Yet another Lavren Mayberry edition...Old >>25036567
>>25040847I think OP should open his horizons to better tastes.
>>25040847Lust provoking image
There's a party in my pants and Lavren is the special guest.
after every party I diehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90c1Skak7_o
>>25040847i think she's pretty but not pretty enough for me to put up with the endless diatribes on "rights" and "justice" and all the other shit she hears from whatever or whoever cut those bangs.
damn reign energy drinks are now $30 for a 12 pack, what brand should i switch to instead?
I just got laid off. I have a fair bit of runway, so not super worried, but the job market's bad right now. They gave me a month's severance so that's nice. Going to take about a week to read and then get on the hunt. Gonna get snowed in this weekend. Couldn't find any flashlights in the store, so went with a bunch of unscented candles + cans of soup. Need to put sheets on my bed. GF just got her wisdom teeth out, so I'm bringing her soup and ice cream. Seems like contemporary US fiction's in two main camps -- the first is mainstream identitarian trauma plot stuff, books titled shit like "The Littlest Husband's Brother" or "Big Bright World," which prioritizes 'poetic' prose, long investigations of marginalized identity, straight realism or a kind of airy realism sprinkled with strange coincidences, etc. The second general kind of fiction is this self-consciously strange, flat-affect, long studies of alienation, titled shit like "Dark Retroflex" or "Facets and Strife," which draws heavily on critical theory and tries postmoderny-flavored commentary on society. I think of the second as almost post-Lishian in this weird way -- the "sentence" as aesthetic unit deemphazied in favor of the complete, the whole as the aesthetic object presented for consideration -- but haven't super thought that out yet. (Still waiting on someone to write the long book on Lish's acolytes/influence. Lots to discuss there.) Maybe I'll catch up on poetry. I'm about ~10 years out of date there. Still got a lot of classic shit to read -- War and Peace, Genji, some Balzac, Chekhov's stories, Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Kafka -- alongside some modern/contemp classics, like Joy Williams, Pynchon, Deborah Eisenberg, Lydia Davis, Clarice Lispector. So not sure what I'll do. Right now I'm trying to finish Garielle Lutz's complete stories. I think /lit/ would like her. Used to write under Gary Lutz, think it's a tranny situation. (I don't really care about trannies. If they can write they can write.) Hope /lit/ is doing well. Been fantasizing about fucking picrel from The Pitt.
>>25040895white monster, classics are classics for a reason
MIGHT AS WELL FACE ITYOU'RE ADDICTED TO LOVE
>>25040847I sometimes think I wouldn’t be the way I am if I’d had a sister like Elisabeth.
>>25040847OH JOHN,KEEP US SAFE!HE'S GONNA MARCH US RIGHT THOUGH EDEN'S GATE,OH LORD!HE'S GONNA MARCH US RIGHT THROUGH EDEN'S GATE!COME ELDERS AND COME CHILDREN,COME WISDOM AND COME FIRE!YOU GOTTA SEE HOW STRONG YOU'LL BE,WHEN YOU ARE FREE OF ALL DESIRE!OUR COUNTRY MADE A PROMISE,BUT YOU CANNOT TRUST A LIAR!SO GRAB A BOOK,AND CAST INTO THE PYRE!OH JOHN,BOLD AND BRAVE!HE'S FINDING US A FAMILY,HE'S TEACHING US THE WAY!OH JOHN,KEEP US SAFE!HE'S GONNA MARCH US RIGHT RHOUGH EDEN'S GATE!OH LORD!HE'S GONNA MARCH US RIGHT THROUGH EDEN'S GATE!
My birthday was a few days ago right. My sister asked me, "Do you feel older?" Like NO BITCH. I'm not gonna feel older just cause another day has passed.
>>25040931Should have said "I'm officially old when you don't give me a boner anymore." just to disgust her for that insult.
Pork chops and sour cream
>>25040935please dont talk to me ever again
>>25040941hahaha you've got a fat sister fatty fatty boom boom
>>25040948You sound like my friends.
I hate OP, I hate how quickly he makes these threads before they even fall to the bottom of the catalog after bump limit, I hate his retarded fixation on this same random harlot with nothing to do with literature. I hate OP
>>25040847Holy shit how hard can tracking down a reference be??? It's a book written by a president, it's extremely well known. How come I have sift through a million stupid scans just to find it.After I find it I'm fucking stealing the specific section and putting it in a Blog just so no one has to go through this stupid shit.
>>25041003This general has nothing to do with literature treat the disease not the symptom
>>25041002my condolences
>>25041008In fairness, it's not a particularly famous president. And the country he presided over isn't exactly important either. But I'm commited to reading the source in the original language.
>>25041003Kek she do be a harlot doe.
>>25041017Surely, the article by Trujillo will be better preserved, I hope.
Today whilst out and aboot I asked to bum a cigarette from an old Chinese man and he gave me one of those menthol cigs w/ the crush (IYKYK). Haven't had one of those in years. It was cherry-flavoured.
>>25040847RAPE RAPE RAPE
My Dad kinda fucked me, he lent me a very damaged 1st edition copy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever Book One and the cover fell off. Now he's pissed at me and I was wondering if there's an fairly good conditioned hardback book I could get of it. I googled around and I can't really find anything that's aesthetically pleasing and I don't want to buy the one with the phoned in picture of a ring cover.
>>25041087there are small businesses that do book restorations, anon. there may be one in your locality. this 'new' captcha fucking blows. fucking jews, jeets, and australians had to ruin it for the rest of us.
>>25041093I mean the book is ratty as hell, I don't think its worth the price to get the cover put back on for a paper back.
>>25041020Her legs are perfection
>>25041097Then tell him not to lend shit that can’t withstand minimal wear from normal usage
>>25041099He has early on-set dementia so he always remembers the books being in better condition than they are and despite having dementia he seems to have remembered this.It's not really going to stop me from finding a hardback replacement.
I been watching Tony Statovci streams and it makes me want a joint so fucking badI wish that shit was legal around here, it's such a pain in the ass to get some on a whim>>25040896>the "sentence" as aesthetic unit deemphazied in favor of the complete, the whole as the aesthetic object presented for considerationI hate "x as y" style sentences like this>War and Peace, Genji, some Balzac, Chekhov's stories, Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Kafkayou can cut this way down if you only read books written originally in english>If they can write they can write.I think unironically trannies have hella time to focus on the arts since they (usually) never have kids but it's a shame they then write explicitly LGBTQ+ stories. liek damn, why does your whole life have to be about gay rainbow shit?>>25041038I like the aesthetic of smoking but I do not enjoy smoking unless I'm HELLA, I mean HELLA drunk but them days are way behind me.>>25041087might be tuff but you could definitely argue that shit was gonna happen anyway. like, he lent you a damaged copy and now he's mad? c'mon bruh you know this isn't entirely justified.
>>25041098I agree!
>>25041105>might be tuff but you could definitely argue that shit was gonna happen anyway. like, he lent you a damaged copy and now he's mad? c'mon bruh you know this isn't entirely justified.I'll be amazed if he is around from a decade from now, astounded if he is around in 2 decades. I just know that this is something I'll regret once he is dead, even if he doesn't like or appreciate the replacement, I at least did something to alleviate the butthurt about it.
>>25041108blessed are the peacemakers i suppose
>>25040915I do wonder how having to deal with her husband who stands for everything you hate in the world would affect you.
>>25040847Speaking of, forcibly dragging Nietzsche to South America and having him tour the tropics would have enriched his writing immensely and I mourn that we missed this.
>>25041101Sorry. The ones I’m seeing are mostly rough and paperback. I did find a signed first edition of the hardcover with the ghost guy on it, but they want $200
>>25040847I feel metaphysically assured that AI will never be able to displace literature, however it represents an intensification of the tendency to swamp out and stymie original long term thought. Generative AI wants to swamp out all original thought in an effort to reinforce the status quo through sheer quantity. In that respect it is truly pernicious and metaphysically evil, but this reflects more the perfidious power structures behind it rather than the technology itself.
>>25040863this is all very ‘old 4chan’ energy
>>25041134It's 2013 in this bitch.
>>25041140noided
>>25041129Generative AI is an attact on subjecthood, it's an assault on the idea that truth or ideas can originate from a human subject. However it will eventually be revealed as a farce, except for in coding, coders will get fucked.
I fear that I will soon find out that spiritually I was a Frenchman all along. The will to smugness, the obsession with the sensual and the erotic, the opposition to that old teuton pasttime of creating and thinking in all-encompassing grand systems of thought...in all senses except physical, I might just be a frog.
Catberg just did a monstrous spinny.
>>25040915looks just like an ex of mine
Catberg just did another huge spinny lol
Falling from the sky: day 7
>>25040931you'd be surprised actually, a lot of people are insecure about that and fear they've wasted their lives. it's good if you're not though.>>25041003ninja him then
>>25041170Oh dude I have defo wasted a lot of my life, for sure.
>>25041003the OP role for this thread always seems to attract weird, jarring personalities.
>>25041184like they’re getting something out of it.
>>25041184>>25041185Meds.
a new role just opened up at my work that s fairly complex with a lot of responsibilities both technical and managerial and i spend the last week covering this stuff with my boss with the clear objective of eventually taking it over. if he gives that role to his gf or some other incompetent, i will not help them when they inevitably stink it up, instead i will quiet quit until i find another job.
I wish I'd have courage to kill myself but Im condemned to cowards life
>>25041204i wish i could sleep but i foolishly chugged a rockstar energy before bed and it didn't keep me awake but it gave me mad indigestion and i woke up after 45 minutes with bile
>>25041195just stating the facts here.
She's a reformed alcoholic former whore and I'm a whiny autist whose never had sex before. We're made for each other.
>>25041357*who'sI'm also a sub 100IQ retard.
>>25040847Inside the house's spacious corridor, sat on a leather armchair was seen a wasted man convulsed from hour to hour by a tenacious and deep cough. The medic, a european savant, administered him a soothing concoction, and two old soldiers, that in silence and melancholy paced around the lounge, dutifuly approached the corridor. Rather than a sick man,the matter was now of a dying man; a dying man of immortal renown.Having overcome a strong fit, the patient submerged himself in profound meditation, and some minutes later he said with a feeble voice:—Do you know, doctor, what torments me as I feel myself nearing the grave? —No, my General. —The idea that perhaps I may have built upon the sands and tilled the sea. And a sigh escaped from the most intimate corner of his soul, and he sank back into meditation.Having passed a long time, the saddest smile drew itself on his face, and said he slowly:—Do you not guess, doctor, who have been the world's three most eminent fools? —Certainly not, my General.—Come closer, doctor... I will whisper it to your ear... The three greatest fools have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and... me.
kind of lame that in order to be drunk you have to drink. sometimes it’s nice, if you’re with friends, but sometimes i wanna be drunk without having to down ten beers and be bloated or face the stronger stuff that burns your stomach and makes you feel like throwing up. that’s why coke is so good you do a line and a minute later you’re there.
>>25041387Coke is such a shit drug. Enjoy the levamisole, I guess.
>>25041442>a street drug is stepped onwtf call the police
>>25041387Just give yourself an alcohol enema
>>25041446this creates mustard gas
>>25041446not an enema kind of guy
Reading RainbowButterfly in the skyI can go twice as highTake a lookit's in a booka Reading RainbowI can go anywhereFriends to knowand ways to growand Reading RainbowsI can do anythingTake a lookIt's in a bookA Reading RainbowReading Rainbow
>>25041457damn it slap
It’s cool being awake during daylight hours.
>>25041457it’s weird you can say ‘butterfly’ on this board now without it meaning anything.
I really want to kill myself.
>>25041482so why don’t you do it?
This is a really big gross poop
>>25041483My family would be sad.
>>25041486ahh
>>25040847Get bored, go out for a drink, get drunk, spend all my money, regret it, repeat.
>>25041482Who is the "I" who wants the kill the "self"?
https://youtu.be/fbE4wBKgEmY
>>25041497it me.
I wonder what female desire feels like for women. For some reason I can't fathom women ever being able to fathom what male desire feels like. I know they are made of flesh and blood just like men are, but something in me can't imagine a woman ever being able to understand its sheer physical and mental intensity. Could a woman ever be driven to the precipice of insanity by lust like mentally weak men regularly are? Do they ever resent being perpetually hounded by this physical and mental hunger for the opposite sex? Do they know that aching knot-like sensation somewhere above their taint?
Greener pastures don't exist, but its the ceaseless striving for them that brings the contentment and satisfaction which eludes so many
>>25041516yes and i actually think it might be worse for girls
>>25041497>Get boredOk normal>go out for a drinkERRRRRRR record scratchyou fucked upwalk it back>get boredok normal>read a bookthis is /lit/ now
>>25040847I return from my four hour long training as a clerk at a local convenience store completely crushed, the grey weather only serving to heighten the still desolation I feel inside, the smell of cheap coffee and nicotine hanging on my clothes. I pitiful boy of 30, for I have no done anything in my life to yet deserve being called a man, and still this morsel is too much for me to swallow. I dare not spurt even this pathetic, measly, rotten branch for I have stayed from any work for some years now and I fear how deep the cave can go. Just four hours were enough to drive me nearly to mad tears and yet I'm supposed to accept I will be working eight long hour shifts five times in the week. Mortified is how I feel, there is no acceptance withing me, I lash and throw myself at the wall internally but still I know the wound will only grow bigger.
>>25041549reddit has entered the building
>>25041575>clerk at a local convenience storeWell somebody gotta stock the shelves for my retired neet assYou either pimpin' the system, or gettin' pimped by the system
>>25041549I haven't had the focus to read. The January blues are getting me down.
>>25041575let me tell you a secret. The older you get, the less fucks people give about what you struggle about. If you want people to care you need to uplift them with your words; even if you can not do it to yourself. If you can not do it, your wannabe noir detective in another life talk will amount to as much as a falling tree in an empty forest.
Hangovers make me borderline retarded. I can't focus on anything and have a general feeling of lethargy, yet can't sleep for a couple days after boozing. Want to kick it in but there's nothing to do socially round here and once I get started I can't stop.
>>25041621is there anything more pathetic than someone deleting a post on a anonymous board just because he lacked the ability to use grammar or thought he posted a 'spicy' take
>>25041630there were no grammatical errors i just realised i actually didn’t want to have that conversation. is that alright?
>>25041640>is that alright?No, its actually more pathetic I'm sorry but its a doggy dog out there and you gotta learn to be indifferent.The big dog doesnt care who hears him bark or who barks back. He wants to bark because it feels good. The big dawg gets the bone yaaaaaaaaaamean?
>>25041649have you been drinking?
>>25041657>have you been drinking?I actually don’t want to have that conversation. Is that alright?
“Man is something that becomes” is a statement that I’ve seen repeated now by multiple philosophers, and is to me one accurate characterization of the combat of philosophy: Man is and deserves VS Man is to become, and creates himself, and provides for himself, his becoming.
>>25041660you’re using it wrong
>>25041670>you’re using it wrongValue lies in the eyes of the beholderYour wrongs are my rights Your disdain for life itself is my joyor something idk >>25041675is there anything more pathetic than someone deleting a post on a anonymous board just because he lacked the ability to use grammar or thought he posted a 'spicy' takeMan u anons have been slacking lately.I stay away all week only to come back for my saturday Rnr and THIS is what I find??
>>25041685>Value lies in the eyes of the beholdernow you’re actually really using it wrongbeauty was the word. beauty eye beholder etc. not value. worlds apart.
>>25041718nvm i just clicked the gif and realised i’m talking to someone who ostensibly started posting here before it was actually about literature and has the /v/ (?) taste of being into lotr etc
>>25041718I could care less about common parlanceI make up my own idiomsJust like I follow my own path in life for all intensive purposes, I dont adhere to common scripts like a mindless automaton >>25041722My palette of taste exceeds your taste-buds, evidently
>>25041734evidently >for all intensive purposesvery funny.
sprite
>>25041752>very funny.Thank you :=)Well making a person smile was my objective for today so now I'm going to watch a movie or two, while enjoying some snacks (and maybe some sprite too as this guy who read my mind suggested >>25041754)Also this captcha is getting ridiculousIt better be gone when I return next saturday
>the germans wanted to genocide all eastern europeansjust like the british wanted to genocide all indians and africans, right?
>>25041760;)
Women are the definition of "great in theory but not in practice".
>>25041760Sometimes I wish I was fat too and this could be my day
>>25041773pretty sure women are only great in practice. never theory.
>>25041782I never feel fonder feelings for women than when they are not around.
>>25041791i wonder how literal you’re being with the word ‘never’. what about skin on skin? you still prefer them not being there?
You think if arabs could all shrink themselves down to a few mm tall they would do it? My sister keeps buying dubai chocolate crap for some reason. I was thinking if in a few years they really wanted to improve dubai chocolate they could invent shrinking technology to put little chefs on the chocolate and sculpt it at a micro level. If they closed off saudi arabia from outsiders and shrink everyone down to a few mm it would be the biggest country in the world relative to the size of the inhabitants, and they could sell bespoke microchocolates for way more money to discerning palates. What do you think?
How do people who live in really small towns with 0 job opportunities cope?
You ever get the feeling that you're better than everyone else?Of course you don't, you're not me!Hahaha
>>25040847All I want is to be a moderately popular furry tranny artistBut I can't draw well enough, I'm too lazy to improve, and worse still, my choice of subject matter consistently betrays the fact that I'm a boring, insipid pseud with nothing to say and no reason to create art.
I never felt a call towards any religion but that of the flesh.The platonic ideal of women is the only idea that ever inspired something resembling religious reverence and awe in me. Though fortunately I know better than to confuse the ideal with the real.Still, I have no need for intangible, otherworldly gods when there are women that I could love and be loved by here and now. It is them that mother Nature meant men to concern themselves with, not some abstract Unmoved Mover.
just got back from the gym in such a good mood now would be the perfect time to rope i'm not gonna obv just saying
Im tired of being a nice guy, I have poor all my life but I dont know quite why. I'm starting to lose my hair cause I worry, hustling to keep from getting buried.
I started zoloft today. The unskippable cutscenes in my brain over a breakup with my ex-fiancee started clocking too many hours per day. She browses here, but thankfully these threads move quickly. I'm nervous that without the obsessive and fast-moving pace of my thoughts, I will feel alien to myself--but I know if I really hate it enough then I can taper off. Unfortunately, I don't think I'd be able to finish my degree without the chemical help at this point (mathematics is literally 100% a mental discipline), so I'm sort of cucked into doing it, or at least trying it. Maybe I'm just worried over nothing. Bottoms up anons.
I'm so touch starved it's driving me insane. Got tired of jerking off to porn since it just tantalizes me with images of cute girls that I can't actually touch. Still do it but it feels like a chore.I kissed a girl one time ten years ago and that was it. These days I don't even get a hug from my sister when I visit home. I'm very ugly and have little opportunity to meet women and in the past I was fine with that but in the last couple years it's become unbearable.
>>25042061Let us know how it goes. Best of luck.
If you don't meditate and have some kind of spiritual awakening by 33, you will turn grey inside and become undead, just a corpse walking around, "supporting the economy" for younger people who can still see and feel in color. But younger people have no control over their technicolor emotions, and even their pineal glands are already 50% hardened since their early teens, which is when the world ceases to be a "blooming buzzing confusion" and ossifies into skeletal structures. At thirteen the world is still alive with color, at twenty three the colors are beginning to fade and die, at thirty three you are colorblind, unless you find the wheel and start to captain your own ship. The world is an engine that burns old people's sleepwalking work hours to pay for the play of the young. Northrop Frye says in volume 13 or so of Denham's edition of his papers that youth isn't more alive, it's just more volatile. The energy isn't contained so it spills out in all directions. As you age, it gets harnessed and directed. Instead of an ocean of potential energy doing nothing and only acting via brownian motion and erosion, it can focus its energy into a stream and go where it likes. But this is only true for people like Frye, who seriously studied gnosticism and yoga and created his own bootleg praxis for completing the process described in Enneads 1.6. Most people just turn the world into a machine whose levers they understand how to operate, by turning themselves into a machine for operating those levers. They turn energy into mass for creating a suit of armor to contain their energy, but it becomes an empty suit that "drives to work," works, and drives back. Even their pleasures are mechanical. Money from work buys parceled out bits of nostalgia, memories of when they still saw childish things in color. 99% of the human race is either a child fingerpainting while it still can, or an old man in a hospice, looking at his old fingerpaint drawings while a memory of a memory of once spontaneously wanting to fingerpaint slips through his fingers like sand. We've lost true adulthood, true manhood and womanhood. You can't remain a child and you can't mourn live in the tatters. "When I became a man, I put away childish things." True adulthood is meant to be a second youth, a new spring, not the mausoleum and winter of one's first youth. Every day should be filled with joy. Maturity shouldn't kill youth, it should challenge and negate it, and then this negation should in turn be negated in a higher synthesis.
>>25042085This is what escorts are for, anon. Don't feel ashamed, most of the writers /lit/ loves happily and freely indulged.
>>25042085> I'm very uglyJust go to a blindconvention and pretend youre blind. They are not going to know, unless their lying too so there is an untold honor code there. You can even pretend your hearing sense its supergood, almost akin to echolocation, to 'wow' the females I have done it before, and believe me buddy, blind people got some real lookers!
We are drowning in a muddled mess of contradicting definitions that seemingly shift in meaning ad hoc between statements and soundbytes and the grand majority of people have absolutely no idea of how to navigate it, Our common language is so broken down that we can barely communicate with each other.It's bizzare to me of how many people insist upon throwing themselves into nuanced political or philosophical discourse, attacking complex arguements, when it's more than clear that they don't have even understand either their own position or the argument of the person they claim to attack.
>>25042094>If you don't meditate and have some kind of spiritual awakening by 33, you will turn grey inside and become undeadInner light can always shine through the clouds of the ego at any time. I'll grant that overtime the clouds can propagate to seemingly insurmountable levels when left undisturbed, but I heavily disagree that such an awakening has such an arbitrary time-limit.And for that alone, I deem you a person devoid of worthwhile understanding. Revise your efforts if you want keener eyes to glance at the rest of your deluge of effort
>>25042120>what is Zhengming ayo Confucious called! Apparently you're stealing his bit!!
I'm finally into opera, I'm on my way to full patriciandom. I'm gonna make it, anons :)
>>25042337forgot now playinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IoBbouMsA0&list=OLAK5uy_lahKmlaqBGGc634zOukB1GnAU-qrJOlsI&index=8
>>25042340Maybe I'm showing how low class I am but this song was sang by a black lady? Or is this just a cover of the song?
>>25042166From what i've read so far the aim of the idea of Zhengming, in context, seems to be in establishing political legitimacy.I don't know enough about confuscianism to truly agree or disagree, so please feel free to correct me.To be fair I may not have gotten my point across all that well and so to clarify, what I am trying to ge across is that public discourse suffers when people use the same terms with different meanings or shift meanings mid argument. Pluralistic meanings do infact exist but in debates both participants should either explicitly define the terms being used during or acknowledge the fact of difference in sense and context to the defintions being used. Otherwise productive dialogue isn't really possible.
>>25042371The singer in that part/movement is the woman on the cover, Leontyne Price, yeah. Here's another part from the same recording with a white soprano/woman (+ male singing part)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ3yMvWE4j4&list=OLAK5uy_lahKmlaqBGGc634zOukB1GnAU-qrJOlsI&index=1>Or is this just a cover of the song?In a sense, all classical recordings are 'covers'. A different performance will have a different singer of the same piece.
>>25042371>>25042379forgot pic
>>25042371Nta and can only see the thumbnail because video unavailable, but it looks like it something from Carmen, which is about a gypsy lady who does a lot of smuggling set around a cigarette factory. Carmen gets race swapped a lot depending on the local minorities and opera fans so there's probably been a couple productions where she was black
>>25040847Is it bad that I feel sure she'd like me, given enough time? I'm pretty confident I could write her a song she'd want to perform, and, if she was single, go have a coffee and walk on a beach with me. (It's too bad she's so old now).
I wish I could fart out my penis on command like women do with their vaginas.
>>25042431Based
>>25042377>From what i've read so far the aim of the idea of Zhengming, in context, seems to be in establishing political legitimacy.Zhèngmíng (正名), or the "Rectification of Names." Literally means: correct (正) name (名). Zhengming in context is more that a gentlemen should speak right and do right, and thus his actions will slowly ripple out into society for the moral improvement of it. Confucius didnt have much faith in commoners should expected political rulers to lead the way with Zhengming, so you're partly right in that regardAnalects 13.3>Zilu asked, “If the Duke of Wei were to employ you to serve in the government of his state, what would be your first priority?”>The Master answered, “It would, of course, be the rectification of names.”>Zilu said, “Could you, Master, really be so far off the mark? Why worry about rectifying names?”>The Master replied, “How boorish you are, Zilu! When it comes to matters that he does not understand, the gentleman should remain silent.>“If names are not rectified, speech will not accord with reality; when speech does not accord with reality, things will not be successfully accomplished. When things are not successfully accomplished, ritual practice and music will fail to flourish; when ritual and music fail to flourish, punishments and penalties will miss the mark. And when punishments and penalties miss the mark, the common people will be at a loss as to what to do with themselves. This is why the gentleman only applies names that can be properly spoken and assures that what he says can be properly put into action. The gentleman simply guards against arbitrariness in his speech. That is all there is to it.”>To be fair I may not have gotten my point across all that well and so to clarify,Nah you did babe, dont worry. Its long known problem and I share your PoV. Pretty sure I remember Locke talking about it too in his essay concerning human understanding but shiet all this philosophy really is starting to blur together lol.The lack of a common tongue in society really is one of underlying reasons why democracy is a awful system as Plato remarked but I digress
>went out to the bars last night in the hopes of meeting a girl>got picked up by a dude instead
>>25040915zamnnnnn nietszche' got to fuck this growing up?????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ouiyjJ9LVU
I was far too scared to hit himbut I’d hit him in a heartbeat now.
she hated herself. her vile desperation smelled revolting, a smell so strong it repelled the good. oh daddy why aren't you there to protect me from these bad men, don't you want the best for your oldest daughter? don't you care? show me you care. yell at me. instead she was eating breakfast in a shitty diner at the edge of campus with a boy who was looking right through her, the only witness to bear an overweight waitress and the dwarf that worked at her local grocery store she made eye contact with at least once a week. he would frequently publicly masturbate on the bus with no one so much as batting an eye. people would see him jerking his deformed penis and feel pity instead of disgust. he lived alone with only the company of his sister, who had grown to resent him, he'd see once a week to clean his filthy apartment, and the rats that lived in his walls. he had experimented with different ways of torturing them. he only knew how to feel an extreme violence, everything else left him feeling numb. he would snap their necks and take out their organs to lay them flatly on his bedside table for decor. he touched himself with cold hands stinking of rat faeces to ejaculate. he hated the world despite having such a loose definition or conceptualization of what hate actually was. what he knew was nobody other than himself had touched him or would, and all he wanted was to be touched. don't confuse touch for love, he was a disgusting beast who would beat a woman into rape given the chance, his mind so simple he did not see sex as something to be experienced but taken. this wasn't his fault though. “I'm not much hungry anyways can we get out of here?”
>>25042500What were you wearing
>>25042592gucci down
there’s a really tall old guy at my work who always has the facial expression of genghis khan meditating a purge of his captains. i like him a lot. we were leaving yesterday and a young exec made a joke about him or something and he goes ‘shut up… scum.’
i wish i lived in america so i could just run into girls that do adderall 25/8.
>>25042484Rewrote my orginal reply because I went on a tangent.>Nah you did babe, dont worry. Its long known problem and I share your PoVWith further context given, I don't believe that we entirely do (assuming that you drawing from the or similar given conclusions as Confucius)I was talking more directly about semantics in the context of philosophical or political discourse and you seem to refering to normative ethics (as Confucius is from what I understand) with a sort of rhetorical defense of aristocratic hierarchy. Alhough I may just be misinterpreting your intentions.>The lack of a common tongue in society really is one of underlying reasons why democracy is a awful system as Plato remarked but I digressAgain, this seems to be rhetorical.
>>25041865by moving
>>25040847Been feeling quite defeated recently. Broken all the promises I made to myself at as last year ended, and have generally allowed myself to waste away, pursuing hedonism and lust. The New Year starts tomorrow for me. I am going to be stronger, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Wish me luck, lads.
I like things that aim upward: women when they are thin, because being thin points to the sky; music that aims upwards, and even best when it longs for upward; a life that goes upward; a soul that forever grows; attitudes and looks that aim upward, a far off look, and pride that makes one's head high; feeling the fresh air, closing my eyes and tilting my head up; what's good is unique, and singularly, that word, unique, is made of height, it stands high above all eternity, as life.
me on the right
>>25042709>I was talking more directly about semantics in the context of philosophical or political discourse>It's bizzare to me of how many people insist upon throwing themselves into nuanced political or philosophical discourse, attacking complex arguements, when it's more than clear that they don't have even understand either their own position or the argument of the person they claim to attack.I know. You immediately reminded me of Socrates complaining about the sophists twisting words in order to win their arguments, devoid of rigor or intellectual merit. Like Gorgias famously did in his defense of Helen.We are looking at the same problem, my mind merely wandered towards a solution hence my clear difference in perspective. Right speech comes from right intentions. You can not expect to have a honest conversation on a political or philosophical subject without both participants being infused with a moral outlook. Language is just guttural sound we attached meaning to, words and definitions mean nothing in isolation. It is only when people decide to play the language game, as Wittgenstein called it, with sincere intention, that progress can be made. No amount of analytical philosophy, semantic rigor or agreed upon framework of definitions help, if the participants goal is the 'win' the game of rhetoric, through tricks and semantic loopholes. The game of language is a teamgame, meant to played cooperatively, and nothing will be achieved if everybody is playing solo trying. Hence a moral foundation is essential, I would argue. Knowledge and behavior trickles down in society, so if those at the top decided to play fairly then they are more likely to inspire others to do same is all I'm suggesting. But it is not essential. There are many roads to the appreciation of Truth, and I sure didnt need no aristocratic hierarchy to find mine.>Again, this seems to be rhetorical.Perchance, mayhaps, it depends what way you are looking at it ;)Semantics? More like (((semitic))) antics am I right? :^)
>>25042903a saturday night post if i’ve ever seen one
>>25041549God bless.
>>25042580https://vocaroo.com/1iDJJIxI1AdQ
Gou Tanabe, famous manga artist best known for his Lovecraft adaptations, really, REALLY needs to do The Dunwich Horror.
>>25042943It's LIFE AFFIRMING SATURDAY MFERShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwspCq8f_v0https://youtu.be/OFrvCmGRkUM?t=160https://youtu.be/njkx8jttPvYhttps://youtu.be/0UBgYLjTERshttps://youtu.be/kNqXvcVmyw8https://youtu.be/oV7RcRLnwKk
>>25042965>Gou Tanabegimme the name of his best work, if you please
>>25042976Read his take on At the Mountains of Madness. The illustrations are sick.
>>25042981>At the Mountains of MadnessUwU? If you let me down i'll haunt you, just by the by xD
>>25042995Yeah mate, read that. It's good.
I like the idea of having a full bookshelf because I want my future kids to have a full range of options when the training wheels come off
i'm watching a ufc for the first time in ages, man it's so boring. no wonder they stopped doing these as ppv. actually competing in combat sports is some of the most fun shit, but watching mma is just dull. some big fat hw just slipped and fell and the other guy basically just walked around his legs and took side control and punched his ear until the ref called it. that was supposed to be exciting since it was actually a knockout unlike all the other boring ass fights on this card, but it was zero skill zero athleticism.
Evens: I read a movieOdds: I watch a book
I always knew that, eventually, my father would die, but it's been more than 3 weeks, and I still can't believe he's gone.Sometimes I forget he's dead, and want to talk to him, only to remember what happened, and feel miserable again. I miss him so much. Even we were somewhat close, I feel guilty for not spending more time with him, or because I couldn't help him. He committed suicide. I think I know what led him to do it. He had been unemployed for a while, was getting sick and old, and once told me, a couple days before, that he felt like a burden to the family. I tried to help him find a job, and told him that he wasn't a burden to any of us, but he wouldn't listen. I never saw him cry, and was rarely visibly sad, but lately, during these last few months, he drank heavily, more than he did before, and did nothing but watch TV all day. Whenever I asked if there was something wrong, he would just joke, or avoid the topic. Wish I could have done more.
>>25043155What book are you going to watch?
Looks like I'll have to sit at home all day tomorrow and "read" because of this "winter storm"
>>25043180my work got cancelled monday lol i got three day weekend now i'm hoping it's just rain or sth
>>25043144For some reason I don't think I'll be in possession of my books once I have a family.
>>25042500do you have long hair and he was inebrated or...?
I don't think blacks are capable of mentally moving on from the fact that White men enslaved their ancestors; the taught social climate of black people being the natural pray of Whites hasn't helped. Just a profoundly underdeveloped and conditioned group that has no place in civilized society. Thankfully people seem to be waking up!
>>25043224there are a billion native africans that don't have enslaved ancestors, anyone can move on from anything with enough time. racists are just fucking toddlers who look at the span of a few generations and think that black americans should have already recovered from being chattel slaves just 150 years ago.
>>25043240I'm referring to African Americans. With African emigrants to America, there's a good chance that their home country was colonized by Europeans, but even if not, naturally all blacks are going to be affected by what happened. >racists are just fucking toddlersDon't spike your cortisol. 'Racists' simply don't ignore basic biological science and are aware that there are innate differences between races of humans. These ideas are mainstream now so getting worked up is pointless.>anyone can move on from anything with enough time.>black americans should have already recovered from being chattel slaves just 150 years ago.Lol
>>25043240>there are a billion native africans that don't have enslaved ancestorsUhhhhh.... Whose gonna tell him....?
>>25043253you don't give a shit about science and will never learn what the science actually shows. fuck off back to /pol/
I wish women were more intelligent. Every time I grow intimate with a woman I make much more of her mind than the evidence warrants and then gradually have my heart crushed at realizing our beings can never touch the same way as our bodies.
>>25043224Don't you rather think that whites dislike being around blacks because they feel like sheep among wolves? The loud music in public is like a sort of howling at the moon
>>25043301whites don't like being around blacks because if whites acted like blacks did towards other blacks they would end up in jail for 30 years for "racial hatred" while a black man who targets whites gets at least 4 years, if they are punished at all, and then are allowed out to continue preying upon the population.
>>25043291So fucking whiny.>>25043301Yes actually, but in my original comment I more so meant the continued messaging of 'systemic racism'; that Whites are a natural risk to them and always looking to put blacks down, whether it be psychically or mentally, has led them to feel vengeful and emboldened to random acts of violence
>>25043208idk not really? its down to my neckhe definitely did not mistake me for a chick either
>>25043324>psychically or mentally**physically or mentally, fuck phoneposting
Art that is not a source of some sort of intellectual and aesthetic pleasure is art not worth caring about.
I don't understand how any amount of hoarding is seen negatively. I don't mean the type of home where a senior waits for death among piles of garbage, rotten food, and dead animals. But I've always dreamed of living in a home with a giant bookshelf, old electronics, instruments, and random art pieces, clean and organized of course. Maybe it's because my mom hates clutter so every place I lived in so far has been very minimalist.
>>25043168I jumped between chapters of a French novel, a film analysis textbook, and Poe's full poetical works. Now I'm going to read one of Plato's dialogues. Wish me luck.
>>25043388can’t imagine a worse afternoon. what was the film book (dare i ask)?
>>25041486And meI would be sad too :(
Sometimes at the end of the day I just look at my life and think, jesus christ, I can't believe this is my life, I can't believe this situation is my daily life
>>25040931Hello!! Happy belated birthday :DI'm new on this website and maaaan everybody's so conkers (just like in the youtube essays!!!). Anyways, manifesting for you that you can forget all these rancid replies and be joyous. Good night!
>>25043427because it is good or bad?
>>25043443not good
Anyone else 30+ and stuck in a dead end minimal wage job? How you holding up?
>>25043394How about I imagine a worse afternoon for you. It involves me sodomizing you with a red-hot iron poker. Film Analysis: A Norton Reader
>>25043475got fired not long ago, feels free mang
>>25043476>Film Analysis: A Norton Readerfuckinell just give me the poker. i was thinking it might’ve been andre bazin or something.
>>25040847Having a centralized language authority is actually awesome. I don't understand why you Anglophones refuse to make one.
>>25043490It's a mixed bag. Movies like Citizen Kane or Rashomon really lend themselves to analysis but when it comes to Un Chien Andalou or Meshes of the Afternoon you can tell the writer is just throwing bullshit together.Je lirai Bazin.
Why do some british people look like they are melting, as if they were ice cream left out in the sun?
>>25043524
>>25043540This is essentially just cope. Anglophone thought is not particularly transgressive compared to its French counterpart. Though ironically a lot of the most important Analytics were EFLs. The main effects of language being regulated are that it has real rather than suggested norms and a high quality dictionary freely availiable online.
>>25043557I think by not forcing a single standard the English method prioritises flexible comprehension. In the last century, the severe control by the Academie tempted anti-academic French writers to acts of sabotage.Matthew Arnold once wrote>The power of French Literature is in its prose-writers, the power of English Literature in its poets.
I like the old masters a lot but almost everything being biblical scenes and characters until the 18th-19th century is so fucking tiring. Just how many times can you paint that fucking jewish carpenter and his mother before you get bored?
>>25043628they painted a lot of naked ladies too though
i watched ufc for the first time in years last night and wow it's so fucking boring. i was thinking about the punch stats from some fights. one fight had 20 "significant strikes" per fighter in a five minute round. boxing will have like 50 punches per fighter in a three minute round. ok, in ufc maybe there is one takedown attempt a round? mma/ufc is the worst of both worlds. the strike volume is way way lower than boxing or muay thai cuz the fighters are shook of getting taken down, but the grappling is boring as hell too because they know if they just lay there long enough the ref will stand them up, so compared to a jiu jitsu tournament where the competitors have to be constantly moving, its super low activity. i remember the ufc was exciting maybe 15 or 20 years ago when the fertita brothers still owned it, but maybe it was just novelty? i don't know. all i know is it's not an interesting sport to watch because four minutes out of a five minute round will be the fighters avoiding engaging with each other.maybe part of the problem is the octagon. in boxing and muay thai eventually one fighter will walk the other one down and trap him in the corner, but in a circular "ring" they can just keep running and circling each other forever. dana white is still the ceo. he built the ufc into what it is. he's going to have to do something to keep it interesting cuz right now it's fucking awful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NYRhJTQ85s
>>25042915Takethisgobbledygookoutofhereaintnofagsallowedinthisplacewedontplaybynoonesrulesyoubettergetinwhereyoufitinyaddameanfatu!
Hello y'all my pronouns are they/them and I am le heckin' neuroatypical, Black Lives Matter yass slay queen, we wuz kangz. Yesterday I purchased the new product of the latest Netflix franchise and I felt the serotonine rush in my brain receptors. Holy menstruation I was literally shaking and crying and shitting myself vomiting. I am so neuroatypical and a consumer whore. My whole personality is that I'm gay. My corgi's name is Nintendo Switch, heckin' iconic I am trans btw.
>he Third Symphony is Mahler’s hymn to the natural world and his longest work. It was largely composed in the summer of 1895 after an exhausting and troubling period that pitched him into feverish creative activity. Bruno Walter visited him at that time and as Mahler met him off the ferry Walter looked up at the spectacular alpine vistas around him only to be told: "No use looking up there, that’s all been composed by me."damn>Mahler was inspired by the grandeur around him at the very deepest level of feeling and also by visions of Pan and Dionysus. In fact by a sense of every natural creative force in the universe infusing him into "one great hymn to the glory of every aspect of creation", or, as Deryck Cooke put it: "a concept of existence in its totality."
Realizing my first work in philosophical idealism and the guy quote dropping Lenin and Nietzsche and dropping zingers like power needing both the right moment and the right place as if they were novel truths. Maybe I am just getting filtered.
>>25044240And nothing bad about those two but thats pretty much the first people a teenager who discover their parents are bourgs and a pair bores discover. Also Lenins whole political apparatus was eaten alive by a Georgian village bumpkin so I am sceptical about over reliance on him
Can ethereal be used to describe someone's beauty?
>>25044179If this stereotype was actually liberal like it claims it might be fun or at least tolerable to hang out with but generally it can't tolerate any opposing opinions or hint of free thought. It's not liberal in any real sense. If you want to interact with it in any way you're obliged to self-censor or be punished and any form of self-censorship neuters all thought.
>>25044267Yes, it's very common among hack poets
I can't believe I missed out on a long term romance with a male childhood friend because I'm fucking straight and like foids. It's an unpleasant thing to realize.I'd rather be asexual than be attracted to women. It makes me feel filthy.
>>25043747I know what fight you watched lmao
Another weekend doing jack shit nothing and wasting my time on youtube videos and porn instead of working on my art, and now I have to get to work tomorrow. I really fucking hate myself.
>>25040847I'm not a complete prude, but I think porn is terrible for men and the women who make it. Is there an ethical way to jerk off, I also think a man should just jerk off once in a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyAKL2_ix14
I have a dominant position at work and am looked upon as an authority figure, but in my private life, I'm a total bottom.
Fuck ICE cream
>>25044602just work on your art on company time
>>25044608>Is there an ethical way to jerk off, I also think a man should just jerk off once in a while.your imagination and an onahole
>>25043536It's the Norman aristocratic ancestry.
>>25045156https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDquo76490
>>25040948NTA but what does getting a boner over your sister have to do with weight? It's his sister, that should be an automatic killswitch. Oh wait, assburger retard website, I forgot.
>>25043437"Manifesting" is witchcraft, which is a grave sin.
>>25044602Oh... you're me
>>25040854Anon, I...
Are homosexuals born, or are they made?
There is no longer any board on this website I enjoy. It’s bad vibes all around. It’s all joyless and miserable, but even worse, it’s so repetitive and predictable. 4chan is not a living culture anymore. It used to generate new memes and in-jokes at a consistent rate. That’s all over. Maybe it’s been over for a long time. But I just don’t get anything out of it anymore, >Don’t forget: you’re here foreverYeah, yeah. But shame on me if I continue to subject myself to this trash I despise.
>>25045412Something I've noticed about this board specifically is that the conversation is a lot more relaxed and loose compared to, for example, 2013 or so. Anons on this board used to be so anal and 90% of the threads would be about the same English literary canon books. There's a much bigger variety of books being posted now, and anons seem to take the discussion less seriously than they used to, which ironically makes for better quality discussions.
We're getting closer and closer to having another "McVeigh moment," I can tell.
Very bizarre that we're going to war with Iran in the coming days and absolutely no one is talking about it or cares.
>>25045484I dont pay taxes so why would I care
>>25045412this board is like a bad relationship u just can't ghost. like u don't enjoy it, you get nothing out of it, but u still text the person sometimes anyways or look at their updates. i need to ghost /lit/, this site is just bad now.
Scientists examined whether bamboo produces sound when it falls without observers present. Tests in controlled forest plots recorded measurable noise. No injuries reported.
Life getting worse again. Back to coping by daydreaming about a hot gf who loves me, I guess.
Twenty thousand peopleCross Bösebrücke
>>25045559my life sucks cuz i have a super shitty personality way too fucking reserved to the point of autism, but lately thinks are not bad haven't really been in the mood to rope lately.
>>25045495Based. Do you live off-grid or? >>25045554>t. point went right over his head
just found this gem on youtube of some autist author reviewing morning glory milking farm seriously with a completely straight face for an hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jszNGQpzvfk
>>25045615>reviewseems to just be nitpicking the grammar for 80 minutes to me
>>25045615>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpLsEK8JiGElol at his cringe standup
Considering making coffee. It's 8:51pm right now and I got up at about 3:30pm.
Pale brunette sat in front of me and kept brushing her long hair across my legs. I felt violated.
I'm creating a story setting in which there is a secret government organization that employs mind readers. I randomly had the idea in the shower and decided to sketch out what it might look like and then ran with it from there. It's surprisingly fun, I haven't done anything creative like this since middle school. Right now I'm building a set of regulations and policies that it would use and next I'll make a budget breakdown.
damn gold is over $5000 an ounce rn
>>25045484I just don't even know what to do anymore.
Made coffee.
>>25045675That's really cool Anon
in the end - everybody wins
WE ARE NORF FC
>>25045663I read this as pale baguette.
I have an idea for a story about two girls who are best friends. Gradually, one of the girls starts to get upset with the other since she thinks she's too emotional and clingy, so she starts to ignore her and eventually the two grow distant. The clingy girl is obviously devastated, but she manages to get over it and even starts talking to other people. In the end things end up reversed, and the other girl comes crawling back and begging for them to be friends again. They're not lesbians or anything, I just find dysfunctional relationships between girls cute.
When you & your buddy double penetrate a girl your balls are gonna touch, we call it scrotum pole. Getting your buddy's cum on you is called friendly fire. It's no big deal.
Can I ask a dumb question: what is it about salads that makes them "healthy"? Is it that the lettuce takes up a lot of space but is low caloric so you get full without gaining weight? Or is there actually nutrients in it? Both? Something else?
>>25045743Yes but it doesn't count if you drown it in sugary dressings
>>25045745Ah, well I'm not eating them to lose weight or whatever, I like them as a vehicle for dressing, just trying to understand what's behind other people eating them, the marketing, and appeal. Thanks.
>>250447800/10Not funnyNot subtle
>>25045765You don't know shit about comedy. I literally went to school for comedy writing.
I'm spiraling down
>>25045768And failed out it seems.
>>25045774Saying Fuck ICE is currently common on social media, but then the cream at the end turns it into a dumb joke about ice cream, making a bait-and-switch that you don't expect and that’s what makes it funny. You would know that if you knew anything about humor. I also went to clown arts camp btw.
>>25045728I could really go for a baguette right now. I want to eat some bread.
How do the words>President Mark Kellymake you feel?
>>25045695Thanks. I think I will struggle to actually turn this into a polished piece of writing, but at least the setting is there.
I should be reading but instead I'm shitposting and smoking weed vape.
>>25045785>I also went to clown arts camp btwMissed the chance to be witty by just calling it Clown Camp, aliteration is always nice.
>>25045838They call it clown arts camp where I went.
Lit has been worse than usual the past few weeks and I am not sure the cause of the change.
>>25045867Everyone went back to work after the Christmas holidays.
>>25045864>Mooseburgerlmfao the jokes write themselves, also why do they show only women?
>>25045873There's surprisingly a lot of women clowns. My teachers were women too. I don't know why.
>>25045873The final test is done in front of a bear and if you can't either scare the bear away or make him laugh you get mauled to death and you aren't allowed your Mooseburger.
>>25045878Clowns are a common sexual kink among Zoomers so I'm not that surprized.
>>25045864Dis nigga is seriously a clown lmfao
my ass hurts
>>25045885But is it heavy?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DKwJ-yxQpQ
I can't sleep and I don't know if I should pop a meletonin pill or not at almost 3 am of fading in and out of sleep.Anyone got anything interesting to watch?
something i’d like to feel again: walking out of the cinema after watching a life-changing movie and it’s dark outside.
12:50am the night is young!
>>25045680https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuPOwe-2EYA
Woke up early, and the weather is rainy enough there's still rush hour traffic making everyone late. I think I woke up early because I'm skimping on my meds until the new batch arrive, but I don't have anything planned for today until the evening, and I'm meant to rest and eat like I might have to run a marathon if I'm low on them. >>25045900So long as you're still going to the cinema near dusk you're probably fine
Just finished Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time by Gou Tanabe. Pretty good. That's #2 on my tally this year so far. Guess I'm planning on 15 books like last year. Yes manga counts, what are you gonna do about it? Thought so.
One time I was hospitalized for what looked like a heart attack, and while I was getting strapped in on the ambulance, the two nurses were talking to the central on the phone. One said "no, no, he's a big guy", and I weakly raised my head on the stetcher and with a breath of voice I said "for you". She never heard it.
Need to apply my hands w/ moisturizer and get a drink of water and use the john. Maybe get a breath of fresh air too. Then I'll try to sleep.
I've got my bedroom window wide open. Feeling very fresh.
>>25046071www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JfEJq56IwI
Remember Turdeau and Obummer's wholesome chungus friendship relationship? Remember how heckin epic and bazinga that was?!
It's really interesting how much simply calling a Jew a Jew freaks them out. 'Kike' 'Heeb' whatever they just shrug but saying Jew as a pejorative gets to them
>>25046083Yes, then the orange Mussolini chucklefuck came in and ruined everything.
>>25046099The last time things were okay was when these two chucklefucks were in charge. Spray-tan Hitler/Sleepy Joe and Turdeau/Carnie have both ruined our respective nations.
>>25040847>I dislike Jane Austen, and am prejudiced, in fact against all women writers. They are in another class.
>>25041105>liek damn, why does your whole life have to be about gay rainbow shit?Because they don't know anything else. They just know sticking things up their ass feels good and thats the meaning of life.
>talking to employment lady via email>"Oh here's a job you'll be a great fit for!">tenuous match at best>requires video editing as I primary job function>tell her I do not know video editing, and I can learn, but I dont want to oversell myself on something I've never done>"Well I encourage you to apply anyways since you said you can learn."Bitch I'm going to walk in, they'll say "make me this tiktok video about this", give me 200 hours of terrible footage and a laptop run on a battery of potatoes, watch me struggle, then fire me in a week. The fuck do you think will happen?
I am a slacker god.I've barely done any work since returning from vacation 3 weeks ago.I'm not lazy, when I have work I work hard. However I try my best to avoid work. I pretend to be busy and dodge whenever work is being dished out.It's not all great, you get that feeling you get when you're wasting time. Seems like a waste of life. But then again I just want to screw around online like I'm doing now.I should have never moved to the office. I was happy working with my hands.
>>25046308I used to be like you; made 80k a year working 3 days a week and most of my "work" was meaningless bullshit. Then I moved to a small town for my wife, actually tried as hard as I could doing an impossible hell job at a small business for less than half, and was terminated without notice for tenuous reasons that were never explained to me, that will cripple their organization entirely (one partner at another office who was my direct boss was BY FAR the worst manager I have ever seen). Appreciate what you have. I used to eat fancy pasteries in a giant office building and spent most of my time drinking coffee or getting high out front. Easy come, easy go.
>>25046318I wish i was making that much. I'm making enough to provide for a stay at home wife and two kids but I don't save much at the end of the month.A potential escape from this cycle is a side business I started with my brother. If that takes off I can enjoy life fully I feel.
>>25046308i just have nothing but respect for that.
Feels funny not seeing porn or wanking for a week.I guess if you wanna quit porn, just get busy and or go on some trip.
>>25046289Been looking for a job for more than two years now in a small town and It's just impossible. I get that I have a uni diploma (a useless one really) so applying for 'unskilled' labour jobs is most likely futile but still, there's nothing else going on here anyway so just fucking hire me!!!
>>25046355nowadays you have to make your own motion. unless unknow someone
school and education are meant to be such a civilised concepts but in reality it’s your earliest experience of being thrown into the jungle.
My thoughts? I cringed from the world, I let cowardice destroy me, and I got old. There's no path forward but the rope.
>>25046392>t. 24 years old
>>2504639336, it's unbelievably over
>>25046398ok i see what you mean. but taking ‘i got old’ as your own is still stolen valour.
that image is how it feels to smoke a drunk cigarette alone
>>25046427Far out manI remember when i was on some MMA camp up in the mountains in some camp all alone. All quiet outside, fresh mountain air. I closed my eyes and there i saw it. Between the woods on a grass plain, there was a solitary wolf. He was looking at me and i was looking at him.I saw it
>>25046392what can't u do now, that u wish u did before?The past doesnt exists except in your mind
>>25046433cards on the table: this rings false to me (then again what do i know). but it actually comes close to a feeling i had a week ago. i was walking home late at night (early morning) - in south east london, not the mountains - a cat ran way from me. it kept ahead. then snuck into the shadows. it watched me as i walked past. and i remember thinking, we just looked at each other. totally different lives but we experienced each other.
>>25046427Depressing. I usually feel like this.
>>25046467depressing.
Hey baby can I borrow your car? I want to drive into a wall and make us two dimensional. While we're at it, I need your credit card; I need to pay a guy to have my penial gland recalcified.
>>25046469What's depressing about that? Dude is having a chill in the bathtub, eating pizza, living his best life. You could go do that right now and feel like that man as you close your eyes and feel the sweet sweet nicotine take a day off your life for 10 minutes of freedom.
>>25046475first of all the pizza looks awful. but i think it’s something in my bones. i’d never enjoy that the way he does. it made me think: in the UK the biggest night out anthems are:mr brightsideyou’re not alone (https://youtu.be/s4oZdUV-G-Y?si=n3gL-6MPxqQtReZm)gigi - l’amour toujours https://youtu.be/w15oWDh02K4?si=6a_1WKaG79gXEA6othere’s a sad element. a bleakness that we enjoy. the UK party scene is nothing like america where we’re content to throwback ‘brewskis’. we have something in us. a sadness that feels true. some sort of strength that is better than happiness.
>>25046461Cool but you cant really compare our storiesMines was a vision realizing i will lead a life of a solitary wolf and you just saw a stray cat. But it wasnt just a regular cat, it was a *_South London_* cat
>>25046501think you’re fixating on the wrong points
>>25046498Man has three types of pizza, who cares if it's good? It's about enjoying the small luxuries you have and the moments between the mayhem with what's around you, Mr. Wolf on a hill. Where the fuck am I going to get a hill? Where am I going to get mist? I can absolutely sit in my bathtub, much like I can smoke a dart drunk in the dark without getting all friggity fucked about it.Also, not American. I dont drink "brewskis". And I'm literally a nihilist, but I'm not sad about it. Why be sad? A smoke is nice. I have smokes. And I'm not french.
>>25046533>dart canadian?& you can be a wolf on a fogbound hillside while standing outside a pub (in your own mind). i wasn’t being literal. it’s hard to explain. phillip larkin said ‘deprivation is to me what daffodils were for wordsworth’. that isn’t exactly what i’m saying but it comes close. it’s a very uk thing i think. dancing not despite the sadness but with it.
New: >>25046567Lavren Mayberry-anon should kill himself.
>>25046569>Lavren Mayberry-anon should kill himself.was about to agree with this sentiment before i saw it was the turn-of-the-century bad abstract (/impressionist) art anon coming back to claim the throne
>>25046547Yup, full blooded leaf. And I've seen wolves. In fact, I just finished shoveling 2 feet of snow off my stupidly long driveway in -20c with no gloves. Canadians are a bit different, we recognize shit's fucked, make a dark joke, and push through because it can always get worse, so you might as well enjoy having the smoke, being drunk; it's fleeting and come monday morning when you need to risk your life driving through a blizzard, no frogbound wolves on bleak hills are going to get you out of a ditch.
>>25046583if push comes to shove, i probably prefer canadians to yanks (& you had a very good music scene ten years ago), but the difference is pretty minimal (this opinion is exacerbated by your response here).
>>25046593We're basically the same thing, no sweat. The biggest difference is a thin patina of good will over an icy fist; an American might be hospitable, might stab you in the back, but a Canadian hates you and will talk shit the second you violate any of the 69000 imaginary social rules.Anyways, your point about pubs and wolves and smokes is moreso I take a modernist approach and view smoking as a leisure activity from a pragmatic point of view. I smoke because it reminds me that I will die. It's a trade with the old guard. It's to be savoured, and as I rub elbows with the now-defunct Blood God with the 17 letter name, we both laugh and remember a time where things were worse, when things were better, then enjoy the fact we can still enjoy anything at all. He used to have temples of skulls, I used to have dreams and ambitions, but here we are at a dive bar stumbling into the night.
>>25046623>We're basically the same thingthink you’re commonwealth but no we aren’t at all. couldn’t even make myself finish reading the unimaginably basic mawkishness of whatever you were saying in the second para
>>25046639Canadians and Americans you door knob. Christ almighty, deep sadness and wolves over here calling things he didnt read mawkish while going on about daffodils and deprevation. Sardonic? Sure. Trite? Maybe. What am I sentimental about, a blood god and being old?
>>25046657my fault! (except you were the one who made a thing about not being yanks in the first place when i initially clocked you as being american)
>>25046664It's all good, I dont really take it personal. Now I am sure as shit going to drink some coconut rum in a coffee and smoke a cigarette outside, thinking about wolves and mist and Aristophanes.
>>25046672went to vancouver when i was 18 and it was a really good time. i used to think it was better than any us city but then i went to nyc last year and it was actually sick.
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>>25046680Vancouver is pretty, but expensive and pretentious. New York is the shit, when I went I had a great timex particularly at the guggenheim. I'm a filthy Ontario casual, Toronto is a metropolitian nonplace filled with nothing and nobody.
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>>25046707Fug, my mistake, I deleted mine. Sorry. Thanks for letting me know.
>>25046707lol
>>25046439My sport
I’m approaching the waterfall. I’m starting to tip over the edge.
>>25047996robert it goes down https://youtu.be/QnimAyfW-f4?si=kbtcZaC6jC_wf67N
