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>>25286093
I think this board would benefit from desinofication
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>>25286095
I had to look it up.
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I'm sick of every TV show using the trope of the right-wing, white supremacist, Nazi militia terrorist group as the bad guys. Lemme see some left-wing terrorists, or atheist terrorists.
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>>25286099
Raised by Wolves has atheist terrorist, even atheist child soldiers.
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>>25286103
This appeals to the Chinese “brain”
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>>25286093
this poem gets thrown around carelessly as a scary doomsday poem, people reach for ‘slouching towards bethlehem’ as an all-purpose omen, but miss that yeats was making a sensible and fairly precise observation about human psychology:

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

i think it’d pay to remember this.
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>>>/soc/35047432
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Do 10 quick squats right now. Get your blood pumping.
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My seat pushes up against my prostrate and simulates my piss to come out faster.
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>>25286114
>spike your cortisol for no reason
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>>25286120
>doing squats stresses you out
Anon, blink twice if you need help
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>>25286120
How fat are you?
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I just watched the show Hostage on Netflix. Pretty good. The bad guys? White guy, white guy, blue-eyed white guy, hot white girl, white guy, white guy. The good guys? White woman, her black husband, their mixed child, a black man, an Arab or Persian woman, an Asian woman, an effete presumably gay man. Oh and another white woman who dies, and her white son.

lol
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>>25286123
For (You)
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I need to take out the trash. I wish I could experience what a Japanese man experiences when he eats a "Gaijin Burger" for the first time.
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Always be the worst person in the room
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>>25286106
Yeah but it's also about the coming, portentous new age, presumably worse than the present, unknowable. The rough beast.
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>>25286130
this anon is in a very Chinese part of their life
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>>25286120
The body adapts to stress.
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I am an incel and rated 4 out of 10 by wheat waffles, certified rate in other places. Never a date or a gf, obviously. apps would kill me
despite all that native DNA....my hair is thinning lol

evryone here and everyone i spy on the street is better looking than me

>>>/soc/35047391
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg_HFbrWj3Y
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>>25286137
Stop worrying about it. I'm also ugly, but I don't care.
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>>25286138
yeah but youre less ugly than me everyone is
when i spied on that group of volunteers gen z like me i made notes of me getting mogged, i decided to never even think of volunteer work
id be rejected even by the people they help lol
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>>25286141
I said stop worrying about it. Listen to me.
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>>25286144
women hate me for being sub 5
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>>25286145
I said stop worrying about it. Listen to me.
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>>25286146
women HATE me for being sub 5
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>>25286147
For (You)
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>>25286145
>>25286141
>>25286137
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>>25286150
that does look like me but my hair is thinning so im running while balding acutally lol
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>>25286151
women hate me for being sub 5
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>>25286131
that’s the setting, it’s not what it’s about. the apocalyptic reading is the lazy one. a poem, if it’s a real poem, is always a diagnostic tool (for lack of a better word). shelley said poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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>>25286106
Thank you. I feel better about being a 35 year old NEET.
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>>25286157
It's about changing eras, the inability of man to control history ("The falcon cannot hear the falconer"), and sure it may not be totally pessimistic, it's definitely skeptical and cautious
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>>25286133
by aging itself
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>>25286161
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>>25286164
you’re still just describing the poem’s themes rather than sitting with what it actually shows you.
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>>25286173
Isn't that what we're talking about? Why don't you just say what you're saying isn't of this coy "you don't understand" routine
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>>25286170
That's an interesting dilemma. He seems to have a conviction himself to show he could defeat. It was a different time, so I don't fault him too much for being inferior to me. I'd never have the conviction to even be a pilot or any job at all.
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>the chinks are flooding this thread with random samefagging because they have no other recourse
This spells calamity
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Try me
Cause I’d be
The one that makes you happy
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>>25286174
wdym? i said it in my first post.
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>>25286182
>anon talking to himself
Hate to see it
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I WANT FAST FOOOOOOOOOOOOD
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>>25286182
I guess my point is the pessimistic view of coming history perspective isn't 'careless' at all, and the psychology thing you mentioned has to do with the age too
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KILL
KIIIILLL
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>>25286187
the biographical reading reduces the poem back into context and loses what makes it alive. the couplet is true now. yeats wasn’t simply disguising simple statement in masquerade dress. poetry is the unforeseen fusion of apparently contradictory emotional ideas in the poet’s mind.
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>>25286196
Man, if I ever run into irl at a /lit/ meetup I'm beating your obfuscating ass. Consider yourself warned.

have a good one
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>>25286200
what i’m getting at is this: that’s the framing he used to arrive at the observation. what does your rendering of it make but a dead bore to all but specialists?
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>>25286004
both require you to be willing to be seen badly.
writing you can control the timing of. flirting you can't. truly, the only difference, not a small one either -- but the underlying exposure is identical and you're refusing both from the same place. dare i sare it.


i should not find the refusing-to-be-seen thing as intriguing & cute as I do. there's something there, something about a person who won't let you look at them that makes it hard to look the other way.
i have wanted things in worse places than this & with less reason. not comforting.
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>>25286216
yeah but flirting always comes with plausible deniability.
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>>25286216
>>25286216
Yeah I couldn't sleep so I came back to check every thread and post I made. I hunger for interaction. Yeah you're right. I tried painting and drawing but gave up out of me being unable to let myself have fun and be vulnerable. Even if no one else will know. I hate it.

Girlie whatever will I do about my troubles? My soc thread was a flop and much has been said about my looks. I reached tou to someone online I had an interest on with a rather worrying letter and post vaguely threatening full of frustration. Asking them to reject me. This person has never known me

What to do about my lack of own sense of emotions? My women troubles? My writing? I really can't flirt not even joke around with people. My humor is suicide jokes and ai haven't used that forever

>>25286230
i cant do that
ive never flirted in my life
im 25
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>>25286093
I think my ideas come form outside of me (I'm just going to use aether because it sounds cool)
Here is my thought process

This image helps demonstrate how it works.
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a' = Minor aether (large preposition of an idea consisting of or being aether)
B' = Major aether (slight prepositions of an idea consisting of aether)
A = [beginning] story point
B = [Ending] story point
C = p2 in-between point
AC = p1 in-between point
CB = P3 in-between point.

First we have the aether; this is where major transcendental and critical story ideas are substantiated and formed.

From that the individual or the self can lay out his or her intention for an idea.
>I want to create a story relating to the occult

After pushing this active attention out (active in the sense that they are continuously thinking about it), the idea will manifest itself within the individual.
This manifestation can occur while listening to music, walking, partaking in a story, looking out of a window, discussing/debating in one's mind, etc. In general, in times of an open mind, which can allow for Aether to present itself.
It will then identify itself as a critical idea or what I would like to call a major aether (Do NOT get this confused with intuitional ideas which mostly originate from the self (which is pretty hard to do as it would be clearly identifiable as a major aether)).
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>>25286264
Usually B ideas come first; they consist of or are ontologically made of major aether, as most end goals and final story ideas encapsulate grandiose ideas and concepts.
While most A ideas come secondary and consist of minor aether.
Afterwards, there will be an in-between point between A and B.
>A mc is on a high stake car ride to location
>...?
>mc is trapped in one area
For me, their MC ideas consist of a majority of just intuition and logical deduction.
But after I created C ideas, AC and CD ideas consist of less aether while still mating a large amount of intuition.
************************************************************************************
To put it in a metaphor:
I am like a radio tower (mind), and I have this antenna which is tuned for a certain frequency (me trying to think of an idea for this story I'm creating), and the antenna is trying to receive a signal (aether). The signal it receives is the idea.
*************************************************************************************

When creating stories, I also find that ideas which come from the aether contain truths within them (that's also partly the reason why I call them 'B' revelations' (I feel a rush when I do receive them)), which I would be unaware of at that current moment. I have seen this play out too many times where "I" make some idea up and later find out through research that it's an actual piece of knowledge or a real functioning concept.
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>>25286250
girlie. really? i'm going to let it slide because the rest of the post is just there, right in my face, like a wet dog and well, don't quite have it in me to also be petty about diminutives. (i'm a late-twenties woman on a board that calls me "femanon" as a technical term & you hit me with Girlie like i'm your younger sister's friend. i'm older than you. the disrespect is upsetting)
what's interesting to me, and i mean this without performance, none, is that you came back to the thread because you couldn't sleep. that's the thing. first: you post, because part of you wanted contact. second: you couldn't sleep because some part of you knew the post wouldn't get it. third: you're checking the thread because some part of you is still hoping.
the inability to flirt is upstream of all of this, can't you see that? the actual thing & not the symptom, is you wanting to be seen and not being able to bear it, so you design a life that lets you want it without ever risking it which is a kind of genius and also a kind of grief.
i don't know what to tell you that isn't either condescending or false. maybe just: the suicide-joke humor is the most articulate part of your post. it's the only place you let yourself be funny without checking first. if you wrote anything good in those seven years it was probably in that register. i'd read it.
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>>25286250
same, I gave up a looong loong time ago
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>>25286269
This reads very GPT-ish.
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>>25286276
how long we talkin
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>>25286269
>>25286269
I call any and all women girlie guys too
I like the word it speaks to me it's funny to me
But ok sorry
You dont know astrology I am unfuckable my face is 4/10 my height isnt 6'2 my hair is thinning my flirting is null...
Is it true gen z women all have 2 or 3 digit body counts be it relationships and hookups
The apps, my face on hinge? Oh no hahahaha
That can't do


Think I'll be able to be a writer
You should know astrology
I again

Can't flirt
Can't have fun
I can barely talk to my own family in person
My brother has to I told him to write to me online to talk not in person
I feel beheaded with no life and no emotions and not living life....what to do? What are women like?

>>25285980
>>>/soc/35047432
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>>25286093

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Comings
(hand.
The Second Coming! Hard
those words out When a vast image out of
etas Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the bead of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as theisti Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centures of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

"The Second Coming" - W.B, Yeats (1919)
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>>25286269
tits or gtfo
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>>25286279
oh yeah you’re right
>the actual thing & not the symptom
>you design a life that lets you want it without ever risking it
>which is a kind of genius and also a kind of grief
almost every sentence arrives at a polished aphoristic landing.
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>>25286294
>>25286269
i wanna have a normal life or else....women do they really hate me? just one to love me, just for me to fit in
not this weird alien thing i feel
feels like everyone but me can get along just fine
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>>25286298
well done
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>>25286304
i dont care if its fake, my whole existence has been fake, artificial, mental, imagination, no real experiences no travel no gf no sex no friends
whats one more irreality?
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>>25286308
I hope you can grow to enjoy yourself and your life anon, wish you the best
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I feel so hopeless and anxious while waiting for university to start in August since I got canned to starting in the second semester. Im unsure if I did the right call picking my current subject (international relationships, planning become a state bureocrat/diplomat) and im even more unsure about the status of my social life because I have been telling myself "it's gonna get better in uni" for years
I feel so alienated because online im currently talking to 13+ girls who sometimes slash my names on their wrists and I get nudes and the like every day with me having to wrangle around my schedule from how much they wanna call me for hours on end and getting stalked for persona info twice. Yet IRL im an absolute and complete kissless loser with almost no friends who never gets called for anything at all and when I do I reject it out of the idea theyre just calling me to make fun of me, girls IRL belittle and mock me every chance they can and even family members are asking me why im 18 and have never had a girl kiss me, I started punching down my room's wall and crying after my grandma and my aunt asked me that. I struggle to tell what's wrong and I cant build the strength to approach people IRL and most of the bridges I have I burn due to BPD related histrionic episodes
Just had to put this all out right here because I couldnt sleep tonight thinking of it, all of these ramblings are so poorly worded too so apologies for that
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>>25286322
>online im currently talking to 13+ girls who sometimes slash my names on their wrists and I get nudes and the like every day with me having to wrangle around my schedule from how much they wanna call me for hours on end and getting stalked for persona info twice.
I feel no sympathy for you, I hope your uni years go to shit
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can't believe that after 13 years it's still so fun to play grand theft auto V, those games have aged well
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do you guys remember people you’ve talked to on 4chan?
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>>25286371
I remember you
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>>25286371
Kindaa, i mostly only remember the same people in generals
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>>25286371
I remember I posted on /a/ when I was a wee lad back in the 2012. One anon was insulting another anon for being a 'white nigger' and I innocently asked, 'aren't niggers just blacks?'. Had few anons calling me retard.
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>>25286381
>Had few anons calling me retard
Yea cuz thats a retarded question
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>>25286386
I mean, I'm from a third world non-white, non-american country so I was confused.
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>>25286381
lol when i was underage and i’d been on 4chan maybe 2-3 times, after i found out my parents were divorcing, for some reason i went into my room and posted it on /b/. don’t know what i was expecting but weirdly the anons were sort of thoughtful and pragmatic about it.
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>>25286371
mostly tripfags from /mu/ back in the day
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>>25286414
when was back in the day
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Having a terrible time right now.
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>>25286415
2010-2017
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>>25286381
My first post on this board had exactly 1 reply calling it a "pneumatic post" and nothing more. That is a sign im destined for greatness
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>>25286325
Thanks anon I gotta work hard on becoming even more detestable
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>>25286424
remember applesmack?
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I took a hit off an old vape I've had for like a year and it gave me a cold sore, wtf. I'm not sure whether I'm more surprised that I left cold sore (ie herpes) germs on it or that it's survived this entire time.
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>>25286322
>guy who wants to be a diplomat is constantly juggling secret meetings and manipulating people to for his own petty ends while appearing to be an unassuming loser
You'll be great at your future job until it all comes crashing down and you get disappeared to a dungeon somewhere
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>>25286440
no need you already sound like a bitch seeing how you punch walls like a "big boy"
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derridean radiology
joycean semiotics
proustian psychology
heideggerian economics
foucauldian geopolitics
deluezian ufology
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>>25286452
nope
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>when someone says
>bertrand russell is their favorite philosopher
>ernest hemingway is their favorite writer
>charles bukowski is their favorite poet
dismissed
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>>25286503
These kinds of people aren’t well read despite their claims
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I rarely visit this board anymore because if you make a thread about any book that isn't a meme there's an 80% chance it'll get no replies. I miss 2014.
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>>25286607
tfw I keep visiting this board but I almost never read, just play videogames and watch porn for the most part
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>>25286644
what do you post about?
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>>25286304
>>25286279
>filtered by complete sentences
many such cases

it's called writing, though. you should try it, love. start with a shorter sentence
than this one and work your way up.

forgot to eat. shaking. it'll pass.
i miss him. the whole post. nothing else to say about it really.
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Those who seek to monetize our thoughts are constructing a webwork of data centers to mechanically turn it all into worthless slop.
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Studied 3.5 hours today. Wondering if I should continue or relax. I don't wanna fry my brain.
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>>25286670
I mostly just read other people's posts
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Some weird YouTube thing I noticed

https://www.youtube.com/@Rin-Takarazuka-inJapan
https://www.youtube.com/@MikasLifeinJapan
https://www.youtube.com/@suki-in-japan
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>>25286741
i love weird youtube stuff. how is this weird tho?
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tfw I had a good home but I left
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>>25286744
They follow the exact same pattern (thumbnails, name, donation site, channel creation date etc) but are supposedly maintained by different Japanese women? It's possible that one dude used their vlog footage and just added "I'm lonely" subtitles in an attempt to make money via donations.
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I want to write erotica but when I sit down to do it I get distracted
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I am 29 and I have never had a girlfriend. I can never get past the first date. Lately I have been having thoughts of wearing women's clothing, but I haven't done it yet.
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>>25286801
if you do call me
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>>25286801
You're a little too late to troon out buddy sorry.
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>>25286322
>im currently talking to 13+ girls who sometimes slash my names on their wrists and I get nudes
FBI tip sent
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>>25286801
You get what you deserve, you're basically garbage. Stop watching porn and work out maybe you will stop being fat.
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I thought I'd draw before going to bed but my eyes are already on the verge of shutting itself.
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>talking to a girl
>getting along well
>we started getting romantic with each other
>I slip up exactly once by making a comment that's too rude and/or direct and she gets offended for the rest of time and never wants to look me in the eye again
>I was just grumpy that day and didnt really mean it
Why does this keep happening? I need a girl who's not terminally allergic to someone being blunt and straight forward with her, im starting to lose my patience when it comes to dealing with woman and im wasting so much time on them
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the white american nazi gas chamber police

The white american nazi doctors working at the white american nazi gas chamber hospital cover for the white american nazi gas chambers herding bodies in to gas chambers police.

They'll strip your prosthetics from the concentration camps to herd you in to the gas chambers. if you operate a 5000 pound concentration camp oven with wheels on it then the gas chamber state keeps rolling.

the white american nazi gas chamber 5000 pound concentration camp oven with wheels on it police will work together with the white librarian to strip your prosthetics from the concentration camps over and over again.

The white librarians' logic to herding bodies in to gas chambers is transmitted to all the other white librarians to orchestrate the white american nazi gas chambering operation.

The white american nazi doctor covers for the white american nazi gas chamber police because the white american nazi doctors' wife is the white librarian, who works at the white american nazi gas chamber library where she strips the prosthetics from the concentration camps.

It should have been easy to correct this but white american nazis are so disgusting to talk to. All that wants to come out of my mouth is to the white librarian to tell the white librarian to fucking 86 her self. That's not what we should do but like, you really have to strip prosthetics from the concentration camps so bad that you whites have to work together to recreate your precious fucking nazi reich?

That pile of empty crutches used to be some one's legs.

Just fucking 86 your self. The 55 pound wall of carbon is blocking the world from being accessible during the day. At night the white american nazi gas chamber police are making people like me disapear in the concentration camps. The white smile is an anesthetic to herding bodies in to gas chambers. the nazis are lying about not being nazis. Young white american nazis are the worst. they are hitler's shitlerites. their parents told them they were just refugees from germany.
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>>25286801
are you a virgin?
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the white american nazi doctors are busy permanently running the gas chambers on your family to slide down a fucking hill.
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>>25286852
It really takes a lot to set someone off by a single comment. Really your emotional reaction says everything about yourself though. You are a garbage man who got what he deserved. Maybe if you worked out more and improve your diet you wouldn't be so fat, but you probably lack the willpower to do any of that. Keep being a worthless garbage man, whatever.
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>>25286852
You should learn to just be okay with things not working out, your desperation makes you walk on eggshell that doesn't exist.
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>>25286861
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I'm wearing Vermeer's.
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T-Minus THREE days to the beginning of my SCUBA training and certification course. I'm fucking stoked boyos, ain't felt this excited for something in a coons age.
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I finally got laid out the other day
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>>25286864
Im actually moderatly underweight and have a very healthy diet anon...
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>>25286906
> actually moderatly underweight
Go take cock up the ass then like you're supposed to, faggot
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I am hated by women and the world for being ugly and sub 5. Guys better looking than me get shat on online an in dating apps, I am hopeless
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fucking broken record
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Shitting while you drink is a disaster. Drinking while you shit is one of the dark, secret pleasures in a serious man's life. Your boss does it, for sure. Your granddad did it. You might have even done it yourself. But it's a dangerous game - once you pop you can't stop. And even though everybody does it, even though they all do it and they all know it, once they find you with your undies around you ankles and a bottle between your feet, straining and sweating on your porcelain throne, they'll never let you forget it. They've never let me forget it, anyway. And yet here I am. Straining and sweating. Sweating and straining. Johnny Walker winking and stinking. I could have been somebody. I had potential. Coulda-woulda-shoulda. Some come here to sit and think; I come here to shit and drink. I'm a poet and I don't know it.
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>>25286852
What kind of rude stuff have you said? Seems kind of extreme to cut off contact over one comment. But also, learn to control yourself, man. If you can recognize this pattern, you can know what kind of shit will set her off. Though I recently had a chick ghost me cuz I said Michael Jackson was a pedophile. Sometimes you can consider it a bullet dodged.

>>25286896
Ayyy nice man. I got my scuba cert a few years back. The class and test is piss easy if you can swim at all. Anywhere you're looking to dive? I've only done dives in Hawaii and off the Yucatan so far. Think I'm gonna do Puerto Rico this year.
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I don’t know why you felt the need to hurt me so badly.
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this thread seems like a lot of naval gazing to me
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>>25287000
Who?
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>>25286896
don’t hold your breath
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>>25286322
Been there done that you wont feel as anxious about it once youre 20 and your hormones and cruelty calm the fuck down. Someone is gonna show you light and change your heart!
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>>25286974
The initial plan was to dive the Lembeh Strait or somewhere in Indonesia but I'm willing to go anywhere with tropical reef ecosystems.

Watching these old videos on YouTube by a channel called Bubble Vision TV was where it all started for me like, six years ago.

Ideally somewhere in the Coral Triangle for sure but I'm not picky.
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>>25287032
I won't. Told you this already.
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I need to torture God for just a single second
A little blemish that He in His perfect being cannot heal from, that He will carry with him for all eternity, my soul be damned
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>>25287155
God loves you, anon.
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>>25287155
I wish you luck with that
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>>25287015
>Navel gazing
That's 99.7% of the threads ever posted on this entire board anon.
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>>25287145
>Ideally somewhere in the Coral Triangle
Ah nice. I have not been able to leave North America yet to dive. But what really interests me is shipwrecks
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>>25287180
Right now, I just want to experience coral reef ecosystems and shoals of colorful exotic fish, mang.

I'm smitten with the whole thing.
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tonight is one of those nights. she is alive, and well, and pressing on my chest, and there will not be sleep. it helped, all of it, more than i ever expected anything to help -- he domesticated the bpd demon against every odd i had quietly placed against him, and he did it without a fight, smiling, from across a sea. but some nights she comes up anyway and there is nothing to do but sit with her until the hours run out. tonight all i have in my chest is her, and defeat, and a small dull weariness that is mine and not hers and has no name.
the small mercy is that the night ends. i will wake up, badly, and i will call him, and he will say everything will be okay in the voice he uses for this, and it will be true the way only the most exhausted things are true. he knows. he knows at the itch of a breath that she is up again, and he is not afraid of her, and he is patient with both of us, and he is there. and she is there too. it is a strange thing, to feel yourself drowning and to know at the same time that someone is waiting for you on the other side of the night. i am drowning. but someone is waiting.
it is enough, almost.
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>>25287392
Kill yourself.
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>>25286093
Circumcision is a mutilation that leads to massive sensory loss, which to some people who are now long dead, was the whole point. Dr. Kellogg pushed it because he did not want boys masturbating. Saw "lust" as something evil. There was nothing scientific about it. He was a person with a strong religious confirmation bias, and wanted to grasp at any straw for why circumcision was scientifically beneficial to health.

He claimed masturbation caused insanity and epilepsy, and a host of other things that are self evidently not true. He was willing to say whatever, so long as it meant he got his way.

It's crazy how many religious whackjobs, with enough money and influence, can have a direct impact on whatever the "science" says.

Whenever I hear a redditor say "the science says...", I just tune out. Science is not dogma, science is something that is always changing. The science we have now is not the same science in the year 1500, and it is not going to be the same in the year 2500.
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I've had The Last Messiah stuck in my head. I don't like that. I don't like that at all. The idea that human consciousness is only possible to maintain by shearing off parts of it, like a psychic immune system. Prose is fantastic though.
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I'm no longer a weirdo.
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Most of the issues I deal with come from someone confusing causes. Like, something will break and the person just assumes it was caused by whatever happened shortly before.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EvQHeaAJWc
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>>25287536
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEIIKX_K_3o
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>>25286095
https://youtu.be/r_WWkQgT3To?si=ax_lXl13M3LWk0mw
what desinofication does to a mfer
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My friend who I normally chat with for several hours every week has lately totally stopped messaging. I think it's over
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>>25287579
I hope he messages you again.
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>>25286095
absolutely
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>>25286093
that girl is cute
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>>25287595
That's my wife. I'll let her know you made a nice comment about her.
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I'm trying to write him a letter that explains everything and fixes everything but I just keep writing a bunch of bullshit that makes no sense
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>>25287616
At least you're writing. That sharpens your skills.
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>>25287616
What are you trying to fix? What happened?
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My Rousseau thread should not have been deleted. People were actually talking about him and his works.
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>>25287758
woah a celebrity
can i have your autograph
you can spit on me if you want to
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>>25287616
Look: I’ve been where you are. If someone is determined to misunderstand you, there’s nothing you can say that will make them see things from your point of view. Better to just write him a letter telling him off and be done with it. It didn’t work for me, but maybe it’ll work for you.
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>>25287770
>Better to just write him a letter telling him off and be done with it
Lol yeah, you can just do this
If the relationship is already that bad just let it go bro. Good relationships dont make you work that hard to save them
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I hate academia. I am not going to spend another fucking minute combing for a single source to serve as a citation for an obvious statement.
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God, my manager is so fucking cute. Like a little fairy pixie. She's about 4 feet tall and has a bit of a mustache. (I'm pretty sure that, especially due to the nature of our work, she doesn't shave at all). She currently has the cutest little bright red button zit on her nose. She's like a cartoon character come to life in the cutest possible way.
My only problem is that she's soft-spoken as hell. As in, I can barely hear a fucking word she says when she's talking to us as a group. This is a problem I run into frequently. Either a lot of people speak super fucking quietly nowadays, or I'm going deaf (probably the latter).
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i'm going for a walk even tho it's like 10:30 cuz its hot af in here but i'm not installing my ac for a two day heatwave i wonder if i should blaze some trees too sleep better prob not weed sucks in practice but it's a nice idea
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>>25287812
i saw a dude rage out in a meeting because he was denied tenure the other day. i'm like well after pulling a stunt like that i can see why they didn't want to give u a job for life guy, on the other hand i feel for him, he put in like five years trying to land that spot, lol. academia fucking sucks.
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>>25287879
>Getting paid to read books and write papers all day
The salary is low but the job seems amazing
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>>25284833
Why would you get laid off because of the hantavirus?
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>Gay voter in 2010: hi obama
>Obama: Hello gay voter
>Gay voter: can I bum a cigarette
>Obama: no I quit also get your own
>Gay voter: You didn't really quit though
>Obama: Not really but I'm trying to set an example
>Gay voter: Can I bum a cigarette
>Obama: sure

>Obama: What do you think about John McCain
>Gay voter: what do you mean
>Obama: Just like generally
>Gay voter: uhhhh viet cong? got tortured? cute back in the day I think
>Obama: Would you say I tortured him
>Gay voter: I wouldn't say that
>Obama: Okay cool thanks
>Gay voter: Why do you ask
>Obama: Been wondering if I went too hard on the guy
>Gay voter: I doubt it

>Gay voter: Is the dominos pizza index real
>Obama: yeah
>Gay voter: No way lol
>Obama: It's not 100% accurate but it's real
>Gay voter: That seems like a big security oversight to me
>Obama: we're working on in-house dominos
>Gay voter: like in the pentagon building?
>Obama: Yeah in the food court
>Gay voter: There's a food court?
>Obama: they all have to get security clearances though it sucks
>Gay voter: Can I work there
>Obama: Maybe
>Gay voter: Why just maybe
>Obama: have you ever smoked weed
>Gay voter: Yeah why
>Obama: I mean we mostly hire mormons and muslims believe it or not
>Gay voter: Muslims
>Obama: they just wear gloves around the pepperoni

>Obama: want to hear my nuanced thoughts on hitler
>Gay voter: Not really
>Obama: I've been doing some research
>Gay voter: I don't want to hear this
>Obama: I've been digging into the functionalist-intentionalist debate
>Gay voter: I don't want to hear about hitler
>Obama: But it's really interesting and you don't have to deny the holocaust
>Gay voter: are there other ones that require you to deny the holocaust
>Obama: Other what
>Gay voter: idk historical ideas or whatever
>Obama: Uhhhh yeah a couple why
>Gay voter: Do you believe any of those
>Obama: I mean not at the moment

>Obama: fundamentally I believe in racial equality
>Gay voter: That makes sense
>Obama: I can get with gay equality I guess
>Gay voter: Thanks for the thought
>Obama: sorry about the southern states though
>Gay voter: Yeah sorry about the southern states too I guess
>Obama: If I did another civil war would you enlist
>Gay voter: like you would instigate a war against your own country
>Obama: yeah I'd go burn down atlanta again
>Gay voter: Isn't that where a lot of your vote share comes from
>Obama: Just to make the point I could do charleston or whatever
>Gay voter: I don't think I'd enlist in this
>Obama: do you know anyone who would
>Gay voter: no
>Obama: Ok but just keep it in mind

>Obama: would you transvestite
>Gay voter: what
>Obama: You know trannysexual yourself
>Gay voter: Transition
>Obama: yeah would you do that
>Gay voter: Probably not why
>Obama: just checking
>Gay voter: Would it make a difference if I was
>Obama: I guess not but I'd view you differently
>Gay voter: That's disappointing to hear
>Obama: no I mean you'd be a transsexual and not a gay
>Gay voter: I don't follow
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>>25287758
Yeah wtf was that? Rousseau gets one productive thread for once and it gets nuked
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The election is between figurative Jewish oligarchs that promise natsoy policies without ever delivering and people with sensible economic policies but want to cut your dick off.
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I started this writing project a few months ago as partially a relief for boredom and partially a way to process some weird life experiences I've had. Initially it was just a setting that I kept adding detail to and thinking about. I only came up with actual characters a month or so in. That's where the trouble is, though. I did not intend it to work out this way, but my cast is made up of an older man, a younger man, and the younger man's sister, and everything I write about the first two has become progressively gayer with every draft. When I start imagining them their dynamic just naturally leads to it. And the more I have thought about this the more I have realized that both characters are, in a way, self-inserts and idealized versions of myself.
Man, Freud would have a field day with me...
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>>25288016
>Gay voter in 2010: do you think god is real
>Obama: Like the holy father or like allah
>Gay voter: I mean that or a great spirit thing
>Obama: Sure
>Gay voter: would you say that god guides america
>Obama: I hope he does
>Gay voter: not from my vantage point
>Obama: There really isn't much I can do about that
>Gay voter: you can pass a bill
>Obama: I really can't
>Gay voter: negotiate then
>Obama: I'd sacrifice you
>Gay voter: I'd do it

>Obama: We should do something about gun control
>Gay voter: you're the president
>Obama: It doesn't work like that
>Gay voter: just make guns illegal
>Obama: I can't do that
>Gay voter: You made being gay illegal for a long time
>Obama: Look it's a slow process and being gay isn't illegal gay marriage is
>Gay voter: Gay divorce
>Obama: No gay marriage not gay divorce
>Gay voter: right in effect you made gay divorce illegal
>Obama: I'm telling you that's not my doing also what
>Gay voter: Am I not speaking english
>Obama: I don't get why gay divorce matters here
>Gay voter: I wouldn't expect a straggot to get it
>Obama: straggot?
>Gay voter: Yeah

>Gay voter: maybe I should go to AA
>Obama: do you have a drinking problem
>Gay voter: unfortunately I think so
>Obama: Help is available
>Gay voter: thanks obama
>Obama: Please don't say that to me
>Gay voter: I'm sorry
>Obama: but seriously though help is available
>Gay voter: that's nice to hear
>Obama: Take care of yourself
>Gay voter: are you a drinker
>Obama: I don't know how anyone gets through life without some kind of chemical assistance

>Obama: you wouldn't go all libby on me would you
>Gay voter: what
>Obama: like you wouldn't go all bob barr on me
>Gay voter: Who's that
>Obama: I think we're safe
>Gay voter: Is everything okay
>Obama: yeah I just had this really weird dream
>Gay voter: what about
>Obama: I was running for office again but a libertarian won
>Gay voter: seems stressful
>Obama: In the dream I cried

>Gay voter: Can you run for a third term
>Obama: no
>Gay voter: Why not
>Obama: constitution says no
>Gay voter: But you're in charge of that
>Obama: not really
>Gay voter: You run the constitution
>Obama: it's the rules I have to follow and it says no
>Gay voter: You can't transcend the rules
>Obama: that's not allowed
>Gay voter: I'd transcend the rules if I was president
>Obama: You wouldn't transcend anything
>Gay voter: I'd reform the tax code
>Obama: They wouldn't let you near the tax code
>Gay voter: I'd tax many things as yet untaxed
>Obama: You wouldn't tax anything
>Gay voter: I'd tax blacks
>Obama: That's not legal
>Gay voter: I'd tax your black ass
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Obama was an acceptable president. Just remember trump and bush.
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big dicks will rule the world
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Radical feminists will stumble across a whore’s Twitter posts and become more misogynistic than the men fucking them. Honestly I get it
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>>25288128
I would hate women too if I adopted a political ideology all about women being inherently and biologically oppressed by men and must be liberated then realizing women just talk about how much they want Chad’s dick all day
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>>25286093
Ultimately, I just want some people to listen to my thoughts and engage with me. I don't need to go viral or make money off it. If I could write articles or books and have 5 readers (not related to me) engage and really enjoy my work, I would be really happy.

But we live in a world where everyone wants to be heard and no one wants to listen. I have listened for so long, but it just feels one way.
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I caught my girlfriend agreeing to meet up with her ex-boyfriend a couple weeks ago so I broke up with her. Now I'm back to being alone and miserable. Life was so much better with her around. I got to do so many things that were so much fun, they just would not be the same alone. Most of the things we did together were only so great because she was there. And I got to have sex. We still send each other Instagram reels. Maybe I should desperately try to keep seeing her although she isn't my girlfriend anymore. I know it's pathetic and cucked but is it really worse than the alternative? I miss her so much.
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>>25288168
Sorry brah, but it's over. Better make peace with it and move on sooner rather than later.
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>>25288171
I went 24 years without so much as a kiss. Very hard to accept I'll never see her again when I'm going to be plunged back into near complete isolation. I'm sitting here tearing up just thinking about it.
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>>25288176
You're young. You can get another gf. You'll get over it.
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>>25288178
I am obviously heavily biased. Having had 1 girlfriend it is highly likely I will obtain another at some point. But the circumstances under which I met this one were pretty rare I think. Highly unlikely to occur again. How are most girlfriends obtained? Dating apps? Mutual friends? A chance encounter at a bar? I couldn't even make any platonic male acquaintances at college. There is just no prospect of this occurring again. Plus I very much liked her. I still very much like her despite what she did, which is painful to admit.
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>>25288184
If you value your self respect, you'll eventually find a woman that respects you enough not to cheat on you.
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>>25288168
don’t mug yourself
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>>25288186
I don't think I value my self respect very much.
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>>25288191
You clearly did when you broke up with her. You'll save yourself a lot of pain later if you stop hanging out with her.
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>>25288171
I had a rooster like this.
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>>25288197
I deeply regret doing it. Puffed myself up a bit too much and acted all indignant about it.
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>>25288203
You'll have regretted it anyway if you stuck around.
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>>25288211
I think you are correct. I would have felt terrible all the time and it would not have been the same when we saw each other. But engaging in some sort of friends with benefits relationship with her might be the lesser evil. Honestly I don't know how much I actually liked her versus liking being with someone. It won't be like it used to be but I will still be able to have sex and smoke (free) weed with her at the very least.
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>>25288221
Just read Of Human Bondage and it'll show you the error of your ways
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>>25288232
Alright lol. I actually have it sitting on my shelf.
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one of my families closest relatives died recently after a sudden resurgence of cancer, and to make matters worse, his wife, my blood relative and probably the single nearest and dearest family member we have, has alzheimers

they weren't prepared for him to die so there is a bit of chaos about how to handle the assets and theyre figuring out how thats going to go, but her mental state is obviously rapidly deteriorating from the stress and grief. she keeps forgetting whats happening so when she comes to she thinks everyone is stealing her land or some such thing and is getting extremely hostile and saying terrible things to her loved ones because she doesn't know what is happening

this shit is horrific even from a relative distance and it honestly scares the shit out of me to imagine going through this with my dad or mom
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>>25288326
life is a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
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There’s this old guy who gives me a lift to work. his wife died recently. He’d talked about her before, usually in connection to their small dog, which she was always with, treated it like a child. They’d been living apart, and after a few days of hearing nothing from her he drove round. Found her on the floor. She might’ve been there two days. The dog had taken one of its toys and laid it beside her.
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>browse xitter
>post is blocked due to 'local regulations'
>use vpn
>its just a woman in a bikini



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