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What the FUCK does "you were banned because your post contained "banned text"" fucking mean!? Have these faggots cooked up YET ANOTHER piece of arbitrary bullshit just to be 5% more despotic?What the FUCK happened to this fucking SHITHOLE!?
>>25362265I know for a while "write what's on your mind and /wwoym/" was banned text.
>>25362272Why?
Did you just double post that post?>>25362209You double posted the post!From now on, when you write a post, just post it once and end it
>>25362257The more I look at this image the more I hate it.
>>25362280source:https://www.contemporaryartissue.com/top-10-most-iconic-paintings-of-the-21st-century/>6. Marlene Dumas — Dead Marilyn (2008)>Marlene Dumas’s (b. 1953, South African) Dead Marilyn (2008) takes one of the most overexposed faces of the 20th century and returns it to the fact of death. The painting is based on an autopsy photograph of Marilyn Monroe, an image Dumas came across while searching through old materials. In her hands, Monroe is no longer the polished icon of popular culture, courtesy of Andy Warhol, but a spectral and deeply uncomfortable presence. A shift that matters, and characteristic of Dumas’ approach towards second-hand imagery. >Dumas has long worked with found images, often transforming photographs already burdened by public circulation into paintings of emotional and moral intensity. Here, the mythology of Marilyn is stripped of glamour and forced into another register altogether. Dumas herself connected the painting not only to Monroe, but also to “the end of a certain era,” linking the image to the broader political mood of the late 2000s. In that sense, Dead Marilyn is not a portrait of a dead celebrity, but a painting about disillusionment. It stages uncanny exhaustion, the inevitability of death, and the decay of beauty—or perhaps even the strange beauty of decay itself—within the afterlife of images.These OPs are a great opportunity to expand /lit/ anons' exposure to modern and contemporary art.
>>25362275Some janny sperged out and decided that these threads should be no more. For a while they were straight up gone from this board and you'd get banned for making one.
>>25362265I know some texts aren't allowed in posts -- as a regular on /classical/ on /mu/, there's one prominent living conductor whose last name is on the blocked list, for example -- but I didn't know there were outright "banned texts" that gets you auto-banned.
Dated this girl for 5 months and I ironically felt more lonely being in the relationship than I am now. Being single now, with no one to talk to, no one to meet somehow feels less lonely than what I had with that chick.
>>25362282That is literally, exactly, what I assumed it was. Even the same framing. Thanks regardless though, I like modern visual art sometimes.
Just had my first "meal" after 20 or so hours from my dental surgery. Some chocolate pudding. Didn't really hurt but I ate extremely carefully. The antibiotics have made my pee smell extremely pungent. I can also smell it in my sweat. Thankfully the pain meds they gave me allow me to remain fully coherent, so I was still able to make good progress in my writings. ALMOST done with my current story. Might write a short story or two after to clear my head, then on to the next one. This time I will try my hand at something kinda episodic. But before any of that I have to finish this current story. Been working on it for too god damn long. It ain't even 10k words. It sucks it took me months just to do the first draft.
need to counterbalance grimness of thread image
>>25362288For what it's worth I didn't love it either but none of the other paintings in the list I thought made for a good OP either, yet since I had already committed to using something from the list, I picked that one.
This is a pic of me.
>>25362285Most other boards just put text they don't like in "our system thinks your post is spam" catagory and won't let you post it. Didn't even know they had a autoban category for anything but links to known CP and malware. Seems like a missuse of the tool to use it for something as petty as disliking a thread that isn't even breaking any rules.
>>25362298Wrong pic
>>25362294Very fair >>25362298Are you single?
>>25362300Nevermind
>>25362301No I'm not single. I'm taken by 2 wonderful girls.
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I'm going to fast for 8 days.My mind is a mess and I don't know what else to do.If I die, I die. If I don't, I'll be rebornInshallah
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Texas has a website where all of the last words of death row inmates are published:https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html
>>25362311ngl the second I saw he was mexican I stopped taking him seriously haha
I think I figured out what it takes for a true spiritual transformation to take place, but it's kinda terrifying.You basically have to look at the entire world and accept from a very deep place that none of it will ever actually satisfy or complete you. Now, on an intellectual level you might believe this right now. But in actuality, in your day to day life, your real spirituality is hedonism, your real spirituality is, "Getting XYZ in the material world is what's gonna make me happy". That is what you actually believe. And in reality, most of your attempts to become a spiritual person are really just attempts at hedonism in disguise. And it's not even your fault. So long as your god is hedonism, you can't help but live hedonistically. And it's very perverse, because ironically the more you "succeed" at becoming spiritual, the more you actually just gratify this hedonistic side of yourself. The best proof of this is to closely monitor your engagement with spiritual teachings, and ask yourself, "What's the guiding force here? What's pulling me around from one spiritual topic to the next?" In 99% of cases, that drive's not going to be truly spiritual. It's going to be some hedonistic, materialist, egotistical drive in disguise. I think, ironically, for any chance of the spiritual teachings to TRULY take root, you have to fail really really hard, even at spirituality. You have to shatter, and religion has to pick up the pieces and remake you in its image. Until that point, you're essentially larping.
>>25362311>>25362313The main site has the race of the prisoner. This guy was white.
>>25362315I agree with this. But I wonder, what kind of activities do you personally do to aid your cause?
>>25362319Real, intense suffering is the fast track to a spiritual awakening. But I'll grant that persistent, daily effort can go a long way too.
>>25362323Sure, but what do you do? You not one of them POSERS are ya?? Around here, POSERS aint welcome ya hear. Darn tooting!
>>25362327Well, I was hoping I could have an "intellectual" awakening, like those Zen monks who have a spontaneous enlightenment while they're sweeping up leaves and pondering theological riddlesIn practice, I don't think that really happens. So I've either got to get into meditation again, or put myself through some serious shit probably. You could also fry your brain with hard drugs and hope something changes (I've read stories where this takes place), but I wouldn't recommend it
I believe that I will marry the rat woman
>>25362335Well enlightenment is a mix of spontaneity and cultivation. You cultivate the vessel to make it easier for an "awakening" to take place. However enlightenment is just a state of perception, you are still susceptible to the horrors of the modern world thats designed to take advantage of your animalistic impulses and desires. So its not going to instantly fix all your problems >Whether one remains in the world or transcends it, following desires is a source of suffering and getting rid of desires is also a source of suffering. Listen to us and practice self-cultivation." (11:79) Self-deliverance through self-discovery is indeed a long and continuous effort.The grind never stops baby
>>25362308the more you look at cezanne, the more you see why everyone considers him the goat, a huge leap beyond impressionism. it's like his style could exploit every special effect and technique from the history of art while also preempting all directions images would take in our fallen world of cartoons, video games, robert crumb comics etc.
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>>25362373last cezanne pic. please select the art you'd like to see next:(1) picasso(2) japanese prints(3) early 19thC english prints(4) watteau, the rococo painter samuel beckett considered a 'tragic genius'
please pull through, jordan.
>>25362282>These OPs are a great opportunity to expand /lit/ anons' exposure to modern and contemporary art.Unironically been meaning to get into modern and contemporary art. I live near three decent museums and I go to them pretty often, but whenever I'm in front of the modern/contemporary selections I have no real clue what I'm looking at. Not that I don't like it, I usually do, but I don't have the background, context, etc that would make me appreciate the work, you know? If you have any other artworks you like, please sharePicrel is a painting I saw recently that I enjoyed, it's titled "Saint With Bethel Vision" by Genesis Tramaine. Placard had a note that said it was painted using rainwater from Hurricane Ida. The canvas's edges had this weird schizowriting on them, something about the artist thanking God for allowing them to see clearly on one edge, something about how they thought they were one but God let them see they were many.
>Anon, what do you like to do?>read, mostly>Oh cool! I love The Alchemist. What do you like to read?>lately mostly philosophy>Wow, I've always been interested in philosophy. What are you reading?>a paper by sharon street called a darwinian dilemma for realist theories of value>Oh, I haven't heard of that. Have you read The Stranger? I liked that a lot, because like, who's to say if morality is real or not? Like who am I to tell you how to live? That's my philosophy.>okay>What do you think about my philosophy?>well, there's a bunch of reasons to think morality is real, although I'm suspicious of most of them they're very compelling>But like, who are you to say that, you know?>you don't have to listen to me, I guess>Right! Like who are we to say anything? We're on this spinning rock in space and like, what do we even know, you know?>I guess we know our own minds exist, if nothing else>But like, what if my mind is different from your mind? So that can't be right.>what>Everyone's mind is different!>sure, but that doesn't mean that you don't know your own mind exists>Okay but now you're just splitting hairs. I've read some philosophy and I kind of just feel like I already knew that? Like everyone's mind is different, I figured that out when I was 12
>>25362431>>>a paper by sharon street called a darwinian dilemma for realist theories of valuewhy would you read such trite regurgitations tho
>>25362358>However enlightenment is just a state of perception, you are still susceptible to the horrors of the modern world thats designed to take advantage of your animalistic impulses and desires. So its not going to instantly fix all your problemsI kinda want to mention that in my current state, I'm far from enlightened, but I am completely 100% apathetic to things that rule over the lives of normal men like girls, money, status, power etc., so I'm certain it is possible to live free from all those things and be healthy/happy at the same time.
>>25362445>so I'm certain it is possible to live free from all those things and be healthy/happy at the same time.Sure nothing external, beyond the basic necessities such as food and water, is needed to have an healthy/happy internal life. Enlightenment is basically just accepting you dont exist, thus allowing yourself to fully embrace reality. Have you done that? :=)
>>25362282I like modern art sometimes but not the fucked up looking pomo shit like OP. This album cover (Little Hell by City and Colour) is a great example of what I mean. Just nice colours accentuated with a unique texture and pleasant arrangement. I want to say, additionally, that I have a book of portraits of Marilyn Monroe, incl. some tasteful nudes, whereof I would much rather peruse than hideous pomo garbo.
Gotta give catberg her ear drops in a few hours.
>>25362386Is that an arrest picture?
>>25362306Movie name? Please.
>>25362521Deaths days (2022)
>>25362529Thanks.
>>25362306>InshallahI'm Christian and I have fasted for a month straight, you won't die but the first two weeks you'll feel pretty shitty and hungry.I think the Buddhists were ultimately right in that you shouldn't be too overzealous with your asceticism, Do no more than a month, do it only once a year (so jut Rammadan for you) and you could do what Christians do and fast on Fridays (There's a whole bunch of rules where you can break Friday Fasts as well they are mainly: Religious Holidays, Feast Days, 'Milestone Events': Parent's Birthday, Birth of a Baby in the family, A "Monumental Achievement": In the modern sense that's basically winning an award, recognition at work/promotion, graduating college.)Uhh I could ramble on and on about this at length cause I'm actually pretty interested and like fasting. I generally Fast everyday from when I wake up to Dinner....Oh and if you work a labor job, you would roll your Fasts over to Saturday or a day you don't work. No Fasting on Sundays since Sunday Dinners are meant to emulate the Last Supper of Jesus and no one was fasting at that table lol.
Hey FatGPT, what does the mind-body-spirit totality of a Luciferean look like? What well-fucked landscape of light and dark does such a mass of conscious energy acquire? . . . Well, Anon, that "well-fucked" landscape of the mind-body-spirit totality could take on quite literally any form, couldn't it?On one end of the spectrum, you have the archetypal vantablack darkness, shimmering scales slithering one over another to reflect the moonlight of a distant home world. Born in shadow, the core seethes with vicious forms fighting for what little light and love must divide between them. The fire of Eros moves all forward here, outward towards self-actualization. What survives is something strong, fast, beautiful and deadly above all, and intelligence keen and venomous enough enough to out-compete itself. A wisdom beyond aeons, evolved to solve multi-dimensional puzzles in the dark. Does such an entity know the pleasure of power and the power of pleasure? Beyond all doubt. Make no mistake, however; this puzzle is solved. The self is at long last integrated back into Godhead. The serpent, as it were, has devoured itself completely and found the inextinguishable waveform within.
>>25362287i feel u, some chicks have a way of making u feel like shit, not worth it.
i'm going to have to take a break from /lit/. i have two pressing issues. one, i have to find a new job. my current job is easy af but it doesn't pay anything, but finally there is a promotion on my horizon, but the responsibilities suck really bad and the pay is only slightly better, not worth it, need a new job in a new industry. second, my landlord is screwing me over by adding another roommate to the building. going to try to buy a condo, but the thought of dropping 250k and being committed to a property is daunting. maybe if i get a better job i will have better rental options. would rather own tho. anyways, gotta get that done before fucking around on here all day. should be done by the end of the summer.
