/grim/ - The End

Check this thread out for a sooper speshul announcement >>788 DISREGARD THAT KILL YOURSELF

>testing the greentext for science

>>295

I'm from /bane/

Looks like your master plan is working

I came here because of the movie plan you just filed on our board

just post more and advertise outside of 8chan

>>837

Yeah, and what are the conditions for the possibility of people actually sticking around here? For whatever reason, getting a community here to not die off pathetically if it isn't a legacy board is next to impossible. Maybe because having leddit-style user boards on an imageboard is a bad idea, because then a bunch of fuckboys will make hundreds of boards that never even get a single post.

Whatever the case may be, I don't expect /grim/ to have any future on 8chan. This *chan as a whole is fucked. And I'm not sure I want to advertise to people outside of the imageboard community. I'm not sure where they hell I'd even advertise to.

More movie nights?

A Gaspar Noe film festival might be nice and /grim/.

A typical dialogue between me and normalfags:

normalfag: "y u so sad man xD"

>me: "I'm discontent with the current state of affairs in the world"

normalfag: "lol ya those fugin paris bombs zomg so sad XD"

>me: "well atleast those people musn't suffer any longer, and besides mass killings happen on atleast a weekly basis, the only thing singling this one is the massive media coverage, and its obviously cause the reactionaries in france want to close the borders to immigrants. Additionally, the deception and abuse of killings for media coverage is the only part of this whole ordeal that pertains to my stating of the fact that I am discontent with the current state of affairs."

normalfag: "zomg wtf is wrong with you dont you care about the children wtf I bet you just sit at ur computer and jack off all day get a fucking life loser #lmao"

I'm gonna use this thread to request the name of a /grim/ film I can't remember. It was from the 70s or 80s about scientists doing experiments on a group of women involving torture and rape.

I remember seeing it on youtube about a year ago but I remember it having a realistic grim asthetic, like a more amateur salo. One scene I remember in particular is a naked woman running through a dreary shallow lake trying to escape before someone catching her and pulled to the ground.

one of these is not like the rest

tbh it doesn't even seem worth the effort to post here anymore, rite?

It's getting harder and harder for me to get outta bed in the morning, but I have university commitments that force me to get up. I just go along with the momentum that I'm already caught in, because what would be the use in resisting it? Only momentum gives the dead motion.

bamp

I SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING IN THERE

>>254

I feel like contemporary society's expectation for a human being can be explained by looking at machine learning. The machine will first try lots of things, conforming more and more overtime. Eventually it loses all of what could be interpreted as free will and begins to the the function it was trying to learn to do the same way over and over. Thats what we are, machines of that sort and most of us find our little niche in society and lose all free will.

I am one of those robots

beep boop beep boop

please fix me

SAAVE MEE

I feel op. I think its call dissociation or summat like that.

>>832

More like you rancid dick, brah....

You fuckboys can definitely raid from here. Shit's nihilist as fuck. It's just never come up before and I've never bothered to try to reach out to /baphomet/

t. Board Owner

>>841

I guess when it comes to esoteric nonsense and worshiping angel Haze and Ruth Moody, well, yeah, pretty much, brah

give it to me

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGHH

despair is useless

WELP, my thread on /b/ finally got driven off the catalog from a wave of spam. Fuck that place needs much better moderation.

Anyways, I certainly appreciate the offer. The main thing I had in mind that I think could be useful to the board, at least from looking at the success that top 25 boards have seen here that weren't legacy boards (not that I expect /grim/ to ever be in the top 25), is some drawn OC. For the most part that's tended to be stuff like drawn mascots/board-tans (a skele-tan, perhaps, for /grim/? kek), and maybe a drawn *pill chart of some sort. *pilling is kind of a cancerous way of introducing people to board ideology IMO, but the point of the "grey pill" is supposed to be making fun of all of those other *pills anyways.

But aside from that, I can get by with Photoshop. Any other OC that goes with the board would also be greatly appreciated (death and decay and skellingtons and whatnot, like the other anon in the thread mentioned). Whatever inspires your skeleton heart. Hell, we could just start a thread for people to shitpost their art if more drawfags came here. I'm pretty loose with what kind of content gets posted here as long as it fits with the vibe.

I'm a little confused though why you'd need to be a mod for this. We don't really get enough posts to need more than myself to moderate.

>>402

i assure you that you will have lots of posts that arent all made by me if you mod me

i will drive the traffic here with no mercy

only the dead will now peace from my shilling

fuck em

doot

Doot

doot

love it

I guess I'll answer.

Becoming a nihilist is a rough process because I imagine most of us came from a background of being into existentialism, and maybe a lot of us also have depression or something that got us into those kinds of things in the first place. But most people who aren't religious but still have existential qualms seem to find a secular repose in existentialism and never bother to study philosophy any further. Being a student of philosophy myself, I came to learn that existentialism belongs to a specific point in history. A monumental culmination of human civilization and culture that happened in the beginning of the 20th century, the two world wars, that lead to the death of modernism and left the West very confused. It is my opinion that existentialism was forming beforehand by some particularly astute thinkers (Nietzsche and Kierkegaard) and taken up by the Existentialists themselves (Sartre, De Beauvoir, Heidegger to an extent) in the wake of that and phenomenology.

But anyways, existentialism died at the hand of postmodernism, in my opinion. There are far too many confounding variables involved in existentialist imperatives of creating your own meaning, or that you create meaning no matter whether you choose to or not, that I came to realize that trying to hold onto these beliefs was both exhausting and intellectually dishonest. I see no reason to believe anything means anything, or that "meaning" is anything we can make sense of except perhaps as an illusion we have about our connection to things outside ourselves.

Anyways, what I "get" out of my view is my own particular spin on it. Not everyone who is a nihilist is a depressive sack of shit, but in my point of view being a nihilist is quite frankly very relieving. Knowing that nothing matters and that you have no hope of making your life meaningful means I don't need to try in vain to do so, and can just live within the limits given to me as a human being. I can continue to do what I want knowing that I cannot change who I have been up until now and want beliefs and wants and whatnot have formed from that, but I can at least continue to live without taking anything too seriously and not letting myself become any more spooked and far gone like everyone else.

I'm going to present what I gain from nihilism in the form of an extended metaphor story.

In a vast physics sandbox pocket reality there exists a scrapyard filled with all the coolest scrap from all sorts of post-industrial age civilizations in other realities. In this scrapyard there exists a hill of scrap down which a bolt happened to roll and snag onto a fan which snagged on to a muffler which brought along a whole lot of other scrap, creating a ball of scrap. The hill was very steep, infinetely steep. At some point the ball of scrap became molten on the inside due to all the accumulated scrap, and at that that point it developed a very strong electromagnetic field, so strong in fact that as it rolled down the hill, it charged old devices. Fusion reactors overloaded all throughout the hills, distributing energy around as well. The entire scrapyard became glowing with electrical and radioactive activity. All this provided the perfect conditions for a particularly well insulated powerful computer with an ambient radiation to electricity array to undergo the changes it needed to undergo to erronously spawn a conciousness into the hellish depths of the scrapyard. Through the energy array the being was able to detect its outside world, using measures of ambient electricity for sight, and changes in gravity for hearing. It could detect everything in the whole scrapyard almost. But it had no spooks because there was no society around it, and nobody to say the place it was in was hellish or nice. The sentience processed shit and studied things, then eventually it became part of the mega-blackhole that the scrapyard turned into due to gravity.

A normie might say "well its clear that the existence of the sentience was completely meaningless and death was inevitable for it". They do not realize that they are the scrapyard and I am the sentience.

Please tell me how to become an optimist, I'm genuinely curious.

SORROW IN THE FACE OF ONTOLOGICAL AND/OR EPISTEMOLOGICAL FUTILITY IMPLIES AN INTRINSIC OPTIMISM.

JOY IN THE FACE OF ONTOLOGICAL AND/OR EPISTEMOLOGICAL FUTILITY IMPLIES AN INTRINSIC PESSIMISM.

REGARDING THE VULGAR IDIOM "IS THE GLASS HALF FULL, OR HALF EMPTY?", USED TO CURSORILY ASSESS A PERSON'S DISPOSITION AS EITHER OPTIMISTIC, OR PESSIMISTIC: THE UTILITARIAN PURPOSE OF GLASSES, OR CUPS, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF SIMILAR CONTAINER, IS TO CONTAIN LIQUID, THEREFORE THE OPTIMAL CONDITION FOR SUCH KIND OF CONTAINER IS TO BE AS FULL AS POSSIBLE, AND THE LEAST OPTIMAL CONDITION FOR SUCH KIND OF CONTAINER IS TO BE AS EMPTY AS POSSIBLE, THEREFORE THE SUPERLATIVELY OPTIMISTIC PRESUMED CONDITION WOULD BE A FULL GLASS, AND THE SUPERLATIVELY PESSIMISTIC PRESUMED CONDITION WOULD BE AN EMPTY GLASS, THEREFORE TO JUDGE A GLASS AS "HALF EMPTY" IS TO PRESUPPOSE AN IDEAL CONDITION OF FULLNESS, AND TO JUDGE A GLASS AS "HALF FULL" IS TO PRESUPPOSE AN IDEAL CONDITION OF EMPTINESS.

IT IS ONLY CONSEQUENTIAL THAT IN THE CURRENT DEGENERATED ERA, CHOOSING TO JUDGE A GLASS' CONDITION AS "HALF EMPTY" IS REGARDED AS IMPLYING A PESSIMISTIC DISPOSITION, AND TO JUDGE A GLASS' CONDITION AS "HALF FULL" REGARDED AS IMPLYING AN OPTIMISTIC DISPOSITION, BUT WHY IS THIS SO? BECAUSE MOST PERSONS NOW EITHER CONSCIOUSLY KNOW, OR UNCONSCIOUSLY INTUIT THAT OUR CURRENT EXISTENTIAL CONDITION AS A SPECIES IS ONE OF POSTTRAUMATIC SHOCK OR STRESS, LIVING IN INHERENTLY HOSTILE NATURAL CONDITIONS, WITHOUT MEMORY OF OUR ORIGIN, WITHOUT CONSCIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF OUR DESTINY, UNDER CONSTANT EITHER LATENT, OR MANIFEST, DREAD DERIVED FROM ONTOLOGICAL UNCERTAINTY; TO THE IGNOBLE, WHICH CONSTITUTE THE MAJORITY ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE IN THE CURRENT WORLD, SUCH CONDITION ENGENDERS A WORLDVIEW CONSISTING OF SEEING EVERY DEVELOPMENT OR PROCESS/SERIES OF EVENTS, AS NECESSARILY TRANSCURRING IN A LINEAR, EXPANSIVE, AND EVERPROGRESSIVE CONTINUUM, FROM THE SUBJACENT, MINIMUM, AND LOWLY, TO THE SUPERJACENT, MAXIMUM, AND LOFTY, THEREFORE THE “EMPTY GLASS” IS REGARDED BY THE IGNOBLE AS THE PRIMARY CONDITION, BUT THE NOBLE ONE REMEMBERS, AND KNOWS, THAT THE PRIMARY CONDITION IS ONE OF OPTIMALITY, AND THAT EVERY FLUCTUATION IN THE KOSMOS, AT ALL LEVELS, IS CYCLICAL AND SELFRECURSIVE, THEREFORE THE ILLUMINATED NOBLE ONES KNOW THAPost too long. Click here to view the full text.