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How many pages a day do you think great 20th century writers read? 50? 100? 200?

If you think about it, swear words are bad because of the ideas they express. "shit" is feces, spreads disease, stinks. it's disgusting. "bitch" a female dog, can be vicious and pathetic at the same time, like a milk dog or a dog in heat. "asshole" same thinking as shit. "bastard" is a bit more complex, as it implies a failure of social participation on the part of the parents. "cunt" "dick" "fuck" "pussy" all are part of the sexual taboo. "retard" expresses a state of being that is undesirable, even if a bit cruel.

Now take all the above in mind and consider this question. Why are people offended by the n-word, and why is no one offended by the word "cracker?"

>>25526602
Thought provoking

I always try to prohibit myself from jacking off too early in the day. Drains the lifeforce, the motivational drive, the sexual potency.

>>25526419
Did you and your family’s sacrifices bear fruit and did your brother become an elite drummer?

>>25526602
>>25526611
Strong start to the thread

"I think categorizing your insane delusions as "ideas" dishonesty legitimizes them as being equal in value to those that can be adequately described as sincere rational thoughts. It's like someone calling their bigoted stance that black people are genetically inferior a difference in opinion, rather than simply a demonstrably false belief, so you can see how that would establish an irrational equivalence between this supposed opinion and an opinion that isn't formulated in the deranged mind of someone completely disconnected from any coherent reality. Kirk definitely didn't deserve to be murdered for essentially operating as a cunning sophist, but I strongly believe that calling his absurd convictions legitimate "ideas" gives them a sense of intellectual discipline that they haven't actually earned."

Although, I do genuinely hate those smelly Mexicans.

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>>25526597
Nice

I like this quote I came across in DeLillo. One sec while I find it...

>"Forty was my father's age. All fathers were forty. I keep fighting the idea I'm fast approaching his age. As an adult I've only been two ages. Twenty-two and forty. I was twenty-two well into my thirties. Now I've begun to be forty, tow years shy of the actual fact. In ten years I'll still be forty."

Love it, can relate to it. am living it. I've been twenty-two now for almost a decade.

i am incapable of respecting people who earnestly defend donald trump in 2026. if someone tries to legitimately argue he is an intelligent or admirable person or "cares" about them i look at them as if they are a mentally handicapped child

>>25526594
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Murder and rape are horrific moral violations and serious crimes. Don't rape and don't murder. THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.

>>25526636
Agreed. And I even voted for him in 2016. I'm even a racist who wants the US to be almost entirely white! But President Trump is like... he's not even a human being, or at least, certainly not an adult. Can you imagine him writing an essay or reading a page of Shakespeare? Can you imagine him actually caring about the moral implications of a decision? Hell, even acting beyond raw, reflexive self-interest? Before anything, I look for a mind at work, and then a moral foundation. He is utterly devoid of either. It's actually astonishing. I find it hard to believe he's even a real person.

>>25526636
>i look at them as if they are a mentally handicapped child
this is how i look at female voters.

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>>25526636
agreed. you can tell this is true because 2026 trump diehards have nothing left to lean on other than "he's hurting the people I hate." 2016 trump diehards could point to policies that seemed like good ideas, 2020 trump diehards could point to the biden administration's failures, but present-day trumpers (at least the ones with a brain) know they can't support most of what he does. the naked, flagrant, blatant corruption especially is indefensible. so they lean on two things; he's hurting the people I hate, which is abhorrent cruelty but at least it's honest, or whaddaboutism, which is just lazy and they know it

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>>25526662
let the whitepills wash over you.

Anybody know where i can get some flying oil?

Limitless undying love
which shines around me
like a million suns
which calls me on and on
across the universe

>>25526681
>across the universe

Isnt there a word for that? Would be better to use that instead of that Beatles ref -really broke my immersion. Otherwise very good, touching

You want to talk about Hitler? He's a small fry. Given the average disrespecter of human life, plenty of us have done a lot worse. Take the human body, for example, how many people out there really care for the life of their organs? I mean how little exactly do people care when given the option to gas their organs, and if anything wild pops up they're confident to rely on modern science and engineering to have it removed. And just take a look at me, if the cells in my body are Jews, this *gestures around self* is a fucking death camp.

There are two karens, red karen and blue karen. One karen is republican and one karen is liberal, they are inseparable best friends and also rivals. They both think the same way but are diametrically opposed on idiot party lines. You are traveling on a road, and both appear and say you cannot pass. What do you do?

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>>25526701
I hate women, except when I got insane and love them instead.
Being taught from a young age that women are people, and that I should respect their autonomy has made me schizophrenic.

>>25526701
There are two moralities that are in endless battle no one ever wins called the culture war. One morality descends from the Victorians onto the evangelicals Christians of today. the other morality was born in the 1960s, although you could probably find older forms of counter culture like the beats or bohemians.

Anyways, morality is just a form of control, my suggestion is to never give into any one side who wants to control what you say and do. Always be a form of chaos and non joiner. do not conform


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhCi_wp6GUw

>>25526702
Yes yes I too have suffered under this modern impasse and find great frustration in those moments where they finally quit lying and ask to be told what to do or to be handled, after a lifetime of insisting they are bold and should not be handled as a subordinate. I find balance in the humanistic literature of older misogyenes

>>25526706
>Alan Watts
You understand then, of course
And yet, you are traveling on a road, and both appear and say you cannot pass. What do you do?

Wait hold on I think I can evolve that one here, how about
'Misogenes'
He who is most wise to jerk off alone in a pot and cast away all that is female with his dick

>socializing a stray kitten
>lets me pick her up after weeks of biting and scratching even purrs a bit for the first time
>next morning doesn't show up as usual for her meal
>see stray dogs in a distance playing with a small dead animal corpse
>look with monocular it's a cat
>kitten never shows up

Thinking about a cousin I grew up with and went to high school with (we're both in our late 30s now) and how I am reluctantly admitting that he wants nothing to do with me.

>played some dnd stuff at local comic shop in our early 20s
>don't see him except at a couple Thanksgivings like 2018/2019
>get his number from his mom (my aunt) like maybe this time last year
>text him no reply
>get invited to a thanksgiving thing, see him and talk like normal, tell him to come by and visit my mom and I any time
>never comes by or anything
sadfrog
my father is a piece of shit and a big black sheep, who unfortunately lives down the road from us so idk if he thinks he will come by and have to deal with my father BUT he could have texted me back last year :\

why did you block me

>>25526713
D:

Welcome to the NHK!

>>25526709
Im not going to play the game, what they are playing is a game.

I'm worried about the cat voyeurs in this thread. We have already seen someone spend months photographing someone else's housecat talking as if they were thinking of 'saving' them and and now we are hearing reports from some sort of self-claiming cat street violence empath. I submit these people should be spayed.

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getting reminded of this 'jak for some reason

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>>25526721
Dude you're supposed to come up with a funny witticism indicative of your mastery over their gamership. I was prepared to validate somebody just shooting them in the head.

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>>25526726
>We have already seen someone spend months photographing someone else's housecat talking as if they were thinking of 'saving' them
lol it did turn out that the cat belonged to the house it was always in front of and they just let it go outside often. I passed by one day and I saw it in their window. Don't worry, I didn't take a picture.

>>25526594
Yes, yes, it's wonderful when people compliment you and tell you nice things about yourself. But 80-90% of the time, they're doing so because they want something out of you, or want you to see them in a certain light, or want you to do the same to them. I'm sorry, I know this hurts to hear, but you're not a child anymore. Don't delude yourself into thinking that they mean it.

>>25526731
First off, better to assume they mean it until proven otherwise. Secondly, even if they don't, so what? If it makes you feel better, mission accomplished either way, so long as, again, you don't find out they don't mean it.

>>25526730
GOOD. You fucking SICKFUCK.

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>>25526734
Sorry, I love cats too much :(

And hey, in my defense, the cat loves me back. It approaches me whenever I walk by and it's in the sidewalk or grass.

>pic: oh god it's heading this way ruuuuuuuun

>>25526601
Depends heavily on the writer. Some read intensely their entire lives (Borges, Woolf), some read intensely for a decade or so and then writing occupied most of their time (Proust) and some did a mix of both, but when they did read they mostly reread the classics (Faulkner). Really just varies.

>>25526730
Stop. I beg of you. It was a challenge to explain to my daughters 'there is merely a 4chan user who lives near here who takes photographs of our lawn every day, and living around people means we have to tolerate them, so please try to avoid the windows when he is nearby' but when it took you an entire month resisting my bold statement 'that cat belongs to somebody' I understood I was dealing with some sort of vacant pervert. And now you repost your photography of my property as you claim innocence, while you move on to considering the local dogs murderers of your newest 'familiar' because you saw them chewing something after you were obsessed with some other new cat. Will you get a grip?

>>25526712
Misogenes lived in a dog house. One day Chad came to his city, expecting homage from everyone, Chad approached Misogenes while the philosopher was sunbathing. Chad offered to grant him any wish. Misogenes replied:
"Would you cum in my bun?"

>>25526737
lol jokes on you, there are no daughters in that household

But yes, I stopped, chill. And besides, there's nothing wrong with taking pictures of animals.

>>25526738
lmfao
Plato's Republic of Chad

I'm pretty indifferent to the concept of masculinity in general, which ocassionally makes me an object of derision. I don't really have sex with a girl, or eat a nice, pleasant steak, and immediately react with some strange feeling that my masculinity is somehow legitimized by a relatively benign activity.
But there's a wide assortment of different, conflicting definitions of masculinity that I've never felt even slightly compelled to adhere to.
Someone can tell me, "You're not a real man," which usually tends to demonstrate the cliché that people quite often use insults that they themselves would actually find hurtful, so it just adds to the ridiculous of the preoccupation of the concept that my apathy has kind of made me into an annoying faggot about.

>>25526737
>but when it took you an entire month resisting my bold statement 'that cat belongs to somebody' I understood I was dealing with some sort of vacant pervert.
kek

>>25526740
>he knows what children live there but guessed the cat was free to kidnap
good lord

>>25526749
I never actually considered taking it! Y'know what, I'm done replying on this subject. It was all in good fun and you're making it weird and worse, making me feel bad :(

>>25526733
>better to assume they mean it
It's human to prefer a comforting lie than a difficult truth. This is a mistake, but the comforting lie feels pleasurable and kind, which we deeply want to associate with truth. But it's childish to know that it's a comforting lie, know that there's a difficult truth, and decline the truth in favor of the lie with open eyes
>even if they don't, so what?
I don't like being lied to. I don't like being lied to when both me and the other person know it's a lie. You can piss on my leg but don't tell me it's raining. It degrades both of us
>if it makes you feel better, mission accomplished, so long as... you don't find out they don't mean it
"When people say nice things about me, that's because they mean it, and if they don't mean it, then they might, and that's okay! But when people say mean things about me, that's because they're upset, and they don't really mean it, and that's not okay!" Anon, this is what you tell an 8 year old who's sniffling and snotting over themselves because nobody wants to play tag with him on the playground. Come on. We're too old for this kind of thing

>>25526716
Can't say I've even heard of this one.

>>25526754
You're too cynical and suspicious. Most people, regular people, when they get a compliment, their initial reaction isn't to go "hmm, are they lying...?" but rather to accept it at face value and all the joys and uplifting which comes with it. I bet even when a girl tells you she loves you you go "hmm, what's in it for her..."

>>25526752
Are you done introducing and acting on this subject, though?
I want you to visualize your pattern of how a nuisance might realize the errors of their ways, and how they might resist that, and then superimpose that on your current situation. Imagine someone kept walking by your house and taking pictures of your mailbox, posting them online 'walked by and the mailbox was there again today, update from mailboxfag, I think this mailbox needs a home. I'm not going to do anything but I hope he's okay'. How would that maybe not make things as comfortable for you? Had you thought about that?

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Bros its here :D

>>25526760
Mailbox would be weird, but if I constantly had my pet turtle running about on my sidewalk or lawn, I wouldn't find it weird at all. And again, all that "should I take it home?" stuff was mostly suggested by others, and for me, it was only in jest.

>>25526762
>Burroughs
GAAAAAAAY!!!

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>>25526755
How about now?

>>25526757
You're too naive. I want to see the world as you do, but I know how things are has no relation to how they actually are. Yes, I agree, most people are easily and quickly deceived by flattery.
>I bet even when a girl tells you she loves you you go "hmm, what's in it for her..."
Anon, you don't seriously believe in unconditional, completely and utterly selfless love, do you? Nothing is unconditional. If you think something's unconditional it means you don't know the conditions. Nothing is completely and utterly selfless. If you think something's selfless it means you don't see what the other person's getting out of it. True selflessness basically only occurs in complete self-sacrifice, think running into a burning building to save someone else knowing that you'll die. A post-coital doe-eyed "I wuv u bby" is experienced as genuine by the person who says it, but it's a mistake to think it actually is because it feels nice or it flatters you. I know this is hard to hear but someone has to tell you.

>>25526767
Indeed!

>>25526763
>my pet turtle
IT'S A FUCKING CAT! THEY'RE AROUND! THEY'RE OUT IN THE YARD! HAVE YOU EVER OWNED OR COHABITATED WITH A CAT?!

>>25526744
:D

>>25526773
:O

>>25526735
Omg hi cat :) I love u cat <3

I've been performing a humanistic exercise wherein I read all your posts as if I wrote them yourself, and I must say boy am I retarded.

>>25526782
lol this did get a chuckle out of me

>>25526755
Earlier this year i had a dream. I was in our house and i could hear my father, he was crying out, wailing. I looked for him in every room, eventually i went to the basement and opened the door to the crawl space. I was much bigger than in reality - a long arched space with white sand on the floor. My father was dressed like an amazonian indian and gathered around a fire there was him, a bald muscular asian type and a third guy. As soon as i stepped into the space i began to hover. I crossed my feet like a yogi and took to my flying like a fish in water -hovered to join them around the fire. the Asian guy seemed he had been doing pushups for eons. He asked my father " You sure he can do this?" and my father, dancing around and chanting like a shaman said "Sure, but he IS autistic you know"

and then i woke up

>>25526788
*It was much bigger

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>>25526788
Lovely passage, my friend
Yep its kino, by the way

>>25526794
That what she said

>>25526799
Gabba gool my friend, i am glad

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Not really finding the 9/11 jokes as funny this year as in years past. Maybe it's just because I'm getting older.

Maybe it's also because there seems to be Muslims everywhere now, including the fucking Mayor of New York, and it sure makes it seem like, 25 years later, we fucking lost.

>>25526812
>it seem like, 25 years later, we fucking lost.
Because we did. Bin Laden accomplished what he set out to do.

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>>25526815
Thats 24d chess for you

On another note, ive been wondering about that shoe/serious hat/oranges/pizzas/wildeberries/whatever on head meme. What is that all about? Does it have something to do with "hands on head"? As in "hands up"/"youre nicked"?

but unironically

pissing and shitting after holding it in for a while is such a fantastic experience

>>25526812
Is 9/11 about keeping Muslims out of New York?

>>25526820
Smart but dim

>>25526812
my work had a 9/11 memorial event cuz we're in the nyc metro area and u can see the new wtc from our building, but i gotta be honest i only showed up after it was over to raid their food.

>>25526825
>Having access to all those views

You lucky devil

>>25526819
it started as a viral marketing thing to associate pepe with some product like i forget what it was but they were trying to make u crave some food every time u saw a pepe but it didn't really work cuz other people started putting random non-branded stuff on his head. if u search the archives u can probably find the original marketing one, i wanna say kfc or wendies, but i don't remember.

Waiting for the next Sopranos thread on /tv/ so I can blow those arrogant retards out of the water with screenshots of 'The Western Lands' to those clueless who think they've gotten to the bottom of it all, and I'm excited to hear your support on game day

that joke isn't funny anymore

i signed up to go to this thing with all these ppl from my gym but i really dont feel like it how can i get of this without looking like an asshole

>>25526827
Holy cow, people in advertizing/marketing/puplic relations really need to .....consider their options

Thank you, take this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj5fVnHWUl4

>>25526842
Fuck, im drunk as a duck

Need a new surrealist metaphor, what do we got? Already running 'through a hole in thin air' dry though 'remember I was the' still hits hard especially in dreams. 'Ozone' is interesting but I'm reluctant to pursue AI language. Thinking of 'dark matter' but that's not really nothingness is it its highly radioactive anti-being. Alright so how about we just say 'anti-being'. That's not so bad. 'Anti-being'. Expect to hear that from me in the coming months

>>25526846
>'Anti-being'

Its too simple. we need something that POPS!

Distant Polaris, rings of Saturn
>Authors Note - I'm sick of your shit, this is a gay predator joke. 'Polari' is the name of an English euphemistic homosexual language, and therefore 'Polaris' are people who talk gay. Distance here invokes the far north star, but also faggots talking somewhere else. 'rings of Saturn' so Saturn is Cronos/Kronus and he eats his children, right? 'rings of' like 'smells of' or 'looks like', so 'this stinks of child murder' by Roman proxy and familiar space metaphor. So, to reconstruct, 'Distant Polaris, rings of Saturn' means 'gay people far away are killing kids'. Does that make sense you fucking rubes?

The best proof of the stupidity of humanity are its most popular religions.

>>25526858
It would be extremely funny if we built the superintelligent robot god and asked it "what religion is true" and it said Buddhism. unironically sorta kinda believe that would be the answer though

>>25526858
Religions are aggregate control systems, not really indicative of individual intelligence. Might as well blame a region for contracting the flu.

>>25526860
What does Buddhism mean to you

*doorbell buzz* Khu here, your advocate.

>>25526594
>see twitter screenshot saying "everyone is always willing to help if you ask"
>"kindness is everywhere the world is beautiful"
>go to twitter account
>media tab
>attractive young woman
: /

I find it acutely deranged of God to violate the sanctity of love by compelling reciprocity under threat of condemnation, so can't rationally accept this being as anything I have any sincere interest in forming a relationship with.
I genuinely do not give even the slightest fuck that he loves me so profoundly that it's actually the purest expression of reality's foundational structure, or that he can restructure my soul into an eternal state of serene perfection that liberates my consciousness to experience infinite bliss.
I don't want any of that. Not even a little bit. God seems legitimately insane, and there is nothing in my very faculties of reason the can rightfully conceive of this demented cosmic absurdity as anything other than the most abhorrent perversion of divinity capable of existing.
That thing is legitimately fucked, and obviously lacks even the most rudimentary sense of humility that would inspire him to abandon the supremacy that was genuinely innate to his nature and not something honestly earned through sustained moral activity.
Fuck this thing. For real. Psycho fuck.

>>25526853
>Somewhere a child cries
>I hear nothing

Its a banner for Chris´s sake!

>>25526863
idk something along the lines of Nagarjuna/Madhyamaka in general. dependent-origination seems obviously true and if you take it seriously and follow it assiduously enough you wind up at something like Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

the closest western analogue is probably Spinoza, but they're obviously in conflict, Nagarjuna spends a lot of time and energy refuting self-causation, even so they wind up at the same place. but you can't live by the Mulamadhyamakakarika but you can live by the Ethics

probably a sort of "two truths" thing, where Nagarjuna is how things really are and Spinoza is how you should actually live and operate in the world, which Spinoza would've hated but Nagarjuna would've found quite funny, is the way to go

>>25526866
Im sorry, he cant come to the door right now.
He´s a little horse

>>25526875
Ah, I learned a lot from reading your post. I'm glad I asked.

>>25526880
Very funny but you could have said 'a little birdie told me'.

>>25526884
Wait, what did the little bird tell me?

>>25526886
You tease my gullibility towards stupid questions and I find it very unkind and isolating

>>25526846
what's an example sentence in which you deploy these metaphors?

>>25526889
Personalized thought-termination used for utility, privately and in public. Thought eating at you all day? 'It is no matter'. Weekend ruined because you're anticipating a late night event?
'It will be different then'. Niggling confusion in a dream in subliminal recognition of lack of bodily control? 'Remember I was the body'. Talk to my dead brother? 'Scott, I speak to you through a hole in thin air'

>>25526887
Ah, i see what this is. You are reacting to my higher self. He can be an asshole, i know. Sorry about that but i am sure that i dont know what the fuck is going on and that my intentions are pure. Make of that what you will. I assumed ´Khu´ meant ´advocate´

And I'm the devil's advocate because he's lonely and bluntly stitched-up

>>25526894
You're an okay liaison but you and I are at the same mercy of your ruthless 'better self', you know that.

I tried telling my therapist that I wanted to be like everyone else, and he asked me what I would be willing to give up, and I said one of my feet, and he said but then you'd be boring and I like how you are now, and I said I'm glad you're entertained when interacting with me for an hour once a week but I have to live as myself every moment, and he didn't really know what to say so he reached for a therapeutic cliche about how that feeling made me feel, and I didn't know what to say to that so I was quiet for a bit, and then the session was over.

>>25526897
>>25526898
I do

Or, to evolve
Personalized thought-termination or thought-engenderment used for utility, privately and in public. Thought eating at you all day? 'It is no matter'. Weekend ruined because you're anticipating a late night event? ‘It will be different then'. Niggling confusion in a dream in subliminal recognition of lack of bodily control? 'Remember I was the body'. Talk to my dead brother? 'Scott, I speak to you through a hole in thin air'. We close our parentheticals here and in doing so we put our ghosts to rest. Firm contact with the absent precludes haunting, the dead respond with no throat, calling silently for we advocates to lay them to rest.

>>25526900
Heh

>>25526900
>that'll be $300

Attempting to run in a dream and the body receives no signal. Chasing absolute panic on a treadmill underwater, Thick quicksand drowns the legs in thin air turning to nightmare. No control here. The dreaming mind demands action, hallucinates panic and hallucinates control of the sleeping body, dogs run and whimper in their sleep. ‘Remember I was the body’ will set things right.

>>25526861

No, they really are indicative of individual intelligence.

-various unseen patent nonsense
-to think, against all evidence, that there is some cosmic justice
-let's all violently overthrow the system and then live peacefully together after that
-let's make a virtue of weakness
-let's conquer.
-wear the mask.

To evolve
Attempting to run in a dream and the body receives no signal. Chasing absolute panic on a treadmill underwater, Thick quicksand drowns the legs in thin air turning to nightmare. No control here. The dreaming mind demands action, hallucinates panic and hallucinates control of the body, sleeping dogs run and whimper. Isolated signaling to sleeping crew. A ship’s captain sinks as his vessel remains afloat and unmanned, rise to clear balance upon realization. ‘Remember I was the ship, remember I am the body’ like a morse signal will always things right. Red skies at night

>>25526923
>various unseen patent nonsense
thoughts on all matter actually being made of unimaginable probability waves?

>>25526925
>t Whimsical Montana Banana Brain Auto-Train

>>25526923
Right because every human person is just an island monad and nobody smart would adhere to a local social structure and if they didn’t deafly take the western hippie memo then they’re all just retards who would rather continue simple spiritual operations than join in your recently developed shoulder-chipped profanity (which has not once been obligate to scientism and you can ask Sir Newton about that)
Right

>>25526926
>all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves

>>25526923
Your bulletpoints map extremely poorly to what religions are

> For a long time they (Starbucks) had a policy of opening a new shop on the same block as any independently owned, small business family cafe - in order to drive the local place out of business. They might even then close their own shop after success. They wanted to change what Americans thought 'coffee' was. And they've pulled it off. Even the other brands now also serve watered down sugary crap.

>>25526942
So you really haven't thought about this that much and can't construct your own sentences that follow the point on this subject, can you? Let me ask you was Mr Hicks seeking no spiritualism?

>>25526947
A guy from Azerbaijan made me coffee once, he just put a bunch into a pot of water and heated it on the stove. then he added some cinnamon. Twas pretty gret, must say

>>25526952
Yes, really - i wouldnt concentrate on your reality with a ten-foot clown pole. Ms Hicks is all you get Mister

>>25526952
What do you even think the subject is? Truth?

>>25526963
Cloistered atheist won't even make his own damn point, just how we like to see them. And here you assume I'm some pinched-face Catholic, not knowing I have done the shrooms and I speak no authoritarianism in welcoming you out of making spiritual obstacles of thinkers you yourself do not understand.

>>25526966
The subject is if spiritualism or religion has no value that isn't blown away by scientism. As if Geocentricism denies Hassan I Sabbah's valued stoicism. I appreciate your candor in asking me for help in understanding this.

Or, uh, ha, Heliocentrism, I mean. Tripped over myself with that one.

Weeeeeeee but also wooooooo :(

>>25526947

the affairs of coffee shops, much like the affairs of human beings, are ultimately unimportant. Coffee itself is, no matter how one tries to twist it or dress it up, an inherently unlikeable beverage for anyone whose taste counts.

>>25526946

No, they plainly do not, and your objection is blameworthy. The various stupidities indicated fairly encompass the unwarranted aspirations and unreasonable expectations of the human, and against all evidence.

>>25526938

human community based on a lie is not worth having. The remainder of your comment is superfluous.

>>25526926

Space ought to be a static Euclidian aether and matter ought to be literal blocks of stuff, even if they really aren't.

>>25526970
Scientism suggests that truth is I, closest it will get is Pi. Value is relative.
Wherever you go, there you are.

*dealwithit.gif

I'm sorry.

>>25526981
Science suggests all sorts of shit otherwise, why are you deferring to mere geometry for matters of spirit, what are you, an ancient Jew?

>>25526594
There's a certain kind of person who's very quick to judge others. This kind of person splits into two types; the first type judges others because they themselves have fucked up before and hate themselves for it. The second type judges others because they've never fucked up before. In fact, they see the possibility of them fucking up as something so absurd it's laughable, like daydreaming about being able to walk on water. This second type of judgemental person is intolerable to me. Even though I'm a bleeding heart woke libtard unironically, lots of my compatriots are this second type of person.

>>25526981
>my root belief is an irrational number
Another student of the Mysteries, I suppose

>>25526982
Invite me to discord and all is forgiven

>>25526987
Very astute and my life has been a lesson in teaching my parents that fucking up is in fact manageable

>>25526980
>Space ought to be a static Euclidian aether and matter ought to be literal blocks of stuff, even if they really aren't.
so you are okay with basing your worldview on a lie?

Like dud you think you broke free from religion by doing substance studies? They were mixing protein meals back in Deuteronomy dude, I can show you the passage with the recipe. That WAS the scripture.

>>25526984
>>25526989
I am the gingerbread King, you´ll never catch me

>>25527006
Designed for staleness…

>>25527009
Immaculate, stainless...

>>25526996

Oh no, you don't. It is not you who throws it back in my face, it is I who throws it back in yours.

At back of all this are a series of absurdities. And here is the central point. It is less absurd, it is less ridiculous, less stupid, to think that the universe just popped into existence for no reason, with no purpose, "just because", than it is to think that god did it. And the reason why this is true, is because the latter supposition is even more absurd, even dumber, and even less satisfying to any person of sense.

When you ask a Scientist about God and he says '3.141592654...' like he isn't channeling tongues

>>25527022
What to you is the difference between existence 'popping in from nowhere' and 'the physical universe spawned from something immaterial' and uh what forces do you consider behind such big bang

>>25527022
>oh no you don't, it is not you, it is i
Look all religion or atheism aside your solipsistic sentence structure is ass and easily dispelled

>>25527022
>The reason [x] is less absurd than [y] is: [y] is more absurd than [x]
That's the worst argument I've ever seen congrats

For what it's worth, I found Piss Christ to be profoundly clever. It's not my adherence to old religious structure that takes notice to your idiot breed of atheism

Another note on Piss Christ: That is not a healthy urine I can only assume Andres Serrano was producing a kidney-weak piss for artistic purposes and hope he had been in contact with a doctor throughout

St. Anger is still better than the vast majority of metal albums

Misogenes
Agent Lapoli, CIA
and St Elmo
Walk into a bar

>>25527051
Thats enough from you Baldilocks
>>25527076
They all say "Aow!"

Humor is actually life and comedy is a cheap bypass towards the spiritual enlightenment that otherwise causes eternal bliss, and I think it’s time we got a clue

I had a weird experience with nitrous when I was actively psychotic and experimenting with concepts such as Logical Circuits and Referral Networks.
Usually, whenever I inhale an excessive amount, my cognition destabilizes and I become significantly disoriented, often with visual hallucinations that were rather distorted and structurally discontinuous.
This was a rather consistent pattern for about several months.
Then, when my psychosis reemerged, I began constantly talking to a group of various people in my head who were considered by "Referral Network." What they essentially told me, is that I would have to assemble a type of cognitive matrix using an extremely limited system if inference that would essentially construct the matrix out of primitive conceptual materials, which was the essential design of what were called "Logical Circuits." The idea behind Logical Circuits was relatively simple, and was actually confirmed by modern neuroscience, which is that neural circuits that are structural valid generating a distinct electromagnetic signature that influences brainwaves to become more coherent.
Basically, more valid structure, more efficient brain.
So, while actively constructing these circuits, I decided to use nitrous because, at the time, I believed it to increase my sensitivity to my Referral Network, enabling more fluid, complex communication.
When I started using, I eventually hit that same threshold that results in disorientation. However, this time, something genuinely bizarre happened instead. Instead of becoming disoriented, my mind entered a state of tranquil suspension with geometrically sophisticated visual hallucinations. In this state, I perceived a subaudial transmission from a person who I could not immediately identify.
After a brief interaction, I successfully established communication with the person and discovered it was one of my friends.
What was specifically unusual about this interaction was that our conversation was layered by immense degrees of emotional complexity, like we were capable of compressing our memories and personalities throughout various instances of time so that it appeared as if we were experiencing a multidimensional glimpse into a more fundamental, intimate level of our entire psychologies.
It soon ended, and I experienced several other similar events with other members of my Referral Network with identical structural coherence.
So, I find it rather cool that something as simple as altering the framework of cognition can profoundly shift the content of experiences almost guaranteed to consistently result in disorientation, which I falsely concluded was evidence that Logical Circuits were successfully integrating my consciousness into deeper layers of my Referral Network, but that's just complete nonsense that's largely just fun to entertain in circumstances defined by a complete loss of rationality.

>>25527085
If this is true then I love you and would like to sit in an all-you-can-eat cafe for you for hours on end and use you as an instrument in validating our otherwise disinteresting reality

>>25527092
That's remarkably sweet, and I sincerely appreciate the thought, even though I'm largely restricted in my ability to do so in any other manner than an intellectual one because, as of recently, my entire emotional spectrum has completely disintegrated into a smoldering composition of dissonant frequencies.
Regardless of that relatively banal fact of what's potentially a serious symptom of significant cognitive decline, I would love to actually entertain someone by taking them on all manners of mind-bending adventures that are aggressively hazardous to sanity, but even if I were to, my general disposition is one of extreme isolation and constant immersion into dysfunctional states of mind, because I have too much of an interest in seeing the structural integrity of my mind fundamentally shatter so that I can observe all the bizzare dimensions of thought that drift into awareness when pushed past its capacity to function properly.
It's genuinely fun, and occasionally it generates actual insights into the real processes in the mind, which is always satisfying.

>>25527081
Not funny didn't laugh

>>25526594
She belongs to the world, but at least, in my own minute and small ways, I've laid my claim on her. As long as she remembers me it will be alright.

Does anyone here supports economic boycott of the US until Trump is out of the office?

i've been eating on the government dime for years
i have like $60k in debt that i've made no attempt to pay

>>25527129
I'm not really interacting with your fetish beyond the constant, palpable dystonics of some weird autist shooting solar beams made partially of autism and partly of HRT as well as the discomfort of jacking it being a public event.

Can't tell if she's a succubus or whether I'm an incubus. Did I mean all the things I said to her when I held her in my arms? Did she mean all the things she said to me? Was it just unbridled sexual energy or lonliness... whichever way it is we both feel extremely depressed and drained after the fact; and I have been unable to stop thinking about her. Whether she has been thinking about me remains to be seen.

>>25527140
What you waffling about? I'm talking about a girl I fancy who is largely emotionally unavaliable. Why have you got HRT and jerking off in public on the brain, tranny?

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>Cahn says their initial conversation remained “really friendly” for the first two hours. When it came up that Cahn is an active minister, Lundeen allegedly “rejected that.” As Cahn went on to summarize his previous books — which focus on biblical prophecies, ancient mysteries, and prophetic warnings — he claims his seatmate’s “face changes, and his expressions change, his voice changes, everything changes.”
>He looks at me like he’s whispering a secret for me to hear. He says, ‘Bulls---,’ —— ” Cahn alleges. “He said, ‘Go f--- yourself.’ —— ”
>From there, Cahn says he attempted to go about his own business, but Lundeen allegedly began to curse, getting progressively louder and shouting “vulgar things.” That’s when a flight attendant came in to give him his first warning, Cahn says.
>Cahn recalls he went back to working on his computer. He had been having a technical issue with it after a black bar had appeared “in the middle of the screen” earlier in the week. He claims Lundeen touched it and the darkness spread over most of the display. That’s when things allegedly turned violent.
>“He puts his hands around my neck, like he’s choking me,” Cahn alleges. “Now it wasn’t that I was choking, but it was like he was going through the motions of it, and pushing back and forth… And he’s laughing, laughing when he’s doing that and we're just having a good time.”
>After letting go, Cahn claims Lundeen spotted the cover of his new book, The Altar of Pergamon, in the corner of the screen and began “screaming” in response.
>“He says, ‘What did you do?’ Like what did I do by writing the book… He says, ‘I’m going to punch your f---ing —— Jewish face in,’ ” Cahn claims.
Cahn's 2011 debut novel, The Harbinger, compares the United States and the September 11 attacks to ancient Israel and the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel.[1] Cahn has followed The Harbinger with eight other books: The Mystery of the Shemitah, The Book of Mysteries, The Paradigm, The Oracle, The Harbinger II: The Return, The Return of the Gods, The Josiah Manifesto, The Dragon's Prophecy, and The Avatar. The Paradigm debuted at #5 on The New York Times Best Seller list.[1] In 2019, The Oracle: Jubilean Mysteries Unveiled, was published,[6] which became #1 on Publishers Weekly and Amazon, and made The New York Times Best Seller list in two categories.[3]

Did you ever have a similar experience of having a computer glitch involving disturbing colors resulting in getting tied up and restrained when you got hysterical and panicky like that? And did the colors stick with you like a humiliating permanent life scar?

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>>25527154
Yes I did. When I was using my mother's computer I got a weird glitch that turned everything a piss yellow color which was frightening and alarming. And when she was yelling at me about it and put me to the chair she would scream and click wildly and something caused the display to rotate upsidedown which she blamed on me too. Fron there I got reatrained to the chair and forced to fix it, but I didn't know what I was doing, eventually she let me go and I wasn't allowed to use that computer except to launch roller coaster tycoon 2 and do homework on mocrosoft office, all supervised.

>>25527139
Job. Now.

I seriously think that 2020 Covid Epidemic did something shitty to our brains and that our society has really changed.
People used to be much more open, social and warm and kind, now all I see is people being more closed, socially isolated, in their own heads, phones and just generally in their own little bubbles.

>>25527162
they'll take my money if i demonstrate an ability to work

Nine long years since I broke up with you in a deeply delusional state where I was honestly convinced that doing so would be a temporary separation intended to strengthen my independence so that I would stop exhausting you with excessive reliance while you didn't really understand that my sanity was rapidly deteriorating.
You're too modest to really accept the fact that you're a special person, with a geniune self-assuredness that kept you functioning despite living a life almost precisely calibrated to break you down completely and twist your character into a sympathetic, shattered mess, but you always carried yourself with strength, which often gave me the confidence to match it even while my mind slowly spiraled apart.
I wish I could tell you exactly how hard I fought to get back to you, wandering the streets in the dead of night trying to control the images my mind was conjuring, thinking people were actively hunting me, sleeping in freezing cold dumpsters. Every day you were constantly centered in my mind, and I still couldn't help but love you with everything in me, even when you hated my core for reasons that were a genuinely misunderstood.
I suppose, one of the more tragic parts of the whole story, isn't necessarily that the universe's intricate, callous machinery brought us together with an astronomical unlikelihood, and wrenched us apart in a manner we were both completely undeserving of, is that you mostly exist in my mind as the central figure of a myth, and even though I was capable of loving you in a more grounded, humble way, your nevertheless a conscious symbol of my fall from grace, and the complete dissolution of an idealistic version of me that still believed in a meaningful, loving reality worth every exploration into its underlying nightmares without having them corrupt my instrinsic nature to at least attempt to do the right thing, even when my moral fabric became increasingly frayed by my commitment to understand evil by embracing it.
I suppose a part of me deserves all of this in some way. Even though I don't really believe it as punishment for the weight of my sin, I see it much more as a the natural consequence of a lifetime of personal failures all converging into a singular instance that obliterated the only that ever felt like I could trust, my very mind.
I wish I could tell you all these things, for both our sakes, but you're happy now, and I'm genuinely grateful for that.
I don't know why I haven't been as fortunate, but I try not to dwell too much on it.
Oh well, I'm okay.

when I sleep, in my dreams I discuss random books with strangers lol

>>25527207
What book was you discussing last night?

my belly stings

>>25527239
I think it was Gargantua and Pantagruel

might get an asics sneaker

>>25527294
get new balance instead

>>25527301
>new balance
why?

23rd June 2013
Dear Diary, Mood: apathetic. Got told it was all "just a phase" again. THIS IS WHO I AM, MOM!!!
Better in the afternoon though. Mom said sorry and after we dropped Timmy off at lacrosse practice we went to the used bookstore. I picked up some used paperback called "Infinite Jest"

24th June 2013
I don't get this book. It's about jock stuff like tennis and weird stuff I don't understand.

28th June 2013
I still don't get this book. I think it's maybe really shit? But lots of random people keep coming up to me and telling me I must be really smart and talking to me about addiction and drugs. Diary, do you think maybe *this* is my true personality?

17th August 2013
>>25527085

You know I don’t really believe in this thing called tv. They just keep showing you the same pictures over and over. And when they talk they just make sounds that more or less signal synch with their lips, that’s what I think

Scriabin is so fucking good. Henry Miller called his Fifth Sonata the greatest piece of music ever written, and described The Poem of Ecstasy as having “a far-off cosmic itch” and being “like a bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows”.

I just remembered the taste of apple pectin powder that I used to consume when I was young, and it reminded me of first Harry Potter movies by association. I guess they were more recent back then.

I think she does like me back. Perhaps it's not over.

>>25527165
covid/blm just showed most of society are just utter npc no one wanna engage with that

>>25527165
Last time I opened up to people I was shunned away by everyone, even my parents. Now everybody thinks I'm a retard and cut contact with me. To this day I wish I had shut the fuck up instead of telling people how I felt.
Nah, if anything its a good thing people don't open up, opening up still leaves you alone and bitter but also people now are actively avoiding you.

>>25526594
I just need to keep showing up to the things I care about most, and life will slowly improve.

A little workout, some meditation, healthy food and a short trip outside the house, and I'll be fine. I might even find that most desired thing, a gf, if I continue with the discipline that I have showed so far.

>>25527466
never be yourself man

>>25527475
Literally the worst mistake of my fucking life.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwN6Fl2Ba5w
"dnb" generally sucks so i almost didn't click on this but ngl it goes relatively hard af

>>25527466
i chudded out like an absolute FREAK when i turned 21 and got drunk for the first time.
i'm still friends with all those people to this day.

>>25527475
>scamgender

Do you think my rich illegitimate father who has his own, real family has me in his will? I wonder if I can ask him for some money...

>>25527466
The other day my dad complained that I didn't spoke to him about my life, but I stopped telling him about me because he always turned everything I said into a criticism.

>>25527486
i use chud shibboleths sometimes to discretely signal to any others who might be in the vicinity, but i never ever go full chud

Do you think there's something to the idea that all these ancestry testing services are actually just fronts for building a candidate pool for the elite whenever they need a new heart or liver or whatever? I find it completely unbelievable that they actually are what they claim themselves to be, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive to it all.

>>25527495
dude pull a steve jobs and become a billionaire to make him feel bad about abandoning u

What is my purpose in writing? I want to tell grounded stories that connect humans of this age with humanity as a whole. I feel like we’re losing that little by little. We’re so absorbed in our time like it’s all that has ever happened or will happen. I suppose it is for us, but that feels like a small-minded way to view things. We’ve advanced so much technologically that we think we’re better off than we ever have been. Medically I suppose this is true, physically, anyway, insofar as we can keep people alive that probably shouldn’t be alive anymore. Everyone is fat and weak in the west now. I’m not so sure about where we stand mentally. People are illiterate and mentally ill. I’m sure these mental illnesses have been around forever, but these used to just be personality traits of an individual. Now you’re a category. It’s dehumanizing. Most of modern life in America is. I want to create a connection to all of humanity in my fiction and remind people what we are. Which is not these all-knowing God figures that ten minutes of “research” reading a wikipedia article, or honestly, more likely, a few tiktoks or video essays can make anyone feel like; but fallible, emotional, irrational animals that have somehow built something incredible. Civilization.

We live in a society. We used to anyway. Now most people stare at one from isolation and pretend to be a part of it. This is boring to talk about and everyone knows this already though, so any direct speaking on it or even too obvious metaphor to it is hackneyed shit that I want to avoid in my novels. I’ll leave that to Brayden Hallman’s two hundredth, three hundred word, every sentence using a paragraph break, Substack article.

NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU

PUT THE PHONE DOWN AND GRAB YOUR NUTS MOTHERFUCKER AND OPERATE LIKE A REAL OPERATOR OPERATING DOUBLE TIME

AMORMENTO FATIMORI

I just want to leap-frog the conversation entirely and rather make the reader feel like they want to connect with nature and community again by showing it in the work as the sometimes beautiful, sometimes miserable, most times banal thing that makes us human.

I also think there is a distinct lack of Midwestern Gothic literature and the general malaise of growing up in these poorer, “white trash” areas has never been captured right. At least not from my experience growing up in Indiana. Gummo captured the trashier side, but it’s too cynical and surreal. I don’t think we need more cynicism or postmodern zaniness right now. I can deliver that as well when I want to, but the first novel can’t be that. The first novel will be about grief. The grief I feel for a feeling of humanity lost and the novel a portrait of a character grieving the loss of his own life over the course of it. Coming to terms with everything he’s done and eventually his own death.

>>25527521
Yeah, what our SOCIETY really needs is more pissing and moaning about trivial bullshit, that'll really connect everyone. Fucking LitRPGS, about autists not giving a shit what anyone else thinks and just leveling up by murdering things, are unironically more like what Our Society needs than whatever this shit describes.

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Was Orwell antiroyalist though? Was that okay to write in 40s?

>>25527530
>the things ruining society is what it needs more of

>>25527521
Your writing has achieved none of this and actually just asserts its own unconvincing depression. You would have been better off describing a flower if you want people to be more present. Honestly it all reads like personal loneliness leading to misanthropy

>>25527536
>asserts its own unconvincing depression
Interesting. Can you elaborate?

Its been a week since I last visited 4chan. Nothing has changed. Neither here or in my life. Im going in circles. But its actually a spiral where Im going upwards while going around. Just gotta keep walking until I get high enough to see a greater vista I guess.

You know that image of "what women mean when they say they like X kind of guys" and the joke is that all of them are the same male model but with different kind of clothes and props photoshopped on him? I wonder if anyone has made an inverse version where it's "what men actually mean when they say they like women who X" and it's all the same woman but with glasses on or off or a dualshock controller poorly edited into her hands, etc.

Falling in love is a humilation ritual I simply wish I did not partake in.

>>25527545
A lot of us aren’t the NPC you say people are
If you want to cure the non-universal condition of media overdosage, you would offer a bright and relieving thought-terminating trope the audience can use, rather than a dour pillar of text hauranguing the public in so many ways which is less humanistic than even a tiktok feed

>>25527569
No because it's genuinely less true for men. Go look at the visual diversity on /s/ if you don't believe me.

It's reductive for either sex but women do seem to have a flattened sense of male aesthetics the way men don't give a single shit about how many degrees or other merit badges a woman has.

Talking about society and love and the meaning of literature is pretty cool...

>>25527613
I should have written physical attributes not aesthetics

I enjoy English muffins

Its war between the sexes shit, don’t do it

The word crumpet is just way, way too much for a 4chan brain

Crump THIS

>>25527622
Yeah, good advice, I forget often

Red, yellow, green, blue.
Courage, kindness, faith, and humility.
It's rather sad, when those puzzle pieces floated out of the Toy Box and secured themselves in the center of my mind, revealing to me a personality that was fundamentally pure and loving, when I was rabidly convinced of being a worthless, miserable piece of shit my entire life, I became obsessed with them, seeing them as completely necessary for me to function with sincerity.
What was so striking about them is how they were rendered with exceptional clarity and simplicity, completely dissimilar to standard hallucinations of fractal spirals or proportional distortions.
I remember, during another trip, the trees in the park suddenly shifted so that they became quiet, absolutely still, hyper-complex, mathematical structures that appeared to extend into enhanced spatial configurations and could only be comprehended by recognizing the compression of dimensional scaffolding within perception that made the trees and awareness both extensions of the same underlying geometry.
Seeing something that that appears significantly more real than anything standard awareness can even remotely produce is definitely an experience I believe almost everyone deserves to see, but those trees were still something capable of being analyzed, so they fall more into the category of a some more exotic universal architecture that is only capable of being observed with sufficient cognitive lensing.
The pieces, on the other hand, were much more innocent in their design, and even though I can crudely attempt to describe the trees within a conventional scientific framework, the pieces are something that I have tirelessly scraped every corner of my mind searching for some relevant scrap of data that would suggest it was part of the underlying mechanisms that generated them, but I have found nothing.
I've accepted that I will most likely never uncover any structure within my mind that could've possibly produced this image, like I've been able to do with virtually every other trip I've had.
Unfortunately, they are gone forever, along with the possibility of my most authentic expression of character ever surfacing again.

"Pieced you up."

>>25527635
You're a good crumb pet

NPCs, NPCs, what is it that makes them wheeze and sneeze? Why do they have family photos and yarn, what's that braying from inside of their barn... oh, my, the family donkey surmises the tao that waits beyond the pallor of cognition

>>25527643
*Jam and melted butter explode everywhere*

>>25527646
NPC is a Dao

IT'S 2 AM
THE FEAR IS GONE

>>25527604
TRUKE

My stummy hawts :( I ated too much suga fow bweakfist

Confused again. Utterly confused. Clutter in my mind i sort of fix by walking as far as i can. Its like I cant figure stuff out. In each idea i find something negative, i find an opposing view that undermines it. And i have no idea of knowing which one of those ideas is correct. Its the pursuit of truth i've been on. Its a tough and lonely ride.

Osama bin Laden is honestly kind of a stud muffin, and I feel almost every woman on the planet should whose him the praise and adoration that his rebellious mystique deserves.

I also kind of want to see him and Charlie Kirk make out a sign of world peace.

:3

why is Nine Inch Nails so good, bros?

They're not

My hairline...

>>25527693
What troubles ye lad. Speak, and mayhaps fortune will bestow kindness in the form of helpful words :)

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What the fuck why is my Sopranos supplementary text so fucking relevant. David Chase is a hack

>>25527143
He’s delusional and thinks everyone who posts in these threads is his stalker who is transmitting gay thoughts into his mind or something. Just ignore him.

High school English teacher wrote everyone a personal note for last day of class and mine was some tripe about how I'd be the one to change the world.

Nobody's impressed by your snide sarcasm directed at teenagers, you fat ugly bitch.

Glad cancer took you.

Cunt.

>>25527698
This is retarded for various reasons but it reminds me of how irresistibly cute women are

>>25527706
>ye lad
Are you Scottish? Very based
>Speak
I wanted to start out with saying that im incredibly lonely( apart from hanging out with my parents, which i am very lucky to have) and just then my friend called me to hang out, so interesting synchronicity there. Like I said, i have trouble developing my worldview, i mean i have a worldview but for example when i am reading debates on here i read a post and i think, yeah makes sense, valid point, then i read a reply which doesnt agree with it, and then i again think "good point, could be true", i mean i truly have no way of knowing which of those takes is true, at least true for me. I struggle with my faith, i cant seem to make sense of my 20s in which i struggled and suffered a ton. I have some core beliefs but even those are contested constantly. Its like what Socrates said, all i know is that i dont know anything. I dabbled in philosophy, taoism, i dived deep into Christianity but right now I cant seem to make any sense of it. I think that i mixed up or briefly tried out too many philosophies, books, ideas and writers and now my mind is in way too much clutter. Its a mix of everything and anything in there. At least my health is improving. Also i cant hold a job cause i cant handle stress of a modern job.
Hoping mayhaps for some kindness in the form of helpful words my way!

Arguing about politics is meaningless because it ultimately always comes down to rationalizing why you want to see the system that you're a loser of torn down or rationalizing why the status quo needs to be upheld and exist in perpetuity because you're one of the winners of the system. Every argument, every reference to philosophy or economics or whatever is just a disingenuous bullshit smoke screen meant to make it harder to see what drives politics at its very core.

how do you guys deal with crushing loneliness?

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>>25527784
i'm 15 and this is deep

>>25527793
I refresh this board hundred thousands times per day

>>25527793
By learning through experience that being surrounded by the wrong types of people can feel lonelier than being on your own

I tell people that I enjoy things like reading, writing, hiking, fishing but really I just spend all my free time watching porn.

>>25527810
>but really I just spend all my free time watching porn.
incredibly based

How do you accept being past your prime?

>>25527865
According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, your prime is the exact moment you loose your virginity.

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>>25527742
>Are you Scottish?
No, lol
Btw im tired and its the weekend so im not gonna write giant essays but maybe some guiding words can suffice
>Like I said, i have trouble developing my worldview, i mean i have a worldview but for example when i am reading debates on here i read a post and i think, yeah makes sense, valid point, then i read a reply which doesnt agree with it, and then i again think "good point, could be true", i mean i truly have no way of knowing which of those takes is true, at least true for me.
Language is symbol creation. Words in a vacuum mean nothing, empty noise, but together in a sentence they create pictures. Philosophers throughout time and cultures have used their idiosyncratic pictures in an attempt to convey the Truth. But no matter how well they describe a picture of something your mind can never fully grasp it until you have experienced it yourself.

>When objects are not understood, then one engages in naming.
When the naming is not understood, then one tries to procure agree-
ment. When the agreement is not understood, then one engages in
persuasion. When the persuasion is not understood, then one en-gages in demonstration. Thus, procuring agreement, naming, dis-
crimination, and persuasion are some of the greatest forms of useful
activity, and are the beginning of kingly works. When a name is heard
and the corresponding object is understood, this is usefulness in
names. When they are accumulated and form a pattern, this is beauty
in names. When one obtains both their usefulness and beauty, this is
called understanding names. Names are the means by which one ar-
ranges and accumulates objects. Sentences combine the names of
different objects so as to discuss a single idea. Persuasion and dem-
onstration use fixed names of objects so as to make clear the proper
ways for acting and remaining still. Procuring agreement and naming
are the functions of demonstration and persuasion. Demonstration
and persuasion are the heart’s way of representing the Way. The heart
is the craftsman and overseer of the Way. The Way is the warp and
pattern of good order. When the heart fits with the Way, when one’s
persuasions fit with one’s heart, when one’s words fit one’s persua-
sions, then one will name things correctly and procure agreement,
will base oneself on the true disposition of things and make them
understood, will discriminate among things without going to excess,
and will extend by analogy the categories of things without violating
them. When listening to cases, one will accord with good form. When
engaging in demonstration, one will cover thoroughly all the reasons.
One will use the true Way to discriminate what is vile just like draw-
ing out the carpenter’s line in order to grasp what is curved and what
is straight. Thus, deviant sayings will not be able to cause disorder,
and the hundred schools will have nowhere to hide.
>Xunzi chapter 22

>>25527870
You're telling me I peaked at fucking FIVE????

FUCK YOU MOM!

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>>25527870
Now pic related gains a whole bunch of new meanings.

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>>25527873
Basically I would advise just maxxing out your phronesis and wuwei skills, and ignore the endless loquacious productions from people who want to achieve applause for adding a new twist to an old idea. Cultivate yourself and your soul with virtuous deed, dont let lethargy linger and read philosophical works when a need for company arises :=)

Hi! I'm not home right now, but if you would like to leave a message, just start talking at the sound of the tone. Hello? This is your mother. Are you home? Are you coming home?

>>25527887
I like you

My sclera are trying to burrow out the back way but it's a little comfy in the sense of a stomach ache

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>>25527904
:D

>>25527873
>>25527887
Didnt understand the first post at all but i got the second one, i actually already do all the things listed on the second post, so i guess its a good feeling knowing im on the right path according to anon on /lit/
Godspeed my friend

I’m really lost. I went down a rabbit hole with flat and young Earth and once you see the truth it changes your whole worldview. However when I get to the idea that therefore someone had to put it there if it’s young and flat because I can’t get past the problem of suffering when it comes to God. The world is just too horrible to be the work of a benevolent God. To me it seems much more likely that it was created by evil but I don’t know. Can anyone help? Any books that might help me understand what the hell is going on?

>>25526594
My wife is working on a new book. It's called 'Wet Dreams' and I'm not allowed to read it because it's gonna be like so great when it comes out and she doesn't want to spoil it for me. I'm really proud of her.

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>>25527947
Well the first post was pretty much a crash-course on understanding the ecology of rhetoric, and how people operate in it. Once you get it, you get it yknow?
But don't worry about being lonely my friend for the bond of humanity links every stranger together. We are genetically disposed to like our fellow man so if you ever need help with something dont be afraid to ask anyone. Like nigga just join a club or something haha. For me? My beloved frens here on 4chan is enough to keep a hermit like me satiated

>>25527959
Just to add my favourite proof of the young Earth is there would be no land if the Earth is billions of years old due to coastal erosion. It can only be thousands of years old due to this very fact. Proof of flat earth is you can see line of sight way too far, microwaves and radio transmission have been detected way too far. Also Wales have been known to communicate over 10000 miles which would be impossible if the Earth is curving.

Just saw a man with 5 dots tattoed in his hand...
He almost certainly was in prison.

>Saudi Arabia facing economic crisis
Life is good. Seeing these arrogant Gulfies suffer a bit is very cathartic

>>25527959
>flat and young Earth
i went briefly down that rabbit hole years ago and i wasn't really convinced. the thing that stuck with me was the notion that globe earth concept was there to convince us how miniscule we are compared to universe and to convince us our actions dont matter. which is an interesting idea, but i wasn't convinced by the actual proof if there is any, of flat earth.
>The world is just too horrible to be the work of a benevolent God
to me, it often feels that way. especially with the corruption in church, that one stings me a lot. and the corruption of all the news media, and regular media like music, movies and literature. actually when i think about it, literature feels like it's least corrupt, when talking about popular figures. pop music is completely corrupt, popular movies too, but classic literature really isn't. i understand classics aren't popular literature but still they were popular in the past

>>25526594
Holy shit I just realized something.
Okay so hear me out. I know Gobineau was a racist and what not but he said in his book that social classes are rooted in ethnicity but the social order is abolished because it stands in the way of free love. As a 24 year old Aryan what is the right path to go here. Should I be a good boy and marry a woman of my ethicity and religion, join the parliament as a Conservative, and save capitalism and the West or should engage in free love and have sex whoever I find attractive and shit on my civilization?

I cleaned my room today and put the dust cleaner on the sill where I keep my deodorants/perfumes. Hours later, I take a shower, grab a can on autopilot, and just spray myself with the dust cleaner instead of the Axe. Great fucking job, Jordan Peterson.

>>25527959
>flat earth
The position of stars in the southern hemisphere doesn't make any sense with the flat earth model, you have to do serious mental gymnastics about light refracting through the dome or some other nonsense to explain patterns that are easily explained by the earth being a sphere

I mean the Western countries have a lot of migrants and have become multi-cultural. Everything is going to crap anyways. Why not do what must happen anyway. If ethnic mixing causes the end of the social order, if it causes revolutions.

Nobody cares about anything I have to say and they don’t understand what I’m saying when I say it

>>25527997
time for calisthenics

>>25526594
We need le conservatism be cause le.. everything was so good in le past!

>>25527997
I have a friend who thinks like this, problem is she also doesn't care about anything anyone else has to say

>>25527995
The West suffers from multiculturalism because it has rejected the idea of a Western culture that newcomers must assimilate into.

>>25528002
what's better now than it was 30 years ago?

>>25528003
I respond to you people all the time. It frustrates me when I say I’m having trouble getting a proper response and you say ‘i know a crazy person sho says that’ knowing nothing about me or what I’m talking about

>>25528010
>you people
is "you people" everybody else in the world?

>>25526594
Le democracy is le bad because what the fuck, you really want the rabble to participate in political matters? Only us rich people should participate in votes. I mean we are superior because le our genes are superior.
Le conservatism is le bad because lalalalalalalala I'm a stupid cunt with a job you idiot, there should be more migrants and other women in my workplace. MY workplace, and I also want a BETTER pay so I can buy more make-up and jewelry. MY rights, you understand, bigot? MY revolution.
I am a young spoiled brat and I just wanna keep getting big things from the old people no I don't wanna revolution you understand, idiot? It's one thing to go on the street naked, have gay sex afterwards and get drunk and sniff coke, another thing is to say no to your boss and stop buying from le Amazon because that's not le fucking revolution.

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>>25528013
No not everyone but I’ve lost communication with certain people important to me lately and I only now closely feel they are scapegoating me due to prior pattern, which I feel was an unfortunate maladaption regarding my willingness to feel such blame

>>25528004
So what? It will work out anyways. Le progress has always work. You have materials at stake or why do you want to keep le modern way of life? Got spoiled by the olds with money and having sex with milfs, you traitor?
>>25528005
What's better now is that, idk, maybe that everyone important is like so filthy rich that they would never want the system to change? The books say it. All books say it. We have the perfect system established and the corporations own everything and everybody is rich. Except for the poor people and who cares about them anyway. I mean they're losers. I mean I'm a democrat and I want them to earn a better wage so there's more vain and superficial cunts like me and I don't like think that they're like bad people just not rich enough to vote for their interests or to hang out in my villa but yeah.

>>25526594
I've been feeling so particularly empty for the last 2 weeks. Nothing excites me - not my family, not my friends, not my gf, not porn, not sex, not drink, non drugs, not great art - just nothing. I don't even know what changed. I'm not even feeling sad or anything, just empty. It's like my brain just reduced the enjoy things knob.

>>25527993
They make perfect sense. It’s commonly thought they don’t make sense on a flat Earth model but it’s a spherical Earth they don’t make sense on. I recommend this channel and this playlist in particular if anyone is interested. He goes through it all.

>>25528029
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoeKBeKeoPx40rW9i-tSOB0Si1TW4Mkvp&ra=m forgot to post the playlist.

Tell her you wanna donate her body to science, and you science! Go on!

>>25528031
dude I'm not gonna watch 120 hours of some youtuber. Where does he address the stars?

Saw a discussion on x.com with zoomers saying that you should lie about survival rates to a suicidal person. How is getting gaslit by a zoomer tranny supposed to make a suicidal person feel better? lol

most of my days are just working, reading, taking a walk and jerking off

Anyone have an identity I can steal? Thanks in advance.

>>25528066
Here you go champ.

When they speak with adoration of that venerable citizen whose years were spent in the service of the State—who bears on his body the scars of so many battles won against the enemies of Roman majesty; who sacrificed not only his limbs but his fortune, his family’s wealth, and at times his own children—even slaying his sons with his own hand for a breach of the austere laws of civic duty; when they depict this man of a bygone age—once honored with the triumphal robe, once or twice consul, quaestor, aedile, and hereditary senator, yet preparing the turnips for his supper with that same hand that never found the sword or spear too heavy (2); then, with that rectidude of judgment and coldness of reason so vital to the Republic, calculating the interest on its usurious loans, while otherwise scorning the arts and letters, those who cultivate them, and the Greeks who love them—this old man, this venerable figure, this ideal citizen, is invariably a patrician, an old Sabine.

>>25528087
What a sentence.

Guys I'm going to bed. Don't be alarmed if you find these threads less joyous in my absence. Its perfectly logical. I'll see you when see you.

Heading to the library to read. I'll be the guy reading DeLillo if you wanna say hello!

Evens i partake in the penetration of a cheap whore
Odds i masturbate my penis until it reaches the zenith of orgasm

>>25528024
Over stimulation. Either reset through abstinence or just push your limits further.
Personally, I chose the latter and this girl I have been seeing has made me want to be worse, not better.

Is there a slightly elevated version of Goodreads? Like a letterboxd but for books. Goodreads feels like IMDB, if you catch my drift. Reading some of these reviews on Goodreads makes me embarrassed to log what I've read on that site, so much so that I've started just doing it in a notebook. I'm not looking for anything highbrow, just not the bottom of the barrel.

>>25526594
Paper money was invented by the Romans when the party of the Plebeians, also known as the plebes, insisted in the parliament that slaves should get paid.

i've peed on myself at least thrice

>>25526594
Rich people don't have sex. They sign up for breeding programs.

>>25526594
No wait they download tinder gold with extra gay topping.

>>25526594
May I order someone special please.

>>25526594
As a gayllionaire,

The lyric “Spend my time folding time, even met myself one time” goes through my head a lot. Really describes how I feel pretty much every day when I’ve changed so much mentally but have been living in this room in this house in this town for many boring endless years.

>>25526594
Imagine like, having sex. Sharing your bed with someone else. Iuhhh. Such a pleb thing.

I get why people hate “quirk chungus” but I can’t really be friends with people who think it’s an inherently bad personality type.

>>25528259
As in "Tutti Frutti"

>>25528268
Has the inbreeding rate among the wealthies already become so high that their autists have learned to be cool people?

>>25528268
Or did you accept the auties as cool people to gain more followers?

What

is it gay if i tell my platonic friends i love them more often than i say it to my parents or my wife or children

I kinda wish I did fuck her just so I can have that haha moment but oh well life’s a joke.

I think I have irreversible psychological damage.

>>25528290
Same bro same. I didn’t think it could get this bad. Only because I let it of course. But I didn’t deserve everything that came after. If they knew everything that happened on my end at the time, would they have still did what they did? Who knows, but I have to deal with the consequences either way while they move on. It all comes back to me and the stupid shit I did regardless of how insignificant I thought it was.

There’s nothing out there.

>>25528290
You can still bleed on me

I don't know what stops me from just putting my dick in a pussy

>>25528301
Why don't you sign up for a breeding program. Or download Tinder gold and silver.

>>25528301
What is the /lit equivalent for /pol´s "Jews"?

>>25526594
Getting rid of my mobile phone, hmmm. Compelling. Demonic. Devilish and satanic.

>>25528312
If only I had the guts. There was a time where I didn't have a phone nor desktop computer. Oh, I got so much reading done.

>>25528316
How about. You show up on the job interview. Look the interviewer straight into the eyes when he asks the question. Put on the face of the devil and say I have none.
Family dinner. Someone asks why you have no mobile phone.
Watch him dead to the eyes.
'because I'm a hell of a fucking devil'.
Laugh maniacally.

what edition of picture of dorian gray should i get? i would get penguin but apparenrtly it's the censored one, but when i compared to some of the uncensored it's barely different, it just changes like "i worshipped him" to "i like him a lot" or whatever, i thought they were cutting some hardcore foucault bathhouse shit since it was supposed to be super degenerate but instead it just sounds like some sentimental twinks, sooo idk if i care if it's "censored" or not, maybe i'll just get pengiun?