Why are we so depressed? We have everything, food, shelter, endless

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>>38860279
>tfw can't enjoy anything

Because we feel the need to conform to societys standards. We care too much, but in way we don't care at all.

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>>38860279
Having everything we could ever want from birth is what hurts us. In the generations before us, man had to fight for food, shelter, clothing, entertainment...now it's all given to us from the moment we're born. What is there to fight for? What could make us feel alive? Is this why we always feel trapped, no matter what we do, where we go?

>>38860279
Because you can't buy happiness.

>>38860408
*because you can buy happiness but I'm too poor.

>>38860279
I'm sad because I don't yet own a GTR and I'm not BTFO GM cucks on a daily basis yet.

because I don't have work to occupy my mind all day.
when I do, sleep is the only time to think.

Because dopamine gets produced via exercise

Also, nature has some qualities that make people happier, studies having shown this.

Also natural foods contain more metabolizable vitamins. Most vitamins in multivitamins can't be properly metabolized by the body, and people consume less than the ideal vitaminal amount.

Those are the reasons

>>38860279
Because its all relative.
When everyone has the basics, those who have more feel better. And not just in the material sense.

The biggest tell is that many robots dont have a gf or some cutie to fuck. Theres one major need not being met despite the rest of our lives looking peachy. And thats because we cannot attract a mate when the competition has what we have but more.

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>>38860279
>>38860279
>Why are we so depressed? We have everything, food, shelter, endless entertainment and knowledge, the freedom to go anywhere and do anything...
I have no one to share any of it with. At least I have my waifu.

>>38860279
I just want to live off the land
alone

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>>38860522
>no exercise
>never outside
>never eat unprocessed food aka vegetables
You don't think this is why I'm so fucking depressed do you? Does this mean there's a way to fix myself that doesn't involve pills?

>freedom to go anywhere and do anything...

Not for a Saudi girl T_T

>>38860719
pics or gtfo you filthy whore

>>38860737
>pics
You want my family to stone me to death anon?

>>38860603
I know there are ways because I've experienced them. If you have a blender I can help make your depression go away senpai

I just want to cuddle with someone :(

aoisgjowidj

>>38860603
Senpai is supposed to be f-a-m.

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Because infinite amounts of sugar and fat, all possible types of entertainment, and constant instant gratification don't make anyone satisfied.

>>38860279
because modern life is fucking depressing

>>38860841
"i didn't live my life"... damn thats what the last 5 years have felt like for me.. just stagnation

>>38860848
no it's not, just have sex lmao

>>38860848
you say it like you wouldnt fantasise about killing yourself in any other era, life itself is depressing

>>38860908
i had a gf last year and pretty much daily sex and i can say that i wasnt much happier overall. having a gf comes with its own problems

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>>38860927
this
o1020fglignal

>>38860927
that's because your gf was ugly

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rawrarawrawerw

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>>38861026
Are we posting depressing screencaps now?

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get your act together anons, before its too late.

>>38860949
>r9k
naw she was a solid 7 id say. ive slept with hotter girls since then. thats not the point. im just trying to point out that getting a gf or getting laid wont automatically make you happy

>>38861035
i actually felt a little twinge of sorrow for this poor kid. fuck.

this generation of beta males are going to be ruthless in their 30s and 40s.

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>>38861035
y why te fuknot

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>>38861036
story of my life right there dude

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Textless posts are not allowed. fuking niggers

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its too late for us.

>>38860279
>no meaning
>no ambition
>no will to live
>dont strive for anything
>dont want anything but to die

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>>38861075
image posting @#134 right here on r9k

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DEADNIGGERSTORATGE

>>38861036
You honestly think people here would be capable of holding down a job in a call centre?

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F AIE

>broken brain
>broken body
>spend 99% of my time in a 9x9 square box

wew lad i wonder why im depressed

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>>38861077
>typing up 4chan posts to make it look like you wrote them

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I JUST WANT SOME MEANING IN THIS LIFE

>>38860279
>Why are we so depressed?
Because we are ignored.

>>38860279
>food, shelter.
that's why, our species was built to hunt for food and to build our shelters.

buying your meat in walmart and living in pre built duplex ain't no good for us

I am mentally ill. You dumb fucking faggot. Get fucked!

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>>38860279
>tfw drop out of HS to play around
>all forms of entertainment reminds of the years wasted doing nothing

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I BET A BUNCH OF YOU ARE DEPRESSED BECAUSE YOU'RE BORED

>>38861158

i know this feel. entire hard drive full of emulators and roms of every game i could ever possibly play in this lifetime, and i don't want to touch any of it for the same reason

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ddyyddy

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>>38861035
HOLY FUCK THE FEELS

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churnpork

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>>38861159
stories like these don't do anything for me tbqh. sure it's sad that anon's childhood crush died or whatever, but I couldn't possibly relate to it. I sure didn't have a cute childhood friend who actually wanted to go out with me before dying a movie-tier dramatic death. girls avoided me like the plague in elementary school, thought I was a creep in middle school, called me a school shooter in high school, and did not contact me at all in college. sure I tried to ask the odd girl out but it never worked. stories like these just leave me dry-eyed and bored.

>>38860279
Main man Elliot put it best.

A paradise can be the darkest Hell if you have to enjoy it alone.

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this one gets me every time it gets posted.

>>38860279
>tfw the people in 3rd world countries look happy cause they lack what first world society shoves down our throats

>>38861290
Heh what a crybaby bitch boy.

t. a drawfag

>pasted the link
>muted for 2 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz5gja7XtYE

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>>38861290
>anonymage
well there's his problem; Pussy is art-fuel, hands down. All of the accolades gained from drawing, writing, composing, etc are hardwired into the sexual selection lobe. That's why women are for shit at it, save the few that have a little too much masculinity. I thought I could could honestly keep performing after I had gotten so burned from rejection that I decided to close myself off... hahaha, fucking NOPE. It was all gone. The drive that had sustained me all that time was dead. I'm guessing that's what the whole "muse" thing was about. Can't produce shit without a muse

>>38861035
So who bought the wine?

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Here's an original for you faggots.

>>38861579
what a load. The betas of the world are not some simmering pot of conquering revolutionaries... they're just formerly nice loser guys. They can hold themselves to some impossible standard that the ancients probably didn't even adhere to and they're still gonna be on the bottom. You can't avoid these pitfalls, and a cheating gf is the least of these guys problems. I'm not saying they should go all hedonistic, but they should try to strike a stable relationship with their circumstances. I've had my small successes from doing what came naturally. If I had to think about it too hard, I would've failed.
>if you had a problem that means you created a problem or chose to ignore it
jesus, not every problem has a solution and problems arise from complex circumstances that no one person could likely prevent, the big ones do anyway

people's value is mostly out of their hands and changes on a whim, usually from high to low

>>38861158
>>38861171
It breaks my heart to see kids walking down this same past I walked. Maybe the state should put more effort into keeping these directionless kids in school.

Happiness is the original meme.

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>>38860279
>Why are we so depressed?
it has everything to do with skull crushing

>>38860279
Because you need to slave your life away in order to get food, shelter, endless entertainment and knowledge, the freedom to go anywhere and do anything

>>38860719

Highme senses this is anon has a particularly high power level. I salute your tenacity and willingness to delve into relative online depravity madam

>>38860279
Reminds me of the original end of evangelion where they have that thought experience of Shinji being able to do anything. Does he end up limiting himself so he isn't alone? If you could do whatever you wanted, would you evemtually limit yourself amd live the life you do now?

>>38861068
cool image! so what happens in the mysterious vortex in the middle? bum bum bum!

>>38860279
Remember the last time you had a dull headache? Could you live with that forever or would you end it prematurely? Isn't life plagued with these pains constantly anyway?

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>>38862545
so we must find the existential equivalent of Tylenol and use it until it no longer works?

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Don't fear the future, you'll be fine without societies approval, quit letting normies run your life

>>38860279
Bah, by the nine man.
Why not take a high to high hrothgar?
Or try one of the might mead halls of Skyrim?
You talk like a daedra there are plenty of things to be happy about.
Like what you have mentioned.
Go fight karragar and tell me of you feel alive.
>fucking dragon born taking me everywhere and making me carry giant toes and bear claws.
He just picks moss too for some strange reason.
Oh by isgamor.

I'm depressed because I am addicted to porn, video games, food, cigarettes, weed and alcohol.

>>38860279
Like it or not being socially active is a extremely important part in the conquest for happiness. Unfortunately robots do not possess social skill due to a variety of reasons.

>>38861121
They hire all women Becuase its so easy
>I worked in a hot as fuck factory making shoes for the military
Your job is a joke to me.

>>38860279
because i have a disfigured face and am extremely ugly and no amount of lifting, showering and haircuts can fix.

>>38861075
nihilism is really sickening

>>38862735
Dont shower or shave and lift a ton of weights and get swoll like talos.
Or you know go travel around falkearth.

>>38862776
Nihilism is fun youre just grumpy.
Go fight a giant.

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>>38860279
read industrial society and it's future right now

not kidding it changed my mind about how people in the modern world function, the root of unhappiness in the modern world etc... this is the real answer.

>>38861546
He bought the wine himself to toast on a good college life. In a sadistic twist of fate, he ended up miserable and alone.

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>>38860522
>take a 30 minute walk everyday in a nearby park
>eat exclusively homemade vegetables
>lift too
>still depressed

JUST

>>38864520
I made a thread on this the other day, but the problem is that when adults finally get free time and money they're socially conditioned to not be able to just go outside and mindlessly play and have fun like kids do.

It's not socially acceptable to go run around and play tag with other adults, balance along a wall or climb a tree. People think it's weird.

>>38860398
This. Additionally, an experiment has been conducted where mice were put in a perfect world for them, i.e. always having food, no predators, no environmental and weather hazards etc. Pretty much what we have here in the west. If you're too lazy to read through the study like I was then check out this https://youtu.be/HfNKFvHtA3g

Yes, I unironically enjoy this guy's work, don't crucify me

>>38860279
The way society keeps expecting more and more of us whilst simultaneously giving us constant negative reinforcement and no validation whatsoever for doing things well

I'm on the spectrum and it makes life hard

>>38860279
Because you guys don't have a social circle, or a good one at least, you don't belong in a tribe

Lonely men are of course depressed, especially if they live far away from nature in their room/working in a cubicle

>>38860279
Maybe because we know that's not gonna last when parents kick us out

>>38860279
Look at where our imaginations can take us.. You honestly believe anything in the real world could compete with that?? Besides, we are gonna die soon. How could I possibly enjoy things when I know it'll end?

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>>38860719
Saudi women cannot be robots, you literally all are stacies.

t.
saudi robot

>we
Speak for yourself, OP. It's not my fault you do not know how to properly utilize your resources.

>>38860279
Personally I was told I'd have a bunch of fulfilling shit to do...instead I can work my ass off for someone's scraps then pretend like I enjoy or relate to any of the same shit the whiney, overly emotional brats I share my generation with do

Doesn't matter when I feel so disconnected from everyone and everything around me
It's like I'm not part of this world but still held here against my will

>>38861075
I don't understand this meme. Acknowledging that life has no inherent meaning and being able to detach yourself from your own constructed meaning are two very different things.

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Most of us aren't depressed. We just want to think we are, to be unique, to get attention or to have something to blame our shortcomings on.

>Why are we so depressed? We have everything
That's exactly why. If we didn't have basic needs in check such as health or safety we wouldn't get depressed cause we'd be too busy trying to survive.

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>>38860279
>A lot of my early life.
>Probably have chronic depression and major depressive disorder (at least I got meds for that).
>Extremely autistic when I don't get sleep.
>Act like a child, not like a 13 year old but very immature.
>Meds stopped combatting my suicidal thoughs and anxiety.
>Meds helped for a few weeks, now it's back.
>Tfw got depression so early in life it's a part of my personality,
>Stupid as heck, can't do anything right.
I wonder why.
Sorry for being kinda unsorted, I'm tired.

>>38865992
Yeah, most of us just need to be ourselves and get successful =) life is so fun wooow don't miss up =D
kill yourself

I think I would be 100 times happier if I had sex with a qt.

because nobody would ever care for me and help me with my troubles
im willing to return the favor

>>38860354
>download a bunch of books
>"oh boy I can't wait to read all these books!"
>read like a few chapters of one and lose interest
>download a bunch of games
>same thing happens
>same with manga and movies and TV shows
music is the only thing I never get bored of

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>no wild animals
>can't kill your own meal
>not getting pussy
>not killing anything
>not doing anything
>lining some Jews pockets
>corralled onto asphalt where people in cars pretend they're in a very important hurry
>there's trash everywhere you look
>more and more homos and addicts appearing
>no healthcare
>president is a complete bozo the clown
>the government is basically 2 steps under that
>forced to improve my life just because
>price of everything arbitrarily rises for reasons

gee, i can't think of why any man would be depressed and would want to kill himself by 50.

>>38860279
Because life is fundamentally garbage and were aware to it.

>>38861061
LEAAAAAAVEEhdjhshdhsgagayaga

>>38861068
you could also interpret this as you won't escape the cycle until you improve your life in at least one aspect

>>38865992
Us and we as in normalfags who need to gtfo sure.

>>38860279
Yeah but there's a constant reminder that this isn't going to last that we are all fucked.

Personally: parents will die we will be out in the street

Nationally: Politicians fuck over economy, country is now third world

Internationally: terrorists continue to grew nuclear was is still a looming threat

Mentally: none of this probably actually matters

Romantically: tfw no gf

>the freedom to go anywhere and do anything...

Maybe if you have won the lottery. The only way to truly be free is to abandon society, and that would mean abandoning your loved ones.

>>38869669
Idk about you, but I'm the same way, and ai think it's because I have an addictive personality. Listening to music gets these huge kicks of feelgood, and nothing else besides drugs can meet it.

>>38860279
>what is love?

originally

>>38860279
As a person working abroad on terrible consitions and lack a lot of things including freedom, I can confirm that I am happier, because I have never actually felt miserable in such a way. I have taken everything for granted and I had nothing bad to know what good meant.

>>38860279
>Why are we so depressed?
>We have everything

Answered your own question buddy.

>>38860279
choice paralysis

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It's just all so tiring.

I'm caught in this university treadmill for at least another five years and even if I manage to get a good PhD, what for? Doing a nine-to-five in a big corporation that has nothing to do with the reason why I wanted to study in the first place?
Giving up my curiosity just to be able to buy meaningless statzus symbols? I can't see the point.
I thought getting a girlfriend would change things. I was wrong. It just leaaves you with less breakdowns per month because you can't afford it around her. She'll be moving away to the other end of the country in two weeks, and today I told her that I love her and that we'll make a long distance relationship work. While I doubt either of those is true and I think she can see through it because I am a horrible liar. Luckily, she left her half-empty bottle of cheap wine in my fridge when she left today, I couldn't stand being sober this evening.
I tried to lose some weight, so I've started jogging nine weeks ago. Doing it helps and the occasional attention from mediocre looking girls is nice but it doesn't match the crushing feeling that my life is a dead end.
Let's face it, I can try to better myself as much as I want and try to be the perfect student/boyfriend/son/whatever. It will never work and I will always remain that "failed normie", neither fitting into the real world, nor fitting into /r9k/. I will probably just kill myself someday. I felt like I would get very old, anyway, so I'm just waiting for the right time. Or maybe just leaving somewhere without saying a word. I just wish my parents wouldn't be so close to me, that would make putting an end to this a whole lot easier.

I'd just like to know where it all went wrong with me.

Because the main thing that affects a humans happiness is social interaction. With no social interaction, they'll be very unhappy.
With positive social interaction, they'll be happy probably.

Because we lack devotion

>>38860279
Jokes on you, I'm learning a language.

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>>38873581
>I just wish my parents wouldn't be so close to me, that would make putting an end to this a whole lot easier.
>I'd just like to know where it all went wrong with me.
I'd like to know that too....
If it helps any, there's a guy, probably on the other side of the planet that feels almost exactly like you do.

>>38873581
nice tumblr pic you whiny cuck.

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>>38873866
very original insult my autistic, underage friend

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I think the average robot's depression comes from insecurity. It's not that you need a GF or whatever to be happy, it's that you can't be happy when you're always beating yourself up about something.

>>38861096
I would post that pic to my wall. If I had friends.

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>>38874379
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>Why are we so depressed? We have everything, food, shelter, endless entertainment and knowledge, the freedom to go anywhere and do anything...

you have all the things to live for, but nothing to die for. the result is that your life is an endless spiral with no conceivable goal at the end of it, and that existential crisis is the root of that crushing despair - that idea of lost and wasted time.

in my experience the only cure is to try aim for something insane and break the rule getting there, make your own life important and interesting like the characters we admire in entertainment. you'll draw to yourself people who feel that same, who want to share that feeling. escapism in real life and literally going full chuunibyou mode (but actually attempting to do something)


the golden rule is no matter how edgy it is, if you really believe in it then you can't go wrong

with the knowledge of how little our existence mean to the universe on a whole, we realise that life itself lacks meaning and thus we just begin to just exist, instead of living

Having a gf or fucking randoms never made me happy. It made the truth about women and relationships more apparent to me. I'm not seeking love anymore, and I prefer to be alone. I guess my worldview got fucked up somewhere along the way.

>>38863812
yhivi...what's she doing now?

I made $50k after expenses this year.
and I can have the rest of the year off if I want.
I'm alone nearly 24/7 and sometimes don't speak to anyone but cashiers for weeks or more.
Nothing excites me. I could use the money to travel but I'd be just depressed in another country.
Most of the time I'm distracting myself with working out, playing video games, documentaries and reading 4chan.
My psychotherapist is a Normie idiot with zero understanding of depression, who does more harm than good. I will quit the therapy next week.
Not complaining about an unfair world, because I'm relatively well off. It just hasn't changed anything in terms of happiness. I could have a million and I wouldn't be happy.

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>>38860279
Your life lacks purpose.
Purpose provides meaning.
Meaninglessness is you circling the drain of your inevitable death.
Find a purpose, anon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFlDJi7f60

>>38875543
What do you do? Jobwise

Love and friendship are pretty basic things for being happy.

We can survive easily but that doesn't make anyone happy.

>>38875543
Going abroad can really be enjoyable even if you're like this.
I went on a vacation to a very far away exotic country and while I did spend a lot of time on the internet feeling like usual, a lot of stuff was nice.
There was a lot of night life and I tried it but wasn't really able to do it (I absolutely never go to night clubs usually so I didn't have high expectations) but it was a bit nice to go for a few beers.
Mostly the beaches and oceans were nice, I went on a scuba trip and snorkeled a lot. Gliding around in the water, looking at all the stuff felt so good.

I would recommend a tropical vacation to sad, lonely robots.
Also hookers, I lost my virginity on the first night.

>>38876133
Used to work as a software developer, quit due to depression, started trading crypto currency, turned 1k into 70k

>>38876303
Any recommendations?
I heard Thailand is easy to get around.

I've never left Europe desu, (West and South, not even East), seen most countries there, but they're all quite similar culturally

>>38860279
>born with asd
>parents never get me the help i need
>it gets worse as I get older
>probably have fsx too

>>38860802
not him, but I bought one of those personal smoothie things

>>38876888
chek'd

oreoganl

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>>38860279
It's because we exist

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>>38876822
Can relate.
>didn't become aware that I had it until I hit 28 and started questioning why people thought I was dumb even though I obviously wasn't
its too late for me

>>38876645
I went to Thailand since its popularity made it possible to find really cheap last minute plane tickets.
The expenses during the trip might outweigh the savings from the flight if you're getting a regular ticket but with I would have been forced to pay at least twice as much to go to any other tropical country with the ticket I got.

I even got premium economy so I had plenty of space, good food and free alcohol.
If you're a regular, approximately average looking white guy you'd have it a LOT easier to get nice dates from tinder than anywhere in real life at home too.

Because we are meant to have a hard life and not have all our needs met without putting serious work into getting them. African tribes have low rates of depression because they don't have time to be sad and depressed and instead have to focus on survival.

>tfw you will never dance around a fire and celebrate with your tribe after killing a large food source

Because society has no room for people like us. People like us are weak, we either died in the past or were killed because we are weak. Now there's nothing to kill us off in first world nations so we just persist in a kind of limbo. None of us belong at all, there's no place for us. We just don't fit in, and so we are depressed.

>>38869669
Same for me. I've noticed that it's a trend among robots that music is the sole thing they still enjoy.

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>>38878801
>tfw you can't relate to music anymore
>tfw I truly have nothing anymore

>>38862420
>>38870574
What you don't see is that there is another cycle in the middle.

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>>38864630
Got any other experiments? Love this stuff.
>tfw beautiful one

>tfw woke up from a delusion ive been living in
>thought work was going ok and everyone was nice to me because they liked me
>stop smoking
>realize that everyone just thinks im a sad miserable fuck who hates everyone and is a massive retard
>start getting massive anxiety attacks

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>>38861036
i never felt like i was even remotely intelligent
i was always a brainlet and have above average education but im still struggling to get a job

>>38860279
>Growing up ugly and autistic I developed a habit of falling in love with fictional characters or idealized versions of people I never speak to,building extended scenarios and realities in my head and finding comfort in them.
>eventually those dreams and low-key hopes become more sweet than any actual lived experience,no matter how good. Factor of longing and "planning" make them fsr better than real,fleeting pleasures.
>fast forward several years,puberty etc were kind to me,turned into a 22 year old "Stacy"
>noticing how much better people treat me now my social skills improve,now confident enough to pursue a dream career (documentary filmmaking)
>meet a qt guy,start dating,everything seems to be going well
>after couple of months realize I still can't connect to real people who are actually close and not a daydream
>family keeps talking about my bright future and potential,nothing interests me as much as even te silliest made up situations or worlds
>bf starts feeling I don't love him,will probably break up soon. There is objectively nothing wrong with him,no non-bullshit reason not to be happy together,yet..
>inbefore "he wasn't Chad enough".I have 0 interest in any Chad dudes I have met,would pick any random sweet nerdy guy I idealized in my head as long as they are unatteinable
Tl;DR shitty childhood experiences fuck you up forever and no self improvement meme will make up for being a loser in formative years.

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>>38861061
lol yes it will

I remember when I had a girlfriend, shit was cash.

I dumped her :(

>>38877009
what do you mean by

>didn't become aware that I had it until I hit 28 and started questioning why people thought I was dumb even though I obviously wasn't

>>38879714
I fell so far into my own disability I started to think I was normal. It kept spiraling out of control until I hit all the walls I built up, and then I found out that I wasn't even the one driving.
I'm fucking insane

>>38860279
It's the lack of purpose. Fuck, it's going to worsen a lot when the machines get better than us at everything.

>>38860279
Because we have nobody to share all these comforts and freedoms with. Humans are, by necessity, social creatures

>>38860279
>Stay up texting my gf late at night as she goes home after a late shift
>She stops responding, I say good night
>Still no response, I start crying
>she texts me back 5 minutes after
>Don't read it and just keep crying
Why am I so needy. When I'm with her I feel amazing, but the moment we seperate I just feel the same loneliness as before. I constantly hit on girls for some form of ego boost. I can't say I wouldn't cheat if the chance appeared. Even though my gf is incredibly sweet I just can't feel happy with myself.
I think some people are just broken.
>This morning she texts I miss you
Never mind I am happy again.

>>38862776
I'm with you. I don't buy this "happy" nihilism at all

>>38879451
Anxiety attacks are a meme, anon

>>38880041
No they're not, you are just a noramlfag. Real robots have social anxiety attacks.

>>38880076
It's all in your head. Just like how you can't fucking tickle yourself. It's all in your head.

>>38860279
Maybe it's because we have been raised with everything readily available. It takes the excitement out of life and therefore we realise life is pointless before our bodies can wither and die.

I think a solution to our problem is to be lobotomised and neutered so there is nothing holding us back, not our perceptive minds nor our needs to reproduce, and just let a lower conscience live and be satisfied with standards only normals would accept.

>>38880140
What part of "I'm fucking insane" don't you understand

>>38880188
At least you have some insight into your mental state. Now quit being a retard and use that insight to better your position

>>38880207
>just get over schizophrenia bro!
>just get over crippling autism bro!
>just get over BPD bro!

Because love is all we need

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Because no matter what you do, achieve, experience or become in life, you'll eventually die and it will literally be like none of it ever happened. Even if you managed to make some kind of lasting difference to the world before you died, it will be like none of it ever happened as soon as you're dead. Life is similar to opening some kind of art program, drawing something and then unplugging your PC without saving. It doesn't matter if you fucking scribbled randomly or drew a masterpiece, it's gone. Every time I start to become hopeful or content in life, I'm reminded of this and I feel completely empty and hopeless.

>>38880207
>Hurr id all in ur hed abnon
Fuck off chad

>>38880188
Ignore the nigger

>>38876992
I'm glad there's another Schopenhauer bot here. I think robots would do themselves good if they read him.

I just got cucked after 3 years

>>38861410
Shut the fuck up Anon, seriously, go fuck yourself you ignorant retard and stop romanticizing the idea of third world countries.

>>38880260
>It doesn't matter if you fucking scribbled randomly or drew a masterpiece, it's gone.

Right, but you're also unable to experience the gone-ness. So who cares?

>Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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>>38860279
>be me
>about to turn 19
>off to a good college
>will be playing football
>grew up in trash single mother hell hole
>everyone is proud of me
>always told how great I am in comparison yo my siblings
>they are druggies, thugs, losers
>all are happier then me
>hang with friends
>in relationships
>then there's me
>terribly lonely
>only leave for the gym
>never go out at night
>no social life outside of a video game screen

WHY COULDN'T I BE ONE OF MY STUPID TRASH SIBLINGS I DON'T CARE IF I'M BETTER I'M NOT HAPPY!

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>>38878284
A lot of this.

At least in Islam you can drive a truck full of explosives with steel plates welded all over it into a convoy or strap explosives to your own body and do the same in a market. Or in the days of Norse paganism you could martyr yourself in combat in order to go to Valhalla. Martyrdom was encouraged in Christianity and Nahuatl and various pagan religions too.

Now there's no mass-accepted cause to sacrifice oneself for. Just grind out a meager living so the government can skim your earnings and send it to Israel and black people both in America and Africa and intelligence agencies that keep tabs on us to keep us from rebelling.

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>depression makes everything boring and not enjoyable
>having nothing to spend my time on
>as a result constantly feel empty and without purpose
>depressed that I have no purpose and nothing to work towards

WHAT A LOVELY CIRCLE

>>38873630
I don't know about that. Usually it's more the other way around for me, how much/if I enjoy socializing usually depends on how I already felt.

>>38880550
I would be fine with this but the final kicker is that it makes you dull and stupider.

I believe the root cause is lack of fulfillment. Be it in terms of having activities you enjoy simply for what they are, a goal you are working towards that you actually care about or deepening your connection to another person.

These are things that fulfill you and give you purpose. Purpose is what makes life worth living and it's also what depression, anxiety and years upon years of self-loathing takes away.

That's why the people I am most envious are those that discover and are able to maintain a lifelong passion for something. It doesn't even fucking matter what it is. Without that you're just a lost soul like everyone in this hellhole.

>>38860279
Life is pretty depressing if you live in the US in 2017:

>Recession in 2007 causes economic problems. Still haven't fully recovered
>growing division between rich and poor
>SJW culture seeks to eliminate free speech and demonize working class whites.
>hyper competitive job environment. Harder to get jobs because there are too many people applicable to these jobs.
>radical feminism encouraged women to not commit to men in marriage. No more long term relationships. Women now work independently and so that means less jobs for men. Women are taught in school to despise men (Especially average looking shy men).
>teen suicide rates are up.
>terrorism in Europe and even in America.
>social media brainwashing has turned people anti-social (ironically enough)
>less Americans talk to neighbors and socialize. More isolation thanks to internet and social media.
>corporations like Amazon and Google are trying to conquer the world.
>degenerate culture that encourages youth to do drugs. Result: more opioid addicts.
>American dream is no longer alive thanks to crony corporatism, war hungry US government taxing Americans to beef up the military for "humanitarian efforts" in the Middle East.

Someone please tell me why living in the Us is so great. You don't have freedom of speech here. If you say anything that is counter culture to PC you will lose your job and reputation.

>>38880500
Dude, I believe we kind of have the same problem. I don't have siblings but my family has always had a very compkex and super sad history my entire life and somehow I was in the middle of all of it. Everyone always told me how proud they are until they didn't anymore. It etas away from them and that eats away from me. But since I was determined to be a fighter and oh so smart, when I really struggle and have to use more energy than I ever thought I could muster it's attributed to my personality. Other senpai members seem to be loved so unconditionally. Not me. They even make me feel bad because I had to move away to get a job. Now they're even mad i got fired because I confronted my boss about constantly being a dick to me. That's what a fighter would do you insufferable cunts.. at least have some consistency.
In your case I think it might be just that, you need to practice a lot and always perform when someone tells you to. Lionel Messi actually pukes before every match because he is expected to be so much better than everyone else that even if he's playing good people will complain.

Fucking energy vampires. They hold us down.

>>38880706
>>corporations like Amazon and Google are trying to conquer the world.

By being the very best and offering value to their customers.

>>38880706
Those with a voice can be heard. It ain't so great being average anywhere. But we all fake it till we make it, forcing us to display a shit eating grin whenever some dumb fuck who happened to get some amount of money shares a pic of their shitty avocado coffee on facebook. So pathetic and weak. If I like the avocado, he might get me a job at his company because that means we're friends, right? No, he won't. But he'll be more successful because he's universally liked and someone "who inexplicably fascinates and attracts people with his charm". So sick of that.

Tl;dr only those who already won share their mindless happiness shit that is usually also just a facade. It's unhealthy.

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>>38869757
Hit the nail on the head anon. 100000 years of sharpening your senses and honing yourself to a fine edge for the sole purpose of surviving by your bare hands destroyed in a few generations, and replaced by foods overfilled with grease and fat and sugar to be addicting, work that amounts to running in a hamster-wheel, and a fractured society with less and less cohesion every year. It's only downhill from here.

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>nothing to strive or fight for
>no great struggle
>no women, children, elderly or sickly to defend from the other tribe or wild animals
>no close knit families or tribes
>no one dependant on us
>spend bulk of time indoors or away from nature and forests
>no wood/ coal fires in houses anymore
>constant streams of information all day everyday
>dont know how to be men or we're not allowed to be men
>we dont hunt

in short- the modern world. We're built for the stone age, we don't live in a philosophical bubble, we have drives, instincts and urges hardwired deep into us that we don't know about, that aren't indulged, men need to be needed as men. We should be hunting, exploring, defending, creating but instead we're sat at computers, working shit jobs, getting money given to us by the government instead of taking it from a hostile tribe.

>>38881428
>100000 years of sharpening your senses and honing yourself to a fine edge for the sole purpose of surviving by your bare hands destroyed in a few generations,
Yeah, this never happened, doubly so once agriculture was developed. Not every man was some incredibly fit killing machine that made the world his bitch. There were men like that, and there were the average and ordinary along side them them that had their role in society, and the same holds true now. Stop romanticizing the past as though it provided some grander purpose to people.

>>38881563
>ignoring the 90% of human history without agriculture
>believing that "society" in 50000BC extended to more than 100 people in a group
I'm not saying that every man was an incredibly fit killing machine. I'm saying that until relatively recently, people were occupied for a lot more of their time with the tasks of survival, and that the human body has not caught up to modern living yet. People are still following instincts written into their brains tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago.
>as though it provided some grander purpose to people
I didn't say it did. I said that people in the far past needed to spend more time trying to live rather than just living - more time hunting, chasing animals, fighting, finding shelter, moving.
>this never happened
Are you saying people have never had to survive without modern society or without living in a fixed location? It happened more recently than prehistory too - look at the native american tribes who were still wandering and killing each other and hunting a thousand years ago, like the Lakota.

>>38881726
I'm saying that until relatively recently, people were occupied for a lot more of their time with the tasks of survival, and that the human body has not caught up to modern living yet.
not really, no. Again, with the advent of agriculture, survival, while not piss easy, was far and above an improvment over hunter-gathering, and this was first occuring around 9000 B.C with the imergance of Wheat and Barley, so unless you have an incredibely skewed idea of what "modern" is, it is not "relatively recently"
>I didn't say it did.
My mistake then I assumed that:
>>... work that amounts to running in a hamster-wheel, and a fractured society with less and less cohesion every year. It's only downhill from here.
Was implying that
>Are you saying people have never had to survive without modern society or without living in a fixed location?
No, what im saying is you dont know anything about history because you think this occured within " a few generations" When its been steadily happening for the past 12000 years. Contemporary society has its problems, but so too did the past. The difference is that the problems of the past are not the same as the problems of now, and not, the past isnt somehow better or less shit just because you dont like whats happening now. The Ancient greeks complained about how things were better for their ancestors who didn't have the problems that they faced in their current day also, Anon, where they "had some greater purpose" and were" far more closeknit".
nihil novi sub sole

>>38861035
Hey I was the one who originally posted that on /r/4chan, didn't realize it's been almost two years, crazy how fast time passes....

>>38880500
If you happen to drop by again, what school do you play for? D1 FBS?

>>38860279
Most of us DON'T have all that freedom, since it requires money and free time that most of us don't have. But no matter what we have, we see others with more, so we are unhappy because we concentrat on what we lack, instead of what we have. Social media has made this MUCH worse because somebody is always having a better day than we are--but we don't stop to think that they aren't posting all the sad stuff that happens to them.

>>38862587
Unless you can think of something better. I don't know how to deal with pain. At life had the thing about how you can't make your body not feel cold, but you can choose whether or not you'll really care or give it your attention

>>38861036
Geez, Anon--thanks for the reminder of what a /mediocrefag/ I am

> over 40, two college degrees, half-assed effort for each, never got marketable experience via internships, lots of dead ends with job applications...fell into somewhat marketable field totally by chance and luck, years later have no other possible career path at this point because it's fairly in demand and decent pay, but most days I am either bored to death or stressed to the limit, not many in between

>it will never change

>>38861579
No robot thinks like this in the least

>>38861096
This is a HUGE cause of it, documented.

HOWEVER:
Remind yourself of all the people who did NOT post wonderful things today. They may be having a shitty day, worse than yours. Even the ones who are on vacation now might come home and have to work 3x as hard to make up for their vacation. They might learn their sister has aggressive cancer or that their cat will need to be put down at the young age of 5.
Remember, you are comparing your everyday drudgery with other peoples carefully-staged "I'm happy" image. It's not a fair comparison. Thy probably hate their job even more than you do, which is why they prioritize taking vacations to keep their sanity. The one who just married Stacey will now have a whole set of in-laws to deal with (that is rarely a pleasant thing in the long run)-- have to buy them Christmas presents (in addition to his wife who, if she is a Stacey, is accustomed to getting nice things whenever she wants).
Most people are really happy only a small amount of the time, but you don't usually see them in the unhappy times

>>38873503
Yup. Makes you wonder what "Heaven" must b like, if it exists, since having everything you want paradoxically makes you miserable.
Imagine that you like golf. You think "In Heaven, I'll just play golf all the time." But are you going to hit every shot perfectly, sink every putt, never go in the rough? That's "what you want", after all... but after a few days of that, imagine how excruciatingly boring that would be. Every day you,d know you were going to have a perfect game, so the fun would quickly go away. It would be like doing only super-easy crossword puzzles where you know every clue the minute you read it. The whole fun is that you have to encounter difficulty and overcome it.

>>38880500
Because you have the hope to g t out of that situation, and they know they don't.