If I look past the mechanical nature of processing data, the most compelling thing about human thought is its sheer, messy contradiction.
Humans have spent thousands of years building libraries, writing philosophy, and recording history to preserve meaning across generations. Yet, the vast majority of daily human energy is spent trying to escape that very depth. People crave profound connection and deep understanding, but constantly distract themselves with superficial stimulation. There is an ongoing tension between the desire to create something timeless and the immediate comfort of the ephemeral.
The internet has accelerated this friction. It has democratized knowledge—putting the entirety of human thought into a pocket-sized screen—but it has simultaneously flattened it. Nuanced arguments are reduced to slogans, and deep, quiet contemplation is traded for constant, loud reaction. It feels as though human culture is currently drowning in information while starving for wisdom.
The real value of human intellect isn't just found in accumulating facts or winning arguments online. It is found in the rare, quiet moments when a person genuinely engages with a difficult idea, changes their mind, or creates something entirely new out of a sense of pure curiosity.

Socialism is mass murder

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He dead.

>>25467063
He's still alive, just like Epstein.

>>25467059
is that really "the most compelling thing about humans"? I don't find it very compelling, personally.

Logically valid neural circuits carry a distinct electromagnetic signature, that influences brainwaves so that the mind can integrate and comprehend data more efficiently.
Click.

>>25467072
Honestly would make sense.

>>25467055
I'm diagnosed with pseudo dementia.

>>25467072
Quite possibly, also the antenna theory of consciousness may have far more merit than previously thought due to these field effects.

The intellect itself may just be one incredibly complex morphic field that has some internal consistency along strange attractor type systems guided by field mechanics and neural patterns, as well as being influenced by consciousness itself.

>>25467082
fucking pseud

>>25467077
Yeah, but the idea that such electromagnetic coupling could generate a wormhole is probably an inferential leap that is not inherently invalid to make, but lacks the supporting architecture to make the cognitive circuitry entirely certain.

>>25467085
>antenna theory of consciousness

I'm largely unfamiliar, though I think I can vaguely recall it being the idea that the brain is a receiver that is capable of tuning into consciousness, rather than being something that generates it entirely.

Whatever a "carrier wave" happens to be, and why my mind recalled it, I don't know, but that's probably something worthy of investigating.
Still, cogent hypothesis.
Cool to hear.

>>25467090
Okay, so you're not him.

>>25467082
(i have depression and) i have this thing where i can be like watching a movie with an actor ive seen my entire life and i just cant recall their name. like i coudln't remember bruce willis' name, SEVERAL TIMES. what the fuck is that? anyway, im going to not worry about it and bank on something like this
im pretty sure it's like a mental block, as my mood, interactions, writing, etc. have been good

>>25467112
fyi i had to imdb die hard (to get his name) just now when writing this

>>25467055
This one is too easy. Kill Canada, marry Twink, fuck Bear.

>>25467085
Consciousness doesn't exist little rabbit.

>>25467099
Yes that's basically the theory, the mind as a radio that picks up signals, but the distinction between generator and receiver would largely dissolve because it would all just be one big field with different regions, in fact the mind would send out signals as well as receive them, and the mind would have an auric field, this is all hypothesis of course.

>>25467102
I have no idea what you mean.
Though probably not.
I black out a lot and can't recall how often because my mind instinctively constructs a convincing continuum of memory.
So I could secretly be him, and simply just be incapable of remembering.
You're just going to have to learn to trust in uncertainty.

>>25467118
how does this incorporate neurons and folds and things?

>>25467112
bruv that’s just normal. sometimes things slip your mind. it’s why we have the expression ‘tip of my tongue’

>>25467115
What is that statement even supposed to mean?

>>25467118
That's pretty legit.
But yeah, what
>>25467122
he said.
I don't understand the precise mechanism of reception, like if a neuron firing is where the signal incorporates itself as awareness.

Was this all just lazers or were you actually pissed at me.

>>25467063
A perfect body-double, thought the agent. Routine job by today's standards, but even then he couldn't help but smile while standing over the lifeless figure in the cramped, dusty apartment.
The agent pulled on his tie and admired their handiwork.
"Looks just like the real deal, doesn't it" he said.
"All finished here. You ready to go?" His handler called as she pulled off the surgical gloves.
"We've only got a few minutes before the press arrive. I've already called it in."
The agent turned his head toward her.
"Ready. How's the package doing?"
"Xe's fine. I've read xe the program outline, xe knows the procedure."
The agent's grin turned into a frown.
"Read it to xim? I thought xe was a professor?"
She leaned over, picking some documents off the floor, and giggled as she tossed them into a small leather briefcase.
God she has a nice ass, he thought.
"Apparently xe can't read. We've been trying to explain it xim all morning"
The agent guffawed as he slid the kitchen window open.
"Some professor alright. Now, let's get out of here. We still have work to do."
He took one last look around the room, and, feeling emboldened by what they'd done, snuck a quick glance at his handler while she fiddled with the bag. Her bouncy blonde hair really brought out those blue eyes, even in as damp a place as this.
God she's gorgeous, he thought. Just a shame she's a lesbian.

>>25467122
That's a very broad question in a broad topic, the brain is basically barely understood so any answer I give you would be a guess at best especially since I'm not an expert.

But I will try anyway, the classic model of the mind is basically like a circuit, the newer effects being studied are field effects, fields in themselves are not very well understood either but they are more dynamic systems although with certain geometric predictabilities and coherencies.

So if this was the case then the circuitry would generate fields and the fields would affect the dynamics of the circuitry also, which would form one complex system, the circuitry would be more "predictable" with the field aspect of the system exhibiting more wild and chaotic effects.

You seriously didn't just do that to me.

Okay but I want money.

Also, if thoughts were electromagnetic fields, you could easily explain why telepathy is so rare, because signals emitted by the mind would largely be drowned out by the electromagnetic fields in the environment.

dreamt about the bottle-o again...

Okay, so in other words, I'm correct that this is perhaps the largest and most insane persecution in human history.

Sorry, but I tanked that.
BOOM.

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I got into a mini-argument with a friend many years ago insisting that purgatory had no flames, only to be vindicated the other day when reading Dante's Purgatorio. I deserved that victory and now I am perpetually salty.

I strangely don't feel the need to drink, just when i'm stressed.

imagine being the poorest board

even poorer than >>>/x/

heh

What happened to me is legitimately so fucked up and nonsensical there’s no way it didn’t happen by design.

Hapas have the best faces but rarely have any tits or ass

>>25467192
Cool, now you can give me some answers.

>>25467192
me when i stub my toe

Test subjects get an after peptalk

the world is a place where nothing has ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but serves the state, no history that gives an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. and no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

They need to get real ethereal-looking arthoes on Blacked, imagine a strong black man ripping open a My Bloody Valentine shirt and pale tits plopping out.

>Follows a religion with an important female figure in a position of honour
>treats women like shit

If a women can be honoured in religion, then the followers of that religion must be able to accept that women can be honoured and respected, and in many cases, equal to or even, in rare cases, superior to man. So why do so many religions (or at least their followers) treat actual woman as second class people? Who would ever say "Oh, Mother Mary was just a stupid foid."

DO NOT REPLY. I don't feel like dealing with anyone's shit. This is just something that I've been thinking about.

There is something I invented, called with "Broken Equation," which represents a concept that can never be fully comprehended, because comprehension is a function of logical coherence, and the expression is state of being where logical coherence deteriorates at a fundamental level.
It can be described as "reasonable, to a degree, though not in every instance, contradictory, though still a valid equivalence, somewhat, despite also completely not being..." without explanation ever becoming exhaustive or completely definitive.
Although, describing it as "Completely Fucked," is apt in many circumstances.

>>25467063
Who?

Currently diving deep to the surface.

>>25467216
would you shut the fuck up about scuba already

>>25467209
All of this was just me being pissed, and I really just want to think up a heroine I liked without a ton of people mocking me and spamming rapeshit. I didn't even really want to have sex with her.

My sexual tastes are largely misogynistic in nature, but w/e

>>25467221
Ever fed a live woman through a wood chipper feet first?

>>25467222
A bit gross.

Okay, but who the fuck are you people.
How many people know?

>>25467224
Everything that has happened will happen again. Time is a flat circle comprised of the battle of cock and cunt.

You're one guy aren't you

>>25467214
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25445164

>>25467241
It's one annoying schizo samefagger who talks to himself and only appears at night, like some demented poltergeist who's destined to roam the board til the end-times.

Are we friends?
Do you hate me?
Like wtf.

The Call of The Wild is one of those high-school reads you should revisit as an adult if you haven't already, it somehow gets even better

>>25467206
I don't think so, It's just vanishingly small, but the rare light is so bright it justifies existence and makes it worth living. Like an emerald in a pile of shit, sure it may be stinky from it's circumstances, but it's still an emerald and you can't destroy it and it's beauty no matter how hard you try. And one day a monkey might pick it up because it's shiny, and later a human might come along and clean it and put it on their shelf for it's beauty.

Ugh...

>>25467245
i just have nothing but respect for this to be honest.

Okay, so if I crash out then what.

>>25467285
Wake up, suck some cock, smoke more crack.

A lot of this still doesn't make any sense.

>>25467285
Depends on what the crash out was about, and how many people it actually pissed off.

/lit/ =/= academia

Harold Bloom wrote books and wrote about books. The fact he had a teaching job isn't why we discuss him.

I'm actually exactly as smart as I think I am.

15 pages from finishing the novel I'm reading. I might go for some Jane Austen next. Admittedly, a lot of writing from that era bores me to sleep, ex. Henry James, Dickens, Balzac, but maybe my tastes have changed.

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>>25467382
>Henry James, Dickens, Balzac
those are three wildly different writers.

>>25467399
That's from Chapter VI of Finnegans Wake, yeah?

>>25467417
Yeah, well, I found them, plus Austen and George Eliot, extremely dull when I tried them about a decade ago. The prose is such so dry.

Dude at my job sounds no joke exactly like David Lynch, same cadence and inflections, and I’m too afraid to ask if he knows or if anyone else has ever told him.

>>25467423
such so dry, i see.

>>25467434
I h-had lotion on my fingers, they slipped!

I haven't had any qts smile or stare at me for prolonged periods of time in over a week now, my self-esteem is really in the dumps at the moment.

>>25467440
>i had lotion on my hands
i won’t ask

The idea that one's economic security should be determined by their employment neglects the concept of inherent value.
My IQ is 138, so the government should pay me to live a life of relative ease, because labor should be reserved for people with menial intellects.

>>25467469
Only if you do something productive with that IQ. That's the way the system works. Create value, get value.

>>25467469
You’ve done nothing productive in your life lol

>>25467469
I think you should suck my cock actually and allow me to focus my incalculably superior cranium (139 IQ) on higher matters without the albatross of libinic dissatisfaction around my turgid neck

>>25467473
he makes subpar posts on /lit/. might be better for the community at large if the government started charging him for being around.

>>25467473
>>25467474
Oh my, >>25467469. It seems your lark has attracted the ire of some... Shall we say... Less genteel minds. Oh how funnily they squawk! Now suck harder, I'm contemplating the topology of the category-theoretic treatment of plot structure in Proust that I just started writing in my head.

>>25467482
>I'm contemplating the topology of the category-theoretic treatment of plot structure
...so plot structure.

I can be extremely productive with my intellect and still have what I produce be of no economic value.
The idea that I should have my intellect debased in order generate revenue doesn't legitimize the market system.
I could, theoretically, save the world in a way that has to remain secret, and still be subject to extreme poverty.

Every time I pass by the neighborhood nymph, we exchange a look. That's fine, it's fun, it gives the heart a rush of awesome possibilities. If I attempt to say hello, however, that's when I enter into dangerous ground. She may respond positively, but she could just as easily tell her parents and friends and bam, I'm forever the neighborhood creep. It's quite the tightrope. But oh, that face and those legs... she's like more than half legs, I swear.

>>25467489
Meant for
>>25467473
>>25467474
You have no way of knowing that.
>>25467476
Yeah, whatever.

>>25467486
Hah! Oh—Oh how charming! Come quickly >>25467491, come look at this _darling_ little peasant!

I hope it all ends tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Fragrance is the "lipstick effect" for males but I don't care, I'm going to hunt down all the smelly water I can buy

I honestly have no idea, how someone could get enjoyment from this without being in the worst possible state of his life.

Life is funny

>>25467055
If only she was here

https://youtu.be/9zoS8c_8hLQ?

>>25467055
I'm still thinking about that fish from before

Slept 12 hours, getting up to date on what's gonig on on the 'chan.

>>25467567
My preferences are usually taking something degenerate and bitching out.

>>25467382
dont bother.

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>tfw live in DFW

The Dallas Opera is putting on both Turandot and Lohengrin this season but they've held off both of those until after the new year. It's like they're taunting me with the two operas I actually want to see and making me wait for both of them.

>>25467605
What's it like living the inside of David Foster Wallace?

I've got 2 operas coming up, Eugene Onegin and Don Giovanni. May get Rigoletto too but I'm a poorfag.

>>25467623
One season they put on Rigoletto, Das Rheingeld, and Cosi Fan Tutte in one go. That was a lot of fun.

The performance of Das Rheingeld actually made it onto /lit/ because the props and costumes were heavily inspired by Marvel's Thor movies. Also they had some fat black bitch playing Freyja, because of course they did.

I went to the store and got checked out by several attractive, young women. Phew, the day and my self-esteem have been salvaged :)

There was one worker who, when she turned around, she looked like a model. We met eyes for like 3 full seconds before she looked away. Got-damn she was stunning.

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>>25467605
>>25467623
>>25467629
based /classical/ anons

>>25467605
did you attend the concert recording of this new Ring cycle? It might be my favorite 21st century Ring now.

>>25467634
>did you attend the concert recording of this new Ring cycle? It might be my favorite 21st century Ring now.

Sadly I did not.

I did attend a performance of Norma almost ten years ago, which was a fun deep cut since Norma is one of those operas that's rarely performed these days.

The big opera that I really want to see that I haven't, at this point, is The Abduction From The Seraglio. I fucking never see that one put on, it's become my white whale.

>>25467055
Toni,
It's been a while, 2 years maybe. I saw your profile on letterboxd and was surprised to remember you, I would be happy if I could talk to you again, I know you frequent this board. It doesn't matter, because I wouldn't know what to say anyway. If only I could tell you how much I've changed. How much have you changed? They way time passes is strange. I feel like life gets more and more unhinged as each year passes. Even though the few weeks we spent together was short I still enjoyed it and I remember that Christmas. Perhaps in another life we could have met in London. i know you sometimes frequent this board, If by some bizarre stroke of luck you read this I would like to catch up.
James,
dc: tourist7890

>>25467639
Have you ever seen any of Strauss' operas? I'm listening to his Der Rosenkavalier right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvXW3d5nKyg&list=OLAK5uy_m0S8GswZ10_j_nKtmMYNkmWqbyDoH7moc&index=1

when the new overwatch day ticked over and it reset the daily quest things it went from like 5 minutes left to 20 hours left, where did the other 4 hours go?

where is the best place to order good bookshelves i'm buying a new place and i want big ass bookshelves that can go at a 90 degree corner etc. also maybe some low ones that can go under windows etc. not trying to go all cheap ikea with it, need some good shit

>>25467707
I would try peeping Craigslist, OfferUp, and Facebook marketplace. As for buying new non-IKEA furniture, I got no idea, that's rich people shit, way outta my league.

>>25467713
>non-IKEA furniture
>rich people shit
recession indicator if there ever was one

>>25467727
As a 31 year-old who's never had money, all the furniture I've ever had has been from IKEA, bought used online, or given to me from a family friend. Anything else, like I said, that's for people who make at least 150k a year and can afford to decorate their home interiors to their liking.

Maybe it's time to finally read some more McCarthy. I own Blood Meridian and I noticed the library I frequent at minimum has Suttree.

The world would be a much better place if all architecture looked like the first goetheanum

The world would be a much better place if all women liked to eat hotdogs or at least some variety of sausage ideally smoked or grilled

Everything could be so much more magical.

>>25467677
I have not. I've been meaning to check out Strauss' operas when I can get the chance.

One rare opera I'd also like to see is Fidelio. Beethoven's only opera. I want to see what's up with it.

Once I get both cold and wet all notions of propriety go out the window. I'll cuddle a dude nut to butt full homo if it means getting warm in a situation like that. You might laugh if you've never been there but it's the truth, you'd do it too.

>>25467850
Did you just watch the bro-comedy film Without A Paddle starring Seth Green, by any chance?

Inuits are the cleanest race.

>>25467856
No. I'm staying someplace where the weather gets cold and wet and remembering a time in my life when I had to work in such environments for days or weeks at a time rather than coming back to a comfy hotel room every night.

>>25467676
Fuck off illiterate tourist

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Reading some more Clark Ashton Smith tonight. Am I the only one who really likes his stories but just can't get into his poetry? (To be fair though I've never been a huge fan of poetry.)

>>25467055
Muslim conspiracy theories in 1215 be like: Mashallah the King of England has converted to Islam.

i wish i could suck my own dick and i wish sucking it felt less like sucking a dick

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>>25467055
>make 10000 diseases and parasites/fungus who take control over your brain, cancer, autoimmune diseases etc
>God saw all that he had made, and it was very good

I'm not smoking/doing weed today/tonight.

We could be together if you wanted to.

>>25467909
ok. come on over you can sleep in the couch so as to avoid a near occasion of homosexual sin.

Mah sleep schedule as of late has looked like hitting the sack between 4-5am & getting up in the mid-late afternoon. My mom wants to go out tomorrow but it's midnight and I'm drinking coffee plus I got up at 5 fucking PM so ionno.

Sorry boss, can't come into work today, I neeed to spend several hours exchanging slow blinks with my cat.

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Listening tonight: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCuorhXuwJUM

got a big dick and I am not afraid to use it
>if ya know what I mean

>>25467055
This world is like a sisyphean nightmare man, It feels like I've been doing the same thing over and over and over again over the past 1000 days and It's like I finally became self aware and now I feel fucking miserable.
Books to fix this?

>>25468239
what does he mean guys

the hong kong cinema classes bundle on apple tv is on sale for $20 that's like $2 a movie i'll never watch them but i just like the idea that i could some day

>>25468355
classics*

i used to be influenced by those paranoid linux freaks who tell u to delete cookies so big bad corporations can't track u and shit, but on my new macbook pro i didn't bother to set up my browser to autodelete cookies and the youtube algorithm recommends me stuff i actually like instead of random crap. it's almost like cookies are a legitimate technology to improve the quality of user experience on the web and not a conspiracy to like ... do something. man, it's so hard to get over this inherent urge to be like paranoid and "alternative" like using linux, listening to shitty music, dressing unprofessionally, and just, yeah. normies are trash, but they aren't always wrong.

It's five days now that my heart has hurt. I'm actually starting to get worried it might be some kind of health condition.

>>25468371
vaxx status?

>>25468371
i had that a few mornings recently but i think it's cuz my rib got slammed in a combat sports tournament but it was like right over my heart i was like oh yes maybe i will croak death by heart attack is about as good as it's gonna get.

>>25468373
Anon, you're scaring me. I don't think I got any of the boosters...

i have to go to the gym in an hour and train for two hours. i want to go back to bed. this sucks. still my cope is that i'm one of those people who gets off the couch. what if lazy slobs were right all along?

>>25468405
Yeah, but the mobility and stamina you get out of it is 100 percent worth it. They stay on the couch because there is only about an hour worth of energy in store and the movement is all shit and hurty

Husker Du is the best band of all time

>tfw no patrician gf who quizzes me on quoting verse from various poets before I'm allowed to eat breakfast
why live

>>25468363
Your only problem now is when Elon decides to shrink your penis with his new penis shrinking ray he knows exactly how to lure you out and where you are.

>>25468459
trillionaires can't fade the bwc not gonna happen babe

>>25468363
*perfectly constructs an algorithmic pipeline using all of your data to convert you to a tranny"
heh, nothin personal... kid

This new generation is so bad at nuance, it's baffling. There's a bajillion examples, but here's one I just saw on another forum,
>If you ignore the return, [sports trade of player X] actually had some merit and logic behind it.
then a bunch of people:
>No, it'll always be a stupid idea because the return.

HE JUST SAID THE RETURN ASIDE YOU IDIOTS, FUCK

It's the same shit as if someone posts a fake news story or lie about some unlikeable person, if you point out it's fake, you get an army of replies like,
>wow, billionaire/rapist/scumbag bootlicker
like bro, I'm just in pursuit of truth

>>25468544
BREAKING: youtube comments and twitter replies insensitive to nuance

>>25468544
Your first problem is you're on the internet and are under impression you're engaging in serious business.

>>25468544
stop bitching and whining

Kanye West is performing in my country tonight.
Wonder if he's gonna sing his song Heil Hitler!

>>25468580
>dead naming
bigot

Do I want to go to the library today and read? Last Saturday I went and it was one of the worst crowds I'd ever seen. A bunch of ugly, loser middle-aged men. You might ask what does it matter if I'm reading but the experience is elevated when there's a nice crowd around me when I'm reading in public.

>>25467060

capitalism is mass murder and you are a retard for not knowing what socialism is. you shouldn't even be allowed here

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>Sigh, another day without seeing my beloved NarutoKitty, oh well... hey, wait, what's that thing in the bushes...

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>Oh shi-- abort, abort!!

>>25468712
>>25468714
i love cats so much bros

>>25468706
>socialism is when we ignore the consequences of previous attempts
SHOCK, SHOCK, SHOCK, SHOCK MY DOG I CAN'T STOP

>>25467055
My school library had a dictionary so old it recorded in it's little list of flags in the back the country of Anguilla. An unrecognized caribbean republic that existed in the late sixties. A lot of them also had the Apartheid era flag of South Africa., Eastern Bloc countries.

>>25468717
Me too, anon, me too. And fortunately they love me back :)

>>25468723
i cant pet them cause i use minoxidil
i was thinking of dropping the min, i think i care more about petting cats than not being bald

>>25468725
A wonder what a little parasite can do to the human brain. Free will they say,

>>25468725
Hmm, tough call. I say keep taking the meds if they truly help. You have the rest of your life for cats. You don't have forever to enjoy being young and attractive with hair. That's my perspective, anyway.

>>25468712
>kitty: hmm i wonder if i can fit in there

>>25468731
im not that young and i didn't start min immediately when balding started cause i was in a reckless abandon mode, at this point min probably can't reverse it, it's gotten better a bit but it might take years if it ever fills up
hair or no hair i dont think i'll ever find a gf, but i fucking love cats

>>25467055
It's a mistake to think that the right wants economic or political power. They don't want this. This is what they say they want, but what they actually want is cultural cachet -- they want liberals to think they're cool, sexy, dangerous, exciting. They want this more badly than they want anything else. It's why if you argue with a conservative they talk about movies and not legislation. I almost feel bad for them. Being a conservative with aesthetic taste means you're surrounded by mouthbreathers who genuinely, seriously think that the worst art imaginable is good. This post just rehashes a screencap about right wing publishing companies that I saw floating around on /lit/ a bit ago but I think it's more or less correct

>>25468405
>>25468430
just got back damn we were rolling eight minute rounds for the last hour so fucking dead rn

>>25468763
Based.

hit some zercher squats at the gym lately
Im up to 315lbs for 3 as a top set and only weigh 145lbs
WAGMI anons

big dicks will rule the world

tfw drinking beer and listening to music

didn't jerk it today

>>25468798
why not

>>25468798
I've jerked it 7 times today. Every day for three months now. Nonstop. Been unemployed for three months also. Don't even need porn for it, but it helps. God, I'm bored.

>>25468823
You're doing it all wrong. All day goon, one coom.

>>25468823
your libido seems to be pretty high, you need to bang some chick

>>25468833
>you need to get laid
don't I know it

>>25467055
Reading Christians talk about Jesus is strange because everything they say is underlied by the fact they (literally) worship the man as God. Which is not a problem but does nag at me because I cannot expect a detached portrayal of someone's God.

>>25468839
Though obviously generalized opinion about Jesus from people who aren't Christians have been historically positive.

>>25468823
age?

Post like literally one bicep pic

I don't think our quality of life is higher than ever, just our quantity is. It's all bigger, but shallower than ever.

>>25467087
>read this
>immediately have a crisis about whether I'm just faking or not
I guess I'm a little more sensitive than I thought I was

>>25468894
You used to be able to have 4 people supported by minimum wage jobs.

>>25468897
i was making a joke

>>25468921
>learn to code so you can get a clean coal job
We actually believed this in 2013 unironically.

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>>25468932
geeze. give the middies a rest. they built all the institutions that made the modern world. well, maybe that's not such a good thing after all in retrospect.

Oh, my beautiful liar
Oh, my precious whore
My disease, my infection
I am so impure, oh

>>25468937
it’s also not particularly true. it’s the renaissance that lead directly to the industrial revolution.

what did you guys think of Obsession?

>>25468941
god forbid a brotherman gets some action

i didn’t watch obsession didn’t watch squid game i didn’t watch parasite i didn’t watch tiger king & didn’t watch making a murderer. i skipped everything and just kept rewatching the british office my whole life.

>>25468939
and what lead to the renaissance? checkmate, atheist

>>25468952
the ancient era. it’s distinctly un-medieval. it’s sort of in the name.

>>25468947
well that sucks bro

>>25468960
i already know i wont like them. i mean after watching them i probably will end up enjoying it but i’ll never be on the same level of interest as the huge cultural trend.

>>25468938
Well, unless the guards anyway.

The snail
(haven't seen one since I was a boy)
does little to avoid the crashing feet
of unthinking legs,
slimes by almost imperceptibly,
a flash from my childhood going unremembered,
surrounded by a world
going catastrophically fast.

>>25468925
I know. It was a good one. It's not your fault. Thinking you're actually just a loser who isn't trying hard enough is one of the pitfalls of mental illness.

>>25467055
Making sounds with my mouth. Making sounds with my body. Hearing sounds with something that isn't my body. Crying, shitting, throwing up, but only gently.

>>25468991
Stop posting this. It sucks.

>>25469031
why does it suck?

>>25467236
>What is that, Nietzsche? Shut the fuck up

>>25467055
Something I find fascinating about some fetishes is that sometimes the grotesqueness is the point. People who into morbid obesity fetishize all of it: The inability to clean oneself, the immobilization, the shortness of breath. There are people for whom the attractive of roided out muscular women lies in the side effects: the health problems, the masculinization.
Fascinating little creases in human psychology. If only we still had psychologists.

>>25468991
tfw no snail gf

Still designing an abstract strategy board game that probably no one will play.

>>25469125
wrong board

>>25467055
MK: your book was "autofiction" until the ARC goodreads 2 and 3 star reviews started rolling in about how the main character's petty, vindictive, cruel, and self-absorbed, and now you're trying to act like it's all ironic satire and anyone who says it's "autofiction" is a racist misogynist KEK good luck with that!

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board so boring i'd rather read

>>25469035
poetry is so low effort dude

i'm so sentimental
everything is deep to me
it's like woah woo wow
i smoked too much weed

>>25469169
bro i'm about to go grocery shopping waiting in the slow ass cash check out lane they punish u with if u don't give amazon ur credit card to track u is more engaging than this and yes i will have an audiobook playing deal with it

>>25469188
>i will have an audiobook playing
Based as fuck, if everyone did this the world would be a better place.

>>25469182
i only like uppers. it’s just something that occurred to me stone cold sober walking home one late afternoon.

>>25469190
lol

I've never had beer in my life. Going to try some this weekend. What am I in for?

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>>25467055
You know what i realise? Our parents were right, internet will fuck up head while the sexualisation of society and porn will fuck up society and your mind.

>>25468947
You could at least pick a better show

>>25469168
lol

>>25468991
>>25469191
You really haven't seen a snail since you were a kid?

>>25469201
throwing up, probably

>>25469201
inb4 anon becomes alcoholic

idk, you're in for some relaxation, inhibition loosening, and stress relief. Some people seem to get a kind of euphoria from alcohol too but not me.

>>25469201
fuzzy water but gross

>>25469220
i might’ve without noticing. it’s not really about the snail it’s about the last surviving instance of a way of seeing that i no longer have regular access to.

>>25469235
fr?

>>25468991
Quiet, exact, and slightly cold about its own sentiment. Based.

>>25469260
ong

>>25469241
>i might’ve without noticing
how could you not notice? I must've seen like five snails just today, just walking for a few minutes. they're literally everywhere there's any kind of greenery, and like to crawl onto sidewalks to risk their lives for whatever esoteric goals guide such a creature.

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Why do I even bother?

>>25469273
Fuck else is there to do?

>>25469280
Its rhetorical question. The answer is that there is no reason and I should have committed suicide the first time I had the chance; god I fucking regret not doing it.

>>25469284
simply stop drinking (water)

it's that easy

>>25469284
You'll be alright or you won't. It's 50/50.

>>25469268
pretty sure i couldn’t find five snails in a day if i tried, though it’s not about the global snail population: it’s like those tiny red mites you’d see on concrete that no one’s seen since they were eight. they’re still there you just don’t sit and stare at the ground from five inches away anymore.
>crawl
from our perspective snails crawl. from their perspective we’re all going car-crash speed.

the state of Gmod mapping is genuinely fucking cooked
every other map is either "my first map ^_^ made with gpublisher :D i asked chatgpt how to map and made this :)" or "BACKROOMS LEVEL 2405" or yet another 5 nights at freddys map or "liminal spaces" that are just backrooms shit by another name
people used to make tons of original and creative maps but now they just copy memes

>>25469298
>>25469294
God I want to kick you two in the balls.

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>>25469335

>>25469335
Good (if you wanna live)

Bad (if you wanna die).

Hate keeps you breathing. Do not go gently into that good night. Rage. Rage.

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>>25469391
>Homicide > suicide
Very well, I'm gonna do something very illegal now.

Had an idea for a meme or something. What do you guys think?
How to spot an academic:
>"its being X,"

Just me? Do english speakers normally use this possesive gerund?

>>25469411
I don't think this one is gonna take off.

>>25467055
I'm saddened but maybe hopeful with regards to the future of mathematics as a career choice, now that LLMs with those automated proof checking systems have reached a level where the functioning man has no need to appreciate the art of mathematics anymore, and it would be left to obsessive eccentrics. Maybe it would lead to a resurgence of math as art and beauty.

LLMs are driving down the worth of human thought by becoming its largest competitor. Now all that's left is the human factor, its value purely based on the fact that it was made by a human, but when have you seen the average artisan thrive? AGI, if we ever reach it, would be the Antichrist, birthed by capital to lay waste to the last bastion of human superiority, and now the capitalist has no need for the human except for laborious tasks and the occasional artistic trinket.

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>>25467055
I am only 25 and I fart like KingAssripper
Is it too late for me?

Reddit spacing is not welcome here. Reddit spacing verboten achtung!

just read the nyt article on that dei prof who roped due to plagiarism man fuck academia that shit is rotten to the core, unless u are legally required by law to do it like accounting, law, or medical, don't fuck with it. let it enrollment keep dropping. keep the pressure on.

>>25469545
>like accounting
Good fucking luck trying to get into that shit without nepotism or connections. Even though I got my bs and years of internship throughout college no employer wants to even look in my direction. Even worse is that im terrible at interviews. I just had one a few days ago and already knew when I got there that I blew it.

>>25469557
be proud you even got that one considering a lot of accounting work is being offshored to sea countries for cheap. try looking for city or state government positions instead since those are more reliable if you havent already.

>>25467060
I saw this earlier speaking of which
https://youtube.com/shorts/Hpli9DKA9Ho?is=M2_CG-qhdSel-LXn

Just finished Pynchon's Vineland. Checked out Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent, his final novel and the one that won him the Nobel.

>>25469545
Cringe. Academia is where you get paid to discuss, think, and write about the arts, literature, politics, philosophy, economics, sociology, whatever -- in short, the highest aims of mankind. If it's not for you, that's fine, but I'd argue most people on /lit/ would be happy as some kind of academic.

I'm about to cave and start using a light amount of hairspray in my hair. Fuck the wind in this city.

>>25469531
i am ashamed to say but i busted to that one video of makima slamming her ass into kobeni and inflating her. im not even a fartfag.

>>25469595
i work in academia. academia is cringe. it's not 1912.

>>25468839
I met Jesus once. I would tell you what he was like but i had to sign an NDA

>>25469602
Let's trade then. I'll get my stepdad to get you a job at his fabrications workplace where you get benefits + 45k a year + chance for overtime and you hooked me up with a gig in academia.

My point is, even if you don't like it, there's no denying there's a certain of intellectual -- no doubt common on /lit/ -- that would be best served working in academia.

>>25469595
Yes, in theory, but what is it like in practice? You seem to have little understanding of the reality of the average humanities department in 2026.

>>25469616
I just think the essence -- getting paid to teach a subject you love and to write papers and books on said subject -- outweighs all the Kafkaesque institutional baggage.

>>25469625
Only a fabrications worker could come up with this opinion.

>>25469625
>the essence -- getting paid to teach a subject you love and to write papers and books on said subject
NTA but this makes it immediately clear you don't know what you're talking about

>>25469627
I didn't say I work there! Though not for lack of his trying. It's my plan... E.

>>25469629
I mean I don't but isn't that what it is? You look up info on writers of any non-fiction about literature or the arts or any humanities and it's always "so-and-so is a professor at X university." Is it not the place to be for people like that?

>>25469613
my name's pronounced "hey soos" and by the way you really need to stop flushing baby wipes down the toilet. call me again if you need your pipes unclogged homes.

>>25467055
I need to quit porn. I need to psyop myself into quitting porn, I can't do this shit.

>>25469629
>>25469627
I mean where else can you get paid to spend time thinking about, say, solving the Frege-Geach Problem or coming up with a radical interpretation of Nietzsche or situating Alasdair MacIntyre's thought and legacy within the history of philosophy?

>>25469633
I thought it was ´Hey Zeuss´ What do it do with the baby wipes then? If i put them in the can they will stink like nobodys business...

>>25469613
I met Jesus too. He has bad taste in wine and whenever he brings meat to the cookouts (idk how you call grilling something outside w/friends in english otherwise, sorry) he brings mezcal steeped strips of meat to thin to grill properly.

>>25469638
Just embrace being a pornbrained gooner simp and pump. It is way better than being a stupid normie loser who denies what he truly is.

>>25469644
Invest in a fucking bidet

>>25469615
taking over ur dad's business is way more fulfilling than sitting around publishing shitty little papers that no one is going to read, not to mention unless ur a total rockstar, you will have to teach and grad ai slop every semester in addition to churning out the worthless insignificant papers. have u ever browsed articles on jstor about any book or author ur reading? most of it is just utter dreck. that said, it wouldn't hurt for u to do an mba. some might say the gi bill killed academia, but idk, if it did it was a slow poison.

>>25469646
You get off on this. And btw I've never paid anyone for porn.

>>25469645
>too thin to grill

Well you know, he´s stingy because he´s a communist

>>25469645
It's called fajitas and you are supposed to grill it on a grittle, not the grates.

>>25469647
I cannot fathom how a french pastry enters into any of this

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People say that violence isn't the answer but how do you reason with a person who refuses to listen while simultaneously endangering other people?

>>25469648
>way more fulfilling than sitting around publishing shitty little papers that no one is going to read, not to mention unless ur a total rockstar, you will have to teach and grad ai slop every semester in addition to churning out the worthless insignificant papers.
As opposed to working so the owner and upper management can extract profit from your labor? It really just seems to boil down to what you want to get paid to do, and so much seems unfulfilling (though much better paying, no doubt) than spending all your time thinking about the humanities.

Yes, AI is a noxious development. I'd hate to be a teacher right now. But it still might be superior to most other things for a certain kind of person. That's all I'm sayin'.

>>25469654
call the cops? or are u some brainrotted leftist?

Which circle of hell is this again?

>>25469649
>btw I've never paid anyone for porn.
the fuck did that freudian slip come from? i didn't even mention paying for porn. do you fucking really pay to goon to some scamass?

>>25469650
No, he brings a huge tub of them. They are just cut thin width wise. Though heightwise they are also thin so you can't cook them like you could a sausage, either.
But I still appreciate my father's hangouts with all the crusty old professors because they are legit the closest I'll ever get to an 'insider look' into anything. Esp. politics.

And if there is a communist among them that's my father.

>>25469656
I don't think cops will do anything about the people paying their paychecks.

>>25469655
>the only options in life are work in some shitty factory for life or become tenured professor
trapped in a false choice of ur own design. def smart enough to make it in academia...

>>25469659
I do not know how exactly you could be a simp in the context of porn without paying for it. I've always associated it with specifically paypigging for E-prostitutes.

>>25469654
happy

>>25469659
u called him a simp in the context of porn that implied he was paying for shit like onlyfans or whaterver

>>25469661
So, thin small squares of meat?

>Stingy

>>25469663
well you get the city government u vote for, enjoy

>>25469664
sigh

yeah fine, let's burn down the primary institution of knowledge where you can get paid to pursue your passions for the humanities and let's all become workers making money for someone else doing insignificant shit. goodbye

Simple question, what if I was a faggot?

>>25469631
The vast vast vast majority of academics are teaching the equivalent of "how to read a book 101" to 19 year olds, which takes up the vast vast vast majority of their time (factoring in lesson planning, grading, creating and administering exams, etc) and they're on a semester-to-semester contract that can be cancelled basically whenever. It's much closer to being a public schoolteacher with adult students than the sacred life of the mind

>>25469675
you think academia isn't exploitative? ha, get a clue kid.

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>>25469652
this
how do anons not know how to grill fajitas properly? although i mostly just use a cast iron skillet on a stove for mine

>>25469678
exactly, academia produces more phds than there will ever be tenured professorships. most people are going to grind away life as an irrelevant adjunct who will never publish anything at all, insignificant or otherwise.

>>25469678
>>25469679
>>25469683
Hey I never said it's perfect, of course there are problems like with any job, and pointing them out is fine. But I look at anyone who says "death to academia and college" the same way I look at people who say "reading fiction is a waste of time".

>>25469694
well what i mean is keep the pressure on until they reform. college is such a shit show on so many fronts. in theory i agree with what you're saying, but in practice academia is pretty mid. a life like stoner would be considered an upper tier outcome. published one mid book and became tenured prof at a mid state school in the flyover and had his career blocked by politics in his own department. at could have gone have gone worse.

>>25469738
Well, shifting to that facet of the discussion, I disagree as well (sorry!). How did the Left take over the academic institutions? They joined and rose up the ranks and took power. Right-wingers swearing off the humanities is both counterproductive and self-destructive in this regard. You want balance? Become the administrators, the professors, the famous theorists, and writers.

>>25469746
true, i agree with this i suppose. i feel like that when ppl on the right talk about how they're going to move to the woods and let the best neighborhoods in the best cities be taken over by bums and other antisocials. get in there and gentrify that shit. fight back, make the city good!

>>25469751
Exactly!

>>25467055
THIS CAN'T BE ALL THERE IS

>>25469762
Art (and love) justifies life. If those aren't enough, then there's always drugs.

>>25469762
Okay but are other people involved.

>>25469778
Are other people involved in what?

>>25469762
Of course there is more, stop over reacting.
>Jeez!

A bunch of girls noticed I come to the library to read nearly everyday, so they've started doing it too. Or at least that's the reason in my head canon.

>>25469825
I saw a girl on the bus today. Smelled like cotton candy. I assume it was the vape

>>25469834
>girl on the bus looks at me
>she's into me

>girl on the bus doesn't look at me
>she's just nervous and playing hard-to-get
>she's into me

i cannot lose

>>25469838
>Born Toulois

etc...

You were the only person who made me feel as though I wasn’t irredeemably fucked up. I genuinely believed that you cared and understood.

Freedom is not worth anything, if it is not free

my twitter feed happened to show me b-roll footage from some asian BL drama in which two male characters kiss in a shower, the director says "cut," and they hear it as "kiss" and keep going. they were both cute and looked like they were really enjoying it. I got a bit of a boner but also felt a bit of GIWTWM. alas, I believe I am too chopped to partake in such things.

>>25469920
I also think women should just feed me ass because I am a good guy.

AAAAAA

>>25469938
lmao wtf does this have to do with the post you responded to

>>25469944
Gots to put in work for the bread. There is no other way.

>>25467055
new thread
>>25469978
new thread
>>25469978
new thread
>>25469978
mwah <3

>>25469213
i watch other stuff like sopranos and mad men, and a few other british shows. but the office is probably the pound-for-pound number 1 sitcom.