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Posted: 8/15/2023 1:30:32 PM EST
[#1]
That sounds like narcissistic personality disorder redefined with a positive spin.
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Posted: 8/15/2023 1:31:42 PM EST
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Yes. We are FUCKED.
My last hope is that China will be even more fucked, so that when the collapse of western civilization inevitably comes, the ones left to pick up the pieces are anyone but them. This same hope is also the reason I am against accellerationism. Quoted: There's the sensation with this kind of distributed tyranny that you aren't fighting a man. Or even a system but the very forces of decay itself. That is not an easy thing to overcome. Especially when they are agressively pushing for things like allowing 9 year old kids to get surgery and hormone treatments that will permanently damage themselves. QFT |
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Posted: 8/15/2023 2:30:36 PM EST
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Quote HistoryNo. . . it really is stupid. It's a recycled 4chan term from close to a decade ago someone on GD just found out about on the Urban Dictionary. Always funny to see the terminology very slowly make it's way here and watch the edgy older folks try and adopt it. If you were browsing /pol in 2015 you'd see half a dozen posts spammed daily about "ISLAM IS THE FINAL BLACKPILL!" Here's a book from 2019 about why the Incels are right about the "Blackpill" lol If that doesn't work there's another one about Black Pill dating! I'm sure there is a Coach_Blackpill out there who is offering dating advice for a nominal fee  Attached File |
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Posted: 8/15/2023 2:37:02 PM EST
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Nihilism. The concept this describes is nihilism.
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Posted: 8/15/2023 3:17:02 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ephesians 6:12 NLT For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places. |
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Posted: 8/15/2023 3:23:35 PM EST
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I think that the color pill descriptions and a lot of the other self-selectable categories that people separate themselves into are stupid. That being said, I'm sure I meet the definition of "black-pilled."
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Posted: 8/15/2023 3:25:24 PM EST
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Quote HistoryHe’s correct. It’s pretty stupid. Has been for years. |
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Posted: 8/15/2023 3:29:32 PM EST
[#8]
Yes, completely... Since 2009.
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Posted: 8/15/2023 3:31:54 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Health wise I'm doing better than ever. Financially I'm doing better than ever. Every project I've undertaken lately has gone remarkably well. And yet despite all this I can't quite seem to fully commit to my own life because I know that this whole planet is speeding towards a pile of very serious problems that we don't have the tech or the brains to weasel our way out of. I'm in southern Idaho right now and there are A Lot! Of people who are in the process of moving here. It's almost as if there are thousands of other people who have looked at this area and know that when the balloon goes up this will be one of the few places where they will shoot the bad guys instead of giving them the keys to the kingdom. This will be one of the last places where they keep the lights on. If you have outsiders moving in, I have my doubts. You might have a chance if you shoot the outsiders first. Otherwise...they'll open the gates wide because that's how they did things back where they came from. |
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Posted: 8/15/2023 3:36:33 PM EST
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With Trump ramping up his spotlight on the swamp, I'm content with the rate of escalation. Better to hit the climax and go hot than to be on a never ending plateau of swamp. We're headed for a bad place but we have to go though the dark in order to get to the light.
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Posted: 8/15/2023 3:46:13 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Spot on. My mentality has changed over time from thinking that things can be fixed to hoping that things can be rebuilt with liberty in mind after things collapse. Unfortunately, history shows that things almost never change for the better in that scenario. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Imagine feeling defeated by a man who shits his own pants. That's exactly the point. There is no head of the snake to cut off. You would have to kill everyone on a certain list down to the Secretary of Agriculture just to get these peoples attention and that ain't going to happen unless the Chinese launch a nuclear strike. There's the sensation with this kind of distributed tyranny that you aren't fighting a man. Or even a system but the very forces of decay itself. That is not an easy thing to overcome. Especially when they are agressively pushing for things like allowing 9 year old kids to get surgery and hormone treatments that will permanently damage themselves. My mentality has changed over time from thinking that things can be fixed to hoping that things can be rebuilt with liberty in mind after things collapse. Unfortunately, history shows that things almost never change for the better in that scenario. Thought same about the post. Also concerned (not affraid) things continue to slide into the collapse you mention. While overall life is “easier” and “better” than it used to be the complications endured to exist in todays age are for greater and weigh heavily on most everyone. This is the trap and the trade off. Most people are “happier” living a simpler life, but few are willing to give up the drug of technology and the finger tip world to go there. Eventually though, it will crumble and be rebuilt again. Which leads to the other point. For me, I think like many people, we are hoping to get off the ride just in time. |
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Posted: 8/15/2023 4:11:47 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thought same about the post. Also concerned (not affraid) things continue to slide into the collapse you mention. While overall life is “easier” and “better” than it used to be the complications endured to exist in todays age are for greater and weigh heavily on most everyone. This is the trap and the trade off. Most people are “happier” living a simpler life, but few are willing to give up the drug of technology and the finger tip world to go there. Eventually though, it will crumble and be rebuilt again. Which leads to the other point. For me, I think like many people, we are hoping to get off the ride just in time. Personally I just hope that the ride keeps going until after I get some dental work completed. Everyone knows that the first people to get slaughtered in an apocalyptic scenario are the dentists. |
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Posted: 8/15/2023 8:32:46 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Personally I just hope that the ride keeps going until after I get some dental work completed. Everyone knows that the first people to get slaughtered in an apocalyptic scenario are the dentists. 
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Posted: 8/15/2023 9:10:47 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's exactly the point. There is no head of the snake to cut off. You would have to kill everyone on a certain list down to the Secretary of Agriculture just to get these peoples attention and that ain't going to happen unless the Chinese launch a nuclear strike. There's the sensation with this kind of distributed tyranny that you aren't fighting a man. Or even a system but the very forces of decay itself. That is not an easy thing to overcome. Especially when they are agressively pushing for things like allowing 9 year old kids to get surgery and hormone treatments that will permanently damage themselves. Kind or agree with this. Short term were fine, there are still free states in the union, and rural communities where they believe in traditional things like hard work, religion, family values, etc…but long term we may be doomed. I don’t think my grandkids will have the same opportunities I had and will likely struggle to achieve anything that resembles and comfortable middle class life style. |
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Posted: 8/15/2023 9:11:43 PM EST
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Being "black pilled" is just working in the interests of scumbags.
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Posted: 8/16/2023 9:48:36 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Being "black pilled" is just working in the interests of scumbags. How is coming to the full realization that the people in control are worse than you originally thought working in the interests of those scumbags that are in control? Seems to me that if everyone finally came to that realization then we could actually turn this thing around. Maybe I interpreted the definition of black pilled wrong? If that's the case then I'm not sure what version of pilled I might be? 
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Posted: 8/16/2023 9:50:15 AM EST
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a.k.a. TardPilled. "Nothing can be beleeved!"
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Posted: 8/16/2023 9:59:50 AM EST
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I'm some custom cocktail blend of "-pilled".
Life is good but could be better. I feel like the world is just waiting for the next shoe to drop. societal nihilism. Nothing is real, nothing is worthwhile, people just live in their heads and phones and do what they're told. I've started just disconnecting and sitting on my patio when it's nice out, and just feeling the breeze and talking to my wife. It feels like a vacation. |
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Posted: 8/16/2023 10:02:17 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm some custom cocktail blend of "-pilled". Life is good but could be better. I feel like the world is just waiting for the next shoe to drop. societal nihilism. Nothing is real, nothing is worthwhile, people just live in their heads and phones and do what they're told. I've started just disconnecting and sitting on my patio when it's nice out, and just feeling the breeze and talking to my wife. It feels like a vacation. Yet, arguably, there has never been a better time to be alive, and we've never had more information or possessions at our disposal. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, I'm just saying it's a helluva dichotomy. And I've had a "waiting for the next shoe to drop" feeling since 9/11, to be honest. |
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Posted: 8/16/2023 10:34:43 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Snip. And I've had a "waiting for the next shoe to drop" feeling since 9/11, to be honest. That seems to be a pretty common sensation. Not helped by the mainstream media's constant pushing of doom porn. |
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Posted: 8/16/2023 10:56:06 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That seems to be a pretty common sensation. Not helped by the mainstream media's constant pushing of doom porn. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Snip. And I've had a "waiting for the next shoe to drop" feeling since 9/11, to be honest. That seems to be a pretty common sensation. Not helped by the mainstream media's constant pushing of doom porn. I'm glad to hear I'm not alone in that. And yes, they've turned doom suspense into a science, I've been unplugged from US-based mainstream media for a while, it's overall awful in a lot of ways. |
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Posted: 8/16/2023 11:04:03 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yet, arguably, there has never been a better time to be alive, and we've never had more information or possessions at our disposal. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, I'm just saying it's a helluva dichotomy. And I've had a "waiting for the next shoe to drop" feeling since 9/11, to be honest. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'm some custom cocktail blend of "-pilled". Life is good but could be better. I feel like the world is just waiting for the next shoe to drop. societal nihilism. Nothing is real, nothing is worthwhile, people just live in their heads and phones and do what they're told. I've started just disconnecting and sitting on my patio when it's nice out, and just feeling the breeze and talking to my wife. It feels like a vacation. Yet, arguably, there has never been a better time to be alive, and we've never had more information or possessions at our disposal. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, I'm just saying it's a helluva dichotomy. And I've had a "waiting for the next shoe to drop" feeling since 9/11, to be honest. Completely agree and I should have emphasized the "never been a better time to be alive" aspect more in my post. It really is a dichotomy. re: Shoe drops ... yeah, and I have to remind myself of the smaller shoe drops that have already happened that didn't kill society... that just seem to make people numb to it all. |
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Posted: 8/16/2023 11:18:06 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm glad to hear I'm not alone in that. And yes, they've turned doom suspense into a science, I've been unplugged from US-based mainstream media for a while, it's overall awful in a lot of ways. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Snip. And I've had a "waiting for the next shoe to drop" feeling since 9/11, to be honest. That seems to be a pretty common sensation. Not helped by the mainstream media's constant pushing of doom porn. I'm glad to hear I'm not alone in that. And yes, they've turned doom suspense into a science, I've been unplugged from US-based mainstream media for a while, it's overall awful in a lot of ways. Not alone at all. Being "-pilled" (whatever the color du jour is) and aware of things makes you see two sides of it all. You enjoy things but understand they could end. |
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Posted: 8/17/2023 6:18:44 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No.  |
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