/wiz/ - Wizardry

Time has changed, and so has the internet and myself. Last week, I realized
that even though I have used internet to get my social fix to get away from
loneliness, I realized that I was only making that loneliness worse. You can not
hide from loneliness. I used to pride myself into being a hardcore outcast,
often rejecting potential relationships, friendships, missing out on invites, holidays
etc. and I realized that too much isolation can kill you. As a teenager, you think you can
conquer everything, until reality hits you in adulthood and you realize that you
need real compassion from a real human being. Video games, pornography, internet discussion,
and internet fights all seem fun and dandy when you're a teenager, but there comes a time
where those pleasures won't help you.

I've been getting therapy and I'm scheduled for a job interview this Thursday. 4chan, 8chan,
lookism, crabs.me etc. all have taught me something and that is that being miserable and
having a pessmistic view on life only causes more suffering, not less. There is
no reason to suffer. We humans often try to rationalize everything, but sometimes all we need is to experience is life, and love.

Change is possible, and I hope every single of you wizards find happiness at some
point in your lives. Wizchan was the last chansite I browsed, as it wasn't as edgy as 4chan, and I could find some meaningful discussion here, but alas, it can not replace real human
connection.

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I used to be a skeptical scientific liberal atheist materialist determinist utilitarian but over time I've started to develop doubts.

For a start, there is no intelligible reason to pursue happiness.
Hedonism and preference satisfaction are baseless life goals.
There is simply no reason not to say pluck out your eye right now.
And no, theism if anything aggravates the problem, as all things are made from the all-good creator evil is logically impossible.

I also think materialist determinism is a self defeating belief because if your belief in determinism rests on biological predispositions you haven't really reasoned your way to determinism but simply adopted it because determinism is the sort of belief you were programmed to have.

I can't really be an atheist either as I find how things empirically work in the real world far more persuasive than abstract waffling. And the truth is that if over time conservative religious societies have historically flourished then there is probably good reason for them to. No matter how much you say that Islam is wrong in abstract I find very persuasive the fact that so much of the world is Muslim. It may be that arbitrarily picking minorities to persecute is the just and proper thing to do, just based on how societies work in the real world.

And I can't believe in scientism because I am aware of all the fraud in science and the field of parapsychology shows that you can use all the methods of science and still produce bullshit.

But this sort of analysis paralysis makes me feel incredibly anxious and does not help me at all.

How do you cope with aging? I thought it was just a few more aches here and there, but you actually become less happy and more tired with everything and there's nothing you can do about it you ll be too blind to look at porn your sex drive will be dead it will simply increase your suffering and reduce your pleasure*S* you be a target for all sort of physical and mental illness it's simply your body collapsing and dying in a very slow process. Sure you can exercise sleep better etc but that only slows it down a bit it doesn't stop it my plan is to end my life before that

I live in Indonesia where everyone can drive a vehicle such as a motorcycle or car. I am 30 years old and can't drive anything. I once learned to ride a motorcycle when I was a teenager but it seems like I am too scared and sometimes I like to daydream so it never works. Is there anyone here who has the same problem?

I made a couple threads about a year ago on homelessness, drifting, and vagabond traveling. A wiz that homeless traveled through Japan recounted his travels in those threads.

Since then I've not been able to forget your experiences and I've thought about them everyday and have wanted to replicate them. I wonder if you're still around wizzie. Anyway, you might remember how I mentioned that I wanted to follow in your steps. Well, I didn't do it. But I'm starting to plan again, and I think I will do it this year.

Are you still out there Japan wiz?

Is seeking out social interaction or friendship-type relationships unwizardly?

In my opinion from the day I was born I lacked the aggresivness. Thats one of the reasons I was on the bottom of social hierarchy.

I feel aggresive only when I didnt sleep for a longer period of time.

Is it to possible to change me into being more aggresive? If I was as aggresive as when I m tired because of lacking of sleep then it would be alright.

Whats the reason for me for being pacifist from the day I was born? Perhaps lack of testosteron?

While i dont embrace pessimistic anti-natalism,since im still christian,I have gone from being anti-succubi to slowly becoming anti-human contact.
Im seeing even enterteinment,such as super sentai or anime,to be a bad way to spend time, I even lost most interest in my own phsyical apperace(I used to want to body-build)
as i said im christian so I struggle to pray more and learn more about my religion,i dunno if any monastery will accept me,but Im feeling a mix of nostalgia for chilhood with anprim hatred of industrial society.

hi guys, this is it. today is my 30th birthday, today i can finally post here as a fellow wizard
so what do you guys do here?

Hi, I don't know if any long-term users of this site still exist, but back when I was 20 (four years ago) I posted a thread about raising my sisters child as she died.

I was both excited and nervous, since my life was in a lethargy for moreorless a decade. When my sister died (car crash) I didn't really care too much because how distant we were, but the lack of family resulted in me having to adopt her kid as I desperately didn't want to raise someone hateful like the entirety of my family.

I'm still a 'young' wizard, aged 24. But to be frank, I love my life now. It was really hard financially, but my lack of friends and hobbies that I couldn't simply pirate made things tolerable. I ended up getting funding to finish my pre-requisites to University while completing a degree in Forestry.

I now work at the National Wildlife trust, not much more than minimum wage but a hell of a lot more than I ever earned. My hobbies are moreorless still free and as there's lots of volunteers some of them have helped out with things like music lessons, caretaking etc.

My niece seems to be self-motivated to impress me and it gives me the chance to develop my own hobbies like drawing, Japanese and playing the piano. She's better than me at drawing and Japanese already, though I'm dyspraxic and naturally ungifted in those regards. She's a total opposite of what I was like aged 10. If she notices I'm feeling a little down she deliberately tries to cheer me up, or just her enthusiasm makes me feel more content in my own progress.

I know it's a bit of an odd thread, but if anyone was lurking back in 2016 I thought I'd update. I live in a small inherited house, my hobbies are creative and I work outdoors all day learning about nature. I didn't want to see someone fall into misery, but instead I was the one saved from my own misery. My nativity and essentially having only free hobbies I think rescues me from a lot of the other issues adults face when stressed.

If anyone has any questions I can answer it, but I'm really glad at how things have turned out. I'm sure she'll be more talented than me, she works hard and that's the most important thing. Apparently her dream is to work in the Wildlife Trust with me and she can name almost all British birds already when I can barely recognise a Goshawk.