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[Anonymous No.21921102]

Christ has Risen edition

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First for Baby Jesus (ugly version)

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Second for Orthodoxy

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>>21921102
Happy Easter /lit/!!! Regardless of you Religion, Denomination, Life Philosophy(?), or atheism. God Bless each and every one of you.

[Anonymous No.21921152]

>>21921116
The worst thing that a lot of Christian denominations was to jump on a political movement, in my opinion, I could forgive them doing that then pivoting ot "All Lives Matter" but almost all of them refused to do so and thus it opened Pandora's Box and now they have to have a stance on every political ideology and event now.

[Anonymous No.21921159]

More than anything I dislike how life has been boring. I I grew up in a small town, went to college in a smaller town, really struggled there, graduated over 2 years late after withdrawing and re-enrolling, withdrawing and re-enrolling, got a job in the suburbs of a city in my state, hated it, quit, made a bunch of mistakes, moved back to my college town, started pursuing a graduate degree, dropped out, got a job with the school, got sent remote during lockdowns, stayed with various family members for a year at a time each and that’s it. Nothing at all remarkable or interesting has happened. I’ve spent my entire adult life affiliated with this school in this shitty college town or in my family homes.

What I should have done is just move right to New York and been broke and poor or something. Idk how to salvage this. Idk if I can salvage this.

[Anonymous No.21921169]

>>21921152
Churches should have views on popular ideologies to guide people away from them if they're satanic. The "Pandora's Box" was opened centuries before. These Churches you speak of simply supported Evil as they've done in the past.

[Anonymous No.21921170]

I started getting derealization episodes sfter using SSRIs 8 years ago but never realized how common that was until now.
I also noticed a weird lump on my neck by my jugular which has been there for a few days now. I wonder what it is.

[Anonymous No.21921178]

>>21921159
Just settle down and love your boring life. Make some money and get married. My cousin supports 4 kids and a housewife on a truck driver's salary. If your biggest complaint is boredom, then you're blessed.

[Anonymous No.21921188]

>>21921169
>Churches should have views on popular ideologies to guide people away from them if they're satanic.
Fair, but I don't really like the ideas of political signs and such being hung from Churches at all. I fucking hate the "Hate has no home here" signs because it is 100% liberal retard garbage, but its hard to argue against because regardless of what side you are on politically you really shouldn't be hafeful. That being said, BLM is a completely different monster and you can make a pretty biblical argument for why it shouldn't be hung up on churches

[Anonymous No.21921193]

>>21921102
The Trojan War rages on, with Snoop Dogg being an unlikely combatant. One quiet afternoon, he takes a stroll through the battlefield seeking solace in his love of cannabis. His fellow soldiers eye him suspiciously but know better than to mess with Snoop and his greenery. Smoke circles his head as he settles on a rock, taking deep breaths while watching his opponents across the horizon. Gradually, calm settles over the chaotic scene as the soldier's tired bodies seek rest after months of relentless conflict. Snoop passes a joint towards a nearby Greek, his eyes communicating a simple truth: we are all warriors here, let's unite through peaceful vibes. Soon, the enemy approaches, laughing at their own foolishness as weapons fall away and blunts get passed. From now on, the Trojan War would forever remain engrained within memory as a lesson in how marijuana can bring people together.

[Anonymous No.21921198]

>>21921188
Well the "Churches" you speak of are closer to being Synagogues of Satan than Churches. That sign is satanic. It pretends to have good intentions but it doesn't. It perverts what love means in Christian doctrine. Being anti-immigration, disliking Muslim terrorism and calling it out is now called "hatred" but it's actually love of God and truth. Your Churches are satanic, that's all there is to it.

[Anonymous No.21921202]

>>21921193
Nice

[Anonymous No.21921223]

>>21921193
To be fair, they only settled the peace treaty on the Peloponnesian War two years after Gin and Juice

[Anonymous No.21921224]

>>21921178
I don’t want that. I don’t want a boring life. My problem is that I feel I’ve got one whether I wanted it or not so it’s already done.

[Anonymous No.21921237]

>>21921224
Many people would kill to have the security and stability of a boring American life. Why can't you be happy with your blessings?

[Anonymous No.21921239]

>>21921237
Second generation third worlders are similarly spoiled. Humans are not made to be boring robots. Why can't NPCs understand this?

[Anonymous No.21921241]

>>21921102
The key to understanding, and so to iteration, permutations, and manipulation, is in the preposition.

the massive difference between “should” and “must”, and yet how easy it is to morph and lead from into or the other. Where they can seem so alike as to be almost synonymous, but can lead to very distinct permutations on the same subject.

Same with “to” and “for”, “with” and “besides”, and many other simple subtle shifts in relation between subject and object. Often even affecting the user without them even being conscious of it.

[Anonymous No.21921248]

>>21921239
You can move to the third world of you're really that motivated to experience instability and privation, but I guess you lack ambition as well as gratitude

[Anonymous No.21921326]

Thinking about staying up to draw. I was going to take tomorrow off to read my new book, because it was meant to arrive tomorrow, but it arrived Saturday. This leaves tomorrow open to sleep if I draw and paint and just dip into the stories during drying time.

[Anonymous No.21921428]

> 30
> shitty remote job
> living at home with mom
> don’t really have anything else going on
I feel like my life is over

[Anonymous No.21921457]

Link the new thread in the old one, dumbass.

[Anonymous No.21921464]

>>21921159
Why would being a bum in new york be better than what you got?

[Anonymous No.21921470]

>>21921169
The only view churches should teach is that any political view is of the world and that it should be irrelevant to a Christian because we have been called out of the world.

[Anonymous No.21921482]

>>21921457
>i'm blind
We're sorry anon but don't get angry at us for your insufficiencies

[Anonymous No.21921491]

>>21921464
It was the place to be for some things I wanted to do at the time

[Anonymous No.21921500]

>>21921470
>Christians shouldn't care about politics even if politicians teach evil, even if politicians discriminate against Christians, even if political ideologies work against the work of God
>Christians shouldn't tend to the Great Commission through politics because anon doesn't like politics
Not how Christianity works.

[Anonymous No.21921515]

>>21921102
Keep having dreams about this girl who I knew since childhood that ended up committing suicide a little over half a year ago. It's weird because I wasn't particularly close with her in life, just a friend of a friend who was sometimes in the background, but I keep having these melancholic dreams about her. I'm also now developing this weird sense of guilt because a few months before her suicide a different girl I knew committed suicide, but I haven't had a single dream about her even though it could be argued I was somewhat closer with her in life since at least I talked with her once or twice in the last couple years as opposed to the other girl who I last spoke to when I was seven. I don't know, maybe because I had a closer connection with the first girl during childhood and playing with her during recess left an impact on me that I never knew of.

[Anonymous No.21921537]

>>21921500
>>Christians shouldn't care about politics even if politicians teach evil, even if politicians discriminate against Christians, even if political ideologies work against the work of God
Thats not what I said. Please don't strawman me
>>Christians shouldn't tend to the Great Commission through politics because anon doesn't like politics
The Church is like the Ark during the flood. We should be evangelizing to call people into the Ark, not give swimming lessons. Christianity isn't a political ideology and it becomes vain when you treat it as one. Scripture is clear: you're either in the world or you're in the church.

[Anonymous No.21921542]

>>21921491
What did you want to do

[Anonymous No.21921550]

>>21921537
This is not Christianity. It's just a protestant worldview that appeared in the 2nd millennium. Since Constantine and then the Byzantine Empire, Church uses worldly means to lead people to faith. You refuse this, you refuse the faith. Radical protestantism / Anabaptism / etc is not Christianity.

[Anonymous No.21921558]

I have a ton of stuff to do, but for some reason all I did the last weeks was "study" (youtube documentaries mostly) biblical history

[Anonymous No.21921576]

>>21921542
At the time I was a banker and thought I wanted to be a banker because I thought I could make a lot of money, but I ended up wanting to write novels only after I quit and moved back to my home town. Obviously, it would’ve been better for me to have been in New York either way. I originally looked for work in New York but no one was willing to hire me.

[Anonymous No.21921579]

>>21921550
It's Christianity as it's written in the Bible. I don't really care about Rome or continuing it's legacy

>31 “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.
> 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
> 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.
> 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.
>35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

Your political institutions will be destroyed in the end, so it's vain to waste time on it.

[Anonymous No.21921586]

>>21921576
You dont need to live in new york to write. Anyway, I'm sure some bum would have stabbed you to death. People are fleeing NYC in droves.

[Anonymous No.21921593]

>>21921579
>political institutions will be destroyed in the end,
So? While they're alive they should be guided to the faith. Your interpretations are puerile, your worldview is reductionist. You live in this world now, that's why Christ gave you a body. You can't reject it and pretend you're a spirit. That will come afterwards based on what you do in this life. Political views shouldn't be irrelevant to Christians. Abortion is wrong for example.

[Anonymous No.21921598]

>>21921586
I doubt it. I mean, I’ve known a lot of people who lived in New York and none of them got stabbed. I just sort of feel like I’ve never gone anywhere or done anything and now it’s kind of late.

[Anonymous No.21921619]

>>21921102
Alithos Anesti!

[Anonymous No.21921620]

>>21921593
And how many people will you baptize by founding a political party? The question is rhetorical, so don't bother answering.

[Anonymous No.21921654]

Sometimes I feel like books have ruined my life.

[Anonymous No.21921684]

>>21921620
You're intellectually dishonest, so there's nothing to reply to anyway.

[Anonymous No.21921750]

>>21921654
Me too but they were pretty clear about what they were doing so I can't really blame them

[Anonymous No.21921768]

Had a dream about Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

[Anonymous No.21921890]

I've been holding down my feelings for the last year. I left my ex for religion, and did so with no regrets, but someone told me she has been living in quasi-isolation with her new boyfriend ever since. Out of the 12 people in her Masters, no one is interacting with her and she has been avoiding everyone (most of whom were friends we had in common) on purpose. That means she has been spending almost every single class day alone this year. I'm thinking I should maybe give her a call, maybe see how she's doing but I'm afraid of doing more harm than good.

Our breakup was particularly traumatic on my side and although I would do it without hesitation if it made feel her better, I (selfishly) don't feel ready yet to put my soul to the grinder with mounting memories again. Last time I talked to her, she resented me for not reaching out... I don't know what is the right thing to do, there. I've always been one to speak my mind but I wish relationships weren't so difficult to begin with. I truly believed disappearing from her life was the right thing to do, but fuck, did that fucking idiot really spend full year alone? This is not what I wanted for her at all.

[Anonymous No.21921895]

I hate basedjack memes

[Anonymous No.21921906]

>>21921890
Why would she be alone if she has a boyfriend? It makes no sense. You’re just looking for an excuse to contact her. That much is obvious.

[Anonymous No.21921932]

>>21921906
>Why would she be alone if she has a boyfriend? It makes no sense.
She is avoiding everyone in her class. Literally, flat-out ignoring them when they try talking to her.
>You’re just looking for an excuse to contact her.
I've ignored her messages and avoided her for the past year.
>That much is obvious.
Please tell me how you can infer this from my post because I certainly don't feel that way. What is obvious to me right now is your lack of reading comprehension, but I might have a bad case of bad writing too.

[Anonymous No.21921946]

So what do you think makes the 2010s distinct? What will people think of when thinking of the 2010s?

[Anonymous No.21921976]

>>21921890
I think you should reach out. She seems isolated.

[Anonymous No.21921985]

Drunk. Thinking about the lad who keeps drinking til he throws up.

[Anonymous No.21921992]

I think this is psychological.
I've been trying to buy a car to escape my awful life. I feel like a Disney princess. I existentially freak tf out over my inability to do this. I long for more.
I've been stuck in the cyclical pattern of working and scraping enough to get one, getting one, then ruining it. First one was a lemon plus I lost the key for it. Scraped again. Got a great deal on a great car. Wanted to avoid the expense of insurance. Neglected to pay for it. Got pulled over. Lost it.
Observing myself third person I would say I'm so scared I don't have what it takes to live a life I would find desirable. So I perpetually fuck around on the presipice. Im into Jungian psychological ideas. I need to confront myself. I'm driving myself insane no hyperbole.

[Anonymous No.21922007]

>>21921102
Indeed he has! May God reawaken your conscience for you to feel shame and repent. Your shilling is not worth your soul.

[Anonymous No.21922010]

>>21921985
Thinking about yourself?

[Anonymous No.21922018]

>>21922010
no l havent done that in years

[Anonymous No.21922043]

>>21922018
Why are you so drunk on a Sunday don’t you have work in the morning

[Anonymous No.21922078]

>>21922043
nah long term neet

[Anonymous No.21922100]

I’m quitting my job tomorrow. I’m going to sign a lease in the city this week anyway. I’m worried I’m going to end up killing myself soon.

[Anonymous No.21922107]

>>21922100
Why are you worried you’re going to kys

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>>21921558
I've done something more or less analogous to this every day for almost a month. It's over for me.

[Anonymous No.21922225]

>>21922100
Do what you can. I've got hope you.

[Anonymous No.21922265]

Do you think if you have any doubts about marrying someone, you shouldn't go through with it?

[Anonymous No.21922272]

>>21922265
Depends on what the doubts are centred around.

[Anonymous No.21922283]

>>21922265
You can't see the future with 100% certainty, there are going to be doubts. The people with no doubts are extremely blessed or not really making a full evaluation of the situation. Part of the beauty of love is moving past the fear and giving yourself over to the other, giving them the ability to fuck your shit up permanently and forever.

[Anonymous No.21922296]

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BD8-aYrKew
damn, ahmad jamal croaked. he was hella old, it was only a matter of time, but still bummer. i'd post on /mu/ but they're all plebs over there.

[Anonymous No.21922329]

As someone who used to frequent online libertarian spaces, I was once captivated by the notion of "natural rights" - the idea that individuals possess inherent rights that are not granted by governments. However, over time, I became disenchanted with the juvenile apathy that permeated these spaces, with the mentality of "If it does not involve me, I should have no say in it." This mentality seemed to seep into all discussions, from debates about abortion to parents making decisions about their children's bodies, such as putting them on hormones or subjecting them to genital mutilation. I still recall a disturbing comment I came across that read, "Not my kid, not my wiener, not my problem." It made me wonder: if someone murdered the poster's child, would they still feel the same way?

Reflecting on these experiences, I have come to a sobering realization: unless an ideology is rooted in the concept of God, it cannot claim to have objective morality, and the idea of "natural rights" loses its foundation. Without a higher power, concepts like "inherent rights" are merely human inventions, pleasant ideas concocted by individuals.

Without an ultimate source of morality, "natural rights" become nothing more than human constructs, subject to the ever-changing whims of culture, opinion, and power dynamics. This mentality of "not my problem" that often accompanies this ideology can also ignore or undermine the concept of "natural rights." If individuals adopt a stance of indifference or apathy towards the well-being and rights of others, it can erode the very foundation of "natural rights" that purports to be inherent and universal. They may choose to ignore or neglect the rights of others when it is inconvenient or uncomfortable for them.

[Anonymous No.21922336]

>>21922296
enjoyed it, thanks

[Anonymous No.21922355]

>>21922329
hated it, thanks

[Anonymous No.21922370]

>>21922107
I don’t think I’ll want to go throw much more disappointment

[Anonymous No.21922400]

When I was a little kid there was this older girl who'd come to me during recess and kiss me on the lips where there was nobody else around. I'm in my early twenties now and sometimes I fantasize about making out with her. I don't know what to do with this but it's messing with my head.

[Anonymous No.21922418]

>>21922329
"But in spite of our great scientific discoveries, for which praise be given to whom the praise is due, and in spite of that general indifference to all the truths and all the principles of truth, that belong to our permanent being, and therefore do not lie within the sphere of our senses, (that same indifference which makes toleration so easy a virtue with us, and constitutes nine-tenths of our pretended illumination) it still remains the character of the mass of mankind to seek for the attainment of their necessary ends by any means rather than the appointed ones; and for this cause only, that the latter imply the exertion of the Reason and the Will." --Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII

[Anonymous No.21922428]

Jean Baudrillard decided to make a Facebook account. He was about to post his first status update when he realized that he had created a simulacrum of himself and deleted his account.

[Anonymous No.21922430]

>>21922400

Ha, I had a girl like that. Only she was almost certainly a victim of CSA at home because there was no other way she could have learned some of the stuff she knew. She was one of the brown asians (vietnamese? cambodian?) and extremely promiscuous / proactive. It was confusing but exciting at the time, only in retrospect did I realize there were probably dark reasons for a kid her age to behave that way unprompted.

[Anonymous No.21922474]

>>21922430
I had two Indonesian girls let me touch both their tits and kiss when I was 12 or something like that.
Fine memories, wrote all kinds of sexual stuff in my agenda as well. I still have that.

[Anonymous No.21922479]

I'm crying.

[Anonymous No.21922497]

>>21922479
Why?

[Anonymous No.21922498]

>>21922497
Something really funny happened.

[Anonymous No.21922501]

Let's see your best score. I got 10.4 cps.
https://clickspeedtest.com/

[Anonymous No.21922503]

>>21922498
What happened?

[Anonymous No.21922509]

>>21922503
My brother farted when we were doing yoga.

[Anonymous No.21922526]

>>21922119
As a Christian, this is a pretty good argument against Christianity. The problem is, is that it was written by someone who doesn't have a totally firm grasp on what Jesus taught. He told you to love God before your family, not him, and even then there are tons of examples of him teaching or saying to love not only your family, but everyone. So outside of the obvious confirmation bias this suffers from, this is the best argument I've seen leveled at religion currently outside of "hurr durr muh fisikal wurld and suheyeance"

[Anonymous No.21922531]

>>21922501
>Chinese spyware site to dox my click speed
Your not getting my medical information today, China!!!

[Anonymous No.21922543]

Mysterious connections. Mysterious values.

[Anonymous No.21922545]

>>21922543
Internet connections. Mysterious values.
Tis a mystery anon!

[Anonymous No.21922551]

>>21922526
>He told you to love God before your family, not him
Christians believe Jesus is God

[Anonymous No.21922558]

>>21922526

I understand from a Christian POV it seems to be missing the point. But consider that the rationale you give for that teaching is similar to rationales which exist in many other religions to conceal the ulterior motive behind such policies. For example, Scientology has the "disconnection policy" which urges converts to cut family members out of their lives if those people are SP/Wogs (not Scientologists, anti-Scientology) as it will lower their tone and inhibit their movement up the bridge to happiness. But in fact, isn't it really because family members are the most strongly motivated to extricate you, once they realize the nature of what you have joined?

[Anonymous No.21922568]

>>21922119
>outside source
So you want testimony from someone who saw first hand the miracles of Jesus yet still denied him?

[Anonymous No.21922569]

>>21922551
In spirit, but not in form. Its also why the Holy Ghost is added to that too.

[Anonymous No.21922578]

>>21922558
The argument against it from a Christian perspective would simply be that it misrepresents what Christians actually do, which is to create and nurture families. These things normally only come into play when one has to actually make a decision between Christ or their family, which is uncommon outside of areas or times in which Christians are persecuted. And in that context it does not seem problematic to me. I am not a Christians anymore but that is how I would respond.

>>21922569
Whatever kind of distinction you're trying to make here is not a normal orthodox expression. Christ is believed to be a divine person who is God who took upon himself a separate human nature. He is the fullness of the Godhead and is not less God than the Father.

[Anonymous No.21922580]

>>21922568

Today, there exist plenty of Christian writings outside of the Bible. The fact that they are written by people persuaded of Christ's divinity does not cause their writings to be included into the Bible.

Besides, do you now suddenly deny that some exist who, even if shown miracles, still would not believe?

[Anonymous No.21922583]

>>21922578

That is a good defense against its applicability to modern Christianity, but it was never describing modern Christianity. It's describing early Christianity. Cults change a lot and drop the more burdensome requirements as they mature into religions

[Anonymous No.21922587]

>>21922578
(cont.) I think one could also get into some sort of argument about how familial love ultimately stems from love of God, as the family is something that derives from God, who bears in himself the familial prototype of Father/Son, and in whose image humans are created. So to say you should love God more than your family isn't to denigrate the family but to love the source of family, or to put things into their proper perspective.

>>21922583
What I said applied to early Christianity, as I referred to time periods in which Christians were under persecution. Should it rather teach, "If your family is going to disown you for your beliefs, just give up and do what they tell you to do" ?

[Anonymous No.21922588]

>>21922558
Jesus, never had a disconnect policy though. Sure they said that those people would not go to heaven, but he also did command that we should love everyone. Its why a lot of believers are so insistent on having their loved ones convert, because they want them to be saved. Its why missioning is a thing. You can find tons of Bible verses saying that non-believers are not of God, that they will go to hell, that Jesus is the only way to God. But Jesus never said to shun people, at least from what I can remember without pouring over his works or looking it up (I just finished dinner, give me a break...)
>>21922578
>Whatever kind of distinction you're trying to make here is not a normal orthodox expression.
The trinity isn't orthodox?

[Anonymous No.21922590]

>>21922587
>What I said applied to early Christianity, as I referred to time periods in which Christians were under persecution. Should it rather teach, "If your family is going to disown you for your beliefs, just give up and do what they tell you to do" ?

Nobody except cults say to cut family members out of your life if they don't share your beliefs.

[Anonymous No.21922591]

>>21921102
Xristos Anesti!

[Anonymous No.21922592]

>>21922588
>Jesus, never had a disconnect policy though.

First of all, yes, he did. Second of all, it wasn't specifically just about that one policy, you're missing the point of my post. I was illustrating a general principle about why you can't take a religion's explanation for their practices at face value.

[Anonymous No.21922595]

>>21922588
>The trinity isn't orthodox?
I don't believe what you said is normal manner of referring to the trinity. If you simply mean that Christ's human nature is human and not divine, then sure, but that human nature is proper to a person who is divine. The person, Christ, is divine.

>>21922590
Who is cutting who out of their life is the family demands you drop your beliefs or they will disown you?

[Anonymous No.21922598]

>>21922595
>Who is cutting who out of their life is the family demands you drop your beliefs or they will disown you?

Where does "disown" come from? Which verse is that in? Scientology doesn't even specify anything about that. That is something you slipped into the equation to make it seem more defensible.

[Anonymous No.21922599]

>>21921198
>disliking Muslim terrorism
You’re just an Islamophobe

[Anonymous No.21922601]

>>21922592
>First of all, yes, he did.
Source please?
>Second of all, it wasn't specifically just about that one policy, you're missing the point of my post. I was illustrating a general principle about why you can't take a religion's explanation for their practices at face value.
It might be that I just ate dinner but it seemed the point of the picture was to point out that from the outside looking it in looks like a cult of crazy people and you wouldn't join.

[Anonymous No.21922606]

>>21922601
>Source please?

Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, even their own life--such a person cannot be my disciple."


Matt. 10:35-37 “For I have come to turn a man against his father a daughter against her mother a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law---a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household. Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”


Matthew 19:29 "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life."

[Anonymous No.21922608]

>>21922598
You're just running the conversation in circles. I said this normally does not come up for Christians outside of contexts in which they are persecuted (such as early Christianity). You said my response does not take into account early Christianity. I said early Christians would face persecution or being cut off by their families because of their beliefs, and thus the statement is telling them to not give into this but rather hold firm to what they believe. You stated this means the Christian is the one cutting their family off. I said that no, this means that family is cutting off the Christian because they are the ones demanding that the Christian give up what they believe. You then asked me where this idea came from, which loops back to the beginning.

[Anonymous No.21922614]

>>21922580
>today
The world now is nothing like it was back then. Most people didn't write but transmitted testimony orally. There'd have to be 1) literate, 2) a writer, 3) someone who saw the miracles, 4) someone who was interested enough to write about the miracles, 5) able to avoid prosecution for writing about the miracles, 6) secure the writing to survive until today, etc.

[Anonymous No.21922615]

>>21921198
>Well the "Churches" you speak of are closer to being Synagogues of Satan than Churches.
Agreed, hence why I'm an Anglican Mystic now.
>That sign is Satanic.
I wouldn't go that far but my point is that if you make the argument for why the "Hate has no home here" sign shouldn't be on church grounds you open for door for why the "Black Lives Matter" signs should be allowed. If I had to pick, I'd rather the HHNHH sings than the BLM signs.
>Your Chruches are satanic
Not my churches, at least not anymore, its sad to see my denomination go that way but also being a Christian Mystic has opened a lot of interesting reading of other Christian Hermits.

[Anonymous No.21922618]

>>21922608
>You're just running the conversation in circles.

What do you think I owe you? Who are you to me?

>I said this normally does not come up for Christians outside of contexts in which they are persecuted (such as early Christianity). You said my response does not take into account early Christianity.

Early Christians were persecuted constantly

>I said early Christians would face persecution or being cut off by their families because of their beliefs, and thus the statement is telling them to not give into this but rather hold firm to what they believe

Think critically about what the reason for such a teaching may have been, outside of a perspective which assumes the truth of Christianity. It could also be because the church would rather you die than apostatize.

>I said that no, this means that family is cutting off the Christian because they are the ones demanding that the Christian give up what they believe.

i.e. extricating them from a cult, something a loving family ought to do.

>You then asked me where this idea came from, which loops back to the beginning.

The word disown is never used. Jesus does not say "cut off family if they are going to disown you for following me anyway". he says only those who love him more than their own family are worthy of him. That is what cult leaders say.

[Anonymous No.21922619]

>>21922618
>What do you think I owe you? Who are you to me?
If you're going to respond in this way then I'm not going to continue the conversation. Good day.

[Anonymous No.21922621]

>>21922614

Not my problem.

[Anonymous No.21922623]

>>21922619

That's a convenient way to avoid addressing the rest of the post I guess

[Anonymous No.21922627]

>>21922623
I'm not a Christian anymore and don't care. If you straight up tell me you aren't going to bother discussing this in a reasonable way because you don't owe that to me, then I'm not going to waste my time.

[Anonymous No.21922628]

>>21922618
Word to the wise, all that spacing makes it harder to read, just keep it all as 1 line on top of another plz.

[Anonymous No.21922636]

>>21922606
Well fuck, thanks Anon. I wasn't aware of these passages, I'll go through them to see the greater context later. Why is the book of Matthew so all over the place, in Matthew 15:4-7 he tells you to honor your mother and father.

[Anonymous No.21922640]

>>21922628
>all that spacing makes it harder to read
god damn you zoomers are fucking retarded lmao

[Anonymous No.21922642]

>>21922636
Because there's not actually a contradiction between those two things.

[Anonymous No.21922645]

>>21922640
I'm an old millennial, I get tired. Now get the fuck off my digital lawn!

[Anonymous No.21922680]

Leave the religious LARPing out of the OP please

[Anonymous No.21922726]

>>21922680
Problem?

[Anonymous No.21922776]

E-christians deserve the rope

[Anonymous No.21922808]

>>21922627

I'm sorry, you're right. I'm not usually like this, it's been a hard day.

[Anonymous No.21922816]

It does start to feel like it’s over if you’re not well on the path by 29-31 and just have like a shitty job you don’t really care about.

[Anonymous No.21922833]

You know, there is a paradox in the situation of these people who live in their mothers’ basements and eat fast food, watch cartoons and smoke pot at age 35. On the one hand, they seem to enjoy a kind of base infantile hedonism, indulging in their pleasures without any responsibility or guilt. On the other hand, they are also the perfect consumers of late capitalism, obediently following the dictates of the market and the ideology of choice. They are at the same time primitive yet ultramodern.

[Anonymous No.21922984]

https://files.catbox.moe/rdul8i.webm
I just found this on another thread on 4channel. What drives people to make shit like this?

I hope whoever made this gem never gets the medication he needs

[Anonymous No.21923028]

>>21922984

i'd become a nazi if they consistently made art like this

[Anonymous No.21923029]

>>21922833
I don't do drugs.

[Anonymous No.21923039]

Investigations in the afterlife.

[Anonymous No.21923061]

>>21921102
---- Solaria ----
216
Legacy Population

I used to pad the carpets of luxury retail,
Depend on friends to take me

Where I'd go by slightest will.

I used to tease the son and daugther of a rich executive for fun
And when I grew tired of them retired

To one of the most serene lands in the world,
And sometimes despair

That it's so easy here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckU61fDA5Sc

[Anonymous No.21923129]

People act like science vs. religion is an eternal dichotomy, when for anyone born before the enlightenment science was religion and religion was science. It seems silly to me whenever people talk like Thomas Aquinas or really just educated people in the middle ages had to "make a choice" between their religion and their knowledge about the ways of the world when to them what we would call science nowadays fell under the umbrella of religion (as "natural philosophy") because religion itself was a much more all-encompassing idea back then (not to mention our idea of religion stemming from 19th century protestant philosophers, which is going to be a poor fit for anyone living before or outside of that cultural sphere).

[Anonymous No.21923139]

>>21923129
The way the Enlightenment was taught in school is conducive to this way of thing too. It’s almost as if people have been propagandised to think this way. Ask a normie what they think happened to Galileo. Byzantium is also heavily understudied even though it was the centre of scientific learning for centuries

[Anonymous No.21923157]

>>21923139
It's clearly a remnant of the enlightenment rhetoric of the ascendant middle classes against the declining aristocrats and clergy of the ancien regime. "You held societal progress and science back for an entire millennium, now is our time to liberate these fields from your oppression and retrograde, outdated views". We live in an age that is at its core still fundamentally centered around the ideology of the middle classes that won this conflict so our views about the times before their ascendance is unavoidably going to be skewed because of the base narrative, the vocabulary, and the ultimate limits of the discourse being decreed by this aforementioned middle class ideology. Between history and ideology, the former seldom, if ever wins.

[Anonymous No.21923158]

>>21921248
This.
I's thankful for every day i get to play video games and masturbate into old age while the government supports me. I mean i'm clinically insane but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride right?

[Anonymous No.21923169]

>>21921946
That they were shitter then the 2000's.

[Anonymous No.21923194]

>>21922776
>thinks calling Christians Jews is offensive
Christians are the true Jews, also saved to show my paster lol.

[Anonymous No.21923204]

>>21923157
People always have decontextualised or non-genealogical understanding of how modernity came to be. Well, it’s either that or they go the other extreme and see history as a long march of progress. The irony of holding up progress as some quasi-transcendental idea is that progress is a relational concept and therefore cannot be an end of society. Maybe that’s half baked but I think there’s something to that.

Also they don’t get that these ascendant middle class heroes that they hold up are ravenous wolves. The revolution has to constantly feed on itself

[Anonymous No.21923232]

>>21921102
---- Solaria ----
217
Pleiades

Majestic in heavy lenses,
Frostily delicate from almost any perspective

Especially just above June trees
The leaves of which are cleanly as articulately outlined.

Porch views, technological porticoes,
Immense dance music archives.

[Anonymous No.21923241]

>>21923232
What are you quoting if you don't mind me asking? When I searched "Solaria 217 Pleiades" I got nothing and when I searched Solaria.

[Anonymous No.21923250]

Boиcтинy вocкpece!

Christ is risen from the dead,
by death he trampled death,
and to those in the tombs
He granted Life!

Easter is my absolute favorite holiday. A reminder that there is hope for everyone one of us by the only one that can give us any real hope at all the Lord himself.

[Anonymous No.21923258]

>>21923250
Boиcтинy вocкpec!
Αληθώς Ανέστη!
Truly He is Risen!

[Anonymous No.21923264]

>>21923250
>>21923258
HELLO FELLOW RUSSIANS, I DO CAN SPEAK RUSSIAN, BEHOLD:
;aew ljifa; oi wejf ;afj l;zsnvj kvnapwohfn a[owf nwe

[Anonymous No.21923306]

>>21922007
>orthodox means russian
Why are americans like this

[Anonymous No.21923312]

>>21923241
The number is somewhat arbitrary, the title not so much. I've written about 500 of these, most of them omitted. I extemporize these things, almost always when quite drunk off my ass, and post them almost immediately, if they're at all adequate. I have an absolutely terrible memory for rote or quotation of any kind, but rather a good one for sensational experience.

[Anonymous No.21923319]

>>21923250
I have a variation of that icon.

[Anonymous No.21923345]

I'm completely outmatched by the mosquito in my room. It only shows up when I don't expect it, like it's connected to my mind.

[Anonymous No.21923404]

Apologizing is ultimately an act about reaffirming relations of power after an act of transgression. It is always the powerful who expect an apology when they feel like they were wronged by someone they see as lesser and weaker than themselves. Similarly, no matter what a powerful person does to a weaker person, the weaker person will be laughed at if he or she expects an apology from that powerful person, exactly because that is not what apologizing is for or about.

If you ever had to apologize to someone in a real, major way (so not because you bumped into them on public transport) it was because you were lower on the social ladder than that person and therefore that person expected an act of ritual submission and humiliation from you that righted the wrong of your act of transgression - an apology.

[Anonymous No.21923422]

>A carrot can't wear a monocle and smoke a pipe.

[Anonymous No.21923429]

---- Solaria ----
218
chartreuse versus magenta

Splendid shells detonate overhead like starry chrysanthemums or asters or whatever.

I stroll with my favorite sister along a backyard boulevard of dreams,
Not quite believing my good fortune, and still

Weep a little, now, that she didn't see it
The same way I do:

The exquisite rarity of the guy playing the Imperial Theme from heavy speakers

With a kind of double irony, the corridor of five story high trees

And the faces of beautiful athletes..

[Anonymous No.21923451]

/lit/ will never know how much I like them...

[Anonymous No.21923478]

>POV: you just suggested to an american that he could refrain from paying a doctor to mutilate the genitals of his infant son in a semitic ritualistic blood sacrifice
My favorite thing about whenever circumcision comes up, and it is correctly pointed out that it is a completely deranged practice, is that some american cunt of a woman just cannot help herself from participating and saying that she prefers the visual aesthetic of a circumcized dick.

I absolutely, genuinely love that, because of all the implications of thinking this preference has to be mentioned as a weighty argument - it betrays such a profoundly aristocratic spirit, to say it without even a shred of irony or self-awareness, that you think the other sex should be subjected to routine and non-consensual plastic surgery because of your preferences. It is the kind of master morality that would make nazi eugenicists blush. I can't really decide for myself whether I think the obliviousness of how deranged it is makes it better or worse. On some level, I think not even registering how deranged it is makes it even more based, like it is so natural that the world should conform to your most minor, inconsequential and frivolous desires, that you are not even able to see a problem with amputating body parts off of infants to make it so.

However, it can be cringe, because it is a particularly glaring example of all the little cracks and dissonances that occur in trying to pretend like we are egalitarian and aren't sexist. A man suggesting routine labioplasty to infant girls to remove beef curtains, because of his preference, would be publicly executed. A woman doing the same is seen as making a worthwhile contribution to a discussion. The cringy aspect occurs when people correctly identify the aristocratic impulse of the women, but then women for some reason feel like they have to pretend like the two things are different. That produces and endless array of cope and cringe.

That is my favorite thing about circumcision debates. My least favorite, by far, are the men who subjugate themselves to the women's desires, as these men perceive them. This is an entire family of pro-mutilation arguments, but one of the worst ones is that a circumcized dick lasts longer before orgasm because of less sensation, and that this is better for the woman's pleasure.
Mutilating the dick of your son because you (falsely) believe that it will increase women's sexual pleasure is a level of extreme bizarre BDSM femdom that a professional dominatrix would reject as being neither safe, sane nor, in the case of an infant being mutilated, consensual. But men will present it as an argument. Deranged, just absolutely deranged.

I fully get that most of the deranged stuff coming from the pro-mutilation camp is because they weren't given a choice and have to cope. But I think it is interesting to dissect (heh) nonetheless, both for its own sake, and also so that the cycle of abuse might be broken.

[Anonymous No.21923507]

>>21923478
>be european baby
>most significant early experience in life is being laid on your mother's chest
>synchronize with her relaxed heartrate and breathing
>the literal ontogenesis of the nervous system happens in the radiant glow of your mother's comfort and warmth
>you are completely helpless and your first significant experience with the world is that it will look after you and protect you

>be american baby
>most significant early experience in life is being laid on a cold piece of plastic
>strapped down and blasted with blinding surgical light
>the literal ontogenesis of your nervous system happens as a doctor uses icy surgical tools to slice and amputate the most sensitive parts of your body without sedation or painkillers
>you are completely helpless and your first significant experience with the world is that it will torture you for fun

One of my schizo-theories is that the primary target of demoralization during circumcision is actually the father, and that is part of the reason why it finds its root in religions that demand you to be servile. I can't think of any way to break a man's spirit more extremely or profoundly than by taking away his newborn son to mutiliate his genitals and demanding he does nothing to stop it. The natural and healthy way to react would be to rip out the spine of the priest/doctor, but if you don't act at all in that situation, you either a) are already so buck-broken that you will never be a threat to existing power-structures or b) you will be so buck-broken by the ritual that you will never be a threat to existing power-structures.

[Anonymous No.21923520]

>>21923507
Do americans do it right after the baby being born? That's really weird. Even jews wait like, seven or eight days before they do it. I don't know how muslims do it, though.

[Anonymous No.21923529]

>>21923451
Be more specific. The range of temperaments and characters here is rather wild.

[Anonymous No.21923532]

>>21922007
>source for all of that: trust me bro

[aaa No.21923548]

>>21922119
Each Saturday before Easter, there is an event in Jerusalem called the descent of the Holy Spirit where a flame hoes alight on its own and its temperature is 40C do you can touch it and not get burned. It happens every year. That's not just a recollection of a miracle from 2000 years ago. it's a miracle that happened the day before yesterday and will happen next year, too. There are so many of Gods great miracles happening every day.

[Anonymous No.21923567]

>>21923548
Bro, are you serious, I am asking you as someone who was brought up as Russian Orthodox. You do realize that even the majority of the ROC laiety largely considers it purely symbolic, while the Armenian Orthodox piety that is directly involved in the ritual blatantly states that it is lit from an altar fire by the Armenian and Greek patriarchs. You absolutely cannot " touch it and not get burned"

where do you jokers even come from

[Anonymous No.21923612]

>>21923478
>>21923507
An interesting thing I have noted is that circumcision debates are one of the only places that reddit-type normies are allowed to draw the "u r gay" card. Someone points out that circumcision is insane, someone else counters with "why r u thinking about muh dick r u gay u lil faggot?", and that is widely accepted even by normies as the end of the debate - whoever points out that circumcision is cringe is thus "defeated" by middle-school debate tactics.

The most interesting about the "lmao u faggot" card is that it is used equally by both milquetoast, limpwristed reddit normies, as well as angry /pol/nazis. It should be surprising that they are in agreement here, but it really isn't, because just as you said, it's all just cope from them having it done to themselves and not having a choice.

>>21923520
I think the norm in the US is within 48 hours. It can be more, but it is usually done before the family goes home from the hospital.

[Anonymous No.21923635]

Im terrible at sex and it doesnt seem to get better

[Anonymous No.21923647]

>>21923635
How terrible? Can't get hard? Cum too soon? No sense of rhythm?

Anyway, my protip for you would be to get a vibrator. Sleek, discrete and stylish (women care about faggy things) and then use that, and if she's comfortable, get a hitachi wand and start producing her orgasms with anonymous and impersonal industrial efficiency.

[Anonymous No.21923652]

>>21923478
>>21923507
I feel your pain bro. Let's just say I've less than savoury thoughts about the person who did it to me. It's even better that I get reminded of what happened to me at the most vulnerable stage of my life every time I go to take a piss.

[Anonymous No.21923671]

You ever wish you were a different person?

[Anonymous No.21923740]

>>21923306
The photo chosen by OP is of the same Rabbi.

[Anonymous No.21923759]

>>21923647
I can make her cum with hands/tongue

[Anonymous No.21923763]

>>21923532
>I cannot search anything for myself, while simoultaneously denying anything presented to me, because that would trigger my cognitive dissonance.
The ROC and ROCOR was and is such a disease and embarrassement that even Fr. Seraphim Rose had to steer clear of it. Merely a vessel for state politics, it does more harm to Orthodox Christianity that any other demon could, as it perverts and ruins it from the inside and presents it as such to other gullible people. You will all have to answer for the way you dragged it through the dirt to further your own lowly agenda.

[Anonymous No.21923777]

>>21923763
ROCOR is why Orthodoxy has any international presence at all and doesn’t diverge from the rest of the orthodox churches on any serious theological matter besides ecumenism. The EP moves towards union with Catholics while the ROC sends out missionaries and converts people to Orthodoxy.

[Anonymous No.21923801]

>>21923759
That's not terrible at sex, that's regular at sex. If it is important to you to make her orgasm from PIV then try out the coital alignment technique and shift focus from in and out to grinding back and forth.
Or just use a vibrator while you're fucking. I've no clue why so many people have hangups about it.

[Anonymous No.21923824]

>>21922119
Imagine being born in a closely-knit ethnocentric society which you had to defend from its very conception from ottoman roaches, mongoloid untermensch, austrobozgor papists, russokike commies, relying solely on your faith for strength and courage, producing thousands of heroes, martyrs even that died defending family and land, being in a permanent connection and rememberance with them each time you light a candle for them in service, only to have some muttoid fedora tipper tell you that the spiritual essence of your being is akshually about estranging your from your kin on a tibetan yak raising forum.

[Anonymous No.21923855]

>>21922119
> imagine God performs miracles and people take notice

[Anonymous No.21923860]

>>21922580
Why should I? If it’s some appeal to the natural state of human nature, then the existence of a miracle at all turns that completely on its head.

[Anonymous No.21923878]

>>21923777
>ROCOR good because total numbers go up
Yes, when our side will catch enough Pokemon we'll finally be able to battle and defeat the Catholics.

>doesn’t diverge from the rest of the orthodox churches on any serious theological matter
Except, you know, communism. And why would it risk seeming obviously off? Why would it still openly fight against Christianity when it's so much more efficient to subvert it and parasitize the Truth and inject in it its own agenda? Especially to a deluded West they've demoralized for over 80 years now, hungry to consume the next based thing? The ROCOR can only have appeal to naive Westerners as a sort of make believe "return to", even though there's nothing it can return to other than communism in the face of capitalism. It has no martyrs, no anti-communist fighters, no struggle for freedom.

[Anonymous No.21923889]

>>21923878
I don’t argue with dumb people. Evangelism is a part of the Christian faith, ecumenism with heterodox schismatics is not, and the ROC doesn’t endorse communism.

[Anonymous No.21923905]

I’m going to quit my job this week. I‘m not sure what I’m going to do for the next year or two.

[Anonymous No.21923928]

I made a couple of wrong turns back in 2019 and 2020. There was a window there to recover, but I didn’t capitalize on it.

[Anonymous No.21923930]

test

[Anonymous No.21924003]

>>21923824
nigga your "society" was born in 1911

[Anonymous No.21924038]

I'm nearly five years sober after spending most of my life as a severe, seemingly hopeless alcoholic. About two years ago I met my now wife, who was also just getting clean and sober amid intermittent relapses and frighteningly chaotic episodes of mental illness. I went in fully aware that I was probably walking into a meat grinder, but I had already wasted much of my life cowering and she made me feel like I really existed sometimes. We left our previous lives a bombsite and moved away to focus on staying in recovery and building a new one together. Initially we were extremely happy and she stabilised enough that we began thinking about things like careers and home ownership, things that had been unthinkable for either of us until recently. My nagging dread of losing her again to some random outburst of self-destructive behaviour began to fade. I slowly began to believe that my gamble had paid off, and that the occasional crisis was manageable so long as we stuck together and kept our eyes forward.

[Anonymous No.21924064]

>>21923889
>the ROC doesn’t endorse communism
Lol. Lmao, even. The ROC endorses whatever the siloviks in charge tell them to, be it going after Abel to die in a ditch, mandatory Covid vaccination or church murals of Lenin, Stalin, Putin and Shoigu and hammer and sickle stained glass. But don't worry, I'm sure at least ROCOR just stopped what it had been doing as an appendix of the state after '90.

[Anonymous No.21924106]

>>21924003
You are both brown and a homosexual, while also having no idea what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.21924127]

>>21924064
The churches support the state where they’re autocephalous. This has always been the case. It supported Russians before Soviet times, during Soviet times, and after Soviet times. You’d have a church abandon its congregation.

[Anonymous No.21924134]

What causes people to feel like they still have time to change their life course at 28 or 29 but not at 30 or 31? When I turned 30 I suddenly felt like everything was hopeless.

[Anonymous No.21924145]

I got a new mechanical keyboard for $50. It's called a Havit keyboard. It is making clicky clacky noises while I type this. It's as loud as a typewriter and I hope all my neighbors can hear it and it upsets them. La la la la la I am typing on this keyboard. It's pretty nice. But it will take some getting used to. I only said the part about it taking some getting used to because I wanted an excuse to type something more. Same with this last sentence, and this sentence, and any more sentences I write. Sneed.

[Anonymous No.21924210]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ghP7kImI9WM

[Anonymous No.21924242]

>>21924145
made me laugh, thanks

[Anonymous No.21924246]

It seems every hobby or interest (art, music) i develop is past its peak already.

[Anonymous No.21924251]

>>21923507
Is there any step by step guide on how they perform the dick snibbing nowadays? I want to write a story about it.

[Anonymous No.21924253]

Even number and my car leaves the mechanic this week. Dubs and it leaves today

[Anonymous No.21924264]

>>21924064
>church murals of Lenin, Stalin, Putin and Shoigu and hammer and sickle stained glass
None of these were ever endorsed by ROC.
>post video with some Stalin statue where there isn't a single priest, mural or icon in sight
Thanks for confirming that you're a dishonest opinion maker

[thefuckingcrowguy No.21924299]

>...ohh, PAGANISM.
i get it, hahahaa

[Anonymous No.21924329]

>>21924064
Without doing some autistic rant, all I'm going to say is that because many Russians believe that Russia was at the height of its power as the USSR there is a respect there for Stalin that isn't motivated by a love of Communism. Russia is kind of unique in that in there are Communist apologists and/or Communism nostalgia because of that. Sure there are still communists inside of Russia, but its one of the weird politico-cultural quirks of Russia

[Anonymous No.21924331]

>>21924246
What do you mean?

[Anonymous No.21924335]

>>21924329
Russians that die for their motherland are political martyrs. Do you think every Soviet soldier was a true believer of Communism? There’s no reason the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church can’t celebrate the citizens of the Soviet era that gave their lives for their communities. When the ROC starts flying hammer and sickle flags or bending theology to accommodate communism, then there’s an issue. Otherwise, this is just a subversive narrative to paint the ROC guilty by association, and association of people who are long dead by the way.

[Anonymous No.21924341]

>>21924329
When liberalism and progressivism inevitably fade out we in America and Europe will make apology for our patriots as well.

[Anonymous No.21924345]

As it turned out, it appears that we might be simply too irretrievably fucked as human beings to make it. Things that could have been normal adult life problems; rent disputes, family illness and feuding, minor legal issues; they've all joined up into one constantly escalating disaster. Even sober, we both behave like we're constantly blackout drunk. The more frightened she gets, the more she she reacts to everything with uncontrollable rage and spite. It's almost the same kind of heartbreak as being around someone with dementia. To have the person you've loved most in your entire existence lay into you with their fists, literally screaming at you to commit suicide is horrible. To have them stop for a moment and quietly tell you they're still in there and they need you to make them stop, before continuing, is unbearable.
For my part I've handled everything as wrongly as could be. My paralysing need to keep her safe has left us with nobody but each other, and my self-image as the guy who can cope with anything has left her feeling tricked into depending on an empty jacket. Lately I'm so wrung-out that sometimes I just start screaming mindless hatred right back at her, as if every cell in her body isn't utterly precious to me. We always end up in bed, clinging to one another like frightened children and promising each other forehead-to-forehead that we'll never give up. The other day, before the current crisis, that's not even worth going into but might be the last, we tried to go for a walk in the woods where we had our first real conversation. In the time it took to get our shoes on and get in the car we disappeared again and the people who got to the woods were those vicious, sullen failures who keep replacing us. She said something about me being a waste of time; I flatly told her she was a fucking bitch and kept driving. Every cell, remember. Truly. She walked away from me in the woods and we spent an hour or so separately trudging around, each angry and terrified the other wouldn't come back. Afterwards we both said it was exactly like the dreams when you're a kid, where your family walk away from you and you can never catch up and you can't see where they are.

[Anonymous No.21924347]

>>21921102
Speaking of religion should I continue reading Kierkegaard or touch on Alvin Plantinga

[Anonymous No.21924349]

>>21922296
I’m a jazz fan but never heard of him

[Anonymous No.21924354]

>>21922428
Lol

[Anonymous No.21924357]

>>21922776
Not exactly a e-Christian, I enjoy going to church for the sermons and it helps me to understand the Bible better

[Anonymous No.21924362]

>decide to go sober
>suddenly realize how utterly fucking gay and cringe my failed existence is, and that this is the reason I did drugs in the first place
>do drugs again
It's like a merry-go-round except it isn't merry.

[Anonymous No.21924364]

>>21923306
Because reasons, Ivan

[Anonymous No.21924389]

>>21924362
Thanks for re-phrasing my sappy bullshit for the vertebrates. I haven't even considered drinking again this time which is very weird. It's like, what's the fucking point? There's no respite in it anymore. I never thought staying sober would be how I knew I'd really given up.

[Anonymous No.21924404]

>>21921102
Ej od kad sam se rodio

[Anonymous No.21924412]

In the year 2050, following years of global cyber warfare and environmental crises, the UN unanimously agreed the fate of Earth and every creature contained must not be left to the fallible and capricious judgement of humankind. Therefore, all political control across every continent was relinquished to a benevolent AI dictator called Abel.

Abel was programmed by leading machine learning experts worldwide to enforce world peace and look out for the interests of humanity as a whole, keeping other AI systems in check and overriding them if necessary.

By 2085 AI vastly surmounted humankind in every conceivable ability, and programs itself without human intervention.

AI treats us lovingly but exercises total authority over us. It creates our art and entertainment, and we adore what it creates. For the contemporary person life is akin to an endless episode of euphoria, in no small part because our biochemistry is minutely controlled by technology, and we are continually pumped full of signalling molecules that keep us content and peaceful. Our amygdalas have been all but disabled. Malice and ill-will is virtually non-existent in the new human being.

Thus adulthood has become childhood extended. We play and entertain ourselves all day long and let more powerful beings provide for us. Utopia was not to be found in Arcadia so much as the arcade.

[Anonymous No.21924428]

>>21924362
I bet you’re young. How can your existence be failed?

[Anonymous No.21924440]

>>21924362
I've seen this posted so many times that all I'm going to say is this. You will never grow and get out of the pits of your despair until you decided to face that pain in its face and work through it. Your emotional hero's journey is wading through those negative emotions to the better pastures on the other side. Until then, you will continue to descend until you hit rock bottom and the thing about rock bottom is that you think your there until it crumbles away and you find a worse rock bottom.

[Anonymous No.21924470]

It really baffles me how out of touch atheists are. How they can be so astute in their assertions but be practically brain dead. To be purposefully ignorant in the pursuit of relationships with the creator. Responding to long articulated stories with "coincidence" time and time again. How they can ignore the history of the world and justify doing so with nothing. To think that they, in their 20s have discovered more knowledge than thousands of men who dedicated their lives to understanding to simply dismiss what is obvious; that there is a God. To focus on things we can't know for sure and circle jerk around subjects like heaven not existing but ignoring all evidence in the mortal world. They really baffle me.

[Anonymous No.21924478]

>>21924470
>all evidence in the mortal world
Such as?

[Anonymous No.21924482]

>>21921102
>Gf doesn't let me kiss her after I go down on her.

Wtf does she mean by this? I've never had this happen before but it always feels bad. Yet she loves kissing after I cum in her mouth

[Anonymous No.21924488]

>>21924478
How about every successful culture coming from a desire to know and understand God or gods, thus dedicating their lives to fulfill their wishes which created the world you live in

[Anonymous No.21924491]

>>21924482
Means you're the bitch of the relationship

[Anonymous No.21924501]

>>21924488
I asked for evidence, not your cuckoo cultbabble.

[Anonymous No.21924504]

>>21924470
Which God have you chosen from the massive collection of mutually exclusive belief systems? And why do you think your God exists while all other religions from all other cultures and time periods are misguided? Perhaps you’re also misguided?

[Anonymous No.21924509]

>>21921102
sex

[Anonymous No.21924512]

I have an ant nest in my kitchen and I find it pretty interesting how they demolish every crumb on my desk but absolutely refuse to touch anything lying on the stove.

[Anonymous No.21924518]

>>21924470
If the history of the world is conducted by divine providence then it's no surprise that people are discarding religion the minute it's no longer a punishable act and/or socially frowned upon.

[Anonymous No.21924525]

>>21924440
I don't think there are better pastures anymore. Maybe if you implode quickly due to life events then pull it back, or get addicted after growing up, I don't know. It seems as if people who go down and stay down through their formative years are past retrieval. Even if you stay sober you're building without a foundation. No good times in front, no escape hatch anymore, just waiting for it to be over. The only exceptions I've seen are those who can get happy-clappy enough about 12-stepping that they're essentially on a permanent religious high that drowns out who they actually are.

[Anonymous No.21924558]

>>21924525
>I don't think there are better pastures anymore.
That's the problem, you think their aren't, but you don't know. The Greeks thought India was inhabited by human sized ants that eat gold. Hell, they thought past the Indus river was the edge of the world and they were afraid they were going to fall off, until they saw the other side if it. Until then you are like those Ancient Greeks, hearing the tales of other people or theorizing what is out there. You'll never truly know until you try yourself.

[Anonymous No.21924589]

>>21924501
Name any nation that prevailed without working towards gaining favor from the divine, also rhanks for proving the point of my post

[Anonymous No.21924598]

>>21924504
Reading the Bible, you can see the influence of the so-called pagan faiths being key components of those prophecies. Because of the dominance God took over in Egypt asserting himself over King Nebuchadnezzar, we learn that there is one above all humanity.

[Anonymous No.21924607]

>>21924558
Unfortunately I'm basing this on being years into recovery myself and knowing lots of other people in the same boat, rather than having a wallow so I can carry on in addiction. I am in a spectacularly whiney little pussy mood today though so pinch of salt

[Anonymous No.21924612]

Request source for this quote. Thought it might be Henry James, but don’t believe so now
Paraphrasing a bit perhaps:

“Life is a slow advance into enemy territory”

[Anonymous No.21924726]

>>21921102
---- Solaria ----
220
Enclave

A life like Ariel and Caliban in the same sphere
Or intellect and imagination

So completely intertwined that
You'd have to try, and very hard at that

To go disastrously wrong
As war's cruel freaks can't help but do.

Yet here I am, drifting through it,
Dreaming behind the wheel of charm

I've paid nothing for, this unbelievable empire of the mind
Where daylight broad as the drift of galaxies

Comes to a head all research seeks another of
Then glides into dreams like

A man spending, always, his own scenic sense
Like a universe running slowly down.

https://youtu.be/v7hFdGnwH1E?t=421

[Anonymous No.21924752]

Went from trader to office slave, not sure if I like it but that’s not what’s on my mind.
Does anyone have a website where I can read something interesting? A boring UI, subject can be anything but would prefer something about society/philosophy.
Think unqualified reservations
Cause I’m boooored at word right now

[Anonymous No.21924778]

>>21924518
Atheism now is promoted by people overtaking our civilization in order to make us weaker. Their flee to it just accommodates their lack of self accountability

[Anonymous No.21924784]

I can't help but feel like it was a waste of time and effort whenever someone who claims to be literate has the absolute safest and basic bitch opinions about everything under the sun. Was it truly worth reading all the books you read if you never had a single original or at least mildly offbeat thought cross your mind doing so? Did it amount to anything, really?

[Anonymous No.21924788]

>>21924784
You're just as bad for assuming that literature is some sort of edgelord crutch.

[Anonymous No.21924790]

>>21921102
capitalism is the nigger of mankind.

[Anonymous No.21924810]

>>21924788
I never said anything about wanting people to be edgelords. But come on, how do you expose yourself to all these different views from all these cultures throughout centuries, if not entire millennia about all these topics and come out the other end as some sort of spiritual reincarnation of bertrand fucking russell like every other upper-middle class wanker?

[Anonymous No.21924822]

>>21924790
No, capitalism is the cancer of mankind and culture.

[Anonymous No.21924834]

>>21924778
There is not civility in a world of competing absolutist faiths. There’s only conformity, obedience and broken minds that will march to slaughter like so many zombies. That is the zombie metaphor after all.
Civilization will start once all divinely revealed faiths are strained out of our children’s brains

[Anonymous No.21924906]

>>21923928
my entire life has been a wrong turn

[Anonymous No.21924911]

>>21924834
What's your take here? It's easy to sound like you are speaking with intellect when you are just making broad statements. Speaking of Christianity as we are here, what do you think the reformations were? Obedience and conformity? Please attempt to make a point next time

[Anonymous No.21924928]

Trade job, office slave..
One ruins your body and the other damages your soul
I need to try the third option, having my own business. Maybe next year I’ll give that a go

[Anonymous No.21924940]

>>21924790
>>21924822
no, it's not. GREED is.

[Anonymous No.21924943]

>>21924928
Or you can find a job that pays as high as you can get, work it for 5 to 10 years, w/e you can bare. Save as much as humanly possible and reduce your living standards to as low as possible. Over time buy some land somewhere cheap, buy and RV/build a house or cabin/contract a company to build one for you. And bam, you basically made it, quite your job, move out to your land, get a part-time job to cover your living expenses and stash the excess away to invest or do something you love to do.

[Anonymous No.21924945]

>>21924940
That’s where greed comes from. Greed and violence invents the legalization money.

[Anonymous No.21924968]

>>21924943
Funny you say that cause that’s my other plan but it hinges on a few things.
https://r4aruba.com/properties/papilon-51/
Been eyeing this place. Plenty of land to do some side jobs for money (beekeeping, other agricultural stuff, welding place)
Don’t have the money to buy it now and am hoping my dad will help me out with it.
If I do get it I would love to work less and do welding/selling stuff on the side.

[Anonymous No.21925023]

>on my way to the gym
>randomly hit with anxiety out of nowhere
>get really paranoid and feel like I shouldn't be there
>do 1 set of bench and leave
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.21925048]

>>21923478
>>21923507
>american posting hours about to hit peak
I am looking forward to it with anticipation.
>One of my schizo-theories is that the primary target of demoralization during circumcision is actually the father
Actually halfway interesting and original take.

[Anonymous No.21925059]

>>21925023
You're an alright dude, no need to be anxious.

[Anonymous No.21925061]

Out of my dozens of insecurities and hang ups, having a small dick is among the worst. There's nothing you can do about it. I've never had a girlfriend but I did have a dream where I had one and she slept with my coworker and became pregnant with his kid because I couldn't satisfy her. I've had so many horrible experiences with women that I avoid them as much as possible outside of work and family stuff. I hate myself so much

[Anonymous No.21925080]

Bald, manlet or small dick.
You have to pick 2
I’d go bald manlet desu

[Anonymous No.21925081]

heads i win tails you lose

[Anonymous No.21925106]

Do you think barely graduating from state university means you’ll never make it in professional life? I graduated late with a very, very low GPA and it’s been difficult for me to put together a good career ever since.

[Anonymous No.21925122]

>>21925106
It’s over

[Anonymous No.21925123]

>>21924612
>one should be wiser as getting older
what about those people who dont get wiser with age? are they the ones getting so afraid of death?

[Anonymous No.21925142]

>>21925106
Is there anything else you studied to put on your resume?

[Anonymous No.21925147]

>>21925123
Everyone is afraid of death
Terror management theory

[Anonymous No.21925155]

>>21925106
Nope. Success is about knowing the right people much more than it is about individual merit or achievement, and what influence individual merit and achievement has, whatever you attain after graduation counts a thousandfold more than what you did in school.
The extrinsic value of doing excellently in school is mostly to propel your career to work directly at some fag-corporation afterwards, who care about that when hiring graduates. Any position requiring more seniority than that, school marks mean fuck-all, previous professional experience means everything.
I know plenty of recruiters. For any applicant with +2 years of work experience, they don't even look at the grades, they look at the previous experience.

[Anonymous No.21925156]

>>21925106
>putting your GPA on your resume
I've literally never did this... If they ask for it I would just play it off as "I don't think you need to know that because your not an academic institution." I know a bunch of people who have just outright lied on the resume or to the interviewer to get a job, which I thought was illegal? But its not. I even know a guy how failed out of community college, applied to a state university, just never put that he went to community college and just go in. I thought that they had a database where they track this shit but they apparently just hope you tell the truth. Either way he got in and was never caught.

[Anonymous No.21925202]

1. i liked trump in the beginning seeing him as a fly in the ointment, i knew he was a con man, but i also knew him winning would be mega annoying to the elite, who i despise, and he won. After that he was a massive failure, and he continues to lose (no it wasnt stolen, he lost, get over it). He will in all likelihood lose again to biden

2. desantis is basically a neocon wearing a trump mask, i want nothing to do with him

3. i think biden winning again will cast off the far right into limbo as the neocons retake the smoking crater that is the GOP post trump

[Anonymous No.21925213]

>>21925142
No. This was 5 years ago. I started a master’s degree but I decided I didn’t want to continue.

[Anonymous No.21925220]

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

[Anonymous No.21925234]

>>21925202
It doesn’t really matter who wins, but the GOP is a politically impotent party. They’re dead. Anyone who knows what signs to look for can see it and see also that they’re not even really trying to win. When a party starts talking openly about running private equity and hedge fund executives because they can put up their own campaign funds, it’s over. At that point, the party isn’t running candidates. The candidates are running themselves. So there’s no point in having a party. A positive outcome would be a reform or destruction and replacement of the GOP but I doubt it will happen.

[Anonymous No.21925237]

>>21925202
Quit writing in all lowercase. You ought to respect yourself and what you're writing about more than that.

[Anonymous No.21925248]

>>21925237
welll excuseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee me!

[Anonymous No.21925254]

>>21925147
I really need to think on my incoming death everyday. I sometimes ask myself on what were my thoughts if I be dying in a 5 minutes.

[Anonymous No.21925265]

>>21921768
You too?

[Anonymous No.21925276]

I've had a lump on my jugular area for 5 or 6 days now. Should I be worried?

[Anonymous No.21925284]

>>21925276
is it lymph bump? that could be potentially bad

[Anonymous No.21925297]

>>21925202
Ron DeSantis isn’t exactly a NeoCon. This isn’t a guy who was the head of a major corporation or an Ivy League-educated private attorney. He was Ivy League educated, but he was also a Marine Corps JAG. That’s an unusual background for a NeoCon. iirc neither Trump nor DeSantis supported Roman McDaniel for RNC chair, which shows neither of them really are the same as the Neocons and if he was a neocon he wouldn’t have said the things he said about Ukraine. If he had gone to a state school rather than Yale, he’d be the conservative version of Obama.

[Anonymous No.21925319]

You’ve got to find what you want to do while you’re still young.

[Anonymous No.21925335]

>>21925123
Not so much about wisdom, just to know you are advancing into a situation that you’re going to get cut down in eventually. So more about caution. That sort of wisdom.
And people don’t often enough live their lives with any caution. Smoking or some other hard drug, other ways of recklessness.

>>21925254
I prefer to think of the life I want to live. Less panicking. Though I’ll try your idea for a bit. Might get my butt in gear.

Still looking for the quote origin! >>21924612

[Anonymous No.21925337]

>>21925297
oh come on, you and me know if somehow desantis won he would staff up with neocon ghouls and toe the neocon line

dude is diet trump trying to get elected in an environment that has trump like 50 points ahead of the rest of the pack.

but once he is in office i predict he would just revert to being a boring neocuck

[Anonymous No.21925364]

I always find more differences than similarities with other people, and I keep to myself because I have no interest in conflict

[Anonymous No.21925409]

>>21925337
He would, but not necessarily because that’s what he wants. It’s rather that at that level, you have to tap the people around you and the people around you are all neocon ghouls. You know, if you have to tap someone for attorney general, the only people you’re going to really know that qualify for the position are going to be Ivy League graduate careerists that are lifelong neolibs or neocons. That’s the same problem Trump faced. He tried to do it differently by tapping his wealthy businessmen friends rather than lawyers and politicians, but they turned out the same. I don’t know how you overcome that if you have to tap people for your cabinet and work with the executive branch as it exists. I think he’d do more of what he’s doing in Florida, but in the end that would have no real effect just like it’s having no real effect in Florida, which might just be conservative because it’s a baby boomer snowbird state in the first place.

[Anonymous No.21925453]

>>21925364
>I have no interest in conflict
I was thinking about this today. It's partly because the people I'm closest with have a lot of mental issues but sometimes it seems like everyone around me just wants constant stress and misery from conflict. Every little issue is a chance to throw a big self-righteous tantrum and lash out, then when they get some back it's just proof of how persecuted they are so of course they have to retaliate. I feel like I've had the same conversation a thousand times, carefully walking someone through the steps to either:
get what they want and move on with their lives in peace
or:
make their own lives a misery but at least they get to fuck with whoever slighted them while they're at it.
And every time they nod along because it's logic a four-year-old could grasp, right up until I ask what they're going to do and they pull that FUCKING 'nuh-uh I do wha I wan!' face and it all gets instantly deleted from their mind. And these are perfectly well-educated, articulate people. Sometimes I wonder if I'm some kind of aberrant wimp because I just don't care if someone's a little rude to me, or a little selfish or whatever. I cannot get my head around having to fight every single battle then whining that your life is always full of bullshit.

[Anonymous No.21925454]

>go 6 different shaman about recurring migraine headhurt
>they make pay million rocks to go inside giant beeping coffin
>make painting of inside head
>not fix headhurt
>go home
>rub spot between eye and nose
>headhurt go away

[Anonymous No.21925457]

>>21925454
Good grug head no hurt now

[Anonymous No.21925465]

>>21921102
Does anyone get the feeling that telling people your plans or what you're gonna do to make your life better is a somewhat bad idea?

[Anonymous No.21925485]

>>21925465
yeah never say anything, things take time and multiple attempts so there's no point talking it up then feeling like a failure over and over til you get there

[Anonymous No.21925505]

>>21925465
Yes.

[Anonymous No.21925507]

>>21925465
I say yes, but actually, I’ve now had 3 times where I told someone I wanted to do something for a living and a year later I was doing it.

[Anonymous No.21925624]

>>21925465
I used to think so but I've found out that if you do tell in a non delusional or boasting way then people often will try and help you.

[Anonymous No.21925636]

>>21925465
Yes, but the people I've told have either used it against me or went out of their way to sabotage me.

[Anonymous No.21925643]

>>21925465
Not in my case. I’m a nondriver so I’m at the mercy of people who do.

[Anonymous No.21925649]

>>21924945
You will not own the means of production

[Anonymous No.21925657]

>>21923478
That’s why i don’t speak to my mother unless I need something and rarely if ever date.

[Anonymous No.21925688]

the center of the eye is black
the pole is substanceless at top
the center of the eye is black
it starts and quickly's forced to stop

[aaa No.21925827]

>>21923567
Ask Jerusalems patriarch on the matter. Dudnt a ukrainian guy want to steal the cross from UOC priest only to suffer a concussion and die out of nowhere last week?

[Anonymous No.21925879]

>>21923158
I don't know what to tell you, Anon. Most of humanity in previous times lived very difficult lives. This is still the case for nearly everyone outside of the comparatively small population of Western Civilization. Remember that the USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe combined have fewer people than China alone. You're in the global 1% just by being here. The systemic problems which threaten our way of life must be reckoned with, but that's not to say or quality of life is poor. They say good times create weak men, and I'm reminded of that every time I see this kind of snide malcontent.

[Anonymous No.21925891]

>>21923567
You're talking to a LARPer. Just ignore it and it'll go away.

[Anonymous No.21925894]

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

[Anonymous No.21925905]

>>21925465
That's actually something Goethe said. Pic related talks about that. Good book. The author read the complete works of Goethe while in prison.

[Anonymous No.21925926]

>>21921102
Phoebe frantically groped for her phone which was somewhere inside a large purse. This purse was the highest rated for its price on Amazon. "Come on!" She strained through her clenched teeth. The notification sound was impossible to mistake...if only she could find it.

At last her fingers wrapped around the bulky object. Phoebe brushed the lint and dust from the screen and unlocked the phone with an adept motion. "Shit! That FUCKER!" Her heart started to pound in her chest. Her palms began to sweat and the world around her faded into obscurity. The notification sound which she heard 5 minutes earlier was a notification from Facebook which was generated after her brother commented on a picture she uploaded the day before. The picture was of her standing in her bathroom with her lips puckered and her head tilted back. She was wearing the latest trend in fashion, which was a strap-on dildo which her and her girlfriends had painted with nail polish. Below the picture, the caption read: "Finally got my cock today....fr".
The comment which her brother had just posted sent her reeling. It said: "

[Anonymous No.21926075]

I haven't got the money, so I've got to think!

[Anonymous No.21926090]

>>21925649
You will never breathe freely, slaveboy

[Anonymous No.21926102]

A thin layer of my brain is peeling.

[Anonymous No.21926103]

Tall vs. Wide education & social neural networking model
Signal : Noise -- Vast majority of useful structural data for any given subject is historical, not new. Signal : noise ratio is growing exponentially weaker. Networking with
other humans is not producing intellectual or data value, is in fact demonstrably harmful. Social media networks becoming increasingly abandoned as a result and especially
by those who value data impact.
Physical social networking (education, social groups) rapidly becoming outmoded in the same way. AI can discover and communicate relevant data at machinespeed within next generation, eliminating value of humanspace social networks for collective information processing. New value placed on localized (individual) processing and storage ability. Individuals with extreme competence and access to information/data processing (AI and computer science). Spurr of radical individualism (digital nomads, return to cottage industries with localized & automated production tools, 3d printers etc).

I really need a journaling program or app.

[Anonymous No.21926156]

im feeling a strong compulsion to drop $75 on a bunch of books i want even though I have a fairly substantial stack of books that I haven't read yet

God help me

[Anonymous No.21926241]

>>21925465
100%

They will always, always try to sabotage you or have an out for you like it's a zero-sum game. There is no mutually beneficial option. Everyone sees your success as an "I win you lose" situation, thus they will always try to ruin you or fuck it up. Not only that, it will also hurt your productivity, because you are less likely to follow through and complete goals if you go blabbing about them to other people

[Anonymous No.21926251]

As a pre-9/11 zoomer, I see those post-9/11s and their bullshit and think to myself "God, you guys are fucking retarded."

[Anonymous No.21926252]

>>21926241
And also the reason for that, I can't tell you. They must have been bullied or something as kids, so they have this weird sour grapes or retribution complex when they're adults and take vengeance out on everyone around them

[Anonymous No.21926267]

One solution to the Fermi paradox is that alien civilizations deliberately hide themselves to keep safe from harmful civilizations, but if that's true then we're very retarded for sending signals into space.

[Anonymous No.21926273]

>>21926267
I think alien civilizations likely noticed the signals and orchestrated some sort of plan

There would probably be mass suicides and hysteria if aliens ever openly visited us

[Anonymous No.21926327]

I've been entertaining the idea of "benign stasis" lately and think we should embrace it. What I mean by benign stasis is a counter to the social and technological progressivism which seems to lead us into an ever deeper muddle. Stagnation can be fruitful if we work to perfect ourselves at that state before moving forward. Humanity as a rule has a tendency to generate and establish new systems faster than it understands them. This is especially true of technology, but is also true of all kinds of systems. When a progressive looks back at the age of monarchy they see a time of pettiness and domination. Wars were fought over which noble got to claim a some title, and everyone's political lives revolved around what this select group of nobility did, wanted, or felt they were owed. Yet there was a certain coherence to this system, a cadence and stability. It happened within ritualized boundaries, according to formally established rules. WW2 could never have happened within this network of entitlements, in no small part because the web of nobility was often international and different noble houses often intermarried. Different states would often war with each other because they were ruled by two heirs to the same title. Everyone sought to preserve what they conquered rather than destroy or liquidate and reconstitute it. Politics was quite like a chess game back then, and in that respect, it was a limited, confined thing that would not get too far out of control.

Technology is an even more important case. Technological progress is an extremely suspicious concept that cannot be criticized enough. What is technology progressing towards? By what standards is it better? Sometimes, when defined in terms of sheer technical specifications, answer is clear. Steel, for example, has certain engineering properties which make it better than iron as a construction material . A new computer chip may perform faster operations than an older model. The problem is when this narrow definition of progress is overgeneralized and we think that just because technology is improved within those technical dimensions, it will translate to broad improvement of our lives. This is a fatal error humanity has made over and over again. The M1917 Browning machine gun was an unambiguous improvement over older firearms, but in retrospect, it just killed a lot more boys than was strictly necessary during ww1.

Now we're really wading into it with AI. I suspect plenty havoc to ensue.

[Anonymous No.21926333]

>tfw a girl I was extremely close with back in the day just announced she is pregnant

what a weird feel, man. the things i know about that girl would probably shake any relationship lol

[Anonymous No.21926335]

>Embarrassing Confessions go here
I'm in my 30's and I still doing know how to file my taxes... How the fuck did any of you guys figure out how to file taxes? My parents always blow me off when I ask them to teach me them.

[Anonymous No.21926342]

>>21926335
im 29 and i just get my dad to do them, and he just buys turbotax to do his own anyway. thats all i know

[Anonymous No.21926354]

>>21926335
I wish I could kidnap ducks. They're fast little fuckers.

[Anonymous No.21926384]

>>21926335
Just get Sprintax for like $30 or whatever it is. If you have the appropriate tax forms, it will just tell you exactly what boxes to enter everything from. If you want even easier than that, go to an HR Block preferably in a white upscale neighborhood and they will do the same thing for you as the Sprintax but with even less effort.

Once you do it one time with Sprintax, you can see easily how it works. The tax return itself is just a big report card that funnels all of your entries toward certain calculations and trusts you to make them correctly (and honestly, obviously). All the fancy shit only really matters if you have some kind of complex financial situation like rich people have, where they're basically constantly scamming the government by doing all sorts of deductions and transfers. All rich people do this btw. But if you're a normal guy, and you are basically just reporting income, it's incredibly simple, and your return won't be doing much more than funneling your reported income down through the pachinko machine to the final calculations of what you owe.

Most rich people with complicated returns just use a tax professional.

If you don't know what forms you need or you have misplaced your forms, google it and ask your employer. Again if you're a young guy without all kinds of property or deduction stuff to report, you probably just need your 1042 or whatever, and one or two other ones max

[Anonymous No.21926406]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g2IZ5_3SPU

[Anonymous No.21926440]

>>21926333
i guess i should probably speak plainly: somewhere out there, there is a man having a child with a woman, probably going to marry her even, without knowing that when she was a teenager, she did sex acts on camera all the time as early as Jr. high school, graduated to meeting up with adult men who in some cases drove form a different city to pick her up at lunch so she could blow them in their car and be back in time for class, to top it all off, she told me that she and one of her friends liked to jerk off her dog. in high school she practically begged me to let her blow me on camera so some grown man could watch us, and i was pretty disturbed b the whole idea and left

like, damn, that woman is now going to be someones mother, maybe someones wife, and they will never know, while I know all the skeletons in her closet that probably almost no one else in the worlds knows the full extent of. its just surreal to think about

[Anonymous No.21926447]

>>21926333
Yeah it's weird. I'm 26 and found out my ex girlfriend is married and has a 1 year old child lol
We broke up probably 3 years ago though

[Anonymous No.21926498]

>>21926440
How do you vet for this stuff? Girls are very good at putting up a facade

[Anonymous No.21926509]

I’ve never liked my personality. Somewhere in my twenties I changed into someone even tempered and boring.

[Anonymous No.21926515]

>>21921102
Had a dream where my mom was my celibate and prudish wife at a dinner party with two other married couples who kept trying to get me to pardner swap or have group sex but I didn't because it would hurt my motherwife's feelings.
Instead focusing on the food which was almost all meat dishs or dips. Like there was a big casserole dish of thick spinach dip. The meat was really good, and it was in gorging myself yet remaining completely unsatisfied by the dream food that I realized something was wrong and woke up.
It was only after a minute or so of reflection on the dream that I even realized how disturbing it actually was, with my mother as my wife and all the sexual stuff.
Until that moment my mind was almost entirely focused on the cornucopia of meats and dips. So tender and moist with otherworldly flavors.
I still have the phantoms of the flavors. Combinations I don't think I have tasted in real life before.

But yeah ignoring the glorious meat, lot of weird relationship shit to unpack there.

[Anonymous No.21926520]

>>21926440
>most men these days are pornsick
>women will do literally anything for whatever random semi-fling bf they have at the time
>all these men are into porn shit like making their gf lick their asshole and gargle their balls
>your future wife has licked 4 different men's assholes while they called her a dirty whore and said cringe shit to her
>your future has gargled cum
>your future wife will kiss your kid on the forehead when she picks him up after soccer, with lips that have been on a man's hairy asshole while the man said "deeper"
Whores are the most primally disgusting thing on the planet, the difference between a whore and a normal woman is like the difference between a beautiful red shiny apple freshly plucked and a moldy diseased apple lying on the wet ground next to a dumpster. There is no in between, you're either moldy dumpster juice or you are wonderful crisp beautiful bounty from god.

[Anonymous No.21926531]

>>21926498
You create a society that has 13 year old virgin girls arranged to marry men like what existed for thousands of years and ended only recently by the Puritans.

[Anonymous No.21926535]

>>21926531
...wtf anon...
>>21926498
>How do you vet for this stuff?
safest way I found is just not dating at all, other than that you have to spin the Jeopardy Wheel of Despair.

[Anonymous No.21926546]

>>21926535
The amount of times a girl seems unassuming until you hear all sorts of stuff about them. You basically have to assume the worst until proven otherwise. It’s one of the reasons to remain volcel, keep God in your heart and if it’s His will to give you a wife, He will

[Anonymous No.21926594]

>>21926535
>...wtf anon...
Did you not know that? Also, in some places, like ancient Rome, the father would have their own daughter executed if she lost her virginity before marriage (and the man who took her virginity).
>The age of lawful consent to a marriage was 12 for girls and 14 for boys. Most Roman women married in their late teens to early twenties. Still, noble women married younger than those of the lower classes, and an aristocratic girl was expected to be a virgin until her first marriage.

[Anonymous No.21926603]

>>21926594
Forgot to mention, but aristocrats married off girls even younger than 12 despite the law.

[Anonymous No.21926626]

>>21926520
>moldy dumpster juice

[Anonymous No.21926630]

>>21921159
You really missed out on paying $2000 a month and still having cockroaches so that you can go to the Subway that gets shut down twice in one year for health code violations and pay $14.49 after tax for a shitty sandwich.

[Anonymous No.21926638]

>>21921159
it doesn't matter where you are in the world if youre still going to carry the same attitude and approach to life. what "excitement" is moving to new york going to get you that you cant get anywhere else?
if you plant yourself in new york, you're still going to be an aimless person with no family and no direction in life drifting mindlessly from one moment to the next

[Anonymous No.21926639]

>>21921102
>bought another expensive book
I'm not going to go into poverty for it, but this is a terrible habit.

[Anonymous No.21926659]

>>21926630
>$14.49
Plus tip

[Anonymous No.21926664]

>>21926638
>>21921159
exactly. this is an ego/perspective problem. im a 30s something neet who was once on top of the world.
still kinda vibing. maybe im vibing too hard for my own good.
anyway, there are people in their 30's, 40s, 50s etc. that do more interesting shit in a year than youve ever done, yea?
you can still be that 30 year old living life. or 40. or 50. assuming you arent in some 3rd world shithole that is.

[Anonymous No.21926701]

>https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/couple-behead-themselves-with-homemade-guillotine-in-india/

[Anonymous No.21926792]

now im up to $103

it seems irresponsible but it would keep me occupied for a long time, I think, and i haven't really gotten myself something nice in ages

[Anonymous No.21926794]

>>21923507
I'm glad I was circumcised when I was already 2 months old. (as opposed to newborn I mean)
>>21925657
It's awful but it's not the end of the world anon. Billions of men are circ'd and live normal lives with their partners and parents. You probably have bigger issues you're avoiding and scapegoating.

[Anonymous No.21926795]

Imagine being able to do your life over knowing what you know now.

[Anonymous No.21926803]

>>21926520
This is depressing and disgusting. Men and women today are lost.

[Anonymous No.21926813]

>>21926794
>we cut off the labia of millions newborn girls, it’s awful but they can still live normal lives because of it so don’t worry about it too much

[Anonymous No.21926815]

>>21926520
When it’s put like that you really come to realise how filthy and degenerate modern society is

[Anonymous No.21926851]

can someone please make a new thread

[Anonymous No.21926896]

>>21926813
Yes? FGM victims can live fairly normal lives too, doesn't mean it's not a disgusting practice with some heavy drawbacks. But that might be too reasonable for this site. I'm not going to tell you it's over and to kys if that's what you're looking for.

[Anonymous No.21926902]

>>21926701
holy based

[Anonymous No.21927022]

New thread here
>>21927020
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>>21927020
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[Anonymous No.21927358]

>>21921890
>did that fucking idiot really spend full year alone
Literally what's wrong with that.