People are people, so why should it be?You and I should get along so awwww-fuhlee
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Friday, 22 December 2023 15:14 (nine months ago) link
I think there's more misanthropy in that cartoon than in the most nihilistic music you could imagine.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 December 2023 15:24 (nine months ago) link
My wife and children are the duct tape holding me together. Myself? Meh. I am a barely-organized pile of former groceries.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 December 2023 16:40 (nine months ago) link
When I kissed that girl, and wed my unutterable visions to her perishable breath, I knew my mind would never romp again like the mind of God.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 02:59 (nine months ago) link
part of my reticence is rooted in a fear of a lack of control over how i'm being perceived, and maybe more specifically fear of the possibility that everyone else will see something obvious that i'm missing about myself, thereby exposing myself as a fraud/idiot.
i'm not sure when, or why, i stopped caring about this, or if it's for the better. but you're right about not being able to control how you're perceived. if it matters, the flipside is you're probably just as oblivious to the things people appreciate about you. ime, at least.
But, I often despair at our seemingly endless ability to destroy our own habitat, and think that the Earth as a whole would be better off without us.
this stuff weighs on me a lot too. humanocentrism bugs me a lot. watching videos about the solar system and things like that makes me feel a little better, and also worse. I mean to know that Earth is not just the place to be, it's the time and place. There's no reason to feel FOMO ever because you are at the epicenter of space time just by virtue of existing. the stars have aligned - quite literally - for all this to happen. And it's for now, not forever.
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 06:52 (nine months ago) link
Going to message that to my mates next they post on social media doing anything without me
― H.P, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 09:56 (nine months ago) link
probably because ILE more or less operates squarely in that ballpark nowadays
― imago, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 22:32 (nine months ago) link
And it's for now, not forever.
And "now" is already "then."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 December 2023 14:36 (nine months ago) link
not even past
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Saturday, 30 December 2023 02:11 (nine months ago) link
once you get stuck with a reputation it's hard to shake it off
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 31 December 2023 21:09 (nine months ago) link
I wonder what was on his iPod
― sarahell, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 17:43 (nine months ago) link
"What an old bag..."
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 January 2024 07:25 (nine months ago) link
lightweight
― brimstead, Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:16 (nine months ago) link
“These once-esteemed talents formerly dedicated to puncturing racial tensions or hollow pieties now argue only for the unfairness of their own persecution, and their bravery in resisting it. “I dont know how to tell you it’s been that first thing all along. It is the implied jest of all comedy since hominids became self aware.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:57 (nine months ago) link
The thing that keeps me from misanthropy is knowing that all the ppl I think most epitomize what's wrong with humanity would also think Agent Smith's speech is otm.― Daniel_Rf
― Daniel_Rf
the thing that keeps me from misanthropy is estrogen
i, too, was heavily philosophically influenced by _the matrix_
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:17 (nine months ago) link
that's not a joke btw. i mean it's a joke but i also sincerely mean it. pre-transition i was very into antinatalism, very into cioran. i still think cioran is fucking hilarious. my life has taken me in a path diametrically opposite to his, though. these books of his - "The Temptation to Exist", "The Trouble With Being Born". i gave into that temptation. if there's trouble with being born, i choose to make it.
my philosophical belief in the value of human existence was ultimately solipsistic, a stand-in for my own feelings about the value of my own existence. i understood my existence as meaningless, painful, and stupid and this life as a sort of hell.
my life was, in fact, hell, at least by the definition of andre malraux:
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
i no longer despise myself. i love myself. i'm proud of myself. i don't think of myself as a "good person" or a "bad person" or any kind of person at all, but my existence has meaning, and if my existence has meaning, human existence cannot truly be said to be meaningless.
that meaning is, in the larger scale of things, ephemeral. i am going to die. i've had a hell of a time while i've been here, though. a hell of a time. transition hasn't "fixed" me, but i can say this: never once since i accepted myself as trans have i wished i'd never been born.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:26 (nine months ago) link
Meaninglessness by definition is value-neutral, though. A meaningless life is neither heaven nor hell; it's just life. I am alive; so is the grass. I absolutely believe in the meaninglessness of existence, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying any aspect of my life.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 4 January 2024 22:40 (nine months ago) link
Isn’t enjoyment then the meaning?
― H.P, Thursday, 4 January 2024 22:45 (nine months ago) link
In my experience, fear of death becomes more pressing the older you get, making questions of meaning more relevant and enjoyment more difficult.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 4 January 2024 22:49 (nine months ago) link
I do think enjoyment is a facile meaning of life. Last year was my year of rest/relaxation/enjoyment. I worked the least, I did what I wanted the most, but it left me feeling emptier than some much more difficult years
― H.P, Thursday, 4 January 2024 23:01 (nine months ago) link
In my experience, fear of death becomes more pressing the older you get
huh, in mine, the opposite!
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Thursday, 4 January 2024 23:05 (nine months ago) link
xp Yeah, fulfillment and engagement tend to bring the deepest satisfaction, but those things are enjoyable, but maybe that's a shallow (or, to use your word) facile word for the feeling.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 4 January 2024 23:07 (nine months ago) link
i mean it's one of those things i don't know how to describe... i went from not existing to existing. apparently this is not just a thing i can actually do but a thing everybody else does and takes for granted. i don't. i didn't get this for free. it cost me a lot, and i'm fucking lucky because some people, it costs more than they have. fear of death, enjoyment, all of this stuff, i don't know, meaning for me is to just _exist_ for its own sake. whatever else i'm doing, easy, hard, i exist. i'm human. i should be a misanthrope? i should hate humans because of the awful shit a lot of us do? no, no, seriously, this is fucking amazing and i can't imagine _ever_ taking that for granted.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 January 2024 23:26 (nine months ago) link
Amen
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 5 January 2024 07:41 (nine months ago) link
Good post Kate
― H.P, Friday, 5 January 2024 07:51 (nine months ago) link
This man is so committed to his truth that it makes him frantic with frustration that even though he builds a yellow brick road to all-encompassing wisdom the world fails to follow it.
(nb: ^ not in reference to any posts itt)
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 6 January 2024 18:58 (eight months ago) link
I was at a Taco Bell today and was parked next to one of those assholes with a "Choose Life" license plate, and worse, it was a vanity tag with custom plate number "UNBRN".
thought for a moment that UNBRN was something to do with IRN-BRU and that "Choose Life" was a reference to Trainspotting before I realised
― soref, Friday, 12 January 2024 21:28 (eight months ago) link
IRN-BRU smells to me like a barnyard
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 January 2024 21:29 (eight months ago) link
it's just orange sugar water ffs sito
― craning to be leather (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:30 (eight months ago) link
maybe I'm sensitive to whatever the hell this is: As of 1999, it contained 0.002% of ammonium ferric citrate
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 January 2024 21:48 (eight months ago) link
everyone should have a little ammonium ferric citrate, as a treat
― craning to be leather (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:49 (eight months ago) link
Now with more Retsyn
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:49 (eight months ago) link
isn't retsyn just vegetable oil?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 January 2024 21:50 (eight months ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/73/66/4e/73664e7dbc92c25454a9787aed19a340.jpg
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:51 (eight months ago) link
(A) trademarked name for a mixture of copper gluconate, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, and flavoring. It is the copper gluconate in Retsyn which gives Certs its signature green flecks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certs
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:52 (eight months ago) link
You can imagine how disappointed I was the first time I bought two rolls of Certs and banged them together. No sparks.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:53 (eight months ago) link
Some pretty good kissing in this ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gtFCfGjjms
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:56 (eight months ago) link
my disappontment at the absence of girders looks like a law suit waiting to happen
― craning to be leather (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:57 (eight months ago) link
made in scotlind from gurrdahs and the guy in the pic likely voted for the psycho pm who decimated the Scottish steel industry
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:57 (eight months ago) link
Looks like John Oates
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:58 (eight months ago) link
european black licorice smells like piss to me as well
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 January 2024 21:59 (eight months ago) link
probly the wrong thread but pastis is the only good incarnation of licorice
― craning to be leather (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 January 2024 22:07 (eight months ago) link
pastis is no good but boy do I feel cool drinking it
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 12 January 2024 22:09 (eight months ago) link
i will not choose a sweet that tastes that way but my god it slides down when you're drinking
― craning to be leather (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 January 2024 22:13 (eight months ago) link
pasties a) grebt and b) awful for the reasons you say drf. tastes wonderful and looks great but by gott it scrambles your kopf ja.
― Fizzles, Friday, 12 January 2024 22:13 (eight months ago) link
pastis ffs
during a recent fuckwitted adventure into miscomprehension I was recently struggling to find that "liquori pasta" from an online supermarket, but no, my eyesight is so bad it was actually an Italian brand of pasta called Ligouri. But I was convinced there was a hint of liquorish in there.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 12 January 2024 22:15 (eight months ago) link
i've been thru a "Jaeger kills my heartburn" phase so gotta question my reliability as a witness"
god a pastis and water is the shit tho
― craning to be leather (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 January 2024 22:17 (eight months ago) link
I used to like Good & Plentys.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 12 January 2024 22:17 (eight months ago) link
recent liquorice findings:
Walker's Nonsuch Liquorice Toffee - amazingPanda liquorice comfits - perfectly fine, a bit drabanything from the great nation of Finland - utter hell
― imago, Friday, 12 January 2024 22:17 (eight months ago) link