I can't stop going online even though there's nothing good here and i'm surrounded by books i bought but haven't read

i can't stop going online even though there's nothing good here and i'm surrounded by books i bought but haven't read

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Go and read somewhere the internet isn't immidiately available, like a cafe or library or something.

Either pull the plug on your internet connection or go somewhere where there is none.

Get rid of your computer. You'll feel bored as shit for a couple of weeks and then you'll start reading.

being constantly surrounded by screens and receiving all of your information in easily digestible bites is giving you adhd.

Make a conscious effort to unplug before it's too late.

This is true of everyone on this site

Either accept that you're going to spend an ungodly amount of time on the internet in which you gain nothing or choose to read/live.
Don't protest in your mind while continuing to perform the action you claim is useless.
yes I am projecting

somehow i get pleasure while im procrastinating online, but when i stop thats when the anguish and the remorse starts.

What's stronger the remorse or the pleasure?
What will it be in 2 years?
Sitting inbetween like this is the wrost choice, think about it hard and decide how hard you either want to get rid of the remorse or the pleasure

how do I stop it? It's literally ruining my life

very accurate post. let me describe my average day:
>alarm rings at 8am
>turn it off and wake up at ~12
>tell myself i woke up too late to start doing anything constructive immediately, but i'll go for it later
>browse Veeky Forums/play vidya until the evening
>get off pc around 9/10pm and go to the bathroom for 2-3 cigarettes while making the decision whether i should start reading/studying now or tomorrow morning
>decide that it'll be tomorrow morning
>play vidya until 4am, set the alarm for 8am before going to bed
>existential dread and the devastating feeling that i'm a lazy failure with no future kicks in
>assure myself that i'll wake up on time and study/read
>reassure myself that it isn't too late to start being productive
>reassure myself that i do indeed have a future, as long as i start being productive tomorrow
>calm down and fall asleep
>alarm rings at 8am
>turn it off and wake up around ~12
it's a vicious cycle and i can't get out

>reassure myself that i do indeed have a future, as long as i start being productive tomorrow
this is me for the past 3 years
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I believe in you, user. It will have to be a triumph of the will, only through your own willpower and struggle can you liberate yourself from the enslavement of the electric jew.

Who knows. I told myself I'd quit Veeky Forums after the election but here I am haha lol

I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on Veeky Forums anymore.

Here's how I did it.

-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person

-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure

-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.

-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.

-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.

-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.

>tfw my attention span is so fucked I can't even make it through a 40 minute tv episode

Thanks for the advice, friend!

get a job and find some friends. alternatively if you're still in uni, take you're studies seriously

make a serious effort to get off of this site

doing the first two things will make it easier to do the last.

PAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRP!!!

I became an avid memer like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on Veeky Forums anymore.

Here's how I did it.

-Remember the average person posts like zero memes a year. If you post 5 memes a day, you are 5 memes above the average person

-Don't force yourself to meme. Commit to post 5 memes a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like meming more and after a month or so you should be posting 50-100 memes a day for pleasure

-Post various memes at the same time. When I grab a difficult meme or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read dank and fresh.

-It isn't a race. Meming slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what memes are for you to post fast and which aren't.

-Buy the physical memes. When you get the memes from your own money you'll feel the need to post them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.

-Start with memes highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.

I'm obsessed with the female body and that distracts me from doing anything else.

update: I still haven't stopped

Good advice overall, but

>I read economics and fiction
Where the fuck am I

LITERALLY ME


I'm halfway through a paper that was due last week for the last class I'll ever have to take for my bachelors

something inside of me just died the last three months. I can't succeed at anything anymore.

oh god, will this be Veeky Forums's offical copypasta

i wish i never saw it the first time when it was posted

Where did you get that photograph of my gf, OP?

>somehow i get pleasure while im shooting heroin into my veins, but when i stop thats when the anguish and remorse starts

Wow user great advice keep it up!!

what are you complaining about, attention span is piss easy to change

I didn't read much in the last year, but I'm planning on fixing that in the new year.

My problem is your problem also. The instanteneity of the Internet has fried your brain and you need constant stimulation or your brain chemicals get fucky.

Trick then is to rebuild your ability to read for long periods. set yourself a web sabbath, one day a week where you completely unplug all electronics. Explain to friends and family if need be that you are planning to do this so they won't be able to contact you.

On this day where you can do nothing but read, start a progression, where you read for a certain amount of time, once done you can either carry on or do other stuff. Like cheat on your web sabbath by using your phone to browse Veeky Forums.

As long as you keep with the progression. Start with baby times, stuff that'd embarrass you to admit on here. Read for Fifteen minutes; the next week read for two lots of ten minutes, then two lots of fifteen, then thirty, the two lots of twenty, then forty, then two lots of twenty five, then fifty and so on and so on. You see the progression.

If you stick to that eventually you'll train yourself to read for extremely long periods of time that your web-frazzled reward system wouldn't even be able to comprehend. Like Percy Bysshe Shelley, autism sessions of up to 16 hours. You just have to take it slow, instead of forcing yourself to read for two hours and then feeling guilty when you can't manage that, despite it being like an obese person trying to bike for two hours without any buildup.

If this is projecting in your case OP, it won't be projecting in everybody's case so I'm gonna post it anyway. I think a lot of us have the same unhealthy relationship with the Internet or vista or whatever

Threads like this always make me feel in good in the same way that Jerry Springer does. It's nice to know that even at my lowest I'm better than some of you at your best.

Serious question: How the fuck do you find friends when you're not in school anymore?

Church?

You need to join clubs, find hobbies that have communities. You can find pretty cool people online if you live in a large enough city.

Both have free wifi. The park is the last safe haven but its cold as shit now

>You need to join clubs, find hobbies that have communities

Any specific suggestions? I live in a city of about 100,000 people and there isn't really any "youth culture". I'm a typical no-life Veeky Forums user without any social hobbies and I seriously feel like I'm in a hole and I'll never have any friends and will die alone.

>there isn't really any "youth culture".

Same problem for me, I've been to a few different clubs and they were all filled with middle aged people which just made me feel like a loser to be around

just do it, if the book is good you will immersed it in no time
and if its bad then trash it and read another one

I've always wondered what people do with these pastas between postings. Like do they have a notepad document on their computer where they just keep a bunch of copied posts and somehow indicate which picture (which they must also save) goes with each?

Anyways, memes aside this is some pretty good advice.

Don't worry, my man.
You're not alone.
I mean, you are, but so am I.
Lots of people here a together in their loneliness.

I recommend you guys "Burnout Society" by the philosopher Byung-Chul Han. Thank me later.

Yeah I have a word file, haven't posted any pasta in years but after reading your post I decided to look up the word file and sure enough:
I AM SO GOD DAMN SICK AND TIRED OF BEING 5'9 GOD DAMN IT

I THINK ABOUT HEIGHT EVERY DAY BECAUSE OF THIS FUCK ASS BOARD

LOG ONTO FIT LOL MANLET 5'9 IS PATHETIC LOL LOL

I AM SO FUCKING SICK AND TIRED OF THIS SHIT GIRLS ARE MY HEIGHT IN HEELS

THAT FUCKING GOD DAMN FEEL WHEN SHORTEST MAN IN THE ROOM

THAT FUCKING GOD DAMN FEEL WHEN NO SATISFACTION FROM BEING TALLER THAN ANOTHER MALE BECAUSE HE'S A MEGA MANLET AND BASICALLY DOESN'T EVEN EXIST/MATTER

THAT FEEL WHEN BROKEN HUMAN BEING

THAT FEEL WHEN THIS BOARD IS RUINING THOUSANDS OF LIVES

THAT FEEL WHEN YOU SEE AN ATTRACTIVE GIRL WHO IS TALLER THAN YOU


THAT FEEL WHEN IT COULD BE A LOT WORSE BUT DON'T CARE MY LIFE IS SHIT

JUST BE TALLER GOD DAMN IT

YOU COULDN'T HAVE FUCKING GROWN TWO GOD DAMN INCHES
YOU JUST HAD TO EAT NOTHING BUT PROCESSED BULLSHIT LIKE POP TARTS WHEN YOU WERE A KID YOU FUCKING STUPID PIECE OF SHIT

YOU JUST HAD TO BE BORN PREMATURE AND ROB YOURSELF OF DEVELOPMENT

FUCK THIS GAY EARTH

I WEIGH 140 POUNDS I HAVE BIRD BONES AND I AM A MANLET

THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IN LIFE AS A MALE IS BEING PHYSICALLY LARGE

KILL ME
CUT MY FACE OFF

NO ONE RESPECTS ME
WOMEN ARE MOST LIKELY IRRITATED BY MY PRESENCE

THIS BOARD RUINS MY DAY EVERY DAY AND I COME HERE EVERY DAY ANY WAY

MODS WHY WON'T YOU DO ANYTHING
WE'RE DYING
WE'RE ALL FUCKING DYING HERE

We need to establish some new type of hobby that
-Isn't lame or a hugbox
-Wont attract normies or oldies
-Is really fucking cheap

>gave away my PC
>suddently started using my half-broken laptop and 3DS and PS3 again

DFW had to get rid of his TV, because he was addicted to it and it impacted him very negatively. What he describes the issue to be, in regards to television, sounds very similiar to what people write here and what i experience myself with the internet. The shitty thing is, that the internet is deeply integrated into daily life, in a way that makes it irreplacable. Once i stop playing vidya on my PC, i start shitposting on Veeky Forums again.

I just want my shack, in the woods, with my books, and some pen and some paper and say good-bye to the world. I know that this would be my liberation. But i gotta get rich to achieve this...

Like reading and then you talk with other people about books?

welcome to the non-book club opie

it's because there is nothing good in life, in general, so all we have is repetitive, pointless habits

Yeah but most bookclubs are lame hugboxes. The reason Veeky Forums is the only acceptable literature forum is because we call each other out on bullshit

I can't of anything other than this

Veeky Forums is what book clubs would be like if it were socially acceptable for men to be in book clubs.

It's pretty much unacceptable. People are not called out on their bullshit. People just layer more bullshit on the previous bullshit until it's all one big pile of stinking bullshit. That's Veeky Forums.

Going to "evening school" here, they offer courses from philosophy, to painting, to languages but also to literature. At the moment we are working through The Process by kafka, and it's genuinely insightful, because the people who pay to get this extra education are dedicated readers, who wish to learn and don't have a "My opinion has to be respected because it's my opinion"-attitude.

Also of course friends from university. You filter the posers, idiots and cynicals out and socialize with those who show genuine passion for art.

I try to create a circle akin to that of D'Arthez described in Balzac's Lost Illusions. Where friends push each other to reach greater hights and all that other romantic artist's friendship fuzz.

While it isn't quite like this, i have managed to surround myself with people who think critically and are ambitious in whatever they pursue, be it in their "cultural work" or in their own occupations.

I'm only on Veeky Forums because i don't want to think at the moment.

jealous desu

Woah hey Cliff, didn't expect to see you here between uploads

are there people here who genuinely go on the internet involuntarily and are unable to spend time off it?

yes

Are there people on Veeky Forums who are not aware of internet addiction?

I've done research on it. Still can't shake it myself.

This. Agonie des Eros (profanation of eros, love, by pornography; death of the Other and fantasy in information society) and Im Schwarm ("digital shitstorms"; the digital as an alien medium, impervious to history and decay; communication as "must" and capital; the shift from "farmer" to "hunter" in the digital age) by Han is also commendable and continues on The Burnout Society. Lots of intersections with other thinkers.


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people who found the answer aren't here

All my book are on my laptop due to moving.

haha yeah but i can watch 5 seasons in one day skipping unimportant scenes, it's kind of a modern superpower

Go somewhere else to read if it feels impossible to start reading at home or you get distracted all the time or just lack the willpower. Go to a library or somewhere where you can read in piece. Dedicate certain time everyday to go there with a book and read for an hour or two.
Its kind of like if you are obese and decide to lose weight but hang out in a kitchen/coffe shop full of candy and shit you shouldn't eat. Its gonna be impossible to resist the urge to stuff your mouth full of that shit. But if you are out of that environment its gonna be much easier to resist those urges.

I know that feel, user. I'm exactly like you. I don't study either. I feel bad when I see all the books and when I fail at college.

Except even reading won't save the issue that for a lot of time these obese people are hanging out at the candy shop. It would be a mistake to relate the issue of internet addiction (which is in itself a narrow perspective on the issue at hand) only to the quantity of pages that one reads. It's a issue reaching far deeper. Your image fits, though how likely is it that one can sustain himself without going to the candy shop (meaning using the internet) in our time? Not very.

Exerting one's willpower against one's habits is a different task, if one grows up in a culture that invests a lot of power into creating individuals which do not posess such willpower, as to make them instinctive and impulsive consumers.

Aside from Byung-Chul Han's body of work, which is outrageously overpriced (I know why though, as a friend of mine knows him personally: He wants to privately found his own movie, which is quite expensive and didn't get any funding from others, so he's doing what he can to raise some money) i also recommend Blaise Pascal's pensées and Schopenhauer's Aphorism on Life. People are being systematically cucked into an inability to defend themself - from themself, their own habits and addictions. I encourage everyone to use philosophy what it is, in it's essence, meant for, as a guide towards living and understanding your life.

i hate videogames, tv-shows and my hobbies right now. absolutely can't find any motivation to do those things, so i got back into reading books and it's going well. i'm almost finished with a 400p book and i've already got another book to read that arrived in my mail today.

can't stop coming to Veeky Forums though, the low effort reading here is very addictive.

>paying for education
>paying for humanities education

Well for one thing y'all need to get Veeky Forums, and I don't mean go browse the board I mean actually lift (not cardio) and raise your test levels.

If you have no friends Veeky Forums is a poorer substitute than other websites because there are no names associated when you post.

Delete this

I met my single most redpilled Veeky Forums friend playing MTG. There are cool, interesting people in every hobby user, just pick one that you can see yourself liking and give it a shot.

not exactly

it's more like I involuntarily cannot do productive things, and going on the internet is "doing nothing"
two of those (you)s belong to me, I just got back from the gym

that whole mindset is bullshit. I was a varsity athlete and never did my homework. I was an ROTC scholarship student and failed classes. I go to the gym with friends now and have no motivation in life

sure if you're a fat piece of garbage and your self esteem issues stem from that they will be fixed by getting into shape

when you're already *normal,* already in shape, already attractive, already intelligent, and then you start failing in life then none of the usual memes work

Its not your location that matters user. You can do that without being in the woods.

kek

Honestly 5'9" isn't that bad, as there are many attractive girls at 5'4" who wouldn't be you're height in heels. This is my situation, and its comfy af

yeah I think it's just fucking us to have a baseline of Internet browsing instead of a baseline of actually nothing

>people who skim read
>people who watch stuff on x2 speed
>people who skip scenes of a show or chapters of a book
>people who skip episodes

You're all filthy pieces of subhuman trash.