/lit/ - Literature

Visualise a number in your head that is increasing one by one, but do it without your mind's voice. Now use your imagination for some complex events where your mind's voice is silent, like visualising a swerving car. My theory is that your mind's voice always attempts to speak but usually it can't keep up.

Books for this feel?

>To you, the reader

>>20474096
>people making the choice of removing sexual organs through surgery
>anon visibly seething
mfw unfazed by human nature in the backdrop of chaos.
mfw people feel bothered by people wanting to mimic a transition.
mfw bs attached to fact (only two genders and operations are mimic)

>>20314638
Yes, i will try not to make a worthless sobstory blogpost because i dont wanna write it, and you don't wanna read it, but i hope i can share a bit of insight on what fucks up kids today so whatever little anons you fellas raise in the future don't have to
meet the same fate

>>20314644
Yeah, you've got me pegged pretty well. Down to the INTP / INTJ myer briggs autismo test and becoming a weedlmao despite being a stringently antidrug little /pol/yp at the time.

I cant really even give you advice on how to help kids like me, by then theres a whole 14-18 years of fuck ups being repeated. I'll say that if you show them any kindness, they'll probably remember it for the rest of their lives. I know that's the case with me and the few moments during my formative years when i ever really felt halfway safe around anybody.

>>20314625

Ill start with the obvious elephant in the room. Technological media. From TV and iPad games as a kid, to proper console vidya, and finally the all encompassing all consuming dopamine harvesting machine that is the modern internet, the reason the kids in OP's example don't give a shit about anything is because their daily supply of neurotransmitters has been fully squeezed watching tiktok and instagram memes in the morning before they even make it into their first class. I dont need to quote stats to chanfags about how tech has taken over human consciousness, most of you already know the truth of the matter, but some of you oldfags probably don't know just how INTENSELY zoomers consume media. For me, and now for more and more turning out like me, it is 24/7 scrolling on their phones from the moment they wake up to the moment they lapse into unconsciousness. Its a level of technological addiction that brings you face to face with the question of whether human free will really exists at all, or if our brains really are just deterministic data processors, no more "free" then an abacus or the reactive brain of an insect.

This spectative state of mind is like opium for a generation of people who are deeply uncomfortable doing almost anything. Kids these days increasingly dont even PLAY vidya any more, or post on social media they just watch other people streams and consume the memes. This over consumption of media will at first supplant the need for social interaction, and then later render you so unable to communicate with other PEOPLE that your screen becomes your only friend.

Cont.

>>19855652
>doesn’t spend the next week feeling schizophrenic
holy shit, this is because of the alcohol???

>>19628133
There is only one way I know for sure
You have to build your own self up in whatever way you can
You have to become strong and resilient and put things out into the world vigorously
You are alone this is the most important thing don't forget it don't think about others put it out of your mind your suffering exists only in you there is only you
Picture yourself trapped in a room solitary confinement you can sit and wait for the door to open or you can do something anything that's your options do something or do nothing you don't have control you can't make anything happen but you can do something

>>19312877
>28
>DFW, Krasznahorkai, Houellebecq, Heidegger, Leo Strauss
>Strange time in life. Recently realized that I needed to change careers, break up with my girlfriend, cut back on drinking, and move cities. The slog to get from where I am to freedom is tough (big crypto winnings help), but things are going well, and I feel free and in control more than I have in a long time.

>>19250260
>just be not-self bro

>>18962525
>bro I wanna kill da niggars so bad bro
>no. You shall read classic literature and cleanse your mind
>yo bro I juss wanna kill da niggars like in those vidyo's
>Enough of this! I sentence you to read!

He coughed into the rough trough through the tough bough though he sought that which wrought the thought of naught.

>>18806234
>What language(s) are your learning?
Japanese
>Why you start learning it/them?
I wanted to become a polyglot back in 2018 and I considered it to be the one I should start with since its pronunciation is pretty similar to that of my native language. Haven't made much progress because of uni and procrastination
>What tools are you using to aid you in learning languages?
Already read both Genki books and now I'm using Tobira. I make Anki cards with vocabulary I come across when reading shit. Yomichan is helpful too.
>What advice do you have for someone learning the same language?
Don't take notes and start writing using the grammar you've just learned instead
>How are you acquiring vocabulary?
My text book already comes with plenty of new random words, but it's much better when you find them organically since you already know the context
>Have you started studying the language's grammar?
Yes
>Are you reading any literature in your target? How is it?
Not much. I started with this https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/

I don't know if I can finish A Farewell to Arms. I know how it ends and I can't handle the feels. I hate all this sadness.

>>18614642
finishing up Anna Karenin right now. the part where she has a mental breakdown and kills herself affected me way more than I thought it would. as faggy as it sounds I almost cried reading it. Tolstoy paints such realistic characters it's hard to forget they aren't real. he did a particularly good job potraying both Anna's and Vronsky's resentment, jealousy, and disillusionment with each other. the falling apart of their relationship reminded me a lot of my own relationships. although characters in the novel see Anna as a rationalist, driven by intellect, I think she's fundamentally a classical romantic. she wanted to receive love that was freely given, not given to her just because someone was socially obligated to "love" her. I think that's what every romantic wants. after her final scene I felt very empty. im glad Tolstoy included the Levin/Kitty story too; that story was also emotionally powerful but in a much more positive, life affirming way.

>>18587424
You wish him to be dismayed at his lack of opportunity or you wish to extend that education to him? Either way, I agree with everything you said.

I was in East Asia for business a whole back and it was amazing. There’s a palpable electricity in the air. It’s what I imagine being in the US from 1900 to 1920’s when Europe was severely degenerating and decaying and America was ascending to its apotheosis. Everyone is opportunistic and forward thinking. The pervasive nihilism of 21st century American completely evaporated when I stepped off the plane. I have extremely high hopes for China though I personally prefer Singapore in terms of politics and culture.

>>18433138
>https://archive.is/N1HVehttps://archive.is/N1HVe
Here's an example of the facial recognition software being able to predict criminality. There's a lot of other factors that can be predicted. Your physiognomy is an outward expression of your mutational load, how maladaptive and negatively mutated your genes are. How fucked up you look on the outside, not exactly ugliness, is a good predictor of how fucked up your internal world of thoughts and impulses are.

How do I get back into Christianity and find god? Book recs?

>retarded Marxist revolutionaries supported by NKVD who massacre clergy and anyone suspected of being “counter-revolutionary”

Yikes, clearly these guys are awful. Definitely the bad gu-

>”Fascist brainlets so universally despised they have to bring in barely sapient Muslims from Africa who rape Spanish women and girls and terrorise innocent civilians while Nazi and Italian aircraft incinerate them from above.

God both sides of this war really fucking suck. Can’t believe I’m saying this but I’m leaning toward the Republicans.

So why aren’t we executing the doctors who profit off of this insanely exploitive mutilation? I’m not one to advocate doling out violence but what they did to this person I feel warrants a bullet to the head.

I have a hunch that tranny stuff is a pharma psy op. If people understand how fake psychology and psychiatry are *in practice* overnight our society would be destroyed.

How can you guys use tinder?

I got 99 matches my first day and have had sex off of there but it’s so soul crushing. I legitimately cannot bring myself to open it and go through the motions.

>”hey”
>”hey”
>”wyd”
>”nm u?”
>”nm, Netflix”
>”haha watch watching x”

And so on. God it is fucking awful. And nothing ever comes of it. No meaningful conversation. Nothing. I fucked a girl at her dorm and barely said like anything to her. She said she had social anxiety but that didn’t stop her from letting me fuck her. What an awful, evil fucking app.

>>18148382
how can I kiss a girl like that??

I have nothing but my sorrow and I want nothing more.
It has been, it still is, faithful to me.

Why should I begrudge it, since during the hours
when my soul crushed the depths of my heart,
it was seated there beside me?

O sorrow, I have ended, you see, by respecting you,
because I am certain you will never leave me.

Ah! I realize it: your beauty lies in the force of your being.
You are like those who never left
the sad fireside corner of my poor black heart.

O my sorrow, you are better than a well-beloved:
because I know that on the day of my final agony,
you will be there, lying in my sheets, O sorrow,
so that you might once again attempt to enter my heart.

>>17903780
I have to read it all
Every fucking time

It doesn't follow from God's existence that anything is morally wrong, including whatever He might consider a sin, just the same as it doesn't follow from a powerful state's existence that violating its laws is morally wrong

>>17661171
>be me
>with my fag son
>says he wants to go to bookstore
>remember my boomer friend owns a used bookstore in town. maybe we can catch up when were there
>fag son wants to go barnes and noble instead
>complains about his boyfriend thomas the whole way in
>buys a book called perfume and leaves
>god where did we go wrong