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>be me>be jerkin it just minding my business not bothering nobody>be suddenly cooked to death by smouldering ashes out of fucking nowhere>be forever petrified in the act for all posterity to remember me bytfw
Jew fatigue.
>>25200183I love trying new and strange foods and drinks. Especially drinks. I suffer greatly from the fact that the asian countries have so man drinks I can't buy, and the ones I can try are vastly overpriced. What a horrible life. How can I go on knowing that's I'll never get to try bamboo or osmanthus flavored pepsi?
reinventing metaphysics from first principles
>>25200212Well, go on.
genetically speaking, how different is a present day Roman from a Roman from 2000 years ago?
>>25200219A=A
>>25200226https://youtu.be/UfOK0evCqZY?si=mRaF3iljJ2ySnrey
Do you ever wake up composing prose that you think is pretty good, then once you are fully awake you cant really remember it?
>>25200249When I'm falling asleep, I think of sentences so beautiful and creative that I would read them a thousand times over in another's book, but then when I try to work on my book, I'm an utter retard.
>>25200249Sometimes I read my old writing and wish I could write that well.
>>25200183I wonder if the Hellenophiles of today are making a strategic omission by neglecting to mention that the ancient greeks practiced normative pederasty or they genuinely just forget/push that fact out their minds.It's not politically convenient to anyone and especially if you are trying to make them out to be a model of something.
>>25200190Didn't the Pompeians die slowly of ash inhalation because they wouldn’t leave their homes? It's not like the volcano suddenly zapped them into statues.
The only thing that makes me anxious is thinking of my heart.
>>25200274Its annoying
>>25200326I was definitely more creative when I was younger. I'm more well read now but I think it's crushed my confidence as a writer
>>25200397Fuck you just reminded me i forgot to take my blood pressure medicine for like the 3rd day in a row. Now im gonna think about my heart all night at work
>>25200383did they tho?
just when you think a stupid thread is finally gonna die some retard has to fucking reply.
>>25200445Just when you thought your stupid post isn't going to get any (you)s a cool anon fucking replies.
>>25200458Do you want me to say mean things to you? No? Ok then don't say mean things to me.
Book Reviewbrah
I can read french now, are you proud of me lit?
>>25200434Seems like it to me.
>>25200482>seemsyour case wouldn't even make it to a grand jury
I wonder how many of the people I talk to on here are third worlders.
damn it's midnight and i'm drinking a protein shake i'm def gonna have to get up and piss at like 4am but idc i need nutrients i worked out way too fucking hard yesterday oh god
It's my birthday and I promised myself I would celebrate it and I invited a friend to go out to drink but the bar was closed then we went to another bar and it was shit and I was already about the give up but my friend convinced me to try another bar right by it and it was great and we had fun and smoked cigars and now I'm home and drunk and happy and for once life feels quite alright.
>>25200183I can't tell whether I'm becoming schizo or whether every fucking post I see on the internet these days is AI slop. Every third fucking post on hackerrnews / linkedin / local facebook uses these trigger phrases like "quietly" or "and honestly? _" or "not _-- just _". I think this may finally cure me of my internet addiction, so it's probably for the best I suppose
>>25200645idk sometimes phrases just get into vocab how like five years ago everyone started calling stuff "adjacent" meanwhile before that it wasn't common etc.
>>25200645Linkedin and facebook are like bot mecca, of course you're gonna see ai posts in them. You're suffering from cognitive bias. That being said, normies online are quite dumb so it's not like avoiding ai is gonna keep you away from wasteful, life-denying, brainrot. I had to proferead my post and rewrite all the drunk typos, so be grateful and don't waste so much time on the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IonUyW4gUNc
>>25200858my bad, didn't see it, especially since people kept posting in the last one. thanks for letting me know
Giving in to the temptation to eat my third bowl of ice cream (chocolate) today. Ahhh!
>>25200249Not really but everything i write seems to come off very polemical. Mostly because I write about philosophy and history and i got picked on a lot growing up so I come off as a flippant asshole. I'm sure that won't fly once I start writing stuff that has to be peer reviewed.
>>25200490I ain't. I'm a WASP from Eastern Ohio.
>>25200876>a midwestener saying "ain't" Totally tracks.
>reading Ghost Wars by Steve Coll >paused reading Ghost Wars to read Hyperion by Dan Simmons >paused reading Hyperion to read Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason K Stearns >paused reading Dancing in the Glory of Monsters to read The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant Am I ADD or just retarded?
>>25200920Oh I fucking forgot that Songs of a Dead Dreamer/Grimscribe were between Dancing & Franklin.
>>25200183A good, natural ass is hard to find, especially amidst a sea of fakes. But once you've found it, you'll want to dedicate your entire life to it. You would give your life for it.
After years and years of lurking in female forums and Tumblr, I think I’ve finally mastered female prose. I feel so powerful.
>>25200962So you lost IQ points to do so is what you're saying? Brother how many times did you hit yourself in the head???
>>25200326>read my old writing I thought was great>it is shit>read my old writing I thought was shit>it is greatEditing, rewriting, and revising are lost causes if you don't understand style, all those things I thought were great are the things I spent endless hours trying to make perfect, all i really did in those hours was destroy any sense of cohesive style it may have had. The stuff I thought was shit I tossed aside and forgot about, they have a strong and cohesive style that I barely recognize as my own. I wish I had put in the time to understand style all those years ago, no idea if it would have made any difference in the long run but I would have cringed a lot less when revisiting all those early writings of mine.
this isn't related but i think i have a problem. im always checking out women's asses when im walking around in public. i can't keep my eyes to myself. this isn't a joke i think i might be a retarded pervert. im too embarrassed and ashamed to ask a therapist about what to do. sometimes i think im oggling women and im so used to it that i don't even notice that im doing it. women give off signs that they're uncomfortable talking to me because they will casually roll their sleeves up or button up or tuck in their jacket or shirt and i feel like i might exude chronic masturbator freak weirdo energy to people i might even smell weird because i notice people often sharply inhale through their nose when i walk past them im worried that i smell weird but i shower and scrub my body with soap and wear dedorant everyday
>>25201032You should really stop caring about what women thinkHere: https://adolfstalin.substack.com/p/why-we-need-to-stop-believing-women?utm_source=publication-search
>>25200937Hopefully its female ass not male ass you fucking faggot
>>25201044thank you sir cop
>>25201044The lion does not concern himself with which genitalia comes along the ass, only in the ass itself
I have a somewhat unsteady job/life (industrial equipment, could be sent to Lapland to install something next week for all I know) which has caused me to read nothing but short stories and essays in the past 3 years.The longest thing I've read lately is a bunch of Conrad novellas, Benito Cereno and Jekyll&Hyde.Do you think it can be said I'm even really 'reading literature' at this point or am I missing too much??Next on my list are Thomas Wolfe's collection, another ~50 Kipling stories and then the last of Evelyn Waugh's stories which I'll be sad when I'm done with
>>25200937The words of a man deprived of latinas.
>>25200937Big natural tiddies hard to find, especially amidst a sea of fakes. But once you've found some, you'll want to dedicate your entire life to them. You would give your life for them.
Why God is not omniscient:A. I am not omniscient.B. If God is omniscient, then he knows everything that I know and I know nothing that he knows, because of point A and the fact omniscience is not relative (e.g. he can't be "more" omniscient than me and I can't be "less" omniscient than him).C. If I know nothing that he knows and he knows everything that know, then I can't know anything because I would then know something that he knows, and omniscience isn't relative.D. I know 2+2=4.Therefore God is not omniscient.
>>25201253That just proves (you) don't exist.
>>25201261Why?
I feel like I'm not fit to wear a watch. I just look incredibly fruity wearing it.
I spent the whole day jerking off and playing stardew valley again
>>25201425I spent the whole day playing WoW.I'm a 35 year old NEET and I wasted my entire life and it's too late to change, but for some reason I don't want to kill myself, I just want to continue playing WoW.
Having a gate made is so fucking expensive.God damn it's like 40% more expensive than I thought.On the plus side this tells me it's very lucrative to start making gates and fences myself. If ever I maneuver myself in the right position I'll just do that for a living.
>>25200183Been feeling lethargic and struggling with digestion issues and mental fog. Haven't been able to read or exercise. Went to the doctors and turns out I have a stomach ulcer...
>>25200394>rubbing one out in the face of deathWhat a hero.
why TF are there nsfw ads on MY BLUE BOARD.
>>25201253B just isnt true. You can know some of what He knows, at least from your own perspective on it. If He has the set of all knowledge, the your knowledge, or any amount of knowledge besides none, is a subset of His knowledge
>>25200627Happy belated birthday fren!
>>25201539Yup. My adblock will get more aggressive. Not cool.>>25200627Hells yeah brother! Glad to hear it, you deserve it.
There's a tendency of some people to say woke never happened, and there's another tendency to say woke is overTo which I say...it did. And haha you wish!I think the story of Willow Rosenberg is a useful guide to woke. I know, "/tv/. fuck off" FYI Willow is a central chracter in Buffy the Vampie Slayer, who happens to be a witch. Willow is lesbian and some seasons into Buffy gets into a relationship with fellow witch Tara.In season 6 the Big Bad are the Trio, who are three angry nerdbros. Today they would be Asmongold's core audience.At first the Trio seem annoying but harmless, but they gradually go full American Psycho. And on a number of occasions Willow attempts to explain to the Trio why they shouldn't be such assholes. This is "woke".Woke is the response of reasonable people, when encountering assholes, they perhaps innocently try to explain why they shouldn't be such assholes.But then something happens in the show. The Trio kill Tara. Well Willow is an especially powerful witch. And when she loses her shit what happens next ain't pretty.In reality that thing was y'all going from nerdbro assholes to full white nationalist, secret police loving, war loving, fascist cheering. Dark Woke is when the people who thought you were just a confused asshole who didn't know any better, have decided you're actually an irredeemable psychopath.If you think woke is done just because we've decided there's no point explaining how your shit sucks, think again.
>>25201685
>>25201685But remember, that's a power fantasy. For every morally instigated clandestine, there are 5 apathetic people fully willing to go scorched earth no winners if you cross them. Being an asshole is fine if it's productive or for the right reasons. Being a self righteous moralizer is a great way to make a very powerful enemy that you did not understand from the outset because of ego. "Dark woke", yeah it's the entire frankfurt school genociding people.
>>25201694I think people just don't want to be abused or killed.
>>25201685wokeness was just moral policing and micro management, you are the mirror image of right wing evangelicals that want to censor everything and control the way people talk and act.You arent some dark witch fighting le asshole nazis.You are an idiot control freak everyone hates
>>25201539Why the fuck are you seeing ads in the first place?
>>25201756because i just ok
>>25201781oh ok
i miss my ex. she left me bc im a useless sexless loser.
A girl came over and I was cooking lunch (30 minutes ago); she let out a moan, I don't know why, while watching me and that caused my penis to jolt. I gave her some pepperoni.
>>25201794I'm aware.
>>25201812Do you want me to say mean things to you? No? Ok then don't say mean things to me
>>25201898You are reading my fucking mind, buddy.
. >>>:(((I HATE STEAM PLANTS
>>25201726You'd think, but many people need a gentle smack before they get a firm one from someone less considerate. Abuse is a nebulous term. Is the truth abusive? Sometimes, without tact, but usually not. If a lesson is learned all is forgiven because tough love is a much more real kind of love than empathy; it doesnt let you suffer more than you need to due to "saving face" or "being the good guy".
>>25201926I want to see all the fucked up shit in your head.
I wish they'd fuck off. I agree with them, but they still won't leave me the fuck alone. It's a constant shift between aggression and remorse.
>>25201931Oh? Well, ask something specific if you want to know. You might be surprised.
>>25201940What is your worst fetish.
>>25201926Anon, you're projecting tons of garbage in this post. Vague but loaded with manure. >>25201940>something specificIRONY
>>25201947I'm pretty vanilla. Usually I like ENF or early 2000's vintage hoes. But since you asked, I dont like jerk off to it, as a guro I'm a big fan of cannibalism. Not the feral unhinged savage kind, but the classy gormand style where an ordinary person is transmuted into something extraordinary. More aesthetic than errotic.
>>25201947Breeding fetish.
>>25201956Go on. I'll correct you if you're wrong.
>>25201970That's one of mine, chud.
>>25201947I like short and innocent girls.
Annotated bibliography of mirages, green flashes, atmospheric refraction, etc. 700 pages long.https://aty.sdsu.edu/bibliog/bibliog.html
>>25201980>>25201970I'm not touching on my favorite, because I'm too shy...
Havent been around for a few months, is that schizo girl still spamming these threads?
I want to take up a trade like plumbing or carpentry or killing animals in a slaughterhouse, and I know this is not the kind of thing you learn from books, but by hanging out with people who are already working those jobs. The problem is that I am extremely afraid of getting raped by the nasty, brutish, uneducated sorts that work those jobs.I thought about taking up a martial art like boxing or lifting beforehand, but I'm also afraid of getting raped there too.This extreme fear of getting raped comes from the fact that I feel like an extremely effeminate man that either invites extreme contempt or homosexual arousal on men. This cognitive distortion is getting so bad I literally feel like I look like picrel when in reality I'm just a regular dude.R*ddit would say I'm a tranny, but I know I'm not. I'm not even a faggot.Books for this feel? And to cope/overcome it?
>>25202001If you look like this, you should want men to have sex with you.
>>25202001Ah, yup. This faggot. Maybe life would be easier if you were gay and stopped fetish posting.
Most Christians are pretty off-putting to me, but German Lutherans remain the exception to this
>Get baited by an actual fetish poster>Poster makes everything about fetishposting>Individual essentially invades my home>Interact with the fetish>Get called a fetishspammer
>>25202003I don't, but I imagine that I dob against my will.>>25202004It's the first time I post, but I'm not surprised there's another poster like this, lol
Do you wish to be few and live short lives but win great fame and be examples to others forevermore? Or do you prefer that your numbers be great, that you have much to eat and drink, and live long lives without ever knowing battle or glory?
>>25200183Give Orange Me Give Eat Orange Me Eat Orange Give Me Eat Orange Give Me You
>>25202016Define glory.
>>25202027https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleos
>>25201973You sit corrected.
Feral Historian is the best thing on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0dPD6b_cQQ
>>25202039What makes him good? I've been watching a lot of history videos on YouTube.
>>25201998I hope she hasn't killed herself.
>Two brothers earned a reputation for a bizarre and cruel form of roasting. They were the favorites of Empress Wu in the early eighth century and competed to see which of them could invent the most outrageous form of cooking. The first had a giant cage made. He placed geese and ducks, and a bronze basin containing a sauce of five condiments inside and lit a charcoal fire at the center. As the fowl circled the fire, they got thirsty and drank the sauce. The birds whirled and turned in pain as the fire roasted them. When they were cooked inside and out, all their feathers had dropped off, and their flesh was pink and warm. Not to be outdone, the second installed a live jackass in a small chamber furnished with the sauce of five condiments and lit a charcoal fire. In both instances the animals presumably marinated from the inside out. The brothers received their just deserts when, after their executions in 705, the citizens of Luoyang happened upon their corpses, which had been thrown in the street, and as an act of vengeance carved up their flesh. When the people discovered that it was as white as the fat of pork belly, they roasted and ate it. At the time people said that the terrible manner in which they met their fate was retribution for their cruel treatment of animals.
>>25202001>yeah im totally not gay i just fantasize about getting fucked by muscular dudes all day long btw here is some hella gay art i had saved on my device for no reason
I'm glad my parents are stupid because otherwise they might have been better at manipulating me.
>>25200183Don't be afraid to stare Death down in the face and jork him a lil.
>>25202062Its not a fantasy, it's an intrusive thought that is stoping me from living my life.And the art needed to be included because I needed to illustrate the kind of fucked up mental image that comes to my head. The hypersexualized shit that comes to my head automatically.I don't find this pleasurable at all. I don't enjoy feeling like that.
LMAO
I'm writing an essay on the few myths that we know were thought up by animal minds rather than human minds.
>>25202103Do tell
>>25202110It's being written.
That weirdo at the park is back again! This time he's laying down like he lives there. I know what you're up to, creepo, hoping to snap voyeuristic pics of young girls for your private collection, motherless gallery, and your underground Telegram/Discord channel to trade with other perverts. Yeah, I see you. Dude is no doubt making other people and families, good, upstanding, regular people who actually live in the neighborhood, uncomfortable, perhaps even scaring them away. Fuck off!!
>>25202050Thoughtful applications to the books or shows he's presenting, and short and pithy. But I just love his takes so call me biased.
leddit losing is it's mind over this book cover
>>25202244It isn't subtle.
>>25201644>at least from your own perspective on itThat's the problem, what could I possibly know from God's supposed omniscient point of view?
Thinking about getting back into shitpoisting on lit, but I just don't think I have it in me anymore...
I love my watch I love wearing my watch and looking at it. I like it because it keeps time... because it moves... It is my most cherished possession.
Body building and strong man competitions are so cool. But also gay. I'm cool with that, I dont want to fuck a man, but I can absolutely appreciate a good physique.
>>25202313ever since my isp was range banned for like a month i kind of fell out of the habit of posting here, also a lot of the threads are so dumb and not really about literature anymore, its all genre fic or wannabe writer shit.
>>25202357What are you reading?
>>25202360normal people, it sucks
>>25202364Sounds like it sucks. I'm reading Ficciones and it kicks ass, though not quite as good as Invisible Cities, but I doubt much is.
I finally hit 1K subscribers on my ASMR channel.
>>25200183why don't they put wheels on boats so they're easier to bring on land?
>>25202432They're shit from a hydrodynamic perspective and will increase drag, or would be needlessly complicated.
>>25202438They could make them retractable like planes.
JERKIN ON YOUR SQUIRTER, CUNTJERKING ON YOUR GO GET SOME!
May I please have one attention, before I need to wake up at 5am?
Sometimes I read a book that sucks enough that I'm generally depressed and irritable until I start another one that's better.
>>25202455have u never been to a marina in ur life? they have these metal harness things you put the boat in that have wheels. it's kind of funny my boomer uncle only did high school but somehow had a house, four kids, and a boat. lol imagine that today.
Almost jerked it to some guro. Not my proudest boners.
>>25202756Yes. Here's another quote from this book (China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty by Charles Benn) >>25202057>According to the Taoists three internal gods, literally "the Three Corpses," reside in the body: one in the head, one in the chest, and one in the abdomen. They record the sins that the individual commits. Once every sixty days they ascend to heaven during the night and present scrolls listing the transgressions to celestial officials. The heavenly mandarins then prescribe appropriate punishments in the form of illnesses that the three deities inflict when they return to the person’s body. The head god caused heaviness of the head, dim vision, deafness, loss of teeth, and the like. The chest god produced burning in the heart, a muddled mind, constant forgetfulness, and so on. The abdominal god caused hundreds of diseases. One could avoid contracting the illnesses inflicted by the Three Corpses by staying awake the entire night of their departure. They could leave and report only when the person was asleep. If one dared to ingest cinnabar (mercuric sulfide) and magic mushrooms, the action of the drugs would destroy the three gods.
>>25202791Wow, amazing. Funny enough I'm reading the Huainanzi, and just finished the Leizi and Zhuangzi. That book is good, yeah? Anywhere else I can read about Taoist mythology?
>>25202805Yes, if that's your interest you should definitely get the book. There's a lot about Taoism. I'm reading it because Mayor cites it in her book Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology. She also cites Chinese Alchemy: The Taoist Quest for Immortality by Jean Cooper, Science of the Magical by Matt Kaplan, and Classic of Mountain and Seas for Taoist related stuff involving immortality.
I've been watching murder trials. They're captivating. Watching someone have the screws put to them with no escape... What are good novels with extended with courtroom scenes?
I'm on the upswing. I've been running and fasting. Reading. I did my taxes, got an oil change, measured my penis and bought custom fit condoms.
>>25202877My penis is average length but thicker than normal. Is that good?
>>25202244link?
I'm top 90% in my class. I feel really good.
>realize I don't really know the cause of WW1>read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_the_causes_of_World_War_I and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_I on Wikipedia>leave even more confused because all these academics and historians who know way more about the subject than I ever will can't even agree, so what hope I do have
>>25202909Proud of you, anon! Keep up the hard work. Since you browse /lit/, I have faith you can do even better if you put your mind to it. Then again maybe you prefer your current life-work balance instead.
>>25202911Thank you for your encouragement. I'll work hard for you.
where to start with alfred thayer mahan?
