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why is modern life so fucking boring

is it because its not bad enough to be stimulating? its not ...
irate rebellious idea he suggested
  12/09/19
Capitalism without religion is nonstop soulless consumption
Indecent Jet Heaven
  12/09/19
I don't even consume anything though. couldn't care less.
irate rebellious idea he suggested
  12/09/19
THIS. /end thread
twinkling abusive home
  12/09/19
Your life wouldn't be any less boring if you were religious.
ebony gunner
  12/09/19
I am religious and I disagree. A big part of the crisis Wes...
Indecent Jet Heaven
  12/09/19
I think being bored and lacking meaning are two different th...
ebony gunner
  12/09/19
he saying theyre bored because they have no meaning in their...
Shivering Histrionic Becky Location
  12/09/19
That's an interpretation and not inherent to the OP. His fi...
ebony gunner
  12/09/19
Religion gives you the ability to find meaning in the mundan...
citrine angry toaster property
  12/09/19
The mundane is inherently boring.
ebony gunner
  12/09/19
Ordinary, then. Religion gives you reason to appreciate the ...
citrine angry toaster property
  12/09/19
I don't buy this. A religious person doing something boring...
ebony gunner
  12/09/19
That’s not the standard. Profession of religion is no ...
citrine angry toaster property
  12/09/19
No true Scotsman
ebony gunner
  12/09/19
Damn you’re way dumber than I thought
citrine angry toaster property
  12/09/19
no u
ebony gunner
  12/09/19
for most people it's not boring at all. our economy revolves...
Free-loading bearded milk
  12/09/19
Only works on low IQ proles and NPCs
diverse knife pozpig
  12/09/19
A lot of what makes it "cushy" is exactly what mak...
ebony gunner
  12/09/19
Go chase the rush. Learn a new language, hit on young bitche...
comical jade corn cake site
  12/09/19
lol
vibrant space
  12/09/19
everyone's fat now
irate rebellious idea he suggested
  12/09/19
Lol no one has the attention span or will power for anything...
Ruddy Psychic Resort
  12/09/19
because we understand that nothing, at this point, matters
vibrant space
  12/09/19
nailed it.
Contagious National Telephone
  12/09/19
This too is meaningless.
big amethyst dilemma round eye
  12/10/19
Consider replacing your bidet water with Vicks Vapo-Rub A n...
Mint native skinny woman
  12/09/19
Smoke some fags and shoot some pool Pretend you never went ...
Mint native skinny woman
  12/09/19
...
Aquamarine travel guidebook jap
  12/09/19
Life isn’t boring, you’re boring. Stop being a l...
Beady-eyed University Masturbator
  12/09/19
...
dull odious useless brakes field
  12/09/19
when life was shitty AND hard, the only thing to do was try ...
hyperactive trip boistinker box office
  12/09/19
If life is so pointless why not be happy while you're living...
diverse knife pozpig
  12/09/19
you can't choose to be happy. we are made the way we are mad...
hyperactive trip boistinker box office
  12/09/19
Nah, thats a cuck mindset, you need CHAD MINDSET theory
Beady-eyed University Masturbator
  12/09/19
stop being a pussy this is a threat
Stirring fighting gas station ratface
  12/10/19
i'm gay and alpha irl
hyperactive trip boistinker box office
  12/10/19
radical life extension is on the horizon so a bunch of dudes...
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  12/09/19
...
appetizing cobalt filthpig piazza
  12/09/19
Ur mindhold is blown the fuck out Take a forest bath and de...
Ruddy Psychic Resort
  12/09/19
39. We use the term “surrogate activity” to desi...
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  12/09/19
...
big amethyst dilemma round eye
  12/10/19
...
Ultramarine Elite Dragon Police Squad
  12/10/19
its because modernity makes you gay
Stirring fighting gas station ratface
  12/09/19
...
vibrant space
  12/10/19
Enlist faggot
Adventurous Station Half-breed
  12/09/19
so he can die in meaningless wars like in Afghanistan? h...
Contagious National Telephone
  12/10/19
No grand metanarrative No great passion No great confl...
Ultramarine Elite Dragon Police Squad
  12/10/19
righteous anger and violence gives life meaning. we have see...
Contagious National Telephone
  12/10/19
Brains have been recalibrated by constant overstimulation in...
swashbuckling violent casino
  12/10/19
that could be it. simple, but correct.
Contagious National Telephone
  12/10/19
good eating, sex, drinking bouts with friends, outings (with...
appetizing cobalt filthpig piazza
  12/10/19


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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:37 PM
Author: irate rebellious idea he suggested

is it because its not bad enough to be stimulating? its not horrible. its fairly cushy. but dear god its so fucking dull. you can honestly go to a major city and not lay eyes on a single person you actually envy. theres just nothing there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238136)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:38 PM
Author: Indecent Jet Heaven

Capitalism without religion is nonstop soulless consumption

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238141)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:39 PM
Author: irate rebellious idea he suggested

I don't even consume anything though. couldn't care less.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238146)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:45 PM
Author: twinkling abusive home

THIS.

/end thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238179)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:51 PM
Author: ebony gunner

Your life wouldn't be any less boring if you were religious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238209)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:53 PM
Author: Indecent Jet Heaven

I am religious and I disagree. A big part of the crisis Western Civilization is currently going through is a complete and utter lack of higher meaning. Without God we're instead inventing secular religions that worship Climate Change and Diversity and pedophilic Sodomy. But even those religions don't have that many adherents in the grand scheme.

Everyone is wagecucking and consuming and swiping right and for what? To raise another generation of wagecuck swipe right consumers? They're even forgoing birthing a new generation because there's literally nothing to live for

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238225)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:55 PM
Author: ebony gunner

I think being bored and lacking meaning are two different things. If the OP was asking "why do so many people embrace BS causes" then your answer would make sense. But the OP is asking why people are bored, as in they stay in a safe, climate controlled space and do the same thing every day. Religion has nothing to do with that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238235)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:58 PM
Author: Shivering Histrionic Becky Location

he saying theyre bored because they have no meaning in their lives, not because they do the same shit everyday

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238251)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:59 PM
Author: ebony gunner

That's an interpretation and not inherent to the OP. His first q is whether it is a lack of stimulation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238265)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:58 PM
Author: citrine angry toaster property

Religion gives you the ability to find meaning in the mundane. The mundane is only boring if it’s meaningless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238253)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:59 PM
Author: ebony gunner

The mundane is inherently boring.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238268)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 4:01 PM
Author: citrine angry toaster property

Ordinary, then. Religion gives you reason to appreciate the routine, where someone who is without religion would be bored

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238272)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 4:03 PM
Author: ebony gunner

I don't buy this. A religious person doing something boring looks equally bored.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238274)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 4:10 PM
Author: citrine angry toaster property

That’s not the standard. Profession of religion is no guarantee of true religiousness. Nor is apparent boredom a sign of inner boredom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238306)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 9:40 PM
Author: ebony gunner

No true Scotsman

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39239866)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 9:40 PM
Author: citrine angry toaster property

Damn you’re way dumber than I thought

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39239869)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 9:40 PM
Author: ebony gunner

no u

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39239871)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:43 PM
Author: Free-loading bearded milk

for most people it's not boring at all. our economy revolves around providing experiences such that we're not bored.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238169)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:44 PM
Author: diverse knife pozpig

Only works on low IQ proles and NPCs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238172)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:50 PM
Author: ebony gunner

A lot of what makes it "cushy" is exactly what makes it boring. Back in the day, huge wars, famines, plagues, revolutions, social upheavals, were common. In the 1800s a bunch of people were pioneers staking claim to new lands out west while hoping they don't get scalped by the natives. Now? People are too scared to let their kids play contact sports so they stay inside and play on the internet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238203)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:52 PM
Author: comical jade corn cake site

Go chase the rush. Learn a new language, hit on young bitches, ride a bike or a boat or a 4 wheeler. Read heretical books and ditch the slave morality. It’s a little sad to see “men” complaining about being bored.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238212)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:53 PM
Author: vibrant space

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238218)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:56 PM
Author: irate rebellious idea he suggested

everyone's fat now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238240)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 4:18 PM
Author: Ruddy Psychic Resort

Lol no one has the attention span or will power for anything but checking their phone 400 times a day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238339)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:52 PM
Author: vibrant space

because we understand that nothing, at this point, matters

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238216)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 4:03 PM
Author: Contagious National Telephone

nailed it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238277)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 1:45 AM
Author: big amethyst dilemma round eye

This too is meaningless.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39241044)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:53 PM
Author: Mint native skinny woman

Consider replacing your bidet water with Vicks Vapo-Rub

A new restaurant opened down the street from you

There's a sale going on right now at your favorite store

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238219)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:59 PM
Author: Mint native skinny woman

Smoke some fags and shoot some pool

Pretend you never went to school

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238260)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 10:47 PM
Author: Aquamarine travel guidebook jap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39240306)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:53 PM
Author: Beady-eyed University Masturbator

Life isn’t boring, you’re boring. Stop being a low-T cuck that sits on the couch after work posting and watching TV in all your free time and do something.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238226)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 7:55 PM
Author: dull odious useless brakes field



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39239318)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:54 PM
Author: hyperactive trip boistinker box office

when life was shitty AND hard, the only thing to do was try to make it easier. or else what is the point? not that there was ever a point in the grand scheme of things. now that it is just shitty and boring, it has never been more obvious how pointless it all is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238228)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:55 PM
Author: diverse knife pozpig

If life is so pointless why not be happy while you're living it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238233)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:55 PM
Author: hyperactive trip boistinker box office

you can't choose to be happy. we are made the way we are made and that's that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238237)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 3:59 PM
Author: Beady-eyed University Masturbator

Nah, thats a cuck mindset, you need CHAD MINDSET theory

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238264)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 10:44 AM
Author: Stirring fighting gas station ratface

stop being a pussy

this is a threat

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39241998)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 11:06 AM
Author: hyperactive trip boistinker box office

i'm gay and alpha irl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39242139)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 4:16 PM
Author: charismatic bisexual forum factory reset button

radical life extension is on the horizon so a bunch of dudes who would otherwise be going hard like Napoleon are just stacking $$$ and chilling. The only people who still have any personal motivation to make your life interesting are Hillary/Trump level olds who KNOW they are going to die someday

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238333)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 9:41 PM
Author: appetizing cobalt filthpig piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39239877)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 4:18 PM
Author: Ruddy Psychic Resort

Ur mindhold is blown the fuck out

Take a forest bath and detox

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39238337)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 10:20 PM
Author: Thriller cream rehab

39. We use the term “surrogate activity” to designate an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the sake of the “fulfillment” that they get from pursuing the goal. Here is a rule of thumb for the identification of surrogate activities. Given a person who devotes much time and energy to the pursuit of goal X, ask yourself this: If he had to devote most of his time and energy to satisfying his biological needs, and if that effort required him to use his physical and mental faculties in a varied and interesting way, would he feel seriously deprived because he did not attain goal X? If the answer is no, then the person’s pursuit of goal X is a surrogate activity. Hirohito’s studies in marine biology clearly constituted a surrogate activity, since it is pretty certain that if Hirohito had had to spend his time working at interesting non-scientific tasks in order to obtain the necessities of life, he would not have felt deprived because he didn’t know all about the anatomy and life-cycles of marine animals. On the other hand the pursuit of sex and love (for example) is not a surrogate activity, because most people, even if their existence were otherwise satisfactory, would feel deprived if they passed their lives without ever having a relationship with a member of the opposite sex. (But pursuit of an excessive amount of sex, more than one really needs, can be a surrogate activity.)

40. In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one’s physical needs. It is enough to go through a training program to acquire some petty technical skill, then come to work on time and exert the very modest effort needed to hold a job. The only requirements are a moderate amount of intelligence and, most of all, simple OBEDIENCE. If one has those, society takes care of one from cradle to grave. (Yes, there is an underclass that cannot take the physical necessities for granted, but we are speaking here of mainstream society.) Thus it is not surprising that modern society is full of surrogate activities. These include scientific work, athletic achievement, humanitarian work, artistic and literary creation, climbing the corporate ladder, acquisition of money and material goods far beyond the point at which they cease to give any additional physical satisfaction, and social activism when it addresses issues that are not important for the activist personally, as in the case of white activists who work for the rights of nonwhite minorities. These are not always PURE surrogate activities, since for many people they may be motivated in part by needs other than the need to have some goal to pursue. Scientific work may be motivated in part by a drive for prestige, artistic creation by a need to express feelings, militant social activism by hostility. But for most people who pursue them, these activities are in large part surrogate activities. For example, the majority of scientists will probably agree that the “fulfillment” they get from their work is more important than the money and prestige they earn.

41. For many if not most people, surrogate activities are less satisfying than the pursuit of real goals (that is, goals that people would want to attain even if their need for the power process were already fulfilled). One indication of this is the fact that, in many or most cases, people who are deeply involved in surrogate activities are never satisfied, never at rest. Thus the money-maker constantly strives for more and more wealth. The scientist no sooner solves one problem than he moves on to the next. The long-distance runner drives himself to run always farther and faster. Many people who pursue surrogate activities will say that they get far more fulfillment from these activities than they do from the “mundane” business of satisfying their biological needs, but that is because in our society the effort needed to satisfy the biological needs has been reduced to triviality. More importantly, in our society people do not satisfy their biological needs AUTONOMOUSLY but by functioning as parts of an immense social machine. In contrast, people generally have a great deal of autonomy in pursuing their surrogate activities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39240130)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 1:45 AM
Author: big amethyst dilemma round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39241045)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 1:47 AM
Author: Ultramarine Elite Dragon Police Squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39241048)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 10:20 PM
Author: Stirring fighting gas station ratface

its because modernity makes you gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39240133)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 9:07 AM
Author: vibrant space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39241514)



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Date: December 9th, 2019 10:48 PM
Author: Adventurous Station Half-breed

Enlist faggot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39240309)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 1:43 AM
Author: Contagious National Telephone

so he can die in meaningless wars like in Afghanistan?

https://nypost.com/2019/12/09/afghanistan-bombshell-report-shows-us-officials-misled-public-about-war-for-nearly-2-decades/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39241043)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 1:47 AM
Author: Ultramarine Elite Dragon Police Squad

No grand metanarrative

No great passion

No great conflict

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39241049)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 1:51 AM
Author: Contagious National Telephone

righteous anger and violence gives life meaning. we have seemed to collectively fogged out on that notion.

we just passively accept all the bullshit that comes our way.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39241052)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 11:04 AM
Author: swashbuckling violent casino

Brains have been recalibrated by constant overstimulation in the form of TVs, smartphones, etc. Everything seems boring by comparison.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39242124)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 11:53 AM
Author: Contagious National Telephone

that could be it. simple, but correct.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39242426)



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Date: December 10th, 2019 12:00 PM
Author: appetizing cobalt filthpig piazza

good eating, sex, drinking bouts with friends, outings (with friends as necessary/wanted) etc. are still quite credited and way better than tv

of course, shitty meals, crappy sex with old fat shrew wife, hangovers after drinking with bores, etc. are not now and never were credited at any point in human existence

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4397957&forum_id=2#39242465)