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Started reading Kant, and started with Critique of Judgment because Aesthetics is the most important,
Funny that he already shits on Pleasure-Utilitarianism, I thought he was
partly the origin of modern leftist thinking, so it is a bit of a surprise I must say.
"But that there is any intrinsic worth in the existence of one who merely
lives for enjoyment, however busy he may be in this respect, even
when in so doing he serves others—all equally with himself intent
only on enjoyment—as an excellent means to that one end, and does
so, moreover, because through sympathy he shares all their
gratifications,—this is a view to which reason will never let itself be
brought round. Only by what one does heedless of enjoyment, in
complete freedom and independently of what nature could passively
procure for him, does he give to his life, as the existence of a person,
an absolute worth. Happiness, with all its plethora of pleasures, is far
from being an unconditioned good."
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The battle between heaven and hell rages inside me. Do I want God or the world? I would say God, but my actions are that of one who seeks the world. If there came a time when I had to choose, I wonder what I would do.
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I spent half an hour staring at colored lights visible from my apartment last night and I think my inner child awakened. I remembered finding joy in color. I also wanted popsicles. Now it's morning and I forget and I don't want popsicles anymore. I have to wait until night falls.
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The further we get from the 2000's the clearer its distinct aesthetic identity presents itself in our mind.
I've also noticed the 2020's aesthetic form in TV shows and movies, there's a lot of high saturation, clear images, good symmetry, high contrast. Stuff like Euphoria, Mare of Easttown, even One Battle after Another, or the last Glass Onion movie all feel distinctly and strongly 2020s to me.
Looking back at the 2010s I struggle to name clear aesthetic qualities, the one big thing in the art of that time is definitely the rise of smartphones, and the true explosion of the internet, crazy how Youtube has grown for instance.
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>>25071300
It gets easier when you turn it into a question of wether you want to be an all-powerful sage magician who sacrificed everything to become the wisest man on earth; or wether you want to be a fun and adventure-loving heroic warrior fighting for the just cause in the individual and free-willed passion of the used-to-suffer champion of free birth.
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Humanity is delving into the digital Middle Ages. The places will be filled with machines that we don't know how to use, and everything will just look off and rotten. An absolute anarchy of system of belief, held together by nothing other than a state that keeps everything behind closed gates no one knows how to open. The only meaningful occupation will be the one of the modern knight, and they will feel pretty safe behind the concrete barrack fence.
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I'm at a developmental dead end. That point where you're in your teens and early 20s experiencing everything for the first time has ended, now it's just work. What's the point in living when nothing scratches that itch anymore? I can't see myself working away all day, trying to pay off a home and survive. It seems like a waste of something divine to me. There's no more first time Buzzes to feel. You just watch yourself fall apart in the mirror. Age. How do people deal with the mundane nature of it all? I think I'll have to pick up a hobby, but they're more difficult to get into. I want that instant joy and excitement of discovering/experiencing something new again. I couldn't imagine assimilating into this society, especially after the illusion of everything has been stripped away and the bread and circus has been replaced with a boot curbstomping you. Everything is antihuman today
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>>25071440
sounds like you lived a life of a consoomer.
Once you require the lust to master a skill or competence, chasing the illusive state of perfection, the path never ends.
>>25071453
okay so people with children dont commit suicide? oh wait they do?? so ur logic is faulty huh. What a bummer hehe
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>>25071440
> I want that instant joy and excitement of discovering/experiencing something new
That rightly belonged to childhood and should be forgotten for the most part.
Adulthood is the time for creation, in childhood you learn in that order, about, the world, groups, your identity, your values. That's what happens from childhood through adolescence to young adulthood.
Adulthood should be about creation, extending the world in the direction of your values, it is the natural desire of the will, to see what it lacks and work towards creation to obtain it.
As I said, the excitement of childhood should be forgotten, there is nothing much more to learn about *this* world, but, there is much to learn about the worlds you are willing to create, this is where you will rediscover that feeling, in creation. If you just want to travel the world, like those young lost souls, you will just rediscover what you have already encountered, Emerson hammers that point a lot in Self-Reliance.
Now society sucks for permitting creation, a lot of stuff is forbidden and prevented, still it does not change the truth, and forgetting yourself in hedonism or nostalgia will not grant happiness, but there's a bunch of creative endeavor you can still probably engage in that don't involve dealing with the retardation of the modern world.
(pic related is how I see life, you let the world come into you, you learn it, and then from the association of a current state of the hworld and your individuality, should outbursts a new world, you aggrandize it)
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>>25071537
There's a lecture Huxley gave in Santa Barbara which really illustrates how slow maturity now hits in comparison to the 1950s. There is room for at least two of these cycles over the same timeframe in his worldview.
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He's a stepping stone. He's a tool. He's an object, part of the wallpaper, in the background. He's one step in a staircase. He blends in. He has dreams and desires that will never be fulfilled and he knows it. He's the faceless character that the real hero of the story uses to achieve his goals. He craves fulfillment and recognition and knows he does so and has spent years patiently crushing this craving. He's boring. He does little outside of work. He's never been on a date and believes he is undeserving of close relationships, or that most people would be burdened by him. He lives to feel useful yet wishes there was more to his life than being an object. He walked right by you and you didn't even know it. His life will be cut short. He's invisible sometimes. He's invisible most of the time. He shuts down when complimented and doesn't know how to react. He's shorter than the average guy. He would be a peasant or simple craftsman in another age. He has dreams about mundane everyday scenes. He cried while alone recently. He cannot refuse anyone. He will work himself to death if asked. He is easily pursuaded to do the will of others by appealing to his sense of obligation. He wishes he could change but will not.
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>>25071621
Neither of these are White people. Benjamin Franklin: "And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion"
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It appears that he only considered the Saxons and the Anglos to be White. Here's the full paragraph.
>Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.
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J'essaie de trouver la facon la plus délectable de passer le temps.
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>>25071263
Tiresme AI image.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZu27RB8m8&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv =e7Mq-ue0_9g
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>>25071801
PUAs based on pop-neuroscience and/or pop-evolutionary psychology!
>>25071802
haha get pwned by my superior intellect!
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>>25071287
>Any anons actually gone insane before?
Yes. Never been on drugs like SSRIs before though, although I could imagine getting them if I went to a doctor. Anyways what ended up helping me was getting a job and talking to people of course, wasn't great at it and it took some time but it did get better.
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>>25071815
At least PUA books don't tend to be pretentious or sell you on government snake oil...though now that I think about it, pop-physics or pop-astronomy is a serious contender for the second place. You know, the "we're all le stardust!" kind with no mathematics involved at all.
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People should understand that not every occasion where irony is absent in a work is an occasion where the creator or the audience did not think the situation possessed ironic potential. Irony that is absent is almost always deliberately absent, not because it didn't occur to the creator (unlike the smug redditor reader of his work) that "hmm, yeah, I guess when you put it this way, it sounds kinda silly, doesn't it, huh".
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In other circumstances I would have written a solemn elegy to the Cuban state and Fidel's prison islan but as things are going right now, I'm not even sure the U.S is going to finally do that moribund state in; Considering how their Vuvuzela charade went.
It's kind of sad ngl, I wish they would just die already. All their achievements are well behind them.
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>>25072039
So what does that mean, exactly?
All I'm seeing is a series of obscure events that point to some vague amount of co-operation and normalization of norms. It's all very confusing in a sea of insane media bluster.
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>>25072107
its days like these that Im glad i constantly listened to hyper hype music like this during my formative years and inadvertently became super confident
I am living proof that propaganda is okay if u use it right :))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6T8eTR0uWc
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>>25071263
Got published today and my life isn't magically different. I need to put more effort into life. I want to clean more, read more, eat healthier, do more cardio and strength training, and learn how to not hate my life. I haven't been on a date in years but have picked up people in a bar. But I just find life so oppressive and horrible, and nothing will save me from my dark thoughts other than the beautiful somnolence of misanthropic nihilism. How I loathe humanity, a crooked reflection of the devil in the mirror that is god. We are the only animals that cry, and the only animals that create thermonuclear weapons... what sick beasts we are.
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How do I dessentange the commons from the mess of "communists" and "capitalists" fighting for control over something that neither can control but both can damage by attempting to control.
This whole idea feels extremely nuanced and I don't have the language or philosophical background to properly enage with it. Everything we live within is a commons, environmentally and socially we benefit from and subconsciously contribute to it, laws are commons air is commons, art is a commons, but who has the incentive to contribute to it?
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>okay so people with children dont commit suicide
He never claimed that. He said that a childless life is meaningless, but it doesn't follow from this that having children is the one and only condition for meaning, just that it is one of necessary conditions. (You)r logic is faulty huh.
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I wonder if the reason some people insist Eugenics 'doesn't work' is because if they accepted it did their ethics would force them to be Eugenicists, and they don't want that. Not most, just the cerebral liberal and communist types.
They're already expressly okay with rights being waived in favour of public health and the greater good, as demonstrated by an event that occurred three to six years ago. And the goal of eugenics (the improvement of humanity) is something they almost definitely agree with in the abstract.
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For me, the most convincing miracles are the ones that are un-expected and bizarre.
I had zero esteem for Catholic saint stories until I learned that some saints experienced an anomalous and grotesque elongation of the body during periods of religious ecstasy and mystical experiences.
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>>25072160
>Not most, just the cerebral liberal and communist types
They insist eugenics doesn't work because it goes against their core belief of tabula rasa and every "bad" behavior being caused purely by socioeconomic factors.
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>>25072159
okay thats enough
please dont embarrass yourself any further
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I have run into a rather stupid problem of my own making in the story I am currently working on, but because it's "tropey genera slop" and edges towards taboo topics I am basically on my own.
Basically story is about a martial artist who gets reincarnated as a kinda sorta but not really human super weapon specifically designed to prevent the resurrection of the big bad evil guy by killing all those who are trying to resurrect him.
Problem I am running into is the character is physically a child with the mind of a combat obsessed adult for most of the story and I am unsure how to deal with the subject of sexually. Total lack of interest can make sense but makes the character seem colder and more along the path of inhuman monster/weapon then is ideal.
On the other hand any hint related to a physical child in relation to sexually would mean I wouldn't actually be able to put the story nearly anywhere and would make the overwhelming majority of potential readers deeply uncomfortable.
Regardless of choice it makes the character far less relatable.
Might have to rework the whole story from the ground up because of this, or do a total page one rewrite.
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>>25071768
Just get a book on iyengar yoga, it's like the pilates of yoga (er, designed to use props to help injured or disabled people to reach a greater range, not the other reputation pilates has for skinny bitches)
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>>25072160
>They're already expressly okay with rights being waived in favour of public health and the greater good, as demonstrated by an event that occurred three to six years ago.
The greater good of already existing, already living human beings, not an abstract future humanity, that's the difference. You just have the anglo bug brain that makes you confuse the map with the territory.
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>>25072191
If you're using Buddhist reincarnation, it's pretty common for families to send them off as kids to be monks for a few months. You could make it years of strength and speed training for the physical child, kind of like how childhood internment made that guy create parcours
If he's deep and in Buddhist detachment he'll just be like
>That female form is a future rotting corpse
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in every productive work, creative endeavor, you'll want to start with broad strokes, with the highest level of abstraction first, and only then focus on refining all the details. In Minecraft making house, you'd first build the layout, the walls, the roofs, and only then build all the details. When coding as a programmer, you first make a MVP (minimum viable product) and then you focus on making every part reliable, in drawing, you first draw the contour of things, and then work in the details etc.
So I see the same pattern in how people like to read the works of others, first the most systematic and general work, usually the latest, will be easier to read first, and only then will you engage with the earlier works, as they often consist of still detached ideas, yet to be systemized, but those detached ideas will be so much more valuable in relation to the big systemized works.
There's this line of Nietzsche in Twilight of the Idols
"24. By searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backward; eventually he also believes backward."
I have been weary of the mantra of "Start with the Greeks", I don't think it's a path that helps one who is confused by our current era and current thoughts, if one is confused by modernity, I think it'd be best for him to go backwards, progressively getting away from what's familiar, not making that huge jump into complete incomprehensible thoughts of classical times, which only comes as obvious to people already predisposed to understand those.
Obviously, one should not make arguments backwards without being fully aware that seeking causes for consequences is a hard task, better start at the beginning. Beginning and End, should one start at the beginning or the end? I think that's a genuinely hard question
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I need a cat
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>>25072357
It isn't directly important, but the topic comes up due to certain themes related to corruption of life and the subversion of death in many different ways, as well as the MC's split between maintaining humanity or giving into inhumanity as a living weapon.
>>25072357
USA has a significant different culture of acceptably around the subject. My primary audience is English readers in the western world where such content isn't remotely acceptable. Internationally it's literally illegal in most English speaking countries.
Just because Japan did it doesn't mean I can.
>>25072366
The reincarnation is legitimately a abominable unnatural act that is totally artificial in the context of the story.
That said, if I structure the story differently so that the MC is mentally more inhuman but over time regains or remembers more of their humanity as the story goes on then I might be able to make it work somewhat similar.
Like I said, I probably have to do a full page one rewrite anyway. I am just bummed about it.
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>>25072493
I really, really want one. It would greatly improve my life, spirit, and happiness. I mean, look at the kitty in the picture! Awwwwww -- it's too much. How can anyone live without these magnificent creatures?
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>>25072481
I met a very well behaved cat yesterday.
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>>25072453
I need to move to Japan and become a competitive lunchbox mother
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>>25072498
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Is it wearing a toga?
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>tfw have had Gaddis' The Recognitions checked out for four months and only read the first 50 pages
I should just return it until I'm ready. Plus I know as soon as I finally start seriously reading through it, the autorenewal is gonna fail and I'm gonna have to return it in a day lol.
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I want a cat really bad but my parents won't let me. My mother especially abhors them. She views them the same way most people view rats, to put it in perspective. What's the viability of getting one, hiding its existence, and confining it to my room? If the cat is shy, that'd help a lot too because then it'd keep itself contained to my room in fear of my parents. Then again I'd have to keep the cat's food and litter hidden in my closet. What do you guys think? Is Operation Surreptitious Kitty possible and worth trying, or no?
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>Since you're into high culture literature and philosophy, that means you listen to classical, right, anon? a-a-anon...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42I5qbOLlNs
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>>25072580
>confining it to my room
Please don't torture a cat like this
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Found a nice friend, had nice time together, talked to them a lot. They told me they wish to shelter themselves from me? and withdraw, and it makes me upset. Now they're spending time with other friends. I guess I misunderstood the nature of our relationship. We were just acquaintances. Me misunderstanding this makes me upset as well.
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i think about this when i think about men. not what they do. how they pay attention. whether they read a room the way they read a page: with the whole body, letting the information reorganize them, or with the eyes only, skimming for what confirms what they already know. there was one. french library, tuesdays & thursdays, same table near the window where the light hit the page before it hit his face. he read with his whole body. turned pages like he was lifting something that might wake. i watched him for an entire winter. i knew which weeks he was reading something difficult because his hand would move to his jaw & stay there, holding his own face like someone had asked him a question he was still answering. i knew his bookmarks, torn receipts, never proper ones. i knew the exact angle his shoulders made when a sentence landed. i never said a word to him. not once. not from shyness. from something worse. the certainty that the version of him i'd constructed from posture & page-turning was more precise than anything a conversation could produce. talking would've introduced him. i didn't want the introduction. i wanted that peculiar feeling: the way you can love someone's attention without ever entering it. he left at the end of the year. i don't know his name. i know he dog-eared page 248 of something with a blue cover & that when he got to that page his breathing changed & i was four tables away & i noticed & that noticing is the most intimate thing i've ever done with another person.
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>>25072601
You right, you right. Operation Surreptitious Kitty is stood down. I repeat, stand down.
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Have any of you ever had a cute or hot gf that just liked to stay home and never go out and just did her own things at home while you did your stuff and just fucked and cuddled when you were horny or lonely?
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Futas with balls are a psyop. It used to be you would see nine balless futas for every one futa with balls and everyone hated that shit. Now all you see is futas with disgusting testicles obscuring their beautiful female vulvas and people act like this is normal.
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---- Solaria ----
60000
Dance Music
February can be ravishingly scenic
In the proper situation.
a little blinding and rich beyond
Baroque pretensions--
Inconceivably suave
And formal--
Out of this world at least as the limit goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaDZINTEE9I&list=RDGMEMNmVSVrsTrv-G2rH fIeUCVAVMNnJaRF95TCY&index=2
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On a flight listening to the boomers in front of me chat. Kids come up. This ghoul of a retiree starts trash-talking her 20-something son: for getting a philosophy degree instead of something useful. For delivering pizza instead of having a real job. For living with his parents instead of moving out or paying rent. She calls him an idiot and a deadbeat. I almost shout at her and whose fucking fault is that? Who raised him? Who taught him what he knows? Who did he take for an example - or counterexample? A little fucking responsibility over your own spawn is too much, is that right, looking on your own son as anything more than a fucking investment vehicle is too much, I have it true, don't I? Hold my tongue. She laughs her stupid laugh and waves goodbye to her new boomer friend from the seat hehind her and gets off the plane.
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just do psychedelics
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Fucking sick of direction-brained dichotomous shit. You retards think the world isn't big enough for more than one bad guy? That all the blame can be safely laid at the feet of the Jews or the rich or whatever pet bad guy you have? That if it weren't for one mustache-twirling villain we's all be holding hands and singing fucking Kumbaya? It's asinine. There are so many evil people in the world that we're fucking drowning in them all. Of course they want you to believe everything is all one guy's fault, it makes everything so much easier for anybody who wants to fuck other people over.
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Life Affirmation never stops !
Gleaming stars I once found,
As our faces stared each other,
Provided a delightful silent sound,
Most sublime and that remained forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YInvJrvJLr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ksNvivbEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMfVHENHi_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPrTD1vXou0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxDmJPOXEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99rXAHGPyZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxTr58C9CHg
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>>25073281
wrong "Circle" music, this one is much better, so delicately soothing :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIFlPe2JKSU
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>>25071263
Why is everything so dreadfully boring now?
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>>25073003
Have a notebook for daily thoughts ( physical or digital, whatever suits you )
If you want to write more philosophy, write down questions, write what you believe and what you seek, those will help direct your reading, and your reading will fuel your writing. Have a personal dictionary, for coining terms, or defining ones that are improperly defined.
If you want to write fiction, I don't have much advice other than, have something to say, always, and show don't tell, unique perspective is what is interesting, people who are plot-driven lack reason I fear. Start small and try every format, each has its lessons which you can only benefit from. A good writer will have written good aphorisms, poems, essays, and everything in between, he will have preferences and a specialty, but what matters is a faculty for making clever observations and delivering them with a unique styles that you have develop, and such a style in itself will highlight your perspectives and values.
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Healthslop (noun, adjective): garbage food, shady supplement products, subscription-based "fitness improvement" or "masculinity improvement" interventions prescribed by sketchy "clinics," all marketed as "healthy" by giant pharma corps. Indigestible artificial sweeteners held together by sugar alcohols presented as "guilt-free candy," cereals and ice cream and candy and desserts with lead-contaminated low-quality protein added to make them "fitness-friendly," drinking 400% of your daily sodium intake needs in the form of "hydrating" drinks or salt mixes despite never engaging in any physical activity more strenuous than a light walk, teenagers and young men getting prescribed TRT for "low test levels" that could be fixed by just getting enough sleep, walking 10k steps a day for "cardio" despite never raising one's heartrate above resting, "protein" ice creams that are made with xanthogens and microplastics. Use: "that Magic Spoon shit is totally healthslop" or "they offered me some healthslop protein bar but I went hungry instead."
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It was grey yoga pants in the pew she sat then shifted the outline showed plain what was I supposed to do pretend I didn’t see it but the outline called my name who is to blame the cloth that clung or the eye that stayed the outline called my name I looked away to the book open what was I supposed to do the question stayed what else when the body writes itself without asking.
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Some thoughts from today,
The only "philosophers" I ever find myself coming back to are Christopher Alexander and Marshal Mcluhan, primarily because of how pragmatic and practical their insights into the world are.
Without even introducing them, both thinkers basically build their entire worldview on the fact that everything we do needs to be anthropocentric, which is to say that everything in the world must be interpreted by us first. They don't necessarily make the assumption that we need to design anything to be interpreted by others right away, but they do take the human-interpretation part for granted and build on it for the rest of their thesis. It applies also to physical objects, with ergonomics being the act of our body forcing an object to conform to a shape that accommodates us.
To give a quick summary, Mcluhans world view is that a medium that conveys "content", is in fact more important than the content itself, because the medium defines the shape and structure of the content. Mediums are anything, they can be a book, a twitter post, a 4chan post, clothing, cars, houses, furniture, tools and appliances, an app icon, the pattern on your bedsheets, a function in a computer program- animal breeding- etc, they are anything and everything.
Alexanders world view is that since aesthetics must be interpreted, and with architecture in some cases even experienced with generations of people living within said forms, by understand the patterns resultant of natural and human activity, for example in how old European towns take shape or why biological life conform to certain forms, we can make assumptions and predict what forms will trigger which effects in an individuals mind.
When you combine both of their ideas the effects you get are very useful and repeatable. Mcluhans theories provide you with a framework for constraints, which you can design schemas, content and aesthetics around. If you're making art or software, this is handy when you have to define a data type or schema that needs to represent something in your program, or if you're coming up with an art pipeline for your game, you can consciously design your tooling to act as a medium for whatever art you want to convey- say with the creation of a level editor or a character creator. Alexanders theories give you the ability to predict what effect your final product will convey by understanding which patterns go into creating it. I think Alexanders pattern language theory is as useful in breaking down existing forms and aesthetics into their base patterns as it is for coming up with new arrangements.
I haven't really gone too deep into it, but even from writing the above it does make me wonder about to which degree are certain aesthetics medium and context dependant. Are aesthetics the application of a medium or its content? Is the content the application of a medium.
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I also wanted to mention this but my post was too long;
Both Alexander and Mcluhan were practicing Catholics, I wonder what conclusions they came towards privately in regards to Gods relationship to man, and what purpose man served to God.
Was mankind created to be a medium for storytelling?
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>>25071331
there's a term for the aesthetic in the mid 2000s, but i can't remember. it's urban something. you're right it becomes more clear what it is the further we get away from the decade. early 00s had a aesthetic, then the mid 2000s then the late 2000s had a slight shift (this is where the frutiger aero came in). the early 00s had the late 90s y2k aesthetic. y2k was more cgi while frutiger was more hd sleek and clean looking. there were overlaps into each one.
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>>25071537
This is pretty how i came to view nostalgia and how to cope with it, but not get caught up in trying to live like i'm a child. It's a thin line, but there's nothing wrong with using your past experiences and childhood to draw inspiration from. Anyone who creates anything does this consciously and/or subonciously.
The not experiencing new things is kinda retarded. You can always experience new things. It's not exactly the same as childhood, but it's a lot closer to that feeling than not experiencing new things is.
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>>25073318
Start journaling. Dreams are a great way to start. Just start by writing down your dreams. What happened and describe what it looked like. Any feelings. Dreams are a great way to start because often times people have cool dreams they want to remember, so writing them down helps. Dreams aren't the only way, but they are one way i come up with an idea to write about. I had a dream recently that i've been working on. It can be hard to expand upon it beyond what your actual dream was, but that's part of the writing process. You can explore it and see where it goes. You can always edit it later. You just need to get your ideas on paper or in a text document. Keep doing that little by little and eventually you'll have a portion of a short story or a novel and a bunch of ideas to help you finish it. You can always drop it and come back to it later.
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>>25073532
Bring salves and sutures
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The latter
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If you subscribe to the belief that ideas come to us from the aether. May be the subconscious, but that ideas come to us in a way that makes them feel like we had help. We didn't just come up with it on our own. I think that lends itself well to their worldview. It must be interpreted by us first.
You helped me to understand the medium is the message idea from Mcluhan. The first time i encountered it i guess i never got a good explanation, but for some reason your post made it a lot easier for me to finally understand it.
I don't know who Christopher Alexander is, but that's really interesting. The old European town thing reminds me of human geography. Geography itself is a very uderappreciated field. It's a bit of hybrid between science and social science. It's down stream from the Earth sciences and it's interconnected with history. History touches on geography, but geography is oftentimes the hidden why for history as well as current events. It's a bit crazy that it gets boiled down to countries their capitals. People love to dismiss social sciences, but there is phenomena that exists that isn't exactly a hard science and it cannot be discounted. That stuff matters and we deal with it every day. It's important.
Back to your example of the town. A town that is built around a resource creates a message. The medium, the town, is the message. That town has an aesthetic it has history, it has culture, it has people who lived there who then created works that were inspired by living in it.
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doesn't it ever get tedious how music always has to be like "cool" or the musician which is to say author, always has to be like some hip person. i want to listen to techno by a guy who dresses in j crew or something for once not some outfit made out of bdsm straps or whatever. know what i mean?
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>>25073576
tbf I think brian molko would have looked like that if he never wrote a song iykwim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlTk0NzOF9s
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>>25073592
I will admit there was a good line
The lady cop yells at Mike then gets in her car
Mike gets in his car with his sister
His sister says "That woman was very angry. Why does everyone look at you like that?"
That hit close to home
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>>25073624
the 27 club is cringe. having aged past 27. so many musicians were cringe dweebs who had no idea what the fuck they were talking about. even the ones that didn't die. as i got older my opinion changed on a lot them. especially ones who fight the man or whatever. granted many were young, but their observations are so cringe. people circlejerk over pseudo intellectual dorks who didn't know anything about what they were trying to fight against or be contrarian towards.
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>>25073637
I'm just saying a head cold and a heavy white trash existence can't kill talent if you get it on tape
Anyway, why did Marc Bolan write so much about cars if he didn't forsee his death is the real question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdAf7OmhqQs
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Don't know. Checked the news yet?
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>>25073576
I have no clue what the majority of the people who make the music I enjoy look like and don't particularly care.
It's sort of like not looking up actors political takes because you will just be annoyed.
You can enjoy their work more when you know less about them as people.
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I did nothing to deserve it and you messed me up so fucking badly and I’m still not okay and you’re just happy with someone else and have moved on with your life like nothing even happened and I’m still so fucked up over it like it’s not fair
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>>25073942
You know, I think all those old timers were right. The devil is the emperor of the Americas. But they were wrong in thinking they could exorcise him out of the continent by building some silly churches and throwing around holy water. His domain is protected by something higher than the principalities.
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What's it called if a dude likes chicks, but loathes the idea of sex 90% of the time until he gets horny, and rubs one out just to stop thinking of sex. He has absolutely no desire to seek out romantic relationships, despite being capable of romantic feelings. In fact, it's his former experience with feeling romance that makes him so genuinely uninterested in it. He'd be content living out his life as a kissless virgin, and almost takes some sort of pride in it.
He isn't asexual because he gets horny, and he isn't aromantic because he can experience romance but doesn't want to.
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>>25073975
A somewhat repressed man who has compartmentalized his sexuality to a great degree. At least how I see it.
I'm a bit like this, myself. Though I ressembled this far more in the past. Nowadays not so much.
I miss being basically that guy, honestly. Sans the 'feeling romance' thing. Back then I just didn't care. Frankly to this day I think I only care because I think it's what I'm supposed to do, subconsciously.
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Im somewhat schizophrenic, I had a full shadow gf episode when I was 19. Over never taken SRRIs and even though most people would call me crazy, I feel I’m far better off having learned to organize my thoughts than let some Stacey or Becky with a (((degree))) tell me about how it’s ok for her to project her daddy issues on mine (hey, even Thomas Pynchon said that his therapist became an Israeli agent in the crying of lot 49.) that being said, this isn’t the kind of thing you can go to 4chan for - I’d suggest asking a local priest or something for advice because they are much more likely to be able to give you specific advice tailored to your situation, something much deeper and necessary if you feel insane. One a lighter note, Reading is one of the best cures to insanity - so much of especially American social life has become a psyop/mirage of reality that it’s hard not to go insane from the amount of copium the country is on at all times. I know this probably sounds like generic 4chan schizo stuff, but it’s true. SSRIs can be a scam, but it’s up to you, as always, to better yourself.
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Stone age art seems to revolve around three things : animals, women and depictions of oneself.
I find that simplicity really inspirational. The only things worth turning into art : what I find cool, what makes my dick hard, and what I am.
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I can't really conceive of a real, practical use for AI unless you're working in IT or you want to use it for smut. But I imagine even the latter would get boring after a while because of the incessantly repeating AI-isms.
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It's kinda embarrassing how thin the line is between "oh my God she's Venus incarnate my dick is going to explode" and "uhm, yeah, that's a couple pounds too much". It's so rare for women to be able to hit that sweet spot at all, and even rarer for them to maintain it consistently without overshooting it.
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>>25071263
>look at continental philosophers
>a couple alright ones during the 19th century followed by a bunch of trash during the 20th
>look at analytic philosophers
>a couple alright ones during the 19th century followed by a bunch of literally whos during the 20th
It seems to me like philosophy from the eighteen hundreds onwards is just a shitshow. Am I being ignorant? I simply can't believe that their ouevre will endure scrutiny, or merely hold interest, centuries from now; the way the medievals and the greeks still do, for example.
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I like how detailed their animals were. That and how they developed primitive animation involving clever light tricks. I wish our grug ancestors weren't always portrayed as a bunch of fools, but then again, it's probably an easy way to make the contemporary man feel assured of his superiority.
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I used it to calculate odds on a card game I'm developing. I like how it breaks down the math step by step instead of just giving me the answer.
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i couldnt remember if i took my medication or not so i just skipped it because its hardcore stuff that will stop your heart if you take an extra dose, but im pretty sure i didn't take it and tonight's gonna suck because i didn't take it
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>>25074173
I suggest looking for one of those apps that helps you remember stuff with alarms and trackers and whatnot
My sister is also on like 3 differents meds that she has to take at different times of the day and she uses it, although I can't remember the name
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Anyone know how Everyman's Pocket classics compare to the regular editions?
Apparently the book dimensions aren't too small.
What I'm worried about is font size and margins because I don't like it when the text is too small and cramped.
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>>25073423
Thanks a lot for sharing, don't know these people but from a brief LLM overview this seems like some good and valuable analysis.
From what I gather both are a deep dive on how to think about technologies and aesthetics.
>that everything we do needs to be anthropocentric, which is to say that everything in the world must be interpreted by us first.
That's a weird statement to me, I don't see how things could be any other way, value is relative to each individual.
>To give a quick summary, Mcluhans world view is that a medium that conveys "content", is in fact more important than the content itself, because the medium defines the shape and structure of the content. Mediums are anything, they can be a book, a twitter post, a 4chan post, clothing, cars, houses, furniture, tools and appliances, an app icon, the pattern on your bedsheets, a function in a computer program- animal breeding- etc, they are anything and everything.
That's a good thought. I know that in Art, a style should be adapted to the ideas being portrayed for a piece to feel coherent, that often through a style alone you can already see values, because some things are emphasized and others not, so it makes sense that each medium because of its constraints could only give life to a certain range of aesthetic styles, and therefore could only lead to certain ideas being promoted.
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We realized reality depended on assets in our phones. It was noticeable life was a simulation, and something had gone wrong or a tear in reality created glitches. Everyone could jump effortlessly a few feet, and then again, repeatedly and effortlessly like a glitch in a video game. Sky diving became something you could tick off your bucket list.
Rows and rows of files. “Wait, if I delete something, the room seems a bit different.”
“It’s all in there. Stop deleting things. In fact, we shouldn’t even be speaking. Our speech makes it worse. It corrupts the world. See?”
“No, they came back after scrolling through all the empty space where they just were. They’re all mostly pictures.”
I tried deleting more, and then dragging my finger across the empty space in the phone UI again. It worked. Then I tried deleting everything, and repeating the process. Nothing happened this time. I looked up at him. His face was cold and dead in the eyes. I raised a hand and tried to speak, but all I could hear now was an endless, loud droning noise. My vision pixelated and froze as well, all I could feel were bodies, pushing against me aggressively like I was being shaken in a mass of people, their arms jabbing into my torso and limbs. I realized this was hell. Then the credits rolled, and the audience shuffled out grumbling about how loud the ending was. Typical short film.
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>>25073526
>The not experiencing new things is kinda retarded. You can always experience new things. It's not exactly the same as childhood, but it's a lot closer to that feeling than not experiencing new things is.
Maybe I went overboard in my statements. I'm specifically talking about that craving to go to Asia or Europe or Wherever, or trying dozens of hobbies, expecting adventure to be found in the novelty, when in reality, if you're mid 20s, you mostly already know every basic thing about the world, and different cultures are just variations on the same aspects of life. At some point, new experiences and growth will come from *introspection*, so maybe experience art, or put some analytical thought to every mundane task that you do, that's how you keep new experiences valuable as an adult.
Experiencing new things is always good if you have a tendency to stagnate when left alone, depends on the person I guess, still, you need some creative outlet, there are better things to be found in creation, you cannot reach contentment simply by sucking up the world as the child does, it works for him because everything is new to him, so it is a necessity for him to analyze everything, systemize everything.
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My idea of an afterlife is the Counter-Strike way. You turn into an incorporeal entity able to move freely through the world and observe it. You can speak to other dead souls, but you can not influence the living world in any way.
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Objectively, would have been better for everyone if I had successfully killed myself in 2022. I would have saved myself a lot of pain, and everyone would probably have started to get over it by now or forget. I don’t even know why I stay alive. I hope things will get better but I’m fucking delusional because I know they won’t. Medication doesn’t help. Therapy doesn’t help. I get sucked into this dark void of fixation and I think that if I just try harder I can fix things and be listened to and be okay again but nothing will fill the emptiness inside of me. Nothing. And the more I allow myself to attempt to get close to anyone else, the worse the emotional fallout when it inevitably ends. I can’t fucking cope with it. And before these more recent events I told myself that what had happened before was the result of the perfect storm of bad circumstances and that I would never have to go through it again, and that it was over and I could be normal and good again. But now I know that it’s never over. I will have to go through it again, repeatedly, because there’s something fundamentally wrong with the way I am and the way that I think and this will always inform the way that other people see me and treat me and the latent corruption is always inside me waiting to burst forth and there is no cure. The problem is inside me, not external. And any attempt I make to express anything or to communicate is treated as inherently manipulative and suspect and a cry for attention or something sinister to be defended against and shut out and disregarded. I’m just a person. I just wanted to be loved and to love in return. I just wanted mutual understanding. I just wanted to be spoken to as though I was normal and not something unstable to be placated or feared. It’s too late for me to have these things.
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Demoralized again after taking to a teacher friend complaining about how the majority of the high-school class they subbed for were worse at reading than their special education class that they normally teach.
It just another factor to add to the hugh pile of reasons why writing is a pointless and frustrating hobby that I should give up on.
I really need to delete all my shit and commit to never writing again.
It's eats up so much time, effort, and mental energy for no return.
Creativity is a fucking scam.
If I spent that time doing almost anything else I would have been better off and happier.
Trying and failing to make stuff is just suffering for no reason.
I hate everything I have ever made. I hate myself. I hate the world for being shit.
Fuck everything.
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i hope there's some God/Justice or Karma after we die lads, otherwise that kid who was raped and killed on some Island by some rich fag/politician will never see any justice or Righteousness, otherwise all of that suffering and pain was just for the plesure of some degenerate psychopaths who will do it again and again because nobody will stop them
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>>25072175
When he stopped being progressive. Redditors are pseudo intellectuals. They have superiority complexes and don't really know anything. When they do know something, they're generally the last to know it. Then they try to take over the discussion and act like they're the arbiters of "intellectual" discussion. I think deep down they're angry that 'lesser' people intuitively undestand things that they don't. They cope hard and it likely feeds their obsession to be seen as smart. It seems to coincide with liberalism, progressivism, and leftism. It absolutely enrages them when some random dumb ass completely destroys their worldview and has a better understanding of human psychology. You will also notice many who seem to be the opposition for Redditors are just ignorant people or people who are much more okay with being a "based retard" for lack of a better term. A lot of Redditor's egalitarian views are just bullshit. They're the elite in their own mind and everyone else is dumber and just doesn't understand. Progressives are eugenicists. They originally were and they still are. All that equality talk is exaggerated. All you have to do to see how they really feel is look at who they feel it's socially acceptable to criticize. In the US it's White Americans. They view them as borderline subhuman who are unable to change. Why do they view poor ghetto blacks who commit crimes with more sympathy? Their equality ideology and similar criticisms would get conflated with racism. Do they actually believe black people are more moral and less terrible than White people? No they don't. You ever notice how Redditors tend to have a general anti human elitist bent? With the anti natalism, complaining about poor people having kids, looking at white people as evil disgusting dumb people who are breeding too much. These people hate humans. All humans. It's like suicidal almost and it resembles something some sort of other would beleive. Like something non human or a the most banal psychopath would think.
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he probably dropped u cuz ur the kind of person that will triple text without getting a reply
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