False alarm, niggas
I feel great again. Everything in the thread is still real, but honestly, I just don't care. This is the power of neurotransmitters. I was reminded of this while reading Schopenhauer:
"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."
"Human life must be some kind of mistake. The incessant clamor of needs and necessities, the torment of desires... all these imply that we have fallen out of a state of peace that belongs to us by right."
The difference between pessimists and optimists? Simply neurotransmitters. Schopenhauer just had a shitty brain. It seems obvious, but I only truly understood it a couple of years ago.
Naturally, I know the despair will return, like it always does, but in this moment? I don't care at all. It’s funny how that works. Appreciate those who wrote high-effort replies though
@Toji Suzuhara @Vecr @Lords Greatsword @henstepl @Bloitzhole
So, ok, this isn't going to fly. You're a fuckup; you're actually a fuckup with sudden regrets; you're actually such a historied fuckup that you accumulated a wholeass schizophrenia diagnosis.
What was the fuckup that led to this diagnosis? Was it the ear-cutting? We're not stopping just because you randomly entered a positive episode.
I obviously don't hold a schizophrenia diagnosis in any high regard. It is just the moment a doctor writes you off - a philosophical thing, because we understand that some people have to be written off. You can walk your way back from such an exceeding fuckup status as that. But you can't do this by randomly declaring ALL IS FINE NOW!
Why did you Van Gogh yourself? You
even sliced the same-sided left ear as Van Gogh going by this photo (reversed per the text).
Why is it the left ear? Is there something else in Van Gogh that you identify with?
A Man-Maschine like Henstepl has the gift of exploring all regions of consciousness. I have had little reason to explore the earlobes, but I have explored them for you, and they seem to provide information about posture:
- An earlobe of a good Maschinated man will communicate "neutral" status when standing upright
- An earlobe of a good Maschinated man will communicate "forward" status when leaning forward
- An earlobe of a good Maschinated man will communicate "reverse" status when leaning backwards.
And that's important information, because you don't want your default position to resemble either of these fuckups:

No, you want to stand PROUD and ERECT. In verifying this, you may very well have the gift of hands that Henstepl has. The gift of hands is how Henstepl extracts information from the brain with a method unavailable to most people; it is only available to people with gay hands (index finger longer than ring finger) as depicted:
I order you to confirm to me now that you have gay hands, which in this context is a gift. Once you have confirmed this, I order you to complete these tests using your gift.
- STAND STRAIGHT UP and tap your earlobe-bottom directly. Upwards from the bottom. Does this make you blink?
- It should be true that you blink with a straight tap on both ears. If one ear is different tell me now.
- If it is untrue that a straight tap does it, try a "brush" foward, and a "brush" backwards, with the hands.
- LEAN WEIRDLY FORWARD and "brush" your earlobe-bottom forward. Do you then blink? Try the alternatives as well.
- LEAN WEIRDLY BACKWARD and "brush" your earlobe-bottom backward. Do you then blink? Try the alternatives as well.
You will have to report your findings, as will likely distinguish themselves from this ideal in
some form or fashion, to me. Anyone with the gift of intelligent gay fingers should be happy to report their findings, be they positive, or even if weirdly, tangentially negative - they'll figure it out!
And we're going to work with you on this, and we're gonna make a man out of you yet!