Purpose

billthane · 2015-05-10T14:24:08+00:00

Life is completely, utterly, pointless. It is indeed just a long continuum of chemical stimulation, and once you're dead nothing you've done matters anyway. And that's what makes it so grand - you get to do whatever the hell you want.

dustyterran · 2015-05-10T08:41:39+00:00

If you're content to sit at home, play video games and watch TV, and don't care for self improvement past that point than fucking do it.Who gives a shit what you do. I'm failing to see how you need help in this? If you have goals larger than sitting on your ass all day, work towards them?

Code_Bordeauxx · 2015-05-10T16:17:35+00:00

My goal seems to always fall upon finding a life partner, but I understand that it is wrong to search for one. Am I forever damned to never enjoy the emotional side of things and only the physical side of relations? And if I do trick myself into enjoying emotions, I know that it is all short-lived and in vain.

You have hit a common misconception here my friend. Allow me to clear things up. First of all, while MARRIAGE is universally thought of as a bad idea in TRP, this is not the case for LTRs. Many people here tend to focus on the more short term -and inherently finite- plate spinning. This is because by far most women aren't suitable candidates for a long term investment anymore. That doesn't mean there aren't women out there who are suitable. You will need to know the red flags and select heavily, maintain very high standards.

At this point usually the chickens are flying through the pen screaming: NAWALT, he's implying NAWALT! NO. You allways need to be on your guard and know the underlying tendencies all women share. AWALT is true. But it is very well possible to suppress these by correctly dealing with her. You can never be weak, know this. But a women who's loyal to you will forgive you the occasional emotional outburst if you fall back into your frame afterwards.

Many, many things are possible and very few things are wrong. Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Decide what it is you want and then make it happen.

SkorchZang · 2015-05-10T19:48:35+00:00

You realize something when you really think deeply along these lines... A man's desire, sparked by that one woman that completely knocks his socks off, is a fundamentally religious desire.

The woman doesn't know it, the man doesn't know it. The world doesn't care.

She doesn't know what she just sparked, and to her it seems comical and flattering, how awkward that successful and worldly man becomes when she's around. How he comes crawling, wants to worship at her feet and give his life for her. She usually laughs a woman's cruel laugh, and has the good sense to fuck somebody else instead of that looney.

He doesn't know, doesn't have words for what that flame that consumes him is to be called. He assumes it must be "love", that it is caused by that particular woman and that it has its origins in her. If only he had her, he would be happy, thinks the man. Mistake!

She triggers a crisis and a fundamentally religious craving, which mixes freely with sexuality and becomes a dangerous witch brew boiling over within the man. Still, the core madness originates inside the man himself. "Falling in love" this way, completely and mindlessly surrendering his independent identity to it without remnant, is all his own doing. It is the unconscious expression of his fundamental need to build a footbridge from himself all the way to Eternity. He desires, without any words to express himself, to have a loving relationship with the soul of the universe, all that is "external"; and to reconnect every part of himself that normally stays silent when he says "I Think", to the rest of the world with loving sympathy.

The individual woman is a mere fetish in that universal spell he puts himself under with. Rejection soon breeds obsession, and blinded by his own heartbreaking self-pitying butthurt, the man can't make out what's going on. Namely, what are these powerful currents that carry him along, and what is their true origin.

The man who is in love ultimately wants True Life and True Happiness. Misguidedly, he thinks Woman holds the key. The woman sparks the craving in him alright, mainly through the massive unconscious apparatus of libido, but no woman can deliver what her captivating beauty promised. No woman satiates this essentially religious desire of Man.

Title	Purpose
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Date	May 10, 2015 8:00 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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