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Nostalgia is one of the most powerful psychological sensations
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:12 PM Author: wild set coffee pot 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 |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:24 PM Author: Oh, you retrieve? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#50081622) |
Date: February 27th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: heady school Isn't it from Greek meaning "home+pain"? Like, you return to your home after a long absence and feel pain.
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: bull headed mint friendly grandma 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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700585) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:39 PM Author: wild set coffee pot 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 |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:40 PM Author: Domesticated Deer Antler Being pulled in both directions at the same time, as tightly as my heart can be pulled
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:46 PM Author: heady school 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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700607) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM Author: Domesticated Deer Antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700613) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:54 PM Author: wild set coffee pot 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 |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:54 PM Author: Domesticated Deer Antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700629) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:50 PM Author: heady school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1pYtoWL6c&list=RDwg1pYtoWL6c&start_radio=1 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700799) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:54 PM Author: wild set coffee pot 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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700811) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 6:54 PM Author: Domesticated Deer Antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700904) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:35 PM Author: Domesticated Deer Antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700571) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: big yellow business firm bbw It’s definitely powerful (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700587) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:41 PM Author: Medicated library (don diaper) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700595) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM Author: Domesticated Deer Antler 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700611) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:46 PM Author: Domesticated Deer Antler >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 |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:55 PM Author: wild set coffee pot Ty I will look it up❤️ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700633) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:55 PM Author: Domesticated Deer Antler :-) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700634) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM Author: Lime Locale Pisswyrm Buddhism is probably CR on this. Nothing is permanent (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700612) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:20 PM Author: chartreuse excitant orchestra pit cr, thoo dark (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700728) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:20 PM Author: Domesticated Deer Antler tp <3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700731) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:26 PM Author: chartreuse excitant orchestra pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700759) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 5:26 PM Author: Domesticated Deer Antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700763) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 6:39 PM Author: Geriatric resort Nostalgia is toxic subjectivity (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700881) |
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Date: February 27th, 2026 7:46 PM Author: Massive stage 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. |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:11 PM Author: Emerald Territorial State Philosopher-king 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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49703464) |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:14 PM Author: wild set coffee pot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49703470) |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 11:37 AM Author: bull headed mint friendly grandma 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. |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:01 PM Author: bull headed mint friendly grandma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49703426) |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:05 PM Author: wild set coffee pot 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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49703439) |
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Date: February 28th, 2026 7:07 PM Author: hairraiser regret keepsake machete "remember when" is the lowest form of conversation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#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. |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:26 PM Author: gibberish (?) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#50081629) |
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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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#50081632) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:34 PM Author: Oh, you retrieve? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#50081644) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 8:33 PM Author: which is what makes time travel possible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#50081642) |
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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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#50081811) |