/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23146684]

>24 years old with a stable job
Okay so what am I supposed to do now? Any books about this?

[Anonymous No.23146692]

>>23146684
Focus on saving money for retirement so you can punt the question of "what now?" to your 60 year old self. That's about it, enjoy adulthood.

[Anonymous No.23146694]

>>23146684
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eXU2p982GQ&pp=ygUXd2UgZG8gdGhpcyBmb3IgNDAgeWVhcnM%3D

[Anonymous No.23146698]

>>23146684
Gradually improve your career so you get paid more, pursue hobbies and interests, get a gf.

[Anonymous No.23146718]

>>23146684
this is the second TD-image thread on this board. I just started watching this show recently and will be fininshing season 1 at some point today. Love it so far.
>Okay so what am I supposed to do now? Any books about this?
Bible

[Anonymous No.23146725]

>>23146698
Thats all there is huh? And there are people fine with that? Maybe I just need a bullet pill then

[Anonymous No.23146736]

>>23146725
This is a book board so I would assume to the average user their life goals are lot related- complete the western canon and read all of the greatest texts (that alone would take several lifetimes) and leave something of artistic merit behind to speak for yourself and who you were. That is all you really need out of life.

[Anonymous No.23146747]

>>23146725
>Thats all there is huh?
What were you expecting? You can look to religion for spiritual matters, but it's down to you to find things that fulfil you in this world.

[Anonymous No.23146785]

>>23146736
>>23146747
Damn. What a shame.

[Anonymous No.23146790]

>>23146785
Well, what do you want out of life? Literature is all there is to the world. Trust me. The Proust quote where he says books let you experience things far more intensely and quickly than real life wasn’t a joke.

[Anonymous No.23146796]

>>23146790
To me that sounds equal to
>don't kill yourself think of the marvel and games you'll miss.
Sorry for offending anyone here, and I don't mean that in a disparaging tone.
>what do you want
Nothing.

[Anonymous No.23146805]

>>23146796
You can kill your self any time. YOU want nothing out of life and you are confused when people can’t make you a better life it sounds like.

[Anonymous No.23146816]

>>23146805
I'm not saying life has no meaning. I'm not trying to make a big statement here. You're making leaps in logic. I don't begrudge anyone who wants to do things and enjoys life. I'm jealous of them.

[Anonymous No.23146819]

>>23146796
If you're unable to find meaning in this world then it's your failing, not life's.

[Anonymous No.23146826]

>>23146819
I don't understand this point that now two anons have made. I never disparaged life.

[Anonymous No.23146829]

>>23146698
First part of this is the inverse of truth. To the more recent topical point, I keep living just to spite the notion that I should have worked harder and had a "career."

[Anonymous No.23146831]

>>23146698
Pajeet post
>>23146718
LARP
>>23146736
Holy cringe
>>23146747
Reddit

[Anonymous No.23146848]

>>23146831
what a terrible post.
>LARP
life is a collective dream. religion is real to billions of people, and can be personally real to you if you so choose

[Anonymous No.23146849]

>>23146684
That’s it. You work like a slave and then you die. Sometimes you get a wife who’s not ugly if you’re lucky. Enjoy life!

[Anonymous No.23146922]

>>23146684
Just do that until you die.

[Anonymous No.23146962]

>>23146684
Physical training, sports, martial arts and video games

[Anonymous No.23146974]

LIFE'S A BITCH AND THEN YOU DIE
THAT'S WHY WE GET HIGH

[Anonymous No.23146975]

Don't listen to these faggots. Leave your job and become a drunk. Maybe get addicted to opioids. Live life a little, you're still young! No book can replace the feeling of youth

[Anonymous No.23146989]

I regret not taking more risks when I was your age. In retrospect, I would’ve tried to be a bohemian poet in New York, a ranch hand in Colorado, or a soldier deployed overseas. I would’ve just tried to go somewhere and do something. It might’ve come at the expense of career, but we’re all pretty much stalled career-wise anyway and at the end of the day, what you actually do with your life is the only thing that really matters. So take this time to figure out what what is worth doing with your life. Do you want kids? Do you want a legacy? Some contribution to something? If so, what? What do you want to be known for? These sort of things I think aren’t meant to be asked by everyone, but some people probably ought to and they’ll be better off for it. If you are one of those people and you can come up with answers within the next few years, you’re in really incredible shape.

[mr fucker No.23147003]

lose everything you got, burn all bridges and try to get it all back. i cant come up with anything other than that

[Anonymous No.23147014]

>>23146684
Now you settle down with some used-goods whore and have children, thus continuing the cycle until the end of the universe.

[Anonymous No.23147017]

>>23146989
Now I shall join the Foreign Legion and die for France overseas

[Anonymous No.23147022]

>>23146684
>wait until you get laid off
>feel immediate sense of relief
>take a week or two decompress
>start looking for jobs
>realize your over qualified for everything or all jobs you interview for bore you to tears
>decide you can't work for anyone
>start your own business
>underestimate how difficult it is to build a business
>struggle for 3 months without making any money
>see your savings dwindle
>feel guilty indulging and any simple pleasure
>see your friends pass you by in life, achieving major milestones
>find it difficult to enjoy anything
>feel a deep sense of worthlessness
>start to understand how people get dependent on substances
>be incredibly on edge at all times
>fall into a deep pit of depression
>have a few nights that are so dark and lonely that you think they will never end
>crawl out of the abyss, slowly, painfully

or just try and find a hobby and enjoy some good literature, cus its been a rough 18 months bros

[Anonymous No.23147036]

>>23147022
i feel you man, i currently am so out of touch with humanity that i have lost all of the things that made me want to live, i am struggling with finances and the weather. the weather is so cold, so damp and grey that it makes me trapped in my own room, observing its environment every single day, even though nothing changes, as thats the only thing ive got now

[Anonymous No.23147039]

>>23146684
Congrats, you won. You can now throw yourself off a building, get reborn and do it all over again.

[Anonymous No.23147066]

>>23147022
>so damp and grey
yup, Im in Ontario and its just so grey every day. I work from home and my "office" has no natural light

Athough I think im coming out of this shit, I really think for the first time in my life I was close to considering myself depressed. My whole life I made decent money, did well in school, had a good family, and within 18 months, it went from bad to worse and then just stayed there.

I also never told anyone how I felt, and this is legitimately the most i've vented about how I feel to anyone. Not my ex-gf, my friends, or my family. I became so bitter at seeing anyone else's success, because of where I was

I slowed down on the booze cus I realized how much of a crutch that can become, and thank god I never stopped reading, writing and going to the gym, because I think I would have collapsed completely if on top of everything I gained a ton of weight.

[Anonymous No.23147137]

>>23147017
I don’t know that the FFL is a good choice but I would venture that military service is 1 of the 4 or 5 better choices for a young man.

[Anonymous No.23147147]

>>23146989
I ask myself everyday and I can't come up with anything.
>>23147017
I still think about this despite being nearly 30. But I don't want to get bullied and raped by Russians.
>>23147137
When your own military is terrible ffl becomes the only choice.

[Anonymous No.23147168]

>>23147147
I think you’ll be surprised to find the FFL is also terrible.

[Anonymous No.23147171]

Develop virtue and wisdom. Acquire currency and build wealth. Find a partner who shares your values and can commit to a serious relationship. Raise good kids in a loving home. Help others as much as you can and build a prosocial network.

[Anonymous No.23147179]

>>23147168
The FFL is kind of cringe these days. Just another Judeo-Anglo puppet. Imagine dying for Ukraine, for example.

[Anonymous No.23147180]

>>23147017
>>23147147
FFL has shit pay. You can die another way.

[Anonymous No.23147184]

>>23147179
>Imagine dying for Ukraine
damn

[Anonymous No.23147188]

>>23147171
I think I’m the modern day, cultivating virtue and money are often mutually exclusive pursuits. A classically virtuous man in my mind would almost necessarily be broke.

[Anonymous No.23147198]

>>23147179
Who really cares about politics man. I'd rather be a useful idiot than what I am now.
>>23147180
Pay means nothing to me.
>>23147171
Man everyone's got the same platitudes huh.
Im happy if that works for you. I'm not shitting on it. But I'm profoundly unsatisfied with that

[Anonymous No.23147208]

>>23147198
> Who really cares about politics man.
This is what a soldier in Jarhead (2005) says in one scene.
>I'd rather be a useful idiot than what I am now
You know what to do.

[Anonymous No.23147209]

>>23147198
>Pay means nothing to me.
I'm saying you can die with a gun in your hands and still be better paid (if you survive). Then why not?

[Anonymous No.23147213]

>>23147188
Most of the Aristotelian virtues are compatible with a strong man who works hard, saves his money, and nurtures a prosperous family. In fact, much of classical philosophy was developed by such men of means. It's the slave morality of Christianity that worships weakness, victimhood, and poverty.

[Anonymous No.23147220]

>>23147208
Yeah
>>23147209
There's not really any other option for military stuff. The US one is way worse.

[Anonymous No.23147221]

>>23147198
Anon, there are two questions that remain
>Do you want to kill yourself?
If yes, well
If no: then you're overthinking it. You do not have the constitution where you can be satisfied with an answer. Try and do something that wakes up, or could wake up a spark.

[Anonymous No.23147223]

>>23147213
Life is a fucking video game, man. Just max out your stats and grind till you have enough. Boring shit.

[Anonymous No.23147225]

>>23147221
Yes I want to kill myself but I don't because of hell.
>wake up a spark
Too vague. Been hearing this for 5 years. I've done a lot to try to do that. Nothing.

[Anonymous No.23147227]

>>23147225
It's too vague, because there is no absolute answer. What have you done so far?

[Anonymous No.23147228]

>>23146785
lol you are in for a rude awakening. mediocrity, boredom and emptiness is what this life is truly about.

[Anonymous No.23147232]

>>23147227
I don't know how to list what I've done.

[Anonymous No.23147240]

>>23147198
Not sure what you're looking for if that's unsatisfying for you. I would assume some kind of cause that's larger than you. There are many things like that, it depends on what you value and what interests you. I would only caution that someone your age is more likely to become deeply ideological, then basically become a host for a mind virus and terminate their genetic line e.g. dying in a war, martyr themself for a political movement, religious celibacy, etc.

[Anonymous No.23147242]

>>23147232
Just list some things. You're clearly an indecisive person. A radical change often needs breaking your comfort zone and habit.
>>23147228 is, obviously, not entirely wrong.

[Anonymous No.23147243]

>>23147240
I'm almost 30. I don't really have any values. I'm incapable of being strongly ideological

[Anonymous No.23147246]

>>23146989
>>23147003
You could do that 50 years ago not now

[Anonymous No.23147247]

>>23146684
24? You’re a child. It only gets worse as you age. All downhill from 35+ so hopefully you are content with life and have your shit together by then. Your 20s are actually some of your best years. If you hate your job that means you chose the wrong path.

[Anonymous No.23147248]

>>23147223
That's one component. If you don't find it satisfying to get better at things then I think you may just have depression. Though the ultimate goal is to use your abilities to make an impact on the world, hopefully improving other people's lives. Then this world would become just a little bit better and a little more like a heaven.

[Anonymous No.23147249]

>>23147242
I don't know what you mean by list some things. I've traveled and picked up and dropped a ton of hobbies. I go outside frequently. I do all sorts of misc. activities.

[Anonymous No.23147253]

>>23147248
I don't really envy heaven

[Anonymous No.23147260]

>>23147249
That's aimless. At least, on the face of it? I don't know precisely what you have done. Those things can bring contentment, but will not provide you direction. That's the nature of something you can easily add and drop, or exchange. So you would need to set on that which is more than a sum of actions.

[Anonymous No.23147263]

>>23146684
have sex with as many hot girls as possible

[Anonymous No.23147270]

>>23147260
I don't get it. I've tried plenty of things. I can't commit to learning anything in depth because I usually just do not care.

[Anonymous No.23147272]

>>23147263
Easier said than done unless you’re a giga Chad, and even those guys face issues.

[Anonymous No.23147273]

>>23147253
I think you are just confused in general.

[Anonymous No.23147278]

>>23147273
I don't know. I think I'm Christian but hell for suicide sounds terrible so I stay alive despite wanting to die. But heaven has never sounded appealing to me.

[Anonymous No.23147288]

>>23147270
I did not say anything about caring. Anyone who is saying that there is a guaranteed way to get rid of ennui, or this or that, is a hack. Your original question was whether >Thats all there is huh?
I did not say you will then, or ever, become engulfed with passion. But it is true that, with commitment, some projects became sweet for some people. But I am not promising anything. It's a response to your initial question.

[Anonymous No.23147289]

>>23146684
>stable job
Oh nononononono.....

[Anonymous No.23147298]

You should focus all your forces on defeating international Jewry

[Anonymous No.23147310]

>>23147278
I'm not particularly religious, but I suppose I'd be a Christian Atheist of some kind. And I deliberately chose the words 'a heaven'. It's tautologically obvious that a better world is better. Things will never be perfect, but that doesn't mean it's not worth it to keep struggling to achieve improvements.

You will also probably benefit from reading Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

[Anonymous No.23147560]

>>23147022
>>23147066
Sending you respect anon, you might not necessarily become a better person through struggle (or you might, depends) , but it surely exposes you to the raw experience of human condition in all of its insurmountable starkness, and l found that people experiencing it are better on a some fundamental level than those who never or rarely do.

[Anonymous No.23147565]

>>23146684
At least you’re currently employed. I’m 41 and jobless right now

[Anonymous No.23147578]

>>23146819

VERY dishonest post. Life, nature and the general structure of the universe are quite shitty. This is one philosophical question where it's perfectly legitimate to blame the world itself rather than one's self.

[Anonymous No.23147714]

>>23147014
>not just preventing women from having sex until marriage

[Anonymous No.23147795]

OP we can't tell you what you want out of life, that is your question to answer, and answering it is what life is made for. Read, experience, indulge, suffer. In the end it is all an effort to know yourself.

[Anonymous No.23147804]

>>23146684
In high culture, 30 is still a baby, having only attained full physical & brain development at 24. Structure your reading interests and have a lay of the intellectual and historical land you aim to traverse. That's it. Read thoroughly and deeply, thinking with the texts.

[Anonymous No.23147944]

>>2314668411
Put 80% of your paycheck into diversified invesment accounts that pay dividends, use the remaining 20% to gamble on moonshot high risk ventures. If you can get to half a million in savings by thirty you can live off it for the rest of your life.

Buy a cheap sailboat in Greece or Italy, fix it up, cruise around the Med and see how many women you can sleep with and how many languages you can learn before you hit thirry. A handsome foreign guy with a boat can easily rack up triple digits.

Get involved in local politics. Get to know the big players. Suck the right dicks. In fifteen years you could be the big man in your town.

Find a more fulfilling niche career. Lots of them out there, but skilled crafts are espescially fun and rewarding. Master watchmakers for example can make an easy 120k with five-ten years of experience and the right certs, I know of some guys who do this and they have a backlog of work a year long since its such a rare skill.

Move to Chechnya and join a sufi order. Spend some time in the mountains of Afghanistan. Write a book about it.

Idk theres lots of options. The FFL is also a good choice. I tried to join a couple years ago and got rejected but it was still a fun experience. Ended up living in Italy drinking myself to death and befriending a charmingly cynical princess from a powerful sus family.

Just making decent steady money puts you in a pretty good position though. With a few dozen grand in you bank account theres a lot of crazy shit you can get into. Buying up properties in Ukraine right now, for example, is a high risk high reward market you can get into if you've got brass balls and 30-40k to swing around.

[Anonymous No.23147964]

>>23146816
Anon, you're just lazy.
>wah why don't I, with zero introspection into my own life, somehow know the meaning of life
>why isn't there a video game quest log and a big arrow pointing somewhere, telling me what to do?

[Anonymous No.23147979]

>>23147964
This isn't how I think. I don't play games either.

[Anonymous No.23148050]

>>23147944

This entire post is invalidated/drops its troll mask with the advice to move to Chechnya and(!)/or Afghanistan.

[Anonymous No.23148058]

>>23148050
The fact it revolves around dumb shit like money and politics didn't give it away?

[Anonymous No.23148073]

>>23148058

Of course it sounds a bit silly overall, but it never really veers into the truly absurd until that graph. The point here is to discern levels of absurdity.

[Anonymous No.23148095]

OP you could try to become a saint.

[Anonymous No.23148141]

>>23147944
This is unironically my plan

[Anonymous No.23148175]

>>23146684
Life is now just a dance between struggle and boredom.
Back and forth between struggle and boredom all the time.
The only moments in between these two states is an escape into what us called "High Culture". Find what that is for you and thats it pretty much.

[Anonymous No.23148539]

Alcoholism for 10 years and ruin everything, then try to turn everything around. You don't want to play life on easy mode, do you?

[Anonymous No.23148545]

>>23146725
>Thats all there is huh?
It's more than enough and boomers being bored of this thing led to the even worse post-fordism.

[Anonymous No.23148557]

>>23146736
you can go on wild quest to find meaning and/or become a barbarian
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/03/01/where-the-wild-thoughts-are/

but yeah most people just kinda contribute to our capitalist i.e. marterial-hoarder society and measure success in peaks of creature comfort, like artisan coffee or netflix. while complaining about both their work and boring life.

[Anonymous No.23148558]

>>23146684
That's when you take a wife and start a family, but don't do it unless the idea of fatherhood and husbandry appeals to you. It wouldn't be fair to the wife and kids.

[Anonymous No.23148561]

>>23146989
>Do you want kids?
>Do you want a legacy?
weird to consider those questions

[Anonymous No.23148604]

>>23146684
I'm 25 and desperately want to move to another country, get married, and start a family. I have no degree, basically 0 work experience, and I can't do blue collar work, but I won't let any of that stop me. If I were you I'd buy a Bible and read, you're already in the danger zone for men where you're starting to think about why you're getting up in the morning and have no answer. Just give it a chance, and try to suspend your disbelief and embrace the mystical. What use is your pure reason, when you don't want to go on anymore? That's why after reading some post by an anon preaching 2 years ago, I said fuck it and read the Bible. Changed everything for me, I know it has the answers you're looking for.

[Anonymous No.23148607]

>>23148050
>i wish my life was meaningful and exciting
>wait no not that meaningful and exciting! I might get hurt!
Fuck off

[Anonymous No.23148612]

Marriage is a mistake for 99% of people

[Anonymous No.23148624]

We should have stopped at radio. The world would be so much better off its insane. Itd be cooler too. No TV, no internet.

[Anonymous No.23148825]

The comfort is inescapable. Be glad you don’t have bigger problems, but sulk in the fact that you’ll now have to fill your life with bullshit to feel more fulfilled. You’ll never win either way.

[Anonymous No.23148852]

>>23147578
I disagree

[Anonymous No.23148866]

>>23147022
>18 months
BAHAHAHAHAHA! your friends passed by you in 18 months? what a stupid normie

[Anonymous No.23148928]

>>23147022
stay strong anon, it will get better

[Anonymous No.23149063]

>>23147246
This coming from someone who has attempted it? Or someone too scared to try? If it's the latter you need to do it the most.

[Anonymous No.23149065]

>>23147022
>your over qualified for everything
>your savings
>see your friends
Normies need to get the fuck off my board.

[Anonymous No.23149067]

>>23147039
Hell yeah brother!

[Anonymous No.23149075]

>>23147232
Anon, I don't know how to tell you this, but you might be too retarded to be satisfied with life. Unfortunately the only advice for someone like that is to live more and hope that you learn somethings, enough to reach some contentment.

[Anonymous No.23149077]

>>23147272
>as possible
Sometimes whats possible is zero. Its the easiest thing in the world you demoralizing cuck.

[Anonymous No.23149086]

>>23148073
>it never really veers into the truly absurd until that graph
Except for the very beginning where it advises you to put 100% of your money into investments.

[Anonymous No.23149089]

>>23148095
This is unironically my plan

[Anonymous No.23149101]

I’m becoming convinced that life is a waste unless you have a passion and a talent for it that has been nurtured since childhood. I’m lucky that I have a passion, unfortunately I have no real talent and so I’m doomed to an existence of mediocrity. I used to get high to cope, now I can’t do it as much as I’m becoming increasingly psychotic, so I take SSRI.

>>23147272
Giga chad here, can confirm

[Anonymous No.23149102]

>>23147247
> It only gets worse as you age. All downhill from 35+
You probably made some wrong choices. It only got better for me from 27. I'm 36 and in my best year yet. You probably confused what you really wanted with what people wanted of you at some point. But it's never too late to change.

[Anonymous No.23149109]

>>23149065
as the average anon gets older, the more likely they are to get their shit together
sad to see permanent losers like you still stalking this horrid website

[Anonymous No.23149117]

>>23149109
>as the average anon gets older, the more likely they are to get their shit together
And then they leave. This place isn't for them or you. Your fake pity is peak faggy reddit passive aggression. You should go back.

[Anonymous No.23149286]

>>23147272
>>23149101
Giga chad here as well. The main obstacle for having a lot of sex is having a conscience. Even if you think premarital sex is okay morally, you'll still have to engage in a lot of deception and dishonesty. But this is pretty elemental to human relationships so most don't recognize it for what it is. In women it starts with make up, which is completely dishonest

[Anonymous No.23149289]

>>23147964
You are actually retarded and incapable of empathizing with others

[Anonymous No.23149444]

>>23149286
It also makes it difficult to fall in love once you have gamed the system. Incels hate women Chad pities them. It's all just a mobius strip. You really aren't missing out on very much. It's the same post-nut clarity except now you need an escape plan.

[Anonymous No.23149453]

>>23149444
Post-nut Clarity Escape Plan is one of my favorite bands

[Anonymous No.23149501]

>>23146684
dont know about books but as for your life make your own goals. dont fall into the trap of measuring your worth based on others especially with social media and current trends of what a fulfilling life is supposed to be i.e. a high paying corporate job, business, family, home. Save money, your job might be secure but you never know when another worldwide pandemic shutdown might happen and governments are incapable of handling the situation. If anything, get a small plot of land in a rural town outside a big city and live comfortably as possible.

[Anonymous No.23149507]

>>23148561
For most people, yeah. For some, they have the luxury of being able to chart their course to a far greater degree.

[Anonymous No.23149513]

>>23147213
They are…in an ancient economy. In a modern economy, your dollar is literally worth less every day, they’re printed freely, and banks do not even need to keep reserves. The only way to cultivate wealth is to strike it big with a big business valuation, which is determined by the banks and it’s unethical or grey area industries which fetch the highest valuation multiples. We don’t have an agricultural aristocrat economy anymore. We’re the only civilization in history to abandon it and that’s why they’re not compatible anymore.

[Anonymous No.23149606]

>>23146725
imagine not being content with a simple life of growing food, creating art and music, spending time with your wife and children, eating and drinking with friends, and building cool shit in your spare time.

[Anonymous No.23149612]

>>23149606
Man was made to conquer, not to sit around frittering his time away like some old woman.

[Anonymous No.23149620]

Modern society is akin to the times of Noah and your job is to build an arc.
Have kids with a good woman, get yourselves out of modern culture and set your kids up in a situation where they are likely to survive and reproduce and not have to struggle within the system like you did
You will be rewarded by passing on your genes while the rest of society fails to do so or does so in an extremely dysgenic or suboptimal manner

[Anonymous No.23149636]

>>23149620
Lame

[Anonymous No.23149649]

>>23149612
>flabby shut-in talking about conquering
lol

[Anonymous No.23149652]

>>23149612
You can't even conquer yourself buddy.

[Anonymous No.23149655]

>>23149606
>>23149620
These aren't things I'm allowed to have so now what

[Anonymous No.23149657]

>>23149655
You aren't allowed to have friends or a wife? the fuck

[Anonymous No.23149662]

>>23149657
I'm just not likable. I'm just not right.

[Anonymous No.23149688]

>>23149620
> just acquire a 5 acre homestead with $2M to set your kids up

[Anonymous No.23149710]

>>23149688
There are few steps in between but yes, do that.

[Anonymous No.23149760]

>>23149513
The obvious answer is to save your money through investments. There are a number of financial instruments available to hedge against inflation from stocks to commodities and crypto. Working in the trades then building your own business is a good strategy too.

I suspect you are depressed and succumbing to a defeatist mindset. Life has always been a struggle. Play the game as optimally as you can given the circumstances.

[Anonymous No.23149765]

>>23149760
nah that games gross i think if im ever using words like "hedge" "inflation" "crypto" i should just end it

[Anonymous No.23149808]

>>23149765
Not sure how old you are, but I remember being more like that when I was younger. Now I try to view matters in practical terms of what will yield advantage or disadvantage. I try to live moderately and invest as much money as possible to position my family well for the future. If you don't want to play that game that's your choice.

[Anonymous No.23149813]

>>23149808
Nah I was raised to be practical, big fucking mistake. I think you'll find that those people will cease being your family if you go down this road

[Anonymous No.23149891]

>>23146684
What would you want more of? Excitement? Love? Euphoria? Transcendence?

[Anonymous No.23149903]

I don't think I can ever understand people who would be satisfied with a spouse, a house, kids, pets, money, job, some hobbies, friends you see once every few months
I'm not saying it's bad
But it's bad for me
And I don't know what people like me are supposed to do instead.
Even though I'm an unlovable virgin.
I'd be profoundly unhappy if I became an old man and all I did was meet a woman and have a family.

[Anonymous No.23149926]

>>23149649
Nah. I've been involved in athletics (rugby, baseball; martial arts) and weightlifting for most of my adult life. I do 5k runs usually once or twice a week alongside a compound lifting regimen in the gym. My PR bench press is about 100lbs over my body weight. Come check out /fit/ sometime, dumb faggot.

>>23149652
Crab bucket mentality propagated by bitter retards like you is what's killing /lit/:

>Just be thankful you get to wageslave for 50 years then die because that's what I get to do.

If you're a young man, don't satisfy yourself with a mediocre existence. There's still hope and life to be had out there.

[Anonymous No.23149929]

>>23146684
protip: take drugs on the weekend, to spice things up

[Anonymous No.23149939]

>>23146725
What's stopping you from becoming reuinted with the God-Man?

[Anonymous No.23149983]

>>23149926
I'd love to see your physique and bank account, you sound like a deranged loser.

[Anonymous No.23149986]

>>23149983
geez not him but what a shallow post.

[Anonymous No.23149991]

>>23146684
>kay so what am I supposed to do now?
Nothing. You've completed your lifecycle. Release your spores from your fruiting bodies and restart the process.

[Anonymous No.23150036]

>>23149620
>>23149710
This is a strikingly facile cope for people who still want to live as white collar suburbanites in the face of a world that is rapidly edging them out of that possibility. If you actually believed society was collapsing due to the evil nature of the system, the last thing you would do is build a giant resource pile for them to come and take with alarming ease because you kept your nose to the neo-age grindstone instead of becoming stronger and branching out into like-minded communities which could actually form a functional protective unit. Your family is not a functional protective unit.

[Anonymous No.23150069]

>>23149760
Investments can barely beat inflation. You’re not accumulating wealth. You’re just not losing money as quickly. Businesses can beat inflation because of how business valuation works. This isn’t depression talking. This is just the economic reality.

[Anonymous No.23150071]

>>23150036
Develop a skill, you fucking cretin.

[Anonymous No.23150089]

>>23150071
Not him but I just cant. I cant find anything to do.

[Anonymous No.23150094]

>>23150089

[Anonymous No.23150103]

>>23150094
Thats not fair man. Im trying my best here.

[Anonymous No.23150262]

>>23150069
I own a townhouse which increased in value by 40% since 2020. My portfolio, which is weighted towards tech, is similarly up a significant amount. During the lockdown money printing I started buying up bitcoin when it was at 10K, which has increased by roughly 6X.

Not only are you wrong, I don't even know what your point is. Don't bother doing anything and just die?

[Anonymous No.23150360]

>>23148612
This is like when you're a kid and afraid of girls and say "I'm never going to get married!". Marriage holds the fabric of society together. Without it couples will fail and kids will have shitty upbringings.

[Anonymous No.23150427]

>>23146684
Live in absolute peace. Your body only cares about surviving. Any muh depression or whatever due to lack of “achievement” is something you are inflicting on yourself through made up ideas about what life should be. Literally all you need to do in life is sleep, eat, breathe, piss, and shit and you can have absolute peace.

[Anonymous No.23150624]

>>23147213

>boorish
>witty
>buffoonish

Huh?

Surely the opposite of buffoonish should be humorless, stick-in-the-mud, dry, etc.

I get that boorish can mean "insensitive", but I don't think it's the best choice here.

[Anonymous No.23150880]

>>23150624
Yeah it seems like an archaic connotation of the word. It's elaborated upon in the Nicomachean Ethics

"Those who carry humour to excess are thought to be vulgar buffoons, striving after humour at all costs, and aiming rather at raising a laugh than at saying what is becoming and at avoiding pain to the object of their fun; while those who can neither make a joke themselves nor put up with those who do are thought to be boorish and unpolished. "

[Anonymous No.23150905]

>>23147213
Imagine being all the traits on the right.

[Anonymous No.23150950]

>>23150036
>in the face of a world that is rapidly edging them out of that possibility
Its just the world bro. No one is steering the ship in any specific direction.....

[Anonymous No.23150998]

>>23150262
> I made a bunch of money when the getting was still good
Okay?

[Anonymous No.23151005]

>>23149117
Your resentment is something more akin to reddit than anything in this thread.

[Anonymous No.23151025]

>>23149903
>Even though I'm an unlovable virgin
That's why you don't understand.