\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

Nostalgia is one of the most powerful psychological sensations

It is a beautiful thing but can also be very dark and danger...
rough-skinned voyeur
  02/27/26
...
Oh, you retrieve?
  08/20/26
Isn't it from Greek meaning "home+pain"? Like, you...
Hot round eye parlour
  02/27/26
In Greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old woun...
cerise razzle stead international law enforcement agency
  02/27/26
I don't know I'm 69 IQ and don't know much ancient Greek ety...
rough-skinned voyeur
  02/27/26
Being pulled in both directions at the same time, as tightly...
Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe
  02/27/26
A lot of growing up is losing your innocence, which is why a...
Hot round eye parlour
  02/27/26
...
Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe
  02/27/26
Yes. But it's worse than Death. There is closure with real D...
rough-skinned voyeur
  02/27/26
...
Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe
  02/27/26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1pYtoWL6c&list=RDwg1pY...
Hot round eye parlour
  02/27/26
Music makes it even worse. Never, ever play a song from the ...
rough-skinned voyeur
  02/27/26
...
Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe
  02/27/26
...
Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe
  02/27/26
It’s definitely powerful
fiercely-loyal fantasy-prone sanctuary wagecucks
  02/27/26
(don diaper)
Demanding address keepsake machete
  02/27/26
180
Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe
  02/27/26
>I am not even going to try to describe it with words. It...
Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe
  02/27/26
Ty I will look it up❤️
rough-skinned voyeur
  02/27/26
:-)
Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe
  02/27/26
Buddhism is probably CR on this. Nothing is permanent
provocative mentally impaired station masturbator
  02/27/26
cr, thoo dark
Irate indirect expression shitlib
  02/27/26
tp <3
Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe
  02/27/26
...
Irate indirect expression shitlib
  02/27/26
...
Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe
  02/27/26
Nostalgia is toxic subjectivity
splenetic mahogany telephone kitty cat
  02/27/26
Saudade The Portuguese word "saudade" is often co...
rebellious cuckold
  02/27/26
the unique thing about this word is that it originally refer...
Nudist hairless personal credit line
  02/28/26
...
rough-skinned voyeur
  02/28/26
My first job— I was in house at a fur company with thi...
cerise razzle stead international law enforcement agency
  02/28/26
...
cerise razzle stead international law enforcement agency
  02/28/26
Yeah I've watched that scene. People think it's "really...
rough-skinned voyeur
  02/28/26
"remember when" is the lowest form of conversation...
Very tactful racy hell
  02/28/26
Hey T, remember when…
Judas Jones
  08/20/26
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a 1955 spiri...
Oh, you retrieve?
  08/20/26
...
gibberish (?)
  08/20/26
wow
aryan marvel superhero
  08/20/26
...
Oh, you retrieve?
  08/20/26
...
which is what makes time travel possible
  08/20/26
nostalgia is just remembrance of things and places that neve...
OYT was Right All Along
  08/20/26
i don't think this is accurate. in fact i am 100% sure it is...
aryan marvel superhero
  08/20/26
i believe it is literally the opposite
Metaphysics is Gay
  08/20/26
Accept it .
average/ordinary/typical citizen/person
  08/20/26


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:12 PM
Author: rough-skinned voyeur

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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700497)



Reply Favorite

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:27 PM
Author: Hot round eye parlour

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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700555)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:38 PM
Author: cerise razzle stead international law enforcement agency

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:39 PM
Author: rough-skinned voyeur

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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700591)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:40 PM
Author: Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe

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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700592)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: Hot round eye parlour

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM
Author: Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700613)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:54 PM
Author: rough-skinned voyeur

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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700628)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:54 PM
Author: Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700629)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 5:50 PM
Author: Hot round eye parlour

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 5:54 PM
Author: rough-skinned voyeur

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 6:54 PM
Author: Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700904)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:35 PM
Author: Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700571)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:38 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal fantasy-prone sanctuary wagecucks

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:41 PM
Author: Demanding address keepsake machete

(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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM
Author: Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700611)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe

>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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700609)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:55 PM
Author: rough-skinned voyeur

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:55 PM
Author: Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe

:-)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700634)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 4:49 PM
Author: provocative mentally impaired station masturbator

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 5:20 PM
Author: Irate indirect expression shitlib

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 5:20 PM
Author: Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 5:26 PM
Author: Irate indirect expression shitlib



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700759)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 5:26 PM
Author: Pearly aphrodisiac school sweet tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49700763)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 6:39 PM
Author: splenetic mahogany telephone kitty cat

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 27th, 2026 7:46 PM
Author: rebellious cuckold

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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49701000)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 28th, 2026 7:11 PM
Author: Nudist hairless personal credit line

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 28th, 2026 7:14 PM
Author: rough-skinned voyeur



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49703470)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 28th, 2026 11:37 AM
Author: cerise razzle stead international law enforcement agency

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=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49702312)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 28th, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: cerise razzle stead international law enforcement agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#49703426)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 28th, 2026 7:05 PM
Author: rough-skinned voyeur

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)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 28th, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: Very tactful racy hell

"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)



Reply Favorite

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)



Reply Favorite

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

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

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#50081623)



Reply Favorite

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)



Reply Favorite

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)



Reply Favorite

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)



Reply Favorite

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)



Reply Favorite

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

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5839081&forum_id=2锞兾告触锟界锟絇HPSESSID=962c303388ae8b5678383d002493727e#50081645)



Reply Favorite

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)



Reply Favorite

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)



Reply Favorite

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)