Spent half my life on Jow Forums

Dumping...

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nah ive been on here on and off since 2008 during the boxxy days. its all good man. just try not to make Jow Forums your life and focus on your career and becoming a better human.

why the fuck does it matter
you obviously enjoy spending your time here or else you would have spend the last 13 years watching retarded television shows

would you have asked around then if anyone else has been wasting their lives on television, and if so, would you have felt better about it?

13 years on Jow Forums and still a dumb fucking retard who cant make life choices with confidence

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also would like to mention im a reasonable person to socialize with irl who has a wagecuck career so no Jow Forums isnt full of just autists. biz helped me make a lot of money last year though.

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I think i personally gravitate here when my life gets dull as well. I came when a friend of mine showed me some post on /b/. i dont remember what it was but i kept coming back after.
for the most part, i think i view things alot more rationally than other people around me thanks to Jow Forums.

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There's a weird contingent of people like this on Jow Forums, posters that get extremely worked up over nothing. I imagine it's mostly a younger crowd that post like this though because I don't remember anons making angry and upset posts like this back in the day, although /sp/ could get pretty vicious.

Posters like this have clearly been around the block. Much more easy going and able to take a step back from Jow Forums and see it for what it is.

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>10 years
>Think 2005 in my head
>Look at date
>10y is 2009
OH FUCK HELP IM WORKING ON YEAR 11

Yeah I just kinda didn't realize it till now. I'm not sure what was going on exactly when I first join up think the chanology stuff. I wish I didn't just realize how poor and lonely I am....

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how the fuck did you not go balls deep in BTC or ETH? all the old fags got rich and left

We are no different from the normies who are glued to facebook.

>11 years here

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It's a place filled with scams and bullshit, some truly incredible comedy, and some real gems of info and insight if you know what to look for.

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same buddy, I was about 14-15

user, a good part of the people here are in the same boat. I started to come to Jow Forums because of porn and anime back in 2004...it's been my home for 15 years. I've gone through a lot of boards too. The fun is neverending here. We will always return.

you must have never been on /v/ where we argue about everything since 2006, newfag

this is true and sort of me, except thanks to crypto I'm paying for everything.
I would kill myself if not for that. I'm not depressed, there's just no point in living.
I'm becoming jealous even of people that work in a supermarket. At least they are useful in some way and have a reason to get up in the morning

This thread is depressing.

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All the real edgelords were gone by 2011 (?)
A good chunk of people also left after Gamersgate.
The druggies either OD'd or got busted by the FBI or left to join the Deepweb.
The Kiddos left when they grew older.

Jow Forums is more of a pleb filter now and much more diluted than before.
Board culture is pretty much gone and all that remains is sanitized.

whats funny is that i started to get too immersed into the site then and I had to dial it back at the right time. I was 19 and in college so I saw it as harmless at first but like others say on here, just see it for what it is. a place where ideas can openly flow maybe for entertainment or something else, but do not make it your life.

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dear god.

I've been here for 14 years fren

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this site is full of the dregs of society, you should use it as occasional entertainment and nothing more.

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I’ve been here since 2014 and I still have time to become a normie since I’m only 19. I’m gonna kick my Jow Forums habit before I turn 20.

Damn. These were two really good, eye-opening posts. Jow Forums does have a lot to offer sometimes.

this isnt what happened to me but very well could have. I learned early on when to take a break. its just insane ive been coming here for so long. luckily it didnt consume me.

>it didnt consume me.
But you are still here innit?

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Been here since 2008, feels weird man. I'll be 30 this year

exact same years for me OP, started at age 16 in 2006 and still here most days, but these days i rarerly use Jow Forums at home or on the weekend, only to kill time at work

i also only use blue boards now, Jow Forums /ck/ Jow Forums /his/ and /wsg/ and i detest Jow Forumsposting

i dont know if its because i am probably schizo or something. but this is the thing unconciously refusing me participating in anything.
>Every day youll find yourself lowering your standarts
There was a time couple years ago where everything seemed to still look alright. Somewhere between 2010-2012 everything in pic related in some way or another stared to manifest in my surroundings. And everyone seems so fucking content with it only having very few flashbacks time to time what went wrong, but dont caring about it any further and just moving along. I am really the farthest away trying to be le edgy on here, but all these little things it seems I am so concious about them, and every single one of these things adds up to this dreadfull powerless piece of state I am finding myself.

Again i could be schizo/insane - would still be nice to hear if anyone experienced something related

Been here since 2007 I think (about 20 y/o). /b/ ate up most of my time with Jow Forums the remainder. Having real bad impulse control made me spend too much time... To the point of skipping class.

Jow Forums has changed my life, although Anonidate as an extension did a lot of it. Got laid my first time due to this place, got to know over 20 channers IRL and scored weed my first time due to the chans.

Took a break for several years, went to Fark, smoked tons of weed and came back in Dec. 2017 and am now 99% Jow Forums.

I've been here 11 years. There are others.

I think we come here to be anonymous. No not the stupid Guy Fawkes mask anonymous but to be able to express ourselves without repercussion. And in this environment it is so much more meaningful to agree with someone purely off of your own true opinion other than having to pretend and say what is expected of you. Thats something that society is getting worse and worse about. Truth, unflinching truth. but here truth is the currency. well, actually most of Jow Forums is total bullshit but in a way it is a true reflection of ourselves. We get to come here and shake off the bullshit of the normie world and post with 100% honesty, even if nobody agrees with it. Thats why i think we keep coming back.

A life well lived

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I've been here since like 09 so you're not alone

im sure a lot of people on this board are oldfags

its also a good way to keep your ear to the ground.

Sug this up. A roommate made it for me about 8-9 years back. Been keeping it with me since then. Don't really wear it.

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>A life well wasted
FTFY

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Dump guy here, long ass painful read coming 1/3

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its the same as drugs or alcohol, all inhibitions go out the window and you can express yourself 100%

2/3

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3/3

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id buy it. no joke.

speak for yourself nigger, lol

extra

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>Am i the only one who has stayed for so long?
No. I love this place. Been here since 07 when I found /b/ during my first year of university.

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I end my dump with Steve Cutts' - Happiness.

Thank you and good night.

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Bravo!

encore, encore

youtube.com/watch?v=vdvnOH060Qg

It's almost poetic, resonates deeply.

Still, being on Jow Forums is a better life than being along on a desert island. You better believe Cavemen would have looked at moving pictures on their cave walls to distract themselves from their mundane, stressful and pointless lives, if they had them

This. The ch0nz are where it's at

Sounds alot like cocaine. If you ask people who use to be addicted to cocaine theyll tell you they could never get enough. there was no "peak" so to speak. It goes to show that really the only thing that can save people from themselves is self control and the ability to say no to something their brain is telling them they want.

I'll have to let my old roomie knows. He likes to do some arts and crafts stuff. Maybe a good idea to make some extra bucks.

Is "Sup /b/?" a thing on /b/ anymore?

Being a "chad" as in hollywood movies is unfulfilling too, see hollywood actors, the only answer to this existential question is God, you feel miserable because you still think everything starts and ends here, you have no theology so you have no way to have joy at all, if you actually believed in something you could bet your ass you would move your ass from NEET status into doing something else, and since you have faith in nothing other than hedonism it's logical that you just go day by day avoiding pain or seeking comfort, the most exemplary case is the people who have made it but then realized they had no ideas at all beyond that

For example someone posted the underground man, but they are telling you half the story; Dostoyevski lived as a fervent ortodox who wrote against the secularization that the commies brought to his society, he 100% believed that through religion he could overcome the angst of existance and live a joyful live even in shitty conditions, if you read the brothers karamazov you see why

Most of you are thinking you should be living "better", but you don't see that your entire conception of the afterlife and meta-reality actually don't give you any other purpose than what you are doing exactly right now, i bet most of you would scold at the idea of going to an orphanate to spend time with children or going to a retirement home to expend time with the elder or helping the homeless, and that's exactly the reason you don't feel joy

10/10
thank you user

i honestly dont know. i dont go to /b/ very much anymore.

It is that feeling of self-gratification that only comes once in a lifetime.
And when you blink it's gone.

nu/b/? They are too busy porn-posting to care.
Jow Forums has the spirit but the board is still young and not taught in the old ways

Communities with up and down votes start to become hiveminds. Even communities with just profiles to identify people start to become cancer because posters gain notoriety after time.
The real change in outlook from coming to Jow Forums is to be able to process information for what it is, and not who said it or how many le upboats it got.

>turning 26 in ~3 months
>been on Jow Forums since 2007
>It's now 2019

Fuck.

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I am since 2008. I am 33yo. My advice? Leave before it's too late, getting 30 and still lurking Jow Forums is not a good sign.

i feel great pleasure in helping the less fortunate. however, im also a realist and i understand that once those children are old enough to understand the world they live in, that it is their duty to provide for themselves first and others second. I dont brainwash them into thinking they are owed everything and that there is some god who will provide for them so long as they pray and obey him. religion is only half right. its morals are usually correct, but for all the wrong reasons.

since2005, I'm 27, so over half my life here

kill me

At least we're funnier.

>State of keeping the car parked and not going anywhere
Holy fuck. Is that me? I did all the “right moves” went to a good school, got my doctorate, and yet I feel that life is still.

lets not make this into religion.

>we had a /vore/ board once upon a time

glad I missed that shit

>Board culture is pretty much gone and all that remains is sanitized.
Jow Forums is a nihilism machine, it captures mostly young white men who are dissociated with their physical realities, deeply cynical about their prospects in life (not unreasonable at all), and amplifies their behavior, crystallizing their most lucid thoughts through a memetic selection process, and then continually refiltering it to the rest of the plebs until it embeds itself in their minds at the subconscious level (that urge to call things based and redpilled, for example). Meanwhile, as the structure of the nuclear family and an authentic national identity/culture casually implodes in the West, this nihilism that was distilled on Jow Forums seeps into the rest of the society but in a more abject, less sardonic form. Board culture hasn't been 'sanitized', but rather you and society have been increasingly dehumanized, if that's what you meant by your word choice, which is then reflected back onto this website, reproducing an ever more unoriginal and unpleasant version of the Jow Forums you first started browsing.
I'd like to read more of this

That's unfortunate nu /b/ has lost it's way.

They probably don't even know that thrust vectoring owns the sky.

Most anons I have met have floated away from the chans, but still keep in contact with other Anons they've met. They run the range from somewhat raciet to those that have converted to Judaism and are all about helping the downtrodden.

Jow Forums seems to have people closest on average in age to me it seems.

/thread

OP is one of the few good guys who came from Jow Forums and took all the bad to make some good. Respect.

These screencaps are outrageous and terrifying.
Something lost on many is that even through the healthiest times in history (including the 50s post WW2 that spawned the boomers), a huge % of the population never married or had kids, as much as 30%. Yet those were the most abundant and optimistic times in human history, still not everybody made it.
Even the boomer generation with all of their easy money and opportunities spawned millions of loners currently wasting away in care homes or coming to the end of their failed careers.

The only reason this slow death and alienation feels like a 'new' phenomenon is the access people (like me) have with others taking a similar path through life via the internet, the sad truth is that we have always made up a % of the population and now its just our turn.
We didnt know each other existed in the past, we never took part in the natural socialisation of people leading normal lives. A similar thing has happened within the queer communities as another example of this, the truth is 2-3% of the population were always bent but they never had the confidence of being vocal about it outside of the migration cities like San Fransisco where they existed in a large enough concentration that it felt normal.
Now some tranny in a village in the middle of fucking nowhere has their community online, just like the loners and lost people, now they all feel like suddenly theres an explosion of their numbers. They were always there.

We know more today than at any other point in history, even a total shut in is now exposed to all manner of influences and other peoples lives, most painfully of all for us is we can see just how easy a way out is yet for almost everyone who would self identify as an outcast, they STILL dont take the steps they could.
Like those who came before, its just our turn.

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>I dont brainwash them into thinking they are owed everything and that there is some god who will provide for them so long as they pray and obey him.

It's also a misinterpretation, the meaning is that you can go through any hardship and anything if you have the "food of god", which is for the spirit foremost, the one that lets you have joy (meaning, joy is pleasure with fullfilment or deep meaning, not just pleasure without meaning)

It has everything do to with faith, for example, I had to be a caregiver of my father for a long time, basically used all my free time for so many years, meanwhile society was filled with propaganda about how i was misusing my youth and how i was losing everything while doing it, i was despairing bad at both things because i loved my father but i also wanted to live my life

I could only resolve this issue through the belief in the afterlife, i realized that there is no pleasure that could go above the feeling that i got by being a caregiver of my father and that it was a joy filled with meaning compared to using my time with other vain people in seeking fleeting pleasure

If i truly believed this life is just one and done once, i would just have left my father and maybe euthanized him to "stop his suffering" (I would never do this but i know some people who would rationalize like that just to "enjoy their lives more"), but while struggling I actually found a kind of joy you wouldn't never get from society and it's fear for struggle, i also developed a very special relationship with my father that i think i will never be able to experience with anybody else, our seek of pleasure and comfort will make us to forget why life is good and why faith is important

Since early 2014 so 15 years. I lurk for maybe 10 minutes out of the day. Since then I have finished college, gotten married, had two children. I own a house and am well into paying it off. My portfolio seems to look better with every year. I have gone from a loner weeb freak to a contributing member of society. As I get close to 40 I am even being talked to people in my town of running for a spot as a county commisioner. It doesn't feel weird till I sit and think of it. Did I become a normie?

I want you to know that the only reason i argue with you is because i pity you. i dont pity you because some deity tells me too. i dont argue because a god tells me to. i argue with you because of facts.
im sorry your dad died. I would be crushed if my dad died too. the key factor that is missed here is that ive lost a father and so have you. we may be different but we are also the same. we want to avenge our fathers. the best way to keep others children's fathers from dying is to get along.

>rather you and society have been increasingly dehumanized
That much is true though the characteristic Sardonic humor has long since departed from the site

I have been here for ten years. I've seen every image posted in this thread already. I haven't enjoyed any content on this board in months. I haven't spent time with any of my friends in the last year. My wife is leaving me. I have to go back to wagecucking, I have no hope for a career.

I can't imagine what this will be like when I have spent 30 years on this site.

I rarely come to Jow Forums but I just wanted to let you know I've been here since 2005. I don't know why I still come here either. I'm almost 30 next month.

My father hasn't died yet, my only point is that the only way to redempt the problem of meaning in life is to believe in afterlife, if there is no afterlife there is no joy to be found in life, just fleeting pleasure without meaning, what makes me believe in afterlife is realizing we all seek redemption in any way possible through faith in anything we find in life (love, money, friends, politics, etc), but only a an all knowing thing can bring true redemption, you could believe in politics, changing the world... it all would come to nothing if you ask from your individuality to that thing why all happened, anything found in this world is essentially not omniscient, you would never found redemption if you had faith in something from this world, it's like asking to communism why everything is filled with suffering, and then communism says it's for the greater good... you have to believe in that communism is all knowing or else you despair (like in the book of job)

I am crying with laughter reading this one.

Let love into your heart, you retarded nigger

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Came here cause of trump and I’ll leave because of chain link.