Ban weebs from posting on /lit/

>>25326441
A weeb just posted in this thread. What are you gonna do about it? Gonna cry?

>>25326453
Your days are numbers now. Watch your back.

Sometimes I enjoy reading about literature more than I do the work itself.

A modern epic poem that's an odyssey of the internet

>>25326530
That sounds fucking godawful

>>25326532
Sing! heavenly muse of 4chan,
The swamp of misanthropy and villainy...

>>25326534
Reddit humor

>>25326538
See, that's the issue, any poem which mentions contemporary things like Twitter or 4chan is going to inherently come off as humorous and cheesy.

my nephew introduced me to the world of roblox. told me how i could make tens of thousands a month. so gonna try that.

>>25326530
The protagonist of your epic: >>25326546

>>25326546
My 13 yo girl cousin stopped playing that because the owner is a pedo or something she said. Probably just grew out of it.

>>25326438
I have a cunning plan.

>>25326539
>humorous
Didn't say it was funny.

>>25326549
I mean yeah, this is how 2026 works. Again, anything true to life just seems ridiculous.

>>25326552
Silly, then.

>>25326553
>Silly
You mean gay

>>25326556
you mean fluent in polari.

>>25326551
you have the floor, Baldrick.

huge deals on the nintendo switch shop rn bro's

>>25326560
alright, here it goes: a crime novel but instead of being set around the 1920's and prohibition of alcohol it's set around the 2020's and social media bans.

Finally trying The National after seeing their albums posted and praised on /mu/ and Pitchfork for decades and wow this is painfully mediocre

>>25326586
They have 3 good albums, the rest ranges from okay to meh. Also you won't fully be able to appreciate them unless you're a 30 something guy with an office job quietly worried he's become everything he resented about his father.

>>25326607
I'm enjoying Boxer more so far.

I truly hate that I need other people more than they need me. I wish I could remove this dependency.

>>25326620
This is why men seek power, fame, and fortune.

>>25326626
Is it really the same? I think its a deeper flaw on my side

I wish I was comfortable in my own skin, bros.
In the mirror, I think I look fine, and in the moment when speaking to other people, I don't think I look or act out of the ordinary. But I look like shit in pictures, mouth all crooked, chin fat no matter how much I cut. And other people have told me at times that I usually appear angry or hostile or like I don't care, even if I internally do not perceive myself as such and rarely feel genuine anger at anybody. So I'm left wondering if my face is just plain wrong in a way that I did not choose and cannot change, and that makes me want to just avoid going out at all or think stupid thoughts about wearing a paper bag over my head all the time. I'm not the friendliest or the most attractive guy around, sure, but I'd like to at least feel comfortable wearing my own face, not worrying about coming off the wrong way unless I paint on a fake smile everywhere I go.

>>25326639
I meant that with power, fame, and money, you will force people into needing you.

>>25326438
I want to be mildly high in bed with the lights off and the fan on and it's raining really hard outside

>>25326653
It seems possible but its not what I want. I have to get rid of this "I need other people" disadvantage.

>>25326672
I suppose my point is such a change is considered so close to impossible that men instead spend their efforts on the other things lol. You either are an introvert and are happy with your own company or you aren't, and have to plan your life accordingly.

I can't focus I can't FOCUS I CAN'T focus I CAN'T FOCUS I CAN'T FUCKING FOCUS AAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK FUCK FUCK GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

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>>25326684
FOCUS! FOCUS!! FOCUS!!!

Every time I shit I feel like I lose a part of myself. I'm scared one day I'll be on the toilet and after getting up I won't be the same person who sat down.

I'm shitting right now, I don't know what I'm losing in here.

>>25326709
Just lost ~1.4 kg out of nowhere. I got lucky this time

Only rich people are really human. By definition anyone who has to work is not human. I have to miss the summer now because I have to stay inside working -- not even our hunter gatherer ancestors had to do that.

Another myth is that our society values everyone equally on a basic level. No. If I get paid twice per hour as another guy that means society literally values his life half as much as mine. Because your hours, your time, literally are your life.

society is fucked up man...

>>25326730
this is what Calvinist actually believe.

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I'm thinking of this.

I think I have a tapeworm

>>25326730
Ahem.

It has resulted from these differences in conscience that the one and only fraction of humanity that has ever considered work an ennobling virtue, that has recommended it as a religious act, that has celebrated its majesty in its holy books, even going so far as to say that the labor of the farmer brings joy to the earth, the only race, I say, that has resolutely condemned laziness as a degrading vice, has been considered hostile to peaceful occupations, because it conceived of them only in refined forms of work, suitable for preserving and enhancing the morality of those who engaged in them, without ever compromising or tarnishing it. It has loved and praised work for its own sake, and especially for the happy consequences it brings to the inner self and to family ties. It has considered the question of gain only in a secondary way. While the other fraction, the Semitic or Finnic part and the populations that resulted from it, from the Phoenicians to the people of our time, having never accepted the contention of mind and body except as the most terrible vengeance that heaven could devise to punish the crimes of humankind, and having derived from this doctrine the right to apply indifferently efforts that are always regretted to any kind of occupation, this fraction, by far the most numerous, has agreed with itself that it is the most worthy of sympathy and praise.

Life is too tall

The western canon deserves death

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foid, foid, go away, rape my life another day

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>>25326821
Poor people have always coped and lionised their pain with bullshit stories like this, in reality poor people are not human and their lives are worthless, including myself. Only rich people are human.

just reached 155 wpm i feel like a geek now

I regret all displays of intimate and sentimental affection I've ever let anyone in on. Just impossible to think of any of them without wanting to sink into the ground

>>25326907
Quite in the contrary.

Then, since the Arians, devoted with love to agriculture, considered this use of human activity the noblest, the most worthy of the warrior and the man of high birth, it was only natural that they would have loathed to abandon the land in order to devote themselves to manufacturing. This opinion, essentially tied to race, was that of the Argives of Homeric times, of the early Romans, of the Germans, and of all the gentlemen of Western Europe to the present day, and the latter received a similar prejudice from their ancestors, themselves descended from the Aryan stock, or proud to make others believe so and to model themselves on its archetypes. On the contrary, no such preoccupation has ever existed in Semitic, Semitized, or Romanized societies, nor, consequently, in the lower classes of modern societies, which have consistently approved, regarded with favor and admiration, the means of increasing human wealth and well-being, without in any way distinguishing the respective moral value of these means. The industries most notoriously degrading to those who practice them, the kinds of commerce least conducive to raising human morale, all ways of profiting from the passions, vices, and weaknesses of the masses, have appealed to the greed and thirst for comfort and splendor of degenerate populations. The Tyrian Melqart, the Greek Hermes, and the Italian Mercury never hesitated to increase their wealth.

>>25326920
The beauty in agriculture comes from being outside surrounded by nature, observing the passage of the seasons, interacting with the animals and plants. The act of labouring in the fields is not desirable, and that's why historically people have sought to escape this curse by any means necessary. If you were right (or whatever dumbass you keep quoting were right) about these so-called wholesome chungus "Aryans" who love work, there would have been no slave trade, no industrial revolution, no agricultural mechanisation. The history of the world can be deftly summarised as the history of man's attempt to escape work.

A simple thought experiment proves it: give the chance to one of these Aryans to obtain a billion dollars, and they will bite your hand off for it. Anyone would. Because the life of a poor man is worthless. Poor people are not human. Only rich people are.

>>25326937
> why historically people have sought to escape this curse by any means necessary.
See
> While the other fraction, the Semitic or Finnic part and the populations that resulted from it, from the Phoenicians to the people of our time, having never accepted the contention of mind and body except as the most terrible vengeance that heaven could devise to punish the crimes of humankind, and having derived from this doctrine the right to apply indifferently efforts that are always regretted to any kind of occupation

> there would have been no slave trade, no industrial revolution, no agricultural mechanisation.
Actually ancient slavery was a result of conquest. The conqueror became the fief of the land and the native inhabitants worked for him as slaves. Increased productivity or laziness wasn't the original motivation.

Aristoteles himself says that while the mechanical jobs are degrading to the human body, agricultural labour prepares the man for war, by working his limbs and having him live outside the city walls.

The primitive Roman Citizen was an agricultor and warrior.

In ancient Sparta, working for money led to exile and loss of citizenship.

What you call the pleb mindset is an aristocrat mindset.

>>25326946
>Actually ancient slavery was a result of conquest
No, it was a MOTIVE of conquest.
> The conqueror became the fief of the land and the native inhabitants worked for him as slaves
Explain the Atlantic slave trade. Was it just for fun?

>>25326952
> , it was a MOTIVE of conquest
The motive was driving a chariot drunk, spear in hand, go out and explore, and fight against the enemy.

> Explain the Atlantic slave trade. Was it just for fun
Thomas Jefferson shook the hands of Alexander von Humboldt full with dirt on his hands from working in the garden. This was during his presidency btw. Let alone the fact that he had slaves anyway.

>>25326952
> The Roman nobles, under the last Emperors, seemed to be incapable of any great or generous passion; no desire for distinction animated them; they sought neither superiority of mind, nor that of power, nor that of glory; strangers to public affairs, they would have seen themselves degraded themselves if they had entered into a civil or military career.
These are the pathetic creatures you're looking up on. What is the glorious Cincinnatus, agricultor and Consul, compared to these miserable wretches?

>>25326952
The Atlantic slave trade was supplied by native African slavers who then sold their captives to Europeans.

>>25326937
Diocletian resigned as emperor to go work in a garden
>UMM... HE HAS SLAVES FOR SOME THINGS DOE
Even if he merely managed (which is unlikely) that's still labor.

Maybe my purpose in life is to have a baby and then be the househusband.

>>25326992
Lmao get a fucking job.

>>25327014
It's a new era, anon. Women work nowadays too.

>>25326992
I think im just going to work for charities around the globe for a month every other month until I get killed from 3worlders or something

>>25327030
Aren't you worried you'll then be immortalized in imageboard infographics with the subtitle, "toll: paid"?

>>25327041
nah Ill just put in my will that they should make a bot to comment to on every picture bearing my resemblance with saying its a fake made by AI

>>25326709
When you eat do you feel like you are growing as a person

>>25327017
>expecting a woman to carry your child for nine months, go through painful labor, then go back to work immediately while still in pain postpartum and having to pump and store breastmilk during the workday so you can stay at home with the baby

This is a selfish expectation, in my opinion. Unless the mother has a significantly higher paying job and wants to return to work right away, it makes far more sense for the father to support the family while the mother stays home for at least a year after the baby is born.

We would all be collectively happier if women couldn’t work.

Asia is obviously the primary and most native continent of this world, because every other continent cannot agree on what Asia IS. No other continent’s boundaries are in dispute, therefore Asia supersedes the notion of a continent and most resembles Pangaea land, by virtue of its continued irresolution in the continental paradigm.
Which is to say, all of those who live outside of Asia, live on an asteroid.

>>25326438
Interesting pattern I've noticed. Gender-conforming but loudly feminist women (think sundresses, pink bows in hair, an affected love for knitting, enjoys makeup tutorials, loves talking about how feminist they are/reposts a lot of instagram infographics etc) are always the ones who have the deepest, strongest libidinal investment in "traditional masculinity." They're the ones who are the most turned on by cnc fantasies, they're the ones who badly want to feel like a fragile little bird in a man's big muscular arms, they're the ones who shyly admit it's hot when a man gets into a fistfight, etc. It's like chuds who fantasize about "taming" a liberal arthoe but in reverse. The women who genuinely don't give much of a shit about traditional masculinity are the ones with green hair and lots of piercings who dress like feminine twinks

i have aids

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Thinking about which to read next Quo Vadis or Three Musketeers

>>25327284
IDK if I agree. They're not aware of and choosing the dissonance the way the chuds you described are. Their retarded ideology is fundamentally opposed and coming from a place removed from their sexual preferences. They CAN develop a fetish for the "taboo" of betraying their ideology but that's a secondary thing.

Been wanting to listen to the song The Reason They Hate Me by Daughters which is just a banger noise rock song but I keep remembering it’s one of those good music terrible people bands. Luckily I don’t care about that crap so I’m listening to it right now!

>>25326984
>The Atlantic slave trade was supplied by native African slavers who then sold their captives to Europeans.
Why did the Europeans buy them if work is so amazing? Why didn't they work themselves?
>Diocletian resigned as emperor to go work in a garden
Oh yeah, "work in a garden". He retired to a ginormous seaside palace in Croatia.

No fears and no tears, thats the vision here

THEM DON’T UNDERSTAND THEM DON’T UNDERSTAND THEM DON’T UNDERSTAND TRUE VULTURE MY MAN

>>25327343
STIMULATE THAT ASS LIKE SHROOMS EAT A CAP AND WATCH THE BASS MELT THE FACE OFF THE MOON

>>25327338
> Moreover, one of the salient characteristics of young societies is their poor understanding of what is productive (1), and this fortunate ignorance made the existence of Greek slaves quite pleasant. Whether, indistinguishable from serfs, they tended flocks on the banks of the Peneus and the Achelous, or whether, within the manor, they had to attend to sedentary tasks, what was demanded of them was minimal, because the masters themselves had few needs. Meals were prepared promptly. The head of the household usually took it upon himself to slaughter the oxen or sheep and throw their quarters into the bronze cauldrons. He took pleasure in it. It was a courtesy to his guests not to leave the care of their well-being to servile hands. If there was work to be done in the field of masonry or carpentry, the master did not disdain to wield the saw and the axe. If the flocks needed tending, he was equally unafraid. Caring for the orchard trees, pruning and trimming them, he readily undertook. In short, the slaves' work was never accomplished without the warrior's participation, while the women, gathered around their wives, wove with them from the same cloth or prepared the wool from the same fleeces.
Needlessly said the Europeans of the early modern age were for the most part sufficiently degenerate to engage in slave trade for monetary purposes. One quickly underestimates the demand for human capital during antiquity, wich rended slavery more or less indispensable. Nevertheless, the amount of slaves during the Homeric era was dismally small compared to the Hellenistic era.

>>25327348
WHAT’S UP WITH THE STRUGGLE? GET DOWN WITH IT OR GET CAGED, BY THE LAWS OF THE JUNGLE

I love everything.

>>25327358
Even me???:::::))))
If so, sent me some money.
Girl gotta eat yknow

>>25327362
Sent? hahahahhahah im going to blast myself for making a grammatical error hahhahaha

>>25327300
Do you really think chuds are aware of and choosing the dissonance? The average /lit/chud might be aware, but I don't think the average chud who hasn't read a book since high school (which is most chuds if we're being honest with ourselves) is consciously aware of it

>>25326438
My street is shut down for the faggot parade so my Uber eats order and new book haven’t arrived

>>25327075
Different foods have different feelings. For example grains and pulses enhance my core mental stability they are the foundation. I avoid flavours I haven't had before as their effects are unknown. I tried spicy food once, and it made me a more anxious and angry person.

But overall the right foods make me grow as a person and you cant absorb this essence during digestion so im sad when it leaves me

>>25327286
Seriously?

>>25327388
I ordered DQ.

>>25327338
>Why did the Europeans buy them if work is so amazing? Why didn't they work themselves?
They did: Management, commerce, war. All far more difficult, if not physically, than menial labor. If you were anything other than a larper and/or nepobaby you'd understand that. In WW1 the flower of English aristocracy died in the trenches.
>Oh yeah, "work in a garden". He retired to a ginormous seaside palace in Croatia.
That he managed

Also, "ginormous"? Are you 12?

>>25327362
>Girl gotta eat yknow
Post feet and I'll buy you a Big Mac. With extra cheese if your toes are symmetrical.

>>25327340
We have a mutually exclusive conflict of interest here, if you didn't piece that together. That I don't think can be grasped by your reddit tier philosophy.

>>25326730
I've never worked a day in my life. Never did homework, never had a job.

RATS
ABUT
TUBA
STAR

SUGAR
USAGE
GASES
AGENT
RESTS

>>25327375
Yes, it's even implicit in the very "taming" frame used to describe it in the original post I responded to. They might not wax poetic over it but they consciously perceive it.
>which is most chuds if we're being honest with ourselves
Absolutely not. They might not all be smart and they might not read what *you* find interesting but they're overwhelmingly better read (on average) than the average person. Even something as worthless as BAP is above the level of intellect of the typical McDonald's wagie or teacher or cop or whatever.

>>25326438
I fucking hate news websites now. I click some local news link to find out what caused a traffic jam, or to see when the local concert in the park series will begin, and I'm bombarded by popup gifs. Once I x out of all of those, the article's studded with gigantic advertisements for bullshit. You have to scroll ten miles to read a ten foot article. I want to find the person in charge of my local news website and follow them around with a mariachi band, a boombox, clowns, and a collapsing projector all fucking day, and whenever they ask a question like "Hey Steve, what did that report say," Steve tells them a half-paragraph at a time because he keeps getting interrupted by blaring drill music, airhorns, clowns doing juggling routines, and Mexican yodeling. I want to do this to the person in charge way past the point where it's funny. Once the person in charge says something like "okay anon haha okay I get it too many ads haha I get it," I'll instruct the distractors to keep doing it for another month, as loudly and annoyingly as humanly fucking possible

>>25327432
Try adblock.

sweet as bile

>>25327431
>They might not all be smart and they might not read what *you* find interesting but they're overwhelmingly better read (on average) than the average person. Even something as worthless as BAP
But the average chud isn't BAP, though. The average chud is aware that Dostoevsky exists, which is more than you could say for the average person, but I strongly doubt they've read anything by him. They more invoke him as a symbol for "basedness" or "traditionalism" or similar in my experience. (Replace Dosty with whatever writer, artist, or cultural figure you want.) Like most people left wing or right wing, the average chud thinks in terms of television, youtube, tiktok, etc
>They might not wax poetic over it but they consciously perceive it.
This makes sense. Makes me wonder if the women anon described also consciously perceive it, but we just can't see it because we're not on the same parts of the internet as they are. I find it hard to believe that they don't perceive it on some level

Any sort of relationship requires the earnest sharing of positions and outlooks.
To not do so and try and vest this from others is simply a power struggle.

>>25327467
RATS
ABUT
TUBA
STAR

They say racist humans discriminate against other humans.

>>25327421
My thesis is that only the rich are human, because they are the only ones who own their time, and do not have to work. If they want to spend the summer outside, observing nature, revelling in its beauty, they can; nobody can tell them what to do, where to go, when to do it. They are free.

I am not human, for example, because I am unable to spend my summer outside; with the exception of weekends, I must stay inside on my computer all day, coding. Even our hunter-gatherer ancestors did not live in such a decrepit condition.

You responded with all sorts of examples of elective work. Ancient Greek slaveowners who slaughtered their own cattle because of cultural tradition. A Roman Emperor willingly retired to a luxurious palace on the Croatian seaside and did a bit of gardening for fun. These are not counterexamples.

And why does this offend you so much? If you like flipping burgers, go for it, have your own beliefs.

>>25327340
>>25327358
These two posts pissed me off the most. What do you make of that.

>>25327529
bro y you hating??

Theres no passion.
When I think about on what I want to do in my life, the answer is always I dont know.

most hor berlin mixes are passable yet generic german techno sets but this one is actually good mix of whatever they call that british dance music from the 90s not garage but like idk i don't remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5ysdQWJ_6c

>>25327538
My passion is anger. It makes me feel powerful.

Love is a side project.

>>25327550
Youre just saying that because your penis doesnt work. I know this for I say that because my penis doesnt work

I think I have the answer to your question.

WHEN YOU START TALKING I DON'T LISTEN I JUST WAIT FOR YOU TO FINISH

>>25327540
>They call me crazy
>And they’re definitely right
>It’s pure elation
>When I step into the light
>A true reaction
damn that track goes hard af

>>25327565
Kill yourself btw

Would be nice to do that too lol

>>25327514
You don't own your time? Who's paying for the time it took you to write all these posts then?

Your idea is extraordinarily contrived and is likely a post hoc justification for your resentful misery and depression. I suggest taking vitamin D supplements if you don't go out much, and getting more exercise.

Life is suffering! Life is violence! Embrace it and turn to face Λογος, live until He calls you home. None of us are fully free, even the rich.

>>25327432
lol

I just became human a few days ago.

Sounds retarded.

I'm retarded

>>25327574
SOMETIMES I SMILE SOMETIMES I MOAN SOMETIMES I LOOK AWAY AND NOD

what's the best way to clear the 4chan brainrot feeling to u can concentrate tho

>>25327514
You would feel far more free if you got rid of your many material needs. I for myself, growing up poor, never had any, even with little income I can fare. Hell, I've been idle for up to half a year, faring on nothing but the savings from my minimum wage jobs.

>>25327599
Detroit: Just Became Human A Few Days Ago

>>25327586
>You don't own your time? Who's paying for the time it took you to write all these posts then?
It's the weekend. I have a decently comfortable job so I could post on company time as well, but that's not the point.
> I suggest taking vitamin D supplements if you don't go out much, and getting more exercise.
Wait a minute though. It's summer. Every creature is coming out. Insects are out in droves, flowers sprout, birds nest & hatch, pampered girls go out in short skirts, bears stop hibernating, this is the entire natural order of things. As for me, well, I stay inside, coding 8 hours per day, and your suggestion is to take a supplement and exercise? Torture is when you put someone's body in an unnatural position. This is torture & abject slavery. I don't understand how nobody I talk to -- neither my parents, nor anyone online -- can see it.

>>25327632
I earn 1/5th of the federal minimum wage working full time because I'm still an apprentice. That will stay like that for the next four years whence I will start warning 1/2 of the federal minimum wage for another four years. But you know what? I feel free because working for pennies feels like a noble deed. Like the ancient Spartan oligarchs, I work for the benefit of the state rather than for myself.

Side A of Band on the Run is all killer, 5/5 stuff, but side B is kind of just....more middle of the road plodding like from the first two Wings albums.

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My waifu.

>>25326438

I genuinely want to kill myself. I wish this all would just end

If you don’t take my hero seriously I WILL END YOU
*cries like a 0-3 pussy*

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You should be able to solve this.

>>25326907
gimi

>>25327758
Happy

It's June. Quit posting dumb, inane, self-masturbatory, fart-sniffing bullshit and go outside, nigger.

>>25327624
I struggle with this too. I think my mind is gone.

>>25327624
Step one: Leave 4chan for forever

>>25327791
How about you kill yourself?
I didn't deserve this shit.

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>>25327790
Incorrect.

>>25327791
>go outside
Yeah im not such a fucking animal that mere senses can satisfy me.

>>25327809
this desu

>>25327791
My back hurts FAGGOT and I already picked blueberries anyway. Not all of them but I'll get more tomorrow.

>>25327802
dafuq

>>25327813
I'm going to the POOL. Because I need to work on swimming four laps continuously without stopping for class, so FUCK YOU

>>25327809
You sound like a bitch

>>25327827
get your hearing checked :^)

>>25327832
Bitch says what?

>>25327833
get your hearing checked :^)

>>25327821
Clue 1: well, content = well content. What's in wells?
Clue 2: wonderful, first. The first letter of wonderful = w.
Clue 3: rate, smashing. Smash up the word rate. What word can be made with w and r, a, t, e to make the word for what's inside wells? The answer is water.

>>25327791
>
i walked outside in a rainstorm today with my head uncovered and wind blowing through my overlong hair, what have you done for Romanticism today?

>>25327842
Training for the fulfillment of a dream. Don't get much more romantic than that :)

I just farted in my asnus.

Reading great works makes me depressed because I am dumber than the people who wrote them. I never used to feel jealousy but now I'm old and have to admit I've done nothing with myself.

you guys ever fuck another man in the ass?

>>25327921

With or without emotional commitment?

>>25327944
either way

>>25327921
No way, I'm a bottom.

>>25326438
I cannot fucking take it right now. I feel like I want to hammer nails into my fucking face.

>>25327914
I feel something similar. I also think that everyone who has made it in the world is a horrible narcissistic monster, that this is the only way to succeed and be heard, and that this applies to every single published author who has ever crossed my desk, and this makes me feel disgusted and even more jealous.

>>25327914
a therapist once said I wouldn't do anything worthwhile with my life and she was fucking right.

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My comfort food is human fæces.

>>25327992
You might have just killed this thread, anon.

After surely more than half-a-decade of use, the plastic screen cover on my smartphone started to interfere with the touch screen, so I peeled it off. Watch, now that I've done that, I'm destined to drop my phone and fatally crack the screen in the coming week. Man I'd be so pissed.

I'll never forget in High School, one time we had to write poetry in AP Lang and discuss and critique them in groups, and I wrote something I actually put effort into and was proud of -- I remember the closing lines, lines which were genuinely good and I've been saving for the right poem in the future -- and two nerds in my group made fun of my opening for comparing the sound of raindrops on the roof to the tick tock of a clock.
>Rain doesn't ticktock hahaha
Motherfuckers. I could have ended them and their families on the spot.

It's interesting how often highly educated people will present some vapid cliché everyone has heard a million times as if it's a deep insight they came up with themselves. It's not occasional, it's constant.

>>25328182
The fact of the matter is you cannot be original and expert in everything, so you have to adopt the consensus and cliche in many, if not most areas.

>>25328197
This is representative of an uncurious mind that wants to perceived as having the right opinion(tm) instead of actually exploring ideas which is supposed to be the role of intellectuals.

>>25328226
First off, they most likely genuinely believe in the insight, the 'right opinion' for that subject. And secondly, yeah, smart people want people to know they're smart. Again, you can't be an original expert in everything, in some fields you're going to have to go with the consensus from what you've read or heard from other experts.

>>25328226
give me a something to chew on, instead of vaguely attacking me from seven layers of HBOC.

>>25326607
I liked them more in my late teens and early twenties.

if everything must eventually come to an end then so will death

>>25327802
>>25327838
Oh how clever

>>25326586
>>25326607
Alligator is one of the best indie albums of the decade, I love the shit out of it.
Boxer is good but starts to verge slightly on self-parody imo.
High Violet is really great but maybe a bit bloated.
Trouble Will Find Me just has a few great songs and the rest is filler.
Sleep Well Beast is junk (great opener, though)
Besides that, their albums are strictly self-parody. Their newest albums are unlistenable.
Thanks for reading, I think I'll put on Alligator now. Best lines:
>All night I lay on my pillow and pray
>For my boss to stop me in the hallway
>Lay my head on his shoulder and say
>Son, I've been hearing good things

Can anyone explain to me why I'm being forced to do three weird ass captchas for every single post

>>25328314
AI spambots

i like myself better when this shit site fucked up captcha early 2024 and i couldn't effortlessly post on a whim for like a year.
jaded brain on 4chan is so fucking real i'm even too irritable to greet and play with my dogs.
t. not glowie, trust me bro

>>25328314
Report more rule breakers to get it lowered.

Where do bad folks go when they die?

They don't go to heaven where the angels fly,

Go to a lake of fire and fry,

See 'em again until the fourth of July

I genuinely fucking despise when people say "y'all"

>>25328339
https://youtu.be/SS8hZxkqvCs

I ate 120mg of pork and 300mg of rice.

>>25328346
Did you take them in pill form or something?

Protestants view salvation as a discrete state: saved or not. Works, they say, do not change one's state from not saved to saved, but rather faith alone. Hence why a Protestant can see himself as saved regardless of which works he does or does not do. In contrast, other denominations view the state of salvation as reflected through what one does. A saved person, they say, is one who does good works, one who receives and participates in the sacraments, one who confesses his sins and atones. One cannot know if one's state is one of salvation until the end, but those who, they say, were saved, these were those who did such things throughout their lives. The former group would scoff at the notion of what they see as works-based salvation, while the latter would find the notion of flipping a binary switch from not saved to saved just by a declaration of faith appalling.

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decided to go to bed early but instead spent the entire night jacking to eroge award

>>25328228
>>25328231
Just stop being less insightful versions of chatgpt. Just stop. You're not "experts" you're vapid retards with nothing interesting to say about anything.

>>25328343
Didn't patronize your faggot youtube channel, fuck you.

>>25327986
Sounds like a great therapist

>>25327986
Shouldn't have listened to her

Love science fiction and fantasy, do not care for Star Wars in the slightest. I don't even want it anywhere near me.

>>25328419
I just like Kotor

>>25326438
Strategies to start reading a book you know is going to take 20 hours to read and you are completely demotivated to read it?

Have you tried killing yourself?

>>25328426
Why rush what nature will do for me?

>>25328430
Because it would probably be beneficial collectively.

>>25328311
Abel come on

>>25328424
If you don't want to read it, why read it at all?

>>25328311
>>25328441
Looking for somewhere to stand and stay
I leaned on the wall and the wall leaned away
Can I get a minute of not being nervous
And not thinking of my dick?
My leg is sparkles, my leg is pins
I better get my shit together, better gather my shit in
You could drive a car through my head in five minutes
From one side of it to the other

My biggest regret in life is jumping off that 5-story building. My leg has never been the same.

>>25328426
Once before yes, toaster in the tub trick. Didn't work obviously. Toaster still works too.

I never enjoy cheat days, I just feel ashamed. I had a chocolate milkshake, chocolate oatmeal, cookies and cream milk and 3 cookies, now fighting a migraine

On a night of April, not the month of Mary: May, a secret windswept and betrayed is founded on my knowing brow. How Bach's fugue state unfolded it's puzzle and impressed me like thirteen's "How Soon is Now." Whereas in May: Ah, in May responsibilities don't repose in the sleep and consolation of mere plans, for that is for April, but May is a promise like a cross. When mass let out in April, at 9pm no less, what more of city lights would exceed all generous, as the summit of man's lights; though a true consolation which puzzles and confronts admitedly retained vain plights. But yet what is personal was tendered to me; like a gift. That was April.

April as a woman, is an open book, and this woman was very real. May was occasion to demonstrate what I feel, and in clarity surmised, I lost you. I lost her, and seemed a form of betrayal. May is not a jewel of cool sprung mights, festive in colour. May is a setting to iron-out rights, but as I said: 'Tis a cross.

June may be a time of conquering challenges: What ends they've! Ah, ones I cannot see. And what will see ye, June's charge? Observance, earn your mark.

I have enough bike in me this time.

You stupid fuck.

I wanna know everything
I wanna be everywhere
I wanna fuck everyone in the world
I wanna do something that matters

>>25328450
Because I want too, I'm just being retarded.

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>if it's retarded but it works, it's not retarded
>path of least resistance
>live and let moths to a flame
>think different, but not so different they alienate normalfags
>act different, but not in public
>creativity begats out of deprivation, not abundance
>love comes from without, not within
>death purloins the soul, not steal it
>every birth delivers to the Devil an earmarked letter
>self is that which cannot be known; another is that which can be known *winkwink*
>ennui is itself an oxymoron
>stimuli is its lack thereof
>time is a dream with extra steps
>space is just a purgatory
>life is just a sojourn
>god is just a concept

>>25328637
>Sounds super deep but really isn't
Yup, that's Neon Genesis Evangelion for you

What does it mean if a girl tells you to compliment her?

>>25328655
Don't.

>>25328661
Too late.

What is a person? What is the image of God? I grew up seeing myself and selfhood and personhood in very discrete terms. I could spend myself, I could give myself away, I had a particular value and others had a value and some values were greater than others. The assumption smuggled its way into everything, underpinned my thinking even years after disavowing the religion I was raised in, the Mormon church. But the idea of the image of God did not strike deeply into me until now, until this much later in my life, and it is only with it that I can see how the discrete view of personhood clung to me thus far, invisible.

God:

If i met god id punch him in the face, and maybe start crying. onto god again, what is there to say. besides god backwards is dog.

The imperialist idea of what peace means is akin to a hypothetical monkey's paw which would try to grant world peace through the extinction of mankind.

I love philosophy but metaphysics and ontology makes my eyes glaze over. I just don't understand the practical benefit. Moral philosophy, political philosophy, critical theory, all of these can be used to inform the central question of "what is the good life?", to influence your decisions on a daily basis. Now that's practical. Metaphysics? Who cares if the world is difference or if Dasein experiences things as ready-at-hand versus present-at-hand? So what?

I once asked some people studying metaphysics this and they said it's to get at the truth of things, that the truth, and truth of the world, is self-justifying as a pursuit. I didn't get it. If it doesn't affect how I live, or how others live, then it might as well not even be real.

>>25328726
Metaphysics is the fountainhead of all the other philosophical fields. Liking philosophy but disliking metaphysics is like saying you love programming but hate mathematics. You would be either a fool or a dilettante to say such a thing.

>>25328726
You could say this about any field of inquiry. Is physics only valuable because of its applications in engineering, or do we actually want to know the underlying structure of the physical world? This instrumentalist approach to knowledge is very concerning, it implies you are a corporate drone with no soul.

>If it doesn't affect how I live, or how others live, then it might as well not even be real.
What "affects how you live" then, if not the worldview you hold to? Is it all just about making money and having sex?

I love how the fascists in Britain and America went from "Poles aren't white, Slavs are inferior, they should be sent back" to "Nooo my heckin white angel Polish boy who was stabbed!"

I hate everyone and everything in God's horrible creation. More details to come.

>>25328775
Not that anon but since science is fundamentally dependent on outside funding and state or NGO-maintained networks and infrastructure, our approach to science will always be fundamentally instrumentalist, because those elements don't invest in things whic they don't believe will provide something more valuable in return with time. The romantic idea of wanting to know for the sake of knowledge itself is cute but that's not how science works in a societal context.

Some things the ruling classes deem science not because they are methodologically sound even in the most generous sense of what "science" means, but because they are ideologically useful against political rivals or as an ideological pillar of the status quo. Best known examples are economics and sociology.

>>25328726
> Moral philosophy, political philosophy, critical theory, all of these can be used to inform the central question of "what is the good life?"
All this has already been solved so philosophers keep trying to explain the "why"/metaphysics in different ways in order to be original for fame and fortune because they lack any worthwhile talent

/v/, /mu/, and /x/ have a Wikipedia page now. I’m pretty sure it used to be just /pol/ for obvious reasons.

Oh and also /b/ and /mlp/ but who cares.

/tv/ next? Probably not. /tv/ isn’t behind anything as widespread as the NPC meme. Definitely this board will never get one.

The dreams in which I’m dreaming are the dreams I wish I dream.

>>25328780
Not true, states fund economically unproductive research and departments. Sure, the economically productive ones get more funding, but it's not a "cute" idea that we should strive for knowledge for its own sake, it's a fundamental truth

What will be the point of culture a couple decades down the line, when western societies will all more or less resemble an anarcho-tyrannic open air prison? Won't you have more pressing issues at any given moment than to read Faust and Hamlet? Or what use will your knowledge of those works be when we'll all be living in the world of Clockwork Orange?

>>25328812
That's why I'm doing out now while life is still pleasant. We're all going to hell on earth within a decade.

>>25328801
You mean like, cancer research? That's basically their equivalent of the lotto. They know it's a gamble, but it's one with an extremely high payout.

>>25328814
Not him but no lol. Archeology as an entire field produces only economically useless knowledge but it's still something we should fund.

>>25328814
Art school. Music school. Philosophy departments. Theoretical physics departments.

Back in Dream Land again

>>25328815
Nothing that concerns itself with the past is wholly unproductive because every government ever needs historical legitimacy, and also needs to combat rival understandings of how the past led to the present. Archaeology or history as a discipline is meant to monopolize the past for the ruling classes and fight those who would subvert official narratives with pasts of their own.

>>25328816
>what is soft power

>>25328821
You're actually retarded, wow. No, archeology was the outgrowth of pure curiosity and has very deeply net negative ROI. Try to read history instead of Marxist fanfiction please.

I have been using the phrase "Keep death in mind" to motivate myself away from degeneracy but frankly it has an subpar effect.
The phrase "Remember the hate" has much better effectiveness.
God I hate fat people and addicts

>>25328821
>>what is soft power
Except academia in the West is critical of the values of the West, so how does that make sense.

Who are you trying to impress with that old routine, and who does he think he’s kissing up to? Let me tell you rubes something, your head vampire finds you dull. He never felt any of you sycophants had the right idea, and he died disappointed because of it. So who are you impressing?

>>25328822
...don't you remember the cheddar man shitshow, though? How the researchers said that they chose the darkest pigmentation still possible according to the data because they wanted to dunk on the chuds or whatever? Or heard about Lawrence Keeley's "War Before Civilization", how archaeologists refuse to acknowledge that the primitive past was by no means peaceful, egalitarian, feminist, or whatever?

>>25328826
That's not what he means. He thinks that the world is a cocktail party where having the fanciest most complex elite culture magically makes everyone respect and pay tribute to you. The last few decades seem to show that it's ultimately just a fantasy of morbidly obese women.

>>25328637
>life means living with a cunt
Not every woman is a bitch though Anno you humiliation fetishist

>>25328831
Yes, those are natural consequences of the personal religion of archeologists (and I'm sure their sponsors) interfering with the objectivity of their work. They'd do the same no matter the field and regardless of it the ROI for their funders is still negative. Cheddar man is only still talked about by right wingers (from what I've seen) who have turned it into their own sort of propaganda.

>>25328837
Academia first and foremost exists to monopolize intellectual legitimacy for the ruling classes who created them and pay for their upkeep, not to produce or discover knowledge. If it does the latter as well, cool, but it's never to the detriment of the primary reason for the institution's existence. Often the line between legit research and propaganda is extremely fuzzy, too.

Are there any directors or scriptwriters in cinema who won't tell me what I should think or feel? Most of the artsy movies I watched with friends had this issue where the symbolism or the allegory was very heavy-handed and usually very safe and uncontroversial, like
>corporate America is dehumanized and kitschy
>the secular west needs Jesus because its values and morals are hollow and perverse
>we should be nice to each other, but also very much not be nice to those who would not be nice to others
making the whole experience pretty damn boring even if the cinematography or the score was somewhat engaging.

Okay so the idea is, two homosexuals sharing one tapeworm by bridging it inbetween their assholes. Thoughts?

you get me closer to god!

>>25328831
>cheddar man
Yeah I remember archeologists discovered a dark skinned man in ancient England and the right freaked out about it.
> Analysis of genetic markers, although limited by low sequencing coverage, suggests (based on their associations in modern populations whose phenotypes are known) that he most likely had intermediate (blue-green) eye colour, dark brown or black hair, and dark or dark-to-black skin, with no derived allele for lactase persistence. These features are typical of the Western European population of the time.[5][a][13][10] Unlike

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One of my best friends is deeply suicidal and self-destructive and there's nothing I can do to help him.

Can we please just saw the state of California off of the continental United States and push them off into the pacific?

>>25328844
No it doesn't, life isn't that neat and clean.

This year is really hammering it home to me that almost no one actually knows what the fuck they're talking about 99% of the time. They just say shit that SOUNDS correct to them.

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People who write or obsess over military fiction (or military stuff in general) always give me Hitlerian vibes

>>25328995
Yep

It's really bad

>>25329002
Don't flatter them, please.

>>25329002
Military fiction is cringe but real wars are the only history I like to read

>>25326438
I’m undergoing significant mental deterioration. I think I’ve lost like 20 IQ in the past few months and my eyes are completely bloodshot, like cope meme level bloodshot. I feel detached from my own body and unaware. I look at things in front of me without being aware that I am there and I looked at a photo the other day and thought the object was in front of me.

I just realized, after all this time, the solution is to take the blue pill and return to 1999.

>>25329064
Too late

>>25329064
I would like to do that as well. how?

>>25329076
TOO. LATE.

>>25329078
Never tell me the odds
(I'm quoting han solo-one of the epicest characters)

>>25329080
Ummmm... ebin. Simbly EBIN.

>>25328963
are you suicidal yourself? if so you should know what to do

>>25329076
>The internet is not the world
>Treat the internet as a utility tool
>Embrace the friction

>>25329110
You have to imagine I look fucking cool while typing this. It helps.

ChatGPT is better than other people. I use it for all of my book recs. It’s not good at game recs though.

>>25329110
Ah I see. I'm kind of already doing this. But I still use 4chan too much.

>>25329120
You're absolutely right!

>>25329091
I'm not suicidal. He refuses to listen to any advice I give him, as well.

HEAD LIKE A HOLE

>>25329123
Yah, I dont even really know what I mean. I was just thinking about how
>The redpill is escape the illusion
>The bluepill was continue the illusion
>To escape the delusion, a person had to go on the internet
>it worked for a while
>now the internet is not only the illusion, but a trap as well
>the solution to return to, say, 1999
>well, in the movie, returning to a normal life in 1999 was actually the blue pill
was the blue pill really the redpill???

Anyway, I have been chuckling about this idea this morning

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>>25329153
>He refuses to listen to any advice I give him, as well.
Well obviously. Suicidal peeps dont think rationally. Can't use logic on 'em.
Some niggas are just tired and need a break from all this nonsense, while they slowly gather energy again.

Apparently 4channers don't understand what Tartary was.

>>25329180
When something tastes like tartar sauce but has none on it?
Example: This cake tastes tartary

>>25328404
I don't know what her fucking problem was. I was talking about issues with my mom, I was fresh out of school (higher education), and suddenly she interrupts me and starts talking about how I need a job, and I can't rest on my laurels and on and on.

>>25328409
I didn't, at first. But every year that goes by, and every time I'm disappointed with myself, I can't stop thinking about it. She spoke that shit into existence.

>>25329183
You willed it into existence by listening to her. I was diagnosed by doctors with Aspergers when I was seven years old and I remember quite clearly the doctors saying "He'll never lead a normal life or have any real relationships"

You can't listen to 'em. I'm currently working on a SCUBA certification myself.

>>25329182
No. The geographical designation that Europeans labeled most of Asia on all their maps for about 600 years.

Yes I was the only survivor of the crash. They were all going to die sooner or later, and I acted sooner, and I have been acting sooner ever since.

I got called fancy for eating with chopsticks.
It's just two sticks. How the hell is it fancy?

I miss you.

>>25329250
FUCK OFF

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>Slander
>Peak
>GOAT
>Mid
>Fraud
>Cook
>Glazing
>Bum
>Aura
>Unc
>Twin
>Crine
>Gagged
>Tea
>Ate
>Crash out
>"The way —“
>“It’s giving —“
>“Not me doing —“
>“The concept of —“
>“— needs to be studied”
>“— but y’all ain’t ready for that conversation”
>"Hope this helps!"
>Sweet summer child
>Wholesome
>Problematic
>"Y'all"
>Yas queen slay

I'm so fucking beyond fatigued of it all. When the fuck will this end? Why does language on the internet feel so faggy, performative and retarded now?

>>25329258
bruh just chillmaxxx, it aint no thing

>>25329258
Your parents and forefathers thought the same thing about your colloquial speech. Take a chill pill retard.

>>25329258
I kno that feeling m8 too bad they can't all be uber L33T haxxorZ liek u n' me ROFLMAO

>>25329250
you miss cocks in your bussy

>>25329265
>Scientists in the 1800s: Maybe we should stop ruining the planet :(
>Scientists in the 1900s: Maybe we should stop ruining the planet :(
>Scientists in the 2000s: Maybe we should stop ruining the planet :(
>Scientists in the 2010s: Maybe we should stop ruining the planet :(
>Scientists in the 2020s: Maybe we should stop ruining the planet :(

Good new new new news everyone, I got 4 hours of sleep instead of 3, so maybe I will only be 1/3 asleep at the wheel instead of 1/2 asleep when I come home from work work work work later.

>>25329275
I wish someone would listen

>>25329275
Lets be different in 2030s:
>Maybe we should ruin this planet faster :)

>>25329275
>Scientists in 2026: maybe we should stop what is preventing the ruining of the planet from being stopped.
This requires the identification of the root causes behind the unfolding planet-ruining process.
>Uh oh. That's political.

Nobody knows that you can just start writing to yourself, you can use the power of the written language to take active control of your thoughts.

There's this new app out called YouGPT. You just ask a question to yourself or write a prompt, and then you reply to the prompt you wrote yourself as best you can. Amazing!

Dumpster diving.

>>25329290
No thanks, GLOWIE

>>25329275
Fucking kek. Absolutely BTFO'd. I love it when people pretend that other generations saying the same thing somehow makes it invalid.

>>25329183
damn I could never be a therapist. The thought of some unthinking throwaway or incidental comment I make having a massive adverse impact on someone down the line. fuck

>>25329250
Die tranny.

>>25329265
It's not so much the specific words themselves and more about the speech associated with them. It's REMARKABLY retarded. When you read these words, you have basically 98% chances of reading something insultingly stupid from people who are barely able to articulate any point besides the most surface level, irony-poisoned ideas that actually refuse to engage with the media they're discussing on any real level.

You annoying glowing niggers

>>25329240
Same way elegantly using a fork and knife is fancy, its a skill -how you use the two sticks/utensils determines your fancyness.

In short, youre gay

>>25329290
Based

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>to love the World you need first to hate it
so two more weeks until i love it, r-right anons?

>>25329356
I AM MY KHAKIS

>>25329356
just short AI and you won't need to deal in the real world anymore.

I had a couple of my books stored in a pretty shitty drawer, and it looks like they have this yellowish stain / spots on multiple pages.
Am I looking at mold here? Or something else?
First page is affected the most with other pages showing spots here and there. Spots are yellowish and rusty style color.
I don't know whether I should throw them out or not?

>>25329290
It's like having thoughts but with extra steps. Definitely needed for NPCs like you though.

I faced a decision that was a complete summation of my life up until that point, but it's a little disappointing that it resulted in nothing, and only existed within the confines of my skull.

>>25329383
kill yourself retard.

>>25329253
no u :)

>>25329392
Are you spamming that just to torment people or are you bpd or what

>>25329391
Has that ever worked on anyone?

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>>25329258
>I'm so fucking beyond fatigued of it all. When the fuck will this end? Why does language on the internet feel so faggy, performative and retarded now?
>performative

I have leftovers in the fridge. I'm unemployed. I shouldn't drive to Chick-Fil-A just for a spicy chicken sandwich. I'm an adult. This is what being an adult consists of

>>25329397
Eventually. It's insidious. Imagine just telling someone to kill themselves literally everday.
At first they might ignore it, just brute force tank it, make up a cope mechanism or whatever.
Eventually they'll start entertaining the thought, "Why did he say that" "why would he say that to me" maybe they will go down a rabbit hole or two, but that's purely optional.
The point is that I simply am telling him, that I think it is beneficial, not only to me, but others, and even himself, if he simply stopped living.
And I want to communicate that to him daily, so that he gets this energy, and that he knows that there is someone out there that legitimately thinks that there is zero point to his existence.

>>25329258
take it easy bruv, no cap fr, this nigga malding because y'all be bussin' no cap

>>25329407
What if I feel the need to constantly stress-eat?

>>25329408
That seems like a drastic overestimation of your ability, but whatever. You can keep on doing essentially nothing to people.

>>25329415
I can hurt them in other ways, and then share the sentiment. Everything links together.

I think i am going to get drunk tonight and try to finish Trout Fishing In America before mom has to take it back to the library tomorrow.

>>25329408
Why are you seething this hard lmao

>>25329420
What an embarrassing way to live.

>>25326438
new thread
>>25329429
new thread
>>25329429
new thread
>>25329429
mwah <3

>>25329371
If you only knew the depths of creative exploration that I have experienced. My whole life is filled with intellectusl accomplishment resulting merely from me pursuing what I enjoy.

>>25329022
what the fuck man go see a doctor right now