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do i have the best life out of anyone here?
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2016-02-04 at 7:33 PM UTC
I lived a life like yours once.
Was on the GI Bill, was in college as a transfer student (sophomore) at age 21. That meant I was old enough to have confidence and bang hot girls but not so old that I was out of my own league. I just got out of the military so I was in good shape and worked our on the reg. Always had the best drugs and whatever. Had good grades because I wasn't a retard (getting good grades in college is like getting stickers in kindergarten - nothing to brag about). Yes, even in engineering. It's mainly about time management.
The thing is that having money, smoking good weed, and fucking hot girls is cool in your twenties but you get over it if you grow up. Granted, I know a lot of people who never grow up and they spend their whole life trying to preserve what they had in their twenties, but these guys are usually very anxious or pathetic "Tucker Max" types that are usually idolized by young people but make grown-up adults cringe.
Basically, have fun while you still can. There's nothing wrong with what you're doing (so long as you're using protection and you're prepared to get HPV anyway). Just don't get arrogant over thinking that you're accomplishing anything or that this will satisfy you.
I mean, haven't you read Faust?
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2016-02-04 at 8:20 PM UTCI fucking love tucker max / Charlie bukowski
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2016-02-05 at 1:05 AM UTC
The data on retirement is actually pretty depressing, the amount of time spent watching television, what percentage don't feel adjusted to it, social network, sense of fulfillment/meaning etc.
That's why I asked him how he sees retirement. Because if he's never going to retire: sure, that sounds fine. But if he's looking forward to it like so many other people are, he can't really say it's depressing. The sad truth is - as far as most people are concerned - work is a depressing chore, and they can't wait to never have to do it again. Or they can wait... because they do wait... but my point is, if someone is looking forward to having my lifestyle in 40+ years then they can't also claim it's depressing. Unless they want to be depressed in 40 years, for some fucking reason.
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2016-02-05 at 1:47 AM UTC
Hmm.. I haven't read Faust in English so I just looked up some quotes and stuff in case I wanted to post here. Fuck languages.
​"So this then was the kernel of the brute". I have no idea what that' supposed to mean but in the German version it says "So das also war des Pudels Kern" which describes Mephisto's deceptive nature by comparing it to a poodle. That's one of the most quoted lines here. A kernel isn't a poodle, though, right? Isn't it a big dog? That would totally miss the point. Is it even a dog? Wut?
It depends on which version you read because the earliest renditions of the text are not very palpable unless you have a budding interest in magic and the history of western grimoires. Basically, the reason that I mention the story is that the oldest versions of Faust dictate that his motivation to sell his soul to the devil is that he will be given infinite pleasure and knowledge. He is heartbroken to find that human beings have very limited ability to obtain knowledge (due to Cartesian principles) and his life of vice is plagued by his knowledge that it's merely a distraction.
Believe it or not, Dr. Faustus was a real person who appears in the late 1500s. The legend was based off a real guy. In fact, I would be so bold as to say there are more reliable records for Faustus than there are for Jesus.I fucking love tucker max / Charlie bukowski
You really shouldn't compare those two. Bukowski is light-years ahead of Tucker Max. Tucker Max is just a swollen middle-class egomaniac who rode on the coattails of his father's money into Duke. He got kicked out of some lousy high school for failing History, so his dad put him in a stuffy boarding school where he was fast tracked to Duke with all the other rich bitches. He never grew out of the middle school mentality until after law school (which is debatable if he ever really did), at which point he marketed it to the glee of middle school kids and retarded adults everywhere.
I've actually met this guy and basically he' still a really immature prick who thinks going to a good school, having lots of money after being born into lots of money, and getting good grades justifies the fact that he has the mind of a child. If this fucking idiot died in a fire the world would genuinely be a better place.how old are you now? your past sounds exactly like where im at now, except im there later in my 20s. also i got the hpv vaccine and most the girls i know use the pill. but yea i dont really think im accomplishing more or less than anyone else, its just what gives me enjoyment at the moment
Old enough.
Good god I hope you're still wearing a condom. Not only does birth control fail, but you're basically trusting 18 years of your life and countless money to a college girl's ability to remember something (not a very good fucking wager from my experience in teaching). You also run a risk of HIV / AIDs, so you should stay celibate for at least a month and then be tested immediately. Remember, a lot of people who have HIV don't know they have it. Have a really bad flu recently? Not to freak you out, but there's responsibility that comes with sex.
Also, the HPV vaccine was not designed for men but they're encouraged to get it. There's no real evidence that it works in men and, moreover, it only protects you from about 4 - 7 strains of it if I remember correctly. There are way more strains of it that you can get, several of which are resistant to treatment.
It's not to say that sex ever stops being fun. I actually fucked a stranger I met online that I only knew for a few hours just today. It was awesome. But the thing is that I drilled her about how many partners she had, if she practices safe sex, and the usual. Even then, I fucked her with a condom on. Sex just isn't as important to me as when I was younger.also, what is your ideal life now that you have outgrown that phase?
That's the question I'm still trying to answer. I think that part of that answer (for me) is to always be striving for something. Furthermore, as I get older, I find that I'm striving for things that are less temporal. Money and sex are great, but they don't make a good life in and of themselves. In my case, I'm always striving for more knowledge and wisdom. At this point, I feel like I have more knowledge than wisdom, and it leads me to execute my knowledge in ways that are perhaps not the most wise. For this reason, I've been recently working on making wisdom a key goal.
And the end of the day though I can say with full confidence that, if I died right after sending this message, I would die a happy man. I've done and experienced so many wonderful things in my short life that I really can't be more thankful. I take this as a good sign I did it right. There are some things I'd like to change about myself, but that's part of the always striving thing. -
2016-02-05 at 1:50 AM UTCAlso, Mephistopheles did appear as a dog (a poodle) in many versions of the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCJaxOVZYTQ
I like this version because the Goetic Rituals are almost perfectly done. Someone did their homework. -
2016-02-05 at 5:06 AM UTC
Hmm.. I haven't read Faust in English so I just looked up some quotes and stuff in case I wanted to post here. Fuck languages.
​"So this then was the kernel of the brute". I have no idea what that' supposed to mean but in the German version it says "So das also war des Pudels Kern" which describes Mephisto's deceptive nature by comparing it to a poodle. That's one of the most quoted lines here. A kernel isn't a poodle, though, right? Isn't it a big dog? That would totally miss the point. Is it even a dog? Wut?
"pudles" is translated to "brute" here, which is kind of an archaic usage but on a literal reading any animal could be described as a brute. "kernel" means core or center, presumably referring to Mephisto's nature, as you put it. -
2016-02-05 at 5:16 AM UTC^lanny fix your website you pleb, I can't make any threads.
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2016-02-05 at 11:48 AM UTCI'm familiar with Dr. Faustus, yea. I live where he used to do his thing. I have no doubt that he existed. I had to look up Tucker Max, though. What the fuck, Bill Krozby? They are maybe both alcoholic assholes but Bukowski is something else. The other dude seems like a fratboy party dude with lots of money. Probably the opposite of ugly fuck Bukowski who lost his virginity at the age of 26 and hated everything.
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2016-02-05 at 12:14 PM UTC
I'm familiar with Dr. Faustus, yea. I live where he used to do his thing. I have no doubt that he existed. I had to look up Tucker Max, though. What the fuck, Bill Krozby? They are maybe both alcoholic assholes but Bukowski*is something else. The other dude seems like a fratboy party dude with lots of money. Probably the opposite of ugly fuck Bukowski who lost his virginity at the age of 26 and hated everything.
Loled at this. Also, you're in Germany? I had no idea.
On a related note, Tucker Max might be a little cooler if he started shooting up like Bukowski.
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I mean seriously, look at this douche. His face just makes you want to punch it. He's like almost 40 now making a living off of his FRAT BRO facade. -
2016-02-05 at 12:24 PM UTC
Loled at this. Also, you're in Germany? I had no idea.
On a related note, Tucker Max might be a little cooler if he started shooting up like Bukowski.
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I mean seriously, look at this douche. His face just makes you want to punch it. He's like almost 40 now making a living off of his FRAT BRO facade.
[FONT=helvetica]retarded girls are better because if you pee on them sometimes they just dont get it[/FONT]
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2016-02-05 at 1:12 PM UTCGerman to the max. With a hint of Gypsy. That brought the magic in, though. ;)
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2016-02-05 at 5:01 PM UTC
[FONT=helvetica]retarded girls are better because if you pee on them sometimes they just dont get it[/FONT]
Yeah but then you're the guy who gets laughed out of every college party for fucking retarded girls.
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2016-02-05 at 5:19 PM UTC
With a hint of Gypsy.
UNTERMENSCH!!!
You're not part of the glorious Germanic Herrenvolk you're just a pleb. -
2016-02-05 at 5:23 PM UTC
UNTERMENSCH!!!
Do you still shit in a bag?
You're not part of the glorious Germanic Herrenvolk you're just a pleb. -
2016-02-05 at 5:26 PM UTC
Do you still shit in a bag?
I never did. Get your facts straight, still doesn't change the fact you're part gypsy, hue hue hue. -
2016-02-05 at 5:28 PM UTCAnd proud of every ounce of it. I'll bare knuckle fight you anytime, anywhere for the pride of my people!
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2016-02-05 at 6:35 PM UTC
And proud of every ounce of it. I'll bare knuckle fight you anytime, anywhere for the pride of my people!
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Golden broooowwwnnn.... -
2016-02-05 at 7:04 PM UTC
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My 1960's flip phone can't open your pictures, bro.
Golden broooowwwnnn…. -
2016-02-06 at 1:43 AM UTCI'm not sure what it has to do with this thread but Bukowski was clearly the superior author. Although he may have been "simple" by some standards, just like jazz was the natural american form of music around which an intelligentsia formed, so too did Bukowski's authenticity immediately cement itself as foundational in the american, if not western, canon. Tucker Max is just a slightly-more-articulate-than-average hack who somehow embodies what would otherwise be considered a totally unrealistic caricature, practically a boogeyman, of our culture. Where Bukowski makes you weep for what he didn't say Max makes you cringe for what he did. Anyone who can raise enough hackles will get some temporary fame, but while controversy may have been becoming of Bukowski it wasn't his only trick. Bukowski is both immediately recognizable as a symbol of his time and, over half a century later, intimately familiar with elements of the american narrative that it's pretty much impossible to imagine frat-boy-pseudo-parody as even coming close to touching.
^lanny fix your website you pleb, I can't make any threads.
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2016-02-06 at 3:26 AM UTC^I will check, sorry for coming across as crass, I was ragin last night and really wanted to make a useful thread.
Though just to say I met tucker max irl, and he lives in my city, and he was actually a nice calm guy. I agree he's probably not the best writer but he is more genuine than most and just takes a lot of flak for his popularity
