Who here took the /notechnology/ pill?
>got rid of my 60 inch flatscreen and PS4
>only use phone to make calls or to use gps or to take notes or to look up important things
>use computer only for school/work/reading online books or articles
Doing things has really improved my life. I don’t feel like I’m wasting time anymore and I’m a lot more productive than I used to be. My grades have gone up because I’m a lot more focused now. I’ve replaced all this new found free time with doing art, reading books, and improving on my fitness. My overall happiness has gone up as well and I feel like I think a lot clearer now and my brain is not as foggy as it used to be. In general, I feel like I experience life more this way.
/notechnology/
Yes I am becoming Amish. You have no proper arguments against the Amish people. They live better lives than you do and all your problems could be fixed by becoming Amish.
To think that this is what white families used to look like
And yet you’re on Jow Forums
I've had this idea of really pretty, small phones that you can do FaceTime with, call or text, maybe some minimal email compatibility, a camera, some local music/media storage, but no web browsing or other apps, that are very cheap and accessible. Think that would be a great way to start getting people (read: me) over the dopamine rush of constant browsing everywhere.
Can you imagine being so autistic that you gotta go off the deep end instead of doing everything in moderation like a normal person?
These aren't old times m8 these are the Amish people TO-DAY. This is progress from your slave to technology and modern society lives.
>You have no proper arguments against the Amish people
They smell like shit and are unironically retarded. Also they don't pay taxes despite the fact that their gay little horses fuck up the roads way worse than cars, and their horses shit everywhere. You're an idiot
Based and redpilled
I recently have been leaving my phone behind when I lift and instead brought an egg timer for my rest periods. Home gym master race. Also have been keeping my phone away from the bedroom helps alot.
Like you said m8, quality of life improves and life is good.
Taxation is theft.
Also, how are they retarded?
You people are a joke.
Why are you here right now? This is clearly not work/school/reading articles.
Not OP but I think the idea is moderation. People get wrapped up into their distraction boxes pretty easily.
Cause they don't like microwaves being blasted into their dome constantly, absorbing endocrine disruptors through their skin from contact with electronics, having their circadian rhythm fucked up by the blue light and having their dopamine receptors burned out from porn + social media?
Horse shit is good for the environment unlike your plastic cell phones and other trash that winds up in landfill and oceans. You're the idiot.
I need a transcription device...
Move to a cave in the forest if you don't want to pay for the roads, schools, and safety you enjoy, nigger.
I absolutely agree.
>People should be exempt from rules and have special treatment because of their religion
How are those sharia zones going, Muhammad?
>How are they retarded.
Low IQ as fuck, you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference though considering you're defending them on Jow Forums
>Horse shit is good for the environment
Have fun with your lockjaw, dirty fuck.
>Have fun with your lockjaw, dirty fuck.
Have fun with your depleted land and eventually no viable sources of food.
Cody...
based and tedpilled
The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Fucker doesn't understand libertarism and thinks that
>taxation is the only way to build stuff hurr durr.
If you’ve ever been to Pennsylvania and went to an Amish market you’d know what user means when he says their retarded. Like they’re literally retarded. You ask them where something is and they take like 15 seconds to form a sentence and when they do they say it very slowly and have this strange brain dead look on their face. I think a lot of them are inbred.
If flip phones ran as smoothly as smartphones did I'd get one.
Maybe one exists and I'm not aware of it?
Did brother Josiah cuck you m8?
they have "modern" flip phones but only for gooks and nips
I realized that I never felt better then when I gave up the net and basically all tech.
I only like...watched diy shows occasionally and played a video game for an hour before bed.
I think I need a break from dopamine in my life, I just don't know how to swing it.
>I realized that I never felt better then when I gave up the net and basically all tech.
I had the same experience but it was before smartphones and internet usage was so ubiquitous. I was an early adopter of the internet on dial up and had a computer and was just utterly hooked on it. I tried to limit my usage but it always resulted in me going right back because I have a horrible inability to control addiction. Finally I just decided to say fuck it and just never go on the computer again. For a year or so I was the happiest I had been in my entire life. I don't think I could do this again not because _I_ couldn't do it but because everyone around me now is like I was back then except it's with smartphones instead of a computer. Everyone's head is buried in a phone all the time and it's vital to use to keep in contact. I can't just decide to stop using technology anymore and join the real world again at least not like I could before everyone connected via smartphone.
I’ve heard it’s a widely acknowledged fact that Amish keep semi-secret locked rooms in their basements with all sorts of technology. TV, internet, video games, you name it. Perhaps they’re for men only, and women aren’t allowed? That seems extremely wise.
I hope you can make it through holidays tho
then why are you on Jow Forums?
no i'm speaking from experience kek amish people r fucked in the head
they're fucked in the head yet here you are, in a /notechnology/ thread on a website on the internet
I gave up all technology. I am typing on a pine cone that I use to scent my anus.
I can do no tech pretty easy EXCEPT when I’m tired and drained but can’t sleep yet to maintain god tier sleeping pattern, what do you guys do stay up in those situations? Can’t read can’t go out live alone
Go run or stretch m8. If you cannot get out of your head get into your body. Also, moderation is key friendo.
I went to an Amish market in Maryland and can confirm this was basically it. They do make good shit though.
>You have no proper arguments against the Amish people
Except for them being retarded.
This whole thread is retarded.
You and him are posting on Jow Forums you know.
It's called a BlackBerry
I don't think they're stupid, so much as they have much bigger attention spans and move at a leisurely place when they aren't working.
The cow goes moo
From an economic perspective, we're at the very end of USA's drunken celebration post WW2. Bring on the hangover.
lite phone 2. comes out in april
t. retard
>only use phone to make calls or to use gps or to take notes or to look up important things
>use computer only for school/work/reading online books or articles
And post on Jow Forums user. The first step on your path is ceasing social media, and you've already failed that first step.
>no technology
>posts on Jow Forums image board
Well done mate
Extremely based and redpilled if true
>not calling it /notech/
>Taxation is theft.
Very true. But exempting one particular subsection of the population causes even further market distortions and deleterious effects.
While I'd PREFER forced taxation to be abolished entirely, the current forced taxation paradigm would be drastically improved by holding EVERYONE to it, and having these backwards dirt dwellers exist in the same market, fucked as it is, as the rest of us do.
TRIPS FOR TRUTH
Anarcho-capitalism is the one true way, and anyone who disagrees is, by definition, aiding and abetting tyranny and their murder is therefore justified.
>No longer routinely dying of natural causes in our thirties, or in infancy
>More knowledge and education available at our fingertips than ever
>Free time and resources to get all swole and shit
Yeah, what an absolute disaster for the human species.
>BUT THERE ARE SO MANY WITLESS RETARDS AMONG US NOW
We've always had braindead, NPC peasants. We have proportionally fewer of them than any time in history
>BUT MUH CLIMATE CHANGE
Humans can adapt FAR faster than the climate can change.
The industrial revolution hasn't been NEARLY as much of a "problem" as the massive nanny state that has distorted the market WAY in favor of reproduction, through things like tax breaks for reproduction, to the state covering LOADS of the costs of actually raising a fucking kid through state daycares (read: public schools), to the point we have an artificially high number of humans.
The cow won't keep going moo in modern society
>Still posting on Jow Forums
1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster Tor the human race. They
have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries,
but they hitvc destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings
to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical
suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued
development of technology will worsen the situation. Il will certainly subject human beings
lo greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to
greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical
suffering even in "advanced" countries.
>normal person
>moderation with cell phone usage
Get fucking real
Good thing I don't live in a 3rd world country haha
>not buying a prepaid flip phone
It’s like ur lying on the internet.
You just made an exception to post this thread, right? This is your only visit to Jow Forums this week I presume?
I bet 90% of you notech are poorfags
Not wanting to use tech is like not wanting to be human.
Now that I think about it lmao I would even consider vegans to be more human than you.
>And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
The Amish reject moustaches because of their association with military regulations from the beginning of the 20th century. Some sects reject buttons on similar grounds.
>have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering
I'm sure life as a medieval peasant was thoroughly fulfilling, free of indignities, and was the picture of psychological health
>being this indoctrinated
good goy :^3
>he poasts on /fit
I mean, yeah, pretty much
Based
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