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>>8829346
>transcended the need for social validation

Sure thing, senpai.

>>8829346
Realize you had it wrong the whole time.

>>8829346
>>transcended the need for social validation

then why would you be here expecting us to validate your path?

>>8829346
you failed at all those things and telling shit to yourself like "i transcended" is your way of psychologically adapting to such status quo

if thats true then questions should stop appearing.

in your case they only seem more raging.

>>8829360
alan watts is a hippie shit. study zen nigga.

>>8829346
"Transcended"

Way to make complete imcompetence sound like a success.

>>8829346
Read stoics and Schopenhauer

>>8829346
>intelligent

theres your problem. intellectual grasp, even if not useless, cant do a thing by itself.

>>8829346

>still needing books

>>8829346
>transcended the need for inter-personal relationships
>transcended the need for social validation

>>transcended the need to attain further knowledge
>What happens now? Do I die? I never anticipated that I would ever become this intelligent.
>Any good books on this etc?

And yet here you are

>>8829346
Seek the Light of Tabor, ὦ ἄδελφε.

>>8829360
that quote is complete bullshit

>die
this

allow immanence to visit you.

>>8829346

>>8829370
>>8829382
This. The word "trascended" shows you are like anyone else.

>>8829350
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>>8829367
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>>8829379
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>>8829460
>all these butthurt projecting untranscended plebs

go back 2 your capitalism, pigs!

If you had truly transcended anything you would be mentally at peace and not attention whoring on a Belgian Waffle Forum.

Transcend in this case simply means 'I'm an autistic loser who has giving up and will now proceed to justify my shortcomings'.

heyyyyyyy, no bully the transcended guy :(

I wish I could truly transcend sex, I'm never gonna get it anyway.

>>8829498
Have you tried reading Kierkegaard?

write a book
become rich
be able to fuck bitches
reject them
post results

go do it.

>>8829505
kierkegaard was fucking cuck. like, read his biography and shit

>>8829477
What's the difference between an autistic loser attention-whoring and an actual monastic?
Is it just the time spent in rationalizing non-materialist pursuits?
>hurp derp I'm too unskilled and anxious to farm rice better go be a monk
>die with negative accomplishments
Or is it rather the discrepancy over really not wanting vs. sour grapes attitude?
>material pleasures are impermanent, I will meditate on god and achieve enlightenment
>mom said her pay cut would mean I don't get to eat at Applebees ever week, I dont really need food after all >: (

>>8829505
A long time ago. It didn't help.

>>8829346
>>transcended the need for sex
>>transcended the need for inter-personal relationships
What's the secret to doing this? I never masturbate anymore and have tried diligently to make myself hate women due to bad experiences with my past 2 girlfriends. I've read the Greeks and am not materialistic at all, yet I feel a constant need to seek out a woman and be with her (I have a low sex drive these days, I just want someone to be with).

Not the transcended faggot here but also interested in books where people learned to leave desire behind.

>not being tormented and fighting against yourself your whole life

you did it wrong man. those questions whether should never arise, or should be the fuel to great creation. they are not supposed to be solved.

>>8829592
if questions can be raised, they can be solved.

>>8829592
You should at least develop some kind of contentment as you age. If you're 50 and still torment yourself with "what went wrong? - what could be?" and still seek unchangeable things or still have childish dreams all the time about being a princess and shit you obviously completely fucked up and will prepare yourself for some really depressing last decades.

>>8829537
Stop being such a fucking pussy and hiding from anyone who might hurt your precious feelies.

>>8829644
people are viscous creatures and can fuck your psychology up pretty bad if you're not prepared or have some people to turn to for support

>>8829644
>QUIT BEING A PUSSY DUDE SPEND ALL YOUR TIME AND ENERGY TRYING TO BE AN ALPHA FUCCBOI DISPLAYING YOUR (((SUPERIORITY))) TO THE OTHER ROBOTS

Fuck yeah bro!

*clashes beer bottles*

>>8829655
Not that guy but I have a Tulpa and she has literally saved my life by being there when I need someone to turn to for guidance and company.

>>8829626
wrong. questions are not meant to be answered. they are meant to evolve into new questions that will, implicitly, change your global perspective, a perspective where the old questions wont even arise.

>>8829642
pic says hi

>>8829655
>don't fear physical violence since I went to a fight club
>no one can hurt my fee-fees anymore

>>8829667
you have a Tulpa???

>>8829644
My last girlfriend was cheating on me and I found out the day after my dad died when I went to her house to talk with her (luckily her brother was a cool guy and told me she was at another guy's house). I've been around enough women and have had enough experience to realize they're all terrible people. Good for you if you've gotten lucky with them so far.

>>8829685
they're not terrible, you're 'terrible' lover

>>8829693
>love is only about sex
I'm aware that's all women care about, so thank you for proving my point about how shallow they are

>>8829685
>luckily her brother was a cool guy and told me she was at another guy's house
maybe he was playing you

>>8829702
women care about being taken and taken care of

>transcended the need to attain further knowledge
>Any good books on this etc?
kek

>thread begins with transcending desire
>ends with /r9k/ bullshit
Every time.

>>8829739
is there a way to talk about relationships and avoid descending into the "/r9k/ bullshit"?

>>8829752
How about not talking about how you were cheated and now developed a tulpa to not kill yourself? That would be a beginning at least.

>>8829642
What if you have nothing else and the only way to induce feelings in yourself is by self torment?

>>8829346
>transcended the need for social validation
>makes this thread

>>8829346
Assuming this post is true.

What you did was condition yourself to be like this, i.e: to not desire things you initially desired. Presumably because you could not realize them. I think suicide is in order, unless you have other reasons to keep existing other than the things you mentioned, which you have removed from your want.

>>8829788
Anyone can fullfill desires like eating something tasty.

>>8829805
>StarvingAfricanChildrun.jpg

>>8829808
>le african negros
Those we expose for our benefits can at least eat. Those tribe savages who live independed are rightfully fucked for not contributing to our higher living standards.

>>8829788
>Fox and the grapes meme
It's about not being a slave to ones desires and to will oneself into true mastery over the self. Rejecting the very things society condition us to want is certainly easier if you've never had many of them in the first place but if you do it for admiration then it's already a failure.

>>8829824
Just a meme example f.a.m.

>>8829830
Yes I fully agree. My whole pretense was that the anon is lying or doing it wrong. But I will say that the process of conditioning and recondition is a continuous thing. As you probably understand that the self is not a fixed thing; illusionary and so on.

>>8829346
>transcended needs
>What happens now? Do I die?

just do whatever you want, same as before.

unless what you're saying is you've developed anhedonia and are catatonic with lack of desires, which clearly isn't true since you are shitposting on 4chan.

>>8829894
The desire to shitpost is the hardest one to triumph over.

>>8829346
>>transcended the need to attain further knowledge
And yet you're here asking for books...

>>8829915
jokes on you i transcended self-control

>>8829770
Not him but he maybe just wants to discuss it with other people to learn more about it?

>>8830073
can't you read????

>transcended the need to attain further knowledge

>>8829346
You have to transcend the need for meaning, such that you no longer care about transcendence.

>>8829346
>a fucking ciggy butt brain
>transcending anyrthing

>>8829346
jej

>>8830156
pep

you sound worried. just let go evrything and so you'll have nothing to lose. then you ll reach fearlessness and complete detachment. the rest will be done by itself.

now, what is it that youre currently so attached to?

>>8829350
haha, cuck

>>8830222
ses

>>8829346
Addicted to smoking...transcending anything. L O S E R

>>8830471
you're a one vulgar piece of scum, sebastian, and you always were

>>8830138
>Not coming to the ultimate realization that hedonism was the true virtue all along

>>8829516
*dibs fedora* xD

>>8830479
I'm not Sebastian.
What's so vulgar about Amanda Wenk?

>>8830523
oh so you can count now??

>>8830529
Yeah, I'll let him know what you think of him next time I see him, pal.

>>8830557
don't point at me

>>8830568
Quite right. No dubs, no checking.

How does sex feel like?

>>8830697
like the meaning of life

>>8830697
Bags of sand

>>8830697
Smells like keys

>>8830697
Warm apple pie.

Transcend the need to transcend.

bump

>>8829346
>'hey guys it's not like I'm a disgusting, socially stunted virgin that's completely unappealing to the opposite sex- I've actually "transcended" the need for sex and relationships in the first place! Boy do you guys look silly now'

>>8832047
This meme is strange.

You do realize that many KHHVs on /r9k/ are actually pretty handsome right? It's largely the narcissism and autism that prevents them from having / wanting to have sex.

>>8832052
I just think the whole idea of 'transcending needs' is a pretty dumb excuse. Most of the people on 4chan are likely under the age of 30- what kind of insight and wisdom do they really possess, for them to so easily control their needs and wants? Monks train for their entire lifetimes to be free of desire, and for a bunch of prententious students to claim they have 'transcended' anything when they themselves are barely mature- to me that seems extremely disrepectful. The people who post here and on /r9k/ are not disciplined monks; they are dumb, know-it-all kids who probably can't even prevent themselves from jacking off for over week, let alone spend a lifetime of chastity.

>>8831238
brooo... Whao.. thats like .,, inception man ..

>>8832065
One needn't be aroused to engage in onanism. Eventually it becomes a pre-emptive strategy to avoid a build-up of the wrong sort of energy, i.e. the sort which encourages frustration and base instincts to flourish

>>8832169
are you seriously suggesting people here can control their bodily fluids to such an extent that they can discharge semen at will without being aroused? Something like that would take years to learn

bump

>>8832188
Yes I am. Allow me to demonstrate.

>Intelligence that you don't know what to do with.

Congratulations, you've arrived at stage Irony.

>>8829346
If you have to ask, you don't have it all figured out.

>>8829346
>transcended the need for social validation

yeah man, posting on 4chan to brag of your transcendence isnt a form of validation seeking in the slightest

whos that in the pic? the japanese st max? he's got the curly smoke and all.

>>8829346
Suicide seems like the next logical step.

>>8832052
>tfw you are the beautiful ones

>>8832663
>all social contact is now validation

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>>8832918
You still need to transcend social interaction then.

bump

Go live in a monastery.

>>8829346
congratulations, you have schizoid personality disorder, faggot

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

>Read up on OP's picture (Kawabata Yasunari)
>Japanese author who lived to 72
>"Finally a 20th century Japanese author who didn't committed suicide"
>Read a bit further
>It was suicide

>>8833415
I think at that age it would be more of an euthanasia than actual suicide.

OP here from yesterday. Didn't think this thread would receive so much attention.

I have a sort of principle that I give up the game when my threads reach 100 posts. I haven't really transcended any of those things, or at least I'm not the character I adopted to create this thread and claim those things. I just post threads sometimes largely for the sake of entertainment and to earn some (you)s (perhaps the most valuable commodity in a post-scarcity society).

Some good old Nitschke for an accomplished ubermensch like you

>>8833557
dont be a faggot anon

>>8829517
Yeah I think they're making a non-sequitur. It's completely possible that OP transcended these things even if he never attained them.

Or he did attain them and no longer wants them.

>>8833415
How many have?

>>8833415
>not accomplishing everything you want to in life and taking your own life in dignity

>>8829346
Transcend the need for goals or obstacles to overcome.

>In the early 1960s, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) acquired property in a rural area outside Poolesville, Maryland. The facility that was built on this property housed several research projects, including those headed by Calhoun. It was here that his most famous experiment, the mouse universe, was created.[1] In July 1968 four pairs of mice were introduced into the habitat. The habitat was a 9-foot (2.7 m) square metal pen with 4.5-foot-high (1.4 m) sides. Each side had four groups of four vertical, wire mesh "tunnels." The "tunnels" gave access to nesting boxes, food hoppers, and water dispensers. There was no shortage of food or water or nesting material. There were no predators. The only adversity was the limit on space.

>Initially the population grew rapidly, doubling every 55 days. The population reached 620 by day 315, after which the population growth dropped markedly, doubling only every 145 days. The last surviving birth was on day 600, bringing the total population to a mere 2200 mice, even though the experiment setup allowed for as many as 3840 mice in terms of nesting space. This period between day 315 and day 600 saw a breakdown in social structure and in normal social behavior. Among the aberrations in behavior were the following: expulsion of young before weaning was complete, wounding of young, increase in homosexual behavior, inability of dominant males to maintain the defense of their territory and females, aggressive behavior of females, passivity of non-dominant males with increased attacks on each other which were not defended against.[2] After day 600, the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction. During this period females ceased to reproduce. Their male counterparts withdrew completely, never engaging in courtship or fighting. They ate, drank, slept, and groomed themselves – all solitary pursuits. Sleek, healthy coats and an absence of scars characterized these males. They were dubbed "the beautiful ones." Breeding never resumed and behavior patterns were permanently changed.

>The conclusions drawn from this experiment were that when all available space is taken and all social roles filled, competition and the stresses experienced by the individuals will result in a total breakdown in complex social behaviors, ultimately resulting in the demise of the population.

>Calhoun saw the fate of the population of mice as a metaphor for the potential fate of man. He characterized the social breakdown as a "second death,” with reference to the “second death” mentioned in the Biblical book of Revelation 2:11.[1] His study has been cited by writers such as Bill Perkins as a warning of the dangers of the living in an "increasingly crowded and impersonal world."[3]

great job op you're literally destroying society

>>8829471
I don't like you.

>>8834938
Fuck. This is actually terrifying. Nice job OP

>>8829346
This, senpai.

>>8829346
>Do I die?
Well, that's not very trascendental, is it? What a joke of an existence.

>>8834925
Underrated post

>>8834938
>blaming the mice

>>8834938
Makes you think.

>>8835199
france?

>>8835199
poor young women who really have nothing to lose by being pregnant since their expectations of the future were already underground + less access to birth control and sex ed
vs
middle class women who by being pregnant risk blowing a hole in their careers they already spent half their lifetimes building + plenty of access to birth control and sex ed

makes u thing

>>8835338
middle class women pretending to be men by having "careers"
vs
poor young women fulfilling their biological duty by having lots of kids and spreading their genes

hmm

>>8835363
>middle class women pretending to be men by having "careers"
2 obvious my dude

hah you mean board dumb ass , I hate your type just go die already you retard.
transcended bs.

>>8835370
Not ironic my little baby

>>8835382
you, as a being, are a joke.

>>8835388
I have transcended being. I am pure memetic energy, all the way through. Get on my level scrub.

>>8835255
Islam is the second-most widely professed religion in France behind Catholic Christianity by number of worshippers. With an estimated total of 5 to 10 percent of the national population, France has the largest number of Muslims in Western Europe.[1][2][3]

>>8835338
overcrowding and education go hand in hand though, both results of urbanised societies.

>>8835338
>he thinks careers make women happy
tip top lel my friend, thanks for the laugh

>tfw transcended the need for transcendence
Truly the most patrician feel

>>8834938
OP is merely a symptom.

>>8835448
this

gimme dat quotidian strugge, dat love and loss, dat irreperable wanting

>>8835068
seconding. ug is the way to go.

after that you whether solve it or just die. better than living in the limbo forever anyway.

>>8829346
>What happens now? Do I die? I never anticipated that I would ever become this intelligent.

You will get homosexual urges. Not joking either give it 5 years

>>8829346
Just sit and breath and feel what it means to be alive.

You didn't really
>transcended the need to attain further knowledge
I think what you mean is you are no longer attached to an outcome like success or failure, so I'll repeat with that in mind.
Just sit down in a comfy place. Breath and transcend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xA0ZHEwU2Q

>>8835417
>he doesn't know the power of french/latin Catholicism
>he doesn't know the fertility rate never dropped

>>8835438
>he think women don't enjoy careers the same way men do
>he think we should keep women from enjoying anything that they obviously do not truly appreciate like us males do.

>>8838496
Italy, Spain, and Portugal are all below replacement fertility while having a lot less irreligious people and a lot more church attendance.

Catholicism isn't what makes secular revolutionary enlightenment values republican France so fertile, lad. It's the immigrants.

>>8838524
>imblying
i took socio/sanitarian classes in lycée as it was my course

the fertility rate of french peoples was superior to spanish and italian ones since the boomers

we simply fuck more than other country it's that easy

immigrants helped us but we don't need them like germany or italy need their roaches

The answer is actually UG Krishnamurti

>>8838558
>we simply fuck more than other country it's that easy
That hasn't been a reason for higher fertility since birth control.

>>8838579
Do you really think women take care of their birth control religiously?