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Life is an emotional Ponzi scheme

We enter adulthood and realize that life is without meaning ...
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these emotional rationalizations you cite were put in place ...
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i am correct and u know it
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still the boomers' fault
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how does finding a SO factor into this emotional balance she...
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well holy fucking shit.
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XO: the intersection of depression and autism. Thanks for t...
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harshest post ive ever read.
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(deranged shitlib)
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Most people are divorced and miserable
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Yes, it's more of a Pyramid scheme. Nonetheless, very well s...
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I enjoy raising my children, yes, but often I wonder if it's...
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I'm the bort dumb, but I know what you're saying. I still th...
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Props for the honesty here brother
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Don't get me wrong... I really do LOVE my kids. I strive to ...
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Should I have kids bro?
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The difference is people were religious and thought there wa...
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc?
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This is the Xo 2026 manifesto
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this is one of the few XO threads that has stuck with me lon...
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180 needs to be stickied
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This is why I dont read xo in the morning
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I really liek it here. *places mouthhold over 10g*
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PLEASE FUCKING STICKY THIS ALREADY
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twins, are you the OP?
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Nah, I wish. Outstanding OP.
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But, then I happen to know that there's a little Ataraxic on...
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The ataraxia abides.
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for all of the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS of human histo...
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Letting the thought of the eventual end of humanity demora...
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Only way to break the cycle is to kill yourself.
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Won't work brother. He already had kids.
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isn't the OP what everyone with a brain realizes by like age...
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This is dumb. Ponzi schemes are inherently fraudulent, so of...
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ponzi schemes are not inherently fraudulent - they only beco...
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Date: March 29th, 2016 11:23 PM
Author: primrose station

We enter adulthood and realize that life is without meaning or worth, but remain in emotional debt to those who raised us, our families, our friends, or anyone else who made an emotional investment in us, and who would feel sorrow if we were to kill ourselves. Thus we cannot kill ourselves if we wish to bring no sorrow upon those who invested in us, even if we think life not worth it for ourselves – we must live to repay our emotional debts, and to justify and satisfy others’ investments.

Most then address their emotional debt by starting families and having children in whom to make emotional investments of their own. They make themselves emotionally solvent by creating emotional equity in another human being, who will in time come to realize the meaninglessness of his own life, but who will himself be indebted to his parents. Individuals thus satisfy their emotional debt by drawing down on the emotional debt of their children, who must then address their own emotional debts in turn. And the process repeats itself.

It may be Pareto optimal with respect to future generations to escape the continual process of debt repayment and painlessly destroy the human race.

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Date: March 30th, 2016 3:59 PM
Author: maroon crotch chapel



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Date: April 16th, 2016 3:10 AM
Author: Hairless hairy legs party of the first part

TCR

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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:32 AM
Author: Racy Forum Background Story

180

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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:36 AM
Author: razzmatazz roast beef institution



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:40 AM
Author: Chestnut Philosopher-king Half-breed

these emotional rationalizations you cite were put in place by evolution in order to spread dna and perpetuate the species. Your emotions are tools for dna to perpetuate itself. Human emotions were evolved to spread dna.

and furthermore, research shows that life itself is the most efficient mechanism of dispersing heat, meaning life is a solution for thermodynamic efficiency...so genetics (and evolution itself) are most likely simply another way for the universe to achieve the lowest possible energy (all matter seeks to achieve the lowest possible energy level).



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Date: July 24th, 2021 11:49 AM
Author: lilac mad-dog skullcap indirect expression

lol

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Date: December 2nd, 2021 6:18 AM
Author: Chestnut Philosopher-king Half-breed

i am correct and u know it

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Date: March 29th, 2016 11:26 PM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office

Dark

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Date: March 29th, 2016 11:40 PM
Author: Swollen charcoal athletic conference cruise ship



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Date: March 30th, 2016 12:34 AM
Author: primrose station



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Date: March 30th, 2016 12:35 AM
Author: transparent site



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Date: March 30th, 2016 12:36 AM
Author: vivacious brass shrine sound barrier

also a sexual pyramid scheme

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Date: March 30th, 2016 12:38 AM
Author: provocative indian lodge

still the boomers' fault

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Date: March 30th, 2016 1:26 PM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



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Date: May 13th, 2016 10:59 PM
Author: Big smoky nursing home toilet seat



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Date: March 31st, 2020 4:29 PM
Author: mind-boggling state sneaky criminal



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Date: March 30th, 2016 1:28 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration

Sadly credited

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Date: March 30th, 2016 2:31 PM
Author: Swollen charcoal athletic conference cruise ship



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Date: March 30th, 2016 2:35 PM
Author: Hateful genital piercing coffee pot

credited

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Date: March 30th, 2016 2:36 PM
Author: French costumed jew new version

holyshit

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Date: May 23rd, 2016 3:42 AM
Author: cerise business firm



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Date: March 30th, 2016 2:39 PM
Author: Crystalline Gaping Crackhouse



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Date: March 30th, 2016 2:53 PM
Author: concupiscible organic girlfriend



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Date: March 30th, 2016 2:54 PM
Author: Cheese-eating Sexy Volcanic Crater Abode



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Date: March 30th, 2016 4:02 PM
Author: Adventurous Prole Lettuce

FUCK MY ASS

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Date: March 30th, 2016 4:07 PM
Author: aphrodisiac church building main people

jfc.

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Date: March 30th, 2016 8:52 PM
Author: primrose station



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Date: March 30th, 2016 9:21 PM
Author: Swollen charcoal athletic conference cruise ship



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Date: March 31st, 2016 9:53 PM
Author: misunderstood space

the idea that we owe our parents grandchildren + owe our society marriage/children + need kids to be happy + need kids to be pious + stigmatize alternative lifestyles + define people by their jobs = exactly the kind of values that you would expect in the world's dominant societies.

societies that don't adhere to these values are quickly outbred, overrun, and forced into the hills by those that do.

these values have nothing to do with truth and everything to do with self-perpetuation.

viewed in this light, culture and ideology are revealed as scams. when you adhere to them, they use you for their purposes. you are molded into a part to be used for the machinations of others.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30179345)



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Date: April 16th, 2016 3:18 AM
Author: cream hairraiser school cafeteria



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30284692)



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Date: May 13th, 2016 11:00 PM
Author: Big smoky nursing home toilet seat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30474752)



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Date: March 31st, 2016 9:56 PM
Author: marvelous frozen mad cow disease alpha

how does finding a SO factor into this emotional balance sheet? Must we indebt them to our emotional needs, master?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30179371)



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Date: April 1st, 2016 5:43 PM
Author: sickened gaped karate

well holy fucking shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30184419)



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Date: April 13th, 2016 8:49 PM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30267520)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:35 AM
Author: Big smoky nursing home toilet seat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537333)



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Date: April 1st, 2016 5:43 PM
Author: Diverse lay halford

this thread smells of NEET

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30184423)



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Date: April 1st, 2016 7:37 PM
Author: Sick excitant mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30185012)



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Date: February 13th, 2018 11:56 PM
Author: Maize orchestra pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#35398517)



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Date: April 1st, 2016 10:17 PM
Author: Know-it-all Histrionic Elastic Band Jewess



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30185985)



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Date: April 1st, 2016 10:29 PM
Author: fighting psychic set

hmmm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30186051)



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Date: April 7th, 2016 8:43 AM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30219606)



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Date: April 13th, 2016 9:43 PM
Author: provocative indian lodge



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30268094)



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Date: April 16th, 2016 3:09 AM
Author: Swollen charcoal athletic conference cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30284670)



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Date: April 16th, 2016 3:10 AM
Author: Curious property coldplay fan

titcr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30284678)



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Date: April 23rd, 2016 12:15 AM
Author: Hateful genital piercing coffee pot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30329699)



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Date: May 13th, 2016 10:50 PM
Author: primrose station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30474680)



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Date: May 13th, 2016 10:59 PM
Author: Big smoky nursing home toilet seat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30474737)



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Date: May 13th, 2016 11:08 PM
Author: Hateful genital piercing coffee pot

reminder

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30474803)



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Date: May 13th, 2016 11:15 PM
Author: Big smoky nursing home toilet seat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30474846)



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Date: May 16th, 2016 11:29 AM
Author: razzmatazz roast beef institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30489097)



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Date: May 16th, 2016 1:47 PM
Author: Galvanic fluffy stage mental disorder

XO: the intersection of depression and autism. Thanks for the poast, Mr. Rodger.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30490014)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:34 AM
Author: Big smoky nursing home toilet seat

harshest post ive ever read.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537330)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:37 AM
Author: Mischievous chartreuse home regret

(deranged shitlib)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537341)



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Date: December 2nd, 2020 6:37 PM
Author: Mischievous chartreuse home regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#41475134)



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Date: November 23rd, 2021 10:36 AM
Author: Mischievous chartreuse home regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#43494246)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:38 AM
Author: vibrant buck-toothed bawdyhouse mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537345)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:40 AM
Author: razzmatazz roast beef institution

Most people are divorced and miserable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537352)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:41 AM
Author: Racy Forum Background Story

Yes, it's more of a Pyramid scheme. Nonetheless, very well said and truthful.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537354)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:44 AM
Author: vibrant buck-toothed bawdyhouse mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537365)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:50 AM
Author: Racy Forum Background Story

I enjoy raising my children, yes, but often I wonder if it's worth the emotional and financial investment. Yes, I'd do anything for them and am accountable to and for them, but I sometimes wish I had never had them. Especially now that I'm divorced and have to deal with their mother.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537385)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:53 AM
Author: vibrant buck-toothed bawdyhouse mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537399)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 2:08 AM
Author: Racy Forum Background Story

I'm the bort dumb, but I know what you're saying. I still think that the post has SCHOLARSHIP and merit. True, it isn't a Ponzi Scheme, but anecdotally the premise has merit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537481)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 2:03 AM
Author: razzmatazz roast beef institution

Props for the honesty here brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537461)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 2:10 AM
Author: Racy Forum Background Story

Don't get me wrong... I really do LOVE my kids. I strive to be an excellent father, but, admittedly, I often find myself dreaming just buying a sailboat and exploring the world, and not having to pay child support despite having 50/50 custody.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537487)



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Date: March 1st, 2017 12:52 AM
Author: Demanding bateful windowlicker national

Should I have kids bro?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#32724965)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 1:53 AM
Author: Fantasy-prone Heaven Nibblets

that's a nested false dichotomy.

which is in a way as misanthropic.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30537400)



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Date: August 22nd, 2016 9:40 AM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31241579)



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Date: May 23rd, 2016 8:59 PM
Author: Hateful genital piercing coffee pot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30543161)



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Date: May 28th, 2016 6:47 PM
Author: razzmatazz roast beef institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30578125)



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Date: June 13th, 2016 11:45 PM
Author: Hateful genital piercing coffee pot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30697534)



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Date: July 12th, 2016 4:35 PM
Author: Thriller yarmulke place of business



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30911209)



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Date: July 12th, 2016 5:11 PM
Author: Big smoky nursing home toilet seat

please someone for the love of god make a strong counter to the OP!!



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30911533)



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Date: October 15th, 2016 12:13 AM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office

It's only fault is it fails to really account the knowing malice in the reproduction of this heinous cycle.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31645385)



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Date: October 15th, 2016 1:55 PM
Author: duck-like navy hunting ground plaza

Boomers fault is both a LOL response and a credited one. Basically for millennia all people had a very keen sense of life purpose that was pushed forward by various non-trivial threats to their continued existence. The second half of the 20th century version of capitalism has substituted consumer buying power as an economic benefit when a full-fledged middle class became a lasting feature of developed economies, while simultaneously greatly decreasing access to meaningful work in all developed nations, but especially in the US. You guys wouldn't be such emo fags if you still had 6 hours or manual labor to perform or you'd risk disrupting your family's food supply or making everyone in your household sleep in the cold. XO Ted's take is arguably more credited and less nihilistic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31647865)



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Date: March 1st, 2017 12:26 AM
Author: light painfully honest people who are hurt

There really should be a name for this sort of fallacious "for millenia people were ok then x happened" thinking. Life has always been full of randomness, cruelty and doubt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#32724813)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 10:04 AM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34500829)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 10:11 AM
Author: Demanding bateful windowlicker national

The difference is people were religious and thought there was a higher purpose. Now with science and GC we realize there isnt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34500855)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 10:13 AM
Author: Lavender abusive stag film

Post hoc ergo propter hoc?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34500861)



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Date: July 12th, 2016 6:07 PM
Author: Adventurous Prole Lettuce

This is the Xo 2026 manifesto

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#30911992)



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Date: August 22nd, 2016 12:50 AM
Author: fishy affirmative action chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31240075)



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Date: August 22nd, 2016 9:38 AM
Author: Chestnut Philosopher-king Half-breed



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31241569)



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Date: October 14th, 2016 11:35 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31645237)



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Date: October 15th, 2016 10:46 AM
Author: Chestnut Philosopher-king Half-breed



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31646496)



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Date: October 15th, 2016 12:45 PM
Author: Violent Soul-stirring International Law Enforcement Agency Theater

I've always thought that this is what "All men must serve" is really getting at in GoT. You're here to serve an evolutionary force far greater than yourself, and no amount of high IQ analysis can break you out of that fate. The skip stones/do cocaine poast is TCR.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31647233)



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Date: October 15th, 2016 1:18 PM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office

Link?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31647502)



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Date: October 15th, 2016 1:30 PM
Author: Violent Soul-stirring International Law Enforcement Agency Theater

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2074023&mc=3&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31647627)



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Date: October 18th, 2016 10:29 PM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office

Hmmm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31674285)



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Date: October 18th, 2016 10:30 PM
Author: Hateful genital piercing coffee pot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31674291)



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Date: November 24th, 2016 10:12 AM
Author: Adventurous Prole Lettuce

Happy Thanksgiving!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#31982748)



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Date: November 23rd, 2021 10:36 AM
Author: walnut boiling water idea he suggested



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#43494253)



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Date: December 4th, 2016 7:58 PM
Author: Massive water buffalo church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#32056435)



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Date: March 1st, 2017 12:22 AM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#32724771)



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Date: March 1st, 2017 8:17 PM
Author: Demanding bateful windowlicker national



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#32731148)



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Date: March 1st, 2017 8:19 PM
Author: indecent university

I love this thread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#32731156)



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Date: July 2nd, 2017 7:30 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33691131)



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Date: March 22nd, 2017 10:03 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor

this is one of the few XO threads that has stuck with me long term.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#32893377)



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Date: May 4th, 2017 6:43 AM
Author: Pink exciting step-uncle's house french chef

180

needs to be stickied

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33227312)



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Date: September 13th, 2020 12:51 AM
Author: mind-boggling state sneaky criminal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#40911566)



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Date: May 4th, 2017 6:25 AM
Author: indecent university



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33227298)



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Date: May 4th, 2017 7:06 AM
Author: greedy pozpig resort

This is why I dont read xo in the morning

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33227350)



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Date: June 16th, 2017 8:30 AM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration

Gooood morning xoxo!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33571254)



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Date: June 16th, 2017 9:20 AM
Author: mildly autistic base trust fund



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33571460)



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Date: July 2nd, 2017 7:15 PM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33691047)



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Date: June 16th, 2017 9:21 AM
Author: mildly autistic base trust fund

I really liek it here. *places mouthhold over 10g*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33571468)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 7:38 AM
Author: Apoplectic queen of the night tattoo

come back isc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34500435)



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Date: July 2nd, 2017 7:07 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33691003)



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Date: July 2nd, 2017 7:14 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33691042)



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Date: July 2nd, 2017 7:29 PM
Author: Pink exciting step-uncle's house french chef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33691126)



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Date: July 3rd, 2017 2:14 AM
Author: self-absorbed coral garrison faggot firefighter



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33693894)



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Date: July 22nd, 2017 1:44 PM
Author: Iridescent fat ankles



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33830767)



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Date: July 22nd, 2017 1:45 PM
Author: Pink exciting step-uncle's house french chef

PLEASE FUCKING STICKY THIS ALREADY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#33830772)



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Date: October 17th, 2017 4:45 AM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34460876)



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Date: August 20th, 2017 2:17 PM
Author: Iridescent fat ankles



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34031580)



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Date: August 30th, 2017 8:20 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34103993)



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Date: October 3rd, 2017 11:03 AM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34355312)



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Date: October 17th, 2017 4:42 AM
Author: Pink exciting step-uncle's house french chef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34460868)



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Date: October 18th, 2017 12:44 PM
Author: Diverse lay halford

twins, are you the OP?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34470921)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 8:35 AM
Author: Lavender abusive stag film

Nah, I wish. Outstanding OP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34500559)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 9:26 AM
Author: Chestnut Philosopher-king Half-breed

But, then I happen to know that there's a little Ataraxic on the way.

I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself down through the generations.

Westward the wagons, across the sands of time until we ... ah, look at me. I'm ramblin' again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34500705)



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Date: October 22nd, 2017 9:34 AM
Author: Lavender abusive stag film

The ataraxia abides.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34500734)



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Date: October 26th, 2017 10:23 PM
Author: Useless Bisexual Pocket Flask



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34538075)



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Date: November 17th, 2017 4:00 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34711630)



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Date: November 27th, 2017 6:55 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34784472)



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Date: November 27th, 2017 6:55 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34784474)



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Date: December 16th, 2017 4:29 PM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#34936585)



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Date: February 13th, 2018 11:53 AM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#35392843)



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Date: February 13th, 2018 12:07 PM
Author: Maize orchestra pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#35392930)



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Date: March 7th, 2018 12:16 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#35553625)



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Date: March 7th, 2018 12:48 PM
Author: burgundy personal credit line kitty

for all of the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS of human history until LESS THAN SIXTY YEARS ago, humans didn't think very abstractly about having children or about the emotional fulfillment of having children or whatever the fuck bullshit you're talking about. they fucked and there was no such thing as a birth control pill so babies happened. there's no emotional debt at play when stray cats make babies in your driveway. you're an idiot if you think there's anything more to human reproduction than that. your "thoughts" and "feelings" and all this bullshit you posted are stories you tell yourself to try to make peace with impulses too deep to be unrooted

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3180134&forum_id=2Reputation#35553808)



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Date: March 7th, 2018 12:51 PM
Author: electric poppy persian immigrant

Letting the thought of the eventual end of humanity demoralize us would thus be a terrible mistake. It is in large part because many human lives have been flooded with self-standing goods that humanity is not a Ponzi scheme. The kind of value that properly calls forth joy is not something that waits to be validated by the collective life to come. As a consequence, we already live in a rich ecology of value that surrounds us here and now, no matter what happens in the future. Take a look and see: both the weaker and the stronger claim seem refuted by manifestly legitimate joy, which is one form, indeed a highly valuable form, of the recognition of value here, already, in our lives.

http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/mark-johnston-samuel-scheffler-death-afterlife-humanity-ponzi-scheme

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Date: July 1st, 2018 11:40 PM
Author: tan temple



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Date: July 1st, 2018 11:42 PM
Author: Territorial menage

I think of this thread all the time, especially now that I have kids.

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Date: October 9th, 2018 1:23 PM
Author: Territorial menage

Only way to break the cycle is to kill yourself.

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Date: September 1st, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: Irradiated Piazza Circlehead

Won't work brother. He already had kids.

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Date: July 31st, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: Pink exciting step-uncle's house french chef



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Date: August 6th, 2018 12:06 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration



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Date: November 10th, 2018 10:40 PM
Author: Pink exciting step-uncle's house french chef



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Date: June 21st, 2019 2:57 PM
Author: Territorial menage



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Date: June 21st, 2019 3:00 PM
Author: mind-boggling state sneaky criminal



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Date: August 5th, 2019 4:43 PM
Author: mind-boggling state sneaky criminal



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Date: August 5th, 2019 5:38 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Honey-headed Lodge

isn't the OP what everyone with a brain realizes by like age 25?

there's nothing inherently wrong with ponzi schemes. they're only A Bad Thing when you run out of capital. the ponzi scheme of the human condition is only A Bad Thing when children no longer can expect to live better lives than their parents (when you run out of new capital to pay off old debts)

and that's exactly what we're seeing today in the west - the ponzi scheme collapsing in real time as white people realize that for the first time in 1500 years, their quality of life will be worse than that of their ancestors

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Date: August 13th, 2019 4:40 PM
Author: onyx cruel-hearted address internal respiration

This is dumb. Ponzi schemes are inherently fraudulent, so of course they are wrong.

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Date: September 3rd, 2019 1:22 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Honey-headed Lodge

ponzi schemes are not inherently fraudulent - they only become fraudulent when there's no longer new inputs to pay for the outputs

see: our entire socioeconomic system

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Date: November 8th, 2023 5:14 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Honey-headed Lodge



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Date: August 13th, 2019 4:31 PM
Author: mind-boggling state sneaky criminal



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Date: August 13th, 2019 4:38 PM
Author: Territorial menage

I shared this during a counseling session and there was a lot of resistance.

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Date: August 13th, 2019 4:45 PM
Author: Avocado hell

shockingly low-iq post. life doesn't have any external meaning, but men can think abstractly and give their own lives meaning. for some, that means raising a family and repaying all of the love they received; for others, it means dedicating themselves to a particular goal or craft; for others, it's a combination. the philosophy 101 retard will obviously look at those scenarios and say, "but those things are worthless/those things have no inherent meaning." no fucking shit, idiot. nothing has inherent meaning. but when you dedicate yourself to something noble that fulfills you, it means everything *to you*.

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Date: October 7th, 2019 11:49 AM
Author: boyish son of senegal

(Guy pitching the fraud to the next sucker)

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Date: December 2nd, 2021 6:16 AM
Author: Chestnut Philosopher-king Half-breed



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Date: August 17th, 2019 2:31 PM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



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Date: September 25th, 2019 10:18 PM
Author: Pink exciting step-uncle's house french chef



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Date: October 7th, 2019 11:48 AM
Author: boyish son of senegal



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Date: October 30th, 2019 11:40 AM
Author: Pink exciting step-uncle's house french chef



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Date: November 27th, 2019 8:35 PM
Author: Pink exciting step-uncle's house french chef



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Date: November 27th, 2019 8:51 PM
Author: aromatic hyperactive school private investor

thanks for bumping this thread and ruining my weekend

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Date: January 13th, 2020 1:24 PM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office

Let’s go!

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Date: September 13th, 2020 12:39 AM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



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Date: March 27th, 2020 1:33 AM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



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Date: March 31st, 2020 4:06 PM
Author: mind-boggling state sneaky criminal



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Date: April 23rd, 2020 9:31 PM
Author: mind-boggling state sneaky criminal



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Date: April 24th, 2020 12:04 PM
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Date: April 26th, 2020 12:12 PM
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Date: April 27th, 2020 3:11 PM
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Date: September 12th, 2020 10:47 PM
Author: mind-boggling state sneaky criminal



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Date: September 13th, 2020 12:33 AM
Author: marvelous frozen mad cow disease alpha

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Date: November 1st, 2020 8:19 PM
Author: mind-boggling state sneaky criminal



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Date: November 13th, 2020 4:39 PM
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Date: November 13th, 2020 4:41 PM
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Date: December 2nd, 2020 6:34 PM
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Date: August 10th, 2021 4:02 PM
Author: aromatic hyperactive school private investor

Or maybe we enter adulthood and see it as an opportunity to blaze our own novel path with a newfound freedom to shape our lives and communities in the way we see fit. Then we can find and start our own little community with companions who share our values and live out enriching lives together while passing on these beliefs to the next generation of trailblazers.

- Yann Perrod

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Date: November 23rd, 2021 10:35 AM
Author: walnut boiling water idea he suggested

tbf, no one does this.

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Date: November 23rd, 2021 10:33 AM
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Date: December 2nd, 2021 4:02 AM
Author: crimson theatre

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/#InfSem

2.2 Infinite Semiosis

As previously noted, part and parcel of Peirce's early account of signs is that an infinity of further signs both proceed and precede from any given sign. This is a consequence of the way Peirce thinks of the elements of signs at this early stage and seems to stem from his idea that interpretants are to count as further signs, and signs are interpretants of earlier signs. Since any sign must determine an interpretant in order to count as a sign, and interpretants are themselves signs, infinite chains of signs seem to become conceptually necessary.

To see this, imagine a chain of signs with either a first or a last sign. The final sign that terminates the semiotic process will have no interpretant; if it did, that interpretant would function as a further sign and generate a further interpretant, and the final sign would, in fact, not terminate the process. However, since any sign must determine an interpretant to count as a sign, the final sign would not be a sign unless it had an interpretant. Similarly, a first sign could not be the interpretant of a preceding sign. If it were, that previous sign would be the first sign. However, since any sign must be an interpretant of a previous sign, a first sign would not be a sign unless it was also an interpretant of a previous sign. The problem is that if we allow a final sign with no interpretant, or a first sign which is not the interpretant or some earlier sign, then we have failed signs in the semiotic process. This affects the rest of the semiotic chain causing something like a collapse of dominoes. For example, if the final sign fails to be a sign in virtue of generating no interpretant, then since that failed sign is supposed to act as the interpretant of the previous sign and function as a further sign in its own right, it has also failed to be an interpretant. The consequence of this is that the previous sign has failed to generate a proper interpretant and so failed to be a sign. The consequence of this is that…and so on. The alternative is not to countenance terminating signs. And obviously, if we cannot end the semiotic process then signs continue generating signs ad infinitum.

Peirce was both aware and untroubled by infinite semiosis. In part, this is due to the anti-Cartesian project carried out in Peirce's work in the 1860s. A significant part of this project for Peirce is the denial of intuitions, something that Peirce took as a key assumption of Cartesian philosophical method. Given that Peirce defines “intuition” as “a cognition not determined by a previous cognition of the same object” (W2. 193), it seems clear that the infinite procession of thought-signs generated by earlier thought-signs and in turn generating further thought-signs is part and parcel of the denial of intuitions. However, in later developments to his sign theory, despite never explicitly relinquishing infinite semiosis, many of the concepts that lead to it are replaced or revised, and the concept becomes less prominent in Peirce's work.

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4. The Final Account: 1906–10

During the last part of his life the majority of Peirce's philosophical output concerned semiotic, and he developed his account of signs far beyond the 1903 theory. There seem to be two reasons for this. First, Peirce was geographically and intellectually isolated and his main outlet was correspondence with the English woman, Lady Victoria Welby. Welby wrote on various philosophical topics and shared Peirce's interests in signs and meaning. This seems to have given Peirce a willing and sympathetic audience for his developing ideas on signs. The second reason seems to have been his growing appreciation of the connections between the semiotic process and the process of inquiry. Peirce always thought of his philosophy in a systematic and architectonic way. However, around 1902, an application for funding to the Carnegie Institute saw him express more clearly the connections between different aspects of his philosophy. The application failed, but Peirce had returned to thinking about the place of sign theory in his broader philosophy. In particular, he came to see sign theory more clearly as part of the logic of scientific discovery, that is, as central to his account of inquiry. We shall not review Peirce's account of inquiry here, but as an end directed process leading from doubt-prone to doubt-proof beliefs, Peirce began to see a similar end-directedness running through the semiotic process. This kind of thinking lead Peirce to reassess his account of signs and sign structure: the connection between the process of inquiry and sign chains led Peirce to notice subtleties and nuances that had previously been transparent to him. In particular, it led him to see chains of signs as tending towards a definite but idealized end rather than progressing ad infinitum. Since at the idealized end of inquiry we have a complete understanding of some object, there need be no further interpretant of that object; our understanding cannot be developed any further. (See Ransdell (1977) and Short (2004) and (2007) for more on the connections between Peirce's later account and the end-directed process of inquiry. Indeed, Short (2007) represents the fullest and best developed account of 'telic' interpretations of Peirce's semiotic to date).

4.1 Dividing The Object

The first effect of Peirce's greater appreciation of the parallels between inquiry and his sign theory is a distinction between the object of the sign as it we understand at some given point in the semiotic process, and the object of the sign as it stands at the end of that process. The former he calls the immediate object, and the later he calls the dynamic object. A neat way of capturing this distinction is as the different objects arising from the “two answers to the question: what object does this sign refer to? One is the answer that could be given when the sign was used; and the other is the one we could give when our scientific knowledge is complete”. (Hookway 1985, 139).

4.1.1 The Dynamic Object

The dynamic object is, in some senses, the object that generates a chain of signs. The aim of a sign chain is to arrive at a full understanding of an object and so assimilate that object into the system of signs. Using slightly more simplistic terms, Ransdell (1977, 169) describes the dynamic object as the “object as it really is”, and Hookway (1985, 139) describes it as “the object as it is known to be [at the end of inquiry]”. Indeed, Hookway's description shows an acute awareness of the connection between the dynamic object and the process of inquiry in Peirce's later sign theory. An example, from Liszka (1996, 23), captures Peirce's idea quite clearly: taking a petroleum tank half full with fuel, a variety of signs for this half-full state are available. Perhaps there is a fuel gauge attached to the tank, or perhaps the tank makes a distinctive sound when we strike it and so on. But, despite these various signs, the object underlying them all is the actual level of fuel in the petroleum tank; this is the dynamic object.

4.1.2 The Immediate Object

Ransdell (1977, 169) describes the immediate object as “what we, at any time, suppose the object to be”, and Hookway (1985, 139) describes it as “the object at the time it is first used and interpreted”. The immediate object, then, is not some additional object distinct from the dynamic object but is merely some informationally incomplete facsimile of the dynamic object generated at some interim stage in a chain of signs. Returning to the petroleum tank example, when we strike the tank, the tone that it emits (which functions as the sign-vehicle) represents to us that the tank is not full (but it does not tell us the precise level of fuel). The immediate object, then, is a less-than-full-tank.

Clearly, the immediate and dynamic objects of a sign are intimately linked and Peirce consistently describes and introduces the two together. (See, (CP 4. 536 (1896)). However, the connection between the two is most clear when we consider the connections between sign chains and inquiry. The dynamic object is, as we have suggested, the goal and end point that drives the semiotic process, and the immediate object is our grasp of that object at any point in that process. Ransdell, for instance, says:

[T]he immediate object is the object as it appears at any point in the inquiry or semiotic process. The [dynamic] object, however, is the object as it really is. These must be distinguished, first, because the immediate object may involve some erroneous interpretation and thus be to that extent falsely representative of the object as it really is, and, second, because it may fail to include something that is true of the real object. In other words, the immediate object is simply what we at any time suppose the real object to be. (Ransdell 1977, 169)

Put this way, it is clear how Peirce's growing concern to capture the parallels between semiosis and the process of inquiry leads him to identify two objects for the sign.

4.2 Dividing the Interpretant

Just as with the object(s) of the sign, the parallels between semiotic and inquiry result in a similar division of interpretants. As a chain of signs moves towards a final end there are different interpretants playing different but important roles. Peirce identifies three different ways in which we grasp the way a sign stands for an object. He calls these three types of interpretant, the immediate interpretant, the dynamic interpretant and the final interpretant and describes them like this.

The [Dynamic] Interpretant is whatever interpretation any mind actually makes of a sign. […]The Final Interpretant does not consist in the way in which any mind does act but in the way in which every mind would act. That is, it consists in a truth which might be expressed in a conditional proposition of this type: “If so and so were to happen to any mind this sign would determine that mind to such and such conduct.” […] The Immediate Interpretant consists in the Quality of the Impression that a sign is fit to produce, not to any actual reaction. […] [I]f there be any fourth kind of Interpretant on the same footing as those three, there must be a dreadful rupture of my mental retina, for I can't see it at all. (CP8 .315 1909).

We shall examine each of these in turn, but to get a clearer understanding of the three interpretants it is helpful to look, very briefly, at Peirce's three grades of clarity, or understanding since Peirce took these to inform his division of interpretants.

In his 1878 paper, “How To Make Our Ideas Clear” (W3, 257–275) Peirce introduces three grades of clarity, or levels of understanding. In this paper, he introduces his famous pragmatic maxim as a development of rationalist notions of “clear and distinct ideas”. Combining his pragmatic maxim with notions of clarity from Descartes and Leibniz, Peirce identifies three grades of understanding. The first grade of clarity is to have an unreflective grasp of some concept in everyday experience. The second grade of clarity is to have, or be capable of providing, a general definition of that concept. The third grade of clarity, though, comes from Peirce's famous statement of the pragmatic maxim:

Consider what effects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object. (W3, 266)

A full understanding of some concept, then, involves familiarity with it in day-to-day encounters, the ability to offer some general definition of it, and knowing what effects to expect from holding that concept to be true.

Although these grades of clarity are part of Peirce's pragmatism, his greater understanding of the interconnectedness of his thought led him to realize that they were also crucial to his work on semiotic. In particular, he saw the three grades of clarity or understanding as reflected in his notion of the interpretant and of course felt that the interpretant also had three grades or divisions. Peirce himself says:

In the Second Part of my [“How To Make Our Ideas Clear”], I made three grades of clearness of Interpretation. The first was such Familiarity as gave a person familiarity with a sign and readiness in using it or interpreting it. In his consciousness he seemed to himself to be quite at home with the Sign. […] The second was Logical Analysis [and is equivalent to] Lady Welby's Sense. The third was Pragmatistic Analysis [and is] identified with the Final Interpretant. (CP8 .185 (1909)).

Here, then, Peirce identifies the first grade of clarity with the dynamic interpretant, the second grade with the immediate interpretant, and the third grade with the final interpretant.

4.2.1 The Immediate Interpretant

As its identification with the second grade of clarity suggests, the immediate interpretant is a general definitional understanding of the relationship between the sign and dynamic object. In an extended example, where the dynamic object is the weather on a stormy day, Peirce describes the immediate interpretant as “the schema in [our] imagination, i.e. the vague Image of what there is in common to the different images of a stormy day” (CP8 .314 (1907)). The immediate interpretant, then, is something like recognition of the syntax of the sign and the more general features of its meaning. Indeed, Peirce seems to take the immediate interpretant to be “all that is explicit in the sign apart from its context and circumstances of utterance” (CP5 .473 (1907)). Also instructive is David Savan's description of the immediate interpretant as the:

explicit content of the sign which would enable a person to say whether or not the sign was applicable to anything concerning which that person had sufficient acquaintance. It is the total unanalyzed impression which the sign might be expected to produce, prior to any critical reflection upon it. (Savan 1988, 53).

In terms of an example where ordinary sentences are the signs, the immediate interpretant will involve something like our recognition of grammatical categories, syntactic structures and conventional rules of use. For instance, without knowing anything about its context of utterance, we can surmise certain things about the sentence, “we don't want to hurt him, do we?”. We know it is a question, we know it concerns doing harm to some person, a male, and so on. These things are part of the immediate interpretant of the sign.

4.2.2 The Dynamic Interpretant

The second type of interpretant that any sign must have is the dynamic interpretant. This is our understanding of the sign/dynamic object relationship at some actual instance in the chain of signs. Peirce describes the dynamic interpretant as the “effect actually produced on the mind” (CP8 .343 (1908)), or as the “actual effect which the sign, as a sign, really determines” (CP4 .536 (1906)). The dynamic interpretant, then, is the understanding we reach, or which the sign determines, at any particular semiotic stage.

To continue with linguistic examples, we know that the dynamic interpretant is the actual interpretation we make, or understanding we reach, in the first instance of interpretation. For instance, when you say to me whilst pointing at some cowardly woman we know, “I saw her duck under the table”, the dynamic interpretant is my understanding that you are the utterer, that I am the addressee, and that you saw our cowardly acquaintance hide beneath a table.

There is also an interesting connection between the dynamic interpretant and the immediate object. As the understanding we actually reach at any particular point in the sign chain, the dynamic interpretant represents an incomplete understanding, or interpretation, of the dynamic object. More important, though, is that the immediate object of some sign in a sign chain consists of the actual interpretations made previously, that is, it consists of the dynamic interpretants from earlier stages in the sign chain. As Ransdell (1977, 169) puts it, the “immediate object is, in other words, the funded result of all interpretation prior to the interpretation of the given sign”. The dynamic interpretant then, is the actual interpretation or understanding we make at some point in the semiotic process, and also constitutes, along with previous dynamic interpretants, the immediate object, or partial understanding we have of the dynamic object at any particular point in the semiotic process.

4.2.3 The Final Interpretant

Peirce describes the final interpretant as, “that which would finally be decided to be the true interpretation if consideration of the matter were carried so far that an ultimate opinion were reached” (CP8 .184 (1909)). Elsewhere he describes it as the “effect that would be produced on the mind by the sign after sufficient development of thought” (CP8 .343 (1908)). The final interpretant, then, seems to be what our understanding of the dynamic object would be at the end of inquiry, that is, if we had a reached a true understanding of the dynamic object. Peirce's notion of inquiry is clearly central here. As Hookway points out, we might best define the final interpretant as the understanding:

which would be reached if a process of enriching the interpretant through scientific enquiry were to proceed indefinitely. It incorporates a complete and true conception of the objects of the sign; it is the interpretant we should all agree on in the long run. (Hookway 1985, 139).

As an example, consider again the kinds of utterance that we have already looked at. In such a case as your uttering, “I saw her duck under the table”, the final interpretant would be the understanding where there is “no latitude of interpretation at all” (CP5 .447 (1905)), that is, where the meanings of the words, the identity of the agents involved and so on, are absolutely determinate. So, the final interpretant of your utterance of “I saw her duck under the table” is my coming to a determinate understanding of what you mean. We can envisage how this would come about, by my asking a variety of questions, like “are you using ‘duck’ as a verb or a noun?”, or even “are you talking to me?” and developing a series of dynamic interpretants that get us closer and closer to the final interpretant.

Just as the dynamic interpretant has clear connections with other elements of Peirce's semiotic, so too does the final interpretant. As should be clear, from the connections that emerge from the notion of inquiry, the final interpretant interacts strongly with the dynamic object. The final interpretant, then, is important to our understanding of the dynamic object in a couple of ways. First, it is the point where our grasp of the dynamic object would be complete and, according to Ransdell (1977, 169–170), is where the immediate object and the dynamic object coincide. This represents the full assimilation or integration of the dynamic object into our system of signs. Second, the final interpretant functions as an exemplar or normative standard by which we can judge our actual interpretative responses to the sign. As David Savan puts it, “Peirce's intention was to identify the third type of interpretant as providing a norm or standard by which particular stages (Dynamical Interpretants) of an historical process may be judged.” (Savan 1988, 62).



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Date: December 2nd, 2021 6:11 AM
Author: Vigorous Brunch



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Date: December 2nd, 2021 6:28 AM
Author: crimson theatre

This Be The Verse

BY PHILIP LARKIN

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn

By fools in old-style hats and coats,

Who half the time were soppy-stern

And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.

It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Get out as early as you can,

And don’t have any kids yourself.

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Date: December 2nd, 2021 6:31 AM
Author: crimson theatre

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/133/1/509/4095199?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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Date: December 4th, 2021 4:35 AM
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Date: March 18th, 2022 12:03 AM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office

Is this the original posting of this?

Its all over internet now

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Date: March 18th, 2022 12:07 AM
Author: Swollen charcoal athletic conference cruise ship

links?

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Date: September 1st, 2024 1:16 PM
Author: Territorial menage

Yes. This may be one where XO got their first. I think of it often.

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Date: April 24th, 2022 8:13 PM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



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Date: April 25th, 2022 11:35 AM
Author: mind-boggling state sneaky criminal



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Date: April 25th, 2022 11:37 AM
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Date: August 4th, 2022 9:44 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



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Date: September 2nd, 2022 2:57 AM
Author: Rough-skinned dead principal's office



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Date: September 2nd, 2022 3:00 AM
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Date: October 3rd, 2022 2:46 PM
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Date: October 3rd, 2022 3:00 PM
Author: burgundy personal credit line kitty

didn't think it was that good tbh

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Date: January 16th, 2023 8:03 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



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Date: January 21st, 2023 1:14 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



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Date: February 13th, 2023 6:19 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



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Date: February 13th, 2023 6:24 PM
Author: umber trip location

There's nothing intrinsically bad about Ponzi schemes.

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Date: March 20th, 2023 9:32 PM
Author: Swollen charcoal athletic conference cruise ship



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Date: March 24th, 2023 1:00 AM
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Date: March 24th, 2023 1:00 AM
Author: Very Tactful Hospital Gunner



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Date: March 24th, 2023 1:02 AM
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Date: August 11th, 2023 5:55 PM
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Date: August 24th, 2023 10:12 PM
Author: Swollen charcoal athletic conference cruise ship



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Date: November 8th, 2023 5:13 PM
Author: Very Tactful Hospital Gunner



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Date: January 4th, 2024 1:30 AM
Author: Very Tactful Hospital Gunner



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Date: January 4th, 2024 2:01 AM
Author: henna up-to-no-good friendly grandma

Oh no

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Date: February 29th, 2024 5:10 PM
Author: House-broken cerebral fortuitous meteor



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Date: February 29th, 2024 5:14 PM
Author: stirring native factory reset button

any questions?

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Date: May 6th, 2024 3:48 PM
Author: Very Tactful Hospital Gunner



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Date: May 6th, 2024 4:10 PM
Author: mewling swashbuckling police squad

see JRR Tolkein, letter 43

OP is correct but misses that this is actually heartarchingly beautiful. you'll never understand how your parents loved you until you love someone the same way; it's an almost surreal realization

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Date: September 1st, 2024 1:13 PM
Author: Very Tactful Hospital Gunner



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Date: September 1st, 2024 1:20 PM
Author: walnut boiling water idea he suggested

most important thing to come out of this cesspool

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Date: September 1st, 2024 1:32 PM
Author: Irradiated Piazza Circlehead

My hair was blown back when I read this years ago but eventually i forgot about it and had a kid. Fuck.

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Date: October 7th, 2024 5:49 PM
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Date: November 6th, 2024 9:11 PM
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Date: January 28th, 2025 11:31 AM
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Date: August 27th, 2025 8:40 AM
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Date: August 27th, 2025 8:42 AM
Author: Oh, you travel? ( )



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