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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...
cerebral sickened toaster lay
  02/27/26
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razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship
  08/20/26
Isn't it from Greek meaning "home+pain"? Like, you...
buff 180 ladyboy den
  02/27/26
In Greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old woun...
Razzle pozpig athletic conference
  02/27/26
I don't know I'm 69 IQ and don't know much ancient Greek ety...
cerebral sickened toaster lay
  02/27/26
Being pulled in both directions at the same time, as tightly...
razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship
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A lot of growing up is losing your innocence, which is why a...
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razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship
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Yes. But it's worse than Death. There is closure with real D...
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razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1pYtoWL6c&list=RDwg1pY...
buff 180 ladyboy den
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Music makes it even worse. Never, ever play a song from the ...
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razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship
  02/27/26
It’s definitely powerful
motley shimmering crackhouse dog poop
  02/27/26
(don diaper)
Glittery deranged parlor
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180
razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship
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>I am not even going to try to describe it with words. It...
razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship
  02/27/26
Ty I will look it up❤️
cerebral sickened toaster lay
  02/27/26
:-)
razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship
  02/27/26
Buddhism is probably CR on this. Nothing is permanent
dead yapping gaming laptop office
  02/27/26
cr, thoo dark
black theatre
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tp <3
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razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship
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Nostalgia is toxic subjectivity
Violent misanthropic point
  02/27/26
Saudade The Portuguese word "saudade" is often co...
charismatic purple principal's office dysfunction
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the unique thing about this word is that it originally refer...
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My first job— I was in house at a fur company with thi...
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Yeah I've watched that scene. People think it's "really...
cerebral sickened toaster lay
  02/28/26
"remember when" is the lowest form of conversation...
Harsh cream set
  02/28/26
Hey T, remember when…
crystalline marvelous quadroon rigpig
  08/20/26
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a 1955 spiri...
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Ebony Unholy Sneaky Criminal
  08/20/26
wow
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lime chapel
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nostalgia is just remembrance of things and places that neve...
brindle menage
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i don't think this is accurate. in fact i am 100% sure it is...
cerebral sickened toaster lay
  08/20/26
i believe it is literally the opposite
thriller famous landscape painting
  08/20/26
Accept it .
bronze learning disabled philosopher-king
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:12 PM
Author: cerebral sickened toaster lay

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=2Elisa#49700497)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:24 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:27 PM
Author: buff 180 ladyboy den

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=2Elisa#49700555)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:38 PM
Author: Razzle pozpig athletic conference

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=2Elisa#49700585)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:39 PM
Author: cerebral sickened toaster lay

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=2Elisa#49700591)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:40 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship

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=2Elisa#49700592)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: buff 180 ladyboy den

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=2Elisa#49700607)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:54 PM
Author: cerebral sickened toaster lay

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=2Elisa#49700628)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:54 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:50 PM
Author: buff 180 ladyboy den

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

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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:54 PM
Author: cerebral sickened toaster lay

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=2Elisa#49700811)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 6:54 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:35 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:38 PM
Author: motley shimmering crackhouse dog poop

It’s definitely powerful

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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:41 PM
Author: Glittery deranged parlor

(don diaper)

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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship

180

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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship

>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=2Elisa#49700609)



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:55 PM
Author: cerebral sickened toaster lay

Ty I will look it up❤️

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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:55 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship

:-)

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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM
Author: dead yapping gaming laptop office

Buddhism is probably CR on this. Nothing is permanent

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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:20 PM
Author: black theatre

cr, thoo dark

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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:20 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship

tp <3

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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:26 PM
Author: black theatre



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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:26 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship



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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 6:39 PM
Author: Violent misanthropic point

Nostalgia is toxic subjectivity

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



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Date: February 27th, 2026 7:46 PM
Author: charismatic purple principal's office dysfunction

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=2Elisa#49701000)



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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:11 PM
Author: Bull Headed Locale Becky

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=2Elisa#49703464)



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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:14 PM
Author: cerebral sickened toaster lay



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



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Date: February 28th, 2026 11:37 AM
Author: Razzle pozpig athletic conference

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=2Elisa#49702312)



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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: Razzle pozpig athletic conference



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



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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:05 PM
Author: cerebral sickened toaster lay

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=2Elisa#49703439)



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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: Harsh cream set

"remember when" is the lowest form of conversation.

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



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:38 PM
Author: crystalline marvelous quadroon rigpig

Hey T, remember when…

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



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:25 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship

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=2Elisa#50081623)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: Ebony Unholy Sneaky Criminal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2Elisa#50081629)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: cerebral sickened toaster lay

wow

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



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:34 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle bistre cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2Elisa#50081644)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:33 PM
Author: lime chapel



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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:35 PM
Author: brindle menage

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

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



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Date: August 20th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: cerebral sickened toaster lay

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=2Elisa#50081805)



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Date: August 20th, 2026 9:18 PM
Author: thriller famous landscape painting

i believe it is literally the opposite

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



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Date: August 20th, 2026 9:20 PM
Author: bronze learning disabled philosopher-king

Accept it .

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