/lit/ - Literature

Juicy juicy juice hmmm juicy juice hmmmmm yes juicy

>>21321392
Last day at my uni before moving to an other country to do my master
I will miss my friends

I have no idea how I feel towards about this woman. I do not have dislike, nor like towards her that I recognize in myself, yet I want to talk to her / know her more deeper.

She hasn't shown any romantic interest in me that I'd recognize, so maybe that is throwing me off slightly.

Hmmmmmmmmm juicy juicy juice yumm yes juicy

>>21321392
The idea of hitting a rock bottom point has always intrigued me. I think my life and outlook on it would only be improved by such an experience. Perhaps because I see my greatest failing in never having known true struggle, in any form throughout my life.

I think of myself in grandeur, able to rise from whatever filth and muck life would throw at me. But you know what they say, pride goeth before the fall.

If I ever have kids I think I'm gonna go full helicopter mode and keep them away from vidya, and push them to do sports or something physical at the least. I firmly believe that vidya (and discovering porn) at an early age is responsible for 80% of my problems.

What the fuck am I doing? Going for this interview when I dont really care whats going to happen?

>>21321609
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ddLK57xI40

>>21321621
Porn is just one genie you can't put back in the bottle. Most people cant self-deny themselves out of exciting their limbic system just for the sake of getting it excited (ie. masturbation, watching porn, or having sex that *does not* lead to babies). It reminds me of the story about bird that kept trying to fuck a glass shard because it was similarly colored to its mates.

I guess you need to raise your kid to be somewhat stone cold stoic so they wont fall prey to base instincts like that.

what do you even tell a 22 yr women who has a fairly promiscuous past, occasionally does meth and has a loser (to some degree) boyfriend that is nearing 30? She honestly has no skills, is socially awkward and is fucking boring. I've known her for years but recently we've hung out a bunch and so her personal life has been revealed and each time I sit and listen I'm incapable of knowing what to say. I just look at her and think 'she's young and cute enough to just find some moderately wealth guy and be his maid'. There's no way she's recovering from that meth use and putting her brain toward anything useful so this seems like this is her only route but I can't get it out.

>>21321392
If you were to make a story that represented 21st century society, what would be the ideal characters to use? Normal everyday people, or outright millennial trannies?

>>21321663
>what do you even tell a 22 yr women who has a fairly promiscuous past, occasionally does meth and has a loser (to some degree) boyfriend that is nearing 30? She honestly has no skills, is socially awkward and is fucking boring

And here we go, another "d00d women amirite?" post. I get you're just projecting your own problems onto her in an attempt to feel validated about yourself, but come on, can't you fags come up with literally anything other than putting pussy on a pedestal?

>>21321670
>Normal everyday people

These, of course. Millennial trannies are largely confined to the internet. I have yet to meet a stereotypical tranny in real life. Never met an SJW, incel, etc either. Everyday people are pretty based and chillpilled, honestly. It's sad so many anons feel intimidated by them.

>>21321656
One time a bird got trapped between the window and a display rack. To free him, I had to cover him with my hands on the other side of the glass. How did I come up with that?

I still sometimes think about how back when I was around 13-15 I was given the phone number of one of the girls in my class by some of her friends with the implication that she was interested in me. And I never had the guts to do anything about it. I'm still a KHV now and I'm over 30.

>>21321671
nah. i've just been confused about what would be actual helpful advice. yea get off the meth and dump your bf but then what? tell her to go down the 'career' rabbit hole which she is totally unfit for (and which has been disastrous to women in general) or tell her to tradwife? i know it doesn't matter but i was struck by how little I've ever thought of the details of a modern women's life regarding future outcomes. i know what men do and should do but having to give real advice to a women was off-putting.

Anons you should pray a daily Rosary. I promise you it will transform your life.

>>21321392
What am I gonna talk to myself here?

>>21321775
Im listening.

>>21321787

Cat abuse sigh

>>21321700
ask her if she wants real advice (and if she do, try to dilute by a factor of about ten times whatever advice you have because some people are retarded and will get offended by anything) or if she only wants to be listened to, that's about it

>>21321174
>Damn, son, I know being a millennialoid faggot is tough, but there's no need to project all your generation's problems on anybody else.
it is what it is

>>21321392
I have officially spent 100€ on miniature kits. the 6th one is coming today. I am losing my mind. It wouldn't be so bad if it took me more than a day and a half to finish one, but I can't stop. It's so soothing. I WANT MORE.

Started a new job recently. A career actually. I am really disappointed, but not surprised, by the amount of gossip and shit talking I'm hearing from grown ass men. I'm not going to participate. I'm embarrassed to even be forced to hear it. I've already been told, half jokingly, not to repeat what I've heard multiple time by some guys. If you don't want what you say repeated then shut the fuck up. If you have a problem with how someone is behaving or working, be a man and tell them to their face.

What's a good site like liveleak?
I know theync but not much else

Less than 24 hours, we’re cooming home boys

I'm so anxious right now, it feels like I've been punched in the chest. trying to read to distract myself, but it only really works in little 5 minute bursts.

Saw Agnès Varda’s Vagabond last night on MUBI.
It’s an undeniably feminist film but I liked what it tried to do, it’s flashback structure sprinkled with “interviews” of the people the main character encountered in her short life is certainly original.
Although Varda was highly sympathetic to her fiercely independent character, she seems to have been clear-headed enough to realize that completely rejecting the bourgeois patriarchy is not a realistic option for women.

>>21322177
If you've not already then perhaps you'd prefer the films of Chantal Akerman as I feel she probably does what Agnes did, but from a more personal eye that is easy enough to relate too

>>21321718
My therapist said it helps you fall asleep

>>21321392
Fapping doesn't feel that much good. I don't like living as much as I'd like to like living.

>>21322204
Problem is Varda was superior as a documentarian than as a narrative filmmaker.
Daguerreotypes, Mur Murs and The Gleaners and I are better than The Creatures or Kung fu Master (haven’t seen Cleo yet)

I am crazy for people who are crazy for God: people nearly as inscrutable to me as divinity, who leave wives and children to become forest-dwelling monks in Thailand, who wander naked across the belly of India in search of self-realization, who speak in tongues and take up serpents in Appalachia because the Bible says they can.

>>21322177
> mubi
> varda
> akerman

did i get transported to 2013 /mu/ hipster thread or something

>>21322361
I have a mubi subscription, but only because it comes free with a scribd subscription. too bad I hate dokus.

>>21322361
Dude, you’re old

>>21321609
The thing about "rock bottom" is that you can always go lower. Only in retrospect do you realize you had hit bottom.

>>21321621
My wife is pregnant right now. I think we're going to keep our kids off the internet until they're old enough to actually get something out of it. An 8 year old doesn't need social media, I can't even see how they would understand its function. Video games bother me less, but only in moderation. Also it seems like a reach to attribute so many of your problems to video games, at some point you have to take responsibility.

>>21321663
>she's young and cute enough to just find some moderately wealth guy and be his maid
Would you want that? Honestly I'd prefer to be a broke meth head.

>>21322483
>2013
>old

a qt whos my friends friend is into me, and it brightened up my day a lil bit yesterday. not sure if i want to get into any relationships right now, but it feels good nonetheless

>>21321392
some songs are just too sad

the Rammstein Whiskey is pretty bad.

I miss fruit punch. I don't see it anywhere anymore.

>>21322483
(I'm the anon you're replying)

I started browsing this heavensite in 2006.

>>21322510
All musician branded booze is terrible. You ever have the Snoop Dogg wine?

>>21322483
No he's the right age. You're too young to be here

>>21322331
Hm, I think I will try and check out Varda, I feel like I often neglect a lot of the French New Wave although I have a penchant for Rivette's films.
Shame about how Godard treated Varda though

>>21322586
Have you tried the juice aisle at any grocery store?

Since /lit/ is smarter than /biz/, I'm requesting good literature (i.e. research papers, essays, articles, anything) on the long-term viability of crypto as a potential competitor to fiat.

>>21322679
>the long-term viability of crypto as a potential competitor to fiat.

Fiat is enforced by literal fucking nuclear fucking weapons intended to cause super massive human body count casualties.

Crypto is a playtoy of couple of ponzi schemers.

Do you ever grapple with between, on one hand, the impulse towards things like art, poetry, and fiction, and, on the other hand, feelings of business obligations, to put aside these things to build wealth for your family? More and more, I'm wondering if I should put the poetry aside and try to strike out in business so I can leave something for my family.

>>21322704
I agree, but keep in mind that at one point, the state-backed currency was metal coinage. So the question is really whether crypto or something like crypto is the next evolution of fiat or if it's just something for people to speculate on for a while. I totally agree with you that the intrinsic value of fiat is that it's state-endorsed and crypto isn't. This whole SBF scandal exposed that terribly.

>>21322704
>>21322708
And also, I don't think crypto needs to supplant fiat to be a competitor to it. Maybe it just always exists in the background as sort of the best hedge against relatively bad fiat like it is right now. I mean, if you had bought crypto back when it first took off, you'd have made quite a lot of money by now.

>>21322708
Yes, well evolution from fiat to crypto as enforced by State is not impossible. There are already essentially cashless societies where your every move is tracked, like China tier-1 cities.

Probable, given how much easier it is to track crypto assets due to all the guarantees.

>>21322598
>You ever have the Snoop Dogg wine?
I think I'd rather die. I hate wine enough as it is.

>>21322345
It's better if they didn't marry didn't have children and become forest dwelling monks.

I want to quit my career and become a sculptor

>>21322871
start sculpting, and then quit your career after you've sculpted a few things.

>>21322871
Sculpt, but don't quit your career unless you're financially secured.

>>21322713
Do you not see that as exactly what CBDCs are? The only real difference between that and crypto conceptually is the use of blockchain tech. You can't see a scenario where the government uses something very much like crypto as its new fiat? Keep in mind, fiat is just state currency not backed by commodities.

>>21322871
I think if you have the money, you can take a year or two off to do nothing but sculpt or perhaps attend school for it. You have to take risks if you want to win. That's how it works. The safe strategy does not always pay off.

>>21322631
Yeah. Apple, orange, pineapple, cocktails, never any fruit punch.

>>21321392
>Someone posts something /lit/
>Anon that clearly never read the material "debunks" it even though he would clearly agree with the material if he actually read it
>Anon replies, arguing in favor of something he would disagree with, using points the author never made
>Debate ensues where it is obvious no-one even remotely knows what's going on, people argue against themselves and for things that make no sense at all using passages that are completely out of context
It's all so fucking tiresome

>>21322033
You can make them cheaper if you just buy construction card.

>>21322177
I tried to watch that a few years back at a digital film festival. My internet was kind of fucked and it didn't interest me enough to force my way through it. Hope it got better than the first seven or so minutes played at a halting half speed.

>>21322982
nooo

>>21323010
Yes

>>21323017
yeah, but it's way harder.

>>21323092
Not really

>>21323097
look, do you do miniatures? I just started, and my printer doesn't work. what do you want from me?

>>21323120
You don't even need to print. Measure twice and cut once, it's pretty easy.

>>21322177
>Woman director
>Woman protagonist
>It’s feminist!
It’s female. So what? Only the most squeamish misogynist would be bothered by it.
Why not see it more as a portrayal of the folly of inherent capitalist impoverishment and misguided liberal individualism as much as patriarchy?

>>21322361
>why talk old movie?!
Because they’re good? We talk about old books all the time.

>>21323210
He mentions MUBI that is prime rym teen hipsterism from 10 years ago when that russian MUBI reviewer was copied by Amaranth (deep lore)

god i forget the ruskies name she was pretty as hell

>>21322679
I trust Michael Hudson’s opinions on crypto.
I hear the US will turn to a “shitcoin” once the dollar drops too far now that it’s decoupled from petroleum. The empire crumbles and they’ll pretend to be good and arrange for a UBI with it maybe, but life will still be a struggle under a police state with the knives more pointed inwards. —but that’s all social. Hudson can tell you more about it.
Also Steve Keen and his Deror idea

>>21321621
Same, but it's not even helicopter mode. They should be able to follow basic principles and avoid these things. I'm so mad that my parents basically left me to my own devices and I indulged in everything until I was old enough to come to my senses.

>>21323223
>Get with the times grandpa! Everyone knows Disney+ is where it’s at
w/e

>>21321663
Hate to tell you bro but its too late. My brother was exactly the same at 22.

>>21321663
You are not her personal Jesus.
Whatever she cannot find in herself, she cannot find elsewhere either.

>>21321687
Lol i did the same thing. I was 15, it was the last day of school and a girl gave me her number. I dont even know why I didnt call her. I guess I just didnt register that she was into me.

>>21322973
Which thread?

>>21321621
Then you find out it is the other children at school or daycare that are the worst influence.

>>21323223
Again, dude you’re old

>>21321687
>>21323286
bang up job guys
you probably missed other hints too if "here take my number" was too subtle for you

for me? personally? it was when she invited me to her place to fix some thing at weekend I just told her that "tell your dad to fix it"

>>21323302
Yeah I've missed a million hints bro. I started realizing as I became an early 20s incel that girls used to flirt with me all the time in high school.

>>21323309
This could have been you anon.

>>21321425
What's your masters in?

>>21323329
Sad

>>21321674
I'm an incel. Every woman I've met is some degree of SJW some of the men too. Serves me right for living on the west coast I guess.

There is nothing I'm good at, I'm completely talentless

>>21323279
Cereal oldfagging itt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xrNaTO1bI

C'est la vie

>>21323431
Idk why but my brain read this as
>There's nothing I'm good at, I'm completely lesbian
And it cracked me the fuck up. You're going to be fine anon. Nobody's very good. Worry about that instead because some of these people are in charge of things, like nuclear weapons and small children.

>>21323431
“A Jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one”

>>21321687
I once had a girl at work ask me to go out for a drink and I convinced myself at the time that she was only joking.

>>21323434
https://youtu.be/JLvFbBR4XOg

>>21323463
https://youtu.be/Sw1qQYUFbs8

>>21321392
One of my students (adult learner, I teach ESL) has given me her number and keeps flirting with me after class. She's married though.

>nearing 30 years of age and still living in a tiny cuck-pod apartment
>terrible with women and very lonely
>just got rejected from a phd position (again) earlier today
>a few moments later, a dealer I have not bought from for more than a year cold call texted me that he was having a sale on oxycontin
Let's get this party fucking started lmao

>>21323476
It's a great idea bro, what you have in mind. Absolutely NOTHING can go wrong.

>>21323463
>>21323434
>oldfag
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBmXLABEo_k

>>21323464
>>21323488
I said don’t answer me!

>>21323479
>a few moments later, a dealer I have not bought from for more than a year cold call texted me that he was having a sale on oxycontin
Anon, don't do this. Oxy nearly destroyed my brother's life.
You're far better than this.

>>21323487
Yeah, you're right. It's just a disaster waiting to happen.
She's literally the sexiest woman I've ever met, but it's too much of a liability.

I think I want to work with graphic design, but I don't know if I'm talented for it and I'm worried that I might waste my time in a worthless dream

>Dost
I've read Notes, but what do I read next? C&P or Brother Karamazov?
and which translation?

>>21323518
Not that anon but why is oxy bad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loRA5XxACcw&ab_channel=WilliamMaranciMashups

>>21323508
I said fuck you, kid.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jcCwmtVAIM

>>21323479
You're gonna die of a fetynal overdose

>>21323535
It's highly addictive and lead to my brother doing heroine after he was prescribed oxy as a teenager. If the oxy is "on sale" it may contain fent.

>>21323535
Because oxy is a drug and drugs are bad

>>21323548
>pocket sticker
>knife

Well bros I submitted my transfer applications. I'm terrified of being rejected.

If I could travel back to when I was 14 I could fix it all, I would probably have a GF now and have a nice job(okay probably not).

Ive been reading over the journal I started. Its all directionless whiney bullshit

>>21323610
Who cares if it's whiney?
If that's where you are or been then that simply is
Trust me, it's better than just being a husk.

>>21323610
I feel ya. Haven't written in my diary in a while. Need to get back into prayer too.

Odd number and I'll look into her phone, even and I don't.

>>21323644
look anyway.

>>21323610
My journal is whinning and writing in circles about the same thing over and over again.

How the fuck do I find a middle term when it comes to women? It seems that they either have never had a relationship, which becomes rare as fuck to find as an adult, or sucked and fucked half the city.
I’m not looking for some virginal girl, but is it too much to ask for someone who wasn’t the town bike?

>>21323687
Yes

>>21323687
To add to that, how do I find a woman who doesn't think I should be totally cool with her making out with her "girlfriends" every weekend?

>>21323672
The numbers have told me not to. I shall respect them.

>>21323687
shinji, marry the town bike or ernest khalimov will have to do it

>>21323687
move, get some confidence up and ask their numbers in the street, or go in a literature/climbing club or something. you're never gonna find "the one" on tinder, that's for sure

>murder mystery
>in takes place during Christmas
>on board of a train

name a comfier setting I dare you

>>21321392
---- Solaria ----
451
(Fox River Valley)

In circumstances relaxed, serene as this
One lives with all drama consigned to small screens

Vaguely lunar, capering in the attic like maps toward lands too rich
In theater for portrayal, or a synaesthete

Whose vision trails florid auroras on drives
Through scenery that at its greenest, is green beyond belief

And in winter almost oblivious, yet still sweet
As all relief from tragic feeling,

From the need for any sartorial splendor against the cold
Except a dome of flying glass traveling

As if light were all
And all feeling some sum of it.

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

What advice would you give someone who was once a NEET and has since returned to school, but is taking way too long to complete their degree?

>>21323739
I like the one where M. Poirot's central heating breaks down and so he has to crash a Christmas party in a country house.

>>21323761
hurry up

>>21323761
one day at a time. be a bit more social, make the effort to talk to people, its really easy to fall back into the trap of posting here all day and eating like shit

>>21323761
Make new mistakes.

>>21323518
Thanks for the thought man. I was picking up the phone to get in touch with him and then my mom called in the same instant - it made me realize I don't want to relapse, I have too many people I love, and I think I can avoid it. But Jesus Christ the synchronicities of this day, it's like God is fucking with me. I'm just going to go hide under my blanket with a book, I don't want anymore of this day.

>>21323557
It sure is a gamble these days compared to ten years ago when I last dabbled with pills.

>>21323765
Top kek. As for Holmes, my favorites are Silver Blaze and The Devil's Foot.

>>21321392
Sometimes I think about Heaven and I wonder if really have my chances at getting there. Absolute peace? Never having to sleep and think of my many mistakes again? Being so happy I don't even think of taking a time machine and punching myself to near-death? Meeting my friends and grandparents there? Sounds like a pretty good place to be.

I'm trying my best at being virtuous and making people around me happy but sometimes things get too hard and I can't lie that well, so I just keep a distance. I don't know what to do, really. I'm tired all the time. I've tried to be good but I'm pretty sure that's not enough for a ticket to paradise. Plus I don't know how to pray properly and never bothered to learn seriously. I feel like I shouldn't rush it yet this should be a priority in my life.

I'm so damn tired.

>>21323768
Obviously, I've said that, but it falls on deaf ears. If I'm being perfectly honest, he has failed to produce any results at all in any arena, but he's smart and I care about him so I want to see him succeed. He's one of these people that was a NEET until his mid-20s. I think that's unfortunate, but it's common these days so it's forgivable. But after that I felt like "okay, you need to make this work now". So he went back to school, and I thought that was positive. 5 years later, he's not as close to completing his degree as even a 5th year should be, and it's become really obvious that the degree is just a way to procrastinate since he's just as directionless career-wise as he always was. He's a smart guy, but he's fallen far behind where he should've been by 30 and I don't want to see him fall even further behind by 35 or 40. I want him to have a life he can at least feel some pride in. Sometimes I think about going into business with him because like I said, I think he's smart and trustworthy and I think together we could make something work but at the same time, I just don't find him reliable in producing results.

>>21323773
This is for a friend, not me. He's relatively social, relatively healthy, and all that. He's never dated as far as I know, but I don't really blame him since it's hard to find good girls especially if you're not having career success. Besides dating, it's mostly just the career and education he struggles with.

>>21323779
Wdym

We cannot be possible. We cannot even exist because existence is already beneath us. There is no point in defining another person to their face because they will always know better than you. People should always be treated as potentials and attempts to control them should be known as an attack against who they are.

>>21323812
Sounds like you're talking about my older brother. He's not in training though, he's just doing nothing at 26. Personally I just gave up. I realized I couldn't get into his head and pilot his body like some kind of mecha, that I'll have to live with the rest of my life with the knowledge that HE will wake up one day and realize that he wasted his youth on naught. I stopped feeling bad about it when my parents told me this whole situation kept them awake at night, about 3 years ago. There is no point in all of us feeling bad for the same thing. Sometimes you can't do shit but watch.

MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI MESSI

Life is a collaborative work of art.

>>21323812
>>21323842
it seems our entire generation (millennials/zoomers) has largely an arrested development throughout, one way or another. Especially in men.

I didn't finish uni until I was 26 and that's because I had a lot of issues throughout my schooling (academic and personal)

Back in middle school, some cute girls tried to hug me. Of course, I ran away. To this day, I still think it was hilarious.

>>21323883
Not really. When it comes to cognitive and erotic impairment, the East is, as ever, Hell compared to the Heaven of the West. This has not noticeably changed for 20 generations or so.

>>21323783
Glad to hear I was able to make a difference man. I know you got this. Stay strong.

>>21321392
It’s your year anon trust me

>>21324037
Anon... Im a wizard.

Poland and Australia produce some of the most boring football in the world, can't believe we have to sit through more of their matches now.

>go to psychiatrist for adhd medication
>psych is a young women
>she’s looking through my report
>starts asking me questions about my past relationships
>asks if I’ve ever had a girlfriend
>say no
>she doesn’t say anything
why do women always humiliate me?

>>21323842
He's older than that, but I'll never give up on him. Still, I don't quit know what to say. Do you know? You can have expectations for people, and you can make those expectations known, but you can't make them meet them. It's hard to tell if he even feels some sense of urgency at all. He tells me about the video games he plays and all I can think is "If I were you, I'd be working or studying so hard, I wouldn't have any time for video games". and of course, I can say that, but it won't change the mindset.

I have absolutely no idea how so many people can balance having a job, going to college and going to the gym frequently while still graduating within 4 years. I just don't get it. I would have to go into full NPC mode to do that.

>>21321392
I am quitting my job, terminating my apartment lease, putting all my shit in storage, boarding my dog and hopping on the Pacific Crest Trail in hopes of finding meaning and maybe a few friends along the way. I will be hiking 10 hours a day with a 35lb backpack for 5 months (2650 miles).
When I finally reach my destination I will find myself jobless, homeless and broke. I have no idea what I will do then but I look forward to figuring it out

>>21324176
I feel bad for the dog.

I've got a near permanent urge to in some way alter my consciousness, to do or take something to make me feel different. It's like I'm not supposed to be here or I'm not supposed to be like this, and I have both the need to escape that notion and the fantasy that some day I will engineer just the right chemical combination to fix myself.

>>21324176
You're fucking obnoxious

Working in an office can make or break you.

>>21324176
Why the hell do people do stuff like this.

>>21324206
they think we're still in the ken kesey era or some shit

fast cars and freedom is one of the greatest song ever made in the last 20 years

>>21324176
Don’t do this till you have a plan.
Get the dog a home. Go somewhere with the intent to forge a better life. What you find acceptable it up to you of course.
$50 and Up Underground Home book might interest you

>>21324130
>things that never happened

>>21324176
You should find a better home for the dog, but otherwise, this is a good idea. You'll get some life experience out of it. Ignore the fools.

>>21321392
Every woman I talk to is disloyal. I feel like ive lost that spark of love that I felt so strongly, blindingly. Now it's hard for me to care about a girl even if she seems like a good person. just don't trust em.

Its fucked up how much of our lives we spend farming money. Every second we can spend creating good memories or doing something fun is precious. Fun being entertaining and fulfilling, not meaningless drug use or pleasure.

>>21324130
I will NEVER take meds. Even if it made me better. My soul is as it is. If i'm broken then thats who I am.
Never seen a psychiatrist or therapist but i imagine they would try to prescribe something if i told them the truth

>>21323832
The reason people define people to their faces is essentially a declaration of distrust or doubt. People lie to eachother constantly, and many people have dealt with verifiable liars, or very fickle people who are arbitrary and brief with their feelings. Controlling people is useful for helping that person be more useful/harmonious with you, and vice versa.

>>21323812
>>21324157
How did you come to know what the "shoulds" in life are? Explain this to your brother and it might help. But I bet you will have trouble figuring out how you came to presuppose those shoulds.
Explain to him what you mean by "fallen behind" and see how he answers.

>>21321392
---- Solaria ----
452
(Marie Antoinette)

Worlds where life abundant enough for instrumental musicians

Are probably a once-in-a Virgo supercluster thing

And probably just as fleeting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4-9ALbPQFo

>>21321392
I have date tomorrow. Wish me luck.

>>21324333
If you want a happy relationship, I wish you luck, you will need it.
If you just want to feeder to fuck while they pretend to like you, you will get exactly what you are looking for until you get tired of them being annoying.

I was down at the New Amsterdam
Staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
With a black-haired flamenco dancer
You know she dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
And we all want something beautiful
Man, I wish I was beautiful

>>21323811
Make peace with your past, it will make everything else easier

>>21323812
>Sometimes I think about going into business with him because like I said, I think he's smart and trustworthy and I think together we could make something work but at the same time
Do NOT do this, you will get fucked hard. Or at best you're gonna pull all the weight

>>21324176
Good luck, I guess. You don't need to do something so drastic to find "meaning." The world is overflowing with meaning, every mote of dust has a story beyond our comprehension.

>>21324347
Man with that attitude even luck won't help you

double back when you got it made

>>21324130
She's just doing her job, man. Try not to take it personally. My wife is a psychoanalyst, and she tries to keep an impassive attitude towards her patients. Obviously psychiatry is different, diagnosis necessitates something akin to judgement. But she's not trying to humiliate you, it's not like she's going to go tell her friends about the incel she had in session today.

Can philosophy answer one simple question…why should I care?

>>21324658
When I was in college, I heard a story that the final for the philosophy 202 class was a ruled sheet of paper with the prompt "Why?" Some smartass wrote, "Why not?" and got an A

I wish I had to struggle more when I was young.

>>21324307
He makes excuses and is always the victim of circumstances. He’s not even that behind in his mind.

>>21324296
And who are you to decide that anyone else is lying? Controlling people is the opposite of cooperation. I'm not saying you can't domesticate a human, but I'm not really into authoritarianism.

Lately, I've been listening to a Japanese jazz fusion band called Casiopea. I now really love the genre I disliked for the longest time.

>>21324785
>jap interpretation of black music sways a white nerd's opinion
Happens daily

>>21324677
Don’t care

>>21324785
mint jams screencap got you?
>>21324800
kek

>>21324176
Your lack of meaning will not be found on the trail. That is something you find within yourself, and you will be taking yourself with you.

Its time to sit and have a long look in the mirror anon. The thing you are looking for is in there.

>>21321392
If you describe how people act, you're a cynic. Not the ones actually acting cynically....
Funny how that works.

>>21321392
I envy stemfags. Wish I had some practical skill. Anything, just something I could point to so I could feel like I have real value as a person.

>>21324885
>tfw majoring in philosophy
>tfw did construction work for years
>tfw tangibly produced and created more than any stemfag ever will while also not stuck being some stembot philistine

>>21324704
I am asking you about the "shoulds" themselves. How are your "shoulds" better or more correct than his?
Have you ever been forced to take a philosophy or ethics course? Or are you pure STEM? I'm getting pure STEM vibes from you anon.

>>21324689
Stop romanticizing that shit and appreciate the comfort you were gifted. The only valid regret is not taking advantage of the privilege

>>21324658
Camus actually tries to answer that one

>>21324176
Actually very based,but that trail is expensive to hike. Hope you have enough money to afford all the supplies youll need

>>21324813
Point being, it doesn't matter whether you do or not

>>21324906
>>tfw did construction work for years
Construction has value to society, but still a shit job.
I wouldn't be proud of that personally.
Whereas if you're a scientist, your work has value & can require real thought. If you study some scientific subjects you're acquiring some complex, specialized knowledge that a lot of other people won't have.

>>21324037
WELL MAYBE IT'S NOT MY WEEKEND BUT IT'S GONNA BE MY YEAR

>>21323761
My advice is to stop using the singular they

>>21324959
>My advice is to stop using the singular they
Obsessed.

>>21324948
>Construction has value to society, but still a shit job.
Kek thats why I'm back in college. Don't fall for the "learn a trade" meme, guys. It fucking sucks.
Anyway, I'm happy that I at least have practical skills now.

>>21324971
Yes, unironically, I am obsessed. It drives me insane. Sometimes I catch myself accidentally using it and pull out my hair in frustration.

>>21324927
How does he go about it? Seems impossible to answer.

>>21324981
Just push the boulder bro

I like wintry days when I get to stay home because there's too much snow

>>21324990
So another “why not?”. Pathetic. It’s sad that philosophy can’t answer a simple question that an edgy teenager can ask.

>>21325016
How much philosophy have you read?

>>21324919
I didn’t have comfort. I struggled. I wish I had to struggle harder.

anybody can spit a verse but enlightened niggas spit in verse

>>21324658
Because you will die if you don't, and I suspect your instincts will repel you from this.

I'm getting stronger.

>>21321392
My life has stagnated. The only thing I have to look forward to is returning to my desktop. And that is just routine, I don't even really enjoy it anymore.
I have no friends or social life, and don't really know how to make friends. Never did in high school either.
The feeling of missing out is crushing, but the anxiety being around others is equally crushing.
When I was a freshman I went to a few parties my coworkers invited me to, but other than that I've remained alone.
I see an empty future--nothing to do and nowhere to go.
My frugal living will have allowed me to save some money, but I will live in an empty house with nothing to work or live for.
I'm not motivated to climb any ladder or build a career, but I'm intelligent enough that I've never struggled to find work.

>>21325038
A moderate amount. Gave up because I wasn’t getting any answers. Everything is just assumed on faith at the bottom. Which seems embarrassing to those who clamor to philosophy as some type of wisdom.

>>21324977
Kinda weird of ngl
They're not bothering anyone

>>21325051
So what if my instincts repel me from it? That should be enough to make me care? Why be a slave to my instincts? Why not fight them? And my instincts will just draw me towards suicide eventually.

>>21325074
I used they for non specific singular all the time prior to the trans pronoun fight. The seething from neo grammar nazis is puzzling.
>>21325070
There are no "answers"
Sleep well tonight.

>>21325086
Your instincts are the only reason you aren't dead right now. Kill yourself and prove me wrong retard, or you could work with your instincts and enjoy your life. I suppose it's up to you.

>>21325070
>Everything is just assumed on faith at the bottom.
In philosophy, it usually assumes intuition rather than faith. Intuition is elaborated on by many philosophers, most notably Hume and Kant. I personally see philosophy as an aide to religion, so I'm actually happy to begin with faith in all things. I think you should check out some existentialists. Kirkegaard, Camus, and Unamuno are great for what you're asking about.

>>21324785
>Casiopea
Their concerts are immaculate. Weird that a Japanese fusion band rivals my all-time favorite band, Weather Report, as a fusion band. The Japanese are excellent at perfecting forms, but I prefer WP because they're technically more eclectic.

>>21325118
So another “why not?”. Great.

>>21325070
>Everything is just assumed on faith at the bottom.
There's no other option.

>>21325125
Not another "why not?" If you have to ask "why not kill myself," you are a fucking dumbass. Literally just try killing yourself right now, and you will understand.

>>21325133
Cease to have beliefs, live like an animal. That's always an option

>>21325141
>That's always an option
No, it isn't.

>>21325120
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve read some of them but just briefly. I wonder what they mean by intuition? And how that differs from just being a slave to instincts. Or how it differs from faith.
>>21325133
So there is no wisdom.

>>21324948
>complex, specialized knowledge that a lot of other people won't have.

most of it is useless and so incredibly boring you have no idea!

>>21325173
>So there is no wisdom.
Have it your way.

>>21325173
Intution is the mental processing of data. In other words, it underlies perception, or makes perceptions coherent. Uncovering the operation of intuition was the main project of the Enlightenment. Obviously it's a difficult project because it entails turning the mind onto itself. Something like, the observer observing himself.
Saint Augustine had a really interesting take on it, which anticipates the Cogito Ergo Sum. He saw that he could not doubt that he doubts, but rather than placing that as the baseline of truth, he instead turns to divine illumination for justifcation, which is why Augustine says "first you just believe, and then you can understand." Illumination for Augustine is fairly derivative of Plato's recollection. I was big into Augustine for a while. If you want to pursue his particular take I reccomend you either read his Confessions or the Christian Philosophy of Saint Augustine by Gilson.

>>21325173
>So there is no wisdom
I'm getting ESL vibes from you

I wish I met someone like her earlier in my life. There's so much shit I didn't understand before this year, and playing catch up at 30 while my parents enter old age and rely on me financially more than ever before feels beyond overwhelming and discouraging.

I honestly didn't think love was real. Now I've had a taste and I'm all fucked up in the head.

But my experience with her was as uplifting as it was painful. Overall, I took care of myself pretty well despite living like a hermit for the past 13 years with only two dates during then. She was also someone I consider special; she was mature and cut from the same cloth as me, and for someone special like that to take an interest in me, even if briefly, makes me feel like maybe I'm not as hopeless as I imagined.

I really hope I can find a place in the life of someone special some day. I just hope it's not too late to turn my life around.

>>21325184
>most of it is useless and so incredibly boring you have no idea!
I don't know about every science, but the natural sciences seem somewhat interesting.
Maybe the details aren't so much, but knowing a lot about the natural world could give someone a different, interesting perspective on life.
H.G Wells the father of sci-fi was a biologist, and that certainly seemed to inspire a lot of his creative ideas.
Whereas, if you're just an average humanities guy, like myself, I can accumulate a lot of knowledge about history, literary studies, philosohy, while knowing comparatively little about the actual world I inhabit. The knowledge I do have seems inadequate by comparison.

>>21325165
>No, it isn't.
Yes it is. You can do it. I believe in you

>>21325226
>>21325234
So you have to have faith that there is actually wisdom and play the game from there.

Yes we are going into The Unknown. Along the way we will pass a psycho-social singularity, a singularity of cooperation and creativity.
Bloomsday is near.

>>21323842
>he's just doing nothing at 26
Swear to God this is like half of young men today. My older brother is a year younger, and is similar.

>>21325352
no

>>21325422
I’m 32 with a 145 IQ doing nothing.

>>21325469
Explain how?

>>21325422
most young men are lost. nothing fancy about it. it's been a thing since the 90s I reckon, haven't recovered since.

>>21323812
>>21323842
>>21323883
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality

Modernity is full of liminoid, not liminal, experiences. Liminoid experiences arrest ego development if engaged in too often. Surfing the internet / browsing social media can and is a liminoid experience for many, as is playing video games, or traveling for PTO from work. The modern world has all these activities that make you think like you're making progress when you aren't.

>>21325474
Not "them" but I will respond.
By asking you how in the fuck do you know the difference between something un-"wise" and "wise"?

>>21324915
I don't need philosophy to tell me why being lazy, procrastinating, and blame-shifting while failing to produce results is bad. Nobody does. This is common sense. At some point, you will need to support yourself at the bare minimum.

>>21325513
Is "real work" aka waging, part of this luminoid list?

>>21325513
Interesting. Yeah, there are a lot of these. 4channel is one of them.

>>21325529
Good luck with STEM.

>>21325522
I’m not arguing that. I’m arguing I don’t know. You just have to have faith.

>>21325229
>”first you just believe, and then you can understand."
Not sure what you can “understand” if your first axiom relies on faith. I can change my first axiom again and arrive at a wildly different conclusion.

>>21325573
So you are incessantly asking for something you are not even sure you can understand?
Let me know if you want to stop talking in circles at any point.

>>21325583
ur not objective or impartial or capable of understanding reality you are a human being
pseud

>>21325602
I agree. That’s my point. Wisdom is impossible.

>>21325531
For sure, because most jobs today are bullshit jobs

>>21325601
I want to just ask others how they attempt to understand this.

>>21325609
>Wisdom is impossible.
Now say this to everyone graduating high school from now on and see what happens to civilization.

>>21325630
>just do what’s useful for civilization just because it’s useful for civilization

>>21325609
>>21325688
Same anon? Very possible, likely even.

There are moments like today where if I lived in America I would've just taken the car and driven off somewhere and shot myself. It would be so easy.

>>21325744
LOL

>>21321392
I know gf is abusive but she is so hot and in love with me which makes the whole situation so hot.

>>21325744
>eurocucks cant even shoot themselves in the face because its "illegal"

Well bros I gave that gjrl my number. Think I jumped the gun. She got uncertain and nervous. I asked to meet her on saturday and have no in person contact with her til then. I dont know if I should text her jn the interim or what to say. In hindsight I shoulda asked her to meet me on campus tomorrow and chat, build up to it. Why is this all so complicated bros? Should I just go back to being a blackpilled incel?

BROS WHAT DO I TEXT HER

Sometimes it's hard to find the silver lining.

faurk i just made the most delicious salmon for dinner. at first i thought i fucked up by adding too much stuff, but the strong flavour ended up being great. it kills me knowing that the price of this stuff has doubled and I cant afford to eat it that often

>>21326013
>t. silver-blind

>>21323292
>>21321621
My wife and I are trying for a kid right now and this is one of my biggest fears. I hate what I see in kids right now, my sister in law has an 8 year old daughter that's an absolute menace. She was practically raised by her iPad and watches whatever she wants resulting in her behaving like a parody of a teenager. All her friends are similarly disposed. How do I keep my kid away from this shit without unnecessarily isolating them?

Why do I keep attracting girls with daddy issues? All 3 of my exes had daddy issues. This girl who has a lot of interest in me also has daddy issues with an absent divorced father.
I'm not saying no one can't be without issues but this pattern is slightly concerning for me.

>>21326152
In my exp, daddyissues girls tend to leap on men they can manipulate into forming into their own desired images. sucks, but that means men of weak constitution.

>>21326172
Which is kinda funny because the breaking point of the relationship is when I wanna do my own thing and adamant about my decisions. But I can see where I can be seen or am someone with weak constitution. Being the youngest in the family I was coddled a lot and made to do as I was told for the longest time.

i saw this one guy breaking down the average lifetime as 20 years at best of having a chance to make something good out of it and the rest is you being a bitch to inevitable circumstances, with the window of opportunity starting at around 16 and ending at 46. surely it can't be that simple, right? it can't be that fatalistic. i'm panicking a lot and getting back into the ''oh god i have wasted so much time doing nothing i have to shoot my head off'' mindset. i want to believe that it's just an overreaction, that there is so much more to 20 years than what it seems like in theory, but i can't be certain enough to believe it.

>>21321392
and if you're in love, then you are the lucky one

Anyone of the screencap of the guy tryin to buy a book and autistically falling in love with the check out lady

>>21325016
>edgy teenager can ask a baseless, contextless, smug, and time wasting question
>philosophy is absolutely not allowed to answer just as baseless and contextless and smug because the edgy teen said so

i always find it impressive when roadkill manages to solve the captcha

If $25k cash is enough to quit the job for a while.

It's so cold, it's so cold, it's the coldest night
Please don't go, please don't go, Disney dancer on ice
>>21326327
Nope

>>21326327
Depends on your lifestyle. Look at your bank account & add up your expenses for a month.
For me that'd be enough for a couple years.

>>21326127
>How do I keep my kid away from this shit without unnecessarily isolating them?
Personally I would not allow them to have it early on.
Then later once the kids are maybe 11-13 allow them to play some videogames, but impose limits on it.

>>21326327
It's pretty good breathing for me.

>>21326127
If all of the next generations are going to be doomed like that, you have the choice of either having your kinds 'fit in' with them in their predicament, or isolating them.

>>21321392

Soon, I'll lurk back here again...

>>21326127
No electronics before 7. After 7, anything that doesn't offer internet connection is good (preferably something small, like a gameboy. Or nintendo games). Limit game-time to 1 hour a day.
After 9, allow internet but only for one hour a day. I remember learning a lot at that age.
After 11, internet but for schoolwork and in the living room. After 13, two hours a day of internet maximum. At that point your kid will get rebellious but if you've done your job correctly you should've ingrained some discipline they will carry on to the rest of their life.
Definitely prevent them from watching TikTok or Youtube Kids channels. It will fuck up their brain and I'm not even joking, that shit is literal drugs for their immature brains.

Aside from keeping that shit from them, ensure they get sufficient entertainment and attention especially at a young age (read them books, go out, make them see people, like cousins or extended family, make sure they have friends they can hang out with...).

It's going to be hard but that's what being a good parent entails. My cousins kids are near-retarded and can't even READ or write at 12. I keep hearing from some of my friends who are middle school teachers that newer generations kids are all like that and it fucking scares me knowing my kids will have to grow up in that culture.

>playing minecraft while my internet is spotty
>crouch mode, backing up while laying slats over lava
>game lags so that i fall in lava
>lose all my enchanted diamond gear including my highly enchanted infinity bow

After 1-2 years of leaving porn and masturbation, I'm finally getting used to all the pent up energy. Two relevant quotes:

"The reabsorption of semen by the blood is the strongest nourishment and, perhaps more than any other factor, it prompts the stimulus of power, the unrest of all forces toward the overcoming of resistances, the thirst for contradiction and resistance. The feeling of power has so far mounted highest in abstinent priests and hermits (for example, among the Brahmins)."
—Nietzsche

"Like the Jews, the wise men of India have a belief that a certain particular Prana, or force, resides in the Bindu, or semen…. Therefore they stimulate to the maximum its generation by causing a consecrated prostitute to excite the organs, and at the same time vigorously withhold by will. After some little exercise they claim that they can deflower as many as eighty virgins in a night without losing a single drop of the Bindu. Nor is this ever to be lost, but reabsorbed through the tissues of the body. The organs thus act as a siphon to draw constantly fresh supplies of life from the cosmic reservoir, and flood the body with their fructifying virtue…."
—Crowley

It's so good bros. I only wish I had discovered it sooner. At this rate, even if I decide to get married some day, I will still practice semen retention.

>>21326591
>what 0 pussy does to mfer

>>21326643
lmao

>>21326643
>>21326650
>what zero pussy does to a mfer

>>21324037
It's gonna happen homies. This'll be our year. I promise <3
WAGMI

I think that I unironically have ADHD and meds could help me.

>>21326901
They cant

>>21326904
Why?

Someone make a new thread

>>21326591
all that strife and your only gain is dickriding a larper? unreal

>>21326901
just stop browsing the internet and playing video all the time

>>21327018
That wont help.

furst w take mantahatan
then we take berlin

>>21321392
I have finally realized it was me that was wrong and is wrong

>>21327055
Also stop eating glyphosate laced foodstuffs and take up meditation.

>>21327209
>glyphosate laced foodstuffs
what about it?

>>21321392
Question: why does no one mention Clarke in these threads? I know they’re mostly about Bakker vs Branderson shitposting, but occasionally people poat about old (good) sci fi, but it’s almost never Clarke. Is it because he’s the obvious top dog or is he actually not appreciated on here?

I think my post-flu sinus infection is finally starting to fade. I hope I can make the best of things now

The Zoomers are not okay.
They are all mentally ill, severely depressed, or interested in extreme gore material. In the end, they develop bizarre desires like transgenderism and slice their organs to pieces. Trying to help them is difficult at best. They seem to be covered in a thick placenta of social conditioning and fear, so any attempts to help them heal is met with resistance, withdrawal, or aggression. I'm going to go hard with the zoomer recovery project, and I recommend anons use their spare time figuring out how to break through to them. You'll be met with resistance, hate, and ridicule, but what's that to you? They're just zoomies.
Do your best anons.

I was just driving home from the gym. It's night time where I am and I guess I was pretty exhausted after my work out that I didn't notice my headlights had been knocked and weren't on. I didn't notice because the rest of my console was lit up which only happens when the lights out, but the switch must have got knocked into a weird position and they weren't on. Anyway, I was driving home and a lady even leant out her car windows and made a flashing sign with her hands and I was so out of it that I was just really confused by what she was doing. I thought her indicator must he broken so she was using her hand instead. I just thought it was weird.

Anyway there are enough street lights on my route that I drive another 5 minutes without the lights. Finally when I get to a dark street I realise what's happened and I flick them on. No joke five seconds later a cop car pulls onto the street in front of me and for sure would have seen me driving in the dark with my lights off and probably pulled me over. I don't know what the punishment is for that but geez I felt lucky. My guardian angel must be looking out for me today.

>>21323859
( >>/lit/thread/21323067#p21323859 )
You misunderstand the appeal. Even if God made a she-God to be less lonely, in this hypothesis where he controls everything so that "bad things don't happen", he would still be controling the she-God, it would still be just a theater (or puppet show), with God performing and God spectating.

>>21322982
everytime I make one, there's a lot of stuff left over. soon I'll have enough that I can make some small little scenes, I want to try making one in a walnut shell.

Over the next 20 years open source softwares are going to gradually begin to replace subscription-based software, also learn autocad

>>21326387
I don't have any fixed expenses currently. I live with a family member and I contribute to rent and groceries. Otherwise, I have no fixed payments, no car payment, no debt, etc. That said, I think I'd have to sign a new lease on my own and my car is on its last legs.

I had wanted to not still be in this job in the new year, but it's December and here I am.

Scrubbing certain details from my biography

Why does it seem as if it's not uncommon for journalists to enter politics in other countries but is uncommon in the United States?

Dubs and my mother dies before next year.

>>21328080
I see you.

>>21325513
Damn this explains so much, particularly why the trend of "liminal spaces" and "backrooms" has taken off. Are we so lost in bullshit arguments about culture war nonsense that really has no bearing on our lives because we lack any sense of directional meaning? Is it because capitalism gave us endless choices that can never really fill the "void"?

What are we all striving toward?

Do you feel like you can actually become the sort of person you want to be?

>>21328113
Self-destruction.

new
>>21328139
>>21328139
>>21328139

>>21328085
Kek

>>21327356
What a riveting story. Truly living on the edge

>>21327656
I say save up a little more maybe a couple months more of work cause you just never know.
Given how you live though 25k should be enough for a while.
Only way to know for sure is to add up expenses for a month then create a2m estimate for a years worth of expenses.
Be very very careful about this

Kanye West is currently wearing a gimp mask and praising Hitler on the Alex Jones show