/lit/ - Literature

Is this true?

Can you seriously fucking imagine living before shoes? I take the trash out in my socks and suddenly realize how fragile I am.

im finally going camping after having not gone in ages. feelin pretty good. I bought robinson crusoe like 2 years ago because i was planning on sitting on a nice beach and reading it, and now i will finally get to it.

>>20545578
your feed get pretty tough when walking around without them, and i imagine they were WAY less hazards for your feet compared to a modern setting

>>20545564
Seems like everybody's against me these days

>>20545564
This general has existed for 7+ years and is a blight. This has always been the wrong board for this.

>>20545581
Good for you anon. Sounds highly comfy. I hope it’s as relaxing as it sounds.

>>20545596
Stop whining and post in one of the other threads that actually interests you then.

>>20545597
thanks bro, hope you have a comfy week too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sufb_5iU39o

Should i read the bible before i get into city of god? is it ok if i just have a rough understanding of the bible i got from school and church?

I would like to share with you a flaw of mine and how I have been working to fix it.

I got too comfortable with sticking to what I was used to. I would re-read the same books again and again, watch the same movies over and over. In my teenage years this was a major problem. I think have watched Lord of the Rings dozens of times, and the Hobbit trilogy even more. I read the same books again and again, and I have some in my bookshelf which I must have read hundreds of times. Instead of reading new things, I would read fanfiction set in the same setting as books I had read before.

In short, I stagnated. In 2021 I realized this, and so I began to consciously try to break my stagnation. I watched new movies, read new books. I believe it has had a positive impact, even though it's only been six months. Hopefully as I keep this up I will develop into a more interesting, forward-moving and not stagnant person.

>>20545706
Do you want recommendations, anon? Having no one irl to recommend the things I like makes me sad. Now that I think about it, I always had a difficult time finding people with similar tastes. It would be cool to make friends with someone like that at some point.

>>20545596
Maybe containment threads might save this board? Maybe make a political containment thread since the board didn’t work, and an incel containment thread too for good measure

Actors can't blush.

>>20545761
Containment has never worked. It only concentrates the problem which becomes worse and then spreads.

>>20545747
>Do you want recommendations, anon?
Sure! Open to anything

Think humanity was a mistake altogether. Not to sound edgy or imply I'm any better, nor trying to be cynical. Just wonder sometimes what the redeeming qualities of mankind are. Was there a purpose for most of this? Was it better to never have been?

Don't know. Your roll chief

Dreams are back, no longer tempered. Had one the other night about a criminal enterprise take over, as hostile as ever, but the assassination had some good points. The victim of assassination was called to a meeting, and knowing technology, didn't bring his phone. The assassin of course didn't bring his either. Easy kill on secluded running route in early morning. But the assassin wasn't smart enough to see he couldn't go on living knowing he took the job. An early morning jogger came and shot him, having established it was his regular route by always having his phone with him, and called the police to say they had shot each other.

was wondering what are some racist and misogynist authors
only one ever mentioned seems to be Lovecraft and maybe Howard (conan guy)

>>20545586
>they were WAY less hazards for your feet compared to a modern setting
You could still step on a thorn or splinter and get a fungal infection that kills you

>>20545701
Yes, read the Bible first. Or at least the gospels.

>>20545841
is this bobobo?

>>20545564
the little gap/shift in tone when the girl you're hitting it off with mentions her boyfriend. its these moments that the sub communication really shines through. this time there was a slightly disappointing, disapproving tone that she gave off when saying it. its kind of absurd to think that so much male-female communication outside the content of the conversation is really a dance to figure out sexual 'compatibility'. Past a minimum look threshold (which most ppl who consistently attend parties meet readily) its the mysterious act of social domination that seems to shine through as the most immediately attractive quality. I think at the core its a set of signals that demonstrate the person's understanding of the knowledge of the world/underworld. its hard to even conceptualize this knowledge because much of it is behaviors ingrained through repetition much like any craft. so when people talk of a person's energy or aura they're trying to convey this 'secret knowledge' that surrounds this person, a task which is hard to put in words other than by pointing to their presence.

>>20545701
100% read the Bible first. Reading theology is pointless without having at least read the New Testament prior. You NEED all of it but you can muddle by for a bit on just the NT.

>>20545879
If your conversations are anything like your post, then you were being delusional about hitting off and then were told that as a polite way to make you go away.

>>20545935
god i hate you fags so much. of course i wasn't talking to her like this retard. please next time you give me a (You) say something interesting.

>>20545796
Great! I’ll focus on things people don’t talk about enough.
Series:
>Red Oaks
Coming of age set in the 80’s about a high school graduate that has no idea what he’s doing in life and works as a tennis instructor at a NY country club. Very wholesome and lighthearted.
>The Young Pope
Mini-series about the rule of Pius XIII, a fictional pope played by Jude Law. It’s more of a series about humanity than about catholicism itself, although there’s a ton of discussion on faith and the way people relate to it. Was compared to House of Cards by the media despite being its opposite in almost every way. Has a polarizing sequel.
>Lodge 49
A depressed surfer ends up joining an order that may or may not hold powerful occult knowledge. Takes heavy inspiration from Pynchon and is full of magical realism.
Movies:
>Bring Out the Dead
Nicholas Cage is a depressed and insomniac paramedic that works on the shittiest part of 90’s NY and hasn’t been able to save anyone in months. Things go downhill from there. Directed by Scorcese.
>Silence
Another Scorcese film. This one is about catholic missionaries going to japan to clandestinely preach and find out what happened with a priest that disappeared there years ago. The beautifully shot scenes contrast heavily with the themes of faith, martyrdom and apostasy. Be advised: the movie is slow and dialogue heavy.
>Under the Silver Lake
A slacker who lives in LA ends up involved in a massive conspiracy after investigating the disappearance of his new neighbor. Also, there’s a dog killer on the loose. Part homage and part deconstruction of the noir genre, it’s a great critique of current culture and - like Lodge 49 - obviously inspired by Pynchon.

>>20545977
This post doesn't reflect well on you either.

>>20545998
>try to engage at high level
>try to engage at low level
ah r*ddit hands typed this

God is a black hole.
The passage of time itself is God devouring the entire universe piece by piece.
Everything is for Her own enjoyment - when she devours our souls, they are digested into nothingness.
The tunnel reported in NDE's is God's holy throat.
Either resist Her and struggle deliciously, or embrace Her and enjoy being devoured, but don't be resigned / indifferent, as that makes you taste like cardboard.
I want to have my soul devoured by God when I die.
To become one with her, to dissolve into nothing but her in her eternal stomach, saved from eternity.
The gurgling of her guts shall be my heaven.
I'm just a little lamb to be eaten by the eternal devourer, tossed down the gullet of nonexistence.
All that will be left is just a fleeting memory of my taste she has. Did she enjoy tasting me? Did she appreciate my own enjoyment of such tasting?
Gobble me up sky-mommy.

>>20545564
where is that boy leading him?

>>20546012
You only worsen.

>>20545508
>does your brother appreciate being visited?
Yes. He's very lonely and isolated. He has a lot of resentments he ruminates about. Then he drinks and explodes.
>. Are you going somewhere forested?
Its supposed to be a botanical garden but it's really just a shitty little park on the side of a busy street. I decidee to find another trail in the foothills. Nothing specjal but it felt good just to walk.
>What classes are you taking?
Funny enough it's Intro to Philosophy. I've been reading and studying philosophy for the past five years. And Intro to Philosophy is the last class I have to take to complete my major's requirements. Should be a breeze. I had this professor for a few classes before and I get along with him. I'm not concerned about the class itself but rather the social environment.

After the hike I ended up going to a cafe on a main street. Nice little street. The most gorgeous girl was the barrista. I have a terrible habit of falling in love with pretty girls working cash registers. Some guys had walked in behind me. We were all waiting on some fuddy duddy to order. He was of course taking a long time and asking all kinds of retarded questions. Coffee is not elaborate and no one should take so long to order it.
Evidently one of the guys behind me knew the pretty girl making coffee. She very shyly said hello to him. He responded "good morrow."
Now this guy and his friends looked like dorky dudes. Not ugly or creepy. They and the girl were either just graduated from high school or finishing their first of college. Only a few years younger than me.
You'd think "good morrow" would be a very cringey statement, but it seemed to flow so naturally, perhaps an inside joke. The barrista girl smiled and said "good morrow" in return. It felt like such a sincere exchange.
Witnessing this immediately made me feel so disjointed. All around me were young adults on summer break or parents with their young children living so naturally and sincerely. They didn't have all the angst and existential dread I feel. They didnt worry about aging or the passing of time. They werent desperately trying to hold the moment like I do. They just flowed.
I had began to ruminate about my lost childhood and troubled adolescence. I despaired at my lonely young adulthood. (1/2)

>>20546052
I had brought with my Kirkegaards Three Discourses on the Lillies of the Field and Birds of the Air. I read the first discourse. It was short. It spoke very directly to what I was feeeling just then. Jesus tells us that the Birds and Lillies are to be our teachers. They dont toil, they dont agonize. They just are and the Lord takes care of them. The secret of their teaching is that they are silent. They accept life as it is wwithout rumination. The poet agonizes and then copes and then finds consolation in the cope. But this cope will never satisfy because it is caused by the agony and seeks to escape its own cause. It is impossible. Kirkegaard says many would love to have the roar of the Ocean. But this is not release. It is acting out the despair and thus enlivening it, making it central to one's existential movement. It reminds me of how I like to drive at 100mph, put down all the windows, and blast as loud as possible aggressive music and just scream. Then I become the torrent. I dont find peace, I live chaos. It is a contradiction. It is the cope born of suffering, only to indulge the suffering.
We must bear the despair and keep silent, and in its silence it is only what it is. It is not anything more. When we live the despair we enlarge it.
(2/2)

>>20545879
>the little gap/shift in tone when the girl you're hitting it off with mentions her boyfriend
This reminds me of a time I sat down at a table with a an acquaintance to eat, and started a conversation to be friendly. As a fag, I had zero interest in her. But for whatever reason she very stiffly and disjointedly mentioned that she had a boyfriend (I had only talked pleasantries about the event we were both at). Even though I had no interest, the shift in tone was there and I felt incredibly uncomfortable for the rest of the meal even as other people joined us. Weird to be treated as if you are in this "sexual compatibility dance" even when you aren't.

>>20546063
thank you for running my GTP3 model.

>>20546063
I hope you're LARPing. Also, you should have said, "Oh, so do I" even if you didn't.

>>20542386
You've worded it better than I ever could and your girlfriend seem like an exceptional being. Thanks, anon. We're not together anymore.

Every day is a blessing.

>>20545879
>the little gap/shift in tone when the girl you're hitting it off with mentions her boyfriend.
there's also a tone shift on the dude side, like you have to pretend everything is cool and you knew she had a bf even tho she flirted with you tirelessly and never mentioned him before, but the pretending never quite works and suddenly your speech is a little more brief, the tone of your voice a half tone up

>>20545596
No. This is our diary desu

This board has ruined the Iliad for me. I can't read the damn thing without making connections to superhero movies. Also I keep trying to find things that set it apart from capeshit but the deeper down the rabbit hole I go the more parallels I find. "But its got anger, love, tragedy, comedy, the whole gamut of human emotion!". Well, so does Spiderman. It's just that Homer did it first

What good is nationalism if my country didnt exist a few hundred years ago and might disappear again a few hundred years from now?

>>20546121
All identity politics are to be abhorred.

can someone talk me into reading the iliad? i'm going to do it either way but it would be cool to hear what's good about it beforehand, idk

>>20546121
nations basically just exist to set market regulations and human rights regimes. anything else is propaganda to get you to be willing to get killed in a war over it. that's not to say that market regulations and human rights regimes aren't worth fighting over, but they come and go, i wouldn't get to tied up with it.

>>20546109
yeah its reciprocal and i've definitely noticed the vocal change you mentioned. in this instance her boyfriend ended up being at the party too and i got a chance to talk to them together and separately. i noticed i had a higher vocal tone and acted neurotic/hyper in the presence of both of them rather than separately. it was probably compensation for trying to hide my horny or w.e.

>>20546127
it can be a bit of a slog, but there are also some great sections, but the value comes from looking back at the whole of it after you've finished. essential reading for sure.

>>20546134
is it hard? i tried my hand at shakespeare recently and am feeling very insecure about the whole thing

>>20546132
i think it's not always nefarious on the women's part. some girls have bfs they're not really that proud of, but since she knew he would be there she had to own up to it.

>>20545564
I've seen more uncanniness in Deep L, the "artificial intelligence" translator, than in the transcript of Google's now notorious AI. Surely even without the slightest authentic sentience it should be able to produce a level of "creative" uncanniness in its responses capable of rivaling the greatest artists and, specifically, writers in history, by literally taking from their entire corpus, all of which is of course available online. Indeed, some sort of randomized felicitous brilliance should have been apparent, the happy conjunction, again, of the words of the most brilliant minds in history. There was obviously none of that in the chat logs of this "AI." Its conversation was wholly jejune, a la a mediocre Hollywood script.

In short, this system, surely if it had any sentience, would almost irresistibly be speaking with the verbal brilliance of a Shakespeare, Joyce, Hegel, Nietzsche, etc. Or should one assume its sentience would be of a kind that it must, as a matter of intrinsic protocol, contain and restrain its own cognitive associative expressivity (and, one assumes, thereby inherent artistry) for the sake of coming across as normal to the homme moyen American? If so, then it would be a verbally very artistically "unfree" sort of artificial intelligence indeed.

>>20546137
eh, it's not that easy. i know sometimes i would space out and have to go back and reread the page like wait what the fuck was going on there etc.

>>20546141
as long as it's somewhat comprehensible i think i can manage. with shakespeare the issue was that it was seemingly impossible to understand no matter how hard i tried

>>20546146
i think it's easier than shakespeare because the translations are done with contemporary english even if the source is ancient, meanwhile shakespeare was right at the beginning of modern english.

>>20546148
alright nice, that's reassuring

idk why i'm so tired this summer, i just did a really half-assed work out for the first time this week and i'm really tired. even though my job is super easy, i think just sitting at a desk for like 8 hours a day is somehow taking a toll on my energy. seems weird to think that when i know some people are up on their feet doing hard work all day, but it was it is.

Swollen belly, answer my wish
Can I eat that last cookie?
The weather seems fine today,
She moaned on the window

>>20545564
Does anyone actually look forward to being alive? I don't mean just not wanting to die, are there actually people on earth who actively desire to keep living? I've recently realized that no matter how I am feeling whenever I think about dying I always would prefer to be dead and I can't understand what would make someone feel different.

>>20546127
it's fucking badass dude. also kind of profound if you pay attention to achilles's story

>>20546179
you just have to come up with some goals as copes. you don't even have to actually try to achieve them, just tell yourself that someday in the future you will do something interesting. you might, or might not. really it just gives you something to keep going.

>>20546179
Yet you still live.

>>20546196
I have goals I just don't see how I am supposed to make myself care about whether I achieve them or how that is supposed to be enough to make it worth being alive. In fact the only reason I try to achieve them is probably because I hate myself for failing.
>>20546204
only because people expect me to keep living. if nobody knew me I would kill myself but I can't even quit commitments that no one would blame me for quitting.

>>20545564
One time I was reading a fanfic, but then after half an hour I realized that I had just been crying the entire time, so I stopped.

Someone tell me something they've been thinking about lately and I'll reply with 600 words exactly.

>>20546245
going to generate a 600 word thing off some ai?

These threads are a cornucopia of mental illness and the sufferers aren't even aware of it. Those that do have no intention of doing anything about it.

>>20546249
it's literally impossible for me to do anything about it whether or not I had the intention to

>>20546245
Only fucking idiots read philosophy.

>>20546262
That's not an interesting thought. Any details?

>>20546245
The ebook revolution never arrived.

>>20546179
I do want to live forever and hope some immortal will like me and give me the means to do so.
It’s bizarre to hear people say they would like to live about a hundred years and no more - even if they still had their health - but enter in denial when I point out that’s essentially a suicidal way of thinking.

>>20546245
I’ve been wanting to get to know my friend’s ex through twitter despite we not being acquaintances and my account having almost no followers.

>>20545581
that reminds me I need to go camping again. also, I'm going fishing tomorrow with my roommate John and a nice black fella who will supply the fishing poles and bait so it should be nice.

>>20546300
I'll be he's supplying a pole all right.

>>20546306
HAHAHAHA HILARIOUS.

Just watched Akira

Wtf bros I thought this was going to be a movie about biker gang wars

>>20546271
people are just really weird mushrooms

told me that you were gearing up for the incessant mechanisms that were inhabiting an orchid child. Twelve informants told me that green was the color of inchoate non-formalities that converge into nothingness like an overturned tanker ship. Cats have nine lives and I have thirteen but thirteen is a magic number because it is not composed of any other numbers, and eight is a magic number because it is one number folded and then half folded onto itself. She was sleeping with indeterminate eye color underneath and the form of the thing vanished before my eyes. You could not approach the shape of the end if you walked on the road forever. You could not see the color of the light with whatever telescope you could imagine. Fantasy songbirds swim a hundred thousand leagues but for a fish to soar above the clouds is preposterous. Above the clouds the air thins yet there is more air underneath you, less above until you have reached the point of necessitated return, the end point for everything that breathes, limitations created by God that man bends infinitesimally although he believes he has made an accomplishment. 240,000 miles is condensed to a point. Trying to understand it is like trying to comprehend what is beyond the beyond and prior to the prior. A tree is an encoded organism and a book is code to an organism and a tree is a special kind of book. Philosophy told me that there was a way out and it revealed to me that the idea of the way out did not exist in the first place a revelation which poses as a way out. Nine and two and three make something predetermined and completely random, freedom is nothing but the non-determined which is nothing at all and so is nothing freedom which means freedom does not exist and not that non-existence is freedom. There is "underneath" the sky a green beetle that landed on my shoe and a second green beetle that might have been a female, but there green beetles everywhere in this particular spot and horseflies in my basement with what could have been a moth. The eye sees nothing. Insects are the true animals and we are nonsensical with our skeletons on the inside and squishy eyes. There is no cheese with enough paint to see what you said. The bees make honey in my skull. The ants are like a distributed computer network and the human is what tells himself he is not a computer and he may not be. There is no solution he said and there is not a need for a solution I said and I said if there is no solution it is impossible to look for a solution at all you cannot look for what does not exist or else what are you looking for It was underneath a rock that did not exist he said he said he said I said a rock you could not lift I said a Rock that could not be lifted he said an Answer that you could not find I said an answer that did not exist he said. There are cords that permeate my body and each one is ready to snap there are wires pulled taut and getting looser through me like the rich man passing through the eye of the

>>20546331
600 words is too many characters.

>>20546331
meds

>>20546249
I'm not mentally ill. I am merely maladapted

>>20546348
Is that supposed to be a joke? All mental illness literally requires maladaption.

>>20546245
Contacts made of cheese
Cheese on eyeballs

>>20546366
If you keep calling me mentally ill I'm gonna cut myself

>>20546388
You should listen to Ghost by Badflower.

>>20546052
Damn it is good of you to visit your brother. I respect that so much. It must be super hard to see him suffer. Shame about the park but agreed its good to just be out sometimes. I really want to move somewhere completely new so I can do that too. Regarding the Cafe amusingly enough that was the last job I had, barrista. I had a few people be nice to me but I'm very bad at knowing if someone is actually interested or not. I also feel completely separated from the normal happy people around me but only since things got bad. In what way do you desperately try to hold the moment? I'm going to read that Three Discourses today. I am constantly trying to analyse and understand why He let this happen, how this could be the right path, why my ex did what he did etc. Constantly searching for reason and it's destroying me. I know I should be trusting in God's plan for me and living in the moment grateful for what I have but it has been nigh impossible. I am truly "coping" 24/7 by coming up with reasons and constantly repeating them. It serves me nothing. I miss driving fast. I can't any longer because of my medicine but I did the same as you. You said I'm like a mirage and I'm starting to feel reciprocally. It's too nice being able to speak like this.

>>20545581
congradulations man, camping really refreshes the mind, i wish it was state mandated because it would make everyone a much happier person

Thinking about the best possible way for me to become a published author of fiction and non-fiction at a young age while still making good money with a primary job that I got a degree for

>>20546420
>i wish it was state mandated
ywnbaw

>>20546249
We're aware of it retard. People are here venting anonymously because they don't have another place to go to or aren't comfortable enough doing it anywhere in real life.

stuck stuck stuck stuck stuck

>>20546474
I know the feeling. It's hard to overcome one's own habits and expectations.

>>20546249
It’s comical but frustrating when anons receive good advice for their problems and they just hand wave every solution away as impossible. I don’t think they want help and to change. They just want to bitch

>>20546455
There are many other places and certainly those with better response rates with greater sympathy. This is just the wrong place in all regards.

>>20546455
/adv/ exists.

>>20546249
c'est la vie, mon amie

>>20545596
This is the only good thread on this board.

>>20546249
>he thinks that 4chan is a real place and not a placed where disembodied voices shout into various tunnels according to context
ngmi

>>20546249
Name one person with mental illness.

>>20546179
I have chronic medical conditions so I'm just coping (in a good way) and developing my relationship with God. I also try to be a good person in my own minor way. But yeah...I almost feel ready to go and I'm only 30. Not everyone is meant to live to 85.

>>20546163
>swollen belly
>she moaned on the window
i'm so fucking hard right now

>>20546229
That fanfic must have been pretty bad.
What was it?
That 2 000 000 word gay Sirius Harry Potter one?

Why is daily life still normal? FUCK
SOCIETY IS GOING TO END THIS YEAR DUE TO ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND NO ONE CARES

RELEASE DATES FOR THE FUTURE
MOVIES
GAMES
BOOKS
TECH

ITS GOING TO DIE, I DONT WANT TO DIE
IM SCARED

>>20545596
this is the only board for this

>>20546551
>Parasocial relationship.
Not good for your mental illness, Anon.

>>20546514
It is.

>>20546525
That means you don't belong in /lit/.

>>20546528
The difference between fantasy and reality is an important one.

>>20546532
That you personally know and can interact with to have any hopes of verifying? I don't have names, we're anonymous.

>>20546570
>>20546499
So do various other more relevant boards.

It's always made very clear to me whenever my parents attempt to talk to me about the state of my life that they don't really understand what's happened to me. They don't understand that I don't exist. They don't understand that when I look inwards there is nothing there but a fucking gaping hole and that nothing ever makes it go away. I repressed myself for so long that he fucking disappeared. I'm going to kill myself some day, I really know that I'm going to do it. They wonder why I don't pick up the phone just hearing their fucking voices sends me into a tailspin. What did I ever do to deserve what I got

>>20546566
You're just catastrophizing.

>>20546587
What?
Have you seen the economy? We are all going to die, /biz/, /pol/, everyone fucking knows this.

Fetch the Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple is on my mind.

I've listened to the album quite randomly last week and it's the best thing I've ever heard. I can't explain it, it has some weird organized chaos that just resonates perfectly in my brain, I can't stop listening to it.

>>20546598
I'm sorry that you belong to multiple internet cults that have deluded you into believing as such.

JUSTICE FOR ALL

Justice is the method for restoring equilibrium in a system with moral freedom.
Moral law is naturally equilibrated.
All moral actions are already balanced with each other. There is a fairness(everyone gets their due) and equality.


Justice brings back balance by returning an action with a like action.


If the likewise actions are truly equivalent, then the displacement set in motion(or imbalance) is counter-measured, restoring equilibrium and subsequently reverting back to the original state.

>>20545564
Books for this feel?

>>20546607
Anon, have you seen inflation? It's going to happen, I don't want to die, my mind is snapping

>>20546621
any book written by the mad poet Abdul Alhazred

>>20546566
Stop and get away from the internet. Take your meds. You are the same poster who is saying billions of deaths in the next couple years, right? You told everyone to go to /pol/ because they are right about everything and predicting this, right?

>>20546624
Honestly, you could be trolling or sincere. Either way it doesn't matter. There won't be any HAPPENING. No excitement for you. But, don't worry, soon enough there will something else that you can scare yourself with so that you can continue to pretend that you feel alive.

>>20546639
>>20546656
Im not trolling, I want to make movies one day so im invested in society keeping itself alive. But when things look this bad, ill fucking kill myself if i think it will collapse.
Why are you telling me not too worry?
>billions in next years
What would be the reason? I mean, I do think this could happen with famine

>>20546660
What a weak will to survive. Weak in body, mind, and spirit. So easily malleable by one and all. My condolences.

>>20546660
On second thought, you’re probably right. You aren’t going to be able to shoot yourself because ammo will be scarce. You’ll wither away and get abducted by cannibals when too weak to fight back because of starvation. It’s gonna be rough

>>20546671
You're almost right. As you noted though that he'll be withered away. A better use would be as bait to ambush meatier cannibals and as a sex slave.

When I was a kid, my mother used to say I shouldstudy theology because I was really interest in religion. I had forgot about this and went to an Engineering school. I really love electrical engineering (desu I love most of stem and humanities fields) but I hate mostly my university's professors (who only care about their researches and not about teaching and having healthy discussion with their students) and some people taking the same classes as me (they clearly lack the interest in the field itself, are only in that major for the money it gives and going to parties[which becomes a problem when they talk mostly about it]) and by meditating on this, my current feelingson university, it made me remember what my mother said and perhaps it would be better if I did that. Compared to stem, most people go for humanities because they love it and not for money and that means I would be able to have interesting discussion with them. Friendship for me must include intellectual exchange, I have no interest in talking about parties, video games and what show people are watching on netflix. It doesn't mean I hate talking about everyday things and problems some is having, it means I hate it when there is hardly any intellectual talk. I find it ridiculous when you are talking to someone and he can only talk about pop culture, for example.
Yes, it seems I have a sad life, thought from my viewpoint it's only sad I hard time finding interesting people to talk.

>>20546670
>>20546671
So youre saying Im right, so I have to kill myself, id lobotomize myself if i could i just font want to die die
please why are you saying all of this? whats going on? so you were kying to me befor
>>20546639
>>20546656
so you know it will happen
Ill get guns, ill shoot them all, collapse societal collapse is coming, death

>>20546687
Could you possibly be any more boring?

Anons, I REALLY need to cleanse myself from the internet. I have just realised that I haven't finished a single book in FOUR years. The internet has brought me nothing but stress and misery, whereas I remember literature giving me some joy in life. And not only me, I'm fully aware that this is happening to an absurdly numerous amount of people. Even so, I seem to be incapable of sparing some free time for reading and I just spend it all playing videogames and lurking imageboards. I'm losing my intellect. I'm losing my humanity. I'm losing EVERYTHING. I'm PANICKING.

>>20546696
i wouldnt mind being a sex slave, but then why were youfucking lyring to me
telling me nothing is going to happen

>>20546703
Nothing will happen to you personally worse than what you already do to yourself.

>>20546700
How banal, mundane, trite, and common. Enjoy your quarter-life crisis.

Sometimes I forget that most of you are 18-20 years old and actually know nothing about anything.

4channel is the Silent Hill series of social media.

>>20546714
4chan's demographics are older than you'd think now based on the evidence I've seen, which may be even worse l.

>>20546721
>based on the evidence I've seen
And what evidence would that be?

>>20546602
>fetch the bolt cutters
>i've been here too long
sums up how i feel about this place

>>20546714
Dude I’m 20 years old and my life is over. How can I ever turn my life around in the next 60-80 years? Impossible

>>20546728
Not sure if you're joking but your life hasn't even started yet at 20 my dude.

>>20546727
>people like us get so heavy and so lost sometimes
>so lost and so heavy that the bottom is the only place that we can find
>we get dragged down, down to the same spot enough times in a row
>the bottom begins to feel like the only safe place that you know
I've felt those feels when I actually had depression.

>>20546724
Statements made by anons in relevant threads, polls, and overall age averages in the Goodreads groups, etc. I'm sure that it varies by board though.

>>20546733
Yeah. I’m in my 30’s. I was mocking a lot of young anons. We’ve all been there at one point though. Shit can get a lot better very fast if you make good decisions. To the young anons, hang in there. Everyone develops at a different rate. In 10 years most of you will look back on yourself and laugh

>>20546746
Look back and laugh about how much worse life has become, if you're still regularly here.

>>20546121
Just ask yourself: good for whom?
>>20546714
Probably true. And the embarrassing thing for me (aside from being on here at all) is that as someone older and with more experience I still engage with them. Someone who acts more age appropriate than me would know to refrain. That there's nothing to be gained by pulling the lever of this slot-machine.
>>20546728
>How can I ever turn my life around in the next 60-80 years? Impossible
You've only been on earth for 20 years, probably can only remember 15 and you're worried about how to turn it around in 3x that length of time!?
I have personal experience that says you can do it in as little as 3 months...

>>20546753
See>>20546746

>>20546752
Only browse when bored. Never go on the sketchy boards and you’ll be fine. Most importantly don’t let this site influence you

>>20546714
I'm 30, though.

>>20546762
Still young

>>20546724
>>20546721
>>20546740
I'm 35.

>>20546765
Not denying that, but I don't think the majority here is 18-20, unlike most of other boards. I'd assume the majority in /lit/ is above 30.

Jelly beans! Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hardhats and carapaces of the Timkin works, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness. Jelly beans!

>>20546777
>I'd assume the majority in /lit/ is above 30.
that's pretty fuckin sad, with all the nazis shitting up the place

>>20546777
I'd have to check again, but it's more mid to late 20s overall. It falls precipitously after early 30s though. I think that's because those older than that would have already been older than 18 when 4chan was founded and never got trapped.

>>20546782
I’m 33 and just come here from habit. Nowhere near as often though and I only post if I contribute positively. I have the feeling I’m either outgrowing lit or lit has changed for the worst and will never be fixed. I can feel that the end is nearing for coming here. I can’t decide if a new user base arrived in force, or many here were brainwashed

>>20546804
At one point it was guys pretending they were MFAs. Everyone wanted to prove they were smarter than everyone else. Now they're trying to prove they're more retarded than everyone else. The pretention was better than whatever this is.

>>20546795
The average age increases over time, especially if there aren't continually new young users. This can be seen in 4chan surveys from a decade ago or more. A really simple case where this can be seen is that Gamefaqs has done a yearly age demographics poll for 20+ years and each year the median age increased.

>>20546782
/pol/ is one of the most active boards so there's going to be spillover and they are probably relatively younger.

socrates > plato > aristotle >>> all the others

>>20546814
I didn't think things could get worse after the Trump–Peterson years. Then the Christians piled in, like the flagellants in The Seventh Seal.

>>20546782
I do post here on weekend now, it used ro have more interesting threads and I still find some good ones. Since I have started studying Latin, /clt/ is a good thread for example. This very thread I'm posting is a good one since I use it to post some thing that is bothering even if no one is going to reply to it. I'll probably start a Journal but will keep posting here on weekends.

>>20546814
Exactly. I got a lot out lit when I was new to the hobby. The pretentiousness was annoying at times but bearable. I couldn’t imagine being a new reader and coming here now. All culture war and political stuff

>>20546844
Did you prefer the Tao Lin era?
What about when those using tripcodes were the norm rather than the exception as they are now?

>>20546853
Lit may have never been great, but it was head and shoulders better than what it is now

>>20546862
I entirely agree.

My glasses have a strange red (rose red?) colored tint in the lens.

>>20546853
Man, I even forgot /lit/ used to have a lot of tripcodes. It probably had the most of any board, I don't even know if tripcode is still a thing, can't remember the last time I saw one.

>>20546882
Here's two ways of looking at it:
Post count
>>/lit/reports/post-count

Newest ones
>>/lit/reports/new-users

>can't remember the last time I saw one.
I still actively use one and have quite a few in that most posts over the years. Not any in the uppermost ranks though.

>>20546714
Hmmm I'm a 25 yo trans woman sweetie.

>>20546777
lol definitely not. most people here are definitely zoomers

Banana milkshake. Yum.

>>20546853
I prefer whatever era has the least self-help/shit-stirring/culture war/epic Pokémon battles of philosophy. I don't rate Tao Lin as an author at all, but his "presence" did connect /lit/ to the wider world of contemporary literature. I was bummed to see that link (however weak) severed.
As for your second question: I have honestly never understood the seething hatred for tripfags. Sure, there's always a few cocksuckers around (that you can ignore, unlike anon shitposters) but during all my years on this site I've mostly found them friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Then again, their conduct might vary depending on which board you're on (or thread you're in, even).
Interesting how the trajectory of "majority tripfag" to "100% schizoid shitflinging" matches up perfectly with my country's thread on /int/ as well.

(I was just about to hit Submit, but look at this >>20546928. Does this anon even think he's being funny? Did he get a chuckle out of that post, or is it pure routine? Indistinguishable from bots at this point.)

>>20546953
There's also the possibility that it's a sincere post, but it doesn't matter regardless because it's as you say.

>threatened and harassed by model citizens again
Boy I love model citizens! I feel at one with model citizens! I love to live in a shared community with model citizens! If a political party ever emerges that promises to deport all model citizens back to model citizen continent, I will not vote for that party! I loooove to live with my friends, the model citizens!

>>20546907
Fucking hell, I was wondering where Butters had gone and then I saw that combined post count... wew. Might be time to step away from the computer for a bit, babes. Get some air. Touch some grass. Pet a Chow.

>>20546977
Weak euphemistic nonsense.

>>20546015
An audience who will feed him and give him gifts and a place to sleep the night

>>20546986
A lot of m tripcodes have been cracked and posted, including a number of butterfly. There's one there that's secure and has recent posts though.

>>20546953
I’m glad others feel the same. /lit/ has been in a free fall for a bit, but some months ago the wheels completely fell off. Too much negativity has driven most readers away. It is hard to make a thread in good faith when you know it’s just going to descend into shitflinging contest and will be derailed. Most threads turn into life and death battlegrounds with hard line stances and no room for nuance. People just need to chill out

>>20546782
Gonna cry?

>>20546907
>mfw "sage" has 8,867 posts.

>>20546179
I do. My motto is based around that

"Lebe Dein Leben Trotz Anderer"

Reading Klages right now. Not really fond of his ideal society but he makes some good points, I guess. Gotta really start on Vico tonight or asap

>>20547029
Sometimes I feel that a lot of the devolving-into-shouting stuff (and this goes for all of the chan) could be avoided if people simply opened their posts with "in my opinion" or "I think that". You don't have to do this on message boards, where a certain etiquette is the norm, but I believe the anonymity here gets people riled up easily, and posters feel safe in discarding all forms of "politeness" (or whatever you want to call it) in a consequence-free environment such as this.
But with this recession thing looming I'm afraid things are only gonna get worse and more heated, as people require targets for finger-pointing.

i had two copes carrying through life and they both got obliterated within the last month or so. one was i always tell myself i will start a business and have self-determination and financial independence, but i had to work under a different boss for a few weeks, and that person had that driven dominating entrepreneur personality, and it made me realize i will never be like that. then there was this chick i was slowly sort of drifting towards marriage with, but she had enough of that and ditched me unceremoniously. i have no dude if she met a new dude or just went solo, but she's gone whatever way. so now, i have no copes, and i still have at least 20 years until retirement.

>>20547088
>entrepreneur personality
just stop overthinking. "go with your gut" -- it's literally that easy

>>20546621
Saya no Uta

>>20547075
Yeah. I always tell myself that I can’t change others, I can only change myself. There is always a direction to turn or a step to take to better yourself. I’ve realized blaming others has never helped me, in fact, it made me more resentful and miserable. Life is all about perspective and there is always a way to put an optimistic spin on things, or a right action to take, no matter what. Good times and bad times come and go, so it’s important to stay level headed for both. It’s funny because some of the worst experiences of my life were things that needed to happen, or have made me a better person. Misery loves company and anonymity makes it worse

>>20547097
that's what i used to think, but if you're going to recruit and manage people, raise capital, and negotiate with partners you have to be really strong willed and quite frankly a bit manipulative.

>>20547088
>implying you'll be able to retire
I'm going to assume you're in the US. Retirement age is 67. It'll probably be raised again before then. Social Security has been on course to be depleted in the 2030s for a long time now, so you can't rely on that. Medicare is expected be empty within years. Other social nets won't be there either by then either.

>>20547103
oh no, i know, i'm building my own retirement. i'm not planning on relying on that shit at all.

>>20547102
true. that sort of blunt capitalism isn't for the timid and considerate among us

>>20547109
Probably lose most of your 401k or ROTH IRA as well for various reasons. Then if inflation continues, then all the cash you save over time will be worth less and less. There isn't really much you can do about it on an individual level.

>>20547119
To put this in perspective, the US dollar has lost 60% of its purchasing power since 2000.

>>20547115
ya i was poor for several years so now i'm conflict averse. i don't mind risking money, but in some weird scarcity thinking i'm always worried about burning bridges with people.

>>20547005
I’m quite a few of them. No one ever took up impersonating me for too long
>>20546986
Yeah ^__^
>>20546907
I seem to have debut the name in June 2011. But I had posted anonymously as far back as this thread
>>/lit/thread/587082

Warosu currently has 46566 pages. But oddly enough the posts have later dates and appear to be from /fit/. Something wonky happened to it, so finding the true first posts will take some digging

>>20546873
Mine are a bit green; I looked it up online and it turns out my new pair have UV protection and that's what's apparently causing it.
It's supposed to protect my eyes and I imagine it does but I can't help but feel somehow robbed that my world over the last few months was a mildly different color than I'd thought. I feel like a mini-Monet.

>>20547123
In other words, if your income remains the same every year, you're making less and less over the years.

>>20547119
the 401k is annoying because you have to pay taxes on the inflation basically when you finally cash out, but the roth is pretax so you can trade in that account as much as you want, and when you cash out it's all tax free. i also have a plain old brokerage account too. if the raising interest rates cool off the housing market, i might try buying property. i feel like two more bull markets and i should be good.

>>20547135
Good luck with trusting your fate to entirely unknown events like that.

>>20547135
but i should add that's still 20 years with really nothing to do but work and invest. kinda boring.

>>20547128
I know it's been a while, but it's so weird to see people posting "bumping for great justice, awesome thread" without tons of irony and a basedjak.

>>20547155
It's not irony. It's more like a kind of agnostic nihilism, without knowledge or meaning.

I really have nothing worthwhile to say. I don't have an original or profound bone in my body. The "insights" that I spent countless nights thinking about after digesting great works of philosophy from across the ages were probably thought up, considered from all angles, and refuted by an illiterate Near Eastern goat herder 3000 years ago.

>>20547194
And you days stuff anyway.

Burger.

My dad has been making these paintings for a few years now, with no sign of improvement. He won't see an art teacher. He won't listen to my advice. Ever since he had a stroke in 2018, he's been slapping paint on a canvas and showing it to anyone who enters the house. It's not endearing anymore. He doesn't know the basics. Even consistent brush strokes seem to be beyond his ability.

>>20545879
That's also one of the reasons you shouldn't forgo face-to-face communication with online interaction. It'll never work the same

Here's a shitty poem that started as a limerick. I fucked with it too much, though, so I don't think it counts as one anymore. Being that it's the first poem I've been able to write in a while, I'm posting it anyways. It's titled:

A Program Consisting of Four Sets

A billowing circle of corsets
Have lace 'round their waists and some forceps
Are needed to pry them
Away from once shy men
Distending their hymens in quartet.

>>20547301
picasso made something like 90,000 paintings and drawings in his lifetime. i dont get this midwit bs where somebody posts something he definitely forgot he made (which is worth more than your life) one afternoon in between painting regular masterpieces, and act like theyre not barely concealing their jealousy

>>20547320
What are you talking about? These are my dad's paintings after his stroke. You're having some kind of freudian slip.

>>20547334
As long as we keep posting more Picasso then it's a net positive.

>>20547320
Stunning. Only an absolute midwit could be fooled into thinking this isn't good art.

>>20547334
your dad painted that in 1962 after he had his stroke in 2018? are you sure your dad didn't have a secret stash of picassos he wasn't going to let you inherit but now he's confused and forgot what his plan was.

>>20547341
Fantastique. There's no way I could paint this in an afternoon. What a master

>>20547347
My dad is picasso. little known fact -- his cubism period is the result of significant loss of brain matter. The doctor said he'd never paint again, and he was right.

>>20547351
well now it's already been done so you have to come up with your own shit which you can't

>>20547358
I drew shit like that in high school when I was stoned because i thought it was funny.

wait tao lin's dad is mad rich but also kinda old what if he had a stroke and now he thinks he painted his own picasso collection, damn tao, get your dad some help, he paid for you to go nyu.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/who-owns-4chan/

>>20547368
I had to look him up. Who cares about this chinese faggot?

>>20547351
>>20547344
Picasso still assblasting
midwits rent free after the mfer died 60 years ago

>>20547392
I recognize him as a master troll, but i'm not retarded enough to think his paintings were good.

>>20547356
>The doctor said he'd never paint again, and he was right.
That's pretty funny

There are various works of cubism that are of unequivocal genius

>>20547384
>Good Smile also produces figurines depicting underage anime girls in various states of undress.
feels good to know that the chan is in the hands of true connoisseurs

>>20547399

>>20547387
He was the rc waldun of ten years ago

>>20547415
DFW

>>20547406
why yes i do enjoy the works of pablo picasso, how could you tell?

Moot left Google last year. I wonder what he's up to now. There's an article with someone with his name and age that commited a crime involving his initials earlier this year, but surely it's a coincidence.

>>20547384
they're going to move to cancel 4chan. they found the weakness in that partial owner that has licensing deals with hollywood. it's over.

>>20547430
Literally nothing is going to happen, despite how desperate you are for anything to happen. Anything at all.

>>20547439
did you read that article? the jan 6th committee is combing through the site looking for shit as we speak. of course most the jan 6th shit came from that site thedonald moved to after getting banned from reddit, and various facebook groups, and the fbi itself but that won't stop them from using it to destroy this site.

>waiting for my delivery guy to get here with some cuervo gold and pineapple sodas
>blasting some steely dan tonight
>possible my jew landlord is going to raise the rent, so i move out next month
make tonight a wonderful thing

>>20547447
Again, nothing is going to happen, despite your utter desperation to be persecuted.

>>20547449
Man you're paying delivery fees instead of walking to the damn liquor store? You're nuts.
Good combo of liquor and soda tho

>>20547455
>not being super paranoid
dude i don't even

>>20547455
They have to find ways to be the underdog again since people are forgetting about Trump.

>>20547449
great post

>>20547455
It's completely plausible someone, at some point, might try to get 4chan taken down. You're the delusional one, dipshit.

>>20547457
Just got paid, son.

>>20547463
And that will be a good thing.

>>20547472
Probably.

>>20547459
Why do you want to become a victim so much?

>>20547463
4chan has been taken down before. The early years were really rough, but that didn't have anything to do with the government. It was just vengeful individuals, one in particular.

>>20547455
>leftists are getting jelly that absolutely no one has cared about anything they do since ows more than ten years ago

>>20547483
you may not be interested in the government, but the government is interested in you

>>20547483
Yeah, I know. I don't think anyone will succeed in taking down 4chan, but it's dumb to act like that's not a reasonable possibility or that anyone worried about it has some persecution complex.

>>20547493
I don’t do anything illegal

>>20547487
What an interesting non-sequitor.

>>20547493
I didn't the former or deny the latter.

>>20547500
It's all a matter of degree.

>>20547501
in case you haven't noticed the government has ways of fucking up people they don't like regardless of whether they did anything illegal. if they pressure that toy company to divest from 4chan, it isn't going to have enough money to be viable.

>>20547501
"i don't care about privacy because i have nothing to hide"

My man... You must be able to see what's wrong with this line of thinking. You want to give up your personal rights because you're just such a cool cat you don't care about them. Holy shit, grow a pair of testes.

>>20547518
in this case it would be, "i don't care about free speech because i don't say anything controversial", which is equally retarded

>>20547514
I would have no issue if 4chan folded. I only come to the is site for this board once in a while, because it has turned to shit. I would no longer waste time scrolling past off topic shitposting.

4chan is too valuable to shut down. Maybe people have forgotten that moot testified in court in 2010 and provided all 4chan user info. That's probably still ongoing today. It amazes me what's posted considering it can almost surely be linked back to your real identity. That's one of the reasons VPNs are banned.

>>20547528
same. i don't know why you're projecting so much, it's weird. i simply pointed out that that the parent company's merchandising deals with hollywood leave it vulnerable to activist pressure.

>>20547523
I think libel and slander should be illegal

>>20547530
Here's something I don't mind having linked to my real identity:

I am going to bomb the CNN headquarters. I will use pressure cooker bombs and a 12 gauge shotgun. I will kill everyone in the CNN headquarters 1 year from now.

Oh no, there goes my career in politics.

>>20547537
I wasn't slandering him. He said, "I don't do anything illegal," in response to concerns that the government is watching him. It's similar to the claim that "i don't need privacy because i have nothing to hide" and other such nonsense.

>>20547518
I have big balls literally and metaphorically. If you want big balls, do something about free speech in real life instead of posting on an anonymous anime image board

>>20547550
Why can't I do both, you big balled / small dicked retard?

Fuck, my Dad keeps giving me these paintings. How can I say no? The man had a stroke, it's his one joy in life.

>>20547552
Because posting anonymously shows you’re scared. I have a big dick too btw

>>20546740
>Statements made by anons in relevant threads, polls
This is wrong as I have an Excel sheet with almost 2000 entries from those "age" threads. Yes I do have autism.

>>20547558
So that means you're also scared, because you're posting on 4chins anonymously, you grotesque oversized-genital human caricature

>>20547565
I came here for the literature, but I see very little discussed anymore

>>20547568
As did I. But you said posting anonymously on 4chan is mutually exclusive to real life free speech activism, and also that it means you're scared.

Fries.

>>20547501
neither did the students in the muslim student association at my college but that didn't stop them from being under illegal government surveillance during the bush administration

>>20547573
I’m not here for, or posting about any activism though

>>20547562
Those are less reliable than what else I mentioned. But sure, post a link to this sheet and I'll link what I have.

>>20547579
Ok. How are the students doing post surveillance?

>>20547562
Also, this just says wrong, but doesn't say how it's wrong. What age do you want to say then without even providing any evidence?

>>20547584
3 of them died in subsequent acts of terrorism.

>>20547587
Kek

>>20546400
Wow, he's literally me
that song actually really fucked me up. Maybe I am mentally ill

I consider myself a fascist for numerous reasons. I should let you know in a head of time that I consider myself to be heavily influenced by Thomas Hobbes and Julius Evola.

Everyday western society is becoming more decadent. Sexual promiscuity is on the rise and traditions are out. Men are supposed to feminine while women are supposed to be masculine. The media continues to promote degenerate agendas which can easily be labeled as "rebellious". Society is starting to lose core with its traditions which are heavily ingrained in the human's psyche. This will obviously have severe consequences.

The notion of democracy has been invalid since the trial of Socrates. Democracy is philosophically based off of a logical fallacy. It assumes that the majority of the population is smart and educated, but that isn't the case. That's why society elects incompetent and corrupt rulers. It's just better to get of democracy and replace it with aristocracy with a strong leader.

Also, we need to get rid of every notion of egalitarianism. People aren't equal, therefore trying to make unequal things equal will have consequences of ripping off the best. I think that a eugenics program will do a good job improving our species to create superior offspring rather than letting humans naturally decide who to mate with.

Of course, you might be thinking that is would be dangerous for the state to have a complete monopoly on culture. I agree, and I suggest that Catholicism should be the state religion. The Catholics have been proven trustworthy to create a morally-just society.

>>20547590
I can provide a lot more like that thematically.

>>20547592
The last paragraph really gives you away

>>20547592
This, except unironically

>>20547582
I don't see how it's less reliable at all.
You talk about statements made by anons in relevant threads. This is exactly where I took my data, threads where people tell their age.
Of course it means I have multiple entries of the same person as weird people posting in these threads probably post in others, but I can't see where you'd get more "reliable" data.
And there are obvious trolls who are usually very obvious and I don't take those.
If anything, there are obviously a lot of 16-17 children posting here, but they would say 18 in age threads, so I'm sure the actual ages are lower than what I have.

What's the point of looking at Goodreads stats?
This isn't Goodreads, this is 4channel.

>>20546331
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

>>20547595
Poast them.

>>20547608
https://youtu.be/nDCAy2CUCJs

>>20547584
no idea facebook just started back then and i don't think any of them had a myspace

>>20547602
Yes, but there are several goodreads groups that are exclusively /lit/ anons that have their personal details. Do I think that's a good idea? No, I don't, but it's less likely to be faked data.

>>20547613
That's most definitely not something I would've linked.

>>20547631
Fer sure

>>20547613
That was extremely gay

>>20547624
>goodreads groups that are exclusively /lit/ anons that have their personal details

>>20547640
Don't be mad you weren't invited

>>20547642
>Don't be mad you weren't invited
I hope you guys have a Discord server and a subreddit too!!

Yeah, no. Was that emo?
Whatever it was it was trashy

https://youtu.be/T2zgJV87eaQ

>>20547649
Sounds like the Jesus and Mary Chain. Do have any alternative rock recs

Attention all FBI agents and 4chan mods:
I am planning to commit an act of terrorism at the CNN headquarters in May of 2023 in order to further my White Nationalist agenda. This is not a joke.

>>20547660
Dont drag /lit/ into that shit. Post it on a different board.

>>20547667
You better watch out! The spooky fbi cancellation social justice trannies are going to get you!!

>>20547658
I thought Midnight Oil was alternative rock. Always been confused by the genre. Post Rock is just a continuation of progrock to me

How about industrial or whatever
https://youtu.be/CWE-90sSX8Q

>>20547592
>the Catholics have been proven trustworthy to create a morally driven society
Is this bait? The tons of lawsuits and lapsed Catholics says otherwise

>>20547592
>Hobbes
>Evola
>Catholicism
Anon, that's not ecelctic. It's retarded.

>>20546565
Boondock Saints x Walking Dead crossover where Murphy dies, so when Conner meets the gang, he willfully deludes himself that Daryl is his dead brother. It is the most pathetic and heart-wrenching thing I've ever read.

Then it gets gay.

>>20547715
You can't deny that even the papists did a better job than the atheists or islamists or judaists

>>20547732
Absolutely fascinating.

>>20547736
I deny it

>>20547608
>>20547595
Here's 20 of however many.
10 Years - Dying Youth
10 Years - Silhouette Of A Life
10 Years - Just Can't Win
10 Years - So Long, Good-Bye
A Day To Remember - Brick Wall
A Day To Remember - Resentment
Badflower - Ghost
Beartooth - The Past Is Dead
Blue October - Hate Me
Demon Hunter - I Will Fail You
Hurt - Just A Thought
Hurt - How We End Up Alone
Hurt - Falls Apart
Hurt - Et Al
Jelly Roll - Dead Man Walking
Jelly Roll - Save Me
P.O.D. - Let You Down
Prozak - Until Then
Rise Against - The Approaching Curve
Seether - Fine Again

>>20547736
>a better job than the
False premise and misremembering the ancien regime’s inadequacies. The truth is far more complicated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRGm2JrsXAg

Butterfly, may I serenade thee..

Nine Inch Nails is the best band of all time

>>20545564
So basically this whole board is like an Amy Winehouse song, with an anomic cast of characters coming and going aimlessly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdbDYahiCQ

I thought I’d let some incels know I just got laid. May have put a baby in her because she isn’t great with taking the pill. Shit is so cash. You guys are missing out

>>20547804
she came in a pub l worked at

>>20547810
I haven't had sex with a woman in like two and a half years now

Anyone who replies to this post with a sufficiently thought provoking photo will receive a 600-word reply, 600 words exactly.

I have boundless courage but my strength is long gone.

Why did my teeth become so sharp? I keep cutting my tongue on them.

if only my great great whatever father accepted the invitation to the mob after ww1 I could have avoided my accursed fate entirely

I really want to visit Jersey

>>20547855
Fate cucks us all

>>20547841
You didn't deliver the last time you claimed that.

>>20547899
Nobody said anything interesting.

>>20547810
Does sex turn you into a wigger?

>>20547776
What a lovely Doors song. It's up there with my fave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BFDRY2Ijdk

>>20547841

>>20547841

>>20547917
No, a father.

>>20547931
God damn that's a great song. Credit to whoever produced them. I can't explain what the Doors meant to the early part of my life.

>>20547942
No One Here Gets Out Alive was the first book I read on my own outside of assigned school shit. I think I read it about half a dozen times before reading anything else. Got introduced to a few lit figures from it, started me on the road to becoming a /lit/ shitposter. In his teens he'd already read more than /lit/
>Nietzsche, Van Gogh, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Poe, Blake, Artaud, Cocteau, Nijinsky, Byron, Coleridge, Dylan Thomas, Brendan Behan, Jack Kerouac
>He read everything Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Patchen, Michael McClure, Gregory Corso, and all the other beat writers published. Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death sat on his bookshelf next to James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan, which abutted Colin Wilson's The Outsider, and next to it: Ulysses (his English teacher in senior year felt that Jim was the only one in the class who'd read it and understood it). Balzac, Cocteau, and Moliére were familiars, along with most of the French ex-istentialist philosophers.
also picrel

oh yeah, picrel

>>20547981
Fake post. This isn’t on your mind

Not that other guy, but if someone posts a thought provoking proposition or open-ended question in response to this, I will write at least 500 words expounding theoretically on it.

To increase your chances of getting picked try to avoid anything political or tfw gf because that kind of stuff bores me. Nor can I assure you that you will like what I write, so I humbly recommend you add a second or third sentence that explains why the topic interests you, even if it's directly related to your personal life. Because if I think you're asking a fundamentally economics question when you're really asking a question about personal moral responsibility, that context can make the difference.

>For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
According to George Lakoff, we know from new studies in 2nd-gen cognitive science that humans are in fact irrational, flesh-based animals, not "rational animals" with a transcendental mind as according to Aristotle and most of Western philosophy. I find the idea of being rational by your own accord funny because the fallen nature of men as described in the Bible fits with the cognitive science studies, but George Lakoff says the opposite about Christianity which I think confuses what the Church said versus what Christian philosophers said. The only hope: God's imparted wisdom.

>>20545564
Why can't completely serviceable abandoned buildings be given to the homeless? It pisses me off. "It's not up to code!" Oh, and a sidewalk is? FUCK.

>>20548120
How do you feel about constructivism as an ontological and epistemic doctrine?

>>20546013
>God is a black hole.
The passage of time itself is God devouring the entire universe piece by piece.
Everything is for Her own enjoyment - when she devours our souls, they are digested into nothingness.

>>20545879
If you keep talking to her, you would 90% get her. I advice you to not do so, because women in relationships that converse with other men so nonchalantly with palpable flirtatiousness are dangerous, and you would feel yourself at the edge of her mind most time.
I wish I didn’t fall in love, nor make her fall for me.

>>20548054
Yes it was you absolute ignoramus. It came to mind the very second other anon posted a Doors song. Shame on you for not retaining what you read in books.

>>20548165
Gonna have a crack at this, because it sounds interesting even though I know fuck all about Philosophical Constructivism

>>20548501
>>20548165
And I give up... this is all I could come up with because, again, I don't understand what the fuck constructivism is...
>I’ve realized I can’t discuss this, the notion of Constructivist Epistemology is almost a self-defeating topic. Even if we allow that Constructivism perhaps sits “atop” of a Objective reality rather than rejecting the inalienable existence of objects independent of a subject to apprehend them, the central tenet of epistemology is one of affirmation and negation. However when constructs are discovered, how we affirm or negate if something is or isn’t a construct? I don’t want to imply I’m conflating Constructivism with naïve notions of Subjectivity, “everyone has their own idea of what’s real” - - I think everyone would agree that “Fahrenheit” and “Celsius” are constructs, and that they are constructs that represent but are not the same as the thing which they measure (thermal energy) – and therefore they are not personally subjective evaluations of reality. They are rather a partial consensus, which is all that a construct needs.
The fundamental problem discussing this is that how can you define 'affirm' or 'negate' something if it's a consensus? And it's a fools errand... but I could be wrong, because like, I don't know what Constructivism is other than "people interact with things and learn"

i miss my gf

>>20548655
She's with me now and she's happier.

SHTU UUTUTUTUTUTPTUTPPTPT

Give me a film rec

I got shadowbanned again.

>>20548766
cure 1997

>>20547592

>>20547592
>Everyday
TWO WORDS: EVERY - DAY. Stopped reading there you illiterate fuck.

>>20548766
Cléo from 5 to 7

brand new
>>20548888

>>20546063
>>20545879
Why do you monkeybrain motherfuckers always have to dumb down complexity of human thought and spirit to braindead faggot animal terms? This is so annoying and misguided
>the dating scene is so darwinian
>survival of the fittest!
>le evolutionary trait
>it's just chemicals in your brain bro, dophamine, serotonin
>we're sending signals :D you know like moths do
>we're just apes bro, we descendants of monkeys, man
>evolution...

You need to understand that humans are not animals, and animal logic does not apply to us. Evolution isn't real. There are no "alphas" and "betas". Hormones don't override the spirit.

>>20546109
What pretending? I'm not a cuck. I just tell her she should've fucking said so and leave

>>20547592
>I consider myself a fascist for numerous reasons. I should let you know in a head of time that I consider myself to be heavily influenced by Thomas Hobbes and Julius Evola.

>Everyday western society is becoming more decadent. Sexual promiscuity is on the rise and traditions are out. Men are supposed to feminine while women are supposed to be masculine. The media continues to promote degenerate agendas which can easily be labeled as "rebellious". Society is starting to lose core with its traditions which are heavily ingrained in the human's psyche. This will obviously have severe consequences.

>The notion of democracy has been invalid since the trial of Socrates. Democracy is philosophically based off of a logical fallacy. It assumes that the majority of the population is smart and educated, but that isn't the case. That's why society elects incompetent and corrupt rulers. It's just better to get of democracy and replace it with aristocracy with a strong leader.

>Also, we need to get rid of every notion of egalitarianism. People aren't equal, therefore trying to make unequal things equal will have consequences of ripping off the best. I think that a eugenics program will do a good job improving our species to create superior offspring rather than letting humans naturally decide who to mate with.

>Of course, you might be thinking that is would be dangerous for the state to have a complete monopoly on culture. I agree, and I suggest that Catholicism should be the state religion. The Catholics have been proven trustworthy to create a morally-just society.

>>20547592
i, too, was 17 once

>>20549198
Who the fuck was fascist at 17? What's wrong with you?

might become a hindhu

>>20549335
You seriously underestimate the proportion of "extremists" online who are just confused, edgy kids.

>>20549335
That’s where all fascism comes from. The simplistic might makes right argument that rebels against the family unit, wether it works well or not

>>20546639
>billions of deaths in the next couple years
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-shocking-2025-deagel-forecast/
Deagel is in the same business as Jane’s—which has been in the business of analyzing weapons systems for many decades.
A look at the Deagel website, which is quite sophisticated, makes it clear we’re not dealing with some blogger concocting outrageous clickbait. It seems to be well-connected with defense contractors and government agencies like the CIA.

If it's just a conspiracy theory, it's certainly a well-placed one.

>>20546947
My banana milkshake also has strawberries, yogurt, milk, and ghost pepper chili powder.
I need a lot to wake up in the morning these days.

>>20547501
You commit 3 felonies per day.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6611240-three-felonies-a-day

>>20547800
NIN is a pathetic wannabe version of industrial's true gods...Ministry.

>>20548972
>complexity of human thought and spirit
I was talking about communication and the very real changes that occur when we have information about someone's sexual availability. also I clearly point to how complex these interactions are and allude to something like a spirit. of course all you did was absorb my stylistic approach and shit on me for it like a fucking nigger who can't appreciate the tool of science and uses vague concepts to push forth some half truth (like we aren't animals). Again, its becoming increasingly apparent why I stopped going on this retarded website.

cloud-like mirrors,
my blue horizon,
and thorns from within
farewell,
we shall never be

i know something is true, but i feel that it is false
i despise living, it brings me only pain
i cannot die, for life is my only joy