/lit/ - Literature

First we need a book that can stop people from wojacking.
C’mon y’all. Take the NoJack challenge. The whole month of July. We can do it!

OP, you start by deleting this image

>>20615377
This is ironic escapism

>>20615377
I read this two weeks ago (read: listened to on Audible), and since then, I've started going to bed at a reasonable time and waking up at 7. I haven't had the habit of waking before 9 or 10 since my school days, and I feel a little bit less like a worthless sack of dogshit now. I really liked the introductory concept - steady, daoly improvements of only 1% will lead you to become 37x better in one year. For coomsick brainfog drunken sadsacks like me, that's an inspiring thought.

>>20615377
lf you feel, know, hear, see that there is very little left to lose,then you better start takin ritalin and focus becoming dangerous enough to make even experienced group of armed men tremble.

When did you anon's realize that Peterson's precept of cleaning your room only works to a point and that no matter how much you devote yourself to self-improvement your external world will only continue to slide down the gutter?

>>20615560
self-improvement is an abstract category that INCLUDES doing everything that prevents your life going down the gutter you retarded loser

>>20615409
>listened to on Audible

>>20615377
>We live in times of physical, mental, and spiritual sickness. Young men especially suffer in these times
the more i jerk off the more i can feel myself getting greasy, breaking out, feeling physically nauseous and empty. what people need is a medium to channel into, unfortunately literature isnt that for most people

>>20615692
This seems like too wide a definition. Do you consider doing activism to get a political outcome that you consider desireable a form of self improvement.

>>20615774
no because then you're not trying to improve yourself you're trying to improve a country

>>>/adv/

>>20615692
>self improvement is a modern secular school of thought for walking on the path of righteousness/discipline/with God.
Niggas don't see the inherent spiritual act that /SIG/ing is. Sad!

>>20615377
This could unironically be fixed by taking amphetamines.

>>20615560
Let the dead bury their dead.

>>20615773
Going outside cures this demonic degeneration that happens when we lose ourselves in the isolation of our apartments/homes. Going outside prevents us from becoming organic portals. We cannot live our lives separated from the outside in sterilized temperature controlled comfort boxes. We are degenerating/defiling ourselves. Touching grass is 100% real and the fact that it's used as an ironic insult is sad. Literature in the outdoors is life fuel.

>>20615903
antidepressants are enough. oh sorry, nick land didn't take them.

>>20615917
How did I get conquered by a box? Why is it when I'm myself I become this doorway like you say? I'm so disturbed by this problem. I thought it was just me.

>>20615795
This. Conquer yourself before you conquer the world.

>>20615917
based and world-pilled

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com

>>20615377
Stop posting low quality threads

>>20615377
peating solves this.

>>20615377
young men are fucking pathetic these days. Want boomer prosperity? Stop wasting your life on tiktok and win a war

>>20615925
Don't feel alone. Literally everyone is suffering the problems you have described.
If you are a materialist, extrapolate the occultist/metaphysical explanations I have laid out here into a psycho/physiological framework.
Our bodies/minds interface with larger cosmic forces beyond ourselves. Those who are aware of mysticism and the practice of connecting to the monad/God/"interfacing"/reaching moksha/Gnosis are aware that it requires you to cut yourself away from the world and focus inward. In isolation, forces/entities can act on you and influence temporal decisions/outcomes. Look into the ancient Greeks going into caves for long periods of time to recover divine knowledge from the Gods. TLDR, the modern world has lost this understanding about isolation (even the materialist psychological research is very limited to where it should be) and has created environments where people spend most of their days alone, often in dark rooms. The average person is not aware/educated with metaphysics/theology and as such do not understand what happens when you spend too much time in isolation, and the forces that act on you.
Not trying to schizo post too hard here, so I will leave you with this.
It should be ingrained in your mind that the act of cutting yourself away from the world should be treated with reverence. If you are not careful you can allow in self destructive forces which act on your mind/body/soul.

>>20616019
By all means, go full schizo. Everything you're saying agrees with my experience.

>>20615968
>win a war
Lol @ you thinking this is how prosperity is/was made in the modern world. Soldiers dont get a share of the loot, it only happened to the greatest gen because they happened to have coincided with the launch of consumerism and Js needed them to have enough money to buy shit. Hence why there are so many poor veterans from wars after that. Being from the suburbs of one of the main cities and going to school for finance or engineering will get you far more money from a successful war than fighting would. Southerners contribute the most to America’s military while they are the poorest, and yet indians chinese and other shitskins have the highest incomes, cuz they all go to ivys to become doctors

>>20615377
The Alchemy of Happiness by Imam Al Ghazali.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBwWc0DflRQ

>>20616211
The US as a whole still profited from WW2, it was more about the competitors destroying each other though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>>20615377
(1/2)
I was feeling really low and lonely about a year ago, and after having had phases since I was a teenager of being into sissy hypno porn, I decided I should just give up hoping for a gf and instead fully commit to that side of my sexuality.

I bought some women's clothes online and had a few fun weekends by myself just dressing up and taking edibles. One night, when I was peaking on a ton of edibles, I suddenly became convinced that my newly intensified sissy behavior was the result of hypnotic mind control by a local psychiatrist called Dr. Z----. (When I looked into it, I couldn't find his house or any mention of him online, but he had revealed his existence to me through the hypnotic link. He put a block on me that to this day prevents me from revealing his full last name to anyone else.)

On his hypnotic suggestion, I placed quartz crystals at the corners of my bed to amplify the mind control rays he was transmitting to me through the radio in my bedroom. He would force me to dress as a sexy secretary and type up his research notes on the progress he was making in breaking down my old identity and implanting my new slutty, feminine self. I wasn't consciously making up the words but rather transcribing the notes he was beaming into my mind, hearing him talk about me in the third-person.

He used tarot cards to help destroy my own sense of control over my life: I would have to draw cards to determine things like the color of lingerie I would wear that day or what I would cook for dinner. Several times throughout the day he would send a signal that would put me in one of twenty-two sexually demeaning Puppet Poses (corresponding to the twenty-two cards), and I would have to stay there frozen in that pose until he sent the signal to deactivate it, which could take anywhere from thirty seconds to ten minutes.

>>20618263
(2/2)
My mental states were controlled by a sort of cybernetic diagram based on the Qabbalistic Tree of Life, where the bottom node was for 'Skeleton Mode' (which was what Dr. Z---- called it when I was going through the motions of my 'dead' male identity) while the top node was for total immersion in the sissy persona. The intervening nodes were all for different levels of arousal and increasing intensities of hypnotic control, and I pinned the diagram on a corkboard on my wall and used a pin to indicate which control node was currently in force (I could only transition to adjacent nodes).

In the top three nodes I had zero recollection of my previous life. There were also some nodes where I could form no new memories while they was active. (I once found all my male underwear cut to shreds at the bottom of my draw, with no memory of him having told me to do that. But it wasn't that big a deal because I was wearing women's underwear 24/7 and women's clothes and a wig whenever I was at home.)

One night when I was very high I looked at the pins stuck on my board (not the pins stuck in the control tree; I had a bunch of other pins up there that I would sometimes use to put up messages or images that he had transmitted to me to draw). I realized that if you superimposed a map of my town over the board, each pin would indicate a spot where I had had sex with a man while dressed up. Each time I came back home from the encounter, Dr. Z---- would make me stick in another pin as a record of what I had done, and then he would erase my memory of the night. Which was very alarming because I hadn't consciously left the house while cross-dressed or, to my knowledge, met up with any guys. But I didn't think about the revelation for long because he instantly triggered the 'I will be a good girl for Dr. Z----' thought loop, which he used to blocked all other thoughts whenever I was having doubts or feelings of resistance.

Anyway, part of his control protocols involved me going to bed at a consistently early time, because sleep-deprivation drowsiness could actually interrupt the effectiveness of his mind rays and the more pure 'hypnotic drowsiness' he required. Routinely sleeping better fixed a lot of the other problems in my life and I ended up getting more involved in work and hobbies and I moved on from the whole sissy thing. I recommend this technique to anyone else having problems with sleep.

>>20615377
I fucking despise people like this because I used to be like that in my early twenties. It all changed when I read William Glasser's Control Theory. It made me take responsibility for who I was and everything that has ever happened to me(As all men should). Good luck.

how do you identify if self pity is the source of your problems and how to get rid of it

can someone post the 30s version

>>20615917
>just go outside bro!
Do you guys live in rural Iceland or something? Try living in any big city.

>>20615911
Not a lot of people got this, but I did, and I commend you for it.

Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the Wrst has turned into a black pill for me, but another perspective could see it as a white pill I think, or at least a silver lining pill.

>>20618678
>he fell for the determinism meme
Oh no no no

>>20615925
Read the Box Man and find out.

>>20618654
>living in a big city
Get out. Run, don't walk. Leave as soon as possible. I did so more than a year ago and while I still have lots to work on, I have at least finally made meaningful changes. Day to day my mental state has improved significantly. The environment in large cities is toxic in both a physical and spiritual sense. I took a few days going to a large city again recently and I can only feel disgust that I lived in such a place for so many years. There is a strong relationship between the setting you inhabit and the paths your psyche will take.

>>20618765
In the morning I have to go to work.

>hasn't been outside in literal months

How is this possible? I go mental after not being outside for two days in a row. How are you fucking losers staying indoors for months on end

>>20618573

>>20618849
I wish i could be literally him.

>>20615946
based TLP poster

>>20618849
fucking retard

Jannies are fucking niggers. I got two days for less than this and it's been up for almost a whole day

>>20615377
People in general live in times of physical, mental, and spiritual sickness. This is what makes great men great, in that they are able to make the most of their situation.

>>20615560
>oh no i have to pay a little extra for groceries :(
>that woman is showing her boobies :(

>>20618654
Big cities have parks you dope. Surprise yourself

>>20618765
I've lived in a very small town for all my life, and when I went to stay in the city for a couple days while in a depressive mood I nearly had a psychotic break. It's an extremely oppressive and offensive environment. Anti-human and unbearable.

>>20615377
First world issues like "mental sickness" do not exist and all there is are middle class wankers who feel "bored" because they weren't brainwashed , hence do not possess a clear goal at life

>>20615377

>>20623354
The universe is changig though? And probably not infinite according to modern cosmology?

>>20615560
Fuck the external world, that's a hard illusion and whomever dwells in it deserves everything bad that happens to them

>>20623369
does it really matter?