Why is everybody addicted to their phone? I can't even relate to their worst addictions...

I think he means that normalniggers can't conceive of doing anything besides being on their phone. Like reading a book instead.

>lol man be part of the world around you when you're sitting at fucking popeyes waiting for your tendies

If that's so, why aren't you doing it right now?

This, I only have 2 contacts, my mom and my brother. I don't have any social media. No apps to play. But when I get anxious I just open it up and pretend I'm doing something important

>"I'm not like these NORMIES. I'm completely independent of technology and I'm going to prove it to everyone. I'm going to stare at this wall for 30 minutes while they're going to chat with their friends, play games or browse the internet. Hahaha I'm such an intellectual. These lesser apes are pathetic!"

But books take investment, and who would voluntarily read a book when they can play counter-strike/watch a movie/talk to a friend/masturbate/eat some food/play with their dog/go for a walk, etc.

They're entertaining when you're fucked to have nothing else in your life, just like video-games.

>who would voluntarily read a book
someone who isn't a goddamn normalfag

Because if I were to do it often it would lose its qualities

I'm sorry, but I exclusively play FPS video games and masturbate to vanilla porn.

If I had people that were my race around me, I'd be their king because of how normal but "interesting" I am.

I don't read books. I read manifestos from the supreme gentleman and the Unabomber.

I can't understand why anyone that's not dirt poor would voluntarily read fiction in the year 2018 when there's so much shit in this world that is 100x better than that.

why are you so addicted to r9k? I can't even relate to your life, the only time I check this board is to laugh at incels

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I like reading new stuff.

>all books are fiction
>mfw

What do you think about isaif?

>lose its qualities

more like you'd get tired of a lack of stimulation.

I stare at nothing when I'm depressed, and it's hardly a meditative or meaningful experience. Meaning is almost directly tied to action.

I thought it was absolutely excellent and 100% reality from what I've lived in my life.

People are fucked-up and backwards.

typical amerimutt genes
kys and NEVER call yourself white you mongoloid mulato

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Same. Phone interfaces are such dogshit that trying to use them for anything is downright frustrating, not to mention it causes the mind to blank since you're focusing on an arduous (and completely pointless) task. Observing, listening, thinking, planning and doing are all significantly more meaningful pursuits.

I don't want to call myself white as I'm proud of my own race.

Cuba and Puerto Rico do fine for themselves.

i think the issue is nobody can ever just have a quiet mind
everyone just has ADD now
you can never just be in a room and just allow yourself to BE
instead everyone has to be DOING something constantly even if it's just looking at stupid shit and pressing the like button all day
then we wonder why everyone is so depressed
because it's taboo to just be quiet with your own thoughts. we ignore our inner space completely and resort to taking medications because when we do get some alone time, the mind constantly thinks about useless shit that doesn't even matter.
>what will i do tommorow
>oh no that thing i did yesterday
>what should i say to so and so
>oh yeah i NEED to do this thing!
you know those crazy homeless people you see on the subway late at night who talk to themselves out loud?
that's basically most people's mind, except they do it quietly.
humanity is fucking insane and most people don't even know it.
just be quiet and sit with nature for a day.
we've lost touch completely.

How braindead retarded do you have to be to actually believe this though?

Puerto Ricans secured first world nutrition and infrastructure/technology by colluding with the right people at the right time. They drug themselves out of poverty and 3rd world status despite their lack of resources.

Cubans live relatively well despite their poverty, and the infrastructure is well developed. They also collectively had their hands on nuclear weapons, etc.

Both places have a future for themselves because both places have a decent populace.

As long as you've got a genetic IQ of 90, you will be fine.

White intelligence and personality is nice, but it's not a necessity.

>Just be quiet and sit with nature for a day

Hunter gatherers never did this.

They worked, and then they socialized, and then they went to bed and fucked-around.

There was no such thing as stare at the walls because there were no walls to stare at.

You were constantly engaged with the beauty of reality and those around you.

after doing their daily duties which took up most of the day they ate, sat around, played, talked a bit and mostly did a whole lot of not doing much and being one with the world around them rather than being stuck in their own heads all day
if you really think the current neurotic state of the human mind is natural, you're silly
back then, we were human beings, not human doers.

They stared at the sky

They were one with nature, but is a wall considered nature?

How could you possibly do that when you're enclosed by something so aberrant?

What if you had walls made of animal flesh?

who the fuck said anything about walls?
>go out and be with nature for a day
>a wall is considered nature?!?!
you're out of touch

But if a wall isn't nature, it explains why people stare at their phone.

There's nothing worth seeing in daily life.

go outside
leave the city
this is what the sky looks like without all of our light pollution
hell, even try to be without something always needing to capture your attention. close your eyes and meditate
>gotta look at something! gotta look at something! what's this?! what's that?!
it's very neurotic
your mind will make up all kinds of excuses as to why you can't simply appreciate this wonderful moment of life.
just calm down, dude.

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how about read a book you dumb nigger

I don't own a smartphone. I feel the same way.

Fuck I hate that I'm like this

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The issue is that I can't live without doing something.

When I try to do that with a job, it only morphs into misery.

I need the dopamine from activities to function in this world, or I'll deteriorate into something miserable.

That's the consequence and price we all pay to live on this earth. We no longer go with the normal human clock. We go with the industrial one.

>reading books makes you smart

LOL

More like reading information means you might be smart, not books.

It isn't about being smart. It's about "I can't imagine what I'd do without my phone!"

Eh, I still use a flip phone.

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i have a job too.
>i NEED the dopamine from activities
there goes your mind again
it really NEEDS that before you can relax!
and if i DON'T then it will be REALLY bad!
maybe one day when you're older and on your death bed and you can't move you'll finally look inward for happiness rather than for external objects. unfortunately, it will be too late then.
you'll have spent your entire life chasing for happiness instead of just appreciating what is

But I'd rather mess around on my phone than take a wild flight of fantasy that will end before I get to where I'm going.

Books take commitment to start, finish and end. You'll forget what was going on if you don't make an effort to read within a certain span of time.

Smart phones are weapons systems, just like computers or televisions.

I'm not searching for happiness. Most people aren't when they play video-games, have sex, etc.

I'm searching for relief.

I've noticed I can make myself elated when I take a walk in the outside world.

That's the closest I might get to whatever it is you're talking about. I never have the freedom to walk most of the time, and it's very difficult to live in this way.

I really hate pocket camp. On the other hand, I have sunken hundreds of hours into New Leaf.

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then change.
why do you feel so stuck?

why is everyone addicted to music?
why do you need it so bad you have to carry it around with you? I only use my phone to take picture references for paintings.

Honestly, I kinda wish people still read books.

I work, and I don't want to live without electric and internet. Life is more stressful without a job, so unemployment isn't something that will be good to me even though I own a home.

These are the only things I can do after I work a job.

All of the food costs money.

I think about dropping everything, and I end-up watching people pick-up scrap metal, and you can see so much suffering on their face despite the fact they have no job, and I know I'm on the right path.

I think no job would be mentally destructive to me as I would have no security either.

so you have a job but you're stressed about not having a job?
or do you not want to work but life sucks without a job?

Why is everyone so addicted to painting?
Why do you need to think about it even when you're not doing it? The only time I use paintings is to draw inspiration for my writing.

I very much wish I lived somewhere where non-light-polluted skies were within easy driving distance. Unfortunately here in the eastern midwest literally everything is light polluted. There's all these small podunk cities with a gorillion little shitty farming towns in between them that add up to a carpet of light that's not as bad as it is in, say, Chicago, but still washes out the Milky Way and anything near the horizon pretty effectively.

It's even sadder because there's literally no point to all the light. The streetlights are there pretty much just because. same with the strip malls leaving their lighted signs on all night, etc. We could turn them all off and never miss 98% of them, but we don't because eh, why not, it's cheap to keep em running.

Why is everyone so addicted to writing?
Why do you need to think about it even when you're not doing it? The only time I use writing is to sign autographs.

why can't you move somewhere else?
do you have savings?
best decision of my life was to move into the middle of nowhere and find a job

people are addicted to stimulation. Social media and other apps trick your brain. Some people are using this productively and some people are rotting their brain. It should make it easier for you to make money

The 2nd one, and the first one too.

The best option is to work a job and just deal with it as best I can.

Anything else is stupid, wishful thinking.
I don't see homeless men and women bouncing up and down with glee.

I don't see black people in Houston that own their home with no electricity jumping for joy.

Fuck you I can't afford a computer

ancient humans still had to work
some things you do have to deal with, or if you really don't want to, you must find a way around it.

These are really really bad arguments
music and art have value, scrolling through social media all day will add nothing positive to your life.

Their work was also their play.

It's not fair today, but I can handle it.
I'm not sure if it's right to have children though because of this.

it's a joke user.
please calm down.

I am calm, don't assume my emotion shitlord.

The combination of living 1500 miles from any of the few friends and family I have and having to find and keep a (full-time, can't afford to live on your own part-time) job when I have a patchy work history of shit jobs and zero skills/qualifications is not the kind of thing that I see working out well. Mental resilience is a prerequisite for moving a long way from everything you know, and I've never had a great deal of that.

No way would I be able to make enough to buy myself a telescope, either.

>not being a part of the puzzle game master race

These day phones are more expensive than computers.

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