Horrifying black pills - Post the thoughts that make your skull want to collapse

[SilkGnut]

All of this is basically the equivalent of we wuzzing that there was a Pan African KANGZ empire because our maps call it Africa.

I am too lazy to source my info, especially when talking to somebody like yourself, so who am I to call you wrong?

 

[Tiny Clanger]

I'm awake.


Pissflaps.

 

[Dom Cruise]

After 4 generations, nobody in your family will even have the ability to remember you.
After 100 years, 99% of all music recorded in the last century will be forgotten.
In 250 years, around the work of one person per billion will be even nichely known, the rest buried in multi-yobybyte archives haphazardly categorized in unsearchable formats, and it's very possible not a single country that exists today will still be there.

Is that not kind of freeing though?

This is something I worry about myself, about leaving behind some kind of "legacy" when I'm gone, do I want to strive to become some famous writer or filmmaker or something like that?

Or should I just focus on trying to make my life as happy for me as I can and not worry about any sort of fame? The idea of it not really mattering, that we're all doomed to be forgotten eventually anyway, is actually kind of freeing if you look at it in a certain way.

 

[RussianParasite]

Is that not kind of freeing though?

This is something I worry about myself, about leaving behind some kind of "legacy" when I'm gone, do I want to strive to become some famous writer or filmmaker or something like that?

Or should I just focus on trying to make my life as happy for me as I can and not worry about any sort of fame? The idea of it not really mattering, that we're all doomed to be forgotten eventually anyway, is actually kind of freeing if you look at it in a certain way.

Stoicism has a lot to say about this concept, and I have taken to it recently.

Along these lines, I found what Marcus Aurelius said (among other things) to be a very powerful and liberating thing: "you are but a little soul carrying around a corpse."

I think it is totally fine, if not good, that we are eventually swept away by the sands of time. For some reason I think a lot of western culture has a hard time dealing with this compared to others and I am not sure why.

 

[Spastic Colon]

Stoicism has a lot to say about this concept, and I have taken to it recently.

Along these lines, I found what Marcus Aurelius said (among other things) to be a very powerful and liberating thing: "you are but a little soul carrying around a corpse."

I think it is totally fine, if not good, that we are eventually swept away by the sands of time. For some reason I think a lot of western culture has a hard time dealing with this compared to others and I am not sure why.

It helps to temper the horror of your own mortality if you can at least take comfort in the fact that the brutal dictators, serial killers, and the like are all going to die, too. Thank God we only have a short time on the planet. It minimizes the damage that either evil or stupidity can do as each new generation of idiots/assholes has a learning curve to deal with before they can really mess things up. It would be nice if the good guys got to live longer -- but at least the current system balances things out for the most part.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I think it is totally fine, if not good, that we are eventually swept away by the sands of time. For some reason I think a lot of western culture has a hard time dealing with this compared to others and I am not sure why.

Because without the west, the entire world would go to shit outside of some parts of asia.

You also have a long history of the western world going out of their way to preserve information for future generations. If you're dealing with such a long length of time nobody can really say if what you did was futile or not because nobody would really know. But if you preserve it, there is now a chance where as before there was currently none.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

Because without the west, the entire world would go to shit outside of some parts of asia.

Oh no not the poor kangz. Womp womp

You also have a long history of the western world going out of their way to preserve information for future generations. If you're dealing with such a long length of time nobody can really say if what you did was futile or not because nobody would really know. But if you preserve it, there is now a chance where as before there was currently none.

Tbh I dont see how stoic/"eastern" acceptance of mortality is mutually exclusive with preserving knowledge and history. In fact, I'd say its demonstrably not.

Oh right, blackpills.... Um....

If you're American, shlomo sacrificed your foreskin to make facial cream for some thot

 

[Dork Of Ages]

Spoiler: the duality of man

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Alternatively the Chinese word for Barbarian was Ta-Ta and historians just prefer to use the word Tatar, it all depends which books you wish to believe. Not saying yours are wrong (and I agree that the widespread obsession with all things Tartaria is overblown) but I am absolutely confident turko-mongolic steppe people were a far bigger deal than what is commonly talked about these days. The history of how the land companies acted throughout Asia and the world at large is far from subtle.

As to what lands they owned...

That is pretty far south for Mongolia. I guess it may have been considered Mongolia at one time, or maybe we are talking Russia as in the whole fucking USSR plus a chunk of China, but they seemed like major players.

Bruh, that's not a state, just a territory full of different tribes. Like plastering the word "Africa" over Africa because you can't be assed to label every group and understand the complicated diplomatic relationships between them, or just labeling any European claims as a colony regardless of who actually controlled the area.

 

[SilkGnut]

Bruh, that's not a state, just a territory full of different tribes. Like plastering the word "Africa" over Africa because you can't be assed to label every group and understand the complicated diplomatic relationships between them, or just labeling any European claims as a colony regardless of who actually controlled the area.

If not for the Muscovy Company and it's kin I would buy that, but the way they started showing up right when the Mongolian (or Tartarian) Golden Horde is falling apart feels far from coincidental, given the mission of said land companies. These were not some nobodies these were the same motherfuckers who had been running Asia via the Golden Horde not long previously.

I would agree that it was likely not a traditional state as we imagine one today, from what I have read they felt more like a loose confederation of allied peoples who remained relatively distinct. Still, I have to imagine they were a fairly significant presence if no nation found it worth their while to expand their borders in to that gigantic mass of land. Look at China hiding off in the corner, they were not building all them walls for random barbarians.

 

[Shibaru]

We have so many Technological Advancements (3D Printers, Robotic Arms, Vertical Farming, Virtual Currency, etc) and all we can do is either somehow turn them into sex toys, or use them in dumb ways.

 

[Applejack]

Everything is an illusion created by federal officers that happen to be bioluminescent

 

[Quijibo69]

Having a black pill and not able to to drop it because you would have to dox yourself.

 

[mortyposter]

Hypergamy. Chads unfairly get more cooch than previously thought.