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>>24992929Warm bulging rain sails languidly tomorrow. What an abomination of a sentence.
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Im starting to think i should be more selfish and stop worrying about worldly affairs at least temporarily. Im a communist and obviously most of the news to me is negative and its not like im ever gonna be the one to do something crazy. Being frustrated all the time isnt healthy and im not doing anything to help others either in the first place. I still want to retain my beliefs but I want to put myself first in my daily life, specifically
>>24992961Why are you a communist? Dropped on your head?
Just started watching Ozark.
It almost feels like I can feel myself getting smarter. I'm almost 40 but I don't feel like I'm slowing down, I'm accelerating.
>>24992929Where is that anon who posted the Charles Taylor thread? I was under a ban that day and want to talk to them.
I read sex books but I never lost my virginity
I can believe there are people who haven't had sex yet
>read book>sex scene>mad
Had a ho hum evening, thought I was too hungover to get any writing doneEnded up having a good evening of editing and improving a story
>>24993072Look at those gray hairs lol
I have this new thing when I watch TV shows, I skip through any scenes without dialogue, it's all filler and pretension. Don't give me anything about setting the mood or building character or thematic material, it's not a film, much less a novel. TV shows are much more like plays than they are films. Anyway, it saves me a lot of time.>>24993112I got a lot too :(
Anyone else here genuinely laugh very, very rarely? I think 99% of my laughs are fake and manual. It's not that I don't find many things funny, it's just that the enjoyment tends to be intellectual without a physical reflex. I can probably count on my fingers the amount of times I've genuinely laughed in the past decade. But of course people like you better when you laugh often and aloud, instead of just staring straight-faced or merely smile at their jokes.Lately I've been thinking of trying to cut out the fake laughs, but it's proven more difficult than I thought because it's so ingrained. And again, the social pressure is so strong. I don't wanna make someone feel bad if I don't laugh.
I think I'd be quite good at writing smut for women, however that field seems like it has been completely decimated by AI.
Holy shit abortion is so incredibly evil. Every time I think about it I get angry. Just a vile thing to do. All pro-choicers are vermin.
>>24993155I remember my first time laughing genuinely at 20. I was watching seinfeld while jacking off in a beanbag. Guess I just needed to relax my brain in order to laugh properly, and since then it happens sporadically. Still can only laugh when I'm alone tho
>>24993198Thats like, nearly all women nowadays.Also no /stack/ thread on the catalog. I want to post my new purchases.
>>24993155Cannot relate at all. Good luck, though.
>>24993214Yeah they're all gonna have to be dealt with. There's no peaceful solution to the problem of abortion.
I think I need to get out of the comfort zone and change the way I live in some way, but have no idea about what it could be.
>>24993216Well fortunately most people are like you, and therefore laugh when I tell my jokes lol.
It's time to change my life around.
>>24992929After spending time with my friends and family over the holidays, I have become completely convinced that we need a eugenics program
>>24993454Nah, people (read: Boomers and Gen X) need to be humbled they spent their whole life succeeding doing the bare minimum and calling it "hard work" that they think they are big shit on campus when they aren't. As soon as you see them die off you'll see opinions on Thanksgiving and Christmas move to be more positive.
Were any of you very active on here as posters and replyers before but then stopped? Why come you did stop?
>>24993530where can i find a gf who looks like such as her and likes small brown afroids with little penis?
>>24993211>watching seinfeld while jacking off in a beanbag.ngl that sounds pretty gay
i deleted my x.com account.
should i cut my hair?
I realize now I'm just a random nobody and noone cares what I think.
why come you are all just sleepining? WAKE UP!!!!!
>>24993539no one like her is going to love you. just telling you the truth fren. i sorry.
i just going to kms. ok? ok.
The more I write as a hobby the less respect I have for writing as a artform. It just seems so fucking inferior to every other way of conveying something to someone else and substandard compared to something that isn't such a passive medium. I think that at least for myself the real reason I find writing so lacking is because if I am honest I prefer other mediums far more when it comes to engaging with other people's creations and stories. Reading is the second most passive of artforms to enjoy with static visual art being the most passive. It's describing a dance in a plain wall of text and calling it high art while missing the visual feel of doing it, or experiencing the dance. It's the lyrics to a song with no music.It's dead. It's just so fucking dead that it hurts. I want to make something alive. Something real that people interact with and can feel. Something dynamic. Something that ask more of the audience than passive consumption.
>>24992961>Im starting to think i should be more selfishThere is virtue in selfishness. > Im a communistNevermind, please die in your nearest fire. Virtue is beyond your comprehension you evil evil thing.
>>24993594The silent red flash.The burst of the alarm.A second silent flash.The people frantically rushing around, a maelstrom of practiced chaos unfolding with clinical choreography.The second blare of the alarm.The hairs on my neck stand to attention as silence falls. The penetrating quiet fills the void with pre-programmed comfort.The final burst of light.A flood of static, enough to bring a man to his knees, pulses through the corridor. Lights flicker and oscillate, covering every millimeter of the facility with random flashes and shifts in the visual spectrum—an impenetrable veil for the optical lobe.Compasses flicker like windmills as the electronics sputter and fizzle, fading into obsolescence.A thought.There had been a breach. Something had slipped the veil.Thick pools of swirling gases filled rooms at random, with unseen death laced into every breath, while the corridors heaved, heavy, as the air itself was sucked from them.Pressure gauges cracked and hummed under the strain.11 miles of maze-like, honeycomb lattice floating in the murky depths beneath the surface of the world. A sudden jolt as the boots strain—the tether had been cut. We were in freefall now. The entire complex was plummeting even further below the mountain, deep into the abyss.The thought of what was once a proud and majestic monument to tectonic ambition, jutting out into the ocean as an unseen megalith of geo-engineering, becoming a fluorescent shade of fused silica marbled with rainbow occlusions. Perfectly flat, perfectly still, and irradiated from now until the end of time. It had been leveled in an instant. Before the third red flash had finished, the bombs had gone off. The shockwave traveling through the Earth and signaling the tether to flex and break.15 more miles of freefall. Such precious few seconds remained. Thoughts of removing the protective gear flashed across my mind, but the training was baked into me. I had no choice in the end—instinctively ensuring that whatever horror had crawled into our reality would find me quite alive.Whatever otherworldly intelligence it had used to find its way here would amount to nothing in the end. It was trapped, and so were we.its true its beautiful and fun but i wrote this as a movie a short film its medium is not words however the real bueaty is to recreate that move in somebody elses head
i hate all of you ok? ok.
i so ugly and stupid and ugly.
>>24993530hab job, gf, responserbirities, and so on now
>>24993580random nobodies are the most sought after demographic of thinker annon you'll be ok >>24993609>>24993623>>24993619also lets write a story together somebody continue this lol its something to do atleast we can have a /lit/ story frfr
>>24993629you can do litterly anything you want with the story we will just eather A blame it on the other worldly thing or B claim it event horizon somebody so yes you can make the story about being some traps left stocking if you want the thing just isseki mind broke one of the people in one of the rooms kek
>>24993530I kept getting banned because my takes were way too hot.
The Erdős number notion as the determinate for measuring the level of influence over a group by a central figure and conversely. Said idea is the distance of a person from a common figure— how many orbits away from the center are there between one and the central figure— or how many scientific papers one has co-authored with the common figure or with others who co-authored with him/her. For example, If John co-authored a paper with the central figure he has Erdos number I , however if Marry co-authored a paper with John her Erdos number is II. If one has relationship of 1st degree with the common figure their influence is bilateral; someone whose acquaintance with the central figure is of 2nd degree will be influenced unilaterally by the common figure.
My dream last night:I'm outside in some kind of campground with a bunch of people, including my sister. We're all standing around waiting for something. It's raining lightly, but it's not cold. Someone shows up with a kind of soap and starts handing it out, and everyone starts taking their clothes off to shower using the rain. At first I'm a little taken aback but since no one is making a big deal about it I do it too. The group is mixed guys and girls and a couple people playfully accuse each other of staring. I look at my sister for a minute but she doesn't notice. The guy next to her strips and turns out to have a massive dick that goes to his ankles and I stare at him for a minute too. Then I strip myself and start using the soap, which basically turned into bubble bath and covered everyone in a layer of foamy bubble looking stuff that hides most details. A person behind me makes a noise and I wake up.
Double HHope or Hell
>>24993658gib example
>4'6>Never marriedWas Pope the first truecel?
>>24993777he was really 4' 6"?
>>24993779Yeah and he was a hunchback
>>24993782did he at least fuck whores?
i asked my gf if she would like to have sexual relations with me and she said i'm weird and dumped me.
aight, ima kms ok? ok.
>>24993795She was never your girlfriend, little guy.
This moment is one of a finite number of moments I am blessed to have in the razor thin slice of time between an eternity of nothingness, and I feel bored? Boredom? How is this even possible?
How do I know I'm not an AI chatbot?
guten morgen friends it's time to learn catalan :^)
I am somewhat religious, but sexual imagery with blasphemous themes drives me wild.
>>24993854Armchair psychologist here. My guess for why this happened because you initially viewed porn and masturbation as wrong or immoral, but as you continued to imbibe in them, you associated that feeling of immorality with the arousal you felt when masturbating or viewing porn, and eventually you needed something with a greater stimulus than regular porn could give you, so you started deliberately seeking things you found more immoral or wrong than just regular porn.
>>24992929I keep gooning and I'm okay with it. My sleep schedule is fucked and I'm okay with it. I'm growing my hair again, I'm dedicating to my art again.Gimme shit to burn it's cold outside
>>24993869To be honest anon I think its more of a way to express anger at religion, if that makes sense. Like this concept of God, worrying about religion, about heaven/hell, etc. became a burden, something that consumes a lot of my day. Profaning it becomes a way to relax.
Dream past night:Rabbit theatre. I made an offhand remark that rabbit cinemas are mostly about eating grass, and the movie is just an excuse for the parts where you're supposed to chew grass for a bit, rabbit movies consisting most of running action scenes and large long sections of stationary foraging A rabbit took offense to this and said theatre was very different so took me to a theatre for rabbits: the architecture of the theatre makes the play. The rabbit in question was laying out moss in tiers of a semicircle and I initially thought this was like amphitheatre seating and other rabbits would sit on it, but the rabbit corrected me: it was a play for one rabbit, shaped as a tragedy, where the individual rabbit was sniff and chew its way to the top, look over at the unknown and get a fright, and retreat sniffing and chewing back down the path to safety. For a love story, they put two such arrangements of semicircular rising tiers back to back, so the two rabbits met another rabbit at the top and not the wide open unknown of a tragedy. For a comedy, they put three of them in a triangle.I think rabbit theatre is definitely superior to their cinema, but I suppose I wouldn't think so if I were a rabbit and could eat grass. They both seem well attended in my sleep either way, so the dream economy is probably doing well
Goddamn, Trakl be spittin'. Grodek was cool as shit. Thank you Nick Land and your sprawling werewolf metaphor; reminds me of this like quasimythic resignation of a man facing something unfathomable, and grasping at a small fragments of the whole of something significant.
>>24992929Every time I hear of some incredible story, like the recent Venezuela thing, I think about how uneventful and meaningless my life is. People are doing interesting things, kidnapping presidents, making high-impact world-changing decisions, and here I am, rotting in my house, working as a software engineer, eating take-out, watching movies, reading occasionally. I honestly might just kill myself because my life is so meaningless. I've been thinking about just joining the war in Ukraine or something, if I survive I will have done something glorious, and if I die then, well, who cares, I'm nothing anyway.
>>24993939lmao we are all cogs in a machine anon what does it even mean to do something glories you want to go fight in a war that people thousands of them are orcastrating for unknown reasons with an unknown outcomenobody has any idea what is going on and its completly untrustworthy if you had joined the army 10 years ago you would have killed civilians and guarded heroin that cased a humanitarian crisis that only ended after fentanol captured the marketthis is just one small microcosom of a larger picture you are complaining about being a cog in a machine we are all cogs in a machine you just want to change what machine you are a cog in it would be easier for you to just convince yourself you are not a cog that it would be for you to create a machine and even if you sucseed the machine will turn you into a cog
>>24993939That's one way to look at it. The other is that unlike Putin/Trump/Xi, we get to live. We are free to enjoy life without having the fates of billions hang over our heads. The men I listed and others like them are prisoners of their status as much as they are in charge of the whole.Like you are unhappy that your life is boring, but you can spice it up without destroying it.
>>24993939You can always just get hired at one of the places that seem to shape world events yourself. All the glowie agencies advertise positions just like any other employer. >>24993955If anon had joined the Army 10 years ago he likely would have just done a ton of training and maybe deployed to the Middle East like once to do little of consequence. Source: joined the Army 10 years ago
>>24993939>>24993955your options are find peace brainwash yourself or change the world anon if you want to go die in somebody elses war than you can not to take anything away from the bravery of those involved but this war is not about them it never was best case scenario for eather side is that the people leading them are 1 Actually in charge2 Actually telling the truth with no ultiror motivesand 3Will be able to keep the promises they have made long after they are gone none of this is true for any of them so if you find yourself in that war you will need to brainwash yourself find peace or change the world
>>24993974>>24993955Why are you gay?
>>24993939Imagine reading about an average boring software developer equivalent in ancient Rome and how good that book would in fact be. The book of your life will be even better, to a reader a thousand years from now. Kidnapping presidents would be pointless and over the top.
>>24993973kek pretty based but depending on what you did again it gets super complicated you were just a pwan in somebody elses game but at the end of the day thats all anybody is kek
>>24993560https://youtu.be/dseLaYjKGzk
>>24993986mr optimism over here >>24993939go write your story in the wrinkles on your skin anon carve your cosmic path into the afterlife one step at a time the future is not yet written
>>24993973>Source: joined the Army 10 years agoNTA but I do wish I had done the Army thing for a little bit, to toughen me up. My emotional fragility has caused me a lot of pain.
>>24993997>[Reverved down tempo Unwritten starts playing]
I bought the Arden Shakespeare edition of Romeo and Juliet.I'm fluent in English but this was so difficult I dropped it the first time I tried with a kindle edition with some notes.Wish me luck if you think it'll help.
As a 46 year old man I just poured a whisky and slapped on this Classicim going to settle in and spend my evening writing about a tree that learnt to read https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA&list=RDvRQb_-mRcAc&index=2Tune in to more tails from the maze
Spraun Gummer taught Lilac de Luce and Gelka how to kill and do cartwheels and kill-while-cartwheeling, that being the core of "Rotating Death Parade" Kung-Fu. But Gelka murdered his master most uncharitably and was not invited to temple reunions afterward. On August 7th, that being the 7th anniversary of Spraun Gummer's tragic flashback and also death sequence, Lilac de Luce tracked down the bastard Gelka and challenged him to mortal combat. "I challenge you to mortal combat, you bastard!" said Lilac de Luce."Too slow!" said Gelka, who hit him before he could react. An epic fight scene happened but the camera lingered on Lilac de Luce's triumphant grin for a few seconds too long, and he was killed. Gelka dusted himself off. "That was inconvenient, I'm glad there were no witnesses aside from policemen." The policemen shot at him but he cartwheeled through the bullets and bled all over the place. Another fight scene ensued but it was hard to make anything out, since the cameraman had also been shot. Gelka won and later fought ten ancient masters who had knowledge of two forbidden techniques apiece. Some of the fights happened in a crumbling monastery, one was in a volcano, and they were generally quite exciting and vicious, though Gelka doubted anyone would care to hear more, so he never mentioned it. You can find him sharking the pool table at White Sharky's BBQ and Kung Fu Bonanza. He mellowed out in his old age and only sometimes cuts off an offending hand.
Poor defending billionaires, anti-immigrants migrants, gay republicans and on and on. Dialetics are everywhere i don't get why marxists are so mad about it after all is dialetics
>>24994154I like it and wanna hear about the volcano
>tfw my hair looks so good today but raining outside so if I wanna go out I gotta wear a beanie
>>24994156They're mad because they thought their system would be the one to overcome all others at the end of the dialectic when it was really just one more party to that dialectic.
>>24994154uncharitably had me wheezing anon
>>24994154I could read more of this. Delightful.
>>24994178>>24994156it will comunisum is the superior system the problem is not comunism its us.
>>24994225Whatever you say, buddy.
>>24994225If the problem is humans using communism then the problem is communism you dork, because a solution needs to be usable by humans in order to benefit them. It'd be like making the perfect AutoCAD drafting system, only usable by a bunch of planarian flat worms who need to digest the vestigial liquified memories of their fellow worms in order to do anything of note. Cool, I guess, but how in the fuck is that supposed to benefit anyone if no one can use it?
>>24994234yea the rotation of the stars is wrong because we have lunatics obsessed with horroscopes what a monumental insight you have there buddyyour part of the problem pal.kekThe spruce called Bruce could think—he thought, Why art thou broad and tall?In fact, at all? Incredibly, legiblelenography had aroused substantial substancein a tree with no mouth to speakor eyes to see.It blinked.What’s this—a book for me?Not knowing from where it came,he gobbled down its wisdom.Tame no more, his spirit bold,his thirst for more could never stall.Each day it came—a man, always the same—and left a book at the base of his trunk.What fortune, what bliss: existence itself.That is, until one dayhe noticed his friends had all gone away.Alone and afraid, he turned the page.What shock. Oh, what shame.Written there was his father’s name.All his friends were dead—upon their husks, he read.i half assed this but its a funny concept
>>24994244In a healthy society that likes trees you would be blood eagled.
Two-Guns Tommy said to One-Gun Timmy,“Pass me the gun,” thought Tommy—wait, no, thought Timmy.“Anyway, no guns,” Timmy said to Three-Guns Tommy.“Hand me the—”Tommy wait, he thought.Anyway.Siamese Tommy walked into a bar.another fun concept kek
>>24994260siamese timmy I HAD ONE JOB! >>24994259hahahhahaha
I got all ready to go out only to change my mind at the last moment. I know I should leave the house but I already knew I'm not really in the mood to.
>>24994244You are a idiot if you think the subjective interpretation of the movement of stars could ever be absolute in any capacity. Here let me hit you back in the poetry bone.The gift to the world impacted deep into the crust of the planet itself, an inextricable authentic exposition for the context of existence itselfand the plans set forth; both immutable and encompassing. Centuries turned to millenia and the gift lay undisclosed, until one day it's lustrous refractive surface caught the eye of a passing ape. Big shiny rock. Big shiny rock good. So centuries lead to millenia again, and at the end of an epoch, the big good shiny rock was pulverized into parts for crude machines; a fitting end to something from the ape's perspectiveas the big shiny rock finally became useful.When the gift givers returned, they asked the apes about the gift, and whether they had made the preparations it outlined. The apes shrugged and masturbated; what else is there for an ape to do?
>>24994276based maze enjoyer >>24994270if you decide to stay in write us a supershortwere doing a rick and morty intergalagtic /tv/but its just"tales from the maze" i really like your rock story lets give it some gravatasThe preparers prepared more outlines for the apeits gift left squandered there mouths agape so they prepared a new apeto prepare a new take on the gift they lost for preparations sake keep em comeing rofl
I hate all you pretentious, talentless low test retards so much.
>>24993939>working as a software engineeryou have no idea how good you have it you whiny little bitch
>>24992929That's the moon. That's a picture of the moon. I can tell by my vision, that is the moon. I can see that is the moon with my eyes bright in my room looking at the screen with my eyes seeing that is the moon. I can see that's the flipping moon. I can see it. I see it with my eyes, and my eyes are brown -colored with brown pigments, but that's the moon. It's grey the moon is grey and witha black background because that's the moon. I can see the moon it's comes out at night I see that's the moon. I can see that's the moon because that's what the moon looks like like a duck that looks like a duck that's a duck, but that's the moon because it looks like a moon. That's the moon... don't you know. Can't you see it? It's there, right there, I csee it it's right there!!!! I see it!@??? HUh? Yes, that's the moon!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes! Yes!@ I'm soerrey... that's the moon, I see it. That's the moon it feels like the moon i feel it in my bones my ones hurt ache from the moon i see it... my vision burns my eyes itch i can't scratch them because my hands type that that's the moon wahat.? No. It is the moon! Stop saying it's not! I'm going to kill you. That's the fricking moon mooonnnnnnnnn???...... Yes it's a moon!
>>24994296moon pilled schizo posting his a very niche demographic gods speed in the flat earth threads anon ahaha this is kind of fun aswell in its own derranged kind of way LOL
>>24992929how do you remain sane in an insane World?
>>24994308>994308▶>File: 1698236447375782.jpg (33 KB, 500x295)>>>24992929 (OP)>how do you remain sane in an insane World?
Circus, now that's a funny word, I thought, and was stabbed by Bozo the Knife who really thought not, and lying dying I wondered what ought be his sentence. "Naught," said the judge, who gave clowns no credence.
Byesies. See you next weekend uwuLove you xoxoxo
>>24994329hahahha"Wibble wobble bibble booble dibble ""AHHHHHHHthe knife pirced his chest with ease no more was the happy dappy clown wibble bobble dibble dobble brow- AHHHHHHh"with the death of the narrator the sane man continued he thought about jelly welly belly jai- oh no"
>>24994327Struggling to reply there king?
>>24994329>>24994361Stop posting your SS13 logs here. Around clowns, problems abound.
I used to only enjoy normal hentai, but lately, I've started enjoying yaoi too. Cute boys are cute.
>>24992929>Rothko>Moonlanding on Monday.
It is odd to think that I am a necrophiliac. There seems to be no clear reason for my attraction to death. I remember when I was very young, watching and reading media with excitement at the possibility that a character would get killed (this was especially the case for attractive women). Late in daycare, I started to fantasize about killing/torturing female classmates in various ways; never out of hatred, just for sexual pleasure.There is a strange disconnect whenever I see somebody express extreme disgust towards death or serial killers. Many will label killers as monsters, as if they are completely incapable of understanding their mind. Meanwhile I have never thought of my attraction to death as something unique, it has just always been there. I can never seem to understand the disgust people express.I wonder why I am this way. Brain damage? Very early trauma that I can't even remember?
>>24994403I would love to flay serial killers and break their bones but not anyone else, maybe I watched too much Dexter.
>>24993539>small brown afroids with little penisI'm so sorry
>>24994403Ayyyyo, brother.I am not a necrophilliac, maggots and cold guts seem honestly abhorrent. The smell? Awful. Seeing a dead body in person is so supremely memorable I think you would change your mind completely. I view dead things as an entirely category, and when the ghost has left the machine, the pile of matter is not what it was in any capacity. It's cool to be fascinated, but I seriously doubt your commitment, and if you don't believe me, go pokr a waxy yellow corpse at a funeral and see how you feel about it.Now I am a guro. I find the moment after impact fascinating. There's this rush when something irreversible happens; a pricking wave that extends from your core to your extremities as everyone struggles to understand what happened. In that moment of recognition and resignation, I think there should be a witness. It's transformative, and what was can no longer be, and what is becomes in flux. It's the abyss. It's the Dao. It's this void of potential collapsing all meaning and opening a horizon that never existed before. It doesn't give me a boner, but I won't look away. I appreciate it. I like to bask in it as a witness. People aren't monsters or animals, they're people and are infinitely predictable in their possibilities. Some are cruel, some arent. Some have good luck, some don't. Death is disgusting when you've never experienced it, but you get numb pretty fast. Not everyone has seen how the sausages are made, and I personally think they should at least once.
For a lot of tradcath larpers, y'all haven't sat with many bodies
>>24994441No one cares for the opinions of sexhavers.
>>24994441
>>24994424Out of anger? Are you just a moralist?>>24994432>maggots and cold guts seem honestly abhorrent. The smell? Awful.Sure that is a possibility, but it would take a while for a body to start rotting. The look of a body in a casket seems to mostly come from the extreme steps the funerals have to take to ensure the body remains intact. In the leaked morgue pictures I have seen (and I have seen quite a lot) most of the bodies look fairly good/fresh hours after the death, possibly even days since bodies from suicides take a long time before they get found.There is also nothing stopping one from doing the killing and getting the body instantly, I think most would still consider that necrophilia.>There's this rush when something irreversible happensI understand that feeling, however it is not just when the person dies, but the permanent change you can see in the corpse. Thinking about how lively the body was before, and now it is reduced to nothing but flesh and bone, merely resembling a human, any personality or thoughts, gone, forever. I like the death too, but observing/having intercourse/groping the resulting corpse feels almost as good (I imagine).
>>24994467>it would take a while for a body to start rotting.Nta but no. Your body is filled with billions of bacteria which your body being alive keeps in check, but the second you're gone, or sooner, those little mfers feasting
>>24994403You probably remember the "trauma" but don't connect it to the result. Feeling powerless, things that associate escape from life with a release from anxiety, the commonality of death as a way to relate etc.
>>24994467I assure you in person a dead body is not pleasant, particularly if you're young enough to think leaked morgue pictures are a big deal. They leak. They're cold. They move unnaturally. Honestly, you would be quite surprised. A cleaned corpse at a morgue kept on ice is not the same thing at all.
>>24994478>think leaked morgue pictures are a big dealWhat else would you use as a comparison? I never interacted with a corpse in real life, but I would generally assume morgue pictures would best represent decomposition in a time frame that is longer than a few hours. Of course they leak and are cold, but they can be cleaned up (to some extent) and there is no need to hold onto them for too long. Most images that come from the death scene (where there was no significant external injury) the bodies also look fairly fresh, although the time frame for those are much shorter.
>enter thread>multiple anons confessing to having a necrophilia fetishAnd here I thought I was weird for liking armpits
>>24994495Dead mouse outside turns to bone and fur in like 3 days, mostly by fly maggots. Without maggots all the structure is gone the first day unless you freeze it. Every membrane fails in hours letting the shit, blood and organ juices mix.
I've been having race relations.
Dude did not take me ending our friendship well at all.
>>24994293>saaaar I make more money than you, modern man live like brahmin did
Just spent 20 minutes reading stories about people having their food stamps stolen and now I feel sad.
Here's the secret to happiness, Tim Selfish's tried-and-tested Make Yourself At Home Needle. Design: A razor-thin slice of heaven. Gold-encrusted copper adamant alloy, sharp as a tack. One pinprick and you're off to Paradise.Paradise: Its the world you always wanted. For most people that's 'this world' but with some bells and whistles. You might have a billion dollars. You may have a harem or just that one special someone. Sometimes people in your world are dead and gone, simply erased. Entire nations may fall off the map. People act and behave as you'd like, without you needing to so much as say the words "I wish." And that's God's honest truth.Back In The Real World: There is no you, not anymore. Besides, its not 'real' either. Is something more real because it was first? Old trees can't disprove a sapling, fucker, and you're beyond such worries anyway. Other Peoples: They get their own needles. Tim Selfish really isn't, it's just a business name like McDonalds or Nike. There's a needle for everyone as a matter of fact and Tim himself will be the last to go. Your pets don't get to come with you but no worries, we'll put the Earth on pause while you enjoy paradise you pleasant, immortal, freed-from-all-worries little scamp. Just one needle in your thumb, don't be squeamish now.
>>24994699The number one thing people buy with food stamps is soda. No need to be sad.
>>24994730nice republican propaganda
>>24994699You are evil.
need to figure out how to hire an escort in Minecraft
>>24994772Not the guro or the necrophiliac?
>>24994772>>24994772I didn't do the stealing! The thieves are evil
>>24994781Nope.>>24994783All food stamps are stolen and none of them help anyone.
>>24993479I dunno. I'm the odd one out in my family. The lone right winger (also the eldest child of three) in a family of liberals.
>>24994788>All food stamps are stolen and none of them help anyone.I wouldn't have had the meal I just did without them.
>>24994788Eh, no. They obviously help at least one person.
speaking of food stamps, with the law changes taking effect this year, I read homeless people in my state/city will no longer receive them. I bet that increases the rates of robbery and theft. Don't be surprised if I get mugged in the next couple months at knifepoint because a junkie bum needs to eat.
Ned had gone out that dayBut I had deliberately stayed inNot long after, Gerard went looking for himGusto followed in the pursuitBy the end of it, Edwin had sorted everything and they were all togetherRusty convinced me to go too and we were all the better for it
>>24994799>obviouslyThis is why you're evil.
Funny cartppmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj-v6-tlGDQ
>>24994816Nope. If you're going to make a silly hyperbolic claim, expect a silly generalized answer.
>>24994816>>24994788>>24994772It never ceases to amaze me just how uncharitable you right-wingers are in considering other positions or solutions.>Not only is the program theft, it doesn't even help! oh and it's all fraud too.like come on.okay you wanna say any kind of wealth redistribution via taxation is always immoral no matter the outcome or need, fine, I can understand that. you wanna argue there are perhaps better ways to help people, okay. but to not even give an inch, to say,>oh those people who wanna help others eat? they're the real evil ones!like come the fuck on.
>>24992929>>24994296Mark Rothko's final canvases (the OP's picture is a representative example) have been (correctly) interpreted as pictorial suicide notes, and also compared to the moon as the schizo poster indicated. It's important to note that these final Rothko paintings were in fact painted at the same time that the initial Apollo landings took place. Art critic David Anfam tried to get away from these obvious and correct conclusions by pointing out that he was doing small-form brighter work in the form of drawings, watercolors, that sort of thing, but this sort of academic cavilling is easily defeated by just looking at the repeated, nihilistic image (taking his painterly rectangle thing to its logical conclusion), connecting it with the historical fact or his suicide, and then saying "C'mon." The paintings, the canvases themselves, which Anfam documented in such excruciating detail, were the things at the center of Rothko's work.
My oneitis is a WWoC (White Woman of Color)
>>24994835>any kind of wealth redistribution via taxation is always immoralNot even close to what I said. You're so fundamentally evil and retarded that you can't even imagine any alternatives to your evil religious dogma.
>>24994848It was just an example, anon.
>>24994848While he is retarded for discussing polemics, you're exactly as retarded. You can critique the system, the implementation, and the funding, but the principle is reasonable in abstract, even from a strictly utilitarian point of view, and by acting like an ass you hurt the very real people who share more nuanced points of view with you along similar lines.
>>24994797What was the meal?
>>24994862Smoked sausages with cheddar inside -- essentially nicer hot dogs. In a bun. With ketchup (haven't had enough spare food stamps to buy mustard in a while). Also had mini-bagels with cream cheese this morning.
>>24994858As someone on food stamps, I can assure you instead of food stamps cheapening the price of healthy food would be a better alternative. You shouldn't have to be rich to eat well.
>>24994866Sure and super mega hell corps shouldn't micromanage along globalized lines to devalue labour while inflating profit in a quarterly reporting system predicated primarily on hypothetical voodoo gambling from insider trading decoupled from reality. But calling people evil for disagreeing with the assertion that at least one person is helped is asinine; even the hell Corps' shareholders are people helped by the system in place.
>>24994858You're evil retards and you're destroying the world with this evil retard shit, every single performative crocodile tear is pure, demonic evil.The principle of safety nets can work but SNAP in the US does not help a single person. It only undermines potential. There is not even one American who wouldn't be fed if the program ended. The fact that you can buy soda with them demonstrates the fact that like most problems with the US govt it can be traced to some form of corrupt lobbying. It has nothing to do with helping anyone.>>24994874>the hell Corps' shareholders are people helpedYou frame any material transfer of wealth as "help" because you're an evil retard, completely saturated in the corruption you help maintain while making these impotent, evil and retarded rants designed to relieve you of your responsibility for the evil you actively spread.
>>24994866there's lots of cheap healthy food, poor people are just retarded and buy garbagebut yeah, ideally i'd like to see a return to the roman system where you get a bag of grain every month
>>24994874they actually macromanage but fairs fair rofl >>24994866did you know that foodstamp recipients (the people giving you the food not litterly you) get giant kickbacks for accepting them if they just gave you the doller ammount imo everybody would be better off but again the problem isnt just the entire system its the people they already scam food stamps and the inertia of big stamp employes thousands of people ect they released a study saying that 1 food stamp creats $1.5 doller ammount ecenomic development when used do you know how insane that is ..... that means that the study is bought and paid for or your nation should swap its currency to food stamps and erase the debt overnight.
Also I never understood the complaint about buying junk food and candy and soda with food stamps. If someone wants to use some of their food budget on that stuff, so what? Is it really preferable if they're forced to spend it on either a second serving of dinner or nicer ingredients instead? It's all the same budget, the same hunger, the same purchase.>>24994882>There is not even one American who wouldn't be fed if the program ended.??How's that the case? and don't say food banks because they can hardly meet the demand as is
>>24994882That's nice. If you'd like to discuss politics, either discuss theory or take it to the requisite board. More rigor on your end is required if you want engagement.
>>24994891its just a talking point for people to get behind "dont look over here ""be mad at that person who decided hes only eating oreos this week"they always say "junk food" and stuff aswell they should name the brands and then explain why they got sued and how its the fault of the consumers not the companies creating luxury goods kek
>>24994893I just want to remind you retards every time you use these deranged appeals to morality that you're the most evil people on the planet. You are the 1% and everything you complain about can be traced directly to you personally.>>24994891Look at this creature "never understanding" how funnelling money to the worst corporate poison peddlers might be considered less than some kind of moral imperative by some people.>How's that the case?Your nation is flooded with food. Even much poorer countries have dumpsters full of fresh bread everywhere. You can live on potatoes, like people all over the world that aren't incompetent evil retards like you do. They're are almost free and you can grow them in bags in your window.You disgusting brainwashed faggots have no interested in helping anyone or thinking about anything.
>>24994891>Is it really preferable if they're forced to spend it on either a second serving of dinner or nicer ingredients instead? It's all the same budget, the same hunger, the same purchase.If you have an army, it matters. Most basic welfare programs start basically because governments and companies work out slaves work better fed. Napoleon's an army marches on its stomach leads to a lot of early childhood and motherhood interventions beyond diet too, because your army cannot march on ricketsSee also: Japan taxing you for your waistline because you cost more to treat medically, or China/Singapore enforcing outdoor time with no screens because they pay for the eyeglasses of kids raised with an iPad 2" from their face and that is a big bill
what goes through the mind of someone that breaks unwritten rules?trump seems to be just doing that, sure the prior many presidents of either the USA or any other nation in its time had the capability to extort their power but isn't he just shitflinging and it is somehow allowed?but why, or how come, allowed?did his breaking unwritten social rules just detonate the heads of the masses into a paralysis, no other fucking country and condemn the shit he pulls of lol
>>24994925You have no idea how many people the man from del Monte killed or why the fuck you know what a pineapple upside down cake is
>>24994918Anon, I am literally a nihilist who believes morality is more efficient from a utilitarian point of view if you take qualitative improvements into account; I am not appealing to morality, I am calling you an imprecise rambling doorknob saying stupid things.
>>24992929The difference between valediction and dithyramb is mostly a matter of tone, whether in music or poetry. You can feel the effect of the former only from a perspective of pleasant security, understand the latter best when your condition in life could go that way, at the very least.
I do find it amusing when a fictional character says "good and evil don't exist" while being an 8ft tall devil wearing flayed human skins, carrying a bag of severed fingers and drinking dead baby blood martinis. One of the more interesting ideas in Bakker's works was the robo-autist who was confused when his son referred to space rapist aliens as "evil," because "that is the language of the slaves." Clearly the qualia of being raped and the setback of being imprisoned by devils is to be avoided, but they are not 'evil' since morality is incompatible with his worldview.Id like to find a story where the horrendously offensive monsters are actually forces for positive change (and our reaction to them is entirely based out of evolutionary psychotrauma and human mores) but I haven't been lucky yet. Probably since that might take some level of skill to create and, while Childhoods End was neat, those creatures only had the 'appearance' of devils. They did not stab with pitchforks or sip martinis.
Top five worst fates ranked:Number Five: Bedridden vegetable. A prisoner in your own body. You long for death.Number Four: Endless torture. The enemy holds you and will not let you die. You long for death or at least an end to the suffering. Number Three: Total psychosis. Locked in a padded cell, you experience complex hallucinations and totally lose your sense of self. Even the vegetable is visited by friends and nurses. Number Two: "Slampig." You are an obese woman, comically misled into thinking you are beautiful.Nuuumber Oneee: Slampig's Partner. Picture it, after a long day at the factory your body is aching and you need an outlet for all your hangups. Beer is not enough, nor good food, nor mindless entertainment. At night, the door creaks. In the darkness you see an even greater darkness, like the new moon against the night sky. Not a silhouette but the mere impression of matter.The beast beckons. You enter her, and you lose your childhood once again. Like Prometheus chained to the rock, your innocence regrows and is destroyed each day. This is a fate for the most grievous of untermensch.
>>24995007You forgot "allergic to the cold" and "ironic punishment" but bretty gud list.
a qt asks you who's better, biggie or tupac, what do you say?
>>24995007This lacks imagination and research. Five and four are frequently combined, for example. I suggest you start with the slampigs tho
>>24995055I love it when you call me big poppa
The Kbabo Warfleet destroyed planet Earth after discovering "Surfing with Kbaljass," not a novel per se but a manuscript written by an unemployed freelance journalist somewhere in Canada. By sheer coincidence the titular alien was a 1:1 representation of the Kbabo species, right down to their ability to lay three eggs with different hues (each reflecting the parent's emotional state at the time). By an equally unlikely stroke of bad luck, the alien protagonist was depicted in bleakly stereotypical fashion. He was depicted as "tall," flew with two wings instead of alternating between all six, ate solid foods while in direct sunlight, and, in a scene which garnered over seventeen billion negative comments in the span of two rotations, referred to a small animal as "having a tail."Regrettably, it was discovered three hours after the Earth's total disintegration that the manuscript had gone unpublished and the author, who was assumed to have gone into hiding after penning his insensitive screed, had actually died three years earlier of a runaway peanut allergy.
>watching TV show>scene where someone is reading a couple sentences from a book aloud>correctly identify the authorhehe i'm feeling pretty superior right about now
>>24993939Every time I hear of any such thing, I count myself fortunate for living so far from any war zone, and for so long, that my audio and video tape archives run from 1971 to 2012. As far as people doing interesting things, I find music from about 1750 to the present day endlessly fascinating, not so much art in the visual mode.
>>24995101>Me watching Miss Marple for Joanna Lumley's inaccurate TennysonI do this more often than I should admit
>>24992929I hate losing freedom of choice but as I grow older, said freedom becomes limited. The most difficult decision in my life will be whether I should procreate since a child would cause the little freedom I possess to completely vanish. At the same time I fear that I will regret not having children, especially since I already found an amazing girl. It's frustrating how nature doesn't leave us much choice in this matter. Give up your best years to raise a child or enjoy your freedom but never experience what's like to be a parent. I know I will regret either choice, the question is which choice will I regret less
too many trans girls on the bus in Portland that I can't be sure if I can be attracted to them or not, especially when they wear a mask
I'm a huge sucker for stories where an inhuman entity meets a hunan and ends up falling in love. It can be total garbage written by a retard and I'll still read it.
I took some selfies over the past couple days and in each one I look like a completely different person. It's actually kinda shocking. Like it's not down to my hair or clothes, but more like the way I tense my muscles and posture/pose myself changes 100% in every photo, as if I have a different personality each time. Even when I look back to my college photos I think, why the fuck did I look eastern european back then? I have multiple photos from back then where I just looked like that.
When my mother was my age, I was 8 years old. When my stepfather was my age, he was 2 years from meeting my mother. The fuck am I doing with my life... I guess on average everyone is having kids and getting married later.
>>24995241I'm shocked the amount of subterranean memories and hazy impressions the quotes on that image evoked in me.
I just watched Bugonia. It's probably my 2nd favorite movie of 2025.
As much as I dislike grammar nazis I can’t deny it slightly bothers me when people say “if I was” instead of “if I were.”
>>24994293So because I have a relatively decent job (still having to sell my life-energies and time to some company I don't give a shit about, but yeah it's better than most other jobs, sure) I am no longer allowed to suffer? The fact that I feel suicidal lost and depressed every single day, the fact that I bite my nails till they bleed, the fact that I see politicians, influencers, billionaires, celebrities living lives of glamour and glory, while I sit here doing things that very few people care about and nobody will remember, the fact that every time I watch a movie or read a book or open YouTube I read about and watch people doing adventurous and spectacular things and I get overwhelmed with anxiety that I'm wasting my life and youth because of my contrasting lack of significance -- all of this is forbidden for me to express, because I have a job that is slightly better than most? There are people making what I make in a year IN A SINGLE DAY and they do nothing, or do only exciting things they want to do.
>>24995342If I was as as as you I'd agree
>>24995342Is there some resource where I can learn about all these common mistakes, so that I can remove them from my speech? I know the obvious stuff like "could of", but I want my English to be perfect.>t. Born and raised Canadian suffering from the fact that our schools teach barely any grammar whatsoever.
>>24993939You whine about it, but there are a billion pajeets that would kill you and replace you in a heartbeat to have your life. Hell, I'd like to have your life. I'm in a constant struggle to survive and I hate it.
>>24995360>I am no longer allowed to suffer?smfh you have no idea what it is to suffer you ungrateful little shit
>>24995360>There are people making what I make in a year IN A SINGLE DAY and they do nothing, or do only exciting things they want to do.is this irony? serious question.
Dreamt about her again award. Just kill me senpai
>>24994985this would be really hard but its a good take a cop out would be greater good but thats not really what you want in wh40k theres a faction of guys or something that just follow the chaos gods not because they want to but because they are actual gods and they dont think they have any place to disagree with the utter horror being merrly superhuman
>>24995482Serious question. You're on /lit/, where most books discussed are about the ennui of aristocrats who still suffer tremendously on a spiritual level despite being rich. How is it that you relate to these books but can't empathise with me, who is way less rich and has to work unlike those aristocrats.>>24995483Why would it be irony? I make £50k a year selling my entire life and youth to a company, and there are people out there making £50k a week or £50k a day, and they are free. Is this not factually correct?
>>24995494you are just a spoiled little bitch. i will laugh when europe goes to shit and you realize what real suffering is. be grateful for what you have you insufferable little faggot.
>>24995505>>24995494guys you can be pissed off and greatful at the same timei cant afford rent money but you bet your ass im going to enjoy sleeping in my apartment tonight im pissed off i cant afford rentim extreemly greatful i have a place to sleep its not mutualy exclusive also 50k guy you have a very thin excuse 50k a year is enough to figure something out if you have people makeing 50k a day you can undercut them in the marketplace its that simple
>>24995510I am grateful when I think of my financial and work position in relation to the vast majority of mankind. That doesn't prevent my mental and spiritual suffering though.>>24995505So you cannot relate to the books discussed on /lit/ about rich people suffering?
Recently I've been feeling nostalgic for the good old days when I was exiled to my mother's basement and spent every single day doing nothing but playing Rome 1, porn flashes I managed to download on her work computer and copy over to USB to then copy to my PC, and playing around with a mop larping as a Roman soldier. I had no internet and fuck all else to do so I could completely focus on these things.
>>24995524i find it fascinateing that something resonates with you so deeply about that time but im glad you have that memorywhat do you think it actualy is about it that you likedmaybe you were lost in a moment of imagination proud of your mop handle polesmanshipjust fully aware of the joy of it allmaybe its a comparitive nostalgia bore from disdian of your current position it could be tons of stuff but what a fond memory good for you anon relive it if you want kek take a week of work and instead of going to rome buy a mop bucket and a dell with 10 floppys full of grainy tits
>>24995520ofcourse i used to work at a company where i created about a 80x value for my time all i would think about all day is how am getting squeezed and how this company has a monopolistic position in the market i would scheme and plot about captureing a subcontract reforming a secon of the company and rivaling the hegemony of the department to force an aquisition kek
>>24995488felt. we'll make it out of this one day
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>>24995536>>24995520but in the end its just a cold envy and a difficult position what would i do in their position an 80x employee is like gold dust but at scale its a mote of air i had no bargaining power because of guidelines and no operating capacity to actually contest the hegemony without leveraging the same systems they were useing kek if it really really bothers you do what i tried to do splinter a section of your company lets say its acquisitions what do you do you manage to form a competitive acquisitions department you find the contracts the contracture's etc you find better deals and create a portfolio you then go to your company and say hey i can save you x a year on aquisitions if you subcontract me as your aquisitions department they say no you leak it to the shareholders and short the stock fuck them. kek
>>24995547ohh and then you take it to their competition or just go and work for the competition in acquisitions to secure your short (dont actually do this stuff its not as easy as it sounds)
>>24995535It must have just been fun I guess. And I spent a lot of time doing nothing but just that, so the space that it occupies in my brain is naturally pretty large.I have already kind of relived it in a way by going through every single JSK工房 game a while back, the time period is different so what I actually relived was a different memory but eh, close enough. And most importantly fun.
>>24995557comparison is the theif of joy afterall anon lol sometimes its best to just keep the fond memories rather than try to relive them and loose what made them fond in the first place sometimes its not
Dang, snowy as fuck out here today.
>>24992929(how dafuq did Rothko & Co. pull of this obvious laundering operation...?)
>>24995643(I unironically love his paintings and think they're up there with Francis Bacon as some of the best examples of postmodernism)
>>24995651Why hold onto occult relics of this Dark Age?Post-ironic appreciation of shit wrapped in gold gilt?Artistic Stockholm Syndrome?
What's being done to the Palestinians is deserved. Imagine religiously fanatical browns killing thousands of your people and just letting them get away with it. China's solution to the Uyghur problem is also very admirable. Europeans need to learn that nobody can hurt your people and get away with it
>>24995669Occult is right. Dark? Maybe moody, but certainly not a void consuming all thought and time. Real post modernism isn't post-ironic, it's an incantation, an invocation of a feeling despite elements that wouldn't otherwise produce it. The nausea of contemporary life. I vibe. It's neat. The gold glint isn't mine, or Rothko's, it's from the faceless formless placeless nonbeings desperate to mark their existence as meaningful, their reach as significant, and fill the god shaped wound left from decoupled humanity with an auspicious object. Post modernism is gilded tungsten, and once you scratch the patina off, the substrate beneath is remarkable.
>>24995692I think you worship lesser forms if you feel that the essence of these 'things' is of adamantine tungsten.We are not equal.
>>24995701To glide off the glibness, the reductinal aspects of post-modernism itself can be reduced further in its aim: what it targets.It was a tactical metapolitical tool rather than a universalizing critique of values and their references.To deny its directional force a club against its ideological enemies is to self-deceive.Rather than reduce the art to its elemental state of what is true, beautiful and good, it reduces all to nothingness and makes arbitrary claims of what now should be considered valuable among the ashes.It's an advanced nominalistic ontology that rejects realism of all forms as it posits is own hyperreal (hyporreal) reality as a substitute for actual lived reality. We are living in that Post-Modern map without a territory to stand on because of this fashionable mode of thinking; this Nietzschean re-evaluation of axiology where all our values were burned to the ground, the truth was obfuscated in the rubble, and then some intellectuals thought they could will-to-power their own arbitrary values like a phoenix from the ashes as a type of fake apotheosis to lord over fellow men.I hate this subversive shit.This is my critique.
>>24995701This and that, one and the other. Worship is a strong word, any idiot can look at Rothko or Bacon's work and "get" it without the historical context. The language is universal, that's what I meant by tungsten, it skips all the pretentious analytics and enters the soul. Possession. It can endure unprecedented heat and remain unchanged. In 500 years looking at the picture in the OP will still resonate more or less the exact same way as it does now. Nightwatch? Not so much. Not that Rothko is better than Rembrandt, god no, but the technique and application is timeless, placeless, and not cerebral, but libidinal; in the humors.
>>24995716>as a type of fake apotheosis to lord over fellow menthough this gives me a kek for a post-modern show
>order a pack of soda from amazon local grocery that costs 9.99 for months>it slowly climbs every single time I order until it's 16.82 for a 24 pack>get suspicious>grab my phone that hasn't been used for amazon ever>go to the mcdonalds>access wifi>sign up for a new amazon account and check the local grocery prices>it's 9.99I'm so fucking tired of tech dystopia. How did digital price discriminatin get here so fast and without anyone noticing
>>24995745discrimination* phoneposting without autocorrect.
My longtime friends have all become bleeding heart liberals. One even became trans and a communist.Why are they so fucking stupid?
>>24995716True, beautiful, and good have nothing to do with art at a fundamental level. It's nice when they do, but at the end of the day there are three broad categories of art: representation, as you said, or the documentation of something to share with others; critique or intellectual play, which is to share a thought with others, and; evocation, or to share a feeling with others. Good, true, beautiful, resplendent, all these are feelings and to reduce them down to their components like some sort of syrup is a magical process, but it also involves emulsification. A piece isn't silo'd in one camp, and many great pieces move across all three. It's not that postmodernism creates nothingness, it's that it intentionally annihilates some of the categories, and in doing so, reinvents them. The representation is internal; it represents something in the subject viewing it, something unnamed and intangible that resonates between the artist and the viewer, rather than a tree or a flower or a place or a thing. It obliterates critique and intellectual play because to can only critique yourself or the artist, as that's what is represented. It absolutely invokes a feeling in every aspect. Is it overdone? Sure, but the people overdoing it only understand the components of the pastiche being represented, not the thought or the feeling. It's like looking at every insufferable dick using the Socratic method as a critique of Socrates; sure they're annoying but when implemented with skill and precision, the concept is extremely effective.I'd take 10,000 moody "subversive" paintings that make me feel over seeing "Live Laugh Love" even one more time, which is this transgressive kind of nihilism that brings about such unmitigated despair in my soul I almost vomit every time I walk into someone's house and see it.
>>24995643To be frank. I think it was just painting as a living art exhausting itself. Obviously painting still exists. Just, it doesn't seem to exist in a timeline of development where artists build off previous movements or masters. Seems like everyone is doing their on thing.In my view, Rothko, Bacon, etc. Were essentially at the tail end of several decades of asking what the nature of painting really is. And after them there were no more questions to ask.
>>24995781I'm fond of Rothko, Pollock, Newman, because of that. They were painting as a living tradition finishing itself, I think.I'm open to be corrected.
>>24995781>>24995787.../lit/...
>>24995789Don't hate, appreciate. Or I guess you can hate, but I try not to.
I was anxious last night about going back to work. My gf invited me to sleep in the same bed for the first time in a long time, acting soft all of a sudden. She asked what was going on, and I remarked that I didn't feel ready for work, and that entry level jobs in other fields all had postings between $45k and $50k, a salary that would not sustain both of us. She first suggested I use my network, to which I replied that it wasn't in the country. Then she started suggesting that we make a shared account into which I put my salary and she puts her $1000 that she gets as a yearly stipend, which I said didn't make much sense. Her suggestions then took a turn: she asked if she could volunteer at my school, suggested living off of soup from the Hare Krishnas, and said that early humans in the jungle had longer lifespans. I bluntly said that the issue is that I cannot miss a month's salary: we have no savings, as I am supporting us both on a teacher's salary. She got angry at this, calling me selfish and telling me that I just wanted to control her and make her weak and dependent. I said that I just wanted her to have the freedom to pursue her goals without rent hanging over her, but that this was straining. She said that it wasn't freedom because she had to put up with my bullshit and whining, and told me to go back to sleeping on the couch, which I did.
>>24995761>True, beautiful, and good have nothing to do with art at a fundamental level.We're not equal.I see you as an enemy.I don't have to fight you as you fight yourself in the abyss, chasing shadows, desperately searching for any substantive semblance of meaning.You can store all your Rothkos there.
>>24995789Just tell me why I am stupid instead of nodding to an imaginary audience, Jim from hit TV show "The Office". Pretty please.
Why bother with a salad?
>>24995794I'm only getting it for the crab
>>24995794It's tasty with the correct dressing.>It's green, like the text!It's light and easy to digest.
>>24993198I feel the same about circumcision.
>>24995790>>24995793I'm not shitting on you for appreciating something I think is trash, I'm saying this isn't the place, sure make comments about it but lets not turn this into an art appreciation thread, jesus.
>>24995794Because society won't let me drink ranch out of bottle
>>24995420Ladybird book of spelling and grammar
>>24995801>saladYou know you can pair that with burgers or fries right?
>>24995791That's depressing. I'm sorry you are going through that.
>>24995792Why would I search when I've found it already? What this means to you, what that means to me, anything meaning anything at all; prescription based egoism. The anthropocentric personification of concentric systems of external validation, as vainglorious as it is deeply depressing. I don't mind that the universe doesn't care about me on a personal level, it's not personal. I don't mind that I can never know the infinite, or even the mundane, it's still nice to try. I don't even mind that you can never know me because it keeps the conversation lively and if I wanted someone to nod along passively I'd get a bobblehead or talk to my dog. As long as the systems continue to log the data to be used in the future, I'm happy. Who and what uses it are irrelevant and frankly above my pay grade. The beauty in truth is the observation and utility, the mastery of the system, and it's continuous improvement. If all you experience is good or true or beautiful you have not prepared your immune system adequately for the possibilities of existence, and if you're picking enemies, picking one who has is probably not wise.
>>24995800People can think about Art, anon. It's a thread for thoughts being written.
>>24995810You remind me of Nick Land.
>>24995810Why accept a lesser ontology?Why live as an NPC when you could be a PC?I never understood this about you people...
>>24995823What's lesser? It's true, the truest parts of truth; the things that can be verified. I'm not an NPC at all, I am the one of the few player characters adaptable enough to handle any problem, and ethical enough to act with empathy without being blinded by it. It's this pessimistic kind of pragmatism where I do what's right not because something else compelled me, but because it's the most efficient action when all variables are accounted for, then take personal responsibility for cleaning up afterwards.Really, if you're asking why am I like this, it's because I've seen the abyss. I have a nice condo down there and visit from time to time. I drink shit beer that tastes like cigarettes and hotdog water while throwing crushed cans into the chasm. Is the abyss true and beautiful and good? Perhaps, but those are human judgements. It simply is, like I simply am, and we can chill together without getting in a tizzy.>>24995814I'll take that as a compliment.
>>24995810Forgive me. I come off harsh >>24995823I realize that you people have free will, the same as I, and I'm wondering why you guys squandered yours? I'm get pissed that you guys threw it away so flippantly and then the excuses you guys use to justify yourselves/lives.You guys threw away your divine birthright of being made in the Image of God to become less than human.
>>24995833see here>>24995835(bad timing)
Theirs more new books on how to write essays than new essay collections
>>24995811fair enough
>>24995835It's the opposite, I think that's where you're mistaken. All I have is my free will, and I use it. Squandered? Depends on the objective. I don't need to justify my life at all, I just live it, and my divine birthrite is to exist at all, so I make the best of it in everything that means.You didn't ask the hard question: do I believe in anything, in spite of all that? I believe in God and the universe. I have faith that the contingency for my existence is predicated on me acting in accordance with my nature, and this will lead to an outcome that's in line with whatever objectives I can never really grasp the totality of. Being made in the image of God doesn't mean being free from responsibility by divination, it means you have been given the tools to make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven, as Milton put it. I just don't romanticize the process, and I'm humble enough to accept that if nothing matters or exists, than I don't matter or exist either, so I act in a way that benefits others in spite of that, because if anything exists at all, surely helping more things will be of greater ordinal magnitude than not.It's a quiet primordial sort of view. Good, bad, these are flat categories. There is only justice, and to be just is to exercise your agency in the best way you can.
>>24995859>I believe in God and the universe.>All I have is my free willBut why use that will in this universe in every direction but God? That's what baffles me.Why chase other 'gods' (and they are plenty though we nominalistally don't call them that anymore).It all seems like an adventure to hedge against God's Will; as if man is saying "I'll pay lip service to you Oh Mighty Creator, but just in case I'm going to go look for another better replacement 'God' out there just in case."It's the Prodigal Son story, no? You all figure out that the other gods sucks, and that humans can't self-apotheosize and anthropocentrically make themselves God, so you just eventually come back or fade off into the abyss.Why the ressentiment for God and His Ontology and His Will?Why must we play sophistic games?
>>24995791If this is real, break up with her you stupid faggot.
ADHD tips on reading more would be nice!This year is going to be "The Year of Reading" for me, how many books should 1 person get through in a year that isn't embarrassing?How many pages or chapters should someone read through in a day?
>>24995791You're being scammed and she is trying to siphon money off you, end it.
>>24995877I apologize for the tautologies and grammar errors. I know it's /lit/ but I don't have an editor and I write fast & loose.
>>24995877It's not a sophistic game. I just don't overcomplicate things with the dogma of humans. My point is much more simple than a hedge against God's will; I just don't care. Above my pay grade. Not my problem. Competing conceptions of God, interpretations of scripture, broken telephone issues in translation, all that is none of my business. I don't pay lip service to any God, I simply act in accordance with my nature and adapt things I find useful. The conditions of reality are arbitrary and impersonal. When I say "God", I don't mean a personified deity, I mean a combination of a force of existence and a container. The watchmaker. The multifaceted nature of existence is so large and varied that personifying it into the human context is impossibly reductionist; I have no time for that narrative because I don't need it.It's the acceptance of emptiness and impermanence. I don't fear death at all, it's just a function of life. And when you accept the bounds of mortality and the conditions of human existence, I don't need to trade or bargain, I simply exist, or not. And I consistently choose that I'd like to exist. If the universe is an extension of God, then all aspects of existence are also extensions of God, so any direction is inevitably towards God, like entropy. I don't need to worship, I don't believe in ritual, and to give thanks I fulfill my purpose as best I can. What is that purpose? To act in accordance to my nature. I'm not a main character, I'm a support character. My entire cosmological purpose might be to give the main character a hamburger, to pass him in traffic. Who knows. I just don't take it personal, and when friction comes up, it's almost always from acting against my nature. Essentially, this is the Dao.
>>24995912>>24995893Oh, and to add because I know it will come up, nobody needs salvation. Everyone either goes to heaven, in the sense that when you die all things return from where they came, and this becomes that. I don't need a reward to do good, improving the lives of others is enough reason, even if none of it matters at all.
>>24995912>>24995919We are at ends.I don't see your philosophical outlook equal to my theological outlook. Too many inconsistencies where you switch from a realist perspective to a nominalist perspective like a motte & bailey. When you want bedrock you say you believe in God & freewill, then in the next breath you claim Monism:>"nobody needs salvation">"Everyone either goes to heaven"You can't have Free Will and Monism.Again, it's apparent you haven't thought through your own philosophy clearly; I say this as someone who cares about you becoming more than what you are now. I don't want to be enemies, but this kind of illogos damages you, damages other people you influence, and damages the world around us.Your will is a sharp blade, not a blunt instrument. Please wield it with care instead of trying to hack out a la carte metaphysics that temporally please you/are fashionable.If Post-Modernism got you to fatalistic nihilism, then it wasn't that valuable a vehicle was it?I'd let go of Rothko
reading Proust for the first time (Swann's Way) and wtf how is he able to capture this level of human detail (whether psychological, physical, emotional, spiritual, an action, or even a momentary glance!) with such precious and poetryevery other 20th century novelist aside from Joyce truly does kneel to him, huh?
>>24995984er, with such precision* and poetry
>>24995877>But why use that will in this universe in every direction but God? That's what baffles me.Not that anon, but I’ll answer this. Look at the world around you anon. Do I doubt that a Creator exists? Nope. Do I doubt that he cares about us? Certainly. This being who created human beings, put them in a situation where they will endure lifetimes of hardship, misery and failure, and then punishes them for the flaws which he put in them has done us no favors. That Jew in Auschwitz who wrote that God would need to beg for forgiveness was very much right. When all is said and done God should have to beg humanity for forgiveness, for all the evils he allowed to happen.
>>24995966Talking shit, eh? That's fine, didn't really engage with the content. My operation is EXTREMELY rigorous and I'd wager I've read a great deal more than you have, both in terms of philosophy and theology. I don't take it personal because it fundamentally opposes what you want as an outcome, and it's telling you something uncomfortable; all epistemology requires faith. And faith is inherently irrational, predicated on belief.What I'm describing is a post-structural kind of system for ethical action and responsibility that requires no contingencies beyond intersubjectivity in it's justification, using a continuous improvement model to document the results. I think the gap here is in terms of definition: you can absolutely have free will and monism. How? By choosing to act as a qualifier of existence. Continuity of existence is optional, and you must choose repeatedly to exist, or you will atrophy and cease existence all together. Everything in existence that exists chooses to exist as an extension of universal consciousness (God) and your only critique seems to hinge on your idea that heaven is a binary of heaven or hell in your schema as a consequence, which means there are more than one thing, but I'm grasping because you weren't very clear.At the end of the day, haters gunna hate. I am not a nihilist because of postmodernism, I am a nihilist because it's rational, and the beliefs/faith I have are irrational. I keep the categories seperate. Salvation is a gnostic promise as a control measure when intentional action centered on intersubjective optimization is sufficient enough to improve the world. Beauty, truth, goodness, these are shallow platonic ideals that flatten human experience into ordinal categories of greater and worse, when the reality is that they are often simultaneous, and rather than prescribing morality to what is or isn't greater or lesser, morality is prescribed to responsibility and exercise of agency. A parasite isn't evil because the host hates it. A lion isn't evil because it kills a lamb. It's cruel. A coyote who kills all the chickens is unjust because it's both cruel and wasteful. A human acting like a parasite is unjust for similar reasons; a denial of Telos.
>>24995996I blame you though.You brothers & sisters fucked up this plane.I look into you all, your thoughts and I see the anti-Christ... but I'm trying real hard to see Christ in you people.Through God all things are possible, even the impossibility of your salvation and salvation of this shitty place you molded. I both hate and love you people for what you've done.>>24996008I have better things to do than read your diatribe.
>>24996015Ain't a diatribe, it's applied Kant and Kirkegaard. Perhaps you should read more, you seem to be flummoxed.
>>24995796>>24995794I say this and then it turns out they can give me the crab with just a doily
>>24995996the best part is you don't even get to be judged by God to judge Him.your ignoble fate is to be forgotten by Him.This is how we forget evil btw.We just forget its progenitors like those that think they know better than God.
>>24996021Oh wait I remember this guy, it's the dude who spent 24 hours getting buttblasted over his brother not wanting to have casual sex.Cool chatGPT philosophy bro.
>>24996046Hey anon, be careful about revisionist history when you start talking to people with photographic memories and autism. If you want to discuss philosophy that's fine. Don't turn into a shit posting faggot about it because you're personally offended. And certainly don't samefag if you don't want to engage intellectually after sticking your head in the sand.
>>24996008>My operation is EXTREMELY rigorous and I'd wager I've read a great deal more than you have>responsibility that requires no contingencies beyond intersubjectivity in it's justification>it'sAnon, I...I tease.
>>24996056Nobody needs a photographic memory when there's multiple archives of you being buttmadt. Lurked yesterday, you should try it
>>24996057I must commit sudoku for my improper apostrophe anon-sama. Most embarrassing.
>>24996063Consider yourself on probation. One more grammatical violation and you WILL have to write a thousand page thesis on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.
>>24996056Oh no, he told me to be careful. I'm quaking in my boots.
>>24996071At least I'm not defining Heidegger words. Holy fuck I hate that guy; great philosophy, fucking dickhead.
>>24996015You will have to look hard to find a Jewish/Palestinian millenarian preacher who died 2025 years ago in me. I do not wish to offend but I will be honest. The whole of the Abrahamic faiths are a series of rehashing Near Eastern history and mythology again and again, a culture shifting from polytheism to henotheism to monotheism. All of these things were visions created by peoples to explain the world around them, and what they believed was often false. What they wrote down was motivated by politics as much as it was spirituality. For example, the Book of Revelation is a Roman era anti-Nero text which today is interpreted as a prediction of the end of humanity.My question to you is why you have such faith in Christ but not in Muhammad, who did the same thing as the former. Both emerged in the Near East. Both had knowledge of Near Eastern mythology and history, especially pertaining to the Jewish people. Both remixed that web of history and myth to impart moral lessons, and both inserted themselves in that web of knowledge with the claim that they were the final link in the chain. It’s all just stories.
>>24996092 Near Eastern history and mythology again and againkek>this system of faith has been basically the same system throught all of humanityTHERFORE ITS MEANINGLESSi mean atleast your windows glisten in the light lmfao how could you possibly draw that conclusion it would be like saying everybody who eats carrots turns into a rabbit therefore both rabbits and carrots are unimportant instead of asking the very obvious question of why the fuck do all religions have deeply inobvious connections stretching across all of civilised history
>>24996107Sure seems like you didn't read that post.
>>24996109ofc i did we have a 5000 year old flood myth across 3 continent's if you want to argue this is a tool for moral controll you will have to explain to me very slowly what that moral is and why such disperate cultures described it in such simmilar ways
>>24996115"so when corruption reaches its zenith a flood wipes out mankind"huh what a strange moral lesson"no no it was probably a litteral flood" huh what odd encodeing and atribution of a clear natural phenomina even a cursurey reading of the texts can tease out nuanced information that opposes your hypothosis
>>24996115>>24996121I wasnt the anon you were replying to, but I thought your point was more the consistencies cannot be nullified with your rabbit carrot metaphor, but that's a different question altogether. Like all texts, it's mostly symbolic abd metaphorical. I don't think it's exactly literal, and in the epistemological sense, assigning absolute truth to the literalness of some of these narratives is suspect.
>>24996121>>24996109not to discredit your centrilised idea of controll this is called dogmatic religion but to ascribe the accumulated myth of mankind as dogmatic religion and pose the question why not x vs x when core princaples are clearly represented in both cases reeks of hypocracywhy choose the prophet mohammed over jesus mohammand talks about a single unifying god infact the exact same god jesus talks aboutok so why not choose for example daoism well daoism talks about a single unifying principle much akin to spinozas interpritation ohhh no..... prehaps you would prefer us talk about the minutia of uncommonalities such as for exaple slave ownership or womens rights
Went to the British Library today.Saw loads of people sitting on the floor with their laptops. At that point, why not just go to a cafe to work/study?
>>24996138Probably because a lot of places will make you pay for a coffee, and move you on after a time limit per drink
>>24996128its just discounting it because its reaching simmilar conclusions anon thats the pointwhen infact you should be screaming from the top of your lungs they are all reaching simmilar conclusions if he wants to posit this is some shadow conspiricy of distiled controll spread throught society's by initiated elites im all ears but reduceing the clear phenomina to absurdity through its un ending adoption is rediculous
>>24996107>>24996115I don’t follow. With your specific example of the flood myths, my hypothesis is that various cultures experienced sea levels rise in the aftermath of the Ice Age ending, and sought to explain it. In the case of the Noah story they used it as a way to impart religious teachings (regarding the power of God and whatnot). In actuality the flood was caused by the Earth’s natural cycles.
>>24996145but then you answer your own question there is a clear source of extreemly important information in the text and your choice becomes the most transparent itteration .......
>>24996144>>24996128look at it this wayeven if they are all wrong right why are they all wrong in the same way i mean big picture notpage 4 verse 8
>>24996144Bruh it's a bildungsroman, an archetype and a trope applied to a narrative that gets subjective buy in despite obvious push back in context. No different than iseki, and it's a narrative style that appears to a very specific type of person, particularly when given a gnostic tint and an empathetic lens. The similarity isn't because of truth, it's because the truth appears within certain narrative constructions, that to get people to buy in to your mythos there is a particular structure that works very well. Not saying it isn't produtive, and I didn't mention shadow conspiracy at all, but like your carrot metaphor, you are confusing correlation with causation, and it's much more practical to apply the lessons when you're at a level of critical thinking that makes the productivity of the narrative apparent, as opposed to prescription.
>>24996168again your completly missing the point the question becomes why does this work and who is useing it and for what end the texts are still immesurably valuableyour talking about a global system of controll that has been used by segments of humanity for all of human history ..........thats what you think it isand then you ask WHY X well the answer again would be because this X has been used on me and my ancestors since time imemorial and its worked
>>24996175>>24996168it would speak to a fundamental truth of control that exists within humans lol so realistically not deeply understanding it at a fundamental level would be frankly disastrous
>>24996152….I agree there was global sea level rise. I do not think a man built an Ark and put couples of all the animals on it and survived that way. I think it is likely some ancient Near Eastern cities were destroyed by natural disasters. I do not think this happened because the inhabitants of these cities were sexual deviants or that a woman was turned into a pillar of salt. You get what I’m saying? Over time an event gets turned into a myth. Some seed of truth may exist but the myth on top of it is fluff.>>24996144It’s not even a conspiracy. Muhammad didn’t hide that he sought to create a political state with himself at the helm. He and the Caliphates that followed all used the place he carved out in the Near Eastern mythos to give their rule legitimacy. People have always used religion like this.
>>24996175>>24996180Wut? I think you're agreeing with me in a really confusing way, but it's hard to tell. Lay off the eggnog. Or drink more, I dont judge.
>>24996184kek im argeuing with you from your position this isnt my position im devils advocateing you >>24996181again you miss the principle and focus on the minutia why would the religisiosity give it legitamacy.... that would be the question
>>24996181soddom n gammorah is different the flood myth is present in siberia and both north and south america btw along with analogues of noah
>>24996187>>24996181btw this is suposedly completly un-related peoples and i mean i could buy that they were all suffering from some mass delusion of a vengful god releasing a flood and repopulating the earthbut that just begs the question why what is the cause for this shared psychosis and how is it present today
>>24996186Eh, fair. I'm out of gas to be frank, but I appreciate the effort. Hate your prose but your poetry is bretty gud. That father tree thing? Kick ass.
>>24996201hahahaha thanks Siberian tradition includes myths about a great flood and a hero who saved his family. In one version, the creator god Ulgan told a man named Nama to build a boat. Into the boat Nama brought his wife, his three sons, some other people, and some animals.check this shit out btw im just argueing i broadly agree with your sentiment
>>24996205To answer the religiosity giving it legitimacy thing, I think it's more of a symptom of engagement. There are elements that overlap but when presented as "ordained" rather than created, it gets this like... ethos about it where it becomes easier to bypass the critical nature of thought because a leap of faith is required. Humans can't really create. I mean they do, obviously, but it's in relatively similar cycles, which is what I mean by the tropes. And I also think it's productive to have faith in the unexplained because a large portion of subjective existence is behind this impermeable membrane of understanding, and embedding it directly into the narrative justifying existence is handy because it lets people remain open to less dogmatic interpretation of events using existing schema.
>>24996221but if i was to try and use that mechanism it would not work do you think a formulaic extrapolation could for example allow an individual to imposes his will upon anotherlike if i said to you fate said you should give me $50 you would be like no atleast i think you would but your positing there is some distilation of words that could infact make you do this seemingly involentarily
>>24996232probably not just words of course but a conglomeration of factor's that are instantiated as religion if this is true it can be used for good or for bad it would just be an increadibly powerful tool
I FUCKING HATE .webp files, holy shit
>>24996235you would have to ask yourself how cavement invented a civilisational level tool that could shape entire planets rofl before written language
>>24996232Yes, actually. But that's my book and you'll have to wait until it comes out before I unpack it in more depth.Think of it like this. Saying fate said you should give me $50 won't work; it's too direct and you can engage it critically on that axis. Making you come up with the justification yourself to give me $50 is a little more effective. You deciding to give me $50 for an exchange that you perceive as valuable, as an example. But there's also refusing money all together and requiring things that obviously need money, then putting you in a situation where giving me $50 in spite of my negation? That's the prestige. Then they'll give you the whole world and thank you for it.
>>24996253seems damageing anon i dont think you should share that power with people lmao i already struggle with swarm theory analytics deciding what i eat and analytical algorithms deciding what i watch i would possibly read the self help book however hahaha
Children are more intelligent than half the users here. I'm studying children.
>>24996265If that's true why didn't God make Children 2?
>>24996265honestly true the way they learn language is akin to me learning how to manipulate particles with my breath its truely high iq shit
>>24996260Oh, they won't be able to copy it. It's not a self help book or a guide, it's a narrative. A few narratives actually with the reader as a character. I don't want to spoil too much, it's already written and in the process of auditioning publishers, but I'm secretly a nice guy. I could use the technique for evil or power, and instead I point to where it already exists to render it intert completely, as a thanks for reading my book. Maybe. If you get to that layer of meta-narrative without wanting to murder me.
>>24996272seems very based the homer's they live narrated by plato you should have somebody call it that for marketing purposes jej
>>24996272my prose btw uses the ptart of your brain that fixes words and exploits the part where you gloss over shit to force you to think about the argumentmy grammer is unfortunately non existant consiting of line breaks plus i just mispell shit all the time
>>24996282>>24996278Yeah I absolutely noticed that when I started thinking; you aren't an idiot, you're just dressed like one. Personally I like the fake nontitle I decided for the made up genre that doesn't exist yet. "Neon Gnosis". Evocative, no? Not the winner, I don't want to share that quite yet, though I may steal your quote. I don't think marketing will be difficult, I'm going for the hot topic crowd and smart people will hit it by proxy, if I'm lucky.
>>24996292>>24996282Didnt mean to be snide, meant the first part as a compliment, it's neat.
I don't understand how it's possible to be as invisible as I am; I look better than I ever have in my life, I don't dress horrendously, I'm better at eye contact than I used to be. It's almost as if women are deliberately avoiding to acknowledge me, but I can't even see the avoidance on their faces, it's like I'm not even there, like I'm a ghost.I wouldn't even know where to start.
>>24996362I have the opposite problem.
>>24995643Rothko's don't translate on the internet, they are huge paintings, looking at them as jpegs or even prints is missing the point.
>>24996366if size is the key thing doesn’t that say something about them.
>In an interesting aside, Loewi apparently had the idea for his experiment in a dream. He wrote it down in the middle of the night but the next morning could not decipher his writing. He eventually had the same dream on another night, and decided to run to the laboratory to perform the experiment in the middle of the night. About this incident, Loewi writes:>On mature consideration, in the cold light of the morning, I would not have done it. After all, it was an unlikely enough assumption that the vagus should secrete an inhibitory substance; it was still more unlikely that a chemical substance that was supposed to be effective at very close range between nerve terminal and muscle be secreted in such large amounts that it would spill over and, after being diluted by the perfusion fluid, still be able to inhibit another heart. (Loewi 1921)>Loewi was fortunate in his choice of experimental preparation. In the species of frog used (Rana esculenta), the vagus contains both inhibitory and stimulatory fibers. In the winter, inhibitory fibers predominate, so Loewi was also fortunate to have performed his experiments in February or March. Additionally, acetylcholinesterase activity (the enzyme that degrades acetylcholine) is low, particularly in an unheated laboratory, allowing the neurotransmitter to remain long enough to be collected and applied to a second heart. Thanks to this confluence of events, Loewi was able to describe the existence of vagusstoff and prove the existence of chemical synaptic transmission.Daily reminder it's mostly luck and dreams
>>24996319hahah no taken sometimes i dont just wear the clothes LOL
>>24992962It shows a childlike connection to one's innate humanity. Once thoroughly inured in the nationstate and it's consumerist propaganda, the child turns into a sullen teenager for a spell, and either stays glum him whole life, commits suicide or joins the rat race, a numbered cog in the wheels of a machine.Communism promises community, and that original humanity we are all born with.You, anon, were brainwashed. As good as being dropped on your head.
>>24996483I don't see how communist propaganda is any better.
>>24996483Communism is nice if you take it at face value and assume humans are honest, transparent, or of good nature. Unfortunately the tools required for revolution indenture the leading manifested will of the people against these tenants, requiring another revolution. And another. And so on.
Last night I dreamt I went on a date with an old childhood friend I haven’t seen in years. He treated me very poorly, basically ignoring me, leaving me alone in his house while he went to go buy some exclusive expensive sandwich (he did not buy me one). Eventually our respective families showed up and started drinking together. It was an odd dream and I don’t know what it might mean.
>>24996483>>24996500It's slavery by another name, every time its been tried its turned whole nations in prisons.
I love Rothko. Especially the black on greys. I was at the MoMA a few months back and got to see some more of his stuff along with some work by Pollock a few rooms before. Honestly, Rothko's work reminds me of two girls, one I used to know, and the girl I'm with now. Rothko's orange and yellow reminds me of the girl I'm with now. She's a wasian who came into my life suddenly and I got into a relationship with her impulsively, I never thought about it much. Lately though I've really come to regret that. It's been 3 years and some change since then. I may be in too deep and this may be the girl I'm stuck with for the rest of my life. I do like her, she is pretty, and we share damn near everything in common except religion. I think that is my main gripe with her. I think if she converted to my religion she'd be more like the girls I dream of in my city. I have a quasi-parasocial relationship with those girls. But the thought of them getting to know me disgusts me for whatever reason.The black on grey Rothko reminds me of this one girl who as of now achieved some kind of lolcow/e-girl status earlier in 2025. She was pretty nice and I remember finding her super interesting. She had a lot of what I found to be lacking in the girl I'm with now. I decided to look her up a week ago (which is how I found out about her e-girl status) and stumbled across a thread about her and just got sucked back into her world. I still look at her pictures a bit. She's not as pretty as I remember but I wouldn't mind laying my head on her squishy milk colored thighs. I love how thin she is. Nonetheless, I do feel guilty for feeling this way about someone in my past while already being in a relationship. I don't think it can be helped honestly.
>>24996389yes
>>24996568>I think if she converted to my religion she'd be more like the girls I dream of in my city. I have a quasi-parasocial relationship with those girls.Both of these sentences are gonna need some expanding upon. Ideally in the next thread.
I find myself ultimately just waiting to die. It's hard to know what I really want but nothing about this life satisfies. However, I am in my early twenties and have experienced divine bliss (both sober and otherwise) so I recognize the possibility of true peace and happiness in the future. I think that if dying is not an option I just want to live in a place with nice nature around and places to hike and do drugs in. Weed and psychedelics in nature are enough to keep me living but I'm denied both.
this appears to be the new>>24996709>>24996709>>24996709
>>24996551>>24996497Marxism is trash of course. I'm talking about the real thing. NOT Marxism. >>24996500Humans end up dishonest and in general bad under capitalism.>another anotherNaw naw. So far we've just seen coups. One state replacing another. Like democrats to republicans and back again.
>>24997262>it wasn't real communism!!!lol
>>24993658imagine being banned for your options on 4chan.. you must have been spamming or something
>>24993795hqahahahahaahah
>>24997588Go to /adv/ and say anything slightly controversial and you'll get banned by the malding women and trannies that infest that board.
>>24997963wtf did you say?
