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I Will Find You And I Will Make You Apologize For This

>>8718824
Is he, dare I say it, 'our guy'?

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>>8718824

Stop arousing my Joycean spirit animal.

I felt like reality was much more real. Would read everyday in the morning and afternoon, and by night would walk. Internet only for checking email from 2 to 2 days quickly on my phone, in case I got any teacher emails or other important things.
It's very peaceful a sense. This lasted for some months.

Now I'm back here because teachers insist on forcing us to use the Internet and the computer for projects, research, etc., despite me telling them that libraries are beautiful places and that paper-writing is sublime. What I don't say is that 1+ plus of Internet and I'll end up being on 4chan eventually, and with dumb though quick thought processes.

After a few months of quitting video games I noticed my brain fog start to lift, but you have to keep in mind that, when you go cold turkey from instant gratification, other activities will be boring for a while. There is a scientifically proven detox period of about 3 months while your brain adjusts.

So don't just go full into reading. Get outside, try lots of activities.

>>8718803
I probably stopped really browsing the internet for 3 to 4 months or so because i was getting sick of feeling like everything I said was just some mindless variation of something i read on the web. During this period I picked up reading for the first time in my life.

It was definitely refreshing and I would recommend it.

I have a pretty similar story desu

>grow up in middle-class college-educated never-divorced white catholic suburban american home
>sent to montessori for pre-k
>sent to church school for elementary
>prescribed ritalin for hyperactivity
>test at 140 IQ
>finish elementary
>quit ritalin
>go to gifted & talented middle school
>become atheist
>smart but slacker
>public high school
>teachers call me a genius
>still slack af
>fall in love with hippie girl
>pine from afar as friendzoned
>get scholarship to university
>major in philosophy
>dream of being pythagorean platonic theologian
>experiment with LSD and partying
>find girlfriend
>lose virginity
>start reading into occult philosophy and post-structuralism
>develop schizophrenia
>illusions, delusions, hallucinations, oh my!
>do tons of fucked up shit
>lose girlfriend
>kicked out of uni
>nearly die
>sent to jail
>sent to hospital
>heavily medicated
>snap back to reality
>oh, there goes gravity
>oh, there goes Rabbit, he
>Choked, he's so mad but he
>won't give up that easy, NO
>he won't have it he knows
>his own backs to these ropes
>it don't matter he's dope
>he knows that but he's broke.

>>8718695
>>major in philosophy

anyway fuck off to >>>/adv/

>>8718695
wow that's honestly a pretty interesting story

I have a story about hooking up with a literary qt in my high school english class but nothing really happened she just realised I was an emotional void and left me, no one would believe it anyway

>>8718661
no

>>8718661
yes

oh

>>8718644

Holy fuck that is shitty reasoning my man.

>implying you need universal truth
>implying truth is not subjective
Gtfo with your pleb ideas

>>8718671

>implying truth is not subjective

Gooby pls leave

>>8718594
If you are really that torn then go to university for an extra year and double major in lit and engineering. If you suck at writing you still have a job.

>>8718601
do you think theres any possibility for someone to make a name for themselves in fiction without a uni education and just self taught through reading books that, i'll be honest in stating my process, in reading books that everybody else online say are really good and worthwhile

>>8718605
yes. You'll need to be physically attractive and sleep with at least one publisher though.

>>8718594
You have no duty to society, do what you want. You fluked a story that is dull and unoriginal by western canon standards, even if it was better than expected from a high school kiddo. Don't flatter yourself.

Even though there are no replies i will humor you because i really enjoyed Nietdbfsilabdsz's writings, there is a quote by someone somewhere at some point in history that iterates, "I am great therefore I may be composed of contradictions" or some shit like that. Anyway, let me just throw one way into the outfield here, Lets say the dogmatic way of christianity is an escapism of hedonism or "individual truth" would it not also hold true that the way of a hedonist is "evil"? The things he wrote about i believe hold congruent and consistent however the object of his amusement seems to be insane. His truth was evil, and i think that is generally the case with human beings.

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>>8718488

Nietzsche's critique of morality is more to do with the fact that it is life-denying. It is not about an escape from 'truth', but rather an escape from reality - which Nietzsche tells us to embrace, both good and bad.

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>>8718519
>>8718515

>>8718405

That's a nice cover that's all i wanna say.

hialeah

no

>>8718405
Most of the people I meet in DC either read stuff in their long-entrenched area of interest (like people who were religious studies majors continuing down that path), or namedrop a lot of stuff but don't actually read anything. Met someone recently who literally called herself a "creative type" and spent almost an hour trying to convince me that she's a sculptor, painter, novelist, playwright, etc.

Also I've noticed a weird near-fetishization of non-western culture/history; nobody cares about classic western texts (fiction or otherwise) but I've seen people at least appear super hyped about stuff from the Middle East.

DC meetup when?

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>you'll never fuck every teenage girl you see

holy shit get over it mate

you're here for awhile and die that's it

I'm just here for a laff haha bein a lil cheeky here

>>8718406
Yeah nigga now we talking

Moonwalking with Einstein by Josh Foer.
It's gonzo style journalism into the world of "mental athletes"... These motherfuckers can memorize 4 decks of cards in like 2 minutes, and the book goes into detail of the strategies they use. It's like the ultimate party trick, short of sucking yourself off in the middle of the room.

Alternatively, don't read, and get flexible enough to suck yourself off in the middle of the room. People will find it interesting, trust.

>>8718345
>sucking yourself off in the middle of the room
You'll want The Ego and His Own for that.

>>8718338

Unironically, Nietzsche.

Properly understood, that is. Allows you to BTFO both the Left and the Right.

A Complete Commentary of the Confessions of St Augustine, revised and corrected 2012 edition by my diary desu

St.Augustine didn't believe in God. He did bad things. But then he started believing in God and doing good things.
If you couldn't tell I haven't read it senpai but I have it in my library of no one responds with a decent answer I'll read it this week and do a follow-up thread, o.k.?

>>8718337
Babies aren't innocent as you might think

get one of these. invaluable for long reading seshes. helps you maintain good posture.

https://www.amazon.com/Nice-Production-INP-101-O-Book-Stand/dp/B00ENNKTMO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1479014167&sr=8-3&keywords=book+stand

>>8718298
Maybe, any other tips?

>>8718289

Amphetamines does it for me. It's not very healthy tho.

>>8718255
because it's not true

>>8718255
The River is my favorite Flan short story

>>8718255
This type of OP, along with "prove me wrong protip you can't", is so tiresome.

>>8718213
He's such an unconventional sort of attractive. It's really unsettling.

>>8718216
Just embrace it bruh

hopscotch was fun as hell, haven't read anything else,

where to go from there?

>>8718175
He's anti-humanist in general.

https://twitter.com/outsideness

He's been polposting strongly though.

>>8718183
>He's been polposting strongly though.
I can't tell how genuine he is in this. He treats them like a collective of useful and amusing idiots

>>8718175

>part of the """"Dark enlightenment""""

He's just another EDGELORD philosopher who holds onto outdated/ debunked information and cherry picked facts.

Least that's my impression of him