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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH6SDrLDTBo

>>24699993
Huh should have waited for the get

thank you for letting me be mice elf
again

>>24700000
blessed mice elf quints
>>24699996
Cuz of Evil Nine? Yeah maybe. But it's a slow board. I could've been here all day waiting for anon to submit a five post tract on metaphysics

We all deserve hell

>>24700010
Wonder in God's infinite grace

I'm rewatching Poirot (the endless series with David Suchet) and it's kind of notable the main reason you find out anyone is Catholic is because no divorce translates into murder motivation.

>>24700013
That series is amazing on so many levels.
However I don't think women understand or care about detective work or inference reasoning and it was all a facade so Agatha Christie could write about gossipy twaddle, love triangles and conniving minds.
If you think about it Poirot is nothing but a busybody who takes small talk and anecdotes at face value and then makes ridiculous conjectures based on paper-thin evidence and visual cues.
In the real world there could be a hundred reasons why someone would want to wear a hat slanted a certain way, but Poirot just 'knows' it was to cover an abusive husband's bruise on whom the lady took a deadly revenge on.

>>24700096
>gossipy twaddle, love triangles and conniving minds.
Christie is BPD af (nearly framing your husband for murder and then writing thinly veiled books about him being a murderer) but she has that sweet detective fiction writer autism where a lot of it is
>This is all the points of intersection of bus routes and this train line on the second Sunday of the month
>What you really need to understand about early Syrian architecture
>In order to detect this rare heavy metal poisoning the key signs
I mean, The Pale Horse is responsible for more thallium poisoning detections than medical textbooks, the also very good Young Poisoner's Handbook, and its real life inspiration combined.
Ariadne Oliver (Agatha's self insert who hates her Swedish detective she keeps writing) is my favourite in the series because <3 Zoe Wannamaker, but if you want a really great speculation into Christie as a character, watch Agatha (1979)
I don't think Christie was faking, I think she's a bone fide true crime loving anxious girly pop and she should not be scorned

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>>24700096
>>24700132
Get in bros we're watching Poirot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl_I0fIFmTc

If I were to approach you, femanon, most beautiful femanon, and insist you suck my cock, never touching you, just insisting persistently that you suck my cock, would the percentage chance of said proposition being accepted by yourself increase in relation to the time spent insisting it?

>>24700173
First time should do it if it's going to work

>>24700173
I’m not gay but I fantasize greatly about a MMF threesome where I end up sucking the other guys dick

I smoke my pipe in my room with the windows open and ac on. Should I stop doing this? I like in florida and I really do not want to have to go on my soggy humid ass hot ass porch to smoke

>>24700192
Yeah you're fucking up your AC and you need that more than you need to not sweat while smoking

>>24699854 (OP)
If we lived in a just world, everyone involved in shuttering USAID would be shot. But we don't live in a just world, so nothing will happen to them. Greatest crime of the century thus far. A bunch of 20 year olds got memed into retarded political faggotry and now hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, will die for no fucking reason, many of them children. USAID was astonishingly cheap on the scale of the US federal budget. I will never forgive Luke Farritor, and I hope God punishes him for the rest of his life.
>inb4 edgelord /pol/ memewords

>>24700200
It was good PR for America but that was about it. There’s a reason the left opposed USAID: it didn’t address neoimperialism, capitalism, etc. and in reality those things are what keeps the countries the aid was being sent to poor. If anything USAID just makes America seem nicer without actually solving the problem America caused. That said, it was better than nothing, which is what we have now. The left predicted China would take the reins there but even if it does there will be avoidable harm done.

>>24700200
It does have devastating short term consequences, but long term I don't think they planned it out well either.
It exists largely to keep the illusion of the US as a superpower. Most superpowers had or have such a plan since the Cold War. China's One Road policy is but one example. These things don't exist because they're nice and charitable governments. They exist to give a sense of dependence, that things might be worse if X totalitarian government disappeared overnight. You can't keep yanking that and expect your codependent partner to not find another pimp. I'm not optimistic this leads to some greater self reliance. More likely it leads to other such programmes being able to afford the same kind of devil you know dependence for cheaper.
>>24700206
It's not really good PR. Very few people outside of the US will see it as a good thing. It's not really the charity that makes these places poor, it's that you won't pay a living wage to the farmer/miner/manufacturer where industries are thriving but low waged. Most of these countries declaring that they're going to stop exporting conflict minerals at slave wages and nationalise and unionise the whole thing is going to get them invaded as a cheaper option for developed countries. If you were American it would be like writing in the tip line
>Smile more!

>>24700206
>>24700226
Both of these takes are right -- USAID was a tool of US imperialism and doesn't solve any underlying problems -- but the fact remains that millions of people depended on USAID food and medicine, and without it, they will simply die. /are dying right now. There's an argument to be made for rolling back USAID. I don't agree with that argument, but like, it could be made and I wouldn't immediately dismiss it. But there's no non-retarded justification for shuttering it the way they did. If you want to avoid millions of excess, needless, innocent deaths, you'd have to do a structured rollback over several years to give private orgs the time to fill in the humanitarian gap.
>self-reliance, keeps them poor
There's an argument to be made here too, but I don't think it's right, simply because you can lecture a classroom full of people on institution-building and the importance of rule of law and central banking all day long, but none of it matters if the class will starve to death at the end of the week.

>>24700257
The thing is the aid exists so people see taking it away as starving people. But they don't see not paying them for their goods and services as starving people. It's the
>But I bought her flowers after I put her in hospital
defense, when most people in developed countries don't want to find out their charity doesn't really cover the slave or low wage labour damage

Super hot take: Muslims rape British teenage girls because those are their prime years

>>24700275
I see this sort of arrogance in my liberal friends. They are nice people but they are utterly blind to the true costs of things. I remember when the first round of ICE/immigration drama occurred earlier this year one of them argued it was bad because “who will pick the fruits?” When I suggested we pay fruit-pickers more and thus encourage Americans to work such jobs, the reaction was “I don’t want to pay more for fruits!” (Mind you, I’m not anti-immigrant myself, but this being the logic behind supporting immigration is something I find appalling). They have the sort of reaction to onshoring manufacturing as well, because of the increase in the goods’ costs.

Implicitly these people are acknowledging that they are underpaying for the lifestyles and goods they enjoy. The true costs are much higher, and in fact you’re screwing over the Mexican migrant farm worker by not paying her what you would have to pay an American citizen to do the same job. But people don’t want to confront or fix that. Material concerns outweigh ethical concerns I guess.

>>24700275
You're right about this -- the kicker is that taking the aid away does actually starve people, you know? Like it's not a framing device or some kind of propaganda lie. That's just what happens. Take the aid away and a hundred thousand infants will just starve to death. Lots of my friends on the left won't acknowledge this, which is endlessly frustrating
>>24700307
>material concerns outweigh ethical concerns
Yeah, they always do; just with the USAID thing, the kicker is that two things are true at once. It's true that the Mexican farm worker's getting screwed over because his boss is underpaying him compared to what he'd pay an American, and it's true that underpaying the Mexican means that Americans get cheap produce. It's also true that the Mexican farmworker's making more money by getting screwed in America than he would be earning market rate at the same job in Mexico. We are a phenomenally rich country. This doesn't mean that it's fine to screw over the Mexican, he ought to be paid more.

I have the framework for a novel about addiction but allegory seems so trite and i wouldnt even know where to start

>>24700297
Importing Muslims into Europe was bad enough but if you’re going to do it, take proper precautions. By that I mean the death penalty for rape and a judicial system willing to enforce a penalty.

>>24699666
I'm trying? All I can manage is a dog paddle at this point at my age

>>24700425
Also, thanks, Satan

>literally every romance/erotic story I have ever written or outlined involved a cheating wife
I have never been cheated on and I would like to keep it that way. Yet the idea of the unfaithful woman seems to attract me.

I'm treated like a child but expected to act like an adult.
They tell me to sit down like a good boy and take it like a man.

Has anyone seen the four-part documentary series The Fourth Estate? Just learned about it and curious if it's worth watching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Estate_(TV_series)

Not that I'm the biggest fan of paintings to begin with, but I just don't get Matisse at all.

>>24700560
Of you want to preserve your mental sanity, don't read anything related to political news.

>>24700297
Native Brits rape more than immigrants.

>>24700690
Stop being an idiot. It's hurting people.

>>24699854 (OP)
I'm in awe about the future of the Western world. Masses of immigrants from all parts of the world, a highly muttified upper class consisting of a few whites amongst hapa mutts, mulattoes, Indians and Jews. At most, the middle class may remain considerably white. What will be the end game of this, socially and geopolitically?

>>24699854 (OP)
I've had stomach pain the last hour or two. Ate Wendys and beef jerky.

I hate that I sometimes see beauty in the most minute things. It is so small that it can barely be considered art, but the feeling it produces inside me is so strong that I can't help but crave more, seeking some depth. Yet, there is nothing to search for - very little to discuss or think about. All it leaves me with is a mystery of where the beauty came from.

I‘ve been sitting in the car for half an hour instead of going to my next place because all I really want to do is jack off

Hoping someone will answer my post /x/ meets psychology books in the other thread

>>24700792
Race is irrelevant, the real battle is in reversing offshoring or otherwise going from a service based to a manufacturing based economy. If that can be done we are saved, otherwise the West will rot.

>>24700206
I oppose it because it gives my tax dollars to non-citizens

>>24700949
You think it is inconsequential that the wife of the president is a Russian, and that the wife of the Vice-President is an Indian? While these heads of state themselves are still fully white and of European origin, the same will not account for the generation that comes after them. These mutts will want to change the law according to the taste of mulattoes and Chongs.

>>24700976
We start from different assumptions about the world. I reject the claim that a race has something innate to it that no other race can have. I am civic nationalist in that sense.

All of this is fluff however. The core of the matter is in the West’s agricultural and industrial might. We are falling as a civilization because we are a husk, having exported our manufacturing to China. Bring back the factories, push more people to the rural parts of the West, and things would quickly begin to recover.

>>24700792
I think about this too. I try not to for my sanity.

Society will become increasingly low-trust, atomised, and segregated as ethnic/religious groups congregate. Crime will continue to increase. Islam may grow to become the majority religion in some European countries. Naturally, it will therefore represent a major political force and affect policy. It's unlikely that there will be any Islamic takeovers though.

Geopolitically, the West will continue to stagnate and weaken, crippled by social, cultural and ethnic infighting. Meanwhile, the cold, hard Chinese Han ethnostate, unified in belief, culture and race, will become world hegemon. Indian diasporas in countries like the UK, Canada and Australia will become significant enough in population that they become significant political blocs, probably affecting foreign policy regarding India.

>>24701007
>I reject the claim that a race has something innate to it that no other race can have.
The races can contract qualities from other races through racial mixing. This process causes social revolutions when the ruling class of the nation sticks to the old ways while the masses already adopted a new way of thinking. It can also happen the other way around. The masses remain the same, the ruling class becomes a group of foreigners: leadership is overthrown less the ruling class adopts the culture of the masses. Examples include Frankish France, Mongol China.

Acquaintance of mine was cheated on by his first, and so far only, girlfriend 20 times...and he knew of the first 5. Worst thing is, I get him. At some point the crippling loneliness gets to you, and the lack of pussy gets to the MFer

>>24701017
The Chinese have been playing the isolationist game forever, their government is too conservative to plan any kind of major conquests. The small colonies they sent to the West are barely noticed and the offspring mutts and assimilates to the culture with indifference.
The Middle Easterners are highly endogamous, like the Indians and rarely intermarry. Unlike the East Asians, these two groups will remain homogenous forever.
Then you have the Africans and the Latinos, quite indifferent to race, mutting and assimilating with indifference.
The whites seem, in regards to the upper and lower classes, indifferent to mutting, but rather conservative among the populous middle classes.
So there will be a bunch of mutts among a bunch of whites, among a bunch of Middle Easterners and Indians, and they will all participate in government, like is already the case in places like the UK.
I can well imagine that there will be some sort of separationist movements in Europe built by unhappy white middle classes desiring a country without immigrants, but unable to sway the ruling class over to their side (mutted as they are but still white enough to ensure government principle).
We do not know the scale of this hidden movement, the potency of it's believers, nor how far the ruling classes will go to crush them.

Who will win: Venezuela or the USA?

This painting depicts the temptation of Christ, and the devil here is depicted as a warlord.

When tempted by the devil to worship him, Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, rejected him and said we should only worship God.

Satanists, may God curse them, promote worshiping the self. They believe you should make yourself into your own personal god to worship.

Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, worshiped God instead. This is the First Commandment. Monotheism. From Abraham, peace be upon him.

The Early Church, long before the contemporary doctrines of Christianity, represents the purest form of Christianity in my view as a Muslim and those Christians had a key role in the birth of Islam. Such as Bahira and Waraqah ibn Nawfal.

Muslims believe that Islam is the way of Jesus Christ, peace be upon him. He worshiped God and God alone. This is the Sunnah of the prophets. The Scripture of the prophets teaches that the antichrist will declare himself as God instead.

>>24701111
Venezuela. USA wipes out the nation, but 4.32 billion venezuelan immigrants flood the USA, who the government wants, and after demographic shift venezuelan blood owns more land and assets than the original stock.

Standing at the feet of the statue of the goddess Shar in Baldur's Gate 3 is making me realize that I need to spend an afternoon or weekend researching all the largest statues of women in the world so I can go on a global "closest I can get to giantess fetish" tour

>>24701087
The Chinese will try to take control of Taiwan eventually. In the meantime they won't attempt any conquests, but they will continue to exercise their growing economic power and grow their sphere of influence.

White separatist movements won't be a thing. They'd be considered extremist groups and shut down immediately. There probably won't be any significant change to the direction of travel. Western media, institutions and leaders are for the most part ideologically captured by globalism and are hell bent on imposing it on the Western population as fast as possible.

Western countries will probably end up as the "second world", with living standards remaining much higher than third world countries but eventually lagging behind those of a handful of Asian countries like China, SK, Japan, Singapore etc.

Women live rent-free in my head.

>>24701280
same

>>24701202
truly the the greatest mind of our generation.

>>24701280
>>24701292
Same
I am just reading the manipulated man and whilst the book goes into extremes it really does nail a lot of things right
While taking my daily walks i stopped looking in the general direction of any woman if shes nearby. I stopped looking at women, more or less. Its something i still have to work on cause its hard to override such a powerful impulse
I am one of the lucky ones because my mom has been brought up well, shes oldschool so she still has great qualities.
Since i undeniably hate women i like to think my mom is not a woman but a human

>>24701249
Japan is ultra-liberal and ultimately Western in its design and culture. Unless it has a major right wing movement (like the Sanseitoū) take political dominance, it will end up with the same fate as the west. For example, mass immigration has already caused a demographic upset, with some 3% of Japan being foreign born, and most Japanese are not child-bearing age whereas most foreigners are.

georgina. rose.

ngghh

My sister in law assaulted my mother. My brother has since estranged himself from the family. I've never met my nephew. I live on the other side of the country, but that's no excuse. I feel pity for my mother. All she wanted in life was to be a mother and a grandmother, and now she can't see her grandchild who lives in the same city as her. I am a lonely recluse who won't give her the future she wished for. I feel sorry for her because the reality of her life is sad and lonely and it won't get better. My sister is mentally ill and won't be having children. I feel a bit ashamed of how my family has developed. We are spread across the country and disconnected. I don't even desire connection at this point. It's too late. I envy orphans for their freedom. A life of unfulfilled expectations. It isn't so uncommon. It could be much worse. My brother was supposed to be the well adjusted one. It's tragic, but whatever... so my mother is depressed, there's nothing I can do; I am depressed too. I would only solidify her thoughts. I've never even considered her committing suicide until this instant... It does run in the family... I think I would feel relief if my mother killed herself. I would feel justified in my feelings toward life, if my mother killed herself. How could I live after that... Jesus Christ what a shitshow my bitch sister in law has created. I would prefer a more spectacular tragedy. I just want to be left alone. I'm not sure I care very much. I wanted to estrange myself and now my brother has stolen the privilege from me. Now I'm obligated to compensate for his rejection of my mother. What do I care... And now a new woman has drifted into my life and we've become tangled and I am setting the stage for another banal tragedy. Well, we are all only playing our parts. I'll try not to take it to seriously. I miss my dogs. I want to get a dog.

Anon's story will end with the glory of leaving suffering behind

>>24701017
>unlikely that there will be any Islamic takeovers though
Islam in the west is becoming modern christianity. Their women are already behaving like whores in france and belgium.

You want women? Go to a country music show. I have never seen so many half dressed women in my life. Like thousands. And they're all plastered.

>>24701475
Country music? huh. I bet they're all dumb bimbos tho.

>>24701475
>blonde hair brown eyes

>>24701490
huh?

>>24701475
What means plastered?

>>24701482
Nah, statistically? Some arent. The volume is so damn huge.

>>24701505
Drunk on $19 coolers.

>>24700013
>>24700096
>>24700132
>>24700165
booktube trying to solve the books is my fav thing to come out of booktube that isn't a true crime story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9frvo1pWYQ

>>24701424
I've always been surprised by how many tragedies people can survive without losing hope. She may never have her big happy family, or smiling kids at the dinner table, or laughing grandchildren underneath a Christmas Tree, but if you are trying and you are writing these banal tagedies, then there may still be hope in her mind. People will take that hope even to the grave.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine my favorite sci fi/fantasy heroes protecting me from my dad. I do the same thing now except I also imagine them directly comforting me.

>>24701568
what your dad did?

>>24701573
SA and less seriously just strongly disliked me.

>finally got off my ass to go to the bank to do some shit i need to do
>decide to wait till the last hour of operations because my stomach was bugging me and I didn't want to stand in line for ages and i figured things would be slow towards the end of the day
>get there and its busy as fuck anyway
>finally get to the teller and it turns out i need to bring a bunch of ID for what I wanted to do
>rush home and back with all the paperwork i need
>banks closed
>cant do any online shopping or check my tax return info till i get things sorted out

I am annoyed.

Is there a name for the fear of going to sleep specifically because you're afraid of something bad happening when you're asleep and you can't do anything about it?
I'm afraid of going to bed and waking up to a phonecall telling me a family member is dead.

I miss Vietnam. I wasn't there, but I liked Full Metal Alchemist.

>>24701616
Same except CCR

>>24701616
I know what you mean. "Helloooooooooo Vietnam!"

>>24701606
that would be a specific flavour of Somniphobia

Foucauldian BBC + Immanuel Cunt what happens if we merge the two?

walkin' around my house yelling 'scream!' in a medium-high pitched voice to soothe my anxiety when it gets to be too much. currently I'm at around eight times a day

Lacan's BBC
delusion and guitary

I am sorry for what promises to be a long blog post. I've been stuck with like three or four intertwined ideas and I can't make sense of them or make them work. I read Wurmser's 'Mask of Shame,' which I found to be incredibly accurate. I realized I live a shame-filled life, and that my 'wanting to know' and dysfunction is rooted in this in some ways. Because of this realization I've regressed into very bad habits (and even started binging amine again). I also realized that everyone feels shame, I think. Our culture is one of shame, in a lot of different ways. This fills me with despair. I cannot believe that we are ok with things being the way that they are, and that I am not abnormally weak. This is suicide inducing. I've shifted to the right since (slowly very slowly) starting the canon in the sense that there's a now-dated idea of 'human' or man that I think is worth protecting. I don't know what to do with this, or my belief that the middle class (or whatever you want to insert here, the 'middle-brow' the 'mean) is worth protecting. It feels naive to pretend that everyone can achieve some insight or creative growth or even actualization. Still, I think that leisure and contemplation can be enjoyed by all, but we've created a world where that doesn't seem to happen. Obviously it's choice up to a point, but phones and the internet have made careful and focused thought totally absent in the 'middle.' We've built a world antithetical to human flourishing, one that results in shame and a loss of true leisure and in the collapse of the middle. I would have liked to have enjoyed an a-typical self destruction, but instead I realized that everyone is destroying themselves in the same way. My internet promised to be strange and exciting and isolating. Was your internet the same way? At any rate, I feel like there's some through line or thing connecting these that I can't see. t. buzzed.

If there is post-hegelianism, then what is meta hegelianism

I have a slow brain and no talents whatsoever

The Embrace is the Meta Archetype of the Self Itself and the pre-ontological ground of being

>>24699854 (OP)
That art is neat.

That time a swamp rabbit almost took out Jimmy Carter

You deserve less than other people. You are less than other people. Accept it now or continue to suffer and cause problems.
Nothing is too demeaning. Nothing is too painful. You are lower than other people and it is just and right for you to suffer if it benefits others.
You can never have self-worth of any kind. It blinds you to the simpler fact that you are a lower form of life. You become arrogant and just end up causing problems and burdening other, more valuable people.
You can have no dreams. You can have no comforts. You can have no relationships above those of object and user.
>I just wanted to have someone who-
Shut up. You don't deserve it. You don't deserve anything you want. You deserve to suffer. What you want is irrelevant except when others deservingly receive what you wished for and you deservedly suffer for it.
No one will ever save you. No one cares. It will never get better. Your fate is to suffer in this life and suffer in the next. You deserve it. You do.

>>24701853
>deserving anything
Spooked af

>>24701853
Are you talking about yourself?

I was asked to be a Discord moderator tonight.
I hope you correctly assume I turned it down.

>>24701848
There's a non-zero number of people who went to that very same party and felt the same way

I see this big fat homeless man sitting cross-legged and shirtless near the river every time I go for a run. He has a massive stomach and sits with great posture. He is insane. I hear him speaking to himself. It's hard for me to contain my laughter when I see him. I see him at the turn-around point in my run, so recently I've started walking as I pass him, so I can get a better sense of him.
He makes me laugh because he reminds me of a big fat stupid pig. He sits there so fat and shamelessly... it's hilarious. He is so proud in his sloth and stupidity, and he is angry. He stares at me while he's talking to himself with a challenge in his eyes. He reminds me of this description from The Temptation of St. Anthony:

>The Catoblepas
>(A black buffalo with a pig's head, falling to the ground, and attached to his shoulders by a neck long, thin, and flaccid as an empty gut.
>He wallows flat upon the ground, and his feet entirely disappear beneath the enormous mane of coarse hair which covers his face):
>"Fat, melancholy, fierce—thus I continually remain, feeling against my belly the warmth of the mud. So heavy is my skull that it is impossible for me to lift it. I roll it slowly all around me, open-mouthed; and with my tongue I tear up the venemous plants bedewed with my breath. Once, I even devoured my own feet without knowing it!
>"No one, Anthony, has ever beheld mine eyes,—or at least, those who have beheld them are dead. Were I to lift my eyelids—my pink and swollen eyelids, thou wouldst forthwith die!"
>Anthony. "Oh, that one! Ugh! As though I could desire it?—Yet his stupidity fascinates me! No, no! I will not!"
>(He gazes fixedly upon the ground.
>But the weeds take fire; and amidst the contorsions of the flames, arises)....

He is so stupid and fat and crazy that it's divine.

My God is the Sun

>>24701967
qotsa fag

I've never bowled alone. I don't know anyone who does. I don't think I've even seen someone bowling alone.

>>24701977
I'd imagine pros or even just devoted hobbyists do it all the time for practice

>>24701980
My grandpa plays at a competitive level, goes a few times a week, but he never bowls alone.

>>24701992
People with a bowling alley in their home probably bowl alone from time to time

Read The Time Machine on audio in its entirety recently. The narrator did a really good job.

I wonder if my biological father, who met my mother at a bar and had a short fling when I was conceived, has me in his will. He's quite successful and well-off. Probably not, but it'd be cool if he did.

>>24702034
doubt it

>>24702034
Same. But it was a gay bar, apparently. I didn't ask any further questions.

>>24702040
Yeah... he did pay child support, albeit under the table for an amount far, far less than he would have if my mother had taken him to court. Fucker didn't even spring for college... oh well.

>>24702042
Sounds like a fun story.

>>24702034
I have a similar story. Never knew my dad. Him and my mum were only together for about a year total and he left before I was born and took no responsibility and just fucked off for the rest of my life. He's a bum apparently. I have no desire to meet him honestly because he's never showed interest in finding me. Fuck him.

>>24702044
Damn. Well, hope you live a good life at his expense.

I should kill myself

>>24702047
Thanks. I'm starting to.

I'm not even American but it always comes off so tasteless to me when people make fun of rednecks and like middle America in general. Like yeah I'm sure it's incredibly courageous to pick on the only American demographic that lacks the institutional background to hit back and the only demographic that the mainstream media gives you a metaphorical unlimited hunting permit for.

>>24702034
>>24702043
Your mother sounds like a dumb whore

>>24702157
Sure, wumao. American exceptionalism is really being threatened huh?

I'm into literature because it is the only fountain of sanity and genuine aesthetic-intellectual pleasure still left. Movies are cancer, TV is cancer, music is cancer, games are cancer, anime and manga are cancer, the media is obviously the most cancerous cancer to ever cancer...what the fuck else are you supposed to do but read if you are not willing to suffer fools and evil people gladly?

>>24702187
I feel the exact same as you do minus the music part. Sometimes I get frustrated when others don't relate to the same feelings and emotions I get from really good literature. You can express things through prose and rhetoric you can't with any other medium. There's nothing better than finishing a book and going, "holy shit."

>>24702160
Meh, it is what it is. Women are a lot smarter about unplanned pregnancies these days and birth control has made massive improvements. Maybe my dad wasn't supposed to finish inside. Maybe he lied about using a condom. What do I know? All I know is I exist because of it, and now I'm posting on /lit/ and replying to you.

>>24702187
>music is cancer
Time to get into classical, anon

And yes, the peak aesthetic experience you get from literature is unmatched by anything else. Like I always say, I carry around good books in my heart like previous lovers.

>>24702202
Cringe and gay.

>>24699854 (OP)
I am going to acquire a boyfriend.

>>24702214
I am here !

Can someone explain what "tragic" means? On one hand, hearing people use it in everyday speech, like "oh what a tragic death," it's usually used in the sense of something that shouldn't have happened, like a car accident of a young woman. Then you read Aristotle and the Greek tragedians and other literary minded writers, and there tragic seems to be almost the opposite, a death or similar disastrous end that can happen to anyone out of the fact of human nature, like a marriage or familial bond ending out of avoidable miscommunications, misunderstandings, and distrust.

And surely it doesn't just mean "sad," so can someone help me out here, please?

>>24702321
"tragic" can kind of be equated with "fatal". "A fatal marriage". Imagine the most deppresingly devastating marriage ever for both partners.

>>24702332
Hmm, very Sophoclean.

>>24702214
that's pretty gay dude

holy shit pitchfork just rated gave a slipknot album best new reissue and an 8.5! bwahahah

>>24702340
At that point they're just testing their influence and power, seeing if they can truly convince hipsters and other cultural lemmings to go along with the charade.

>>24702367
the guy who wrote that review is one of the most prolific reviewers they have, always praising the most boring forgettable indie slop, so to have him come out as someone who was rocking to major label nu-metal in 1999 is absolutely hilarious to me.

>>24702340
>>24702367
>>24702382
might have something to do with slipknot selling their back catalogue recently
with p4k shilling it, their corporate overlords can make the money back on their investment

I'm glad this is the life.

>>24702201
>Women are a lot smarter about unplanned pregnancies these days and birth control has made massive improvements.
Compared to 60 years ago? Yeah. Compared to 20? No. If anything, the easy access to abortions has made them more retarded.

Managed to get my paws on the new Castle Rat album two weeks early. It's pretty damn good.

I name you Destroyer.

>>24702321
>sad,
It does basically. A tragedy is a play with a sad ending, comedies are the ones with happy endings, and Homer is the third genre. Or at least that's how it started out as a classification system.
>shouldn't have happened
Doesn't really exist for Greeks. There's acts of gods and stuff to explain shit that shouldn't have happened explains in modern times (eg the god of earthquakes is the god of betting on horses and horses a symbol of misfortune not just because of the wooden one)

>>24702135
No

Aberrant, misanthropic, deficient, talentless, boring, retentive, inane, insipid, banal, bland, stupid, moronic, fake, performative, gross, backward, stumbling

There's no hope for any of you retarded bitches

>>24702161
You sound like someone who didn't get their ass beaten enough as a kid

In retrospective the abolishment of private property is one of the most retarded position because property is not just about material goods but human will itself, to abolish private property is to abolish human consciousnes

>>24702499
It's ok. Nice throwback to the late 80s vibe.

>>24703038
Sounds about right. Communists want to abolish personhood.

>>24702157
We're used to it. If that's the worst thing I have to deal with today, I'll chalk it up to a victory

idk why u guys are so mad about women consuming porn books, i've been texting with this chick who listen to audiobooks of that stuff on her commute every day, and she looks and acts super sweet, but the stuff she's into sexually is like some shit from ur craziest goon sesh but this chick is down to actually do it. man... strangely, i kinda hope we never meet up.

>>24703115
>idk why u guys are so mad about women consuming porn books
I'm not?

>>24703115
Most the good books are porn anyways, who cares if they listen to genre fic without spaceships?

We no longer want Beast to change back into a human. I'm going to take a week off to ponder the implications of this.

Do trees sleep?

i uninstalled overwatch so i could be more productive but now i regret it since it's the only fun thing i do

>>24703173
i take it u never lived somewhere with winter?

>>24703179
like all the time you're bald you're asleep? are evergreens just chronic insomniacs? there's a theory they go to sleep at night because they droop their branches and no sun for photosynthesis etc, but it's also what they do anytime it's cold, so maybe they're just cold?
I think they're probably awake at night and they look like they're metabolically more active in the days and summer because that's when they look like they're eating and warm, like napping on warm milk and cookies, but they slow down and drop at night because they're mostly all teenagers so their waking hours are the ones where they're slouching and eating a shitty diet and wearing inappropriate for the weather coverings
I bet it's only old and demented trees that wake up during the day instead of spending it replenishing from last night's plans