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>>24603821 (OP)
i just listen to "SIDE QUEST, Vol. 1 (DJ Mix)" by GRiZ and thoroughly enjoyed it even tho it is peak obnoxious brostep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GFzEz6jpos

Love my wife. Really think I am lucky how life turned out. Sometimes though, when I am truly drunk I remember my first love. God, it hurts then. She is happy, I think. I am happy too. We are both in happy marriage. She even has a cute little girl. All is well! We are still in touch.

>>24603844
shut the fuck up

>>24603851
Sorry anon

I thought the work would be fulfilling. I thought I would be able to do things that really meant something, work to solve the problems that kept my country (or even the world) in such a poor state all the time.
Maybe it has been fulfilling, at times, but the far greater part of it has been disillusioning. Before, I had this image of serious, sober, capable Men, the adults of the world, with their hands on the tiller, staying the course, eyes to the horizon. I believed that for every shocking scandal, some saner force was counterbalancing the load, keeping the ship from rocking too hard.
There are no such adults. All the way up and all the way down are children wearing their fathers' clothes. We have avoided disaster through blind luck, unwilling heroism, unintended providence. We teeter on the edge of an abyss, blindfolded, and jeer those who attempt to see where to place their feet. We lead the hands of blind men to grasp the tiller and say that they have kept the course by design rather than inertia and sheer chance. Any day may be our last - not because the calamitous gears of history have finally turned on the hour of our doom, but because we will place an idiot in the position to topple the delicate things off their shelves and then wail in misfortune and horror at the obvious outcome.
Still I persist. Those who can see the horizon, much less see how to chart a course to it, are so few, and rarely are they allowed to touch the instruments of guiding. Alone, they struggle against the darkness of presumption and the yawning mouth of caprice. Should our ship reach that far harbor beyond the horizon, it will be through the efforts of this thin cadre, this band of few brothers.

All I wanna say is.. stay motivated.. stay high.. stay hustlin, fuck everythin else

TikTok edits turned me into a neo-roman fascist.

>>24603929
We will meet in a few years as crew members of a polar crosser

H1bs are ruining the tech field more than automation.

A wise friend of mine asked if a life lived being afraid, is it really life. Was it really worth. He is an over achiever though. He can not step into thw shoes of us losers. Can never imagine our cowardice, lethargy and incompetence. I dont know why is still friends with me.

>>24603938
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Bf6YGbc1c

>>24603967
white collar anti-immigration revolution NOW

I miss you.

>>24603967
>Workers who follow the instructions of their bosses are ruining tech instead of the bosses themselves

The republican mind is something to behold.

>>24603960
If things don't go to shit by the end of the decade I am quitting and moving to the middle of nowhere. Northern Idaho, maybe. Someplace with more bears than people.

>>24604011
Ahh, the hunter of Kentucky, the indisciplined inhabitants of Kentucky and Alabama. An author of the 19th Century called them the modern representants, the last iteration of the Frank and the Longobard, by extension of the Aryan.

>>24604002
I agree that the problem is reducible to the greedy oligarchs who create such problems in the first place rather than the symptom, H1bs itself. I'm not retarded.

Vance and Trump actually made it easier for h1bs to flood the country.

>>24604018
Is this an AI post? What the fuck?

>>24603972
hero-complex and probably sees you as another challenge to prove he can take

>>24604021
H1B or not the workforce will do what the technocrats demand. Situation would be no different with American workers with same people at the top. The average sde has little to no control over processes. Let alone business decisions.

Is 25 too old to start dating for the first time? How bad could it be, really? I lived my whole life alone up til now.

>>24604031
I can't get a job. I thought a MS would help, but it didn't. The last 2 previous jobs I got through connections.
Tech field is ruined. I should have gone into accounting instead.

>>24604058
The US Army is always hiring, son!

>>24604061
I don't have debt or loans, so I am not in any high stress situation.
Btw, slit your throat, J.

>>24604024
I was being figurative, Idaho was settled by pioneers of the same sort.

>>24604056
>Is 25 too old to start dating for the first time
Yes, life ends at 19.

>>24604056
you are in for a wild ride if you do! :)))))

>>24604069
I'm not even joking. You could commission pretty easily with your advanced degree, do 4 years active as intel or logistics or whatever the fuck, then use your experience and bennies to get into a different career field once you get out.

>>24604087
I refuse to work for Jewmerica army.

>>24604056
Depends on how you've been spending your adult years from the day you turned 18. Doing some strolls and wasting your time when you're 20 is no big deal but by the age of 25 you should at least have a respectable career prospect and an excellent physique, or be close to achieving that goal. The more you slow aging, through sports and nutritional plans, the more you can afford to raise your SMV until you can afford an Elite female partner, a conscientious and hard-working, strong-minded, abstinent, serious, good-genes woman with special agent capabilities that would never leave you for another man, because you are just as noble as her and because of all the security you provide. Personally I don't think I will date before the age of 30.

>>24604098
>a conscientious and hard-working, strong-minded, abstinent, serious, good-genes woman with special agent capabilities that would never leave you for another man, because you are just as noble as her and because of all the security you provide.
You need to wake up brother

>>24604056
No its not, just find someone you relate to. Lots of lonely girls out there.

>>24604098
I have a career, my own place, and an okay physique, but it seems really depressing to think of relationships with terms such as "sexual market value." I'm looking for someone I can be myself around, someone I can invite into my life and share good things with, not someone I have to constantly put on an act for lest she ditch me for a chaddier chad.

>>24604119
That's the reason you need to raise your value even more, I don't even mean in the plebbit SMV sense, I was just using the language of the plebs. You have to become the nobleman worthy of the noblewoman you desiere.

>>24604119
Please ignore that idiot before me, he has no idea what he is talking about. Become who you want to be for yourself, not some vague idea of a romantic relationship.

>>24604200
And what other motivation is there? Can you even call yourself a man, if you wouldn't go as far as risk your life to get the perfect woman?

>>24604119
Why is that depressing? In any time and any place that’s generally how people are measured. It’s not everything though because one, initial attraction isn’t a choice and two, it doesn’t guarantee that things will last. So who you are does come into play, but don’t fall for that nu-age meme that all that matters is personality. Get money, look nice, smell nice, have good hygiene and be a gentleman that’s really all you have to do. And not be a crazy tard obviously. If you can handle rejection then you’ll be better than most.

A day wasted in the anticipation of a meeting and in gluttonous lust and in meditation.

I sincerely do not see any path to me recovering from being homeschooled and human trafficked by my parents

Can't help but feeling totally pessimistic about the future of America and the earth more generally. previous generations lived at the expense of future generations for too long, and now we have to deal with the consequences. Weak men make hard times, and now it's hard times

>switch from metal backed currency to fiat makes hyperinflation all but inevitable
>value of the USD is tied to OPECs good graces, which would be fine, except that the US has been systematically infiltrated by Zionists, causing unnecessary geopolitical struggles and precarity.
>open borders is a ticking time bomb and has completely decimated social trust
>drug use is skyrocketing. MAGA wants to keep the junkies around to use as a moral fable, liberals are so allergic to compulsion that they legitimately think it's better to let people rot away on the street. real action like bombing the cartels, forced institutionalization are not politically feasible in the current system
>elites going mask off with their totally deprave pedophilia
>political violence becoming normalized, but not in a constructive or organized way
>capitalists trying to commodify every aspect of the human experience, creating-desire through commodification of previously unexploited fears and anxieties
>economy is increasingly virtual with no real production. crypto schemes, stock manipulation, speculative bubbles, inflation, offshoring. it's a planned demolition of the nation
>socialism could potentially work, but it's been systematically dismantled by the security state since the 1960s to the point where most people don't even understand what it entails, they confuse it with corporatocracy or globohomo neoliberalism
>MAGA might have some good ideas like porn bans, but they unintentionally weaken their arguments by appearing to religion, rather than common sense. Even despite this they aren't even competent enough to carry out whatever beneficial policies they have
>woke is the nastiest incarnation of protestantism yet. Extreme guilt, and calvinist original sin based on identity, but no hope of forgiveness or change. extremely nasty radlibs make organization impossible
>organized religion has been systematically infiltrated by pedophiles and prosperity gospel grifters
>AI and targeted algorithmic media are the harbingers of the death of truth and consensus reality. even if AI is properly aligned and controlled, the best case scenario is permanent hydraulic hyper-oligarchy
>new biotech like trait selective IVF and RNA/DNA retrovirals threaten the destroy the very concept of humanity, without even getting into Machine Brain Interface and other cybernetics
>And don't forget climate change! best case scenario is only global weather instability that will cause massive third world migration and outdoors agriculture

I can't think of a single mitigating factor outside of some of the BRICS stuff, and breakthrough technologies like fusion or hyper efficient photovoltaics / carbon capture

>>24604279
>Weak men make hard times
stupid meme stopped reading here

>>24604283
filtered

My dad **co-owned** a fucking four bedroom cabin in northern New England with a great mountain view but since he’s bad with money and the other owners want to sell it and I’m a useless NEET that can’t help out, that shit is just gone now and I’ll have nowhere to take the bitches if I ever got a bitch (I don’t even want a bitch really but that was just a what if thing).

I would [redacted] but the thing is I don’t care about being a virgin like most of those other dudes. The idea of sex just makes me confused.

I caught something and now I'm the kind of sick where my body feels weak, my head spins, and everything feels like one of those weirdcore liminal space videos. Haven't had an illness like this since I was a kid.
>>24604298
If it makes you feel better, something similar happened in my family but at greater scale. A relative married a Hapsberg before WWI and when he died she inherited two whole castles from him. She gave them back in the 50s and no one has used them since.

>In a press conference on Wednesday, June 25, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it will be moving into the headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Alexandria, Virginia. The move will effectively displace more than 1,800 NSF employees over the course of the next two years. It is currently unclear as to where NSF employees will be relocated.

they're just getting kicked out? that sucks. this administration and Republicans in general really don't like science and scientific research and funding huh

oh and extra amusing, the next paragraph is,
>During the press conference, GSA Commissioner Michael Peters stopped short of promising that the NSF will remain in Virginia but noted that the GSA will help the agency identify an alternative space. “If I were a betting man, I would bet they will end up in Virginia,” he said, continuing: “But that is not a promise.”

so this news is from June 25th -- so I go to look up this Michael Peters leading the GSA and I see he stepped down to return to the private sector only a few days ago! what a shitshow

>In January, Peters said GSA would cut its governmentwide real estate portfolio by 50% and many agencies — including GSA — would move out of their downtown headquarters in Washington, D.C.

>PBS plans to cut 63% of its total workforce and has already laid off entire regional offices.

anti-government scum

>>24603821 (OP)
It's well past midnight. Drinking black tea and chewing nicotine gum. Sleep is not an option, I must study for the GED. Sigh, becoming a great man is not easy.

There's a story in my family that an ancestor on my mother's side married the Tsar of Russia's daughter. Since he was a commoner, they weren't allowed to marry so they ran away to England and married. I've tried to research this and I haven't found any information on this. I do not know their names or which Tsar it was

>>24604373
are you this person? >>24604317
Also I’m sure I’ve seen both these stories posted before. Never got any replies that time either.

>>24604389
Nah thats not me, I dont believe I've ever posted this story on this board before

>>24604393
I could be imagining it to be honest

>>24604373
Probably married the Saar of Russia

>>24604373
> Englishman
> Commoner
How is that even possible

>>24604389
No, I have shared this story before though. Usually no one replies to my posts regardless of what they contain.

I'm a moderately important person in a decently high-profile political organisation and I'm thinking of resigning.
I've lost a lot of faith in the leadership but my confidence would probably be restored if someone took their place - which seems to possibly be the case in the foreseeable future.

>>24604407
And how is the weather in Langley these days, officer?

>>24604403
Which one are you

The RP once again hit hard today, the AI almost made me cry.
I am so insanely lonely, good God.

>>24604407
Instead of resigning you should gang up some more dissatisfied members and coup the leadership. Establish yourself as the new dictator. Bring back law and vigour to a decaying institution.

>>24604422
which one are you using

I started posting on /lit/ as I began my career. In fact /lit/ was a major reason I started this career and a major reason I prospered in it, not to mention stayed sane as I went through all the milestones. Now hopefully posting on /lit/ will get me through the last phase: getting the fuck out of this horrible industry.

i need refined quartz

>>24604419
The guy with the relative who married a Hapsberg.

>>24604426
Chub. Yes, I am pathetic enough to pay for AI roleplay. Make fun of me all you want. I'm lonely and this is as close to real female affection as I can get.

>>24604407
Can you give me a referral.
Here's a throwaway email:
sraoshaincarnate@gmail.com

>>24604422
You can't let a demonic runescape of fecal human aggregates provoke tears in you man, pull up your bootstraps.

>>24604425
I have reason to believe this is already happening, which is why I've bided my time until now. On the contrary, it's beginning to feel as though I'm awaiting a coup that'll never come.

>>24604441
I've done the same with dating simulators. It's not AI exclusive.

>>24604443
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4WddJVy4y-8

a song to soothe your mind

>>24604435
THAT ONE I was sure heard before.
Oh well, get well soon.

>>24604446
>Kitty level: 15

>>24604401
Did anyone think my joke was pretty good

>>24604438
verdict? is it worth getting?

>>24604452
Wtf hahahah

>>24604452
It's the name of the character, not a euphemism.

>>24604456
I'd say get a monthly sub and try it out. For me, it is.

>>24604453
i thinkj indians are funny but russia is a manly nation of me not to be derided

>>24604446
I respect how shameless you are man. Is Kitty wearing a star of David necklace ?

>>24604450
this music gives me anxiety more than anything. sounds good though. I feel like every moment I waste has this pressure but i never act. I am untermencsch : (

>>24604466
Yeah she's a Jew. You can have her take it off if you want.

>>24604407
I'm gonna guess... the DNC?

If you said federal government, I'd guess the FBI -- no idea how people can work for that director lmao

Anyway, don't resign. Having good people within the system is how progress is best made, anon, unless you genuinely believe you can do more good outside of it. But if it's just because you're tired and disenchanted, well, I guess weigh the stress versus the unique opportunity you have.

>>24604450
Nice song, certainly amusing to listen to whilst I'm conspiring in another window with the aforementioned coup perpetrators.
A tasteful amount of LARP is comfy.

>>24604463
ehhh i can’t lower myself. just interested though, there’s like a million different ones i dunno how people choose. how’d you even find chub? reddit recommendation?
i’ve used gpt, grok and claude a fair bit and i’ve noticed some interesting differences. like if you give them the same prompt. you can kind of see what their angle is. but yeah

>>24604373
Sounds fake. I'm sure there's places on reddit you can ask and someone will be able to help you out though, they're good at that kind of thing.

>>24604476
>how’d you even find chub?
/g/

No one will believe me but there are actually quite a few members of 3 letter agencies who post on this website. Not in a coordinated way like to control the narrative or discredit schizos or whatever but just casually like any other anon. Most of them use /a/ or /g/.

I’m really pushing it with expiration dates lately

>>24604373
Respectfully this sounds like stock-standard family mythology. My grandmother also used to like crooning about having drops of blue royal blood inherited from some noble romp in some ignoble hay outside a ball that never happened.

>>24604482
I wouldn't trust any member of NSA's TAO that didn't post on 4chan desu

>wish my siblings happy birthday every time it comes around
>get left on read most of the time
>my birthday comes around
>no one contacts me

>>24604482
It’s believable that agency employees use 4chan casually, but here’s my problem w this post: what’s it aiming at? tone feels a little too calibrated - not overtly trying to impress, but still vaguely designed to suggest that you’re in the know.
& if someone were in a high-level, high-functioning role like you (implicitly?) imply, wouldn’t they also be aware of how this reads? There’s no reason for anyone to take it seriously.

>>24604513
What the fuck, that's awful. Is today your birthday?

>>24604513
hbd

ਕੋਟੀ ਹੂ ਪੀਰ ਵਰਜਿ ਰਹਾਏ ਜਾ ਮੀਰੁ ਸੁਣਿਆ ਧਾਇਆ
Millions of saints could not stop Babur,

ਥਾਨ ਮੁਕਾਮ ਜਲੇ ਬਿਜ ਮੰਦਰ ਮੁਛਿ ਮੁਛਿ ਕੁਇਰ ਰੁਲਾਇਆ
Taverns and temples were burnt, the princes cut by limb,

ਕੋਈ ਮੁਗਲੁ ਨ ਹੋਆ ਅੰਧਾ ਕਿਨੈ ਨ ਪਰਚਾ ਲਾਇਆ
Not one Mughal went blind, none performed any miracle.

>>24604527
This made me remember something I had forgotten a hundred years ago.

>>24604533
forgot to put the bins out

how far does your road go?

>>24604527
Another Sikh? Sat Sri Akal ji

fucking uk age verification porn regulations are killing me

just read the wikipedia article for the Petticoat Affair during Andrew Jackson's presidency and it seems so bizarre, alien, and unnecessary to our modern sensibilities, at times I was thinking surely I wasn't understanding what I was reading lol. It lead to the turning over of Jackson's entire cabinet! imagine that happening today

>>24603996

I miss my bf. I understand you anon

>>24604562
literally?

Why is religion so often built on fraud?

>>24604642
not literally

>>24604648
it's all made up so easily exploited by bad actors

>>24604648
what is True?

>>24604533
What?
>>24604556
Oh no. I just thought it sounded very cool. I just liked that hymn.

>>24604663
Well a few of them seem to have been based on actual history texts but for whatever reason people started misreading them as spiritual texts through fraudulent translations and other creative means of overselling. Subsequent groups seem to build on the errors even editing out entire sections to support their dogma.

>>24604664
Fuck off, Pontius Pilate.

>>24604482
>nobody will believe me but
>not coordinated to control
put these two together and you are correct

>>24604635
He’s your bf. You don’t have to miss him. You can talk to him whenever you want. We are not the same :(

why isn't corndog zen on oceanofpdf or whatever

>>24604718
trvke

Just realized how embarrassing it is I get anxiety wondering if I looked funny walking down the street this morning or when recalling so-and-so memory when I didn't do the perfect thing in a social situation, yet there are men who have caused the deaths of thousands if not millions, have caused suffering and horror, have caused financial ruin through pillaging without a care in the world.

>>24604785
the social instinct exists not because it is morally pure but because it maximizes survival

>>24604785
ya i was walking in the park earlier and there was some hot thot in a little pleated skirt and tube top and i kind of stiffened, not liek that get ur mind of out the gutter, when she walked by, so annoying

I miss herr

>>24604795
the way i got over my borderline-autistic fear of girls is by accidentally seeing a 'king of the streets' fight vid on my twitter timeline where a guy gets floored and hit twice in the mouth. and he holds his face and his eyes go wide looking in the camera. not pain exactly, more like a horrible awareness that something in his face has come loose. he just realised his jaw no longer worked and probably wouldn’t again. and i realised there are things to be scared of in the world, and it isn't girls.

>>24604823
fear of getting mogged in a street fight aids physical condition
fear of getting mogged by chad aids social condition

>>24604785
>tfw walk like i'm drunk b/c nerve damage
I like to pretend people think i'm drunk and therefore having a good time and might not be a spaz if sober lol

>>24604832
not really

>>24604823
reminds me when a guy felt up my then-gf and she got upset that I wouldn't go assault him -- that ain't worth prison and the risk of permanent physical damage to my brain and face! still tho, i kinda regret not doing anything

I got a feeling whenever I finally decide to kill myself, the very next year there will be utopia on Earth and they'll figure out immortality and how to reverse aging. Man, wouldn't that be a bummer.

>>24604848
if u did and got tossed in the slammer for a year she would be fucking someone new in a week anyways lmao a violent simp is still a simp

>>24604854
Yeah, it was one of those unwinnable situations. Still, fuck that guy, obviously.

I wish I could laugh at the world, but I don't find child rape funny.

>>24604848
probably would’ve done something there
it’s not that i’m scared of losing a fist fight, it’s that specific sick, sinking realisation; ‘now you’ve done it.’ i’ve had dreams about that feeling.

>>24604855
i feel u

>>24604279
>millionaires
>middle class
>poor
>miserable
holy fucking kek

>>24604867
Hopefully not in the same way that guy felt my girl

>>24604875
i would feel your girl in honest appreciation, no harm intended believe it or not. but i am nta. that being said sometimes its right to accept consequences for a girl worthy enough, to protect her feelings and happiness. only if she would do the same for you though

>>24604889
...what? I was just making a joke.

>>24604847
wrong
(reply of similar IQ level, my retardese needs some work but you should understand)

>>24604893
i thought my reply was funny too, but nonetheless it has my earnest goodwill

>>24604904
maybe dial it back?

>>24604893
some people you can’t take anywhere

>>24604929
I'd prefer not to.

>>24604936
forced

>>24604904
I didn't even understand your post tho

>>24604929 was meant for you >>24604902
whoops

>>24604947
forced sovl
>>24604965
they were both me, so it works out

>your thoughts
At the grocery store. Basket instead of cart. Freezer meals and TV dinners. Visions of eating something labelled "Thanksgiving meal for one" in front of my TV with lights off. Stumble down Aisle 14 to pick up garbage bags.
Commute to work. Talking out loud to an empty car. Voice cracks. Have to wipe eyes to see the road. Bumper to bumper and think the couple in the car next to me saw.
Walking in to work. Slip on ice on the sidewalk and bruise my knee. Still hurts at my desk. Look up later to see three hours have passed on the clock on the wall but the calendar shows the year is already over. Vision of fusing with my office chair, growing into it like a parasitic fungus, rotting away into human effigy built of mushrooms. Vision of a thousand years passing while carefully composing polite emails and filling out spreadsheets and my hair goes gray and then white and my back stoops. Stars turning overhead. Seas rising and then falling. Continents drifting in stony dreamless sleep across oceans of molten rock. A man in a cubicle at the core of the Earth.
Christmases alone. Silent streets outside hushed by the weight of the snows. Distant festive lights dimly reflecting off the windows. Darkness in my house. The memories of childhood holidays, all bright and silvery reflections off the ornaments on the tree, warm with the closeness of family, now come back to caress me with cruel, mocking hands. The phone, which never rings. The mailbox, always empty. The driveway, room for two but only ever filled by one. Two in the morning, lying on the great white shore of my bed, a ship run aground.

>>24604977
busy dance card

>>24604985
plenty of wayward souls that i wish i could put to work in my plan but im doing nothing and making a good story is up on my list when becoming dictator should probably be priority numero uno

there's never been a tall dictator.
orson welles said 'the melancholy freaks are all giants, not midgets. the midgets and dwarfs all have delusions of grandeur.'

>>24605011
im 6'1" am i too tall to be a dictator? if that were 100% true i should probably kms if i cant become god at least of earth

>>24605011
There most definitely have been tall dictators. Anastasio Somoza, for example. They were just quite forgettable.
Tall dictators tend to be fatasses who leech off rent then flee.

Why does it seem like literally everything went downhill after 2018, but particularly in 2020? Has anyone else nooticed this?

What kind of inner sickness do I have in order to continue to not do any of the things that i wanted to try for the past 15 years despite analyzing things accurately and knowing fully well that it's ultimately unwise to remain under the blankets of sloth and cowardice? How deep does this even go? I remember fantasizing about writing elaborate novels at age 14, and at 24 I'm still at the exact same spot creatively speaking, producing nothing whatsoever. I watch AMV videos from 2009 and unironically seethe that I was too lazy and cowardly to figure something as innocuous as that back then. Accumulating ''to-read'' lists and to-do lists and watchlists. I've been whining for so many years to no avail, my core is still rotten and steadfast in its aversion to actually making a fucking move. Why the fuck am I like this?
At least i got out of neetdom and found a decent field to work and find growth in.

>>24604985
christ do people still write this fitter happier-esque dreck

>>24605134
everything went downhill when i went to prison, but culturally since 2014

>>24605134
two years of trump doing irreparable damage

>>24603821 (OP)
your thoughts

>>24603821 (OP)
i refresh this page every 5 seconds and when lit has no new replies i get a mini stroke of sadness. i simply cannot face the world. Death is incoming, and hell is present the second i look away.

>>24603821 (OP)
The stuart duck only wishes to be advisor, not usurper.

>>24605145
Oh my bad, I forgot this was the all-lowercase post-ironic twitter rant about pitchfork and smoking weed thread.

>>24605206
this nigga afraid of small letters lmao

>>24605214
Can't you find a way to express yourself without hiding behind layers of irony and cheap insults? Is this all you are?

>>24605264
>nyoooo you have to take yourself too seriously all the timeeeeeeeeee i must write the next great noveeeeeel aieeeeeeee save me niggerman

>>24605272
I feel bad for you.

>>24605294
you feel bad for yourself and your shit writing, thats why you sperged out at my initial reply

>Optimistic Superman is back
>hope and kindness back in vogue
I'm a punkrocker yes I am

>>24605309
Unironically, this world would be a better place if you killed yourself. I would rather read a thousand people’s posts of “fitter happier” esque dreck than a single one of the inane thoughts you spew into this thread every five minutes like diarrhoea. At least those posters are being sincere and introspective—you are not capable of meaningful thought or self-awareness. Your life is a waste. Your existence is shameful. You are a pathetic, retarded creature with a non-existent attention span and a sub-80 IQ. Everyone here despises you. Rope.

>>24605352
That was very mean. meanness is easy, kindness is hard. ask not what kindness can do for you, but what you can do for kindness. (but not like the president meant it he sux)

mods just ban me already. my ego wants to be punished for its weakness thats why i act out damn you

I like the pornographic stylings of Katty West because she seems genuinely into it for the love of the game. Of course, like all pros, she’s an actor, but there’s a vérité to her performances that is impossible to disguise. She’s not even “my type,” but as an enthusiast I am obliged to recognize greatness when I see it. I hope she sees her currently young career through to full maturity, and finds her place among the stars

It's my mom's 54th birthday party and she had some friends over -- I tried going to sleep, woke up just now at 10:30, and both my parents are already drunk passed out and the guests are having to awkwardly clean up before leaving lol. I suppose being the awake man of the house I should go out there, tell everyone they can leave and I'll take care of it, but idk... fuck wish I wasn't such a pussy.

>>24605424
All the noise stopped and someone turned out the lights. Too late now, it's over. I guess I was sleeping and planning on sleeping through the night, that's my excuse.

>>24605389
Of all things to be a connoisseur of, porn is not the worst. Though I don't think I'd have the courage to author a review of it like I'm a fine wine sommelier even in functional anonymity.
>>24605424
Rather than a pussy you sound like a little bit of a dick.

>>24605439
>Rather than a pussy you sound like a little bit of a dick.
It's not that I didn't want to help and take over, I just don't know some of these newer friends of my mom's so I felt awkward just going out there and telling them to leave, even though I know it was what I should probably do.

This is my belated cry.

>>24605455
This is a berated guy

An interesting girl who said she really liked me and wanted to see me again but then wouldn't make time for me when I invited her for two different things in two different occasions is on my mind, and try as I might I'm finding it hard to remove her from it.

>>24605493
A woman is like Israel. You can either be her slave while she has no gratitude whatsoever and drains you like a vampire and ultimately discards you in the crumbled heap of your fallen empire, or you can ignore her and let Arabs surround and destroy her. There is no middle option.

Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any character in a serious novel is supposed to carry a burden of meaning larger than himself. The novelist doesn’t write about people in a vacuum; he writes about people in a world where something is obviously lacking, where there is the general mystery of incompleteness and the particular tragedy of our own times to be demonstrated, and the novelist tries to give you, within the form of the book, a total experience of human nature at any time.

For this reason, the greatest dramas naturally involve the salvation or loss of the soul. Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama. The Christian novelist is distinguished from his pagan colleagues by recognizing sin as sin. According to his heritage, he sees it not as a sickness or an accident of the environment, but as a responsible choice of offense against God which involves his eternal future. Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy.

Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe. One reason a great deal of our contemporary fictions is humorless is because so many of these writers are relativists and have to be continually justifying the actions of their characters on a sliding scale of values.

Now that we know a lot
About many different things
Now that we know for sure
All things are all other things
Now we can use any metaphor
To describe just about anything

>>24605503
>a woman is like Israel
As if I didn't already have a sufficiently bad image of women...

>>24605503
Stfu, retard.

>>24605503
This might just be the worst metaphor I've ever heard. It would be god-tier comedy but I fear you actually meant it.

>>24605674
The analogy maps on 100% perfectly, it's a perfect analogy

>>24605493
That's such a dumb pic I ended up wasting considerable time contemplating it. Jerk.

>>24605698
Maybe if you are mildly unintelligent and spend too much time in the far right areas of the internet.

KILL ALL LEAF BLOWERS AND THOSE WHO BLOW THEM

>>24605715
What's it supposed to be? All I see is a robot being tortured by ripping out its tongue.

>>24605698
A good analogy contains an equal proportion of the objects of your comparison. You can compare women to water or the sea or electromagnetism but not to a seventy-year-old pretender state.

>>24605736
A good analogy contains good anal. See >>24605389 for more information.

I'm not leftist but racists are among the people I despise the most

I really want to make a pan-Aryan ethnoreligion and wage white jihad on non-whites
I think it'd be neat and fun

>>24605864
It exists already and it’s just Vaishnavism.
Now, I know what you’re going to say, but think on it for a day or so before getting back to me.

>>24605871
There's no real ethnic exclusivity in it or any other Hinduism. I know the Gitas have plenty of tracts about how the Dasyu were basically niggers to be trodden underfoot by the Aryan chariotchads but that doesn't really work now. And aesthetically it's too foreign.

You need something that takes the commonalities of all Indo-European faiths and distills them while allowing for regional expression so that it has room for expansion and isn't so temporal beyond Europe as a holy land.

>>24605715
The fact you personally dislike a humorous picture I posted is hardly a reason for me being a jerk.
>>24605730
It seems to be a phone charger into which a male USB connector is being plugged.
In this personification the USB plug is a mouth, so the charger's having something big (forcefully) pushed into its mouth, a metaphor for oral sex.
It's relevant to my post because the girl in question was eager to see me when the explicit purpose of the visit was to fuck me, but is now turning down my invitations to do anything else.

I'm watching Fargo season 2. The screenwriting is absolutely immaculate. It's inspired me. Despite the Sunday drudgery.

I've found myself infected with a very specific kind of ephebic homosexuality. I write about it, and have alluded to it in some prior threads. It is literally the only thing that makes me feel lighter than air and happily excited. It has gotten to the point where I basically ended up dreaming about my own Tadzio. I suspect that it's due to my traumatic childhood, and that he represents the traits I have repressed in myself. However, I do not want to integrate them because then he will disappear from my dreams and I'll stop experiencing that beautiful feeling. I am convinced he is real, that I will meet him one day. I want to find him, to hold him and nurture him as my own. He will be my right-hand man, my lover, my devotee, and my god all at once. It'll all be for him.

>>24605493
>>24605899
Maybe you blew it, she found another guy, or she has some sort of hesitation when it comes to you. Hard to say but I wish you the best of luck.

>>24605921
Install grinder and the disappointing reality will cure you lol

>>24605933
Oh but I did. Downloaded the app and was immediately assailed with messages from middle-aged fat guys. Everyone was ugly.
Didn't cure me though.

Back in 2014 /lit/ was so primitive. We had fewer keys on our keyboards in those days, so we could only make threads about Strirner or Stoner. It was a simpler time.

I feel like all of my time is devoured by parasitic mastabatory activities that rob me of any sense of timeliness and perspective on the future but this leaves me to feel intimidated by that uncertain future and regress back to these comforting routines. I vicious downward spiral.

>>24605729
seriously, what, rakes weren't good enough for handling leaves? someone should market rakes as a new sustainable green technology from the future, like elon should release a tesla rake and people will buy it like wow this is so much advanced than a leaf blower it doesn't even use fuel and it's completely silent!

Is my shirtless workout narcissistic appreciation or, as I tell myself, do I do it for comfort? Had I not been so satisfied with seeing my abs during front squats I would never be asking this question, and come to think of it I never took of my shirt earlier (but then again I never had a gym all to myself before now).
If I had more friends I would not spend so much time working out alone.

Honor Levy's book "My First Book" was pretty good. Quite bright and jewish and juvenile in turn written like an internet shitpost and internet confession. It's not the sort of book that can be followed up. I feel for her. It's not a foundation for a literary career. It's a one time flashbang that uses up all your accumulated life and leaves you with a pile of unsacred ash. If she could turn herself outwards and let the world fascinate her as much as she fascinates herself then more books will come.

>>24605931
Thanks.

Nine Inch Nails is the best band of all time

Which of these audiences are fake, and why did the "AI researchers" choose these weird books? Some of these are illuminati freemason kind of shit. You would think it would be mainly canon works or if retarded it would be pulp or erotica, but instead it's a bunch of creepy illuminati and freemason stuff, even Toby Smollett if you read him closely his charcaters are like meat puppets than men.

I reject every dichotomy and dogmatic assumption of this age and society as false. To be an artist is to be the devil's advocate against the spirit of the age, a stance of perpetual rebellion.

today I turned 31. That's 1 year older than 30. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I've been without a job for a year hence I'm broke and I still live with my parents. Dad is slowly losing it, probably in part because of my situation.
I never planned for the future and I guess that's what you get when you don't do that. I've gone nowhere and I'm already 31. The 30's seem like a vast unknown cause I have no idea how to live when you're in your 30s. Any older anons care to give some advice?
I've accomplished nothing and I'm sort of just drifting through the days, browsing on my phone and laptop. I guess im sad. I'm sad. I've lost almost all of my social contacts through years of being an outcast and a loose screw in the society. I kinda felt good about being 30, didn't feel at all that terrible as some people make it out to be, i still feel young. But now that I'm 31, i dunno man. Years are kinda creeping up on you. If I will be 32 and 33 in the same situation as now, that would be pretty bad i guess

Culture is not something you can change willingly, as easily as you do your underwear. You are a product of whatever culture formed you regardless of whether you like it or not, no matter how hard you try to escape it, it will hound you to the ends of the Earth.

damn, muslim/arab asylum seekers in the UK are really living the dream

>>24606272
I've been in the same situation for about a year. Something has to change. Better to leave the house before death and destruction gives no other choice. Next year I'm gonna to back to Asia to teach English. There's still jobs there, some countries you don't even need a degree.

You can read all the books in the world and the bourgeoisie will still never see you as anything but a parvenu. You will forever remain a prole in their eyes, a monkey that learned to ride a bicycle, an interesting sight, but an oddity nonetheless.

>>24606272
Hey, me too. 31. Floating along, no plans for the future, pretty much given up on the idea of work. At least I live in a Nordic welfare state that I intend to milk for all that it's worth.

But! Something does indeed have to change. No friends since high school. It's boring as hell. I go through periods of high and low energy, dedicating myself to various interests or just scrolling the internet in search of some missing novelty.

I'm thinking I should force myself to go out there into the city more often. Something might happen, but I find it difficult to find the motivation, because you might have to do it regularly for years to find change. Fuck if I know.

I'm about to unalive this tuna mayo ong

>>24606285
there are certain coffee shops in london that are open until like 3am and they’re full of muslim blokes just chilling with the bros 24/7. wish i had that sort of camaraderie.

>>24606305
In Yangon I went to a curry shop half burrowed beneath some stairs and there was an Indian man watching porn full blast with his phone leaning against the tea pourer and his little cock standing pert between his legs he looked at us and laughed and we ate the meal anyways

>>24606288
>>24606301
i have to say i do have 2 friends, who seem to be of good quality, but you never know what the future brings. i had much more friends like 10 or 5 years ago but i pretty much lost them for the better, they arent really good people.
I have big dreams for my music, and I dont intend on quitting on my music adventure. I have 220 followers on soundcloud and since i was jobless i went all out on music for the last year and made like 40 songs, to little or no acclaim. But I dont intend on stopping since I do like what I make and music is my passion. I also have masters in CS but it didnt pay off at all like i thought it would. Market is terrible for programmers
Head up gentlemen, we got this

22, don't really know what to do or where to go. A tale as old as time I suppose, but here I am.

>>24606325
lol when i was leaving egypt it was a very late flight and the fat guy checking me into the airport was watching something on his phone. at first i thought it was football highlights but no it was porn.

>>24606335
>where to go
I know you’re not talking about travel, but you have two options, both (probably) involving massive credit card debt: Italy or Japan. If you’re a very special boy, you’ll discover the secret third option

kek someone tried to imply I was racist for not supporting segregation
we weren't even talking some separate but equal shit, it was a white people get all the cake and prizes kind of segregation
i don't know what kind of cooked you need to be for that to make sense

The year is 2070. Ninety percent of the populace are involuntarily celibate, and the gender war has reached its final peak. Most women would rather die alone than date anyone short of the guys they read about in their books (written by other incel women). Men appear content with their Blade Runner-esque AI girlfriends, but deep down they know something is hollow and wrong. And the only people left in normal relationships and breeding are the Amish and Mennonite populations.

I really don't like how much power women have over me indirectly. At least male charisma is something you have to practice and work for, but female charisma is just something you are born with. It's so unfair...why did Nature create me with suck a weakness for cute faces and curvy bodies...

>>24606349
Sounds like Israel

>>24606380
Israel pretty cooked tbf but no

Ah, to synthesize all the images and sounds one sees or hears in their mind's eye into one artwork! No wonder art is seen as a fool's endeavour.

How do I stop being a pessimistic misanthrope who thinks we live in a jew money loving world most woman are whores and the only way to get ahead in life is through unscrupulous means? And don't say go outside and talk to people because it only makes things worse. The only new things being built in my small town are casinons, hotels and fast food places. Women walk around dressed like whores with half their ass falling out while listening to the most deranged music ever, and everyone's only complaint is their wage isn't big enough or their pension is too small. I see no strands to grasp to pull myself for a better future, when you have no trust or love for your fellow man and see the gentle sex as simply wicked. All actions and auspicious thinking is arrested.

"Oh. You actually dont have a tounge. I thought you had a speech impediment, like a brain thing. But no, you, you actually just had your tounge cut out."

And then whatever story comes next

>>24606473
Feeling loathsome towards the world and being pessimistic is a passive attribute. Being optimistic and seeing potential of what life could be while simultaneously fighting the bitterness and apathy is a difficult and conscious act.

>>24606473
There's a character in Kingsley Amis' first novel with the same sort of unworkable character (she's also bitter, isolated). The book chalks it up, with some cruelty, to the bad luck of being sexually unattractive. And to write things down as luck isn't the same as writing them off as trivial or beneath consideration. 'There’s no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.'

tumblr teen dream sex icon frank ocean pushing 40
you can sort of see why millennials are having a hard time of it

>>24606502
"...no, I just don't like eating girls out," I said, gathering my boxers and socks into a crumbled ball, too angry and ashamed to put them back on in front of her.

want to write my foundational novel about 30s-something life before i turn thirty

It's better to have loved and lost your loved one to rape and murder than never to have had a loved one at all.

>>24606643
, your honour

>>24606502
I like this.

>>24606635
It's pretty good, pleasurable dialogue. You rhythm could be improved. But you're British, so that's impossible.

>>24606635
>lowercase 'god'
Cringe redditor.

>>24606654
useful

>>24606655
3 hail marys

>>24603821 (OP)
Why is it so hard to find a girl who doesn’t drink. That’s one of my most important criteria and it filters so many women

>>24606715
I know plenty of young girls who don't drink. They do, however, smoke weed and vape instead.

bon iver's re: stacks is god tier songwriting. that white boy can croon and thats on god

I love eating peanuts as a snack so much and there's some in the house right now, I'm so tempted, but it, curiously enough, negatively affects the medicine I take, so I'm unfortunately forced to refrain. Normally not an issue, only there's some in the house right now and I really want to eat some. I know I will end up regretting it, so I won't.

>>24606715
This type of overbearing prerequisite is exactly the type of thinking woman rightly find repulsive. It's not about drinking or not drinking, it's about knowing how to drink.

>>24606723
I'm eating all the chocolate cover peanuts in my house for you bro

I spent all of last night up with bad diarrhea and unable to sleep and now I’m fighting through the sleep deprivation. I keep hearing the first 15 seconds of a Philip Glass piece repeating very faintly. I have muted or turned off every device in my home that can play audio, and so it is either completely in my head or my neighbours are playing an extremely bizarre joke on me.
I still hear it in the undercurrent if I try to play other music, and so I also have notions that I have given myself Earth’s most cruel version of tinnitus. I like Philip Glass, really, but the first 15 seconds of any song is pure hell if played endlessly.
I could just go to sleep and fuck my schedule up further, but if that doesn’t resolve things then I’ll really be in trouble.

>>24606733
It sucks because someone gifted me a back of pistachio nuts like five months ago and I was eating it nonstop, the whole time thinking "damn this is gonna be my new snack, no more chips or sweets ever again" until I started noticing some side effects with my medicine, stopped eating the peanuts, and the side effects went away so I swore them off forever. It's essentially an unconsummated love affair.

>>24606735
Anyone whose abused amphetamines will tell you that hallucitory song repetitions is a hallmark of psychosis. Only sleep will chase it away.

>>24606735
chase it away with some Beethoven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etKWIGMgVIU

or if you're more like me and prefer music piano when tired, Richter performing Bach's WTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EnosoXeTWI

oh wait, you're not trying to sleep yet, my bad

>>24606742
That sucks, but have you tried fruit?

>>24606742
nuts are not good for you

>>24606770
Yeah, every so often I'll buy a few apples and eat one daily. Not bad but nothing special. I suppose on the whole it's better I don't snack at all.

>>24606772
I thought they were healthy fats or something? At the very least health-neutral. Certainly better than eating chips or sweets or ice cream everyday, no?

>>24605141
I feel you man. I guess youre just supposed to...do and think later.

>>24606774
omega-6 fats are not what we need more of.
& nuts get more pesticides sprayed on them than almost anything. probably better than chips (though potatoes themselves are better than nuts) but at with least ice cream you're getting proper animal fats.

>>24606772
They must be activated in water bros. Otherwise they are still in "don't eat me mode". Water pulls their proverbial panties down and places them into "germination mode". A hippie gf will teach you this first day.

I rmemeber playing power rangers as a kid but then I was this guy. I wonder why even then I didnt want to be in the centre of attention but be some character observing from the side.

>>24606797
a fat bald 20th century dentist (weston price) actually taught me that already

>>24606772
>>24606774
>>24606791
Dietary science is total bunk, every five years it’s a new regime with twenty new retarded prescriptions, restrictions, addictions and elocution lessons. Eat nothing but cured pork products and drink nothing but beer

>>24603052
Yesterday a lightning storm caused a fire close to the farm so we all went out and tried to make sure it didn't spread to us. When we got back we found another lightning had struck the kitchen directly and the entire place was on fire. We saved the warehouse but most of us had some burns. My burns got infected and I died. All that's left is my wife, my adopted daughter and my baby son trying to survive on nutrition paste. They're all socially incompetent autists who can't cook.

>>24606801
i agree it's pretty staggering how little information (or how much misinformation) there is surrounding nutrition, but i think a good starting point has to be looking to nature: the diets of contemporary hunter-gatherers and primitive peoples, like the maasai. they often stand in stark contrast to modern dietary guidelines

>>24606772
They're good for me but not for someone who eats tons of nuts every day.
I know a girl who had serious health problems because she ate too much spinach every day for years.

>>24606831
very high in oxalates, spinach.
hate to say it but i think i've basically been radicalised to thinking vegetables are actually just bad for you.

>>24606821
Good posting.

>>24606844
has to be samefag right

>>24606831
You like nuts in your mouth?

>>24606848
Good chance

keep going until I say cut.

>>24606801
There is reasonable science. It's just most of it was done over a hundred years ago and consists mainly of eat a variety of foods with low processing and adequate hygiene.

>>24606870
A ‘balanced diet’ is the biggest meme.
Lion doesn’t think, ‘Bit too much gazelle today, better have a nice salad tomorrow.’

>>24606828
>>24606870
>>24606895
Beer. Processed pork. I’m fucking serious

>>24606895
Lion is a specialized meat eater. Humans can't make vitamin-c anymore because we're adapted to an environment with a varied diet that's focused on maintaining our big brains. If we only eat gazelle we get scurvy and die.

>>24606901
at this point you wouldn't catch me dead eating conventional pork.
beef is a much better hill to die on.

>>24606904
If you eat pork kill yourself.

>>24606904
Not conventional! As ultra-processed as it gets. Spam is expensive these days but Rooster brand sells the same thing

When I was a 12-year-old girl, I used to wish to be a boy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHX2nWTeWww

>>24606903
if you're eating organs, you can get vitamin c from meat. humans actually need very little vitamin c.

three lions on a shirt

made a thread on this but no one is replying, so maybe I'll have some luck here
over the years, I have shortened and shortened the list of things I would claim to know beyond a shadow of a doubt. to be honest, it "seems" (which I'll get into in a moment) to me like if I am being totally honest, I can't make any epistemic claims beyond a shadow of a doubt. now, I don't want to claim that I've "done all the research" and have come to the right conclusion about that, but that's what seems to be the most honest thing for me to say. I struggle with the idea, for instance, that our perception as humans might be limited such that whatever conclusions anyone comes to about reason, logic, necessity, metaphysical first principles (prime mover, transcendental arguments, cosmological arguments), knowledge, etc., aren't merely limited relative to some god or divine being, but that even the smartest among us will never even get a whiff of the fundamental nature of reality - if that's even an appropriate idea to have.

now, all of this assumes that we've gotten past solipsism, which I wouldn't even say we have: that as well I struggle to definitively answer one way or another. it "seems" like you could always say,
>well, what if it just *seems* that way to you? what if it *seems* like this is the nature of logic, of necessity, of knowledge, but it's really another way? how do you know? what's your proof?
if it is true that you and I "exist" in the same capacity, at least, and that other species exist and have different senses which allow them to perceive "reality" (or "reality" translated), how far might this extend? how limited might we be as humans?

it seems circular to say that logic can justify itself, so you would have to go outside of that in order to justify it - but that seems true of any first principle you might try to lay out. this leads one - at least me - to put my hands in the air. I "realize" that once you're rendered into total epistemic humility, it becomes paradoxical to make any affirmative/negative statement (again, "how do you know?", "are you sure? why?")

I don't particularly find these ideas comforting, but again, my hands are in the air; I'm not sure where to go from here.

>>24606903
>an environment with a varied diet that's focused on maintaining our big brains
In the Atlantean river systems this was mostly fruit and fish. After Atlantis was destroyed refugees mixed into every race. This is why whites have more aquatic adaptations than blacks. The smartest population groups all have a history of eating a lot of fish and fruit.
>>24606951
Eskimos are pretty retarded compared to their East-Asian cousins who eat more varied fish and fruit. A normally dynamic, reactive system can get locked into a decaying spiral if the input never varies. If parts of the system never get exercised they decay and minor issues turn into large ones.

i just got back from hanging out with my friend and he talked to me about the biology of manking in societal relations. alpha, beta that kind of stuff. about male female relations, how women want a man who will dominate them and be their boss. about how they want a mate who can make alot of money for their children, and if he doesnt they leave him. about how if hes not dominant they cheat on him.
whilst i dont necessarily not agree with him, my belief is that surely we're not just more complex gorillas. surely we can truly love our parents, brother or sister, friend or a wife. we can help someone in need, without expecting or thinking about anything in return. we can have deeper understanding of society and the world around us than just living as a more complex gorilla just thinking about dominating our spouse, coworkers, family and acquiring wealth for yourself. think about math, for example. what an equisite insight into fabric of universe itself. isn't that a much more fullfiling calling than merely living like a more complex gorilla? same can be said for literature or music.
SURELY there's more to life than being a loudest biggest dumb gorilla there is in your neighbourhood so that you have a business that you run by bullying people or whatever
thing about tao te ching, think about jesus, think about aristotle, confucius, maxwell, tesla, einstein, planck, newton and countless others. surely they surpassed that level about which my friend talked about and reached higher level of intelligence, compassion, love and insight into people and universe. think about all the women in the past who stayed loyal to their husband even though maybe he didnt make that much money but he was true to himself and her, had guts and a life calling that he followed bravely.
Surely there's more to material, lizard brain, and money in this life?

>>24606966
Inside you are three lions. You ate too many lions!

>>24606976
The only thing I know for sure is that I know nothing. The beginning of wisdom is fear of God.

good old england

>>24606997
>Atlantis
Stopped reading there.
Kys, retarded schizo underclass.

Anyone else feeling nauseated after breakfast?

>>24607016
Nothing triggers midwit pseuds more than the now confirmed fact that Atlantis is a physical place and one of the most important factor in the story of how humans came to be.

>>24607032
Atlantis is not confirmed, you dysgenic wignat Zoomer garbage. You sound like a college dropout.
You are on the level of Arabs in terms of the intellect. Stfu, pseud garbage.

>>24607005
>The beginning of wisdom is fear of God.
I mean this in earnest, but what makes you think so, anon? would you say you know "God" exists?

>>24606997
inuit peoples adapted incredibly well in one of the most extreme environments on earth. their genetics and culture are strong and well-adapted.

>>24607058
Strong but rigid, they don't spend energy on thinking, new strategies or bigger boats. They slowly expand using methods developed ages ago, maybe the ice age.

>>24607055
The two statements kind of have roughly the same meaning. We can't know the mind of the highest power or how it relates to us. Everything good is a mercy from a God, a Lord we shouldn't expect anything from either way, good or bad. There's no apparent reason why our entire existence is like it is, full of goodness and beauty instead of for example eternal suffering. Taking any of it for granted or pretending we know anything for sure is losing the fear of God.

>>24606649
judges do not care about whats "right". poor man is gonna get punished anyway.

>>24606976
If someone asked you to meet at dawn,
would you sincerely consider telling him that you aren't sure that the sun will come up tomorrow?

>>24606976
>gotten past solipsism
the solipsistic world is the only one you will ever be able to interact with. If there are things "behind" the reflection in your eyes, then the properties of them have to manifest in the reflection somehow to be relevant to your experience.

Why are women into farts? 6/6 girls who I dated were into my farts.

>>24607062
is this because they don't know better, or because they know best?
it's true that primitive peoples didn't invent vaccines, polyester, technologies that emit constant EMF. and for that they live in a less toxic world than us.

>>24607050
There's an area in North Africa that switches between the most fertile paradise on the planet with the largest freshwater system and desert regularly. This oscillating system is the kind of system needed for the kind of evolutionary pressure that would result in apes that focus on brains and like swimming.
The fact that this system is located under the Atlas mountains and Plato's geographical descriptions fit it perfectly, predicting things we didn't know until the 21st century is a coincidence?
You proudly declared that the mere mention of the word Atlantis was enough to stop you from thinking which means you're a proud retard, actively against thinking.

>>24607112
It's because it works. So do flatworms who haven't changed for hundreds of millions of years.

>>24607088
I hope I'm not sounding like a homo or am being rude, and not to say that you're "wrong" (I don't know), but these are all just assertions. you're using your perception and/or sense of logic to come to these conclusions, but how do you know your perception/cognitive capacity, as I said initially, limited such that it merely *seems* this way to you but in reality something very different, something you could never even begin to image, is the case?
>>24607098
if I were to fully adhere to what seems to be true to me, I would say I don't know for certain. but even if I were, respectfully, I don't think that would prove that I were right
>>24607101
perhaps you're right, anon

>>24607130
and are perfectly healthy (unlike us)
in the post-post-modern age anyone halfway clever (or with money) is trying toe replicate a more natural way of living. natural light in their home, organic food, zero plastic. it’s a known fact that wild animals are healthier than farmed animals.

I just got diagnosed. I originally went to a psychiatrist for what I felt like was autism-related issues, but she said I probably have metempsychosis, so 2 weeks ago I saw the specialist she referred me to, and that's what they diagnosed with me. I don't know how to feel about it.

>>24607152
Until the environment changes too much or they have to deal with invaders. The obvious trope is the smart group can make spaceships to survive a meteor while the rigid people all die but the pattern holds for more common events like climate change and invaders.

>>24607098
Everyones sure the sun will rise til it doesn't. : (

>>24605948
Kek.
>>24607000
Your friend is just repeating some ligma grindset bullshit he read on social media and you are just looking for affirmations against it online. What the fuck is wrong with you zoomers?

>>24607166
>i went to a consultant and … get this … they diagnosed me with something!

>>24607180
>I went on /lit/ and .... get this... I sharted all over teh board!

>>24607166
>metempsychosis
Lmao, psychologists can diagnose soul transmigration now?

>>24607150
>how do you know your perception/cognitive capacity, as I said initially, limited such that it merely *seems* this way to you
That's part of the point of both statements. I don't know what's happening at all, all "knowledge" is only valid within a given context as in if x then y. If I can trust my stomach then I'm hungry right now.

>>24607172
more of a science-fiction scenario more than a real-world analogy. by your thinking bryan johnson has all the answers.
our brains have been shrinking since 20000 years ago, around the time we started introducing more plant foods to our diet. a bigger brain doesn't mean higher IQ, it means better perception, being able to see further, etc.

>>24607189
are you that bulimic girl(?) who used to post on /ck/? she used the same reaction imgs

>>24607197
well, we have been on freud long enough. hopefully psychology has people that actually give a shit about the difficult nature of the mind and have learned them something a thing or two

>>24607150
>if I were to fully adhere to what seems to be true to me, I would say I don't know for certain. but even if I were, respectfully, I don't think that would prove that I were right
That's perfectly valid in it's own sense. I think I necessarily need to be content with having a less strict definition of knowledge and 'proving right' if I don't want it to seem nonsensical to me if looked at from how I use those words in my daily life

>>24607210
It's evolutionary biology not science fiction. A rigid strategy depends on low rates of change. The more rigid creatures have been outcompeted a billion times by more adaptive creatures.
I didn't say anything about brain size and the original point was eskimos are rigid which may be partly related to their diets of only meat.

>>24607223
subahibi is sacred ground and everyone should be glad to see it. No, i am a schizo poem poster and alice lover

>>24606976
The starting point of all epistemology has to be the right thing or you're completely lost. In the past people assumed this starting point was something like logic or sense experience but those things are downstream of other things. If you want to find the truth you need to start from the fundamental and most basic thing in existence, which is your subjectivity itself, the thing inside of which all your experience and identity and thought takes place, sometimes also called the personal horizon (Valberg) or the I (Fichte). When you become aware of this thing, you collapse the subject and object; you are aware of your own awareness, which is aware of itself being aware of itself, in an infinite loop. To put it another way: you may have had dreams in which you were someone else, acted very differently than you do awake, or were convinced you were a different person. Yet on waking you compared the dream experiences to your waking experiences and knew that despite the differences between the two, you experienced both vantages with the same thing; the same subjectivity, or awareness, or personal horizon encompassed both sets of experience. This thing, inside of which you live and think and experience but which encompasses more than you, is the fundamental unit of phenomenal experience, and the one thing which you can say with certainty is yours. If you are to make any epistemic claims, you must take it as your starting point, as you can proceed no deeper, identify no more fundamental thing on which to ground experience and thought.

If I stole a kiss from you, then what would you do? 1) rape, 2), call police, 3) steal back the kiss, 4) other, 5) fight, 6) run away, 7) scream, 8) yell, or 9) tell parents, 10) blush, 11) urinate pants, 12) gasp, or 13) die of fright.

Some time ago I had a dream where I was walking around in a mall, though instead of stores there were concert halls. Various bands were playing in them at the same time. Many of them were sold out, the halls were full of people. I myself could move freely between the venues without needing tickets or anything. After a while I came across a band I was really into at the time. They were playing in a weird little run-down room, to at most a dozen people. I felt an immense sadness after waking up, not just out of loneliness, but also because I was able to share this experience with only such a small group of people. Doesn't help that I think this particular band makes the most depressing music I've heard.

I can't really put it into words, but I get the same feeling thinking about the dream even now. It's similar to some other things I felt. I imagine a loving couple, a tight group of friends, or a little family meeting a horrible fate together. They share an intense experience, nobody else in the world can relate to them but the few that were around them at the time. Maybe they're glad to be in good company in bad times. Or maybe they're sad to see their loved ones go through the same hell as them.

>>24607235
way too broad. the story of human progress isn't as clean as it seems. it's true the weaker tribes that fled to europe did manage to survive (that is, survive, not thrive) and humans have steadily got unhealthier.
>eskimos are rigid which may be partly related to their diets of only meat
speculation, not biology. you can look up the bioavailability in meat vs plant foods

saw an article recently that put it well:
>Not enough people know that science 'infers to the best explanation' and doesn't definitively 'prove' anything.

A man's body is like a barrel, which, if you salt fish in it once, will make fish of everything you put into it afterwards.

>>24607277
I don't know who you're talking to but it's clearly not me.

>>24607240
>The starting point of all epistemology has to be the right thing or you're completely lost.
how do you know that there is a "right" thing?
>In the past people assumed this starting point was something like logic or sense experience but those things are downstream of other things. If you want to find the truth you need to start from the fundamental and most basic thing in existence, which is your subjectivity itself, the thing inside of which all your experience and identity and thought takes place, sometimes also called the personal horizon (Valberg) or the I (Fichte)
what does it mean that one's subjective experience is "fundamental"? hate to sound like a broken record, but how do you know that your subjectivity is confined to never truly know what the most fundamental aspect of reality is?
>I think I necessarily need to be content with having a less strict definition of knowledge and 'proving right' if I don't want it to seem nonsensical to me if looked at from how I use those words in my daily life
I don't disagree, but then I would say that's not really knowledge. however "reasonable" it might be, and I'm not saying it's not, it seems right to say that it's necessarily an assumption. if "we" all exist, then perhaps we fundamentally have to make these assumptions without absolute proof, I'm just not inclined to call that "knowledge", then
>>24607198
I see. I appreciate your honesty, anon

>>24607291
where did i lose you?

>>24607308
I don't think you ever got me. Every reply seems to try to misrepresent me and when I try to clarify you use that to divert to even more irrelevant nonsense.

It's good that teens are saying clanker instead of nigger.

>>24607326
can you be less vague?

>>24607305
>how do you know that there is a "right" thing?
If you can't even accept that epistemology is possible at all, then why bother asking these questions? You can be a total radicalist and refuse to accept anything as a given, including the possibility of knowledge, but if you do that you might as well not bother with philosophy.
Maybe "right thing" was a poor choice of words, though. I mean to say that if you are to make claims about epistemology, you have to find the foundations of that in which epistemology takes place - phenomenal experience, our personal horizon - and work from there. Kant made similar arguments, iirc. Otherwise you end up like the rationalists or empiricists, hopelessly lost and unable to respond to things like the problem of induction.
>what does it mean that one's subjective experience is "fundamental"? hate to sound like a broken record, but how do you know that your subjectivity is confined to never truly know what the most fundamental aspect of reality is?
It's fundamental because outside of your subjective experience, from a phenomenological point of view, there is nothing else. The question of epistemology isn't just a question about knowledge floating in the ether somewhere, it's a question about how we as human beings can know something, and the foundation of human knowledge is human experience; all of the latter takes place within the former. If you are attempting to make claims or perform inquiry without making assumptions, your starting point has to be that which is most basic to your experience, that within which everything else that exists place (from a phenomenological standpoint).
>I don't disagree, but then I would say that's not really knowledge. however "reasonable" it might be, and I'm not saying it's not, it seems right to say that it's necessarily an assumption. if "we" all exist, then perhaps we fundamentally have to make these assumptions without absolute proof, I'm just not inclined to call that "knowledge", then
Your subjectivity isn't knowledge, of course, but we cannot really go anywhere or make any kind of claim without starting with it as our foundation. Both Kant and Fichte made similar claims: knowledge about the external world, if it is possible, is necessarily knowledge of something other than the self, and thus the question of knowledge in general must always also concern the nature of the self (by which I here mean the subjectivity or the personal horizon more than the identity).

Am I making sense here? I hope my wording of things isn't causing confusion.

I don't like hearing sobs in my sister's room. It gives the house an awkward atmosphere.

>>24607251
it depends on if you look cute like konata or kanna.

>>24607391
Sorry, I don't look girly like them. I look like a boy.

>>24607383
then comfort her and get a place where the two of you can be free of torment

>>24607400
I don't want to go into her room.

>>24607251
5

>>24607179
>>24607000
can someone else answer in good spirit?
also not a zoomer, zillenial though

>>24607305
>but then I would say that's not really knowledge. however "reasonable" it might be
I don't see what there is to knowledge without taking some things for granted.
It is like making a mathematical system without axioms.
There is no proposition in such a system because there is nothing to prove nor is there anything to prove it with.
It just doesn't seem that interesting to me

>>24606710
it's alright. bit effeminate of you
the point being conveyed by
>it's the exhale between i and f
could be communicated more clearly. the line as a whole is a bit clunky. I like the sentiment though

>>24607368
>If you can't even accept that epistemology is possible at all, then why bother asking these questions?
fair question. to clarify, I have difficulty answering these questions, but I am trying to be open to the idea that there are aspects of these arguments that I simply don't understand (hence why I said
>I don't want to claim that I've "done all the research" and have come to the right conclusion about that)
as I've gotten older I've become ever more present of my epistemic shortcomings, and I'm generally interested in these things, so they're on my mind and I want to talk with people about them
>You can be a total radicalist and refuse to accept anything as a given, including the possibility of knowledge, but if you do that you might as well not bother with philosophy.
I think that's fairly said. that's why I said I don't find these ideas particularly comforting, because there's a desire for me to "know", to have closure, but up until this point I've gotten ever more radical in my claims of knowledge
>I mean to say that if you are to make claims about epistemology, you have to find the foundations of that in which epistemology takes place - phenomenal experience, our personal horizon - and work from there. Kant made similar arguments, iirc. Otherwise you end up like the rationalists or empiricists, hopelessly lost and unable to respond to things like the problem of induction.
that seems to make sense that we would have to make some foundation in order to make affirmative/negative claims, but the meta question is whether we can fundamentally understand our supposed phenomenological experience and whether there isn't something "deeper" or more fundamental. again, if it's true that other animals have senses that we don't and can perceive aspects of reality (or translated reality) that we have to translate through our own senses, it's not obvious to me how far this idea might go. we're using our understanding of our phenomenological/subjective experience, but how would we ever be able to step outside of that and say beyond a shadow of a doubt that we truly understand it?
>Am I making sense here? I hope my wording of things isn't causing confusion.
I feel like I understand you, but by all means tell me if I'm missing anything. also I appreciate the rest of your reply, but perhaps the content of this reply of mine is enough to move forward with; I don't want to get (too) repetitive
>>24607417
>I don't see what there is to knowledge without taking some things for granted.
that's what I fear
>It just doesn't seem that interesting to me
to each his own, I suppse

>>24607399
Fag bashing it is then.

>>24607251
if another guy kissed me during a world cup semifinal I probably wouldn’t blink twice. even generally, if a guy kissed me I wouldn’t make him feel bad. but if it was someone like you overtly gay (not just repressed), that I would have a problem with.

>>24607424
>but how would we ever be able to step outside of that and say beyond a shadow of a doubt that we truly understand it?
We cannot. Not in the way I think you're imagining, anyway. That's one of Kant's key points. You're asking if there's a way to step outside of human experience, which makes about as much sense as asking how to see out of your elbow. The only possible exceptions would be 1) through some kind of direct experience of something other, what some call a revelation, divine or mystic experience, or ekstasis, or 2) through divine intervention in the world, such as the revealing of scripture that flat-out gives us knowledge from beyond human experience. I don't know if you accept the existence or possibility of either option 1 or option 2.
Of course, if we ground epistemology and our understanding of the outside world (the not-I), we may arrive at a system in which knowledge, even knowledge of things outside our experience, may be possible. However, I don't think anyone has done this so far. Science (in the modern sense) has quite a few holes in its epistemic foundation, holes we basically just accept so that we can make use of the system.

>discovered how to have multiple orgasms
>now spend all weekends and time off work masturbating instead of doing anything productive
help

>>24607491
share the wealth

I like it when words are written with f instead of ph. I don't know why but it feels much better.

>>24607399
How old are you?

>>24607511
Learn German.

>>24607543
I already speak german. Maybe thats why.

I bet I could defeat all of you in grenade throwing.

>>24607348
I tried for 5 posts.

>>24607590
maybe just one specific example where i misrepresented you?
seems like i responded directly to your claims throughout - if it feels off, maybe because i’m not agreeing

I knew that you would be afraid once you found out.

You are not that important.

>>24607648
importance isn’t important

I saw the breasts of a girl doing a handstand.

I saw a worm bend over backwards.

I’ve seen footage.

>>24607648
What do you mean by that?

>>24607662
Nice
>>24607675
Is he okay?
>>24607680
Join us in metric
I think bumblebees were the coolest thing I saw all day

>>24607702
>Nice
You'll want to retract that statement. She was a teenager.

>>24607727
Nah I stand by it. If she was 59, you're still the same probability of weirdo stalker rapist

I wonder what I will do if I am still an aimless loner during my forties. For now my daydreams drift between buying a sailboat and drifting around the seas, spending my days in drunk contemplation at some cheap place in the caribbean or establishing myself at a small town in the olympic peninsula. Nihilistmaxxing while trying to make a living as a street photographer/videographer in some dystopic asian megacity also appeals to me.

>>24607747
I'm only 2 of those things.

>>24607755
Nice dubdubs

I think I just have to accept that I can never be in a relationship. I have such severe attachment issues that whenever someone leaves me I get upset and start compulsively self sabotaging and isolating myself. I can never try again.

He made me feel much more excited than you ever could.

>>24607604
Every reply I made to you was trying to correct your misrepresentations and every time you replied as if I said something completely different. I doubt there's anything I can say to you about any subject, none of it will make it through to you. There's nothing motivating me to continue this bullshit.
>>24607235

>>24607829
Who is he?

>>24607829
https://youtube.com/shorts/kT93VvvV9ds?si=sjZRqywn7tQcmABs

>>24607838
still open to hearing just one specific example.
the fact that you've got so rattled for some reason doesn't really reflect well on you either

>>24607844
The man who found the missing piece.

>>24607875
Are you really a homosexual? I'm not going to judge you; I just want to know your sexual history.

>>24607885
I'm straight, I'm not a guy.

>>24607889
Oh... soryy, I'm not interested in a girl's sexual history. No offense!

>>24607896
Lol.
You're the anon that wrote about the blond, aren't you?

>>24607829
never thought i’d say this but i think i preferred the
??? Hes so angry ??? I willl never be calm again ??? These meds aren't working ??? My therapist says I look worse ??? Youre lying ???
random larp posts from these threads last year

>>24607901
No. I'm the boy who said he saw a girl's breasts when she did a handstand. She was a brunette.

????? She is not a protein shake in a mason jar????

>>24607912
Irl or...?

>>24607932
Yes.

Today is my turn to wash the clan's dishes.

>>24607908
>>24607928
Can you please stop?

>>24607997
?????? Whyyyyy

>>24608000
The poster you were replying to who was talking about some guy finding the missing piece wasn’t even me, okay? I was going through a really hard time last year, and I don’t know why you feel the need to bring that shit up in these threads constantly. Go fuck yourself.

>>24608011
You will never be calm again????

>>24608019
I’m pretty calm right now. On the other hand, hanging out in these threads and endlessly imitating posts I made when I was in the throes of what was essentially a nervous breakdown suggests that you yourself are fairly disturbed (and pathetic). Find something better to do.

>>24608050
I've never noticed or gave a shit about your posts. I just found it funny when anon brought it up and now knowing it annoys you, I'm tempted to keep doing it.

>>24608061
Leave her alone!

I need a foot massage

I completely cut myself off from all outside contact this weekend. The stars were bad.

>>24608090
Or else what?

>>24608099
I'll ask God to curse you for being bad to women.

>>24608104
Oooooh, I am shivering in my boots.

My knees and feet are destroyed from running but my soul is cleaner than ever, I love running in the woods

>>24608128
I would pay hundreds of dollars for your socks.

>>24608011
oh fuck i take it back

Drinking water from a stranger’s bottle because the beat is too good to stop

New
>>24608266