After learning about the hedonic treadmill I lost all motivation to invest in this life any longer, the fact that no matter what I do, how much money I make, all the hot supermodels I pick up and bang, it doesn’t matter.
Eventually I’d get bored of it, the pleasure would dissipate and I’d feel exactly the same within a few months.
What’s the point in doing anything knowing that nothing will satisfy and make you happy?

>have baseline level of happiness
>when you experience something pleasurable (social validation, sex, good food), you feel good, but then you adapt to it and the pleasure quickly goes away
>you keep chasing more, but it never lasts and you end up back at baseline

Once you see through this trap why would anyone get married? Why have children if it’s never going to satisfy or make you happy? It doesn’t make any sense at all.
Once you see this, it’s truly as Solomon said, chasing after wind, utter futility…

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>>509156649 (OP)
My will has been exhausted. The lockdowns (2020) combined with discovering /pol/ as well as other alternative outlets and learning the truth has crippled me.

Always was an outcast but when I finished high school and went down the self-improvement road I had a plan and hope for the future. I spent 2 days in college before the lockdowns began and both men and women swarmed to me.
Weight loss, strenuous exercise, grunt jobs, martial arts, cold showers and austerity beyond normal, all self-imposed for years combined with surrogate and academic education on all practical subjects was my path to becoming what can only be referred to as Nietzsche's Overman.

But my will has been exhausted. The veil has been lifted. Reached the conclusion that I am a tax-cattle serf in prison nation where everything human and masculine is either illegal or prohibitely expensive. I can't hunt, I can't own firearms, I can't drive a motorcycle at full speed. Can't be a man. My only options are to drink, smoke, do drugs and gamble. If you keep up on global events you can see everything and everyone has gradually become gayer and more retarded and insane. Consequently I have become more alienated and ostracized.

I'm fine with being alone. Fine with nobody remembering or caring about any important conversation. I'm fine with life being cruel and unfair. I'm fine with at 24 never having had a social circle, a woman, real friendship, or any other milestone. I said it'd get better. It's fine. Life doesn't guarantee "Happiness".

>>509156649 (OP)
>hedonic treadmill
>What’s the point in doing anything knowing that nothing will satisfy and make you happy?
that's not what the hedonic treadmill is. you wouldn't get 'bored' per se, your happiness just stabilizes. if you get bored find a new fucking hobby. literally anything doesn't matter. hopefully it's better than fedposting about Shitwood on this mongolian snail-racing forum. the point of 'anything' depends on how you understand what success is. i would argue being a husband and a father is a true indicator of success, despite however difficult or untenable it is. the caveat is that if you go hunting for it you push all the girls away because you're looking to them as if you need them for something. they're the ones who need you more anyway. all I can say is that you have to try quite a few things and decide what you like. for me, it's the gym. been lifting for almost a decade. and while not much has changed pertaining to picking stuff up and putting it down. the people make it more or less worth it.

>>509158202
>IM FINE IM FINE IM FINE
fine people don't say that. so you're bitter. it's okay. i got robbed too bro. dealt a shit hand. but no, your will has not be exhausted. it is inexhaustible. own your shit and keep pushing. if for no other reason than that your life can be proof that the void can be resisted. here's the trick
>YOU DONT NEED ANY FUCKING REASONS
this is some shit they tried to cram into our brain as kids. and assuming you're not Sam Altman with his BasedboyGPT playing 4D demoralization propaganda chess, you can just choose to wake up every day and not be a hedonist. that's actually carving your own meaning. it's supposed to be freeing not oppressive. just enjoy your solitude. and if you don't, it's cuz something is muffed up in your internal state or your physical state. either way, it's up to you to fix it. the world isn't gonna coddle you because you have feelings. just feel the feelings and then move the fuck on. I think enlightenment is less about
>oh now im free from attachment geez im overflowing with happiness
and more like
>everything is absolute fucking dogshit but my life is a testament that this can be countermanded over and conquered too
not as pretty as we imagined but I believe it has a similar impact

>>509156649 (OP)
loser

>>509158202
>Life doesn't guarantee "Happiness".
Or even allow it, evidently nothing in this life satisfies or makes people happy.
>>509158910
>loser
Ad hominem, I understand it’s a tough pill to swallow but no need to lash out at me, gosh.

>>509156649 (OP)
regarding marriage, my understanding is that it's really only useful if the community at large practices the same common ethical framework. everything is muddied to shit but if you find the right community you can absolutely make it work. the point of marriage is to have a stop gap for temptation. as it turns out, having triple digit body counts and cheating on your spouse (FUCK YOUR ENM) leads to more broken houses and damaged children.
tl;dr
if you can control your dick and aren't out here slaying club rats or banging your chick premaritally, then you don't really need marriage. marriage helps hooligans plug the fuck in and structures something useful out of man's desire. so if you have that desire in check, you're already on a higher road

>>509159093
and now you are detecting that the skeptical underpinnings of atheism and even right-wing "Might Makes Right" mentalities are ultimately dissatisfactory. they are undergirded by anti-natalism and nihilism.

I don't give a damn about fancy things my joy is dead zionist Jews.

>>509156649 (OP)
Have you tried gambling???

>>509156649 (OP)
>Solomon
There's plenty to enjoy in life you just have to keep in perspective (as he both did and failed to do for a brief period) that God has much better in store.

>>509159197
>so if you have that desire in check, you're already on a higher road
Exactly, this world sucks and doesn’t matter. I’ll just follow Jesus’ teachings and put my heart on heaven and remain a virgin, and walk with Jesus and hopefully when in heaven he’ll allow me to love a cute gal forever.

>>509159664
sidenote: virginity is about focusing your life for one particular purpose which is your walk with Christ and focusing on what is required of you. Rather less about the act of physical chastity. I think it's natural to desire a family and all that jazz. We can frame it as nicely as we want but it doesn't change the fact that women have no idea what they fuck they're doing and they're drunk on choice and comfort. I would bet my bottom dollar you have problems dragging your ass out of bed and leading with your prayers and ending your day with your prayers as well, no? Maybe that's projection, but I suck at it. I've been Orthodox for basically three years now. Still don't have that shit down. It's a process. Your perception of this trial either makes it refinement or punitive. Even Job trusted the Lord while he was getting annihilated. So, the takeaway is that this life is about this life, but we don't live for the world.

>>509159963
>I would bet my bottom dollar you have problems dragging your ass out of bed and leading with your prayers and ending your day with your prayers as well, no?
Ugh you’re right, I know exactly what to do to see Jesus Christ face to face and to have a conversation with him but I’m too lazy. Watch these videos the instructions are pretty easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fix0Awlk-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQIcQ6e0lkw

>>509160581
I don't really check nebulous non-denominational protestant stuff because it usually devolves into a cesspool of ridiculous garbage where people just make shit up. At least with the Orthodox Church, they have a decentralized hierarchy and no pope while still having heteronormative authority and apostolic succession. which basically you can't have the Eucharist without apostolic succession. the whole
>stick your head in the sand I'm just gonna let the Holy Spirit guide my interpretation of Scripture and read and pray on my own
doesn't really work because The Church literally is The Body of Christ. We can go back and read all the patristic father's teachings on the matter. Otherwise without it, we have no tradition to fall back on and guide our consistency. The point isn't that
>can you be saved without the Church
it's
>what is the best foolproof model to follow?
and we do have that model, in the Eastern Orthodox Church

>>509160924
>I don't really check nebulous non-denominational protestant stuff because it usually devolves into a cesspool of ridiculous garbage where people just make shit up.
Yes I agree it’s usually made up, but what if you’re wrong on this one? At least watch the first one I linked.
You could be missing out on seeing Jesus Christ face to face and going to heaven while still alive on earth. I’m convinced off of what the Bible says that Jesus wants real relationship with us not just once a week religion or reading the Bible thinking that we can get eternal life through that instead of coming to him (John 5:39-40)

that is why people get on fent and meth because it drives them to get more fent and more meth

this world of anime, video games, and fast food is just going to drive you to despair