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Nostalgia is one of the most powerful psychological sensations

It is a beautiful thing but can also be very dark and danger...
disturbing parlour degenerate
  02/27/26
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Oh, you retrieve?
  08/20/26
Isn't it from Greek meaning "home+pain"? Like, you...
trip beta doctorate goyim
  02/27/26
In Greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old woun...
Odious useless brakes cumskin
  02/27/26
I don't know I'm 69 IQ and don't know much ancient Greek ety...
disturbing parlour degenerate
  02/27/26
Being pulled in both directions at the same time, as tightly...
Multi-colored Legend Chad
  02/27/26
A lot of growing up is losing your innocence, which is why a...
trip beta doctorate goyim
  02/27/26
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Multi-colored Legend Chad
  02/27/26
Yes. But it's worse than Death. There is closure with real D...
disturbing parlour degenerate
  02/27/26
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Multi-colored Legend Chad
  02/27/26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1pYtoWL6c&list=RDwg1pY...
trip beta doctorate goyim
  02/27/26
Music makes it even worse. Never, ever play a song from the ...
disturbing parlour degenerate
  02/27/26
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Multi-colored Legend Chad
  02/27/26
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Multi-colored Legend Chad
  02/27/26
It’s definitely powerful
azure aphrodisiac knife genital piercing
  02/27/26
(don diaper)
Vivacious Principal's Office
  02/27/26
180
Multi-colored Legend Chad
  02/27/26
>I am not even going to try to describe it with words. It...
Multi-colored Legend Chad
  02/27/26
Ty I will look it up❤️
disturbing parlour degenerate
  02/27/26
:-)
Multi-colored Legend Chad
  02/27/26
Buddhism is probably CR on this. Nothing is permanent
dark home candlestick maker
  02/27/26
cr, thoo dark
Excitant Medicated Ratface Shitlib
  02/27/26
tp <3
Multi-colored Legend Chad
  02/27/26
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Excitant Medicated Ratface Shitlib
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Multi-colored Legend Chad
  02/27/26
Nostalgia is toxic subjectivity
Adventurous geriatric alpha
  02/27/26
Saudade The Portuguese word "saudade" is often co...
brindle up-to-no-good den dingle berry
  02/27/26
the unique thing about this word is that it originally refer...
high-end headpube stain
  02/28/26
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disturbing parlour degenerate
  02/28/26
My first job— I was in house at a fur company with thi...
Odious useless brakes cumskin
  02/28/26
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Odious useless brakes cumskin
  02/28/26
Yeah I've watched that scene. People think it's "really...
disturbing parlour degenerate
  02/28/26
"remember when" is the lowest form of conversation...
Wild idiot
  02/28/26
Hey T, remember when…
Judas Jones
  08/20/26
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a 1955 spiri...
Oh, you retrieve?
  08/20/26
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gibberish (?)
  08/20/26
wow
aryan marvel superhero
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Oh, you retrieve?
  08/20/26
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which is what makes time travel possible
  08/20/26
nostalgia is just remembrance of things and places that neve...
OYT was Right All Along
  08/20/26
i don't think this is accurate. in fact i am 100% sure it is...
aryan marvel superhero
  08/20/26
i believe it is literally the opposite
Metaphysics is Gay
  08/20/26
Accept it .
average/ordinary/typical citizen/person
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:12 PM
Author: disturbing parlour degenerate

It is a beautiful thing but can also be very dark and dangerous. The older I get the more I realize this and the more wary of it I become

Some of the most powerful emotions I have ever felt have been when I physically visited places from earlier in my life and have seen what they have become since then. "Bittersweet" does not even come close to capturing the full breadth of the emotion that is elicited. I am not even going to try to describe it with words. It is probably not possible, at least not for me. It is a powerful enough force that it causes physiological effects on me that I cannot consciously control, which is rare for me

Even now I struggle to come up with "analysis" to describe my feelings surrounding nostalgia. Pangs of joy, warmth, regret, confusion, resentment, fear. It is the only Nietzschean abyss that I am too afraid to fully look into. Because I don't believe that I could handle what is in there if I was to confront it with the entirety of my Being

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700497)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:24 PM
Author: Oh, you retrieve?



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:27 PM
Author: trip beta doctorate goyim

Isn't it from Greek meaning "home+pain"? Like, you return to your home after a long absence and feel pain.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700555)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:38 PM
Author: Odious useless brakes cumskin

In Greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700585)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:39 PM
Author: disturbing parlour degenerate

I don't know I'm 69 IQ and don't know much ancient Greek etymology. But that sounds right

No one warns you about just how powerful nostalgia is. Everyone is always like haha yeah wow nostalgia, everyone remembers the good ol days you know. But it's not like that. It's an unbelievably powerful biochemical sensation, like sharing a passionate kiss in a whirlwind romance or embracing a friend after making it through trials and tribulations together

When I see what has been done to the places that were once such an important part of my life and the lives of others I loved, it fills me with such an overwhelming sense of love but also overwhelming loss. Being pulled in both directions at the same time, as tightly as my heart can be pulled

It is a psychic assault that I am helpless against. Like a form of rape

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700591)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:40 PM
Author: Multi-colored Legend Chad

Being pulled in both directions at the same time, as tightly as my heart can be pulled

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700592)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: trip beta doctorate goyim

A lot of growing up is losing your innocence, which is why as a parent, you protect your children's innocence. So when you go back to these places and remember back to a different time, it's like you realize you're dealing with the loss of a child, not so much that the child literally died, but that the child/teen/young adult/whatever is gone and never coming back.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700607)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM
Author: Multi-colored Legend Chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700613)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:54 PM
Author: disturbing parlour degenerate

Yes. But it's worse than Death. There is closure with real Death. It's not like the death of a loved one, who really is gone and never coming back, and who you can always remember as who they really were

That place of nostalgia is *still there* - a twisted, mutated form of it still exists, in the world that you live in today. And when you are physically in the midst of it, you can feel the arms of the place you once loved reaching out to embrace you, and the sinister tentacles of its new mutated form trying to ensnare you as well

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700628)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:54 PM
Author: Multi-colored Legend Chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700629)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:50 PM
Author: trip beta doctorate goyim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1pYtoWL6c&list=RDwg1pYtoWL6c&start_radio=1

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700799)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:54 PM
Author: disturbing parlour degenerate

Music makes it even worse. Never, ever play a song from the era or that's associated with a place that you're visiting from your past. It's like a drug cocktail that will be too powerful for you to handle. I did this once at a place that I used to go with a high school girlfriend and I ended up curled up in a ball and crying in the back seat of my vehicle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700811)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 6:54 PM
Author: Multi-colored Legend Chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700904)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:35 PM
Author: Multi-colored Legend Chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700571)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:38 PM
Author: azure aphrodisiac knife genital piercing

It’s definitely powerful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700587)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:41 PM
Author: Vivacious Principal's Office

(don diaper)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700595)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM
Author: Multi-colored Legend Chad

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700611)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: Multi-colored Legend Chad

>I am not even going to try to describe it with words. It is probably not possible, at least not for me.

I think you'd unironically like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly if you haven't read it, my brother in poasting and soul searching - it's short and sweet and easily read in one sitting. (I also love the movie FWIW)

For some reason that's always what I think of when it comes to experiencing things that go far beyond words, even internal unspoken words, yet are also far more real than words can describe in any context - as in, not just real in terms of deeply felt and experienced, but real in the sense of the ultimate reality we're living in and seeing / sensing through a glass darkly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700609)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:55 PM
Author: disturbing parlour degenerate

Ty I will look it up❤️

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700633)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:55 PM
Author: Multi-colored Legend Chad

:-)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700634)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM
Author: dark home candlestick maker

Buddhism is probably CR on this. Nothing is permanent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700612)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:20 PM
Author: Excitant Medicated Ratface Shitlib

cr, thoo dark

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700728)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:20 PM
Author: Multi-colored Legend Chad

tp <3

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700731)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:26 PM
Author: Excitant Medicated Ratface Shitlib



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700759)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:26 PM
Author: Multi-colored Legend Chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700763)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 6:39 PM
Author: Adventurous geriatric alpha

Nostalgia is toxic subjectivity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49700881)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 7:46 PM
Author: brindle up-to-no-good den dingle berry

Saudade

The Portuguese word "saudade" is often considered not directly translateable into English due to its complex emotional connotations. It denotes a deep, melancholic longing for something or someone that is absent, often carrying a sense of bittersweet nostalgia. While it captures feelings of loss and longing, it does not have a straightforward equivalent in English, as it encompasses nuances of love and memory that are uniquely tied to Portuguese culture.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49701000)



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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:11 PM
Author: high-end headpube stain

the unique thing about this word is that it originally referred to the feelings of loss and uncertainty about sailors who never returned. it's darker and more complicated than nostalgia. it's like an endless state of "i still love him, he's probably dead, but maybe he'll come back?" like something the parent of a disappeared child must feel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49703464)



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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:14 PM
Author: disturbing parlour degenerate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49703470)



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Date: February 28th, 2026 11:37 AM
Author: Odious useless brakes cumskin

My first job— I was in house at a fur company with this old pro copywriter–Greek– named Teddy. And Teddy told me the most important idea in advertising is ‘new.’ Creates an itch. You simply put your product in there as a kind of calamine lotion. But he also talked about a deeper bond with the product—nostalgia. It’s delicate, but potent.

Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49702312)



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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: Odious useless brakes cumskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49703426)



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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:05 PM
Author: disturbing parlour degenerate

Yeah I've watched that scene. People think it's "really good" but I don't think it's good at all. It's just dumb and cynical and Jewish

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49703439)



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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: Wild idiot

"remember when" is the lowest form of conversation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49703449)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:38 PM
Author: Judas Jones

Hey T, remember when…

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50081656)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:25 PM
Author: Oh, you retrieve?

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a 1955 spiritual memoir by C. S. Lewis that chronicles his journey from a traditional childhood in Belfast through youthful atheism and back to Christianity.

Definition of Joy (Sehnsucht): Lewis defines "joy" not as a simple emotion or happiness, but as an intense, bittersweet longing or ache-an unsatisfied desire that is more desirable than any satisfaction.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50081623)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: gibberish (?)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: aryan marvel superhero

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50081632)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:34 PM
Author: Oh, you retrieve?



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:33 PM
Author: which is what makes time travel possible



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:35 PM
Author: OYT was Right All Along ( )

nostalgia is just remembrance of things and places that never actually existed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50081645)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: aryan marvel superhero

i don't think this is accurate. in fact i am 100% sure it isn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50081805)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Gay

i believe it is literally the opposite

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50081806)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 9:20 PM
Author: average/ordinary/typical citizen/person

Accept it .

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50081811)