Does anybody else get the feeling that acts of "madness" on the part of artists and writers are wholly absent and / or redundant today?
Have you ever done anything that would be considered "insane"?
The reason I ask is that I've been reading about Wittgenstein and his time teaching in a rural elementary school and living in a cabin in rural Norway, and also of van Gogh and his lengthy period of sleeping in barns and stables, denying himself comfort etc.
I admit that personally - and not because I am trying to LARP - I have felt very strong instincts to go and live in a tent for a year, and even right now I am tempted to drive to a monastery on Monday and ask the monks if I can spend several months staying with them. Maybe I'm just looking for a lazy lifestyle, but my current lifestyle of working full-time in a boring job full of uber-normies makes me miserable to the point of shutting down completely and allowing months to fly by without event. I know that such a vagabond or anti-social lifestyle cannot be sustained for long, and I am considering becoming a teacher also but again I'm afraid the mundanity will cripple me.
Your life is mundane because you your self are boring
Its no ones fault but yours that you dredd your day to day life.
Grow up, take action.
Bentley Clark
>drive to a monastery on Monday and ask the monks if I can spend several months staying with them
Good luck with that
Austin Morales
I agree that I am somewhat boring, but then again my favorite writers have always tended be people like Fernando Pessoa, Philip Larkin, Emily Dickenson etc, that is to say those who lived quiet little sane (boring) lives but whose power and creativity are heads above their contemporaries. They were people who channelled all their "madness" or self-destructive tendencies into their writing, rather than actually ruining their lives as I feel compelled to do.
Jose Peterson
wtf is it with the fetishising of holy orders on this site?
Adam Ross
I wonder
Wyatt Reed
I once poured a boiling hot cup of tea on my head because my parents were annoyed at me hinting at suicide
Isaiah Jackson
Virginity.
Owen Sanchez
>whats with people seeing the worth in what was the historical centers of intellectual and spiritual production for centers
Kindly fuck off liberal
Evan Morgan
*for centuries
Noah Barnes
>what is an outdated system You dont need a monastery to be spiritual, unless you need your hand held the entire time
James Stewart
What, by posting on Veeky Forums?
Jose Wood
Proddies leave, this is a catholic Phillipine ring throwing stone tablet.
Daniel Jones
wut
Luis Evans
>seeing the worth you meant to say 'fetishise'
Lucas Sanders
I don't think you know what that word means
Nicholas Green
sure
Cooper Myers
lmao the teens and early 20s guys on this board just fall for the aesthetics of monasteries, they don't care about actually separating themselves from worldly vanities. their obsession is just another way to cultivate their image.
Carson Cook
Cultivate their image anonymously?
Julian Campbell
it extends beyond this board. OP wants to go and live in a monastery IRL.
Nolan Green
...
Kayden Bailey
That makes even less sense to your point
Isaac Reed
there's absolutely nothing insane about Witty did, you stupid fucking normie.
I fell asleep for an hour on the free circulator bus in Baltimore. That's probably an order of magnitude more dangerous than sleeping in a barn for a year.
Xavier King
no it really doesn't. people build up their obsession on Veeky Forums and then start to aspire to it in real life. are you being deliberately difficult?
Juan Jones
Your claim was its just a superficial interest and they're not willing to separate themselves from society but now you're claiming they are It's getting hard to keep track of these goalposts you're setting
Joshua Green
I said they don't truly care about separating themselves for the serious reasons not that they aren't willing. i believe that a lot of these guys would actually do it, but my point was that their motivations are shallow. are you aspiring to live in a monastery or something? why was my comment so offensive to you?
Robert Robinson
>cultivate their image For who?
Hunter Bailey
>I said they don't truly care about separating themselves for the serious reasons not that they aren't willing.
