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[Anonymous No.15099154]

what are your dreams and how close are you to achieving them?

[Anonymous No.15099197]

>>15099154
terrible posture...

[Anonymous No.15099216]

>>15099154
I dream of never logging on to the internet again.
Tomorrow is another day.

[Anonymous No.15099221]

The virgin Kant reader vs the Chad shitposter

[Anonymous No.15099225]

>>15099154
I just want to marry that cute little girl. I’m about 6 or 7 years away

[Anonymous No.15099237]

>>15099154
>There is nothing more futile than to consciously look for something to save you. But consciousness makes this fact seem otherwise. Consciousness makes it seem as if (1) there is something to do; (2) there is somewhere to go; (3) there is something to be; (4) there is someone to know. This is what makes consciousness the parent of all horrors, the thing that makes us try to do something, go somewhere, be something, and know someone, such as ourselves, so that we can escape our MALIGNANTLY USELESS being and think that being alive is all right rather than that which should not be.
~Ligotti

Basically, fuck goals.
D E P E R S O N A L I Z E

[Anonymous No.15099239]

>>15099154
All I have close to a dream right now is being a good poker player. I’m nowhere near that.

[Anonymous No.15099242]

>>15099154
I achieved everything I ever wanted I’m just going around correcting shit. Everybody who meets me tried to be me, read what I read, stalk me and and do shit I do go places I go. It’s flattering but they’re obviously begging for instruction. I scatter seeds for the birds and keep walking. I currently ran into an old friend and I think I might fill her anus with my children, we will see if she continues showing up at the super market at the same time lmao women are so fucking predictable

[Anonymous No.15099251]

To transcend this material plane, and I already achieved that.

[Anonymous No.15099264]

>>15099237
based and blackpilled

[Anonymous No.15099268]

>>15099225
>I just want to marry that cute little girl.
which one?

[Anonymous No.15099271]

>>15099237
This is a whitepill though. Basically eastern philosophy in a nutshell.

[Anonymous No.15099288]

I just want to be happy

[Anonymous No.15099296]

>>15099154
to seize power and use it reclaim man's spirit, or die trying

[Anonymous No.15099320]

Honestly I don't even know any more. I just want to travel, make some money, and have a couple of cute girls keeping me company.

It's an old dream of mine to someday be a master forger, and I've been practicing taking apart and doctoring things like passports and college transcripts, but deep down I know this is all born from a kind of negative resentment against society and appearance than a positive passion

I wish I had friends, but people always disappoint me.

[Anonymous No.15099379]

>>15099237
>there is something to do
get closer to God
>there is somewhere to go
heaven
>there is something to be
a man of God
>there is someone to know
God

Ligotti btfo

[Anonymous No.15099390]

>>15099379
if you want to know god you have to know yourself

[Anonymous No.15099403]

>>15099154
my dream is a dream

[Anonymous No.15099414]

>>15099154
I want to feel unabashedly like I did when I was a kid. Searching for the truth has only made me bitter, and ironically, robbed me of any semblance of truth that I once held. I don't care to intellectually or morally process it, I just want to feel it in my pores and see it in people walking by. Sure, I'd like to live authentically. I just no longer have the illusion that living authentically means living in accordance with hackneyed virtues. Now everything is an abstraction, worse, a categorized abstraction. It's good and bad, or natural and unnatural. Give me a break. I want to fall in love with the feeling of the sun on my skin again. To hell with philosophy.

[Anonymous No.15099451]

>>15099414
beautifully written, i can heavily relate to this feel.

[Anonymous No.15099481]

>>15099251
How

[Anonymous No.15099496]

To be a novelist.

Well, I'm writing novels. Of course nobody reads them, but I guess that means my dream is achieved.

[Anonymous No.15099500]

I want to create a dynasty so that I am not lost too the sands of time, a high toll too ask of myself. Which causes me too have absolutely no idea how to conduct my life.

Now I don't see women by how pretty they are, but rather by the titles they hold and how many children they can give me. How do I get out of this state of mind?

[Anonymous No.15099507]

>>15099271
IF THIS IS EASTERN I HATE IT

[Anonymous No.15099516]

>>15099154

This will probably be a blog post, but I’ll keep it real. I wanna be known as a musical artist. That’s my dream. I’ve been performing since I was 7 years old and it’s taken me down many roads. I did a bunch of musicals and stuff in high school, then I moved to Los Angeles at 18 when I got an agent and went on auditions and stuff. Nothing came of that, so I went to college after a year. In college I threw myself into improv comedy, standup comedy, filmmaking, show choir. A bunch of different things. I was one of the first people at my university to major in Vocal Jazz, but then I changed out of the program after a year. I do love jazz, but I don’t consider myself a “jazz musician.” So I changed to film and made some short films. I thought perhaps I was a director. I made films starring myself that I wrote and edited. That was fun, but once again it wasn’t fulfilling. After school I moved back to Los Angeles, and my dad died, leaving me a good bit of money. I spent a year super depressed, sometimes working as a production assistant, sometimes as a headshot photographer. Started a YouTube channel for a month but that too didn’t feel quite right. So I got back into improv and standup. But I missed music. So about a year ago I got the stones to play some songs in person, and it actually went really well. So I’ve been doing gigs around Los Angeles - at least until COVID and all that. Now I’m working on new songs and am gonna release an album before too long.

Anyway. This has been a long post. Probably written more for me than for you. But... we only get one life, so I want to fight for something while I’m here.

[Anonymous No.15099534]

I no longer have any dreams. I realized that even if God Himself were to gift me unlimited powers, i realize that the very nature of the universe, of life, of all the processes by which we are bound is inherently unsatisfactory. Everything eventually leads to painful separation, to disappointment, to pain, to boredom. It's all pointless and there is no hope for anything.

[Anonymous No.15099536]

>>15099154
To be a behavioral economist and eventually become a consultant for businesses and/or the government. I'm 18 and I just got accepted into a private college that is well respected by grad schools for its academic rigor and has one of the highest PhD production rates in the country; they're also giving me 70k. I still have to get some work experience with market research and analytics and do my Master's after getting my undergrad degree but I guess I've taken the first step in the right direction

[Anonymous No.15099603]

>>15099271
>>15099507
It's actually in his criticism of Buddhism, he does a great job of pointing out the absurdity of Eastern faux-pessimism.

[Anonymous No.15099610]

>>15099534
based & ligottipilled

[Anonymous No.15099620]

>>15099610
whats ligotti

[Anonymous No.15099637]

>>15099620
type of pasta

[Anonymous No.15099642]

>>15099637
sounds good

[Anonymous No.15099741]

I just want to:
>A. Be left alone.
>B: Find something worth doing.
I'm willing to settle for just A, but I'm no closer to achieving it now than I have ever been.

[Anonymous No.15100317]

bump

[Anonymous No.15100350]

>dreams
I am a blip, a hiccup, an echo, of an echo, of an echo in the vast, infinitely vast wastes of time and space. To god, I am already past. To the universe I am just a tiny little cell in its immense living body, that will soon fade away and be replaced. My only dream is to sit in silence until I perish.

[Anonymous No.15100380]

>>15099154
I have no dreams. Dreams are only illusions.

[Anonymous No.15100434]

>>15100380
There is no reality or Transcendent truth.
Only illusion.
Embrace Maya-shakti

[Anonymous No.15100454]

>>15100434
Fuck off retard. I will elevate myself to the serene heights of the timeless truth while you retards roll like pigs in your illusion of confusion.

[Anonymous No.15100458]

>>15100454
you will only find confusion. Even now you are confused. When will it end?

[Anonymous No.15100463]

>>15100454
Keep chasing that carrot

[Anonymous No.15100485]

>>15100458
>>15100463
It has already ended and the carrot is long digested. I will have none of your skeptic chatter.

[Anonymous No.15100493]

>>15100485
then please, enlighten us wise one

[Anonymous No.15100501]

>>15100485
There's nothing to do, no one to know, no one to be and nowhere to go.
Who the fuck is this "I"? Dreams indeed

[Anonymous No.15100604]

>>15099154
I dream of finding inner peace. A very silly dream considering that torment is an unavoidable part of the human experience. I guess it would be the peace that earth cannot give. Maybe reaching a position that allows me to take the role of an observant in life would help my case a little.
The rest of my dreams are pathetic ego-stroking drivel, and i'm tired of myself.

[Anonymous No.15100672]

>>15099154
accomplished everything i wanted as a kid by the time i was 18. at 27 life is just a couple of victory laps and wasting my time.

[Anonymous No.15100698]

I'd love to be a writer but I this quarantine situation has proven that it isn't a lack of time stopping me from writing, but a lack of drive. Dozens of hours watching netflix and playing games and, yes, some reading, but have not written even a word.

[Anonymous No.15100717]

>>15100604
Try this out, translation of the Yoga Vasistha
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=0AECE54D2D4255F4607F5F3CAF583EA2

[Anonymous No.15100742]

My dreams are living infinite lives in different time periods, so...
More realistically I dream of making Newton-level of scientific discovery, so...

[Anonymous No.15100753]

>>15099237
And then what?
Being is changing, you are always becoming there is no stasis
This whole black pill is garbage and useless.

[Anonymous No.15100756]

>>15099154
My dreams are irrelevant because I am so far from realizing them that it may as well be impossible.

[Anonymous No.15100759]

>>15100698
That's a good thing.
Art is driven by emotional stress and instability.
If you just can't get yourself to do it, that means you have nothing that needs to be expressed which means you aren't a mess inside, despite your own judgements of yourself.
I used to paint and draw all the time until some things in my life changed and I had to time to realize and contemplate some stuff I kept avoiding inside, and it just left me. At first I painted less, then one painting a year. Now I haven't painted in two years.

Art is a release valve for your inner bullshit.
If you really want to get the writing bug, just fuck up your life in a relatively permanent way, like alienate everyone, quit your job for no reason and see if you have something to say about it three months later.

[Anonymous No.15100770]

>>15100753
That in no way contradicts the post.
If anything, process metaphysics only reinforces it.

[Anonymous No.15100779]

>>15099154
I'm farther from my dream now, than I've ever been.

I anticipate my sweet release of death.

[Anonymous No.15100794]

>>15100753
As a matter of fact, if everything is constantly changing (whether in a radical pluralism or a constitutional monism) then goals and identity are doubly stupid things to chase

[Anonymous No.15100832]

>>15099481
Seeing the past the illusory nature of emotions. This results in radical acceptance of the present moment, whatever it brings, known as liberation.

[Anonymous No.15100841]

>>15099603
What does he say exactly?

[Anonymous No.15100851]

>>15099154
>what are your dreams
create a sustainable permaculture based community where everything is within walking distance and all the buildings are beautiful
>how close are you to achieving them
very far

[Anonymous No.15100911]

>>15100841
Read the book (Conspiracy Against The Human Race), it's on libgen and b-ok, relatively short and very accessible.
I found it a fun read, it's very humorous for a supposed Blackpill.
Guess it's all in how you take it in

[Anonymous No.15100918]

>what are your dreams
write and perform music for a living
>how close are you to achieving them
i know how to play multiple instruments and music theory
don't know how to write a song
im 18 so hopefully i can make it there

[Anonymous No.15100995]

>>15099154

>being fit
>reading a fuck ton of books
>making decent money
>having a will to live
>having a gf
>being a man i can respect

[Anonymous No.15101134]

>>15100672
>accomplished everything i wanted as a kid by the time i was 18
how does that happen?

[Anonymous No.15101162]

>>15099154
I want to be at a level of fluency where I can read and recite Hesiod or Homer comfortably. Currently studying at the intermediate level.

[Anonymous No.15101582]

>>15099154
I have no dreams whatsoever. I have long concluded there is nothing worth doing.
>>15099237
Agreed.

[Anonymous No.15101666]

>>15099296
An admirable goal

[Anonymous No.15101704]

I became extremely interested in philosophy, religion, and literature about two years ago. I suppose it’s just a natural compulsion so not so much a matter of aspirations but I would like to be an effective writer on these topics. Unfortunately, I’m not very close since I spent the first 25 years of my life as a typical drunk illiterate American youth.

[Anonymous No.15101871]

>>15099154
No dreams whatsoever. Already there.

[Anonymous No.15101935]

btw is it gay to keep a dream journal?

i dont write, i thought it might be a good way to get started. write my dreams down, try to pick out details, expand on them, etc.

[Anonymous No.15102003]

My dreams are to experience as much natural beauty in this world as possible before it is gone and to get paid to do develop my ideas.

Right now neither requirement is fulfilled. I live in an abhorrent insult of concrete and I am paid only to advance the asinine and ideologically flawed ideas of the people who control the money supply.
I do not believe my dreams are unachievable but the beauty of our earth has itself become an increasingly capitalized and rarified. The average human used to live in a surfeit of natural beauty (granted one full of lions, tigers and bears and their microbial and insectoid equivalents). Now Half the world is covered in trash and the rest of it costs half the average worker's yearly wages to live in for a month. I miss being a poor and pointless child who could just explore the woods.

[Anonymous No.15102025]

>>15101935
...how would keeping notes be a gay thing to do?

[Anonymous No.15102042]

>>15099237
I reject this ideal. You live and do things. That is life, not everything has to be big or small, but still aspire to exist in this wild world ours. I am expressing a need to be selfish and to be hungry for stuff to be done. Yes, it may be the vestigial monkey brain talking, but that part of humanity is still yapping in everyone somewhere. I know everyone has self serving desires that they want to act one. I say people should act on them.

[Anonymous No.15102358]

>>15102042
You're certainly allowed

[Anonymous No.15102539]

>>15099414
Yikes, sorry. Why not try art? Anything artistic without asking for an opinion.

[Anonymous No.15102737]

>>15102539
I feel as though I currently lack the depth for creation and the will for technical prowess. That doesn't stop me from trying my hand at classical guitar, though. These days I mostly meditate. My hope is that, through that and other personal changes, I'll reach a point of clarity and the artistic process will become more like holding a cup to a fountain welling over and less like scraping at the bottom of a barren hole. I'll only consider myself an artist when I'm emotionally honest.

[Anonymous No.15102834]

I've achieved every dream I've ever had and far more

[Anonymous No.15102845]

>>15099414

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

[Anonymous No.15102856]

I want to write a good English verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy and get it published. Two books done, on the third now. But "getting it published" will be the real trick. (I also intend to sabotage my own chances of publication by writing a long, ranting introduction in which I rage against the modern world a la Howard Beale.)

[Anonymous No.15102863]

>>15102856
Dig into the Zoroastrian origins of D.I. while you're at it and double trigger the editors reading your intro

[Anonymous No.15102869]

>>15099154
damn that's literally me

[Anonymous No.15102873]

>>15102845
Thank you, anon. It's been a while since I've read something so evocative. I'll be reading more Wordsworth soon.

[Anonymous No.15102884]

>>15099237
based ligotti chad