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decisive moment edition
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>>25310381
I'm gay
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>mwah <3
Cut it out.
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>>25310385
It wasnt subtle.
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>>25310386
I'll continue doing it as long as I'm one of the two people making wyt threads <3 mwah I love u
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>>25310395
Quit pretending to be a girl, homo.
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I was cleaning the fellowship hall when I watched a pigeon drop stone dead outside the window today. Figured it might be a bad omen but apparently it either signals that the bird "protected me" from something or that this simply marks a transition or transformative period in my life.

I'm sure "reading omens" into things is probably a sin in of itself but I couldn't help myself. Birds don't usually drop dead within 5-10 feet of me.
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>>25310402
dont worry the bird goes back to heaven when he dies and regenerates to provide defense for another vessel
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>>25310403
Uhhh... based. Thanks, pigeon bro.
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>>25310381
I can't be the only one who stopped believing any social progresses are going to happen anymore ever since the corona virus and the beginning of the Ukraine war. The Western world wasn't just paralyzed by those two events, a whole worldview centered around constant progress completely vanished. Sure, the world back then had issues, but people saw them as issues that time was going to deal with. People looked with grim hope towards a seemingly upcoming hypermodern, utopist future.
What we have now is pure chaos mixed with orwellian totalitarianism. No one believes in anything anymore, or their own retarded triops, perhaps logical in themselves but completely incoherent when put against each other. One centered his worldview around Confuzian Mengelism, another one is an ardent proponent of Lusian anatomism.
Streets once teeming with little shops and life are either dead or they have turned into dystopian corporate malls selling all kinds of overpriced garbage wrapped in three layers of plastic.
Art is dead, literature is dead, documentary shows are dead, movies are dead, talk shows are dead, no one actually reads, people don't even talk with each other, it would be generous to term the post-covid era a Biedermeier epoch.
You grow into a young man, thinking that maybe a grown person has the answers to all your questions, to all your concerns about the modern times only to realize that perhaps you were being far too optimistic even at that.
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>>25310397
I'm gonna suck your cock! Lick your balls too!!!
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>>25310413
Only if you're cute and sexy and look like Asuka Langley Soryu and DO NOT YOURSELF have a dick n' bawls
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Can we combine the gay posts and the serious posts into one, very silly and serious gay post?
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I wish cute girls (biological female) who genuinely, sincerely wanted to suck on MY penis posted here.
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>>25310395
Honestly? Just let it die. I have nothing more to say of value, or rather I lack the enthusiasm I once possessed . And we all know I hard carry these threads
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I wish I didn't enjoy masturbating more than actual female contact due to a very genius learned adaptation to actual exposure to women. Too many shy whores rat when you meet the basic level of flirting they chose and escalated, it causes a negative pavlov reaction in men. Can't be comfortable around these narcs. But we don't always get what we want, do we
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>>25310410
*tips*
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>>25310447
That's all you have to answer? Does anyone even care? You animals, just taking all the changes as given without question.
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>>25310446
oh ya i hate that chicks who flirt the shit out of u and when ur like ok lets do sth they're like teehee i have a bf tho to the point that if a chick is flirty i dislike her
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>>25310410
Bruh we havent progressed in 19 years, what are you on about? Sounds like you're an angsty teen.
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>>25310381
i just gooned from about 10am to 3pm ahh i needed that now i can enjoy the weekend
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>>25310436
Nah, he was talking about that guy mad about bad words. Imagine living in a world where you think persona correlates to intelligence.
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>>25310474
Until the beginning of covid the only thing the market was talking about was electric cars and self-driving cars, gender and diversity quotas in an increasingly tolerant and modern environment. Also, why do you have to make this personal like it's the state you're having to defend?
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WHO the FUCK are YOU?
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>>25310410
The West is not cohesive. Whatever you’re saying only applies to your own country, which I can guess but I won’t. There’s no western hegemony, we no longer understand each other.
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>>25310496
> what is nato and the eu
All relevant politics is done by those two organizations and the us. The West has never been more centralized today. It has become one single government.
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The Trafalgar Law - Strategy beats Strength
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>>25310494
Some people call me mittens, other people call me something else
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>>25310491
Ignore the gaslighters. There's a certain type of person who needs to put you in your place (in their mind) to nullify your point.
You made an essentially correct observation.
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videogames and jerking off is unironically better and cooler than books and reading
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>>25310477
nta, you have not demonstrated personality mastery
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Answer the question.
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>>25310514
> You made an essentially correct observation
Wich raises the question what's the right way of acting on a daily basis in a rotting society?
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>>25310533
save yourself a penny for the ferryman, and let them suffer
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>>25310539
Your going to let our Republics rot and die?
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>>25310545
This world's not ready for the Arc
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>>25310475
had to go again just got another nut off man it was a long week even tho it was actually a short week cuz of the holiday but u know what i mean. feel so fucking relaxed rn abt to get in bed and listen to an audiobook for a minute.
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>>25310548
Now you're being hyperbolic.
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I'm fucking this close to just strip mining my entire personality down to the day I was born, and I gotta say I just don't want to do it. It was a big reveal when I noticed my brother's death bled sickly well into that whore of an older woman what turned me away from trust forever. But really, I like it that way, and I'm leaving some mystery at the end of myself. Nothing else to draw on, otherwise. Hate to be solved, even by myself.
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>>25310553
Not even crossroads to choose from, mankind works in mysterious ways
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>>25310558
The truth is the other globes of our planet are so far off that it is hard to speak of mankind in such a general term.
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>>25310509
>The Trafalgar Law
What if one side isnt even fighting?
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>>25310565
Oh you’re taking about the Gibraltar Impasse
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>>25310477
>Nah, he was talking about that guy mad about bad words.
I was him, and he was me! Only more evidence to support my case, i.e. youre retarded and thus not smart haha
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>>25310504
If it’s one single government why is some of it at war and some of it isn’t?
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>>25310504
You know, you used to be a lot more creative before you became so fucking one-note yourself
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I accidentally opened a post on reddit about blood meridian. They were complaining about some guy in the army using the famous Holden quote about war and screeching shit about "whoosh" and "media literacy". They genuinely think that the point of the judge is "war bad and evil mmkay". It didn't even make me mad it's just depressing how stupid they are.

>mwah <3
Cute. Sometimes I can tell some of you are girls (false positives abound) just by your posts and the way you write makes me want to pin you by the throat and use you. Lovingly. It's unfortunate that you all so often have terrible opinions and that I am 5'4.
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>>25310834
Well fuckin sheesh some people just aren't as bloodthirsty ok
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2080

A NEWBORN SUN

I WILL BE HERE
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>>25310847
It's not about being bloodthirsty, it's about understanding one of the biggest parts of the book. The thought of people or even animals dying makes me shake and cry like a child if I let it get to me but I still understood the book on its own terms rather than force it into a predefined space in my existing beliefs and preferences.
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>>25310875
And that makes it wrong to worry around people who admire the Judge?
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That "tiger" poem some kid wrote is awful and cringe. I'm tired of seeing it.
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>>25310887
Reread my posts
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There are no girls on the internet.
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>>25310970
Some Marine starts quoting Blood Meridian and we're not supposed to be worried? What are Marines fucking for then!?
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>>25310834
I am 16 inches taller than you. Neat.
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>>25310647
Is the government of California at war with Iran simply because the US is at war with the Iran? If the army of California were at war with the Iran without the US being involved in it, that would be a situation analogous to the current war.
I concess, there are two Western governments, the EU and the United States. That barely changes the precious premise but the social consequences nevertheless prevail. There are no political individualities left in the Western hemisphere that are anyhow relevant to the order within. I mean the EU has gone as far as regulating the whole economy to a point where even local town markets in Germany have a hard time according with the EU reglementations and getting closed as a result. In France, it was Brussels that decided the new agriculture regiment. The European governments have been degraded to provinces under higher management, save for the countries of Poland and Hungary who stubbornly protesting these recent developpments for the last decade with abnegative force.
Despite their energy those two countries are politically irrelevant to the West and consequently cannot expand their rethoric outside of their countries. For all the other ones who are in the EU, it is only the decisions met in Brussels that count.
For these two reasons, the impotence of the countries outside of the EU, and the complete loss of political individualities, can Europe be considered one central government.
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The droning mechanic hum of the dishwasher at night is so comfy.
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>>25311026
How tall is that?
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The more Proust I read, the more his genius becomes obvious. Who has these level of insights and the ability to articulate it so well, it's incredible.
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:^)
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frogs are taking over the log
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>>25310381
Found out today that a girl I used to be in love with died of an overdose. The city we grew up in was pretty much a pipeline to ODs or jail so I've had a lot of old friends die this way. This one's hitting extra hard though because at some point I thought I was gonna marry this girl. Hitting some songs we used to like and sulking tonight
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I can see clearly.
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Might Jew out.
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somtimes im like why am i so tired even on days i skip the gym but i just checked my apple watch and it says i wacked 10.5 miles today that's not thaaat but idk could make a mf tired tho
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>>25311135
Oh my God... He was serious!
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i think im gonna get in bed and listen to an audiobook
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>>25311229
I think I’m going to rape you.
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>>25311091
6'8". It's... honestly I dont even notice. It's just not a factor in any of my decision making. Like pants and shoes are hard to find, same with gloves, but I hardly ever think about it.
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i think im gonna get jump king quest i hope it doesn't piss me off
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>>25311231
are u a hot chick or a dude?
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>>25311235
It's designed to piss you off. Darktide is not. Additionally, Vampire Crawlers is kick ass.
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>>25311238
>Darktide
darktide looks p sick vermintide was rad af but idk 72 gigs i'll have to delete sth
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>>25311240
Worth it. Especially at $20 on sale. And I'm an autismo who plays roguelikes like under 5 gigs as a habit.
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>>25311242
it's ten bucks bro 15 if u get the dlc with it
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>>25311245
I'm canadian ameribro, it's like $18 with the dlc, so $20 with tax.
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I have a couple of books lying around
All Quiet on the western front
As I lay dying
Anna Karenina
Some Plato
What should I read? I want something nice and short.
Also do you guys read on your laptops/computers?
Any specific applications
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>>25311179
Sorry to hear that anon. If you're in the mood for a good sad song here's a good one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=malJUMz2A9Y
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>>25311256
>I want something nice and short
then whatever Plato dialogue sounds interesting, but you should read Anna Karenina at some point
>do you read on laptop/computer
All the time shoutout Anna's
>any specific applications
I use Aquile Reader for epubs and firefox for pdfs, don't overthink it too much just get something
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>>25311179
>getting married
normie problems
>oding on drugs
based problems
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>>25311256
>short
Not Anna Karenina then
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Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to use 4chan language in front of my family out of the blue. Like if my sister said she just watched the sisterhood of the traveling pants and I responded “that’s oldnigger shit get some taste”
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my sister's been in aa for like 10 years, and falls off the wagon all the time, that shit does nothing, it's such crap. all they do is sit there talking about how much they love drinking, it's like well duh how are u ever gonna move on with ur life? it's like a cult tho u can never criticize it
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A friend I've been trying to move on from has been texting me every few days for the past month even though I haven't responded to any, and today he finally hit me with the "why are you ignoring me?" Really not sure what to do. The dude is crazy. He's the kinda guy if I outright said I didn't wanna be his friend anymore, I might find my tires slashed in the morning or he calls my workplace and tries to get me fired over false allegation. He's that type of guy, which is why I attempted to go the route of ignoring him until he gives him and I don't have to outright say something that'll insult him. Last time I tried that, and it was very minor, he ended up blowing me up with all types of insults and threats.
>Next time you see me you better run, you bitch
stuff like that
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>>25311275
X Anonymous actually helps a lot of people. It's not for me, but it does provide value. You'd have to be part of it to truly understand. I know plenty of people who are clean thanks to it. One of my best friends goes nearly everyday.
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>>25311264
Hmm. Nice idea. It's been sitting in the shelf for years now. On dialogues, do I need to follow a specific order or what?
>>25311267
I know, it's 800 pages. I can't just jump into a book like that. I need a plan to tackle a long ass book like that.
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Taylor is a goddess.
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>>25311279
survivorship bias and when it doesn't work they blame the addict instead of the shitty program
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>>25311256
Read All Quiet on the Western Front , while reading like 20-30 pages of Anna Karenina a night before bed, and continue doing so while reading other books during the day.
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>>25311290
More like different strokes for different folks. NA/AA wouldn't help me get clean. It's nobody's fault, just isn't for me, and isn't for a lot of people. But it does help a lot of other people. It's good to have as an option.
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>>25311276
where the fuck did u meet this guy? some internet wacko?
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>>25311296
High School. We reconnected a couple years ago because I had a falling out with all of my other friends. Now that my life is improving, I want to move on from him.

Plus, he's Romanian, which explains the crazy and complete lack of morality
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>>25311276
I knew someone like this. Every time I'd try to not be friends anymore he'd come to my front door in the middle of the night and steal and smash stuff. Then I'd have to try to fake being his friend again to get my stuff back. He was a total asshole, worst person I've ever met. One time he called the cops on my house for some made up shit.
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>>25311299
Yup, you get it. So what did you eventually do or what ended up happening?

inb4 it's still going on, you have lunch with him tomorrow
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>>25311298
so glad when i moved to the city before social media so i could get a clean break from all my hometown friends who were just fucking awful
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>>25311287
>order
you don't need to follow any particular order, but it's a good idea to start the dialogues that tell the story of Socrates's execution
>Euthyphro
>Apology
>Crito
>Phaedo
in that order. they're short, good intro to plato's style, introduce you to Plato's core ideas -- the soul, politics, the nature of knowledge, piety. After that go
>Meno
for the forms, then
>Symposium
or if you're more into the political phil then
>Gorgias then Protagoras
after Meno.
>The Republic
isn't hard but you get more out of it after you read a few dialogues
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>>25311288
I want to impregnate her so fucking bad
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>>25311258
thanks anon, that's a good pick I love Songs: Ohia. Been forever since I've hit this album too so it's about time
>>25311265
lol. Yeah we both used to party a lot, I got into downers and she got into uppers. Pretty sure she'd been maintaining a coke addiction for the past 9 years which sounds like a nightmare. I'm guessing she got something cut with fent but I don't know. Those big romantic drug fueled moments hold a real powerful special place in memory
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Stalking makes perfect since. Killing someone so no one else can have them, however, makes no sense to me. Is that even a real thing? Can someone here explain the impulse? Maybe you've had the idea before?
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The amount of truly gay men is extraordinarily small. The vast majority of gay and bi men enjoy partners with at least some effeminate characteristics, or even completely androgynous. There are thus very few people who are truly one-hundred percent gay.
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>>25311403
Weird way to think about it. You really think someone can't be fully gay unless they like the ugliest, fattest, sweatiest dudes around and nothing else?
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I think this girl I know who's 5 years younger than me, feels like the ideal gf for me but her family is batshit insane. I'm scared of having to deal with them if I get her.
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Having played with AI quite a bit now, I can safely say that genre fiction and erotic fiction writing are doomed. AI is going to take over that section of literature with ease.
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>>25311179
Not quite an OD, but I assume my mom felt a similar way when she found out one of he rcolleague was found dead inside his car a few blocks from home. Disheartening.
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The mosquito bite on my hand looks like a tiny nipple. It's a rather arousing sight.
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>>25311479
damn yeah. Everybody I know who's died I'd had several years of separation from them beforehand so it's always been a bit eased by time. Can't imagine somebody I see regularly just suddenly not being there anymore.
One time I started a new job at a pizza place and this girl trained me for my first day, came in my second day and they said she ODd in the bathroom and died right after I left. That shit was crazy but I only met her one time so it didn't really affect me on a personal level
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>>25311026
And yet society considers us both too short to be attractive, it's so fucked up.

>>25311179
Awful, I'm sorry.
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>>25310381
Indian Communist invents Buddhist Liberation Theology, Buddhists have yet to stop being angry about it.
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If you read the bible critically, the jews are the ultimate fuck ups and see themselves as such, and have accrued an exorbitant debt with reality requiring exorbitant solutions that would justify their exorbitant behavior
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>>25311506
Its all Venusian Gook Rot
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No matter where you go, there you are.
I honestly don't get why people travel.
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Everything is slop. Nothing is enjoyable anymore, all popular fiction seems to cater to brain damaged adults or children. Noone can relate with what you truly find fun.
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>>25311536
>Noone can relate with what you truly find fun.
What do you find truly fun?
Me? I can't help but smile when I read my asian philosophy on ethics :))
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>>25311538
autistic worldbuilding
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>>25311539
Let me guess, your worldbulding is about sexy humanoid aliens that are both fierce and friendly visiting our solar system?
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You hear this song ‘Imagine’? Whoever wrote that oughtta be shot in the head
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>>25311544
sexy humanoid aliens are extremely unlikely and overrated.

>>25311545
So true.
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>see psychiatrist in psych ward
>he tells me to read Lacan
What do I make of this ?
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>>25311599
is he telling you lacan contains the secrets of mental well-being? i doubt it. sounds to me he thinks you have unused powers of intellect and you'll feel better if you exert them. a fine compliment.
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>>25311600
He said both, it would make for some nice research in my field of study and it would help me directly
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I bite through it.
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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5nHdNwS-H0
>uploaded 9 days ago
>8 views
damn apple music be recommended some obscure shit in that "new music mix" lmao it kinda goes tho
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>>25311683
Your algo must think youre a retard
I can see why
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>>25311036
It’s not analogous and you’re conceding anyway so that’s fine. Everything else you’ve written has nothing to do with whether The West is some kind of monolithic homogenic thing. Some points; not every western country is in the EU or NATO, there are reserved veto powers in both those organisations for members to use as they see fit, there are opt ins and opt outs again in both of those organisations, the UK left the EU and were not only allowed to do so but the EU was amicable about it.
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i hate coming up with usernames i need to make an instragram but i can't think of a good username
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>>25311709
Big Jim Transgender26
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What’s the point of this fucking board? Has anything eventful come out of this place for you guys in the years, even decade(s), which you have spent here? Just go and read or write something.
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>>25311751
Independent public journaling now fuck off
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>>25310381
/lit/ is so fucking slow now
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>told this chick who was cribbing about her bf being rude to her and fought often to break up with him
>ignored my advice and didn't speak to me for 2 months
>calls me yesterday and says he cheated on her
Why are some women so averse to listening to advice?
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I wasted my life in this room. In this house (condo, shared walls, fuck that, millions if not billions live like that anyways). In this town. In this state.

No one cares. But they should.
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>>25311789
what else you wanted to do?
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>>25311778
Telling a foid to dump her boyfriend will always be seen as an attempt to replace her boyfriend and rightfully so
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>>25311751
I got some good recommendations recently, some insightful posts but mostly garbage.
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I need to learn how to limitbreak my mind
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>>25311799
fuck hoes, do dope, take part in gangbangs
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>>25311835
Thats it? Listen here brother, let me tell you something. If youre willing to shed your last vestige of self respect, then I'm sure the gays are always looking for fresh blood. Standards? Not a word those freaks are familiar with. Go for it champ!
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>>25311751
To discuss literature. Have you ever brought up even the most big standard curriculum core books like the stranger to a coworker? They’ll say “oh yeah I sparknoted that a long time ago”. They’ll be willing to engage with you but it’ll be one sided questions since they don’t read
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>>25311851
>To discuss literature
fuck it
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>>25311805
Yeah I can see how it'd look like that. I wasn't and am not interested in her though.
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what to do when you're tired of living and you can't suicide because maybe there's some afterlife and God or Karma will rape your ass(life is muh sacred) so you keep living
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>>25311934
Casually internally plan to die soon or ASAP, i mean really conceptualize it, and you will think of what you would like to do before that, which will represent some of your will to live.
For example, ‘Fuck, i dont want to go to work today. Alright cool then suicide it is, totally in my power, total nothingness. But before that, i think i would like a lemonade’ now you have found something that’s more satisfying than the promise of nothingness, at least enough to stick around an extra second, and you can go buy your lemonade
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To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you
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I honestly think that watching anime as a youth essentially stunts your functioning. All hobbies of youth should train the basics or condition you to do something productive. Kids playing with toy guns? Sports, basketball, the like? Reading books or even playing certain video games? It all serves some sort of developmental purpose, watching anime essentially conditions you to either be a failure male or a tranny.
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Love me some old-school dead person riddles and lies. ‘The devil appeared and told me which day I would die’ is an amazing way for a Christian father to announce his suicide. I’ve also seen dead old people plausibly deny killing their wife by rehearsing her murder as mutual roleplay ahead of time ha.



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