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Reading a few different things right now; PF Strawson's paper "Freedom and Resentment," Richardson's biography of Emerson, a few short stories I've bookmarked from online magazines (Joyland, Heavy Traffic, Prairie Schooner, Granta). Learning a lot, but I couldn't tell you what I've been learning. Beside me I've got a 30pg Muji notebook that I'm hoping to fill in the next week or two. Might go on a walk later today. Took the bus to the local university art museum yesterday, saw picrel in the flesh. Idly daydreaming about living in a van.
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been reading less than i used to thanks to college and a new writing job, but want to be fiction writer still. i need to practice more and actually read more fiction probably.
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I want to go back to school and get a degree, but idk what for. Healthcare has the most security, but becoming a nurse or provider does not appeal to me at all. I think I just want to be around smart people with the same hobbies as me so I wouldn't feel so alone. Even generating stories feel difficult without inspiration from meaningful social interaction
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>>25116056
this
install, log in, say you got diagnosed with leukemia and disappear
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>>25116062
I left a game once in a similar manner, I told my guild I cannot play anymore because it brought me back to self harming
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>>25116052
Anon, you’re trapped in the inadequate idea. You imagine yourself as a kingdom within a kingdom, a little island separate from the sea.
There is no 'World' out there to give a fuck about you because there is no 'You' that exists apart from the World. You are a mode of the infinite Substance; a single breath in an eternal lung. When you say the World doesn't care, you are just a part of God complaining to another part of God that you've forgotten who you are.
To 'give a fuck' about the World is simply the highest form of self-preservation (Conatus). You don't do it because the World 'deserves' it; you do it because as your understanding of the Whole grows, your hatred of the parts dies. You are the universe experiencing its own necessity. Act like it.
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I was neet for a long time. That changed, about 4 years ago. Recently I finished a masters degree, now I'm working on a PhD which should be ready in 2 years or so.
I feel empty. Before I had no career, I was a failure in so many ways. Now everything seems to be falling into place. But I feel empty.
It's like my artistic delusions came to a halt. Even within arts, and I have become familiar with many writers and artists, the struggle to write and sell a book has become too real. I feel like my isolation made me think I was a sort of genius, or someone who had the potential to be one, maybe write something worth reading.
I still believe I am damn good at my job. But the gap between the works I admire and what I am able to do feels larger everyday.
And I cannot devote any time to anything except my work. I have read a lot in these years, but only scientific papers. I just don't have the time to finish a novel, which is crazy, but true. I know it has been about a decade since I had time to read as much as I wanted to. Now, I remember how much I used to read back then and fills me with nostalgia.
I am rambling, I know. I think I'm just tired right now.
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I can't tell if I'm actually gay or just basically prison gay out of loneliness.
I tried normal dating sites and they were crushing, almost no matches and nothing that led to an actual date.
Then the other day I made a profile on one of those gay dating/hookup sites just to see the difference and a dozen guys messaged me and said I was cute on the first day. Damn...
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sometimes I just become voracious and eat and eat and eat
p sure its linked tο my depression/anxiety
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>>25116117
Great news anon. The Republican nominee in 2028 will appoint Trump as their Vice President and then immediately resign, allowing the Best President in History a perfectly legal third term, because the term limit prohibition isn't actually a limit on terms but a limit on how many times you can be elected. Pretty cool, huh?
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i don't want to go to work tomorrow because i don't want to have to talk about the war. i don't care about it at all. my job has a lot of people who literally do nothing all day. i don't either, but i just sit there and browse the web. they're gonna come up to my desk and try to talk to me about it.
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>Sophia of Montferrat was the second wife of the imperial prince Ioannes Palaiologos (later emperor, 1425– 1448). She was tall and had a body to die for, and her flowing blond hair reached to her ankles. But there was something grotesquely disfigured about her face. The people of Constantinople called her Lent from the front but Easter from behind. (They were a religious people, those Byzantines.) Ioannes never had sex with her, and divorced her as soon as he gained the throne (Doukas, History 20).
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>>25116117
Yeah I honestly don't even read the news often anymore because of how embarrassing everything is involving his administration.
>>25116125
Harris.
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>>25116203
My pet rat gave birth to 10 babies once. The issue was that my rat's castle was on top of a high shelf, and the baby rats kept falling and getting stuck between the shelf and the wall; none of my rats lived in a container and could free roam the house. I kept having the grab them and put them back up.
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Would yοu sacrifice your entire high school graduating class for a million dollars?
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This is the perfect example of an architectural mistake
This building has a triangle upper shape which leads the eyes up;
a column and architrave setup which brings an horizontal aspect;
dome tops which emphasizes centrality
The result is your eyes don't know where to go and the whole thing looks like a big blob and doesn't know what it's trying to accomplish. Pure unmastery, at least they tried, I'll give them that
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Where to look? Where to listen? Beauty will tell me; curious how beauty makes one feels free, when what it really does is lead you, when it leads your will to want it; but the will sought beauty first, so, it is the will who wins first.
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the US attacked Iran and I find it funny that I know nothing else about this. I think I'm gonna make a conscious effort to not watch, read or hear anything about this matter. There's some kind of bliss when you remain serene amongst people expressing their fake concern and are 'alarmed'
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>>25116648
>There's some kind of bliss when you remain serene amongst people expressing their fake concern and are 'alarmed'
>those caring about launching millions of dollars in missiles at the government of a foreign adversary in hopes of regime change must be faking it
yikes
I mean hey, you don't wanna care or know, fine by me, neither do my parents, but going further to denouncing anyone who does care and pay attention just makes you a fool
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It was my sister's birthday yesterday and the senpai went out for din tonight. We went to a nice, fancy Greek restaurant. So much food, I couldn't help but eat only half the plate and brought the rest home. I got up at like 5pm (lol) so that's been my day so far. We're sitting around the living room having coffee now.
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>>25116653
>makes you a fool
don't delude yourself, The News is just entertainment, and plenty worse than art of fiction because it involves no intellectual activity, unless you know how to relate events to history.
Like really what does a person *get* from the news? Information? Certainly, but is that valuable information? unless you work in an industry more or less related to an event, it doesn't matter for your work. So what do you get? Really, what you get is exercise, an exercise of opinion, you get to share and view detached opinions of others and play with it, and share your own as well, because it's fun, because you enjoy feud, but fun quickly get stale, don't delude yourself that The News is any more serious or practical or useful than that. There is no lesson nor gain to be had in there, nothing more than passion feeding entertainment
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>>25116719
Do you understand that when I pee in the field on an ant colony, *thousands* of ants are being drowned by a catastrophy beyond their comprehension? These are *actual* ants, do you UNDERSTAND??
People are happy? good; People are sad? bad; whatever I don't care that much, call me back when their stock market is rising and then are producing good art and good products, good beauty and good philosophy, until then, the news makes me snooze zzzzzz
>negative consequences are always a possibility
So what? Do you prepare for those? If it ever arrives, so what, I'll just deal with market consequences in the moment, the only advantage on me is you'll be able to say "haha, I knew it; I saw it coming", good for you pet boy, but that is no real advantage, keep slurping good good news slop, you'll be well informed, and all the more perfect for it, right? Man, just go read or play games, so that if we meet or you meet someone you aren't such a chore to deal with, such a pessimist, such a soulless husk
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Posting on /lit/ on a Sunday night is so comfy, lah.
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Someone should make a website where you can type in your zip code and it shows ways to get involved in your local primary, and also allows you to connect with everyone in your local area that's right wing. This would be a good way to start local group chats and start making some ethnic solidarity in places where the high trust-ness has left but the need to persist continues because they are still very valuable. E.g. nice parts of NE that aren't Newport tier.
I wish I could build this.
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Fuck, I just realized I have an appointment at one o'clock tomorrow and my sleep schedule is totally fucked right now. Fuck!
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I'm procrastinating on starting Hyperion. Really not sure why.
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My vision keeps getting worse and worse. Please...I can't lose my sight, I can live with my messed up lungs, my stomach, my sinus, my tremor, my shoulder; but not my sight, I can't live without that.
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The first King who played the game of King, of chess, was the Persian Pad-Shah Shapur II, who was taught it by his wazir who had invented it. The wazir was the better chess player, but the King was always the winner of the game.
The King attained victory by the ingenious device of overturning the chessboard at a crucial point of the game and declaring himself the winner. This showed an imagination of the sort that the wazir did not have; and it was for this reason that Shapur was the King, and the wazir would never be anything but wazir.
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This is not a shitpost. I spent 24 hours trying to approach the world like a woman and it made me want to kill myself. I couldn't think about philosophy, I couldn't play competitive games, I couldn't get hyped up and energetic, I couldn't get laser focused and obsessive. I had to stay focused on my surroundings, giving attention only to what was near. I was calm, composed, easygoing. Eating smaller portions. My skin looked younger and brighter. I tried to masturbate but I couldn't get off, nothing was erotic. Everything felt so shallow and superficial compared to what I'm used to. I cannot imagine wanting to be a woman.
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>>25115815
I don't know why. But through text you can sense when people use a term they ascribe inherent weight or authority to.
People will mention 'the worble' and you will immediately get that they think 'the worble' is automatically impressive and important. Some other times they will invoke it as authoritative; 'the worble', argument over.
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Transexuals wish to emulate a caricature of womanhood present within their own heads based on their perceived knowledge of women as an outside observer; which they wrongly consider to be aligned with reality. You essentially did the same thing.
You did not spend 24 hours trying to approach the world like a woman, you spent a day getting into the mindset of a tranny. You just have a very different conception of women.
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>>25117268
I was raised by my mother and sister, and I've always had a feminine side.
>you spent a day getting into the mindset of a tranny.
Not true at all. Trannies have hobbies like dark souls decompilations, and extreme fetishes which is a masculine thing. Very few of them actually perceive the world like a proper woman does, which is why so few of them have bodies and faces that resemble women. If they actually did live the lifestyle that I described in my post, they would go on to look almost identical to biological women after enough time. It's because they have masculine spirits and personalities that they retain a masculine appearance.
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>>25116097
The writing is much shallower and the characters devolve into tropes after Conviction. Fortunately, you get a lot of story until that point. It's still /readable/ later, but you'll be acutely aware of the decline. Don't even bother after Miura's death—it's dogshit.
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I live in Anguish, I have no purpose, deep down. I know what I have to do but I have no thrive, I have no real will, maybe I've choosen the wrong path for my life but I either went a scientific area, like engineering, which I never felt related to, or I took arts and ended in poverty. I can only find confort in family or nature, I've quit drinking and smoking because of my family and I feel like I can only do things for others and never for me. Even with my selfish nature which I so much want to change, I can only change for something external. I've been wondering though, I've, you've, never experienced anything more than us. It's so scary. I live in anguish, or I'm very very dramatic. I'm young, I want to find my direction and not waste my life.
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For some reason media is getting more self-referential over time and somewhat incestuous. It's easy to blame "the masses" for flocking towards such work but I honestly don't know when or why the shift occured where music, the visual arts and literature began just refering to other works as a shortcut for novel explorations of a topic.
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>>25117486
People feel aimless without community; being a hermit scholar is very difficult and not suitable for most. Btw, studying pure mathematics was extremely spiritually enriching. It's an endless puzzle of axioms and theorems, rooted in questionable epistemology, as everything else. Don't write the sciences (which math is not) off just because most of its students are soulless automatons. There's plenty of beauty and depth in it. At least the pure sciences, assuming you dedicate yourself to that study.
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>>25117281
You don't have access to, and never will, to the interior experience of women. You have observed women, in fiction and in reality, and come to conclusions regarding their behaviour. Those conclusions are entirely your own, filtered through yourself and your experience of being a man.
>and I've always had a feminine side.
What does this mean?
>Not true at all.
I was speaking in a more abstract sense. Regardless, not all trannies are AGP code-slaves. There's multiple kinds of tranny, with their own inner selves.
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Perplexity AI tells me my draft is totally "commercially viable intellectual fiction with cult potential"
this tickles my ego so much it makes me wanna try it, even though its probably telling every aspiring wannabe writer that exact phrase
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lmao his posts read like a generic Chudbot AI
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For a time, I couldn't believe my parents were retarded, because then, that would have meant I was retarded too. This is, after all, how life works. It was such a difficult knot to untangle. To be a retard, or not be a retard.
This affair is now settled: they are retarded and I am retarded. I came to that conclusion early in the morning, after my mother called. She was in tears and babbling about me being a fag. Of course, she preferred to use the more neutral term 'homosexual'. It was a surreal experience and I had to calm her down first, to understand where that was coming from.
>'Why would anyone think (You) are a fag? ' you ask, curious.
Well, it turns out that retards can forget you are heterosexual even if you had long term girlfriends in the past. And if you are not having sex at least once a month, then you must be a fag. This is must be how the world works now. My father asked me the same thing not too long ago, ponctuated with a few threats here and there because having a faggot son would bring shame upon the family.
I am not even surprised, at this point. I mean I knew they were probably retarded, but still. Children develop objects permanence at around 7 months old. My parents are less intelligent than literal babies.
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learned ai gents, put down a hypothesis: progressive women in europe welcoming a rapey muslim invasion is not about 'decolonize', so much as it's a semi conscious realization that eligible white boys would rather suck each others dicks than put up with hoeflation. It's a matter of rapey brown dicks are better than no dicks at all.
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Anyone else feel alone and isolated even when you're surrounded by others?
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>saying/writing something that has multiple readings, with the ones that are the most scathing being those which are less obviously apparent, allowing the audience to find new appreciation in your works
this practice we call ‘repartee’, or just ‘wit’
>saying/writing that, before passing judgment, an audience must first know the one exact intent of your words, which are typically phrased in a way that their most offensive interpretation are the most immediately clear
whereas this is the domain of ‘internet racism’
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>>25115815
Wjhy does anti-semitism have to be so wrong and stupid all the fucking time. Why?! You have grounds to make good points, informed points, that don't make you look like a rabid retard or stunted zealot. God fucking damn it.
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>>25118257
I don't know, sometimes I get the feel that are dajooz doing this shit so that they can have some easy strawman example, but then I remember how stupid the average anon is, and stop having funny thoughts.
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>>25118283
Not really, I'm stating a fact. This could even be generalized to the rest of the internet. If you think otherwise this says more about yourself than about me. This is something trivial for anyone worth their salt. If you feel like you are average or dumb here, then it says a lot about yourself.
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These anons are desperate to feel like "the smartest guy in the room," but the room they are in is a basement.
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There's never been a single force in my life that has actually pushed me in the right direction. Not my parents, not my friends, not the school system, not the government. 4chan actually came the closest, which is amazing. I don't hate other people but I'm always drained by their presence.
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>>25118417
I feel you anon. All the best things in my life came from minmaxing each of the boards' culture and applying it to my life and it somehow got me further than the myriad of clashing voices of advice in my life.
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Another dream that presented to me what I desire most: have a girl that desires me, have our legs touching each other in a public space, hold our hands and be close
Have you ever had a dream remind you of someone that you had forgotten? I had a dream once that invoked a blonde girl from high school I fell in love for like a week; not a person I talked to either, she was from another class, just a girl I kept seeing. it's kind of crazy how if felt when my subconscious just pulled this girl out of nowhere
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A man walks into a zen pizzeria and says
>Can you make me one with everything?
The pizza maker responds
>It's all one already
The man hands over his money and waits for his change and his pizza. The pizza maker hands over the pizza, and the man asks
>Hey, where's my change?
And the pizza maker responds
>Change must come from within
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>>25118520
That's what the immense military budget pays more: a level of superiority that the vast majority of citizens don't have to worry about any military global military actions if they don't want to.
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Of course. Something that usually happens for me is if I imagine a certain girl while jacking off one night, 9/10 times one of my dreams that week will feature her, not even necessarily in a sexual way either
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The other night at my place I heard the following from downstairs:
>woman crying, not loudly but in a broken kind of way
>same woman sobbing and saying "please please please" desperately over and over
>door from neighbor's house opens, older lady comes out and says things that were too low to hear
>footsteps towards neighbor's house
>door shuts
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>>25118633
>Of course. Something that usually happens for me is if I imagine a certain girl while jacking off one night, 9/10 times one of my dreams that week will feature her, not even necessarily in a sexual way either
that wοuld explain why my coworker keeps showing up in my dreams, heh
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>>25118417
For me it was 4chan to a degree, some existential books and self-help books. My parents never really paid much attention to me - I'd debate it was the bare minimum; only to the point of paying for food, education and housing. Not that I'm ungrateful about that, but my personal development has had been something I'd done on my own accord.
You can make mock me for using self-help books but when your father ignores you 90% of time growing up, you don't really have a lot of options.
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>>25118732
>but when your father ignores you 90% of time growing up, you don't really have a lot of options.
A lot of the time, it's because he never figured his own shit out.
That's how my dad was. Now he's a homeless fent addict. I'm sober at least but my life is basically haunted by some "curse" inherited from my father that I'm still trying to break.