The friends you've made along the way

ironically the more Jow Forums you get the more friends (if you had any in the first place) you lose

that's good OP, it means you're becoming an adult with your own life and responsibilities

also

>minecraft
>normie "memes" on discord

they were never your friends to begin with, sounds like a bunch of manchildren to me

Jim is this 49 year old oilfield worker who looks like he's in his mid 30s. Total bro, lifts with good form and has excellent diet advice. Maybe 180lbs, decently lean, goals for anyone 30+

Robocop is this bald cunt cop who has the worst form known to man, got chalk banned in the gym, and will bench with a 45 and 5 10s on each side for some fucking reason.

Mike is a chill af cop with a super hot wife who does a bro routine and keeps trying to get me to apply to the force. Gets mad at his weights if he fails a lift.

Levi is the resident pro bodybuilder who has taken half the gym under his wing, nicest fucking dude with a killer beard.

Kyle is the college kid on a one year bulk who somehow has put on 40lbs and is still acceptably lean.

Kyle's brother is Kyle's brother.

Florida is this dude from Boston (via florida) who is in his early 60s and is a shredded 250lbs. Total old school bodybuilder. Levi doesn't like him.

This is the 7-9pm crew, anyway.

I just lost my virginity at 25, if you think being close to 30 means you need to have a wife and kids you're out of your mind

here they are, i'm very lucky to make this amount of friends in only 5 years of lifting.

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You have a very durable psyche. I would've paid a whore 7 years ago.

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It wasn't easy brother, I'll tell you that. Ultimately feels better having gotten laid the regular way

I have home gym so i dont met ppl at the gym
I go out to play basketball or running and never met anyone.

Been there, done that, no luck . I still have 2 older friends but nowadays they're both busy with their respective families and kids.
I can't seem to hang out with my old friends without their wife or kids around.
I miss bro nights, where we would just hang out drink some beers watch stupid movies and play vidya together.
Life ain't fair.

Don't take pictures of your black friends in the dark.
They are hard to detect fren.

I honestly wish I had friends I could go to the gym with, but I am completely unable to hold a conversation for more than 5 minutes. Not autistic but I've always had trouble making friends. Human contact can be very draining, I should know it's pretty much my job.

desu most of the friends I make are at the climbing gym. try it anons it's great for you and good way to build a social circle.

>used to be depressed DYEL in uni
>chadbro picked me up, took me to gym, helped me lift
>helped me with social gainz, invited me to parties, snuck me beers
>one day I realize that I'm getting better grades than him, have a stable gf while he's always complaining about girls, go to the gym more than him
>now I'm the one who tries to get him to the gym or parties or just anything but he's always too busy, but I know he's just playing videos games and drinking alone
>he drops out
>he moves across the country to live with some shitbag friends
>every time I talk to him he's less and less

The one person who saw me for what I could be and helped me achieve it and I can't help them back. Its like watching someone die in slow motion.

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Haven't made friends since elementary bro

Tell him that.
It might get him to realise what he's beginning to lose

>7 years of lifting
>only person i have spoken to was receptionist at the start of the gym

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Ok, sure.
>bartender bro. Wise as fuck, extrovert as fuck, taught me how to talk to people. Always willing to help
>former onetis that friendzoned me that is now my wingwoman. Talked me through asking my current gf out, taught me how to not spill spaghetti, pushed me to do big romantic gestures that I never would've done myself

>former onetis that friendzoned me that is now my wingwoman
That’s actually pretty based of both of you

I started by going to the gym with my Chinese coworker. Little dude is fucking hilarious and very encouraging. We're homies now. Love you, Feng.

I know, right? Having insight into female psyche is the best thing that could've happened to my social life.
Fuck, I rushed to an airport to go after a girl just last week. I've only seen that happen in the movies before. And without her I never would've done it.
All I can do to repay her- is to train her.

Used to have a friend like OP pic related but he got blinded by a thot and we lost contact. Fuck my life man, those were the days, fucking around, making gainz, treated hoes like they deserve, having each other's back, drinking almost daily, being all around 2 fucking badasses.
Meh, he still didn't get that bitch. Lesson learned maybe?

Lifted with chillest Bro for a year now. He has no idea how much he has helped me.

Pls delete

Connect with yourself first.
Meditation, yoga and therapy saved me from the abyss. Don't bother with psychedelics; they are potent but overrated in the long term picture.

What exactly do you mean by "connect"?
I don't hate myself (that much).
And I've come to terms with what I can and can't do and I've been slowly working and improving what I can improve over the past year.
My only real issue is with social gains, making new friends or getting into new groups is hard.
People don't outright reject me but they also don't seem to want to know me better either. They just kinda accept my presence as is, if I do try to open up and share more private things they kinda go like "yeah cool story bro" and don't show any interest so I don't bother any further.

Become emotionally self-fulfillment. Otherwise you are just an energetic parasite.
Give and expect nothing in return.
Don't make it about you.
Be a fountain. Let other people be drawn to your abundance.
If it costs you energy, it's because you're trying to act nice instead of simply being goodness in a human form.

This thread just got me fucking pumped up, can't wait to hit the gym tomorrow. We are all gonna make it.

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I just interpreted the blonde in OP as my tomboy gf. Fuck that, your best friend should have a pussy you can pound.

Possibly the best guy I ever managed to meet, got me out of a pit of depression and bad health, we now lift together, sword train together and eventually plan to take up reenactment

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>lost my virginity at 25
>you're out of your mind
Ok bro

Checked.

Anyway, I'm not relying on others in regard to emotional fulfilment and I'm not a parasite as far as I'm aware.
I'm usually nice to everyone simply because it's less bothersome than being openly aggressive. If they wrong me then I simply cut said people from my life.

It's just that, you know, it's nice to just chill with others and talk about things you both love.
Or simply being comfortable with another presence in the room, not feeling like it's forced or anything, just a natural state.

I don't know if I'm expressing myself right.

Okay, here goes: I'm 30 and I have no friends. Somehow I have a girlfriend though.

It could be that your circle of acquintances are people that are not interested in connecting.
Consider expanding your social arenas to more... alternative scenes. I blossomed a lot after getting into holistic/alternative stuff.

This. I had a sudden realisation a few weeks ago that I literally had no friends.
Real friends that you chill with, go to their houses to play vidya, talking in groupchats etc, all the normie memes. I was just in bed until it just came to me.

Who the fuck am I remotely close with? I couldn’t answer. I don’t even know why I lift anymore. I hate myself so it’s not self improvement. Lifting for girls is just cringe. I don’t even know anymore.

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I'm in pretty much the same boat. I'll meet up with a friend to hang out maybe one every couple weeks at best.

When I started lifting is when I started really making friends. My best friend is my cousin, who is also a gym bro. We started lifting at about the same time, and we push each other to improve. (mainly by making fun of each other for having a weaker lift)

Sounds like you need to start accepting your age and grow up a little user, our focuses and things we values change as we bring on the new responsibilities that come with a wife and kids, maybe you should look to start taking those steps

Fuck. You sound exactly like me. Every post. I used to have a lot of friends, then this
>If they wrong me then I simply cut said people from my life
Now I have zero friends. Now... I don't know what to do. I kind of want friends, but I'm not sure I'm ready or willing to be a friend anymore. I'm too busy and stressed out from work and studying and just being an adult and taking care of myself to spend what precious little free time I have doing favors and having fake conversations to maintain relationships. I just don't get anything out of it. I never really get close to anyone anyway. I have opened up plenty to people who I was comfortable with, but they just... It's like there's nothing inside most people, and the people who are real are always really fucked up and generally terrible influences.

The iron is my only friend.

As cringey as this sounds I can actually relate.

i heard a study that said if you hang out with someone for a total of ten hours then they will consider you their friend. i think it said 100 hrs and you are considered a best friend. put in them hours

Why are you moving to egypt for a year?

s-swa?

> chadlet giving the hoverhand
What if the virgin was the true chad all along?

Recently broke up with my gf after I found out she's been lying to me since we've started dating.
I REALLY don't feel like dating anytime soon.

I don't know what to say man.
Personally I keep my hopes up that one day I'll meet another version of me or close enough.
Because it seems my only true friend is myself.
I don't know if the rest are that bad or I'm just that fucked up. Whatever the case, all I can do is love with it.

Maybe for normies, I don't think it applies to people in this thread.

Yeah maybe that it. How do I even meet new people as a 28 yo?

Loft for yourself and try what the other user mentioned and expand your circke,it's what I'm probably gonna do and see how it goes.

I want right wing hoologan friends to train, converse, drink and get in trouble with.
In my opinion, doing the above is the best thing in life. Women, family, careers, it's all shit, all those scams pale in comparison to brotherhood and adventure.
I'm from Montreal and seem to be drifting away from my more grounded, pragmatic, normal friends lately.

Hooligan*

>mfw all my friends were made in the military
>mfw we’re all back in our home states now
>mfw I can’t connect with anyone like I did with them

Fuck

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Join the volantee firefighters
Otherwise go to a hardcore powerlifting gym

>I blossomed a lot after getting into holistic/alternative stuff.
My problems with these types is they seem to always be idiots who are way too eager to beleive everything. I firmly beleive there is more to reality than the mainstream concensus, but as soon as I hear some faggot with dreads talking about chakras and magic spells and the zodiac like they are authorities and the subjects are facts, I want to punch them in the throat. I beleive the ideas are worth exploring with an open mind, but if you just blindly accept them like another dogma simply because it feels good then you aren't any better than the average scientologist. What ever happened to peoples' ability to entertain ideas without having to accept or reject them immediately, or at all for that matter? No one wants to think these days, or spend the time to actually go to the source and read about shit. They just want to sound "enlightened" and "spiritual". Stupid, fake hippy/hipster spirit science larp wizard assholes god damn it. All they are doing is diluting and discrediting the subjects they misrepresent because they think it'll get them laid or something. Or worse, it actually has. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I would love to explore this shit with real people, but the people who are into it always seem so retarded or full of shit.

Be like Rust from True Detective.
All the exhibitionistically "spiritual" people are simply whores and fags. Fuckem.

Join a club or some shit. Maybe a recreational league sport.

I'm friends with the person who drew that. We have been for a long time now, used to live together too. I can't say much more, but SIR is one of the best bros I've ever had.

We're all gonna make it.

i havent made a single friend from the gym, dont want to tbqh. theres this girl, but who the fuck hits on girls in the gym lmao

Damn bros. Hang in there. I know those feels.

I feel ya bro.

Three gym bro pals, don’t get to train with them a lot but I wish I could

#1. Is in the navy and has been a close friend since kindergarten, his form is shit but he’s a super great guy. Super motivational and super fun to hang out with.

#2. Is my fiancées brother. Used to be in the marines and is super cool, gives great advice and great music recommendations.

#3. Is a friend from work, we’re often too busy to workout together but when we we have a great time, he’s hilarious and we always end up destroying our bodies.

That's the thing though, I don't think it's all bullshit. Some of the common themes clearly have some truth to them. But easily at least 90% of it is bullshit or has been misinterpreted or subverted in some way or another. Like the "we are all one, and one is all, therefore love everyone". I think it's more like "we're all connected". Like cells in a body. Some are directly part of the body and serve different jobs, like white and red blood cells. Some cells are cancerous, some cells are foreign bacteria. Some bacteria is helpful, some is neutral, some is harmful. You get the idea. All organisms are part of larger systems, and are made up of smaller system, and it may extend into infinity both ways, beyond our comprehension. But one of the mental traps is thinking this suggests universal love is a logical, inescapable conclusion. It isn't. Evil exists. Maybe it's relative, maybe it isn't. Whether you embrace it, fight it, or become a victim is up to you. The hippies refuse to acknowledge this when it's self-evident in all of nature.

I want to talk to people who can come up with thoughts like these on their own. People who understand what I am saying, and have a real response. They can disagree all they want, but I want people who actually think and explain why they think what they do. Not just "dude that's deep. Wait, what if aliens bro??" Everyone just seems so... shallow, and uninterested in meaning, in human nature, in the nature of reality, even when/if they are clearly highly intelligent. Everyone just wants prefab opinions that feel good and sound cool. It's all so damn tiresome.

When spiritualists say "love is everything", and if they understand it, what they are doing is creating love in that space, at least, they are using the power as words as a sort of magic. The Logos.

Evil will always exist, but you can trick it into thinking it's good long enough for it to smile at you. And maybe, it is "good", because it's a part of the superorganism of the universe.

Love is a choice though, at least at the beginning, and you make love happen by choosing it over hate.

I feel like the people I connect to are other fit guys with artistic hobbies. They don’t have many friends themselves though and everyone thinks they’re douchebags. Only difference between me and them is I don’t know how to pull girls and I don’t have limitless energy. Or can bench 2pl8

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Mfw hanging with strongest cunt at the gym and he likes a photo of me flexing my dyel muscles on Facebook

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>tfw gymhunk called me swole and accused me of cruising on roids
Mmm I cruise for something else hun

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>And maybe, it is "good", because it's a part of the superorganism of the universe.
This is the only part of your post that made clear sense to me. I really don't want to be a judgemental asshole and write you off as another idiot, so please explain your meaning better. I get the concept of logos. Logic, rules, the laws of nature, of physics, the apparent order that is self evident. If this isn't God, or at least proof of God, or whatever name you want to give to an intelligent power or design beyond us, then what is? I beleive this much. But "creating love in that space", "making evil smile", "using the power of words as a sort of magic"; without explaining what you mean by these things, these are meaningless words. It sounds exactly like the kind of empty bullshit people spout to sound cool that I was talking about. If I'm wrong, please explain. I really want to be wrong. I want to understand more, and I know there are people who understand so much more than me about this sort of stuff, but so far I haven't had a lot of luck getting in contact with any of them. I only seem to attract obvious larpers, idiots, and the uninterested.

Captain Fuark

lmao I'm pretty funny

Have sex

We're all gonna make it

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there’s Windy Mike who doesn’t lift much but farts a lot when he does. We usually laugh, except when it sounds real heavy like he’s shit himself.

Stiffy Stevens, wears a fucking leotard. Can’t do much in the gym due to terrible arthritis he caught while in the Baltic. that’s not why we call him stiffy Stevens though we call him that because of the erections, great fabric stretchers he doesn’t even attempt to hide. Claims it’s cuz he’s taking supplements. Total shit we all see he gets them when he catches himself in the mirror.

Sue, a woman 6/10

Daniel Schmitt, we call him The Agent and do Matrix quotes. He hates it and to be fair in the movie it’s Agent Smith not Agent Schmitt so he has every right to feel agreived.

Charles McTerry - total tool and utter nonce. Claims when he was working in the underground fixing wires he saw a fucking minotaur.

Satanori Moshoko - Samaria master, chants ancient Japanese battle hymns even though there’s no battles left for him to fight. He tells us life is one long battle but no it isn’t he’s wrong and battles aren’t allowed in the gym anyway

If you really want to know more, start reading:

the-eye.eu/public/Books/Temple_Of_Solomon_The_King/
pastebin.com/TwuqcD3z
pastebin.com/KYykDA1M

The world isn't as mundane as public school textbooks claim it to be. Saying more would be wasting words, I don't know if you are the type to brush off a call to learning and spiritual adventure over a big ego or not.

Beware though, there be dragons.

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Here's your (You) for the helpful and original input.

All the human mind can hope to accomplish is deeper self delusion.

>Kyle's brother is Kyle's brother.
Kek

>Charles McTerry - total tool and utter nonce. Claims when he was working in the underground fixing wires he saw a fucking minotaur.

Holy shit lmao

Yes, and you can never truly reach the "objective" truth, the Unknowable, there is nothing BUT Illusion for us mortals, so why not dive in and start swimming.

Damm I fucking relate with this.

There is clearly another layer to this existence we just haven't figured out. Big mysteries that affect us in quantifiable way in consistent patterns. Old religions and loosely formed nu-religious both claim to have the answers and they're both just too specific and outrageous to be the truth. But there is a truth, and I think we unfortunately just live in a time where we don't have a chance of figuring it out yet

>be me
>19 year old sophomore in college
>recovering alcoholic (important)
>spent a year in a long distance relationship with gf
>gf now coming to my college
>imsoexcited.mp3
>get dumped by her a month in
>depressionandobsession.mp3
>grades are slipping
>losing gainz because can’t focus
>during one AA meeting recognize guy from gym
>6 foot 4 swoled up chad who’s a senior at my college
>we start talking
>become friends
>he and other gym bros hang out outside school rec after closing every night
>start hanging out with them
>discussions range anywhere from politics to philosophy to anatomy to girls and random bullshit
>great times
>grades and gainz come back
>year and a half goes by
>everyone graduates and moves
>all alone again
I’m sad it’s gone but glad I had those bros to help me pull myself together.

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Based

Whole I haven't read and watched all of that, none of it is exactly new to me. I'm already firmly convinced there is a lot more to reality than most think. Im aware of a lot of the CIA stuff like stargate, and it nothing really surprises me anymore. It seems like damn near anything is possible. But all the fringe books- how the hell do you sort through all the bullshit? For every legitimate book or every sentence statement, there are a hundred that are complete bullshit. How do you decide who to trust? They clearly can't all be true, because so many of them contradict eachother. A lot of people speak highly of the Kybalion, but if you really research it, the book just appeared out of nowhere around the time it was published and there are no other records of anything it claims anywhere else, which leads me to beleive its just a hoax. I'm not saying I'm convinced that it's a hoax, but I'm not convinced that it's legit either. Where the hell do you start?

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None
I have no friends

Yeah, I haven't made any friends along the way.
>Pic not related to me.

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Also, after reading 'alchemy deciphered' it's very, very obvious that the original practice of alchemy absolutely was not metaphorical/spiritual, but was clearly something similar to biological chemistry of today. So any book that claims otherwise is absolutely a confirmed hoax. The evidence is completely irrefutable for once in this case. Clues like this help somewhat, but there is so much bullshit. I'm so tired of reading half of a book, only to come across obvious and confirmed lies that make it clear the entire book is an obvious hoax. I want the truth, damn it.

fpbp

This female tricked me into thinking she's interested in me. Turns out she wasn't but I wasn't too flustered by it anyway. I decided to keep contact with her anyway and see how far I can push things. I almost got to the fuck off cunt break all contact point 3 times, to test her reaction. Turns out she's manipulative as fuck but I'm able to sniff that out easily anyway, her shit doesn't fly.

Anyway my point is that when we hanged out together, she'd say "you don't speak much". Observing her among her friends, and observing her friends as well, all they fucking did was engage in fucking useless chit chat and she would repeat herself and her friends would also repeat themselves almost every day. Empty fucking talk, same subjects, same sentences same stories. This sort of interaction is just boring, and I talk when I feel like it. But I'm told I don't chat enough. I simply don't have the strength to engage in empty talks day in day out with people, shit is boring. I'll talk yes, do I fucking need to talk all the time?

What this fucking idiotic slut actually meant was "entertain me". She just wanted a clown pay her free meals.

I stumbled onto a politically incorrect bookclub. Turns out they're all redpilled on the JQ. I got one of the guys on SS and a few of the other members already workout (boxing and weightlifting). We're meeting up this weekend to lift weights.

checked

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this please, firefighting is great

please tell me none of them are stupid enough to discuss redpill-grade stuff in public

>tfw its been like that my whole life, always had acquaintances, always make people laugh, etc, but no one ever goes past that with me
>tfw working with coworkers for a few years, being talkative and funny at work, and listening to them at work talk about going places with each other and not inviting me, then later asking "if im feeling alright" because im not joking around as much

i know im not exactly a ray of sunshine because of how miserable my life is but cant they at least invite me places they go? they used to

Read the Corpus Hermeticum. You'll be glad you did. Helped explain to me why we're all the way we are.
t. Hermeticist