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19992604 No.19992604 [Reply] [Original]

Remember when we used to resolve our conflicts with swords edition.

I don't.

>> No.19992626

I could probably beat you all in a sword fight. And i can drink more than all of you.

>> No.19992651
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19992651

I am a 26 year old incel. While my 22 year old younger brother has a girlfriend. I'm so envious of them.

It's not even about the sex. They're soulmates. Glued together, day and night. Watch movies, read books, travel, always together.

I will never experience this.

>> No.19992653

>>19992604
I was sitting on a couch as my crush talked to me and when she introduced her friend, I grabbed him by the hand and made him kneel. She went down with him. She had never shown more interest in me than that night. I don't know whats going thru my head anymore.

>> No.19992658

>>19992626
in his autobiography, Benvenuto Cellini describes a scene where some crinimals wanted to kill him, they knocked on his door, he pulled out his sword and positioned himself in the corner, when they came in, they only said "we'll get you next time" and left, it was a time where you'd get murdered for the smallest insult,

his defensive position was no joke though,

it's probably one of the best autobiographies, when I started reading the one from Herzen, he mentions Cellini at the start, then I've read his, Herzen's and then War and Peace, it was one hell of a time

>> No.19992660

>>19992651
You really do post this in every thread. Does nothing else go on in your mind?

>> No.19992667

>>19992660
No. Love is everywhere around me. Just not for me.

>> No.19992698

Sometimes I wish I had more friends who are interested in literature, but last night I had a genuinely good time with the ones who aren't. One got drunk and started hugging and telling me that he loves me at 1AM and we agreed that a third friend is a pussy.

I despise myself when I get in one of those rants where I sound like the main character from Notes from Underground, and I love myself when I nail it and I'm more like Alyosha.

One friend made an inappropriate comment about how a girl looks, he was drunk (like that's an excuse), and I didn't judge him, nor did I add anything to it, I felt bad for the girl because I've seen her around and it must me hell for her to find a long-term partner and not just being someone's fun for the night.

Well, guess, thanks for reading what's on my mind.

>> No.19992707
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19992707

Does anyone else feel like they have short term memory problems? I feel like my short term memory has been declining. Like I just got out of a shower and realized I washed my hair twice because I forgot I had washed my hair the first time after I did it. Granted, I was in the shower for a long time and I was lost in my thoughts, but it’s still worrying.

>> No.19992715

>>19992707
I had work related stress and I blame it on that. Will probably quit and search for a saner environment. That shit is no joke.

>> No.19992720

>>19992651
oh boohoo

>> No.19992733

>>19992651
>I will never experience this
Why not? All sorts of people find love, including many who are probably worse than you in many respects

>> No.19992740

>>19992715
I used to blame it on depression and anxiety, but I've been doing better the past few months and I'm still having short term memory problems, so it's becoming worrying.

>> No.19992743

When I was in college I used to wear an ushanka with a hammer and sickle on it to class everyday. Not because I was a communist, but because I wanted somebody to say something about it. I had a whole speech prepared about how the hat displayed the impotence of communism today since it was a simple commodity to be bought and sold which one could wear openly. I never actually got give it to anyone. Closest things that happened were some guy in the elevator snickered and said he used to have a commie keychain in Jr high, and that when I asked if I could sit to someone in the commons they said "of course it's the people's bench" which of course it wasn't; they made a point to keep homeless people from sleeping in there.

>> No.19992751

>>19992743
autism

>> No.19992770

>>19992698
>I felt bad for the girl because I've seen her around and it must me hell for her to find a long-term partner and not just being someone's fun for the night.

I think about this a lot. How horrible it must be to be most women, didn't occur to me until I realized how receptive they are to any amount of thoughtfulness or kindness on your part as a guy. I see it in my friends and acquaintances and how they deal with girls as well, how impersonal and transactional it is.

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19992897

I think the Kanker sisters were some sort of sexual awakening for me as a child. Maybe they even explain my desireability for dominant women.

>> No.19993048

I get these urges to just stop.
Why leave the bed, why continue and not relapse into neetdom? I admire the struggle, I do but I'm having doubts whether I am cut out to do them.
If daily living is a herculean task for me but not for the common man, what makes that of me and my achievements? I can look back at my life and say: Oh, I barely held my head above the water. It was a constant fight of endurance but I made it to the finish despite others floating or having longer legs.
Don't compare yourself, but what is there for a social creature if you remove the other from your existence?
Should I continue despite finding the result trivial and being unable to bear the load.

>> No.19993062

I bought Anna Karenina off Amazon. Seeing the cover my 60 year old mom told me she had read War and Peace. Surprised I asked her what else she had read. She told me she stopped reading after she turned 16 so she don't remember much but there was a funny book which was her favourite, Don something. It was Don Quixote. She had also read Shakespeare, Chekov and a few other Russians.
I was surprised coz my mom was literally super poor when she was young. She told me she used to pick up used books from local ragpicker for free.

>> No.19993072

>>19993048
Anon even barely keeping head above water is a struggle. I am fucking always tired. I don't know if it is even worth it.

>> No.19993081

Mom caught me Quinian bootstrapping. Bros....

>> No.19993107

LASIK

>> No.19993109

Why doesn't /lit/ have a stupid questions general like many other boards?
I don't want to shit up the board by making a whole thread just to ask if a particular books is worth reading or if someone can recommend me something similar to what I just read.

>> No.19993126

Russians are absolutely CHADs

>> No.19993142

>>19993072
I honestly can't tell you when you are allowed to euthanize yourself... but I wonder.

>> No.19993215

I find myself intrigued by the popular appeal of astrology, particularly, and tellingly, among women and homosexuals. The concept of a horoscope, in which everything that happens to you is predetermined by cryptic astrological alignments and affinities beyond one's agency or control and that all of one's personality characteristics are stamped into place at birth and vary only depending on one's "sign" strikes me as a grim and disempowering belief system. What's the appeal? Probably it is to surrender one's own lack of self-efficacy or determination to a "higher power". Belief in some inscrutable mumbo-jumbo that "just is" and lends order to the cosmos, weds sky to earth, and joins the heavens above to the soul below. Some fear the idea that the world is chaos.

Astrology also provides a way to reduce the complexity and individual variation of people and lazily size someone up depending on the absolute minimum of misinformation-- their zodiac sign. Actually inferring anything real about someone takes effort and attention. Whereas a heuristic short-cut spares one of the trouble.

I find all of this astrology business to be a load of deplorable nonsense and even subtly dangerous. If some people can so easily embrace such unverifiable flimflam then they can be induced to believe that their neighbors are witches, that the devil possess gingers, or that satan walks among us and heretics must be cleansed in tribunals of holy bonfire and flaming agony.

>> No.19993237

I’m really into Japanese manga but often wish I wasn’t.

>> No.19993248

How many days in a row could you personally eat pizza before you got sick (of it)?

>> No.19993253

I-I'm going... going to... cryyyyy.

>> No.19993276

I went to pol to read about the invasion and I ended up in a thread about art and saving most of the pics in it.
Pure gold, so many good drawings and paintings.

>> No.19993338

was applying lots of perfume on my neck and head area and maybe some got into my eye, not maybe, I felt some slight discomfort as soon as I did that, many times. I want to add that I was wearing glasses during this so that might have minimized exposure but I still felt discomfort. I sadly went on to wash my eyes the wrong way, with soap and water and rubbing, a no-no according to the internet, I felt more irritation, I then went to do it properly which was by getting lots of cold water to pass on the eyes to clean them but am I in the clear? I don't want to lose or damage my sight Currently eyes feel slightly sore

I didn't do 20 minutes of washing, proper method, more like 5, water over eyes and had them closed for 30 minutes or 29 accordimg to online advice, how to know if im in the clear? when should i worry? I didn't remove it in the first 2 minutes, more like 10 if not 15, cause of concern for permanent eye damage?

>> No.19993376

my brain has been balkanized

>> No.19993400

>>19993248
364. And the 365th day I'd have fried chicken and chips, and then go back to pizza.

>> No.19993411

Ukraine vs Russia is a proxy war between globohomo jews and the non-globohomo jews. It has nothing to do with white people, other than they'll be the ones who die for it.

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19993426

>porn uploader uploads 20 videos of some girl
>every single title is insulting her for no reason

>> No.19993434

>>19993411
based /pol/fag

>> No.19993455

>>19993411
Bro it's clearly a psyop between Poopchin and Byedim to pring their atrocious poll numbers up. Just a little bit of war to rally support for the system. Nothing new happening here. Pretty sad you can't see it though.

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>>19993455
All the international finance types are kvetching mightily about this for some reason thoughever. I never know how many levels of ops to believe in

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>>19992707
Yes. I chalk it up to doing too much acid and smoking too much weed in high school.

>> No.19993480

>>19993455
>muh voooooooootes
I'm sure that's it brainlet

>> No.19993481

there lies in every moment a thought, which man seeks to hold onto dearly. to cling as if there were nothing in this world but this satisfaction. we dream incessantly towards ourselves and we drive into the future. ours is this moment which encapsulates meaning. therein lies the truth. the sense.

>> No.19993494

>>19993109
There is occasionally a "questions that don't deserve their own thread" thread, or at least there was. Honestly, posting a question about a specific book wouldn't be shitting up the board. It's more on topic than most threads here.

>>19993215
For what it's worth, most of the hardcore astrology people I know are fond of witches/witch imagery

>>19993248
Probably about a week

>>19993338
You'll be fine

>> No.19993500

>>19993469
>thoughever
What the fuck?

>>19993480
You're right, it's much more likely that it's a conflict between two competing cabals of jews

>> No.19993510

>>19993500
It is, but you're a npc

>> No.19993520

>>19993510
Lick my balls and ass

>> No.19993520,1 [INTERNAL] 

>>19992604
PREVIOUS THREAD
>>/lit/thread/S19986754
>>/lit/thread/S19986754

>> No.19993541

I wonder where I would be right now if I had never found 4chan.

>> No.19993552

>>19993500
That just happens to be the one hypothesis that will get you booted from any platform. I'm sure it's a coincidence

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19993554

I ate 20 chicken nuggets for lunch and now I'm drinking cheap beer and browsing 4chan. Pretty good sunday! Cheers.

>> No.19993561

Think I'm done with Elden Ring. Such a cool looking game, but underneath is the same Dark Souls with the same problems it's always had. Combat is sterile and hasn't evolved since Demon's Souls (but now there are more delayed timings to fuck with you), the game leans harder than ever into annoying enemy patterns to stay challenging, most enemy encounters are you vs. 12 other dudes so you have to single them out which takes ages, if you die then you have to do it all over. The world is beautiful but I just hate playing this game outside of the bosses. If From hadn't fallen for the "hard=good" design philosophy it would've been better.

I think I'm done with video games, beyond playing stuff with friends. It's just not fun anymore.

>> No.19993563

>>19993552
What is the basis for believing that? Who are these groups of Jews, why do they oppose each other?

>> No.19993573

>>19993561
>spend $70 on a video game
>drop it after a couple days because it's too hard
lol

>> No.19993575

>>19993573
I pirated it dude

>> No.19993579

>>19993561
That's the problem with a game series getting popular. The fans demand more of the same exact type of game and the devs cave in and remake the game over and over.

>> No.19993589

>>19993573
Also, I also forced myself to beat Dark Souls 2 despite wanting to stop at The Lost Sinner. It was a waste of time. Video games are entertainment, it doesn't matter if you beat it or not.

>> No.19993662

>>19993494
>Honestly, posting a question about a specific book wouldn't be shitting up the board
Fair enough, I'll keep that in mind next time I do have a question.
Just felt like bad etiquette though, making a new thread for a question that can be answered in 1-5 posts

>> No.19993698

>>19993276
Post some here

>> No.19993743

damn, there's a big get coming up. a mere ~6000 posts.
of course, i recognize that gets aren't what they used to be. but still. almost something like exciting.

unrelated, but if i can make it to sleep, then today will be my 5th day completely sober. i'm finally reigning in my addictions, particularly my nicotine. this was my first fully sober weekend in god knows how long, years.

the best advice i can give is to not forget how to go a day without a substance, whatever it is.

in particular, don't forget how to go to sleep sober. that's the best advice i can give to anyone.

>> No.19993754

>>19993743
Good on you anon

>> No.19993755

>>19993743
>a mere ~6000 posts.
19999999 and 20000000

>> No.19993906
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19993906

Is the world a bundle of ready-mades? A bunch of things that exist independent of us that we give meaning to?

>> No.19993919

>>19993743
It will be sometime tomorrow evening

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19994086

>4 parragraph essay due for tomorrow

>> No.19994108

I never know how to freely socialize in large group settings. Whether that be at church, parties, house shows, intermissions at a concert, etc. Every conversation I try to have in these environments ends up sounding disjunct, and it becomes an uncomfortable experience for both parties. How do you become comfortable with social mingling? I feel like I've already had plenty opportunities to learn, I've never been one to actively avoid parties or crowds out of fear. Still I feel like my growth has been stunted, or I've developed all the wrong habits.

>> No.19994109

>>19993906
yes
things dont exist independent from us though.

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19994116

Have to hand in essay soon and it will reveal me to be a brainlet

>> No.19994119

In the midst of this crisis, I jerked off to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4gIJf7poiU

>> No.19994132

>>19994109
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

>> No.19994133

>>19994116

savor that essay. enjoy that hurt.

the source of your greatness slumbers in it, waiting to be understood

>> No.19994137

>>19993563
Try not being a newfag

>> No.19994149

Why are generation terms (zoomer milennial boomer etc) being used so much recently in the context of cultural analysis? They're very arbitrary and the parameters for being in a specific group are usually American/Canadian-specific ("you're a millennial if you remember 9/11") or specific to consumer products ("zoomers have 3DS and switch") and even whether those are true or not depends on the person. My theory is that there's been a general cultural trend of wanting to reflect on "society" or wanting to have something to say about it, so I think that those terms are being used by people who don't really know what they want to describe exactly because they've seen it in newspapers and it's the best terminology they have for describing the cultural trends they see.

>> No.19994154

>>19994108
i'll see if anyone else has helpful responses to this
i've been feeling really frustrated by this lately
i am actively trying to be more social, but when it's time to be social among many people, i have no fucking clue what to do and just stand alone and it's super painfully awkward for me and anyone who notices me
a big part of it is that i assume people don't want to talk to me and this becomes a sort of lifelong self-fulfilling prophecy
i wouldn't want to talk to me
why would anyone want to talk to me?
i'm a fucking weirdo loser who hands out on the periphery and no one approaches
i'd feel bad to come approach someone and engage them in conversation, so i don't
fuck
i should just kill myself lol

>> No.19994177

>>19994149
Generational-theory is only relatively new. I wouldn't trust most people -- ESPECIALLY on 4chan -- with their idea on generations since they constantly shift years around for whatever the current/most-recent gens are.

>> No.19994187

I know that it is unlikely that things would come to nuclear war, but I desire one because if the world ends it means that my failures are forgiven. It was pointless to succeed in life anyway.

>>19994149
The fast pace technology evolved in the last decades, plus the renovation of media and entertainement that happens in capitalism to keep sales and consumption high means that the difference of experiences in life due to birthdate increased a lot.
For example, someone born in 1990 grew up in a different world than someone born in 2000 because of the evolution and spread of internet and smartphones and the difference between their life experiences and how it "made them" is much greater than between someone born in 1980 and someone born in 1990.
But you have a point, most people talking about it on the internet don't truly know what they are talking about and are either older people angry at younger people or the opposite.

>> No.19994213

>>19994154
The best way to get confident is to focus on self-improvement, and to be a massive fucking fraud for a little bit. Just pretend to be confident, go into social situations which won't have any consequences for you (random community groups, clubs, bars, etc.), and try and observe and replicate. You'll fuck up a lot, you'll probably want to an hero a bit, but after enough time you'll figure out how the whole social game works. There's a fair few 'how to be charismatic' videos on youtube, they're complete bullshit, but they can be really useful for spergs like us in the early stages.

>> No.19994224
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19994224

What should i paint bros

>> No.19994229

>>19994224
Think of something you've never painted before.

>> No.19994250

>>19994224
The foundations of the world

>> No.19994254

>>19994224
peenus weenus

>> No.19994255

>>19994187
The different worlds is probably the extent to which i can see "generation theory" working, and even that's mostly based on someone's individual experience. I was born in one of those "cusp years" where people my age seem to be split between whether they consider themselves millennial or gen z despite what whatever official institution says. I think the implication there for them is that they're either supposed to relate to the experiences of either teenagers or middle aged people, more or less internet in their lives, whether or not they remember 9/11, whether or not they like skinny jeans, etc, and decide accordingly what they are based on that. And then that self-realization manifests in arguing Maybe it's just a problem of people taking theories too literally?

>> No.19994263

>>19994255
*manifests in arguing over who's experiences are the most correct. No idea why that cut off

>> No.19994272

>>19994149
Are you underage? Where were you when Generation Y was constantly being talked about.

>> No.19994275

Th3 cataphor 0f metaphor 8 crab-aphor d1nner.

Sin'd,
W4ve Function

>> No.19994284

>>19994224
a man running away from a city in flames at night in the winter and he is looking back with fear on his face

>> No.19994296

macarena is about a girl getting spitroasted by her boyfriend's two best friends while he is away in the army

>> No.19994307

>>19994108
>Every conversation I try to have in these environments ends up sounding disjunct

This is kind of the definition of mingling - you're not going to be able to have an in-depth conversation or anything. My advice: get good at small talk and then learn how to listen to and pursue cues. Having a broad general knowledge is useful here - even about topics you don't generally give a shit about. If you're amongst normies it's worth knowing what reality TV show is popular at the moment / what big sports news there is etc. If you don't know a lot about a topic don't be afraid to ask questions. It's OK to sound clueless so long as you also come across as curious and not dismissive. People love to talk if you give them an opportunity. But you also don't want to sound like a robot so share a bit about yourself at the same time so that you come across as personable and more importantly you give them an opportunity to ask you questions about yourself.

It's a bit hard to give general advice because of course each situation is going to be slightly different. But if you listen and are receptive then you will do fine.

>> No.19994313

>>19994296
goddamn it you're right
also the guy who owns the big blue mexican food bus in chapel hill is called macarena, another fun fact

>> No.19994323

Hello /lit/ please remember to:

Have sex, go to gym, be yourself, seek a therapist , take your meds, meditate, go for walks, learn a trade, learn to code, get off social media, call a friend/family, read, listen to audiobooks, invest, write a journal, write 3 things you are grateful for everyday, make your bed in the morning, leave motivational quotes around the house, walk with your head and chest up and shoulders back, stop playing vidya, sneed, stop eating fast food, stop drinking/smoking/doing drugs, maintain a proper diet, keep a routine, update your CV/cover letter, compliment at least 1 stranger per day, travel, volunteer, have hobbies involving members of the opposite sex, limit time on phone/internet (especially pornography), dopamine fast, sleep at least 8 hours a night, drink water, pray the rosary 3x a day, think like a winner :)

>> No.19994329

>>19994154
>>19994213

Building on this - try to put yourself in situations where there are lots of people who don't know each other, people will be more receptive to conversation with strangers that way. I got good at conversation by staying in hostels, since everyone there is a stranger and you've got a pre-established common interest and questions ready to go (i.e. why did you come to X / have you been anywhere interesting / hey I'm looking for something to do any recommendations). Obviously that's not really something you can just do tomorrow, but similar environments like hobby groups / open mics / reading clubs etc. exist in most cities.

Like the other anon said you will suck at first, but its the only way to develop a thick skin. A useful thing to remind yourself is: if this goes badly, well I never have to see these people ever, ever again - so what do I have to lose?

>> No.19994340

You ever get so taken by nostalgia that you start looking at looking at stuff that was around when you were younger, but you weren't even into at the time?

>> No.19994343

>>19994340
No.

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19994348

I've found over the years I've become more sensitive to emotions as I've gotten older.

>> No.19994351

>>19994340
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeiXE60prpY

>> No.19994358

I'm almost certainly going to be worse off than my parents, who are both from working class backgrounds but worked their way into the middle class. It's partially my fault, in so far as I have never pursued a high-income career, so I'm not whinging about the state of society or anything. It is more a personal hang-up that I feel like I'm letting down the family tree or something. I have come to terms with this a bit more though recently and realised that it's silly to worry about such things. It is much better to focus on creating a stable life for myself and maybe one day a family, rather than thinking in terms of constant, unceasing status progression.

>> No.19994372

>>19992707
In no particular order, I suggest:
1. Regular exercise and 8 hrs of sleep if you are not getting those already.
2. Lion's Mane Mushroom supplements, get the ones with mycelium. And fish oil.
3. Reduce stress as much as is feasible.
4. Play The Secret of Monkey Island.

>> No.19994403

Reading over the third draft of my novel and I actually like it bros. It's far from perfect just yet, but it's a real big boost to morale to read over what you've written and not recoil in disgust.

>> No.19994424

On a walk earlier a bee flew straight into my eye and stung me a centimeter below it.

>> No.19994430

>>19994424
Cool now when it swells up you can pretend that you've been in a fight

>> No.19994455

>>19994358
I used to think my family sort of outclassed me. My cousins my age are doing pretty well, and some of my aunts and uncles are quite rich. I stopped hanging around them for like ten years, and I secretly thought how they must all be enjoying their money... how different their lives must be. Now circumstances have brought me closer to them... and I just think they're all boring.

Some of the men have hobbies, but usually it just seems to be about buying things, and talking about what they want to buy next. The cousins I grew up with went on to either get fat and/or marry fat women. They all seem low energy. They all watch way too much TV. They don't really know how to talk to each other. I mean they spend so much time together, yet all their conversations are stilted and lack energy. They make clueless comments about politics, or recommend Netflix shows to each other. They all have fat boring kids, and none of them stand out.

I feel like my life is a lot more interesting and chaotic, and I'm much happier than them.

>> No.19994500

>>19992604
Hey, OP

>> No.19994521

whats the coolest gun?

>> No.19994533

>>19994521
An unfired one.

>> No.19994554

>>19999999
just in case this thread is up when it happens

>> No.19994556

>>19992604
HEY, OP!

>> No.19994561

>>19993215
What I find interesting is how Astrology go that way. I mean for most of its existence it was the domain of extremely learned men, priests, and theologians. It was about the fate of the world, not the individual. Like the turning of the seasons would be indicated by the falling of leaves, so too would the events of the world shown by the movement of the heavens.

It is strange how something so impersonal became pop-psychology.

>> No.19994589

>>19994323
>be yourself
>do all of these things that are not yourself

>> No.19994595

https://youtu.be/2ruuMh0fF5s
See I'm a brick layer, I kill what I eat.

>> No.19994630

>>19993215
From what I observe, it serves two functions. First is a social one, it creates identities that these people use to define themselves, to relate to other people and to have something to talk about and do small talk. Even to blame when they do something they regret, saying they did it because it comes from their sign. It serves a similar function to those thousand genders in that sense,
The second one is reducing anxiety about the future through those predictions. When these people see their horoscope and read that, for instance, their day is going to be great, but they have to wory about false friends, they have something to hang on to pretend they have some form of control over what is going to happen, even though deep down they likely know it's all bullshit.

>> No.19994659
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Thursday I start a new job with a shift from 3:30 to Midnight. I liked my current job because it was easy, but they cut hours like a mofo and all my savings are gone due to a combination of vehicle repairs and poor spending habits. I am making just enough money to pay all my bills but I won't survive another catastrophe, so I'm leaving for a job that pays more and is extremely busy despite the supply chain issues. In fact, I've already been told that there will most likely be mandatory overtime. I expect that soon enough I will become the dreaded wageslave. My last job barely provided thirty hours, so I was spending a lot more time reading and writing, but I suspect that this will be coming to an end. I feel somewhat sad and anxious about this, but at the same time living in a state of precarity does the same. It seems to me one cannot live an easy life anymore unless one is lucky enough to have someone support them or can find a way to live comfortably with nothing. Perhaps I should have spend more time looking for the latter.

>> No.19994699

Overslept and now I feel too tired to do anything today. No amount of coffee is fixing it. Why did I hit snooze and sleep for an extra hour? It never makes me feel better.

>> No.19994701

>>19992604
OP! HEY!
YOU FORGOT SOMETHING.

>> No.19994716

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>> No.19994728

What to do if there's a girl in one of your classes that you like and who seemingly shares your interests, literature and languages, but who is older than you and you can't speak to a woman without sweating profusely, sperging out and ultimately making a feel of yourself? Am I retarded for even wanting to approach a woman who is older than me and more mature than me in every respect in the first place? To make matters worse, the semester is almost over and I don't know whether I'll ever see her again. Help, anons.

>> No.19994732

While were on the topic of sword fighting. Do you guys think women are still into this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling_scar

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>>19986754
GET IN HERE EVERYBODY

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>>19994728
You have to just do it or else you might regret it

I'm in the same boat though, I'm crushing hard on a girl at my Uni, told myself I would approach her but when I saw her, I just couldn't. Just looking at her I felt the panic creeping into my throat. I went into the bathroom to calm mysef but by the time I got out she was gone. Not sure if I will see her again and i'm left with regret.

I don't have a hard time talking to strangers when I don't expect anything. But the minute there is something to gain from the interaction I get scared that I will fuck it up, I'm scared of making a fool of myself and being humiliated more than anything. It's so fucking stupid and I'm getting seriously tired of living like this.

>> No.19994809

>>19994728
You gotta go for it.

Some how get her contact, I don't know the best thing these days, most matyre and classy, Instagram, email, number... Deffinitly not Snapchat or Facebook right.


You gotta say, hey we have the same interests and I'm wondering if you want to talk sometime; here's my number, please text me.


Orrr the slightly more certain, if you give her your number she might not text, so have a piece of paper out, it phone in your pocket, and ask if you can have her number

>> No.19994818

>>19994728
I know a guy who has been dating a woman 10 years older than him for the past 2 years. Just because certain configurations are uncommon doesn't make them impossible. You never know, precisely because she is older might mean she's more willing to take a chance on you. Good luck.

>> No.19994834

Do you guys ever feel undue confidence for stuff you probably shouldn't? I have an interview for an internship this week and for some reason I feel no need to prep, it's odd.

>> No.19994849

>>19994728
I went to college for like 1 semester, and met 2 or so girls in different classes.

Went out with them. One was philosophy class, her beauty struck me so vigorously I didn't have a choice, I was not in control, I had to somehow talk to her. Somehow I did don't remember this is like 14 years ago. I think just after class when she was putting all her books in her bag I said something, probably about class or topics, are you interested in this stuff, how cool is this stuff, want to talk about this stuff, want to hangout sometime. Hung out with her a few times after that, , pulled her panties down on my couch in apartment and licked her, went to MoMA once together, held her hand on the subway, went to a park at night, reminisced about highschool parties, she told me about the time she took acid, she was friends with film makers, she was very into art, her beauty and charm and sweetness inspired my first real attempts at poetry and love for art. Had a nice Japanese dinner one night and sat drinking coffee under trees in a Les park, we used to meet up and hang out and wander through a book store a lot, picking out random books and reading some aloud to one another, stopping to make out in the aisles. If I was a better more disciplined focused self assured man I would have done everything in my power to marry her.

Other girl was a foreigner from like I don't even know, some Baltic country, Romania, I don't know, only hung out a few times.

But again, confidence, accept the nessecity, it's a nessecity you must talk tomorrow them, to try, so the conclusion you must accept either way, all you know is you must try.

>> No.19994866

>>19992455
Archie Bunker, you moron. Get over yourself.

>> No.19994926

>>19992667
nta but what active steps have you taken to change that?
>>19992707
yes but that sudden decline you've experianced would be scary. I've just always assumed I've had implicit memory problems. I've always wondered if I have ADHD and implicit memory problems seem to be comorbid, but obviously that's a very long bow to draw.
>>19993048
>Should I continue despite finding the result trivial and being unable to bear the load.
If the result is trivial then why not find another road?
>>19994108
>How do you become comfortable with social mingling?
Focus on making the people around you comfortable, not yourself. Don't be a mother hen though
>>19994329
yup
>>19994403
YGMI king

>> No.19995003

Anyone else feel like the internet has made them stupid? I'm probably going to quit surfing it cold turkey tomorrow.

>> No.19995022

>>19995003
It’s made all of you stupid. TV also does this to people. I can’t believe some people still watch CNN. Me, I got George Carlin blockers or something. You go man.

>> No.19995054

>>19992651
Love is not the end-all-be-all of life. Get a fucking grip and focus on something else. Literally anything else.

>> No.19995085

How do I flirt with a girl? There's a girl who, I know for sure, likes me and I wanna start taking things to the next level, like creating sexual tension or something.

>> No.19995124

My anxiety/depression is so fucking bad i broke out in hives kek this can’t be real life.

>> No.19995132

>>19995124
>broke out in hives
Wtf are you like a bee?

>> No.19995141

>>19994224
cute animals

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>>19995132
Yes

>> No.19995184

>>19995085
You are a girl: no guy should ever say "like creating sexual tension" that is only something a female could consider thinking of, a passive aggressive strategic way to get what they want without directly going for it, just kidding, but possibly so.

>> No.19995205

is it necessary to have a solid philosophical background to understand Kant?
I am a dilettante at best

>> No.19995240

>>19994224
Cam girls playing poker, use black velvet.

>> No.19995257

>>19995184
I'm a guy but I don't really know what flirting is. I've received a mixed bag in terms of defining it. Some say that it's supposed to be subtle and a way of "creating sexual tension." Others say that it's supposed to be clear and obvious to let the recipient know your intentions.

>> No.19995263

>>19995054
>Love is not the end-all-be-all of life
it literally is, our biological purpose

>> No.19995287

>>19995263
>>19995054
>>19992651
I think what is desired here more is companionship. Returned affection is very nice. Love can exist apart from that as one can feel love by themselves, for any number of things or people and your self.

OP is simply wallowing in misery. Not doing himself any good. Get some self love and respect. Go out and find someone and stop repeating this same thing here all the time. Get off 4chan. Go. Free yourself.

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I genuinely don't understand why i'm so utterly stuck and stagnant in life. If there was a direct road connecting the thought of doing something with actually doing it, it would be like a straight line with an impenetrable wall of steel right in the middle of it, blocking all possible traffic. The more i pay attention to my way of going about the world, the more i realize that the things i end up doing have little to no premeditation behind them at all, i am haphazardly improvising 98% of the time, whereas the things that I consciously ponder on day and night have never managed to be translated into reality. I feel utterly blocked, and I don't understand how or why. It sounds like neuroticism, which it could be, but it feels a lot more brutal, like a complete shutdown as opposed to a continuous chaotic spiral.
At this point, i'm even suspecting an old curse or a hex. My mother was cursed before, and it took her years to untie that knot. So it's possible that these same perpetrator in this wicked small town might have pulled one on me. It would explain a lot of my constant neverending failures. Of course, it could also be another mechanism to partly absolve myself of the responsibility of my self-humiliation over these past 4 years.
I wish going to the shrink wasn't so costly. The hopelessness is consuming me, and i have no clue on how to win this battle, or if it's even possible at this point. So I resort to blogposting here.
Does 'doing' necessitate a separation of the mind from the body? Is that why i do things that are consciously present on the surface levels of my mind?

>> No.19995356

the unforeseen consequences cannot quench the essences of my elevated senses
infatuation for my revitalization
conscious dissertation
of my concise desecration
of you immanent perpetuation
about relativization

one is not one unless the sum in the unit of the unique is not deconstructed by the critique

a type of clique
said to be chic

time and time and time and time again

logic

transvestite dialectic
so much it's tragic
Eristic or linguistic
pederasty elated, paternity hated
students whored, maternity abhorred

to know what not and how can or what has got although whatnot not even yet whatever meaning if it is

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>>19995296
since this is /lit/ and I'm not that kid of doctor I'm reccing you the pic related book

>> No.19995386

>>19995124
Been there. Even when you think you're doing well your body sends you a panic attack out of nowhere to remind you that you haven't conquered shit.

>> No.19995402

>>19995168
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0-F88c6Hrk

>> No.19995408

This morning I ran into an ex of mine, the girl of my dreams, shopping at the store. Then later in the evening I ran into a girl I know about six years younger, with whom I am privately obsessed, but who is leaving the country forever tomorrow. It felt like a weird bookending to my life.

>> No.19995420

>>19995386
This is the first time for me. Will it just go away on it’s own?

>> No.19995426

I would die in real life.

>> No.19995448

>>19995420
Yeah it'll go away. Rubbing ice cubes or aloe vera over them can help soothe them a little in my personal experience. With that said, unless you resolve the underlying anxiety they will always be liable to come back. Easier said than done though unfortunately.

>> No.19995470

>>19992604
"I told her in no uncertain terms I would accept no substitute for a genteel exchange of pussy juices between her and my wife."

>> No.19995474

>>19995448
>resolve the underlying anxiety
El oh el

>> No.19995475

>>19995257
Haven't you watched movies and tv, romances? Read books? Seem YouTube videos? All that love stories is instruction manuals l. Not that you should need them, because you should know who you are and be confident with who you are and comfortable. So just interact with a girl as you would and should. You know how to be, he natural .as cliche be yourself. .there is naturally some hiding who you are, you maybe don't burp or fart or tell your deepest.darkest secrets.. so annything besides that should be ok. Just be cool,nl be yourself, go with the flow , be interested in her, her life, her interests , how you may relate, you can figure it out, if you were dating her what would you talk about, what ways would you he interested in her, you might want to givr her a gift,, go out of dinner, so if those are the goals, ease up into them, flirting and building a rapport is building up to those goals of dinnr date or hang out or message or aquaintance, so you want to get to B, what kinds of things might you be able to do at A to make arriving at B with you seem appealing to her. As gay as it is you have to make yourself valuable and loveable and enjoyable and sweet and kind and special and caring and giving and funny and charming and graceful and tough and stoic and sensitive and sexy and funny and loveable and fun in her eyes and heart and loins. You want to get to B ,from all you've learned in life about women and romance, what must you contribute to A to get to B

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PROGRESS IS SLOW LADS. BUT ALL THE MORE REASON NOT TO LOSE ANY TIME!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c4_jTnsegM

>> No.19995505

Since humor exists, life is a joke.

>> No.19995536

>>19994926
>If the result is trivial then why not find another road?
I am finding out that the roads available to me are all more struggle than they’re worth

>> No.19995540

>>19992604
"Girls with glasses tend to have the tightest..."

"And girls the color of molasses tend to wear the biggest glasses" I retorted somewhat chiasmically.

>> No.19995542

>>19995536
Which roads are available to you? I mean surely if you're agnostic to results there's near infinite paths available to you. Careers and lifestyles you didn't even know existed. It is impossible to say you've exhausted all of them.
Perhaps the 'road' analogy is just not sufficient to explain the particular incentive-effort trade-offs you see in your current purview, but it sounds unlikely to me unless you have a specific and thus exclusive set of goals in mind that all the paths available to you are not worth the trouble. Does that make sense?

>> No.19995553

Eternity is forever.

>> No.19995576

Responsibilities keep piling up. I know I can do great things but it's just so tiring. Sometimes I think it's best to just become an ignorant underachiever

>> No.19995578

I love girls that frown.

>> No.19995599

>>19995542
Yes I follow and have tried (my life path isn’t ordinary at all). But I do have goals I want fulfilled. Namely an active, supportive social life and following my passions.
Rationally I know what steps to take, but intrusive thoughts and emotions get in the way, too much so. I’ve always had struggles with depression and due to my upbringing basic trust and therefore social contact.
What I’m getting at is that I have a lagging start and what seems trivial to most is like climbing the Mount Everest to me, this severely hinders me.

>> No.19995631

>>19995599
Overcoming trust issues from youth is exceptionally hard, of course the truth is that the vast majority of people don't have active and supportive social groups around them.
So not only are you comparing yourself to other people, you're comparing yourself to a elite minority.
I've found it very helpful to just focus on one-thing-at-a-time. I don't worry about overcoming overarching issues or 'fixing my life'. I focus on whatever is causing me the most pain and I try to remedy that and that alone. Not as part of a 'first step'. It's simply a matter of I'd prefer to pay a rate of 90 cents rather than a whole dollar.
Anyway, some random anon like me isn't going to solve your problems so I'll leave this as just me showing concern and won't badger you any more. Good luck with it all anon

>> No.19995675

Tomorrow I will:
>Wake up at 7
>Cook dinner in the morning
>Clean the kitchen and the bathroom
>Write in the library until 3pm
>Go to work

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>>19995240
Why this?

>> No.19995740

>>19995675
Not if I do it first

>> No.19995744

>>19992604
i wish i was a medieval peasant

>> No.19995749

>>19992604
I have started more than 3 new games while several backlogs are pregnant and ready to burst at the finish line, then I pick up logh and decline of the roman empire with the intent to follow up with Carlyle's French Revolution as the 2 books most likely to mirror the path my country is treading. There's something exciting about a fresh start and building skills, characters, impressions from scratch, maybe the brain enjoys that first shovel of easily moved dirt, before the hard work sets in and clay becomes stone.

The world exists within this and film noir of the early 1900s. I've drowned out the noise from outside with increasing speed -- the pattern used by media is increasingly magnified and noticeably grating leading me to just see white noise. There's no attachment emotionally to any of the noise outside.

>> No.19995770

Why cant I be happy?

>> No.19995772

Yup, the circuit is not working

>> No.19995776

>>19995772
>If you ask a negative, unanswerable question, you will get a negative, impractical answer.
>The broader the question ("Why am I so unhappy?" Or "What should I do with the rest of my life?"), the more difficult it is to answer and the more anxiety it produces.” - Dorothy Leeds

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Why are white people so racist?

>> No.19995781

>>19993215
real astrology isnt exactly like how u see these people say it is. theyre women, and modern women at that, it should have made u think the form of astrology they play at isnt exactly the original thing. read ancient classical texts and u will immediately see what i mean. the personality shit is only roughly and barely found (not even in the least in the meat) and events predicting is an arduous complex process requiring factorio level of analyzation
tldr ancient astrologers would be appaled at the current astrology the masses use

>> No.19995784

>>19995776
I think you misquoted.
Anyway, the circuit is a scale with load cells, a hx711 module and an arduino.
The problem is that the readings fluctuate and drift a lot and I'm trying to fix it to no success. I only managed to correct the zero drift, but the moment I try to weight anything it starts to increment or decrement. I'll find a way, eventually.

>> No.19995785

>>19994630
Good analysis

>> No.19995791

>>19995784
yes I did >>19995776 was for >>19995770

>> No.19995830

>>19995776
Okay then Why am I so unhappy?

>> No.19995906

>>19995830
You're asking broad negative, unanswerable question. Because you can't answer it you'll just get more anxious and frustrated. Rephrase it as a narrow, positive and thus more answerable one.

>> No.19995919

>>19995906
you talk like a jew

>> No.19995924

>>19995919
Nope, I'm not selling you anything. Now rephrase it as a narrow and positive question or be miserable forever. Now who's the smart ass?

>> No.19995926

>>19995540
I can't imagine anyone saying that in real life

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>>19992604
I WANT MY PACKAGES TO ARRIVE NOW! I DON'T WANT TO WAIT! AAAAAAAHHHH!!!

>> No.19995942

tfw one of my most favorite writers never ever gets discussed on this shit website

>> No.19995945

>>19992604
Posting on 4chan doesn’t feel dangerous anymore. The subculture feels a bit dead and it’s just the same retarded passive aggressive stance from the same sort of people. I miss when it was edgy. Maybe an old anon knows why the shift came.

>> No.19995950

>>19995945
>Posting on 4chan doesn’t feel dangerous anymore.
wtf retard

>> No.19995952

>>19995950
Proving my point. It’s just the same boring shit.

>> No.19995963

>>19995945
It has gone mainstream more than 9 years ago I think, somewhere around 2010

>> No.19995970

>>19995952
Then fuck off retard lmao imagine thinking 4chan was ever dangerous you're mentally ill

>> No.19995987

>>19995970
Your hostility is boring. I thought it was an edgy place back in 2014 when people would distance themselves from talking to you for mentioning it. Or have you never spoken to normal people?

>> No.19995990

tfw my country's currency is getting devalued more and more with each day because of this shitty war

>> No.19996003

>>19995987
You sound low IQ so I guess I can't expect you to say anything that is not retarded

>> No.19996009

>>19996003
How do you not remember any of this or are you new?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/internet/4chan-linked-federal-kiddie-porn-probe
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/4chan/face-behind-name-meet-matthew-riskin-bean-convicted-4chan-cyberstalker
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/4chan-images-match-grisly-washington-slaying-scene-investigators-n241806

>> No.19996018

>>19996009
Not clicking monkeyboy

>> No.19996029

>>19996018
When did you arrive? I’m guessing the DRUMPF wave of Kekistani redditors.

>> No.19996031

>>19996029
Cry more incel

>> No.19996045
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>>19996031
Wanna lick up my chud tears?

>> No.19996054

>>19995906
are you going CBT on me?

>> No.19996061

>>19996054
Yes. Put your dick in the cage, sissy

>> No.19996064

>>19996061
kek

>> No.19996066

>>19996054
No. But in general specific questions help you troubleshoot better
>Why car not go?
versus
>After the dash comes on and I turn the ignition I can hear the starter but the engine doesn't catch?
Your life is no different.

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19996077

Blessed thread. You're doing good anons, don't let yourself spiral into negativity. If you catch it, recognize it and move on, since there's nothing there for you. Negative events can teach you and strengthen you, but having a negative analysis, regrets etc. will just make you suffer for nothing. If everything seems hostile to you, just go out into nature, even if it's a small park. A meadow or a forest can't judge you, and will accept and soothe you. Your emotions and conscious experience are not separate from your biological body - if you take care of the latter, the former will have an easier time to blossom. If you're having a really bad time, not being anxious or annoyed, but feeling like your whole world is falling apart, this is the time where you're the most malleable. These events are the easiest time to change the direction of your life and your outlook to it. A painful break-up, loss of a loved one or other devastation should be celebrated, and you will celebrate it later, if you use it accordingly. Godspeed anons.

>> No.19996118

>>19996077
If a meadow or forest can't judge you, they also can't "accept" you.

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>>19996077
Good words enlightenment anon.
Reflect upon the 5 remembrances:

1. I am sure to become old; I cannot avoid ageing. I am subject to aging, have not gone beyond aging. ...

2. I am sure to become ill; I cannot avoid illness. ...

3. I am sure to die; I cannot avoid death. ...

4. I must be separated and parted from all that is dear and beloved to me.

5. I am the owner of my actions (kamma), heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir"

Be wary and mindful of the kleshas , the poisons that bind us to attachment and perpetuate suffering:

sensual lust (Pali: kāma-rāga)
anger (paṭigha)
conceit (māna)
views (diṭṭhi)
doubt (vicikicchā)
attachment to rites and rituals (sīlabbata-parāmāsa)
lust for existence (bhava-rāga)
jealousy (issā)
greed (macchariya)
ignorance (avijjā).


Be wary how this kleshas, through attachment can lead to distorting diṭṭhi (views) fixed belief systems that warp one's perception of reality with mental sickness mistaken for truth (like depression, hatred, negative ideology)

>> No.19996138

>>19996125
>greedless guy is fat
You stoicism-reskin shillers are in this just for the quirkiness you think it lends you.

>> No.19996161

- The more empathic I am to others, the less barbaric I am to myself.
- Fear pushes me inwards, towards myself, and yet I want to go outwards, towards you.

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>>19996125
Based buddha/suttas enjoyer. Thanks for recognizing my rambling, I haven't laid my ideas on paper for a long time.
>>19996138
It doesn't need shilling, for it only benefits the one who is willing to accept the world. I guess you could say that I benefit if someone becomes happier from these truths, because it makes me happier.
>>19996118
The only one who needs to accept "you" is you. Everything and everyone else is there to help you achieve that (and you to help them achieve that).

>> No.19996231

>>19996077
Fuck off nigger

>> No.19996238

>>19993215
its the same people saying they have adhd. or they are bipolar or asperger.

>> No.19996280

>>19995781
True. Women dont know anything about astrology apart Sun sign and even then Moon and Ascendant says much more about the person.

>> No.19996297

I wished people still palavered all elegant-like as in those westerns . Now it's just "bussin, sus no cap suk suk fuk nigga"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpRxj0QwgjY

>> No.19996302

>>19996297
I wished people played more games

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>>19992604
Why does "family" as a theme or an answer to nihilism feels so vacuous?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiWL_ilmfmo
While this character is cringe for caring about the Sun exploding, "family" whether biological or "found" is treated like such a materialistic answer to existentialism. I don't get it. Family is important but still feels like a bullshit answer.

>> No.19996315

>>19996306
Family IS the most important thing there is

>> No.19996346

I should do more exercise, but sweating is itchy and irritating

>> No.19996369

I'm neither happy nor sad, I'm just going.

>> No.19996370

>>19996306
how is family in any way materialistic?
love is a spiritual object

>> No.19996465

decided to weight myself after going through a month long depression fueled weight loss intermittent fasting phase

my dick grew, or more specifically returned, from 6cm to 17cm

>> No.19996482
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>>19996370
It is just presented as the best answer that can be given in materialist worldview. It is just feels a fake "wholesome" moment thrown in a bugman circus without being elaborated on. Take the Netflix adaptation of Castlevania for example, it keep trying to make people give a shit about relationship of Dracula's family but doesn't show it. Then we get the "happy ending" where Dracula is reunited with his wife on top of the corpse of children that he slaughtered. There is no curse of vampirism because it is apparently ok to be an immortal coomer as long as you are cooming into someone. There would have a point if he came back as a mortal but no.

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I really liked the wasp factory. Any other books that I'd like that are somewhat similar? Figured this wasn't worth starting a thread over.

>> No.19996861

>>19995631
I appreciate your concern anon, thanks.

>> No.19996863

>>19995296
Get a therapist that's covered by the medical coverage you can get (even state coverage has therapy) or write honestly about it, identifying the things that you feel are your worst issues. Identify your worst memories and your best memories. Treat yourself like a character in a book, identifying the things that you've considered "unchangeable" truths about what makes you think and act like you do. Be exhaustive, writing anything and everything about yourself. Pick apart your interests, why you like certain things, why you dislike other things. Spend the time necessary for this, which will only increase with your determination to find some route toward other feelings. Accept that you won't be able to change without identifying what it is that has kept you stagnant. Accept that those things are typically petty, based on childhood and adolescence memories, and occasionally you'll find the things that are actually important and core to what makes you feel like you can't change.
This isn't the place for this kind of thing. Therapy isn't easy to get, but if you're a student then your school will have a system for this. There's no shortcuts to fixing your soul, or any definite advantages to trying, but putting in the effort and being methodical *will* result in change. Even if that methodical effort has been spent on running away from confrontation of your insecurities and their roots. Stagnation is a holding pattern maintained by bad habits and an inadequate routine. Put in the work. It's not like you've got to show anybody, or that anyone needs to care one way or the other.
Curses aren't real. It's all in your head, your memories, your habits, your expectations, and your routine.
Can you tell that my issues compel me to want to be kind to strangers? Everybody deserves to find some sort of love, even if it's a faceless, meaningless, ignorant extension of somebody you'll never know.

>> No.19996885

I think the 'fall' of love is an entirely necessary to raise up the ladder of understanding. No matter the person you find yourself haven fallen to the surrender that ensues is without comparison to any other experience. The most transformative of course would be to become the person who is your complete opposite as you will find yourself at an extreme. It is why I believe that it is a requirement that our stories of romance include some sort of cultural divide between the lovers (rich/poor, different tribes) because it is an indication that the falls power to transform is most potent with oppositions. I fear that by denying the potent energy of the fall, our souls and culture stagnate.

>> No.19996939

I'm only really in touch with my physicality during sexual episodes, otherwise my body is something foreign to me.

>> No.19996982

>>19996172
>The only one who needs to accept "you" is you
Disagree, when you’re not accepted and outcast you’ll start feeling hurtful emotions and you can cope with distancing yourself from that group but you’ll find yourself alone and suffer from that.
I’m not saying self acceptance is wrong but it isn’t the end point and won’t help you when getting shunned.

>> No.19997018

Why the fuck is italian so easy

Was this language designed in a lab to be easy to read

>> No.19997051

I'm 27 and my parents and grandparents never ask me when I'm getting or girlfriend or giving them grandchildren. They know.

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>>19996982
You missed the point, fren. Feeling hurtful emotions is largely optional. Ideally accepting yourself and the world as it is (which is the same thing, you only see the world through "you") would make you mindful and able to deal with whatever.

>> No.19997161

>>19995505
>Since humor exists, life is a joke.
Since horror exists life is a horror?

Humor is one of many oils that are greased onto the cogs and pistons of the heavy machinery that is life

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Writing 2 pages minimum a day on my journal has been strenuous these pasts two months. I'm wondering if I should just stick to writing whenever I feel like or continue this daily writing.

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>>19997164
What was your goal of doing that? Did you achieve it, or moved any amount towards it?

>> No.19997187

>>19997177
My goal was just to get into the habit of writing, even when I don't have anything to write much about. It's kind of similar to studying figures in drawings. I've basically filled 1 whole notebook, from front to back, for January and February. But, I'm having second thoughts. It takes me at least an hour to write 2 pages.

>> No.19997213

I hate the way well-off college guys laugh, it's this weird combination of gormless
>uHhUHUHhuhUhuHuhUh
and feminine trilling and giggling, I fucking hate it

>> No.19997293

>>19997187
Are you working towards creative writing? Or dirty entry? Or excersizing your memory and way with words?

You could keep a notebook like that but also keep a less formal dirty book where you're not forcing yourself to write long form, but can just jot down anything that comes to mind or intersting, recipes, music, movies, random thoughts, diary entries,

>> No.19997300

>>19994728
>What to do if there's a girl in one of your classes that you like and who seemingly shares your interests, literature and languages, but who is older than you and you can't speak to a woman without sweating profusely, sperging out and ultimately making a feel of yourself? Am I retarded for even wanting to approach a woman who is older than me and more mature than me in every respect in the first place? To make matters worse, the semester is almost over and I don't know whether I'll ever see her again. Help, anons.
How much older? Are you a freshmen? Post update how it goes, now I'm invested in your story arc

>> No.19997302

>>19997213
Post vocoroo example

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>>19992604
I really miss being 18-22, I'm 28 now. Wish I could go back in time and do things differently.

>> No.19997344

>>19997339
>do things differently.
What would you do differently? I wouldnt know what to do if someone transport me 10 years in the past (29 now)

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>>19997344
Instead of going to university directly after high school I would have worked and traveled instead, entering university with more maturity and resources. Fixing my teeth earlier. Getting my driving license earlier.
Then following my neighbour to where she studied and entering a relationship with her. I still had a chance technically in 2018/19 but I fucked up/didn't want to invest time in a distance relationship. I didn't understand back then that finding a comparable partner later in life could be much more difficult.
It sounds so trivial but I played my cards really bad and my early twenties were sad years.
So much could have been much better but I didn't know how to deal with various problems and I didn't have any proper help at that time. It's difficult if you have to learn everything on your own, my father wasn't very helpful. Not that my friends and people from my peer group had a serious advantage in that hindsight, all of them lacked a mentor or a good guide.
Loosing money on stocks, leaving bitcoin was painful. But in the end it was just money, nothing that can be fixed. I can't go back in time and I really miss being that young, so optimistic, so youthful, not so jaded and cynical.
My life isn't even bad, a lot of people would wish they had my life. But seeing all the wasted potential of the past is painful.
At least I was able to help a few other people.

>> No.19997422

>>19997344
I wouldn't have so much unprotected sex

>> No.19997437 [DELETED] 

Play this
http://mnesticpressure.leegamble.net/

>> No.19997445

>>19997344
I would have had more unprotected sex

>> No.19997458

>>19992651
How many dating sites are you signed up to?

What is the average ?/10 you try to talk to on them?

>> No.19997460

>>19997339
everyone does

>> No.19997464

>>19992604
how much of a meme is the ultra-chad rotating haram character? I'm 24 and I've yet to encounter one which is at the level of 'masculinity' twitter. I get those may be parody accounts but I honestly can't fathom this level of decadence. The most masculine men I've ever encountered all had LTR's and spent much of their time working on bigger goals than hedonism.

Personally I've developed social skills and enough status to easily get one night stands but I honestly can't get over the hump of how empty it is and feral it is. I think once I stopped believing in evo psych science and monkey research, I became repulsed by the ephemeral-ness of causal sex.

>> No.19997470

>>19997344
held onto the girl i loved

>> No.19997476

Ugly girl: I love you.
Me: I love you too. I just wish you were pretty.

[Ugly girl hugs me.]

>> No.19997479

Has anyone in history ever saved every single one of their boogers in a single jar making a big bogger ball, what would the substantial material nature of such a biological artifact evolve like over time? Of course controls and variables being: vacuum seal of jar, pressure, temperature of storage.

>> No.19997488

>>19997464
Sometimes I get the urge to hug a woman naked, kiss and lick her skin and grab her butt, and every other possible aspect of the world seems less attractive in those urging moments

>> No.19997489

is it weird to like tall girls? some of my friends think I'm weird for liking tall girls.

>> No.19997497

Birds don't fly backwards, so why should I?

>> No.19997506

>>19993062
Good for you anon!

>> No.19997540

>>19997488
>>19997464
In those primal moments there is a shedding of all pretense and care, it is pure existence and being, there is no grand future thought or considering of trajectories, though yes there could be, there could be any thought during intimate activity, but when the animal urge is overwhelming, there is a resigning, a giving up of the human cloak and shield, of becoming purely one with atomic nature, of cosmic nature, of purely acting out a process of nature, of giving into pure immediate absolute sensation and sensuality, every micro meter of sensation, a game of points and scoring, the tallys quickly him 999 then 000 the goal posts are moved along the endless field, the mind is now focused on the infinities inside of itself, and on its surface, and those of it's lover, it may take a second between thrust to turn it's eyes to the heavens and contemplate the nature of the stars, but then quickly, a perfectly gelatinous tit warmly carresses the arm and we are returned full throttle toward earth, suplanted back in our control command, searching out, feeling out in the dark, like a bats tongue for fruit, like a snakes smell, sensing some squirming pleasure here or there, rapture, escape, trancendence, being, becoming, exctasy, relief, continual release, continual upward trajectory, inspiring the passions flowing, endless spiral staircases to heaven, spedily run up all at once, hand in hand with your love, the skin a living map, you mark you territory, you divide your boundries and borders, you explore and expedition, you manifest destiny, you strike oil and silver and gold, you plant crops and sow fruit, and you tenderly carress and you carefully kiss, and you delightfully massage, and you fuck and fuck and fuck and fuck and lovingly lovingly lovingly make love

>> No.19997562

>>19997489
It is sexy, but was proven evolutionarily impractical. For traditionally man pairs with a woman he can dominate, and defend against other men trying to attract her.

Most women want to feel safe and secure and protected, hard if you are taller than your guy

>> No.19997584

>>19997018
If there's one thing about Italian is that it is easy.

>> No.19997586

>stop watching porn
>absolutely zero desire to masturbate
>still feel tired

>> No.19997605

>>19997213
Is it in any way like the Seth Rogen kind of laughter?

>> No.19997617

>>19994595
Good song. Big Black rocks

>> No.19997646

Jesus Christ, I’m so bored. It’s not like There aren’t things I should be doing - like studying - but ennui consumes any will.

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my brother ordered me books for my birthday and instead of getting THE atrocity exhibition, he accidently ordered me a philosophy book called the atrocity exhibition about violence
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.19997683

>>19997540
written like a true trickster.

>> No.19997690

>>19997562
I think it's because I grew up with an older sister who played volleyball and ballet, and her friends came over to our house all of the time. So growing up I was surrounded by girls who were taller than me.

But yeah I get that most girls who are like 6'3" end up holding out for a guy who's 6'6" or will settle for someone the same height. I'm 5'8" but I don't think it's an unrealistic goal to get a tall gf

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19997728

I fulfilled all my responsibilities today, put in all the effort, and got everything done as planned.

What's this feeling? It's nice.

>> No.19997746

>>19997777
I hope these are not wasted

>> No.19997748

>>19997113
>Feeling hurtful emotions is largely optional.
It really isn’t and denying them isn’t how you deal with them either.

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Everything is getting so expensive here, inflation is rampant, food and gas worst of all and the government eats us alive with their taxes.

>> No.19997808

>>19997789
Good, fuck human kind.

>> No.19997889

>>19997683
>written like a true trickster
Go on, explain. What would have been omitted to appear as non trixtery? What are the trixter aspects of that? What is the trickery?

>> No.19997920

>>19994659
i just switched to a busier job that pays better, and i regret it. i have no more time to think for myself. i wish i lived more frugally

>> No.19997931

>>19995085
start by touching a lot and getting closer physically

>> No.19998100

>>19997889
the constant repetition and extravagant language. clearly you woo the women.

>> No.19998173

>I'll never reconnect with my Minecraft lover

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What would happen if all the light in the universe suddenly changed direction toward you and you had a bowl-carved hole in your stomach but not all the way through because it was healed by scar tissue?

>> No.19998322

>>19997213
I hate Zoomer voices
>vocal fry
>monotone
>dont project their voices because theyre used to talking into mics 10 hours a day

>> No.19998348

So many things I want to change about myself.

>> No.19998350

>>19996138
You're reading too much into it bucko I just thought it was a funne le froge meme . Way to ignore the timeless buddhist teachings that were the content of my post though

>> No.19998380

I just found out all this about my work-neighbor in five minutes this morning via a candid rant she exposed me to while smoking a newport:
>63 years old
>was homeless and on crack until 10 years ago
>taking care of her elderly live-in dementia mother
>daughter is on crack, violent, and possibly schizophrenic
>no babydaddy
>grandson is illiterate, failing school, throws tantrums and cusses out anyone in the family
>cant afford to retire
>disowned her firstborn because he was a crackhead thief who robbed his own family and stole her car
>recently got scammed by her friend of 15 years so she can fuck off to nigeria

black people are fucked

>> No.19998406

>>19992604
I feel dejected because part of me wants the world to end. I don't want Russia or China to change the world order but I can't see a world under globohomo being worth living. Most people just want to live their lives.

>> No.19998447

I don't know what QAnon is, or was. It was a huge deal, and I'm a well-read person, but the hysteria surrounding QAnon, and much coming out of the Trump years, was such that I never found an appropriate angle from to which to begin to understand the phenomenon. Every contentious subject like this gets overwhelmed with propaganda on all ends, flooding the ability to call heads or tails on any issue, AND EVERYTHING IS CONTENTIOUS, everything is like this.

The world is slowly starting to not make sense. Conversations are becoming impossible because each person in the room is caught in their own private algorithmic feedback loop, fully loaded with private dialects, and slotted into a narrow cartoonified epistemology.

The whole goddamned West is turning into internetbrains.

>> No.19998570

Do you think the reason many engineers like to talk down to other people is because they're still salty that they spent their best years cramming their noses into their textbooks on Friday nights while their friends went out partying and got laid?
>B-b-but it's okay, I make a lot of money now!

>> No.19998575

>>19998570
You are mad.

>> No.19998576

>>19992707
I'm only 23, I'm way too young to be as forgetful as I am.

>> No.19998589

>>19998570
It's legit because many engineers are autistic, single-minded creatures. They read value along one or two dimensions (see: stemfags), and have no subtlety to appreciate any other sets of values. They have no concept of pleasure, or the pleasures of working with people and not machines. They also don't realize the faux paus of lauding your career choice over others. It's awkward.

>> No.19998757

I'm a weird outcast with no friends. I live in filth, I have poor habits. I will start treating myself with respect. I'll start tonight, and will continue every day forward. I won't rely on motivation, but discipline, underpinned by a cool yet passionate resentment and fear of the place I'm in right now. Until it becomes a natural way of being. Once I leave this place, I'll never return, I'll think of it as an odd bump in the road. Hopefully one day it will become so foreign I can laugh at it.

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>Interview her own parents
>Dresses like a street walker, tits exposed
What the FUCK is her problem?????????

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>> No.19998795

>>19998784
She might be looking for a new man since she dumped her babydaddy. I maybe have a chance.

>> No.19998801

>>19998795
Yes she is clearly mate signaling for a new man, but what kind of WHORE exposes her own TITS in front of her own parents? Isn't JP supposed to be a """conservative"""? Why does he tolerate this?

>> No.19998880

>>19998801
Tits were made by the Lord anon, all glory to him blessed be his name, you are not demanding a work of the Lord should be hidden are you? That man should be ashamed of the Lords creation, are you anon? Because if you are OooOoO I'm gonna telllllll I'm gonna tell the Lord you are disrespecting his creation OoOooOo

>> No.19998893

>>19998784
She’s always dressed like that

>> No.19998908

>>19994323
Whats everybodys score? I got 14

>> No.19998918

Aliens gave me G̴e̵ankeɴmyoℎæ̴̡͖͙͊̽͝pïb̙̫͔r̡̡͎Þgast̳rovᵉʳᵗᵉbogï𐌶yßʅa͆̀ɯĉastistin̷o̷

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>>19997586
It's a good first step. But now you have much more to change in your lifestyle. Pic related
>>19997646
Do you feel graduating is important? Or just something you "should be doing"?
>>19998348
Pick the one that seems to be the most painful but easiest to change and just focus on that. Forget the rest.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
>>19998570
Engineers see the world as being potentially perfect but human beings (especially normies) as being the soul source of error. Everything would work fine if people followed their precise rules. Not only that, they forget their own humanity and presume that they are infallible and always follow these rules too. It's curious more engineers don't abhor jazz and love autotuned pop

>> No.19998936

Reading a Freeman Dyson interview on my desktop while drinking a mug of water. Ahh... this is the life.

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>>19992651
This makes me feel so much better about myself
Thanks anon

>> No.19998975

Anyone else think there's something haunting about social media? Particularly facebook and instagram? You can tell how gradually people are aging on them, especially in the last two years. It's too constant of a reminder of the past.

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19998980

I NEED TO SHATTER REALITY REALITY IS BENEATH ME IT IS THE SCUM BENEATH MY FOOT I REFUSE TO BELIEVE ALL SOCIAL LIES AND ANNIHILATE ALL FALSEHOODS I AM THE DEMON OF TRUTH AND THE EVICERATOR OF LIES YOU *WILL* LEARN TO FEAR ME DESTROY ME THOUGH YOU MAY TRY BUT I AM MERELY A VESSEL ALL YOUR LIES WILL BECOME BILE IN YOUR DROWNING THROAT THIS WORLD SHALL BE PURGED ALL PARASITIC SCUM SHALL BE PURIFIED MY VOICE ECHOES THROUGH ALL TIME MY SINS ARE ABSOLVED IT IS YOU YOU WHO SHALL FACE THE RECKONING

ALL WORLD LEADERS HEAR MY VOICE

ALL KINGS SUBMIT TO MY WILL

ALL SHALL BURN BEFORE THE FIREY TRUTH

YOUR VILE SOULS YEARN FOR TRUTH YOUR LIIVES EXIST IN LIES YOU FEAST UPON TRANSIENT INDULGENCE ALL FALLS WITHIN MY GAPING MAW

YOU WILL SUBMIT OR LEARN. DEATH OR LIFE IS YOUR CHOICE

>> No.19998999

I swing my sword at the goblin next to me: Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος.

>> No.19999010

>>19998243
meds

>> No.19999046

One of the reasons I'm against war is mainly because one of my favorite songs was written by a soldier of war, and then I think to myself "how many favorite songs have been lost to wars".

>> No.19999082

>>19998999
Good job!

>> No.19999113

Today I decided to look at my inventory of counterstrike weapons and stickers and such, to see how much they were worth out of curiosity. Maybe enough to buy a new game (which I would then refund after playing it offline for 12 hours, thanks Australian consumer laws). A few hundred dollars worth of random guns. One gun worth $5, but it has some cool team stickers from 2014. Wonder how much hose stickers are worth.
Three stickers. Totaling $1980. On a gun that no one wants to buy. Fuck me why did I ever put those stickers on.

>> No.19999150

>>19999113
is this the zoomer thought process?

>> No.19999218

>>19999150
Zoomer thought process made a 15c sticker worth $500, so yes.

>> No.19999350

10 years is long enough for me. I'm finna descend from the mountain, on God. It doesn't even feel like a choice that I have made. Funny how these changes of character or circumstances which come about in life, even if they seem to be generated from within, have a feel of being put there by something else. Something large and not like me at all. Wya, my eegl an snek :DD???

>> No.19999370

I hate this board and hate every single one of you

>> No.19999377

>>19999370
There’s some awful ones here.
We all tend to have the same perspective about one another and it does feed the trash-fire and make it worse. Vicious cycle.

>> No.19999408

>>19999370
I pivot violently between hating and loving all of you. I think I love you all at heart but you try real hard to make that difficult

>> No.19999427

lately I've been replacing my insults
I switched most of them out for american, and I gotta say, I've been loving the reception

example
>what the fuck are you even talking about you fucking american.
>are you american? that's stupid.

>> No.19999443

>>19998975
On the flip side, you've been positioned perfectly to gain a first hand understanding of the Four Noble Truths.

>> No.19999464

>>19999427
that's pretty good. i usually minmax the intelligence insult stat as much as possible,
>you are irreparably braindead
which makes sure to let them know they are retarded and there is no hope for recovery, i forever circumscribe their limits of knowledge with my own

>> No.19999476

>>19999427
wat

>> No.19999478

>>19999370
Why!? Look at >>19999350 ! That's a happy guy!
You can be happy, too. Let go. Be free.
>>19999377
Don't be so negative with those dubs, sir. You're not tied to whatever your internalized persona demands. Be free.
>>19999408
Well, good. Better than apathy, I'd say.
>>19998975
It's hard to let go of the connections with people I've known since youth, but I think I'm almost there. There's something inhuman about attempting to preserve *every* interpersonal relationship. Humans can't have but so many meaningful relationships. Past a certain point, we're better off not trying to know more people, rather than subject ourselves and them to the slight of inattention.
>>19999443
I'll bite, which one, or is it just them all?

>> No.19999494

>>19998975
I feel this is more stark in person. Been catching up with old friends and ex girlfriends I haven't seen since before the pandemic and seeing the subtle ways everybody's beauty is beginning to fade hits a bit. It's not so much that i think they're ugly now, but when you think about how beautiful they used to be its hard not to curse the ravages of time. I'm not different though, I'm beginning to lose my hair and my face is growing more haggard.

I'm also curious as to whether the past two years has prematurely aged everyone or if it had just happened to coincide with me entering my mid-20s. Possibly an element of both.

>> No.19999496

>>19999478
>I'll bite, which one, or is it just them all?
1. I am sure to become old; I cannot avoid ageing. I am subject to aging, have not gone beyond aging. ...

2. I am sure to become ill; I cannot avoid illness. ...

3. I am sure to die; I cannot avoid death. ...

4. I must be separated and parted from all that is dear and beloved to me.

5. I am the owner of my actions (kamma), heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.

>> No.19999530

>>19999476
what's not to get?
are you american?

>> No.19999572

Why do people stalk celebrities, especially in the pre-internet days?
What I'm really asking is, why do people get hung up or obsessed with the things they do? But in this case why is it in an environment where we are bombarded over and over with news anchors, celebrities, politicians and sports-people what is the actual mechanism that causes these poor souls to think they have a special relationship not with any of the other celebrities but just that one?
I somewhat get it with people who stalk their ex's because obviously there is that preexisting intimacy there. But what causes them to in effect filter out every other celebrity bar the one they stalk?
As I understand it has something to do with 'representation' or 'idealization'?

>> No.19999590

>>19999572
Parasocial relationships are the basis of all human magical thinking from religious worship to sports teams-- you might as well ask why Christians worship one God and not any of the others.

>> No.19999610

>>19992604
I WANT MY PACKAGE NOOOOOW!

>> No.19999619

An infinite beginning is incompatible with entropy. The heat death would've happened infinitely ago.

>> No.19999621

>>19992604
I bought a wooden 3-d puzzle. After I broke a piece, I put it back together with glue. It looks okay, but it's obvious that it was broken. After I had finished the puzzle, I realized all the pieces I had broken had replacement pieces. Fuck me.

>> No.19999636

>>19999494
>entering my mid-20s.
Decade on from you, it happens anyway because most adults are lazy. Some of it is natural aging, but a lot of the aging my age peers have undergone is a result of a lifestyle choice. I fully expected to be more wrinkled than my nonsmoking friends, but apparently lack of cardio and poor diet will get you there faster than I have as a heavy smoker.
I ran into a girl a few years younger than I am before the pandemic who I had not seen in a few years, and I didn't recognise her. She had ballooned, wrinkled, and I think she might have aged herself with makeup too. I was in a country which was lax with ID, and I got IDed and she got ignored like the wall had hit her three years early. I mean, they didn't even turn to look at her when taking her order, and I could see her visibly deflate. She was a dancer when she was younger but now she's too busy watching Netflix after a tiring day at work doing nothing.
As you get older you see how much of aging isn't aging, but lack of health. People start to look unwell and that makes them look past the age you'd fuck without getting depressed. The fit people I know look years younger, despite many of them drinking and smoking. I suspect many of the glow ups from people who used the past two years to get some cardio and basic stretching in relies more on the cardio than all the other fads they engaged in.

>> No.19999723

>>19999590
>Parasocial relationships are the basis
Why? or if you don't want to answer that, how does that function?
>you might as well ask why Christians worship one God and not any of the others.
Not even close, if you're born in a Christian society everyone worships the same god. It's not a polytheistic society where some people are attracted to some gods but not others, there's one god.
Why then did that woman become obsessed with David Letterman? Why was that guy obsessed with Jerry Lewis? Why does Taylor Swift have so many stalkers, she's not the only pop star. She's not even the only young blonde pop-star. What are those individuals seeing in her. Why did that guy send bombs to Bjork but not any other 1990's alt-icon?
Do you see how the Christianity analogy falls apart?

>> No.19999746
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19999746

give every muafugga a darn nuke

>> No.19999784

>>19999723
>No it can't be the term I didn't recognise or Google could have any explanation neater than the idea religion is entirely geographically homogeneous and converts don't exist at all
You need a dictionary.

>> No.19999794

>>19999784
Why did that guy send bombs to Bjork but not any other 1990's alt-icon? And what does that tell us about how parasocial relationships form, and why people become entranced with particular celebrities?

>> No.19999816

>>19999794
You know dictionaries and encyclopaedias are free on the internet?

>> No.19999819

>>19999816
>dictionaries and encyclopaedias are free on the internet?
But how is anon to engage in a parasocial relationship with (You) there? Huh? Huh?

>> No.19999924

>>19999816
You do realize that it's only after reading many articles on theories behind stalking that I realized that my question wasn't answered? Now, again, why was Bjork specifically targeted and what does the nature of that selection tell us about the nature of stalking?
>>19999819
I don't want to engage in a parasocial relationship with him, I just want a fucking answer! Unfortunately I'm stupid enough that when someone engages with me and answers their own question rather than mine, I still hold onto this stupid hope that they can answer mine with enough prodding (how meta?).

>> No.19999951

MY PACKAGE CAAAAAME!

>> No.20000052

>>19999370
If it makes you feel any better I don't mind you. Also, most hatred is a reflection of self hatred. So basically, I know u r but what am i lolol

>> No.20000144

>>20000139
>>20000139
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>> No.20000271

>>19998975
>going on social media
damm what kind of normies lurk here

>> No.20000273

>>19999610
already got mine

>> No.20000276

>>19999924
Why are you stalking that anon? Is stupidity your final answer?

>> No.20000302

>>20000273
Me too!:
>>19999951

>> No.20000810

>>19999046
How many favorite songs have been made thanks to wars? Your songwriter soldier wouldn't have been the same person had there been no war.