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>>316786
I can understand not finding optimism appealing, but you can still approach life from a new perspective.
I found spite to be a powerful motivator for me.
I've had people tell me to my face they don't believe in me, so I work hard to spite them.
It's not a positive mindset really, but it gets me moving.

>>316786
Which anxieties are ruling your soul right now?

>>316812
life after my parents die and the end of NEETdom.

bump for positivity


take your vitamins, wizards

>>316818
lucky you


you can always keep asking ChatGPT for advice and PerPLX to write you little story also

>>312958
tl;dr: checks out
Open-Mindedness
High scorers tend to be original, creative, curious, complex; Low scorers tend to be conventional, down to earth, narrow interests, uncreative.

You thrive on new ideas and creative thinking.

Your percentile: 94

Conscientiousness
High scorers tend to be reliable, well-organized, self-disciplined, careful; Low scorers tend to be disorganized, undependable, negligent.

You thrive on structure, discipline, and completing tasks to a high standard.

Your percentile: 86

Extraversion
High scorers tend to be sociable, friendly, fun loving, talkative; Low scorers tend to be introverted, reserved, inhibited, quiet.

You prefer smaller gatherings and occasional social interactions.
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>>312958
A lot of you guys are getting high scores on "negative emotionality" but I got all five of my traits on the left.

Open-Mindedness

High scorers tend to be original, creative, curious, complex; Low scorers tend to be conventional, down to earth, narrow interests, uncreative.

You prefer stability and routine, avoiding unfamiliar ideas.

Your percentile: 24

Conscientiousness

High scorers tend to be reliable, well-organized, self-disciplined, careful; Low scorers tend to be disorganized, undependable, negligent.

You are extremely easy-going and prefer freedom over structure or routine.

Your percentile: 5

Extraversion
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interesting


may take the test next month

>>317238
>Look up the terms and media examples.
no one is that autistic to care.
>>317237
>ergo proxy
I got a bias against this one. I'd say Blame is more cyberpunk, but a story can only insert so many borderline fantasy references till I consider it basically fantasy.
>>317249
>GitS:SAC…is anything but boring, for rich people, or lame.
GitS is written by a pro Japanese national that hates America and waxes poetically about Russia and China, all the while hating Luddites and anti-capitalists while always portraying these police men as righteous cynics. It follows a special forces team rather than every day civilians.

>>317264
I think you are just baiting at this point and I don't take you seriously.

>>317264
>no one is that autistic to care.
Even normies at social media do.

K is a replicant wiz.

bump


thats a good point

>>319974
I don't think that is true.
Apparently there are widespread labor shortages at all skill levels including low skilled and entry-level labor.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/ro/ip_23_3704

>>319900
Unfortunate truth.
If I don't have a rural house with enough money to live off of without much responsibilities by the time I'm 35 I might just rope.
I miss being a NEET especially the freedom, low stress, 0 responsibility aspects.
Turned 29 in spring.
Hope I'll make it.

>>319922
You can be a personal shopper for people online and earn $25 each time you ship something for people in other countries.

>>319873
graph plot twist: it was a hi-IQ boy with very low TEST (16ng/ml), e.g. so low it was misread as testo in 1600s

>>320743
>ragebait
it's called trolling you niggerfied zoomer

>>320743
mentally ill jews and mentally ill succubi are allowed to have fun too

>>320754
>mentally ill jews
Redundant.

>>320744
Very epic and funny trolling you see when you visit /g/ or similar boards. Certainly not just a coordinated operation from a multitude of third-parties trying to make the board less fun, be it journos and academics such as the "Mining the Chans" people (who explicitly wrote that they want to ruin imageboards by consistent shilling), or the proven to be active Discord servers filled with people who do nothing all day but make ragebait posts, or the mods and jannies who happily cooperate with the spammers, shills, and baiters. If you visit /g/ and you see a post exclaiming "Stop using Linux/Stop caring about anonymity and privacy/Stop using this language, and use MacOS instead because that's what employed and successful people are using" then you can be 100% sure that this is not a frustrated Linux user who made the switch to MacOS/Windows and is happier now, rather than an inorganic shill. Those boards are everything but organic.

>>320770
>If you visit /g/ and you see a post exclaiming "Stop using Linux/Stop caring about anonymity and privacy/Stop using this language, and use MacOS instead because that's what employed and successful people are using" then you can be 100% sure that this is not a frustrated Linux user who made the switch to MacOS/Windows and is happier now, rather than an inorganic shill
What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

>>320713
Normies: he is an enigma
Autist: I am interested in X thing(s)

>>320627
>I want to publish a fantasy novel with a fairly complex world.
I never finished it
>I want to make an RPG game based on the fantasy short novel I wrote a few years ago
but Quite impossible because I don't know how to program scripts and I try to learn but I can't understand anything although I learned something about tilesets and pixel art.
>I want to set up a local WoW server and play with friends.
My PC is useless as a server, and I don't have any friends, I don't even have a friend who wants to play WoW.
>I want to try an absurd amount of MMOs.
shit pc, not possible for now
>I want to create an MMO based on the fantasy ideas I had around the fantasy novel.
very unlikely to happen
>I want to learn to play the piano or some other instrument, even if it's just singing.
I have a violin stored away, But my teacher left, and I ended up feeling quite unmotivated. I also have a toy piano because I couldn't get a real one. I learned music theory but nothing about actually playing the instruments. I should enroll in a music school, but it will be very slow and a waste of time. I don't think I can learn to sing, I'll just end up damaging my voice. I honestly don't think I can learn by watching free videos.
>I want to compose something.
I love the sounds of Touhou and these orchestral things
>I want friends with whom I can connect.
They always leave me out, even in the most antisocial groups, so honestly, I'm pretty desensitized to what the hell others expect from me. Not ironically, I only got along very well with someone with Asperger's.
>I want a romantic relationship with a succubus with good friendship.
The few times it happened, I wasn't the first choice or the best choice. I think I ended up hating the succubi who supposedly liked me, even if it was just a little, I think I only meet broken and immature succubi even if we are only maybe friends for a while. In the end, I always feel rejected.
>I want to feel human for once and not like a walking piece of meat.
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>>320719
Sounds like you're your own Scumbag Steve..

Complete some sort of creative project that is good enough that I will be remembered after I am dead.

See the grand canyon with my own eyes.
See Japan with my own eyes.
Go on a cross country adventure.

Put down some of my martial art's knowledge in a proper training manual that other generations can learn from even after I am physically incapable of teaching anymore.


Working on my writing skills currently, as well as saving up a significant amount of money for future adventures.
So it's not just wishing and hoping while not doing anything.
I am actively working on such goals, at least in the background.

>>320732
I have Avpd so yes.

yeah we all have $325k just laying around

>>320738
I worked 3 minimum wage jobs at the same time and no bank would give me a loan for even a $30k shit shack in bumfuck Oklahoma so I slowly figured what's the point in working.

Now on disability and renting, and life quality has gone up by a hundredfold.

>>320746
SSI?

tldr but I did a similar calculation into buying a home. Basically with mortgage rates at 8% a $200,000 home would cost you $600,000 over 30 years. Or I could rent for 3 years and flush $90,000 down the toilet. I hate this gay earth.

>>305804
He gave me life, I was thirsty and he refreshed my soul in a desert. It took a long time for me to ask for that water, as I constantly kicked the can down the road whenever I thought of death and eternity. But eventually I felt him draw me near and feel like I was going to miss out on the next big thing honestly, so I read the new testament and accepted Christ.

However, I will air my fucking grievance. Which is that he tests like a mother fucker and allows Satan to have so much mother fucking power. Satan is a fucking nigger. I will say that again, Satan is a fucking nigger. I can't stress that out enough Satan is a fucking nigger. The niggers who worship Satan just don't know how good they could have it, God hates religion more than the people worshiping Satan. Satan is the nigger who loves religion but has convinced the world that his vision is "Do What Thou Wilt", when in reality he just wants his set of rules instead of God's. Satan is a fucking nigger.

>>318881
Same way that those sworn to religious celibacy do.
By becoming Fathers in the church and having your flock be your spiritual children.

The pursuit of happiness in this life falls within the domain of science and is relatively straightforward to evaluate using empirical evidence. The evidence shows religion is not needed for happiness in life.

In contrast, assessing the likelihood of happiness in the afterlife requires a different approach. If a particular religion is strongly associated with greater happiness in this life, that offers scientific support for its practical value. However, when empirical data is inconclusive or the afterlife remains uncertain, we must turn to other criteria - such as coherence, consensus, and risk management, to guide our reasoning about what may follow after death.

For this reason, the afterlife, we must follow God.

I'm at complete bottom right now. God is my only hope and my only friend. If he does not help me right now I'm finished

Love! if thy destined sacrifice am I,
Come, slay thy victim, and prepare thy fires;
Plunged in thy depths of mercy, let me die
The death which every soul that lives desires!

>>317110
No, this is not a forum for pathetic losers. It is a forum for wizards - adult men who choose to remain virgins. If that makes us pathetic in your eyes, then you're the faggot.

>>317115
>>317112
If you have a true choice in the matter, then yes, as a principle someone sticking to it shows willpower and resilience.

But for a far balding geek who couldn't even match a transgender dwarf on Tinder let alone talk to succubi, it isn't like they're "choosing" to be virgins.

And for every tall handsome Bruce Wayne who has his life together but abstains from sex, there are at least a million fat weird neckbeards who are virgins simply because succubi find them disgusting.

And the latter type to me isn't wizardly in any way.

I'm an ugly, short guy but at least I try to maintain hygiene and feed myself through honest work. I've never tested if my virginity is voluntary, but based on my previous life experiences with succubi, I'm pretty sure not a single one of them in this country would have sex with me.

According to Raymond E. Brown’s The Gospel according to John X–XII (New York: Doubleday, 1979, 2nd ed.), the identifier “God” is not used of Jesus to any real degree, if at all, in the New Testament (p. 24), and to the extent that it appears is primarily functional rather than an ontological designation (p. 408). Even when Jesus is said to bear the Divine Name, in reality he is consecrated by God and so makes Him known, being His Messianic agent (pp. 536–7), and indeed in Jewish thought the agent and sender were regarded as one in agency or purpose, even if the Sender were God Himself. So when Jesus says that he and the Father are one, he is speaking in terms of agency or purpose, rather than presupposing ontological equality. In relation to this, the Law was said to spiritually prepare men for the requirements of the Messianic advent, to instil in their very being the spiritual character that would one day become necessary (p. CXV). So in this sense Jesus’ advent does not abolish the Law, but rather fulfils its purpose.

In his Christology in the Making (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989, 2nd ed.), James D. G. Dunn explains that even the Gospel of John, with its concept of the Logos (Word), does not presuppose the personal preexistence of Christ, but actually describes a transition from an impersonal personification to a human existence, so that the Logos conceptualises God’s eternal Divine Plan becoming realised—that is, enfleshed or Incarnate—in the birth and life of Jesus (p. 243). This echoes the Qur’ān’s conception of Jesus as embodying God’s Word or Divine Plan being actualised in human, concrete terms; indeed, the human Jesus, as in the New Testament, comes into personal existence by God’s utterance, “Be!”—hence the virginal conception in the womb of Mary via Gabriel’s transmission of spirit. So in neither the New Testament nor the Qur’ān is the Divine Word or Logos characterised as a separate “Person” from God or as anything more than a personification in primeval time. It is clearly an impersonal utterance and/or Plan.

>>320658
>According to Raymond E. Brown’s
every time i read a mention of Raymond E. Brown’s i realize that Paul of Tarsus ruined or created a fake christianity.
I can't even believe in the trinity, it sound so stupid.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/bibleversiondiscussionboard/the-comma-johanneum-and-raymond-brown-t5746.html
academicism is interesting, surely there is something like that with the early Buddhists or Islamics.

Religion is bullshit and for the weak minded

>>320637
>Do you also get tics when remembering these? Like an involuntary shrug or face contorting into a weird expression?
sometimes, yeah.

>Did you live as if she's out there, waiting for you to find her?
it started out as daydreaming about a plausible scenario where i meet a gurl and we connect and hit it off. the fantasy got more and more elaborate until she felt like a real person and my body started releasing all these feel good chemicals that i've never felt before. now i can imagine hugging her and it actually feels better than any real hug i've gotten from a real person. it didn't motivate me to go outside or anything, but it provides a lot of comfort for me, having a place where i can go to when i need it. i think fantasy is a pretty common coping mechanism for avpds and schizoids.

>>320633
shit, I feel the same way.
>i get cringe flashbacks of random embarrassing things i did in the past
something strange is that sometimes i feel as if i could see things in third person as if i were remembering it or seeing things from another angle, like a movie director and the truth this make me very embarrassed.
I know it is not a dissociation but sometimes I guess it is something related to excessive daydreaming but I am aware that I do it so it's not daydreaming.
i don't know if it's because i'm very disconnected from the social people or what, it feels weird when they talk to you because it's as if for a few seconds i start to exist and later their never talk again.

the worst thing that happens to me is to see that the people I talk to give me the feeling of being paranoid and not wanting to talk to me afterwards as if I did something wrong, they tell me I am serious and I don't talk much but I think they already know about avoidance (some of them are a bit like that too).

>i did create something akin to an imaginary girlfriend or tulpa
one day i tried to write a fantasy novel and i created a paracosm and everything, i ended up obsessing with a deity character and some life advice or divine laws i invented for it. in the end i ended up forcing myself unconsciously before sleeping thinking about how that character would answer random questions and then i ended up having conversations with my internal monologue which was more like that tulpa with that kind therapeutic personality. it helped me to cope with sadness and loneliness for a while during the nights until one day i had a panic attack (others call it a mystical experience) in which i felt my inner monologue reveal itself and talk to me reciting those life advices from my fantasy book.
The funny thing is that it happened during the day while I was enjoying the sensation of the wind, the sun and the clouds and the grass and not in the solitude of the night.

i never heard voices or sounds, it was just like a sensation and my mind talking to me. the sensations i got were tactile like warmth or a tingling in the back of my neck and funny feel, the later panic attack was the typical of impending doom and problems to breathe, fear and a strange sensation in my chest together with an urge Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>320634
Thank you very much for the pdf
>Also
yeah, I can definitely relate to the thoughts and behavior of that shit.

>>320631
No, crabs are even more delusional. They think plastic surgery will fix a 168cm, bird-framed severely facially recessed, balding at 20 years old starting base.

>>320624
>Gaslighting
I know it sound like a self-deception. I don't know if these are just phrases or affirmations but as I memorize and mentally pray them I realize that I should not be so nervous when I am with others.
It's not that I have the belief that I'm going to attract energies or some magic woo by reciting it or anything like that, I don't believe in magic or energies or new age woo.
>and what the fuck are you recite?
well, I listened a local Chinese monk and he said this
>may I be free from enmity
>may I be free from anger
>may I be free from suffering
>may I be filled with happiness
although he also says that one should recite on the basis of what one believes is necessary on self.
my language has a larger expression than the English vocabulary so I can include more words. I could even erase the I

I recite when I wake up, when I go to the bathroom and in moments of dead silence or when I don't have to talk and before going to sleep.
I don't know if it works but it made me realize that when I have the feeling of inadequacy of ‘'I am a worthless piece of shit that shouldn't exist’' it brings back the memory of metta and the phrases and that I beat myself up a lot, as if my mind made a suspension of judgement or something like this. it feels a little humanizing.
I don't know if it has real physical effects. although I get out of bed very quickly after metta.
now in sensations that it causes when I do it, I get goose bumps and I feel a warmth in my arms, chest and in the back of my neck, probably just suggestion, I don't believe in magic things so it's just my mind, one day I put my hand on my chest and it felt even more pleasant while doing metta.
I haven't tried to recite metta to others yet, but I don't think it will cause anything in others other than maybe I will train my empathy for others or something like that.
I didn't notice a big change in my behavior but I feel less angry and less nervous when I am with others.