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I don't know about anybody else on this site, but what annoyed me personally about Christopher Hitchens in particular was the way that he used his aggressive atheism as a method of achieving a near stratospheric ascension in societal importance, which he would never have achieved if he were to simply rely on his writing. The moment when he began to become extremely loud about his atheism closely coincided with when he changed from an almost literal champagne socialist, to the Bush administration's ad man to the middle brow. For the final decade of his life he went around campuses and other buildings aggressively proselytizing his non-belief, in the service... of what, exactly?

All he tended to do was walk up to the podium, say a couple zingers, display his fairly light knowledge of anything but the most basic ecumenical matters, and play to the emotions of his audience. I don't believe he was wrong, but I don't think that what he was fighting for was good either: religion has been a positive force in many people's life, and taking away one ideology in the service of another will simply mean that the new ideology will have to be poisoned.

But importantly, his anti-religious activism played hand in hand with his neo-conservative hawkishness, and he was one the worst. Islamic fighters and civilians alike in the increasing quagmire we call the Middle East weren't described in a complex manner, no, they were islamo-fascists: an easy to use portmanteau which brings to mind past events where we were good people fighting against objectively bad people.

Their Islamism is presumably meant to bring to mind the many Christians who made up the reactionary forces of the early 20th century: a truism that ignores the many Christians on both sides, and works both ways by giving comfortable secular people and excuse to distrust their fellow religious colleagues and friends by drawing up a helpful ready-made caricature of all religious people as stupid and freedom hating.

That's part of why I distrust the new atheism movement in general: they use emotional arguments; their conclusions are nonsensical ('if we got rid of religion, all the problems in the world would disappear,' get a fucking grip); and since their ideology is built on such shaky intellectual grounds, it tends to take in the most weakly of society: frustrated young men who see Hitchens as a cool, charismatic guy and want to hate what he hates. Most of them are just as dumb and anti-intellectual, if not worse, than the people they hate.

When I eat corn it gives me explosive shits. I regret!

>>34652

It seems like gets increasingly bizarre with each passing day. The more i try and improve myself, the more life kicks me in the balls or pushes me away from the moral standards i try oh so hard to reach. Should one strive for his own happiness or his loved ones'? Death seems like a relief i look forward to more and more often.

I wish I could focus more easily. My concentration had improved dramatically after picking up meditation, but I started slacking on it lately and now I can't focus for shit.

>>34318
I feel fucking trapped in my school debt, and because my dad is the cosigner I can't file bankruptcy or neglect repayments without ruining my dad's credit too. So for the next few years I have to buck up and repay these loans instead of doing the things I want.

I just lift, eat cheap food, read books from the library, and browse 4chan.

Lately I've been delving into the concepts of simulation theory and user-based reality. Perception and consciousness as it relates to the user of the content.

I feel like the more I delve into materialism and hedonism, the more robotic and cold my world gets. The more I train hard mentally and physically, the more bizarro my world gets and can only be explained spiritually.

I know 4chan hates christfags because it relates to racism and poltards, but I found Christ as a way to enlightenment recently and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I feel like a leaf being swept up in a light breeze, constantly scraping along the pavement, waiting for the big gust of change to carry me to greener pastures. I believe that wind is Christ and so I trust in it.

The only churches a subscribe to and visit are the gym and the library. My spirituality is internal. The only faith I carry is faith in God's hands, the wind, in carrying me to where I belong.

I'm tired of trying to "figure it out" because Christ already has for me. The only choice I really have is to train my body while I still have my youth, my mind while I still have my sanity and spirit while I still have faith. The spirit never dies.

Just some things I've been contemplating lately.

>>34671
woah, I wrote>>34683

and I had no idea what you had written a few minutes earlier...weird brother.

I got an 160+ IQ and i'm still an frogpostering idiot

>>34647
>complains about him using emotional arguments and shallow descriptions.
>defines his followers as the weakly of society, frustrated young men

I did look up to him for years because of how unapologetic he was with his debating nature, he was the perfect response to the high horse moral tactics of the church and it took some /madlad/ to say
>no, I wouldn't kill my kid if God told me to
>he can fucc off

Plus getting cancer, and still turning up to debates bald but just as savage

>>34679
Try swimming.

>>34689
Really? I'm interested, how's it help with concentration?

>>34691
When you dive underwater, everything is quiet. I don't know how, but it (p)helps.

Can I still post?

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I try to be the best at everything
I really want a gf, but i dont know if she would not interfere in being a better man. I know that in a good relationship that would not happen but those are so hard to find

meanwhile i feel so alone

I've been interested in Buddhism, but I don't know if that's just me being rebellious to my christian uprising.
In other news I'm tired as shit and it's only 5:30pm, but I have no obligations tomorrow so I'll sleep I suppose.

>>34702
I feel the same. I try not to compromise, live the ubermensch lifestyle, but at the same time I want a qt virgin gf which I feel like would be a huge chore. I don't want to settle for a leftover slut in my late 20s

>>34711
they're all leftover sluts now, just find someone who doesn't steer you towards homicide.

>>34647
>fairly light knowledge of anything but the most basic ecumenical matters
Ehhhhhh, dunno about that. He might not have engaged theologians on some of their more nuanced and elaborate ideas, but most of them probably aren't even worth engaging considering they're built on super dubious premises.

Agree with some of what you said though. Especially why you distrust new atheists. Dunno if their intellectual grounds are actually all that shaky, but there's a definite urge among them to be simplistic and smug that pisses me off. One reason I think that movement isn't going anywhere as a movement. It might have convinced some people, but it rallied a lot of non-homo fags like me. Hitchens always seemed like an outlier in that bunch though.

>>34702
>I try to be the best at everything

that's more of a flaw than a virtue

>I really want a gf, but i dont know if she would not interfere in being a better man.
You are correct in a sense. Younger women constantly test your manhood in exchange for sex. It's a test designed for alpha/chads/older men. If you can't comfortably pass the test, don't take it.

> I know that in a good relationship that would not happen but those are so hard to find

false. A relationship is constantly a test. The ones that don't seem that way are the ones where chad/brad is winning comfortably and can afford to lose anyway

>meanwhile i feel so alone

always keep up a conversation when you are online and don't be afraid of actual discourse. Don't be afraid of smiling and saying "hey" to people when you make eye contact and don't look down or away, just look at them and say "hey" with a smile. When you are in line or in a waiting room out in public, make small talk with those also waiting. When you are at the store, make small talk with the clerks. If they are busy keep it short, if they aren't then maybe try having discourse.

just talk to people man. smile more

>>34733
i cant take anyone that believes the chad/incel thing
but your small talk advice was not bad

>>34685
Damn brah

Believe it or not im somewhat of an oldfag, used to post a lot on /fit then lurked for 3some years. This is my first post in ages.

And regarding your post, replace Christ by Tao and it's spot on what i think

The rabbithole keeps getting deeper, maybe /fitlit/ is our road to salvation

We're all gonna make it brah

Chapter 1

The only group David disliked more than androids was black people. Perhaps it was a carryover from his father or perhaps it was based on his experiences. It’s not exactly as if he spent the majority of his days spouting “Fucking bots!” or “Goddamn niggers!”, but he definitely harbored a sizable resentment toward them both. Despite that, he maintained amiable friendships with persons of both demographics. In fact, his best friend—an android—was with him in his apartment this very second.
It was an almost surprisingly cozy apartment in the greatest city on Earth, New York, NY. That was an old phrase “The greatest city on Earth”, because it could be argued the new greatest city was an android settlement which was created a few thousand miles between the orbits of the moon and Mars. Fairly few humans lived in NYC any more. Few humans lived anywhere any more. The population of humans had dwindled down to two billion.

First part of a short story I'm working on.
r8, h8, b8, don8

>>34736
>i cant take anyone that believes the chad/incel thing

if you can't believe in something as simple as the chad/incel parable, then you won't get it at a more complex level. It's the overly simplified version for a reason.

>>34738
I'm turn 22 this month and I'm just now coming to grips with /lettinggo/

When I start to think of myself more as an avatar for my spirit/consciousness, it makes sense.

do you ever feel like the more your mind/body changes, the more the world itself changes around you?

Maybe instead of trying to change the world around us in order to get where we are heading, we must simply change our body and mind and the world will change for us, eh?

I'm starting to believe more and more this is the case, and this is the natural way of the world. It's simply a simulation after all. The rules of the game needn't be rational

>>34736
>i cant take anyone that believes _____
you a /lit/? That seems like a thing among /lit/ ppl and the English majors I know. Too dismissive based on specific terms a guy uses or when someone misuses a word. Maybe it's a symptom of caring about language too much, maybe it's just an excuse to get out of engaging with ideas that you aren't familiar with. Not saying your doing either here or nothing, just had too get that out of my system.

>>34733
>I try to be the best at everything
>>that's more of a flaw than a virtue

No. No it's not
will you have some extra problems because of it? Maybe. But you will also have some less problems with certain things. Then there is a question of whether it is worth it, and I'd say it is.

>I really want a gf, but i dont know if she would not interfere in being a better man.
>>You are correct in a sense. Younger women constantly test your manhood in exchange for sex. It's a test designed for alpha/chads/older men. If you can't comfortably pass the test, don't take it.

A girlfriend will not make you a worse man. Frankly getting laid tends to make men better. Men who shoot up cinemas, or join isis, aren't getting laid people. The best men I know are ones with long term women. The even better ones have daughters. Knowing females intimately can only help a man.
Will you have problems with a girlfriend? Sure. Maybe. It depends on the girl and your relationship. The reverse might be true, and you may have less problems. In short, there is nothing guaranteed about what will happen when you get a girlfriend, though it is unlikely that it will make you a worse man.

> I know that in a good relationship that would not happen but those are so hard to find

>>false. A relationship is constantly a test. The ones that don't seem that way are the ones where chad/brad is winning comfortably and can afford to lose anyway

I'll take your false and raise you. Relationships are not constantly a test. You are doing them wrong, or with the wrong people. Grow up and then talk like you know what you are talking about.

P.S First anonr: Yes, you are right. That doesn't always happen. Are good relationships hard to find? At certain ages they will be harder to find. The kind of empathy and self-knowledge it takes to have good relationships does take years. Women are harder to get along with in their teens, and to a lesser extent in their 20s.

>meanwhile i feel so alone

>>always keep up a conversation when you are online and don't be afraid of actual discourse. Don't be afraid of smiling and saying "hey" to people when you make eye contact and don't look down or away, just look at them and say "hey" with a smile. When you are in line or in a waiting room out in public, make small talk with those also waiting. When you are at the store, make small talk with the clerks. If they are busy keep it short, if they aren't then maybe try having discourse.

>>just talk to people man. smile more

Original anon: This too shall pass
Responder anon: yes

>>34749
Pretty much, you'll find that sometimes you let go and wake up later gripping at stuff again.

Sometimes i feel sucked in the "rational" life and forget about tao, when it is the only thing that brought me peace these past few years

You're way more advanced than i was at your age, all i cna say is keep following your heart/soul and trust in whatever it is that drives all this cosmic energy

>>34763
>will you have some extra problems because of it

absolutely. in fact, your "extra problems" reek right through your post right into my nostrils m8

>The best men I know are ones with long term women.

agreed with your whole point here

the entire crux of my response is "young women" so you aren't wrong, and maybe I am oversimplifying. In your early 20s the majority of relationships aren't relationships, it's just hooking up.

The actual relationships I've had were with older women (although I've never crossed the threshold intimately with them) I often find myself actually enjoying conversations with them.

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>Tfw 21 YO KV
I don't think life is for me senpai.