Because the 1500s were a pretty good time to live in.
Still territory to expand to. Wars were still glamorous and a chance for glory. Knowledge was only going up. You could still reasonably count on being able to be a manly man or a womanly woman and be rewarded for that.
Even if you don't believe in that god, trying to follow the rules set by the bible will force you to be healthy and stop thinking negatively. I suggest starting with the ten commandments.
You don't need to believe it for it to work. Anyways, faith is something that develops with time.
anything not whole should be thrown out. if you want a good sweet, bake your own. In general, eat whole foods, avoid ultra processed garbage. Occasionally treat yourself to something, if it tickles your fancy.
I'm certain that the passages on how to treat slaves and how to behave as a slave will be very useful. The latter especially so, since christians fetishize slavery.
this is such a massively damaging lie that is peddled to the younger generations. you need to find the job that you can accept, rather than chasing a dream that is never going to happen.
It is a lie in the sense that the vast majority of people will have to settle for jobs they don't particularly like, but if you are above the average person in terms of ability it shouldn't be too difficult to find a job which is fulfilling to you.
What do I do when I'm average ability and I've failed/gave a mediocre performance to everything I've tried
2 years ago
Anonymous
Congrats you're normal. Find God.
2 years ago
Anonymous
What will that do for my problems of a shitty life?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Your life is shit because you value shit. Even if you had money, fame, intelligence, and whatever success you fathom in whatever domain you most enjoy, your life would be shit because you valie the ephemeral and useless. God alone is not worthless dross.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Man that still sounds like a cope to me. I read the bible and see it has value in providing values and wisdom. The wisdom books are good for that.
The devotion to god itself is a manmade purpose, an abstract goal to strive towards.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Only true if man made man or man made the whole universe
2 years ago
Anonymous
Why did God create us and the universe to serve him? And what about those that worshiped other gods and had different interpretations of the bible and such before the council of nicea? What about all the other civilizations beyond the Mediterranean sea, why did god ignore them?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Why did God create us and the universe to serve him?
Serving = rejoining God >And what about those that worshiped other gods and had different interpretations of the bible and such before the council of nicea?
Vatican II says that they could be saved - we really don't know. >What about all the other civilizations beyond the Mediterranean sea, why did god ignore them?
Could just happen that Mediterranean was the right place for it to catch hold
2 years ago
Anonymous
Christcucks need to leave
2 years ago
Anonymous
>to leave
Not disproven? lmfao
2 years ago
Anonymous
Mediocrity is nothing to be ashamed of as long as you make a good living. No need to have unnecessary risks
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm unemployed and made the mistake of thinking I was a software engineer when I can't problem solve to save my life. Went two years of not being able to solve a single ticket before getting axed. Mediocre isn't good enough if you can't hold a job
2 years ago
Anonymous
Pivot to project management btw
2 years ago
Anonymous
People tell me that, or Technical writing. The former seems even less interesting, and since I lack basic executive functioning, that wouldn't be a good fit anyway. The latter seems ok, but it's still sitting down and focusing on stuff I don't care about, which will cause problems anyway.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You could teach the basics to people or do IT help desk or maybe Product Manager? My heart goes out to you though brither, I've never struggled intellectually and that would be really challenging and humbling. I hope you're okay.
2 years ago
Anonymous
My mom's a teacher and growing up watching her, seeing the shit income, and not getting to follow my interests because she couldn't care less is the no 1 reason I fell for the stem meme.
I made a fool of myself countless times because I couldn't figure out something in front of others to the point they found it funny. Poor incidents over life really start adding up. I never had, nor understood something like anxiety, where the fear is in the prediction, instead I just have regrets where I tear myself apart over stuff I could've done better.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I feel you bro... I mean I solve shit sometimes but it may take me 4 weeks instead of one. And they refuse to take my estimates seriously, i think something will take 10 sp but i compromise and say 5 sp, they say it's still too much and has to be done faster...
Avoid usury.
Live within your means.
Expect to go without pussy for a good long while (but that's a feature not a bug. If you cannot control your base impulses, you were NGMI anyway)
Work for yourself. If you cannot work for yourself, work for a man who works for himself.
If you have a "manager", you are being "managed" for the profit of some israelite.
>Expect to go without pussy for a good long while
A buyer's market is about to emerge as the economy contracts and millions of women with fake degrees from Stanford and higher expectations from life than they can afford try to keep living in expensive cities even as daddy says he has to curtail their "allowance" (rent) money slightly because even he's suffering. Millions and millions of women are about to consider casual prostitution, in an environment already prepared by "sex work" propaganda that makes it sound exciting and normalizes it.
I strongly recommend shifting to a prostitute-based model of sexual fulfillment in the current economy. It will pay dividends in a few years. Remember, most of your favorite literary and philosophical heroes didn't whine about being an incel, they just went to brothels and chatted up fun prostitutes, and then got a fat wife when they had to, and cheated on her. This can be you! And the brothels will soon be cheaper than ever!
For generations, women have collectively been clamoring to be perceived a certain way. Acquiesce them and begin enjoying life. Better $200 of your money here and there, translating to a few hours of your labor time, than a lifetime of angst and thousands of hours wasted usually with no result.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I strongly recommend shifting to a prostitute-based model of sexual fulfillment in the current economy.
What sort of moron hasn't already done this?
2 years ago
Anonymous
People with careers, security clearances and the like that can't afford risking legal consequences or kompromat?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>risking legal consequences >he lives in a country with illegal prostitution
ngmi
>If you cannot work for yourself, work for a man who works for himself.
I did for a while, I got 100 Euros for 350+ hours of work and I thought about suicide daily
this is such a massively damaging lie that is peddled to the younger generations. you need to find the job that you can accept, rather than chasing a dream that is never going to happen.
Cured me and gave me a good basis for the rest of my life
>youtube
How about something less fictional?
How about you stop being depressed yourself?
Depression is only cured by having what Heidegger called the Umwillen, the "for-the-sake-of-which" one acts, and that can only arise within an interpretation of the world as fundamentally meaningful.
How this used to work in previous eras is that most people, as in all eras, are relatively prosaic, what William James called "once-born" types, meaning they only have to be born once to be happy, they don't have to undergo what James called "conversion" to a higher and more integrated form of themselves and their own take on how the world fits together and why it all matters. Prosaic people may have minor conversion experiences, but they are for prosaic reasons, which usually have concrete solutions. The most obvious and common one is having kids - how many normies suddenly become just fine after having a family, even a shitty family Their sense of purpose is always near at hand, and depression is only ever a case of one prosaic regime of satisfaction lapsing (youthful hedonism) and another one (dedication to family, basic fuzzy feelings of family gatherings and barbecues with tolerable acquaintance every weekend) not having arrived yet.
But the whole therapy and antidepressant industry is predicated on the assumption that ALL unhappiness stems from concrete problems which have concrete solutions, often brute materialistic reasons of neurochemical imbalances (despite this making no sense in most cases).
If you reject or at least suspend your tacit faith in this pre-interpretation of the world as filled only with prosaic people experiencing prosaic problems, then you have a double problem. You have the initial problem that a non-prosaic person would have in every era, namely, your sense of the world and of your place in it is not hanging together, doesn't form a concrete whole that makes you feel excited to get up every day and tackle life and preform your unique service to the world. But the secondary problem is caused by living in a world that no longer even really understands that people like you exist. At least prosaic people 700 years ago might go "oh that's Theobald, we think he's going to join the Franciscans any day now, he is very troubled by matters of the soul" or "oh that's Berengar, he does nothing but speak of armed pilgrimage to the Holy Land since that preacher came, and you know we don't have a plot for him to inherit anyway, so it's just as well." But now prosaic people will strap you to a hospital bed and force-feed you pills they don't understand because you said you are bored of Marvel movies after seeing 294 of them.
If you're prosaic, disregard all this. It's possible you really do just have a chemical imbalance. But if not, you have to break through to an objective grasp of reality and start caring about the world in a way that makes your daily life a mission. Reality becoming thin and gray to you may just be the obverse of a higher world, of infinitely more substance and lustre, trying to get you to notice it.
This is disgusting crap. Everyone must be reborn in Christ >But if not, you have to break through to an objective grasp of reality and start caring about the world in a way that makes your daily life a mission
OSRS will cure you op
>If you're an ant this will work like a charm.
You're a gay homosexual Black person 16yo who thinks he's the Schopenhauer of the 21st century, kindly have a nice day
Stop eating bad food. Revert to simple pleasures. Buy a nice pull up bar. Stop listening to shitty music (pop and homie bops). Read good books. I cured your depression. 2 weeks to be effective.
anything not whole should be thrown out. if you want a good sweet, bake your own. In general, eat whole foods, avoid ultra processed garbage. Occasionally treat yourself to something, if it tickles your fancy.
Stop eating anything with vegetable/seed oils and refined sugars. Cook your own food as much as possible. We are learning that gut flora is a huge part of depression and a shitty diet contributes to bad gut flora.
General rule of thumb is only shop the periphery of a grocery store. That's were the bread and dairy and meat and produce are. Everything up and down the aisles is processed garbage.
These are important too but they are insufficient if you interpret them entirely prosaically, i.e., as >I'm a big dumb normie who likes Marvel movies. But now I'm sad! Maybe if I ate more fruit and worked out I'd be happy again, because the material chemicals in my meaningless mindless material Marvel-watching brain would flow a little better!
Normies can actually benefit from a "stop being an unhealthy moron who only goes out at 2AM, you need sunlight and proper sleep and fewer sulfides in your diet" anti-depression regime. But the most rewarding application of such a regime comes from when you actually regard life as objectively important, and thus yourself as an important player in it, with significant shit to do, and thus your body becomes a temple that should be maintained. When you can feel health and goodness pouring into your soul from some transcendent goal that you are striving towards, you naturally want to make your body into the best possible vessel for the soul, and this naturally radiates back outwards and makes you healthy in that "glowing" way that even the superficially healthiest people sometimes don't have.
>Socrates >Come now, let me tell you another parable from the same school as that I have just told. Consider if each of the two lives, the temperate and the licentious, might be described by imagining that each of two men had a number of jars, [493e] and those of one man were sound and full, one of wine, another of honey, a third of milk, and various others of various things, and that the sources of each of these supplies were scanty and difficult and only available through much hard toil: well, one man, when he has taken his fill, neither draws off any more nor troubles himself a jot, but remains at ease on that score; whilst the other finds, like his fellow, that the sources are possible indeed, though difficult, but his vessels are leaky and decayed, [494a] and he is compelled to fill them constantly, all night and day, or else suffer extreme distress. If such is the nature of each of the two lives, do you say that the licentious man has a happier one than the orderly? Do I, with this story of mine, induce you at all to concede that the orderly life is better than the licentious, or do I fail?
english is not my first language and im probably a brainlet, but i dont understand completly. One of the men has good jars which he sometimes sips some good thing from. the other mans jars are broken so he must always toil to keep them filled, obviously the first man has a better life but i cant understand the "point"? how would the second man go about living like the first if he is constantly having to refill the jars since theyre leaking?
Depression is only cured by having what Heidegger called the Umwillen, the "for-the-sake-of-which" one acts, and that can only arise within an interpretation of the world as fundamentally meaningful.
How this used to work in previous eras is that most people, as in all eras, are relatively prosaic, what William James called "once-born" types, meaning they only have to be born once to be happy, they don't have to undergo what James called "conversion" to a higher and more integrated form of themselves and their own take on how the world fits together and why it all matters. Prosaic people may have minor conversion experiences, but they are for prosaic reasons, which usually have concrete solutions. The most obvious and common one is having kids - how many normies suddenly become just fine after having a family, even a shitty family Their sense of purpose is always near at hand, and depression is only ever a case of one prosaic regime of satisfaction lapsing (youthful hedonism) and another one (dedication to family, basic fuzzy feelings of family gatherings and barbecues with tolerable acquaintance every weekend) not having arrived yet.
But the whole therapy and antidepressant industry is predicated on the assumption that ALL unhappiness stems from concrete problems which have concrete solutions, often brute materialistic reasons of neurochemical imbalances (despite this making no sense in most cases).
If you reject or at least suspend your tacit faith in this pre-interpretation of the world as filled only with prosaic people experiencing prosaic problems, then you have a double problem. You have the initial problem that a non-prosaic person would have in every era, namely, your sense of the world and of your place in it is not hanging together, doesn't form a concrete whole that makes you feel excited to get up every day and tackle life and preform your unique service to the world. But the secondary problem is caused by living in a world that no longer even really understands that people like you exist. At least prosaic people 700 years ago might go "oh that's Theobald, we think he's going to join the Franciscans any day now, he is very troubled by matters of the soul" or "oh that's Berengar, he does nothing but speak of armed pilgrimage to the Holy Land since that preacher came, and you know we don't have a plot for him to inherit anyway, so it's just as well." But now prosaic people will strap you to a hospital bed and force-feed you pills they don't understand because you said you are bored of Marvel movies after seeing 294 of them.
If you're prosaic, disregard all this. It's possible you really do just have a chemical imbalance. But if not, you have to break through to an objective grasp of reality and start caring about the world in a way that makes your daily life a mission. Reality becoming thin and gray to you may just be the obverse of a higher world, of infinitely more substance and lustre, trying to get you to notice it.
>Zen mind, beginners mind
Shunryu was a fake guru cult leader who hated zen and only used it for money, fame and sex. Just like any other predatory cult leader.
His books have nothing to do with zen.
Why? Being a fascist is generally correlated with well-being and positive vibes.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yeah. I agree. The fascists here don’t seem miserable or bitter. Kek
2 years ago
Anonymous
Exactly.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
See? You're happier already.
2 years ago
Anonymous
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
2 years ago
Anonymous
Loser
2 years ago
Anonymous
Winner.
2 years ago
Anonymous
No fascist I've met in person has been well-adjusted or positive
2 years ago
Anonymous
well adjusted people usually aren't looking to cause a scene in public or put their life or family at risk so almost by necessity any well adjusted fascist is going to be a quiet fascist
>mass migration into the west. will not stop until native populations have been replaced >fewer jobs >things will get more and more expensive as companies look to ever increase profits >techno-dystopianism. oi m8, got a license for that IQfy comment? >women are ruined >men are in ruins >culture has died >morals are gone, never to return >no good books will ever be published again due to hatred of white males
Yeah... delude yourself into not being depressed or just face reality like a man, hombre.
the mass migration replacement is living rent free in my head, i cant do anything about it, so i need to change my attitude towards it, but i really really do not like...africans. So it pops up and makes me angry and sad every single day,
i dont want to be like this anymore, feeling hatred daily is really unhealthy i wish i could be more carefree
>the mass migration replacement is living rent free in my head, i cant do anything about it, >so i need to change my attitude towards it >but i really really do not like...africans
Relax
It's simply not happening
In the European Union as of 2019, there is a record of approximately 9.6 million people of Sub-Saharan African or Afro-Caribbean descent, comprising around 2% of the total population, with over 50% located in France.
not gonna turn the thread into arguing about it but its very much happening. For example in my own country by 2030 50% of all children under 14 will be non native.
2 years ago
Anonymous
is that a bad thing ?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Is that a bad thing that most people in your country aren't of same descent and blood as you are?
Hoho, fricking moronic limp-wristed homosexual you are. Fricking lobotomized dishonest subhuman.
2 years ago
Anonymous
oh nooo my country oh nooo my blood line lmao this Black person is living in the middle ages
wake up moron there is no bloodline
2 years ago
Anonymous
Just be honest and say what you think.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I understand what you're getting at and sympathise but let me ask a hypothetical. I've got three centuries of English/Welsh ancestry which I can confirm thanks to my mother's genealogical autism. Were I to have a child with a Swedish womon would this be upsetting to you? Especially given the likely fact that at some stage my own ancestors would have been KWABed by yours or some invading group which we have mutually been KWABed by? How does your answer to this question relate to your initial concern?
2 years ago
Anonymous
i just really dont want my homeland to be overtaken by blacks and browns man, thats all
The worst part is that there will never be any resistance towards it. The current elite have convinced the entire population that if they are against mass immigration they are racist and that they have the power to basically neuter any actual resistance against their regime through carpet banning them from all modern public squares (social media).
If you think being against mass migration is some kind of redpill against the regime, then congrats, you fell for their meme.
What they actually fear is locals and immigrants uniting against the current power.
But of couse "NOOOOO I HATE Black folk, CHINESE, MEXICANS, PAJEETS!!! WE SHOULD UNITE THE WHITE RACE!"""
Racism is just a tool to control you, they know this perfectly well.
If you understand this, maybe there's still "hope"
2 years ago
Anonymous
Found the boomer conservative. >"Guys, ackchyually being replaced is fine as long as we work together!" >posts malcolm x or mlk quote
2 years ago
Anonymous
Most midwit take I've ever seen in my entire life, do you know that Amazon literally created heatmaps for unionization which were based on the level of diversity in the workplace with the homogenous workplaces being at the highest risk of unionization? How the frick are you meant to politically organize with people who don't even speak English, share a community or religion with you, you fricking moron. >In b4 mass migration deflating the wages and destroying local communities is actually a good thing!
2 years ago
Anonymous
>What they actually fear is locals and immigrants uniting against the current power.
No, what they actually fear is useful idiot fake leftists like you, who appeal to the bourgeois socdem myth of "don't hate the immigrant, we're all fellow workers :^)!!" to appeal to people's nicey-nice desire not to be mean to immigrants, being finally defeated by real anticapitalists, who remember perfectly well the UNIVERSAL disdain all historical socialist and communist movements have had for capitalists using mass immigration to dilute local labor solidarity
Only a completely bourgeois utopian idiot would allow capitalists to import foreign labor into a market that already has precarious labor organization, because it has been proved a million times that there labor organization is easier to dilute than to increase. The former only requires mixing up and dispersing existing labor, while the latter requires years of hard work and grassroots effort. Every real socialist and labor organizer knows this, and that is why EVERY SINGLE FRICKING LABOR MOVEMENT, INCLUDING THE MEXICAN AMERICAN LABOR LEADER CESAR CHAVEZ, WAS VIOLENTLY AND VICIOUSLY OPPOSED TO "OPEN BORDERS" IMMIGRATION
Bernie Sanders: "Open borders? No, that's a Koch brothers proposal"
This shit is a bipartisan issue between left and right, mass immigration is proveably only good for capitalists and everybody has known it for 200 years. Nobody has ever been for it, ever, until recently.
Modern "leftists" are so fricking psy opped by the CIA that they can't even see when they are literally defending the opposite of their own historical ideas. They're all pro-"sex work," which is the most un-Marxist thing you could ever be, and pro-labor dilution. And why? What's at the root of all this confusion? Because the only actual idea in their heads is a, by design, systematically vague notion of "b-be nice... d-don't upset anyone.. c-can't we all just let people do what they want to do.." which is a disgusting blend of bourgeois-anarchist cultural politics (which Marx's whole raison d'etre for 30+ years was ruthlessly trying to stamp out), combined with English laissez faire liberalism.
You just can't salvage the modern left, they are just empty vessels into which the CIA can pour anything it likes.
the mass migration replacement is living rent free in my head, i cant do anything about it, so i need to change my attitude towards it, but i really really do not like...africans. So it pops up and makes me angry and sad every single day,
i dont want to be like this anymore, feeling hatred daily is really unhealthy i wish i could be more carefree
>the mass migration replacement is living rent free in my head, i cant do anything about it, >so i need to change my attitude towards it >but i really really do not like...africans
Relax
It's simply not happening
In the European Union as of 2019, there is a record of approximately 9.6 million people of Sub-Saharan African or Afro-Caribbean descent, comprising around 2% of the total population, with over 50% located in France.
The 'replacement' is faltering as the migrants run into the same problems the rest of the soft west has run into:
The more money you make, the less evolutionary impulse there is to have lots of kids.
Also, once you start making money, you're going to want to control immigration so that your labor isn't devalued.
Basically: >Illegals and ''''refugees''' breed a lot when they're poor and they need the extra hands around. >They immigrate to a rich country, legally or otherwise. >they realize kids cost a lot of the money they could be saving for themselves >they stop reproducing
Long story short, the replacement is, at best, a fantasy/nightmare that won't come true.
At worst, it's going to result in a lot of countries in the third world ending up under utilized and needing recolonized/taken control of.
If you want to do your part, remember that there are religions like Catholicism with like minded individuals who will want to fill your house with brats.
>>mass migration into the west. will not stop until native populations have been replaced
Unless you're European, I don't think it's really that big of a deal. Immigrants in the U.S. are assimilating, especially Hispanics and Asians (both East and South Asians). They're inter-marrying with Americans and are abandoning the leftist voting blocs. You're already seeing some label Hispanics and Asians white as punishment.
jobs
Okay fair, but hone a skill that you have, and you genuinely enjoy, and become self-employed. This seems to be the best route for a lot of young people going forward, but few seem to pursue for fear of failure.
will get more and more expensive as companies look to ever increase profits
Things will improve and get better. It takes time.
-dystopianism. oi m8, got a license for that IQfy comment?
I'm guessing you're European, but from my own experience I see more and more normies realizing that social media connecting to the Internet for everything is a fricking mistake and are gradually ridding themselves of their online personas.
are ruined
Things will improve as the chaos goes on and once it subsides, you'll notice a difference. Even women lament traditional gender roles and yearn for something like it to return. Albeit they don't bring it up in public.
>>men are in ruins
And yet self-improvement cults and the Manosphere have enraptured the entirety of young men. There is yet hope for them all.
has died
This is more the fault of the Millennials refusing to let go of the 1990s and Hollywood/AAA-vidya absolutely capitalizing on it.
are gone, never to return
lol. lmao. Morality is an objective thing across all cultures and here to stay.
>>no good books will ever be published again due to hatred of white males
Self publish my dude. What are you waiting for? Build up your audience, submit your works to small/medium sized publishers, improve your craft, and you'll see some success.
How do you stay motivated to keep reading, bros? I didn't have this problem when I was younger, but I pretty much have to force myself to read anything these days; even shit I really want to read.
>stop using IQfy
BAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH. My friend, you and I both know this is not possible - perhaps that was your point. Anyways.
How do you stay motivated to keep reading, bros? I didn't have this problem when I was younger, but I pretty much have to force myself to read anything these days; even shit I really want to read.
Pack it a habit, stay disciplined, set aside a reading time everyday, eventually it will not only become a habit but a desire. Turn your computer or phone off for a bit when you want to read.
>Turn your computer or phone off for a bit when you want to read.
Not him, but for me it's vital to have a device close when reading nonfiction, to check stuff
Nta but I only come on lit and I have a noticeable improvement in my mood whenever I take a break or get banned on purpose. This is just a basic social media site after all. Come here and lurk when you can’t post and you’ll see how shit it is and that you aren’t missing anything
I go in cycles where I’ll either watch a lot of old movies at night or read at night to wind down. I make it something to look forward to rather than something that has to be done. Of course when I was still in school I’d just read all the time since that was why I was there and I enjoyed it. So if you’re student age try to make sure there’s at least a class or two where you’d actually just read the material anyway rather than having it be imposed on you.
Read what you enjoy when you are struggling with motivation. Even if pulp or genre fiction. Better to read something everyday so you don’t fall out of the habit. Reading is like working out. It’s easy to go long periods once you stop and hard to get back into
Feeling bad (or good) is mostly a question of feedback loops, which implies that there are things that objectively should make you feel better (or worse). Feeling depressive causing you to neglect healthy living, meaning you feel even worse, leading to even worse neglect of yourself etc. Better diet, a minimum of social interaction, exercise and physical activity, feelings of productivity.
yeah,but i'll always know it's only because i couldn't be good at chess and couldn't be truly intelligent...so what's the point? The only worthwhile thing in life is being more intelligent than others, there's literally nothing else to life.
You should learn from him, he went unnoticed for most of his life until he raised to fame. After his death, Hegel's henchmen tried to silence him, but now we are living in the middle of a renaissance. His WILL cannot be stopped.
> I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
>be le sad boi >read evola >post quotes from ifunny and vaporwave trad memes >watch videos with cathedral's with "adaigo for the strings" backing >mfw I'm revolting against the modern world
ngmi. I hope to God you're brown.
Depression is from not accepting religion as a necessary part of your humanity. Confusion is from accepting the wrong one. Roman Catholicism and Christ or yeah you'll be lost and depressed. It's not magical but it is divine.
Maybe if you have the structure for it you can induce some delusional break and then feel content with everything.
But honestly the idea that you can "solve" "it" by yourself through reading some books means you're way off the mark
Focus on the positive things in your life. Whenever you feel down, try to flip the switch. It took me a while to be able to do it. Keep a positive attitude and be pleasant towards people. That energy is reciprocated. Look for silver linings. Know that there will always be challenges and bouts of feeling blue. Know that all things pass, the good and the bad, so keep a level head in both. Set realistic expectations. If you notice that things just aren’t getting better, then you are the common denominator. It’s you who needs to change something. Change is uncomfortable and no one likes it. Focus on the individual. People lose their individuality in masses and the worst comes out. Try not to give a frick in a good way. Let your ego go and be yourself.
This is the best recommendation you're going to get: Journey to the Orient by Gerard Nerval.
It's a 19th century travel book by an autist with a depressive streak. He traveled around the Middle East, immersed himself in local culture and folklore, and was able to recount a number of very interesting stories, including the true story of the secret Druze religion's formation.
After you read it, you'll feel as though there is more to the world than what you see around you. That, in other words, the world has more potential -- that there is more it can do to surprise and even shock you. What's more, you may feel inspired to go on a journey of your own.
After you're done with Nerval, you can consult the rest of the list in picrel. But start with Nerval.
You are the only anon I’ve ever seen mention De Nerval besides the anon I was talking to about Sylvie and Aurelia about a year ago. He’s an interesting writer with a unique vibe. Props for knowing him. If anons know his name, they know him as an influence on Proust
That kind of search sounds close to the frantic search & attribution of meaning to random objects that schizophrenics experience when they can't find any stable place inside.
This is the best recommendation you're going to get: Journey to the Orient by Gerard Nerval.
It's a 19th century travel book by an autist with a depressive streak. He traveled around the Middle East, immersed himself in local culture and folklore, and was able to recount a number of very interesting stories, including the true story of the secret Druze religion's formation.
After you read it, you'll feel as though there is more to the world than what you see around you. That, in other words, the world has more potential -- that there is more it can do to surprise and even shock you. What's more, you may feel inspired to go on a journey of your own.
After you're done with Nerval, you can consult the rest of the list in picrel. But start with Nerval.
You homosexuals are young so I’m going to hit you with a truth bomb. Life has always been hard and there has always been depression, no matter the era or person. Life is what you make of it. Sometimes the dice don’t roll good numbers but you can still always make the best of the situation. Sometimes you’re lucky and the dice roll is perfect. It’s up to you to seize the opportunity. Don’t blame others for your issues. That’s the biggest issue I see today. Everyone wants to point fingers at someone. But who has ever been able to change the hearts of men? Do your best, always improve and keep your head up. Don’t be an oldgay looking back on life with regrets
It's fine (to a point) if you regret things you've done. The horrible thing is when you regret things you've never done. Yes, I'm referring to sex, but I also have other things in mind.
And no, I (almost) never blame anyone but myself. I put myself here.
Then realize you can get yourself out. Sex really isn’t a big deal. Go to a hooker if need be. The game changer is when you realize girls desire sex. It’s not difficult to get. It’s incels who put sex on a pedestal like some sacred object. You smash your genitals together for 30secs to 30 mins, feel good, open up a window and wash yourself up. If you want real good advice, take this: if you better yourself in other areas sex will come. Girls have a good sixth sense for this shit
Life is really a gift , you will never get to live again
chances of you getting born was so low and yet here you are !
don't think about Black folk raping your land
think that the land doesn't belong to anyone and rather it's just your turn
it's really not that important , read some cormac mccarthy to really understand the misery of the condition of mankind
read about how bloodthirsty the land is and how there's really nothing as cold and uncaring as the land so why should you care?
no one says we should be bound by the place we were born if you wanna blame the goverments and policies go ahead but don't be a hate filled individual who is being played by higher powers who wants you to feel the way you are feeling right now
don't become a cuck but also don't become a tool
HNNPJ
>turns down sex offers from women he isn't serious about
Isn't that crazy?
I'm 26 now and never thought it would happen to me... And yet it did.
I also fell in love and felt the pain of being rejected for the first time since 2012.
It was honestly a good experience, because I genuinely thought I was now incapable of falling in love.
Totally unexpected.
I even made a post right here on IQfy complaining about how I would never feel love again, and had people telling me I would eventually feel "adult love", or whatever. This was last year.
Anyway, there's nothing adult about it. It felt just like it had ten years ago. The only difference was that I now thought about living together, marrying, etc.
And being rejected, of course, felt even worse.
But now I went back to dating apps, got some 40 matches altogether, and it all seems so inane that I just don't care. For the first time in my life I find myself instantly rejecting pictures not only of women with huge asses, but also of "cute" 18 year olds, and so on.
Never thought it would happen.
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, but only if you already agree with the premise that a positive mental attitude leads to positive outcomes and a negative attitude leads to etc.
Are you physically well? Adequate exercise and movement every day? Normal sleeping schedule? Getting all your essential vitamins? Eating well? It's hard to understand how detrimental a sedentary lifestyle or basic vitamin deficiency is on your mood and your brain until you're out of it and back into a healthy state. Trying to help your mind while neglecting your body is like trying to ride a bike refusing to put it in gear, lube the chain, fill up the tires, etc. Normally the bike does most of the work for you provided you keep up a cadence, the same is true for the relationship between your body and mind.
>Are you physically well? Adequate exercise and movement every day? Normal sleeping schedule? Getting all your essential vitamins? Eating well?
You're on IQfy, you already know the answer.
Release the tension stored in your muscles. Relax your frown, jaw and shoulders. Try and breathe deeply several times. Drink green tea, it's great for the mood. Drink enough water throughout the day. You will be alright anon. I believe in you.
Depends, if it's a chronic thing you may have brain a defect (hyperactive amygdala, clogged dentrides in certain area of your brain, etc) and be in need of both meds and psychotherapy.
If lucky you may be able to drop the meds and rely on psychotherapy alone.
And just be thankful you're not schizophrenic, it could have been worst.
Ketamine might also help you as a short-term rapid action anti-depressant just to pick yourself up and get enough drive to move on.
Nietzsche is all right too...
Unironically get the frick off this god forsaken website, I wish I never got back into it. Seriously, I can't imagine it being a net positive on anyone's life and most people here have a crab mentality and would rather drown in the misery and be an edgy teenager pushing 30. Get off the computer, go outside, find God if that's your scene, anything but wasting away here.
I read Atlas Shrugged. I know what you probably think of Rand, I went in thinking Bioshock was an accurate portrayal of her beliefs and that I would throw down the book after two pages. I came out believing that mankind is capable of great things, that I alone have the power to change my life. But I think what has more personal feel to it is The Fountainhead. It divulges more on dreams and integrity. Godspeed, anon.
What I've realized is that they don't exist
If a book can make you happy it can only do it for a little while
Happiness itself is just like a drug
It lasts a little while then wears off and every time it takes more and more to get back to the same point
I recommend forgetting about all that and just getting used to the suffering
No, it's not. It's called >if you can't find happiness where you are, where do you expect to find it?
And realizing that for most people on this website, they are poisoned by materialism and porn-addiction/obsession with sex.
If you can't be happy alone, you won't be happy around others. You might be distracted by others for a bit, but you won't be magically made happy.
Hemmingway has some pretty good doomer material
persuasion and rethoric was a black pill hard to swallow
Based and Perecpilled
honestly 'A Calendar of Wisdom' by Leo Tolstoy is one of my favorite books.
A series of quotes for each day pertaining to a certain theme.
very blessed i stumbled upon it
I also recommend 'A Gospel in Brief' by Tolstoy
Meant to reply to OP
Conspiracy against the Human race cured my existential depression.
the tunnel helped my mental health
the framing of it is perverse but very humanist, the focus on the small moments and words, the little choices
Audacious to put Deleuze+Guattari in the bloomer chart. You have to achieve a high power level to find solace in their work.
1k plateaus is the book that made me start taking religion seriously, ironically
Tbh the top looks way cooler.
why were the 1500s such a bloomer paradise
Because the 1500s were a pretty good time to live in.
Still territory to expand to. Wars were still glamorous and a chance for glory. Knowledge was only going up. You could still reasonably count on being able to be a manly man or a womanly woman and be rewarded for that.
Can't go wrong with Hamsun though, Sult is wonderful
New Testament
>inb4 morons
How about something less fictional?
The Bible. I'm not kidding.
Even if you don't believe in that god, trying to follow the rules set by the bible will force you to be healthy and stop thinking negatively. I suggest starting with the ten commandments.
You don't need to believe it for it to work. Anyways, faith is something that develops with time.
If you like the bible check out 'the gospel in brief' by tolstoy its free online and has a good audiobook
Yeah reading about foreskin collecting degenerates and the life of a dissident rabbi is based bro
I'm certain that the passages on how to treat slaves and how to behave as a slave will be very useful. The latter especially so, since christians fetishize slavery.
>The Bible. I'm not kidding.
Stay away from Daniel and Ezekiel and Revelations on the first run.
Gym and a fulfilling job or hobby, its literally that simple
>fulfilling job
???
yeah , this is bullshit, find a hobby and workout, go run or ride a bike
bump
It is a lie in the sense that the vast majority of people will have to settle for jobs they don't particularly like, but if you are above the average person in terms of ability it shouldn't be too difficult to find a job which is fulfilling to you.
What do I do when I'm average ability and I've failed/gave a mediocre performance to everything I've tried
Congrats you're normal. Find God.
What will that do for my problems of a shitty life?
Your life is shit because you value shit. Even if you had money, fame, intelligence, and whatever success you fathom in whatever domain you most enjoy, your life would be shit because you valie the ephemeral and useless. God alone is not worthless dross.
Man that still sounds like a cope to me. I read the bible and see it has value in providing values and wisdom. The wisdom books are good for that.
The devotion to god itself is a manmade purpose, an abstract goal to strive towards.
Only true if man made man or man made the whole universe
Why did God create us and the universe to serve him? And what about those that worshiped other gods and had different interpretations of the bible and such before the council of nicea? What about all the other civilizations beyond the Mediterranean sea, why did god ignore them?
>Why did God create us and the universe to serve him?
Serving = rejoining God
>And what about those that worshiped other gods and had different interpretations of the bible and such before the council of nicea?
Vatican II says that they could be saved - we really don't know.
>What about all the other civilizations beyond the Mediterranean sea, why did god ignore them?
Could just happen that Mediterranean was the right place for it to catch hold
Christcucks need to leave
>to leave
Not disproven? lmfao
Mediocrity is nothing to be ashamed of as long as you make a good living. No need to have unnecessary risks
I'm unemployed and made the mistake of thinking I was a software engineer when I can't problem solve to save my life. Went two years of not being able to solve a single ticket before getting axed. Mediocre isn't good enough if you can't hold a job
Pivot to project management btw
People tell me that, or Technical writing. The former seems even less interesting, and since I lack basic executive functioning, that wouldn't be a good fit anyway. The latter seems ok, but it's still sitting down and focusing on stuff I don't care about, which will cause problems anyway.
You could teach the basics to people or do IT help desk or maybe Product Manager? My heart goes out to you though brither, I've never struggled intellectually and that would be really challenging and humbling. I hope you're okay.
My mom's a teacher and growing up watching her, seeing the shit income, and not getting to follow my interests because she couldn't care less is the no 1 reason I fell for the stem meme.
I made a fool of myself countless times because I couldn't figure out something in front of others to the point they found it funny. Poor incidents over life really start adding up. I never had, nor understood something like anxiety, where the fear is in the prediction, instead I just have regrets where I tear myself apart over stuff I could've done better.
I feel you bro... I mean I solve shit sometimes but it may take me 4 weeks instead of one. And they refuse to take my estimates seriously, i think something will take 10 sp but i compromise and say 5 sp, they say it's still too much and has to be done faster...
Avoid usury.
Live within your means.
Expect to go without pussy for a good long while (but that's a feature not a bug. If you cannot control your base impulses, you were NGMI anyway)
Work for yourself. If you cannot work for yourself, work for a man who works for himself.
If you have a "manager", you are being "managed" for the profit of some israelite.
>Expect to go without pussy for a good long while
A buyer's market is about to emerge as the economy contracts and millions of women with fake degrees from Stanford and higher expectations from life than they can afford try to keep living in expensive cities even as daddy says he has to curtail their "allowance" (rent) money slightly because even he's suffering. Millions and millions of women are about to consider casual prostitution, in an environment already prepared by "sex work" propaganda that makes it sound exciting and normalizes it.
I strongly recommend shifting to a prostitute-based model of sexual fulfillment in the current economy. It will pay dividends in a few years. Remember, most of your favorite literary and philosophical heroes didn't whine about being an incel, they just went to brothels and chatted up fun prostitutes, and then got a fat wife when they had to, and cheated on her. This can be you! And the brothels will soon be cheaper than ever!
For generations, women have collectively been clamoring to be perceived a certain way. Acquiesce them and begin enjoying life. Better $200 of your money here and there, translating to a few hours of your labor time, than a lifetime of angst and thousands of hours wasted usually with no result.
>I strongly recommend shifting to a prostitute-based model of sexual fulfillment in the current economy.
What sort of moron hasn't already done this?
People with careers, security clearances and the like that can't afford risking legal consequences or kompromat?
>risking legal consequences
>he lives in a country with illegal prostitution
ngmi
>If you cannot work for yourself, work for a man who works for himself.
I did for a while, I got 100 Euros for 350+ hours of work and I thought about suicide daily
>fulfilling job
this is such a massively damaging lie that is peddled to the younger generations. you need to find the job that you can accept, rather than chasing a dream that is never going to happen.
If you're an ant this will work like a charm.
>youtube
How about you stop being depressed yourself?
This is disgusting crap. Everyone must be reborn in Christ
>But if not, you have to break through to an objective grasp of reality and start caring about the world in a way that makes your daily life a mission
OSRS will cure you op
All my old friends stopped playing OSRS and i can't deal with constant grind alone.
I started it in 2017 renaissance and stopped in 20. Sold all my items so I would never play (aka. get addicted) agai
>If you're an ant this will work like a charm.
You're a gay homosexual Black person 16yo who thinks he's the Schopenhauer of the 21st century, kindly have a nice day
I'm the Christian Schopenhauer of the 21st century, thank you.
僕のダイアリーです
I will unironically read it.
Link it.
Stop eating bad food. Revert to simple pleasures. Buy a nice pull up bar. Stop listening to shitty music (pop and homie bops). Read good books. I cured your depression. 2 weeks to be effective.
What's bad food?
anything not whole should be thrown out. if you want a good sweet, bake your own. In general, eat whole foods, avoid ultra processed garbage. Occasionally treat yourself to something, if it tickles your fancy.
Anything that is processed significantly in a factory.
If your great-grandparents wouldn't recognize it as food you should avoid it. Eat simple foods: potatoes, meats, vegetables, butter.
>I only eat "organic food", or as my granny used to call it, "food".
Stop eating anything with vegetable/seed oils and refined sugars. Cook your own food as much as possible. We are learning that gut flora is a huge part of depression and a shitty diet contributes to bad gut flora.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/revneuro-2017-0072/html
Yeah cook in butter so your cholesterol goes through the roof very smart
Olive oil/lard moron
Don't be a moron and fry on olive oil. Olive oil has a low smoke point. Use olive oil in your salads and cook with avocado oil
General rule of thumb is only shop the periphery of a grocery store. That's were the bread and dairy and meat and produce are. Everything up and down the aisles is processed garbage.
>shitty music (pop and homie bops)
what to listen to then?
Prog and field recordings
These are important too but they are insufficient if you interpret them entirely prosaically, i.e., as
>I'm a big dumb normie who likes Marvel movies. But now I'm sad! Maybe if I ate more fruit and worked out I'd be happy again, because the material chemicals in my meaningless mindless material Marvel-watching brain would flow a little better!
Normies can actually benefit from a "stop being an unhealthy moron who only goes out at 2AM, you need sunlight and proper sleep and fewer sulfides in your diet" anti-depression regime. But the most rewarding application of such a regime comes from when you actually regard life as objectively important, and thus yourself as an important player in it, with significant shit to do, and thus your body becomes a temple that should be maintained. When you can feel health and goodness pouring into your soul from some transcendent goal that you are striving towards, you naturally want to make your body into the best possible vessel for the soul, and this naturally radiates back outwards and makes you healthy in that "glowing" way that even the superficially healthiest people sometimes don't have.
>Socrates
>Come now, let me tell you another parable from the same school as that I have just told. Consider if each of the two lives, the temperate and the licentious, might be described by imagining that each of two men had a number of jars, [493e] and those of one man were sound and full, one of wine, another of honey, a third of milk, and various others of various things, and that the sources of each of these supplies were scanty and difficult and only available through much hard toil: well, one man, when he has taken his fill, neither draws off any more nor troubles himself a jot, but remains at ease on that score; whilst the other finds, like his fellow, that the sources are possible indeed, though difficult, but his vessels are leaky and decayed, [494a] and he is compelled to fill them constantly, all night and day, or else suffer extreme distress. If such is the nature of each of the two lives, do you say that the licentious man has a happier one than the orderly? Do I, with this story of mine, induce you at all to concede that the orderly life is better than the licentious, or do I fail?
ty for the wise words
english is not my first language and im probably a brainlet, but i dont understand completly. One of the men has good jars which he sometimes sips some good thing from. the other mans jars are broken so he must always toil to keep them filled, obviously the first man has a better life but i cant understand the "point"? how would the second man go about living like the first if he is constantly having to refill the jars since theyre leaking?
Source of the Socrates speech ?
Cured me and gave me a good basis for the rest of my life
Depression is only cured by having what Heidegger called the Umwillen, the "for-the-sake-of-which" one acts, and that can only arise within an interpretation of the world as fundamentally meaningful.
How this used to work in previous eras is that most people, as in all eras, are relatively prosaic, what William James called "once-born" types, meaning they only have to be born once to be happy, they don't have to undergo what James called "conversion" to a higher and more integrated form of themselves and their own take on how the world fits together and why it all matters. Prosaic people may have minor conversion experiences, but they are for prosaic reasons, which usually have concrete solutions. The most obvious and common one is having kids - how many normies suddenly become just fine after having a family, even a shitty family Their sense of purpose is always near at hand, and depression is only ever a case of one prosaic regime of satisfaction lapsing (youthful hedonism) and another one (dedication to family, basic fuzzy feelings of family gatherings and barbecues with tolerable acquaintance every weekend) not having arrived yet.
But the whole therapy and antidepressant industry is predicated on the assumption that ALL unhappiness stems from concrete problems which have concrete solutions, often brute materialistic reasons of neurochemical imbalances (despite this making no sense in most cases).
If you reject or at least suspend your tacit faith in this pre-interpretation of the world as filled only with prosaic people experiencing prosaic problems, then you have a double problem. You have the initial problem that a non-prosaic person would have in every era, namely, your sense of the world and of your place in it is not hanging together, doesn't form a concrete whole that makes you feel excited to get up every day and tackle life and preform your unique service to the world. But the secondary problem is caused by living in a world that no longer even really understands that people like you exist. At least prosaic people 700 years ago might go "oh that's Theobald, we think he's going to join the Franciscans any day now, he is very troubled by matters of the soul" or "oh that's Berengar, he does nothing but speak of armed pilgrimage to the Holy Land since that preacher came, and you know we don't have a plot for him to inherit anyway, so it's just as well." But now prosaic people will strap you to a hospital bed and force-feed you pills they don't understand because you said you are bored of Marvel movies after seeing 294 of them.
If you're prosaic, disregard all this. It's possible you really do just have a chemical imbalance. But if not, you have to break through to an objective grasp of reality and start caring about the world in a way that makes your daily life a mission. Reality becoming thin and gray to you may just be the obverse of a higher world, of infinitely more substance and lustre, trying to get you to notice it.
good post
What would help non-prosaic people lessen the depression?
Zen mind, beginners mind
In the footsteps of Bodhisattvas
Within and without by Jayasaro
Read any one of these and see if it peaks your interest.
>peaks your interest
>peaks
Grammarbros..
>Zen mind, beginners mind
Shunryu was a fake guru cult leader who hated zen and only used it for money, fame and sex. Just like any other predatory cult leader.
His books have nothing to do with zen.
Read bodhidharmas bloodstream sermon instead.
Why is the bloomer singing a WW2 Nazi song?
Have you heard Erika? It's an amazing song
I have, didn't really do much for me. It's still weird to include in the picture.
Why? Being a fascist is generally correlated with well-being and positive vibes.
Yeah. I agree. The fascists here don’t seem miserable or bitter. Kek
Exactly.
See? You're happier already.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Loser
Winner.
No fascist I've met in person has been well-adjusted or positive
well adjusted people usually aren't looking to cause a scene in public or put their life or family at risk so almost by necessity any well adjusted fascist is going to be a quiet fascist
>mass migration into the west. will not stop until native populations have been replaced
>fewer jobs
>things will get more and more expensive as companies look to ever increase profits
>techno-dystopianism. oi m8, got a license for that IQfy comment?
>women are ruined
>men are in ruins
>culture has died
>morals are gone, never to return
>no good books will ever be published again due to hatred of white males
Yeah... delude yourself into not being depressed or just face reality like a man, hombre.
One could accept all those things and not be depressed
🙁
These heavily made-up, photoshopped, pornified succubi don't even come close to matching the serene, raw beauty of healthy peasant girls.
wish those were my grapes
The world waxes and wanes. Don't act like a wuss just because you were born during the bad times. There's work to do.
the mass migration replacement is living rent free in my head, i cant do anything about it, so i need to change my attitude towards it, but i really really do not like...africans. So it pops up and makes me angry and sad every single day,
i dont want to be like this anymore, feeling hatred daily is really unhealthy i wish i could be more carefree
>the mass migration replacement is living rent free in my head, i cant do anything about it,
>so i need to change my attitude towards it
>but i really really do not like...africans
Relax
It's simply not happening
In the European Union as of 2019, there is a record of approximately 9.6 million people of Sub-Saharan African or Afro-Caribbean descent, comprising around 2% of the total population, with over 50% located in France.
not gonna turn the thread into arguing about it but its very much happening. For example in my own country by 2030 50% of all children under 14 will be non native.
is that a bad thing ?
>Is that a bad thing that most people in your country aren't of same descent and blood as you are?
Hoho, fricking moronic limp-wristed homosexual you are. Fricking lobotomized dishonest subhuman.
oh nooo my country oh nooo my blood line lmao this Black person is living in the middle ages
wake up moron there is no bloodline
Just be honest and say what you think.
I understand what you're getting at and sympathise but let me ask a hypothetical. I've got three centuries of English/Welsh ancestry which I can confirm thanks to my mother's genealogical autism. Were I to have a child with a Swedish womon would this be upsetting to you? Especially given the likely fact that at some stage my own ancestors would have been KWABed by yours or some invading group which we have mutually been KWABed by? How does your answer to this question relate to your initial concern?
i just really dont want my homeland to be overtaken by blacks and browns man, thats all
The worst part is that there will never be any resistance towards it. The current elite have convinced the entire population that if they are against mass immigration they are racist and that they have the power to basically neuter any actual resistance against their regime through carpet banning them from all modern public squares (social media).
If you think being against mass migration is some kind of redpill against the regime, then congrats, you fell for their meme.
What they actually fear is locals and immigrants uniting against the current power.
But of couse "NOOOOO I HATE Black folk, CHINESE, MEXICANS, PAJEETS!!! WE SHOULD UNITE THE WHITE RACE!"""
Racism is just a tool to control you, they know this perfectly well.
If you understand this, maybe there's still "hope"
Found the boomer conservative.
>"Guys, ackchyually being replaced is fine as long as we work together!"
>posts malcolm x or mlk quote
Most midwit take I've ever seen in my entire life, do you know that Amazon literally created heatmaps for unionization which were based on the level of diversity in the workplace with the homogenous workplaces being at the highest risk of unionization? How the frick are you meant to politically organize with people who don't even speak English, share a community or religion with you, you fricking moron.
>In b4 mass migration deflating the wages and destroying local communities is actually a good thing!
>What they actually fear is locals and immigrants uniting against the current power.
No, what they actually fear is useful idiot fake leftists like you, who appeal to the bourgeois socdem myth of "don't hate the immigrant, we're all fellow workers :^)!!" to appeal to people's nicey-nice desire not to be mean to immigrants, being finally defeated by real anticapitalists, who remember perfectly well the UNIVERSAL disdain all historical socialist and communist movements have had for capitalists using mass immigration to dilute local labor solidarity
Only a completely bourgeois utopian idiot would allow capitalists to import foreign labor into a market that already has precarious labor organization, because it has been proved a million times that there labor organization is easier to dilute than to increase. The former only requires mixing up and dispersing existing labor, while the latter requires years of hard work and grassroots effort. Every real socialist and labor organizer knows this, and that is why EVERY SINGLE FRICKING LABOR MOVEMENT, INCLUDING THE MEXICAN AMERICAN LABOR LEADER CESAR CHAVEZ, WAS VIOLENTLY AND VICIOUSLY OPPOSED TO "OPEN BORDERS" IMMIGRATION
Bernie Sanders: "Open borders? No, that's a Koch brothers proposal"
This shit is a bipartisan issue between left and right, mass immigration is proveably only good for capitalists and everybody has known it for 200 years. Nobody has ever been for it, ever, until recently.
Modern "leftists" are so fricking psy opped by the CIA that they can't even see when they are literally defending the opposite of their own historical ideas. They're all pro-"sex work," which is the most un-Marxist thing you could ever be, and pro-labor dilution. And why? What's at the root of all this confusion? Because the only actual idea in their heads is a, by design, systematically vague notion of "b-be nice... d-don't upset anyone.. c-can't we all just let people do what they want to do.." which is a disgusting blend of bourgeois-anarchist cultural politics (which Marx's whole raison d'etre for 30+ years was ruthlessly trying to stamp out), combined with English laissez faire liberalism.
You just can't salvage the modern left, they are just empty vessels into which the CIA can pour anything it likes.
Things are changing. It’ll get better as more people realize what is happening.
In the meantime. Try to have some white kids.
The 'replacement' is faltering as the migrants run into the same problems the rest of the soft west has run into:
The more money you make, the less evolutionary impulse there is to have lots of kids.
Also, once you start making money, you're going to want to control immigration so that your labor isn't devalued.
Basically:
>Illegals and ''''refugees''' breed a lot when they're poor and they need the extra hands around.
>They immigrate to a rich country, legally or otherwise.
>they realize kids cost a lot of the money they could be saving for themselves
>they stop reproducing
Long story short, the replacement is, at best, a fantasy/nightmare that won't come true.
At worst, it's going to result in a lot of countries in the third world ending up under utilized and needing recolonized/taken control of.
If you want to do your part, remember that there are religions like Catholicism with like minded individuals who will want to fill your house with brats.
>>mass migration into the west. will not stop until native populations have been replaced
Unless you're European, I don't think it's really that big of a deal. Immigrants in the U.S. are assimilating, especially Hispanics and Asians (both East and South Asians). They're inter-marrying with Americans and are abandoning the leftist voting blocs. You're already seeing some label Hispanics and Asians white as punishment.
jobs
Okay fair, but hone a skill that you have, and you genuinely enjoy, and become self-employed. This seems to be the best route for a lot of young people going forward, but few seem to pursue for fear of failure.
will get more and more expensive as companies look to ever increase profits
Things will improve and get better. It takes time.
-dystopianism. oi m8, got a license for that IQfy comment?
I'm guessing you're European, but from my own experience I see more and more normies realizing that social media connecting to the Internet for everything is a fricking mistake and are gradually ridding themselves of their online personas.
are ruined
Things will improve as the chaos goes on and once it subsides, you'll notice a difference. Even women lament traditional gender roles and yearn for something like it to return. Albeit they don't bring it up in public.
>>men are in ruins
And yet self-improvement cults and the Manosphere have enraptured the entirety of young men. There is yet hope for them all.
has died
This is more the fault of the Millennials refusing to let go of the 1990s and Hollywood/AAA-vidya absolutely capitalizing on it.
are gone, never to return
lol. lmao. Morality is an objective thing across all cultures and here to stay.
>>no good books will ever be published again due to hatred of white males
Self publish my dude. What are you waiting for? Build up your audience, submit your works to small/medium sized publishers, improve your craft, and you'll see some success.
Grandpa? But you died
How do you stay motivated to keep reading, bros? I didn't have this problem when I was younger, but I pretty much have to force myself to read anything these days; even shit I really want to read.
eliminate distractions. delete your social media and stop using IQfy
>stop using IQfy
BAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH. My friend, you and I both know this is not possible - perhaps that was your point. Anyways.
Pack it a habit, stay disciplined, set aside a reading time everyday, eventually it will not only become a habit but a desire. Turn your computer or phone off for a bit when you want to read.
>Turn your computer or phone off for a bit when you want to read.
Not him, but for me it's vital to have a device close when reading nonfiction, to check stuff
This guy is a moron.
Just stop IQfy. Somw boards still have fun people
Nta but I only come on lit and I have a noticeable improvement in my mood whenever I take a break or get banned on purpose. This is just a basic social media site after all. Come here and lurk when you can’t post and you’ll see how shit it is and that you aren’t missing anything
Do you post in any other boards?
No
Would you describe yourself as a "fun person"?
At times
I go in cycles where I’ll either watch a lot of old movies at night or read at night to wind down. I make it something to look forward to rather than something that has to be done. Of course when I was still in school I’d just read all the time since that was why I was there and I enjoyed it. So if you’re student age try to make sure there’s at least a class or two where you’d actually just read the material anyway rather than having it be imposed on you.
Read what you enjoy when you are struggling with motivation. Even if pulp or genre fiction. Better to read something everyday so you don’t fall out of the habit. Reading is like working out. It’s easy to go long periods once you stop and hard to get back into
I think books will inevitably make you more depressed in the end.
Feeling bad (or good) is mostly a question of feedback loops, which implies that there are things that objectively should make you feel better (or worse). Feeling depressive causing you to neglect healthy living, meaning you feel even worse, leading to even worse neglect of yourself etc. Better diet, a minimum of social interaction, exercise and physical activity, feelings of productivity.
Make a commitment to something. And do.
let's go to war
i made a commitment to chess, turns out im stupid and camt improve. what now?
you have already failed. Try again.
Calm down Hikaru. Just because you lost a random tourney to that incel yesterday doesn’t mean you’re bad.
Chess is a stupid game. Trysomething that has actual cultural value, like AoE2 or RTW
Start a business, you dont need anywhere near as high IQ to be good at that as you do to play chess.
yeah,but i'll always know it's only because i couldn't be good at chess and couldn't be truly intelligent...so what's the point? The only worthwhile thing in life is being more intelligent than others, there's literally nothing else to life.
Chess is for brainlets, play Shogi or Go instead.
All of these are vain and worthless.
This will last for 5 months.
You should learn from him, he went unnoticed for most of his life until he raised to fame. After his death, Hegel's henchmen tried to silence him, but now we are living in the middle of a renaissance. His WILL cannot be stopped.
I went on PhilPapers and didn't see much new stuff on Schoppy. Do you have anything specific? It may just me not searching for it properly.
Stop dwelling around IQfy and you will be happy.
Whenvever I am on IQfy I enjoy life, whenever I come here IQfyards destroy all my motivation to read something.
Unironically read Evola, he cured my sadness and now I feel motivated to get through life, my projects, and to win over our enemies.
You fricking coward
Based.
> I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
I recommend starting with easier to digest books like The Bow and the Club, and Orientations.
>be le sad boi
>read evola
>post quotes from ifunny and vaporwave trad memes
>watch videos with cathedral's with "adaigo for the strings" backing
>mfw I'm revolting against the modern world
ngmi. I hope to God you're brown.
Depression is from not accepting religion as a necessary part of your humanity. Confusion is from accepting the wrong one. Roman Catholicism and Christ or yeah you'll be lost and depressed. It's not magical but it is divine.
The only way to achieve that is through the grace of the Holy Spirit.
There is no book to solve depression. It's maladaptive electrical signals in your brain based off your previous behavior (in a negative environment)
Any dipshit who tells you they've read their way out of depression or addiction is lying to you
Midwit take. New ideas can be the impetus to break these cycles of repeating previous behaviors, including seeking healthier environments.
>just change your environment
>seeking healthier environments
Thanks for proving me right dipshit
Also, your environment is pre-determined to a reasonable extent. Same with your genetics and your family
Why would he start with the greeks? They were refuted.
Maybe if you have the structure for it you can induce some delusional break and then feel content with everything.
But honestly the idea that you can "solve" "it" by yourself through reading some books means you're way off the mark
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”
This may speak to you and it's not a toilsome read.
Taoteching
Focus on the positive things in your life. Whenever you feel down, try to flip the switch. It took me a while to be able to do it. Keep a positive attitude and be pleasant towards people. That energy is reciprocated. Look for silver linings. Know that there will always be challenges and bouts of feeling blue. Know that all things pass, the good and the bad, so keep a level head in both. Set realistic expectations. If you notice that things just aren’t getting better, then you are the common denominator. It’s you who needs to change something. Change is uncomfortable and no one likes it. Focus on the individual. People lose their individuality in masses and the worst comes out. Try not to give a frick in a good way. Let your ego go and be yourself.
This is the best recommendation you're going to get: Journey to the Orient by Gerard Nerval.
It's a 19th century travel book by an autist with a depressive streak. He traveled around the Middle East, immersed himself in local culture and folklore, and was able to recount a number of very interesting stories, including the true story of the secret Druze religion's formation.
After you read it, you'll feel as though there is more to the world than what you see around you. That, in other words, the world has more potential -- that there is more it can do to surprise and even shock you. What's more, you may feel inspired to go on a journey of your own.
After you're done with Nerval, you can consult the rest of the list in picrel. But start with Nerval.
You are the only anon I’ve ever seen mention De Nerval besides the anon I was talking to about Sylvie and Aurelia about a year ago. He’s an interesting writer with a unique vibe. Props for knowing him. If anons know his name, they know him as an influence on Proust
That kind of search sounds close to the frantic search & attribution of meaning to random objects that schizophrenics experience when they can't find any stable place inside.
>Mfw when that writer was literally a schizo
You homosexuals are young so I’m going to hit you with a truth bomb. Life has always been hard and there has always been depression, no matter the era or person. Life is what you make of it. Sometimes the dice don’t roll good numbers but you can still always make the best of the situation. Sometimes you’re lucky and the dice roll is perfect. It’s up to you to seize the opportunity. Don’t blame others for your issues. That’s the biggest issue I see today. Everyone wants to point fingers at someone. But who has ever been able to change the hearts of men? Do your best, always improve and keep your head up. Don’t be an oldgay looking back on life with regrets
It's fine (to a point) if you regret things you've done. The horrible thing is when you regret things you've never done. Yes, I'm referring to sex, but I also have other things in mind.
And no, I (almost) never blame anyone but myself. I put myself here.
Then realize you can get yourself out. Sex really isn’t a big deal. Go to a hooker if need be. The game changer is when you realize girls desire sex. It’s not difficult to get. It’s incels who put sex on a pedestal like some sacred object. You smash your genitals together for 30secs to 30 mins, feel good, open up a window and wash yourself up. If you want real good advice, take this: if you better yourself in other areas sex will come. Girls have a good sixth sense for this shit
If you're on IQfy, chances are you're still reasonably young.
I want to cry all the time. I feel too much. Everything is unbearable. Yet I fear losing this sensitivity, which as all I have. I am a failed man.
Ignore all the fricking meme answers here
Life is really a gift , you will never get to live again
chances of you getting born was so low and yet here you are !
don't think about Black folk raping your land
think that the land doesn't belong to anyone and rather it's just your turn
it's really not that important , read some cormac mccarthy to really understand the misery of the condition of mankind
read about how bloodthirsty the land is and how there's really nothing as cold and uncaring as the land so why should you care?
no one says we should be bound by the place we were born if you wanna blame the goverments and policies go ahead but don't be a hate filled individual who is being played by higher powers who wants you to feel the way you are feeling right now
don't become a cuck but also don't become a tool
HNNPJ
Boxing would help too
pick a sport niglet and seek to better yourself
HNNPJ?
Ho nill never pe a Joman
>turns down sex offers from women he isn't serious about
Isn't that crazy?
I'm 26 now and never thought it would happen to me... And yet it did.
I also fell in love and felt the pain of being rejected for the first time since 2012.
It was honestly a good experience, because I genuinely thought I was now incapable of falling in love.
Totally unexpected.
I even made a post right here on IQfy complaining about how I would never feel love again, and had people telling me I would eventually feel "adult love", or whatever. This was last year.
Anyway, there's nothing adult about it. It felt just like it had ten years ago. The only difference was that I now thought about living together, marrying, etc.
And being rejected, of course, felt even worse.
But now I went back to dating apps, got some 40 matches altogether, and it all seems so inane that I just don't care. For the first time in my life I find myself instantly rejecting pictures not only of women with huge asses, but also of "cute" 18 year olds, and so on.
Never thought it would happen.
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, but only if you already agree with the premise that a positive mental attitude leads to positive outcomes and a negative attitude leads to etc.
Are you physically well? Adequate exercise and movement every day? Normal sleeping schedule? Getting all your essential vitamins? Eating well? It's hard to understand how detrimental a sedentary lifestyle or basic vitamin deficiency is on your mood and your brain until you're out of it and back into a healthy state. Trying to help your mind while neglecting your body is like trying to ride a bike refusing to put it in gear, lube the chain, fill up the tires, etc. Normally the bike does most of the work for you provided you keep up a cadence, the same is true for the relationship between your body and mind.
>Are you physically well? Adequate exercise and movement every day? Normal sleeping schedule? Getting all your essential vitamins? Eating well?
You're on IQfy, you already know the answer.
>Books to stop being depressed?
Cozolino L. - The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy. Healing the Social Brain (2017)
I'm so tired bros, and I have it better than most people in this world.
Release the tension stored in your muscles. Relax your frown, jaw and shoulders. Try and breathe deeply several times. Drink green tea, it's great for the mood. Drink enough water throughout the day. You will be alright anon. I believe in you.
Listen OP, you only need one book. Man and its symbols by Jung.
Depends, if it's a chronic thing you may have brain a defect (hyperactive amygdala, clogged dentrides in certain area of your brain, etc) and be in need of both meds and psychotherapy.
If lucky you may be able to drop the meds and rely on psychotherapy alone.
And just be thankful you're not schizophrenic, it could have been worst.
Ketamine might also help you as a short-term rapid action anti-depressant just to pick yourself up and get enough drive to move on.
Nietzsche is all right too...
Unironically get the frick off this god forsaken website, I wish I never got back into it. Seriously, I can't imagine it being a net positive on anyone's life and most people here have a crab mentality and would rather drown in the misery and be an edgy teenager pushing 30. Get off the computer, go outside, find God if that's your scene, anything but wasting away here.
I read Atlas Shrugged. I know what you probably think of Rand, I went in thinking Bioshock was an accurate portrayal of her beliefs and that I would throw down the book after two pages. I came out believing that mankind is capable of great things, that I alone have the power to change my life. But I think what has more personal feel to it is The Fountainhead. It divulges more on dreams and integrity. Godspeed, anon.
>ctrl+f Brothers Karamazov
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The hell is up with IQfy lately?
What I've realized is that they don't exist
If a book can make you happy it can only do it for a little while
Happiness itself is just like a drug
It lasts a little while then wears off and every time it takes more and more to get back to the same point
I recommend forgetting about all that and just getting used to the suffering
It's a book called:
>go outside and do some kind of fun activity with other people
No, it's not. It's called
>if you can't find happiness where you are, where do you expect to find it?
And realizing that for most people on this website, they are poisoned by materialism and porn-addiction/obsession with sex.
If you can't be happy alone, you won't be happy around others. You might be distracted by others for a bit, but you won't be magically made happy.
Take vitamin d3 idiot
how the FRICK do i be that picture? books do frick all/
feeling good by david burns