/wiz/ - Wizardry

Like, how your daily life?

I'm NEET recluse, rarely go out and mostly stay online, watch anime, read manga or play games.

Nearly every spiritual current in history describes resisting temptation as the main trait that distinguishes a good person from a bad person, high spiritual value compared to animalistic mediocrity. It is a struggle that every single human must deal with and, ultimately, it is what ends up defining a person – on Earth and beyond.

While this struggle is as old as time, we are living in a time of “weaponized” temptation, scientifically crafted to make us weak, unhealthy, unstable, and demoralized.

Some are constantly tempted by garbage processed foods that are purposely addictive yet destructive to their health. Others cannot help but ogle succubi on social media and porn sites, to the point that they’ve become debilitated. Others are obsessed with social media likes, comments, and online validation and cannot help but constantly check on them. Others spend enormous amounts of time winning video games while losing in life. Others need to consume opioids, cocaine, and other narcotics just to make life bearable.

All of these temptations have one thing in common: They were purposely engineered to activate the reward center of the brain and to release “feel good” hormones such as dopamine. Over and over again.

None of these things are natural and all of them trick our brains into thinking we are doing something good while it’s the exact opposite. Instead of achieving great objectives through hard work, sacrifice, and delayed gratification, society trains us to seek quick and easy dopamine hits that provide temporary pleasure … followed by a nasty down … followed by the urge to seek more dopamine.This nefarious cycle is turning us into weak individuals. And that’s what they want.

Anyone else have tooth problems and are scared shitless over it? Currently I can't chew with any part of my mouth or I'll get a tooth ache, but I have no money for any dental work…

Well, is it? I'm talking about the avarage person, not some rich dude that makes 500k per years or some female supermodel. Is the life of the avarage norman superior to a luck wiz on bux? I see a lot of wiz dreaming of the norman life, but I think many actually dream with the life of "Chad", not the actual lives of the most people, so, in the end many wiz are unhappy because they want to live something that even the norman doesn't live.

By now, the field of behavioral genetics has showed that virtually all of human behavior suffer influence of genetics, 50 years of adoptions and twins studies proven beyond the shadows of doubt that genes are important.

Point is, interesting, how can two adults reproduce and create a celibate human? Of course if you think a little genetics are probabilistic, not deterministic, for every 1000 born kids from adults, 1 will be born with a "different", aka: a wizard, but you still need the genes coming from somewhere, in another way: someone in your family was a wizard before you were, probably some weird uncle or grand uncle.

Question: do you have, or know, any wizard in the family beside you?

I don't think things are going to get better… unless I do something drastic, like, talk to people

Apple vision pro is the future of media consumption. Soon it will replace all smartphones and computers and /wiz/ will deny this.

How may of you are ACTUAL OFFICIALLY diagnosed with a mental illness? Not "I think I have mental illness", but a doctor officially told you that you mind doesn't work well.

What part or aspect of the normalfag life do you wish you could experience? Personally, I wish I had friends to play TTRPG and other board games with.

Do you guys have any problems you believe nobody else has?

I do. For about 10 years now, my brain's reward system has been broken in a way that prevents me from enjoying most things. This is known as "anhedonia", but it generally only occurs as a minor symptom of things like depression or schizophrenia, or as an effect of antipsychotics. In those cases it's temporary, but for me it never, ever ends. All food tastes like cardboard, all games just feel like pressing buttons. Even if I had a million dollars, there's nothing I could do to enjoy myself because my brain cannot produce feel-good chemicals anymore. I just sit around and sleep all day. I have really bad stomach & sleep problems related to this.

No doctor has a clue what's wrong with me. They put me on drugs, and none of them did anything. Only on really high doses of caffeine + exercise has it improved a little, but the changes always revert soon. Honestly, not knowing what the hell is wrong scares me a little. Lately I've been getting a little dizzy at random times with no explanation why. I fear one day I'll drop dead out of the blue, thanks to whatever disease I have. It appears to be something totally unknown to modern medicine, but if you tell a doctor "Hey I have this disease no one's heard of" obviously they just ignore you. So I'm just kind of screwed.