Does anyone know of a good blog or podcast about fatherhood?
I'm afraid if I just google one It'll be of some whipped pussy or someone who doesn't get into the darker/nasty aspects of it.

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>>25105203
Torn between reading Pynchon's V. or reading Richardson's biography of Emerson. It's cold outside. Ate some Modafinil this morning. Still unemployed. I try not to think about myself at all. Been reading a lot of short stories from different litmags -- mostly a wash, some very bad, some pretty good. Been getting into analytic phil, slowly, paper by paper. Just read Michael Huemer's paper "Existence is Evidence of Immortality." Here's the abstract
>Time may be infinite in both directions. If it is, then, if persons could live at most once in all of time, the probability that you would be alive now would be zero. Since you are alive now, with certainty, either the past is finite, or persons can live more than once.
Full paper's a pdf online, it's pretty easy to find. Much to consider.

Test

Who are the Disney adults οf /lit/?

>>25105222
Philosophy posters

>>25105222
Max Stirner posters

>>25105229
>>25105234
It's so οbviously /sffg/ posters but nice job outing yourselves

>>25105222
>trips
Checked
>Disney adults of /lit/
Sci-fi/fantasy fags

>>25105214
wtf I came up with this same idea recently and ever since I've been telling people I now believe in reincarnation because of it. nice to see Huemer agrees

You know in a way, knowing how to read makes us all semites in some capacity

>>25105214
>>Time may be infinite in both directions. If it is, then, if persons could live at most once in all of time, the probability that you would be alive now would be zero. Since you are alive now, with certainty, either the past is finite, or persons can live more than once.
this relies on a definition of "person" that I do not understand
I don't understand when """"philosopher"""" try to use math concepts and just flow with it, P("Being alive")=0 => "you shouldn't exist" is treating of ideas before reality, it's like saying "I can't think of this thing therefore it doesn't exist": Probabilities are *ideas* that describe reality, definitionally they are just limits, a probability is the limit that the fraction of successful cases over all cases approaches.

Natural numbers are one among an infinity yet you can use them, like how the fuck do these lines even makes sense, pure word salad, and I doubt any amount of additional context could improve these few lines.

More and more I think Huemer just lucked out by saying correclty that political authority is unjustified, must have used a wrong process to land on a good conclusion, because I haven't seen any good thinking process coming from him

>>25105451
>this relies on a definition of "person" that I do not understand
read the paper, as Huemer argues that there are two general ways to conceive of personhood; theories that permit reincarnation to be a continuation of your personhood for whatever reason, called Permissive theories, and theories where reincarnation does not mean a continuation of your personhood, which he calls Dismissive theories. he argues that given an infinite universe in both directions, Permissive theories of personhood (ie ones that would agree with "a reincarnated form of you is actually you, period, end of sentence") are far more likely to be correct. this is a very brief sketch, read the paper for the full argument
>it's like saying "I can't think of this thing therefore it doesn't exist"
this happens all the time, anon -- offhand example is the law of non-contradiction. it's impossible to conceive of something that is both A and not-A; as in, "it is impossible for a table to exist that also does not exist"
>>25105386
it's always nice when this happens, isn't it

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I had to confirm the death date of a borrower tοday at work and during my research accidentally saw photos of a dead 19 year old girl after she hit a concrete divider and rolled her car.

>>25105203
I'd be interested in joining a Spiritualist Christian church but my experience has proved that the congregation largely consists of middle class, middle aged hippies who spout the platitudes of Christianity such as Love Thy Neighbour and nothing else.

Do yοu believe that intentionally desensitizing yourself to gore and sexual abuse material is an act of evil?

>>25105510
>who spout the platitudes of Christianity such as Love Thy Neighbour and nothing else.
Matthew 7:12
>So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 22:37-40
>37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’38 This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
sounds like those middle class middle aged hippies are right

>>25105445
What?

>>25105214
>Time may be infinite in both directions. If it is, then, if persons could live at most once in all of time, the probability that you would be alive now would be zero. Since you are alive now, with certainty, either the past is finite, or persons can live more than once.
'tard moment. Someone bitch slap that retard Huemer.

Self-esteem? In the gutter. Confidence? Shattered. The thought οf writing feels more like a test I know I’ll fail than something natural. It’s humiliating. I used to think this was just normal, that everyone faced this, that it was no big deal. Now, I feel like a hollow version of who I could’ve been. Like my soul itself is damaged.

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A month or so ago, I posted here talking about how some (but not all) old people look sorta weird and depressing, and I was trying to figure out why. Today I found out why. If you're in a truly empty or depressing phase of your life, the appearance of your face will just change to look like that. It's because you're relaxing muscles so many muscles on your face that you look like a corpse.

damn I'm looking at my posts. I must be feeling bitter today, bitter about women. incel chud me lmao

>>25105555
How'd you get this picture οf me?

>>25105526
No, eroguro was an important political phase of nonsense writing

>>25105203
>Gathering at sisters place.
>Baby nephew starting to crawl
>Goes touching peoples shoes and feet
>Sister says he is fascinated by feet now that he is crawling
>Gf says "hahah he's like his uncle"
>Cousins and siblings start clowning on me for being into feet

What do I do from here. Would you consider this just a joke or blatant disrespect. It's a very private thing to expose even as a joke right?

>>25105526
Nah man. You gotta embrace the gore. It's natural to look at some guts and go "neat", because in real life it's a situation you absolutely have to remember and learn from. It's also a transition state between "animal" and "snack/clothes".

>>25105506
>didn't cut his teeth on gore threads as a boy
>but it's real
Yeah a photograph just like it would be posted here.

>>25105214
how is modafinil as a stimulant? subtle? is it like vyvanse is to adderall?

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Friend made me a compliment today and it genuinely warmed my heart and made me realize how few I've gotten, over the course of my life, by people outside my family. And I don't think, and I'm not kidding, I've ever in my entire life gotten a compliment from a woman who wasn't a relative. Not even women who liked me as a friend have ever done so.

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i've learned more than i thought just fucking off. pretty sure i'm gonna make it.

>>25105555
>If you're in a truly empty or depressing phase of your life
Me but the phase has lasted my entire life so far

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>>25105011
>are they full blown "I'm in so much pain I'm going to fucking kill myself"?
Yes, rather like this. Chronic pain and spiritual pain. I was in a bad car accident when I was young and while it didn't leave me crippled, it fucked up my spine and ribs and collarbones and slight changes in barometric pressure leave me bedridden in pain. I keep telling myself suicide is the anti-sacrament, but the voices are getting louder every year.

>>25105657
bless you, anon. try agmatine and black seed oil, maybe they'll help (DO YOUR RESEARCH). also maybe talk to your doctor about scrambler therapy and sodium blockers (suzetrigine)
much love. keep fighting, my nigga.

>>25105657
Have yοu tried THC/CBD?

>>25105662
I don't want to do drugs

>>25105661
I don't think I have the money for it, but I'll try

Why is it always the ugliest fucking hags and agender weirdos they choose tο lecture about employees about sexual harassment in the workplace?

>>25105666
agmatine and black seed oil are fairly cheap, so might not be too hard to give those a shot.
being broke on top of the pain doesn't help. sorry man.

>>25105657
>barometric pressure leave me bedridden in pain.
Holy shit that's horrible. Fuck man, really can't blame you for those thoughts then. This world is hell.

always give them the final word, makes em feel better. we can win the world little by little with these tiny mercies.

>>25105632
Know when you take a cold shower and when you're done you're like "I am completely and fully awake?" Modafinil is that feeling for ~6ish hours. It's easier to focus, but that's mostly because you don't feel tired at all. I'd say it's subtleish. You don't really get the rush of confidence/"I can run a marathon" energy you get with amphetamines, but you've got more fuel to power through things. Works best if you slept well the night before. I use it when I have to get up at like 5 or 6. There's also armodafinil, which is just moda that lasts for ~10ish hours. Don't take it before noon or it's hard to go to sleep.

>>25105536
Sadly, not an argument
>>25105555
>quads
Checked, since no one else has

>>25105733
interadasting. thanks for the report, anon.

>>25105668
>hire a sexy sexual harassment counselor
>gets sexually harassed
great plan there bub

>>25105526
I don't think you can ever truly desensitize yourself to such things; it will always negatively affect you to the core. I also believe that normalization and apathy towards things most humans feel a disgust toward is corrosive for a society. Death and horrific accidents require you to deal with them at some level, but if everyone around you is "acting though" you will feel out of place and feel yourself compelled to "act though" even tough it may not accurately reflect your internal state.

The same applies for fat people and degenerates. Acting as if they are normal members of society is a facade that creates more barriers for genuine human interaction. It also teaches children a worldview that is incompatible with their natural state of being and exacerbates antisocial behavior.

Now Rome is gone, but miss them not, it was necessary, now Life must go on

ooof dovahhatty really is peak fiction

Hmm, do I want to get back into eating ice cream? I wanna lose weight but it's so good, and it's been a while since I last ate any. My snacks as of late as been crackers + dip or yogurt.

ACK, I put too much of my soul into my drawings as a 12 year old boy and now I can't write good. Please help

>>25105203
>In light of the recent ruling by the SCOTUS that the tariffs imposed by Trump are illegal, sons of Jewish man Howard Lutnick conveniently purchased the rights to refunds from tariff fees incurred by businesses in July of 2025
>Jewish Man Sam Altman, who’s been accused of being a habitual liar by prominent OpenAI employees, makes grandiose claims that AI will cure cancer even as biological researchers struggle to reproduce research into cancer
>Jewish Man and college dropout Jeffrey Epstein, by a stroke of apparent good luck, landed a job at Bear Stearns, the same investment bank responsible for the mortgage crisis, after being fired from his job as a high school instructor
I’m noticing a pattern here…

>>25105815
I wish I'd put more soul into my drawings as a teenager instead οf writing.

>>25105666
If it's a choice between doing drugs and killing yourself, then you should do the drugs

>>25105857
ya but it's all titties

The May December romance was mid way thru and he had just started kissing her forehead and gently guiding her grey hayish hair behind her ears. Moving down to her dry thin lips who’s wrinkles looked like deep valleys streaming off a desert cliff. Passing her lips, he then made his way down to her velvety neck and then to her chest. Running kisses all the way to her belly button. From there he bend down to his knees and starts sucking on her nipples. Then grabbing the waistband of her diapers, he took them off her one leg at a time. Taking a deep inhale of them and tossing them aside, he then

And that’s where I’m stuck. Not sure how to finish the story.

>>25105864
I should learn tο draw tiddies...

I'm about to get fired from my job.
Gonna get back to my pops' and probably just fuck around writing fantasy. I'm tired of fighting against the tide. I've been a good slave for the past 4 years and living the same day over and over again. 27 yo no kids no wife no house.
I'm done with this world and the never ending hardships. When I told my mother I was out of work she gasped and went 'Oh my! But anon, you should look for another job, nonono, this is not the way, how are you going to live??' thankfully I'll live just fine with my wagie bucks, even if my unemployment paycheck isn't much. No point in having money if you work 10hrs a day anyway.

>>25105657
what's your day-to-day life like? do you have a job? sorry if I seem intrusive.

I shoveled snow for 5 hours today. normally I have a lot of self-pity but I felt very grateful to be able to do that today. there's always someone worse off.

>>25105203
/his/ is practically unusable now, its basically now just /int/ with dates

I'm so cool.

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I've been thinking about this and I realized - and feel free to correct me if you think I'm wrong here - that there's is an almost 1:1 parallel between extreme economic libertarianism and extremely permissive sexual norms. Both rest on the same seductive self-narrative: “freedom from” (government, tradition, restraint, obligation). Yet in practice, both reliably produce the same outcome: a tiny elite of clear winners who thrive in the resulting free-for-all, a large and growing underclass of losers who are quietly disenfranchised, and, over time, the slow-motion collapse of the social structures that once made widespread flourishing possible.

kobo just updated their user terms i hope they don't sell my reading data to israel

/mu/ is a fucking shithole

At the ripe age of 28 going on 29 I decided to enter med school. I'll probably only be accepted at 30 or 31. Which means I'll conclude my residence around 38. Which means I'll be around 40 yo when I leave my parents home, since residency pays as much as the average delivery guy makes in this dystopian shithole.
Becoming Dr. Chud seems better than being a depressive fuck wasting his days for the rest of my life, but I wish I had made this decision five years ago. Then again, I was so buckbroken by trauma and the way I was raised it took me until last year to even be able to contemplate my future and think about it and realise I actually want things in life instead of being automaticslly overtaken by anxiety, dread and despair like I have been since I was fourteen or so.
All in all I'm fucked and have nothing besides fragile hope. To keep it /lit/ related, books for these feelings?

Found out recently that the Garden of Eden was in the vicinity of the plain of Mush in south-eastern Turkey.

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Every fucking day I sit down at my desk and waste my entire day. I do the bare minimum and nothing more, then spend the rest of the day pretending to look busy, refreshing pages and reading the news over and over again. I could walk away from my desk and do something productive if I wanted to; there is nobody watching me and nothing to keep me here, except my own insistence that I'll do something productive any minute now.

At the end of every day I tell myself tomorrow's the day I'll change, but I've been doing this for five years now. Any time I get motivation, I pour it into some irrelevant endeavor and ignore my main focus. I want to say that I am a prisoner of my own indifference, but I'm not, I do care and I do want to be better, so why can't I just move?

Am I too comfortable? Am I think victim of my own bread and circuses?

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The future is a post Christian one were most people are secular or "spiritual". white protestants will become a minority. Blacks and Latinos relate more to the plight of the Palestinian, Latinos are also catholic not protestant.
As for western Europe, they flood themselves with anti Israel Muslim rapeugees

the future is one where the left is increasingly anti zionist and the right is increasingly antisemitic

They were able to brainwash the boomers because it was the tv era, we live in the internet era now.
And if you have a secular population they have no reason to be pro israel or pro jewish cause they dont care about the bible or jesus coming back. without the religious underpinning the right no longer has a reason to be pro israel and pro jew, and they see jewish power as something to hate that caused mass immigration and degeneracy that plagues the west

as for the left, they have actual reasons to be anti israel from a political stand point of anti settler colonialism.

the jews see this simply as a minor rise in antisemitism, but this is actually a golden age of christian zionism ending and the boomer era coming to a close

>>25105203
I can't wait to fuck my wife

I'm sick. I was in a car crash 2 weeks ago, and now I'm sick.

The ER says I'm constipated, with incidential kidney stones, testicular cyst, and a minor hernia. It's awesome to pay a ridiculous amount of money to be told I'm literally full of shit, and get provided with nothing but the opportunity to pay more money to specialists.

I feel like I'm malingering. I feel like I keep doing it. I feel like shit. I want to throw up. I'm full of shit. I don't even know why I try.

Called off work, going to call off tomorrow too. Took a high dosage of stool softeners. Might take some random painkillers. Fuck my life.

>>25106337
Are the painkillers causing the constipation? As a result of the medication I take, I only shit once a week, and it requires me taking a daily dose of stool softeners and then laxatives on the day I want to go, generally the 7 or 8 day mark. I've gotten used to it, and the medicine makes it worth it, but I wouldn't recommend this lifestyle to anyone else.

Anyway, sorry to hear about all that, anon. Things will get better and someday this'll all be a "oh man, one time I got into a car accident and..." story you tell people to relate a painful life experience.

Listened to my audiobook for over an hour tonight.

>tfw no cat

>>25106291
Honestly anon I don't see the number of evangelicals or their influence shrinking any time soon, seems quite the opposite actually. The difference is that they're only get more stupid and more unhinged. A significant portion of them are flat Earthers or antivaxxers now.

King size bed is almost too small for me, wife, and gf. I can't roll over at night without elbowing one (or both) of them.

We joked about having our carpentry-inclined friend help us modify our bedframe to put a twin mattress next to the king, once we're in a larger house.

>>25106389
religion is dying you dip


>Religion is experiencing a significant decline in the U.S. and other Western nations, with only 53% of Americans considering religion very important in 2023, down from 72% in 2013. Roughly 80% of U.S. adults believe religion's influence on public life is shrinking, driven by rising secularization, generational shifts, and lower church attendance.
the age of the zio boomer is over and the jews havent come up with any other way to fill its void, so we got like nick fuentes running wild on the jews.

Can't believe 2010 was 20 years ago.

>>25106410
nice math skills there

Is there really no way forward or vision of the world without the jewish abrahamic framework? My history leads me to it without fail, heavily. But it means nothing to me.

>>25105203
I am improving. But for some reason I hate the fact I'm improving. Not very strongly, but every time I realize I did something I couldn't before my face sours a little, I am annoyed.

>>25106425
Why do you think so? I’ve never had that issue

>>25106393
your daughter-gf?

Lazy day today, gooned for 5 hours.

>>25106413
Newfag.

>>25105222
Fantasy posters, harry potter threads

Have any one actually seen a "Performative Male" in the wild reading or pretending to read a book?

>>25106525
Yeah I did, twice in fact. One in a bus and the other at a cafe.

>>25106466
dumb ass joke nigger

>>25105203
Ethical question for you intellectuals: If I were to have found a pack of alcohol next to a sacked store, on the sidewalk a day after it was sacked, would it count as stealing?

>>25106558
When I'm drunk, I feel happy :)

>>25106538
Made you mad :^]

>>25105203
Shit, why is it that only when I am drunk do I realize I love people?

>>25106625
False alarm, alchohol is tellin me I hate them, actually.

>>25106203
>All in all I'm fucked and have nothing besides fragile hope.
What more do you need? Good luck.
>>25106525
>Performative
This word is such an eyeroller.

>>25106648
>This word is such an eyeroller.
Why?

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It is my birthday. I got a 23 pound coffee mug, woke up at 5am, got high, ate some pizza bites, drank a tea out of said mug, and had a nap with my dog.

Plans? I will write a bit, read some of the Leizi, then it's time for the tradition of watching Robocop and Akira. But my akira dvd broke, so I guess maybe I'll watch The Fist of the North Star movie and Riki-oh to compensate.

>before I can say
>before I can die
>I am just a ghost
>not remembered
>not forgiven
>I am just a ghost
>without any opportunity
>without any possibility
>I am just a ghost
>living by myself
>dying by myself
>I am just a ghost
>belonging to a dead past
>being the living ghost of the past
>I am just a ghost
>before I can speak
>before I can leave
>I am just a ghost
>watching from corners
>forgotten mid-sentence
>I am just a ghost
>in the kind of nothing
>in the Kingdom of Nothing Land
>I am just a ghost

I saw the tiddies of someone who didnt even exist.

>>25106657
>23 pound coffee mug
What?

>>25105528
Are you being intentionally dense? Yes, those are important teachings, but the whole of Christian doctrinine cannot be simplified into that one commandment. I do not want to go to a church service and just hear endlessly how being a Christian means being nice to people, I'd also like a church service to expand on Christian theology as well as expound its so called spiritualist views in a way that makes me want to attend.

>>25106682
Yup. 23 pounds. Essentially a giant unbalanced slab of metal; bottom heavy and wrist destroying. Why? No idea, to get me jacked, or make me suffer for the liquids I need to live, but I'm still happy to get it.

>>25106323
I fingerblasted my soon-tο-be fiancé last night, then she blew me, then I fingerblasted her again.
I'm so fucking thankful she's one of those girls that likes giving BJs

The first 6 months of a baby is so annoying.
You don't get much from them and it's a real hassle.
They get fun after about a year.

>>25106625
Drugs make me way mοre empathetic. I use them pretty much every time I have to hang out with strangers (be it alcohol or thc)

>>25106699
Congrats anon. I'm getting married this year. Make sure you get her the right ring, doesnt need to be outrageous, but she will want something specific. Plus, your proposal cant be worse than mine, dont be too stressed, if you picked the right lady you have nothing to worry about.

>>25106388
Being a cat wοuld be pretty cool, I think

>>25106385
audio books put me right tο sleep, provided in the mood for one
Reading also just puts me to sleep in general

>>25106716
>your proposal cant be worse than mine
Elaborate

>>25106219
Are you getting paid tο do almost nothing?

>>25106716
She gave me a small list of rings she liked that weren't terribly expensive but still stylish, sο I'm sure she'll like it. I'm not too worried about the proposal, it was way harder to get her father's favor and I haven't even told my parents yet.

>>25106525
I tend to assume most people are reading for "sincere" reasons. There is nothing to be gained from being seen reading Moby Dick on the train or whatever

>>25106721
Buckle up, this one is a doozy. I am absolutely not a cool guy here.
>It's her birthday, I take her to the biggest mall in my area.
>Got a large late tax return, and I had been shopping for a ring for almost two years at that point, so today is the day.
>We walk into the diamond store, and everyone ignores us.
>Some nice lady comes to talk to us, finally, and it's the easiest sale she's ever made.
>I wanted to buy her a rose gold 1 karat diamond clean traditional style ring for a great deal, she wants a twisty white and rose gold one with in laid diamonds and a smaller center stone.
>3k deducted from my bank account, get her what I she wants.
>I am HYPE, texting my boys, heart in my throat, this is the biggest decision I've made in my life.
>I go down to the bottom of the mall, ans there is this like Miami Vice neon style food court bar thing. Big red flag I'm too stupid to notice.
>Go, ask the bartender for a beer, point to where I'm sitting, and wait full of butterflies.
>Every single patron other than us got their food and beers and whatever over half an hour of waiting.
>I go back to the bar, hot to trot, and immediately confront them over fucking around.
>The bartender says it's not her job to get me a beer, and if I wanted one I should have asked someone else, while she's on her phone bitching about her job instead of pouring me a beer.
>Livid. Italian mode activates. Ask for her name and say I'm going to leave a negative review.
>The woman goes completely insane, refuses to tell me because apparently she has a stalker and it's unsafe (she's a portly mid alt chick).
>Her googley eyed negress manager starts yelling at me saying I have no right to ask her name.
>I tell her this is extremely unprofessional, and if she's incapable of training her staff to acceptable standards, she shouldn't work that job.
>Fucking nuclear bomb. Two bartenders are screaming at me, manager is screaming at me, a couple sitting at the bar are screaming at me because the bartenders are screaming at me and they do not give a shit about all this.
>Cooler heads prevail, I fuck off after 20 minutes, the manager stormed away dramtically, the shit bartender told me her name and was having a hystrionic fit in the fetal position.
>My fiancee is mortified, I think I've just wrecked my not quite marriage, hadnt even given her the ring yet.
>On her birthday.
>Feel like death.
>Take her to a ferris wheel, we looked at some cool medical oddities ar a local store.
>Formally proposed over sushi in a nice 'straunt.
>Thank fucking god, she said yes. She knows how I am and kind of likes it.
Turns out it was a gay bar (neon, miami vice, me being an idiot getting a beer). My sports jersey, confrontational attitude, NFL lineman physique, and unmistakable directness triggered their vicarious spite response over every highschool bully who looks like me. Understandably, to be fair. I left an extremely professional negative review some days later, and the bar has since closed.

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>>25106769
It's frustrating, endearing, and inspiring retards like you find love.
>miami vice neon
I would not have got it either, but you're an idiot for considering a mall food court in the first place.
>Italian mode activates
Lol, but that explain a lot.

>>25106769
So you took her to buy her own ring, am I reading that correct?
I don't see how that makes sense. Women love a surprise and seeing you try to figure out what they liked instead of just asking what they want.

Well you got the job done but it feels very American. Wearing a sports jersey at your proposal? Going to a mall?

Mine was under some time constraints since I already got her pregnant and wanted to get married before she got a big belly. Best I could think of was going to a rock formation with a nice view. I had hoped there was a tourist nearby to take a video but no such luck.

>>25106802
>Best I could think of was going to a rock formation with a nice view.
Way to have a "she said no" contingency, anon.

>>25106794
I'm extremely lucky. All my luck in my life has been allocated to my fiancee and I certainly deserve much worse. The bar honestly looked nice. Potted plants and like art deco styling, neon lights. I think I was in a fugue state.

>>25106802
You'd be surprised. If you get a woman the wrong ring you get posted on a facebook group and mocked by the hivemind. I was way more interested in making sure she got what she wanted and I literally spent years learning about the cuts of diamonds, the type of band, the styling. I even took her to look a few times and she saw NOTHING she liked. She gave me this insane impossible magic christmasland description that she didnt actually want. Sometimes you have to sit them in front of rings to see.

Also, not american. This is a super duper bougie boutique mall for pretentious assholes. I know mall sounds like nacho cheese and teenagers, this one os like bugattis as your 3rd backup car. And she got me the jersey; I didnt intend to buy a eing. Honestly she was surprised, I was even surprised I bought it.

>>25106558
Not if you give the alcohol to those who need it most :D yay altruism

>>25106648
Thanks. I could really use a bunch of cash and a time machine tho.

>>25106525
I read Blood Meridian on the bus today :)

and will probably head to the library to read some more of it

What's the most performative /lit/ action you've completed?
I once wrote a couple of pages worth of cringe fan fiction in my sophomore high school typing class, hoping a girl would ask me what I was working on.
I deserved tο get bullied.

I watched the newest episode of The Adam Friedland Show with Clavicular, some young, famous streamer/influencer known for his looksmaxxing and redpill/PUA-esque views. The part detailing the surgeries and supplements (including injections of testosterone) he gets done to looksmaxx kinda bummed me out because it makes me worried I won't be able to compete with this up-and-coming generation of youths in terms of attracting young, desirable women. I mean I'm pretty good looking, but I worry I'm gonna lose the arms-race, y'know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rodcdKuwH3o

And of course there's much to be said about how this guy is the quintessential "mimbo", literally has no other interests or thoughts or anything other than redpill, women, looksmaxxing, and streaming. Depressing. But that's not the point.

>>25106949
Only soulless whores want men like that, if they even give them the time οf day. Just dress appropriate and act genuine. I come off as autistic but well-meaning and that got me tons of attention as a late 20s guy (and eventually a gf)

>>25106949
>How can I attract Chad when Stacy got huge tits and work done on her nose?
That's what you sound like. Mentally, you're a broad. Looksmaxxing is the most feminine thing ever conceived. It's platonically feminine. It isn't about looking good, it's about neurotically sculpting a façade in search of external validation from the opposite gender, using a variety of modern tools that come down to "makeup, but more costly, dangerous and permanent". What are you gonna do next? Collect sneakers and watches like your aunt collects shoes and purses? The absolute state of you. I won't even go into the kind of woman your kitschy peacocking would attract.
Jesus Christ.

>>25106949
>it makes me worried I won't be able to compete with this up-and-coming generation of youths in terms of attracting young, desirable women
He made himself infertile from using steroids and he probably can't even get it up. From what I understand he does these streams where he just cold approaches women for hours on end and most shoot him down

>>25107126
10/10
>>25107187
I only see clips of his antics. It's funny but I cannot imagine being someone who watches this shit for hours.
People who watch livestreamers like that are even more retarded than people who watch Jersey Shore or whatever. At least that's edited and only shows the 'exciting' bits.
Not to even speak of the people who donate money to streamers like this. Bottom of the barrel humans, not even kidding.

>>25106186
always has been

>>25106769
you are a karen and the origin story of your matrimonial bliss is forever tainted by your incapacity to remain polite in minimally frustrating circumstances. D-

>>25106949
whats your current age

>>25106166
Even at the very least in ancient greece they already knew that excessive "liberal" liberty is a bad thing. Back then people understood liberty as "positive liberty" to contribute to the polis, not as we understand liberty ("liberal" liberty). Or put another way, positive liberties were good, excessive negative "liberal" liberties were bad.

ME AND MY FUCKING GUN

>memories of actions done a decade still haunt me
OMG I am SO FUCKING CRINGE

>>25107245
Let it go bro

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>>25107251
I got a great memory so thats easier said than done. But youre right, gonna keep moving forward

>>25107222
I'd say B-, it's a good story that makes me look like a dick and my soon-to-be-wife look like a saint. No one who knows me or my family would be surprised to hear it, but that being said, if you've ever worked a job like that, instead of making a scene you hand the guy a beer and go on your way. Or apopogize superficially, walk into the back, call him a faggot and spit in his glass, like god intended.

>>25106949
>I mean I'm pretty good looking, but I worry I'm gonna lose the arms-race, y'know?
You either get rich or get famous, obviously. Preferably both.

I saw this Youtube vid about a famous Japanese voice actor who cheated on his wife with a chick in his 20's. His argument for not using a condom was, "I'm too old, you can't get pregnant", but she got pregnant. The guy was 68 years old IIRC
Fame is actually OP if your goal is women

>>25106949
>up-and-coming generation of youths in terms of attracting young, desirable women
Women don't like tryhards. They only want naturally born Chads. They can actually detect who is and who is not a Born Chad.

>>25107480
What you saying, nigga?

>>25106724
I run my own business. It can "get by" with an hour or two of work each day, but merely getting by doesn't future proof or expand things

Fucking dogshit life

>>25106219
>>25107497
>waaaaa I have money and stability and I do nothing all day waaaaa
I'm begging you to shut the fuck up

>>25107484
Clavicular is a literal autist though.

For 30 years of my life, I thought I was gay.

I had actually planned on doing work in the last hour of the day but my work girlfriend and her pussy pals decided to invade my office and gossip fοr 45 minutes.

>>25107556
Believing yourself to be gay is gay.

>>25107556
How did you realise you weren’t?

>>25107565
Hells yeah, love gossip.

Here's a borrowed thought from this guy : https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodTasteChannel/videos

"There is only three architectural styles: roman, byzantine and gothic"

>>25107727
Roman is easily the best and it doesn't come close

I just ate like 5 homemade chorizo-egg-potato-bean tacos.
Am I gοnna die?

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>>25107727
There is something impersonal and dehumanizing about modernist architecture, but that's why people love it. It's honest. Neoclassical architecture might look gorgeous, but the emotional core of its message is totally gone for moderners, whereas in places like Russia or China, they might lack in architectural flourish but they are extremely honest and candid styles so it's very easy to get emotionally attached to these places. The city matches how you feel.

>>25105203
I've been visited by alien-demons in my dreams for most of my life and to this day I still can't figure out how to make deals with them to be given power. How do the jews do it, bros?

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>>25107727
I posted this and after reflecting on the subject I've come to an interesting conclusion.

On architecture.
Greco-Roman style allows to go wide and long, Byzantine style seems to always lead to blobby forms, and Gothic allows to go high; since we've stretched in all direction, I think architectural innovation is over; the three main styles actually refer to three sets of techniques and innovations in the use of arches, pillars, domes, that cover all three possible areas of expansion width, height, and intermediate; think 0° angle expansion, 45° angle expansion, or 90° expansion of a building for roman, byzantine and gothic style respectively, that's how I perceive this.

The Greco-Roman semi-circle arches and pillars allows for long aqueducts and long colonnades, the domes of the Byzantine style allows for blobby expansion of a building, and the Gothic arches and ribbed vaults and buttress allows to go towards height. Although the three styles have ornaments that can be more or less complex and can differ with culture, this is only superficial compared to what makes these three different in kind. The key distinction remains in the technical constraints, you cannot go high but by doing gothic and use gothic technology, you cannot go blobby but by going byzantine, you cannot go wide or long but by going with the greco-roman technologies.

I dare you to open three yandex image tab and typing "greco-roman architecture" "byzantine architecture" "gothic architecture" and tell me that I have not reached the absolute fundamental truth of architecture

Should I put somewhere in my resume that I was on a long backpacking trip for several months? Right now it just shows I haven't been working since last May and I'm worried that's getting me automatically rejected from jobs.

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Sometimes my thoughts just veer towards wanting to off myself. I'll be doing something random and my brain will just go
>Might just killmyself methinks.

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Is "mental infidelity" truly heinous and immoral? How does a man refrain from this?

came upon an idea about having to worship what you write about and using senses and poetic devices as prayer

just focus on a person place or thing and fall in love with it to the point of obsession. then write about it.

>>25108220
give us an example of your work.

The book I ordered off amazon went to the wrong address.

Donald Trump is the Antichrist and Jesus' return is imminent!

Dreams where I am back in high school are most detestable. Not because I had a horrible time and I am horrified to be back, but because of the opportunity of a second chance to finally do things right. Then I wake up and the false promise is revealed.

You know who's not in the Epstein files? Piers Morgan.

>>25108206
It's called ideation. There's also a form of it that manifests as wanting to disable yourself so that you can't work or function normally. I used to think about how much easier my life would be if I were blind οr lost the use of my hands.
Turns out that's a side effect of my ssri.

>>25108323
Mine are always that I'm back but still 30 years old and am struggling with how to tell my boss that I have to attend high school for half a day at minimum.
Fucking hate thοse dreams, so mentally exhausting.

>>25108348
Yeah same, I'll be in high school classes or even middle school classes as a man in his 20's, as if somehow I never matured past that age

This is a good, prescient article. It's mostly quotes by Plato and Aristotle.
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/05/15/plato-and-aristotle-on-youth-and-politics/

This show Money Heist on Netflix is too good, too intense. It's difficult to binge watch. After each episode I feel like I need a break lol.

>>25108348
>>25108359
Yesterday I dreamed I was ransacking the yards of my neighbors looking for alcohol. I had some good finds. Somewhat dissapointing to wake up and realize I hadn't actually secured any booze.

>>25108401
Ngl, even though I actually don't drink very often I definitely inherited my father's tendency towards alcohol dependency. It's very fortunate that alcohol is expensive and I don't like spending money.
Instead of my father's constant wine drinking I have a massive binge every few months.

>>25108404
By the way, if you guys want an easy and quick way of showing alcoholism without outright stating it, piles of discarded bottles are very effective.

>>25108184
I’ve been sending out a version of my resume which includes the travel gap and another which extends my last job so the gap doesn’t exist. Neither has gotten me anything close to an interview

>>25108404
>It's very fortunate that alcohol is expensive and I don't like spending money.
Same. Although when I drink I do tend to go heavy and a lot. My friend's call me a "tank" because of it. I don't go out of my way to buy alcohol often though, I barely know the names of which is good and which isn't.

Is it odd to say I love my father, but he gets on every single nerve of mine?

I honestly hate video games so much. Or, no, I hate how video games exploit male psychology for profit, how they channel our time energy money and competitive drive into something that's a load of completely worthless bullshit. We talk about porn, we don't talk enough about gaming.

>>25108413
Same. Though I'm small so I probably get drunk with much less than you.

>>25108431
Gaming, weed and porn is the ultimate goy neutralizer.
My years from say 20-28 were all about this. Deadly combo. I enjoyed my time but am glad I got out of that

>>25108445
Yeah the boomers were right all along. All the shit they told us to stay away from turned out to be poison all along.

I'm getting whore fatigue.

>>25108445
How'd you get out of porn? Asking for myself.

>>25108455
It was the last thing I kicked.
Only did so after getting regular sex with my eventual wife.
Turns out if you jack it to porn too often you have trouble performing during sex. So porn had to go. If I was single I'd still be watching it.

Jews have inferior souls. Broad IQ scoring being on-par with Whites and East-Asians doesn't amount to much when you have a fundamentally stagnant and decadent psyche

Billions must die.

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>>25108463
>tfw single and still trying to cut out porn

In retrospect the 2010s really fucking sucked. Especially after 2013. Probably the worst decade I've lived through, even worse than this one in fact.

>>25108476
Soul-talk is, without fail, just self-congratulatory patter that obfuscates the real causes of things.
Then again, so is IQ talk, for different reasons.

Gonna jack off and hopefully pass out afterwards.

>>25108508
Yeah you just don't get it

why are Nine Inch Nails so good, bros?

>>25108516
It's just vibes, feelings. The east Asian 'soul' is just as stagnant and decadent.

>>25108522
You are a masochist, that's why.

Should I get a kilo of chicken breast or two?

>>25108445
What if I game and smοke weed with my wife?

What are all the female archetypes? I can think of bitch, hag, whore, cute bubbly, serene elegance

many things can be obtained by composing with these
a goth is just a bitch whore sometimes cute

>>25108707
Mother.

>>25108707
Forgot dyke, tomboy

>>25105203
When I was 12 my father had me load up a bunch of shit from or to his truck at a lot of land he owned, told me that after I did that we could go home. So I did, and when everything was done I was told to wait a little until my father finished talking to his friends. So I left and walked home instead.

She keeps the heater on blast and the windows closed all day so that when I come home it's like a fucking oven in there. She whines and complains when I turn the heater off and let in fresh air so I finally give in and put it back how she wants. By the time it's time to sleep its so stuffy and hot I can barely breathe. Last night I turned the heater off and this morning she was acting like I tried to kill her.

I think 4chan needs a /rizz/ board where everyone talks about sex and seduction and post about their experiences. I know incels don't go out and don't talk to any woman yet I know some people in here do have sex and it would be good motivation for some guys

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>>25108371
From the article
>You must have noticed how young men, after their first taste of argument, are always contradicting people just for the fun of it [...] So when they’ve proved a lot of people wrong and been proved wrong often themselves, they soon slip into the belief that nothing they believed before was true --- Plato, Book VII

People in all ages do this and it's so tiresome. Your parents and relatives when watching tv politics or social media politics, when they simply criticize 'the other side', and the same with the surface level right wing commentator, and the same with the more 'independent' commentator, all they know is to attack and attract an audience like that, but they never create anything, they all destroy but never create, it's soooo boring

Here's the story of the women's singles figure skating event at the 2022 Olympics, which resulted in a Russian one-two and a doping scandal.

The gold medalist, 17 year old Anna Shcherbakova, was left alone by her team when the results were announced and she barely even celebrated, instead sitting and looking around the kiss and cry with a stuffed mascot in her arms.
The silver medalist, 17 year old Alexandra Trusova, started crying and cursing everyone and the sport as she discovered she had placed second after the performance of her life, and, after threatening to not even stay for the award ceremony, she stepped on the podium with ruined makeup, shaking.
The fourth place went to Kamila Valieva, 15 years old, who had tested positive for doping substances months prior, was allowed to skate for debatable reasons, and stopped trying after the first error on the ice, which led her coach to get in the skater's face and question her right as she stepped off of the rink.
Here's the coverage showing what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH7PGSJoo0w

The bronze medal went to 21 year old Kaori Sakamoto of Japan, who went on to win a silver medal at the Milan-Cortina Olympics and is set to retire at the end of the current season.
All three Russian athletes were training in the same state sponsored team, training under the same coach and, as if the rest wasn't enough, were under the care of the same doctor.
Anna has since retired because of injuries, most likely caused by the intensive and unsustainable training regime; Alexandra recently had a child from her husband and is still competing, though given the state of the ROC it's unlikely she'll get back to the international stage anytime soon; Kamila was stripped of the medals she had won since 2021 and banned from competing in any International Skating Union sanctioned event until last year, and for the same reasons as above she's unlikely to reach such a high level again.
Shortly thereafter, the ISU raised the age limit for senior competitions to 17.

This type of drama and suffering felt fitting, right out of a Russian classic, but it really is tragic how life has treated these girls.
I don't think anything Dostoevsky wrote is any more tragic than this.

>>25108755
a mother is either a bitch hag or a cute hag

>>25108762
lesbians are bitch, whores, spiritual hags
i guess i can't describe tomboys, good addition
bitch hidden cute maybe? bitch in the sense that they're more posed and controlled and cynical like men. in essence, in character, goth chicks and tomboys (that are still somewhat feminine) are closely related

>>25108807
ty

Party girl = whore
Quiet =~ cute

actually this is shit, way too one-sided, I cannot construct a hag or a bitch with what's being presented here, not really what I'm looking for, I want a system to describe both good and bad aspects of the female psyche in the form of composable blocks, this is serious work!

Just deleted my poker account. 200 bucks in the red today
Got rivered like 10 times without exagerating. Went all in with kings only to lose to ace nine because bro rivered a straight. Yesterday got my aces cracked two times. Probably my most losing hands are aces kings and ace king.
Every fucking time i value bet flop and turn the board ends up with 4 to a straight. Went all in with top pair and 4 to a flush with like 60% equity and guy flopped 2 pair and i couldnt hit one of my like 15 outs on turn or river.
Yeah its time to cut my losses and do something better with my free time

weather app: dense fog advisory

>>25108820
Sorry anon, sometimes the variance and luck works against you. On one hand I'd say what you already know, things will turn in your favor again soon, if not immediately given the long losing streak you just went through, but of course I would never recommend someone to gamble, so good on you for deleting your accounts and moving on! Use your money on books and concerts and dates instead.

Do you actually believe that every guy who has an average looking girlfriend has some biological/genetic predisposition that makes them the superior choice compared tο the average incel?

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>>25105203
One time I remembered this picture when I was high, and so I sat behind my friend and just whispered "gay, gay, homosexual, gay" for like, fifteen minutes, and my friend didn't try to strangle me to death. That's true friendship right there.

it's the third time this year that I've quit a job
feels pretty dissapointing

>>25108848
yeh obviously i made the right shoves like 95% of time. yet today i lost 90% of them. shits tough.
but considering my addictive personality( i played for like 8 hours per day last couple of days) i think it's for the best that i just quit that shit cold turkey while the losses are still small

>>25108862
Not necessarily.
But I do think incels generally are doing something horribly wrong to end up like that. Genetic abominations aside of course.

w2c a cyanide fake tooth?

>>25108820
never overplay kings

>>25108862
Hot take, guys who have lots of sex with random whores are just stage two incels. They think all women are whores with huge bodycounts because their dating strategies only work on sluts.
On the opposite of the spectrum is the man who holds himself to a standard and actually pulls the high value woman without giving in to his personality.
If incel theory were true men would only date women with 10/10 huge ass and tits.
Few people know this.

>>25109003
maybe i’m gay but i really can’t understand why someone would want to have lots of sex if they don’t really like girls. how much i like going to bed with someone depends on if i'm in love.

>>25109006
You may think that, but it takes years of self-improvement to re-wire the male brain into being able to love a woman through more than just your dick. Less, like, you never were horny as a teenager.

>>25109015
probably best all around if you don’t try re-wire your brain against nature.

>>25109029
What's against nature is the 10/10 huge tits and ass slop fantasy society engrained into every male teenager by the age of 15.
There's nothing natural about it, the natural thing is to remain utterly repulsed by women as children effectively are.

>>25109032
>as children effectively are.
until puberty. even then a lot of that comes from separating boys and girls from a young age.
really should go without saying boys liking girls is natural.

>>25109041
No it's not, have you ever even conceptualized societal engineering? Sexual attraction before the end of puberty is societal engineering at it's finest and it sounds like you were victim of it.

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>>25109049
have some real doubts about the ‘bad films make children violent’ argument, if that’s what you’re asking. as an aside, i’ll add all the oldest manmade works are sculptures of huge t&a women slop.

>>25109057
> You're supposed to be horny and think about hot bitches 24/7
Like primitive man even has the time and energy to do that. You seriously have to ask yourself how a teenager is even going to know about sex, let alone feel attracted towards the idea if he doesn't even know the word for it. It's a secret plot to make adult society look fancier than it is and make young people seek the approval of adults.
> Uhmm this cave sculpture made in mockery of fat slobs was actually a Neanderthal super top model

>>25109069
>how a teenager is even going to know about sex
same way every other living organism does. schopenhauer said sexual passion is the kernel of the will to live
>It is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious and the aim of the jest, the inexhaustible source of wit, the key to all allusions, the meaning of all mysterious hints, of all unspoken offers and all stolen glances, the daily meditation of the young, and often also of the old, the hourly thought of the unchaste, and even against their will the constantly recurring imagination of the chaste, the ever ready material of a joke, just because the profoundest seriousness lies at its foundation. It is, however, the piquant element and the joke of life that the secret concern of all men is secretly pursued and ostensibly ignored as much as possible. But, in fact, we see it every moment seat itself, as the true and hereditary lord of the world, out of the fulness of its own strength, upon the ancestral throne ...

>>25109074
You have run out of arguments and chose to cite a meaningless quote attached to an appeal to authority fallacy.
Teenage love is dysgenic and it has led to the creation of a degenerate race. What for? Keeping the plebs dull, obedient, physically weak.

>>25109087
what is the object of love, from the lowest to the highest forms of being, if not the perpetuation of the species?

>>25109097
Ahh, the perpetuation of the species through abortions and the abuse of contraception methods everyone has to have engaged in by the age of 20 not to become a hopeless loser. But there's totally no amount of social engineering behind it, it's all natural, trust the process.

>>25109105
pretty sure those come from your corner

>>25109118
What if at 25 you still had the same libido you had at the age of 15? Raging bombers, full of energy, ready to pump it into the first hot woman you saw?

>>25109128
can we skip the addendum and get to the point if it’s all the same to you

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>>25109003
You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. There's no stage two incel, and if there is, it's a schoolshooter. Incel stands for INvoluntary CELibate, if you've had sex, you're out. Simple as. It's an incredibly simple thing but normalniggers keep distorting it and making other people believe it because A: they're stupid cattle, B: they're always looking for new labels to brand undesirables with.
>but it's been redefi—
No it hasn't, shut up. Check out any of these blackpill incel whatever forums and everyone there will mention how they've never been with a woman, that's the entire point. The entire "movement" revolves around not having sex.
>If incel theory were true men would only date women with 10/10 huge ass and tits.
No, the entire incel theory is that men will go for ANYTHING while women will only go for the top 1%, which is supposedly backed by the statistics of dating apps.

This cute girl on the bus made her attraction known to me and now I have to avoid taking that bus at that time because while I do plan on asking her to hangout, I don't want to yet, and don't want the pressure or awkwardness of not doing it.

>>25109139
The point is at 25 you're more likely to make (and sustain) offspring than at 15. But you've already wasted that energy and your métabolisme has already changed towards becoming a fatslob.

>>25109152
>This cute girl on the bus made her attraction known to me
What did she do?

>>25109153
for most of human history children have been born to parents under 25.

>>25109166
Except among the wild animals it is only the older and experienced males who become owners of a harem. The prude youth is out there, surviving sexlessly in the wild. Your appeal too nature argument is garbage. You're just leaving out too much, for example, if man is supposed to start having sex by the age of 15, why does he live until 90?

>>25109173
>wise animals
>harem
NTA but what the fuck are you talking about?

>>25109173
discipline is unnatural. (in nature) your body naturally knows what’s best for it, sort of like how every other animal naturally knows what to eat, etc. your instinct (primitive wisdom) is greater than any logic.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1626509/
>why does he live until 90
kin survival

>>25109181
A wild dog will chase a deer until it jumps off a cliff then jump right after it. If you let a child choose its own diet it'll choose putty and batteries.

>>25109181
Primitive man runs 800 miles, carries a canoe like a knapsack and the only thing you can come up with 'duhh discipline is unnatural' I'm done talking to you. Btw staying a virgin as a man until the age of 30 was completely normal through all ages until the degenerate modern era. Fuck yourself and eat shit and cum.

>>25109185
why are you lashing out, do you think you might be b12 deficient?

>>25109183
in the study i linked they gave young children a variety of natural foods to choose from with no interference, and each child ended up perfectly healthy. one who was deficient in vitamin D chose to consume a lot of cod liver oil (the highest dietary source of vit D)

>>25109187
Is it possible that you are penis and cum in mouth deficient? Modern science agreed that's an actual thing for gays.

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>>25109191

The world is ruined. We actually need a fucking nuclear war to start over.

>>25108862
Absolutely not, rather they have a good degree of 1. interest in getting a girlfriend to go out and do it, be it by going to clubs, striking up conversations in bars... and 2. being pleasant to spend time with.
Incels lack either or both instead.

>>25105203
War this weekend. Yay.

Death is the great annihilation, but dreamless sleep is an annihilation too. Being is borne of non-being every day, and non-being of being.

I used to restrain myself from saying kys to even the worst kind of trolls out of fear of motivating them to so it, now I truly believe some people really should kill themselves for being human trash

>>25109626
kys

I'll be working for two of the biggest scumbag companies on earth tomorrow. At least I'll be doing what I love. Or at least helping people doing what I love.
yaaay...

>>25109639
You gotta do what you gotta do, and you're making the best of it sounds like. Don't fret.

>>25109639
It's okay. I worked for one of the worst companies on earth that actively ruined peoples lives for 5 years. Man's gotta eat.

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what a liberal calls toxic masculinity is what women, in particular young women are attracted to. loudness, dominance, assertiveness. someone who wins fights and can protect. Someone who is successful and of a high status. for some reason liberals, the left would rather men be castrated, apologetic, feminized. to the left a man must hold in his rage, sit down, and shut up. The left wants men, in particular white men, to be push overs and door mats.
This is why democrats lost men.

But the right provides no answers, just cartoonish buffoons like andrew tate and clavaculir and to the right being a man means instituting suffering upon all people who are not you.

being a man is a lost art form

everybody keeps saying that religion is necessary to ground people to morality but when i look at the worst criminals, all of them are religious
i think it's time that people admit that freestanding religion alone isn't enough for morality to magically pop into existence

>>25109720
meanwhile communist regimes with state atheism killed millions of people
I think your argument is flawed

>>25109720
>everybody keeps saying that religion is necessary to ground people to morality
everybody who says that is a retarded faggot who has never opened a history book once in his entire life

>>25109721
then neither religion nor atheism are grounded to morality - so where does it come from?

>>25109761
Bad people can say they're religious or say they are not religious and still do bad things. It doesn't follow from this that religion is not "grounded to morality." I think you are making a leap in logic by claiming that people who profess to be religious are perfect adherents of whatever they profess and using this to assume anything about religion.

>>25109720
>but when i look at the worst criminals, all of them are religious
Such as?

>>25109668
>>25109677
Thanks anons. Now if only I could get even a wink of sleep tonight.

>>25109766
as far as i've seen, the worst and most violent people come from places where catastrophic levels of violence were generally the norm. places like pre-modern china, parts of central and south america, sub-saharan africa, sicily and so on. trying to apply an abrahamic religion like christianity to these people fails because it doesn't remove their base instincts
this corroborates with violent crime statistics

it just so happens that virtually all of the least-educated and therefore most violent people are the most religious. the outliers to this are places in east asia where religion just works differently than it does elsewhere in the world, which is why the atheism argument isn't all that strong, so i ask again: religion is not providing these people with a morality, so where does it come from?

>>25109721
[sacrasm]And if there's one thing religious regimes aren't famous for it's making the streets run red with blood[/sarcasm]

>>25109802
>[/sarcasm]
reddit

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You start washing your face 2 times a day - when you wake up and before going to sleep - and suddenly pimples stop popping up.

>>25109823
I'm not a very clean individual and I have rosacea to boot but I have really never had acne outside of the occasional pimple
meanwhile my gf has a religious skincare routine and still gets acne in her late 20s

>>25109831
Your diet and environment plays a factor too, even genetics to a degree. I live in a pretty polluted city but have clean diet, so I knew my pimples was because of the pollution. Does she eat like a slob?

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It seems like there isn't much worth striving for, culture is moribund, love doesn't seem to be real and I'm not a psychopath so I don't care about money or power. But I don't want to neetmaxx either, I would know I'd end up full of regrets and I don't want to disappoint my parents.
What to do, what to do

>>25109836
nta but actually this is a common meme, guys typically have clear skin after teen years & girls who are big into skincare are the ones who get breakouts etc.

we kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves

It's funny how you've got White people from Europe and the Americas who disdain Christianity as a "Jewish trick," when in reality the entire reason Jews hate White people is precisely because they were historically Christians and kept the Jews down in that capacity. YOU may not want to be associated with Christianity, as a White person, but the Jews dislike you precisely because of it and how they associate it with you.

Episode 7 of Paradise was really good. Peak television.

wilful suspension of disbelief

I'm tired boss. Take me home, Lord.

Is anyone else here handsome? Like, 8/10+?
My life is shit but I'm hot and I just want a quick way to cash in on my looks. If I were a woman this would be so much easier

im depressed. i dont use this website much anymore, where do the non normie non freaks hang out now? r9k seems to be full of freaks and /wsg/ feels threads seem to be dead :(

>>25110148
I started splitting my web usage to a bunch of different sites. Insta, youtube, here, discord (for friends), pinterest, some reddit
There are no good communities left online though

hello i don't want to make a new thread for this so i ask my fellow thought havers:

does anyone remember an article from 2024 or 2025 where some guy picked apart one of those /lit/'s top 100 lists (maybe as a response to that one new statesman article about how /lit/ is full of genius elite readers)? i remember it was funny but i can't find it anywhere

>>25105203
I'm just gonna keep it real, if I'm having a bad day and the people around me can't make it a little bit better then you're not my people anymore, and it's not a real community. I don't care how smart you are, or how skilled you are, or how much money you claim to make. If you're participating in a community then you need to work on a different set of skills, which is sustaining that community and making sure it leads to something positive that benefits all of its members and helps them grow as people. Everyone nowadays has this, "Fuck you, I got mine" attitude about community. "Oh I've got what I want out of the bargain, now it's time for me to stop giving a fuck about the people who aren't at my level"

This mindset has ruined so many countries. It's why developing nations never become advanced nations -- because everyone has this selfish attitude that makes mutual growth impossible. I'm just so so so so so sick of every "community" being full of leeches that aren't there to build something beautiful.

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>>25109864
Kind of funny to learn this painting is an allegory for the author's feelings about the fall of the USSR by a transnistrian.
Much easier to comprehend than this one, though. I have no idea what this means. The symbols mean something, clearly, but I don't know what.

>>25110161
That painting*

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I should NOT have had coffee before going to bed, holy fuck.

Just ordered Fear&Trembling off amazon.

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I crave female attention. But not just any female, I mean single females looking for a relationship.

>>25108807
>Career girl
followed the corpo overlords; confused and upset about how this didn't fulfill her
>Nurturer
as dumb as a bag of bricks; doesn't know what an inner monologue is
>Party girl
archetypal Stacy; will eternally chase the high of her twenties
>Quiet one
neurotic and judgemental; being miserable is her personality
>Artist
bpd hoe; digivolves to wine aunt after forty
>The Achiever
narcissistic sociopath; will destroy you if she feels like it
>Connector
likes to connect with as many of her male acquaintances as possible; dislikes hearing the bad voices whenever she is alone
>Conscientious
the auto-hagiographic wonder; solipsises existence through her feelings

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Why the fuck are normalfaggots allowed on dating apps? Like, go to your stupid parties, or clubs, or hit on one of your colleges; do things you five-on-the-apple-scala people do in real life. Leave online things to online people.
God, normalfaggots really ruin everything.

>>25110266
>tfw not a normalfag but still married my coworker because she's an autist that likes vintage horror mοvies and vidya

>>25110290
>married
>not a normalfag
leave

>>25110266
>calls others normalfags
>uses dating apps

>>25105203
There are people in this board, right now, that think Shylock is the titular Merchant of venice.

>>25110161
>Kind of funny to learn this painting is an allegory for the author's feelings about the fall of the USSR by a transnistrian.
It's a great painting because it transcends the specific example (the USSR) and it perfectly captures the feeling of seeing Ungabungas squatting in the ruins of a once great civilization.

>>25110311
I'm an incel trying to escape this miserable existence. I have never touched a woman in my entire life.

>>25110255
>The Achiever
>narcissistic sociopath; will destroy you if she feels like it
Yeah I had a displeasure of running into one of these in my college years. She went on to do phD there. Although they give out phDs to anyone these days. I was actually offered to do phD there too even though my grades were terrible. phD is overrated, doesnt guarantee success or any kind of financial security. I was sick and tired of school at that point so I rejected it. Staying there for any longer than necessary seemed like hell on earth.
She continued onto changing boyfriends every half a year or so, which is pretty gross. Being in love with a girl who does that really wrecks you. I guess its the femme fatale archetype. Thankfully I moved on from that with time. Dont even know if shes married, dont even care. I know anyway she'll marry some rich corpo nepo yuppie clueless about the world

>>25110376
Im sure your mom hugged you

The problem isn't that generative AI can write slop novels. The problem is that normalfags would rather read generative AI slop novels than your actual writing.

>>25110390
This problem is both. A third problem is that the purpose of the Education System is to create NPCs.

>>25110397
I don't know how you would fix that nοr if you should.

Why are women sο fucking disorganized

>>25110452
Most peopke should actually NOT be educated, they should be manual workers. Only those who are sublime and rise above the rest intellectually should be educated.

>>25110501
Chesterton said without education we are in horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

>>25107930
Last insight that finalizes my thought is that Roman architecture is mastery of the square/rectangle, Byzantine of the circle, Gothic of the triangle.

In terms of styles and emphasis, a roman building always looks strong on its base, highly symmetrical, although they use pediments and round arches, I feel like they always tend to make rectangle feeling end product

a byzantine build takes the semi-circle arches and splatters it everywhere, hence their build are like balls and circles

and gothic is just stacked triangle everywhere

Since geometry is basically the tetrarchy of the Triangle, the Circle and the Square, and any other shape is derivative of those, that's how I feel confident in saying architectural innovation is fundamentally over. The three main style are there to stay as they cover all possible realms of geometries.

>>25110508
If he is so smart why is he dead? Huh?

We need a philosophical education to love learning, an aesthetic education to love creating.

>>25110535
and physical education to love living.

>>25110390
GenAI doesn't have the 'pazzazz' of human writing that usually includes tinge of mental illness that makes slop novels interesting enough. GenAI by its very design is safe and predictable, its slop only for the single user.

A lot of modern physics seems more handwave-y and full of woo-woo than even christianity. I feel like I could accept the resurrection being a thing sooner than I could all this "lol magic" shit like multiverses, quantum anything, string theory, dark energy and dark matter, etc.

>>25110535
We need general education to stop people coming out with this sort of hot air.

>>25110537
ty, good point.

Thinking of what a good day or week consists in to me it's some learning, discoveries and understanding, some hard work of creation, some appreciation of beauty while going on walks or looking at art.

So philosophy is a search for our goals, for what should we spend time doing (the 'what' and 'why')
Aesthetics is how to make the goal we have found the most pleasant possible (a 'how' for the object)
Athletics is how to make the execution of those two above the most pleasant possible (a 'how' but for us as subject)

So with those three, we should know what to live for and why, how to make things, and how to make us

very pleased with the summary of life and what it needs

>>25110544
What do you expect? These modern physicists aren't physically taff, they're basedboys who believe in gender science and gay butt sex, why would their opinion about the universe matter? As the Western people becomes gradually more pathetic, science, arts and government decays to the point of loosing it's authority.

Why do groups οf animals wage war with one another?

>>25110555
Territory. The will to live imposed upon another.

>>25110555
they don’t.

>>25110545
it's useful to me as a tool for analysis. I can already think of families that possess good aesthetic and physical education, who teach their children how to eat and be healthy and how to practise hard to make things beautiful, but they lack philosophical education, and the children end up creating stuff with bland ideas, and are themselves depressed because they've been taught the two 'how's, how to make themselves and how to make stuff, but never pondered on the what and why of their actions, so they're lost; philosophical education should be answered first because it helps build the other two. Loving learning might be enough to lead you to build aesthetic practices and develop health habits, but philosophers can also get stuck in their realm and never develop anything. All three aspects of life (aesthetic, philosophy, and physical/health) are essential to a good life.

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>>25110571
The real value of education is it saves you from this pedestrian, reductionist view of life. It should make you less reverential toward education, not more. With distance comes mystification, which brings these hierarchical fantasies. The reality is obviously messier: educated people disagree constantly; education does not equal intelligence; people hold opposing ideas about health.

I'm thinking of ending things

>>25110565
The fuck they don't.

>>25110608
you mean “the hell they don’t”?

>>25110601
NPC thought

My gribble dog got on top of the corner desk in my cleaning room for cleaning bad things and dropped down the sawed-off shotgun on the dirty floor getting it all dirty, and that's what I sometimes call dang-gone irony.

>>25110629
it’s a movie

>>25110629
>NPC
>thought
Pick one and only one.

>>25110587
>The reality is obviously messier: educated people disagree constantly; education does not equal intelligence; people hold opposing ideas about health.
I was never talking about modern education or anything institutional. People are retarded and wrong. Your quote refers to unlived knowledge, unintegrated knowledge, learning for learning, which is precisely what I am going away from and trying to solve.

Stirner has said the same thing, and I deeply agree with it, but that's a conversation that is unrelated to trying to categorize broadly the areas of learning. I feel like youre debating with the ghost, I am not advancing what you claim I am advancing.

“That is the end and at the same time the immortality, the eternity of knowledge: knowl-
edge, which has become once again simple and direct, sets and reveals itself anew as will in
a new form and in every action. ” -- Stirner, The False Principle of Our Education


I was talking more of the practice of studying stuff, are you practising to get more understanding of your nature? or how to make things elegant? or how to do everything with health and measure, without exhaustion? Or are you on the other hand practicing for recognition? for societal utility? out of conformity? It's with these last cases that you end up with people bloated with facts and dogmas that know neither their end, nor how to achieve it; good puppets

Of course knowledge needs to be felt, and lived, but you instill that practice of lived knowledge in a friend or your child by teaching him the reason that that knowledge is useful to him; not by authority or by institutions that tell you "learn this to be useful to society" but by telling him, study philosophy and you'll understand what to live for, study aesthetics and you'll understand that life can be precious, study health and vitality and you can find that life can be light and pleasant.