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Hace calor, debería formir desnudo pero ya no puedo cambiar mis costumbres
>>25015258>formir
>>25015235I love sage tea, do you like sage tea?
>>25015278Too bitter
The river in my town froze for the first time in ten years, it's also snowing to the point of roads being unusable, also for the first time in idk how many years, don't remember the last time it ever happened. I'm pretty sure it's American fucking up weather with their glowie tech in preparation to the war with Britain and its colonies (China, Iran, Russia).
>>25015235I have always thought that Dostoyevsky's grand-inquisitor is if you imagine the returned Christ performing miracles right next to people walking toward the casa de contratación to sign themselves up for the Americas. Which would be an accurate detail, given the time and place of the story. Maybe it is only so if you have ties to the Spanish empire, though.
>>25015258>>25015276>>>/int/As per global rules this is an English image board, if you want to post in your 3rd world, shithole language with a weak writing tradition, go to /int/.
>>25015414>3rd world, shithole language with a weak writing traditionBut enough about english
>>25015417>A pathetic defense for lingual version of povertykek
Should I write in my native tongue instead of English if my writing is terrible?>>25013197I'm this guy.I tried writing in my native tongue and got published 3 times, one my an online scifi mag, and two times by a lit magazine.But that didn't make me happy at all.Should I just quit writing in english alltogether and embrace my native tongue?
>>25015421Why not write in your native language first then hiring a translation consultant or friend who knows English really well to then see if you can get an English version published?
>>25015427Because something's holding me back. I've written 6k pages in english already. But they're dogshit.And I made a shitty game in RPG.The point is that I feel as if I owe my discord community to try writing in english....
>>25015414>shithole language with a weak writing tradition,I will never understand why Spanish literature was all but forgotten after the beginning of the 19th century by the rest of Europe (and subsequently the world). Literally no one knows it exists. Not caring is one thing. But they just don't know about it. They think Cervantes is all there is. This is without even boarding the topic of Spanish American literature. Which I understand is not to everyone's taste.
>>25015366I miss when the winter season existed where I live. This time it was just a protracted never ending summer; muggy all the way from Christmas through New Year's until the Epiphany.
Everyday I look in the mirror and say,>One day I WILL end you, you know that? But not today.
Just started watching this show called Killing Eve on Netflix. Two notes: one, this is damn near exactly the kind of show I'd write if I had total creative control, and two, my God, Sandra Oh is such a repellent creature. Her acting works for the role though.
Why is it so unpleasant to look at the faces of certain old people? Everyone says "It's because they're bald!" or "It's because they have wrinkles!" but I can think back to people like Miles Davis or Alfred Hitchcock or Nabokov who had these features but never stopped looking pleasant.
>>25015468Can you give an example? I am not sure I know what you describe.
>>25015467Oh turns out it's based on a series of novels. Makes sense. It did have a literary imagination about it.
>>25015467It's your civic duty to not pay for Netflix. The show is free on piratebay.
>>25015497I prefer to support art and artists.
>>25015454>They think Cervantes is all there isBecause that is there all that there is, English publishes millions of original works a year, Spanish only publishes 100,000, less than even the Russians do despite the Spanish language being many more millions of people.
>>25015501You're suppressing art by supporting propaganda.
>>25015504What propaganda?
>>25015472I think I get what you mean. But just to be sure. Do you mean old people who kind of just look like they are rotting in life? Do they look just oddly malevolent? Or is it something else?This reminded me: I keep an archive of 'peculiar human types' wherever I find them. Mostly physical types, because I don't go out much. Though I should take up people watching.I don't know what Nietzsche has to do with this. He wasn't really that much of a physiognomist if you read him closely. Although, he did think uglyness and sickness were comorbid (which in fairness they are, humans innately find sick-looking people less attractive).
>>25015510Because you can read this observation as being some kinda Nietzschean critique of the masses and their indolence, blah blah blah, nothing we haven't heard a million times before.>Do you mean old people who kind of just look like they are rotting in life?Rotting. It's almost certainly just people who never found something to live for. I mean my grandmother is in her 70's and she still looks good. She's rotting physically but she has her dogs. It's interesting because the stereotype is that aging is directly proportional to the diminishing of life force & vitality, but I don't really feel that from a lot of old people.
>>25015507If you're unable to detect propaganda even from the biggest propagandists in human history I don't know what to say to you.
>>25015517>>25015517I just enjoy the shows and films they host.
>>25015502Quantity is a poor judge of quality. Especially when the standard you are judging a language against is the Universal Trade Pidgin (formerly known as english). Besides, where do you get that 100,000 number?
>replying to someone with "pic related">image didn't upload>shamefully close thread in embarrassment
>>25015515Your guess is as good as mine, then. Though I will observe there are some middle aged and young people that also kind of look like that. But that usually has to do with substance abuse of some sort. You can't even say it's withering or something like that. My maternal grandparents are in their nineties and both of them are very consumed. They still look very kindly a loveable, to me, anyway. But that may be bias talking.
>got gifted a pop psych book>look up the author>caught fabricating data and proven fraudDamn, should I still read it?
>>25015566sometimes venturing into 'wicked' territory helps one learns their tricks and patterns
>>25015520You can get the content free. You're paying for the privilege of giving them power over you, funding mind control and the suppression of alternative perspectives. The arts will not grow in quality or quantity as a result of you funnelling money to corporations.
I have to win the lottery or something
>>25015581I'm kind of an impressionable person though
>>25015639What would you do? I could spend $100k today. What should I spend it on?
>>25015662With 100k I would install solar panels and pay off a bit off my mortgage or something. But I'm a captured male with a house, wife and children.If I was single I'd quit my job for a year, maybe two and walk around Europe reading and visiting places.
>>25015667Gay. Kids are a blessing, appreciate them you fucking faggot.
>>25015668I do, I have no regrets.But I'm just being honest. What I would spend 100k is boring and based on security. I've been the single jobless guy before and it was great, so I'd do that if I had that kind of money.
>>25015671Same with everybody, you're not special. Instead of praying for a windfall appreciate what you have. Being jobless is only fun if you have cash.
>>25015675I can appreciate what I have while hoping for better. I've come a long way from just 2/3 years ago but I feel like I'd really be set with just an injection of extra cash. It would give a lot of freedom and give me room to fix/make beautiful the home I bought.Being jobless does not require a whole lot of cash. I did it multiple times when I was 23, 25 and 28. Just a few thousand to spend 2/3 months doing whatever I want.
>>25015235how you keep yourself sane in this World? i mean from politics to real world issues, from politcians and rich fags stealing and getting away with it and if an average person evade some taxes they are getting raped, the hypocrisy and double standards, cultural wars, the state of work, death of communities, nature dying and animals going extinct etcI cant tell if i live in a demon World or Clown World
Reading has ruined my ability to converse. When people open their traps I just skim the pages. Language-content is like modern food. Excavated of nutrients, replaced by brand-cracker shards. There is no information. I am starved.
>>25015694Make your world smaller
>>25015530Funny you should say that because all languages with a long and influential writing tradition like Russian, English, Chinese, Japanese, French produce millions of useless books.The only exception to the rule is Greek.
>>25015694Why do you care about any of that? Shit's fucked, it's not personal, I just chill and do the things I enjoy. Remember, the world is cruel and arbitrary, but consistent.
inb4 mub da mo bidda te dat tum muhfugen bix nood cof bin dub ho muhfugga nigga nigga
>>25015725bro i was about to type that wtf
>>25015725>>25015737you guys have been reading my diary desu
Is there any point in keeping physical dictionaries?
>>25015832>that moment of subvocalisation between unitary and unite's IPA rendering Yes, it's full of surprises
>>25015703At what time scale? You are just saying things. And anyway, you seem like you read for the prestige. "This language isn't deep, it doesn't have a long tradition to make you look like a great and erudite man, Britannica's Great Books of the Western World doesn't include them!" Your scholarly eyes won't be grazing those unworthy pages, that's for true.But I guess you are right.
I look at credit reports every day. It's interesting to see who works where and how much money they have.
>>25015832in a post modern world it is dangerous to have one, specially if the dictionary have a name of a roman emperor, marcus aurelius for example, on a masonic semitic society where it's brown centric, worlds will change their meaning, like Cervidae/Cervus, it went from making servs/serfs brown semites slaves to be imposed on white european as slavs/serbs...so the origin of the name trans-racially mutated to adapt to semitic centric world view where a dead arab killed by some turks dictates the chronological order of our time. A dictionary is too dangerous to possess, you're porbably going to be assassinated.
>>25015597The money for the writers, directors, actors, and assorted other professional contributors need to be paid somehow. Support the arts, anon. I bet you see nothing wrong with pirating books from a living contemporary writer too. It's not my style.
There arent gnomes living in my wallsThere arent gnomes living in my walls
On the bus earlier, when I put down my copy of Murakami's Killing Commendatore so I could put on my jacket as my stop was coming up, an older lady got up from her seat to look at the book, and said,>That looks like a really good book!And out of instinct and politeness, I said,>Oh it iswith a smile. She replied with a thanks and got on her phone, I believe to look up the book and perhaps even order it to read herself.I bring up this story because ever since it happened, I've been feeling a bit guilty because while the novel is alright, I imagine it might be dull and aimless for someone not familiar with Murakami's work, and I wish I had said something like,>It's alright, but not as good as his earlier stuff. Kafka on the Shore, now that you should read! :)Now I have all this guilt and anxiety in fear that after she reads the first hundred or so pages of Killing Commendatore, she'll swear it and Murakami off for good, and I'll be to blame. Sigh.
>>25015910Good thing you don't have those vent dwelling rape goblins that wall gnomes attract, then you could really be in trouble
I am a primordial couch potato demon. People keep coming into my lair with their priests and warriors, trying to burn me for my heresy, and I'm mostly confused by it. Why? I dont go anywhere. They could never defeat me. I mostly want to ramble about whatever autistic thing I'm obsessed with at a given time, but no, they strut up all fire and brimstone talking about cleansing my blight from this realm, then they're surprised when my giblets coalesce despite their efforts, I reform unbothered, and turn some guy into a fleshy mass that feels only pain with a disinterested sigh.I'm a good guy. Or at least a neutral guy. Why provoke the terrifying chilling behemoth with powers beyond the conception of this mortal realm? Bring me a snack. Ask me to solve a problem. Don't walk in, unload a deluge of ammunition at me, then complain about what I do to your comrades. I get it, humans hate the sort of thing that I am, but it's not like they can do anything about it.
>>25015899You are going to be so fucking butt lasted when you realise there's a famous art and culture dictionary which is basically how to read tradcath lore in pics you could have wrangled in there
>>25015982Same, but you're approaching Nietzsche levels of using the bible as your stylistic influence, which is more than me, so I don't think you qualify
>>25015991I think you replied to the wrong guy. The Bible? I guess, but when is there a monster obsessed with Darkstalkers or Deep Sea Fish or whatever that just does not care about being fought?
>>25015902You would have a point if those arts werent degenerate, leading to further moral decay of our society.Its bad enough you spend your time on them, let alone pay for it.Tsk tsk. Aint no point in speaking to people like you, or to people in general. I should focus on myself, and let people run in circles on their own. The climb. The ascension towards greater greatness. That should be my goal. That is where I should dedicate every ounce of energy. Enough of these charades. I am better than this...
>>25015991The bible is just a book. And regardless, the devil would likely quote from it freely if he actually existed. The priests only said demons were scared of Christian symbolism to impress into stupid peasants the idea that God is powerful and that they should pray to it over whatever else they may consider praying to, like demons or Pagan gods. (And of course pay the subsequent taxes, concede them their well deserved privileges etc, etc).
>>25016030The bible is a good book, at that. An extremely diverse compendium with a lot of literary merit.
>>25015662I would turn $100K into $10M
Thoughts. What another universe to be present in. One is mindful of what's before him, or one can be mindful of the thoughts that come and go in the brain. I find this thread interesting since I don't see many of these around. The structuralist existence. The structuralist existence. The structuralist existence. No matter where I go, power will always be talked about. Politics is unavoidable unless I hunt alone out in an isolated jungle.Existence. What a thing to be in. It was never requested of me. How interesting it is to be brought into existence without my requesting. How could I have a will when there was no "I"? If "I" existed in some way, to have that ability of "will", what would the choice have been? To be born into nature, or to not be born into nature. Existence then is random.
>>25016030>the devil would likely quote from it freely if he actually existedOkay Merchant of Venice is a good place to tone it back to I think you'll like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-cAc1AwfAwEven its url has tantalising repetitions of what you said
>>25016042Why do people always pick out the Jungle for their examples. Jungles aren't very uninhabited, most of the time. They are teeming with humans.The Taiga? Now we are talking.
>>25016041You can make it $36M by converting it to the Zimbabwean Dollar.
>>25016042That's nice. The issue isn't discussing politics, it's impotently discussing politics across fidelity that's the issue.You can't hunt in the jungle. A Jaguar would hunt you. A toothpick fish would swim up your urethra. A leech would latch onto you. You'd brush against a death frog, and die a hilariously pitiful death in an instant. This is the issue, you think you're the hunter, but there are strata to these games, predator and prey adapted to the setting, and those with ordinal magnitudes of superiority really don't care about the opinions of someone from another environment.Power, politics, the nature of being; eternal conversation topics. Just because you don't remember choosing to exist doesnt mean you never have, and the fact you continue to exist is proof enough. What exists, how do you prove it, does it matter; eternal questions. But the fact you can read what I'm saying with some level of coherence proves some form of existence, and being cannot be uncreated.
>>25016054Thanks for the idea.
It this point there's nothing left to do but enjoy video games, books and movies while waiting for Kalki to remake everything.
>>25015987Hmm... it would be interesting to s33 an art made dictionary about brownoid arabs, how the contrast of the ocher coloration of an old papypro would be in relations of the brown coloration of the poop colored arabs of such tales... must be interesting at least s33ing so much scales of brown coloration, if anything that would be the first pantone based only on poop related colors.
Aww man the creator of Dilbert died :/
>>25015457Yeah same here man. There's been no snow in Vancouver all season, so far. It's 11 fuckin degrees outside right now.
>>25016158>Vancouver
>>25016183Yes saar I am from Vancouver saar!
The board is in an absolute state right now.
>>25015235reached the chapter where Frollo talks about how he denies the entire concept of medicine and astrology, and how he only believes in God, alchemy, gold and gunpowder.And if he had infinite gold he'd use it to seize all the thrones in the world.He's just like me fr fr.
I think my level of nigger hate is maxed out. I am growing concerned over how much I hate niggers, not because it's racist to hate niggers (don't even pretend anyone doesn't hate niggers) but because I never thought I could effectively store this much nigger hate within me. In the landscape of my soul, my hatred for niggers is an impossible mountain reaching high into the stratosphere. Only I can witness this behemoth and it's magnificent and beautiful, the sheer height of my hatred for brown people is something divine, like the hatred for niggers has been imbued to me by something much greater than human, like God himself carved within the fibers of my DNA the utter fucking hatred for niggers that I feel, burning brighter and fiercer than the blue stars in the void of the heavens
>>25016332
im on my period :(
>>25015235Why have women co opted reading.
>>25016422Shhh, you know if enough people bitch about the books women read, men's niches will be ruined, right?
>>25016422Jews. The answer is always jews. If you want to destroy culture and society, just put women in charge.
>>25016422Women were always the ones driving books sales. Women just fucking love killing trees. They're the reason why there's still physical magazines for nonautists, and why stationers barely blinked at the death of newspapers. Women will buy paper which doesn't even have words on it, and then never put words on it because the paper is "too nice" and nothing in life has been "important enough" to write down on it yet. They will write theses on their own internal neuroses until they have full manuscripted tomes equal to 20% of their body weight, and reduce them to ashes in a bizarre ritual bonfire. Have you noticed how they always have six pens, for different kinds of dead tree and its easy use? How they sponsor all genre fiction from the ground up, and volunteer for the ARC, and still buy the final copy in paper and hardback to feel fully part of the process? Women really fucking hate trees.
Older, sicker, less productive No chance of escape
I just made an LLM, unprompted, use a symbolic Unicode signifier to describe something. Peak postmodernism. Like sub 1 in 10 million instances. Outside of asking directly, I don't think it's possible to reproduce. This isn't a hallucination, or getting glossed, I made a literalism machine output symbolic logic unintentionally.Why did I win the retard lottery instead of the real one?
I got really drunk on saturday night and basically confessed my love to a girl I've been friends with for a few months. We haven't spoken since. I can't help but feel like I majorly fucked up and ruined everything. What can I do?
>>25016497Move on. Don't take it personal. You have burnt that bridge; accept it. Women hate that shit because they're incapable of understanding limited mate selection, and the fact that no man is friends with a woman without having a woman.
>>25016507I'm not sure if I can move on
monte cristo is trending on twitter so i adjusted my goodreads rating from 4 down to 3 out of contarian spite :)
>>25016534That will show them
>>25016524Did you see a tiddy? Did you get to wrap your arms around her, clasp your hands at the small of her back, pull her close, and look down as she stares up at you with big saucer eyes like you're the only person in the world? Did you share a succulent Chinese meal on a park bench at 10pm while you threw rocks into a creek and made fun of something for some stupid reason, basking in each other's laughter as she leans into your chest and you hold her shoulders with one hand while looking into the distance? Did you ever fight about something stupid and frustrating while she threw shit and you rubbed your temples with your thumb and index finger before she apologized, teary eyed, and confessed that she's glad to have you because some things are too big to handle alone?No? You can move on in like a week.
"but to see an object distinctly, and to perceive its bounds, is one and the same thing. A clear idea is therefore another name for a little idea."Edmund Burke, Of the Sublime and The BeautifulFeels good when you see small ideas that you've had being echoed while reading. Everything seems grand when misunderstood, or not yet learned, hence why the world still seems so vast to idiots, and idiots seek to remain in the vast by remaining vague in their comprehension. Stupidity likes to summon vastness and the sublime effect of fear and authority it invokes, noble souls on the contrary seem grand everywhere they go, grander than everything that surrounds them, because through understanding they've made everything else very little, very manipulable, the world remains their toy, as it is to the child.
Just did my second Seg funds mock exam and I got 91%! I think I'm about good to go w/ the exam proper. I'll review the q's I got wrong and read the corresponding chapter segments and then I'll do the exam, probably tomorrow. Wish me luck frens!!
The darkest part of winter has passed and the crows are out playing again. Hovering in place facing the wind from the sea. Doing flips for no reason. Picking at the corpses that didn't make it.
I can't seem to get my life together and I'm constantly drowning in bullshit chores my parents send me on and media. I've actively told people to stop buying me stuff for bdays and xmas because I don't see any way for me to get ahead of it, but they all just ignore me and it stresses me out.
>>25016158Hello, fellow Vancouverite. Meet me at the Rio just before midnight so we can watch yet another screening of some retarded Indian film no one's ever heard of.
first worlders like black latex catsuits because they look like oil, and oil is power.
>>25017004Just figure out what you want to keep and discard the rest. You don't owe them any show of gratitude. Prune your garden.
Got a package in the mail today. Haven't opened it yet cause I'm savouring it but I'm pretty sure I know what it is.
No plans for my birthday this year. No friends or anything. Just dinner with me ma, that's it. I don't think I'm even getting any gifts this year. Kinda lame.
humiliation ritual
>>25017246That sounds nice. What's she making you?
>>25017259We're gonna go out for dinner.
>>25015902with most shit you can support artists without having to pay a subscription streaming service, but is there actually anything that can be done about tv shows? I guess you could pirate it and then buy official merch and a season box set when it/if comes out. Have no idea if it's even possible though when a show is an official 'netflix' show. I spend most of my money supporting artists but I'll never until my death pay for a subscription streaming service
>>25017261Awesome. I'm not a big birthday guy, I usually just have a few drinks, watch RoboCop and Akira then try to avoid it as much as possible. Last year I knocked 3 feet of snow off my roof.
>>25017282>AkiraFucking based! Never seen RoboCop tb h. I should fix that soon.
>>25017283I don't want to over hype it, but I will say it has great special effects. Absolutely worth a watch. Do not watch the remake. RoboCop 2 is acceptable. There are no other movies worth considering.
Nix what I said about not getting any gifts. I came across a copy of picrel on Amazon and my mum gave me some money to buy it, as well as a copy of Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies.
Fucking amazing how every door I find is always fucking shut in my face. Just one goddamn thing would be nice, fucking anything to work with. Every door, every single one like clockwork. Haha thought this one was open? Nope, sucker! Back in the hall and try again! Come on idiot, grab a doorknob, open it, simple enough. Nope, get fucked! Try again! Fucking lukewarm life is what it is. The good is never good enough the bad is never bad enough. Nope, always just short of the silver lining. Worst of both worlds always, keep hopping between. Come on, hop! Selfish enough to want but not selfish enough to pay the price. But come on now who are you lying to? It’s not a lack of selfishness that stops you, no you’ve got plenty of that. It’s cowardice. You’re a fucking coward, scared of your own guilt. Scared to be selfish. Can’t even let go of your thoughts and you’re going summon enough strength of will to drop everything else? Give me a fucking break. You’re a coward running on autopilot following an ideology you don’t even believe in. You believe one thing and do another. You lie to yourself and to everyone around you, and make yourself feel good and pitiable by noble sacrifice. What sacrifice? What the hell have you ever done for anyone? Sacrifice! Wannabe martyr complex idiot, you’ve never given up anything because you’ve never truly wanted anything enough for it to be called a sacrifice. Coward. You’re not selfish, selfishness is noble compared to what you are. At least it’s consistent, at least it has ambition and strength. Any “sacrifice” you’ve ever made was base wormlike self-preservation. No, not nobility, not even selfishness, which at least is a human quality. Base animal instinct is what drives you, coward. Hide from the cold, hide from the heat, do anything to be comfortable worm. Nope, you are a liar and a hypocrite. You go around calling them hypocrites and here you are hypocrite hiding your own hypocrisy.
>>25017339Hells yeah. I told you things would be great, glad they worked out. Enjoy your weird fap.
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>>25016158It doesn't go below 18 Degress, here. It rarely dips under twenty. But that's because I live in the tropics, and the coasts, at that. It's funny how mismatched our experiences are, despite using equivalent language.I really needed that winter cool.My father actually has many friends from Vancouver, for whatever reason. Guess BCites like a cheap visit to the tropics as much as the Quebecois do.
>>25017434Build your own door faggot.
>>25017339https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZ_RDk_pL4
>>25015235Turned 26 today. It's beyond over (unironically btw)
hey I random history anecdote on reddit got 500 upvotes :3
>>25017475So long as you're in your 20s you're fine.
>>25017495Kill yourself immediately
I miss you.
I bought my mom an mp3 player for Christmas and right now I'm putting music on it.
Yo, wtf, just got a Windows notification I'm low on free disc space, let's check... 55MB!? How did this happen? Let's run CCleaner real quick and... phew, it freed up 4GB. So no need to delete anything quite yet.
>>25017525That's sweet of you. She doesn't have a smartphone? Or just needs that much space for music? Or she's doing an "internet free at times" thing?
>>25017530She wanted something simple to go on walks with.
>>25017534So the internet free thing. Nice. Smart of her and nice gift on your end.
>The last performance [of his oratorio The Creation] Haydn attended was on March 27, 1808, just a year before he died: the aged and ill Haydn was carried in with great honour on an armchair. According to one account, the audience broke into spontaneous applause at the coming of "light" and Haydn, in a typical gesture, weakly pointed upwards and said: "Not from me—everything comes from up there!"based pious papa Haydn
On President James Madison's final words:>"Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear." It was his response when one of his nieces asked him "What is the matter?"I don't get it. I prefer the other often claimed version of,>"I always talk better lying down"Now that's my kind of guy.
Have people always been so cavalier about death? Or is this just a function of the internet and polarization?The reactions to Charlie Kirk, Renee Good, and now Scott Adams are honestly baffling to me. Good has an entire media machine backed by the president to slander her. As for the other two, I had my teeth knocked out of my head at 17 for holding hands with another guy and I can't muster up any hatred for Adams or Kirk even though they probably wouldn't have liked me very much. I see them die and I say "damn that sucks". Its not even that I think these topics are off limit for humor, but the amount of genuine vitriol towards these three is crazy.
>>25017577Polarization -> dehumanization. It's WW2 propaganda of the enemy writ large. In the same way your grandparents wouldn't blink at the mass slaughter of some Japs and Commies, it's the same here.
>>25017578Damn. Scary times. The sentiment I keep seeing is that the world gets better when these people die, but I would think that the world gets better when decent people build and make it better. Can’t imagine cancer killing some cartoonist improves anyone’s lot in life.
My purpose in life is to be a footstool. I was born to be a mundane object which serves to bring others up without accomplishing anything for itself. This pains me as I once dreamed of being the one to accomplish some great deed; I am forced to recognize that such things are not for me and my life is to be spent being useful, but not of interest to anyone. Who notices an individual step on a staircase?
Girls in 3rd world countries really like to play with you in MMOs.
>>25017666Don't sell yourself short, anon. The guy the guy counts on, or even the guy that guy counts on, is still very important.
A great book is a great evil.
>>25017721I prefer,>A thing of beauty is a joy forever
I cleared the cache and cookies on my browser and now it's making me enter three captchas for every post, so lame. When does it revert to one!?
Young, attractive white girls are the most powerful and valuable resource in the world.
>>25017857Yeah but they're very hard to ship
Weird thought, but has anyone here conceived of depression as a teleological force before? As in, imagine depression as the ultimate coercive force for people who are meant to play an important role in the world somehow but will likely run from their destiny if they have the choice because it's so damn difficult. The function of depression is literally to narrow down all possibilities in the world for a person until there's only a single avenue open for happiness, and then to continuously hold down the thumb on this reality until the depressed person is forced to continue down this path, like a drowning man surfacing for air. Very often the great figures of history had no choice because the moment they eased up, they'd be plunged into a near suicidal depression.
>>25017939I hadn't before but I'm stealing the idea now. Depression as a tool of God to direct fate.
Where should I start with Kerouac?
I'm not a health freak, I like my Taco Bell slop from time to time (once a month maybe?) but I'm having trouble with my mother in law and wife feeding my 1 year 3 month old slop.The wife is usually good with it but the mother in law is fat, and she likes to feed my kid slop.This week my wife had to pick up her mom from work twice and both times they went on to eat at McDonalds and KFC.I've recently been watching Bryan Johnson describe what's actually in that food and it worries me.Like I said I'm no health freak, but a kid under the age of 5 really has no business eating that trash, maybe I'd make an exception on his birthday but other than that no. It's not even the calories or sugar but how processed it is and the E-numbers.The excuse from my wife was she's tired (she's 33 weeks pregnant) and her other options were further away. Not good enough for me, you can get cheap shit anywhere else.
>>25017946>>25017946..really? with On The Road.
>>25017939Very commendable insight, I agree in entirety. It takes a great concentration of self-reflection and meta awareness to understand this about oneself, if any man came to this same conclusion by way of similar means as I then I both pity and respect him. I find a sort of inverted siren call in that immolatory black mass, once I do narrow down - always through great frustration, failure and painful mistakes in my life - and determine it’s origin, whereby always and invariably lies one’s own purpose, bleeding and panting on the spear-tip of teleology as you so accurately term it. The real question is what best course of action shall follow such awareness of it, how to best reconcile that harmonic call of classical greatness and the primal rhythms of an opiate doom summoning one against his better sentiments and volitions into some truly terrifying ends. I term it so the “Dark Contention” within me, that constant conflict between intuited knowing and functional duty, it has plagued me for a year now, I am paralysed. I have been chasing ghosts all my life, I must decide whether to abandon them - and perhaps my own truest self - and live thus in obscurity and shame, or continue chasing them - even into my own death. Your comment strikes at the heart of my journey in the final year of college where I realised this and dropped out, now 22 in the army and inching ever closer to that dreadful concave.I am impressed with your findings, I’ve rarely seen another think the same way.
>>25017577It's nothing new. But you can say it's relatively new for "civilized peoples" to be doing this. Except not really, because the second world war was just this kind of dehumanization writ large, emerging from the most "civilized" and advanced nations known to man. As soon as the average person starts getting a little bit uncomfortable, they're more than happy to grab their pitchforks and call for the death of randoms. I'm not a big history guy, but I'm sure some random commentator on the French revolution sometime got it right, like...>From the civilized aristocratic European perspective, it doesn't matter if you're starving or what, killing your nobles is just not something you do. If "civilized" means anything, it means that we have inviolable standards, blah blah blah blah....All meaningful "inviolable standards" disappeared from our society about 100 years ago. I mean, people still get mad, but that's all it is.
>fucked up my i-ching reading today>now yi is mad at me and I'm confusedSasuga.
