The tourist asked for directions, but the locals refused to give any.
Both 'the tourist asked for directions' and 'the locals refused to give any' and independent clauses which are joined by the coordinating conjunction 'and'.
Do you ever explicitly practice your sentence composition?
whats there to elaborate? just me trying to attain the impossible which on the slim chance of being possible. completely attainable or unattainable are not interesting to me. Once the former unattainable girls start returning the feelings then I just leave.
doesnt that then just mean the girls you are going for are completely attainable and you just seem to hold them on a pedestal
2 months ago
Anonymous
interesting view, maybe I do like the process off putting them on the pedestal and then throwing them down. the biggest insult for me is for her to be actually into me, however that doesnt happen as I choose the ones who are completely out of my league and/or married/in LTR.
2 months ago
Anonymous
it mostly just sounds to me like an ego trip/odd attachment issues kind of deal but i dont know you or your life so id rather not speculate too much. interesting point of view, though
2 months ago
Anonymous
>ego trip/odd attachment issues kind of deal
what do you mean? as in I'm more interested in the process itself and the actual girl is actually irrelevant?
2 months ago
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perhaps like you said in that the leveling of the pedestal you hold her on, or even putting her below you, is more intriguing than the woman herself? as if you sense a trait you deem superior in her and want to prove that she isnt. reading way too into this rn, apologies for the schizo typing
2 months ago
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a strange thought came to me, that perhaps it's just exposing the so called "fakeness" as in you're either unattainable or attainable and this crossing this line is just a satisfying moment akin to the "I knew all along"
2 months ago
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do you think you could ever come to enjoy a mutual partnership or is the power play or exposé aspect too integral to your attraction
2 months ago
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Honestly? I dont think so (never been in one in the first place) because I'm anticipating the worst and have to be on my guard.
I feel like a completely different person with this haircut and I hate it. I don't know if it's because of autism, but everytime I get a haircut I spend some days when I can barely recognize myself, it's been like that since I was a child.
I keep dreaming about a hot alien telepathically communicating me and grooming me into becoming her husband for hybrid children and diplomacy with human civilization.
It wasn't too vivid. She was tall and beautiful. Similar to humans. I was wondering about conflict between our civilizations, but she said hers is peaceful. I also wondered whether it was even possible for us to breed. She said her biology is basically equivalent to mammalian and that we'll have to try it to see.
The student recognized something, and the student recognized that he was a poor writer, and the student recognized that he was a poor writer, and the thing which the student recognized was that he was a poor writer, and that frustrated the student.
I've sown onions in my garden.
Ohh yes baby I've sown onions, in my garden.
I told I was gonna do it. I told you I was gonna do it.
That's right. No more groceries for onions.
Cause we got onions in our garden baby.
Onions ts ts ts onions ts ts ts in the ts ts Garden!
I was watching a student government election debate. There was 1 very attractive candidate, 1 somewhat attractive candidate, and 1 not so attractive candidate (subjective but I think most would agree). Observing the group dynamics was amazing. The crowd perked up whenever the attractive girl was speaking. All eyes looked up - total engagement. Every time the unattractive one opened their mouth it was the complete opposite. No one cared and all looked pretty disinterested. It was really eye-opening. Pretty privilege is incredibly powerful.
Small people think tall people are more attractive because they look at their teeth faced slightly upwards. Average teeth seem more shiny when looked at from that position. That's also where the saying 'to look down onto people's comes from. When you look at someone's teeth faced downwards, even average teeth look gross and ugly. I insist on this supposition, that it all boils down to the angle at wich you look at someone's teeth.
You can analyze until you've written volumes on the subject but at the end of the day, the reasons why attraction occurs between two people is inconsequential. All that matters is whether or not the spark of attraction exists at first contact. I never talked my way into a relationship. I could only talk my way out of them.
Then Sela, together with his students, approached the Buddha. He said to his students, “Come quietly, gentlemen, tread gently. For the Buddhas are intimidating, like a lion living alone. Durāsada (“intimidating”) is also at AN 4.42:4.1, which shows that the sense is that they are hard to defeat in debate. When I’m consulting with the ascetic Gotama, don’t interrupt. Wait until I’ve finished speaking.”
Then Sela went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side, and scrutinized the Buddha’s body for the thirty-two marks of a great man.
He saw all of them except for two, which he had doubts about: whether the private parts are covered in a foreskin, and the largeness of the tongue.
Then it occurred to the Buddha, “Sela sees all the marks except for two, which he has doubts about: whether the private parts are covered in a foreskin, and the largeness of the tongue.”
The Buddha used his psychic power to will that Sela would see his private parts covered in a foreskin. And he stuck out his tongue and stroked back and forth on his ear holes and nostrils, and covered his entire forehead with his tongue.
Churchill was a israelite, bribed by that israelite Henry Strakosch, the allies were and are the golem the israelites use to bludgeon their threats to death. I can't even feel bad for whites anymore. Hundreds of generations of dysgenics have made them cattle, even if they weren't previously. The goy was selected for, and you see that in the fact that they live at the beck and call of people that openly hate them. Frick white people. The real whites went the way of the auroch, the faux white wiggers we bend over backward to shine-up are genetically predisposed to homosexuality and herd mentality collectivism, they are now perfectly happy to die childless in their pigsties. Worst timeline
I have the best odds and ends drawer in the world. I save every twist tie and piece of string and they always end up being handy. I have a million kinds of shim and little odd tools, I have mini screwdrivers and WD-40. I even have tampons and a spare iphone charger in case I ever get a gf.
Hey, I personally agree, but a lot of people seem to have problems dropping a book once they've started it, or at least want to get a solid amount into it first.
Reading is time consuming and readers have a long list of books they want to read. I always like input before picking up a book, something that this board doesn’t exactly help with though
The man who was in his late 20s began to realize that consumption of pornography prevented him from desiring real women. Since he stopped watching it, his emotional life has been turbulent and often painful. But it is a good kind of pain. It is the kind of pain that makes a man want to be better.
The man who was in his mid 30's realized that modern women are absolute trash and a waste of time, and returned to pornography as a way to sate his urges.
I believe that almost everybody wants meaningful, emotionally intimate relationships, and that includes modern women. People are worth it, but only if you are able to listen emotionally and develop the relationship through communication and empathy. Which is something many men, including myself, struggle with.
>27 y/o porn addict trying to give other people advice
2 months ago
Anonymous
>porn addict
That doesn't follow from my post, and it's not true. Most men my age consume porn, it's just that it's had a negative effect on me which I don't want to allow to continue to affect me.
2 months ago
Anonymous
How old were you when you started using porn and how old were you when you quit?
2 months ago
Anonymous
13- 27. Now, if you are going to say that doing something for over 10 years with regularity makes you an addict, then fine, but be prepared to call everyone who occasionally likes a drink with dinner from 21-40 years old an alcoholic as well.
Modern women are unable to put aside their moronic politics and the "advantages" that they think being a "liberated" woman gives them, thus contributing to the death of the white race. All by design, btw. Basically, women are moronic, and giving them any amount of agency will doom your society.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>my political ideology is odorously unpopular therefore women need to get back in the kitchen
grow up
2 months ago
Anonymous
>give women the right to vote >society goes to shit >YEAH BUT IT'S SOMEHOW NOT CONNECTED, YOU CHUD
Go dilate, homosexual.
2 months ago
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>
2 months ago
Anonymous
Leftism failed. Deal with it.
2 months ago
Anonymous
see
The rights obsession with fairness and the enlightenment is why they lose to the zeal of the left - and I think they’re starting to realize this. Yes, they are resentful of them, but they also admire how the left wields power and dominates. I saw one tweet of how one dude was in awe of how that one U.S solider set himself on fire for Palestine that isn’t in the context of their dull utilitarian approach of free markets and GDP.
And at this stage when even they accept this approach? truth truly just becomes and organism that changes every day.
2 months ago
Anonymous
https://i.imgur.com/S8PMq5O.jpg
>leftism
Be born with a better IQ next time around.
actual morons
2 months ago
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>leftism
2 months ago
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>odorously
2 months ago
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There is a good reason why they’re are no female Don Quixotes. A woman tilting with windmills or driven by impossible dreams is not a poignant figure, and neither the less graceful equivalent be it the modern version; which are Girl bosses. All real women have more sense than men. Not all real men do.
Masculinity on the other hand has something futile about it…fighters that are doomed to die.
The rights obsession with fairness and the enlightenment is why they lose to the zeal of the left - and I think they’re starting to realize this. Yes, they are resentful of them, but they also admire how the left wields power and dominates. I saw one tweet of how one dude was in awe of how that one U.S solider set himself on fire for Palestine that isn’t in the context of their dull utilitarian approach of free markets and GDP.
And at this stage when even they accept this approach? truth truly just becomes and organism that changes every day.
Last night I had an episode and went on a rant here and kept saying I was God or something. I want to publicly apologize to the IQfy community for inflicted that on all you. We all have our moments, right?
i was wondering if you perhaps had a history of acute psychotic episodes or were bipolar and experiencing mania induced grandiosity but i didnt want to offend
>People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth belaboring: In the ancestral environment, politics was a matter of life and death. And sex, and wealth, and allies, and reputation... When, today, you get into an argument about whether "we" ought to raise the minimum wage, you're executing adaptations for an ancestral environment where being on the wrong side of the argument could get you killed... Politics is an extension of war by other means. Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it's like stabbing your soldiers in the back - providing aid and comfort to the enemy.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-is-the-mind-killer
>Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it's like stabbing your soldiers in the back - providing aid and comfort to the enemy.
I’ve always found this fascinating. So much hypocrisy and moronation occur. Politics have turned into rooting for some type of sports team except there is no possibility of being unbiased
sexual passion is the kernel of the will to live ... what is the object of love, from the lowest to the highest forms of being, if not the perpetuation of the species
2 months ago
Anonymous
nothing good comes out of sexual passion aside from disruption.
2 months ago
Anonymous
there is a brief and informative bit in the rubaiyat that claims that a man in the arms of a woman is as close to god as he is ever likely to be this side of the grave
2 months ago
Anonymous
Just baseless assumption
2 months ago
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likewise, schopenhauer said >It is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious and the aim of the jest, the inexhaustible source of wit, the key to all allusions, the meaning of all mysterious hints, of all unspoken offers and all stolen glances, the daily meditation of the young, and often also of the old, the hourly thought of the unchaste, and even against their will the constantly recurring imagination of the chaste, the ever ready material of a joke, just because the profoundest seriousness lies at its foundation. It is, however, the piquant element and the joke of life that the secret concern of all men is secretly pursued and ostensibly ignored as much as possible. But, in fact, we see it every moment seat itself, as the true and hereditary lord of the world, out of the fulness of its own strength, upon the ancestral throne ...
2 months ago
Anonymous
That's coomer cope. The closest one can get to God in this life is seeing the Uncreated Light, in 99%, as a monastic on Mt Athos or somewhere else
2 months ago
Anonymous
>in 99%
*in 99% of cases
2 months ago
Anonymous
Water to water, ark again to ark,
From woman back to woman:
the pursuit of beauty and love is completely under the governance of the reproductive aim. that is how the will to live tyrannises over the individual. that's the illusion cunningly wrought in us by the reproductive instinct
2 months ago
Anonymous
Which is why the one who subdues and overcomes these things is the highest of sages. Though, I have sympathies towards what you say - I was quite fond of Schopenhauer before I became a Christian. I remember that he made the quaint observation that if we were not blinded by the sexual urge, any reasonable person would see the stupidity in shacking up with a woman.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Romance and companionship
2 months ago
Anonymous
Sure, then what? The warm and fuzzies fade away and you're left with someone who you slowly grow to resent because you're both just as much children of modernity and the narcissism that comes with it. The struggle for this generation is to break such programming so as to truly love the other person. Good luck with that. Then again if you pull that off sainthood awaits you.
it is the invisible central point of all action and conduct, and peeps out everywhere in spite of all veils thrown over it. schopenhauer said the joke of life is that the overriding concern of all men is secretly pursued and ostensibly ignored as much as possible. >any reasonable person would see the stupidity in shacking up with a woman.
the ancient greeks saw erotic love as a kind of madness - theia mania ('madness from the gods').
>all men is secretly pursued and ostensibly ignored as much as possible
True too. Normies have a great habit of rationalising all of this
2 months ago
Anonymous
You are Emma Bovary
2 months ago
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I doubt it, adultery is despicable and is among one of the worst things you can do. Maybe on a personal level I'm also a product of seeing my own parents grow to resent each other.
>Normies have a great habit of rationalising all of this
theologists too
>theologists too
I'd agree with you had I not known of literal saints, not just "good people". Saints are the true theologians. Their lives prove that love is the fundamental rule of the universe and what established it. If it wasn't for the saints I wouldn't be a Christian
2 months ago
Anonymous
love always starts off with primal sex, then gets refined and refined, not vice versa. it's ultimately dependent on the body
2 months ago
Anonymous
I’m talking about your romantic notions and what you think love is supposed to be. That is how you are like Emma Bovary and how she got disillusioned
2 months ago
Anonymous
I see. In which case, call me Emma. Beats being called Werther
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Normies have a great habit of rationalising all of this
theologists too
2 months ago
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it is the invisible central point of all action and conduct, and peeps out everywhere in spite of all veils thrown over it. schopenhauer said the joke of life is that the overriding concern of all men is secretly pursued and ostensibly ignored as much as possible. >any reasonable person would see the stupidity in shacking up with a woman.
the ancient greeks saw erotic love as a kind of madness - theia mania ('madness from the gods').
The 20th Century saw the total collapse of Mainline Protestant denominations (not shown in this graph). While in the 21st Century, we are witnessing the collapse of Evangelical Protestantism.
It’s plain to see what’s going on here. The majority of the non-religiously affiliated are coming from the Protestant world. Yes, some are Catholics too, but when you look at the decline in this chart, the majority are clearly leaving the Protestant world for the religious unaffiliated world.
What we are witnessing is the gradual collapse of Protestantism (both Mainline and Evangelical), and Catholic parishes/dioceses will be pulled into this collapse ONLY INSOFAR AS they imitate Protestantism liturgically, doctrinally and morally. Protestantism is failing. It’s dying right before our eyes, like a slow-motion train wreck. Catholics can get off this train simply by going conservative and traditional. In other words, just be good Catholics, like your grandparents were. You can escape the train wreck and just watch it happen as a spectator.
What will you do? Will you silently let your parish follow Protestantism into oblivion? Or will you speak up, talk to your priest, get on your parish council, and try to direct your parish in a more traditional and conservative Catholic direction? In some cases this may be impossible. Maybe your parish is too far gone. Maybe you’ll need to just go find another one. In the other hand, maybe it can be salvaged. I’ll leave that up to you.
You don’t seem to understand. A fetish means something is preferred so in this case, bottomless is more appealing than fully nude, yet both have veganas in them
2 months ago
Anonymous
my guess is full nudity is a pretty neutral/natural state of the body and having something to obscure it partially makes the nudity seem more obscene?
2 months ago
Anonymous
it because she could have a peepee, you're secretly gay
I've been a shut in from the age of 18 to 25. I began to go out more in the world but I'm finding that I'm frustrated because there truly is nothing to do. Everyone works remote jobs or other invisible gigs. The whole world is a shut in society now and I don't get it. I feel like I missed out on my youth but now I can't recover that. There's no way for someone like me to meet people or anything. And being outside isn't fun.
Maybe I should just commit and go back inside forever. It really does feel like thats what everyone my age is doing anyway. After college all of life just exclusively is online
You want to know why you took my kitty mug, cause you couldn't find any kitties to rape. Because all the neighbors are keeping their pets inside now because half of the animals in the neighborhoods' penises are missing. He severs them, puts them in the fridge, in various containers, and then I hear him coming downstairs at night with his wienersicles going... slurp, slurp, slurp!
The sentence you've provided is rich in imagery and effectively conveys a sense of restlessness and anticipation. The repetition of "barely" and the parallel structure of "barely breathing, barely conscious" contribute to the mood of unease and tension. Additionally, the fragment "my mind everywhere but the present" adds depth to the portrayal of distraction and preoccupation.
However, the aesthetic value of a sentence can vary depending on the reader's personal taste and the context in which it's presented. Some readers may appreciate the vivid imagery and emotional resonance of the sentence, while others may prefer different styles or find the sentence overly fragmented.
Overall, it's a subjective matter, but the sentence does demonstrate effective use of language to evoke a particular mood or atmosphere.
This critique reads like it was written by ChatGPT. A better suggestion would be to rewrite the end of it to say "...barely breathing, barely conscious, barely in the present." to complete the rule of three.
some people are meant to both live and die alone. Im quite certain im one of them and for what I know you might be preordained so as well. Here's something to live by for anons like us, learn to be your own friend; it has saved my life.
>be me >liked a girl 4 years ago >ended up being unrequited >move on >fast forward to now and i'm working a white collar wagie job >she ends up joining the same company >get a message out of the blue last week with her saying "hey anon"
Women make me laugh.
I'm not anti natalist or nihilist but I can't think of a real reason for me specifically to have children except for vanity. And I have no reason to get up in the morning or be alive.
Will a gas station sell me alcohol without an ID if I can point to a receding hairline? If not, is it illegal to get a homeless guy to buy me some vodka if I'm over 21? Need to know asap bros
I finally downloaded How to Read a Book. I should've done so earlier. I skimmed it for 30 minutes. His steps on inspectional reading is something I should do for every book. I didn't realize how much I could get from this book until looking through it, but it looks like it will be very worthwhile. I think I should read the charters Aids to Reading and How to Read History next, because I have some research I need to do for classes. I've already been doing some of the things he discusses, but it's good to read it as a reminder and to check what things I've been missing.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity >the problem of personal identity
This isn't philosophy. It's psychology. Why do people in philosophy discuss it? If you have issues with your identity that's psychological. Literally when you don't think of it the problem goes away.
A wasp got into my apartment a couple days ago and it's been hanging out in the window shades ever since. It's right by my bedroom door and when I walk by it'll turn around and raise one of its wings like it's about to buzz me but I never hang around to see if it will or not.
I think the little guy is lonely because he can't go back to his hive but I can't open the window for him because he'll probably sting me if I get too close and once that happens I'm probably going to kill him. I feel bad because of how forlorn he looks as he's sitting on the blinds looking through the glass without being able to understand why he can't go through it.
>The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ant's; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from it to man, and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.
I'm in my 7th going on 8th in a few weeks of my 6 semester degree in Europe. I am so incredibly burnt out and I have nothing to show for it. I believe I can't even finish this term paper I have due, not to speak of the other I haven't started work on. I yet again picked a deliriously complex topic, did not reading, read literature and philosophy instead and now am writing out of my ass. I have tried to prompt something passable from the AI but of course it can't do any reasoning. Problem is that in this state I can't do it either. I had 18 pages, now I have 13 pages. And I have 13 days to write the other one. I want to quit fricking now. I don't even care anymore. I wanted to bag the money five weeks ago. Was super motivated on Wednesday and actually wanted to finish this FRICKING degree (I get so incredibly mad just thinking about it, I hope this is illustrative) but have since dropped any and all motivation again after going through the absolute descriptive non reasoning and non citing garbage I wrote I convinced myself was at least a decent primer for the "discussion".
I never want to set foot in a university again. I hate universities. I hate science. I hate students. I hate fricking everything to do with academia.
found a sequence error. my base assumption was just wrong. god I want to die. I am back to six pages of text. I would cry if I was depressed for the better part of a decade now. I would scream if it wasn't five thirty am. I would just send it and fail myself if I had a backbone.
I wasted 4 years of my life in college. And I mean completely waste. Commute, no friends, worthless degree, no job. I've done nothing but read books and play games at home. And now I have no idea what to do for a job at all as I near the end of my final semester. I've no motivation to do anything. If I got a job working full-time at the university itself I would be satisfied just so I can tell everyone with expectations for me in my life that I work at a big college.
Apparently Franky Muniz hit his head and he doesn't remember being Malcolm in the Middle at all. But that probably means he forgot what prime Hillary Duff's pussy smelled like, too.
>jon stewart plays clip of trump saying "if you get shot leaving a store after robbing it that's your problem" >trump obviously talking about violent robberies where the clerk was accused of shooting the robber "as he was fleeing, therefore he was no longer in danger" (many such cases) >stewart: "whoa whoa whoa!!! you want to shoot people as they leave the store because you expect them of shoplifting a pair of khakis?"
yeah mr. leibowitz, exactly, he was talking about the fabled white shoplifters who commit most petty theft, the kinds of people who shoplift a pair of KHAKIS from the GAP, not a fricking drugged up Black person who pistol whipped the clerk after waving the gun in his face and then ran
not sure why i expected a little more of this disingenuous israelite, but i did
Wanting something isn't enough motivation for me, I fricking hate it. I want to be fluent in Japanese and retire as a fisherman in Okinawa with my qt Japanese wife and maybe even a kid or two but I just can't find the motivation. Despite me having to do extra shit to achieve it since I'm so far behind in life, this is something that if I put in enough work is completely possible, I just can't bring myself to do it for some reason.
None of my passions translate into a job. I could very easily write a phd thesis on something I'm interested in, I could definitely write a novel, I could definitely teach a subject like English or film studies or something like that. But it's not viable, these paths either pay shit or require an immense amount of money that I don't have. I know that I can do better than what I am today but I didn't, that is what kills me. I will graduate in May and end up with some shitty job that pay pennies likely unrelated to my degree while my old friends become doctors.
Then do it pussy. Then fricking do it. Go to your fricking doctor. Tell him you have burnout. Get on unpaid sick leave go your parents and write this fricking thesis to show yourself or write your fricking novel to sell it. Why are you even complaining if it's so easy to just go on, if you could do it, easily. I could It's not viable because I need more money or need to take on debt. >It KILLS ME that I can do better but I am stuck doing myself
Du elender Systemling geh dich umbringen verdammte Scheiße, wie hast du dich auf dieses verdammte Board verirrt, wenn du nichts anderes als ein Karrierenlutscher bist.
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CONSIDER THAT MY GOD YOU FRICKING PIECE OF NORMIE SHIT
Germans may not realize but in the mongrel state of America it's quite expensive and impossible for most people to pursue postgraduate studies or make a dime out of a book
Not him but I can't find a passion. I just can't. I graduated years ago and I've just been a neet. There's nothing to even strive for or sacrifice for. I can't find even find a hobby.
So life is just nothing where your mind slowly deteriorates and you have nothing but the media you consume in different formats? There's nothing to this. I'm really just supposed to have a kid and die? Or just do nothing? You're telling me that every human all this time has just lived for the sake of consuming more exciting stuff in books movies plays music as brief relief from just how worthless life is
Failed to procure alcohol. Got everything ready, stuff cleaned up, clothes thrown away, books stored in bags, etc. Left the house and started walking, but it's been so long that crippling social anxiety started seemingly choking me to death. I returned quickly. I figure I won't be able to do it without the vodka. I'm a failure. I hate living.
Black folk. Please ban me for racism outside of /b/. _-_
It's interesting how the right-wing critics of victorian capitalism like Carlyle or Ruskin fell into this weird niche where nobody really evokes them as "one of their kind". They are too christian for lefties and Carlyle in particular is extremely politically incorrect in many of his views, the pro-capitalist right wing don't care for their criticism of capitalism, while the radical right finds their fundamental christianity indigestible.
Tolstoy, Wagner, Carlyle, Ruskin, Mazzini, etc really lost out. Their conservative values became obsolete and so did their economic beliefs — socialists on the left built upon them further and the right wholly embraced capitalism. It’s a shame. I find honestly some of their critiques of modern society more brilliant than the usual people we revere today. The Right especially should be embarrassed how it just became the throne of liberalism.
Agreed. Capitalism is an all consuming cancer. Sometimes my blood boils after reading the works of these great men and comparing it to the hand we were dealt. How on Earth did this happen? Why wasn't something vaguely along the lines of their Christian socialism ever tried? The closest we ever got was Franco's Spain for a few years in the 1940's before it too gave into American commercial pressures. It fills me with despair. My life sucks. The political, moral and economic systems around us suck. These issues compound each other. It all seems so hopeless and pointless.
Tolstoy is still world famous for his art though his nonfiction is ignored. Wagner is not as famous because of post-WW2 defamation of his name. Carlyle is hardly read today but his name is sort of known in literary circles. Ruskin and Mazzini however are totally irrelevant. I’m sure Mazzini is known in Italy but his Christian socialism was thrown in the dustbin of history pretty quickly, even Marx hated him.
Ironically enough the biggest influence this loose grouping of “conservative anti-capitalists” had was on Gandhi instead of people actually in the West. Genuinely saddening
Does the award of "biggest fall in popularity ever" belong to Carlyle? Nowadays people treat him like they treat obscure elizabethan playwrights while a century ago almost everyone considered him the victorian author with the biggest overall influence both inside the UK and abroad. Like fricking Emerson started writing his essays because he was such a massive Carlyle fanboy.
2 months ago
Anonymous
He is being purposely forgotten by the overlords I guess. The academics and the politicians. Hegel isn't forgotten despite his connections to both Nazi Germany and communism. Why Carlyle? He must have been too powerful.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Depends how you interpret “fall from grace” do you mean total irrelevancy, or whoever has the steepest decline from their prior position? In the former people like Mazzini and Spencer are the least known today, in the latter case Caryle definitely fell off the most because his name was once among the biggest in the world and now his works are hardly even in print (Oxford did actually publish one of his books last year though). Carlyle is quite dangerous to the current world order. Racist, romanticism and elitist while still being steeped in Western culture. They don’t want you reading him even though all of our ancestors did.
2 months ago
Anonymous
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It’s very much concentrated, Wagner is blamed for Nazism so his works are hardly endorsed today even though at the time his art was considered the absolute greatest, even by his opponents. People like Tolkien are nowhere on the level as Carlyle, a man who defended slavery at a time when it was being abolished. So yes it’s deliberate that Carlyle’s immensely influential books like On Heroes are not published today.
Past and Present was published by Oxford last year. Oxford's Sartor Resartus is easy to obtain, although that's a less dangerous book. A heavily abridged On Heroes was published by Penguin in the 80's. I can buy a full version from an American university press for $40 from all the way over in Australia. Caryle isn't being banned. It's hard to obtain his works because no one wants to read them and the publishers have little monetary incentive to put them out. The issue is that his idea's are intolerable to the vast majority of modern people, as said. The support for slavery is a useful tool to discredit him, but other men like Henry George have also been completely erased from the modern consciousness. Progress and Poverty was the 2nd best selling book of the 1890's in the USA, behind only the Bible. In this period of insane ballooning house prices why isn't be being reconsidered? Money. The worship of money has reached a fever pitch. How could it possibly get any worse? Any attempt to discuss Carlyle or George is absurd in our present world. The people suppressing it are not a hidden elite illuminati. The owners of Blackrock and Vanguard are a vast number of mildly wealthy people. Our lives are all steeped in ideas and practices completely antithetical to Carlyle. I believe the term for this is oversocialisation.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I was going to mention Henry George earlier as another forgotten name in our era of mass democracy and consumerism. Actually sickens me to read about how revered he was in his day and yet how his famous book is totally unread today. Einstein and Tolstoy saw him a genius but I suppose we shouldn’t
2 months ago
Anonymous
My curation of Wikipedia's list of Georgists:
Milton Friedman
Robert Solow
Winston Churchill
Rutherford B Hayes
Alfred Deakin
Andrew Fisher
Sun Yat Sen
Aldous Huxley
Upton Sinclair
Leo Tolstoy
George Bernard Shaw
William F Buckley
Bertrand Russel
Curtis Yarvin
MLK Jr
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
You could argue many others per-George were Georgists. Such as Adam Smith and Thomas Paine. An idea that covered such an extremely wide range of people has been near completely ignored. Several small countries have a land value tax (which has been proven to be effective), but it's in places like Denmark and Singapore where the majority of tax revenue comes from income tax and consumption taxes. The LVT's largest problem in the past, accurately assessing the value of land, is largely resolved in the era of computers. There has never been a better or more necessary time for this form of tax. The world, especially the West, has some kind of collective psychosis in its relentless drive for money. LVT is le bad because when I have 3 investment properties they won't be profitable anymore! Enough people get by on their dreams of being the winner that they ignore the masses who are crushed underfoot. There are enough temporarily embarrassed millionaires out there to keep the whole world down. Relentlessly licking the boots of uncaring, unrepentant agents of pure evil. It is sickening. But it's nice to know at least one other person in the world cares. Whenever I try and talk about this irl people just look at me like I'm crazy. Boy, do they love their fancy German cars and rapidly appreciating houses!
2 months ago
Anonymous
Shaw has to dilute his name with a Bernard, not exactly grand Georgian behavior
Spengler too. Prussian Socialism and Man and Technics are brilliant.
love always starts off with primal sex, then gets refined and refined, not vice versa. it's ultimately dependent on the body
For those who are married, yes. In my view, sex has two purposes - the obvious reproductive one, and also a pedagogical purpose. It's a total giving over of oneself to the other, a shared ecstacy that becomes the adhesive for that relationship. From there, ones affections should translate to a giving over to the other person in all things. The marital act is a type of the embrace and authenticity that should permeate all aspects of the married life. For those who choose the path of celibacy/monasticism, their love begins with their own repentance which leads to seeing themselves in all people and in turn, the image of Christ in all, albeit distorted. For this reason, I am not surprised that Schopenhauer acted as a stepping stone to Christianity for me. The centre of all things in Christ and it is in seeing Christ in all things that we can act morally. Also, this is not to say that married couples do not need to be constantly repenting. It's more so that the sexual relationship adds another dimension to love in the married experience.
It's interesting how the right-wing critics of victorian capitalism like Carlyle or Ruskin fell into this weird niche where nobody really evokes them as "one of their kind". They are too christian for lefties and Carlyle in particular is extremely politically incorrect in many of his views, the pro-capitalist right wing don't care for their criticism of capitalism, while the radical right finds their fundamental christianity indigestible.
Agreed. Capitalism is an all consuming cancer. Sometimes my blood boils after reading the works of these great men and comparing it to the hand we were dealt. How on Earth did this happen? Why wasn't something vaguely along the lines of their Christian socialism ever tried? The closest we ever got was Franco's Spain for a few years in the 1940's before it too gave into American commercial pressures. It fills me with despair. My life sucks. The political, moral and economic systems around us suck. These issues compound each other. It all seems so hopeless and pointless.
Tolstoy is still world famous for his art though his nonfiction is ignored. Wagner is not as famous because of post-WW2 defamation of his name. Carlyle is hardly read today but his name is sort of known in literary circles. Ruskin and Mazzini however are totally irrelevant. I’m sure Mazzini is known in Italy but his Christian socialism was thrown in the dustbin of history pretty quickly, even Marx hated him.
Ironically enough the biggest influence this loose grouping of “conservative anti-capitalists” had was on Gandhi instead of people actually in the West. Genuinely saddening
Everything just imploded after WW2. Before that, artistic and intellectual movements were vibrant. There were so many competing worldviews and theories and artistic figures. There was a time when someone like Engels could appreciate Carlyle, where Tolstoy was more famous for his Christianity than he was for writing War and Peace, where capitalism faced opposition from both the right and the left. Now it’s all gone. That whole side of history is dead. Liberal democracy and its values triumphed and all competing theories died out, including Marxism itself which slowly but surely became absorbed into liberalism with their denunciation of Stalin and the failure of Mao.
It seems to me that the cause of all of this is America and it's money. Mammon has conquered all. There is no longer any question of any sort of alternative system.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Be the change you want to see
2 months ago
Anonymous
Unfortunately I am far too weak and cowardly to take down the evil American empire.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Lead by example. If you know a better way to live life then live it. For what else does anyone want besides the ethereal better life? People will follow if they can be shown
With all the books I’ve read from the past, I came to a conclusion that basically everyone lost. People in prior centuries devoted themselves to preventing today’s world and they didn’t succeed. Some were even driven to madness in their aims like Nietzsche and the aforementioned Ruskin. This world is made by the French enlightenment bourgeoisie and ONLY them and their adherents would be satisfied with how history turned out. Everyone else would be horribly fricking depressed. Marx lost, Nietzsche lost, Rousseau lost, Mazzini lost, Bakunin lost, Wagner lost, etc etc etc.
Voltaire, Peter and Catherine, Thomas Paine, Lippman and Dewey won.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Communism is preferable to this. We got the worst outcome.
every few months i get the impulse to try smoking weed again and every single time it just makes me depressed and anxious. i haven't enjoyed it in years, i dunno what it'll take for me to accept that i'll never enjoy it again. i dunno why i keep thinking this time might be different
People care too much, I don't think I've ever held a grudge longer than a couple of hours and I've had some pretty shitty things happen to me. I just don't get why people care, I think it's because they've been told their entire lives what things should make them angry and what things are wrong and so they don't actually think for themselves and get angry at whatever they've been conditioned to get angry at and care about what they've been conditioned to care about. I don't know, maybe it's just something wrong with me. There are people out there who would reject money from someone just because they don't like that person, even if they needed money to survive. I think that's moronic.
I want to read and write more but it's hard for me not only to find shit that I like to read but also its hard for me to focus because I have multiple hobbies I'm interested in and very little free time. WHAT DO???
Im so bored and nothing interests me. I though that alcohol could give me a creative powers but it didnt. Back to staring at wall and listening to noisy neighbors.
This hot, married coworker of mine keeps attempting to have deep conversations with me, both at work and over ignored texts. She's trying to get involved in my day-to-day life (making me food, asking me about my day, etc.). I like the way it makes me feel until I realize at the end of the day she goes home to her husband and I have no one in my life. It's made my dumb romantic brain create all of these stupid fantasies in my head. These little stupid things she does are significant in my life because I'm lonely, and yet if push comes to shove, she will rightfully be ride or die with her husband. I don't think she understands these things she is doing to be nice are actually killing me. Blegh
It’s very much concentrated, Wagner is blamed for Nazism so his works are hardly endorsed today even though at the time his art was considered the absolute greatest, even by his opponents. People like Tolkien are nowhere on the level as Carlyle, a man who defended slavery at a time when it was being abolished. So yes it’s deliberate that Carlyle’s immensely influential books like On Heroes are not published today.
Neither radically promoted an alternative world. I've only read Mere Christianity from Lewis and the most radical political statement he makes is that the ideal Christian state would have some kind of socialism. One sentence. Ignored and swept under the rug. I never hear of Lewis as any kind of political radical. Sounds like he just wrote pop-theology and did not forcefully challenge the contemporary world order. Yes, it is obvious that Christian beliefs cannot coexist with the modern world, but there is a gigantic gap between the what is and what should be. Lewis does not bridge that gap.Tolkein, despite directly saying he was a reactionary monarchist, himself claimed his works were in no way allegorical. No one is taking any poignant political messages from Lord of the Rings. It just promotes Christian beliefs and morality behind a fantasy veil. The gap is not bridged. Their works are impotent when it comes to promoting radical change.
The japanese really like their Mary Magdalene Expys. Eveytime I see a pious protitute I assume mary Magdalene expy.
I don't know why.
Given that no church affirms she was a prostitute. But whatever.
No, I'm not, all I've done today is watch the UFC, eat some ravioli, take a shower, drink some Coke and watch Vanilla Sky. You could argue that taking a shower is productive but I wouldn't.
>9. We wish to glorify War—the only health giver of the world—
militarism, patriotism, the destructive arm of the Anarchist, the beautiful Ideas that kill, the contempt for woman. >10. We wish to destroy the museum, the libraries, to fight against
moralism, feminism and all opportunistic and utilitarian meannesses.
Also, if the futurist manifesto is this extravagant in English, I can't imagine how extravagant it will read in Italian.
I'm looking through old text messages between me and a chick who I used to be friends with. She slowly ghosted me after I confessed my feelings to her (bad move from me, I know, but I was only going on 17) and even though we never had anything, she would always take ages to answer (Minimum a day between each message and I'd only ever get one sentence answers, we very rarely had long conversations. Maybe she was busy like she said, ((she did go to a prestigious all-girls boarding school after all)) or maybe she was just never really interested in talking to me ((which would be weird considering we talked for years)) but either way, I feel weirdly nostalgiac when I read them, I don't know why. I think it's pretty clear from the fact that we very rarely had proper conversations and that she would always take forever to respond to me that she was never really interested in being my friend but I still feel weird when I read them, I don't know, that's the end of my (probably grammatically horrendous) spiel.
This, imagine being so lonely and depressed you're still livingin the past over some oneitis. This site truly is pathetic. Why do I come here? Am I pathetic?
> Why do I come here? Am I pathetic?
Clearly you are if you don't even know why you go on IQfy.
Kys.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I do know why: to discuss literature. But it is evident to me that no one here is interested in discussing literature seriously. So I was asking in the more cosmological sense, not seeking a direct answer. >kys
Come on anon, really?
2 months ago
Anonymous
Dubs and you are full of shit
2 months ago
Anonymous
No, that is precisely the reason I come here.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Dubs tell a different story.
2 months ago
Anonymous
repeating digits at the end of a number do not suddenly alter knowledge of why I do something. My point is that I come here to discuss literature seriously, but ironically no one on this board is interested in discussing literature seriously. So then, why am I still visiting IQfy, if my hopes for visiting are not fulfilled? The answer is that I have faith every time I visit IQfy that this time I will be able to discuss literature seriously with anons, but every time I am let down.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Don't question the dubs.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Dubs and you're a homosexual who sucks dick
Repeating digits mean nothing. That is pure cope and superstition. It says something about the strength of your argument that you rely on them to make any sort of statement.
2 months ago
Anonymous
shut up, gay
2 months ago
Anonymous
It also says something about your maturity level to use 'gay' as an insult on the internet
2 months ago
Anonymous
I have a larger dub score than you anyway, it's like a two karma newbie debating a gorillion karma plebbitor, you've got no chance. Go back to plebbit.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>nooooo you cant use slurs on IQfy thats so immature and bigoted wtf
What the frick are you even doing here?
2 months ago
Anonymous
reddit is down the hall and to the left
I never said it was bigoted, you're just projecting now. But it is immature. Most mature, adult-minded people can explain their thoughts without the use of derogatory comments. Usually, children resort to insults when their positions hold no ground, and they know it, and I think you're doing that right now. You're a little man child. Has nothing to do with 'reddit' either, and that's a site I definitely don't go on. Nor does it have anything to do with caring about gay people. I think homosexuality is the height of degeneracy, but I don't think it's helpful to call them or others homosexual slurs, either.
2 months ago
Anonymous
> Nor does it have anything to do with caring about gay people. I think homosexuality is the height of degeneracy, but I don't think it's helpful to call them or others homosexual slurs, either.
homosexual detected. Dubs say you are a homosexual. Do you question the dubs?
2 months ago
Anonymous
I'll pray for you, anon. You're clearly in a state of immense pain, despair, dismay, and confusion. Take care.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Oogi boogi.
2 months ago
Anonymous
now type that without crying
2 months ago
Anonymous
reddit is down the hall and to the left
2 months ago
Anonymous
>nooooo you cant use slurs on IQfy thats so immature and bigoted wtf
What the frick are you even doing here?
I have a larger dub score than you anyway, it's like a two karma newbie debating a gorillion karma plebbitor, you've got no chance. Go back to plebbit.
>youth fun
Oh yeah getting drunk at bars trying to pick up vain and vapid prostitute's was surr a lot of fun.
Take it from an unironic chad who had all of the stereotypical "fun" in his 20's you're thinking you missed out on: it's overrated. If anything, I view my 20's of debauchery as a massive waste of time that greatly degraded my spirit.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Oh yeah getting drunk at bars trying to pick up vain and vapid prostitute's was surr a lot of fun.
Its a socializing experience. >massive waste of time that greatly degraded my spirit.
so what are you up to now that you've had your fill?
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Its a socializing experience.
Yes, a negative one. If you haven't really done it, you have no idea how cringe it is: The shallow conversation, the jealousy and envy, the verbal and physical altercations, the depraved situations it leads to. Are you seriously implying there is no better way to socialize than that? >so what are you up to now that you've had your fill?
Reading, working, going to church, going to cafe's and movies with a tigher knit, more virtuous friend group. Working out too, but I always did that. My life has improved immeasurably since my 20's. I look back on my twenty's with nothing but regret that I wasn't living the way I am now, back then.
It sounds to me like you are lusting after vice if you characterize my 20's of debauchery as 'having my fill'. Do you not understand? I wish I had never done any of it. I cringe thinking of that time.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Dude I had nothing in my 20s. You are totally spoiled.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Leave your house? I never went to college and my dad walked out on us when I was 11. My mom worked 2 jobs, I rarely saw her, and I started working at 13 to help support my sisters and mom. Not exactly what I would call spoiled. Maybe try living in the real world instead of hiding in your room. Regardless, I look back on that time with regret. I could be so much further along now if I had lived how I am now, back then. Oh well, better late than never.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I’m the opposite, didn’t do much in my 20’s, now in my 30’s I’m rolling in pussy and enjoying it
One of the advice that was given to me to start praying is to tell God that I love him. I tried, but when I say it it somewhat feels like a lie. And I think I know why ; I am absolutely unable to truly love God's creation. The gift of living in this world is unpleasant to me, and despite all of my effort, I do not seem to reach the ability to love God's creation. If God's creation is good, and he gifted it to us, thinking that it was good. Then can I truly say I love God if I love not his creation?
We have never seen the ancient Semites of the Old Testament praising their love to God. They honour him, pray to him, make sacrifices to him, but love, none.
I was led to believe that Youtube only counts one view per IP but that's not the case: there is no limit. Completely reshapes the way I look at viewcounts. The Internet really is one major joke but I'm sure most already know that one way or another. It's all about figuring out in which specific ways that is the case.
That's just to get you addicted. Heavily influenced by bot programs as well. Those social media sites are all fueled by fantasy, delusion to inflate egoism. They are businesses, not true open forumns.
I don't know if the future's bright, but it could be worse.
I could be of the mistaken belief that anyone else is going to save me, and holding out for a hero when I have to be that hero for myself.
Back when I was 13-14 years old my aunt lived with us and I developed a sort of puppy crush on her. I saw her again for the first time in 10 years and I still think she is hot. I suppose I am sick in the head.
I don't think the dark forest hypothesis is correct in that advanced alien civilizations would be malicious and attack. Wouldn't it be more logical that their priority is to observe? If we became advanced enough and came across a planet with aliens on it, I think we'd observe it first and not attack. This would also explain why aliens are silent. They're observing.
Why? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to do that unless there's something on Earth (in comparison to literally billions of other planets) that a hypothetical alien civilization couldn't get anywhere else.
Why wouldn't they? Given our current technological standard we are too stupid to be members of the galactic federation, intelligent enough to be used as Black person slaves.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Would you use a human slave that is inefficient, needs food and rest, and can rebel if you could have a perfect robot doing your work 24/7?
If aliens exist and they have colonized the galaxy, they don't need us, they don't need our gold or our oil. Humans fight because we live on a limited world
2 months ago
Anonymous
Why wouldn't they use us as slaves? Seems like a perfect way of deploying settlers to our planet without the need of investing in expensive robot engines. Perhaps they'd just use us for the first few generations, make copies of our DNAs, adapt the DNA of the settlers to our DNA so they are capable of surviving on our planet without astronaut suits, and dispose themselves of us. Or take us on galactic missions as servants. The possibilities of course are infinite.
2 months ago
Anonymous
You do realize from the way the current world is working that an (actual) advanced civilization would understand how stupid it is to take on slaves: eventually they get free and then become leeches upon your society.
2 months ago
Anonymous
How? Slaves only become free when they mix with the upper classes. If an alien species would come to enslave us, their superiority would be permanent (less they are able to interbreed with humans, wich I deem unlikely).
2 months ago
Anonymous
>only become free when they mix with the upper classes
False. Slaves in our world became free when it became less cost effective to keep them than it did to not have them.
Long story short, the cycle I would theorize for being enslaved by an alien race would be:
Aliens enslave us.
Golden Age for the colony as a production facility/whatever they want it for.
New leaders take power, interests and culture both shift.
Finances are shifted away from the colony.
Slaves get free, by force or by neglect of overlords.
Dark Age for the Colony as a production facility/whatever.
Earth Becomes a Third World shithole
2 months ago
Anonymous
> Slaves in our world became free when it became less cost effective to keep them than it did to not have them
This is not true. It would be more profitable to the upper classes of today to own their own workers. They have to pay them a wage instead. > Slaves get free, by force or by neglect of overlords.
I mean, I don't think it would necessarily be possible for an alien race to enslave literally every single human being, nor a necessity to do so. Sure, some of them might flee into the jungle, live as stone age people in order to remain free. But most people wouldn't be able to escape slavery. Decided to revolt? The alien guard pulverizes you with a laser gun. I simply can't imagine a possible scenario where humans win the upper hand, for hundreds and thousands of years.
The aggressive alien archetype is pure projection. The logic behind it is that since humans are aggressive towards lesser species/civilizations, then in all likelihood, a species more intelligent/advanced than us would be too.
There are two flaws that make this theory nonsense ; the first one is that humans are not necessarily always aggressive towards species or civilization deemed less advanced. For instance, we don't bother most birds, and let them live their lives. We interfer with their lives with our industry/pollution, but we don't make it our primary purpose to disturb birds. It's just that they live on our planet, and we are disturbing the peace here. If birds were living on mars, I don't see us intentionally killing them.
We also very often in history have seen more advanced civilization not seeking conflict with lesser civilization.
The second flaw is that nothing tells us that aliens would be like us. If they come from another planet, we would share more DNA with a banana than with the aliens, why then would they behave like us?
>For instance, we don't bother most birds
Not anymore we don't. People drove passenger pigeons to extinction basically just for the sake of it. There are tons of laws protecting birds for a reason.
Paganism: Each love is a soul and infinite multiverses and infinite dimensions.
European churches will be replaced by mosques, the inhabitants of which are not noted for their tolerance for paganism
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napping
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I just saw this was a function earlier today, cool.
Coordinated sentence:
The tourist asked for directions, but the locals refused to give any.
Both 'the tourist asked for directions' and 'the locals refused to give any' and independent clauses which are joined by the coordinating conjunction 'and'.
Do you ever explicitly practice your sentence composition?
>joined by the coordinating conjunction 'and
I meant 'but', not 'and'
I'm only interested in unattainable girls that could theoretically can get attainable.
elaborate
whats there to elaborate? just me trying to attain the impossible which on the slim chance of being possible. completely attainable or unattainable are not interesting to me. Once the former unattainable girls start returning the feelings then I just leave.
doesnt that then just mean the girls you are going for are completely attainable and you just seem to hold them on a pedestal
interesting view, maybe I do like the process off putting them on the pedestal and then throwing them down. the biggest insult for me is for her to be actually into me, however that doesnt happen as I choose the ones who are completely out of my league and/or married/in LTR.
it mostly just sounds to me like an ego trip/odd attachment issues kind of deal but i dont know you or your life so id rather not speculate too much. interesting point of view, though
>ego trip/odd attachment issues kind of deal
what do you mean? as in I'm more interested in the process itself and the actual girl is actually irrelevant?
perhaps like you said in that the leveling of the pedestal you hold her on, or even putting her below you, is more intriguing than the woman herself? as if you sense a trait you deem superior in her and want to prove that she isnt. reading way too into this rn, apologies for the schizo typing
a strange thought came to me, that perhaps it's just exposing the so called "fakeness" as in you're either unattainable or attainable and this crossing this line is just a satisfying moment akin to the "I knew all along"
do you think you could ever come to enjoy a mutual partnership or is the power play or exposé aspect too integral to your attraction
Honestly? I dont think so (never been in one in the first place) because I'm anticipating the worst and have to be on my guard.
I feel like a completely different person with this haircut and I hate it. I don't know if it's because of autism, but everytime I get a haircut I spend some days when I can barely recognize myself, it's been like that since I was a child.
lel, I like this
What would you think now if you lived up to this point without ever getting a haircut?
Change your hair, change your life
I keep dreaming about a hot alien telepathically communicating me and grooming me into becoming her husband for hybrid children and diplomacy with human civilization.
Describe us the alien.
It wasn't too vivid. She was tall and beautiful. Similar to humans. I was wondering about conflict between our civilizations, but she said hers is peaceful. I also wondered whether it was even possible for us to breed. She said her biology is basically equivalent to mammalian and that we'll have to try it to see.
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The student recognized something, and the student recognized that he was a poor writer, and the student recognized that he was a poor writer, and the thing which the student recognized was that he was a poor writer, and that frustrated the student.
Very Gertrude Stein-esque
hey homies
hows lit in the year 2024
I've sown onions in my garden.
Ohh yes baby I've sown onions, in my garden.
I told I was gonna do it. I told you I was gonna do it.
That's right. No more groceries for onions.
Cause we got onions in our garden baby.
Onions ts ts ts onions ts ts ts in the ts ts Garden!
I was watching a student government election debate. There was 1 very attractive candidate, 1 somewhat attractive candidate, and 1 not so attractive candidate (subjective but I think most would agree). Observing the group dynamics was amazing. The crowd perked up whenever the attractive girl was speaking. All eyes looked up - total engagement. Every time the unattractive one opened their mouth it was the complete opposite. No one cared and all looked pretty disinterested. It was really eye-opening. Pretty privilege is incredibly powerful.
> Pretty privilege is incredibly powerful.
Maybe if you are a woman.
If you are a man not really. Objectively pretty men just look effeminate tbh.
Good thing I'm 6'2 and handsome
Small people think tall people are more attractive because they look at their teeth faced slightly upwards. Average teeth seem more shiny when looked at from that position. That's also where the saying 'to look down onto people's comes from. When you look at someone's teeth faced downwards, even average teeth look gross and ugly. I insist on this supposition, that it all boils down to the angle at wich you look at someone's teeth.
meds
pronto
You can do the test in front of a mirror, I am not lying.
You can analyze until you've written volumes on the subject but at the end of the day, the reasons why attraction occurs between two people is inconsequential. All that matters is whether or not the spark of attraction exists at first contact. I never talked my way into a relationship. I could only talk my way out of them.
I can’t do it
I can. Hand me the gun.
Then Sela, together with his students, approached the Buddha. He said to his students, “Come quietly, gentlemen, tread gently. For the Buddhas are intimidating, like a lion living alone. Durāsada (“intimidating”) is also at AN 4.42:4.1, which shows that the sense is that they are hard to defeat in debate. When I’m consulting with the ascetic Gotama, don’t interrupt. Wait until I’ve finished speaking.”
Then Sela went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side, and scrutinized the Buddha’s body for the thirty-two marks of a great man.
He saw all of them except for two, which he had doubts about: whether the private parts are covered in a foreskin, and the largeness of the tongue.
Then it occurred to the Buddha, “Sela sees all the marks except for two, which he has doubts about: whether the private parts are covered in a foreskin, and the largeness of the tongue.”
The Buddha used his psychic power to will that Sela would see his private parts covered in a foreskin. And he stuck out his tongue and stroked back and forth on his ear holes and nostrils, and covered his entire forehead with his tongue.
The YouTube recommendations algorithm is getting a bit based
Churchill was a israelite, bribed by that israelite Henry Strakosch, the allies were and are the golem the israelites use to bludgeon their threats to death. I can't even feel bad for whites anymore. Hundreds of generations of dysgenics have made them cattle, even if they weren't previously. The goy was selected for, and you see that in the fact that they live at the beck and call of people that openly hate them. Frick white people. The real whites went the way of the auroch, the faux white wiggers we bend over backward to shine-up are genetically predisposed to homosexuality and herd mentality collectivism, they are now perfectly happy to die childless in their pigsties. Worst timeline
It's so over
I love books and women
I have the best odds and ends drawer in the world. I save every twist tie and piece of string and they always end up being handy. I have a million kinds of shim and little odd tools, I have mini screwdrivers and WD-40. I even have tampons and a spare iphone charger in case I ever get a gf.
Why do people ask whether a book is good instead of just reading it?
Part attention-economy, time is limited, and part knowing if they should be primed to like something to fit in here.
>time is limited
It takes less time to download a pdf of the book and read the first page.
Hey, I personally agree, but a lot of people seem to have problems dropping a book once they've started it, or at least want to get a solid amount into it first.
Reading is time consuming and readers have a long list of books they want to read. I always like input before picking up a book, something that this board doesn’t exactly help with though
I ask people because if certain people say it's good then it's not worth my time and if others say it's good then it is.
The man who was in his late 20s began to realize that consumption of pornography prevented him from desiring real women. Since he stopped watching it, his emotional life has been turbulent and often painful. But it is a good kind of pain. It is the kind of pain that makes a man want to be better.
What counts as late 20s?
I'm 27, and I consider that late 20s
No you are still mid 20s bro. Plenty of time left.
imo 24-26 is mid 20s, 27-29 is late.
The man who was in his mid 30's realized that modern women are absolute trash and a waste of time, and returned to pornography as a way to sate his urges.
I believe that almost everybody wants meaningful, emotionally intimate relationships, and that includes modern women. People are worth it, but only if you are able to listen emotionally and develop the relationship through communication and empathy. Which is something many men, including myself, struggle with.
>27 y/o porn addict trying to give other people advice
>porn addict
That doesn't follow from my post, and it's not true. Most men my age consume porn, it's just that it's had a negative effect on me which I don't want to allow to continue to affect me.
How old were you when you started using porn and how old were you when you quit?
13- 27. Now, if you are going to say that doing something for over 10 years with regularity makes you an addict, then fine, but be prepared to call everyone who occasionally likes a drink with dinner from 21-40 years old an alcoholic as well.
Modern women are unable to put aside their moronic politics and the "advantages" that they think being a "liberated" woman gives them, thus contributing to the death of the white race. All by design, btw. Basically, women are moronic, and giving them any amount of agency will doom your society.
>my political ideology is odorously unpopular therefore women need to get back in the kitchen
grow up
>give women the right to vote
>society goes to shit
>YEAH BUT IT'S SOMEHOW NOT CONNECTED, YOU CHUD
Go dilate, homosexual.
>
Leftism failed. Deal with it.
see
actual morons
>leftism
>odorously
There is a good reason why they’re are no female Don Quixotes. A woman tilting with windmills or driven by impossible dreams is not a poignant figure, and neither the less graceful equivalent be it the modern version; which are Girl bosses. All real women have more sense than men. Not all real men do.
Masculinity on the other hand has something futile about it…fighters that are doomed to die.
rephrase that, but minus the moronation
Be born with a better IQ next time around.
Come on skinny love, just last the year
The rights obsession with fairness and the enlightenment is why they lose to the zeal of the left - and I think they’re starting to realize this. Yes, they are resentful of them, but they also admire how the left wields power and dominates. I saw one tweet of how one dude was in awe of how that one U.S solider set himself on fire for Palestine that isn’t in the context of their dull utilitarian approach of free markets and GDP.
And at this stage when even they accept this approach? truth truly just becomes and organism that changes every day.
Last night I had an episode and went on a rant here and kept saying I was God or something. I want to publicly apologize to the IQfy community for inflicted that on all you. We all have our moments, right?
i was wondering if you perhaps had a history of acute psychotic episodes or were bipolar and experiencing mania induced grandiosity but i didnt want to offend
Money isn't the source of evil. Good is the source of evil.
but what's the source of money, sir?
I'm a leftist conservative.
Sheesh. Cultural warriors and political obsession have really done a number on this board, eh?
>People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth belaboring: In the ancestral environment, politics was a matter of life and death. And sex, and wealth, and allies, and reputation... When, today, you get into an argument about whether "we" ought to raise the minimum wage, you're executing adaptations for an ancestral environment where being on the wrong side of the argument could get you killed... Politics is an extension of war by other means. Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it's like stabbing your soldiers in the back - providing aid and comfort to the enemy.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-is-the-mind-killer
>Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it's like stabbing your soldiers in the back - providing aid and comfort to the enemy.
I’ve always found this fascinating. So much hypocrisy and moronation occur. Politics have turned into rooting for some type of sports team except there is no possibility of being unbiased
The longer I wait to look at it the worse it’s going to be and waiting won’t change anything it just makes me even more anxious
I want to give up on women and sexual desire
Why?
I unironically tried this for years and then some broke me, and then I finally found the courage to ask a foid out for the first time a few weeks ago
that's to give up on life
why?
Read Serotonin by Houellebecq
sexual passion is the kernel of the will to live ... what is the object of love, from the lowest to the highest forms of being, if not the perpetuation of the species
nothing good comes out of sexual passion aside from disruption.
there is a brief and informative bit in the rubaiyat that claims that a man in the arms of a woman is as close to god as he is ever likely to be this side of the grave
Just baseless assumption
likewise, schopenhauer said
>It is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious and the aim of the jest, the inexhaustible source of wit, the key to all allusions, the meaning of all mysterious hints, of all unspoken offers and all stolen glances, the daily meditation of the young, and often also of the old, the hourly thought of the unchaste, and even against their will the constantly recurring imagination of the chaste, the ever ready material of a joke, just because the profoundest seriousness lies at its foundation. It is, however, the piquant element and the joke of life that the secret concern of all men is secretly pursued and ostensibly ignored as much as possible. But, in fact, we see it every moment seat itself, as the true and hereditary lord of the world, out of the fulness of its own strength, upon the ancestral throne ...
That's coomer cope. The closest one can get to God in this life is seeing the Uncreated Light, in 99%, as a monastic on Mt Athos or somewhere else
>in 99%
*in 99% of cases
Water to water, ark again to ark,
From woman back to woman:
the pursuit of beauty and love is completely under the governance of the reproductive aim. that is how the will to live tyrannises over the individual. that's the illusion cunningly wrought in us by the reproductive instinct
Which is why the one who subdues and overcomes these things is the highest of sages. Though, I have sympathies towards what you say - I was quite fond of Schopenhauer before I became a Christian. I remember that he made the quaint observation that if we were not blinded by the sexual urge, any reasonable person would see the stupidity in shacking up with a woman.
Romance and companionship
Sure, then what? The warm and fuzzies fade away and you're left with someone who you slowly grow to resent because you're both just as much children of modernity and the narcissism that comes with it. The struggle for this generation is to break such programming so as to truly love the other person. Good luck with that. Then again if you pull that off sainthood awaits you.
>all men is secretly pursued and ostensibly ignored as much as possible
True too. Normies have a great habit of rationalising all of this
You are Emma Bovary
I doubt it, adultery is despicable and is among one of the worst things you can do. Maybe on a personal level I'm also a product of seeing my own parents grow to resent each other.
>theologists too
I'd agree with you had I not known of literal saints, not just "good people". Saints are the true theologians. Their lives prove that love is the fundamental rule of the universe and what established it. If it wasn't for the saints I wouldn't be a Christian
love always starts off with primal sex, then gets refined and refined, not vice versa. it's ultimately dependent on the body
I’m talking about your romantic notions and what you think love is supposed to be. That is how you are like Emma Bovary and how she got disillusioned
I see. In which case, call me Emma. Beats being called Werther
>Normies have a great habit of rationalising all of this
theologists too
it is the invisible central point of all action and conduct, and peeps out everywhere in spite of all veils thrown over it. schopenhauer said the joke of life is that the overriding concern of all men is secretly pursued and ostensibly ignored as much as possible.
>any reasonable person would see the stupidity in shacking up with a woman.
the ancient greeks saw erotic love as a kind of madness - theia mania ('madness from the gods').
A pretty girl served me at the checkout today. I was annoyed that my mind started going ditzy. I hate it
The 20th Century saw the total collapse of Mainline Protestant denominations (not shown in this graph). While in the 21st Century, we are witnessing the collapse of Evangelical Protestantism.
It’s plain to see what’s going on here. The majority of the non-religiously affiliated are coming from the Protestant world. Yes, some are Catholics too, but when you look at the decline in this chart, the majority are clearly leaving the Protestant world for the religious unaffiliated world.
What we are witnessing is the gradual collapse of Protestantism (both Mainline and Evangelical), and Catholic parishes/dioceses will be pulled into this collapse ONLY INSOFAR AS they imitate Protestantism liturgically, doctrinally and morally. Protestantism is failing. It’s dying right before our eyes, like a slow-motion train wreck. Catholics can get off this train simply by going conservative and traditional. In other words, just be good Catholics, like your grandparents were. You can escape the train wreck and just watch it happen as a spectator.
What will you do? Will you silently let your parish follow Protestantism into oblivion? Or will you speak up, talk to your priest, get on your parish council, and try to direct your parish in a more traditional and conservative Catholic direction? In some cases this may be impossible. Maybe your parish is too far gone. Maybe you’ll need to just go find another one. In the other hand, maybe it can be salvaged. I’ll leave that up to you.
Why do I find bottomless so hot? Something about a woman having a shirt on but naked from the waist down turns me on
it's called being a normal male human being
But it’s more in line with a fetish
You have a vegana fetish
You don’t seem to understand. A fetish means something is preferred so in this case, bottomless is more appealing than fully nude, yet both have veganas in them
my guess is full nudity is a pretty neutral/natural state of the body and having something to obscure it partially makes the nudity seem more obscene?
it because she could have a peepee, you're secretly gay
Stop watching porn coomer trash
I've been a shut in from the age of 18 to 25. I began to go out more in the world but I'm finding that I'm frustrated because there truly is nothing to do. Everyone works remote jobs or other invisible gigs. The whole world is a shut in society now and I don't get it. I feel like I missed out on my youth but now I can't recover that. There's no way for someone like me to meet people or anything. And being outside isn't fun.
Maybe I should just commit and go back inside forever. It really does feel like thats what everyone my age is doing anyway. After college all of life just exclusively is online
You want to know why you took my kitty mug, cause you couldn't find any kitties to rape. Because all the neighbors are keeping their pets inside now because half of the animals in the neighborhoods' penises are missing. He severs them, puts them in the fridge, in various containers, and then I hear him coming downstairs at night with his wienersicles going... slurp, slurp, slurp!
I'm learning quantum mechanics from ChatGPT. It's probably full of mistakes and ultimately harmful for my understanding.
I paced back and forth for hours, waiting for a message or a call or anything, barely breathing, barely conscious, my mind everywhere but the present.
where is it now?
He's dead.
Meanwhile she's fricking 5 black dudes at once.
The sentence you've provided is rich in imagery and effectively conveys a sense of restlessness and anticipation. The repetition of "barely" and the parallel structure of "barely breathing, barely conscious" contribute to the mood of unease and tension. Additionally, the fragment "my mind everywhere but the present" adds depth to the portrayal of distraction and preoccupation.
However, the aesthetic value of a sentence can vary depending on the reader's personal taste and the context in which it's presented. Some readers may appreciate the vivid imagery and emotional resonance of the sentence, while others may prefer different styles or find the sentence overly fragmented.
Overall, it's a subjective matter, but the sentence does demonstrate effective use of language to evoke a particular mood or atmosphere.
This critique reads like it was written by ChatGPT. A better suggestion would be to rewrite the end of it to say "...barely breathing, barely conscious, barely in the present." to complete the rule of three.
How the hell do I make friends? I’m so tired of being alone.
I have lots of adult privileges I probably shouldn't be allowed
Please don't give teddy sad juice, it's a bad friend thing to do
I have a lot of child privileges I shouldn't have.
Are we supposed to give those back?
some people are meant to both live and die alone. Im quite certain im one of them and for what I know you might be preordained so as well. Here's something to live by for anons like us, learn to be your own friend; it has saved my life.
>be me
>liked a girl 4 years ago
>ended up being unrequited
>move on
>fast forward to now and i'm working a white collar wagie job
>she ends up joining the same company
>get a message out of the blue last week with her saying "hey anon"
Women make me laugh.
MOOOOU NAKANAI DE
IMAAAAA ANATA O SAGASHITEIRU
HITO GA IRU KARA
OMAE NI AITAI YOTO
>wwoym/
>no link to previous thread
>ugly low res pic
>phoneposter
Black person OP
We're so back
Feels like smart people nowadays are in so much despair that theyve subconsciousnessly become anti natalist without even knowing it
I'm not anti natalist or nihilist but I can't think of a real reason for me specifically to have children except for vanity. And I have no reason to get up in the morning or be alive.
self interest ≠ selfish/evil.
What? Why did you reply to me
Will a gas station sell me alcohol without an ID if I can point to a receding hairline? If not, is it illegal to get a homeless guy to buy me some vodka if I'm over 21? Need to know asap bros
Homeless guy is going to take your money and bolt.
If you live in Portland come pick me up and I'll help you out. Otherwise the homeless guy is your best bet.
Going to a slum corner store for beer and just be confident
get a license you fricking Black person
Counterfeit money is not even a thing anymore.
I can’t even check my phone because I’m so scared that you’re going to be mad
I wonder.
I finally downloaded How to Read a Book. I should've done so earlier. I skimmed it for 30 minutes. His steps on inspectional reading is something I should do for every book. I didn't realize how much I could get from this book until looking through it, but it looks like it will be very worthwhile. I think I should read the charters Aids to Reading and How to Read History next, because I have some research I need to do for classes. I've already been doing some of the things he discusses, but it's good to read it as a reminder and to check what things I've been missing.
Kek, it's good you're getting a lot out of the book and plan to use it in future, but every time I see it, I can only think about the movie Quiz Show
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity
>the problem of personal identity
This isn't philosophy. It's psychology. Why do people in philosophy discuss it? If you have issues with your identity that's psychological. Literally when you don't think of it the problem goes away.
Family didn't want to get me alcohol and I can't buy any because no ID. Shit.
What should someone do if the only thing their only ambition in life is dead in the water?
swim until they sink
Please don’t be mad please don’t be mad please don’t be mad
I'M MAD
I AM MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!
A wasp got into my apartment a couple days ago and it's been hanging out in the window shades ever since. It's right by my bedroom door and when I walk by it'll turn around and raise one of its wings like it's about to buzz me but I never hang around to see if it will or not.
I think the little guy is lonely because he can't go back to his hive but I can't open the window for him because he'll probably sting me if I get too close and once that happens I'm probably going to kill him. I feel bad because of how forlorn he looks as he's sitting on the blinds looking through the glass without being able to understand why he can't go through it.
>The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ant's; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from it to man, and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.
how do i cope with not being anton harden
This post will not go unnoticed. Point at him and laugh everybody.
Did your high school have a cheerleading team?
doesn't exist in uk
And we're all glad, I would hate to see UK chicks doing that, you guys have a severe lack of attractive women.
well hell, aw shucks, really? heavens to betsy, you gotta be kidding, goshdarn it, the tarnation thing.
Pakistani immigrants disagree.
I'm in my 7th going on 8th in a few weeks of my 6 semester degree in Europe. I am so incredibly burnt out and I have nothing to show for it. I believe I can't even finish this term paper I have due, not to speak of the other I haven't started work on. I yet again picked a deliriously complex topic, did not reading, read literature and philosophy instead and now am writing out of my ass. I have tried to prompt something passable from the AI but of course it can't do any reasoning. Problem is that in this state I can't do it either. I had 18 pages, now I have 13 pages. And I have 13 days to write the other one. I want to quit fricking now. I don't even care anymore. I wanted to bag the money five weeks ago. Was super motivated on Wednesday and actually wanted to finish this FRICKING degree (I get so incredibly mad just thinking about it, I hope this is illustrative) but have since dropped any and all motivation again after going through the absolute descriptive non reasoning and non citing garbage I wrote I convinced myself was at least a decent primer for the "discussion".
I never want to set foot in a university again. I hate universities. I hate science. I hate students. I hate fricking everything to do with academia.
found a sequence error. my base assumption was just wrong. god I want to die. I am back to six pages of text. I would cry if I was depressed for the better part of a decade now. I would scream if it wasn't five thirty am. I would just send it and fail myself if I had a backbone.
I wish I had a family of my own. Men aren't meant to just keep getting older all alone like this. Damn.
I wasted 4 years of my life in college. And I mean completely waste. Commute, no friends, worthless degree, no job. I've done nothing but read books and play games at home. And now I have no idea what to do for a job at all as I near the end of my final semester. I've no motivation to do anything. If I got a job working full-time at the university itself I would be satisfied just so I can tell everyone with expectations for me in my life that I work at a big college.
Man, I don't wanna live in the 50s or the 70s or the 80s, I wanna go back to 2005.
year i was born
Gross.
yeah
At this point I'd even go back to winter 2019. Wait out the inevitable just for a bit longer.
I know it's been said a million times now, but the summer of 2016 was special, I haven't experienced anything like it since.
I sometimes think of 2015 as my 1977. I was 19. I met a lot of people that year, Where Are U Now and House Every Weekend came out...
and this track. I'll always associate it with this time of year - the clocks going back, the sense of something lifting. Still sounds so evocative
>REJECT MODERNITY
>RETVRN TO TRADITION
mentally, i'm still here
Apparently Franky Muniz hit his head and he doesn't remember being Malcolm in the Middle at all. But that probably means he forgot what prime Hillary Duff's pussy smelled like, too.
I wish I was born today.
Back to the start of 2023. I could have achieved so much if only I knew what I know now. It's amazing how much you can frick up in such a short time.
Jokes on you, I've never succeeded.
Will you accept?
No. Go away.
>jon stewart plays clip of trump saying "if you get shot leaving a store after robbing it that's your problem"
>trump obviously talking about violent robberies where the clerk was accused of shooting the robber "as he was fleeing, therefore he was no longer in danger" (many such cases)
>stewart: "whoa whoa whoa!!! you want to shoot people as they leave the store because you expect them of shoplifting a pair of khakis?"
yeah mr. leibowitz, exactly, he was talking about the fabled white shoplifters who commit most petty theft, the kinds of people who shoplift a pair of KHAKIS from the GAP, not a fricking drugged up Black person who pistol whipped the clerk after waving the gun in his face and then ran
not sure why i expected a little more of this disingenuous israelite, but i did
Wanting something isn't enough motivation for me, I fricking hate it. I want to be fluent in Japanese and retire as a fisherman in Okinawa with my qt Japanese wife and maybe even a kid or two but I just can't find the motivation. Despite me having to do extra shit to achieve it since I'm so far behind in life, this is something that if I put in enough work is completely possible, I just can't bring myself to do it for some reason.
None of my passions translate into a job. I could very easily write a phd thesis on something I'm interested in, I could definitely write a novel, I could definitely teach a subject like English or film studies or something like that. But it's not viable, these paths either pay shit or require an immense amount of money that I don't have. I know that I can do better than what I am today but I didn't, that is what kills me. I will graduate in May and end up with some shitty job that pay pennies likely unrelated to my degree while my old friends become doctors.
Then do it pussy. Then fricking do it. Go to your fricking doctor. Tell him you have burnout. Get on unpaid sick leave go your parents and write this fricking thesis to show yourself or write your fricking novel to sell it. Why are you even complaining if it's so easy to just go on, if you could do it, easily. I could It's not viable because I need more money or need to take on debt.
>It KILLS ME that I can do better but I am stuck doing myself
Du elender Systemling geh dich umbringen verdammte Scheiße, wie hast du dich auf dieses verdammte Board verirrt, wenn du nichts anderes als ein Karrierenlutscher bist.
KINDESS
YIELDS
SMILES
CONSIDER THAT MY GOD YOU FRICKING PIECE OF NORMIE SHIT
Germans may not realize but in the mongrel state of America it's quite expensive and impossible for most people to pursue postgraduate studies or make a dime out of a book
Not him but I can't find a passion. I just can't. I graduated years ago and I've just been a neet. There's nothing to even strive for or sacrifice for. I can't find even find a hobby.
Same, I wish it was as easy as just "becoming passionate about something".
So life is just nothing where your mind slowly deteriorates and you have nothing but the media you consume in different formats? There's nothing to this. I'm really just supposed to have a kid and die? Or just do nothing? You're telling me that every human all this time has just lived for the sake of consuming more exciting stuff in books movies plays music as brief relief from just how worthless life is
No, earlier we actually had to struggle to survive, now we struggle to pass the time.
This is your window of consciousness, use it.
There's nothing to do
Failed to procure alcohol. Got everything ready, stuff cleaned up, clothes thrown away, books stored in bags, etc. Left the house and started walking, but it's been so long that crippling social anxiety started seemingly choking me to death. I returned quickly. I figure I won't be able to do it without the vodka. I'm a failure. I hate living.
Black folk. Please ban me for racism outside of /b/. _-_
I could not catch a break yesterday. What a shit day.
It's interesting how the right-wing critics of victorian capitalism like Carlyle or Ruskin fell into this weird niche where nobody really evokes them as "one of their kind". They are too christian for lefties and Carlyle in particular is extremely politically incorrect in many of his views, the pro-capitalist right wing don't care for their criticism of capitalism, while the radical right finds their fundamental christianity indigestible.
Tolstoy, Wagner, Carlyle, Ruskin, Mazzini, etc really lost out. Their conservative values became obsolete and so did their economic beliefs — socialists on the left built upon them further and the right wholly embraced capitalism. It’s a shame. I find honestly some of their critiques of modern society more brilliant than the usual people we revere today. The Right especially should be embarrassed how it just became the throne of liberalism.
Agreed. Capitalism is an all consuming cancer. Sometimes my blood boils after reading the works of these great men and comparing it to the hand we were dealt. How on Earth did this happen? Why wasn't something vaguely along the lines of their Christian socialism ever tried? The closest we ever got was Franco's Spain for a few years in the 1940's before it too gave into American commercial pressures. It fills me with despair. My life sucks. The political, moral and economic systems around us suck. These issues compound each other. It all seems so hopeless and pointless.
Tolstoy is still world famous for his art though his nonfiction is ignored. Wagner is not as famous because of post-WW2 defamation of his name. Carlyle is hardly read today but his name is sort of known in literary circles. Ruskin and Mazzini however are totally irrelevant. I’m sure Mazzini is known in Italy but his Christian socialism was thrown in the dustbin of history pretty quickly, even Marx hated him.
Ironically enough the biggest influence this loose grouping of “conservative anti-capitalists” had was on Gandhi instead of people actually in the West. Genuinely saddening
Does the award of "biggest fall in popularity ever" belong to Carlyle? Nowadays people treat him like they treat obscure elizabethan playwrights while a century ago almost everyone considered him the victorian author with the biggest overall influence both inside the UK and abroad. Like fricking Emerson started writing his essays because he was such a massive Carlyle fanboy.
He is being purposely forgotten by the overlords I guess. The academics and the politicians. Hegel isn't forgotten despite his connections to both Nazi Germany and communism. Why Carlyle? He must have been too powerful.
Depends how you interpret “fall from grace” do you mean total irrelevancy, or whoever has the steepest decline from their prior position? In the former people like Mazzini and Spencer are the least known today, in the latter case Caryle definitely fell off the most because his name was once among the biggest in the world and now his works are hardly even in print (Oxford did actually publish one of his books last year though). Carlyle is quite dangerous to the current world order. Racist, romanticism and elitist while still being steeped in Western culture. They don’t want you reading him even though all of our ancestors did.
Past and Present was published by Oxford last year. Oxford's Sartor Resartus is easy to obtain, although that's a less dangerous book. A heavily abridged On Heroes was published by Penguin in the 80's. I can buy a full version from an American university press for $40 from all the way over in Australia. Caryle isn't being banned. It's hard to obtain his works because no one wants to read them and the publishers have little monetary incentive to put them out. The issue is that his idea's are intolerable to the vast majority of modern people, as said. The support for slavery is a useful tool to discredit him, but other men like Henry George have also been completely erased from the modern consciousness. Progress and Poverty was the 2nd best selling book of the 1890's in the USA, behind only the Bible. In this period of insane ballooning house prices why isn't be being reconsidered? Money. The worship of money has reached a fever pitch. How could it possibly get any worse? Any attempt to discuss Carlyle or George is absurd in our present world. The people suppressing it are not a hidden elite illuminati. The owners of Blackrock and Vanguard are a vast number of mildly wealthy people. Our lives are all steeped in ideas and practices completely antithetical to Carlyle. I believe the term for this is oversocialisation.
I was going to mention Henry George earlier as another forgotten name in our era of mass democracy and consumerism. Actually sickens me to read about how revered he was in his day and yet how his famous book is totally unread today. Einstein and Tolstoy saw him a genius but I suppose we shouldn’t
My curation of Wikipedia's list of Georgists:
Milton Friedman
Robert Solow
Winston Churchill
Rutherford B Hayes
Alfred Deakin
Andrew Fisher
Sun Yat Sen
Aldous Huxley
Upton Sinclair
Leo Tolstoy
George Bernard Shaw
William F Buckley
Bertrand Russel
Curtis Yarvin
MLK Jr
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
You could argue many others per-George were Georgists. Such as Adam Smith and Thomas Paine. An idea that covered such an extremely wide range of people has been near completely ignored. Several small countries have a land value tax (which has been proven to be effective), but it's in places like Denmark and Singapore where the majority of tax revenue comes from income tax and consumption taxes. The LVT's largest problem in the past, accurately assessing the value of land, is largely resolved in the era of computers. There has never been a better or more necessary time for this form of tax. The world, especially the West, has some kind of collective psychosis in its relentless drive for money. LVT is le bad because when I have 3 investment properties they won't be profitable anymore! Enough people get by on their dreams of being the winner that they ignore the masses who are crushed underfoot. There are enough temporarily embarrassed millionaires out there to keep the whole world down. Relentlessly licking the boots of uncaring, unrepentant agents of pure evil. It is sickening. But it's nice to know at least one other person in the world cares. Whenever I try and talk about this irl people just look at me like I'm crazy. Boy, do they love their fancy German cars and rapidly appreciating houses!
Shaw has to dilute his name with a Bernard, not exactly grand Georgian behavior
Spengler too. Prussian Socialism and Man and Technics are brilliant.
For those who are married, yes. In my view, sex has two purposes - the obvious reproductive one, and also a pedagogical purpose. It's a total giving over of oneself to the other, a shared ecstacy that becomes the adhesive for that relationship. From there, ones affections should translate to a giving over to the other person in all things. The marital act is a type of the embrace and authenticity that should permeate all aspects of the married life. For those who choose the path of celibacy/monasticism, their love begins with their own repentance which leads to seeing themselves in all people and in turn, the image of Christ in all, albeit distorted. For this reason, I am not surprised that Schopenhauer acted as a stepping stone to Christianity for me. The centre of all things in Christ and it is in seeing Christ in all things that we can act morally. Also, this is not to say that married couples do not need to be constantly repenting. It's more so that the sexual relationship adds another dimension to love in the married experience.
Everything just imploded after WW2. Before that, artistic and intellectual movements were vibrant. There were so many competing worldviews and theories and artistic figures. There was a time when someone like Engels could appreciate Carlyle, where Tolstoy was more famous for his Christianity than he was for writing War and Peace, where capitalism faced opposition from both the right and the left. Now it’s all gone. That whole side of history is dead. Liberal democracy and its values triumphed and all competing theories died out, including Marxism itself which slowly but surely became absorbed into liberalism with their denunciation of Stalin and the failure of Mao.
It seems to me that the cause of all of this is America and it's money. Mammon has conquered all. There is no longer any question of any sort of alternative system.
Be the change you want to see
Unfortunately I am far too weak and cowardly to take down the evil American empire.
Lead by example. If you know a better way to live life then live it. For what else does anyone want besides the ethereal better life? People will follow if they can be shown
With all the books I’ve read from the past, I came to a conclusion that basically everyone lost. People in prior centuries devoted themselves to preventing today’s world and they didn’t succeed. Some were even driven to madness in their aims like Nietzsche and the aforementioned Ruskin. This world is made by the French enlightenment bourgeoisie and ONLY them and their adherents would be satisfied with how history turned out. Everyone else would be horribly fricking depressed. Marx lost, Nietzsche lost, Rousseau lost, Mazzini lost, Bakunin lost, Wagner lost, etc etc etc.
Voltaire, Peter and Catherine, Thomas Paine, Lippman and Dewey won.
Communism is preferable to this. We got the worst outcome.
every few months i get the impulse to try smoking weed again and every single time it just makes me depressed and anxious. i haven't enjoyed it in years, i dunno what it'll take for me to accept that i'll never enjoy it again. i dunno why i keep thinking this time might be different
I wish I was born in 1993.
I hate that I want to hold a chick or be held by a chick right now, this feels like weakness to me.
Why do I bother interacting with other people outside of my necessity for survival? I could just do solo activities 24/7.
People care too much, I don't think I've ever held a grudge longer than a couple of hours and I've had some pretty shitty things happen to me. I just don't get why people care, I think it's because they've been told their entire lives what things should make them angry and what things are wrong and so they don't actually think for themselves and get angry at whatever they've been conditioned to get angry at and care about what they've been conditioned to care about. I don't know, maybe it's just something wrong with me. There are people out there who would reject money from someone just because they don't like that person, even if they needed money to survive. I think that's moronic.
They have weak wills. 99% of issues are psychological which can be solved by willing it away.
I want to read and write more but it's hard for me not only to find shit that I like to read but also its hard for me to focus because I have multiple hobbies I'm interested in and very little free time. WHAT DO???
I know America is a shit hole but for some reason, I feel like I would be happier there.
The US is definitely the best place for opportunities.
I agree. That doesn't make it any less of a shit hole though.
Im so bored and nothing interests me. I though that alcohol could give me a creative powers but it didnt. Back to staring at wall and listening to noisy neighbors.
This hot, married coworker of mine keeps attempting to have deep conversations with me, both at work and over ignored texts. She's trying to get involved in my day-to-day life (making me food, asking me about my day, etc.). I like the way it makes me feel until I realize at the end of the day she goes home to her husband and I have no one in my life. It's made my dumb romantic brain create all of these stupid fantasies in my head. These little stupid things she does are significant in my life because I'm lonely, and yet if push comes to shove, she will rightfully be ride or die with her husband. I don't think she understands these things she is doing to be nice are actually killing me. Blegh
I wish I was a robot instead of a human. Something about this whole living thing isn't for me
It’s very much concentrated, Wagner is blamed for Nazism so his works are hardly endorsed today even though at the time his art was considered the absolute greatest, even by his opponents. People like Tolkien are nowhere on the level as Carlyle, a man who defended slavery at a time when it was being abolished. So yes it’s deliberate that Carlyle’s immensely influential books like On Heroes are not published today.
Neither radically promoted an alternative world. I've only read Mere Christianity from Lewis and the most radical political statement he makes is that the ideal Christian state would have some kind of socialism. One sentence. Ignored and swept under the rug. I never hear of Lewis as any kind of political radical. Sounds like he just wrote pop-theology and did not forcefully challenge the contemporary world order. Yes, it is obvious that Christian beliefs cannot coexist with the modern world, but there is a gigantic gap between the what is and what should be. Lewis does not bridge that gap.Tolkein, despite directly saying he was a reactionary monarchist, himself claimed his works were in no way allegorical. No one is taking any poignant political messages from Lord of the Rings. It just promotes Christian beliefs and morality behind a fantasy veil. The gap is not bridged. Their works are impotent when it comes to promoting radical change.
I went for a walk today (tonight).
The japanese really like their Mary Magdalene Expys. Eveytime I see a pious protitute I assume mary Magdalene expy.
I don't know why.
Given that no church affirms she was a prostitute. But whatever.
I could be doing something productive right now. Instead of gonna drink a tall glass of Coke and watch Vanilla Sky.
You're already productive.
No, I'm not, all I've done today is watch the UFC, eat some ravioli, take a shower, drink some Coke and watch Vanilla Sky. You could argue that taking a shower is productive but I wouldn't.
Herbert Spencer is another big name now forgotten
I'd say a liberal supporter of small government and laissez-faire capitalism is in a very different category to men like Carlyle and Ruskin.
>9. We wish to glorify War—the only health giver of the world—
militarism, patriotism, the destructive arm of the Anarchist, the beautiful Ideas that kill, the contempt for woman.
>10. We wish to destroy the museum, the libraries, to fight against
moralism, feminism and all opportunistic and utilitarian meannesses.
Also, if the futurist manifesto is this extravagant in English, I can't imagine how extravagant it will read in Italian.
I'm looking through old text messages between me and a chick who I used to be friends with. She slowly ghosted me after I confessed my feelings to her (bad move from me, I know, but I was only going on 17) and even though we never had anything, she would always take ages to answer (Minimum a day between each message and I'd only ever get one sentence answers, we very rarely had long conversations. Maybe she was busy like she said, ((she did go to a prestigious all-girls boarding school after all)) or maybe she was just never really interested in talking to me ((which would be weird considering we talked for years)) but either way, I feel weirdly nostalgiac when I read them, I don't know why. I think it's pretty clear from the fact that we very rarely had proper conversations and that she would always take forever to respond to me that she was never really interested in being my friend but I still feel weird when I read them, I don't know, that's the end of my (probably grammatically horrendous) spiel.
I hope I die before having to look back on 17 as a very long time ago.
Remembering 17-26 after 30 feels like remembering being 5-10 after 20, doesn't seem like you were fully sentient during those years
How and why do you still have texts from when you're 17? This stuff is meant to be discarded and forgotten
This, imagine being so lonely and depressed you're still livingin the past over some oneitis. This site truly is pathetic. Why do I come here? Am I pathetic?
> Why do I come here? Am I pathetic?
Clearly you are if you don't even know why you go on IQfy.
Kys.
I do know why: to discuss literature. But it is evident to me that no one here is interested in discussing literature seriously. So I was asking in the more cosmological sense, not seeking a direct answer.
>kys
Come on anon, really?
Dubs and you are full of shit
No, that is precisely the reason I come here.
Dubs tell a different story.
repeating digits at the end of a number do not suddenly alter knowledge of why I do something. My point is that I come here to discuss literature seriously, but ironically no one on this board is interested in discussing literature seriously. So then, why am I still visiting IQfy, if my hopes for visiting are not fulfilled? The answer is that I have faith every time I visit IQfy that this time I will be able to discuss literature seriously with anons, but every time I am let down.
Don't question the dubs.
Repeating digits mean nothing. That is pure cope and superstition. It says something about the strength of your argument that you rely on them to make any sort of statement.
shut up, gay
It also says something about your maturity level to use 'gay' as an insult on the internet
I have a larger dub score than you anyway, it's like a two karma newbie debating a gorillion karma plebbitor, you've got no chance. Go back to plebbit.
>nooooo you cant use slurs on IQfy thats so immature and bigoted wtf
What the frick are you even doing here?
I never said it was bigoted, you're just projecting now. But it is immature. Most mature, adult-minded people can explain their thoughts without the use of derogatory comments. Usually, children resort to insults when their positions hold no ground, and they know it, and I think you're doing that right now. You're a little man child. Has nothing to do with 'reddit' either, and that's a site I definitely don't go on. Nor does it have anything to do with caring about gay people. I think homosexuality is the height of degeneracy, but I don't think it's helpful to call them or others homosexual slurs, either.
> Nor does it have anything to do with caring about gay people. I think homosexuality is the height of degeneracy, but I don't think it's helpful to call them or others homosexual slurs, either.
homosexual detected. Dubs say you are a homosexual. Do you question the dubs?
I'll pray for you, anon. You're clearly in a state of immense pain, despair, dismay, and confusion. Take care.
Oogi boogi.
now type that without crying
reddit is down the hall and to the left
Nta but you're all depressed irl
What's your point?
Dubs and you're a homosexual who sucks dick
It's another one of those nights, oh boy.
>oh i could go out to a cafe and read
>it's st Patrick's day
>Everything diverted or closed
I thought the same exact thing. I work at 4pm though so I will work in some capacity
I hope I die by 30, I'm so fricking bored of life.
That's very pathetic.
Yes, it is.
being 30 year old who missed all the youth fun is a pure suffering.
You're just a spoiled kid who never had to suffer a single day in his life so you want to have a nice day out of boredom.
>youth fun
Oh yeah getting drunk at bars trying to pick up vain and vapid prostitute's was surr a lot of fun.
Take it from an unironic chad who had all of the stereotypical "fun" in his 20's you're thinking you missed out on: it's overrated. If anything, I view my 20's of debauchery as a massive waste of time that greatly degraded my spirit.
>Oh yeah getting drunk at bars trying to pick up vain and vapid prostitute's was surr a lot of fun.
Its a socializing experience.
>massive waste of time that greatly degraded my spirit.
so what are you up to now that you've had your fill?
>Its a socializing experience.
Yes, a negative one. If you haven't really done it, you have no idea how cringe it is: The shallow conversation, the jealousy and envy, the verbal and physical altercations, the depraved situations it leads to. Are you seriously implying there is no better way to socialize than that?
>so what are you up to now that you've had your fill?
Reading, working, going to church, going to cafe's and movies with a tigher knit, more virtuous friend group. Working out too, but I always did that. My life has improved immeasurably since my 20's. I look back on my twenty's with nothing but regret that I wasn't living the way I am now, back then.
It sounds to me like you are lusting after vice if you characterize my 20's of debauchery as 'having my fill'. Do you not understand? I wish I had never done any of it. I cringe thinking of that time.
Dude I had nothing in my 20s. You are totally spoiled.
Leave your house? I never went to college and my dad walked out on us when I was 11. My mom worked 2 jobs, I rarely saw her, and I started working at 13 to help support my sisters and mom. Not exactly what I would call spoiled. Maybe try living in the real world instead of hiding in your room. Regardless, I look back on that time with regret. I could be so much further along now if I had lived how I am now, back then. Oh well, better late than never.
I’m the opposite, didn’t do much in my 20’s, now in my 30’s I’m rolling in pussy and enjoying it
I can’t look because I’m so anxious that I feel sick over it
One of the advice that was given to me to start praying is to tell God that I love him. I tried, but when I say it it somewhat feels like a lie. And I think I know why ; I am absolutely unable to truly love God's creation. The gift of living in this world is unpleasant to me, and despite all of my effort, I do not seem to reach the ability to love God's creation. If God's creation is good, and he gifted it to us, thinking that it was good. Then can I truly say I love God if I love not his creation?
We have never seen the ancient Semites of the Old Testament praising their love to God. They honour him, pray to him, make sacrifices to him, but love, none.
I was led to believe that Youtube only counts one view per IP but that's not the case: there is no limit. Completely reshapes the way I look at viewcounts. The Internet really is one major joke but I'm sure most already know that one way or another. It's all about figuring out in which specific ways that is the case.
It's all fantasy money. It's why we in America are $30 trillion in debt. We've lost touch with reality.
View counts on twitter are even more stupid
That's just to get you addicted. Heavily influenced by bot programs as well. Those social media sites are all fueled by fantasy, delusion to inflate egoism. They are businesses, not true open forumns.
I don't know if the future's bright, but it could be worse.
I could be of the mistaken belief that anyone else is going to save me, and holding out for a hero when I have to be that hero for myself.
Back when I was 13-14 years old my aunt lived with us and I developed a sort of puppy crush on her. I saw her again for the first time in 10 years and I still think she is hot. I suppose I am sick in the head.
How do i find this woman more attractive than any white modern actress?
Because she looks like a man. Duhh
fair
St. Patrick's Day means we eat enchiladas.
I remember that one time I called that guy a gay on IQfy. That was awesome.
I have peed my pants about a 200 times in my adult life, in varying quantities (most of the times it was only a few drops and not visible).
Then I pee my pants every day.
do a flip, homosexual
You're both pretty gay, tbh.
Maybe you should make out?
I don't think the dark forest hypothesis is correct in that advanced alien civilizations would be malicious and attack. Wouldn't it be more logical that their priority is to observe? If we became advanced enough and came across a planet with aliens on it, I think we'd observe it first and not attack. This would also explain why aliens are silent. They're observing.
They might not necessarily kill us, but enslave us, and impose their imperialism upon us.
Why? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to do that unless there's something on Earth (in comparison to literally billions of other planets) that a hypothetical alien civilization couldn't get anywhere else.
they want our loosh
Why wouldn't they? Given our current technological standard we are too stupid to be members of the galactic federation, intelligent enough to be used as Black person slaves.
Would you use a human slave that is inefficient, needs food and rest, and can rebel if you could have a perfect robot doing your work 24/7?
If aliens exist and they have colonized the galaxy, they don't need us, they don't need our gold or our oil. Humans fight because we live on a limited world
Why wouldn't they use us as slaves? Seems like a perfect way of deploying settlers to our planet without the need of investing in expensive robot engines. Perhaps they'd just use us for the first few generations, make copies of our DNAs, adapt the DNA of the settlers to our DNA so they are capable of surviving on our planet without astronaut suits, and dispose themselves of us. Or take us on galactic missions as servants. The possibilities of course are infinite.
You do realize from the way the current world is working that an (actual) advanced civilization would understand how stupid it is to take on slaves: eventually they get free and then become leeches upon your society.
How? Slaves only become free when they mix with the upper classes. If an alien species would come to enslave us, their superiority would be permanent (less they are able to interbreed with humans, wich I deem unlikely).
>only become free when they mix with the upper classes
False. Slaves in our world became free when it became less cost effective to keep them than it did to not have them.
Long story short, the cycle I would theorize for being enslaved by an alien race would be:
Aliens enslave us.
Golden Age for the colony as a production facility/whatever they want it for.
New leaders take power, interests and culture both shift.
Finances are shifted away from the colony.
Slaves get free, by force or by neglect of overlords.
Dark Age for the Colony as a production facility/whatever.
Earth Becomes a Third World shithole
> Slaves in our world became free when it became less cost effective to keep them than it did to not have them
This is not true. It would be more profitable to the upper classes of today to own their own workers. They have to pay them a wage instead.
> Slaves get free, by force or by neglect of overlords.
I mean, I don't think it would necessarily be possible for an alien race to enslave literally every single human being, nor a necessity to do so. Sure, some of them might flee into the jungle, live as stone age people in order to remain free. But most people wouldn't be able to escape slavery. Decided to revolt? The alien guard pulverizes you with a laser gun. I simply can't imagine a possible scenario where humans win the upper hand, for hundreds and thousands of years.
The aggressive alien archetype is pure projection. The logic behind it is that since humans are aggressive towards lesser species/civilizations, then in all likelihood, a species more intelligent/advanced than us would be too.
There are two flaws that make this theory nonsense ; the first one is that humans are not necessarily always aggressive towards species or civilization deemed less advanced. For instance, we don't bother most birds, and let them live their lives. We interfer with their lives with our industry/pollution, but we don't make it our primary purpose to disturb birds. It's just that they live on our planet, and we are disturbing the peace here. If birds were living on mars, I don't see us intentionally killing them.
We also very often in history have seen more advanced civilization not seeking conflict with lesser civilization.
The second flaw is that nothing tells us that aliens would be like us. If they come from another planet, we would share more DNA with a banana than with the aliens, why then would they behave like us?
>For instance, we don't bother most birds
Not anymore we don't. People drove passenger pigeons to extinction basically just for the sake of it. There are tons of laws protecting birds for a reason.
Do you have to move into a big city to have any dating or social life?
dead thread
dead board
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actually, these threads slowing down is a good thing
Is a big tiddy goth gf that can look trad and preppy for family holidays really too much to ask for?