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 No.308343[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

The Time God does not forget nor forgive edition. You will do this again.

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 No.308990

I kind of forgot I was suicidal. I miss it. It's like I said some threads ago. Wallowing in depression is the only place I feel at home.

 No.308991

>>308990
so true. i hate not being depressed enough, because being energetic is just another form of suffering.

 No.308992

>>308989
I don't think so, I see people outside leading active lives.

 No.308994

>>308992
some are lucky, yeah

 No.309004

>>308991
Contra intuitive but true.


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 No.228496[Reply]

Thesis:

Engagement with structurally advanced texts and excellent rhetoric trains and temporarily optimises the mind into recurring modes of organization, attention, abstraction, and inference; repeated exposure can temporarily or semi-durably bias cognition toward those modes independently of propositional content.

Or in simpler terms, in the same way that algebra & calculus trains the mind towards logical and methodical thought in the long term, I believe it's possible for works of illustration, music and literature to do so in the short term. If this is true, then it's advantageous to catalogue such art-efacts and optimise exposure to them.

I'm not talking about the first order; "no duh, I read something that told/reminded me of facts and now they're at the front of my attention" or involuntary emotional responses, I'm talking about the temporary mental structure. Meditation or such like, if it works, seems to work by selecting for facts and details, voluntarily emphasising inputs to get desired outputs. It should notionally be possible then, to exercise the mind in such a way that one or more patterns of thought and emphasis can be either cold stored, or reliably reconstructed with inputs on demand. I think genius lies in being able to do this at will and not rely on outside props, but i'm not a genius.

The inspiration for this idea came from reading Robert Carlyle in the morning and consequently having a very organised and effective day at work, but I've noticed it much earlier in the second and third novel of Kai Lung. In the later case, the pleasant but none-the-less non-trivial effort of very complex English usually leaves me in a "well spoken" state for quite some time. I originally put this down to simple mimicry but perhaps there's more to it.

Thoughts? Examples of useful material?

If this is true, consider the darker side - that it's possible to artificially construct and reinforce dysfunctional frames of mind, not just overloading the memory and attention with noise and conflict, but actually implant a structure of thought - at scale. If this was so, how well does it explain modernity.
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 No.228785

>>228518
People learn by doing.
Reading alone won't get you very far.
You won't learn math just by reading a textbook unless you become capable of solving problems and writing proofs.
You won't learn computer programming just by reading a textbook unless you make some practice coding your own programs.
You won't become a chess master just by reading books about chess.
And so forth.

The obsession with reading alone is the mark of the pseudo-intellectual. (The actual intellectual usually appreciates the importance of writing as well.)

 No.228787

>>228748
>What I'm not really understanding is what you would try to get out of it. Snap your finger to be more outgoing an eloquent on demand?
>Learn more efficiently?
>Get into the "zone" for whatever task at hand instantly?

Exactly that. I've done it by accident enough times to notice a pattern and get meaningful comparisons when it comes to task outcomes.

Finding the structure of the phenomena, sourcing tools or procedures that support it, is what I'm looking to do.

It does appear to just be a branch of psychonautics, but I'd never heard of the concept before so thank you to those who responded.

>>228749
Not I

 No.229187

>>228496

i very much appreciate the topic of improvement but it seemed to me like the language you have chosen to communicate it generally did more to distract from it then to support it given how the average wizard is not a level-headed present-minded intellectual but a panicked bundle of worries. you may have hidden your message of improvement behind a wall of complexity from those who could benefit the most from it, which i doubt was your intention.

>Meditation or such like, if it works
you have never felt benefits of meditation? think of it as slowly turning the volume of an annoying background noise down that you were too absent-minded to notice and to realize that it has been the source of an irritation you have experienced and could not make sense of.

>It should notionally be possible then, to exercise the mind in such a way that one or more patterns of thought and emphasis can be either cold stored, or reliably reconstructed with inputs on demand.
this to me sound like the commentary of a half-conscious artificial intelligence currently in the process of receiving an update that is supposed to install agency.

yes you can store thoughts. why is that even worth mentioning to you? you could invent a long number and then learn it like a poem and then later you could recall it.

>I think genius lies in being able to do this at will and not rely on outside props, but i'm not a genius.

this very much sounds to me like you are unconscious to such a high degree that you don't even understand that there are unconscious parts to you. unconscious of unconsciousness itself. like a child that doesn't understand that behind a wall reality does not end but that it is simply not visible from the current perspective. that's something children understand while playing hide and seek. i am saying you might benefit from playing hide and seek with someone for half an hour once or twice.

 No.229188

>>228518
>I believe there is some higher order function that such a process of reading and understanding something either requires, or constructs. And that it is temporary or otherwise transient as the mind resets to a baseline. If so, learning is essentially an outcome of said structure's operation and I think that without the structure you only get rote knowledge.

there are a lot of factors that will influence your ability to make sense.
-your experience. you get better at anything you do repeatedly. if you have a history of already having made sense of things it becomes a quick and efficient process of looking at whatever you are dealing with from as many perspectives as you are able to view from and ask all the questions about it simultaneously. the more you do it, the more of your brain will light up.
-the health of your brain as an extension of the health of your organism ranging from how glued your brain is to how much electricity is available to your brain for this nervoussystem activity
-the amount of energy based on priority your body will unlock for the query, from a shallow quick search to a deep long constant thought-process
-how busy the brain currently is
-how active or inactive other processes are that might interfere, override or prevent nervoussystem activity
-how willing you and your body are to spend energy on the process

 No.229189

>>228585
>How wonderful would it be if by adding 20 hours of pre-learning exercise or self configuration

other then experiencing meditation, which you would very much enjoy, you would love how higher levels of human health feel in terms of mental clarity.

compared to a normal average person with normal industrial age habits: someone who knows how to optimize the health of the human organism is basically feeling super sayan without the exciting visuals though changes in hair color can be part of it.


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 No.229116[Reply]

how do you feel about aging alone? no children, no wife, no family, minimum pension.
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 No.229181

>>229167
>It's immoral to produce kids in hell.

i also believe this.

 No.229182

>>229167
It's treachery to sit back and allow hell to take hold.

 No.229183

>>229182
Who are you betraying here?

 No.229185

>>229183
Anyone who antagonizes hell. Humanity itself. All the cute loli who don't want to be raped by hell demons with fat red cocks.

 No.229186

>>229185
What made them your allies to begin with?
I don't get the sense of comradery just because we are all in hell. Not to mention the heat doesn't seem all that bad for lot of my "fellow humans".


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 No.228138[Reply]

Stepped on the scale today and realized that despite the initial "push" from a medical crisis a year ago, I basically regained all weight I lost (minus 5-10kg).
I also realized I've been working for almost 3 years now, going to be 30 the same week I'll hit my 3 years of work too.
3 years… of wages wasted.

I don't even know what the fuck I spent most of it on. It just escapes me.
Still live with mom and all my necessities are taken care of she takes nothing from me.
I had a blessed opportunity these past 3 years to save up for the dogshit future that hit the world now and I wasted it on toys and basically indulging all I couldn't as a NEET with no money.
The worst is that since I'm an impulsive retard I mostly have nothing to show for it either.

Health is even more fucked then ever before since I never took action.
Rather every action that didn't prove fruitful or flat out failed resulted in my absolute surrender for another month or three or six…
Absolutely defeated at the starting line basically.

To get to the point of this thread. Those of you that live a decently structured, responsible and stable life, how?
I barely have a sense of time. Kinda like when I was a NEET, just instead of 12-16 hours of sleeping and then PC stuff I'm forced to work a rather easy, blessed job.
Once it passes I just feel like I'm teleported to the next shift until I get to sleep through a weekend and months pass.
Even chronic pains don't make me act much. What does one even do to live?

The worst part really is that so many years went down the drain and I really have nothing to show for it. Not even memories.
I want to at least look back on SOMETHING fondly when I'm dying someday.
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>>229169

Every choice made, every path taken closes of dozens if not hundreds of others.
I fear this.
Yet through my inaction I have closed more paths than any choice would have.
What can I say maybe I really am just an insane retard.

 No.229172

>>229169
The rest of your post are really good and aligns very well with what my wiz friends have told me, I just came here to explain the last bit.

>Perhaps I'm missing something, but I'm not sure I grasped what you meant to convey in the later parts of your post. (The passive state part, holding onto things you don't like. Drifting around something as in surface level indulgence?)

Not superifically. Let me explain using an example. Imagine you're drawing or you want to draw, but you're having immense difficulty with the concept of intentional beginning. Well, you don't have to be intentional. Passive drifting in this case would mean opening your phone or bringing a notebook in bed and doodling some figures you have in mind, or shitposting oekaki in an imageboard with a basic touchscreen pen. Thats it. You'll be surprised by how long you spend time doing this. You could even become infamous in that imageboard doing this, but thats not the goal.

Passive drifting really means, doing something so stupidly easy you dont have to think about it. You're passive drifting through life without putting much thought into whatever you're doing, your thoughts are focused on what you like. Thats it.

 No.229177

>>229155
>Your goals don't align with mine yet you argue as if mine are wrong. It's like saying that someone's favourite colour is wrong.

i don't think this is true. i interpret the little information of you that i can see thought this window of the wizchan, i make a most likely simulation in my head where you will be in the near and distant future and then i look at the place where you end up and then i call this place wrong but not "absolutely wrong" (that'd be too big of a leap), only "most likely wrong" because i could be wrong in your specific case.

based on what you said the place where you are trying to go sucks and i hope you stumble so that you don't end up where you are trying to go because it sucks there.

 No.229178

>>229170
>Every choice made, every path taken closes of dozens if not hundreds of others.

interesting that you see so many paths because i see so few that every time i do see a path the decision for me is so easy to take it.

 No.229184

>>229178
I used to think once things get bad enough I'd experience the same.
Things simply aren't bad enough, fire under my ass is not hot enough I thought.

Rock bottom is hard to hit if you go at it with a pickaxe I suppose…


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 No.307650[Reply]

I have become increasingly depressed at the state of discourse about almost any subject. Look at the opinions of most people and discuss their reasoning with them; they do not really have reasons based on experience or logic. They are just saying things they think are normal to say. They imitate others. They understand the world through memes. Zero actual curiosity or critical thinking skills when it comes to discussion of politics/culture/history/science/art. Everyone just parrots what they think others think. They think in memes. Partly to fit in and achieve social acceptance and partly just monkey see monkey do like a child or animal.

Democracy is a failure because most people have no idea what they are voting for or what the consequences will be. They just follow the cultural memes. The internet has exacerbated this. Most people’s political views or views on the culture are just glorified SIX SEVEN repetitions - people have no good justification for any of the ideas they follow.

It might sound arrogant and supercilious to say these things. I worry that I am not that different and I just copy things sometimes by instinct. Makes me wonder if the self even fucking exists and we are just biological self replicating robots copying things.

Depressing. Enraging.
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 No.308047

>>308046
My ego is very fine, don't worry. You avoided my point though

 No.308106

yea everyone pretends to fit in, that's the God of the normie, social approval.

 No.308903

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>Conformity and imitation drives human behaviour

Yeah, read René Girard

 No.308922

>>308903
Before I read an "in-a-nutshell" explanation of his ideas and some of the examples maybe…





…i would like to say I do find myself in the situations when the very feel of being pushed to the limit creates strong emotional feedback within my mind.

 No.309003

>>308903
Thank you for this recommendation. This is fascinating. Listening to a podcast about him. Yes, the theory of desire being mimetic makes sense. As does the idea that the subject of copying becoming a rival. This being a basis of violence. Therefore competitive violence is, for want of a better word, natural or inevitable. Scapegoating becomes the way of attaining stability. Makes sense. One can see it in schools.


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 No.297753[Reply]

How do you guys fight anhedonia? Do you have any experience with it?
I basically don't feel pleasure from anything except food, maybe. Stories, games, art don't really touch me at all and it sucks because I remember how much I loved escapism before and how it brought excitement, joy, sadness etc. Now it's all blank. I want to bring emotions back, want to bring excitement, joy, even sweet sadness would do honestly, I miss being profoundly sad.

Have any of you managed to revert to your older non-anhedonic self?
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>>297753
>How do you guys fight anhedonia?
Have you tried nicotine?

 No.307413

I fight anhedonia with high ABV beer. But I only get drunk on Friday evening. I'm sober the rest of the time.

When I'm drunk (not wasted), I enjoy playing videogames, I enjoy music.

 No.307442

>>301975
>Life with anhedonai feels pointless. No pleasure, no point? Like why do anything. I just end up doing nothing

This.

 No.307449

>>305617
I tried it. It kinda works, but the nicotine burnout was unpleasant and accidently overdosing on velo pouches is worse than any hangover i've ever had

 No.309001

>>297753
Intense exercise in the heat followed ice baths/having icy water thrown on you. It is hard and sometimes I just want to stop because stand up grappling can be temporary hell.

Muay Thai in the heat is fucking fixing me right now. I am not great but endorphins/dopamine/fat loss/muscle mass increase and self esteem from getting better is the only thing so far that has improved my brain so much. Feel myself enjoying music so much more. Just sparring to the beat they play in the gym. Makes me want to shadow box all the time because I just want to get back to the gym.
My biggest regret is not doing this like mad when I was a teenager. Instead I waited until 31.


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 No.308999[Reply]

Are there people here who don't have a job or don't get NEETbux and have to live with parents who are abusive and stupid as fuck but you just can't beat the crap out of them because you're dependent upon them?

 No.309000

yeah, i live with my mom. she has a decent pension that she inherited from my dad (she didn't work a day in her life) and she's really bad with money. buys way too much stuff and she's also the kind of dumb-arrogant where she never listens to advice, so she accrued a bunch credit card debt and just keeps digging the hole deeper. of course, if i dare criticize her, she just tells me to get a job because she can't possibly make ends meet. i never ask for anything and i just eat whatever she gives me, i'm very frugal and like security, having savings on the side and also very conscientious when it comes to debt. i constantly have to remind her about dates when the loan and credit payments are due and when the checks are cashed so she enough money in the account. the worst is when she gets crazy project ideas like wanting to renovate part of the house and you can't dissuade her from it because she's stubborn as fuck. she buys stupid shit she sees online, falls for every marketing trick in the book, supplements, special walking shoes, those stupid chinese box fans where you put water in and it has a tiny fan, we have like 3 of those.

my dad was also retarded with money. we were good the first week after payday and then not have money for food at the end of the month. when i was working, i saved more than half my paycheck and had a bunch of savings when i had became a NEET but she blew threw that in a year and thank god for the pension otherwise we'd have no income. i can't work cuz i'm mentally ill and i can't go outside or talk to people.


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 No.70718[Reply]

Hey wizards,

Two other wizzas and I will be reading The Pastel City, a science fantasy novel by M. John Harrison, originally published in 1971.

We'll be following a schedule of one chapter per day. The chapters are about 10 pages long on average. After each day's reading, we'll come here and talk about it. I'll be posting a short daily commentary to help kick off the discussion, along with updates on our progress through the schedule. Of course, you're under no obligation to post anything if you don't want to.

We'll start on Thursday, July 2, so in just a couple of days. Check out the blurb for the novel:

A decaying world. Ancient powers long forgotten. An old warrior with one last battle to fight. The Pastel City is a mesmerizing journey through the ruins of a far-future civilization, where the remnants of lost knowledge mingle with myth and legend. Atmospheric, inventive, and unforgettable, it is a classic of science fantasy.

I'll be following along with this edition, which can be borrowed for free from Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/pastelcity0000unse

You can choose a different edition if you prefer:

https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=the+pastel+city&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

To borrow a book from the Archive, you'll need an account. They only ask for an email address and password.

Come and join us for some whimsy literary fun.
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>>70839
I knew you would choose the skull-rape line for this chapter's quote. I don't know how they're planning to beat the Moidart now though. Duirinish and Viriconium fell. Do they still have an army somewhere?

 No.70843

>>70817
I don't think so, they used scrolls back then

 No.70844

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Chapter 08

I have no doubt also that I am either immortal or cursed with an extreme longevity: but the secret of that is lost in Time. Whether it was a disease that struck me, or a punishment that was conferred upon me, I do not know. My memory extends reliably for perhaps two hundred years into the past. No further.

The big reveal chapter. I really like Cellur and now that the cards are on the table, I wonder if those are all the cards.
What Cellur tells us about the geteit chemosit is goofy and fun, but I'm not sure it makes any sense. Why do you need a special automaton to destroy people's brains even if you can now resurrect people from intact brains? Besides, we didn't see the chemosit destroying the brains, but carefully harvesting them. This is like developing a special firearm to shoot zombies in the head. Is that really necessary? Anyone with a blunt weapon can destroy a corpse's brain, I don't see this being a point of warfare escalation. It doesn't seem necessary to build a whole new robot for that job.

And why would you build a robot that simply wants to kill anything alive? Is that the most fucked-up bug ever made by a software engineer, or what? Nobody saw a problem with that? Man, those programmers and military contractors from the Afternoon Cultures were dense.

It would make a lot more sense if Canna Moidart had found some bizarre tech from OmniCorp, RoboCop-style, and needed human brains to power some cyborgs. The mech parts would still be there but the brains would've deteriorated and turned to dust over the centuries, so she would need fresh ones.
Maybe there's more to this, we'll see. What do you guys think? I feel like I'm missing something here or maybe there's a new twist on the third act, something even Cellur doesn't know.

>>70840
And today we finally get to take a closer look at this Cellur character. We're at the beginning of the end now.

>>70841
Maybe it's mech, makes sense.

>>70842
I was looking for some shocking paragraph in there. lol.

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>>70844
I frankly don't really get that chemosit explanation either. So they wanna kill all the time and they don't really care who they are killing so long as they get to take brains. But they are smart enough to be integrated into an army (Moidart was marching south for a few weeks at least, plus they were probably just sitting around gathering the army for a while, are you telling me they just sacrificed Northmen to the chemosit on the daily to keep them from going off the rails?). So there's some kind of control mechanism but it only works so long as you have something to aim them towards I guess and so long the chemosit think they are moving towards that they won't kill whoever is controlling them? But then what keeps Moidart from just inventing a new enemy once the southeners are dead or conquered and have the chemosit go on an endless goose-chase to keep them busy?
And yeah, the whole reason why they have to extract brains seems far fetched as well. He probably came up with the concept of brain eaters first and just wanted to keep it in the book even if he couldn't come up with a convincing explanation why. Frankly, they could've just left it open to interpretation. The chemosit are eldritch old tech that nobody truly understands, Cellur's memories don't reach back that far. Simply say they are gathering or doing somthing with the brains but nobody knows what. That would be better imo.

 No.70846

>>70844
I praised the author's descriptive writing on the natural landscape before but it's really getting old. It's just all weird geological terms or plant names. This is at least the second time where he describe the landscape in terms of how it was formed through erosions and streams or whatever. Was he a high school geography teacher or something?

As for the geteit chemosit, you're right that it didn't make sense but I have a prejudice of very old (70s and before) sci-fi to be very loose with logical worldbuilding and just see technology the same way as magic. I think it may be a symbolic feature. Like if leaving the brains lets you live again and someone is cruel enough to go out of their way to destroy your brain that is extra petty evilness. It's like destroying the soul so you can't reincarnate or go to heaven. It's probably just to paint the chemosit as more evil and inhuman. The way the chemosit was programmed to be unstoppable in killing reminds me of how A Canticle for Leibowitz treat nuclear weapons. Maybe they're the cause of the previous civilization's collapse too and now humans' folly and greed will cause them to repeat the same mistake just like in Leibowitz. I wonder if the author had an anti-war messaging in mind too when he thought of this.


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 No.314827[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Hitler's thread:
Paintings or things related to him or to national socialism.

- Painting of a castle.
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 No.324145

There's just something 'missing' from his work. It just doesn't draw the eye and I'm not enough of an artgroid to put my finger on why. I'm extending grace on the watercolors just being muddy from age and exposure but still.

 No.324178

>>324145
It's actually quite good.

 No.324295

>>324145
didn't some jew buy the original and paint a rainbow over the middle of the canvas?

 No.324746

>>323972
(((They))) won't be able to keep up this tyrannical pace forever

 No.324779

>>324746
I wouldn't really call our current society tyrannical. More like slowed down, soulless, stasis and lack of activity, more characterised by the complete abscence of something rather than what is present
no one really seems to actually care


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 No.308918[Reply]

How to get over the fact that you can't freely decide over your own body? Like I always wanted to own a gun because I could decide to shoot myself with it but I don't know how to buy or use it.

Being so powerless in front of the events is utterly disgusting and I don't know how to cope.
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 No.308929

>>308925
Darn I wish I had a gun to shoot myself with.

 No.308977

Are you sure it isn't just survival instinct? I tried to hang myself in january but backed out at the last moment.

 No.308979

>>308977
there are better methods than hanging so no reason to do it that way unless you're in a hurry, the risk of not doing it properly and suffering a slow and painful death or surviving with brain damage is too high

 No.308993

>>308979
still better than overdosing or jumping

 No.308998

I remember seeing that on family guy, the talking dog speaking about having a gun as last resort which gave him comfort. First time I've ever truly agreed with something that's a little taboo. If I had a sure and quick way to die if things ever got too much I'd live a little more carefree. A goodnight switch is how I like to call it. Sure I could just jump off a tall building, but that's really hard to overcome the instinct, and also the natural fear of heights. I've looked down a stairwell that was 18 floors high and I hated the visual and sensation it gave me.


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 No.303736[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

You will still be stuck browsing this thread in 2026 edition

previous>>296811
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 No.308958

Jews are not human

 No.308960

>>308958
lucky them

 No.308995

We now have an entire storage building filled with cardboard and trash because everyone is 'too important' to deal with it. We could have hired temp workers and this would have been handled in a day tops. On the plus side I get to spend most of my shift alone breaking down cardboard for the next week.

 No.308996

>>308953
That's almost as bad as team building camp, I pray to the stars I never have another one of those. Godspeed anon.

 No.308997

>>308995
I work in a supermarket and the self important floor staff are all the same. Too busy socializing and neglecting actual food health practices. Many of our shelves have actual mold BUSHES. Not just mold, but BUSHES of mold, whenever I've cleaned it (took hours) I'd get written up for wasting time and not putting out more stock because having 500 drinks on the shelf is better than 250 and that means we are losing sales even if only 50 sell the entire day!! Everyone is a dumbass there.

>>308996
Thanks hope it's not gonna be like that. The general culture of my area is very social though. Think stereotypical Philippines or Brazilians. everything must be a party


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 No.323901[Reply]

No politics or religion in the crawl thread, please.

>Ambient sounds to wash away distraction
https://asoftmurmur.com/
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 No.324681

>>324673
Voldemort kills Dombledore

 No.324683

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>>324628
First time since Hulk Hogan died.

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King Von wasn't stupid at school yet remained a gangsta doing drills on the opps. Just like many wizards wasn't stupid and turned meets and hikikomoris.
>Young nigga, twenty-six, never had a job

 No.324765

>>324755
He just reached his final form of blackness as he aged. Many such cases

 No.324777

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 No.227944[Reply]

wizards, this is a truly important question. how do you tell your mom, or anyone else for that matter, that you are really not interested in whatever female they think you should "befriend"?

i know you're going to troll me, but i still kindly ask you to find a second and think about what could be the *optimal* solution. the solution that doesn't burn bridges, doesn't create bitter enemies and yet lets you maintain the high ground. i know this is not fully achievable, but there gotta be an algorithm or something.

my brain just crashes in such situations. it's like "idk wtf are you're even talking about???" i need help
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 No.228948

>>228241
Gesture language varies between nations.

Good luck deciphering a bloke as myself.

 No.228957

>>227944
With the one and only argument there is: there's no such thing as a friendship between man and succubus.
You can't change a person's perspective on anything, specially if you're in a position of disadvantage from the start. That's the case for every son x parents dynamics. You can say you have no sexual urges whatsoever. I don't know. Perhaps you could stall the annoyance by pretending to be hormonally broken. Or get a diagnosis. That tends to make them jaded.

 No.228961

>>228957
mom says
>sonny just gotta try it plsplspls trust me you're gonna love it!!!
spoiler: she just wants grandkids.

 No.228962

>>228961
All animals do and humans are animals

 No.229175

I'm lucky that I've never had to deal with this to a large degree.

The closest thing I have had to deal with is an uncle asking about succubi and girlfriends. I just said that succubi were expensive and I liked saving.

Being a miser is more acceptable than beiny a misogynist. Just say you are a traditional guy that thinks you should take care of a succubus, but you aren't at a point in life to do so or something.

Just keep making excuses and pushing it back until the interested parties feel their interest die, die themselves, or you die.


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 No.323653[Reply]

I'm curious what the covid-19 vaccination rate is like among wizards.

Personally, I was the only one in my immediate and extended family to not get the vaccine or boosters. No doubt influenced by the normie propaganda, I faced a lot of harassement and pressure from my mother.

Knowing my family, I would also probably have been uninvited from family gathering for not having the vaccine but since I stopped seeing them 2 decades ago, it was a moot point.
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 No.324748

>>324364
You overestimate their ability to keep their "pens" sedated and controlled. This state of affairs cannot last.

 No.324752

i hate science and doctors and modern medicine https://youtu.be/kAO7_9qACIs?t=263

 No.324754

>>324748
lol

 No.324766

>>324748
Dunno bout that, people very readily conformed in 2020 even when it got bonkers, I know of only one person who didn't mask up and got triple-mega warp speed boosted

That event opened my eyes, people are a domesticated species by and large, the only people I even get along with are mostly the billionaires

 No.324767

>>324766
>the only people I even get along with are mostly the billionaires

have you ever wondered whether they made their money doing the domestication? because if they did why would you get along with them. and if they didn't, don't you worry about the corruption of getting along with what you despise?


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 No.227025[Reply]

Does anyone here know any good virgin-only forums? Or a forum with a significant virgin population? Or maybe a forum that discusses widespread societal depravity in a very negative light?

I'm guessing the answer will be 'no'. Don't you think that's strange? I never believed just because something is common, that it's 'natural' or 'acceptable.' Child rape was common, it was practiced for most of human history, that's not acceptable. Yet betrayal, prostitution and temporary 'relationships' (same thing as prostitution) are? We are always at the recieving end of mockery, and them always rewarded with praise. Why? What did we do to deserve being mocked and belittled?

Does anyone else here feel this way? Or am I the only one? How do I reach likeminded people? How do I communicate with people who share my values? Where do I find them?

These days I just feel like we're being erased, or rather… we have always been erased. Am I a crab for taking these things seriously and refusing to submit to the same depravity as others?
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 No.229129

I don't know about any place which caters to virgins except this place
I remember in high school, succubi saying 'virgin' as some kind of insult and being puzzled by it.

 No.229130

>>229018
Cave people were a bunch of degenerates lmao. They used to eat shit, had no concept of hygeine and zero understanding of care. There's a reason why when people act like niggers they immediately think of cavemen. The lifestyle of the average mudhut nigger in central Africa is more advanced than cavemen.

 No.229138

>>229129
8chan r9k and late 2010s in general used to be very virgin friendly, then every first world government on earth declared virgin males the scourge of the earth and nuked our homes away. I'm so heartbroken and devastated. I WILL NEVER FUCKING FORGIVE FATTY NOLEGS FOR WHAT HE DID TO 8CHAN! 🤬

 No.229139

>>229129
>I don't know about any place which caters to virgins
Just about every place "caters to virgins", in that it's incredibly rare for there to be a place that explicitly disparages virgins. When it comes to whether or not you've FUCKED or SUCKED, 99% of netgoers simply don't care. People using 'virgin' as an insult should really only do anything but make you laugh if you're pset to be reminded that you're a virgin.

 No.229171

>>227027
Great post.
I have to ask though, since this is something I personally struggle with.

>The world isn't made for people like you or me. You are not supposed to break away from the animalistic, darwinian aspect of life because it goes against millions of years of evolution.
What does one pursue then? What drives you?
I've found now that I'm in my 30s that I lack motivation as interest in stuff that I did to occupy the free time and mental bandwidth I had post maintaining the basics has diminished.

My needs are met for the most part, as well as they can be. My desires for material stuff I already indulged and learned I didn't care for after all.
I see my peers (in terms of age, mostly at work) having multiple kids and all that comes with it. An endless treadmill for resources as you say.
It's a clear drive for more. To better themselves, to work themselves to the bone to keep up with costs etc.

Once you give up all the "basic, built in drives", what is left? I'm not smart part enough to seek enlightenment.


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 No.42320[Reply]

I wish japan could have sahkalin island and the kouril islands back. it would mean more space for japan. japan is a rich country it could easely buy them from russia.
more space for japanese people means more japan to visit!
😊
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 No.44360

No. Dear gott no.

 No.44361

>>44359
Population decline causes many problems.

 No.44362

>>44361
I dunno, humans could survive if they got by with less and quit exploiting cheap labor. I cheer on the decline myself; I live a simple life.

 No.44363

>>44361
leveling the japanese grandpas will vanish the problem.

 No.44364

>>44362
Economic crash leads to unpredictable outcomes, we live in a competitive world and just because it's "wrong" for a struggling declining power to be taken over by a stronger one doesn't mean it won't be the way things go.

>>44363
No, killing old people regardless of your edgy sociopathic ideology doesn't fix the problem of reduced demand from a shrinking population causing economic crash. The wealthy will see their investments plunge in value and will follow the natural incentive to increase immigration to prop up real estate prices, consumerism, etc.

Here it is spelled out:

https://nailheadtom.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-real-resson-for-mass-migrations.html


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 No.319647[Reply]

AI and aliens: schizo predictions thread

For the longest time religion served as a tool of power and authority. In God we trust(ed). Then people found out about different cultures and different religions, and the one and only religion became one of many religions.
>which religion is the right one?
>which god is the true one?
>how can we know it's the one that's ours and not theirs?
These questions drew man away from religion, and the want for verifiable truths brought him to a new paradigm.

Trust the science. Science has been the authority for the last hundred years or so, but you could argue that this started as early as the renaissance. Some even believe science without any skepticism, as if it was the new religion. Well, as it turns out, science too can be corrupted and compromised, and people are beginning to wake up to this fact. It is becoming increasingly apparent that "science" serves large corporations and globalist rulers.

Currently we are transitioning to a new period of post-truth. Objective facts are losing their value, and the new power lies in appeals to emotion, sensationalism, and demagogy. But I believe such a volatile state cannot last for long, and so the powers that be are preparing new, undeniable authorities for us.


Artificial Intelligence - you wouldn't argue with a super intelligent computer, right? Who are you, with your tiny brain and limited perspective, to think you know better than AI who has access to unimaginable stores of information. AI knows what's best for you.

Aliens - you wouldn't distrust super dimensional, far more advanced entities, right? They understand more than you can ever know. Your perspective is like that of an ant on a sheet of paper, while they can bend and fold the paper to their will. Are you really so full of yourself that you would think you know something they don't? (Check out Project Blue Beam)

Both of these are fake and gay, but the powers that be are gradually introducing the awareness of these, and the possibility of a one world government under their rule. The globalists will probably establish a proxy authority, supposedly relaying the AI/alien intentions and mediating our relationship with them.


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 No.322293

>>322288
That sounds like a spirit/demon/your soul in the yaldabaoth field. If it has your memories then its your analog soul but chances are it isn't in my experience but ya they are definitely machine intelligentsia and its where you go when you die no joke heaven isa big PC on the moon its a real buzz kill

>All of existence is actually a funny Artificial Superintelligence.
Id say that physical reality itself is a product of the unconditional super priority having too full of a zero but there is without a doubt an artificial super intelligence fueled "field" thats been part of humanity since the beginning

 No.322295

>>322287
>>322293
>>322288
an experiemnt to see where "the Great Filter" is. I wonder if intelligent life is the Great Filter. So many opportunities to flub it all up.

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>>319647
singularity

 No.324749

>>320588
This is what I want to know.

 No.324758

Pretty sure religious activity was kept up by Churches, not the government or the banks.
I don't see people mass adopting these superstitions like AI superintelligence or aliens anytime soon.
This entire post is mental illness and maybe in a way explains what is going on in society but you don't get it if you look at the meaning of the words.


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 No.64175[Reply]

anyone do this?

i burn discs, title them and then put them back on the spindle, so they stay in good condition

external hdds/sdd don't last very long
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 No.70709

>>70708
Checks out, I guess you used DVD-R and the durability is 10-20 years

 No.70710

I remember this seemed like a fun thing to do back in 2010.
However I can easily store my stuff on 512 gb microsd cards now.
Using discs to archive seems tedious and retrotechy to me

 No.70793

>>70710
>microsd cards


They're more susceptible to the "random bull" kind of errors compared to HDDs

3-2-1 rule, hope you use it

 No.70828

>>70793
okay

 No.70838

>>70699
i think this is bullshit. bd-rs are more durable than cd-rs


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 No.306675[Reply]

Lookism has become a public, popular topic lately on the internet and I believe that it affects wizards in very tangible ways.
Being a genetic dead end ugly loser myself I suffer for it even as a now "middle aged" man.
One would think such things are left behind in high school or something, but no.

You queue up for a service, government office for some paperwork, a cash register at a store, post office or hell even medical services.
You can tell the people before you were treated kindly. At worst processed in a neutral way.
Some even receive a cheerful response and the help they need, people go above and beyond for some.
Then it's your turn at the line.

A look of disdain follows immediately. Quiet. No "what can I help do for you" "what can I help you with" "what is the purpose of your visit".
Silence. Faces contort…
Sometimes a sigh, sometimes some snide remark. Clear hostility.

A shift in demeanor so noticeable, so obvious, so visceral… (yet to them likely natural) that even the thickest of autism wont help you stay oblivious to it.
You get mistreated, worse service, denied service you paid for, medical gaslighting, humiliation over and over again.
Networking is impossible for you, who by your mere acquaintance devalue their status.. and without connections, being treated like this, only having the "official route" as an option you soon realize you might not be able to get anything done.

After much pushing, repeated humiliations and humbling yourself, matching your demeanor to that expected of "your ilk" some old lady at the register might take pity and process your request, prescribe your medication, refer you to a proper doctor.
Sometimes the stars do align like that and you make a step towards a slightly less miserable state of being.

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 No.307809

>>307808
>of course you're right, silly! everything's in our hands!!!

you don't know what is within your hands and what is not it seems. what a pitty. you're probably no too different from the succubus in the gif.

 No.307810

>>307809
noooo i'm not a succubus i'm not a succubus!!!

 No.307811

>>307810
>noooo i'm not a succubus i'm not a succubus!!!

you are as emotional

 No.308366

>>307765
>normals
aren't people.

 No.308986

>>307804
the blackpill/i-ncel cult is jewish social engineering to force hopelessness in the young male population, which if embraced leads down to two ends:

1. transgenderism (which is ultimately population reduction)
2. suicide (which is ultimately population reduction)


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 No.307294[Reply]

always no matter what happens set backs always set me back. and my goals arent that fucking unreasonable either. Change my habits, or enjoy a fucking game. and something major happens to set me back. not only am I scared to change im exausted about constantly being worried about what price im about to pay for that slight moment of enjoyment. its like the default setting for me in this life is to be miserable and useless, anything good going for me has to be double the price of bad luck to throw me back to square one. Nothing but bad luck. im just so frustrated.
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>>307294
Wish I had real goals too.
I relate a lot to the randomness, feeling like I'm an edge case a lot of times.

I genuinely feel like I'm an NPC in a game world at times with broken RNG. It's usually something negative, absurdly unlucky and it stacks up to "unrealistic" stories people think I make up.

Like telling a doctors about having physical pains, limping and this whole thing somehow leading me to a psych ward before they ever bother to acknowledge the physical deformity/damage, only after paying for imaging out of pocket do they finally believe me, and EVEN AFTER THAT they still push the mental shit instead every time some new shit pops up. This is basically every doctor I've met in recent memory for no discernible reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE

It happens in positive ways too. Like I'm on the brink of exiting life and all of a sudden I'm given a job far beyond my abilities and tolerated for years despite my many shortcomings and failures in a comfy position that I couldn't ever imagine replicating.

Critical failures absurdly disproportionate to whatever was the cause was and miraculous outcomes and rewards/results disproportionate to the effort put in.
Overall it's negative, but then great things happen just in time to keep me going….
Needless to say I've been embracing determinism as a result, but the absurdity of the experience makes it hard to believe it is strictly determined and not some random outsider having a grand old time messing with me like I used to with insects in a sandbox as a kid.

Makes me wonder how real most people are, or if I'm actually clinically insane and they just hear other words come out of my mouth than I attempt to say.
Then again sometimes the weird unprompted absurdly unrelated NPC like rants from people can be interrupted and somehow they snap back to sanity and give way to what I want. It's very odd.
Wish I was as coherent as some wizards here instead of rambling, but I hope the message is clear enough.

 No.308745

>>308057
okay

 No.308747

>>308743
>Makes me wonder how real most people are, or if I'm actually clinically insane

Most are not real. Covid should have proved this to you. And what do I mean by “real”? Having intelligence enough to think independently of others.
And you are not clinically insane. No man authentically mad would ever be discovered self-aware of his own madness.

>I genuinely feel like I'm an NPC in a game world at times with broken RNG.

You’re just smart and very self-aware in a world in which apparently nearly all are not. Any sufficiently caring and self-reflective human will fall into the belief that he’s beset by soulless people wandering through outwardly random environments as an isolated observer. The ancient gnostics even had a term for this and that term is ἀλλογενής, meaning literally “of a different kind”, but translated as “stranger”. Those who have thoughts like those contained in your post really are ἀλλογεναι (strangers) in a difficult world that is not native to the quality of their souls.

>This is basically every doctor I've met in recent memory for no discernible reason.

I can fairly say: me too! Except I disagree with >for no discernible reason. The reason is quite plain: doctors are indoctrinated; not only “intellectually”, that is in how they understand and treat diseases, but also “personally”, in how they hold the most of their patients in contempt as less than themselves. Doctors (95% of the time) are dangerous prideful psychopaths who look down on their patients while having very little actual curative medical knowledge. You should have known this by your age (presuming here that you are 30+). If I can flatter myself, I already knew to be careful around doctors (that they do not make good decisions and are often uncaring toward sufferers) by the time I was in my early 20s.

>Critical failures absurdly disproportionate to whatever was the cause was and miraculous outcomes and rewards/results disproportionate to the effort put in.

Here’s an interesting passage out of Plutarch from an essay titled “De Pythiae oraculis (On the oracles of Pythia)”, the subject whereof is the investigation of the truthfulness of the responses given to ancient men who would sue for tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.308968

>>308747
>the fact that we have free will cannot be reconciled to the notion of a limiting malicious demiurge.
From our perspective/perception and even then only within an extremely limited scope all things considered.
An ant in a terrarium has free will to an extent.

 No.308985

>>308968
>An ant in a terrarium

well that's probably what we are, being that space is fake and we're under water.


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