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/WWOYM?

Comfy french edition
>>>21850686

>> No.21857980
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21857980

I'm happy with my life
Everything is just great
My wife loves me
I just won the lottery
I have two kids
They're both in college
They're getting straight A's
They're studying to be doctors

Just trying to do something different than the manic-depressive whining that usually fills this thread...

>> No.21858010

>>21857980
how much do you bench?

>> No.21858018

I had a dream when I was young — I had a dream: from far away I saw my bicycle approaching and just as I got near it, the bicycle suddenly accelerated to two hundred miles an hour. I tried to run away from the bicycle, but it came close to me faster and faster, until I woke up, terrified. I still remember it today.

>> No.21858019

anyone listening to "the story of classical" on apple music? hella comfy

>> No.21858024

>>21858010
I can lift an entire universe with my mind.

>> No.21858075
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21858075

She will never, EVER have sex with you.
Your existence disgusts her.

>> No.21858092

>>21858075
i'm actually rather handsome and charismatic. not everyone on this website is a freak.
although i'm not sure whether i could pull a girl that hot. i'd give myself at least a 30% chance of success

>> No.21858110

>>21857980
You are OLD

>> No.21858563

What’s your favorite aesthetic?

>> No.21858579
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Last job I had was at a McDonalds when I was 18. I lasted four weeks.

I'm 30 now, and within a month will be starting training to enter the aged care industry.

It's so fucking over.

>> No.21858582

>>21858563
blindcore

>> No.21858599
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>>21857558
Had a bottle of wine earlier & it was just ok. The kind of drunk that's mellow but not exciting.
That's what's interesting about alcohol is how different the effect is depending on how you imbibe it, slow or fast, and your mood. Cause alcohol is both a stimulatant and depressant, it's like there is this initial rush and then later mellow. But sometimes I don't get the initial rush at all.
My state of mind also seems to effect the intensity. If I'm at all having doubts or, or consciously am thinking about how pleasurable the experience is, it always ruins the actual enjoyment.
I'm so over conscious that even as I am getting drunk I'm thinking about the experience itself and how to make it enjoyable, which sometimes only ends up actually making it worse.
There's this aspect of my personality that no matter what I am always holding myself back. Always restraining and withholding in anticipation of some later greater pleasure, or negative consequence. So even as I drink I'm anticipating the future hangover, and asking myself if it's really worht it .
To have a really satisfying drinking sensation you need to stop asking questions, something I struggle to do.
Even when I'm jerking I can't quiet this questioning-conscientious side of mind, so as I'm climaxing there's somehow part of me still holding back--either in anticipation of an even greater pleasure or out of fear of the experience in some way being finished or gone..
I don't know

>> No.21858605

Two years ago I fooled my friend by sending him pictures of a random good-looking guy and saying it was me. Sending pictures to your friend and voice chatting with him is totally normal, right? He was sending me his pictures and urging me to send one. But I have the look of a disabled person and that would totally change his perception of me (no this isn’t a case of “oh I’m so ugly but actually not”, it has happened before), so I just wanted to pretend to be normal. I kept it up for months. But then I was so ashamed by how pathetic I am that I couldn’t bear to talk to him any longer so I ghosted him, and recently I started to talk to him again, hoping he would have forgotten, but instead he just told me that he has a crush on “me”.

>> No.21858617

>>21858605
The sooner you rip that bandaid off the better, honestly. You'll probably lose him as a friend, but at this rate you're only hurting him.

>> No.21858792

>>21858617
I’ll do that. It will be unbearably cringe, but it’s really only fair to him. Thanks.

>> No.21858799
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21858799

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

>> No.21858929

>>21858579
SInce a couple of years I started working part time.
I feel better than when I was at home all day by a mile.
8+ hours would be too much, I need some freedom after all but 4 hours for me hits the right spot between freedom and having something I'm responsible for.

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21858982

I refuse to read lefty/atheist books and this drives trannies insane.

>> No.21858987

>>21858075
Girls are never disgusted by me, but they're not sexually attracted to me either and nor am I to them because I'm hyposexual.

>> No.21859019

Trying not to drink this weekend and it fucking sucks.

>> No.21859027

>>21858982
How is any of this political bickering relevant when faced by the simple fact that God doesn't exist. This single truth transcends all ideologies

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>>21859027

>> No.21859034

>>21859030
Accurate description of God believers in 21st century.

>> No.21859037

>>21859034
>the reddit switcharoo

>> No.21859045

>>21859037
The fact that God doesn't exist transcends 4chan reddit rivalry as well. Its true for both kinds of internet losers

>> No.21859049

>>21859045
Ok retard stop boring me with your philosophically illiterate teenage angst

>> No.21859053

>>21859049
My literacy, age or mental state is also irrelevant to the fundamental truth. God would not become any more real if I was a calm literature Phd in mid 40s or an unconscious baby in a woman's womb. God will still remain a collective human fantasy

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21859061

Getting to the age where my friends are shacked up with long term partners. Rather than feeling loneliness, per se, I mostly feel bored. The boredom is bad, but I'm trying to cultivate the boredom to the point where I get off my ass and find a girlfriend. I'm over the apps, I've been on dates but I either don't like the girl or she doesn't like me. In each case the interactions are always defined by a general mood of apathy, which I think is endemic to the apps. There is no spark, it is too mediated. I don't believe you need to find your partner in the wild, completely randomly, but even to be set up by a friend cultivates some curiosity that is conducive to romance. "I wonder what it is about this person that my friend thought would make us a good match?" generates more enthusiasm than 6 photos and 3 calculatedly written prompts.

I did have a relationship from tinder once, of all places. Though it ended pretty disastrously, I can't really blame that on the app. Perhaps it is my age. Everyone I meet is so defeated already by the mundane drudgery of their lives, and those who arent are psychotic and unstable. I count myself in that former group, for what it's worth. I have become a very boring person, as of late.

>> No.21859075

>>21859053
When atheists say gods not real, they are alwats talking about the hebrew god. Never the concept of a supreme creator. Its boring

>> No.21859178

>>21859075
>le pagan intellectual
Trite

>> No.21859189

>>21857558
I love Madeline
>>21858563
Paddington Bear but Madeline is a close second<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

>> No.21859201

>>21859178
I'm not religious nigger. But its like all atheism is focused in on christian god. They never even argue against the muslims or jews or hindus. Nor even the larger concept of god. It always reverts back to nitpicking the bible. I think its because atheism cant stand on its own. Its just Counter Christianity.

>> No.21859205

>>21859201
You're just as stupid as the other atheist retard, you are the same.

>> No.21859214

>>21859061
I count myself in the latter group and I can tell you it's not necessarily better over here.

>> No.21859225

>>21857558
Took me ages to find his non fiction because ever publisher that reprints it fucking changes the title.

>> No.21859230

>>21858982
Why would they know you even exist

>> No.21859236

>>21859205
Not atheist nor religious. I enjoy bantering about it but its boring when every atheist comes off as angry at christianity and their parents. Though maybe if you were raised Christian you only have two options, to be remain Christian or to become an atheist. Is there a middle ground for you guys?

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>>21859230
>they

>> No.21859246

>>21859237
>so many internet brainworms you don't know they is used to a plurarity of people
What else would you use to refer to a group of people.

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>>21857558
There's an emptiness to me and I don't necessarily mean that in a depressed way, but more like I cannot consistently articulate who I am or what I want. I do not have any shape or form. When i desire, I do so in an abstracted way as though I've buried my own wants underneath layers separate from me.
The only consistency is this lack of consistency, a kind of detachedness and impassivity. Or maybe it's that I simply redirect all my passion into theoretical or subjects because of an inability to express.
From this detached p.o.v I know I am obligated to return a favor, but I sometimes feel nothing.
Except the awareness of the imbalance that now must be re-paid.
Ive never felt any connection to anyone. I perceive you being friendly, but to me there's no difference between being friendly or hostile. If you came up to me and punched me I might feel the same way to you as if you came up to me and complimented me.
The sense of affiliation I have is always weak no matter what. And so I'm generous to all equally (or misanthropic to all). Because I don't actually care one way or the other if im honest, and since I don't care I don't care enough to truly hate. I have no strategy.
Everywhere it's the same how naturally people form cliques, but I am not at home. I always retain an unshakeable feeling of being apart.
The differences makes sense within, but from without they seem only arbitrary. The difference between A and B might mean something to the As and Bs, but I'm not either so I just see A and B.
I could vaguely sense in my past workplace the different groups and fault lines between people, but I could never bring myself to care.
When other people answer or respond they are naturally sensing these fault lines and positioning themselves.
When I respond I'm slightly aware of that, but much more thinking about what the person said.
The more I sense the pressure from others to place myself, the more resentful I get and instead sometimes opt to purposefuly confuse.

>> No.21859250

>>21859246
>he's illiterate too

>> No.21859257

>>21859247
This is all very regular

>> No.21859276

>>21857980
These threads do become a massive Fishcher Price my first swimming pool of seethe and self pity

>> No.21859297

>>21859257
I don't really care if it's regular or not.
I wasn't posting to be assured of my regularity.
Im sure many share similar feelings from time to time.
Probably very few to the degree that I do.

>> No.21859303

>>21859297
>Im sure many share similar feelings from time to time.
>Probably very few to the degree that I do.
Well, at least you found a way to esteem yourself as special

>> No.21859305

>>21859303
>Well, at least you found a way to esteem yourself as special
Thats the main thing really

>> No.21859306

>>21857558
my book will never be good enough to even be self published on Royal Road

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>>21859303
>at least you found a way to esteem yourself as special
It's not really about that but you are displaying the exact mindset I can't relate to and was talking about in my post ... positioning.
Thinking in terms of fitting in or standing out (displaying for an audience).
First you framed it in terms of regularity, of fitting in. Now you are thinking I'm trying to suggest im unique in a superior sense to others.
When i say Im completely disconnected from others, that's not an exaggeration nor am I bragging.
Im an extremely reserved passive person.

>> No.21859334

>>21859326
>Thinking in terms of fitting in or standing out (displaying for an audience).
You're the one who brought up that you think you're part of a rarified few when anon called you regular.

>> No.21859351

>>21859334
>you're part of a rarified few when anon called you regular.
Yes I do think there are few people like me. I'm a pretty strange person.
And no I don't think most people are as disconnected as I am. If you perceoved some claim to superiority it's probably the creation of your own mind.
Im superior in certain ways to others, and inferior in others. As all people are

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21859354

Recently while on a midnight walk with a friend, sharing a cigar in the rain to top off our dinner, we stumbled upon a mini-library outside a church. I live in a small euro city, provincial, working class, and not generally english speaking, but in that library was an english copy of The Broom of the System among Catholic literature in the local tongue. It is now drying by the radiator while I nurse a hangover, I have taken it to be a sign from a higher power, one with a keen sense for the romantic
>>21858599
Even this post is too thought out. It is not a science, it is ancient ritual, drink and dance, cook, talk, drive (a favourite hobby of the smartest man to live, von Neumann). Do not be introspective Houellebecqian man drinking alone. Learning to stop thinking too much has been the most valuable shift in my life

>> No.21859357

>>21859351
>no I'm a special kind of special not just special
kek

>> No.21859360

>>21859357
Okay I am better than everyone else. Your posts have convinced me.

>> No.21859364

>>21859360
>special=better
kekekekekeke

>> No.21859378

>>21859364
U seemed to think so

>> No.21859384

>>21859378
When?

>> No.21859397

>>21857558
Gf made me cry and fuck. She didn't even see me cry but I feel so ashamed and embarassed at what she did to me that I'm dreading seeing her. Im thinking about it and it's not that bad considering the context but it really hurt. I know I can't ever mention to her it hurt or went too far because you know what girls are like where they hold it over you forever or won't love you anymore.

For context we were having sex, she normwlly likes me writing degrading stuff on her. She wanted to give it a go and wrote something on my chest I couldn't read. Then in the morning when she left for work I saw she wrote "HAS NO FRIENDS" and it just made me start crying. I honestly thought she never cared about that

>> No.21859401

>>21859397
Kek you got btfo

>> No.21859465

>>21859397
not true, I'm your friend

>> No.21859473

>>21859397
>you know what girls are like where they hold it over you forever or won't love you anymore.
This is a toxic untrue reddit take spread by women haters. Any woman worth anything is not like this

>> No.21859477

>>21859397
Damn thats cold bro

>> No.21859478
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>>21859397
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

it's how you wear it moron.

you're no longer dark and mysterious

>separated from the herd.
now you're just like the rest

>> No.21859488

>>21859478
>>>/x/
You're the succubus schizo

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>>21859488
what's the supposed to mean?

>> No.21859507

>>21859397
Hey cry chads, should op have let his gf see him cry?

>> No.21859516

>>21859473
It's, my mother still brings up a "problem" my dad brought to her attention 40 years ago and ships that shit out whenever they argue.

You never tell women your problems cos they use it against you

>>21859478
I honestly thought she never cared. She never brought it up or acknowledged it. Or asked when I was going to introduce her to friends or whatever relationship milestones are. I thought she accepted me for me and that she was fine with my low key introvert nature.

I feel completely shattered and humiliate. She still texts that she loves me a bunch but fuck, I'm really dreading seeing her face to face. Like fuck, if I can't even make/maintain friends what business of I have having a gf

>> No.21859524

I was a lot more hopeful when I was younger. The disappointment has been crushing.

>> No.21859528

>>21859507
No lmao don't listen to idiots like >>21859473

If xe uses "toxic" unironically you know xe's a tranny.

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>>21859516
your perspective is all wrong.
learn to reframe it, what is the truth about it

friends are for the weak and pathetic. think about what gangs and tribes basically are.

the lone man stands as king.

you aren't so deprived that you dont interact with people, just have nobody you 'emotionally' connect with enough to continue investing time

and if you didnt already know, adults have less time for friends and intellect even fewer.

i'm not saying, it's not a good thing. allies are useful. spiritual even. but the reality is that you still die alone, having people visit you offering their pleasantries and pedants as your time whittles away

of course she's thought about it, she doesn't care. she wants to see how you carry it.
are you a big man with a stick? (how much of this mental reframing do i have to do for you) or do you squirrel with monkeys begging for food

if you needed it you'd have it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_You,_Man
watch this movie

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>>21859529
Holy cringe

>> No.21859559

>>21859529
Yeah thats bullshit. I have no friends anymore and I miss having them. Having people you enjoy being around and who enjoy being around you is essential for a happy healthy person. Anything else is lonely cope

>im not lonely Im just always alone

>> No.21859567

I always wanted to be a doctor but I failed college chemistry and dropped out. Now Im 29 and work a job I hate. Thinkng about reenrolling despite how pathetic is seems. Either that or die with the regret

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>>21859559
maybe you're are as stupid as you act

>> No.21859577

>>21859516
Now you know. So either dump her or make friends

>> No.21859587

What’s a good career or day jobs for an author? I work at a university and while I thought it would be good when I started, it’s turned out to be pretty terrible.

>> No.21859598

>>21859567
I mean if you have the money go for it dude

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>>21859567
why'd you fail out?<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

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>>21859576
What? Admitting my faults on a mongolian knitting forum to an anon who feels the same way and ackowledging that friendship is necessary makes me stupid? Youre even more pathetic than me with your unflinching belief in the superiority of your aloofness. Fuck you guy

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>>21859609
i could help you.
but i wont.

because i cant.

keep crying and pretend you can stand up to me.

>> No.21859623

>>21859617
fuck, look at what you made me do.

im trying to be better than this.

we get nowhere like this

>> No.21859682

>>21859617
Life is about exposure to the world and to other forces and other minds. The fantasy of being a totally invulnerable, untouchable, self-sustaining being is the fantasy of being an inanimate statue, and it's only a way to respond to the fear of your individual vulnerability and your agoraphobia in the face of the world's wideness. Without communication with the exterior you have no interior. If you'd really had friendship, or real romantic relationships, you would know this intuitively. You can draw a little picture of Conan the Barbarian and stick it up on your bedroom wall and lock the door and say 'this picture is me, eternally and essentially, and I need never risk the chance of being changed by a touch or joke or bond or glance that would force me to look beyond this picture on the wall'. Or you can be a real living man, like DH Lawrence was:
>The Open Road. The great home of the Soul is the open road. Not heaven, not paradise. Not "above." Not even "within." The soul is neither "above" nor "within." It is a wayfarer down the open road. [...]
>The journey itself, down the open road. Exposed to full contact. On two slow feet. Meeting whatever comes down the open road. In company with those that drift in the same measure along the same way. Towards no goal Always the open road.
>Having no known direction, even. Only the soul remaining true to herself in her going.
>Meeting all the other wayfarers along the road. And how? How meet them, and how pass? With sympathy, says Whitman. Sympathy. He does not say love. He says sympathy. Feeling with. Feel with them as they feel with themselves. Catching the vibration of their soul and flesh as we pass.

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>>21859682
Thank you for the well written and well thought out and cohesive response.
I accept.

I've got too much to say and too little ability to say it so just understand that all I'm promoting, is a greater will of oneself.
If he judges himself as human for his actions then I'll let it be. I'm just saying, we've been afforded too much that I cannot allow myself to sympathise with that behaviour for any longer.

But I still accept it.
it was my whole movie suggestion.

it's like nobody reads or comprehends. or tries to think on the implications.

But thank you for the consideration. Well regarded.

>> No.21859775

A few days ago I had a dramatic event happen in my life (won't go over it) but it briefly made my emotions feel alive again. When I picked up my acoustic guitar and started strumming, it sounded beautiful.

Today things are back to their normal deadness. I picked up my guitar and started strumming, but it just sounded empty and flat... it's like all the magic is gone

>> No.21859781

>>21859736
>that I cannot allow myself to sympathise with that behaviour for any longer.

What behaviour cant you sympathise with? Having a gf? His sexual 'kinks"? expressing his feelings in writing? Or him crying in private? Seriously which one?

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>>21859781
well you answered it yourself, crying in private over a matter like this.

I've grieved, I've wept.
Not for that.

>> No.21859810

>>21859803
and the expressing of feelings in writing.

as if there were no filter or regard or understanding of oneself or what matters.

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>>21859781
and to mention it, yes. the other shit as well.

I couldn't imagine being him at all the way he has described things.

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>>21858987
Lol

>> No.21859862

my incurable anhedonia, poor memory, and low iq have rendered my proficiency of the only thing in life that inspires a semblance of passion in me, writing, an impossible dream. i loathe being alive and yet am too cowardly to kill myself

>> No.21859900

>>21859816
Having a gf/wife is normal and healthy. You may find that most women dont meet your standards but it doesnt make it any less of a good thing. Taking offense/finding no sympathy is this implies a failing on your part.

His kinks are mild when compared to the kinks other anons and people in real life hold. His kink also helped bring to light his gf's feelings/opinion

Expressing your feelings in writing is the purpose of writing (with the exception of tecnical manuals). How could a reader or writer think otherwise?
Furthermore, what he expressed has merit. I understand these threads turn into wallowing in misery but his concerns matter to him and a large portion of men in general. The rampant lack of freiendship most men face as well as the ever present fear that your significant other holds some aspect of your life in disdain is not something that goes away with understanding oneself.

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>>21859900
Thank you again, your insight and response always overwhelms whatever I can truly say.

Do you have any particular works that you'd like to point me to, that may guide me in my own endeavours as you can venture them?

Enlighten me.

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>>21859900
>>>/x/34360556
would you care to deconstruct and destroy my ideations and understandings as well?
That would be greatly appreciated.

>> No.21860046

I read a few stories from Karen Blixen today and I really like it. Feels a bit like a female version of Chechkov.
The ability to aptly describe peoples good and bad sides, but without any spite or arrogance is something I really admire.
Does anyone know of any other authors who are like that?

>> No.21860119

>>21859529
>friends are for the weak
>we all die alone
>watch this Paul Rudd buddy comedy
Dude what

>> No.21860142

In future lives I am going to be
>A mermaid
>Unicorn
>Dragonfly
>Jack rabbit
>Frog or toad (leaning toward frog because they jump)

>> No.21860241

>>21859567
I don’t think it’s pathetic at all to start a career as a doctor at that age. There are some professions that is totally understandable for. Doctor is one of them. The real concern if you really want to jump through all the hoops. You’ll need to get your pre-requisites, study for the MCAT, and possibly get some lab or clinical time. It’s really a lot. So if you’re going to do it make sure it’s what you want to do.

This fucked up educational system that demands things be done a certain way or that school be required at all in some cases is the only thing that makes you think it’s pathetic. There was a time where you didn’t need a degree to be a lawyer, for example, and really admirable people switched to law in mid life. Now, you need an exam to practice and a law degree to even take the exam and an undergraduate degree to even pursue that degree so almost nobody pursues a career switch in midlife to practicing law and finds it pathetic to do so. It’s the school. Nothing more.

>> No.21860305

>>21860241
In the case of medicine I think more barriers to entry is a good thing. Would you want a guy who flunked biology 201 to operate on you?<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

>> No.21860322

>>21857558
Too many threads are made. Jannies should merge threads

>> No.21860376

Painters who live in the city or more dense wealthy suburbs have more opportunities to hang out with artists, participate in art industry events, and get their paintings in galleries.

Do you think it’s similar for writers?

>> No.21860415

>>21857558
can i preempt the april fools thing altogether by typing something in the name field?

>> No.21860481

Because I want to kill myself this year, today I decided to buy cigarettes after 20 years of quitting, and I also decided to fuck a whore. I went online to look for escorts in my area and I called a bunch. None would answer. I'm sure most of the ads are scams but I didn't care. I went out and withdrew some cash and chain-smoked a while and I bought a beer at some kiosk, and I finally got one answer. This sounded like an older woman, she was the older woman in the bunch, but in the photo she looked OK, nice smile. I thought to myself that I could fuck that. I was nervous when I asked where she was and I finally got to her place. I got there on foot. It was somewhere out of center but still reachable. At her address I saw this small run down house and I got alarm bells in my head because the place was dismal, but I thought I'd push through. A car was leaving the place and I saw the blank face of the man at the wheel as he left. I was on autopilot at that point and I walked to the door, and the door cracked open just enough for me to get a peek of this dismal place and dark dyed hair. It was like I was about to see a place of witchcraft. I pushed my head through and I saw this old worn out whore, dressed like a whore, and her face was old, she wasn't smiling, all the foundation only made her look more horrible and vile and rotten and all I could say was "you're not a drug addict, are you", and she said "are you fucking kidding me". I took a deep breath and I said, "listen, let's just not". She said "asshole" and shut the door and I left. And while I walked out of that trailer tier shithole I sobered up that I had even considered doing this, and at the same the whole world on my walk back home felt unreal. I was looking at the people in the streets and for the first time in my life I was the stranger. I saw people with kids and teenagers going about their saturday evening and for once I felt like I was bringing the the warzone to them; my bubble of alienation was the warzone. I threw the almost full pack of cigarettes in a bin on the way home. I've deleted all my IM accounts in the attempt to cleanse my phone number of the calls I've made. I'm going to change my number. I cannot believe that there are men who go through what I've considered doing today. It cannot be real. I wonder if anyone saw me walk through those 10 meters on her way to her door. I feel so vile and unclean having just thought of doing this and deep down I know that I did it on purpose, to sabotage myself, because I am intelligent enough to know what I should have expected.
I've felt like vomiting for a while. I'm going to eat and take my benzos and pass out till tomorrow and hopefully I'll have forgotten.

>> No.21860494

>>21860322
The first dumbass OP forgot /wwoym/. The second dumbass OP forgot to check the catalog. And my dumbass has now bumped both threads.

>> No.21860493

>>21860481
nice read, thanks

>> No.21860516

>>21860493
Should I feel so horrible even if I haven't done anything? I was legit thinking of going to the cops to get arrested.

>> No.21860517

>>21860481
You could have at least paid her for the hour you wasted.

>> No.21860525

>>21860516
I wouldnt worry about it

>> No.21860526

>>21860517
I don't know prostitution etiquette, that was the first and last time I even considered prostitution. I wasn't even thinking straight in that moment.
I asked her when she was available and she didn't give me an hour, she just said to get there.

>> No.21860529

Something's been growing in my heart and head
Something that will soon burst
Enflaming and unchaining my passions
Beyond this cusp, will I find madness or glory?

>> No.21860532

>>21860516
Nah man, I think it's nice to have these experiences every now and then.
Reminds you of who you don't want to be.

>> No.21860558

>>21860526
It's not just prostitution. If you book a massage, or any personal services, when you book they ask for a credit card and tell you their cancellation policy, where you will be charged full price if you don't cancel with enough notice. It's the etiquette of every service industry that you don't make them expect to work just for you to not show and not pay them. It's her job, and you did the equivalent of showing up to a restaurant and asking loudly if they had rats, ordering free tap water, and then leaving without paying for anything else or tipping.

>> No.21860579

>>21860558
I'm sorry about that. I'm genuinely sorry that I wasted her time but I was just so repulsed and horrified. I'll never do this shit again.

>> No.21860580
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>>21860558
>asking loudly if they had rats, ordering free tap water, and then leaving without paying for anything else or tip
So black people?

>> No.21860870

>>21860558
>you did the equivalent of showing up to a restaurant and asking loudly if they had rats, ordering free tap water, and then leaving without paying for anything else or tipping
BASED

>> No.21861059

>>21857558
---- Solaria ----
909
Outage

A squall roaring through cottonwoods, with a hint of that freight train sound
Supposed to omen unseen but fast approaching twisters

Woke me in twilight from a nap long enough to bring dreams
Almost labyrinthian with places and persons compostite

But vaguely, not quite developed into plausible narratives
Just after the power cut out, pole pigs on pavement

Somewhere unseen but imagined as hail menaces daffodil buds,
Hands grope for batteries and the will for more than statistical prophecy.

Naturally I thought about what it would be like to play the odds
Without a certain lightness, comparing the worth of archives

To the security of their situation, ratios of work and leisure by the tone of faces
Voices, prevailing or overall appearances as to curb appeal

Or the range of images and ideas easily summoned in casual conversation,
Say, with a stranger strangely happy to see you on sight

Not despite, but because, by inconceivable chance, you smile upon nature
Beyond or without reason as it has smiled upon you.

It took a whole hour for waning gibbous moonlight behind the aftermath
Of placid overcast to predominate over the last of skyey blue,

Another five while I slept again, for it to go down.

Surfacing around 2, still warm under heavy down
And such, in time to sense the moon set, and witness after:

Echoing from ten miles at least in every direction,
Light so attenuated in its rendering of detail that it reminded me

Of the look from a window, around 1970, from
A bedroom window in a huge farmstead

Set too far apart from the road to hear the traffic on it
And yet near enough for a ride to hive frozen

Strawberries, when in the mood,
And to escape, after a time, to the interior of light where astronomers reign

Over maps of remotest inference
And inflection comedy far exceeding all means of plot.

Of course it should go without saying that firelight from an iron stove
Is rather nice compared to the putric cream of candles,

But then so is high pressure sodium vapor,
Lapulis Lazuli, screen cyan

Views of the Caribbean from 37,000 feet,
And the liquid warble of robins

Heard as they cannot hear.

>> No.21861077

>>21860481
Did you smoke the cigs though? This is an important question.

>> No.21861131
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>>21857558
Are there any writers who capture the horror of daily existence? No we live in a society shit but more like we live in an inescapable sensory deluge shit.

>> No.21861163

>>21859803
poor rats

>> No.21861215
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>>21861131
What does we live in a society even mean?

>> No.21861299

>>21861131
JR - Gaddis

>> No.21861352
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21861352

I need help.
The last year of uni was a complete waste in productivity and made me really awful mentally. I'm kind of living like a NEET (with the exception of being a student obv) which I tried to change and the lack of success in that made me depressed as hell, which furthermore made my productivity go to hell. I think I'm autistic and other people (especially women) can sense that and thus want nothing to do with me.
I have more or less accepted my social fate as of now and want to focus on my path again. Gonna get a part-time job soon, and my major is somewhat useless in the market (philosophy) so I'm looking to expand my skill set in my freetime. What can I do in that regard? Should I unironically get into coding/tech? Are there any programs, software, activites etc. that could help me in the future career wise?
I'm not as invested in my degree as I used to be since I've realized that 90% of philosophy is just useless crap, so I have no problem taking my focus elsewhere if necessary, I just don't know where exactly.
I'm looking to be a writer in the long run, and I already have idas for books, but obviously that's a long way to go and I shouldn't rely on that. I just wanna get done with this degreee hopefully in this year and prepare myself in the best way possible for the near future so that I won't be as lost as I am now.
And if you guys have any advice for how to have a proper day-to-day routine and actually stick to it as well I'd really appreciate it because as of now my daily life is a mess.

>> No.21861418
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21861418

I draw nsfw comics on twitter (I'm not the account in the OP btw), and one of my IRL friends does as well. We want to collaborate on something and I'm thinking of scenarios to draw.
What sounds more interesting to you guys?
Option 1: A demon prince shota fucking his harem of adult women. The harem is a mix of demon girls and human girls.
Option 2: A yaoi scenario where a germanic femboy is getting passed around by buff Roman soldiers as "stress relief" during a campaign.

>> No.21861429

>>21860376
Why would I want to hang out with other people?
Other people suck.
That includes you.
I hate every single one of you for existing.

>> No.21861439
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21861439

Does anyone else feel like psychology, psychoanalysis specifically, wrongly claims to have a monopoly on normalcy? It's not like they're fucking essentialists. So why do they get to decide what adulthood and maturity and "the real" is? Sometimes I want to go Nietzsche on their ass.

>> No.21861454

https://www.thetreetop.com/statistics/autism-prevalence
"50% of all autistic adults reside with a member of their family."
Is this what's behind all you shiftless shut-in NEETs?
I feel sorry for your poor parents.

>> No.21861486

>>21861454
Autism is a serious condition and "progress" seems to only be making it more of a problem. Not that it matters since in three years autism will just be something people identify as regardless of actual diagnosis. It's already begun

>> No.21861518

>>21861131
I suppose it depends on what one means by sensory overload, or where one lives. For 15 years I worked in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Gary Indiana, and while I have a few hair-raising stories to tell, most of Latin America is objectively terrifying by comparison. Nothing really bad happened to me all the time I was there, much as I enjoyed conversations with a Palestinian crime family, motorcycle gang members, School City custodians, correspondence with the equestrian dyke daughter of a bitter and superlatively rich coal executive, arguments with a former journalist of a conservative rag, phone calls with a rich Serb landlord who took my yelling with sweet equanimity, dish with a girlish 80 year old chick who owns a print shop in which nuclear plant blueprints were printed, about a thousand or so other people. i suppose it depends on the goodness of one's nature, in the sense of endurance or circumstantial fortune, indifferently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-hA7LAEp44

>> No.21861519

>>21861352
Dude you spent 4yrs getting a philosophy degree? And at no point did you think it was a waste of money and that you should change degree paths? Bruh your shit is fucked. Go be a gradeschool p.e. teacher

>> No.21861523

>>21861439
Too a degree. Whats normal doesnt always mean good or healthy. Whats good is pretty obvious, regardless of what a dr says.

>> No.21861548

>>21861352
>>21861519
You can be far more than a grade school P.E. teacher.
https://www.gmercyu.edu/academics/learn/philosophy-major-jobs
Still, the point remains...a philosophy degree? What the hell were you thinking?!?!

>> No.21861580

>>21861518
I think you missed the point of my post, which is my fault because I failed to explain. Anyway that's a cool story, you should write about it, and thanks for the music.

>> No.21861611

>>21861548
Maybe he wanted to be the 2nd best Cooler in the business? After Garrett Wade of course

>> No.21861631

>>21861439
I am not normal, totally irrespective of corporate hegemony or monopoly, whatever you mean by that. My two youngest sisters are almost normal, by American standards. Both of them are financial advisors who have worked in the North Loop for full service brokerages since the mid 80s. Including commute times, both of them have worked about 60 hour weeks for 40 years, and, for obvious reasons, I've not spoken to either of them at length for 30 years. What can anyone say to someone so foolish, however considerately?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdBrJxQX060&list=RDMM&index=27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdBrJxQX060&list=RDMM&index=27

>> No.21861646

>>21861631
How old are you?

>> No.21861699

>>21861611
I actually asked a local casino if they had positions for "coolers".
I've long realized I'm a cosmic punching bag.
But the people I've talked to had never heard of such a thing.
It's too bad; I think I'd be really good at it.

>> No.21861727

>>21861077
I smoked 4 or 5 and then trashed the rest

>> No.21861731

>>21861523
I mean the fucking standard of humanity and the human condition. They just pull fanciful paragraphs out of their asses to explain why the people they hate before hand are pathological/bad. It's just elaborate insults given some vague semblance of authority.
>>21861631
>totally irrespective of corporate hegemony or monopoly, whatever you mean by that
I did not utter the words "corporate hegemony" nor is the word "monopoly" exclusive to corporations. You are not saying anything.

>> No.21861749

>>21861523
>>21861731
Or rather, they have such unwarranted confidence about what reality REALLY is all about, when all they do is write theory that is not even meant to be tested. As if they are the ones who can tell completely what you are really thinking about and solve the mystery of your psyche, assuming there is a mystery to begin with. How can they even be sure their silly theories apply to all humans? It's like they were too dumb for philosophy. These narcissists have to much credit.

>> No.21861777

>>21861548
>>21861519
I chose philosophy bc that was where my only genuine interest was. Before that I tried cs and it wasn't for me. It was kind of a cope decision. I actually have really good grades and things would be great if only I didn't stop being productive last year.
Not sure if I regret it because I honestly doubt I'd be happier if I had chosen something else. And the debt isn't that high because thankfully I don't live in America. I wanna finish what I started even if it takes more time than intended. What's the point of changing the major when I already have most of the required CP? I just have a couple more classes ahead of me and then it's time for the bachelor thesis. And dropping out is not an option because I'd 100 percent feel like a much bigger failure than I already do. I'm gonna finish this shit either way.

>> No.21861854

>>21861646
60. I live in Northern Central Illinois. I am the Solaria poster. My father turned down a job that would have put him in a top floor of Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Wax building, but he turned it down because he didn't want to live in Racine. That was a long time ago. Last summer I drove to the Fox River Valley past one of Mies's landmarks, and bought several specimens from a massive regional garden center there. My favorite was a purple/grape butterfly bush, which I planted by my front door. At least 1000 monarchs visited it, roughly about 500 yellow swallowtails. It's hard to keep count. Hawk moths are always about my petunias from July through August, late at night. Ever seen a Cecropia caterpillar or moth? Gorgeous specimens. They're extinct here, and probably even in Northwest Indiana nature preserves by now.

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

>> No.21861861

>>21861777
I'm in phil too. But only because I have no idea what I want to do with my life. I'm also lazy and depressed. I think I'll eventually just kill myself

>> No.21861869

>>21861854
Based butterfly/moth assister

I always mean to plant milkweed

>> No.21861931

>>21861869
One of the best parks on the planet for that purpose is Oak Ridge Prairie Park in Griffith Indiana. From the standpoint of sheer biodiversity, it's among the greatest of the Great Lakes. I used to visit it on a regular basis, and still miss it much.

>> No.21861968

Will I ever love?

>> No.21862047

>>21861749
>It's like they were too dumb for philosophy
It's precisely that. An unbiased look renders obvious the fact that psychology doesn't meet the basic requirements (such as clear definitions, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility, etc,) for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous. That's how we end up with monstrosities such as happiness research and other sub-fields riddled with unjustifiable philosophical pre-suppositions that perpetuate the underlying status quo. These people can't even define what a woman is and then insist on regulating your behaviour.

>> No.21862077

>>21861968
Your privilege is showing.
Many people are concerned with where their next meal is coming from.

>> No.21862079

>>21861968
Why don’t you think you can love?<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

>> No.21862109

the impassioned accounts of rape victims

>> No.21862169

Bros... why is so many stuff I like so well regarded by trannies...

>> No.21862208

>>21857558
women deserve death<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

>> No.21862249

I like watching movies where women suffer, like Nights of Cabiria or The Life of Oharu. I'm mostly an incel I guess and I usually react with hatred everytime I see a woman talking about anything really, but I can actually feel empathy for all women in these movies and my heart probably needs that.

>> No.21862252

>>21862249
It's probably because men wrote and directed all these movies.
Maybe women are right and all that are just our projections and it was never real.

>> No.21862255

Fuck a nigger with a rake

>> No.21862266

I see a lot of guys online talk about how important it is to be “on your purpose”. I guess that really means to have a purpose, particularly in your working life. I never managed that.

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>>21857558
I'm so sick and tired of this life. By my age, Malraux left France and went to hunt treasures in Vietnam. Is there anything left to do for young men looking for something else, other than this sterile life? I thought about volunteering in some war, but I even got rejected from doing military service in my country for being a neurotic mess.

>> No.21862314

there are other ways

>> No.21862319

>>21862169
because trannies are autistic

>> No.21862328

>>21862306
How old are you? I regret not joining the military when I was younger. It might have sucked but at least I could’ve deployed.

>> No.21862332

>>21862314
Other ways to do what?

>> No.21862334

>>21862328
21, turning 22 in a few months.

>> No.21862343

>>21857558
One of the chatgpt April’s fools had my name…

>> No.21862346

>>21862332
live, obviously

>> No.21862363

>>21862208
Not really. Much as prefer dykes who equal men when it comes to brilliant conversation.

>> No.21862388

>>21857980
holy shit you old ass man get off 4chan

>> No.21862389

How do you deal with the bleak loneliness, anons?

>> No.21862408

>>21862389
I cry myself to sleep every night.

>> No.21862411

>>21862388
Make me, squirt.

>> No.21862414

>>21862389
Bleak? It's great!
Other people totally suck.
I'm grateful for the time I don't have to associate with anyone.

>> No.21862437

>>21862252
not him but a lot of the best women suffering movies are female directed and written. i'd think a female director/writer probably gets you a lot more graphic rape scenes.

>> No.21862452

>>21862334
I’m 29, dude. I’m turning 30 next week. I thought you’d be at least 28. It’s so ridiculous to hear you talk like this at 21 years old.<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

>> No.21862469

>>21862414
>jannies deleted my r9k bait post
Lol. I was trying to gather data points for a story idea actually of mine. thanks to people who replied, though.

>> No.21862536

Check it out...a flying saucer in Romania:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7035361,21.3020917,174m/data=!3m1!1e3

>> No.21862921

What the fuck, you're 171 posts in and no one invited me? Fuck you guys

>> No.21863012

Comedy and morality cannot exist in the same universe.

>> No.21863035

At what point should I just give up

>> No.21863058

>>21861131
DFW hit upon it pretty well in that gay little This Is Water speech.

>> No.21863061
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she gave me covid. i think i have covid

>> No.21863073

>>21863061
So fucking what? Oooooh covid! What is it, 2020? Get over it pussy. Maybe your immune system wouldnt so fucked if you werent such a druggie, alcoholic faggot.

>> No.21863080

>>21857980
I hope you're kids don't accidentally kill someone lol
Malpractice is the biggest cause of death in hospitals

>> No.21863083

I had a good idea, but then I forgot. Then I kind of remembered, but it wasnt as clear as it was before so it didnt seem that good

>> No.21863103

I hate that "I bought a penthouse..." ad.

>> No.21863144

>>21857558
Does weed make you stupid? Im going to a legal state soon & I've never tried it but am worried about the long term effects. Will it in any longterm way slow down my thinking abilities?
I had a chance once before to do edibles but didn't take up the opportunity because i was afraid.

>> No.21863170

>>21862079
No I know I can love, I'm just not sure if it will happen.

>> No.21863254

I think, I'll continue drinking.

>> No.21863320

Today I've said very hateful things to my family, the kind of stuff that you can't take back once you've said it. They don't seem to really care that I'm in this state so I don't believe I owe them pleasantries.
I can't find a single reason why I shouldn't kill myself.

>> No.21863345

>>21863144
it's always better to avoid all sorts of shit that gets you hooked

>> No.21863453

>>21863144
alcohol is a hell of a lot worse than weed in basically every aspect, but the government stopped anti-alcohol propaganda 90 years ago, while it still does anti-weed propaganda to this day. people's radically different attitudes towards alcohol and weed shows that government propaganda really does influence what the vast majority of people believe. that said, weed isn't great. it will make you kinda dopey while you're high, and while it might make you relaxed and jovial it might also make you depressed and paranoid. the first time you do it, smoke it, so you get immediate feedback on how high you're getting rather than edibles which will kick in later.

>> No.21863539

Which do you like more?

https://arubalistings.com/sale/oranjestad/residential-10138-rooi-afo-39-b

https://arubalistings.com/sale/noord/residential-9923-tanki-flip-97

>> No.21863552

I wish I could learn to draw a persons real face (soul).

>> No.21863566

>>21863012
From a literary point-of-view, all anger is camp. Which is not to say that comedy is immoral or amoral.

>> No.21863649

>>21857558
How do you tell someone that you're a 29 year old virgin

>> No.21863650

>>21863649
Why would you ever tell someone that?

>> No.21863651

>>21863650
I don't want to lie to them.

>> No.21863655

>>21863651
Who is them?
If it's some girl you want to make your gf just lie till you have sex with her. Then tell het after if you really need to.

>> No.21863664

>>21863649
Is she a girl you love and who loves you? Or is she a normie thot and you're just excited to have a gf so you think she's special

Be careful if it's the latter being mistaken for the former, because girls will be very sweet to you while they like you and basically "love bomb" you, which can make you think you have some special perfect connection when in reality it's a pretty ordinary honeymoon phase of an ordinary relationship. You may want to be strategic and not spill your whole life story of being an inexperienced incel if what you are secretly craving is some great bonding moment and total acceptance of who you are. Of course I would hope that happens for you, but there are plenty of stories out there of men hoping for this and getting a cold feet roastie instead. You may want to soften the blow by just saying you're inexperienced or rusty, but she'll probably directly and immediately ask if you're a virgin if you say this so be ready for that.

Sex isn't that complicated and often bad. If you want to make up for inexperience just make it clear throughout that you find her sexy. Women will forgive a lot and not notice a lot as long as you make them feel wanted and desired. If she likes you then she wants to know and see and feel that you can't resist her and you find her beautiful etc. If you aren't worried about your inexperience, my gut says just don't tell her. No need to overcomplicate things and throw additional ingredients in the pot when the recipe is already working. You can tell her later. Women are very fickle. If you tell her "you'll be my first" or some shit she may start thinking about that and get off the track in her own mind of what she wants the sex to be.

Just be cautious is all I am saying, and don't assume that total transparency is necessarily the best option. Women are VERY fickle. If this is a hookup type proto-relationship you probably don't want to queer the pitch.

>> No.21863669

>>21863651
>them
If you are a woman, nobody cares that you are "inexperienced" except weird Rick and Morty watching normies who have picked up the normie radio chatter on their tooth fillings and synchronized their brainthoughts with the collective's new consensus on SLUTS=GOOD. The only thing that might happen if you're a female virgin is the guy might fetishize it and objectify you in a crass way (which is bad), because men are pigs. But women are also highly neurotic when it comes to sex on average and usually have hangups or they're a crapshoot in terms of being frigid/bad in bed, so men won't really notice or care if you "don't know what to do" unless you're straight up afraid of dick, in which case some talk about being "gentle" will do most of the trick unless the guy is an asshole.

>> No.21863695

>>21863664
Not that anon but I'm a 30 year old khv and I have physical intimacy issues. I dont really like touching therefore I assume that others feel the same.

>> No.21863702
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How do you cope with this?

>> No.21863709

Is there any way for a young man to have an interesting life now? It seems there’s just literally nothing for anyone to do.

>> No.21863710

>>21863709
What would you consider an interesting life?

>> No.21863711

My biggest fear is that at 60 I’ll be even more disappointed with life to that point than I am now at 30.

>> No.21863717

>>21863702
I am attractive. The only difference is that you get laid as a teenager. Being 0,1% deviant from whatever society thinks you should do is equal to being horrifically ugly.

>> No.21863718

>>21863695
You should consider finding some kind of shortcut to intimacy like a GFE hooker or a massage parlor so you can give your brain shock treatment in the gentlest way possible, so you can get a bit of practice. And just have the experience. It's more mundane than your mind is making it out to be. It's nice but most people take it for granted and it's not magical or anything. If anything, women especially use physical intimacy and constant touching the same way some people use constant snacking, it's not exactly a five course meal. It's more just basic stimulation to mindlessly satisfy a craving.

If I could I would give you a hug. You deserve to take touch for granted too. Remember, it's mundane and you're not weird or anything. Much weirder, smellier, fatter, uglier people get hugged and touched all the time, and feel normal about it and even entitled to it.

Of course you may also just be the kind of person who doesn't like or want it at all, those exist. But you should find a safe and benign way to try it out just so you know for sure and for the fun of having a new experience.

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>>21863702
kek, reminds me of this comic

>> No.21863721

>>21863709
https://www.youtube.com/@LordMiles
Stop blaming the world and admit to yourself that you're a coward and a fag.

>> No.21863722

>>21863720
this guy was incredible, he truly saw without any illusions

>> No.21863725

>>21863717
You're just not attractive enough, but I see your method of coping is lying to yourself. I guess works for brainlets.

>> No.21863728
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>>21863722
I think this is his best work.

>> No.21863731

>>21863728
for me nothing beats the simplicity of a man's view of the world vs. a woman's view, where in the woman's view of things, all the "background characters" (99% of normal men) are gone and only chad remains, and the critical infrastructure maintained by all those "background" men is renamed to "Magic"

i also love the one where a woman gets her wish to live as a man, and kills herself within a week

>> No.21863740

>>21863728
If these two men are rich and succesful they should be the ones treating women like shit.
It's a mentality problem on their end.
These women should be the ones begging them to marry them. And being afraid of not pleasing them cause they'll end up fucking some high end escort if they don't.

>> No.21863742

>>21863702
Like I'm going to explain this thing clearly for ugly men: it's absolutely easier for attractive people to get a successful life or whatever, but that's according to the principles of life dictated by society. Society says you should have "fun" in your teens and then get married around 30-35. Obviously an attractive person gets the "fun" bit down, and then later he'll have his career and settle with someone. If you have a hangup with promiscuity and you don't have a hard Catholic background you already become noncompliant, and what you people do not understand is that this ugly/attractive shit only works in a context of total compliance with society. Being attractive makes your life easier as long as you don't steer off path, both in thinking and in action. All this statistics bullshit is within the framework of compliance with society, you're supposed to like society and the way things are going, and the very second you do not you are FUCKED no matter how attractive you are. Maybe not as a teenager, of course, since whatever, as a teenager you can believe any fucking thing, so you WILL get laid because literally all that matters is that you are hot, but later on this aspect of compliance solidifies very quickly and it's by far the strongest selector there is

>> No.21863744

>>21863740
that is how it used to be, and when it was like that and men had all the power to treat women like disposable commodities and even slaves, they didn't, they treated them like wives and honored them instead

the only solution is to make being a whore illegal or at least the most shameful thing one can be. women don't have independent morality, they only have what men impose on them through culture, and in the absence of a strong culture they become bratty children

>> No.21863746

>>21863740
>It's a mentality problem on their end.
Ofcourse it's mentality, especially if they've have no experience. They get shitty partner and assume this is how a normal relationship supposed to be because no point of reference. Also fear of being alone.

>> No.21863747

>>21863664
I think I will just choose to live and die alone, Christ this is complicated

>> No.21863748

>>21863711
Don't think of it as more disappointment, but a richer more textured foundational disappointment.

>> No.21863751

>>21863747
The tldr is just put your penis in her and don't overthink.

>> No.21863752

>>21863746
This could have been avoided if they were raised with a dad who knows.

>>21863744
idk I know some rich people and they don't honour their wives at all. With women a lot of it is attitude which incels don't want to hear.
They can smell desperation on a man

>> No.21863753

>>21863742
What are ugly men supposed to do? Opt out of society all together?

>> No.21863754

>>21863753
Read Ibn Khaldun, democratically and peacefully seize control of a decadent society, and impose white sharia.

>> No.21863770

>>21863710
Going somewhere, doing something, experiencing the vital heart beat of the world and of life. Basically, anything other than going to school and grinding into or in some office or trade job.

For example, I went to college in my home state 18, took a year off midway but stayed in my college town, graduated at 24, got an office job in the biggest city in my state and then bounced around from job to job like that one for the next 5 years. My sense is that this is more or less the experience of almost everyone now. Some join the Army and deploy to Korea or Germany and do nothing in particular there. But that’s all. Then the desirable journalism and bohemian artist jobs go to true trust fund kids and they basically hang out in New York and do nothing in particular. Few will also end up in San Francisco and hustling the tech bubble. That about sums it up. There’s nothing actually interesting or adventurous for anyone to do.

>> No.21863769

>>21863725
>You're just not attractive enough
No true scotsman. Yeah I'm not a fucking Gucci ad model, but I'm attractive by any standards.
>I see your method of coping is lying to yourself.
I think you're the one coping. You ugly people blame everything on being ugly. Being ugly fucking sucks, but I am telling you that someone who is very compliant with society and less attractive than me will definitely have much better chances in life than me, because I'm a stupid faggot who wants to write and paint. The whole "HURR THE HANDSOME JOCK EFFORTLESSLY WINS" is absolutely 100% true, I had a fucking horrible personality through college (= I was following what I was told like a good boy) and I was always successful with women, although I confess that the smart uggo guys I knew also had horrible personalities because being ugly also makes you a little resentful goblin generally speaking. Especially the short dudes have a short dude angst they fucking radiate. But litreally ALL of this get cancelled once things get real, like, getting a successful career and shit. Then it doesn't matter anymore that you are a Gigachad or whatever the fuck, maybe you'll get to fuck other people's wives but take a step outside of the path and you're a pariah

>> No.21863777

>>21863721
Pointing to this retard and saying “this is adventure” is like pointing to suicide and calling it war.

You’re an idiot.

>> No.21863780

You’d think there be a lot more really good fantasy authors.

>> No.21863781

>>21863753
>What are ugly men supposed to do?
I have no idea. You're just basically born at the midlife crisis stage. My own midlife crisis is getting me to kill myself so I"m not the person to ask.

>> No.21863797

>>21863770
If you're a welder or technically capable in some other way it could be very interesting to go work on oil platforms all over the world.
Work for 8 months in Arabia and then have 4 months off to fuck around.
For me I moved to the Caribbean and plan on making something of a homestead (not completely) and live out life in paradise.

There are some options but to do them would seem illogical at the time. I do agree that it seems harder than before.

>> No.21863806

>>21863753
Like something that you uggos should understand is that all this discourse is about your youth. Even I, when I made that ramble about "life getting real" and all that shit I am talking from the point of view of 30s, early 40s. You're not gonna die at that point, you will have like 20, 30 more years dealing with all this. Life gets progressively worse and I'm probably halfway through my natural lifespan and it's beyond horrific. Most suicides happen 60+. Unless the plan is just having your youth and then killing yourself you need to find a strategy to deal with years and yeras and years of these problems no matter if you're ugly as shit or handsome. Your health also goes to shit. Everything goes to shit. The ONLY thing, the one thing that makes these times so horrible is that back in the day, you'd snatch up a woman and marry her, and if you were a good husband you'd grow old with her for good or for worse. Now no matter what you do none of this happens unless you're Amish or radical Muslim, you get your dick wet but you're alone, through and through, you don't grow old wiht anyone because there's no growth anymore.

>> No.21863817

>>21857558

Here is what's on my mind:

I'm tired of wearing someone else's insignia. I'm tired of putting on a happy face and feigning kindness to people who wouldn't give me the time of day. I hate working in sales and the company I work for is crap. Sales cycle, my ass. I have the drive and passion to do something great, but what is it? What is it that I am meant to do? )rayer, fasting, and meditation have yielded no clearer picture.

>> No.21863818

>>21863144
>Will it in any longterm way slow down my thinking abilities?
No, unless you had some highly unusual reaction. Cannabinoids are kind of necessary to brain function and THC kind of helps the brain reset memory and approach things anew. If you didn't have low levels of it, you'd find yourself unable to deal with change- you'd have a memory of the door being closed, and because that memory was set, you would not be able to comprehend the door being opened or replace the old memory of it being closed with the new fact it's opened. That's why lots of stoners have the sensation of discovering something cool for the first time- the THC is helping them forget they know how making a cup of tea works, so when they work out how to make tea, it's not using their more concrete memory which is temporarily busy, but other parts of their brain which are responsible for gathering new info- making something you've made thousands of times before becomes a new learning experience instead of a memorized function.
Even if you're smoking long term, it's not a permanent thing. And it's something your brain kind of needs to do at a constant low level to not make you act like a literal NPC.

>> No.21863822

>>21863818
potheads are fucking braindead, man, you make it look like they live in childlike wonder
I've smoked weed, it's just relaxing and numbs you a bit. valium is a lot like weed

>> No.21863837

>>21863797
I did mention that I’ve worked in an office job, so I’m not a welder. My only technical experience is with a keyboard and no, I don’t know how to code.

>> No.21863839

>>21863822
>childlike wonder
It is basically the process you need to get to childlike wonder, whether you're on drugs or not, because it's the same receptors. Without those receptors working right, you would literally walk into doors that once were open because your brain can't deal with the new information that they're closed. Valium is incredibly dangerous and doesn't allow for formation of new memories, which is how you get blackouts instead of childlike wonder. They are not the same either in mechanism of action, effect, nor risks, and benzos risk profile is somewhere above heroin.

>> No.21863851

How many books do you read at the same time? I'm a relatively slow reader and I want to read more books so I have a list of seven or eight books I read at the same time and just randomly pick one each night.

>> No.21863858

>>21863837
If you're looking for adventure then you can always switch to a more exciting job.
Or do your office cuck work at some firm in Dubai or China for that matter.
If your reason for not doing any of those things is that it's too risky then you're destined to live a boring life. Better to accept your nature.

>> No.21863877

>>21863839
I'll give you my perspective: I draw a lot and I've started human anatomy a lot. When people talk, I pick up cues like, the way tendons in the hands move under the skin, or the pattern of blood vessels. Since I did smoke weed I understand that whole sensation of getting trippy because of the noise the spoon is making in the teacup, but I cannot think of a single shred of new information I've received while I was stoned (again, not a lot of experience but enough). That "childlike wonder" for me comes from obsessive curiosity and laser focus while completely sober. I have a strong photographic memory of things I observed this way. It's why I love art so much. If I smoked weed I think this would be ruined because I wouldn't be able to actually process information the way I do. So to answer that anon's question I do believe it makes you dumb. That "childlike wonder" is a factor but it's just some kind of deja-vu of things you've already discovered, and you don't have the mindset to truly explore new details. I get way more trippy "holy shit look how cool this is" while 100% sober and well rested because my mind's been shaped by the craft I love. I started at a dead mouse for like half an hour once because the beauty of that still life on a trail path moved me so deeply and I usually get caught up in how such small things can be so detailed and full of expression. Being numb destroys all this

>> No.21863906

>>21863877
I suspect you think that's happening without your THC receptors being activated by cannabinoid, but cannabinoids are in your system always, marijuana is just giving you a higher dose. I'll also point out your description of numbness is probably from CBD, which has a different mechanism of action, which is why people generally use that for nerve pain and disorders. Governments are more likely to allow CBD because it's not going to get anyone high and has a well demonstrated effect for certain pain or nerve disorders.

>> No.21863926

>>21863906
I am comparing my daily experience while focused/sober with the times I've smoked marijuana, which did get me familiar wth the "whoa dude" moments. I don't know what CBD is.
I am not saying that there's no overlap between what happens when you smoke pot and my approach with observing people/things but what I believe is that, assuming it's the same process, what pot does is keep all of it in a loop at a very shallow level, like if I look at a cup I can think "man the GREEN of this cup is duuuuudeeee holy have you seen it, whoaa" but as sober right now I'll be able to think "I like the green on this cup" and then look at the little crack on the side of it or how it's shinier on one side than the other, and how the tea left a stain on it that has an interesting shape, and so on. I literally do this 24/7

>> No.21863941

>>21863926
I just don't see how you're getting to your experience being more universal than broad ranging scientific studies across several species.

>> No.21863955

>>21863941
As I said I am not denying that the brain receptors or whatever are involved in both cases, I am just saying that you can probably achieve that and on a much deeper level without smoking pot
then IDK scientists are rather simple-minded about this, they're the kind of people who torture a mouse and finally agree that animals don't like feeling pain. Maybe they're even dumber than potheads

>> No.21863970

Hopelessly addicted to beautiful, histrionic, self-destructive brunettes.

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why are women so annoying and dumb

>> No.21863996

nigger nigger nigger I want to die
nigger nigger nigger I refuse to try
nigger nigger nigger no one knows why

>> No.21863997

>>21863979
They are mentally and emotionally children bu unlike children are incapable of recognizing this fact so they are incapable of being humble and rely on men to remind them that they are children

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>>21863769
>there are people on /lit/ who write like this

>> No.21864025

>>21863769
What exactly do you mean by "compliant with society?" What do you do that isn't compliant?

>> No.21864029

Some people just annoy me without doing anything wrong.

>> No.21864038

Had pâté on sourdough toast and green tea for breakfast. Feeling pretty /lit/

>> No.21864046

>>21864025
>What do you do that isn't compliant?
I agree with everything Ted K said

>> No.21864066

>>21864046
Fair enough, I guess being a mental child is not attractive to any adult even if they're women.

>> No.21864069

>>21864046
You need to be 6'3'' and have a chiseled face for that garbage to be shrugged off

>> No.21864090

>>21863858
To say “just do your job now but from Dubai” is not really how these jobs work. Employers generally won’t let you stay employed and leave the country, and getting a new job in a foreign country isn’t easy. Their jobs are for their people, same as ours and immigrants from the United States are not exactly attractive.

But more to the point, I don’t really think there are any exciting jobs. Maybe wandering Artist or poet, if you have enough of daddy’s money to make it happen. Other than that, there’s like special operators if you’re in elite level fitness, and that’s it really. Everything demands a lot of schooling now. Want to join the merchant marines? Well, first of all, you’re going to get barely any time in port now but even if you do, you need 4 years of school first.

There’s really nothing you can just up and do other than the military, but you’d have to be a complete buffoon to join the military right now.

>> No.21864095

Your 20s are so incredible important. If you plan to be known in anything in your life beyond merely earning money and raising a family, you have to start achieving things in your 20s.

>> No.21864097

>>21864066
>>21864069
Case in point. Non-compliant, immediately results in defensive insults.

>> No.21864101

>>21864097
Yes, you're a retard, you get laughed at. Cope harder loser

>> No.21864107

>>21864097
>non-compliant
Buddy no one here is compliant. Being a Ted K retard is the run of the mill sperg here and most of us are at least racist/antisemitic. The problem is not that you're non-compliant, the problem is that you're a fucking idiot.

>> No.21864121

>>21864101
>>21864107
that poster was another anon FYI. I did not answer to those two people insulting me

>> No.21864124

>>21864107
>>21864101
>The problem is not that you're non-compliant
It clearly is, because none of you ever raise reasonable objections, all you do is fling insults like apes, we already have 4 examples in this thread from both of you. And you'll probably follow your own example in continuing to do the same, as natural sub-intellectuals.

>> No.21864130

>>21864121
>>21864124
Dilate

>> No.21864147

>>21864130
like many other things, trannies are a byproduct of our digitalized society

>> No.21864163

really thinking of killing myself right now
I don't wanna call those shitty hotlines again

>> No.21864166

>>21864163
if you really want to kill yourself, instead go take out a massive loan. not kidding. take out a massive loan and go do something you've always wanted to do.

>> No.21864171

>>21864166
what you people don't understand when you say this is that the only desire a suicide has is to kill himself. it's like telling an insomniac to read a book or do something else. what the insomniac wants to do is sleep

>> No.21864177

I’ve been blowing off my dad’s phone calls for a few weeks now.

>> No.21864178

I just don't wanna ruin my family. it would be such a mess if I killed myself but I cannot bear it anymore, it's all so heavy and mental health institutions only want to turn me into a zombie

>> No.21864183

>>21864171
They also don’t realize that you can’t just take out a massive loan. Banks need to approve you first. If you’re broke, they won’t approve your loan.

>> No.21864193

>>21864171
Thats not true. Its literally not. Because if his one and only desire was death, he would do it. So therefore, by bringing his concerns here, he clearly has other wants. What those other wants are, I don't know but several thousand dollars will help in the vast majority of things.

>>21864183
Take out a car loan, go sell the car. Now you have cash to live it up before you kill yourself.

>> No.21864236

Anyone here watch any sports? When I'm traveling, I like to watch Tennis before I start my day. Last summer I was in Phoenix during some euro tennis event. The heat was delicious, this flat overwhelming feeling like being roasted alive. I woke up, took a shower and sat on the couch and watched. It was thrilling. Graceful movements and grunts and women in skirts. I made a cup of coffee in the little shiny machine hotels have and drank it in my boxers. It was nice.

>> No.21864258

Happy Palm Sunday bros

>> No.21864264

>>21863806
Uggos just have to cope without ever experiencing love.

>> No.21864283
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I spent the last 20 minutes at the mirror brushing my hair in frustration since I can't get it to look right, and it hurts my self esteem. Logically I know it's retarded, I just need a haircut and style advice, but my brain wants me to keep going. "If you can't find a style that looks good now it means you're an ugly piece of shit" type stuff. I can ignore that feeling, but it's still there. Sucks man

>> No.21864285

>>21864193
Are you 15? You realize that the moment you drive off the lot with a car it’s lost 10% of its value?

>> No.21864307

>>21864285
Bro the guy is trying to kill himself. The most final thing a man can do. Losing 10% on a car he intends to sell (to have some fuck you money) before he kills himself isn't his biggest problem.

>> No.21864316

>>21864283
That's called body dysmorphia and it's real for incels (it's not real for normies and women who just use it to whine a lot)

You aren't ugly, I love you. Stop being so mean to yourself in the mirror big guy. My hair looks gay whenever I try to brush it and I always get shit haircuts from the exact same barber who gives my friend great looking haircuts. You are not ugly.

>> No.21864326

>be me
>be retard
>have crush
>tfw poor facial recognition
>tfw can't always tell if I see crush
I feel like I'm probably being rude but I'm really just retarded pls love me

>> No.21864334

>>21864307
That doesn’t make it a realistic proposition.

>> No.21864348

>>21864258
Arent you a romani? Are there christian romani?

>> No.21864401

Good dog, wwoym, why are you so fucking sloppy?
No link to the next/parallel thread?
Stop fucking this thing up or go to /b/

>> No.21864405

>>21864334
The OP literally has the rest of his life to figure it out.

>> No.21864461

I'm here for a long time not a good time

>> No.21864466

https://youtu.be/AgZSWdc8QbE

>> No.21864484
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What kind of emotion does this facial expression convey? I feel like she's laughing at me.

>> No.21864494

>>21864484
It's an invitation to play

>> No.21864512

>>21864348
Of course, in America we’re by majority Protestant Pentecostals, in Europe you have a mix of us Pentecostals and folk Catholic gypsy, these folk Catholics are heavy emphasis on the folk, since they don’t know how to read and are just repeating what amounts to a pagan superstitions mixed with saint worship, American gypsy we’re almost all the same until various miracles occurred in our community and we had a large scale conversion, around the 80s. The association with witchcraft and psychic stuff is all a lie/scam.

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I'm eating ramen noodles right now

>> No.21864578

>>21864512
What are your personal beliefs if you dont mind me asking?

>> No.21864582

>>21864574
I've been trying to find soba for months. I had to get them from a hippy health food place for an insanely high price last time. I don't know what the fuck buckwheat did to the Anglosphere but it's fucking impossible to find soba.

>> No.21864588

>>21864578
He's a fascist catholic gypo and I'm not ironic

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I hate hippie and drug shit but absolutely love The doors, not an american, explain?

>> No.21864606

>>21864594
nice vocals and keyboard

>> No.21864607

>>21864594
Apocalypse Now? I don't like Conrad and that got me to read more of him, so I say we can safely blame Marlon Brando for all our troubles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awW8Vreie8U

>> No.21864617

>>21864594
because you enjoy it? because its good music?
do you need to be told what to like or something?

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>>21864617
>why do i enjoy it
>because you enjoy it

>> No.21864694

i just ate some dollar store kielbasa and now my stomach is making weird rumbling noises.

>> No.21864716

>>21858929
This post made me happy for moment.

>> No.21864722

>>21864578
Pentecostal Christianity however, like much of the early church, I believe the Bible has endless mystical depth and again like the early church, I believe in the study of philosophy and pagan theologies as a means of gaining theological knowledge, no different from the churches study of platonism, Aristotle, Pythagoreanism or the like, on account of this I’ve studied a ton of philosophies and world religions using the Bible as the measure, I do not believe any other religion grants salvation simply that as st justin martyr and athanasius says, reason is the image of god in man and, man looking inward can catch seeds, brief glimpses of the infinite light of god through this image, but imperfect without the actual Christ.

What >>21864588
got correct, is that I am a fascist in the Giovanni gentile sense, I agree broadly with what baudrillard and deleuze say concerning the cancerous body without organs and the trapping of the mind in simulacrum, but as a gentilitan fascist I am a Hegelian and believe that all of this must occur and come to pass, for I am a Christian and the Bible says Babylon shall rule this world, and that all states derive their power from god even if we do not like them; thus I embrace the techno-capital and simulacrum fear of these various elements as means towards the organic ego-absorbing state that gentile speaks of, which is a necessary perquisite in history for the actual coming of Christ.

I am a fascist who supports all establishment politics and governments without exception!

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>>21864694
uh oh

>> No.21864758

>>21864722
So you're not Catholic then? You're a Prot?

>> No.21864779

>>21864722
>The bible says its supposed to suck so I support the current jewish cabal that tears down social values and morales that built the very civilization they rule

>> No.21864789

>>21864722
>i support satan, that's what the bible says!

>> No.21864860

>>21864722
>I'll just ignore everything and read le pagan mystics till I die cause that's what the early church did i promise even if my denomination was only brought into existence yesterday
It's always fascinating to see how every ethnicity, culture, and even person adapts Christianity to mean whatever it's most comfortable for them to mean.

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I fear that the advent of Artificial Intelligence coupled with the already monstrous current levels of technology will only strengthen the tyrannical grasp of the jewish cabal that cruelly enslaves the men, corrupts our children and whores our women.

>> No.21864881

>>21864877
No it won't. The people will make better use of AI than the cabal

>> No.21864885

>>21864881
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY

>> No.21864893

>>21864758
Yep

>>21864779
The civilization in the world(as in time period, culture) that Christianity says is evil and ruled by Satan? You do remember Paul said to support the government in Romans, even as Christians were being persecuted and killed.

>>21864789
What did Paul mean when he says in Roman’s 13

Submission to Governing Authorities

13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.

6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
What did the Lord mean when he said these things to the pagan king Cyrus in Isaiah 45?

45 Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

5 I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.

7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

>> No.21864898

>>21864885
Retarded

>> No.21864906

>>21864898
Alright now let's hear what a man has to say about it

>> No.21864920

>>21864893
>the government tells you to renounce Christianity
>your entire worldview breaks down
Another genius meme denomination

>> No.21864927

>>21864881
You really think the elite cabal who created and/or funded the creation of AI is going to release it to the common man in an un-neutered fashion? I think that is naive. I think the publicly accessible version will be little more than a government sanctioned pacifier in the same manner that the legalization of marijuana and free pornography was released.

>> No.21864934

>>21864920
Not really since this literally happens in the Bible, in the circumstance where the state deserves you explicitly perform a sin that is when you simply do not obey. This view also supports all successful rebellions as also being from the hand of God.

>> No.21864941

>>21864934
>I am a fascist who supports all establishment politics and governments without exception!
>except this exception!
You're a fucking retard

>> No.21864944

>>21864927
They don't have to release it, people reverse engineer it. There are lot of open source alternatives being worked on.

>> No.21864945

>>21864941
Not really, if the reason you support the state is its authority derives from God, then in the moment it tries to make you personally oppose God it loses its authority upon you, in that context how is it illogical?

>> No.21864949

>>21864945
>without exception
>except this exception
>how is this illogical?
It's not if you're retarded but you already made that sufficiently clear

>> No.21864956

>>21864944
You have a lot of faith in a society where no dissent has been possible and all politics has been controlled opposition parties duking it out for three quarters of a century at least. All technocrats do and know how to do is plan how to steer and neutralize your dissent while making you think you've won.

>> No.21864962

>>21864956
You have a lot of faith in a bunch of retards ruling us

>> No.21864968

Aaaaaah, I'm looking for a very common English expression: "Bla bla bla, ____ing them less prone to change."

I'm looking for another word for "'making' then less prone to change"

>> No.21864980

>>21864941
I won't rebel against my ruler simply because he's a ruler or because of some past indiscretions.
I may if he tells me to act against my deepest convictions.

Your posts are dishonest.

>> No.21865000

>>21864980
Learn what "without exception" means before using it brainlet

>> No.21865005

>>21864968
Rendering them less open to change?

>> No.21865011

>>21864962
I hate them but theyre not retards. Your underestimating your enemy. They literally rule the world. Acquiring more tools, including a.i., a tool that is more powerful than the internet only empowers them further. I can think of nearly a dozen more diabolical measures a full fledged ai will offer them.

>>21864980
Thats cowardice masquerading as loyalty

>> No.21865030

>>21864980
I wouldn’t act against the ruler if they were anti Christian which I largely believe they are, I simply won’t obey a law that commands anti Christian behavior, otherwise even if their commands and rule is evil, the law is to obey them.

And as for this fixation on the word without exception, that’s again in the context that their authority derives from God, if they specifically command you oppose God, how can they still be holding their authority? If a king grants a duke various powers and the duke commands you to kill the king compelling you by his powers as duke, are you opposing the King by not attempting to murder him? Of course not, for in that action he has gone against his source of authority. This does not mean that God’s will and selection of that specific ruler has been nullified however, that is for God to decide.

>> No.21865041

>>21865000
The structure authority rests on was placed there by God. No exception including the tyrant you should rebel against. He's undermining his own God given authority by being a tyrant.
>>21865011
>Thats cowardice masquerading as loyalty
Why? You retards never think, you just say lines you think sound good. I'm automatically supposed to rebel against anyone with any authority over me even if everything he says aligns with my own convictions?

>> No.21865050

>>21865030
>I simply won’t obey
That's an act against your ruler.
If their command is evil it's commanding anti-Christian behaviour.

>> No.21865065

>>21865041

You don't have to rebel against a good ruler, but our current rulers are anything but that. The past indiscretions as you so politely put it are in fact abuses of tyrants dressed up by the media and society into something palatable. What in your mind qualifies as not aligning with your own convictions? What action qualifies for rebellion or in the least acknowledging their is something worth revolting over?

>> No.21865092

>>21865011
>Your underestimating your enemy.
Maybe, but you're overestimating them more than I'm underestimating them.

>> No.21865096

>>21865065
>but our current rulers are anything but that
I didn't say otherwise. They have no authority in my eyes, the structures they appeal to while they undermine them still do including the ideal of the rule of law. Taking up arms is not productive, becoming more locally self sufficient is. The more you approach the ideal of self-sufficiency the less leverage global systems have over your life. As a rule of thumb, the more virtuous you are the less leverage demons have over you.

>> No.21865123

how do I alleviate life long depression?

>> No.21865131

>>21865123
Find God. Don't ask me how though.

>> No.21865138

>>21865131
I do visit church but nothing happens.

>> No.21865143

>>21865138
Yeah because it's not that easy.

>> No.21865154

>>21865123
Have sex

>> No.21865155

>>21865143
>not that easy
why does God punish us?

>> No.21865161

So what was the april fools gimmick this year

>> No.21865169

>>21865155
He doesn't, we're just bad at being good.

>> No.21865172

>>21865155
https://youtu.be/0RFwyobtnKA

>> No.21865181

>>21865169
being good isnt the same as being blessed by God

>> No.21865184

>>21865181
Yes it is, but being good is not the same as being "good" according to the humanists.

>> No.21865190

>>21865096
Pot meet kettle.
>You retards never think, you just say lines you think sound good.

You're arguing that because these corrupt tyrannical powers have put in place a rule of law, that you must follow that rule of law, even if it leads to your own (and societies) undoing. And the only recourse for the common man is to distance himself from society, to become self sufficient, which unfortunately is something the current rule of law does NOT allow for.

Self Sufficiency sounds nice and I agree its ideal, but it is not possible with the current system we have. Unless you are saying go be a hermit in the mountains, it is not feasible* The very land you live on is owned by that system and regulated by that system. The food you purchase is processed and injected with hormones and cruelly raised by this system. The water you drink is littered with piss impregnated with drugs that you cannot filter out. The air you breathe is intoxicated with pollutants that mega corporations spew into the atmosphere. The people you interact with are bound by that system not only by law but also by a new set of mores that your rulers have put in place to degrade you.

Your call for self sufficiency is merely a public statement of your refusal to do anything about the system that rules your life. Because you don't actually mean it and you know it won't ever work because the system does not allow for it. It's a coping mechanism. The only real solution is revolution. BUT I'm not asking you to take up arms. I just want you to admit that the system is corrupt and revolting is the proper thing to do. Every single revolt against tyranny in the history of mankind was started for less and rightly so. To state that "taking up arms is not productive", is nothing more than cowardice. If men like you made up our society, then we would still bend the knee to the King.


*And even if you were to go be a hermit, you would only be hiding from the tyrants that rule your life. Hiding in the hopes that one day the system will collapse and the tyrants will lose power and that you might come creeping back into a better society. Which is cowardice.

God damn I''m so fucking angry. Now I understand what Paine meant when he belittled the Tory's. He was right.

>> No.21865214

>>21865190
>You're arguing that because these corrupt tyrannical powers have put in place a rule of law, that you must follow that rule of law, even if it leads to your own (and societies) undoing
No. Why should I read more of your blog when the first line is dishonest misrepresentation of everything I said? There's not even any grey area here, you're blatantly lying about my position and arguing against your own fantasies.
The worst part is I think it's not exactly deliberate, retards like you have no clue how to begin to think about anything honestly.

>> No.21865223

>>21865214
You fucking said it you goddamn liar.

>They have no authority in my eyes, the structures they appeal to while they undermine them still do including the ideal of the rule of law

>still do, including the rule of law

You are following a rule of law they put in place. Wheres the lie?

>> No.21865247

>>21865190
>God damn I''m so fucking angry
You're angry about the depths of retardation that your mind can go to, nothing in this post has anything to do with me or anything I said. It's a retard angry at himself for being a retard.
We don't all live in the same situation, if for some reason you're deeply dependent on some demonic globalist shit does not mean everyone is. The reason I oppose the dysfunctional systems is mainly the same reason they'll destroy themselves, they don't work.
>>21865223
>Wheres the lie?
Misrepresenting what that says is illiteracy or lying. You don't allow for any sincere interpretation because your goal is to undermine what I say no matter what I say.
I respect the ideal of rule of law not specific corrupt laws. Even the corrupt laws when made appealed to the ideal so the reasonable way to counter them is by demonstrating they do not serve the ideal. The undermining of reason by retards like you makes it hard but it's still the best method. When all your retarded shit has lead us all to hell reason and logical structures will still stand the same.

>> No.21865250

If I had any artistic talent or any sort of destiny, I suppose that would’ve been obvious by my age.

>> No.21865327

Ever since the whore episode I haven't written or done a thing. I think I've damaged myself. I am terrified that I'll never be able to do things like I did before. I keep telling myself that I ran away and nothing happened but I feel like something has changed and I'm panicking.

>> No.21865359

>>21865247
>We don't all live in the same situation, if for some reason you're deeply dependent on some demonic globalist shit does not mean everyone is.

Pretending that your slice of the world is unaffected by the ever expanding policies of this corrupt regime is dishonest. I doubt your situation is so unique as to be outside these policies and their rippling effects. Their policies literally affect the water you drink via the allowance of gross pollution, as well as by promoting the rampant use of unfilterable medication that negatively impacts the common man.

>they'll destroy themselves, they don't work.
What does that mean? That it will collapse upon itself spontaneously? That people will become so fed up that theyll revolt? Or that meaniful political and social change will happen despite their global stranglehold? The dysfunctional system had been in effect for at least 60 yrs and shows no sign of slowing.

>> No.21865583

I thought of a little interesting thing:
>The hatred is new, the hatred is old.
>The air is hot, the seas full of mold.
>The kind world keeps, the kind world holds.
>But it cares not for whom the bell tolls.
>The black leather smoke digs in my veins, all of the world screams silently in pain, the glorious symphony, it never wains.
>The hatred is pure, the hatred is gold, the kind world knows this, the kind world molds.
>And so, the new age terror is born.
Most of it kind of rhymes.

>> No.21865672

>>21863453
Alcohol has never made me dumb. Maybe for the day after but I actually think a lot clearer with 1-3 beers in me. I used to in college sometimes drink a beer as a study aid.

>> No.21865811

>>21857558
Does belles-lettres include political theory? I understand it includes fiction and theory, but what about political theory or other types of theory that can explain people's actions or ways of thinking? I'm split on it going either way.

>> No.21865918

>>21863080
No it's not, god I hate people who talk out of their asses

>> No.21866427

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>>21865868
>>21865868
Really screwed up the last one