Write What's On Your Mind ?

>pussy is 20 dollars
>cocaine is 10 dollars a gram @ +90% purity
>vicodin and percocet are over the counter and can be bought with delivery via app so you don't even need to reveal yourself as a filthy junkie to the pharmacy workers
Colombia is hedonist heaven, no doubt about it, just don't get decapitated.

>I feel like an overgrown child or an oaf. I want to be a serious person but am inherently ridiculous.
This. Whatever I do, I feel ridiculous. I'm a loser in the physical and a loser in the spiritual. I just want to exercise, read, and smoke weed. There's nothing beautiful or captivating about me. There's nothing else for people like us

i'm not calling you pathetic or anything, don't get me wrong. you have to get into the mind of the woman in this situation. in her mind, she's already moved on (sounds like she's in korea now), so for you to reach out to her and show her that you're suffering over the loss of what she probably didn't think much of (sorry to be blunt); it could appear pathetic to her.
you say you don't have any girl that currently contacts you, but there are many, many girls, all just wandering around out their with their breasts all bouncing around. you have to find them

Youre right man, but the thing is, a girl needs more patience with me, and im not able to find that. A girl wants me to be dominant, fast acting, sociable, assertive but im none of that things, i dont even want to become like that. I can be caring, affectionate, have long intelligent talks, kind but thats not what girls care about. Im also introverted which is horrible for finding a girl. Girls are too chaotic and impulsive for me, even cruel. I suffer psychologically a lot because of this. Also, i look like a chad and then when a girl finds out im not, she is very dissapointed.
Also, the part about moving on might be true for her, but we talked a lot and she thought about me cause once she sent me a new years message when we didnt talk for a long while, and said something like " where you been"

I am you? Well hows life treating you these days? Are you reading something

Is it true that in symposium plato argues that only viable way of living was being good regardless of the outside circumstances and because that way of living doesnt pay off in this life, there has to be an afterlife in which it does?
Last book i read was philokalia

Frick, i meant the Republic. Is there such theme in that book?

That was uncalled for

It’s a nicely pseudo historical take, but besides the point since nobody said anything about fighting. Modern soldiers are technicians. This is practically undeniable. But the change extends to the whole of life and not only to the people who are expected to fight and die.

Is this you just lashing out or did you really not get what I wrote?

No, I pretty clearly meant the natures of things have changed and that’s diminished them, but you glossed over that and went right to “oh yeah, go be a fighter pilot” as if that could remotely be a solution. If anything, it only highlights the problem because it perfectly illustrates the way this thing has really changed drastically. So either you really didn’t get it or you really did go right to insults and lashing out.

Well, I think for one everything has been sucked up more into money and especially technology. No matter what you do, you’re more of a technician than you would’ve been doing the same thing in the past. We’re definitely subject to more bureaucracies and institutions than we used to be. We’re subject to highly consumerist markets. I think if you point to something like cars, or guns, or houses, or architecture, or other physical things most people will easily accept that things have gotten worse for a whole bunch of reasons, but for some reason they can’t wrap their heads around the fact the same phenomenon occurred with the things we do. Soldiering is just the most obvious one to point out because it’s really obvious how old martial values don’t mean shit in front of a machine gun or in a wienerpit. But the original guy I was replying to didn’t even have that sort of thing in mind. He seemed to have had more in things like science, art, scholarship, that sort of thing and that’s really been discussed to death on this board. There are no Oppenheimers anymore. There are no people even doing the same sort of thing. That’s why he used the word “solved”. The same sort of thing isn’t even occurring, because that “problem” has already been “solved”. You frame it in these terms and most people accept it. But you frame it in the sense the at the same activities aren’t able to happen in this time partly because we’re so mired in some sort of civilizational muck, the wires start crossing and they start accusing you of being a loser or a chud or something.

oh shit we got a born le wrong generation over here. take it the youtube comments of a led zeppelin video, dweeb.

i've competed in combat sports, you?

i've sparred with plenty of muscle dudes who come in the gym thinking they're tough. before the first round is even over they're sucking wind claiming asthma attack. frick outta here. you're a pussy.

Medieval knights didn’t own land you twat. They were the only caste of gentry that weren’t landed.

source?

Ah, a fellow scholar.

see:

according to a paper i just found in 1850 the life expectancy for a serf was 27.3 years while the life expectancy for a free person in industrializing western europe was 41.6. meanwhile american life expectancy is 77.3 years. looks like you live in a fantasy world of cope. better luck next time.

you are wrong

No, you can’t.

In my mind, it’s less about like and more about worthwhile and what’s worthwhile is what’s dignified. I think a lot of the ways we live now, and very often the ways we have to live now, are neither worthwhile nor dignified.

It doesn’t get more concrete than that. You are just dumb.

according to a paper i just found in 1850 the life expectancy for a serf was 27.3 years while the life expectancy for a free person in industrializing western europe was 41.6. meanwhile american life expectancy is 77.3 years. looks like you live in a fantasy world of cope. better luck next time.

Except "average lifespan" counts infant mortality and Kaczynski has written on it for this reason. Lifespan of those who made it past 15 was something like 70 but without goyslop obesity, rootless consoom productism, israelites, microplastics, fluoride, prescribed meds, Black folk or globohomo.

Has nothing to do with the claim you replied to. A long life is not necessarily a good life.

>according to a paper i just found in 1850
um as if anyone cares

Is the troony in the room with us right now?

Right, they were part of the lower landed gentry. Doesn't mean their lives were sunshine and rainbows. The family inheritance was dwindling as it was divided between like 5 siblings.
Having property, even some Victorian mansion, doesn't mean their lives were amazing.
Not sure what it is with IQfy losers/spergs playing oppression Olympics.
According to Wikipedia they were dependant on the patronage of wealthier noble relatives, and her father
>The Reverend Austen had an annual income of £200 (equivalent to £27,000 in 2021) from his two livings.[33] This was a very modest income at the time; by comparison, a skilled worker like a blacksmith or a carpenter could make about £100 annually while the typical annual income of a gentry family was between £1,000 and £5,000.[33]
If the Bennet family is any reflection on her own, it doesn't sound to me like a particularly happy existence.
Anyways it was just one example, im sure there are other examples of writers who lived pretty sad lives.

>Adele-like slag
Anon you pretty much nailed it, she was blonde and a little thicker though not straight fat. Goddamnit maybe i am in England, I have heard that about British girls being easy

Yeah, I hope snaps out of it before he destroys his life. He seems like a good guy who just got too wrapped up in his intellectual obsessions.

What meme-opsych does to a motherfricker

>The best I can hope for is a short life
From the small amount I know about you I can't see why that is. Seems melodramatic, and tied up in your belief that you're a "garbage person"

It’s not bad enough that I’d send it back but there are some brackets and check marks in pen that are distracting. I like my books pristine. I don’t know who’s been reading used books before and I don’t want to handle some slobs book while I pick my nose and ass. It was one of those only 1 left in stock too. Oh well.

probably they saw that seinfeld episode where he talks about how books that were read in the bathroom are tainted. ever since i saw that, i view bathroom books with suspicion and keep them quarantined from the rest of my books. it's irrational, but what can you do. oh, also i think i read some post on slashdot back in the day about a copy of perl for system administration that a dude threw out because after it had been on his toilet for five years he thought it was toxic. again, totally irrational.

A book is nothing like a woman. Unless it's falling apart I don't see what difference the condition makes

>If I’m going to have something in my hand for hours I want it handled minimally beforehand
Ok, I think that's weird and means you're a hypochondriac. It's a book, not a door handle you fricking sperg. Like you might as well worry that the guy who stocked the new book on the shelf was scratching his ass while he did it

>Nearly none of them will be professors.
what would you say it takes to reach professorship?

>You're guaranteed around $90,000 a year
w.t.f. in Amerika you get nowhere near that. we don't value learning.

>In consequence of very extended natural discoveries, trade and commerce have increased; while abstract investigations, have necessarily declined: so that modern enquiries, never rise above sense; and every thing is despised, which does not in some respect or other, contribute to the accumulation of wealth; the gratification of childish admiration; or the refinements of corporeal delight.
That's Amerika at it's extreme

Lecturers don’t get paid shit in the United States. Nobody gets paid well academia besides the professors and the administrators that are considered above them (as opposed to the administrators considered below).

Realistically? $50k-$70k, less if you’re in a cheaper market even if it’s an R1 or otherwise top school. That’s not that terrible, but given they have PhDs and usually expected a $100k+ career it’s pretty terrible. At least they’re not staff. Staff can make $30k or less. I started my staff job at $40k and had only risen to $50k after 5 years.

Philadelphia so it’s a bit higher here because of cost of living. I think R1s and top schools probably generally pay in the range I specified though, at least on the coasts.

It’s the opposite. The majority of students cannot graduate within 6 years because they cannot get good grades to save their lives. The grades are not inflated anymore. They’ll just totally arbitrary.

That’s incorrect. I just did the research for an article about this. It is just common among full-time students that enroll at that school from the start now.

Well, what you said is a factor. If students are working, they’re not liable to be great students. But as far as I can tell, GPAs have gone bimodal, just like job outcomes. Nobody really knows why, but I suspect it’s a dogmatic closing of universities. 30 years ago, they wanted to get you through. Now, professors basically hate their students and very often want to root them out because they feel they don’t belong, and I think the students are less motivated than ever. There were no pretenses for the late millenials or after that things would work out for them. They didn’t want the degrees. They felt like they had to get them.

It does. My own experience affirms that too. But it is a broader trend right now I think. I just think higher education is particularly bad.

>That's what I did.
did you have to work to support yourself?

It's been a long time since I was in college, but people literally show up to class in pajamas sometimes. People are drunk and high on campus all the time. No one cares. Honestly the best way to make a good impression is to do the assignments and be engaged and attentive during class

We did some teambuilding cabin trip during my first week of university years ago. They got a bus and we went to a cabin for the weekend. We had some drinks in the evenings and all was good.
Upon returning sunday morning (10 am), one guy was doing shots in the back of the bus, alone, trying to get others to do it with him, and speaking extremely loudly to the people around him, playing music from his speakers. He then vomited all over himself - again, alone, 10 am, after a weekend of plenty of partying and drinking.

Stench was so bad a few of the badly hungover people started retching a bit themselves, though none of them puked.

He was known as the alcoholic loser for his entire bachelor's degree. Plus his teeth were completely brown because he smoked home-rolled cigarettes without a filter and never brushed them.

I want to make a good impression on my professslrs and peers. Not be some burnout bum driniing on weekdays

Hangover means squat shit. Story above is when you're going into dangerous territory.