Anyone else just think about fucking 24/7? I feel like every other activity is inherently less interesting because I would rather be fucking. It's not like I don't enjoy other activities, but I'll be thinking
>Man, this is really great, but you know what would make it perfect? Having a fuck right afterwards

Here's their favorite tactic:
Act through layers of intermediaries. Ensure everyone in the chain has a mundane, plausible explanation for their actions. Make investigations finish neatly at a shallow level of the chain, allowing deeper inquiries to melt away. Make investigators feel closure and relief by giving them a lower-level intermediary as a sacrifice. Leave no evidence, only absence of evidence.

>>25084997
coomerbrain detected

>>25084997
No, I think about getting fucked 24/7 instead.

>>25084997
70% of my thoughts are wondering why I can't get laid.

>>25085007
Have you tried looking in the mirror instead?

>>25085007
It's not your fault, women in general aren't really interested in sex. If you're offered sex by a completely average looking woman, your first thought isn't going to be "Eww eww eww I don't know her, she's not Stacy" you're just going to have sex.

>>25085007
How did you quantify that?

>>25085014
>women in general aren't really interested in sex.
Hahaha…. Oh buddy

>>25085024
>incel
Yea sure bro. Women like to get ravaged by chads. Sure, not every day, but once a week at least. If you have no clue about this, we’ll just have to call it a skill issue on your end. Godspeed.

>>25085022
>I enjoy sex but I would never ever ever never ever never have sex when offered it

>>25085032
Huh?

The psychosexual effects of seeing a topless male have everyone in the thread talking madly about sex. Hm.

Listening to this Göbekli Tepe audiobook and I'm enjoying it. I'm on part five now when the author finally has gotten around to discussing the location of the Garden of Eden (turns out it's somewhere in the vicinity of south-east Turkey). I still have 40% of the book left though so it'll be interesting to see where he goes with it and the connections he ends up making between the story of Genesis and the Paleolithic hunter-gatherers of Europe, Siberia & Asia minor.

>>25084997
I have sex all weighed up now; the only reason I like girls is that I want to fuck them, which is adolescent, cheap, irresponsible, not worth doing, a waste of time, not much fun anyway really, a needless distraction from my real vocation, destructive of any real power of understanding women which as a writer (lol) should be important to me, contemptible, liable to make me a laughing-stock, narrowing, impracticable, destructive of sexual pleasure in the end, something originating in my upbringing, neurotic.

now all I have to is stop wanting to fuck them and I’ll have the thing licked

Happy 4:20!

>>25084997
I am like this for food and eating instead. I am not fat howeverbeit, I used to be morbidly obese but through sheer will have gone down to 19bmi. The incessant, 24/7 thoughts remain though.

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My highlights in this book so far.

((((CIA+ABIN))) still trying to destroy my organs by sleep deprivation.
Was awaken by "whistlesticks" 4:40 A.M.than the lodges prostitutes started screaming, I put my 3M foam ear protector and could not head.

Heart was trembling form sepsis damage, stress, arteries fucked up an kidney failure.

Just another day, same old crap.

Masonic hands are seen with white gloves because they are brown...

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>ordered a new mouse
>shipped and going to be delivered on sunday
>i go to church on sunday
fuck

>>25084976
I hate druggies, but I love baths, I am conflicted, woe me, my emotions are tearing my soul, aAAAAAAHAHHHH, ITS AGONIZING, just kidding

>>25085000
NTA but sometimes you're just wired this way. I don't do porn but I am so fucking horny all the time it's unreal. There isn't enough water in the oceans of this world to douse the fire in me when I see ass. Every waking moment of my life is spent thinking about ass. This is how I was born and I will die like this: an old man groping the ass of a nurse with his dying breath

>>25085233
i want to like weed, it's legal in my state so i could blaze the fuck out of it, but idk it's kinda mid. it was fun when i was a teenager, but as an adult weed is so mid.

>>25084997
what nofap does to a mf

>>25085287
ok if my roommate leaves for valentines day i'm gonna smoke some high thc dispensary shit

>DUDE WEED

that charlie xcx wuthering heights soundtrack album dropped and despite being idk 12 tracks that chains of love song is the only good song and it came out months ago, the sky ferreira feature doesn't even go hard t b h

>>25085025
Nah, you don't get it. I ENJOY the act of sex in itself. No, I wouldn't fuck just anyone, but I would fuck a woman that I wouldn't look twice at if I passed her in the street. If a woman is looking at a decently attractive looking guy and thinking "No, I wouldn't fuck him because he didn't make make my heart skip a beat/make my panties soaked" then that is NOT someone who enjoys sex as an act of spontaneous passion.

my roommate is so annoying she orders food and then leaves the leftovers out in the common area for like a day, but i ate a slice of pizza in my room once and she's going on about how that will cause rodents or some shit. i should just buy a condo, but that's a big purchase and seems like a major pain the ass so putting it off.

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>>25084976
What if each dream was It's own reality, with It's own world, It's own people, It's own laws and conversations? And what if to awake means to die?


Rarely do dreams leave such an impression but this time it was one such. I dreamt I was going to some sort of interview, for a job or play I'm not sure, but it had something to do with languages. Me and another boy, who was waiting when I got there, went inside the room and the conversation struck on literature, as the interview itself was a reading or performing of a chapter or speaking part. We were talking about Joyce's Dubliners and how that was my favourite collection of short stories and the interviewer, who greatly resembled my old literature teacher but was not truly him, gave his own expertise on the matter as he had been very learned himself and had great many tomes of literature behind him on the shelves. A little after that we all went outside, going through a park on a warm sunny cloudless day, deep in conversation. Not before long we finally found a nice cool place to sit down, although I had chosen to remain standing up, it was right next to a school and the young children were all in recess. They had all split themselves in two groups, between boys and girls, and were flinging grapes at one another for fun, and of course at us as well. I had pulled out my water bottle to take a big gulp as my throat had gotten soar from talking and I needed to prepare for my reading/speaking part as the interviewer decided it was time. And then suddenly I felt the world closing in, It looked like I was being pulled out of my own body, both the man and the boy were standing over me as if I had just fainted from the heat. A second later I awoke no closure afforded me from my sudden death.

>>25085310
ok as soon as i posted that she came out of her room and sat down at the table with the food, now i'm getting PARANOID is the able to read my shitposts somehow? she's cute we should definitely have sex.

>>25085300
I wanted to watch that flick to see how much they whore out Margot, but knowing it has a ghetto nigger soundtrack has destroyed my interest

>>25085320
>soundtrack is by a british chick with features from john cale and sky ferreira
?

>>25085323
This is that "brat" chick, yeah?

lmao is trump really gonna do iran? what a madman lmao

The anthropic principle may be extendable to all qualities of life, not just its' existence.

Mathematical skill is present in all human cultures to some sort of extent. Many of them developed quite advanced mathematics before their fall or colonisation. Many animals are capable of comprehending a sense of scale which is based around the number of distinct items in the current environment.

Mathematical skill must be genetic then, in this case, it has been selected via natural selection. Its prevalence in the animal kingdom and the success of our technologies and theories that exploit it suggests that it is, in some way, a correct method for looking at reality. Or, in other words, that reality is constructed using a system that mathematics seems to encapsulate quite nicely.

At the cellular level, neurons are efficient in terms of informational capacity ("Principles of Neural Information Theory" is a good book that proves that statement), in terms of the laws of physics of this reality, the amount of neurons that could be packed into a skull is a tradeoff that we come quite close to reaching.

If we assume the basic tenet of the anthropic principle, in-which our universe is one of many other possible conformations of reality, and that our particular reality has a conformation that favours life (nothing more, nothing less). Then it could be seen that a reality in-which 2+2 does actually equal 5, may not be able to host the neurological structures required for intelligence.

This is very broad and abstract, and assumes many things, but I think it possible to ascribe more qualities of life to fundamental constraints and allowances of reality. Not just existence.

>>25085372
lmao stupid af what a pseud

There is no Hell
There is no shame
There is no Hell,
Like an old Hell

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>>25085299

When approached not as a diversion but as a contemplative aid, high quality hashish or carefully refined cannabis extracts have long been reported to exert a clarifying and vivifying influence upon the intellect, drawing scatter faculties into a more luminous coherence. Accounts across centuries suggest a peculiar sharpening of attention, an intensification of intuitive insight, and a heightened capacity to apprehend subtle correspondences that ordinarily elude the hurried mind.

In this state, ideas are not merely grasped sequentially but seem to disclose their inner relations simultaneously, rendering the study of metaphysics and timeless principles unusually fertile.

Early nineteenth century European experimenters captivated by hashish remarked upon its power to suspend habitual modes of perception and to reveal depths of thought inaccessible to sober discursiveness alone, while pre-modern religious contexts in south Asia regarded similar substances as sacral adjuncts to philosophical and yogic inquiry rather than as ends in themselves. In both cases the substances were understood not as a source of truth but as an instrument that, under disciplined conditions, could momentarily thin the veil of ordinary cognition and allow the intellect to contemplate more directly those perennial realities that transcend historical circumstance and cultural form.

I have sο many questions regarding suicide. The one time I was so close to putting a gun in my mouth it was because a doctor had fucked up my medication and I'd become obsessed with the idea that I was going to get fired from my job and lose my house. And the pain felt physical like I was hypervenilating and my head was buzzing. Is it like that for everyone?

>>25085372
>Many animals are capable of comprehending a sense of scale which is based around the number of distinct items in the current environment.
What? what's an example of that? Seeing scale is not the same as being able to form concepts of units, and start counting in terms of units.

>Mathematical skill must be genetic then
What?

>in terms of the laws of physics of this reality, the amount of neurons that could be packed into a skull is a tradeoff that we come quite close to reaching.
a tradeoff with What?

>If we assume the basic tenet of the anthropic principle, in-which our universe is one of many other possible conformations of reality
If we assume that I have a large cock then many things become true; assumptions that are pulled from the void, because you don't have a single hint of evidence aside from wishing the conclusion to be true, should remain in that void and not insult us by their presence.

>Then it could be seen that a reality in-which 2+2 does actually equal 5, may not be able to host the neurological structures required for intelligence.
wtf?

wtf are you on about mate

I think you should stop thinking, you are harming your ability to live, mathematics is the study of measures, I don't know why you give it such a special rank and seem to imply that its mere presence allows for any discussion on the nature of realities? WTF, WTF, W T F ? ? ? Stop cultivating confusion, seek beauty ffs

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I'm tired of "cozy" vibes, cozy is anxiety avoiding, I want clear and enlightening vibes, anxiety-annihilating ones. I'm making a dominating shrine, white, with pillars, on the top of some undeveloped hill near my town; a place where I can only think of ruling the world; a place of clarity, meditation and understanding

CachyOS or Bazzite?
I have a NVIDIA GPU.

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So many things I want to do, yet the only thing I can put effort into is making 3d porn in blender and playing videojames.

>>25085564
>making 3d porn in blender
Have you tried just making lewd art in blender?
>videojames
What geimus?

>>25085552
Sir, this is a /lit/ thread...
But its nice to see another /fglt/fag

all I want to do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight

>>25085552
Install Gentoo

>>25085415
What kind of medication were you taking?

>looking up dahlias to understand dahlia fancier in book
Maybe I should just read the book but I'm tempted to order a botanical guide as a companion

>>25085606
SSRIs because I was a sadboi teenager back in the day

Now that what I wanted for so long is sitting on my face, I'm realizing it was never worth the trouble.

>>25085611
Girls shit and fart just like everyone bro

>>25085614
don't be gross

I hate Valentine’s Day. I don’t believe in love anymore.

Have I changed, or has /lit/ changed? I feel I've seen it all... that it's degraded.... I'm going to go read a book.

I just started a new jοb a month or so ago and I absolutely hate this mofo that works in my office. He's always overly matter of fact and looks bored out of his mind yet the majority of the office ladies think he's so sweet and smart. I also recently found out he's banging the hot-but-annoying goth clerk with big tits and none of management seems to give a damn.
How do I ruin this asshole's life?

I took a dumb and saw a spider eating a fly, was the best thing I saw in days.

My fucking brain wants nothing but sex and money and this cycle is destroying my brain because im poor, live in an apartment in suburbia hell and have to work 2 jobs to survive.

I think im gonna stop masturbating and boycott nestle.

>>25085754
How old are you?
Move back in with your parents. Its comfy

>>25085766
I boycott nestle not for humanitarian reasons but because their products are all terrible.

>>25085770
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>mfw I recommend a movie/music made in the 70s and they reply, "ugh, isn't that old?"
'old' for film only begins to matter once you hit the 40s, and even then a lot of the best stuff are easily watchable, so really the 30s

>>25085369
I haven't the slightest clue as to your point

>>25085798
I don't know I watch movies from the 30s and a lot of them still hold up or its at least entertaining to see what was entertainment back in the day.

>>25085810
Oh I didn't mean they don't hold up, I just meant their presentation is drastically different than modern standards, whereas films from the 50s and 60s are made using most of the same techniques and similar style. So basically that a film from the 30s is reasonable to find jarring, especially for a person who doesn't normally watch older films, hence why I wouldn't recommend something from the 30s or 40s to someone who isn't really, really into films, but 50s and after, if it's good it's good, ya feel?

Going out in public and drawing eyes of desire from girls is great for a self-esteem boost, but even better is seeing guys who are with their women friends or girlfriend, and seeing them seethe when giving you the look of envy, lol.

>>25085552
debian + xfce

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Great job not telling me that my plan was ending, and sticking me on a random replacement plan for the other side of the fuckin' state that doesn't cover the places I go to, only for me to find out when I have to pay. Amazing fucking work.

Unsarcastic thanks to the latina customer service representative who actually took the time to tell me what is going on and why I am being fucked and what to do about it.

Who knows, maybe getting on a different plan will be a good thing for me if I can actually do it without some other wrench thrown into the works.

>>25085888
single-payer healthcare/medicare for all NOW

>>25085888
>>25085906
If you're American and young and you aren't doing everything you possibly can to be healthy and not need anything more than check ups and preventative care then you're fucked.

>>25085931
what about dental?

and typical
>since I don't need it, it's not necessary for society-at-large
scum

I read Fahrenheit 451 the other week and found it to be mundane and very comprehensible (aside from the weird sentence structure and a few indecipherable metaphors). Did I miss significant subtext or is this literature just an easy read that candidly exposits its point?

On a related note, are there any useful sources for literature analyses? I want something to compare my reading against so I can spot gaps in my literacy skills.

>>25085934
Brush, floss, check-ups and preventative yes.
>>since I don't need it, it's not necessary for society-at-large
If you want to be poor that's your choice, not mine. Just don't be a faggot and complain about it when you didn't help yourself first and something that was totally preventable like Diabetes or your teeth rot out happens and you do the whole "woe is me" schtick.

>>25085573
>Have you tried just making lewd art in blender?
I make all sort of things in blender, most porn I make isn't strictly depicting sexual intercourse, it's more about appreciating the beauty of the naked female form, but I make all sorts of things. Like guns, environments, fashion, mechas.
>What geimus?
Right now I'm playing STALKER (the first one) and while I think the gameplay is nothing to write home about, I'm completely engrossed by the atmosphere.

>>25086064
I tried STALKER but I didn't like it because I'm red and green colorblind so I couldn't use the stupid radar and it was too hard to mod to fix so I dropped it, but if you like STALKER you might like more RPG, turn-based (not in the Pokemon way) sandbox life sims that Elin, Elona, Caves of Qud, and Dwarf Fortress Adventure mode gives you. I find Elona completely engrossing because it also simulates the other adventurers around, not to the extent that STALKER does, but I like the fact that I can hire a waifu to go dungeon diving with and then bump into her 100 hours from now and she has completely different equipment and stats. I also like the fact that you can duel and beat up adventurers so much that they go "fuck this isn't the life for me" and just quit and go home.

>>25086032
Some stuff just happens though. And the West is wealthy enough to where we can afford free healthcare for all no problem. In fact, it'd be cheaper than what we have now in the US!

>>25086083
>In fact, it'd be cheaper than what we have now in the US!
No it wouldn't, why do you think all these places that have socialized healthcare have at most 50% tax on income?

>>25086081
All of those games are already on my radar but thanks for the recs nonetheless. I don't think I will try them anytime soon tho because I've been slowly chipping away at my backlog of games that I bought on steam and never played (I have like 50 of those thanks of impulsive spending habits). Next on the list is either EYE, Risen or the Dead Space remake.

>>25086091
Same, but I have over 300 and I haven't bought a video game in the past 5 to 7 years. I probably won't finish them all in my lifetime but I have more than enough to keep me entertained. That isn't counting some of the crazy full conversion mods that I want to play as well.
>EYE
EYE is great

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>>25084976
i don't know what's worse lads, God doesn't exist and we are left alone at the mercy of the Universe and everything is about chance/luck or God exist but is indifferent and doesn't give a fuck about us

>>25086182
Unimaginative alternatives/10
We could all be shattered parts of God's consciousness that will only reunite when all violence against ourselves is eliminated.
We could be the "egg form" of a God, gestating until we unite with technology and become a gestalt consciousness that is basically God.
We could also the genitals of robotic or digital gods who may or may not destroy us.
God could actually care about us but he also understands the creation he made and knows that he needs to allow nature to "take its course" with us.
He could also be putting humanity through the threshing process and watching all of us to see who should go to heaven and who shouldn't.
We could be the same souls recycled and reincarnated over and over again, God not willing to completely damn a soul until Judgement Day where he then tallies the sins and deeds of our accumulated lives then judges us off the average.
God could be machines or aliens long dead or long gone, or maybe uncaring aliens that up lifted us then were like "Peace out, Bros" for whatever reason.
We could be a forgotten experiment by a more advanced human civilization who seeded us.
We could be in the meme simulation theory where we are running for all matter of reasons from research, to a video game, to entertainment, to someone forgetting they left their game on and left us running.

There's a fucking million reasons to play and think about if we aren't talking about God in the strictest of Theological debates or case.

HEAD LIKE A HOLE

>>25086226
DICK IN A BOWL

>>25085963
>mundane and very comprehensible
that's why it's so popular, that + bradbury's fluid, light style. you're not missing significant subtext unless you thought it was a novel about the evils of censorship instead of a novel about the evils of mass entertainment.
>sources for literature analyses
depends on what you're reading, but if you're reading classics generally speaking the best resource is the Norton Critical Editions. solid scholarship, good essays at the back, bibliography of relevant scholarly work, etc. the one for Dubliners is particularly good. if you're chudded out they might make you upset but that doesn't mean they're wrong

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This is a political issue but my commentary on it isn't political, its just something I found funny:
>voter ID is popular with basically everyone: White and Hispanics are in the high 80% and Blacks aren't that far back with 76%
>usually suspects are upset about this because they can't say "black people are too dumb to get IDs to vote"
>flip to using women: "70 million women are married and would be unable to vote if they had to show ID because their maiden name doesn't match their married name."
>read this and think: "Just show them a copy of your marriage certificate, if that comes up... It's considered a legal document for identification."
>apparently in the comments, literally not one women thought of this even the women who were shitting on the post
>mfw their argument that blacks are too dumb to get IDs to vote was just protection the whole time
I love when shit like this happens, I can't believe they owned themselves collectively like that. I've been giggling about it the whole day.

>>25086287
Having to show ID to vote is extremely normal in all of Europe, I had no idea it was something controversial in the US lol. How do you, avoid, say foreigner influence in your election? Can't the CCP theoretically send an army of undercover agents (ridiculous scenario but bear with me) to influence the result?

You're slowly becoming the embodiment of a negative meme and I cannot stand it.
>>25086287
>because their maiden name doesn't match their married name."
The husbands fucked up way worse

>>25086331
nta but I'll give you a straight answer, it's controversial in the US because it's most commonly used as a tool to suppress the democratic vote. conservatives will say it isn't, but that's what it's for -- poor blacks are the least likely to have a valid ID, poor blacks are the most likely to vote Democratic, hence why conservatives push for voter ID laws. they then turn around and make it harder to get an ID -- it takes more time, or you need more paperwork, or IDs expire more quickly, or it costs more money, whatever. then they say that only certain kinds of IDs are valid IDs to vote with; a common one is for states to say that college IDs aren't valid for use as voter IDs because college populations are very likely to vote democratic. they think it'll drop the total vote count which is correlated with higher chance of conservative victory in elections.
>how do you avoid foreigner influence in elections
voter fraud (where someone's impersonating someone else in order to vote) in the united states is astonishingly rare, less than 100 cases (and I'm pretty sure it's actually less than 50) happened in the '24 election. the kind of influence you're talking about is basically impossible to pull off, in the US you have to register to vote, which usually means you have to fill out a form that says your name is X, your social security number is X, you live at X address, etc. the govt then checks this against whatever database they have and gives you a voter registration card that says you're good to vote. many states make you show photo ID anyway, which is just another layer of proof you are who you say you are. it's practically infeasible for the CCP to send twenty thousand people to a swing state with fake IDs and fake SSNs blah blah to vote. when foreigners do meddle in US elections it's through disinformation -- fake robocalls/ads saying that demographics most likely to vote democratic can vote online, which you can't, or fake ads saying that X candidate ate a puppy alive, or or or.

>>25086349
Intredasting. So you do have a layer of protection. Doesn't the registration form already function as an ID of sorts then?

>>25086372
yes, it does
>then why do voter ID laws then
to suppress the vote

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If I were a Hitlerian type figure my idea of the Aryan would be raven black hair with hazy blue eyes. You don’t see it often but very attractive people

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The sublime stare

When a marxist feminist says something so resentful you gotta hit em with the sublime stare

my roommate has this bizarre need to leaver her half-eaten lunch out

One or twice a year the secretary at my psychiatrist's office will ignore my calls and voicemails asking for a refill on my prescription. Today marks the third week of trying to get a hold of the office but no one bothered to pick up the phone and I left yet another voicemail. How difficult is it to send out a notice to my pharmacy?

https://youtu.be/ZCwzJw9EJ6k?si=p-CTQ6d7KMwXie4G

>>25086349
>poor blacks are the least likely to have a valid ID
That's actually wrong, they are the most likely to have up-to-date ID because they are the most likely to commit crimes and be on parole, which is mandatory to have at least 1 form of ID that is not expired.

>>25086379
>black people are too stupid to get an ID
Damn literally Hitler over here...

>>25086349
>voter fraud (where someone's impersonating someone else in order to vote) in the united states is astonishingly rare
It isn't its how Biden got elected and how 13 million Americans who voted went "missing", there is voter fraud in every election of every year its just in the Biden vs. Trump election it was finally enough to tip the vote.

>>25085798
Based fellow new Hollywood fan

>>25086331
It will soon be madatory because everyone agrees with it, its only a small bleed heart minority of people like >>25086349 who purposefully use disinformation and fake news to spread this weird racist like that minorities are incapable of sitting around and getting an ID when the same people who think like this also pushed for illegals to get Driver's Licences as well. They are literally just the party of racism and "I want to ruin democracy because you aren't voting the correct way" party.

What would you think if your girlfriend was going to another man's highrise apartment on Valentines day for a steak dinner?

>>25086537
I don't have a girlfriend and I've never had one so thankfully I can say I'll just be playing video games and not worrying about it.

>>25086537
Just do it anon... it's the law of the jungle... Take what you want!

>>25086331
>How do you, avoid, say foreigner influence in your election?
You don't, the way we do it right now is by checking to see if the person is an actual citizen and shows up in the citizen registry, the problem is this can be abused with dead people who weren't reported or processed properly, voter ID would help suppress that influence and would probably cut down on voter turnover because there would be at least 2 layers of verification needed.
>Can't the CCP theoretically send an army of undercover agents (ridiculous scenario but bear with me) to influence the result?
They can and they have but our intelligence agency is very good at sniffing them out before hand, but isn't so good about it if they are already citizens, if that makes sense.
Voter integrity is highly important to any election and anyone who wants to stop any sort of voter ID automatically is trying to game the system and make it less fair for people who legitimately want to take part in the election.
People like to jerk off the Black vote a lot, mainly because it votes in a Bloc, but that bloc has significantly weakened and even without voter ID only 1/3rd of all Blacks in America vote while 2/3rds of white Americans vote. So this idea that we can't make our elections safe because a ton of people who were never interested in voting in the first place happen to have darker skin is no different than the slave owners saying that their slaves can't be free because they are animals who are incapable of caring for themselves.
Its just blatant racism masked as empathy to weaponize and destroy the chances of a fair election.

>>25086537
I'd think
>Thank god she's gone, time to change my number

>>25086537
Aren't all the single women doing some gay shit called Galentines day or something? I've never liked Valentine's Day, not because I never had a girlfriend, but this fucking weird idea that each Valentine's Day needed to be bigger and better than the last.
We are all tired, why can't I just go out and have a nice dinner, buy a gift around 50 to 100 dollars and call it a day? Why does only the woman get a gift? Why don't I get a gift if I'm already paying for her gift and a meal? What? No, I don't want sex... I mean I do, but I can get sex far cheaper at any other time of the year. Where the fuck is my gift?

>>25084997
I've never felt that way, not even during my horniest late teens to late 20s, never mind my mid 40s where sustained fun of the sort made for a certain change of perspective. (This is not to mention that a certain talent for long snogging sessions is a fortunate 20/100 demographic to which I belong) I turned 63 about a month ago, and I'm still moved to ecstasy by very ornate instrumental music played through a decent setup as I was at 28. if considerably less inclined to sex as such.

>>25086560
if it makes you feel better vday is dying as less and less people are spending money on it, and of the people who are spending money on it: they are spending less than their counterparts 10 years ago did. this is partly because there are less people dating and the economy is harder; but the most interesting thing is that people are spending less because they are spending for more than one person. people are so desperate for any kind of "twue wuv" that they going out and getting their rosters gifts, kek.

>>25086561
>I turned 63 about a month ago
HAPPY BELATED BDAY GRANPANON!!!

Just shat.

>>25086560
Yes this girl that's coming to my apartment tomorrow is doing a galentines day as we speak. First time I've ever heard of it. I suspect it's some kind of subconscious defensive reflex against the shift in sexual dynamics that's recently been exaggerated by the internet. None of the girls that are going are singly either, well... not really. The trick is to not take any of it too seriously.

>>25086576
Haven't thought all day, Ive been reading posts by user anonymous since I woke.

>>25086565
Kek
>>25086560
Kek, this is really funny to me because a lot of saints days are srs bsns in Catholicism. I like Saint Valentine (patron of epileptics, fainting, and beekeepers, not just the engaged) but the idea of spending money in the way that corporate marketing wants you to for the day is crazy. Why it used be big is because if you're catholic and want to propose marriage or celebrate an engagement, you're doing it on the day with patronage from the guy who liked affianced couples. It's kind of like it's normal to put sweets in someone's shoes at the start of December but if you're doing it in mid June, there's probably something wrong with you or some black magic going on

>>25086586
How about you read a book anon

>>25086589
I listened to my audiobook for like 3 hours last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6oZK004AWM
Rock music should have collectively packed it up and gone home after this.

>>25086591
Ok, that's pretty good

>>25086591
I used to listen to star wars audiobooks as a kid when I slept at night, I should start doing that again.

Now that I have a social life, /lit/ just isn't the same. I can't let loose like I used to in my shitposts. Paranoia has dulled my edge. No... I need to remember who I am... Nigger

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I cut myself today, to see if I could feel. I could. I sure could. Stupid chef knife.

>>25086182
I like Baudrillard's perspective on a certain kind of American dystopia (For instance Phoenix) but he underrates the comfiness of skylines like of that of Chicago's North Loop, which in my opinion is the only place on earth where soaring towers dovetail with humane creature comforts. I can't even imagine what Le Corbusier would have made of it, never mind serene House music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZclIZ1Lck&list=RDGMEMQ1dJ7wXfLlqCjwV0xfSNbAVMNnJaRF95TCY&index=2

>>25086519
>t. russian bot

>>25086597
>>25086600
It was at 0.85 speed howeverbeit. I can't do the speedy 1.5x or 2.0x speed some people do, in fact I need to slow it down and even then I'm constantly rewinding.
Last night I may have listened to my audiobook for an extended period of time but I also went for a walk earlier in the day where I listened to almost as much of it.

>>25086624
Name the book so I can pass Judgement, sinner.

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>>25086627

>>25086638
kys

I'm writing a tragic story about a person's difficulties in dealing with a highschool soulmate who doesn't physically age past her adolescence.

>>25086652
Salty.

>>25086276
I see. So it's considered literature purely off its ideas?
>Norton Critical Editions
Nice, though a bit limited. I guess cliffnotes or maybe a chatbot can suffice for my high level needs..

>>25086660
I'm disappointed, anon. I didn't expect you to be a moron

Is there a historical precedence for something as scandalous as the Epstein files? As terrible as the harm inflicted on thousands of children is, I feel like anyone sufficiently pessimistic enough would believe that this has been happening since time immemorial.

Last July I noticed that my car wouldn't rev over 3500 in park, so I took it on a country road engineered for 10 miles like a runway for military jets. The result was the same at 110 mph @3500 rpm. I didn't feel a goddamn thing through the seat of my pants at any time, a sensation I like. I've since addressed the issue, which is a software one. I'm moved by rather a lot of things, from architectural trends in Utrecht to a falcon I almost hit today.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIiaH4GNFAA
oh shit oh shit

>>25086688
Guys fucking young whores isn't scandalous.

I played 2 vidya games after a 2 month hiatus and I promptly deleted them.

>>25086688
Yep. Look up the Franklin scandal out of Nebraska in the 80s.
Also research:
>the Finders cult
>McMartin preschool scandal & the Presidio daycare scandal
>Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Aquino
>Dr Jolly West
>the Process Church of the Final Judgement and its relationship with the Church of Scientology and Charles Manson
There are numerous books on the subject. Good luck. Just remember the evidence speaks for itself.

>>25086688
>Is there a historical precedence for something as scandalous as the Epstein files?
yes. catholic church child abuse. much much larger with many more victims and the predators hiding behind the trust of their community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOmfs3BQIg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znwT5CasMrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq-cvjAIAEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gyJ_mstAeI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvSlKDU1z0k

>>25086714
the only way any of this garbage could be good is if ur high af imagine being sober and prentending to enjoy this shit HA

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>>25086657
I like that theme. Hope you treat it well and make it mature.

Although I dropped the "Invincible" show quite early, there was something really cute about the relationship between that robot dude who was actually a real human with a deformed and handicapped body forced to live through an automaton, and monster girl, who is stuck being a teen because she loses her aging every time she uses her powers.

Although I like the female form, there is something indescribably radiant about finding beautiful souls stuck in robots, or inadequate bodies; I think that has to do with how I rank things, the soul, the ego, consciousness, individuality, come first, and themes of 'trapped' souls, through contrast, highlight that importance, that order of things.

Reminds me of that Korean movie "The Beauty Inside". I always compare it to Shrek, because Shrek is a story about "the beauty inside" as well, but wherein they reject the beautiful appearances that was offered to them, and I despise this movie for it, but in The Beauty Inside, they have a theme where they insist on choosing good bodies for themselves by the end (long story short: the main protagonist changes body every day, but through love can stabilize his form, and so he waits for a good body to stabilize his form)

Given a choice, why not choose beauty? Most souls view their physical vehicle as a constraint, and anyone would prefer for it to match their grand and beautiful soul if given the choice. I view any kind of acceptance of a mediocre body (Shrek) as a renunciation to any kind of dignity and moral grandeur of the soul, it is giving up on the ability of the ideals of your mind to direct and elevate everything that is physical, that is freedom I speak of, it's why Shrek rubs me the wrong way: It wants to be life-affirming, with its songs and fun, but thematically it's an abandonment of the sublime; of the order of things, of the supremacy of mind over matter; Ok, Shrek, it's good to "accept yourself as you are", but now claim life, claim all the good matter, the good beauty, the good shit, everywhere, ffs, why accept yourself as only a half-measure, say "Yes" to yourself and then do nothing to promote it, to make it best, to make it harmonious?

>>25086717
I don't do any drugs.

>>25086720
>pretending to like stoner music
yikes

>>25086700
damn i wish i had gone to this shit they don't allow phones tho no way i'm giving up my fucking phone to anyone

Why does mainstream slang like to appropriate peripheral lingo so much? Slop, incel, looksmaxx, chad, mog...

>>25086722
I like songs that give me ideas. I consider them mines. This is my favorite album of all time, actually a DVD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzZimagUjM

>>25086737
every style give ideas anon. Can't imagine anything but blurry, disunited, surface level thoughts emerging from your selection of tracks.

Specifically, I only feel some nostalgia and overwhelming confusion in what you linked, and I understand why the other anon called it "stoner music", sounds like what a confused and nostalgic-for-childhood weed smoker would listen to. What kind of thoughts even emerges for you then?

>>25086703
I'll be the first to say that you have a point that no one wants to acknowledge because it secretly evokes resentment in a lot of sexually disenfranchised men (I've seen radical feminists make this observation online) and because accepting it so gives credence to the idea that there's no objective morality or any standard by which we can measure and judge our conduct and that all there is, is power.

>>25086754
>>25086754
I mean ideas for my own songs. None of the songs give me any sense of nostalgia or anything like that. It's all about the various sounds they made at certain points in the track, like how people use certain samples but don't necessarily think the entire song is the best.

>>25086719
There's a few sources of influence. That girl from Invincible, and the girl from Eternals, for example. However, they start as soulmates at the appropriate physical ages, but the girl stops aging while the boy continues.

>>25084976
I live within day-trip driving distance of both the sublimely zany Pyrostyro guy and the sublimely organized Technology Connections guy whose sense of humor tends to rather more dry. I suppose my favorite scenes either featured of themselves is Pyro petting a squirrel on the railing of his 2nd floor patio as if it were a domestic cat, and Techno strolling around horizontally and vertically enormous renewable energy infrastructure. The former is a whole lot of silly fun, but the latter is the ideal of policy wonk.

>>25086537
I would think that they’re probably gonna have passionate sex.

>>25086791
Do women really?

>>25086803
I mean, it’s fucking Valentine’s Day.

>>25086757
These are things best left unsaid... something best communicated with a wink.

>>25086638
Didn't you talk about this "book" last thread?

>check a celebrity/author's wikipedia
>they have been married more than 4 times
I'd understand remarrying if your wife died but how the hell do you end up marrying and divorcing more than 3 times? Like, does not the 'wives' question why the ex-wife divorced first?

>>25086860
women like "a man who can commit" nevermind that he also divorced a bunch of times

>>25086863
So its like gambling where they expect to be the 'lucky one'?

>>25086864
yeah and if not women still come out ahead financially on divorce so no risk to them

>>25086852
Yeah?

For two years now I've been driving myself mad over romantic feelings I have for a cousin I hadn't met before in my life, and wondering if she is actually giving me signals of reciprocity. I'd really like someone to talk to about this, maybe help me figure out she also likes me. If you're interested write me at smallsanctuary@protonmail

Things are slowly getting better. It's been more than a month since my father's passing. I still feel like shit at times, and there have been moments when I've felt very low, but I think that, overall, I am doing better, though I still miss a lot. I don't know if I'll ever stop missing him.
I think I've started to take life much more seriously now. I had lost other relatives before, cousins, uncles, and my grandfather, but now it is different. Death always seemed so distant. Everyone I had lost before had been at a very old age, or after being ill for a long time. But my father's was sudden and unexpected. I could just as easily lose any of my other loved ones, or die myself.

wasted another day off doing jack shit, lets see gooned until 3pm, went grocery shopping that took like 2 hours, came home, shitposted on here the rest of the day, also random naps while listening to audiobooks, i swear i will be productive tomorrow yeah right

>>25086957
r u the dude who found his dad after he roped lol? that must be traumatic than a mf.

Just found out a used book I had spent $45 on, which I was under the impression of that it was rare & out of print, was actually published in 2022 and that I could have purchased it new for half the price from Indigo. I feel like an idiot. For some reason Amazon only has used copies of this specific for sale, and TYPICALLY in that case it really is out of print, but I happened to Google the title just now and it's $23 at Indigo. Next time before I order ANYTHING from the 'zon, not even just used books but new ones too, I am checking Indigo first; and I'll be making that a habit. The book was Zothique: The Final Cycle by Clark Ashton Smith btw. Why do these dying Earth books cost so much money by the way. A copy of the complete Dying Earth by Jack Vance is $45 CAD NEW, so in that case I really did save some money (I had bought a used copy from the 'zon for $30). Fucking hell. Inflation is out of control in this country and books are so expensive now.

my sister makes a fairly high salary in the city and she always gets this great food like cookunity meals delivered that shit is so fire also she gets those fishwife x fly by jing salmon tins and shit. the funny thing is she only has an english degree but still eatin good.

>>25086976
idk dude amazon has it for 20 bucks the shipping is like a week tho

>>25086905
Correction: it's @proton.me

Women trying to flirt makes me cringe. 99% of them are bad at it.

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>>25086980
The algo ripped me off. Downright Jewed me. I'm pissed. But I only have myself to blame.
>>25086994
I wish an attractive girl would flirt with me ;_;

>>25086994
it's usually some annoying thing where they try to make fun of u for sth and it's like idc what ur normie ass thinks if u thought that was gonna get me worked up and engaged nope

>>25087001
u can see that's cuz they didn't have it in stock, so that price is from one of the 3rd party merchants or whatever they call them. when it says shit like "10 options" it's not being sold by amazon but by some shitty used bookstore in who knows where.

I need to stop doomscrolling twitter.

>>25087003
>>25087003
It's better when girls talk to you normally. Their flirting is awkward. A lot of them are also bad at doing the eye thing or other body language stuff and it doesn't make them look sexy. I just stare at them, not aroused.

>>25087007
No shit.

>>25087013
i have autism so i usually only find out after when some girl i'm with tells me after i talk to a chick "omg she was flirting with u so much gawd" and i'm like huh was she?

>>25087018
my life would have been way better if i had oded on opioids in like 1998

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Sup you doon on this lovely Friday night lads?

>>25087050
i just did some yoga ass shit i'm too sore to lift weights now i'm gonna go to bed and listen to an audiobook

>>25087050
I be besmirching myself with horry doings fulsome and froward that reeketh of impurity and uncleanliness base. Yea tis mine own hory ways wallowing in the mire of disgustful filth that marketh me a bedirten wretch in these benighted daies.

Looking back it should have been obvious I had OCD. In this moment I cannot stop replaying a 10 second scene from the animated Grinch Christmas movie and it's been happening for like an hour now and it won't stop. I also cannot ever imagine myself playing super smash brothers because every time I try, my brain spawns in a red turtle shell which prevents my character from moving across the stage at all--this has been the case since I was probably 10. When I would pray with my parents at night when I was little, I had to pray the exact same random thing every time or it would be hard to sleep. I can still recite that random string of words with a 4-year-old's cadence and diction by sheer muscle memory. I also had an intrusive thought of an orthodox monk I saw on youtube but he would get sick and turn green in this cartoonish way in something like a 2 second looping gif in my head that lasted like a year that would randomly for maybe 10 minutes at a time appear once a day minimum. I don't think I've ever told anyone these things.

So, uh, how do you pronounce Baudrillard?

>>25087130
boy-drill-hard

>>25087139
you actually say the two 'L's? I thought they'd be like a 'y', so like bo-dri-ard. hmm. ok thanks

>>25087145
That's Spanish.

>>25087148
ah. thanks

Ideologies are just costumes people dress their tribalisms in. Why do people argue about them with such fervor when they are not rational in that sense? I can't imagine that a chud ever went "hmm, I guess I like being buttfucked by immigrants and the government now?" because somebody dunked on him epic style on social media.

>>25087171
When you have shared fundamental morals and political premises, discourse can be highly productive. But yes, when there's an essential, intrinsic incompatibility, it's just warfare via words.

>>25087171
And it's also quite interesting how often criticism tends to originate from pre-rational, pre-critical motivations. How many people throughout history criticized christianity or morality itself not for what it is, but because it told them that being a degenerate is wrong? Or because delegitimizing the criticized thing in question was an important political matter to furthering the critic's own agenda.

before I make a fool out of myself at the local library, it's pronounced "Pinch-in", ye?

Symptoms:
>steady pressure in my head around noon today, lasting about 30 minutes
>small black moving things around my house I only see out of the corner of my eye, gone when I look directly at them
>hard to recognize words or construct meaning from letters in bursts, had to re-read a page twice even though I was reading all the words and not skimming
>hands went numb, arms felt heavy, seemed to be moving on "autopilot" around 3pm for 20 minutes or so

>>25087192
Pine-chon.

>>25087195
What a coincidence, I was just hearing about how HP Lovecraft first come to fame was for writing about his symptoms shortly before his death, then I checked this thread.

>>25087195
RIP in advance.

you don't like Bruckner???
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4u4E0NvyAY0

>>25087195
If it's one day, get some rest. If it persists longer than that, as a person who needs to be literally dying in order to go to the ER/doctor -- which in fact did happen once and they saved my life -- go to the ER/doctor.

Yet another example of a TV show episode where two characters argue whether to raise their kid Jewish, Christian, nothing, or other, and the Jewish side is given more support and background, and ultimately wins.

you always say write my thoughts
but i need to right my thoughts

Could the idea of evil be a cope, in the sense that we would sooner accept bad things happening due to a fault of character rather than intractable innate drives or irreconcilable conflicts of interest, because we have no real control over the latter things, but we presume that character faults are just what they are, unnatural deviations from a norm, a "misfiring" or a failure of humanity?

>>25087050
Thinkin' 'bout sex

>>25087249
>and the Jewish side is given more support and background, and ultimately wins.
was it a contrived argument though? or was there genuine persuasion at play?

>>25087273
It was
>impasse
>impasse
>jewish man comes home to white christian fiance making some jewish food, ie conceding

>>25087171
>Ideologies are just costumes people dress their tribalisms in.
After reading your entire comment, I can't say you've justified your thesis very well.
>>25087275
>folding under zero pressure
why do people do this?

>>25087284
>why do people do this?
Which goes back to my original point -- the side of the White Christians showing tolerance and giving in to the Jewish minority is a virtue; vice versa would be a travesty and never allowed on TV.

>>25085309
>I wouldn't fuck just anyone, but I would fuck a woman that I wouldn't look twice at if I passed her in the street
you're brown and you never had sex, right?

>>25087249
Does it really matter whether the kid is a jew raised as a christian, a jew raised as a jew, or a jew raised secular? Jewishness is something you are born as, something that you get a say about no more than you get a say about what colour hair you want or how tall you want to be. Or at least that seems to be the general attitude insofar as those groups who care about somebody's jewishness - jews and chuds - are concerned.

>>25087285
>White Christians showing tolerance
I think it's a display of fear, actually, because there's some doubt as to how they'll react if they don't get their way. More to the point though, what's the problem with being raised Jewish? Is it really so bad?

>>25087296
>More to the point though, what's the problem with being raised Jewish? Is it really so bad?
Oh I don't have an issue with that. My issue is the Jewish side always gets their way,
>My Jewishness and desire to raise our kid Jewish trumps everything else.
At least whenever I see it in media. The white Christian partner always roles over because they're meant to be the tolerant one without real culture.

>>25087295
Jewish temple, Jewish camp, Jewish food, Jewish tradition, Jewish holidays, and most importantly, Jewish community. These things matter. Can't go both to Jewish temple and Catholic mass.

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>>25087302
Yet he says the meek shall inherit the earth. What a paradox!

>>25087302
Maybe you could just...stop consuming mainstream (read:jewish) media? Prior generations didn't dedicate all that effort into making great works of culture just so that their thin-blooded descendants would ignore them in favor of artistically worthless jewish slop.

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>sex
>religion
>politics
Take these away and most people find no reason to wag their tongue
tsk tsk

>>25087322
Those three things are actually the same thing. The will to life inherent to all creations of nature.

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>>25087328
>The will to life inherent to all creations of nature.
Surviving aint thriving tho. To prosper and find joy one needs to look further than base primal instincts and glorified tribalism.
To be human is to go beyond, lest we remain animals wearing fancy clothing

>>25087334
Humans are a kind of animal.

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>>25087338
You are very astute my young fellow, I'll give you that much.

>>25087322
can we talk about nothing instead? it's always on my mind these days.

for example, in media like movies and games, or tv shows, nothingness is depicted as a black screen, a void, an empty space, or darkness, but all those things exist. if darkness is a thing, then using it to represent nothingness is misleading; ditto the rest. isn’t the only thing that can be said about nothingness is that it’s inconceivable? that even imagining it as a dark void, an empty space, fails to grasp it precisely because it’s an ungraspable… thing?
>inb4 retard
>inb4 shut up retard
>inb4 this is the worst subject of contemplation possible
>inb4 darkness et al. are not things
then why can darkness be named? isn’t being named the status of a thing?

>>25087356
>if darkness is a thing, then using it to represent nothingness is misleading
What would you have them do instead?

>>25084997
This is what the cliche "youth is wasted on the young" is actually about. Which is not to say it is all about fucking, just that your out of control hormones blinds you from understanding how profound out of control hormones actually are and that prevents you from using them to your advantage.

>>25087357
I don’t want to critique that media shorthand per se because it gets a point across. However, talking about experiencing actual non-existence… saying it’s darkness and leaving it there doesn’t seem to do it justice. For one, someone needs to identify the darkness. If the darkness is being identified, someone is in that darkness to identify it. It’s no longer darkness but darkness observed. It’s a concept of darkness but not darkness. It needs to be unobserved to be nothing.

>>25084976
I wish to suffer, and I do. The world is just.

Mom beat cancer and i wish she didnt.
She's a pain to be around.
I keep contact as a deathwatch because i dont want her to rot into the wooden floors, but im starting to hope she does, i picture it daily.

>>25087356
>>25087356
'Nothing' doesnt exist inside and space, nothingness is therefore inconceivable to human mind
I think youre just reaching the stage in life where you realize that human language is really faulty and is best not taking seriously
>A monk asked Master Chao-chou, "Has a dog the Buddha Nature or not?" Chao-chou said, "Mu!"
Mu is 無, which is the character that represents nothingness. He is literally saying no-thing. In zen buddhism they consider the pinnacle of development a mind of emptiness, like a container ready to be filled with what is required. Emptiness and nothingness are not the same.
Also I kinda trailed off and forgot what point i was trying to make lol
Perhaps you are a zen master since 'Nothing' have been on your mind lately? haha

[refrains from posting rest of the day so everyone on here thinks I have a date]

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Welp, it's time to jack off, do some blinkers and listen to my audiobook till I pass tf out.

>>25085309
What the fuck are you even talking about

>>25085626
Weak

>>25087374
It's not inconceivable, per se. If you have the capacity for abstract thought you will be able to handle it just fine. Like negative numbers.
Then again this whole thing was drilled to me as a kid. So maybe I'm just being precious.
I once had a conversation about death with a lover of my father's, who was suicidal and had tried to kill herself. And she seemed to genuinely not understand nothingness as a concept.
But she is dumb, her family is dumb, her race is dumb. And so is my father for putting a baby in her, twice. And so am I, by virtue of being the aforementioned geriatric idiot's son with an unrelated woman.

>>25087422
>If you have the capacity for abstract thought you will be able to handle it just fine. Like negative numbers.
okay, I'm not saying youre wrong but as a person who hasnt really put much thought into it that sounds wrong prima facie.
I definitely know there is a BIG, HUMONGUS, GIGANTIC difference between an abstract understanding of nothingness and putting a minus sign next to a 4.
-4, look its so easy!

>>25087398
https://youtu.be/9wxI4KK9ZYo?si=UPqWQJrEMNl5CvRS

>>25086722
it’s not stoner music at all lmao that’s like calling ambient or ag cook stoner music.

>>25087374
>Perhaps you are a zen master since 'Nothing' have been on your mind lately?
Brother you are tempting me to think more highly of myself than I should. Nah, the reality is it just piques my curiosity because, of everything sensory in this world, I have an experience, but nothingness? it’s a totally new frontier.
>>25087422
Yeah, I can conceive of “nothingness” by definition, the same understanding we share in order to have this conversation, that it’s a void, formless and empty, etc., etc., but what about the experience of nothing? if I was experiencing nothing, would I realise it? if I realised it, would it still be nothing? because, to realise it, I would have to be there to identify it. can things like conscious observers exist inside nothingness? wouldn’t I have to not exist to experience nothingness? yes, but then who’s experiencing nothingness? no one; certainly not me, since I don’t exist.

>>25087431
Nothingness can also be symbolically represented. It's just 0.
But try to imagine minus four sheep.

>>25087442
guys wtf is this stoner music https://youtu.be/PJRuFE42zZI?si=WiSs3wIXMZC3Z_sA

>>25087448
You definitionally cannot experience nothing. A thing is the pre-requisite to experience, iirc.

>>25087455
I think anatta is the answer.

>>25087432
It always weirds me out how much effect Trainspotting had on this song. Solo, Lou did not really get great until New York, before then he was fighting his counter culture reputation and pop star dreams. New York was the start of the change but it did not really happen until Songs for Drella, the death of Andy who was pretty much his father musically speaking had a huge effect. I've only recently realized this but Lou between Transformer and New York is my preferred solo Lou and Berlin is probably my favorite. I saw him on the Ecstasy tour and then stopped following him, never been able to bring myself to listen to those last three albums or even the recording of what he wanted to do with the Berlin tour.

>>25087482
nice copypasta

>>25087264
meh, I'm rather optimist towards human capabilities, pessimist with what most people do with it. I'd say the mind and the will is capable to rule over innate drives in pretty much anyone, and If they can't achieve it it's because people lack strength, honesty, or because they've spent too much time with certain beliefs and sunk cost fallacy kicks in, or because they can't be properly alone and so must always lose their individuality in favor of a collective mindset. You could say these things make it so that people don't have "choice", because their circumstances overpowers their strength.

I still think there is a difference between saying people, no matter their circumstances, can't change for the better because the will is too weak compared to animal instincts, and saying that the circumstances makes it too hard for some minds to become good, I think I believe the latter. That sounds leftist that I believe circumstances matter, but leftists specifically believe *material* circumstances matter, thinking that making the poor richer will make them change their behavior is too reductive in my opinion. When I think of circumstances I think way more about culture, how much people around you leave you be, alone, how much they promote self-reliance, commerce, virtues, intellectual satisfactions over sensuousness.

If niggers remains idiots throughout their lives I blame this much more on culture, and strong memes, than material constraints, or irremediable genetics. And bad ideas reproduce and take centuries to unfold, it's why it seems as if certain behavior are unmovable, like a law of nature. Stupid idiots are stupid, but I never see so much of a capability gap, like I see in animals, much more a sensibility gap, a value gap, a cultural gap. The only reason I see poverty sustain itself is because poverty breeds group-thinking behaviors, by far the strongest meme one should protect against, but I remain an optimist for the human will; people are not evil by nature, or inevitably evil, that's my view.

Do you ever see οr read something so shocking that it literally evokes a feeling of "evil" in you that makes all your other moral values seem like performative virtue signaling in comparison? I mostly only get that feeling when topics like child abuse and torture come up but last night
I was watching some rando documentary that suddenly went hard-core into DRUG ADDICTION BAD and it kinda freaked me out.
Would you say that addiction is a form of innate evil?

>>25087482
quite funny since at the start of the film there’s a discussion about how even though some of his lou reed’s solo stuff is ‘alright’, you know in you’re heart it’s all shite.

>>25087690
No. I’m not even sure how much I believe in addiction (as an illness). It’s just fun to do those things. No one gets addicted to broccoli; it’s gambling, nicotine, class A drugs and all the other most fun stuff in the world.

>>25087690
Addiction is like a subscription to evil:
* valuation of sensuousness over the self
* lack of self-control

hmm, I guess you can be addicted to work, in which case it's not so much sensuousness that is promoted, maybe just escapism, avoiding boredom at all cost, but at the cost of greater intellectual development, because you never introspect and you despise it. I guess addiction is better defined as any very strong habit that prevents actual physical or intellectual development, that hinders growth. hmm, thinking further I guess you can be addicted to working out, or learning stuff, what comes out from "addiction" then, that inability to stop and take a pause, is an excessive development and therefore an unbalanced body or mind, burdened by too much muscles, or physical pain, or dumb inapplicable knowledge in this example of working out or learning "too much".

Well, then, whether too little or too much growth, addiction, that strength of habit that makes you incapable to pause, makes you slave to a pleasure or some activity of effort, and always leads to some kind of imbalance.

> innate evil
What's "innate" evil? I don't think anyone is born addicted. not sure what that means then, innate in what?

should i go to the gym today? i'm kind of sore, and also it's valentine's day and i don't want to have to endure locker room banter about going to expensive restaurants and then having sex which i already had to put up with all week. man FUCK normies. can't i work out in peace.

(This is more of a question that does not deserve its own thread.)

My father is a literature teacher and he has written some short essays on his favorite writers, some are long dead, but some are contemporary.

I think the content is great and I thought it would do great as book of its own, an intro to the world of literature. The problem is that for each article he points to a fragment of the writer's work, between 2 to 5 paragraphs, no longer than a book spread, but connected to what is being said on the article, so it's no use without them. I'm concerned we hit a brick wall for the project here, as we would have to ask for the rights of reproduction for each individual book/publisher.

But perhaps I'm overthinking this and to reproduce a page of prose like this is something they would let it slide like an ordinary quotation, and ultimately consider good exposure if we credit the editions? What do you think?

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I was stressing out over how my life isn't where it is and having so much to do I decided to just go ahead and paint traditionally.
I feel more at peace mentally. Turns out having something to focus on really does help your mental health.

>>25086537
I would hope she could bring me leftovers.

>>25087750
r u gonna fap imagining all the sex they're having? could be hot

Aaaaaaaqqh the postal service has not received my book yet and they're meant to give it to me Monday aaaaaaaqqhhh

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>>25086708
>>25086709
I mean further back in time than in recent memory. As far as I know, the sexual exploitation of women (by the bourgeoisie) didn't garner notice until around the Industrial Revolution in places like Paris, which begs the question of what the aristocracy was up to before Industrial Revolution. Based on monarchs like Henry VIII, I can surmise that they were generally immoral, but to what extent I don't know.

>>25087805
British Grooming gangs, which by the way are still happening and still being covered up. The UK's Department of Justice recently deleted THEIR WHOLE LEGAL ARCHIVE because there was a politician who wanted to make those cases public. This literally happened this Wednesday or Thursday.
If you don't know, in much of Europe and the UK almost all criminal cases are private and can't be accessed by the public.

>>25087813
ministry of justice.

Time to go buy my not girlfriend flowers

>>25087828
simp/10, I'm enjoying just relaxing and not having to worry about that.

>>25087805
There's a lot before then industrial revolution. There's almost always a push for hygiene in disease outbreaks, and usually that involved starting registers of whores and examinations (yeah medicine knew nothing then but that doesn't mean they didn't try). There's even tourist directories in the regency period in case it was your first time looking for a whore of a particular speciality.
Even older than registers and medical exams, sumptuary laws are generally mostly aimed at whores, because they're the only ones with incomes outsizing their social station which allow them to buy garments above that station.

>>25086081
When is Dwarf Fortress going to be affordable? I played Songs Of Syx and it was so much annoying grinding and dying.

>>25087829
I'm trying to have sex, anon. I am relaxed. I've played this song before... la lala la...

My mom said the neighbor came over at 11am to tell me happy Valentine's day, but I was still sleeping (I usually get up about 12pm).

>>25087892
Probably when Xmas rolls around again, also while you wait you can look up Soulash and Soulash 2, there's some political fuckery with the Dev but if you are looking for something like DF: Adventure Mode look those games up, they are pretty solid.

>>25087895
Its a sign to start waking up early.

older fella at work discovered i knew who tarkovsky was. this, apparently, qualified me as a person of depth (i didn’t have the heart to say i don’t rate him at all) and now he lends me films to watch over the weekend, except our tastes are a little different, so now my homework is i have to watch 2010: the year we made contact and give a verdict on monday.

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kino

>>25087895
I never got this idea that Valentine's day extends to people you are non-romantically love. I'd be creeped out if I had some sort of hag come over to wish me a happy VDay.

>>25087907
It could be worse and having someone who might have different tastes than you is just an opportunity to give him homework back and if he complains about it just say you didn't complain when you were reading Tarkovsky. Eventually the corrosion of each other's personality will shape you into a slightly more rounded person.

>>25087910
They were inside the house, a mom and her daughter. It's happened before. My room doesn't have a door, and last time I could see the daughter looking at me because my dad was giving her a bowling ball to have which were next to my room.

>>25087913
tarkovsky is a filmmaker you’re right though it could be worse.

>>25087919
>my room doesn't have a door
>there's a bowling ball in my room
>I was "asleep" but I could see her looking at me
I would be looking at you too, what kind of fucking weird Dickensian life are you living?

>>25087922
I just have a weird living arrangement with my parents because they're fixing up the guest bedroom. I'm not sure what room it's supposed to be, but it doesn't have a door.

>>25087922
i think you misread him. there is one jarring aspect though which is why the fuck was dad trying to give the neighbours a bowling ball but you know what americans are like.

>>25087910
There's 3 types of love, faggot.

>>25087931
All of them gay... Like you...

>>25085007
Women have too many rights and not enough wrongs

>>25087931
there are*

>>25087929
It's rare for anyone in America to own a bowling ball because they are expensive so only people super into the hobby have one, she might be trying to get into the hobby or maybe she just likes how the ball looks. It's weird but not outside the norm, though as a burger myself, I consider anyone into bowling to the point they own their own ball as weird.
Who knows, maybe they do have a bowling alley that is a "Bring Your Own Ball" alley?

>>25086757
Someone is going to have to address this sooner or later with sexual reperations.

>>25087941
very american reply.

>>25087944
dibs not it

>>25087899
I have Soulash 1 but not 2. Why are so many devs neoliberal apologists? For a group that seems to complain about its existence they love perpetuating it.

>>25087946
Nobody said anything about Americans, Paco until you showed up.

>>25087952
pretty clearly british

>>25087951
NTA, I recommend KeeperRL.

>>25087951
>Why are so many devs neoliberal apologists?
What makes him neoliberal apologists? He just didn't want same sex marriage and interracial (as in humans marrying orks and elves) in his game. I think he was kinda retarded for then flipping out and updating his game specifically to break the mods that people made for that type of content, he needs to understand that when you make something and allow mods people are just gonna do what you want and you'll just have to deal with it. At the same time I appreciate him sticking to his beliefs, even if he did it in such an unpolished way but I imagine he was just getting tired of being harassed by the rainbow brigade about it all the time.

>>25087962
I think i have that lemme check

>>25087970
Oh so he's the other way around, I see. I was more or less talking about other developers being pro-Ukraine and all that shit.

>>25087971
I have Keepers Toll not KeeperRL nevermind.

>>25087361
But I've become exponentially hornier as an adult when I used to settle for humping the bed at night.

>>25087960
Why them specifically?

I always want to write, but I'm always under threat of being harassed by my parents. I know I'm able to channel this trauma into my writing to "enhance" it, and truth be told I willingly endured it under the pseud belief I'd improve, but now that I've got the ability I don't want to do it to the stories I've dreamed up. The characters that have comforted me in so many ways while I tried to get them out of my mind in one piece. I don't want to continue the cycle of abuse by taking it out on my characters!

>>25087980
eh? i meant i’m british. no ‘paco’s in england.

>>25087985
Write one work where you channel the abuse and hardship, and another where you keep it out.

>>25087976
He is Polish so he is probably anti-Russian considering the geopolitics and frankly how Germany and Russia both put them into camps to genocide them, I assume most Polish are very sensitive about German and Russian relations for that reason.

>>25087978
nta, but KeeperRL looks like its based off of Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2, so if you don't mind playing older games with shitty controls (there may be a mod or a remake that allows more more modern UI and movement) you should play those. They are considered classics and have spawned their own little sub-genre because of how much people loved DK 1 and 2, but I have a feeling it might also be nostalgia fueled as well.

>>25087990
Yes but plenty of ACK-meds

>>25088008
? think you’re on the wrong track here. i’m not making a point about immigration, just thought it was a faux pas to call someone who spelt ‘neighbours’ the british english way a mexican lol

>>25087991
I have way too many like the latter in the pipeline and I genuinely cannot begin to think of anything like the former because it hurts too much. I feel better by not acknowledging it, like how a wound gets healed up by the body. Addressing it causes the wound to open up and I'm left gasping for air. Literally, I am so sensitive and under so much stress my body breaks down out of nowhere sometimes. Last year around this time I was so sick from begging for some peace and quiet that I couldn't do anything but sleep for two months. I want to experience the illusion of happiness, not torture myself more than life already does.

>>25087706
>I don't think anyone is born addicted.
nigga...

>>25085014
Who thinks like this? Not even Stacy meets my standards. 3DPD isn't a meme kid - it's a way of life.

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are women with PCOS protο-trannies? they apparently grow facial hair and have fertility problems due to lacking lady hormones

>>25085014
for the vast majority οf women, they apparently have to have some emotional attachment with someone to want sex (if they aren't a 10/10) unless they are drunk/high/emotional

anon tell your mum i might be a little late tonight.

I'm not sure I'm gonna want sex with my girl tonight because we gonna eat at her favorite place for lunch and she gοnna be gassy...

>>25087813
I'd heard about the British grooming gangs in passing, and after doing just the tiniest bit of research on it just now, I hadn't realized just how prolific an issue this is. There are so many videos and R*ddit threads on it. Watching western governments rapidly lose legitimacy in the eyes of common folk has never felt so visceral as it does now. It genuinely feels like a reckoning is looming over the horizon.

>>25088017
I'd say try keeping a journal then but if you prefer not to think about it at all, then not sure what to say outside of getting a therapist or confidant or gf to talk about these things with.

>>25088044
You could earn your brown wings.

>>25088027
I'm a man and I feel this way too. Sex without emotion is for lowly brutes and lecherous fiends.

When I have a kid, every time they use the word "can't" for something I ask or want them to do, I'm gonna make a dadjoke along the lines of "the only 'can't' in this house is Immanuel Kant" hehehe

>>25088052
I saw that there's actual domestic slaves in the UK that the police just ignore and nonprofit orgs have to rescue them.

HEAD LIKE A HOLE

>>25088052
>>25087813
>tfw not a paki to take advantage of prime cunny in the UK without consequence from the law
why live

>>25088073
>>25088052
british people who are very into american politics and ‘issues’ are cringe. never even considered i’d have to deal with the opposite, yanks weighing in on uk current events
>There are so many R*ddit threads on it.
argh god

>>25088053
I have a journal but I'd like to do so much more. I'm trapped here and the hardest part has been accepting I need to let my dreams go. Because I wasn't allowed to blossom when I was younger, the age of slop has ensured I won't be given a fair shake. I don't even have a real job. All I do is suffer, endure, and wait for the nightmare to finally end.

>>25088083
Don't call me a Yank. I'm an American.

>>25088083
Bizarre post to make. We're talking about international child sex trafficking, not the rivalry between Tories and Whigs. Now that there are strong sources suggesting that this website is a honeypot, I wouldn't be surprised if you're some employee for the Five Eyes doing damage control.

>>25088027
I unironically believe the entire gen z sexdemic could be reversed overnight if women were

>1). Banned from SSRIs (barring exceptional cases)
It's been known for decades that SSRIs kill libido and are massively overprescribed. There's studies now that show SSRIs actually PERMANENTLY dampen libido. Apparently some retarded figure like 1 in 4 women are on SSRIs, and out of this group, something like 60% are Gen Z or Millennials.

>2). Prescribed small abouts of test to increase their libido.
Nothing to add here except, I mean come on, don't women want to have more sex? It's like a win-win for everyone involved. The promises of the free love movement were that everyone would be fucking, world peace can be achieved with a small amount of test.

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>>25088093
>Tories and Whigs
very funny

>>25088096
Chemical castration was huge at my highschool.

>>25088020
vague posting always hides retardation, say something or shut up half-witted anon

>>25088093
>rivalry between Tories and Whigs
This might be relevant if you're a Waugh reader, but they're not the two main rival parties now (it's Labour and the Tories, and probably has been since before you were born).
That said, the Whigs and following parties have an extraordinary sex scandal rate and depth.
Nta btw just find it weird to call anon bizarre when you're both talking about shit you're barely familiar with like winning against another idiot makes you not an idiot

Humans aren't very good at technology.

>>25088163
it also wouldn’t be relevant in waugh’s day (nor even his parents’ day), which i guess makes you another idiot in this lineup.

>>25088163
>That said, the Whigs and following parties have an extraordinary sex scandal rate and depth.
Do you mean to say that members of the Whig and other aforementioned parties are involved in sex scandals?

>>25088174
whig party hasn’t existed for almost 200 years. there have been big parliamentary sex scandals in uk in the 2000s - both sides but largely tories implicated.

4ui12

I've noticed that some of the advice in Sun Tzu's Art of War doesn't apply to all of the strategy games I play. I thought it was supposed to be universal.

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this image is how it feels to smoke a drunk cigarette alone

What an idiot I was to think it would last forever.

>>25088260
Only some things last forever.

>>25088173
>The liberals were relevant in Waugh's day
Lol, his kid formed the Dog Lovers Party for a reason m8, and Vile Bodies is set when Labour is getting into minority government because Whigs are losing seats more than popularity.
>>25088190
People don't stop calling the Liberal party Whigs just because they reform, it's still the same people in the same seats

>>25088271
anachronism really

>>25088266
The only permanent thing is change

Society is reclining
The West has fallen asleep

>>25088290
and income tax

>>25088294
They've been saying that for nearly 100,000 years.

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Good lord that guy was such a baby. Hope he goes back to the schizo board he came from

if i were making a film for the american audience i’d use a dog bark to signify friendliness. united states territory. if i were in the east, i’d use it for behind enemy lines. wonder if i’m right on that instinct.

>>25088294
nooo, i cant coom, therefore the west has fallen

Korean wasians are such fucked up people, have never had a single good experience with one of them. Re-education camps until they can figure out how to participate in polite society. Also happy Valentine's day, I'm incel this year </3

>>25088350
why is it always about sex with you freaks? nobody was talking about that, put the porn down

>>25088359
sex, libido, and desire isn't the basis of everything, but it's the basis of a lot, and when it is the basis, it's one of the most powerful forces

My racism can ultimately be boiled down to the fact I don't want the supply of young, attractive white women to ever run dry.

>>25088350
>>25088310
damn it retards I was trying to make a pun by using "reclining" instead of "declining" and you took me seriously

>>25088364
fuuuug

sorry i was reclining and declining when i made the reply

>>25088364
berry funny joke !!!!

>>25088364
>>25088373
I thought it was funny

>>25088364
I was farming snape grass with my left when I read your comment on my phone with the other hand.

yo yo, anon on the mic
uh, uh, uh
i finna get based
phineas and ferb

>tfw not Jewishw
why live

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>>25088388
the crime of not getting a joke is misdemeanour compared to trying to be funny and not being - which is capital punishment.

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can someone else make the new pls

>>25088409
This one's still active