When did you realize lifting for X is a meme and that lifting in itself is it's own reward?

I find Jow Forums to be the most honest (when you're attuned to filtering out the bullshit) place on the internet. I've been visiting here over a decade. It's how I find what books to read, what exercises to try, what applications to run. It's how I expose myself to the views, experiences and opinions of others.

More than that however it's home. I've been coming here for over a decade. I've lost lost most of my family and become estranged from the rest. You people may not be my friends but you are my family and I hope nothing ever takes this place away.

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The weights still being lifted off the ground fucking faggot

Link related. Being more fit and attractive literally makes people think that you're smarter. Even academics who should know better are unconsciously biased to think that people with visible features of attractiveness and fitness (lean and defined jawlines, low bodyfat% etc) are smarter, more credible, and higher academic achievers.
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0148284

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You are not alone.

>I am a being of no desire. I have a job, I have an apartment, I have food. I don't desire entertainment, companionship, friendship, possessions, or comfort. I read because I believe I should. I lift because I believe I should. I clean because I believe I should.

Based and red-pilled.
>My life is empty, lacking meaning, and I have no desire to change that.

Cringe and blue-pilled.
Oh wait.
You just said your life has no meaning but you BELIEVE you should read, lift and clean after yourself. Choosing to believe in something gives your life meaning. Your meaning in life is to not be a faggot pussy ass lazy fat slob bitch.
Not that bad a life if you ask me.
It seems that you are genuinely a respectable person if what you wrote in the first part of your post is true.

Tfw no Jordan gf ;_;

If you choose to be here and would hate for it to disappear then your life has meaning and you’re actively seeking it out. Jow Forums has given you purpose, as gay as it sounds

intrinsic value > extrinsic value

thank me when you've made it

>My life is empty, lacking meaning
Welcome to adulthood, you'll be here for a long time. There is no meaning, there's only a constant grind. And the only reason for it is because you should, you got that right.

I can't believe so many of you edgy fucks gather in one place. Is it really that difficult to find a reason to be alive for people? Whenever I browse Jow Forums for too long I feel like I'm the strange one for actually having goals past the age of 30 and actively, happily going after them

Continuing and It's literally scientifically proven that having a fat face and low-test related facial features will make people think you're stupider. If you're lean and Jow Forums normies will suddenly start trusting you in a way they didn't when you were a round faced low test fatass.

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I get the same feeling when I hang out with my old friends. Out of about a 100 people that I know I seem to be the only genuinely happy person.

If Jow Forums died I may mourn, but I would seek out no replacement. I come here because it exists and have been coming here since before I felt this way. It may just be more out of habit than anything, though what I wrote is how I feel.
I believe doing these things may help me find meaning. It is better to do something than nothing. I have yet to find any.

with straps

I'd like to hug you right now, no homo.

This is very true. If you want to be heard then do everything you can to embody some sort of aesthetics into your appearance so people will actually listen

...test has nothing to do with face roundness though.

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Why don't you set a really big goal like becoming a politician, creating a hedgefund, making a genetic engineering startup...etc. Use all your wage cuck money for some goal. If it ends up not panning out then so be it. There is always the sweet release of death. And pretty much everyone is curious what happens after death. It's life's final surprise that no one can answer and that everyone must do by themselves

You mentioned that you're completely apathetic towards everything. Imo it's better to have some desire and completely fuck up in the end whist trying your hardest to achieve it then go through life on auto pilot.

Yes it does, not as much as your bodyfat percentage but it does.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6206510/

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>And pretty much everyone is curious what happens after death.
The same thing that happened to you before being born.

Nothing.

I do actually have a goal. 2 in fact. The trouble with long term goals however is that it's hard to quantify progress towards them. With exercising you can easily quantify 'I have lifted x weight more than yesterday'. It's much harder to say 'I am x closer to being a politician' and that makes it hard to stay motivated. Because of this I'm looking at reducing my 2 goals into smaller goals.

I'd like to clear up however that I'm not apathetic. I just lack desire. I do enjoy stuff, I just don't seek out enjoyment for its own sake. I can enjoy a good meal, talking with people, or even just a sunny day. I don't however cook myself fancy food, I don't go looking for more friends, and I don't go on holidays abroad.

I don't think enjoyment and value are the same thing. Many people I speak to say something to the effect of 'I live life to have fun' and so they're happy working and then watching tv and playing videogames all evening. I (at least I used to) enjoy videogames too so living life to play more of those isn't a bad thing right? Maybe not, but are they valuable? If you were to replace videogames with hentai and masturbation I think you can see that the idea falls apart. Hentai and masturbation are not valuable. Neither are videogames (at least not to me).

I want to find something of real value that the things I do because I should, and the things I do because I enjoy accessorize. Right now if I were to go play a videogame for the weekend I'd feel like a wasteman. And lifting+everything else just leaves me hollow, like Naypyidaw, the capital of Burma, built for people who never came.

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youtube.com/watch?v=80QHRTQ3Kmw

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