Is anybody else here well on their way to inhabiting a totally solipsistic universe in which only their own value judgments are of any concern? I am. And here's how.
I reside in a small modernized cabin in the garden belonging to my mother. I sleep on a single campbed and the only furniture I own is a wooden chair on which I sit for hours each day while facing the single window which looks out onto the garden. I tend a small vegetable patch, drink only water and coffee and spend barely any of the alms donated to me by my mother on foodstuffs. I often forage for nuts and wild berries, and I intend to begin removing edible food from the waste bins of my local supermarket soon both to ease the burden on waste disposable facilities that would otherwise have to process this entirely healthy and edible food.
I spend the majority of my day simply contemplating both the internal and external world. I have lived this way for three years already and I have never felt more at ease. Have I simply reached peak wisdom? Is this what the final manifestation of the Black Pill entails? Are there any books on this issue? Thanks for reading.
I am contemplating and undergoing intense exploration of the vast uncharted terrain of my mind.
Hudson Sullivan
congratulations, you're a transcendentalist.
Adrian Hernandez
sounds comfy
Grayson Perez
But in 10 years will you still be happy doing this? Making no real progress towards improving your life or standing, just wilting in the garden like the undernourished perennials
Lucas Williams
I hope this is real. Cozy as heck.
Jaxon Flores
progress is a spook life is a spook
Jaxon Gonzalez
There's no such thing as progress.
David Wood
Cool Rick Sanchez cosplay
Bentley Cooper
t. Listen to a man from a country that shit in the street
Elijah Peterson
Your mom okay with this? She won't live forever you know.
Levi Reyes
You'll be taken out of this way of life eventually when your mother's money runs dry and soon desire won't seem so distant or seperate
Hudson Myers
huh
Sebastian Bennett
oh wow you're so enlightened omg are you buddha you have truly transcended craving wow look it's an old brown woman you are truly at peace... PLEASE enlighten me on what your value judgements (TM) are
get real. you're not fucking wise.
Henry Harris
>wise: having or showing experience, knowledge, and good judgment.
I'm wise.
Caleb Richardson
so... nothing?
Luke Brooks
The fact you ask me what may be lurking there in the vast uncharted terrain of my mind suggests you yourself have never spent hours, days or indeed weeks silently exploring every crevice, every nook, every cranny contained in the human psyche. It is a sad thought to someone like myself, considering that I am currently hundreds of miles into the wilderness of my subconscious, discovering new treasures and establishing new settlements with each new day. I could of course have remained staid and placid in the confines of the small Shire-like village constructed by socialization and pre-programmed behavior, but to my Aragorn-esque disposition such a life seemed both contemptible and wrong.
Ryder Reed
Dharma Bums by Kerouac, it has multiple comfy outposts
Adrian Harris
There is no word entish, elvish or in the tongues of Men to describe this autism
Zachary Rivera
Seems like not what I'm looking for as far as "enlightenment" goes if you still find yourself on this trash board
Hudson Ward
>resorting to dictionary definitions to define wisdom when socrates and others attempted to define wisdom in dialogues
lol no
Thomas Gutierrez
I have Socratic wisdom as well.
Carson Taylor
Have you ever tried being "funny" yourself OP, or do you just spam other people's posts all day?
Noah Martin
I like this character. Please continue.
Liam Rivera
good shit my brother
Liam Evans
are you the guy who sleeps in a sleeping bag and fantasizes about helms deep every night
Bentley Scott
Provide it, bud.
Luis Peterson
If any of that was true I couldn't imagine you posting on Veeky Forums, let alone use the internet. The fact of where this is being read kind of ruins the illusion doesn't it?
Elijah Hughes
unequivocally BTFO XD
William Collins
op reminds me of that norwegian guy who blogged about moving to a cabin and writing his book. whatever happened to him?
Andrew Sanders
sooo, the guy is asking for books on this topic and litteraly no one is bringing op thoreau?
Daniel Mitchell
Admirable.
You should consider ditching the coffee though, it's a needless dependency. If you want something hot and tasty you can make tisanes from what you forage. You can also get some potted mint plants and use the nettles from the garden, both make for nice tisanes.
I live in a tiny room in my mother's house and receive my alms from the state, most of which I give to my mother. She lives a humble life as well so most of it gets spend on whole foods and a little water and electricity. I use a second hand office computer and wear hand-me-downs and milsurp and buzz my own head.
Lately I've been putting some effort into making the garden somewhat of a bird refuge but I'll think I'll work on the neglected herb garden next spring.
Simplicity, frugality and quietude have been praised by contemplatives throughout the ages for a good reason. Once you cast of the trappings of worldliness it is really the best way to live.
Mason Adams
Progress is only required if you're not content. If you're content, whereto would you progress? Everything is already unproblematic and therefore perfect.
Blake King
welcome back op
Hudson Morales
Elaborate on this "guy", please, his moral compass appears sound and I wish to subscribe to his philosophy.
Gabriel Bennett
God damn that was embarrassing to read
William Edwards
enjoy getting laid living like that lmao
Easton Gonzalez
>I live off my mother. >Have I reached peak wisdom?
Jesus christ
Justin Scott
At first you were cool, now you're kind of pretentious. However I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. Keep up the character, bud.
Asher Walker
Not OP, but sex is highly overrated. Women are overrated in general. And if your highest goal is sex, you'll find plenty in the world of that and plenty to despair as well.
Gavin Wood
Food is very cheap. If you’re an ascetic you cost your benefactors very little.
Jacob Rivera
At least he has his own cabin, chill out dude.
Austin Sullivan
This guy is like a straight up white dude. Is that common with Brahmins?
Aiden Anderson
Thats what sunday is for, not every day of the week.
Ethan Collins
He looks pretty brown to me...
William Peterson
A bit tanned sure but he'd blend in as a Frenchman
Angel Torres
Is this some sort of Samuel Beckett imitation
Jose Hill
i watch anime and masturbate to traps and read my kindle for an hour a night in bed 2 fiction books for 1 non-fiction book ratio, im reading oathbringer by brandon sanderson at the moment. good book.
Isaac Gray
Did Becky do this?
Anthony Nelson
sort of a pajeet derrida
Aaron Taylor
will internet transcendentalism be the genre that saves new sincerity?
Daniel Myers
You've got Being down pat. Now try Becoming. Make good waves in the world as you go your way. Don't stress over it but just being is, dare i say it, against our nature.
Austin Price
>your Is this subtle meming?
God I hope so.
Mason Miller
>Thoreau: builds cabin in the woods, works a garden that produces surplus all day, writes all night, freezes all winter, and certainly has no technology beyond an axe
>This guy: lives with mom
I mean, I'm no better than him but he is the bad kind of transcendentalist. So yeah, Op, read Thoreau. Maybe grow some weed about it.
Robert White
Men who refuse to live as the rest of society are either beasts or gods.
In this case OP is a beast.
Are you sure it isn't complacency and a lack of gumption rather than:
>peak wisdom >black pill end game >etc
Read anything from the decadent movement to become a more depraved degenerate. Good luck.
Jacob Ortiz
>be the animal who's psyche literally comes from the other, particularly the mother and father >reject coitus and love, the physical and mental dissolving of barriers between self and other
Brandon Gonzalez
>Men who refuse to live as the rest of society are either beasts or gods. Oh shut up lil neech
Aaron Scott
>Baaaw >Why do people judge me for being a human parasite
Life is rough. :^)
Justin Cruz
I was just saying that you are a bad meme gone wrong.
Cooper Anderson
not if it reads the way OP writes
Mason Sanchez
>He thinks there are any internalities. That's how I know you haven't made it.
Kayden Hernandez
>Dude just pretend you don't exist
Stupidest shit ever
Christopher Watson
>How could mirrors be real if our eyes weren't real. Wake yourself before you fake your self.
>the physical and mental dissolving of barriers between self and other
Since when? I thought all psychoanalysts say that you can't approach the other which is why sex is just a mutual illusion in the end.
Joseph Scott
That's a vast generalization. Sex often amounts to this but over time the illusion is inevitably broken and what must be found is a genuine relationship even if its extremely difficult to locate each other.
Xavier Anderson
A genuine relationship of what? This is why I hate psychoanalysis it just needlessly complicates things, even the stuff Lacan said can be said very simply but he doesn't. Just because you've never had sex doesn't mean your psyche comes from 'the other' lol. The only people that take it seriously are those who are already part of the cult.
John Lee
His argument essentially amounts to that we should identify by our spirit as opposed to our contingent material self. But how is this "spirit" not the self? Is it any different than the Cartesian ego? Which to me is the purest concept of the self there is in the Western tradition. And its one which is wholly prepared to find all material identification as arbitrary or illusory
Charles Barnes
>A genuine relationship of what
Slow down you fucking retard. I thought it was clear I was talking genuine relationship as in between each other's actual mental life as opposed to the mere personas we project out from ourselves and onto other people. You know imagine if you always had to pretend to be a cool smooth guy to attract a girl then you end up in an argument and she see's that you can vulnerable and nervous. Either the relationship ends or she comes to appreciate who you actually are behind who she previously thought you were. That's what it is to approach a genuine relationship. Its never possible to directly see from the eyes of the other person but the very breakdowns in facades allow us to approach that reality
Adrian Garcia
I always thought he had a Cioran vibe myself
Ian Sanders
No but I could see a Beckett character doing something akin to what OP said
Connor Green
How can you be in between in each other's mental life? It's impossible. All relationships are ingenuine.
Parker Nguyen
Yet some are more ingenuine than others.
Angel Foster
That is a problem of categories not relationships. The model is to blame and not the data.
Asher Cook
No. A relationship is just something to facilitate reproduction and raise a child. It's impossible for a relationship to be more or less genuine. Sexual relationships don't exist.
Bentley Williams
>His argument essentially amounts to that we should identify by our spirit as opposed to our contingent material self. No, it doesn't. UG is a complete materialist. He does accept there being a memory or knowledge, but not that it's some sort of organ like a Mind, nor that it leads anywhere concrete. There's nothing there to identify with or anything of the kind.
Brody Robinson
Your model is a lie. Straight up. Relationship is one of the fundamental properties of nature. Your existence is contingent on many relationships, not just some weird "genesis" imperative. You have my pity.
Kayden Jones
The fact you ask me what may be lurking there in the vast uncharted terrain of my mind suggests you yourself have never spent hours, days or indeed weeks silently exploring every crevice, every nook, every cranny contained in the human psyche. It is a sad thought to someone like myself, considering that I am currently hundreds of miles into the wilderness of my subconscious, discovering new treasures and establishing new settlements with each new day. I could of course have remained staid and placid in the confines of the small Shire-like village constructed by socialization and pre-programmed behavior, but to my Aragorn-esque disposition such a life seemed both contemptible and wrong.
Sebastian Ramirez
Never trust a thinker who isn't handsome desu
Luke Johnson
thanks for sharing this user
>anybody inhabiting a totally solipsistic universe yes. although spending time in society makes this difficult (being bombarded by constant stimuli and negativity) and sometimes i react to things in the same manner i used to before i realized certain things about the nature of separation and identity... but i did live as you did for a while, and it was the most intellectually fruitful time of my life i do wish sometimes that i would meet more people irl who feel the way you do
>Have I simply reached peak wisdom fuck no - your journey has just begun >final manifestation of the Black Pill i don't know what this is, but i would say my own way of life is the manifestation of an unyielding desire to seek the truth of my existence at any cost
before you go, do you know of any online forums to carry conversations about such things?
Jason Hernandez
not the one you're responding to, but you're taken for granted the reality of a lot of concepts here without bothering to explore what they really mean
Adam Miller
but you're not really self-sufficient, are you? you still depend on your mother. You have not reached peak wisdom yet.
Jack Young
>implying self-sufficiency is a well-defined concept or one that is not simply founded on the desire to be validated as successful by others not OP, but he seems to be happy in his corner most would not be, perhaps, but he seems to be
Sebastian Young
Self-sufficient people don't actually exist.
You'd have to walk naked into unowned woods and make it that way. Otherwise you're always dependant on someone.
Being dependant on a boss is no less being dependant than being dependant on your mother. Both give you money, they just require different tricks for you to do to get it.
Austin Torres
>Both give you money, they just require different tricks for you to do to get it and ain't that the truth it's almost like, when you stop paying attention to and begin questioning >muh beliefs, and begin to critically analyze >muh behaviours, some illusions magically begin to drift away...
