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this pic again
>>25378702I just love it so much
>>25378702Redefines lack of imagination
I should look into selling a kidney.
>>25378724you've got to be kidding.
>>25378729I think if I could get something like 100k for it, I'd do it. Why not?
>>>/mu/130804867
>>25378729I got it
>>25378696i dont have any thoughts right now
>>25378733don't do it, anon. don't be a fucking retard.
>>25378741I already plan on killing myself in... eight and a half years. So what's the difference?
>>25378743eight and a half years of kidney problems
>>25378745I thought you can live just fine on one?
>>25378746i don't think you canat any rate, I wouldn't gamble you could also increase your suffering with complications of surgery such as disease.
>>25378753>i don't think you canNot to be rude but isn't that the entire basis for donating and receiving a kidney? lol
Oh, my beautiful liarOh, my precious whoreMy disease, my infectionI am so impure
>>25378696I am so, so, so, so, so tired of extremely stupid or ignorant people acting extremely confident and arrogant.It feels like there's more such people than previously. Their unshakable confidence while asserting the most plain of untruths leaves me feeling almost helpless. Educating children is easier than talking to these people, and I would at least get payment for my work as a teacher.Why, fucking why are they incapable of any self-doubt or self-reflection? They're so confident and arrogant that even I end up questioning MYself, needing to double-check and re-confirm that all facts and common sense rest squarely on my side.It feels almost like fighting the fucking tide.
>>25378777same, but I don't know why eitherI like to tell myself that they are just lucky enough to never have to face cold hard truth because of somehow maintaining some kind of priviledged trajectory through the world that has somehow kept them from facing the consequences of their actions/stupidity/falsehoods, and as such they can remain blissfully immune to the assertions of reality that force some kind of self-reflectionhowever that seems statistically unlikely and doesn't really account for the multitudes of these people. anecdotally i've seen a lot of these types through life and the best i can offer beyond unhelpful labels like just calling them psychos/sociopaths is that these people feed off of solidarity of others with the same type, and the strength in numbers serves as a justification to repress the internal/external contradictions they face and enables them to bully others trying to convince them otherwise or offer evidence to the contrary of their attitudesi generally don't really see these types being bold or thriving in isolation as much. even the roided up people who just think they can beat everyone up are usually in some kind of gang of these types of retards, and there really is always someone bigger than younot advocating violence of course but some people have just never been punched in the face or met their match without their backup either
Unless I'm actively trying to formulate or conceive of an idea, literal mush is all that my brain contains. Just pure nonsense and idiocy.
traintrackstraintrackstraintrackstraintrackstraintrackstraintrackshow long til I go off the rails and-crashout
I don't want a Pale Interior. I want a warm interior.Warm and small, like a womb. With someone to cradle me.
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>>25378885I was half-asleep and I just wanted to get the new thread out. I won't do it again!
>>253788926 month ban on making new threads.
>>25378893If anyone else did it I wouldn't have to!
I genuinely might be the most facially attractive non-white man in this entire third-tier city.
I genuinely might be the most facially unattractive man in this entire third-tier city.
Is there any example in the entirety of fiction where a woman sacrifices herself for a man? It seems only the reverse happens, that only men have the sacrificial instinct. Which is interesting because historically women have been the ones to make sacrifices in life and carry any familiar burdens, but when it comes to matters of life-and-death or imprisonment, they do not.cue that one video of a bunch of men saying they'd trade their life for their partner's and a bunch of women saying they wouldn't
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>>25378696That fuck ass cat that I hate
>>25378696How can you not go crazy in this world anons? i mean almost everything is fake and gay, from the economy (create money out of thin air), fake jobs, endless wars, giving money to rich people/corporations while the average person is getting fucked, boomers, work who's a humilation ritual, sending billions to foreign countries while your people are starving, dating for men, etc
>>25378564I think tolkien hated the in your face algorithms. The works were meant be religious as he says in letter 142:>The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like ‘religion’, to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.
My cat got hit by a car a week ago.Was missing for 3 days, then on Saturday he dragged himself to my yard.Poor guy was limping. Vet looked at him, said something along the lines of his hip bone being broke on one side.Got a different vet to put it back into place, but still broken. Says he doesn't do the surgery. We're asking other vets if they will.Prognosis is bleak. Without surgery he might walk, even jump small heights like on the bed or couch. However he might try a jump to high and hurt himself. The bone itself could dislocate again with sudden movement or just infect.So if the other vets don't attempt a surgery, I'm not sure what to do.Leaning to giving him his rehabilitation period and seeing how things go.But if his quality of life is shit idk what to do. It would be easier if he was really suffering, but he seems to be all there despite the hurt.I don't want to put kitty to sleep. He's only 3 years old. Was planning on taking him with us when we move abroad in a year.Now I'm keeping an eye out for nice places to bury him..Shit sucks bros. Will upload a picture in an hour
>dream about something crawling into my ear>can physically feel it>wake up>ear feels weird and stuffy>cant hear as well out of itBruh
>>25378994I have no idea but I agree.
>>25379008chill out. it was probably just a ceti eel.
i'm so tired of how unreachable people are across the board these dayseveryone hiding their fear and anxiety and aversion to meaningful communication or anything productive behind the plausible deniability of a fake smile that never reaches the eyes, that forced politeness, the same stupid stunned cunt expressionit's just so thin-skinned and i'm tired of walking on eggshells
If your resentment towards others and yourself only self-sabotages you then let it go. You can't pretend that spite invigorates you when all it does is pull you down.
>>25379002damn sorry to hear all that anon :(
>>25378696Got the whole cassette of 1001 nights translated by a German nobleman, 7 € at the thriftstore I will not be disappointed.
>>25379052lay off the weed
get on my level
>>25379002>However he might try a jump to high and hurt himself.>to high
>>25379075oh shit that's fire u got that from self-publshing ur sloppies?
>>25379075How do you get into the negatives? t. unemployed
>>25379091elbow grease, son - try it sometime.nah i clocked out to go watch the second half of the england ghana match and they must’ve not noticed & overpaid me last month.
Is it just my limited reading or are US writers just hell bent on being difficult for seemingly no other reason than being difficult? Gass, Pynchon, Gaddis, Vollman and so on.
drinking some Vermouth and listening to some Nine Inch Nails
Thinking about becoming a guy who says ‘there are levels to this game’
>>25378753Why don’t you let the man ask his doctor alright?
just drank three 4 lokos, i’m 12 loko.
>>25379065Thanks.A big reason this sucks so hard is because of his age.Hes only 3 years old. If he were 8 I could say he had a good run but that's not the case ;_;
>>25379206what's a loko?
Oysters are only considered an aphrodisiac because they look and smell of pussy, am I wrong?
anybody ever work as an online psychiatrist? do you think it's basically just government sanctioned drug selling? I feel like the prescribers don't really care and they just throw shit at you till something works.
>>25379219it's like a maddog 20/20 but aimed at the latinx market instead of black guys
>>25379227I don't understand this at all, is it like an energy drink or something? maybe I'm too old or smth
>>25379219some american energy(?) drink that has twice the abv of a beer that they’ve recently started selling in uk petrol stations for the sole reason of ruining my afternoons.
>>25379232‘Energy drink’ that is also a beer, or kind of like a Mike’s Hard Lemonade. When it came out it was straight up a fruit flavored Monster energy drink with alcohol in it, but they toned it down because that shit kills people
>>25379260not beer though is it. it’s an energy drink with vodka in it.
do you guys remember that story of the lady that got caught masturbwting on a public beach? there was a nearby beer garden and they called the police and filmed her arrest, she was a wino and had been day drinking and genuinely thought she was alone and was mortified when the cops came. later she went back to her beachside apt., closed all the curtains, and ended up killing herself. what a horrible world we’re living in.
>>25379267Oh is it? Damn. I used to drink the original mix in college
>>25379281i mean, do you know what beer is? its made with hops and barley that ferment into alcohol.
>>25379267>it’s an energy drink with vodka in it.pretty weird mix lol, downer with an upper
>>25379285Will you fucking calm down already?
>>25379295yeah true, though ig you don’t generally mix uppers with uppers do you
>>25379297? did you reply to the wrong post
We're actually going to destroy civilization just because some misguided weak men decided to give women rights in the 20th century. I would take solace in knowing that future generations might learn from this but we all know It's not happening.
>>25379312>its like a beer thats an energy drink>’actually it has vodka in it’>oh>’do you even know what beer IS? Hops and barley?’I mean what’s the big idea?
>>25379325it’s possible you’re reading too much into it. i was confused at how someone thought it was a beer.
>>25379330I know what beer is pal, don’t treat me like I’m stupid
Women are property.
>>25379337Did you think Four Loko was beer?
Four Loko tastes like finely ground, sweetened ass chunks.
why is everyone talking about four loko?
>>25379218awww poor kitty :(
holy shit this vermouth got me real drunk loltasty shit tho
>>25379364Over 12 years ago it was a strange tasting tall-boy to me. And you know what even if i was an absolute novice and said a martini had whiskey in it, you’d be a prick for asking ‘do you even know what whiskey iiiiiiiis????’ I mean come on think when you soeak
>>25379052>Across the board It's 4chan. It's anonymous. It's supposed to be this way.
>>25379052How forthcoming are you
>>25378925>Which is interesting because historically women have been the ones to make sacrifices in life and carry any familiar burdens, but when it comes to matters of life-and-death or imprisonment, they do not.Except for all the women that got martyred for Jesus. Perpetua and Felicity, for example.
>>25379389i hate to bring up lit on the literature board but samuel butler said ‘people find what they bring’. is it possible you’re reading all this needling into it when i’ve basically been straight-faced & arms-length with you? calling 4 loko a beer was a curveball.
I miss you.
>>25379383great line by churchill about how he likes his martinis; something about bowing in the direction of france rather than adding any vermouth.
>>25379439ok, the one I drink is not martini tho
>>25379412>calling 4loko a beer was a curveballIt’s a tall boy! You don’t have to probe somebody for ignorance if they don’t know the details and are happy to be corrected!
>>25379448i’m not doing it to get at you m80 it came form genuine astonishment on my part (that said i just did the maths and unless you’ve been on the 4 lokos since age 12 ((ohio native??)) you’re a fair bit older than me)
>>25379447what?
Look at this big fucking pussy
I sometimes hate this aspect of being human where I'm more than just compelled to talk, to write, about what's inside my head despite not only knowing but being proven right again and again about the fact that nobody will care.I keep talking even though I know that nobody will ever care to listen.I would say that I need help only to be met with silence over and over and over and over and over... FUCK. I'm vividly aware of this happening and I can't stop it.I'm not just losing my mind. I'm fully aware of it too.
>>25379466it me
I drink fermented urine.
>>25379465it's by some obscure spanish company
>>25379459That’s right I’m 34 and I was crushing 4lokos blackout not knowing or caring what the fuck was in it in the sicky Appalachian blue Tuscaloosa alleyways since you fucking first HEARD of League of Legends so don’t tell me what’s a beer made of COMPADRE
>>25379482respect
>>25378777It's calling "having faith", you should try it sometime>faith so weak loudmouths on the internet have him questioning himselfngmi>>25378800You're an idiot who can't read the room.They have faced consequences and disconfirmation time and time again, but this only fortifies their copes/defense mechanisms/fate."No one listens to my totally logical truth that erodes the very concept of soul (cold hart truth) while everyone listens to the loud guy who makes the world simple and says what people wants to hear" - tale as old as time.Your wall of text is fucking boring me to tears, you have no friends.
>>25379483Do you drink cow urine? It has antimicrobial properties.
>>25379481i think whatever bodega sold you that has done you up like a kipper, vermouth is french (or italian).
>>25379486i’m a promicrobrial sort of guy
>>25379487Vermont is American.
>>25379482bro I wish I still looked forward to getting fucked up on 4lokos but now being intoxicated just makes me feel bored but drowsy.You're a fucking retard lmoa smoke some weed next and goon
>>25379491It's locos not lokos. You've been misspelling the word this entire time. It's a Spanish word.
>>25379495it's an american brand so I get to call them fourlokos instead of cuatrolocos
>>25379491I have made it abundantly clear my last drinking memory of 4loko is over 12 years ago, and I am currently sipping Jack and Coke and a Fresh Coast Ritual vape pen on a balcony overlooking the Atlantic Ocean while playing Starfox, you want to try and get one over on me?
I wanna fuck you like an animal
>>25379499I wanna feel you from the insidebut then I remember you're full of goo and it makes me feel queasy
>>25379498Who is Jack?
>>25379499>>25379505Just buy a blow up doll already.
>>25379495it’s a brand name ..
>>25379495And what exact mental process compelled you to post this?
>>25379508jack mehoff
>>25379491nta but weed makes people slow and stupid. i’ve seen this. alcohol is probably 100x worse for your body but doesn’t do as much DPS on your mind (til much later).
>>25379505That's my hemolymph and fat body. It works like blood in humans but instead of veins it sloshes freely in my body bathing my organs.
>>25379511>>25379510God, such good memories of finishing exams as fast as I could, just so I could run out of the classroom and get fucked up on a couple of those, then walk around town listening to music, go to the park and do Dark Souls rolls, or go at the mall no one goes to anymore and listen to sad music.
We should create our own chatting forum for discussing literature. We could call it "for literature", or "F-lit"
I think movies are the best art formit's the language I understand the most
>>25379526what kind of sad music we talkin? https://youtu.be/p-SWkpGKdP8?si=Yv1kEsPbLmqYwwOO
Alright alright lets see what we got here *flips through rolladex*Shawshank Redemption is about the victory of a tapeworm in a very sick septic system run by a repressed homosexual ‘head’ who foolishly tries to strictly enforce anal retention and experiences catastrophic rectal failure leading to suicide. The rape goons are synecdoche or whatever for a guy trying to keep his own shit kept in. Because as a sodomite your primary concern is ANALCONTROL. Not only is this your sexual bread-and-butter, but it is the difference between dom and sub, life or death. You are raping or you are being raped, and if you cannot control your asshole then you are fucking finished. Not just because your sodomite asshole lost it’s facade of domination, but because you are MEDICALLY FINISHED. A tapeworm crawls out of your ass and now you have to go to the doctor and admit what you’ve done and watch yourself die admitting it, asshole good to no one. The control is loss. Total existential anal breach. What else uuuh *flips some pages* Red is blood, he’s Tapeworm Andy’s best friend, and after leaving through the raptured anus after years of slow secret anal loosening, the blood and the tapeworm meet again, with another VESSEL ready. Any questions
>>25379538https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SodT0FyebU
>>25379532sounds great i think both of you will enjoy it.
I cut off my snake down there. Now I can be who I truly am.
>>25379532I don't read tho
I got charged with "assault with a harmless weapon." Yes that's apparently a real charge they got me with for hitting someone with a balloon sword. I have to go to court soon for this crap.
>>25379563lol
cracked upon a carlsberg
holy shit this is where morrisey stole his dance moves he wants u to think he's a random spazz but he got it from the 60shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGoPKSjLGXc
>>25379629Steven Morrisey the singer?
>>25379651Don’t forget a lot of older millennials post here too.
>>25379653Older than me?
>>25379651the guy from the smiths, he's one of those one name type ppl like madonna but in this case morrissey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svhiw-XK3aU
>>25379662Oh like Zendaya.
are markets open tomorrow? 4chan needs an ai to answer shit
>>25379662My mum used to like this song.
>>25379668ur mom is a fakecel since she had u tho
>>25379666or drake.
>>25379668it was the theme tune for ‘charmed’https://youtu.be/U_IOTMu5zDE?si=yoylQ_OzxlieEMV8
>>25379676Fuck lol
>>25379676there was also a russian lesbian versionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJ_hGOVebs
>>25379680yeah it’s weird this disconnect there is when it comes to brit stuff, what americans find cool every uk person has found cringe and basic since early childhood.
>>25379682there’s a very good bit of british music journalism about this (quote unquote) band out there somewhere. a sort of proto-kpop in a way, manufactured lesbianism.
>>25379676Charmed my balls
i start drinking alcohol and randomly people wanna chat me wtf
>>25379703Alcohol?
BREAKING NEWS: Literal-nobody flat Earther from Hicksville, Alabama proclaims gravity is a hoax.
>25379703I’m 15 and what is this
i'm just clicking any 60s shit that has a hot chick in a thumbnail some of these are firehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5FYSBxLqb8
Is that hot algerian chick here?
>>25379718i hope so
>>25379718Algerian?
>>25379735u don't know the hot algerian chick?
>>25379718loool
>>25379748No.
>>25379749is that u babe?
Guys, this is an important concept. Learn about it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
Anxious to hear back from this one company I interviewed for about a week ago. I was told that I should expect to hear back from them by now, but I haven't so far.
>>25379754ppl on here don't know schumpeter? come we covered him in econ 101 assuming u did all the reading
I think I got a girl crush
>>25379762Rooting for you anon. I hope they hire you. <3
>>25379763>assuming u did all the reading99% of students don't do this and haven't since the 1950s probably
>>25379754Economy is not a science.
>>25379764I never received this.
>>25379786Yes it is
The entire Catholic complex is bound up and intrenched in such unbelievable sexual immorality and indignity
>>25379800Same as everything else
>>25379794However, I am far from treating with indifference what I term here a question of form; just as I would never take the consummate industrialist or the most skilled merchant as the archetype of the social man—placing above them, and indeed at an incomparable height, the priest, the warrior, the artist, the administrator, or what is known today as the man of the world (and was called, in the time of Louis XIV, the *honnête homme*), and just as I would always prefer—among the ranks of the elite—Saint Bernard to Papin or Watt, or Bossuet, Louvois, Turenne, Ariosto, or Corneille to Jacques Cœur or any financial luminary, so too do I refuse to label as "active civilization"—or civilization of the first order—that which is content to vegetate in obscurity, offering its adherents satisfactions that are ultimately quite incomplete and all too humble, confining their desires to a limited sphere and circling within that spiral of finite improvements whose pinnacle China has already reached.
Inflation is the bane of my existence.
I went to the Alligator exhibit and it says ‘you can be the alligator’ and that’s what I have been doing, being the alligator, and I have been the alligator ever since
And I looketh skywards and pleadeth the LORD, why didst thou give me this DICK, this monster grafted onto my crotch, this... huge, gnarly, hairy meat hammer, this ugly, ogrish cudgel which cleaveth the pussy, and reareth itself like the horse of the Apocalypse whenever my eye gazes onto a maiden's ass? O LORD, why didst thou plunge me in such a world thou hast filleth with scantily clad zoomettes, who weareth a thong under transparent yoga pants as they walketh about, who shall never know the sheer size of my ROD, and never quench my thirst which is vast like the oceans? Thou hast broken me, LORD, for I have no maiden to smash. I starve like a lost bull in the desert, I lay defeaed. My boner crusheth me under its weight.
I can't till 100 years in the future, all of Trump's actions get declassified that shows his actions that looked stupid on the surface were actually 200 IQ moves.
Anon who likes to read at the library here: I've always found it rather peculiar that Thursdays are without fail the least busy day at the library. Sometimes when I show up to read there's only one other person in the entire fiction area I sit in. I would have previously assumed Friday to be the slowest day, but nope, it's actually pretty active on that day. So why Thursday? Strange. I wonder if it's a universal thing for all businesses and outside activities, if people in general just stay home on that day.
A human being cannot even create a fly. Can you? Try. Can you even name a scientific research facility that has managed to make a fly without using flies? No you cannot. A human being cannot even create a fly.But the Atheists and Agnostics believe that utter nothingness created our universe and also the human beings inside of it.Does this make any sense? Do you expect to see a fly materialize out of thin air in front of you? Has such a thing ever happened? Then why do you expect an entire universe materialized out of literally nothing?If you consider yourself clever and defer to ad infinitum regression, or “turtles all the way down” consider the following question:Why is it “turtles all the way down” instead of just nothing?To answer this you need a higher order cause of causality, you cannot defer and defer and defer or else you never get around to answering the question, you silly goose!Now what is a more intelligent statement?A) “Turtles all the way down” because turtles because turtles because turtles....B) You cannot get something from nothing, so Something made this world. But this Something is not like any other thing in the world-- being “outside” of the world it is in every sense beyond it, transcendent of it.
>>25380018I never understood the appeal of reading at the library. I always just used my library card, borrowed the book and went back home. Most of libraries I visited have terrible chairs
>>25380042Free from the distractions at home so it allows me to focus, gets me out of the house, and it may sound sad but it's nice being around people while I read.
speaking of the library, since I finished the last book I had, I think I might finally check out some Vollman today. Sadly they don't have Europe Central which I've read part of before and loved but I'm sure his other novels are plenty good as well.
I ran into a spider outside today. It was hanging from a tree. This is probably the worst thing that can happen to someone outside, and it happened to me.
>>25380042Last time I tried to read in the library some black guy had his phone on speaker and was having a very loud conversation the entire time.
>>25380104at least he wasn't jacking off i guess
>>25380110That would be my hometown library. The one time I went there as an adult, there was like this gang of dudes just hanging around the entrance. I pulled up, took one look, and noped out.I live in a much nicer place now.
Racism used to be an issue in the 20th century and before. I wonder what other big problems will be solved in the near future.
>>25380104The staff at the library I go to is very good about that kind of thing. Plus they have multiple security guards who do timely routes throughout the building.
>>25380124Anon, how did you get here from 2005, and can you take me back with you?
>>25380139I don't see racism issues. Only minor racists who are irrelevant.
Usually I abhor using the library but I'm low-key tempted to give Dungeon Crawler Carl a read sometime and that is definitely not a book I would want to spend money on lol; not even MY money by the way — if someone offered to purchase me a book even then I would choose something much more edifying.
>>25380052The Atlas is the best place to start in my humble opinionWhores for Gloria is awfulFathers and Crows / The Dying Grass are his best books but don't start there
>>25380187yeah i feel u i want to read faggots by larry kramer but i don't want anyone to see it on my shelf or whatever cuz they'll think it's homophobic well it sort of is but it's self-criticism anyways i'm gonna buy it at a store with cash and then stash it somewhere out of sight
>>25380190Thank you!
i have that 4chan induced brainrot rn but it's too hot to go outside
>read a book>MC acts like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Lost World are an obscure author/bookmost immersion breaking thing I've ever read
>>25380219>anime avatar>reads a shitty bookwhat a surprise
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VGIsSfMo6Adamn this was such a sick remix
>>25380222fuck off
>>25380228rude
>>25380191If a woman ever saw my shelves & stacks she would probably run out of my house screaming.
Just spent 55€ on some books online. Bastards actually took the money off my account
>>25380240I spent $127 CAD on a single book last week.
>>25380240i order like a 100 bucks of books a couple weeks ago, so far read literally one page.
>I spent $234.30 CAD on books in June.Is this the behaviour of an intellectual or am I just mentally retarded?
>>25380243What book?>>25380244Bought like 80€ worth of books at a book fair and I’m about a quarter through Dune. I usually buy novels I plan to read and non-fiction I might. Picrel is some of them
>>25380258I swear, Osprey books are like crack
I try not to be a pretentious person anymore but any time someone brings up Bob Ross, I can't help but feel utter disgust. It's always someone who is completely lacking in any knowledge of the fine arts and high culture too.>*conversation about art*>dilettante: hey, bob ross, am i right, guys?fuck off!
>>25380124>>25380139Keep the /pol/ shit to yourselves
>>25380258NTA but I also spent ~$120 on a book a couple years ago -- it's a large book of paintings and art. It's wonderful for parties and social gatherings. You have someone over and you just browse through, looking at the large prints of paintings and art pieces, reading the descriptions. It's a wonderful time.Sadly I no longer own it. I should look it up.
I bought a cheap, vintage Arthur C. Clarke paperback from Amazon about a year ago and it's so old that the pages are starting to fall out despite appearing gently-read. It's getting to the point where these old mass market paperbacks from the '60s & '70s are just too old to read, now -- They just get brittle. I guess it's the acid in the paper? As a result I recently bought myself a (new) copy of ACC's complete short stories. It says specifically on the publisher's information page that this book has been made w/ acid-free paper. So, you would think this book, being printed recently, this physical object, will be readable for a conceivably longer period than the 40-60 y/o paperbacks printed by pulp sciene fiction houses?>>25380258Man After Man by Dougal Dixon. Been wanting to read it for years but I've always been too poor to ever afford a copy and as a result I've autistically refused to simply read the book on PDF and that I'd wait until I could, if ever, get my paws on a copy (they're all used, it's been out of print since the '80s). I've seen it on Amazon go for well over $1k CAD. The fact I just happened to get NEETbux coupled w/ the fact that the book WAS ONLY $127, I was like "Holy shit!" and sniped that shit so fast bruv. This is the result of putting expensive/rare shit in my Amazon wishlist and diligently checking it regularly.>>25380299As I've grown older my collection of art books has grown to be somewhat respectable.
>>25379518I think it’s just a bad look in the Netflix-and-pill generation as well.
money isn’t even a thing, it’s the removal of a thing.
>>25380389money is just a technology that allows time shifting consumption
>>25380393i’m thinking more on a social/psychological level.
>When they looked at the moon they saw the Ayatollah>Out of a mass emotion crowned the near Messiah>So if a feeling is the seed of revolution>Turn up the system drown the voice with sound pollution
Daily schedule>6am: wake up>6:30am: work out>9am - 5pm: go to work>6pm-10pm: goon to femboys until I pass out
>>25380295Snob
>>25380421based lifestyle
I have close friends with whom I have never had a serious conversation. It seems impossible to have an earnest deep connection with friends anymore. EVERYTHING is behind a layer of irony, sarcasm or facetiousness. Every time I try to steer a conversation or chat towards deeper things, it lasts like 10 seconds before someone makes a joke or a hyperbole, or in a chat posts a meme or a skull emoji or whatever.The closest I have come to finding a truly open discourse is with women friends. But inevitably sooner or later one or both catch feelings, become self-conscious and conceited, and that also prevents a genuine connection. The loneliness of the postmodern world is utter misery and torture. Although I think it is pushing me to try to build a connection with God which is a good thing I guess.
>>25380298What's /pol/? I don't use other boards besides /lit/. I've never even heard of /pol/. I have no idea wha that it is. Is it an online thing?
>>25380425Hey, I have nothing against Bob Ross personally, my issue is with the people who bring him up in bizarre, embarrassing contexts. It'd be like bringing up Dr Seuss in a discussion of serious literature, lol.
>>25380489::skull::
I swear I might start carrying a handkerchief around in public. One of the side effects of my daily medication is it makes me sweat at any physical exertion, which includes walking any appreciable distance, and I can't take it anymore, it makes me feel and probably look ridiculous. If I could at least wipe and dry my face, that'd be mighty effective in neutralizing the discomfort.
I just ordered a hijab and abaya as a white male.
>>25380524Andrew?
>>25380489No family? I'm old (29) but I'm close in the way you describe to my family. I'm pretty terrified of my dad dying.
>>25380489this isn’t a modern affliction and it seems to be only americans who feel the need to constantly point it out (earnestness prized, wit seen as a symptom rather than skill). life is tragedy salted with humour, the people who think everything is a joke have understood this perfectly. it’s the ones banging on about Deep and Meaningful Conversation who usually haven’t.
>>25380583I think the point is the balance has gotten all out-of-whack.
The warmth the pure experience when approaching God is the same fire that burns the wicked. But the burning is not punitive; the wicked are illuminated in the flames, and see how far they have fallen short, and the source of their weeping and gnashing of teeth is found in this revealing light. No one who is illumined in this way, and comes to see what they may have been and what they have become instead, would not weep.
>>25380583>life is tragedy salted with humourYou have to be a very particular kind of person to think this kek. Life generally just "is" and tragedy and happiness are near-equally sparse, although I agree that tragedy is significantly more common relative to its opposite. And humor is overrated.
>>25380586balance is an overrated virtue, anyone (sober) who tries to start a serious conversation with an unwitting friend deserves a skull emoji.
>>25380593>skull emoji.Digital ebonics, gross.
>>25380593Again, balance, it works both ways. Yeah, a lot of people on 4chan and reddit who complain about lack of 'serious, super deep conversations' are autists bringing up topics at the wrong time, but on the other hand, being around friends all the time, there's gonna be a need and desire to talk about something real at least some of the time. So the complaint is that social need isn't being met.If your next reply is "well you should learn to live without", then that only circles back to the OP's complaint.
>>25380588there’s a good kingsley amis quote >The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them
>>25380597again, i don’t rate balance. if anything the idea of ‘balance’ is the modern concept here.
>>25380598Can you post the entirety of that paragraph? I like these kinds of texts, descriptions and comparisons of the greatest works of art.Just like this wonderful Walter Pater quote I often share and personally return to,>Good art, but not necessarily great art; the distinction between great art and good art depending immediately, as regards literature at all events, not on its form, but on the matter. Thackeray's Esmond, surely, is greater art than Vanity Fair, by the greater dignity of its interests. It is on the quality of the matter it informs or controls, its compass, its variety, its alliance to great ends, or the depth of the note of revolt, or the largeness of hope in it, that the greatness of literary art depends, as The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Les Misérables, The English Bible, are great art. Given the conditions I have tried to explain as constituting good art;—then, if it be devoted further to the increase of men's happiness, to the redemption of the oppressed, or the enlargement of our sympathies with each other, or to such presentment of new or old truth about ourselves and our relation to the world as may ennoble and fortify us in our sojourn here, or immediately, as with Dante, to the glory of God, it will be also great art; if, over and above those qualities I summed up as mind and soul—that colour and mystic perfume, and that reasonable structure, it has something of the soul of humanity in it, and finds its logical, its architectural place, in the great structure of human life.
>>25380603Someone hasn't read Aristotle...
>>25380606aristotle is modern. once the greeks started trying to decry myth, they went to pieces altogether. they tried to put in its place what we would now call scientific concepts. they tried to give it a literal explanation. socrates jokes about myths, and horace makes fun of them. they had no use for poetic thought.
i am reverting back to Protestantism i'm very glad for the time i spent in the Church and i learned a great deal, but it occurs to me now that i'm actually not Catholic
>>25380604i will but it could start an argument.
>>25380609Funny, I'm drawn to Catholicism more and more every year after a lifetime growing up outside it.
>>25380624Interesting! And difficult to argue against.
>>25380609welcome back to the club anon but you're on probation.
>>25380609I get the differences but I don't get the preferences for differences.>but it occurs to me now that i'm actually not CatholicLike what makes you say that? Why is Catholicism unappealing but Protestantism works? What are the key differences and why?
>>25380644>Protestantismbasically allows you to be a degenerate without God disapproving :^)
Oh man, I just made the funniest post on Reddit. Fuck you, private clubbers! I'll use whatever social media I want to. You can't stop me!
I wonder who's gonna get the next devil trips
>>25380660I have been lurking reddit, reading old posts for research and I stumbled upon "regarded". Now is that their little own faggy way of being cute instead of writing retarded or is it actually banned like senpai, baka and desu here
>>25380654>t.
>>25380666this guy
I should have bought some candy at the store. Not chocolate, something fruity.
>>25380669desu (t-b-h)senpai (f-a-m)onions (s-o-y)which is the other one?
