/lit/ - Literature

Every day is a blessing.

thinking about my future big titty goth gf

Big dicks will rule the world

where is my mind

my brain has been balkanized

>>20558425
I had a dream where I was told that my neighbours 13yo daughter was attracted to me and that I should date her. I have had precognitive dreams in the past. What do I do?

>>20558524
Ask her father. Talk straight otherwise you'll look weak.

>>20558524
if I have nightmares again tonight I am going to be very upset.

>>20558524
anon that's just silly

>>20558524
that's hot

>>20558479
Im 30

>>20558529
I'm afraid he would not like the idea, and it's a small town so everybody would gossip about it.
>>20558535
I base a considerable amount of ethical decisions on dreams I have. I found a video game Easter egg doing this.

>>20558425
rococo projections and secret recesses in the mansion of forms

Six years ago I had a poetry collection published: a small, 120 page paperback, by a desirable large’ish ‘brand’ , we take half your profits, publisher. Since then I had a few poems in Granta, Poetry magazine and NYRB, and i’v been think of putting out another collection.

The Publisher claims ‘300 bookstores;, and did get me a few interviews, but the overall effect was just shy under 8 thousand copies , and thats with online sales.

A pittance. Poetry is unpopular, I get it, fine. But then it’s not worth the hassle. Now im thinking of how to go about self publishing, and finding an online presence. I can make a twitter account, but what then ? … IDK. Guess im just looking for some new platform, where there is opportunity.

>>20558425
Okay Lori.

Nine Inch Nails is the best band of all times

>>20558770
I know none of their songs.
I don't like noisy music.
Post a song I might like.

Books I just got in the mail:
>Moby Dick
>Hadji Murat
>The Death of Ivan Ilyich
>Siddartha
Which should I read first?

One thing i'll never understand due to autism is tattoos, my lib friends are covered in 'em now. they always show me their new ones but it's real hard to feign approval. like they're well done, and they might be mildly interesting, wow amazing it's the cat from Master & Margerita, but why does it need to be on your body.

>>20558783
None, just spend more time on 4chan.

>>20558798
I been thinking about tattoos as I kinda tolerate the ones where you belong to somekind of subculture (soldiers, bikers, gangs or tribes) or hide nasty scars like cutting tits due to cancer or chemical burns. Its so strange to see when nerdy guys ink themselves with tattoos.

>>20558798

I don't think it's autism that you don't understand it. I never understood tattoos because I had an instinct that the human body was sacred in some way, and shouldn't be altered like that.

When my life was going downhill, however, that's when I started considering tattoos, because I felt like imprinting something on me would help solidify my identity in some way. When I was younger, my identity was far more stable.

Now that I'm out of that period, and thankfully un-tatted, my sense of self-identity is stable enough to not even consider tattoos anymore.

>>20558866
>Its so strange to see when nerdy guys ink themselves with tattoos.
all those reddit bois who get a huge video game tattoos days after a game is released blows my mind. there was a bunch of those retards posted on /v/ in the days following the release of Elden Ring. yeah Malenia is hot and I would put my (very protected) penis inside of her but why do you need her fully tattooed on your arm forever?

>>20558866
I agree. They are fine as continuation of tradition and a sign of shared group identity. But it's silly when people have no identity beyond consumerism and then demonstrate that with their pop-culture tattoos. At the very least, get a proper piece of artwork on your skin instead of a brand of brand loyalty.

>>20558948
>proper piece of artwork
dont very small details fade out over time?

>>20558430
Hi alex

>>20558724
Shelf goals

>>20558425
Man, if only soviet people knew they could just enter a bookstore, go to the banned book area and read all those banned books.

>>20558524
>I have had precognitive dreams in the past.

same and it's fucking terrifying, wish there was any literature on this that wasn't insane

My mom divorced my father some years ago because she was in love with another man or some shit like that, she told my father and they broke up. My mother never told me about that man (she probably realized that I know what happened and the real reason for the divorce) but my father did. Now, my mom wants to go in vacation with me but she keeps talking on the phone with someone about this trip as if it will go with us and I have the impression that it's her bf (for which he divorced my father), of which I theoretically don't know about (yet) and I have the impression that he will come with us. What should I do? She didn't tell me anything about this yet so I can't tell her right now that I will not go but I swear that if that guy is coming I will not accept this, it makes me feel like a cuck for my father. I am already nervously shaking and I feel like punching someone in the face. What do you think about this very uncomfortable situation?

>>20559163
Unfortunately to keep a woman you have to engage in a lifelong romance to keep her satisfied, that's just their nature. Something like 72% of women when surveyed admit falling in love with the person they've had an affair with because their reasons for seeking out another person when they are already in a relationship are very different from a man's(emotional comfort vs physical comfort). I don't know how old you are but the fact that your parents never sat you down and talked to you about the situation is fucked up and normal cowardly woman behavior.

>>20558425
I thought he was on a unicycle, and I was prepared to be wildly impressed. now I'm just sad.

My boss consistently makes what is supposed to be an easy job a difficult one. I really cannot stand him.

>>20559163

Me and my ex divorced some years ago for similar reasons. My initiative, and my fault, but after a few unhappy years i did simply meet someone else. There were other problems, obviously, but who knows what we could have done with it had I chosen to give it another go.

And there were kids involved. In the end you can only hope that they forgive you. A loveless marriage is one thing, but knowing there is someone else who loves you makes it difficult to maintain.

I don't know your story but I hope you managed to forgive your mom, my kid did.

>>20559190
I hate women but my post was more about what should I do in this situation. Should I go in vacation even if that guy is coming? If so, I can't be sure that I won't punch him in the face, this whole affair turned me into a schizo.

>>20559163
You only have 3 options.
1) don’t go and avoid it altogether but it will come back eventually
2) go and risk having it sprung on you which I wouldn’t be happy about personally
3) ask your mother if it will just be the two of you and if she asks why you ask explain you overheard her on the phone and it sounded like she was inviting someone else so in other words be honest and direct
Personally, I would recommend 3. When I was a teenager, my mom did the same thing. She ended up inviting the new man to holiday dinner, which was extremely awkward and bizarre and we ended up leaving before we ever even had dinner. Had I known about it before hand I would’ve confronted her.

>>20559211
I wouldn’t personally. You have no choice but to let your mom date who she wants but you don’t have to spend time with them or vacation together like a happy family. That’s what your mom is trying to do probably. I mean, she means well. But modern women are just like that. Idk how old you are but if you’re a teenager I wouldn’t be surprised if she starts trying to turn you against your dad too so be on guard for that. I fell for it. I lost 11 years with my father that I will never get back.

>>20559209
I kind of forgave my mom but it is not likr before and it will never be again. As a kid I always used to be mommy's boy until that shit happened, I didn't start to hate my mom or something but I simply didn't care that much about my family anymore, I wish them to be happy and all but from a certain distance, since then I thought that I should first of all care about me, can't fully trust anyone else.

>>20559227
If you have siblings you should care about them. Otherwise, you’re totally right. Welcome to the cruel reality of modern women and parents.

I went through something similar myself. I did have that break phase. I didn’t see my father for 11 years. I barely saw my siblings. I regret both of those but I don’t regret maintaining some distance. There will probably come a day where your parents are aging, more helpless than before and you’ll want to close the distance but until then you’re a young man and you should forge off on your own.

>>20559219
>I wouldn’t be surprised if she starts trying to turn you against your dad too so be on guard for that
nah, not gonna happen, she doesn't have the courage to and was already very lucky that my father didn't beat the shit out of her bf cause he could do that very easily

>>20559239
Well, you’ll see. I would just be on guard regardless.

>>20558618
>just shy under 8 thousand copies

That's not too shabby for a book of poetry; and what you describe overall reflects quite an achievement. Few poets can make a living from their art, hence they teach.

>I can make a twitter account, but what then ? … IDK. Guess im just looking for some new platform, where there is opportunity.
I don't know much about that, other than the fact that some people "build up a brand," of themselves, essentially. Which may not be a practice consistent with the discipline of writing poetry.

>>20558457
Thinking about my current big tiddy goth gf. Cumrade, you can achieve this too.

>>20558800
Based and dubspilled

Random post but I don't know where to do it, does anyone have the name of the book that talks about how ancient society would collapse from sexual freedom or something? It was by an anthropologist and there was also a good post some philosophy guy made using it. Any help is appreciated and if this is the wrong place tell me where to post, please.

I'm tired.

>>20559278
I think you should make a thread, but there is nothing wrong with asking it in this one.

>>20559304
Thanks, I will wait like an hour than make one if no one responds

time goes too fast
it makes me desperate
we are already in june, I've done nothing

>>20558783
Moby Dick

>>20559198
> he

>>20558887
>I don't think it's autism that you don't understand it
>I had an instinct that the human body was sacred in some way, and shouldn't be altered like that
That's autism bro

Off boarder thread.
I turn my back for one night and you turn this thing into a /pol/ general

I'm only wageslaving to buy a robowaifu once they become available.

I was diagnosed with autism when I was 8, and my dad still doesn't know that I have it or what it even is.

I think in words and that means after a certain age my five senses became useless. Every word has become defined or definable from what I had already experienced.

I think in words and that means after a certain age my five senses became useless. Every word had become defined or definable from what I had already experienced.

>>20559265
>I don't know much about that, other than the fact that some people "build up a brand," of themselves, essentially. Which may not be a practice consistent with the discipline of writing poetry.


no but it's something i might have to do. I used to write a blog in my teenage years (may god preserve me that no one ever connects it with my name) and 16K hits was about average. 8k for years of work feels like nothing. I had more satisfaction from a small private printing i did for my friends. I even commissioned art in an old woodcut style, it was great.

i dont want to 'be a poet', i want to be read. Putting out a book in hopes that i'll be discovered feels pissing in the wind. a) no one reads new poetry. b) there are no critics anymore. What got me attention last time were the interviews i did for tin house and southern review.

In the long run there i less indignity in being your own publicist, then dancing to other peoples out of date tune.

sorry im ranting, IDK what ill do.

>>20559278
sex at dawn? Idk I haven’t read it

Princeton summer sale is on for those who care.

I'm excited by every new porn video that I might be interested in

>>20559508
Less like /pol/, more like /adv/, imo

I started a Zettlekasten today. 3485 words so far. Realized the whole format is wrong. Semantic associations aren't useful. Applications are.
>>20558798
>but why does it need to be on your body.
What's so special about their bodies?
>>20558618
I have no idea how to promote shit, but if you've already sold 8000 copies then you clearly have enough of an 'audience' to self-publish. Do it digitally as a pilot program that costs you nothing. Learn and expand.
>>20559146
nah dude, they totally could, you see the real totalitarian regime wasn't Stalin's reign of terror or Yuri Andropov's Chekism: it was their own minds. see when you escape the prison of thought, and kill the ego. Impossible becomes possible without "I'm"

>>20558425
I wrote a love poem for no one

>>20558524
lucky

>>20559163
>You're talking on the phone with someone as if they're coming along on the trip with us, care to explain?
>Oh anon yeah that's Tyrone. He'll be coming along too please try to address him as "Dad" sweetie.
>HARK! Base and fiendish whore, go on this trip I will not. Rather, I will stay with my biological father while you are away if remaining at home alone isn't an option.

>>20559155
tell me about them, anon

I just finished don quixote from the read along.

lol mods deleted the 'pataphysics thread
>mods confirmed illiterate

Not sure if there's any reason to continue living

Tfw no small titty emo gf

>>20558425
God I hate mask wearing idiots makes me uncomfortable and claustrophobic

>>20558499
Big dicks are also a good signifier of homosexuality

>>20559278
Is it this

>>20559995
They’re the ones wearing them. Claustrophobia comes on when you yourself are in closed spaces.
And it looks like you’ve seen a lot of homosexual porno illustrations to come up with that

>>20559995
I seriously think the only people who still wear masks have a fetish for them

>>20558776
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tOaQsNa5Js

>>20560027
Or they don’t want to get sick.

>>20560088
lol

>>20559995
https://youtu.be/iQlAuG_0GFA

>>20560027
>>20560088
They’re either afraid and trust the authority figures, and/or like in Japan, they think it’s just a curtesy, or they like to obscure their faces from this highly surveillanced world.

>>20560088
Nah they totally get off on being muzzled. Turns me on to see a qt wesring her cute, decorated little muzzle.
Desperately need a gf while masks are still in vogue so I can make her wear a ballgag in public

We couldn't be heroes

Had fucked nightmares, the kind where you wake up sweating, go back to sleep and have them start off where they ended up. Some of the worst so far.

>>20560182
Do you have a regular sleeping schedule?

>>20560195
Nah, I'm on tons of medication. They had been becoming more infrequent (nightmares), last couple of days have terrorised me though. The meds are meant to help with nightmares and sleep but I don't think it's enough. The dreams are directly related to my condition.

I'm probably gonna get banned somewhere in the next half hour because I made the mistake again of making too many strongly-worded posts in too short of a timespan

>>20560122
>they like to obscure their faces from this highly surveillanced world
This. People are so fucking stupid.
>complain about the government and loss of privacy
>don't inherently understand the value of a society in which masks are permitted
>actively bitch about masks and anyone who would wear them
How many people does this describe?

It was a dark and stormy night on Stormy Wharf. The wind was howling and barking and biting, barking and biting and howling at nothing, like your neighbors retarded dog. Wicked waves and ripping tides crashed down on Stormy Wharf like lightning, and lightning crashed down on Stormy Wharf like ocean waves. The young sailor turned to the old sailor and said "Ay. It be a terrible day for sailing". The old sailor looked ahead to the edge of Stormy Wharf and said "Aye, but it be a great day to sail". So the young sailor and the old sailor set out to set sail from a stormy Stormy Wharf. They say no ships arrive at Stormy Wharf, only storms. They say that Stormy Wharf is where all the storms in the world are going when they pass you over. The young sailor turned to the old sailor and said "Ay. We be heading right against the storm.". The old sailor looked ahead to the edge of Stormy Wharf and said "Aye, but the storm be heading for the edge of the world."

>>20560207
Be faithful, what could be done has been done.
It will get better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxZ89IPq11Y

this fuckin board man

>>20560226
Lel your average triple vaxxed fat girl wearing a mask doesnt give a fuck about privacy. I'm surely barely a fraction of people still masked care about that at all.
Doesnt even matter anyway. During the winter Olympics China was using facial recognition technology that could identify people even with a mask on.
So go ahead and fill your lungs with microplastics while carrying around your personal tracking device. That will stop the statists!

>>20560246
I'm scared and tired. I'm trying. I want to be like the lilies and birds but I'm failing.

>>20560276
Read nigga read. Alternatively Seraphim Rose has a neat little book titled "Gods Revelation to the Human Heart"
Thats a good one too.

Sometimes I fear about my faith in the Buddha and his practices. How legitimate it is for some european guy who's still catholic on paper to call himself a buddhist.

I perform the rites as best as I can on my own, try to see the world through a lens of the teachings and by this point it's simply how I see things, an effortless way of understanding, the default.

That's what faith is about I suppose. To hold on even in doubt. Sometimes I wish I had someone around me I could talk to about this. Talking to my asian friend might be a possibility but she isn't all too fond of her original country.

Posting Yakui for no reason.

>>20559163
Literally beat her
I wish I had the courage to give my insane mother a good beating holy shit. I hate her so much.

>>20560276

>>20560301
this explains a lot lol

>>20560311
*SIPP*

>>20559163
Try to work out your anger somewhere safe and then come clean to your mom and ask her directly if she has a bf and intends for him to join your travels. Make it simple and clear that you don't want to meet him and that it makes you uncomfortable as the son of your father.

She may whine a bit or worry about the last part but it is entirely justified for you to not wish to meet her new bf. It's not that unusual actually for children of divorced parents and this situation where she is not even telling you is bizarre.

>>20559163
>My mom divorced my father
Then you should divorce from your mother. If she can't love her husband faithfully why delude yourself into thinking she loves you?

>>20560314
Not even anonymity is enough to make talk about it.
But If you want an actual advice, just wait a bit longer to see if someone is really joining you and if it his her bf, and maybe just confront her.
I wouldn't go either way.

>>20560290
I have a collection of Seraphim Rose on my phone as PDFs but I struggle to focus. Even with meditation and prayer I am failing. I will try again.

>>20560344
Unironically get rid of your phone. Don't take it with you anymore when you go to work.

>>20560344
Whatever you're worrying about is 100% bullshit.

I had two years in deep depression and I worry it screwed up my cognitive abilities forever.

Why do people spoil the books they are trying to recommend to others?

>>20560414
Socrates dies at the end

>>20559271
HOW

>>20560443
His girlfriend is a severely overweight sjw and he copes by calling her a "big tiddy goth gf" instead of "what I had to settle for"

>>20560486
god i wish i could settle for something.

>>20560486
don't be such a crab

>>20560379
you have zero fucking clue what you're talking about. I refuse to believe people choose to genuinely suffer, key is genuinely.
>>20560376
If I'm not constantly distracted the thoughts are consuming. I'm pretty much always touching, fiddling etc with my phone or some other distraction but it's all surface level.
>>20560400
There are ways to retrain your cognitive abilities but it requires tons of patience and self discipline. Reading about psychology, trauma etc can teach you a lot about the pathing in the brain and even the vagus nerve which is linked to your mental state but can be soothed and activated with stretches and breathing.

Tried to talk to a girl on a work group chat about how I thought it was cool that she took a photo with a shark. I might all this platonically. Got blanked.
Now I want to cry and join a radical political group or an extremist religion especially if it dominates and oppresses women.

>>20560252
When did it get this bad?

>>20560558
Butterfly stopped posting. She was the only one stopping the flood of chuds

>>20560557
Maybe she's autistic

I just finished Dune today and loved it so much I just ordered Messiah, Children of Dune and God Emperor. Gonna watch the 1984 alternative edition with my bro this weekend.

>>20560585
No unfortunately not she talked to a black and said she liked African music

>>20560548
>>20560548
>Reading about psychology, trauma etc can teach you a lot about the pathing in the brain and even the vagus nerve which is linked to your mental state but can be soothed and activated with stretches and breathing.
Know a good book on that?

Try working out. Sports, running, hell even jumping jacks if it gets you sweating. anything that exhausts you. It sounds like you have a surplus of energy.

>>20560593
Based as fuck hope you enjoy
Children can get a bit stale in parts but it's a good warmup for God.

>>20560602
thats super autistic

>>20560604
I liked The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk. Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine is also good. There's also just information online, medical articles etc which are a trove.

>>20558425
one time I dreamt that reality and all parallel realities are actually fractals, and I saw how it looked, and I really like it. It's nearly entirely incomprehensible if I tried to actually transcribe it onto paper, but I keep inside of me a secret knowledge of the universe. Many special memories are actually from my dreams.

I have a bunch of artwork from a friend that I don't speak to much anymore. At first I stopped communicating because I was trying to quit coke and alcohol and they were a big part of that time of my life. The longer I stayed sober the more my general anxiety came back which causes me to isolate and not speak to anyone.

I love their art, and still like to see it on my walls, but lately it's been making me feel guilty about having it around while I don't speak to them, and at times it makes miss them, but I'm so fucked mentally that reaching out to anyone becomes very difficult.

I was about to go to the store to get a frame for a piece I've had sitting in my closet for a year, but I feel weird about hanging another one of their paintings when I haven't talked to them since they gave it to me.

>>20560757
Sounds like freeze response

>>20560757
>they

>>20560757
>their
>they
How many artists were you doing coke with?

>>20560782
>>20560785
If I use he or she then they might know who I'm talking about.

>>20560782
It's a 21st Century thing, you wouldn't understand.

What’s the difference between fatalism and determinism?

>>20560980
fatalism has faith and determinism doesnt.

Just 18 more working days until I do it.

women's problem solving abilities
https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1539251351800238081

>>20560210
kek i know that feel

>>20561031
What do you even do with people like that?

>>20560803
Sure, this actually has a non-zero possibility of somehow happening.

>>20561031
Daniel Radcliffe at 0:23

>>20561031
Damn that qt blonde on the pro life side is some real wife material. Might start going to pro life protests to pick up qt church girls.

>>20561031
I would kms if I was on camera like that

>>20561106
for me, it's the mousy librarian in the comically wide pants

I have a girl I know irl added on goodreads. We hanged out sometimes a couple of years ago, but don't really have any contact now. The thing is I sometimes read a book and couple of weeks after she reads the same book. Does this mean anything?

Most of the good stories today feature young, often very young protagonists. What is up with that? Is this a real phenomenon or am I just immature?

>>20561140
Holy shit anon, go outside

>>20561169
And then what?
Just sit on a bench?
How will that answer his question?

>>20561144
What I've encountered in contemporary novels is that protagonists are up to mid 30s. First person narrator. Focused on the boring/mundane aspects of life. Little to no plot.

just remembered my boomer dad had imaginary characters named Petey Bombastinini and Mr. Bracheck and I lost my shit. I know it might be cringe but its the little things.

>>20561177
It's a stupid question.

>>20561169
I do. I don't talk to anyone outside though.

>>20561195
okay but why should he go outside

I’m completely fucked. 25 years old, with two years as neet and a two college courses dropped early on, only for me to be retarded as fuck choosing the area I decided to stick with. 4 years studying graphic design, out of all things, and I can’t even manage to get a job. You know why? Because I made the brilliant decision of focusing on the uni course and on my portfolio instead of applying for internships early on. Now no internship will have me, since I’m almost graduating, and the senior jobs wont hire a fucker with zero experience.
Meanwhile, my colleagues who had the incredible boom of not being retarded went hunting for jobs early on. No one in the industry cares about an intern’s portfolio or how well versed he’s on the meme theoretical aspects, they just want someone who knows how to use the software and has a few years of studying left.
Jesus Christ, the last ten years have just been one bad decision after another.

>>20561177
Vitamin D will clear your head up

>>20561198
That's also a stupid question. You should also go outside.

>>20561208
You should get laid.

>>20561200
Work is not that important if it’s not necessary

>>20561213
Maybe if I agonize over a goodreads girl book list my chances of sex will increase.

>>20561184
Ah yeah. You are right I suppose. What about popular novels? Harry Potter, Dune, etc. YA is like the most successful genre now and I have to admit many of the stories I like are, if not YA, sort it YA-ish.

>>20561227
Can't be any worse than what you've been doing your whole life.

>>20561234
Given that I'm not a shut in virgin it's safe to say that it is.

>>20561244
You're trying to impress anons on 4chan.

>>20561216
Do you think it’s viable for me to depend on my parents for the rest of my life? Do you think I want it? The way things are going, I’m gonna end up living in the streets. Gonna be the only person in my entire family stupid enough to reverse from middle class back to the poverty my grandparents desperately clawed their way out from.

>>20561248
>"you should get laid"
>"I do get laid"
>"heh you're trying to impress me, checkmate"

>>20561275
No one believes you get laid.

>>20561275
You're using both greentext and quote marks.

>>20561280
Okay

>>20561275
>green text and quotation marks
lol what a fucking virgin

>>20561140
Does she get a notification if you read a book or something? Honestly just try messaging her on the basis of "hey was screwing around on goodreads and saw you read x, I just finished it too. what did you think of it?" if you want to. Don't read too much into things but at the same time you clearly have an opportunity to talk to her about common a common interest.

Abu Huraira reported: A man reviled Abu Bakr while the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was sitting down. That made the Prophet impressed by Abu Bakr and he smiled. Then, Abu Bakr reviled the man with the same words as him and the Prophet became angry and he stood to leave. Abu Bakr went to the Prophet and he said, “O Messenger of Allah, the man reviled me and you were sitting, but when I responded you became angry and stood up.” The Prophet said, “Verily, there was an angel with you responding on your behalf, but Satan appeared when you responded with the same words as him and I will not sit in the presence of Satan.”

Source: Musnad Aḥmad 9411

Does anyone have experience with pic related? I have some books that are a little discolored and dusty and wanted to know if there were any better options.

I'm Hispanic and I love eating beans.

>>20561423
any bean recipes?

>>20561454

It's baffling how strongly linked birth control is to mental illness in women and no one is talking about it.

>>20560593
>found my uncle's dune books from college
>first one is missing
>autism won't let me read a cheaper or addition or pay $60 to replace it so the other two just sit on my shelf

There are a shocking number of retards in Afghanistan, literal retards. So many in fact that we had a code name for them during missions - Renegades. During a multi-click infil through the sparsely populated countryside it wasn't unusual for some renegade to be heard howling from the inside of a compound as we strolled by. I just looked up the numbers and the Afghan Health Ministry estimates that 85% of the population suffers from some form of mental disability. We had a lot of code names to categorize the people. Squinters, MAMS, Feathers, Chargers, Crows, Falcons. I swear the Renegades would hear us coming and start barking before the dogs would, they must be light sleepers.

>>20559712
I feel you

>>20561589
85%? That seems low.

>>20560782
being nagged about pronouns by rightoids is still as annoying as when trannies do it

>>20561589
>Suffer chemical and environmental attacks by the entire west and israel for 2 generations
>Mercilessly slaughtered at every corner
>Only viable options for life are to kill or be killed
>Turn out retarded
Heckin' unexpecterino!

>>20561423

>>20561577
It sucks that some women have to use it for other medical conditions and not just as a contraception

>>20558524
Well? Is she pretty?

>>20558430
No its not.

>>20561200
I'm 29 with 15 years as a NEET. I learned Latin and don't think in English anymore, because it's a gay language.

>>20561651
>pointing out a retarded behavior is the same as engaging in the retarded behavior!
Even if that were true it would still be irrelevant because it is simply a moral act to dissuade people from humoring trannies. The more people humor trannies, the more trannies will continue ruining their lives.

Reading The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air.
On the 2nd discourse. Now, I'm known to get filtered so my take might possibly be wrong.
This discourse is pertaining to the verse that says you cannot serve two masters. Roughly put, you cannot be neutral to the Lord. The relationship with him as created to creator is so intimate that if you do not love him then you hate him. Love and hate being opposites the existence of one demands the other in contrast.
God as Creator has his divine will. Scripture says, his will be done. All of Creation does as commanded by God. Existence is therefore defined by necessity.
The measure of man is his commitment to necessity. To love God is to obey, to hate God is to disobey. Sin and disobedience are one and the same. Obedience and disobedience are a measure of love. So the measure of man is his love of necessity. Our ultimate either/or is to love or hate our necessity. Ambivalence is therefore not possible because to be ambivalent is to reject necessity and desire otherwise.

>>20561762
also 29 NEET wtf

>>20561778
Look man I'm NTA who made the art post but if something looks like a disgusting gender blob I'm not going to bother analyzing every inch of their skeletal structure

>>20561778
It's not even about trannies. It's just ugly and imprecise grammar.

I like writing but my favorite stories are all in manga and not books.

Whenever I masturbate to porn it's always to aliens and monsters; but whenever I go without, my mind drifts to blond bimbos.

>>20559895
Normally I remember a large portion of my dreams at night but these dreams are rarely preserved in the same way. When I do remember them when I wake up they are very clearly not dreams in the traditional sense, they feel different. They're very clearly coming from a different place than dreams normally do. Most of the time it's a very simple thing, an image or an instant, a few sentences, a scent.

What's common among all of them, remembered or not is that before the event happens I feel it and then immediately recall what it is I am about to encounter. Sometimes it's the instant before, sometimes it's a a few minutes before, sometimes it's hours before. There's no real consistency to the timing, what is consistent is that it happens with way more regularity at night or when I'm fatigued. It's been happening to me since I was a child and I didn't think too much of it until I told my girlfriend when I was 16 and she looked at me like I was unwell.

I explained it away to myself for the longest time but I've had too many experiences where I know what someone is going to say word for word, what they're going to wear or I've gone somewhere I've never been before and remember things about it before I'm there.

My grandmother and mother told me the same thing had always happened to them when I told them about it when I was like 11 and my mother swears that she kept seeing my younger sister as a 9 year old in her dreams when she was pregnant with her. It's just some weird thing that happens to me, I've been thinking about journaling about it.

I wrote a book of short stories and i am self publishing. I am afraid people will think i am either pretensious or vulgar.

Maybe I am too selfish to see the beauty of the world. I really wish I could get rid of that feeling.

>>20561942
More of a big tit brunette librarian type lesbian fetishist but okay

>>20558425
Is the widespread use of "banned books" as a marketing tool peak neoliberalism?

>>20561829
There were news stories about a family allegedly being assaulted by Ezra Miller and it made it sound as if the family assaulted themselves because of its use of "they/them/their" concerning them (i.e. he--see what I mean).

I think I'm retarded.

>>20562133
Ever been to Kabul? You'd fit in.

>>20562167
By retarded I mean average American intelligence.

Got a big breakfast delivered now I'm going to take a valium and hopefully pass out.

Started a job where most of my coworkers are attractive jailbait.

>>20561942
That sounds like you're psychologically mostly normal and your mind is trying to "correct" itself of porn derived fetishes back to the default

>>20561589
>the Afghan Health Ministry estimates that 85% of the population suffers from some form of mental disability

>>20562355
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/why-the-disabled-do-talibans-deadly-work/article18138707/#:~:text=Sayed%20Azimi%20of%20the%20World,higher%2C%20at%2085%20per%20cent.

https://theowp.org/reports/humanitarian-crisis-and-neglect-in-afghanistan-puts-people-with-disabilities-at-risk/

https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/model-disability-survey-afghanistan-2019

I'm not a liar bro, but I did pick the highest number for effect.

>>20562355
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/why-the-disabled-do-talibans-deadly-work/article18138707/#:~:text=Sayed%20Azimi%20of%20the%20World,higher%2C%20at%2085%20per%20cent.

To be fair, there is at least a 50% chance the members of the Afghan Health Ministry are retarded.

>>20562083
Nah. If that's the case we reached that peak decades ago. Banned books is the new "too hot for tv"

Posted about feeling sick yesterday and slept all day today to make myself feel better and because l had no real reason to get out of bed

I recently started He Who Fights With Monsters and it's pretty entertaining. Basically an Australian shitposting his way through a fantasy world.

>>20562106
Maybe you're just bad at evaluating context

>>20562376
It also includes physical/sensory disabilities though, not just "retards".
>The MDSA paints a disturbing picture of Afghanistan’s disabled population. Almost 80% of adults aged 18 and over have some form of physical, functional, sensory, or other impairment (24.6% mild, 40.4% moderate, and 13.9% severe). Severe disability is more prevalent among females (14.9%) than males (12.6%). Among children aged 2–17 years, 17.3% have a mild, moderate, or severe disability.

>Afghanistan’s perilous context and conditions for health care including the ongoing violence and
conflicts, land mines, birth defects, and malnutrition, among other factors, may have contributed to an
increase in severe disability prevalence from 2.7 percent (2005) to 13.9 percent (2019) among Afghan
adults aged 18 and above

I cut myself all the way back in December and the fucking scars are still pink and obvious. What the actual fuck. Now I cant go to the beach and hang out in the pool this summer.

fucking hate how i can easily i can e-stalk someone and never forget about them. one picture or post ends up ruining my whole day and its retarded.

>>20562486
used to be a cutter years ago and still have scars. Pretty fucked hope you stopped for good

>>20562500
Yeah this is the third time Ive stopped for good

>>20562500
>>20562544
why were you idiots slicing yourselves up? If you're men it's extra pathetic. I expect that kind of foolishness from little girls but it's just embarrassing for a man.

Why is Afghanistan so bad compared to other Middle Eastern countries? The literacy rate in Afghanistan is about 37%. Most of the other Middle Eastern countries have about 80%. I thought they're supposed to know how to read the Quran.

>>20558783
Siddhartha

>>20562564
dunno lol

>>20562564
Its actually more common among males. The whole stereotype about cutting being a female thing is perpetuated by weirdos who fetishize emo girls, e.g. me.

>>20562455
Maybe when you attempt to monopolize public language for the sake of projecting delusion it muddles communication and the general sense of reality becomes discordant (i.e. the outside finally matches your inside, tranny).

>>20562614
Being common doesn't make it less pathetic and embarrassing.

the ""enlightened"" world is full of contradictions and I've come to the conclusion that there is no enlightenment or conclusions, other than death
I will change my mind a thousand times until then

>>20560020
no I'm just autistic. I'm a straight dude. wtf are you smoking?

My brain has been balkanized by big dicks

I'm a veteran.

>>20562714
being a tranny is a lot like being an illegal alien. companies jump through hoops to hire them and they refuse to adapt to a culture that sees them as guests and not the other way around but they doth protest much and we end up having two distinct worlds where everyone in the host nation has to speak two different languages in order to get points across and avoid offending the other party.

>>20563004
Thank you for your service

>>20563004
which war?

>>20563009
No.

Native speakers constantly use "ESL" as an insult to people who actually put effort and hard work towards studying.
Yet they only know their own language through absorption, rather than study, and suffer not only shallow and ugly casual usage, but also common mishearing mistakes like "they're/their" and "should of".

We should make "EFL" an insult instead. By any metric they are more worthy of ridicule than us bilingual chads.

>>20563061
Literally me. No means no. Just say no.

>>20563015
Not a military veteran. Video game veteran. I think I've played video games long enough to consider myself a veteran.

>>20563064
too bad esl

>>20557993
So, "Stand On Zanzibar" by John Brunner?

>>20563085
You don't study your own language
You can barely speak it
You are on a writing board
lol

>>20563072
Which genres are your favorites?

>>20558218
get a job neet

>>20563061
>>20563071
I dunno its not what I'm seeing and knowledge is 90% experience

I'm 22 years old, and I'm developing a dependence on alcohol. It started in college. At first, I'd drink at parties, then in my dorm when nothing was going on, and eventually I'd drink on nights to cope with the workload. Now that I've graduated and found a job, I drink everyday after work. I can understand that what I'm doing is bad, but for time being, I have not developed any health complications; I know I will if I keep up this lifestyle, but I keep telling myself that I have plenty of time to stop seeing as how I'm still young. How can I put a stop to this bad habit?

>>20563097
Strategy, base/vehicle building, multiplayer shooters/vehicular combat, CCGs, ARPGs

>>20563105
Trying to replace the habit with something neutral or positive instead of drinking. Being nice to yourself while trying to change it helps, not being angry if you slip back a few times etc. Can you think of anything you enjoy that could be a replacement?

>>20563118
You a Command And Conquer fan?

>>20563097
Forgot to mention. Roguelike is also a favorite.

>>20563130
Yes, when I was a kid the series was one of my favorites. I even had a poster with the girls from the game that I masturbated to many times.

>>20563105
I would easily be an alcoholic if weed didn't exist, but it does and luckily it's enough for me.
so, I'd suggest you try it, but if you have and it didn't cut it for you, that's tough

i remember a couple years ago they were filming a version of roth's plot against america with wynona rider did it get released on some streaming service no one uses like amazon prime? or did they just hold the release cuz of the pandemic?

>>20563121
>Can you think of anything you enjoy that could be a replacement?
I cannot truthfully. I've spent the last four years grinding at college, and to be blunt, I'm burnt out from it and don't feel like exerting any mental effort past what is expected from me. Nothing really interests me anymore. I'll try and read something or go for a run, which do make me feel accomplished, but nothing comes to close to the buzz I get from drinking.

>>20563105
>I have not developed any health complications
my sister's ex-husband would drink every day and seemed fine but if he went a day without drinking he would have a seizure. binge drinking seems worse because you get bad hangovers and do dumb stuff, but drinking beer every day and night just to "take the edge off" aka self-medicating will fuck your health up bad in the long run

I realized quite recently that I basically have zero interest in making friends. I'm not some asocial autistic shut in or anything, I can pretend to be normal easily enough. maybe it's just the wrong crowd, my social interaction currently consists mostly of coworkers and fellow college students.
But I don't care to "get to know" any of them, I don't care about their interests, I don't want to text and snap and facebook them mindlessly at all hours of the day, I don't want to tell them how it's going or what I've been up to. I find that most people don't have anything interesting to say, nor do they find the things I really want to talk about interesting themselves. every now and then I find there will be someone I can mentally connect with really well, but lately it's been seeming rarer and rarer.

>>20558425
A nigger reading an antisemitic pamphlet. No surprise here.

>>20563134
Geez thanks for the info

I dont think ive laughed as hard in a year or longer than I did at watching Frank Hassle videos, theres something about hassling people thats just so funny

Dies ist eine gemeine alte Welt, in der man versuchen kann, ganz alleine zu leben

>>20563157
Burn out can be pretty serious. Losing joy in what you once loved is also a terrifying thing I can empathise with. If you can't stop drinking currently I'd suggest just doing what you can (if you aren't already) to treat your body well. I know someone who made very bad decisions, he started out similarly and damaged his body and career etc with his drinking. It really can become serious but it can also be managed. The fact you're aware of it is good. Have you tried branching into new hobbies/interests or are you not feeling up to it currently?

>>20563103
No.

>>20563256
1984 actually critiques patriarchal heteronormativity andthe association of sex to procreation. Big Brother is a transphobe.

>>20563103
What do you mean? I’m just saying No, Xy chromosomes are males, and trans are disturbed homosexuals. Not to hate on them like so many here do.

>>20563285
No.

>>20563355
UwU let me crack your egg senpai

>>20563064
>Native speakers constantly use "ESL" as an insult to people who actually put effort and hard work towards studying.
Wrong. You're right, the small minority of people who have learned a second language should be applauded but you misunderstand why Native Speakers occasionally use "ESL" to insult people. It is used to insult fucktards who are not content with asking their braindead and vacuous questions in their own language, but use their new found gloss to sully an entirely new and broader audience with absolutely awful questions like:
>why come miracles not happen in new day times?
or not even questions, but statements of pure hubris like
>i am enlightened now i see all is one the whole world conciousness am mine
If someone asks a provocative question, but it's rooted in actual reading, few people are going to criticize it over some quirk of syntax. But overwhlemingly the worst questions, the most /x/-tier bullshit seems to come from people who don't speak English as a native language. People who take loaded words like "intelligence","consciousness", "empowerment" and stretch them so broadly semantically as to become utterly meaningless.

>>20558425
I'm not sure if Heathcliff is a chad or a raging sperg.

>>20563131
oh yeah I love those too. Caves Of Qud, Sword Of The Stars: The Pit, Unreal World, Tales Of Maj'Eyel, Rift Of Wizard

>>20563709
>Caves Of Qud
>Rift Wizard
my nigga. Check out cogmind if you havent already. I have yet to find a game thats so haunting as CoQ can be when you venture deep enough underground

>>20558425
I wrote a poem, I need critiques
Not a river of tears
Issuing forth the sea of tragedy
Gives to you,
George Floyd
Enough
Respect

>>20563732
Wasnt he the guy that died of a Fetanyl OD and a cop got blamed

>>20563753
No, he's a Christian Saint and martyr of the Church of Latter Day Niggas, killed by evil whiteman.

>>20563761
Y'all worshipping a scapegoat

>>20563763
I wrote a second one, still need critique. I'm attending Shayquans class.

>For
>Anon the one,
>Giver of knowledge
>Great big brain,
>Ode to you,
>Truly

>>20563728
oh forgot that one, I own Cogmind, thanks for reminding me I had that.

>>20563064
oh you're bi alright

>>20562564
Based. I hate faggot attention whores.

>>20563709
ToME is currently my favorite roguelike, used to be DCSS, have hundreds of hours on it now. I'd like to try Dungeonmans.

Pancakes are the tastiest shit of all times

I care about what others think way too much.

>>20563869
I don't care enough.

>>20563870
I dont know you.

>>20563796
Tales is a bit janky, I need to find more with a dungeon crawler aesthetic. Ever play ADOM?

>>20563873
Okay

Is rape ok?

>>20563884
Yes. Consent is a fiction of the early enlightenment and in order to overcome that line of thinking you must assert yourself over a woman

I told some lesbians that they were smart to buy a combustion-engined car over an EV, because of the inevitability of rolling blackouts in the near future, and one of them told me I make her want to drink which is why they like hanging out with me.

>>20563709
>>20563728
Caves of Qud is so fucking good.
There's really something unique about it, and I quite like the actual writing.

>>20563934
Its hard as hell for me, probably need to spend more time with it

>>20563875
For me it just took getting used to ToME's skill system, then I really loved it. I only played ADOM for like an hour during college, was busy and never got around to playing more. It's unfortunate to hear Ultimate ADOM wasn't getting good reviews because I was waiting for that to play again.

>>20563921
Anon, i..but seriously why are LGBTBBQ people like this with electric cars

>>20563943
Its one of my favorites, but I play more Cogmind than anything else

I am but a brainlet and am currently reading one swallow does not make a summer by Aristoteles.
I haven't finished yet so I might be totally wrong but bear with me for a second.
If, as Aristoteles says, evil lies in the excesses and deficiencies. Why isn't centrism the best political stance for a democracy?

>>20563972
Because centrism is relative. Centrism in the US, for instance, may entail many excesses and/or deficiencies.

>>20563979
Fair point. And if we, as a general rule, would take our stance between the two most dominant but opposite political ideas? Would it still be flawed because both political ideas are so bad that the middle ground can't possibly be good?

Dry flaky store bought apple fritters.
I've waited hours for this?
Go back to the store where you bought those.
Give me something better.
You dry flaky bitch.

I can't stop jerking off to hentai twink sex

>>20558425
lori lightfoot is the picture of dorian gray for black people
shes doing all the cracking

>>20563996
I'm going to assume that you won't necessarily find the most "virtuous" political ideology in the middle between two extremes. I'm sure that if Aristoteles were to come alive today he'd be considered an extremist ultra-radical by all sorts of political group. Certainly not a centrist.
But I really don't understand what your fascination is with this is. It's not really applicable to the philosophy.

>>20563884
Only if a woman has been disowned by her family. Women are objects, owned by their father or nominated guardian until such a time she is married, in which ownership transfers to her husband. You must not have sex with a woman without the express permission of her Father or Guardian anymore than than you should jerk off in a man's car and smear it all over the dashboard and seating. Or stick a garden gnome up your ass, leaving a phrygian hat of shit on top of his hat. That's disgusting and disrespectful to the owner.
>>20563892
This is incorrect, the woman doesn't need to consent her Father or Guardian does. You need consent from the owner to make use of their property. This is the foundation of civilized society.

>>20558425
Ese

based and redpilled praise kek

>>20564032
me too

>>20564041
Let's say, instead of a fascination, it was a thought I had reading and the only place I could talk about this thought was on here...

How to talk to girls? I don't know what topic to adress. How do I sound interesting? help pls.

Contemplations on the inescapable impersonal crisis of fishing:

Even if one does not wish to be the fisher there is an inescapable binding between oneself and that which can be fished.
Letting the trout swim along without bringing it out from the water by chance denies that the fishing could ever occur.
We know this to not be true as it is perfectly salient in the mind that such a beast could be obtained by pure chance.
Yet we kill this part of ourselves that knows this truth so that the anguish of sitting without trout does not consume us instead.
To live is then to be able to let our lures hang in the water for any unsuspecting animal to come across and not be dissuaded from harnessing our potential.
If there is no water or fish there is still the greater abstraction of one's being that can epitomize this fishing.
Broadly what efforts can be made to allow good fortune to befall oneself by pure chance should be sought so as to not kill one's fishing.

bc1q7qz47sx8n2fqhzs0hex5tjjtgayl54hjtatykx

when you think you've made progress with your anxiety and almost manically think you've cured yourself and are about to start a beautiful new chapter of life only be back where you were and worse within 24hrs...

>>20564178
Good post

>>20564141
>How to talk to girls?
Depends on how you talk to guys
> I don't know what topic to adress. How do I sound interesting?
by being interested. Remember that once a woman starts yapping, she won't shut up. All you need to do is show her the slightest bit of attention, that you actually care what she might have to say. and boom. she'll be off.

>>20564206
>by being interested
That's not a problem, I just can't get them to talk non-stop because we only talk by messages... So yeah, I need to say something for it to not look like an interview.
Well, thanks for the advice anyway.

>>20564232
>we only talk by messages...
You mean online? Well that's very different to talking. Yes. Make it feel like an interview, that's what I do: I ask her questions that force her to give a answer more than a sentence. Online dating is a lot like online anything: you need to grab her attention. And with that in mind do try and write in a way that conveys you're a passionate person, and when I say "passionate" I mean the way athletes or Spaniards are passionate. Nothing aggressive. Just be fun. Accept that sometimes you will come across as slightly cringe, that's how online dating works man. But slightly cringe but passionate will work way better for you than dry and boring and forgettable. She may even overlook the very mild cringe because she likes your enthusiasm.

>>20558425
What is the difference between change and progress ?

>>20564278
change is objective progress is ideologically subjective

>>20564278
progress is getting better at something, change is discarding something and picking other.

>>20564278
Change comes from the Old French 'changier' which means to alter, exchange, or to switch. This meaning is retained in English where we may refer to 'change lanes' or 'change color' which indicates that a subject replaces one state with another.
Progress is used when there is an analogy to be made to walking it comes by Old French originally from the latin 'progressus' which means "to go forward, advance". It shares the root "gradus" (to step) with words Transgress, Ingress, Egress, Congress, Regress, Digress, and Aggression.
In this regard Progress may convey more of a linear variation, while change can refer to something more sudden and discrete.

someone in some thread said r/truelit has better threads than /lit/ so i checked it out and what i saw was ads for the book of mormon broadway show, a gigantic fried chicken wing, and a retirement account that let you invest in crypto. that was all i needed to see to never browse there again.

>>20564281
>>20564283
>>20564303
Thanks for your inputs.

>>20564304
lol

>>20564141
Depends on how attractive you are.

>>20564260
Well, I have problem talking to guys too. I was never a very talkative type, even in my school days...
>do try and write in a way that conveys you're a passionate person
Idk if I understood but I will try.
Btw I'm not trying to date her (at least not that much). She came to talk to me suddenly after months, but maybe she just want a friend, idk.
>Accept that sometimes you will come across as slightly cringe
Don't worry bro, I'm pro at being cringe so it doesn't affect me.

Thanks again for taking your time replying to me, you're cute.

>>20564333
Well, I'll be doomed ;_; nah, I think I'm good

>>20564385
>Well, I have problem talking to guys too. I was never a very talkative type, even in my school days...
Ahh well then this runs much deeper and I'm afraid I don't know how to help you. Focus more generally on learning to talk to people, don't psych yourself out by worrying about how to talk to girls, more especially this girl.
It's a skill like any other than you can improve.

>>20561734
9/10 normie teen girls are on birth control

>>20559163
Are you a child?

>>20558783
Moby dick
>t. only book I've read

>>20563972
Because he was wrong, centrism is just another ism, you must look beyond ideology to see the political.

>>20559163
take revenge on your mother by seducing her new bf. find his info on her phone and start a sexual relationship under a fake name. imagine his face when he shows up for the trip and his new girlfriend's son turns out to be the twink he's been banging. imagine your mom's reaction when you show her the videos. to spice it up, do you know anybody with aids you could get it from real quick?

>>20564519
I'll do my best.

>>20563972
> one swallow does not make a summer
You're reading what?
But as for your question, I was pretty sure he says that where the mean or balance lies is contextual, for example, more rashness will be necessary in situations where speed and urgency is of the essence, while less will be the desired mean when patience is needed.
Also you just can't conflate this with political ideologies, least of all modern political ideologies, Firstly because there's more than two.
Secondly because a political ideology is not simply a bundle of behaviors. People will try and shoehorn in an anthropamorphic reading of some imagined leftist or rightist and say they display all these excesses and all these deficiencies, but the simple fact is you can't do it because they are fluid policies pertaining to which legislation and executive actions should be taken by the government in the day in accordance with certain fashions.
Simply put, Aristotle was describing how certain traits in individual behaviors in excess are bad, but not enough is bad too. The crucial thing is, individual traits, like appetite, spending money, talking about one's self. These cannot without some poetic license be applied to political ideologies, unless you're trying to stereotype broad voter bases which contain more contradictions than the caricatures would have you believe.

>>20564619
Penguin books: great ideas
One swallow does not make a summer
As I said I'm a brainlet that just got into the greeks at age 30 and this one passage about the means made me wonder if it was applicable to politics.
Great answer, I understand what Aristotles ment a bit more now.
Am looking forward to learn more.

New thread
>>20565028

Fixed new thread
>>20565094
>>20565094

>>20560122
I do not get the Asian mentality. Courtesy for what? Making yourself look like a subservient coward? I don't buy it