Tfw used to be an avid reader

>tfw used to be an avid reader
>tfw when I discover Veeky Forums
>start browsing /gif/ for gore, porn and ylyl
>see there's a literature board
>'great, an online community of book readers like myself'
It's been one year since and I haven't read a book in two months.Books used to be my escape, now I shitpost here and look for good posts.
>mfw when unironically Veeky Forums destroyed my reading habbit

You can do both OP. I dick around here during the day and usually have enough time atleast read for an hour or so.

so stop browsing all the time? damn, what a difficult problem......

>mfw when unironically Veeky Forums destroyed my reading habbit

That's kind of ironic, though, don't you think

lurk for five years before posting

Veeky Forums is a bad place to be, it confuses people, you are debating the world with teenagers and you think you can tell them from more mature channers, but you can't. There is no compromise on any post, which is what makes it great but also what limits it. A lot of people here don't do much outside what they do here (shitpost, fap, lurk, etc) and their life experience is limited. You think you don't listen to idiotic advice, but the stupidities you read here stay winding up inside your head. You can get by and enjoy it all the way you want, I won't deny it's pretty fun to just call people faggots and shitpost on some banality like capeshit movies or slav fashion. But it drains your soul and you start to see the world with Veeky Forums goggles, which is pure shit and it will either get you depressed, or turn you into a nazi shithead, or in anyway wrap you around the lifestyle of scrolling through threads after threads and asking Veeky Forums about any idea you come up with during the day, ways to meme your way through your replies. I got here in 2006 and posted daily, spending most of my day here up until 2011-12, when I dropped and tried to stay away from it. It's like a drug. The first hours and days are the worst because you have pending threads and you want to see the replies, but you can use an offline time like when you travel to go through this more easily. Then you just don't come back and it's amazing after you just forget this exist. Of course, get out of the computer in general, which makes it easier. I went one year without a computer to counter my addiction. But above all, the trick is to not let it slip in case you come back. Me right now I came specifically to ask something on a specific board and am now shitposting while waiting on the replies. I know I'll be here today and perhaps tomorrow, but then I'm gone, like I did a few times before. Get out of here. I recommend it.

I somewhat agree with you. Like sometimes throughout the day I'll think up ideas or see things and then wonder if it would make a good Veeky Forums post. Which of course derails the "natural" thought process I should be going through

Good and honest post.

Trips of truth.

Counterpoint: I learn about a lot of shit on Veeky Forums that I'd have no idea about otherwise. If it weren't for Veeky Forums, for example, I'd have no idea who Borges, Pessoa, or Gene Wolfe were. Maybe that's a condemnation of me as an incurious person, but it is what it is. I like this site because there's just a lot of shit you get on the various boards that it's hard to come across on the rest of the internet. I think as long as you have some concrete thing in your life (like your family or your religion) to keep you from being warped by the perspectives on here, you can use Veeky Forums to good effect.

> I know I'll be here today and perhaps tomorrow, but then I'm gone, like I did a few times before.

Exactly how i used to describe my heroin relapses

if you didnt know bout borges then your problems extend beyond the internet

Oh, I've learned a lot of shit here, for sure. It makes up for who I am now and I agree with you on that. There are ways to use Veeky Forums.

I don't think it's about having something "concrete" outside here though. I think it's exactly some obsessive search towards something more concrete which makes people stagnate here. There is always one more idiot saying one stupid thing that you must counter. It never stops. Some people have two or three concrete things in their lives (for example, family, religion, Veeky Forums) and Veeky Forums keeps ruining their chances on everything else (sometimes family and religion and other things do that too). I think the key is to live without that much concrete things, to break habits and to do whatever, something else. The worst is not the content of Veeky Forums itself, but the way in which people are taken by it, similarly on how normies are taken by facebook or instagram.

I heard this from Alan Watts, actually and it helped me quit smoking. "When you promise to God, the Devil hears it". When you promise to never do this one thing ever again, you feel the weight of "never" and after three days the temptation is so great, you are back at it. I quit smoking by saying "I can postpone this cigarette for later" and I did this until the habit was broken. Still, sometimes, like once every two months, I take a puff from a friend's cigarette and I actually can't smoke a whole cigarette anymore, which is great. The (now) weird taste even reminds me why I don't smoke.

In the same way with Veeky Forums, I allow myself in here, because if I prohibit me from coming here, the moment I do, I would stay. But if I allow these entrances, I can get out just as easily before I'm hooked up.

dunno how much that works with heroin, since the experience is much stronger

>tfw I have 3 windows open with 20 tabs each mostly threads or warosu or 8ch
>whenever I plan to read a book I search its title/author the Veeky Forums archive and look through random posts/reply chains/op's to make my decision
>usually spend hours searching through pages back to 2010
I can't be the only one right? I just don't trust reviews or goodreads for works that haven't been immortalised

Antonin Artaud said "It isn't morphine that makes me work, but its absence; only for it to be absent it must from time to time be present."
Anyway
>whats with wattsposting?

People here substituting friends for walls of text that might be sincere, ironic or crude, hard to tell tho'. No trust on Veeky Forums, only thoughts/ideas and your own.
>I think the key is to live without that much concrete things
As an apology for Veeky Forums, if people must live without "concrete things" Veeky Forums is one of the best places for this;--if there are any alternatives besides becoming Diogenes, and it all lies in being Anonymous; even an ego can live here.

Random unthreadworthy question for native speakers:

When describing a winter landscape, can you use "new" snow as in fresh snow, or does that sound weird?

What you correctly describe is Veeky Forums NOW. I think it used to be a genuinely good schizorizomatic website before.

>As an apology for Veeky Forums, if people must live without "concrete things" Veeky Forums is one of the best places for this
I think it is that just for a moment. I used to think Veeky Forums was the epitome of that, but not anymore. The key difference between becoming Diogenes and being Anonymous here is that the latter has to make no commitment, with no responsibilities or consequences. They are two very different kinds of freedom. The freedom of Diogenes forces him to be dirty and have a bad reputation and save no room for privacy. But it was a life that he chose. In here, there is no choice (because there is no loss), you are doing the same work that of a facebook poster, just without your name signing it in. That's one of the reasons why I think this liberty is at the same time great and problematic. You get used to not being responsible for what you say, and later you'll have a hard time speaking out to others with your own face and won't know what to do with the consequences (good or bad, mild or fierce). A lot of channers boast themselves over normies, but I think it's a two-way street. You gain a liberty that normies will never experience, but you also limit yourself and your courage to be responsible for what you say.


Veeky Forums was never good, it is only that it gets worse!
like life

In other words, it's Zizek's argument of coffee without coffee, sex without sex. Here we are all Diogenes, without being Diogenes.

>Now you can shitpost and fap all day long without anyone throwing rotten fruits at you!

>Gore

Literally why? Unless you are sick in the head, why constantly watch that shit.

I don't watch it anymore. I was extremely bored and it was something extremely new, which was impossible to witness in real life. Call it morbid curiosity.

This it's poison for the mind

The problem is you come to Veeky Forums and you realize that books are 99.9% shit. And of them if there's a book you think was good you'll be told by user it was actually shit

>and asking Veeky Forums about any idea you come up with during the day
This is a major problem for me. I don't make a lot of threads, but there are frequently days where I'll have a thought and begin to phrase, in my head, the post I want to make later. I default to thinking about discussing it here, because I don't think anyone I know is interested in the matter.

The terrible thing is, the few times I have made such a thread, the replies were few and mostly shitposting. And so, as I imagine the thread I'll make, I begin to imagine the replies, and the glibbest, most asinine way anons will respond, latching on to some minor meme-able detail while ignoring the subject. But I'm the one thinking them. Those voices are in my head. They have memed my mind to shit.

d-delete this

IT'S LIKE RAEEAAIN