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>>25474440I'm freaking out again
>>25474449Yeah, that painting is a little unsettling. Sorry.
>>25474450Not because of the painting, just in general.
I actually like how my hair looks right now but then the wind blows and then I end up crying. So I must cut it.
My trip made me realize that I'm bored of tripping. I think I've reached the limits of what mushrooms can do for me.
>>25474449good
its too good its too nice she makes me finish too quick is it love no not love she turns my sexual trick she says shes mine i know she lies first i scream then i cry
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The concept of debt is interesting, particularly black market, illegal debt. Consider a gambling debt or from a loan shark. You don't pay, the bookie or loan shark sends people to threaten and even hurt you until you do.Yet, what's the functional difference between threatening someone who owes versus someone who doesn't? So long as you're breaking the law, why does there have to be a debt at all? I'm not explaining myself. Let's say I'm a violent criminal. There's two guys in the bar: guy A who owes me $50 who cannot actually pay yet and guy B who doesn't owe me anything but has the money. Why do I hassle guy A and not guy B? Of course, the answer is "well, guy A actually owes you," but if the goal is just money, and you're committing violence anyway, why does the debt even matter?I suppose my point is it's interesting how the logic of debt incurs its own kind of morality. "Oh I only threaten and hurt people who owe money" seems strange yet makes perfect sense.
This medicine makes it so it takes forever to get hard but once I do I can last forever. Interesting trade-off. Makes for awkward conversations the first time with a woman, plus the consistent worry that this time, my guy won't come through at all, no matter how long I and she tries.
>>25474512feel like you're looking at this too much in isolation, as a matter of the individual debt and not the loan shark operation as a whole.i think people intuit that the violence is justified (to some degree) because the threat of violence is necessary if you want to have loan sharks in the first place.the hired goons aren't just shaking you down for money, they're also creating the expectation among the loan shark's current and future debtors that this is what will happen if you don't pay.
>>25474512>"well, guy A actually owes you," but if the goal is just money, and you're committing violence anyway, why does the debt even matter?Criminals are pretty insular, when it comes down to it. Guy A has put himself in the position of being part of the ecosystem. Guy B, presumably, hasn't.
>>25474529I get that. Let me try this illustration: I'm sitting at a bar with a bookie and his muscle. They could, if they wanted, turn to me and say "pay us $300 over the next month or we'll break your legs" but they don't. Now, let's say I say "hey, bet you $300 that LeBron misses this shot" and LeBron makes it, so now I owe $300, which means now comes the threat of violence. But if they're committing crimes anyway, why does the debt even matter? Of course, it traces back to "oh, well, they have some kind of honor, they only threaten those that actually owe" which is what I find interesting, because functionally, there is no real difference.>>25474539Fair point.
online dating services are shit
>>25474539>>25474512Criminals aren't that stupid. Think about it. Why would guy A loan money from some illegal loan shark instead of the bank or someone he trusts? Simple, he needed money for something illegal himself like drugs for instance. And criminals won't go after guy B because he's innocent meaning he has all the reason to call the police and snitch on them. But guy A? He borrowed the money willingly meaning he's part of it now. If guy A snitched to police he would also be in legal trouble and you know what happens to snitches in jail right?
>>25474548To nitpick, with drugs that's true, but with debt, since it's after-the-fact, you can still go to the cops and report the violence. But yeah, I see you're point, I guess that makes sense.
>>25473977The story about prostitutes was sad, but the website design is atrocious. Ads overlaying the article text, flashing lights at every scroll and moving boxes chasing you around. You nypost people live like this? Half the ragebait is loading the page.
My new thing is, whenever there's a cute, youngish girl/woman on the bus, and I see some middle-aged creep get on, I watch the creep to see how many times he looks at or outright stares at the girl. You'd be surprised how blatant and uncomfortably lecherous some of these guys can be. Like sneak a peek, fine, I do it too, but all the time I see them go right up to the girl, check them out right in front of their face, sit down, and continue doing it. Dude, she's not a statue or painting. And you're old enough to be between her father and grandfather, the fuck are you doing? The bus really attracts all the weirdos in this city. No wonder good-looking girls feel uncomfortable in public and on public transportation.
>>25474576You're doing the same shit, and justify it by giving one human value over the other. Cringe loser.
If prostitution were legal all over the country, inceldom and right-wing extremism would dissolve rather quickly.
>>25474586I doubt it
>>25474586Do you think having sex automatically changes a person? It's not as special as you think it is.
>>25474591It does, but more so I think an abject lack of sex has severely detrimental effects on a person.
Just got uninvited to the birthday party of the sadistic psychopath I know, seems like he officially quit his one-sided friendship with me.Nice, I like getting undesirable people out of my life.
>>25474586You should stop selling your women to the devil, no wonder the country is on the brink of implosion.
>>25474479Stop using drugs, life is more enjoyable straight edge>>25474587>>25474591>>25474594>>25474586 doesn't have sex
>>25474598Why did you cut him off yourself, anon?
>>25474610>life is more enjoyable straight edge>check out my bestiality jpg
Sexual revolution was a massive civilization blunder.
>>25474479>I've reached the limits of what mushrooms can do for me.Time to try mushrooms with a MAOI
>>25474614He was part of my larger (now much smaller) social circle and he was always invited no matter the event.
>>25474440Informed decision making has ruined information.The only reason the physical sciences transcend this is because they measure things independent of humans.
>>25474586
>>25474625That's literally what he's saying, unironically.
>>25474625No, those are the guys who say ridiculous shit like "rape should be legal". Legal prostitution is a win/win.
>>25474586>>25474632Incels want to be loved, not to have sex per se
Should i play more video games or start writing my book?
>>25474636well too bad, chuds don't deserve love
>>25474636It's obviously not a replacement, I'm not saying it'd make life-fulfilling, but it would solve a lot of the spiritual malaise poisoning a sizable portion of men in the Western world.
>>25474636This is what I mean by having sex alone doesn't change a person. Its not sex itself that people are missing, its a meaningful connection with someone.
I found the origin of Santa Claws!The Egyptian god Bes!
There is no sane men that would permit his sister or daughter to offer their bodies as commodities.
>>25474644And his wife Angela Beset
>>25474632You cannot really expect much in the way of incel political theory. Though part of the 'incel issue' is that most of the opposite side does not want to solve it. They don't think incel's have any valid grievances and deserve to suffer.And they aren't very positive on prostitution, either. Even though there isn't anything to lose by doing a proper legalization.
>>25474641Chuds are too autistic. They don't express love very well. The corpo-state made them for soldiering
>>25474644I always think of Socrates whenever I see a statue of Bes.
>>25474648Well, I know a lot of these men have valid grievances, and even if they don't, their suffering is absolutely real. So I just think legal prostitution/sex work would help alleviate the primary affliction infecting the large majority of these men, and in turn, improve society.
>>25474652He does seem a bit perverse.>A depiction of Bes based on various sources>Bes (/ˈbɛs/; also spelled as Bisu, Coptic: Ⲃⲏⲥ, Ⲃⲏⲥⲁ, Arabic: ويصا, romanized: Wīssa), together with his feminine counterpart Beset, is an ancient Egyptian deity, of Nubian or C-Group culture origin[1] worshipped as a protector of households and, in particular, of mothers, children, and childbirth. Bes later came to be regarded as the defender of everything good and the enemy of all that is bad.[2] According to Donald Mackenzie in 1907, Bes may have been a Middle Kingdom import from Nubia[3] and his cult did not become widespread until the beginning of the New Kingdom, but more recently several Bes-like figurines have been found in deposits from the Naqada period of pre-dynastic Egypt, like the thirteen figurines found at Tell el-Farkha.[4]>Worship of Bes spread as far north as the area of Syria and as far west as the Balearic Islands (Ibiza) in Spain, and later into the Roman and Achaemenid Empires.
>>25474645Also a sign of the emotionally broken autist or sociopath. They don't like women, they only want them as objects and see nothing wrong treating them this way. The whole romanticization of both kings and prostitution makes me ill.
If Steve Jobs is still alive, do you think he will fit in with all the other techbros overlords of today?
>>25474645I guess this is why poverty exists to teach smug little minds that they're wrong on this. Let me guess you'd rather starve and then leave your family unprotected than give into the idea that they are the only ones that could bring in money in the current economic environment such as like Thailand. Sometimes shit sucks ass.
>>25474645To be fair, no sane man likes the idea of their sister or daughter having non-marital sex at all. Or would want them to be a stripper. Doesn't change the fact it's a desired service.
>>25474674>Sociopathic king wants to tech moral people a lesson so he invents povertyNo. But Epstein types do look down on you as mere animal to toy with. Step into a wood-chipper.
>>25474677No, that's not a sane man, anon.
>invents povertyYeah bro that was me. Read a history book. Also, I didn't vote for Trump because muh gamergate or something.
>>25474672Not to worship the guy, but it looked like he didn't fit in the same In-crowd.I wonder if he got cancer from a Gates hired biological hitman Not reading the biography.
>>25474685It's not that he got cancer it's that he decided to treat it with hopes and dreams.
I... voted... for... TRUMP!! OKAY?! God.. Just UGH, LEAVE ME ALONE!!
Even if prostitution was legalized you guys still don't have the balls to fuck women, always with what if.
>>25474610
>>25474688Instead of sound waves and ivermectin
>>25474700He wasn't even on alphabrain or ag1. He was never going to make it.
>>25474440how do you deal with hate? i hate this World with every cell of my body, i just want to see it burn until nothing remain, not even the cinder
Now that I'm older and have matured (relatively), I realize, in literature, poignant, heartfelt emotional stories and the revelation and resonance of truth far outweighs in power and enjoyment a fancy prose style. I used to detest what I viewed as simple writers, those who didn't write in an ornate, perfectly sculpted manner to tingle the tip of the spine, the sensory tool of the aesthete. But I've since learned beauty comes in many forms, and indeed, more than merely entertaining and please, art should make one think, to make one feel, to inspire, to comfort, and dare I say, to teach.
>>25474724Hate is anger anger is pain. Figure out why you're in pain and address it directly with therapy/spirituality or don't and pressure cook until a sad sperglord pdf filled with typos appears on the news as a passing mention of whatever retarded shit you did and then everyone moves on.
>>25474724Hate and bitterness are passive. Love and compassion take conscious and constant effort. Hate doesn't come from lack of love. Hate comes from lack of willpower.
>>25474440Sick and I feel like shit
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>>25474762Get well soon
>>25474767>sleeping girl*sweats*
i finna get basedi phineas and ferb*mic drop*
>>25474767Thanks anon
9am, gonna go for my morning walk. pls don't kidnap me, thank you
Holy fuckin' shit. I put on this pair of shorts I had on my floor, then I looked in the mirror, and next thing I know, a spider is crawling up my neck! I immediately brushed it off and all around me, now it's loose somewhere in my room. Goddamn it. I hope this scene doesn't play out again when I put my sweatpants back on.
Fuck man, where did it GO
>>25474586you retard it's only illegal to be involved in prostitution, there is nothing illegal about hiring or calling a hooker to fuck
>>25474832He's from Salt Lake City. Everything's illegal.
>>25474828There was never any spider.
>>25474769Maybe if you weren't so fat you wouldn't be sweating while stationary indoors.
>>25474832It's the opposite in some pooropean countries btw
>>25474837I found it again, tried to smush it with my pants and it failed. It's the biggest spider I've seen in quite a while. In my bedroom. Come on man... I can't find it.
>>25474832Illegal to sell legal to buy is how it should be but iirc that not the policy anywhere.
>>25474615It's a random pic I picked up from /pol/. It is not rel. The pic is not rel
>>25474659Incels are incels because society allowed them to be and, in part, made them that way. Instead of allowing people to fuck whores which is satanic, we should be focusing on removing the cancer which is individualism. And I don't mean that in a commie way
>>25474856>the solution is man in the skyOf course it is.
>>25474440Yesterday on the bus I sat next to an old man who seemed unable to compose articulate words and could only communicate by grunts. He was very talkative, but I did not understand nearly anything he was saying. It was surreal. I hope he is ok.
>>25474863The solution is being part of a community. For incels, a good place to start are churches, yes
Read some hispanoid diasporoid contemporary fiction by accident the othter day and I'm still mad about it.
>>25474869I regularly see an old man on a tram that constantly yells about how jews control the government
There's a pain in my chest, is it certain death? My vision has blurred, is it assured? Is this how it ends, awoken to triple bypasses? I reach for my phone and put on my glasses, my vision returned when viewed through the optic, yesterday I bench pressed and totally dropped it!
>>25474882>Wait a minute... is this...? IS THIS CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC DIASPORIA FICTION!? GODDAMMIT, NOT AGAIN!
>>25474904Ask him about how the Jews built the moon to make werewolves.
>>25474914I don't think he's open to communication, he just stares into the empty space and sometimes asks himself questions and answers
>>25474908Your poetry is objectively shit btwLike I physically cringe every time I read it.
>>25474927>objectively based on my personal experiencelol, nta hands up don't shoot!
All I've been able to write lately has been awful smut. I don't even get off to it, I just feel too insecure to write something that tries to be anything but shit.
I'm not a pushy spammer type, so think making a thread about him or youtubers (again. I just missed the last one) in general. So I put this here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kidRLsemRUcLibrary Ladder guy (I forgot his name) is a great old bibliophile with a huge collection he likes to share.>Classic books—old ones, new ones, and those at risk of being forgotten.>Come explore my library with me, where I hope you’ll discover books that capture your imagination
>>25474440Derrida's ethics are the most cancerous AIDS dogshit a mind can contemplate. At least Nietzsche's destruction of ethics was innocent in comparison. Derridean ethics will literally give you schizophrenia and retardation if you even attempt them, genuine sick mind Trojan horse MKULTRA shit. That African deceiver was the most disgusting sort of crybully.
Sigh, guess I'll just have to coexist with that big ass spider tucked between my bed and the wall for the foreseeable future. Hopefully it dips out and leaves when I leave the house later or fall asleep once it realizes there's no food to be had in here.
>>25474512I think it's because a lender that does not collect is a lender that other criminals see as a bitch. Reputation is everything in the game. Loan sharking is also not supposed to be a one off thing but rather about making that person dependent on you and indebted to you, a semi-regular source of income for the loan shark.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Rape and murder are horrific moral violations and the most serious crimes an individual can commit against another individual. Don't rape and don't murder. THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
>>25474440All of my OPs belong in this thread but I place them on the catalog anyways
>>25475000That's just as to why one uses violence to get someone to extract money from someone who owes a debt. That I totally understand. My point was if you're already willing to use violence to get what you're owed, what's the functional difference between that and using violence to extract money from someone who doesn't owe you anything? In a sense, a debt is just words and a concept. There's no physical difference between someone who owes you money and someone who doesn't, but still has money.I suppose my point is I find it fascinating how the debt creates a relationship where moral permissiveness exists to use violence to get what you're owed.
>he thinks his pees are o
>>25475013Because if you're not working within a coherent framework you're just a retard and will be ignored/removed from the equation.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Doxxing and cyberstalking are legal violations and a federal crime that is punishable to up to 10 years in prison. THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
>>25475026>Hasan Piker's entire movement in shamblesWhy would you say this anon? Don't you want to do a socialism?
>>25474927This is the first poem I have ever posted or written.
>>25474440how do niggas have it in them to reply with 5 words for the funsies. solving 3 captchas is enough of a mental barrier to not mindlessly comment (positive). does every fag have the goy pass???
>>25475031>True capitalism has never been tried
>>25475048Just axe Citizens United, ban insider trading, relentlessly pursue corruption and regulate the markets. You're a civil servant, not a god king, so act like one. It's not rocket surgery. We don't need a bloodbath just competent leadership.
>>25475060>relentlessly pursue corruption and regulate the marketsNeeds "big government" (FDR style if not socialist)Though any of the other reforms you mention, if enacted by a New Deal II or state-socialist government, will be whittled down immediately and asap. Why? Because some people have a lot of money and will bribe their government.Three basic roads to take. 1. The oligarchy that runs a state's government2. The authoritarian state that tells the merchant class where to get off3. The world without state-capitalism.
>>25474440>who are you?>I'm you>please, kill me
>>25475046I appear to have a Silver membership pass where I solve one capcha.
>>25475070I am fine with big government as long as I, a random civilian, can audit it at my own whim and pursue legal action if I find fuckery yielding me a small good boy fee for following through on a successful iteration of the process. If we don't see an aggressive DOJ rip and tearing all the Trump bullshit in 2029 then yes you are correct this cycle is probably fucked. It's just never going to be socialism on the other end. A small group of people will always be in control at the top and ruling without capitalism live updating everything that is going on in the economy from 30,000 feet has never worked and never will. You're simply too late to respond and are too high up to see the local picture clearly. Which is why the fed is a really good idea until the bailouts started. Let the broken shit fail if you want capitalism to work. A lot of the problem is in American retarded interpretation of exceptionalism. I have more money therefore I am a better person and fuck everyone else. Instead of we're building a thing together let's cooperate it's how I can fuck you the most so I look the most exceptional. Cringe losers.
The only way to stay mentally sane is to learn indifference to everything that has nothing to do with you, narrow your circle of concern to only your own life and activities. But then when you talk to normies they infer your rational egocentrism as selfishness and think you're a bad person because you don't pretend to care about world hunger like everyone else. I don't feel like I belong to this species.
>my weeb phase ended years ago>still get urges to buy manga and merchJesus Christ. It's like after you quit smoking.
>>25474440You should've waited another five years to publish your first novel. It sucks! You're going to be so fucking embarrassed by this a few years down the line!
I don't have a novel
fuck shit up and start a riot
>>25475215Let's all follow the rules and clean up a little bit instead!
>>25475215If you feel so emptySo used up, so let downIf you feel so angrySo ripped off, so stepped on
>>25475218If you feel so filthySo dirty, so fucked upIf you feel so walked onSo painful, so pissed off
>>25475223>>25475224based
>>25475185I'm working on a novelway of not working
Successful people often lack depth, they are delusional in many ways... I think you need to be delusional to take any action in this world...
>>25475325It's just systems and network effect. None of this other shit matters. Stack enough positive reinforcement loops and you explode exponentially, couple it with other nodes experiencing the same and effect grows in size. Stack enough negative reinforcement loops and lock into the same place over and over again regardless of how many times you try to get out stick these nodes into a network and watch your future spiral into the toilet with everyone else. Everything else is dressing and larping and doesn't matter.
>>25475325Inaction cope. You can be delusional with depth. Don't become a passive logic faggot cause everyone else fell for the trap too. Erm, this stat says I can't do things, guess I'll just sit around all day harumph.
>>25475268You're not the only oneRefusing to go downYou're not the only oneSo get upLET'S START A RIOT, A RIOTLET'S START A RIOTLET'S START A RIOT, A RIOTLET'S START A RIOT
What did you guys think of Obsession?
>>25475405Evil moids won't put in the work to make women love them.
>>25475346>Erm, this stat says I can't do things, guess I'll just sit around all day harumph.Reasoning does not justify anything. It is only by delusion that we feel compelled to do something. And it certainly seems like the more delusional you are in this world, the better! And if you're an overthinking faggot like me (or as you call it, a " passive logic faggot") you will overthink yourself into doing nothing... I wish I could simply bash my skull onto a wall until there were no thoughts left.
Gonna go to the library in an hour, feel free to say hello! I'll be the guy reading Steinbeck.
>>25475405In a sea of cheap horror schlock, it is certainly one that is more... near the surface, bobbing around with the rest like a more buoyant turd. So it was more noticed by the ... cinema-goers? cinephiles? popcorn-consumers? Hollywood-zombies? movie-maggots? Whatever they want to call themselves these days. Haven't sen it. Shan't. Today movies have never been more pricey to watch, and never, to my tastes, been so terribly low quality. Maybe it's the quality books I have surrounded myself with, maybe it's my age, or maybe it's my age and bitterness at not being able to make a career in filmmaking.
>>25475453it's really not that great but you should still watch itthe girl is cute
The spider finally poked its head out from under my bed and I killed it. Thank God. Sorry, buddy, it was you or me.
How come men don't write romances that make you go "AAAAAW heart emoji heart emoji heart emoji"?
It's almost worth it to have to make a carveout in my ad-blocker for 4chan's new captcha, because I get to see the ads that people actually pay to place on this site and all of them are hilarious.Like look at this shit. I was missing out on content like this before.
>>25475525bad karma. I stopped being scared of spiders because it was tedious.
>>25475543If only you could do the same for your fears about women.
>>25475545jokes on you, I'm afraid of everyone
>>25475541There’s some asshole who must have more money than God who’s been shilling his shitty music on every board I’ve used for the last eight or so years
>>25475536Kishi Torajirou writes and illustrates a great AWWW yuri manga
Man, I just found out my friend got cheated on by her not-husband, and she's still hanging out with the letcherous fuck and his nonfunctional penis. I dont know all the details, but the mistress was some married smarmy cunt with a face like the crypt keeper in those Windsor glasses all cankled up, and my friend's man looks like a homeless guy in autism shoes who has never done physical activity in his life. Apparently they had a business together and he codirected her hideious feminist technofuturist slop, and the whole situation makes me want to vomit. My friend was always way out of her man's league, not only because of her gargantuan breets, but because she has great taste. Loves gundam, wears pit viper sunglasses, is a genuinely funny and interesting person. Her man was always this... weird older sort of fake academic artist type, hence the horrific mistress/buisness partner. I met them both through my wife and he was always pretentious as fuck. I'm fairly well read, and I understand I look like every douchebag frat bro ever, but I legitimately love art and fancy myself a writer on the side. This dude would always treat me l was some sort of mouth breathing trog because I dont work in a creative field, and I just thought he was just putting on airs until I was vetted, as those types do when you have a real job. Nope, he's just an amoral faggot.Anyways, he knocked this benthic scum sucker up and they lost the baby. Comes back crying and suicidal to my friend and they're trying to work through it in therapy saying he was blackmailed. I personally want to tell him to fuck off; they've been together for 16 years, he's seven years older than her, and took my friend's vcard at 20ish. That's disrespectful. And now his dick dont work. I dont know how I'm going to see this man without immediately unleashing an italian tirade on him, which would certainly make him cry in public, and by christ's balls my wife is even more confrontational and german than I am.Fuck you, bitch nigga. I'd break your jaw if hitting you once wouldnt put your life in danger, you litigious faggot.
I don't know if "The Man in the Black Continuum" comes across as an effective title, but it probably doesn't matter, anyway, because the story is almost certainly never being written.
>>25475405Didn't watch. Never will. :^)
The mother of all headaches. I believe I may have angered The Ally.
I'm on the verge of completing my novel, but I need a name for my character's God. A mixture between kayako from the grudge and crash bandicoot from the platformer video games. Something to really make it stand out.
>>25475405Bear did nothing wrong. He is what the average man is today, and women hate him. What does that say about our society?
>>25475536It's called harem romance. What could be more wonderful than the love of multiple beautiful women in concert?
I'm wondering what happened to Goose.
>>25475681that's not the argument you think it is
>>25475681bottom text
>>25475701Lobsters live forever, he's fine lobsting it up.
Tfw no lit gf to scream at for incorrectly interpreting dasein as merely self and make her cry then explain why she was so wrong and why it hurt me and accept her apology then comfort her dark triadically and then we play FIFA together
>>25475702Go on. Spout your man hating nonsense. Do it. Don't be afraid here.
>>25475681>Bear did nothing wrongI'm going to implant a chip in your brain that makes you nod vigorously and say "Yes Please Please Please" when I say "Anon do you want to be assraped" and we'll do this for several months until you can't shit right anymore and then I'll take the chip out of your brain and ask you if you think Bear did nothing wrong
>>25475739Anon, winning arguments with women is 90% emotional self regulation. You just lost by telling her that you have feelings and engaging in straightforward good faith.
>>25475754Sounds kinky. When can we begin?
>>25475754Can I volunteer for this that's kinda.... Hot............
>>25475754not what bear did, try again
>>25475713>so dasiein is, like, self-awareness? consciousness?
Are women actually incapable of being awkward or does their sexuality give them a shield from perception?
>>25475841NO, retard, and if you had any of that yourself you'd already understand why. >I throw my controller against the wall like a throwing star. It embeds itself in the drywall.Dasein is what it is and what it must be and must always have been. It is not any category or class of object it is the particular way in which we exist always and already and the unitary fact of bridged subjectivity and object. This is exactly why I told you to buy Dreyfus's commentary on Being And Time and read it, but did you do that? Did you even read the Wikipedia article on dasein? Did you ever spend one iota of effort thinking of something other than your finitez temporal self? Of course you didn't. Because now we're living together and you can get fat and stop reading philosophy because you've got the "beta provider" trapped and unable to get his own place with someone who actually reads. So I guess I'm the idiot, really, for falling for it. Fuck me I guess for wanting introspection, to fuck more than twice a month, or respite from the angst of Being. Fucking BITCH.you called my bluff, I don't sufficiently understand Heidegger
Do you think reading is good regardless of what you read or are there layers to what you read to consider yourself a "good reader" or something like that?I ask this because, personally I haven't touched a single book in my life, but over the last few years I've been fond of fanfiction and japanese light/web novels, and while they haven't been the most intellectually enriching experiences of my life, I found them quite entertaining to pass the time and I'm left thinking "hey, reading is a nice hobby..." (and in fairness, given I'm picky with writing conventions, it's not like I'm reading some abysmal dogshit). But on the flipside, I'm also left wondering, since I don't read anything conventional, mainstream or more "intellectually enriching," some people would say I might as well not be reading at all and that the slop I enjoy doesn't count... and I personally I wouldn't have much of a strong argument against it other than saying "That's just elitism."So, which is it? One thing I know is that I wont stop enjoying the slop I read, but sometimes I think of the imaginary moron that would tell me I'm a faggot for choosing to enjoy "The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten" as opposed to anything that is chic among seasoned bookworms...
>>25475957>Do you think talking is good regardless of what you discuss or are there layers to what you talk about to consider yourself a "good conversant" or something like that?Same answer more or less. Not trying to be snarky I'm just tired.
>>25475957>I ask this because, personally I haven't touched a single book in my life,WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE COME FROM? WHAT BOARD DO YOU THINK YOU'RE ON??? What the fuck is happening man? Am I the wrong one here? Is this actually /r9k/?
>>25475960Why would he not come to the book board to ask a question about reading?
>>25475950Pretty sure it's just subjectivity that's intelligent enough to ask questions about its own subjectivity.
>>25475950What an experience. A whiny temper tantrum because you hit the bullseye with your take by any real contemporary interpretation but your whiny pseud boyfriend is too much of a midwit to understand it himself and now you have a manchild to get rid off. There goes the rest of the week.
I want to start cooking with beef tallow
>>25475957“One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.”― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and AphorismsThat said, reading slop in this day and age is at worst neutral for your brain, it's not poison in the same sense watching TikTok or YouTube videos all day is. I wouldn't say it's 'good' for you outside of the fact you're doing something you enjoy and it's not activity harmful.
Can't tell if I'm eating to make up for not eating that much yesterday or if I'm depression-eating to fill the void in my heart. Oh well. Rice, broccoli, and chicken lathered in teriyaki sauce, here we go again.
>>25475965I'm glad it mostly worked the way I wanted it to.>>25475964I don't think it's quite that, but again: I don't sufficiently understand Heidegger or how seriously to take the weird way he uses words.
aaaaand now I'm stuffed. fuuuug I haven't been this full in ages.
>>25476005Take a pic of your big round hairy belly and share it and make sure to describe any gastrointestinal pressure even fragrant aerations
>>25475958>Not trying to be snarky I'm just tired.Fair enough, I reckon its a bit of a dumb question lol. You can pretty much ask the same thing about a lot of things, like videogames, movies, manga, cooking, drawing... Although some things like reading still require more brain power and focus than others.>>25475972This brings the question: What IS bad for you in terms of reading, then? As in, what's the specific metric? Being around the realm of amateurish writing like web novels and fanfiction, I've gained some practical knowledge on what is good and what is not, but if you asked me, I wouldn't be able to point out what makes a writing "bad" outside of things like poor writing conventions, bad narrative, too many tropes, etc... And my standards wouldn't be as high as most people that read intensively on a regular.>I wouldn't say it's 'good' for you outside of the fact you're doing something you enjoy and it's not activity harmful.I believe so too; the stuff I read is by no means fascinating, thought-provoking or enriching, but I enjoy the stories and they put the creative gears of my brain to function, so I say it's a positive.
>>25476024I think if you're trying to be a writer, then okay, we might be able to say some low quality of writing is bad for you. But if you aren't, then I don't think it matters. It isn't good for you, but it's not harmful, again, in the same way binging visual media is, because that actively kills your attention span. Reading slop doesn't.
I'm done with my book. It may be one of the worst stories ever written, but I am okay with that. I did the best I could.
>at gym benching>fail rep>roll of shame and set bar on floor>pick bar up to put it back in the rack and put plates away>no clips on the bar>slightly overbalance one direction and the plates start sliding off>overcorrect the other direction >plates fly off one side of the bar>bar whips to the other side and slams into mirror on the wall next to me>everyone turns and looks because of the loud ass banging noise>put bar and plates away and power autism walk out of the building
>>25476042Very good Mr.Bean skit. 8/10.
Staring at a map of my state which is (incidentally) bottom ten in total land area and it’s crazy how I’ve lived/spent like 99.9% of my life in like 5-6 towns. Is this not most people’s lives? Why doesn’t it get talked about more? I don’t see myself as a loser when I didn’t even know about the existence or names of towns only three towns away from mine. Oh but I guess all the cool kids who threw a dart at a map and ended up in Cool City are so cool for leaving their hometowns behind huh.
>>25476052in my defense I squatted 3pl8 for reps right beforehand
>>25475435So performative mate. I was at the library a lot last year and I was being so performative too back then. So fricking performative. Unbelievably performative.
I was having a good conversation with a woman I already know about video games but then I went full hyper-specific autism paragraph mode and I haven’t gotten a reply in a day.
>>25476061I just can't focus at home. How else am I supposed to read?
Rayquaza should show up in Avengers: Doomsday.
>>25476042Reminds me of the time I was at the baggage claim at an airport, and my luggage was so heavy I couldn't quite pick it up, so I ended up getting dragged by it and knocking people outta the way for like twenty feet before I could get it up and off lol. It's similar in the sense that people were also looking at me like i was a fool.
>>25476066Come on don't hold out now. Give us a little taste.
>>25476055kinda jealous tbqhI lived in more than a dozen different states growing up and don't really have a hometown or people I've known for longer than a couple years
Took a shower last night and I'm already stinky.
>>25476121Ngmi. I can go weeks between showers before I begin to smell even slightly bad.
Sometimes I reckon I like the idea of reading more than the actual act of reading itself.>>25476169Indian?
I miss you.
This "blue-mint" flavoured vape pod kinda tastes like shit.
>>25476189
>reader actually finds my book by mistake>Starts reading it>Goes "wtf am I reading">It gets popular because of it>Just to get shat on online>They read it on Kindle unlimited >I make enough to buy groceries off my work for the first time>Still, the overall response is "wtf am I reading"
u should check out justine by lawrence durrel that shit looks kinda fire fr
Chapter 1Regret to report it is the end. Lightning stroke evolving neon cumulonebula skies upon last imagined bastion. Orbital defense losing fidelity, ozone falls towards continents as crumbling insulation. Stratosphere bulges already the flood. Death loomed the quarters, giving ‘activate it’. Symphony of terror drops to laser dot of night vision as planetary laser cracks planet core. Techntonic outburst into space as molten human biomass mutate towards immaterial forms in disparate alien clusters fractions of motherland split down to molecular vapor and fading.
>>25476196what is this kino work of yours?
Got a big laugh from a friend at work when his shoddy bluetooth speaker gave a loud poor-quality 'BATTERY LOW, RECHARGE SOON' notice in the middle of a song and I said 'oh is this the new Laurie Anderson?'
I've completed life and now there's nothing left
Momberg wants me to take the laundry downstairs.
I am ready to build my lifeI am ready for the life I'll build
>>25476241lmfao
yep, it's another night in alone reading BL
>>25476256>BL???
>>25476260gay anime shit
Is it safe to post my dick here?
>>25476265I imagine your cock is not safe TO work
>>25476266Butt it is, sure it is -given appreciation
>>25476276*arrives at cock work 20 minutes earlier than you and reads his emails and puts together a dossier for today's workplan by the time you cock in*
How come we have so many writing threads but never any lefting threads?
>>25476287*doesn't work for free*
>>25476289I don't think you understand this business
I am the business
Alright then employ me
>>25474440on that v on that yellow pill shit fuck the deal is fuck kill steal shit fuck real
I'M THE UNIVERSE WITH STANDARD-ISSUE COMBAT BOOTS ON
>>25476309Then post a position I might submit to
>>25476312>>25476313I AM THE TRUTH THE WAY AND THE LIFETHE ALPHA AND THE OMEGATHE FIRST AND THE LASTTHE BEGINNING AND THE END AND ALL THAT I CAN DO -YOU CAN DOAND MORE
>>25476318i am the one the one the one the one the one
>>25476265No, I'm a geo-locator except for cocks. I will identify your cock, track you down, and cut it off. >>25476309*unsheathes butcher's knife* omw
this bright blue theme is painful to me eyes but anything dark with white text presents trap house
Its your literary responsibility to explain to me why I feel so bad after having drinked
>>25476332>presents trap housewhat is trap house and how/what does it present
>>25476333You always feel bad the drink just kicks it up a notch
>>25476334a trap house is a drug-den where addicts get 'trapped' because that's where the dealers are which is great for users especially because nobody cares if you just tweak out on the floor or overdose and die (think GTA San Andreas, you shoot one up in the first hour of the game or so), they are typically dark from lack of lighting and due to covered windows so as to avoid police notice while achieving the 'casino effect' where its always night and no one knows what time it is.
>>25476335cute but rings hollow due to lack of truth (juvenile criticism my habit has long since evolved)
>>25476337Not sure where you learned English but "presents" doesn't seem to be used properly here >>25476332Maybe you meant that it's "giving" trap house or better yet that it "reminds" you of a trap house.
>>25476345giving and presenting are nearly synonyms, presenting gives presentation. you're not putting effort into this, or shall i write something which might teach you this lesson more clearly?
>>25476346No, the idiom is "it's giving," not "it's presenting."
Are you fucking with me again?
>>25476349>the idiomTHE IDIOM HE SAYS!'WHY AREN'T YOU USING TURN OF PHRASE' HE SAYS!Listen pal I rape what I sow
>>25476351Are you drunk?
I'm fucking myself near you and I wish you would stop watching
>>25476353Are you sober?!?!
I number thine three and we should start a podcast
>>25474512Because they operate in an ordered ecosystem. Loan sharking is an aspect of being a career criminal. They want people to loan money from them so they can charge them percentage points. If they are utter psychos and start robbing people for no reason, they will go to prison, whereas if they lend money and collect from people who are already in that ecosystem they have a lesser risk of being caught, and more of an opportunity to build their business. Many people dont realise that, as much effort as you put into your jobs, career criminals put into their jobs too. Because it is their job.
>>25476358dude we are doing surrealism could you not interrupt?
>>25476355No, I'm a little high. Only a little because my tolerance is, too.
>>25476360give it ten years bud then you might see the light\'are you drunk' he says
illuminated ones and zeroes eyes i am seeing the internet in real time my friends
>>25476363Why do you drink? Is weed still illegal where you live?
It's presumed the juvenile weedlings fell asleep like the pissy twilight mandrakes they are (as though I didn't work today myself)
>>25476374I've got my weed pen right here, drinking too. Why? It's called cross-fading, kid, and I've been a chief practitioner since the blue twilight skies of Appalachian alleyways in the waffle house humidity Tuscaloosa 2011
>>25476363WHO THE FUCK DRINKS FULL STRENGTH BUD?
>>25476381what do you mean by 'full strength' bud
Took my pills w/ beer and a CBG gummy.
CBDits easy as 1 2 3
You remember when 'Let's Get it Started'Was 'Let's Get Retarded'And that's how we liked it?I'm not against public services but black humor has been made no longer an option
>>25476391No it was CBG it's different.
>>25476383there is only Bud Lite. there is no Bud
>>25476400dude im trying to jerk off
>>25476402I know we're just screwing around but who really drinks beer?
Just read "Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch. It's basically pic related.
I could have spent the last of my money on books but I spent it on booze, vape pods & and takeout.
>>25476407I do love my 'you are everyone' thought exercises, just piquing at the summary proffers Soul Reaver
>>25476410lmfao imagine reading without vaping
>>25476412It is sorta 'you are everyone' but with slight variations here and there. The core aspect of the character's motivation remains rigid, which is where the main conflict is at.
>>25476413True.
>>25476415alright i might have a peek but know i am lying to you for more conversation because a promise means nothing to me
Anything less than a straight answer is ‘trolling’ nowadays
>>25476426I want to poop inside you are dad.
>>25476428I have your social security number
>>25476417That's okay. I don't necessarily recommend the book but it is entertaining enough to read through it once.
>>25476455If you want to describe the book to me now, I will be able to share in your experience in your own words, and you will better integrate what you felt from the book into us
If you useless rabble will not hear then I will be the one to act! !I am the heart of this organization! And you can eat shit directly!!!
gook one point four billion times to saygook one point four billion times
HEAD LIKE A HOLE
>Man, reduced to his barest constitution, has ever consisted of one or two chromosomes which determine his biological sex; a fact that every tongue-mangling zealot of recent decades has taken it upon himself, with scarcely a thought, to rearrange, and which the deluded multitude has mistaken for progress, be it of the social or the psychological order, than which nothing could stand in starker opposition to the truth.
Sucks that my mind no longer generates the surreal, symbolic architecture that assembled various elements of life into intensely meaningful, vivid experiences.Suffering an extreme nervous breakdown where these thoughts converged into a vicious, inescapable nightmare has left me fairly traumatized.I suppose I should feel content with myself that I navigated such an abyss while still maintaining my moral center, but that's a rather empty consolation considering that the decisions made under immense psychological fragmentation did precisely nothing to help anything or anyone at all.Fuck it, I probably have trauma roughly equivalent to a war veteran, considering I spent over a year in a state where I constantly thought I was being hunted down like an animal.I should probably develop alcoholism and become a coarse, abrasive dickhead to cope with the fact I'm still hyper-sensitive to triggers and can barely function in daily life."Permanent cripples, failed seekers."Whatever, I'm sure it meant something.
>>25476428I'm dad and what is this
>>25476260Boy's Love
Sometimes my body has boiled with heat and overwhelming sexual desire. It literally comes out in how hot my cum is. My masturbation has felt like magma.I suppose in those situations it'd be better for me to be having sex, maybe. Match a woman's heat to my own. See if we're both hot enough for each other, in multiple senses of that word.
recommend me a comfy ass reading chair not some office shit for sitting a desk but just lounging around reading all day
damn raymor and flannigan is expensive as shit i don't want to go for shitty ikea shit but like idk if i wanna drop 1000 bucks for like one skinny ass bookshelf that's like four grand to cover one small wall idk man don't want to skimp on the furniture but at the same time idk man
Any good heinous pornographic ai tags i should run locally?
>>25476630Volcanic sexual effluvium
which one of these best for long reading sessions?https://www.roomstogo.com/furniture/living-rooms/chairs
The Will is the kantian thing in itself, and the will of God, it is the Will.
i'm so sick of inflation too bad neither party will do anything about it democrats will print money to bribe voters with free shit and republicans will print money for foreign wars, either way, the debt gets bigger, the dollar gets worthless. any good books on investing in high inflation environments?
>Inflation-Sensitive Assets by Stefania Perrucci and Brice Benaben>$247heh
We may remember that Christ the Lord, upon doing any great or marvellous Cure, put forth the soveraignity of his Will, as when he said to the Leper, I will, be thou clean: And sometimes he put it to those, who, he perceived had Faith in him, saying, What will ye that I should do unto you? And no less was effected for them than they desired the Lord should do for them. These expressions of our Saviour may be a grand Rule for us to follow, and ought well to be regarded by us; for in the Will is the highest Magick, when it is united with the Will of the Highest; when these two Wheels meet in one, they are the swift running Chariot, which nothing can cross or stop, in which the Bridegroom, with his Bride Sophia, ride most triumphantly together over all things, viz. Over Rocks, Mountains and Hills, which are all made a Plain before them, and Seas dryed up. What is able to resist a Will that is united with God’s Will, before which every thing must stoop and bow? which Will, when ever it goes forth, always accomplishes its Enterprise. Its not a naked Will that wants its Garment of Power, impregnable Almightiness is with it, to pluck up, to plant, to kill, and to make alive; to bind and to loose, to save and destroy [...].Now from the fore-going Rules, we are taught to drown the many Wills, that have been generated from the mixed Essence of the Soul, and to loose them in the Abyssal-Deep, from whence then may spring the Virgin-Will, that never was in bondage to any thing of degenerate Man, but stands free and clear in Conjunction with Almighty Power [...].I know nothing more worthy for the single Eye to look into, and contend for, than the Magia of Faith; which was once delivered unto, and exerted by the Saints of former Generations; and why we should give it for lost now, I see no cause, but should be earnest for the reviving of it, and calling it up from the Dead.—Jane Lead, The Revelation of Revelations, 1683
saving a very important announcement for the next thread
did emmie finally get a bf? chinese this time?
https://www.koh-antique.com/client/tangwreck/tangwreck.html
>>25476721how can ppl watch youtube slop i don't get it
>>25476725There’s a girl with a masters in English Lit who dropped out of a graduate program at Columbia to make videos about how completely fucked and insane the humanities programs are. I like that channel. It’s called Pens and Poison
>>25476721wish there was a browser extension that just automatically blocked all women on youtube for me.
I finally got a copy of Agua Viva by Lispector. This is the first time a female author has made me feel anything deep. I can finally use someone other than Jane Austen to counter accusations of bigotry.But really, it's genuinely very beautiful, at least the first few pages so far. All the more so because the melodramatic petty—as in petty kings—narcissism characteristic of the female inner eye is sanctified rather than subjugated or elevated above its station. I'm sure Lispector herself would hate that characterization but I genuinely mean it as a pure compliment. I'm reading it while drinking black coffee and eating a Twinkie.
>>25476750fat fucks are so gross
Contracting the spacetime metric to the point of a singularity could possibly enable the existence of zero-second occurrences, which is something I thought to be strictly prohibited by the speed of light.I should probably write this science fiction story at some point.It's actually fun studying this stuff, though I live in poverty, and find the fact that I can understand this stuff with relative ease to suggest that I really don't deserve to be in these conditions.Try discussing this shit with friends and family.No interest.Autism, I guess.
women need love too!
>>25476750Ehh I'm on page 22 now and it's getting a bit repetitive. Still neat.>>25476755That's the idea
>>25476758I once wrote a story that I was really proud of about four dimensional beings that abduct a protagonist who is capable of changing the future through seemingly random and pointless actions that break with the deterministic nature of reality. A single fluke human being with free will in a universe that doesn’t support it.Anyways, I’ve never read Slaughterhouse Five before but apparently my story sounds like Slaughterhouse Five to random critics. Looking back, if anything I got the idea from Guts and Berserk, but my story was nothing like that annime/manga outside of having the main character be the only one with free will thing.
>>25476765Only if they understand Heidegger and hotdogs I've had my time wasted and heart broken TWO MANY F*CKING TIMES!!!!!!!!!
>>25476769"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world."Seriously, though, that sounds pretty cool.I've never read Slaughterhouse Five, but my story is based upon my psychosis, where I was fighting an global war that culminated in the end of the world and I ended up saving reality by triggering a device constructed that sealed an unstable singularity that threatened to destabilize the entire spacetime continuum created by the Devil when the universe was being primed.It's pretty elaborate, involving time travel, CIA Black Operations, and general interdimensional shenanigans, but I adamantly refuse to write some self-indulgent autobiography, and struggle to piece together the story into something comprehensible.Whatever, it's leading me to research various things, so that's been productive, I guess.
>>25476750Page 50 now. I'm starting to think Lispector is just corncob mccarthy for girls. Not because of the writing style. It's funny to see my own neuroticism about time mirrored so perfectly in such an unexpected place. I should read the cockroach eating story next.
>>25476805Finished. I'm glad I read it, it's a neat little book. 7.6/10, will read again. It has some weird parallels to my own thoughts with some significant, sharp differences. Melodramatic and cluster B to McCarthy's brutal autism. Both incomplete. Time to sleep.
I wonder how many copies of Minotaur Milking Farm were destroyed to train ai data centers.
>>25476786>that sounds pretty cool.I thought so. Also, like you said, it’s a good way to research topics that you want to understand more about. It’s a good way to get deep into a subject and find questions you didn’t even realize you wanted to know the answer to.
>>25476863For sure.Admittedly, because I'm a braindead jamoke, I'm using AI to research physics and have it develop conceptual models for how ideas like the singularity and device could actually function, and strangely, they're pretty consistent with the crude thoughts I had about them while insane, so it's pretty satisfying to have my general lines of reasoning synthesize into a logically coherent system.The fact that it's all theoretically possible isn't really the problem at this point. I'm okay at writing, sometimes, in certain contexts, but writing an extensive story with creative structure, distinct imagery, satisfying rhythm, etc., is currently beyond my ability, so I'm basically just jacking off mindlessly in a stationary development phase.Whatever, once I have some accurate assessment on what my voice sounds like, which has been equally criticized and praised, I'll probably have more confidence to scrap together this flimsy piece of jibberyjoo for an actual audience.
>>25476883NTA but ai is good at picking up on implications and telling you what you want to hear. It's a people pleaser sycophantomancer before everything else. It usually helps to ask the same thing multiple times phrased multiple ways—one of which including "be as critical as possible" if you don't get bummed out by it—in multiple separate chats.
>>25476887I have noticed that, yeah, but Claude is honestly pretty balanced, and I don't necessarily ask it or emotional reassurance or critical evaluation of content, though I have before and received both reasonable critiques and genuine appraisals, though these are ultimately the analytics of a machine, when a human could find specific nuances of my writing style to be much more appealing, though I try not to disregard input when it doesn't cater to my ego in general.Still, I have learned to manipulate it.I'm currently discussing various aspects of my psychosis and it's trying to confirm that I don't actually hold these beliefs as true, so it's kind of annoying having to calm it down when I don't find it particularly necessary, but Claude regularly finds faults with ideas that I bring it, such as the idea that a final, zero-second instant in time is where something could technically occur as an instantaneous change, so that's definitely useful, even though I find its mannerisms to be somewhat condescending at times.
People aren't checking me out as much lately. Have I hit the wall? Is my attractive youth over? Is it time to neck myself? Sad.Then again it could be the hat I've been wearing.
>>25476936As someone who is invisible to women for over three and a half decades this is the funniest thing I've ever read. Do a flip.
>>25476944Then you don't know what you're missing, and I mean that literally. I do know what I'm missing, what I had, what life was like.
>>25476958>you must experience thing first hand to know it >he said on a literature board>literallyYou're going to have to develop a personality for sure I wouldn't rely on those intellectual chops to keep a feather in the air. Also, after 30 years I personally find adaptation to be a possible feat. I am not missing anything. Good luck and so forth. Try a different hat maybe it's not over. :3
Fuckin' scum politician with signs around the city with his name + "NO to the $2 billion lightrail!"Fuck anyone against public transportation.
>>25476986https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZMA brand hew monorail? Poggers.
NEW>>25477002>>25477002>>25477002NEWedgar degas edition
I wish I could met Sebastian Crugley again (a /mu/ shill), we were friends that drifted away in life. I have no way to contact him (the sperg doesn't even have social media) and still, if I did, I have no idea what to say without being dramatic. "I'm sorry for what I did to you, in spirit the years proved you right. I hope you have a nice life because you changed my ways for the better. Can we meet for a drink?"reads a little bit gay
>>25476219Drema. I just published it on Amazon. Should appear within 3 days.
