in turn 'calls forth' something in the world. That is true of perceptual qualities, not just of values. If there is no 'real' mountain, for example, separate from the one created by the hopes, aspirations, reverence or greed of those who approach it, it is equally true that its greenness, or greyness, or stoniness lies not in the mountain or in my mind, but comes from between us, called forth from each and equally dependent on both; as music arises from neither the piano nor the pianist's hands, the sculpture neither from hand nor stone, but from their coming together. And then the hands are part of the lived body - or, put more conventionally, are the vehicle of the mind, which is in turn the product of all the other minds that have interacted with it, from Beethoven and Michelangelo down to every encounter of our daily lives. We are transmitters, not originators.

From "The Master and his Emissary" by Ian McGilchrist. A.K.A. the definitive book about the Balkanization of the mind.

>>20507694
My diary desu

>>20507694
>>20507673
https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php

>>20507636
You're right. Anyways, Larry David is a genius and my favorite Jew of all time. Here are some good clips
https://youtu.be/kQ1u9Fno3jU
https://youtu.be/m7BgOYPNTlA
https://youtu.be/JMKbgJ3CJDY
https://youtu.be/lein8pxWpbs
https://youtu.be/bEC3X8uhCdM
https://youtu.be/5Kxy3eE5bpA
https://youtu.be/ZoKEtd3qL3I

>>20507976
What is a work spouse?

>>20507668
why is inflation even a thing? just set your own prices, fuckwad.

>>20508034
That’s exactly why inflation is a thing.
They keep raising the prices, which makes other people raise theirs. And fuel prices shouldn’t even be this high just yet. This is price gauging.

>>20508062
Just get rid of the economy bro

>>20508074
Good idea.
Been working on a strategy for that myself.

>>20508033
A coworker of the opposite sex (if you're straight; same-sex if you're not) that you share a bond with, because you've been working together for a while, you get along well in and outside of work, you work well together, and you've confided some things in one another. It can get to the point where you both can sense when the other is having trouble with work and just default to trying to make each other's lives easier. You know you have one if at company meetings or parties you both stick close by.

>>20507673
terrible decade to pick, 60s were the last good decade for cinema

>Their twelfth studio album, initially titled KILLER WAVE, was originally slated for a March 23, 2011 release. But following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the album title was changed to World of Fantasy

I don't want to drink, I don't want to party, fuck off. No is a no, end of story.

>>20508229
But anon, don't you want to feel good!?!

>>20508243
I unironically feel better writing my shitty stories than partying with "friends".

>>20507694
The Fountain is exactly what you're looking for.

>>20507976
I'm in love with Pam (season 1 and 2 only).

>>20507695
he'll become a drag queen eventually, most likely. there's no way he'll live a normal life without thoroughly abusing himself for acceptance.

bout to watch the shining again;

>>20508339
did you read the book?

I am euphoric in my drunkenness

>>20508341
I hate reading books.

>>20507673
quite seriously, Robert DeNiro and Brian DiPalma made "Hi, Mom!" (originally titled "Blue Manhatten") which is honestly one of the best satires against fake lefty-liberal fake race pleaser types, society then and today.

I hear about this film so often that I think nobody understood it, including the actors.

"be black, baby" - look it up, if that doesn't tell you it was a satirical take those college campus whites..

>>20508341
yes, before I watched the movie, thought it one of the better king novels

My euphoria is wearing off and depression is setting in.

>>20508386
The best Kubrick movies are 2001: A space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket and Dr Strangelove

Ive spent the last 5 years alone, coping as best I could. They were very transformative years and the last years of adolescence. They feel empty and wasted. Ive done the best i can with being alone but even the very best Ive done is nothing compared to what these years could have been had I had good friendships

If i could just find the time I would never let another day go by

>>20507668
What little I do I do to excess, though neither food nor drink nor distraction do satisfy anymore, and so I persist, seeking some reprieve though I win but worse health. I taste nothing, and I taste it until I'm sick.

>>20508441
sure; still got a soft spot for the shining though

>>20508441
>no Eyes Wide Shut and A Clockwork Orange

>>20507694
Stalker

possible names for my first book
>collected whatsapp texts
>the death of the tiktok slut
>...and he asked for my insta
>collected sextings
>a brief glimpse to the beautiful mind of a neet

Just prior to the pandemic I had gone through a really shitty couple of years. I had done all I could to rebuild my life. I was doing good. I was social anand active again. I was progressing with my life to a definitive point.
And then everything shut down and I qas forced back into isolation. I dropped out of colleged to work. I did actually stay busy and made good money in the time. But I regressed so much in interpersonal points of my life and a very pivotal moment in my development was arrested. And now two years on, I'm yet again retrying to be social and going back into academics to finish my degree. I feel so far behind in every way I could be.
I'm just so angry and bitter about it all. Opportunity was taken from me and now I have to be stunted. The only possible solace available to me is that so many others experienced the same arrested development, but in engagement with others it feels like I'm the only one behind. I desperately want to grab hold of that late adolescence again but it seems gone for good.

Lmfao
https://youtu.be/4SSOTm0hEDQ

I wrote Beowulf.

>>20507684
I love Purcell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25kQ0usPBcc
This board is fucking garbage btw. Atrocious stuff.

say youre shitting and the world blows up. do you finish shitting?

>>20507681
If I'm not mistaken both these girls are graduates of the Nabokov School of Nursing.

>>20508487
Presumably I die before I can complete the shit

>>20508474
>...and he asked for my insta
are you a girl (female)?
are there even neet girls?

Don't give up, Doomer.

>>20508513
I'm trying

>>20508513
Far too late for me.

>>20507668
Fate & freewill are as entwined as two grape vines.

>>20507681
Looks like both these girls might be graduates of the same Nabokov School of Nursing. Or are they same?

Im done drinking alcohol.

There was a cute girl sitting not far from me on the bus today, I noticed she kept glancing at me. At some point I looked at her, we made eye contact and she smiled shyly. That made my day.

DONT EVER FUCKING GIVE UP DOOMER

>>20508548
I'M TRYING MY FUCKING BEST

GET UP, DOOMER. GET UP!

>>20508487
If the whole world blows up then something like a human and his shit would be in particles, so it would be impossible to tell if it was outside or inside anyway. You can say it came all out at that moment, but at the same time maybe it wasn't me that pushed it out, or maybe it was. Something like Schrödinger's cat, only applied to excrement, where it can be both pushed out and not pushed out at the same time.

>>20508559
>Schrödinger's cat, only applied to excrement
we can't be sure the excrement is alive or dead until we open the box; let us open neither boxes then and let us believe the excrement is perpetually alive and well.

>>20508548
Cant sleep, have to wake up in 3 hours so im listening to binaural beats. Cant stop thinking about that sourdough bread they make at my local bakery and how I would be assembling some delicious toasts if I had some of that bread right now. Cut up a piece of bread, drizzle of olive oil, some ham, some nice provolone cheese, maybe some garlic cream cheese?

>>20508590
>>Schrödinger's cat, only applied to excrement
>we can't be sure the excrement is alive or dead until we open the box; let us open neither boxes then and let us believe the excrement is perpetually alive and well.
>Schrödinger's cat, only applied to delicious toasts
we can't be sure the delicious toasts is drizzle of olive oil, some ham, some nice provolone cheese, maybe some garlic cream cheese or not until we open the box; let us open neither boxes then and let us believe the delicious toasts is perpetually drizzle of olive oil, some ham, some nice provolone cheese, maybe some garlic cream cheese.

>>20508590
I can't sleep either camerado. I'm getting off the Bob Hope for job interviews and realizing I have been using it to sleep, for a long time. Surely tomorrow night I'll sleep...

Murakami thread deleted? Why?

>>20508336
Damn, do you really think so? I kind of doubt it. He seems poised to grift Trumples to me, or just stay out of the limelight if need be. I'm sure he gets enough acceptance in his peer group and I'd imagine he probably hates people who hate his dad by now.

Balkanized

>>20508706
I think he will become a streamer

Not sure to read Infinite Jest because it has wheelchair assassins in it. Is the rest of the book good and worth it?

>>20508745
No.

>>20508745
Listen man, if you are here then just read the fucking book and stop pretending like you have something better to do. It's good. Read his essays first if you are committed to being an indecisive faggot.

I might be a narcissist.

Lupita was Lolita's old sister, by two years. Both where recent graduates of the Nabokov School of Nursing, though they were quite precocious indeed.! The most morose weaboos and depressed incels were revived at that school using an ancient Oriental technique called "gymnastic acupuncture"–whereby the patient himself became the "needle" that would resolve its needs by performing acupuncture on the self via penetrating through the mysteries of the feminine mystique, as represented by the ministrating nurses in attendance.

/lit/ got me to read the Greeks, got me into poetry, got me into philosophy, and got me back into the church
/pol/ showed me truth about the political world
4chan let me get away from the propaganda and read the thoughts of real people who don't care about their social standing and just communicate for the pleasure of free spiriited discussion
I am thankful

>>20507694
The Great Beauty

>>20508442
yeah

>>20508767
I did a piece on it regarding the condition is unfavorably looked down upon

>>20508590
Sourdough is fucking delectable. Now I want some

>>20508843
>4chan let me get away from the propaganda
>/pol/ showed me the truth

>>20508867
It's all built on rationality. I've seen many people trying to refute it, but all they end up doing is using mockery like you because they have no arguments.

>>20508843
cringe

/lit/ is actually quite comfy these days

>>20508854
Have you noticed a correlation between use of informal fallacies and their disorder?

>>20508767
Look into covert narcissism too. It's a very bad disorder, and the best cure is belief in God because it reliably diverts attention from self outwards.

You need to have been there to understand the development and growth of the 4chan meme lore

>>20508478
Dont feel bad man, everything is still before you. You can acomplish anything you want in your life

I dont take an alcoholic seriously when he says 5 minutes after he just chugged a beer that he just drank his last beer and quit.

but i literally say that i haven't watched porn or masturbated for a day, while i actually masturbated last night. I expect to be taken seriously. hence, i am actually a joke.

considering i almost started masturbating 3 hours ago i would be prepared to honestly say i haven't masturbated in 3 hours. what an accomplishment.

>>20508441
how do I kubrick my way through writing?

>>20508854
>condition is unfavorably looked down upon
true classical narcissists have much easier time in this society than per say schizoids.

>>20507668
Experiencing some kind of early 20s despair, blasted my way through a bunch of existentialist literature etc to no avail.

Don't have a job and don't particularly need one financially, got a nice girl, we have a good time but struggle to find a reason to get out of bed in the morning except to research a book I'm working on.

Anyone got a suggestion for starter Buddhism texts? I'm a Dr. K fag, that's as far as my Buddhism knowledge goes.

>>20508441
Barry Lyndon would like to have a word with you

i've been browsing lit for several years but this is basically the first time i read this thread. i always thought it was filled with low quality shitposts but actually is subpar shitposts, better than i expected.

>>20508973
>despair
>existentialist literature
>got a nice girl

>>20508973
alan watts

>>20508973
Must be nice.

>>20508876
But why was the Murakami thread deleted?

Making friends requires a lot of work but being alone takes a heavy toll. Might just reread War & Peace and put off dealing with this dilemma once again.

>>20508968
I'm not talking about female narcissists

>>20508876
It can be, certainly more than /his/

>>20508893
My view on fallacies in general in regards to logic is their conception as a moral fact actually is an obstruction towards true knowledge and justified belief, hence no one should be called out for "appeal to authority" or "appeal to ignorance" if alternative deductions can be taken from using methods that defy formal logic. Its not a very popular opinion but its one I stand by.

>>20508911
The two can be quite disconnected, as God may have put someone on earth for a very specific task

>>20508920
True story I knew about 4chan as far back as the late oughts but couldn't post until recently

>>20507673
Godfather 1 and 2
Taxi Driver
Enter the Dragon
Star Wars (it's an enjoyable action-adventure flick even if obnoxious dweebs pretend it's more than that and make it the center of their lives)

>>20509008
>God may have put someone on earth for a very specific task
what if that task was as simple as giving some spare change to hobo 5 years ago.

>>20507694
Barry Lyndon is the typical answer but surely you know about that if you're asking for aesthetic films.

>>20508973
You need to start meditating on the fact that you could be dead tomorrow. Try to induce a state of perpetual semi-panic in your nervous system to relieve you of the dullness. The problem with this method is it's like winding up a toy that can't be unwound without proper knowhow and effort (meditation).

>>20508462
This movie makes me sad because I know there's no chance anything will surpass it even if humankind lasts for more 200 thousand years

>>20509085
Solaris is better.

>>20509086
But why was the Murakami thread deleted?

>>20509091
Humankind could last for 200 thousand more years and there still wouldn't be a more mediocre popular author than Haruki Murakami

>>20509072
Its a purpose nonetheless

sex

>>20509101
I am mediocre. You are mediocre. We deserve mediocre authors and only mediocrity is authentic.

>>20507673
Waterloo

>>20509108
Was that a just a random guy taking a picture of her? Sure looks like it

>>20509110
Literature is supposed to be exciting. Don't waste your time reading about divorced Japanese men making spaghetti while listening to jazz and dadrock

>>20507673
Sleuth

A lot of very talented people involved and is just generally very entertaining

>>20507673
Serpico (1973) gives me an inredibly vivid and nostalgic 70's feeling

>>20509117
it was the train warden taking a photo of her infraction to support his ticket

>>20509108
I sincerely hope you weren't ogling her lions!

I'm waiting for a KS to update. The guy said he'd release it by friday and it's a day too late now. I hope it'll come out this weekend.

It's not the main product, he delivered that already. It's a stretch goal.

This world is sick, decadent and dying and I'm too weak to fight and too worthless to be
I resent my life, I want out

>>20509108
Heat seeking censor does not lie!

>>20509194
>>20509147
kek

stop it

brooo this is just like my philip k dick novels

>>20507673
McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Bro we should have a little fun hehe with the girls tongiht ;)

By raping them.

Hehe

I asked facebook but they didn't give me a compelling answer...
I want to write a non-fiction book, but I don't know anything that I'm interested in that people would read.
I really like the way Marvin Minsky structured The Society of Mind, it is virtually a collection of stand-alone essays each pertaining to one function or theory concerning how the mind works. This means that while the essays are arranged in a logical and linear format, it does allow a non-linear read which is very much in line with the subject matter.
I really want to write a book like that, polishing these almost self-contained essays as an exercise in writing. I don't care if it makes me money or not, but I don't want to do it unless I can find a topic which can both sustain fragmentary musings but also find an audience.
I tried writing about Intention and Agency in this manner with essay titles like "intention and values" and "intention and silent comedy". I considered writing one based around "Questions", in that there are ways of asking better questions for problem solving, but also the peculiar way that sometimes people embed commands or instructions in a question. Like when your girlfriend asks you "do you like this?" half way through a movie, which is your cue to stop it because she's not enjoying it.

>>20509281
hey alright weird slavic coworker hahaha

>>20509080
I do—excellent film! Try again.

>>20509181
Your head is sick, decadent and dying and too weak to fight and too worthless to be
You resent your life and want out

should i read boswell i feel like reading something long and boring but sort of good

>>20508312
You can only get over that by getting your own work spouse. Godspeed, anon.

Not sure if I'll ever make it with art. Most people seem to discourage, rather than work towards a mutually beneficial goal

Can't really give up now though

I feel like giving up

>>20509683
why give up?

the intersection between sigma males and indigo children

>>20509683
Keep going
>>20509711
Lots of reasons

>>20509683
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.

>>20509725
Name 5

>>20509825
1) It's difficult to make a living (with art or a normal job)
2) It's hard to find people who will collaborate with you (for art)
3) Time passes too quickly
4) Can't rid myself of the urge to create
5) Never able to fit in with the rest of society
6) Always half stuck between my own creative pitfalls, in-betweenness of ideas and juggling responsibilities
7) Have no family or friends really
8) Probably mentally ill

There's a couple for you. I don't think it's an inherently bad thing to feel this way. A lot of writers in the past probably felt the same

Although I do wish sometimes to feel more normie.. I don't know

Incels -> Mad at females -> Mad at biologically hardwired female selection -> Males share hardwired selection too -> "It is more fair though!!" -> Woman with good "genetic quality" but bad face due to accident -> Me no likey sry :3 -> Males still have arbitrary borders of selection -> Their own existence is caused by many years of selection too -> Every value judgement in everyones life relies on the same fundamental algorithm like the dating selection does -> "I am part of the problem" -> Leftist pathologies -> "ok let me eat the lion cereals with cheese sauce instead of milk for justice" -> Tastes bad -> He can't escape -> Mad at human intuition and our arbitrary longing for beauty -> Mad at evolution -> Mad at existence -> Life denying

Death is the only truth. You are just a mere bud.

>>20509958
Life sucks when you are an ugly loser. Wow you "suffered" so long to give us basic bitch takes.

Being self-aware enough to realize that I am myself the reason I am forever alone probably made it so I didn't become an incel of the misanthropic community kind, just the literal definition kind.

>>20509730
Who are you quoting?

>>20509958
>Death is the only truth
lmao, lol

Wait wait wait wait wait.... So the reason we don't organize society with authoritarian force in order to have a more pragmatic, useful and down to earth nation dealing with the important things in life is because... we are incapable of that??? We want to live in shitty media fake realities, eat shit and exist in lala land???? And the only way for a nation to function is to see that as an unfixable problem while trying to workaround and MILK exactly that????? Me by hearing a stupid fucking retard songs and living in a simulacrum while people BURN ALIVE somewhere else solves problems via tax money?????????????? Really ¿????¿¿?

>>20509887
s m h, fuckboy. Finding and fucking is not want anybody has ever been talking about with this ever. It's an inversion of reality; anybody can find someone to have sex with, what's far more difficult is finding somebody that you can do more than just have sex with.

Any even slight mention of this is met with the same response online and offline and everyones shamed into not talking about it.

lol wtf is this faggotry..
>Mad at human intuition and our arbitrary longing for beauty
dude, women today are eagerly having sex with the equivalent of wild animals. There is no such thing as this.

Nobody is mad at anybody but your specific genotype and brain pattern, who disrupts this subject wherever you're found, by reducing the topic to the level of a 9 yr old and shaming people into actually discussing anything and advancing mentally and socially beyond age 9.

western whitoid faggot.

>>20509884
hrmm lemme see

1) make money in other ways; anything you produce for moneys sake is worthless, except for money. but you will hate yourself more if you do this.
2) no examples of this in history anywhere; all ideas come from the head of one person on their own.
3 and 4 contradict each other
5) you were never able to outsmart these dumb animals and figure out how their minds worked? damn. with me it's like i just don't care to bother anymore.
6 contradicts 4 and 3
7) most people i know complaint the most about having and suffering having these two things to the point of tears and violence.
8) if i were you i'd start a sex dungeon and kidnap the people you dislike and torture them. it's fun seeing a proud alpha boy emasculated, and it's the cherry on top when his screaming girlfriend is watching you.

>Although I do wish sometimes to feel more normie..
overrated.

more than likely, like everybody not on drugs, your brain and body can't take the childlike sanitized society you're forced to tolerate, and that begins with other people who are very stupid so being around them less is really the answer, which you already have anyway so..

sounds like you're doing fine. you just had prepackaged notions in your head before i changed your mind in point 1 of the above; you're supposed to have money and then do this in your free time with money, not make money 'from' your free time. it would be nice but it's grossly unrealistic.

regardless of what one may think of drag queen story hour, whenever apple music drops new pride mixes, the best ones are always by the most audacious crossdressers.

I had a crazy dream where I shat a huge shit. The shit was as big as my torso. The shit even pushed me into a standing position as it came out

>>20509711
I just feel like I have these things I want for myself in order to make life worth it or something but I also feel like they can’t be realized for me and so I just get down and feel like I’m stuck in this disappointment. I’m in right now. I want to feel like hard work will get me somewhere worth being but I actually don’t.

>>20510065
>anything you produce for moneys sake is worthless
Everything is commodified in western capitalism, so I'm not sure how you arrived at this conclusion.
>no examples of this in history anywhere
That's because you aren't an artist and you haven't created anything
>contradict
No they don't
>most people i know complain
Doesn't matter when you never had it. That's what makes people schizoid and alienated from society

Anyway, if you ever learn to create anything of value you'll probably run into the same issues chief

Okay bros my day now begins. I'll refrain from shitposting all morning as to actually be productive. My lovequest for a boyfriend-free-girl is bringing me to an art gallery and botanical gardens today. I'll keep you guys updated.

>>20510065
Seething ESL

>>20510065
>anything you produce for moneys sake is worthless
literally all the greatest works of the italian renaissance were commissions.

Also, this is you dumbass. Never thought I'd see such blatant anti-intellectualism & anti-art sentiments in a thread like this

>>20510222
Absolute state of europoid cocks lmao. And you wonder why your women prefer Blacks and Arabs now lol.

>>20510205
why don't you take some art classes?

addiction to energy drinks

>>20510237
That's David.

Just stepping by to tell you that I love Prague and Budapest. The society as well as the architecture is nice. It's my personal little center of the world. But of course London and NYC matter the most and all the ultra hyper geniuses are over there I guess .

>>20510256
I'm really bad at art bro

>>20510222
oh no doubt, if you 'can' be paid for it then that's great; but turn on youtube and see what happens when you conform your 'work' to a mass commercial framework, pure garbage, garbage bin of history level of quality, idc whether they're earning money for it or not.

>>20510237
exactly, some of them are so used to swimming in a pool vomit, shit and used condoms that they think it's 'normal' and can't notice anything wrong with it.

>>20510214
not sure what you're replying to.

>>20510196
>Everything is commodified in western capitalism, so I'm not sure how you arrived at this conclusion.
okay then don't complain to me about it, go out and sell your work to the mysterious masses who are 'out there somewhere' waiting to give you money.

>No they don't
i.e. if time passes by too quickly you should already be using that time to be building things, dummy.

>That's because you aren't an artist and you haven't created anything
i've written about 20 books in the last few years, the notion that i would get rich from them in this society today is a joke - but i've built a portfolio for the future doing what i wanted to do. no complaints here.

>anyway, if you ever learn to create anything of value
well if you know anything about art you'll already be aware that throwaway paintings and first editions of titles that nobody would've paid a penny for at the time are worth millions nowadays.

don't get me wrong, if you can find a patron or sponsor to back what you do then that's good, but it's so unlikely to occur and not worth waiting around for. i was trying to be positive here overall for your benefit.

>>20510375
that's prob cuz u never studied it duh

I've noticed there was some commotion outside and ambulances passing. Just now I read the news and a bit further from where I live a guy ran his car into a tram station, totally wrecked the construction of the marquee, and sent three people to the hospital. Supposedly he felt ill and it made him lose control. Funny how it didn't made him slow down a moment before.
How fragile life is. You could be peacefully minding your own business and all it takes is some speeding asshole having a bad day for you to possibly have no more days at all.

>>20510395
Nah ive always been bad. Its inborn. I remember hating artprojects as a kid all through school. My handwriting is shit too. Ive never had good hand dexterity.

>>20510383
>okay then don't complain to me about it
I never asked for your advice to begin with you autist
> if time passes by too quickly
Yawn
>i've written about 20 books in the last few years
Post one
>well if you know anything about art
No one cares, ESL

Post your work

>>20510205
>>20510411
then why don't you go somewhere were you're more likely to meet people with something you actually have in common with them, thisis the wrong location for you.

whoever's running your copy of Sims 1 is playing a joke on you. ANON. JUST WAVE YOUR HANDS TO THE SOUTH, CLUTCH YOUR HEAD IN YOUR HANDS, PISS YOURSELF UNTIL YOUR DIAMOND TURNS RED AND FALL ON THE FLOOR.

>My lovequest for a boyfriend-free-girl i
>>20510256
>why don't you take some art classes?

rofl i got this reference

>>20510451
I like looking at art. I just dont like making it

>>20510447
>I never asked for your advice to begin with you autist
don't project your mental problems onto me, fap-cups.
>> if time passes by too quickly
>Yawn
you're the one who made this complaint, fuckboy.
>Post one
pay me first, poorfag.
>No one cares, ESL
whatever, reddit-spaces.

>post your work
your cock you jerk.

talentless quasi-illiterate little dog brained suicide case, you. why don't you get a job?

>>20510473
maybe art doesn't like you looking at it, did you ever consider that?

>>20510411
so take art history classes or something. i'd say enroll at nyu, but they're kind of selective, so if you can't swing that, you can prob meet some trustfund types at open enrollment shit like this:

https://education.christies.com/

>>20510483
ESL continues to make hair brained comments, spams the entire thread

Nobody asked you

>>20510473
so take art history classes

>>20510504
Ive already taken that. Only chick who talked to me was some fat girl

>>20510473
This is literally me. I realized at a certain age that I'm garbage at making art, im good at photography though. You dont always have to be the creator you can sometimes accept that youre better as the spectator

>>20510509
oh, i see. have you considered that you may be unattractive? you already said you have terrible hand eye coordination. perhaps your deficiencies don't end there?

i'm so tired. i feel like i can't wake up. it's almost 2pm, but i feel like i just woke up still even after an energy drink and multiple coffees. idk what's going on. i went to bed at midnight last night and slept until 9:30am. that should be plenty.

Are there some posters on /lit/ and/or /wwoym/ that you can identify? Obviously excluding tripfags

>>20510525
No I'm pretty confident in my looks. I got into a cycle if self reinforcing social isolation which I'm trying tobreak. Even if I don't make some great social connection today I will at least enjoy my time outside and active. Maybe I'll even gain a little culture. Better than staying in all day sadposting on /wwoym/ anyway.

>>20510553
ya man i'm just fuckin with you, i fully support your efforts to go outside and do shit

Recently I tried to legitimately experience ASMR for the first time. I think I felt some brain tingles - and then I fell into a no-holds-barred panic attack. What is the import of this?

>>20507725
What happened to the reply to this reply?

>>20510535
its the caffeine or rather abuse of it.

>>20510535
Other anon is right. Too much caffiene.

"I long to be free -- desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free."

Couldn't say better.

>>20510494
>nobody asked you
> hair brained comments
brah, you're literally complaining that you're an uninspired "artist" who has no talent and can't make any money as an artist.

you have had no response to anything except to pretend, for some reason, that i am 'english second language' - umm.. i'm not, i think that's obvious to anybody actually fluent in english, if you cannot read or comprehend what's being written to you here then you're a quasi-illiterate dog brain, as i suggested earlier.

i don't understand how someone with your mentality isn't making money on youtube. did you land a big contact to smile over pizza on video and you fucked it all up by typing 'nigger' on twitter?

xd

for the love of god, get a job.

>>20510524
>This is literally me. I realized at a certain age that I'm garbage at making art, im good at photography thou
LOL you can use your cameraphone you mean, wow, you and the rest of the planet.

real artists we got here.

this is some pathetic shit. one of the worst /wwoym/ threads since i've been paying attention to them.

end it now OP, let's start again. post a girl drenched in orange juice again to attract actual humans. text and movie stills has attracted the worst quality.

>>20510205
Are you just going to the gallery and garden alone or do you have a date?

>>20510727
he's trying to pick up chicks and i predict it will end in a "how soon is now" kind of situation.

>There's a club if you'd like to go
>You could meet somebody who really loves you
>So you go and you stand on your own
>And you leave on your own
>And you go home and you cry
>And you want to die

>>20510720
>reddit spacing

i been writing bars

>>20510494
btw, the reason you can't produce anythign creative is because you're a low enegy depressive-case.

i can write 20 books in 2 or 3 years because my brain works, you little fucking runt. you can't even draw a picture because you're a fucking moron.

when you become like me - and think like i think and talk like i talk - then you'll be able to do things with no effort. but you've set yourself against people like me, deciding to not take our advise and pretend we're 'ESL' - this is how far behind you are in your own stated goals.

and you can't even read in your own fucking native language. you haven't even gotten to this yet. reading 'this' is effort for you, you can;t actually read these few lines in 5 seconds, process it entirely and fully and fathom clear responses.

why do you think you're an 'artist' exactly? just curious. you don't seem to have anything particularly interesting to say or do that could be somehow something substantial to another person.

come on pussyboy, try and formulate a sentence this time.

>>20510756
>fucking ESL

>>20510764
you belong behind them

>>20510683
Looks like the guy from Eraserhead

>>20510768
go outside

>>20510774
This nigga probably ""writes"" and thinks of himself as a writer lmfao

>>20510768
>i can write 20 books in 2 or 3 years
Post em

>>20510748
Yeah of course it will

>>20507668
We are the first generation of humanity that has the opportunity to self-actualize. And you want to cry about $5/gallon gasoline?

>>20510779
True.

>>20510764
Tyrone will have a good time with you over you snitch on yourself for Xanax.

>>20507668
Your entire purpose is to reach out and touch the soul of others.

>>20510815
>We are the first generation of humanity that has the opportunity to self-actualize
Dubious

>>20510789
fuck that, this is more fun.

>>20510804
pay me, faggot.

neh fuck off, that doesn't qualify as a response. i'm done with you.

>>20510789
fine.

>>20510829
>>20510829
>Your entire purpose is to reach out and touch the soul of others.

>>20510853
>replying to my post twice with opposite responses

having a normal, well-adjusted one i see

>>20507668
The degree of how cancelled someone is depends on how much the crowd wanted to see that someone cancelled.

>>20510883
your brain really doesn't work; you don't understand humor, or you can't read, either or both.

just sit here, and carrying on discussing in one liners why you're so tired and can't make money as artists. don't mind me.

uggh someone kill this fucking thread

actually you know what, i learned something today:

this line of thread,
>>20509711
>>20509711
>>20509725
>>20509825
>>20509884
is asocial troll bait designed to attract positive responses and wind up the people here who bother actually trying to help out other people.

just to kill the sense of social conscience in whatever little way they can.

lesson noted.

>>20510928
>asocial troll bait
Yeah man, like I said: you're autistic and you have no idea how to relate to other people. Nobody asked for your unsolicited advice, you just came in and shit up the entire thread

Go somewhere else dude

chill b im just sitting on a high wire
imagine they comin for a wolf that's dire
niggas try to claim me, attain me - since its all in jest
the biggest lie the biggest joke
is little mind clung to little hope, be rest
dont stress me, just invest me
to the top where the faggots cope
(and im riding)
on something big like your dad's dick
cut by a milli lines read by Ol'Rick
(say wut)
theres a reason all the honey dripping down your leg
a symptom of a modem of a history of Greg
who keeps your mom and sis coming
back to reality oop there goes rapper.ly
but dont be upset. you wanted less regret.
its all a game just a way to impress
upon the masses my struggles with glasses suckin Molasses off in your favorite classes
(get low)
holding down a bitch with my mind
simple mathematics for a mutt so inclined
do (You) think it really matter ya say or think
im just an rad OP so pray down by the sink.

credit to
>>2051077FOR
>>2051079WON

>>20510853
>pay me
Post a link where I can buy your books

>>20510938
no man, i was trying to encourage you and make you see how you could be an artist; and you responded each time by belittling everything i was saying to you to discourage me from being helpful and conscientious - that made no sense but i didnt understand why you were replying like that and took you for just being stupid and mentally ill.

but i see through your tailored language now, and this was actually educational. somebody said people do this the last time i was on this thread and i said,
"naw, real sociopaths who set out to do this wouldnt waste their time on strangers"

way to prove me wrong lol

Been alternating between listening to Wagner and Rachmaninoff, both expressions of the highest forms of Russian and German culture and both of these cultures have produced some of the best artists, scientists, musicians and intellectuals the world has ever seen. Why did they have to go to war with each other? Russia had a big German population. Imagine all the geniuses wo died in the war or that would have been born if it wasnt for their parents dying in the eastern front.

>>20510913
Great contribution to the thread, retard

>>20510908
different person, schizo

>>20510958
>Post a link where I can buy your books
no, you couldn't afford the subscriber fee. i made a big point earlier about how commercial audiences ruin creativity, but i do have a page where you can get draft copies of a title for like $500

i dont want or need your money though, you ought spend your money on a technical manual and learn a practical skill.

my point to the other guy was to make money in better ways and earn the freedom to write/paint/do what you like without any restraints on yourself; that's all i was trying to say to him, sniff

going through a difficult time i just wanted to share my favorite poem of all time

You whose hands are more innocent than mine
and who is as wise as nonchalance
and who removes slow shadows of doubts
from his face
like the spring wind removes
shadows of clouds floating over the hill.

If your hug gives courage to the heart
and your thighs stop the pain,
if your name gives peace
to his thoughts, and your throat
a shade to his berth
and the night of your voice, an orchard
still untouched by storms.

Then stay beside him
and be more devoted than anyone else
who loved him before you.

Fear the echo approaching
the innocent love nests.

And be gentle with his dream
bellow the invisible mountain
at the edge of the soughing sea.

Walk around his coast. Be seen
by sorrowful dolphins.
Wander around his woods. Kind lizards
wont do you any harm.
And the thirsty snakes that I tamed
will be humble before you.
May the birds that I kept warm sing to you
in the nights of sharp frost.
May the boy that I protected from
stalkers on a deserted road
caress you
May the flowers that I watered with my tears
bring fragrance to you.

I didn’t witness the best years
of his manhood. His fertility
I haven’t received in my bosom
ravaged by looks
from cattle drivers at fairs
and from greedy thieves.

I will never take care
of his children. And the stories
that I’ve prepared for them long ago
I might tell, crying,
to little miserable bears
abandoned in black forest.

You whose hands are more innocent than mine
be gentle with his dream
that remained harmless.
But let me see him
his face when strange years
start to come down on it.
And tell me sometimes a thing or two about him
so that I don’t have to ask strangers
who find me silly, and neighbors
who pity my patience.

You whose hands are more innocent than mine,
stay beside his pillow
and be gentle with his dream

>>20510993
Does anyone take you up on that offer? Only draft copies? Where are your finished books?

>>20507668
How do I make worthwhile friends/meet new people?
Everything in my life is going well, except for my social life; I have absolutely zero friends or acquaintances. The only social interactions I encounter are with my relatives and two Bulgarian brothers that go to my gym.
My problem lies more with meeting people and less with being an awkward sperg; I've always been very sociable and charming- I used to be a part of a fairly large social circle, but I've separated myself from them due to them being "bad company"(Drug use, partying, lowlife)
The most common options for meeting people are unfortunately unavailable for me; I can't meet people through my school since I do everything from home; I can't meet people through my job since everyone there is middle-aged (I just turned 18)
I have a lot of hobbies, mainly reading and writing, but none of which offer me the option of meeting people.
For the past few months, I've ritualistically almost daily gone walking throughout my city, hastily in search of any social interactions, bookstores, thrift shops, libraries, parks- you name it, but nothing seems to suffice my need for friendship.
I don't know how much longer I can do this; It feels like I'm drowning in loneliness- like there's a barrier- blocking me from forming any genuine human connections. What should I do?

>>20510979
oh i was waiting for that word,
>ESL
>autist
>schizo

okay sociopath.. "make them question their mental health when they notice what you're doing.."

quick show high effort and make a doctored screencap 'proving' you're not the same guy, i'll totally buy it.

>>20511019
Touch grass incel

I don't feel sadness. What's wrong with me?

>Go outside.
>Touch grass.
Actually hugely big-brained advice for everyone. We NEED to connect with nature, it's absolutely vital for our mental and physical health.

>>20511006
fuck no, who has that kind of money for obscure books on obscure subjects?

>>20511026
>touch grass
i don't know what that means, but i'm glad you're being original at last.

let's touch grass together. hey, you should ponder why you're doing this to people on 4chan and what happened to your life, friend.

Theres niggas ITT who fell for the "you can be anything you want meme" and chose to become a writer. Nigga why would someone read your shit books when you could be reading Hemingway, Dosto, Tolstoy, etc. The world is already saturated with information and retards who think they will become the next big thing

>>20511017
Hang out with those Bulgarian brothers. Or those middle-aged people from work, boomers can be cool too.

>I've ritualistically almost daily gone walking throughout my city, hastily in search of any social interactions
>bookstores, thrift shops, libraries, parks
You aren't going to make friends in these places, just speaking from experience. Most of the time, people either go to parks with their friends or seeking a semblance of solitude. And for the other three, people go to those places with a goal in mind, either to buy something or check out a book, use the internet, whatever. Join a club if you want friends who you don't meet through partying. Or if you play an instrument going to jams or open mics is a good way to meet people.

>>20511031
Should it be something wrong?

>>20511033
So what, I just take you at your word that you've written 20 books in 2 years and they aren't absolute dogshit? And that this means your "brain works?" Post links or at least an excerpt or shut the fuck up

The death of definitive answers is the birth of living inquiry.

>>20509114
I couldn't leave if I wanted to.

>>20511041
It's not my choice to do it

>>20511087
Sure it is

>>20511095
If I could be content with normie life I would just do that instead

>>20511041
>to become a writer
this is exactly the problem; this kind of thing isn't supposed to be "who you are", you're supposed to do that as a side-hobby - any literature educated person ought be able to write in my opinion, and the pedestaling of basic skills is one of the more grotesque aspects of a poor society

That said, who the fuck actually reads books anyway? If you find someone holding a copy of Tolstoy, refer to half the comments in this thread, and you'll find its some poseur trying to attract a Womans attention.

>>20511058
>So what, I just take you at your word
yep.

>>20511058
fuck no. I grew up trolling people on the internet exactly like this, i'm not giving you a foot in the door to bother me. Go make a zoom video or prank phone call or something where you can see and hear the persons reaction instead of pretending that they're 'seething' or 'crazy' when they refute you over text.

>Post links or at least an excerpt or shut the fuck up
seriously brah, i'm so baited by your challenge,imma post a link right now faggot

lol

you know, also,
>Nigga why would someone read your shit books when you could be reading Hemingway, Dosto, Tolstoy, etc. The world is already saturated
related:
delving into the psychology of this mentality is almost entirely untapped.

I mean, shit, do you know there's a thing called reddit where people reaffirm their confirmation biases all day long, or a thing called Discord where it's literally all day long and they never fucking leave? ::O :O :O

people seem to have no idea about the culture of the world at this point in time. this subject alone is like bestseller ,... in 2050.

>>20511005
thanks I came
hope you feel better anon

>>20511121
> this kind of thing isn't supposed to be "who you are"
Coming from a schizo ESL on a Tibetan basket weaving forum, taking pride in 'trolling'

Yeah I think I'm better off

>>20511098
>normie life
what does this even mean?

People haven't had disposable income, not debt based i mean, since the early 2000's. This normie trope you feel alienated from doesn't exist; they're all dead anon. They're all dead. What you see are mentally ill people on drugs, in serious debt. The images you see on screens of happy people are just actors. Look into the eyes of the wide-smiling youtuber and see the terror in his eyes. Look at the actors on the commercials, getting in and out of the bath tub. It's not real.

>>20511079
>>20511087
>>20511095
>>20511098

then when you, as a reader, think this place is any different, refer back to this: >>20510928

>>20511142
>what does this even mean?
If you weren't ESL you would probably understand it

I'm not going to elaborate though. You'll just type some more nonsensical inane bullshit anyway

Is Jonathan Bowden based? In particular his talk on Mishima. I'm on book three of the five Mishima's I want to read and I found this talk last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8fhRZGBx4s

what's your perfect writing setup?
as in, what place / what time of day / what level of intoxication / etc do you find works best for you ?

>>20511140
mk but,
this bit:
> (do something) where you can see and hear the persons reaction instead of pretending that they're 'seething' or 'crazy' when they refute you over text.
this part is key.

When you're pretending other people are 'crazy schizo esl autistic' you gradually come to believe it; it's at this point where the brain actually splits into schizophrenia because you create a fiction in place of reality, and you reinforce it to yourself.

it's a slippery slope from there, friend, because by DSM def. you're engaging 'in' schizophrenia each time you do this and are gradually strengthening those neural pathways to the point that actual DSM def. schizophrenia will become more and more normal for you; dementia is not far behind.

>posts cliched manly image to reinforce own senses self of being a 'normie' resenting 'trolling'
pretty extreme double-down iyam

>>20511167
>Bowden
Possibly.

he was a little overly dramatic in his politics, but his lectures/talks on enlish literature were pretty good from what i can remember.

>>20511158
>You'll just type some more nonsensical inane bullshit anyway
on a
> Tibetan basket weaving forum
aw

pretty gay double-down also, tf up with that beard and pure white headwear xd

>>20511178
>it's a slippery slope from there, friend, because by DSM def. you're engaging 'in' schizophrenia each time you do this and are gradually strengthening those neural pathways to the point that actual DSM def. schizophrenia will become more and more normal for you; dementia is not far behind.
I mean here:

If you, hypothetically here, wonder how reddit confirmation biases and self-affirmation biases; echo chambers of set rigid mutually enforced behavioral types, come into being - this is the process,

1) to project purposefully deflective delusions onto other people; i.e. you call me a gay because you disagree with something else i said and you can't argue it properly,
2) this becomes habit
3) this gradually compartmentalizes the brain and the social areas of the brain into set patterns of deflection and self-preservation, consisting of asocial attack in text-form of strangers,
4) this becomes a habit which locks those areas into loop protocols,
5) the social self has inculcated a disconnection from reality; a dehumanized view of normal 'uninfected' persons, for parsing their opinions and words through those filters,
6) schizophrenia, in the technical sense, has occurred and the self has introduced a mechanism of autonomous reinforcement of the disorder, making it very difficult to break.

>>20511121
>I grew up trolling people on the internet
So it's safe to assume you haven't actually accomplished anything? And anyway, good trolling doesn't call attention to itself

>>20511194
>>>20511167
>>Bowden
>Possibly.
>>20511167
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YIFtQPufJVQg/ best

I love big fat asses so much its unreal

>You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.
Umm... ageism in 2022??

>>20511292
>good trolling doesn't call attention to itself
my point is that it's actually delusional; if you're doing something IRL you can see the reaction and it's funny, but when you're doing it over text you're only 'imagining' a reaction which you're making up in your own mind; this is the difference between the 'text-troll' and .. idk almost any other form of reaction because there is no reaction.

I'm talking about watching chris chan beat his breasts on video, lauging at that, compared to spending, idk how long you've done this personally, maybe 15 yrs of your life posting wojak memes instead of talking to anybody and developing your own brain to an adult level.

> good trolling doesn't call attention to itself
sounds like you've been at this longer this 15 yrs to have adopted an air of professionalism about it.

>So it's safe to assume you haven't actually accomplished anything?
I got bored of it at about 17 lol, i still know people older than me in their late 30's who do this.. probably older by this point in time.

It's a fasccccinating subject desu

Is there a horror general on here?

>tfw they coming for you and you get to watch the collateral damage from the safety of your echoing chambers

>>20511322
url goes here http://offliberty.com

>>20511333
>I got bored of it at about 17
And yet here you are, still doing it

>>20511474
Give him time, he's probably only 17.5 years old now.

Don't betray me, I'm not strong enough

>>20508874
Let’s hear the rationality then. What’s pol’s truth?

>>20510383
>words words words
Full circle

My roommate's mother passed away. And one day before my birthday. Sheesh.

Indeed, in the twentieth century, when there was a great desire to fight against boredom, to escape from routine and the ordinariness of life, a virtual world was a real new intriguing discovery, not only for the masses but even for many artists and intellectuals. The escapism of cheap entertainment and pop culture offered ability to dream of different possibilities beyond the mundane, to become engrossed in a story during a time of nihilistic ennui and listlessness among youth seeking to escape the confines and restrains of conservative Western society during a time of great economic growth. However, this has eventually created conditions where the physical material world was neglected in favor of escaping into this virtual world of entertainment, technology, and so on

Bros I'm ruminating again. How the fuck do I let go of all my resentments?

>>20509730
How do you know what your battle is though?

Nothing really seems to be quite it.

>>20511370
Sometimes. You can start one and I'll post in it

Had a balkanized hero sandwich for lunch today. Simply delicious.

>>20509085
why did the kid move things with her mind in the end though

>>20510683
based cioran enjoyer

What books do females read? Have you ever met a female that reads?

I'm trying to remember a quote from a book I saw posted here once in a thread about favorite quotes from books. I think it was by Dostoevsky, and it was some kind of monologue about how despite the awful ugliness and filth of the world, there would surely be some moment of pure beauty and goodness at the end of time which would make all that came before worth it, or even make it seem that it was good for such ugliness to exist so as to cause this moment to seem all the purer. I've dug through the archives a couple times but can't find it.

Bach is repetitive.

Well I'm back from the art gallery. It was nice. Dont regret going. Saw some cool stuff. Had a good laugh because they hung a modern portrait of a nigger up with a bunch of victorian era portraits. Wish I got a pic of it, it was so absurd.
No gf was acquired unfortunately. Theres a few botanical gardens Ill explore in the area in the coming week.
I think my best bet for finding a gf will he when the summer semester starts ina couple weeks.

Who started to spread the idea that happiness is the final end goal of our existence? Western society is solely focused on progressivism, humanism and "sentimentalism" as Guenon called it in East and West. Is art, literature, philosophy created by the pursuit of happiness? Corporations have used this idea as their core idea for their marketing campaigns, socially engineering society to believe that consuming a certain product or brand will make you happy.

>>20512019
>Who started to spread the idea that happiness is the final end goal of our existence?
Plato and Aristotle

>>20507695
my man needs some exercise

>>20511198
>xd
Kill yourself facebooknigger

>>20508485
Love Cecilia. Good tastes, mate.

>>20512037
eudaimonia=/=happiness

They come from the capital these city girls
Go way down where the stones meet the sea
And all you young girls, where do you hide?
Down by the water and the restless tide

I think my Japanophile/weeb phase is officially over. I spent 5+ years learning Japanese, but at this point I wouldn't mind just forgetting it. I could go on a long rant about why it's so disappointing but probably no one cares.

A voice, a laugh, a touch
Seared to the skin
In the heat, it’s in arm’s reach
Like a perfect melody, a perfect poem
Devised in a fever dream

>>20512222
Go on anon, I care.

>>20511694
The only way I've found that works for me is to get to a point where I truly feel like I've learned something.
If I can take away some valuable lesson from my past mistakes, I finally feel ready to forgive myself and move on.
Of course if you never apply that lesson it's a hollow gesture, but if you can you'll truly become a better person for it.
Worth a shot at least.

>>20512222
Is it because you've watched and read everything of worth and realized that the translations are already sufficient?

>>20512222
Finally took the trip to tokio huh? I told you anon

>>20512222
Is it because you still don't have a cute nippon gf after all these efforts?

>>20511913
My mother and sister both read a lot, but not with any clear pattern I've been able to find.
I try lots of books and discard most of them after one page or less. They seem to finish nearly every book they start. So they spend less time looking for books but much more time reading books they don't feel strongly about.
My sister's favorite book is The Lord of the Rings and my mother's is A Christmas Carol.

>>20511635
Happy birthday anon!

I'm thinking of watching 1917.
Is it good?

>>20510623
Have you been under a lot of stress lately?
It seems strange to me that ASMR would have that much of an effect on you, but maybe it could have acted as a trigger to something that's been building up inside for a while.

>>20512325
Yeah, I'm stressed. And I didn't feel a lot of tingles, but just that much had my mind or body NOPEing the fuck out, for whatever reason.

>>20512258
You remember that opening scene to Trainspotting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaP7qmsQbSI
Japan is a society where it feels like everyone has fully embraced this idea. The level of social conformity expected of people is just insane, even when the actual things you're meant to do are retarded. Society's expectations dominate every aspect of life there, but the fucked up part is that it's not just limited to companies (having a mustache is forbidden in 90% of companies btw) but your hobbies too. For every hobby in Japan, there is a "correct" way of doing it and other people will pressure you into this. So, take train otaku for example. Did you know that train otaku have a very specific way of taking train photographs you're supposed to follow, so that it produces an identical looking photo every time? This is real and it applies to fuck tons of hobbies. Someone on /trv/ went on a long rant about this in the Japan generals a few weeks ago, you can dig it up in the archive if you want. This isn't just a one-off kinda thing, it's how their society is built from the ground up. Free expression and individuality are a no-go unless you do it in the exact way everyone tells you to.

Okay, but what else? Well, there's the concept of faces. This ties into honor culture which exists around most of Asia, I'm sure you've heard of it. Tourists in Thailand get murdered all the time because they made some local lose face. But it works a bit differently in Japan. Instead of that aggressive face-saving culture, it's more of a society-approved mental barrier that separates people on every level a bit like Confucianism. This is why people have such a positive initial impression of Japan that wears off on many people once you start living there - it's the difference between honne 本音 (what you feel) versus tatemae 建前 (what you show others). Japan has made this a societal institution, you're supposed to lie to people's faces a lot (often out of politeness), and in my opinion this is pretty shit.

Japanese people LOVE to go on about their 治安 (public safety) and their 民度 (population quality), but what they don't understand is that there's trade-offs. Europe has managed to achieve a very similar level of safety and education as Japan without any of the awful cultural baggage, the NPC-tier thinking, the terrible work culture, and so on. But japs don't understand this. They don't understand that it's a good thing when people around you aren't 100% predictable sometimes, when everything in life isn't slotted into a neat and tidy little bin and there's a bit of randomness. This isn't an argument against racial homogeneity for you /pol/fags reading this, I think that's fine, I mean I object to their entire philosophical way of life. It's boring. It sucks the wonder out of life.

Also, did you know cheating on your spouse is extremely common in Japan? And you're supposed to overlook it.

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>>20507668
I saw a guy get his brains blown out last week, and I just can't get it off my mind. Eventually, I had to walk over there and say "hey, you can't be doing that in Port Authority, get a room."

I just seriously can't understand people like that, man. People get so riled up about this sex thing. I don't know much about it - I've never had it. You see, I'm a Christian, so I choose not to have sex - I think it'll make the sex with Christ that much better.

People always ask me, "Anon, how do you do deadpan humor like that, I can't tell a joke without laughing." And it's really a tough balancing act, because I always wanna laugh to. So I try to balance out the laughing by thinking about all the worst things anybody's ever said about me until I'm thinking about killing myself, and that keeps my face nice and flat when I tell these hilarious jokes. But it's a tough balancing act, you see, because the second I imagine throwing myself off a bridge - you see? you see? It makes me laugh. The second you actually imagine throwing yourself off a bridge, it's like, "woah ho ho! uh oh! hey hey!" and I can't help but laugh. Deadpan humor's hard like that - it's like jerking off, and throwing yourself off a bridge, that's cumming. Once you cum, you laugh, and the fun's over. The goal is to keep yourself on edge. I make a good dominatrix.

Anyways, that's my time, but if you'd like more time, I'm in room A13, and it's $150/hr - yeah, that's right, $150/hr, you didn't expect that level of self-respect from this guy, did you?
Being serious for a second, this is just a reminder that if you genuinely struggle with suicidal thoughts, to seek help and/or call a hotline. I've had two friends OD this year, and it sucks. I shitpost bits about my self-loathing to sublimate, not to dwell in it, and I genuinely hope you're all managing alright.

>>20512371
(2/2)

Japanese art is also very rarely deep. Everything is really cool on a surface-level, but there's nothing below it to explore. You can see this in RPGs for example: Japanese RPGs for example are filled with lots of spectacle but the gameplay is kinda shit. WRPGs meanwhile may have lackluster gameplay but the writing is genuinely interesting and leaves you with something to think about. But it also applies to music. Japanese music is extremely focused on melody above all else: Not just touhou, but fuck tons of music really. How often do you hear some good Japanese music, and it's good for a reason OTHER than melody? It's not common. Maybe Boredoms, Fushitsusha, that whole scene is pretty great, I will admit. But they were counter-culture, shit's not common. Anime? Well, studios like KyoAni are always upping the style but that's it.

Japan could never produce a show like the Sopranos, they could never produce a Crime and Punishment, because they just don't have it in them. Their conception of art is different. And as I get older, I prefer Western art more and more, because it understands how interesting life is and explores it. I still love woodblock prints/ukiyo-e though, they are beautiful

I'll post more when I think of it. There's a lot really. Like tying into what I wrote above, Japanese people tend to ghost you a lot because of that concept of faces and not being honest to people. I hate it

>>20512268
Translations are definitely sufficient, yeah. But I've mostly lost interest in that shit anyway.
>>20512276
I would have if I could have
>>20512282
I got involved with a Japanese girl for a bit, but that's another story

Oh yeah. And Japanese humor fucking sucks

>>20512371
>>20512394
You described all asian countries.
>t. asian.

I give up, I just don't know what to do anymore and I have no idea, nothing
I'm waiting for a miracle, that's the best I can do at this point

>>20509615
I wish you good luck

>>20512459
Hang in there - life is long, something will happen if you just hold on, for real.

Of course, that's not true if you're agoraphobic or something - that's some serious shit you have to work to overcome, otherwise it's only going to be an uphill battle. But if it's just "deadend, no friends" stuff or other things, if you hold out long enough odds are good you'll eventually find the will to make some sort of peace, whatever that looks like.

Anything in particular got you down?

>>20512390
Wait a minute, I just thought of a better closer

>Yeah you didn't expect that level of self-loathing from this guy did ya - wait, self loathing? *slaps forehead* I meant self respect! Pff. I had one of those Freudian tits there. Alright, goodnight

horny for love

I'm literally illiterate.
I come to /lit/ for the memes.

The next one
>>20512653
Only good vibes
>>20512653
We don’t need to hear how depressed you are anymore
>>20512653
Srsly
>>20512653

>>20510065
>2) no examples of this in history anywhere; all ideas come from the head of one person on their own.
Hahah, you're the "ideas guys" but also hideously wrong. Lennon-McCartney. Page-Plant. Stock-Aitken-Waterman. Most Operas had a separate composer and Librettist. You saying Mozart's Operas aren't art? The oral traditions of the Greek Epics. The later interpolations and "corrections" of Homer by the Hellenistic Grammarians. Literally every film or classical animation ever made, even those so called made, including collaborations of well renowned Auteurs like Walt Disney (who never drew a single frame), Antonioni-Guerra, Kubrick adapted his films from source novels, Fassbinder too. Frankenstein came out of that famous group exercise/challenge.
You said there is "no examples of this in history anywhere". I've given dozens off the top of my head. You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. But also you're naively glorifying "ideas", as if the only thing that matters is the premise or the overarching idea. No. Execution involves hundreds of tiny ideas and all throughout history there are many examples of collaboration and individual artists contributing their own ideas and touches as part of the execution