/lit/ - Literature

>>20517338
Don't give up, Doomer.

>>20517338
‘Tis heavy music we all listen on earth:
The earth flops to bliss with the lines
Of this knightly song.
Alas! our art doth lie prostrate, –
Nor thrill thy immortal Spirit, –
Thy sopranos, – ‘tis the haunting wail
That feels the pain of Heaven, –
And, when the last note has sunk,
When the night has slumbrous fall'n.

Better?

A tree with no leaves.
Carnations crushed in the cup of your hand.
The café in your courtyard...

>>20517338
Now that my birthday is over, gonna wait til Tuesday to go over my folks house with my roommate and swim and get an extra gift

>>20517385
Happy birthday my little anon.

>>20517339
Why not? And also are you saying this to yourself?

i dreamed of a big titty goth gf

>>20517018
> But Anon, if you're not a dumb phoneposter, why did you put spaces after your meme arrow? Are you retarded?
Because it just looks better?I never realized that that was phone-poster tier.It's just another form of punctuation like the full-stop,so why should I put a space after it?"Is it because you think of it like a quotation mark without the ending quotation?kind of fucking ugly if I'm honest.

Wow a new one already?

Alright bros, my Lovequest resumes tomorrow. Gonna go find all the local botanical gardens. Hoping a botanist gf manifests.

My brother turned me into one of these people that like analyzes everything and is super cynical and is always theorizing about something, making observations about something.

I really don’t like it.

I think I'm going to create a meme page as a learning exercise in "online promotion". I don't follow any meme pages, tik toks, or twitters. The last thing of the sort I followed was "Fuck Yeah Dementia" on Tumblr like 8 years ago. I don't expect this page to accomplish anything or go anywhere other than teach me the absolute basics of how to run a social media page and 'build clout'. My intention isn't to sell merch, become an "influencer". My intention is to use the skills I learn and then reapply that into promoting my art and professional services elsewhere.

>>20517338
It's me, rent ranter again. I still fucking hate landlords and I hate moving. We're not moving to a new place, but rather moving our copious amount of crap to a storage unit. It's climate controlled, but its still a fucking bitch.
My body is tired but I keep going and going and going in order to get the job done. I've learned one thing for sure: I know now, without a doubt, I don't want to work manual labor.

l've had a long week interacting with a lot of people and l'm very tired.

>>20517577
My staff at my supported living apartment is ex-military, a landlord and fucking black too and fucks white broads. Its a nightmare.

>>20517436
STOP ASKING WHY DAMMIT JUST DONT FUCKING GIVE UP

>>20517530
take responsibility you coward

>>20517577
>I still fucking hate landlords
Seethe harder.

>>20517577
Are you morbidly obese?

>>20517606
For my brother? Why?

I got really high last night. Highest I've ever been while just smoking weed. I began seeing... not quite hallucinations, but when I closed my eyes I could see the most vivid images and I could control it, zooming in, walking around etc. in my 'imagination'. I am perfectly capable of visualizing in my head normally, but this was slightly different - it is like I could literally see my imagination. I suppose it was a kind of lucid dreaming, except that I was awake while doing it. Really hard to explain. It felt like quite a profound experience at the time.

>>20517631
For what you have allowed yourself to become idiot. Are you an ESL? How could you misinterpret what I said so badly.

>>20517610
Happy to.

>>20517641
He's saying his brother used unbreakable curse magic. There's literally nothing he can do to break the curse, like when you put on a cursed item and can't take it off.

>>20517649
Nevermind then, just reroll (kys).

What do you guys think about getting a second baptism? As in, straying from God for a long time and then getting baptized again as a declaration

i am just so lazy that i realize accomplishing anything worthwhile just isn't going to happen. that would be fine if i lived in some suburb in the middle of nowhere, but i live in a big ass city where everyone has money or is doing some creative shit. i think there is a sort of charm just living out in some ranch style house on a side street somewhere, just sitting passing the time at east. everyone says liberalism/capitalism/america etc. has failed but as long as there are millions and millions of people in middle america watching tv and shopping at walmart without a care in the world, i think the ruling class has done ok.

>>20517652
He could find a cleric with Greater Restoration.

>>20517660
Why do you feel you are ready for a 2nd baptism?

So I was at the store shopping for groceries and I made eye contact with some few females while at the store. Where these bitches checking me out? Do you think they smell my unvaxxed pheromones?

>>20517671
do you ever notice when you walk past a couple who are walking together the dude will point at something right as you are about to pass so you can't make eye contact with his girl? seems kinda insecure, but then again he's going to go home and pound the pussy, while i sit here typing up autistic musings.

The grueling effort of trying to find a woman is nothing compared to that of keeping a woman, so maybe I shouldn't bother

>>20517671
I don't think eye contact means anything other than they caught you looking at them.

>>20517669
I had my second baptism about 4 years ago. I was baby for my first baptism but I never really believed, so I got baptised as an adult when I converted.

I wasn't asking this question for myself anyway. There's someone at my church who was baptized when he was old enough to really mean it. But he strayed and now many years on has decided to have a second. It's an interesting practice which I dont think is common among most Christians. I just wanted to get some perspectives on it

>>20517686
Finding a woman is really easy.
Keeping her(forever) is a full-time job.

>>20517686
yeah, dude, i'm fucking over it.

>>20517692
l was baptised as a baby but havent gone to church in a long time. Been thinking about Jesus a lot this week though.

I'm beyond frustrated.

I'm trying to find arguments against eugenics but the only real one I can find is that it's pretty much logistically impossible to put it in place at a large scale.

>>20517695
Pray about it anon.
>For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

>>20517698
My argument against eugenics is that all arguments for eugenics must conclude in anti natalism. No, I will not elaborate on that.

>>20517698
what if they do eugenics against people who have adhd and depression? or you thought they were just going to sterilize short guys or people who drink too much?

>>20517698
there is already a eugenics program in effect. it's called tinder.

>>20517705
I actually have ADHD (inattentive) and autism.
I am aware that I would not be here if eugenics had been a thing or that I would not be allowed to have children. It's not important. Just talking in a general way. Like, I know it sounds edgy, but logically, it just makes sense.

>>20517704
>No, I will not elaborate on that.
Thanks, anti-natalism is retarded.

>>20517709
No one on Tinder breeds, though.

I read these three books over the past two weeks. It was my intention to write a bit during and after reading to compare my thoughts on each and I didn't do anything. Now, having just finished Golden Pavilion today, I feel like it and Mask are already slipping from my memory due to how dense they are with rumination and ideas of self and beauty.

I'm wondering if part of my seemingly poor memory is due to rarely taking time after reading, or time in general, to be alone with my thoughts. I'm always jumping from book, to phone, to computer, I never give myself time to think on anything. The times I am alone with my thoughts I find it very hard to focus, my mind is always racing with worry and anxiety.

How do you pray?

>>20517690
I extensively studied biosemantics. I know the armament of specimen signals to communicate desires for species replication such as the common physiological coordination of eye-to-eye tracking.

>>20517713
it's like getting a job, if you don't get a good internship in college, you'll never get a spot at a good investment bank. if you didn't do a lot of hedonistic fucking on tinder, no one is going to take you seriously later.

>>20517717
I just talk to God normally but in my head and with an amen at the end.

>>20517690
>they caught you looking at them.
Why are you assuming that I was looking at them? I literally never stare or look at females and when I do I try to be as discreet as possible.

Fuck, I was doing so well.
I’ve been working on myself, focusing on my health and I just coomed a few minutes ago after abstaining for 2 weeks.
The crash hit me like a truck, I feel like a zombie, completely drained and with brain fog impeding any complex thought.

dog had to be put down. never having pets again, too painful

>>20517768
My dad made me bring my dog to the pound

Just ate 2 raw cloves of garlic, I think I'm going to fart all night. Kind of looking to experience some nice, pungent, acidic fart tbqh.

>>20517766
Sounds like a drug relapse, is it really that serious.

>>20517772
My brother used to eat a ton of garlic, onions, and canned fish. I had to share a room with him. It was a nightmare

>>20517771
hope you're doing okay

The literal oneness of all things, which renders time and space as illusory, as well as many other things, is the solution to all paradoxes and I challenge the rest of /lit/ to name a single one that isn't solved by it.

>>20517800
How can the one be one if the one is more than one?

>>20517803
what?

>>20517768
same. after my childhood cat finally croaked i decided no new pets.

I always wonder, are females attracted to a mans cock and balls like males are attacted to tits and ass? I dont think that its reciprocal, I think males are comparatively much more sexually attracted to females than females are to males, sure females are also horny and want to fuck but do they lust after cock 24/7 like males do when they think about massive tits and some huge ass all day long?

>>20517804
Did you not even read Parmenides before making grandiose metaphysical claims like that? If all is one, then what is this all except something other than one, and if this all is other than one, then how is all one? If all is one in the sense of being contained by itself, then how can it be contained by itself without being two?

>>20517800
>The man who sees me in everything
and everything within me
will not be lost to me, nor
will I ever be lost to him.
>He who is rooted in oneness
realizes that I am
in every being; wherever
he goes, he remains in me.
>When he sees all being as equal
in suffering or in joy
because they are like himself,
that man has grown perfect in yoga.

>"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."
Both quotes from the Gita

How the fuck are my parents fluent multilingual but I'm barely fluent only in English?

>>20517828
Your parents learned multiple languages, but you did not learn multiple languages.

I hope to create something like this one day.

>>20517828
Becuase they don't love you enough to teach you.

>>20517811
yes they do, but only for big dicks. women will end their relationships for big dick.

>>20517800
fuck, I fucked up the post.

>The man who sees me in everything and everything within me will not be lost to me, nor will I ever be lost to him.He who is rooted in oneness realizes that I am in every being; wherever he goes, he remains in me. When he sees all being as equal in suffering or in joy because they are like himself, that man has grown perfect in yoga.

>>"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."
Both quotes from the Bhagavad Gita

Every day is a blessing.

>>20517820
>Did you not even read Parmenides before making grandiose metaphysical claims like that?
No, I've been reading literature of question answer sessions between a group of channelers claiming that they were contacted by an advanced alien social memory complex of the sixth density of spiritual awareness which sought to be a messenger and teacher of the law of one.

lawofone.info

>If all is one, then what is this all except something other than one
The apparent separation and plurality of all things is illusion. 'All this' is a single infinite unified field-thing.

>If all is one in the sense of being contained by itself
'Contained by itself'? A reality of absolute oneness cannot be contained in any way as it must be infinite. Finite-ness requires the end of something and beginning of another. Read more.

I’m so bored of everything. I hate everything. I hate the forms. I find no beauty in them. Where do I escape to?

Traditional theism has it all wrong. God isn't the creator of the universe, but a co-creator with the universe. The nature of the God-world relationship isn't that of a parent, but a romantic partner. As such it's perfectly fine to imagine God as the sex you are attracted to, such as a Goddess. Romantic love for the Goddess is the highest level of divine communion.

>>20517800
Nature doesn't care about your supposed "solution to all paradoxes." Change, indefiniteness, and ambiguity occur all the same.

>>20517845
>Bhagavad Gita

Great reading to say the very least.

>>20517836
This would be my first guess as well.

>>20517800
But everything is not one kek

>after years of being alone you finally go out on a date. She looks like she could be your perfect gf, shes extremely cute she talks about how shes currently getting a masters in art history and how she enjoys reading about philosophy and mentions some classics she has read in the last few months. You immediately start concocting fake scenarios in your head where you she becomes your gf, where you take to her to the museum, where she surprises you for your birthday with a specific book you wanted for a long time. After the date is over she invites you to go back to her place and you accept, once you arrive there you start making out with her. Things move to quickly and now shes asking you to take off your pants so she can give you a rimjob
Wat do?

>>20517530
Why you dont like it?

>>20517892
put my fucking legs behind my ears and thank God

>>20517892
>shes currently getting a masters in art history
turn 360 degrees and go away

>>20517887
All is one and the perception of plurality is an illusion placed upon your perceptions by your mind just as your mind projects upon your experience the illusion of the english language upon the lines and squiggles of this very post even as you read it now.

>>20517878
Change, indefiniteness, and ambiguity are not incompatible with the universal oneness of existence.

>>20517899
This is your brain on being.

>>20517898
uh, lol. you do realize you would still be facing the same direction, right?

>>20517340
garbage

>>20517907
>american education system
do you even radians bro

>>20517899
What is an “illusion”?

>>20517903
Objects are made up matter, which is made up of energy, which is a relationship of motion between objects - energy is a "betweeness," and as such requires a plurality (at least two.) The fabric of existence is relational. Therefore plurality is prior to singularity.

Praise the universal manyness of existence!

It is a shiny lazy day for me today. So i am going to listen to music all day and read a book. Wish i had an interesting social life though so i could probably go out and get some of that sun.

>>20517339

>>20517905
Becoming and unity are compatible.

>>20517911
A false perception.

>>20517912
>matter
Also an illusion. All is mind.

>>20517923
You can't just state that whatever doesn't confirm to your bullshit metaphysical system is "an illusion." Unless you're trying to just convince yourself, because you certainly aren't going to convince anyone else, except an idiot.

>>20517923
Matter is an illusion, all is mind, i wish i could throw a stone at your head only to see you dissolve it with your mental powers fedora faggot.

>>20517926
>You can't just state that whatever doesn't confirm to your bullshit metaphysical system is "an illusion."
I'm not.

>>20517938
>Fedora
lol far from it

>>20517943
>I'm not
But you are

>>20517505
Yeah. That molé edition was the fasted one yet. Like nine hours or so

>>20517468
How many Cure shows you been to?

>>20517968
In my very first post I mentioned that the law of one renders many things illusory. I just didn't give an exhaustive list. The existence of matter is impossible as by its very nature it is separate from mind and, as all is one, nothing can be separate from anything else.

>>20517985
>The existence of matter is impossible as by its very nature it is separate from mind and, as all is one, nothing can be separate from anything else.

Re-read your sentence carefully please, dont you see how you refute yourself within the span of 3 seconds?

>>20517985
All can be mind, but clearly there exists other minds other than my own.

>>20517990
>dont you see how you refute yourself
Enlighten me.

>>20517991
No, you're just not aware of your other thoughts. Also, you're god.

When reading the Bible for the first time since adolescence, should I have anything in mind? I'm looking for comfort and hope, or a sense of guidance. I want to read everything front to back.

>>20517995
First of all what seperates mind from matter? Second of all, what is the definition you give to matter? I bet it has nothing to do with newtonian or quantum mechanics. It has to be some bullshit definition a clueless hippy gave on a 5 minute youtube lecture under the beat of trip hop song.
Anyway, if you want to support all is one, then the route is simply, matter forms nature, matter forms our bodies, brain included, therefor we are part of the nature and all is one.

>>20517995
>No, you're just not aware of your other thoughts. Also, you're god.
Kek is this like some sort of dissociative identity disorder? If I’m unaware, then why call myself God?

>>20518006
>what seperates mind from matter
Ultimately nothing, but the illusion of matter is a subjective splitting of mind.
>I bet it has nothing to do with newtonian or quantum mechanics
Of course it doesn't, because these definitions would necessarily be imperfect, because they are inductive and only looking at proximate matter (ie, matter taken as a specific form, not matter taken as matter). At the most essential level, matter is just the datum of sense impression, ie the datum of an illusion given to us by ourselves, which we mistake as coming from outside ourselves.

>>20517997
is there any more sensual description of paradise than the land of milk and honey.

>>20518006
>First of all what seperates mind from matter?
Nothing, because matter doesn't exist.

>Second of all, what is the definition you give to matter?
Physical substance.

>It has to be some bullshit definition a clueless hippy gave on a 5 minute youtube lecture under the beat of trip hop song.
No, I just use wikipedia.

>>20518007
>Kek is this like some sort of dissociative identity disorder?
If you've ever woken up with the impression that you had a series of dreams occurring rapidly one after another, it was in fact the phenomenon of your waking mind trying to process having had the experience of multiple dreams at once. Though each of these dreams had a protagonist, each protagonist was only aware of the events in their own dream. This is how God experiences our souls, as the dreamer dreaming multiple dreams.

>If I’m unaware, then why call myself God?
Because both you and God exist, and all is one.

>>20518027
>This is how God experiences our souls
But I thought we were God? How can he experience different souls? Also, how does this address the problem of evil? If we are God, then we are evil in a sense. And therefore we are not God because God is all good and perfect.

I pray for this thread to be closed, i cant understand how so many anons are not embarassed with themselves...

>>20518045
>But I thought we were God?
'we' are.

>How can he experience different souls?
By creating them and, by its own will, giving these parts of its mind the experience of the lack of knowledge of other parts of its own knowledge.

>Also, how does this address the problem of evil?
Neither good nor evil exist.

we could be balkanized..

>>20518055
>By creating them and, by its own will, giving these parts of its mind the experience of the lack of knowledge of other parts of its own knowledge.
For what purpose?
>Neither good nor evil exist.
So what are God’s attributes?

>>20517338
------- Solaria ------
XIII

The considerateness to human frailty of this car's design
Makes one feel like a demigod, and so also does the road across this ridge

Of trees left, as if desultorily, in their primordial state
For suave eagles of the mind flying
In their conservatoires.

The justice of it is that it considers nothing else, is potent only in subtlety,
In tremendous apprehension of tremendous atmospheres,
Twilight colossal, the sun a faint red thing

Very slowly, almost imperceptibly, falling into faint green depth beneath
A weight of leaden violet like the anvil of some narcotic sleep
In which all our faults are forever healed

And no mistakes were ever made
As things, instead

Were too finely divided to feel anything but the light of which they're made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqs-yNPZuLs&list=RDwqs-yNPZuLs&start_radio=1

>>20518064
>For what purpose?
To learn about itself through experiencing itself through infinite different perspectives.

>So what are God’s attributes?
She's infinite, for one. There are quite a few others besides this. What kind of things do you want to know about? I'd like it if I could give you an exhaustive list on this subject, but my knowledge on this is rather finite to say the least, unfortunately.

Thus says the wisdom of God:
"The LORD possessed me, the beginning of his ways,
the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago;
from of old I was poured forth,
at the first, before the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no fountains or springs of water;
before the mountains were settled into place,
before the hills, I was brought forth;
while as yet the earth and fields were not made,
nor the first clods of the world.

"When the Lord established the heavens I was there,
when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep;
when he made firm the skies above,
when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth;
when he set for the sea its limit,
so that the waters should not transgress his command;
then was I beside him as his craftsman,
and I was his delight day by day,
playing before him all the while,
playing on the surface of his earth;
and I found delight in the human race."

>>20517997
Start with the NT or use a reading guide instead of going cover to cover, you'll burn yourself out otherwise.
The Gospels are full of comforting passages. I'm partial to Mark.

>>20518072
btw I'm still waiting for a paradox that isn't solved by the law of one.

NIИ is the best band of all times

>>20518081
Why even bother? We know how you'll respond: "The paradox is an illusion."

>>20518072
>To learn about itself
So God is not all knowing as well. It seems silly to call this oneness you speak of as God.

>>20518081
You didn’t even solve the problem of evil kek. You just said it doesn’t exist and is an illusion kek.

>getting older
>biological urges are screaming MEET A NICE GIRL AND MAKE KIDS WITH HER DO IT NOW HURRY UP all the time
>do nothing and remain a kissless virgin with weirdo loner hobbies and never socialize
>"wtf why am I sad and lonely all the time why is this happening??"

We are all out of balkanized hero sandwiches

Would you like to try the memetic entity?

>>20518093
>Why even bother?
Because it's fun.

>You'll just respond with "that's an illusion"
Yet I explain why it is so every time, so poke holes through the explanation.

>>20518095
>It seems silly to call this oneness you speak of as God.
I personally don't like using the word myself. I only say God because that's the closest analog people normally have for what the aliens say exist.

>>20518105

>You didn’t even solve the problem of evil kek.
The capacity for a moral or immoral act requires the interaction between a self and an other. As all is one, there cannot be such a thing as an 'other', therefore neither good or evil exist. If you punch yourself in the face, and this act affects no one else in any way, though you caused suffering, did you do anything evil? Only the One Infinite Creator exists, and any suffering caused by one to another is only the phenomenon of it causing itself suffering.

>>20518081
ywnbGod

>>20518088
I was thinking about listening to some of their songs. I always assumed they were some kind of metal band because of the name, but apparently not really.

>>20518125
>causing itself suffering
This is evil.

>>20517389
I'm far from little. I turned 40

>>20518126
Bigot. And you never even asked what my divine pronouns are.

>>20518132
Not if it causes no one else any harm. One has the freedom to do whatever they will with their fists and faces.

>>20517899
I disagree. This is a ceremony of opposites.

>>20518139
Things can oppose each other without being separate. Blue is the opposite of red, but they are still only continuations of light without any definite point in which there is an ending and beginning of said light.

>>20518130
they aren't really in one genre ever, they mix industrial rock, alternative and noise rock with elements of electronic music and synth pop. Every album is great in my opinion but the best is definitely The Downward Spiral followed by The Fragile.

>>20518130
They're industrial, a cousin of metal and punk rock

>>20518137
>Not if it causes no one else any harm
I disagree. Harming yourself is evil. There’s still the problem of evil to address. You’re going to have to say it’s for a greater good of some kind.

>>20518115
>Would you like to try the memetic entity?
https://vimeo.com/129609470

>>20518152
>Harming yourself is evil.
How? What even is good or evil? I am unaware of any objective understanding of these concepts, only subjective definitions. The closest thing I'm aware of an objective one is the Christian one of God's will defining good and evil, and that understanding falls to pieces here.

>>20518144
My reflex when listening to new bands is generally to start with the newest album and go back in time. Their newest ones are listed as "ambient" on Wikipedia, I might like that.

Many, if not most, of you right here in this thread have never actually known the world without the internet, and I think it's sad.

>>20518161
Eris?

>>20518111
I made peace with me being and dying as a virgin. I sure do find some females attractive but I know that this life is not a book.
t. wizard

>>20518164
It's over three in the morning where I live, now. I'm going to sleep. I probably won't remember this thread tomorrow, so, goodbye everyone. Feel free to have the last words.

>>20518176
Personally I find there are far better artists that make pure ambient than NIN and Ghosts records aren't really their best stuff but sure, go ahead. Their most poppy and accessible album is Hesitation Marks.

>>20518213
Any recommendations for some more ambient/instrumental?

>>20518198
>frogposter

>>20518221
Windy & Carl (particularly albums Antarctica and Depths); Stars of the Lid (Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid and Avec Laudenum); Gas (his album Pop and Konigsforst); William Basinski (Melancholia album is great); The Dead Texan sef titled album is great as well

>>20518189
based

>>20518143
You should take a look at my essay on the origins of the universe

>>20518144
For industrial, I like Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Laibach, Skinny Puppy, Severed Heads, Controlled Bleeding, Coil, Einsturzende Neubauten, Test Dept, 23 Skidoo, Ministry, Front 242, Portion Control, DAF, Throbbing Gristle, Godflesh, and Ministry

For noise rock, anything ranging from old acts like The Cows, Killdozer, Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop and The Jesus Lizard to newerish acts like Arab On Radar and Lightning Bolt

I love ear rape

>>20518213
Ambient? You mean shit like Lustmord and Archon Satani?

>>20518221
Lustmord, Archon Satani, Cities Last Broadcast, Thomas Koner, Lawrence English, Robert Rich, Inade, Herbst9, Vestigial, Vidna Obnama, ill think of more later

>>20517338
How do you read Lolita without people thing you're a nonce?

>>20518251
Listen to more music

>>20518245
Coil is great, Horse Rotorvator and Ape of Naples are both great tier

I was a fat piece of shit during the pandemic. A few months ago lost all of the weight that I gained but now I have a double chin. How the fuck do I fix this?

>>20518115
No thanks, I'll try the Have Sex... you're not fresh out of that are you?

>>20518234
>>20518260
Thanks lads.

>>20518465
No problem

>>20518295
I listen to metal, punk, jazz, prog, industrial, idm, folk, classical, noise, and psych. What else should I even listen to? And don't say rap that's trash.

https://randomthings.neocities.org/

>>20518479
Mongolian throat singing

>>20518479
listen to the sound of the passing of your youth as you lay awake in bed trying to make sens of it all

>>20518179
I've tried to explain the world before and I found there are no words. I think the optimism in the music is the best communicator.

The 90's felt like Ray of Light by Madonna, what with the potential of the internet blossoming and surely goodness on the horizon. We had no idea. If we did, we'd have killed it then and there.

>>20518430
Lose more weight.

First time browsing here in a while. 4chan used to have a caustic, biting wit, but the wit was lost somewhere along the way.

>>20518559
depends on where you browse bro.
maybe too much time over there made you lose the ability to see the wit.

>>20518430
Grow a long mustache, like Cousin It. that'll do the trick for you, flappy face.

>>20518520
if you like ray of light, the same producer, william orbit, also did an album with the uk singer beth orton. normally, she does folksy shit that is quite frankly boring, but that one album "superpinkymandy" went hard with 90s vibes. if anyone has a high quality rip of it, post that shiz. sorry to go off on a tangent just woke up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StRW1XrKJaY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkgJFXnEZpA

>>20517774
Yes, I slept it off but it really ir bad for you. Coomers are just used to the brain fog and low energy levels so they don’t notice.

I keep having zombie apocalypse dreams that end with me getting cornered by the dead, what does it mean?

I think I finally figured out what I want to do with my life but I’m very insecure about how late I figured out it. 10 years ago would’ve been more convenient.

onna get drunk tonight
my anxiety just fucked me up today real hard

It is a great battle against this world to be kind.
No one succeeds in this over time without You.
We are humiliated by our own evil.

>>20518753
Hey thanks. Its funny how you can discover good music on every board but /mu/.

>>20519211
>I think I finally figured out what I want to do with my life
I wish that would be me.

I tried to go to sleep but it just didn't work and I started crying for some reason I can't quite explain so I am back here, a fate worse than death.

>>20519318
my god dude. see a therapist. you're a mess.

>>20519338
I don't think a therapist could make me leave this place in all honesty my brethren.

Is it still "poor decision making" if you just aren't full aware of some or all your options?
I was certain I was a poor decision maker, why? Because I never accomplish anything. So that has to be the product of the decisions I made right, it's my responses to choices, and I consistently respond wrong.
I really became aware of it when I got my second job, I applied to an ad on facebook. For months I had been applying through job websites and getting no interviews. I apply to a facebook ad and instantly get it. The job was for a short contract, but it was something I was a specialist in, easy to get to, paid well and was great experience (especially for a writer).
So it was a good decision. Obviously one lone good decision doesn't make me a good decision maker.
However you need the opportunity to make a good decision. To make a good choice, you need good options. I started realizing that often the things I thought were bad decisions were actually me lacking, for whatever reason, "the full picture". In hindsight you see things you could have done differently, but these weren't things I was aware of and said "nah, I'll do this instead". These are things I wasn't aware of until it was too late.
Now, does that lack of "the full picture" mean I'm a bad decision maker?
Is being a good decision maker just as much about knowing what can be done as known what should be done?
Or am I retarded in some completely new way that I didn't know, and actually just been making the best decisions I can in spite of that?

>>20519371
what do you think will?

>>20519313
For me, it helped to consider what I spent a lot of time thinking about.

I have no idea what to do with my life. I wish there would be something I could dedicate my life and improve. Eating and shitting lifestyle is just making me to live with regret every single day.

I hate my office. I don’t even work in person. I just don’t like these people and think we contribute to something terrible.

>>20519395
Could you share your throught process? I mean how did you came to the realization?

>>20519395
I guess a complete collapse of society or a major reorganisation of my brain, not sure which is more probable.

>>20519395
>>20519404
I'm interested too. Not because I don't know what I want to do with my life, I know, but more I think about irrelevant or inactionable things and I've always been curious about the relationship between thought and desire.

I want sex so bad, but I don't have free time to go to hooker.

>>20519404
>>20519413
It’s really hard to answer. You should definitely take what I say with a grain of salt because it’s not like I’m successful at this. For me, I had all these fantasies about doing things or being someone, and eventually many of them just fell away. So I started thinking about the things I spent the most time thinking about, and that more or less has narrowed it down for me. Life stage plays a role here. You can’t really know what you want to do until you’re an adult, if you’re lucky enough to ever know it at all. And even then you’ll “know” but you’ll always be a little doubtful. But just observing myself and my tendencies and felt worth it and what didn’t was good I think. Sometimes I talk to people on here and they’re like “I hate studying CS” and I’m like “Do you have to study CS?” “No” “Do you want to study CS?” “No”. “Then why are you studying CS?” They have no answer. It doesn’t even feel remotely worthwhile to them. They just pray it will click one day, but this isn’t the clergy. It’s a good example of how there’s these little observances about ourselves floating around all the time but we refuse to take note and listen to them. Easier said than done, I know but it’s still true I think.

>>20519450
Sorry to oversimplfy what you've said here, but is it more that when you were young you fantasized about all these different things you could be - and as a result never really progressed in any. And over time you've found yourself thinking more and more about the one thing, and you finally questioned yourself why that is and realized that it suggested the answer?
Even if I got it wrong, thank you for sharing this.

>>20519457
I did progress in some. There’s one thing that comes to mind which I really thought I should do, so I worked hard and did it, didn’t get the results I expected, hated it, so I abandoned it. There was some aimlessness after that but eventually the other things stepped up to the plate. Other fantasies I didn’t quite progress in but my interest in them just faded with time. I noticed the things which never quite faded. I haven’t figured this out fully, not by a long shot but I do feel like I have just a little bit of direction that I didn’t have before.

i was expecting some form of interdiction proofing on the packaging for my new laptop, but there was none.

for sale: computer, never used.

>>20519480
Must be nice. For example, I tried things but I ended up hating it. Now I just have no ideas and no direction in my life.

>>20519490
I guess. It’s not like it’s this radical change, you know. It’s just this vague orientation. I was where you are a few years ago. All I can say is keep paying attention and keep working.

>>20519480
>I noticed the things which never quite faded. I haven’t figured this out fully, not by a long shot but I do feel like I have just a little bit of direction that I didn’t have before.
Now I think I understand you. I've had a bit of that aimlessness after a period of disappointment myself. Best of luck with it anon, however long the journey, but hopefully short.

ya boys finna act mad niggaish

>>20517892
have sex and never contact her ever again

Board quality has declined drastically since I stopped posted _soyjaks in every thread.

>>20517908
What was wrong with it? Can you critique my other poem too?

>>20519541
>niggaish
GO FUCK YOURSELF

>>20519565
shiiiiiiieeeeet u ackin crazy

The Downward Spiral is the greatest album that was ever created

>>20519562
No, less jaks is always better.
In fact it only feels like less to me because I close them all without a thought.
Board quality has slipped for many years. 2015 was better than now, and nowadays we get bouts of b/tard fits. But more b material like jaks certainly not going to make things better.

>>20517703
>Pray about it anon
tried it before bed. Nothing different in my dreams.

Are office jobs poison to creativity? I have started to feel as if they are but can’t explain why.

>>20519695
most jobs are cancer

>>20519663
They're already dying off, the peak of soiposting was about two or three years ago

One might think that one's father figure is the source of resentment. It's actually what manipulates the cowardly and murderous out of its own jeolousy in order to do it's bidding. People who practice altruism are nice and honest but show love for authority with dedicated seriousness; and, get tricked into doing something actually egotistic. They have a their own father figure thinking that they are plotting to obtain authority over him because of the source of resentment who is the father figure's bastard son!

>>20519695
It's usually a poison due to their fundamental uncreative nature. If anything you're rewarded for being efficient suckup.

>>20519695
Prussian schooling destroys creativity in order to shoehorn you into the jobs market for whatever specialty you studied. State-capitalism doesn’t need creativity, but now and for the last fifty years it’s needed less and less workers, so it’s trying to make up enough jobs for the excess and come up mind numbing shit jobs.
Real work is good, but jobs like this are such shit. Education is such shit. Breaking free is easier said than done, but I do suggest escaping. Good luck.

Try a more difficult pleasure, like reading, rather than playing video games. On the one hand, we cannot know enough people or know them closely enough, we also cannot satisfy our loneliness by playing video games. Reading does that for us.

>>20519734
Well, that’s definitely true. What’s the solution?

>>20519741
How the hell do you escape? I want to quit the office job but I also don’t want to stock shelves at Wal Mart 6 nights a week.

>>20518753
Love both William and Beth.
Trailer Park was a very good album

>>20519784
Their contract for living in this world is to “make a living” churning their money out for the bosses and you get a tiny sliver of it, and I absolutely hate it. Making money is stupid, but for now that’s the only way. Make enough money to escape. Or organize a new local sharing economy on some sustainable farming place. I don’t have all the answers and I’m not going to wait for this economy to get worse (which I hope it does)

>>20517800
2

How do I get people to like me? Anyone have any tips? I cannot hold a conversation without being afraid the other person is starting to get bored

>>20519851
Do your best to appear interested and ask questions. Also eye contact if you can manage it

Ain't it hard to stumble and land in some muddy lagoon?
Especially when it's nine below zero and three o'clock in the afternoon

>>20517923
>Becoming and unity are compatible
No they aren't. Becoming is change from one condition to another. That's the opposite of unity.

It occurs to me that amateur fiction, if not at present, will inevitably produce better writers and better works. The crux of my argument is that amateur fiction has a slightly more competitive environment: there is no societal compulsion to participate unlike literature which I suspect is buoyed by the need to keep appearances. Perhaps I am just bitter that the gap between the best of fanfiction and the average member of the literary canon is not as large as I had hoped.

>>20517985
Sounds like a misinterpretation of Berkeley. Matter can be contingent on mind without contradiction.

>>20517995
>other thoughts
But anon, thats multiplicity...

>>20518072
>she

>>20518125
>The capacity for a moral or immoral act requires the interaction between a self and an other.
Well thats an extremely arbitrary definition. Why can one not do evil to himself? Why can one not do evil to Creation, i.e. creating ugliness

>>20518164
>he hasnt read Euthyphro.
Drop the hippie crap and start with the greeks

>>20519687
Be persistent and be patient

>get my first job
>office work
>first two tasks are easy
>get third task
>it’s so difficult I feel almost suicidal
>I feel myself getting mentally ill by the moment
>sit outside and yell at my mom for 20 minutes on the phone in my car at lunch that it’s too hard
>would walk out if my dad didn’t work here
Kill me bros

>>20519971
You'll learn the tricks sooner or later.

>>20519971
Leave your mum alone!

>>20519971
In my experience, most office jobs become easy, actually legitimately easy, around year 3 unless you have a terrible boss.

>>20519851
Ask them questions about themselves and what they think

>>20519971
>crying to your mom on the phone and treating her badly
>only got job because dad works there

yeah you definitely sound like everybody I hated in college

>>20519899
>The universe isn’t a void from which life springs forth.
Pee pee head moment.

>>20520084
Women arent a void which magically get pregnant for no reason at all

Well bros my Lovequest is halted. I have errands to run for the next couple days. These errands will put me in no place where chance meetings with the female species can occur. Feels bad man.

Is lit the board to discuss language learning and if it isn't where should I go to get advice? If anyone here has learned Chinese I'd love to get pointed in the direction of resources/texts I should get my hands on.

I'm so horny

There appears to be an ideological-communicational capitalist "machine" operating in the US cultural sphere that, unlike in previous times even in the US, is with something approaching intentionality consuming boys and young men perceived as atypical and recycling them into queer and trans subjects. Non-athletic males; those on the autism spectrum; those who are overly sentimental; were brought up by distant/cold fathers; those who are mixed race or non white (especially if Asian or some types of Hispanics), etc, all appear to be at heightened risk for recycling by the aforesaid system, by which it creates the protected sex and gender subclasses that are, in some sense, permanent wards of the state, and the medical and NGO complexes.

The mechanism by which this invidious process occurs appears to be almost Freudian in nature, certainly very much a matter of the "subconscious." Namely, the affected boy/young male has in his mind an ideologically-informed (naturally enough) image of the sort of male they would like to be when they "grow up." With the subconscious's dawning that this imagistic goal ( psychic imago) is less and less likely to come to fruition the subconscious may become prone/or prey to a changing of gears, as it were. Meaning that instead of directly seeking to become the oh-so magnetic image, it, instead, begins to fall in "love" with the same and by this same token becomes susceptible to being sentimentally attracted to those men who appear to have achieved it.

From that point forward it's no leap at all, just the mischance of coming across homosexual or transexual erotica, for that sentimental, ambiguous (literally captious) attraction to become a fully sexual one, even an omnivorous homosexual obsession. For the confused subject, whose foundational desire to embody a certain male type has now been complexly undermined by circumstances out of his conscious control, has become prey to inversion: not only can they not embody the physical male type that they subconsciously hoped would complete and define them as male adults, but as a complex consequence of this defeat, including the involvement of homosexual/transexual pornography, they have adopted the seemingly "irresistible" gaze of a homosexual or a pseudo-female vis a vis the male type that they had once subconsciously so longed to become.

From this point forward it's quite easy for the unhappy subject to fall deeper and deeper into the topsy turvy labyrinthine world of flagrant queerness, whose terminus ultimus is perhaps not even gender dysphoria, and whose origin was an otherwise quite normal juvenile auto-sexual mimetic desire. Moreover, unlike in previous decades, it seems that it's basically illegal (certainly in the US) for a professional therapist or counselor to explain the possibility of this dynamic to such a patient (when it's otherwise so evident--surely Freud got it right here!)...

>>20520202
(conclusion)...All of this is not say that homosexuality is uniquely caused by the aforesaid frustrated mimetic desire or even that the process of this dynamic should necessarily be stymied, but, on the other hand, to simply depreciate this theory, to have a policy that effectively makes it professionally illegal to even espouse it, seems like an overly, indeed potentially malicious, censorious strategy. And following from which, how they might be groomed by the phantom communicational levers of such a system into becoming recycled subjects (cannon fodder) for the creation of permanently protected classes of subjects: codependent on the state, wards under its special sex and gender laws, and definitionally anchored onto the wider medico-pharmacological imperio-capitalist system as a whole.

>>20520196
Me too. Lets meet up

I have a sister with a degree in engineering. She's like 36 or 37 and only worked for 2 or 3 years before neeting it up. How does she get away with being a lazy piece of shit.

>>20520213
I'm not american. Do you have peepee or vagoo?

>>20520224
Same way every other neet does

>>20519971
>yell at my mom for 20 minutes
What a piece of shit, I have no sympathy for you

>>20520224
put me in contact with your sister. I'll breed her and ensure your genetic line survives.

>>20519866
Just because all things are unified to the absolute does not mean 'they' cannot evolve/change/blossom into new states.

>>20519885
>multiplicity
That is not incompatible with unity, in a manner of speaking. Take, for example, light flowing out of a prism. (pic related). There are multiple colors, but there is no point at which the light that they are of ends and another begins.

>>20519899
I know she's female because I regularly have sex with her.

>>20519913
>arbitrary definition
If you can give me an objective definition as to what is good and what is evil besides this I would legitimately be very grateful. I don't even believe in the concepts to begin with, however.

>>20519922
>hippie crap
This doesn't come from hippie crap. I've spoken multiple times this information comes from aliens.

>>20520284
BTW I still haven't been given a single paradox.

>>20518164
good is that which gives me pleasure, bad is that which gives me displeasure

>>20520326
Then you're both good and evil. This doesn't mean you aren't god, however. Neither does this mean that the law of one is untrue.

>>20520335
sorry I didn't follow your previous argument so I don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
>I'm not god
I could concede a Spinozist position in which I am in god but I'm not god, or if I'm god then I'm god with the same degree that everything around me is god in god, so saying I'm gos is meaningless.
>law of one
don't know what that is

>>20520182
I'm studying Chinese, I hate it.

>>20517338
I started going to the gym in November 2021, and went from 57kg to 73kg. I was malnourished before, but even now I am pretty ripped, low body fat. This brings me so much joy to go to the gym five days a week and watch my body, which was entrusted upon me by God, take shape.

I got a girlfriend but I think I am happier alone. I feel like lust is the only thing that is driving my interest in her.

>>20520356
>I don't know what the fuck you are talking about
Concerning this, that's pretty much my sole objective for the entire time I've been in this thread, for everyone.

>I could concede a Spinozist position in which I am in god but I'm not god, or if I'm god then I'm god with the same degree that everything around me is god in god, so saying I'm gos is meaningless.
You exist, god exists, all is one, therefore you're god.

>don't know what that is
It's the fact that all things are one.

>>20520385
Ok so then a stone is god too. My shoes are god. What you are doing is giving a divine quality to existence, so everything that is is God by virtue of being.

>>20520432
Yes.

>>20520440
but then you are saying that there's no good and evil?

>>20520452
Yes.

>>20520455
Ok. Let's say I preserve my organism by eating food. Would preserving my organism not be good if my organism is a part of God?

>I will never have a BBC to fuck some PAWG'S and big fat ass latinas

>>20520284
>Just because all things are unified to the absolute does not mean 'they' cannot evolve/change/blossom into new states.
Thats exactly what it means.
>That is not incompatible with unity
Yes it is, by definition. Your light example is sophistry. A harmony of parts is still parts. You seem to be confusing oneness with unity. Theres a principle called divine simplicity. God to exist must be simple, or non composite. The light spectrum is composite. Your argument is confused because it fails to distinguish unity from simplicity.
>I know she's female because I regularly have sex with her.
Anon thats a tranny
>If you can give me an objective definition as to what is good and what is evil besides this I would legitimately be very grateful.
Privation of form. Start reading Plato asap.
>this information comes from aliens
Pic rel

>>20520385
>all is one
Proof?

>>20520485
My basic understanding of this topic is that good and evil are not real. They can't be touched, they cannot be measured, and apparently they cannot even be defined. Every definition I have ever come across has been arbitrary to the point of these concepts becoming utterly meaningless to me, including the idea that goodness must be the 'divine'.

The only reason the topic came up was because I believe someone challenged the law of one by saying, "how can we all be one if evil exists? As god exists, and is perfect/goodness/whathaveyou, it cannot be evil, and if all is one, god must then have this property?" I have essentially sidestepped this particular issue with something of a position of amorality. I have been asked previously in this thread why I should bother calling what I refer to as God God in the first place, and my only answer was simply because the word is the most accurate analog to what I believe in so. You don't have to call the One Infinite Creator God if you don't want to. If you're definition of God is goodness, then I am an atheist. If it is a being which is both omniscient and omnipotent, there, too, I am an atheist.

>>20520538
>Pic rel
Finally someone understands my level of seriousness, here.

>>20520545
Get a shaktipat and it will become self evident.

>>20520555
I am going to sodomize you and since we are both God it will be a great divine orgy

>>20520572

>>20520364
Doesn't help me.

>>20520574
My divine dick will be mashing your divine shit within your divine colon. But I'll really be sodomizing myself as we are one. I am both raped and rapist, raping myself, violating myself, revoking consent from own self. I have discovered the true meaning of debauchery. Sabbati Zevi was right

>>20520555
Evil is absolute sexual autism

>>20520593
>all this
Your post strikes me as very masturbatory in a manner of speaking ;)

>>20520597
sex is an illusion

>>20520605
Well I am a chronic masturbator

>>20520605
I'm talking about sexual thought, images, obsessions.

>>20520613
thanks for all those orgasms

t. god

>>20520489
You will never fuck them because you’re a cuck that watches blacked.

missed u lads

Im too caring and that means Im just waiting to be used by others.

My girlfriend left me for another guy and realised she made a mistake, but i just didn't have the same feeling anymore and didn't let her back in, it's been 4 months and i still think about it sometimes and I've wasted a lot of time doing that(not by free will) and I've exams coming up in 2 days(very imp), i fucked up.i dated a dumbfuck I'm a retard.

>>20520555
>They can't be touched, they cannot be measured, and apparently they cannot even be defined.
You're profoundly autistic.

My mom gets in a hysterical panic about everything. A few minutes she freaked out because there was a lizard on the back porch.
It's so fucking annoying. Are all w*men like this? Why can't they just calm down

>>20520905
Your mother was raped or something equally traumatic happened to her in her formative years that caused a similar realization of her frailty and overall powerlessness so she never feels safe.

>took one of the greatest picture I've ever taken of myself
>hair cut short, beard and eyebrows trimmed, wearing a black turtleneck and a burgundy coat on top of it
>which picture do I choose for my admission to [master's degree]?
>friend 1: oh wow, oh shit, oh you look like a terrorist anon
>what?
>friend 2 (female jewish): yeah you're scary on that picture
>are you implying this because I'm muslim and happen to have a beard, or is it only the picture?
>lmao anon haha you're so funny

anyways

>>20520928
fuck you, how would you know that shit? some people and especially women are just fearful of things for no reason. women scream and cry in the subway when someone else gets knifed for some reason, they also scream and cry when people are fighting, in fact they scream and cry all the fucking time for absolutely no reason other than being heard
>>20520905
because they're women

>>20520945
Nah lad your mum definitely got done

>>20521009
Can confirm, I raped anons mom

>>20520489
OVER

>>20520694
are u that dude who announced he was quitting /lit/ forever yesterday?

>>20517338
Slow day today.

>>20518135
Fuck off, Boomer.

Get Agrippa.

Ender's game was ok, but one thing I was thinking about after finishing it, is it explained in his later prequels or sequels or whatever why the buggers are presented as dindus in the end or is that a plot hole? Because even if they didn't understand that every human was sentient and they treated them like they would others similar to their kind wouldn't that still be the equivalent of cutting off someone's arm and trying to kick them out of their house so you can move in? They talked about how they had to selectively breed peaceful queens so they could have multiple ones or some shit and the first thing they do is attack random space ships they run into, second time coming to colonize their world? Doesn't really make sense for a peaceful species unless there's more to what happened in those first two conflicts, not really interested enough to read the prequels though.

>>20517338
My girlfriend keeps complaining about wanting friends, but is too afraid/self loathing to approach or even consider asking someone acquianted with us to hang out or get to know each other better.

A couple nights ago she wanted to go to a concert to meet this non binary person named 'Moose'. I told her I didn't want to go, and that she shouldn't go alone, so she ended up not going, which she regretted, though she told me she didn't care. I asked her why she doesn't just ask Moose or other people if they just want to hang out, she tells me she doesn't know them well enough.

Now, a girl we're minorly acquianted with is at a public pond just near our apartment. She's too afraid to go say hi, even though she's reading Howl's Moving Castle, because she thinks she (my girlfriend) looks ugly right now.

>>20521402
How did you get together?

I went fishing with my father a few days ago, and I nearly started crying while observing a mother duck with her 6 ducklings.

the fray ft. will smith - how to shave a wife

>23
>still don't have a car (or license)
>still not done with college
>still have almost no work experience
>still no gf
Anyone else behind in life? What the hell have I been doing these past few years?

I get paralysed over anxiety, it is over

>>20521458
we'll make it bro

>>20521486
At least we realize it
Having that "fuck what am I doing" moment is the first step

>>20521402
Take initiative and socizlaize her. Like bringing your dog to a dog park

>>20521517
>Having that "fuck what am I doing" moment is the first step
I'm in a similar position like you and I've had multiple moments of sudden realization of my failings and never changed anything.

>>20521486
make what?
i've never envied a single human being, everyone is miserable

>>20521517
your life isn't a story, there are no first steps

>>20517338
I can no longer read and have lost all passion for it. It's strange I was a literature major and read a lot as a kid, but now reading just feels so boring and empty.

A GUN WITH NO BULLETS IS STILL A GUN

I want to start reading again

>>20521570
Have you tried going back and reading an old easy favourite?

>>20521402
She wants to meet a non binary person called moose at a concert? Huge red flag. Its ogre

waiting for the new thread

Soon this thread will be over there will be a new one. We'll argue and laugh and console each other and tomorrow there will be a new one and we'll do the same.

One day we'll all be dead.

I'M THE REPLY LIMIT NAUT

>>20521738
Not me. I have eternal life.

DREAMS OF BEING A RICH MANS BITCH

ITS OVER SOMEONE MAKE THE NEW THREAD

>>20521819
IT'S OGRE

>>20521600
Kind of. I've gone back to some I used to read. And no matter what I read it just feels meh and I quickly loose the patience to keep reading and just end up listlessly browsing the internet. The quality is unchanged but nothing I read impacts me emotionally like when I was younger. It's just words on a page.. Characters too I have very little sense of caring no matter how well written they are.

>>20521844
>>20521844
>>20521844
>>20521844

SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX VAGINA BOOBS SWEATY BOOBS SEX BUTTS SEX SEX SEX FUCK ME FUCK ME FUCK ME CUM SEMEN CUM CUM CUM ANAL PUSSY PUSSY LICKING PUSSY SLURPING PUSSY VAGINA PENIS PENIS IN VAGINA SEX PREGANCY PARENTHOOD CHILD SUPPORT DEAD BEAT DAD OH FUCK I ABANDONED MY KIDS BECAUSE I WANT MORE SEX

>>20521861
You’ve come to the wrong place

>>20520093
Nyx isn’t a regular kind of goddess.

Another peepee head moment