Newcomers Q&A
Ask all your questions about our board here!
Inter-Board Advertising Thread
This thread is for users of /hope/ and visitors from other boards to advertise their favorite boards. The OP post will contain a list of what I consider to be the sister boards of /hope/ even if they don't know it, yet, as well as a periodically updated list of current boards of interest.
Sister Boards:
This list will be added to as I discover boards that share parts of our mission and/or outlook.
Boards of Interest:
Go out, /hope/fuls, and help your fellow anons! Tell them there is /hope/.
/hope/ Rules and Mission
This board is dedicated to collaberation between 8chan anons in order to help their fellow anons, especially those who are suffering from depression, social isolation, addiction, and all the other plagues peculiar to imageboard users. If /kind/ is for kind words, /hope/ is for everything that goes above and beyond words. Users may use this board to either receive or give aid and comfort, and coordinate with other anons to provide anything from companionship, education, advice, and even material assistance. It was begun by /christian/s interested in doing charity work among a demographic they feel strong kinship with, and which is neglected among mainstream society because it is relatively unknown. This is not a Christian-specific board, however, and all are welcome as long as they abide by the rules and come in a spirit of charity and love for their fellow anons.
The rules can be found at: https://8ch.net/hope/rules.html
Also read our mission statement: https://8ch.net/hope/mission.html
Visit our wiki at http://hopewiki.com/
Also join us in #8hope on Rizon
Funposting For /hope/
This thread is for me/the vols/random anons to bump to keep the board alive until we get enough users to have an actual discussion on this board.
Also, check my trips.
t. your friendly neighborhood BO
Guaranteed minimum income
So what does /hope/ think about Guaranteed minimum income? There is a push in my neck of the woods to give every citizen of a region money regardless of job status.
Pic unrelated.
Broken hopes & dreams
Have your hopes ever been crushed /hope/?
Improvement /Progress Thread
How about a thread about the improvements you have been making in your life or other people's lives?
I've been working hard to find employment in the field I specialized in in school for several months with no success. I only heard back from one place, which I was later rejected from. My life circumstances dictate that I need to start working right now though, which means I'll have to find work at a place like a fast food restaurant, retail chain, or grocery store. I've been fired from three different places like this before though for having anxiety at work and walking off. I know from experience that these jobs are extremely difficult (for me) and depressing and while I was working at them I would just cry every day I got home and go to sleep immediately. I went back to school to try to escape this fate but I guess this is just my destiny, to be a loser who works at Walmart forever and spends all day thinking about anime girls just to survive. I feel completely worthless that this is my station in life. How am I supposed to live through this? I don't know if even escapism can carry me through a fate this horrible.
State of the World
I know the mission statement says this board is for more personal problems so maybe this doesn't belong here.
But the general state of the world and all the shit that's happening in Europe just does make me want to give up. I don't believe it'll get better and will just continue to get worse. So the point of working through personal problems is to live in a world quickly going mad?
Not that I expect /hope/ to fix the planet but how exactly do people deal with how the world is going?
How do I cope with the realization that I have know real friends, just acquaintances.
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Inferiority
How do you all deal with others being superior than you?
I have always felt myself depressive about the dynamic of superiority and inferiority of inherent ability for every individual in existence. AKA I firmly believe that the reality is that there are individuals who are inherently superior at performing most possible tasks in life. An extreme example is a comparison between someone vegetablized but conscious since birth and someone who is superior for most of life`s tasks because of both genetics and life experience.
If there are truly those individuals who are superior and inferior, how can I accept this emotionally? Humans' differential ability levels have always been terribly depressive.
Post things that make you feel hope or something like it.
I saw some Haibane Renmei pics scattered around when I skimmed this board so I am reaching back to 9 years ago for this video, which I find really touching. I hope this isn't too off-topic.
Nice board
I was just a bit curious about, what all of your dreams and hopes are, and what drives the optimism of the future, I assume dominates around here.
tldr: how, what and why do you hope?
Banner Thread
Post your banner submissions here! All banners must be 300x100 pixels in size and should instill feelings of hope or positivity in the viewer.
/hope/ Christmas Party
Get in here, everyone if anyone is left.
Let's take it easy and have a friendly chat thread over Christmas weekend. Talk about anything you want, nothing's off limits. Or funpost. Whatever floats your boat. Just follow the rules. This board has had basically no activity for quite some time, so there's really no point in trying to stay on topic. Let's just try to have some fun and liven up the place.
To that end, what are you all doing for Jesus' birthday? I'll be with a buddy of mine, visiting his family, who are basically like my family.
/fit/ Thread
This thread will be for anons to discuss the subject of /fit/ness. Post your fitness questions, fitness advice, fitness resources, and blog your fitness journey! Even if your achievements are modest, we will be here to give you moral support. Don't be a sad cunt; be a sick cunt! We're all gonna make it, brah.
I will start us off with the two infographs I have in my very lonely /fit/ folder.
I saw this board advertised elsewhere, saw what I liked and figured I would post.
So I'm 25, Catholic, and unemployed. I also have no women in my life.
I've come to the conclusion recently that I am a NEET against my will. I've been mostly unemployed for the past 6 years (With a brief job for 5 months before being laid off) and have pretty much lost hope of ever finding work I can do. I can't do anything fast paced like a fast food restaurant since I'm just not equipped to handle that kind of work.
The school always told us that if we went to College/University, we would be making money and guaranteed a job, which turned out to be a lie since most young adults I run into are either unemployed or very underemployed if they are lucky enough to have a job.
I've also begun to notice that many places are hiring just women and not men. I started keep a tabs on the places I applied to and noticed almost all the people who got the jobs (or in once case, all the jobs) were women.
My mom complains because I won't mention I have a disability (Why would you put that on a resume anyway). I don't want to be defined by my disability. Once people know you have one, they treat you differently. She complains because I won't "swallow" my pride, because apparently in life, she had too.
I know she wants the best for me, and I'm thankful that she has let me live at home rent free since she (until recently) understood the job market is really bad. Here, this year we have lost an estimated 50,000 jobs. I just want to contribute and stop feeling like a mooch.
There are only two skills I'm good at. House Cleaning / Work a house wife would traditionally do, and programming. I didn't go to school for programming as I always saw it as a waste of time, and besides, school is too expensive. As for House Maintenance (or whatever you want to call it), I doubt anyone would want to marry someone who would become their house husband or would even consider that. *Shrugs*
Outsourcing has also pretty much killed programming. You ever wonder why your printer drivers suck? That's because much of it has been outsourced to places like India.
I don't even know if I could just program software and some how live off of donations. I'd do it if it was a possibility.
Then I could also bitch about my Love life. I'm Catholic as I stated before, so to me it only makes sense that I want to marry someone who shares my faith. The sad thing is, there are no women close to my age that attend. Coupled with the fact that I prefer a specific body type (BBW), I've found that my chances are pretty much non existence. There was one woman once, but she picked and chose what she believed, and gave off that "I don't need a man" attitude.
My looks are okay though. I do work out. There have been a few women who have said I'm cute or good looking.
Anyways, I just wanted to whine and introduce myself since I'm pretty stressed out right now. I'm pretty much /hope/less right now.
I've always longed to have a very best friend that I could share everything with, but I pushed away all of my friends when I was in highschool and isolated myself to just focus on my hobbies of anime and video games. I started making online friends, but I've grown apart even from them now. Online "friendships" just feel like a waste of time to me, and they're so fragile. It's so easy to just delete and block strangers you don't even really know when you get in a fight instead of trying to work through differences. Maybe it's cowardly to just delete friends like that but that's my situation now. I've totally cut myself off from everyone and now I'm a very lonely and friendless adult. I just want one really close friend who I can tell all my secrets to and experience that feeling of reciprocated closeness and caring with, but it seems like most people meet their best friends when they're kids. How can I make that kind of relationship with someone as an adult?
Hello /hope/ first time poster, an anon recommended here from /b/.
I'm down in the dirt. Or at least it feels that way. I think it would be easier to screen shot the previous thread instead of typing it out.
I /hope/ to make sense of alot of political crap with this
I hope this is an okay place to post this, because with some level of understanding comes hope. if you don't like this, totally understand. don't bump my thread if you don't agree. peace.
to be sure everyone understands:
>I am Jewish
>I am Against Zionism
>I am Against Capitalism
>I am PRO Libertarian
What kinds of things do normal people do? Not "normal" as in chads and stacies with an IQ of 85 who make bad choices and will die from STDs and liver failure, but like actually happy normal people with a wife and kids and a house who are genuinely satisfied with their lives.
Hey /hope/.
I've been down and out for the past month or so. I'm 31 years old, depressed, and currently testing the waters with different kinds of medication I'm taking. I don't know where to go with my life. I have enough college under my belt to be a junior, but the problem is that the last two semesters I've had to drop out due to mental breakdowns.
The mental breakdowns are a recurring thing, in fact. I had a job as a clerical assistant, and about every 3-4 weeks, I'd have one at work, and have to either suffer through it or try to exhaust myself until it goes away. One time I climbed down 22 stories of stairs, up 10, and back down 10 just to try to get rid of the jitters that were bothering me. I've quit a few jobs in the past cold turkey, simply because I was too down and out to go to work, or when I was at work, I would feel too melancholy to want to continue.
It all seems hopeless. I don't want to be stuck on disability for the rest of my life, but I don't know what to do with myself. Counselors I talk with seem to not have answers, either. They keep telling me to either find a job (I'm routinely too anxious to leave the house after this particular breakdown) or start a company (I'm in the hole several thousand dollars in debt due to college). Even if I did want to do these things, I'd spend the entire time waiting for the other shoe to drop, for my mental illness to rear its ugly head and for failure to kick my legs out from under me and smash my head into the pavement like it has so many times already.
My family is not supportive. They don't care and they think that simply watching and dragging me to different family functions is enough. As long as I'm sentient and breathing, they seem to think that it's okay, despite a couple of them dealing with mental illnesses themselves. I have no friends since everyone I know my age is married, and therefore unable to really socialize or talk with anyone since a guy has to sacrifice his social life for the good of a relationship, apparently, and the places I keep being referred to for friends are for the mentally ill. I'm tired of wearing my illness as a badge. There's more to me than the depression, at least, I hope.
For the longest time, I felt like there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Now I don't. I don't know what to do with myself. I don't know how I'm supposed to pay these bills that I have, or if I can ever be self-sufficient. I'm tired of hearing about what potential I have. Potential is for children. If you haven't realized it at 31, then what the fuck are you? A waste. And that's what I feel like.
Safe Networking Thread
This is a thread for anons to post advice and suggestions for how to safely keep in contact with other anons. Someone mentioned the use of throwaway email and so forth, and that is a good start, but it would be nice to come up with some ideas for standardized practices which we could share with newcomers.
Off you go!
Hey guys, lately my life has been feeling very empty, I feel as though I cant interact with my friends very much because they all have computers and can talk to eachother and have fun with eachother through this, I on the other hand do npt have a computer, nor can I get one, I cannot even talk to my friends outside of schoolwithout a computer. This aside, whenever they have get togethers or hang out, I never get invited, or just get forgotten. and my other friends from out of school is an issue tpo, I cant ever see them because I cant go to parties, or other such things with them. My parents never want to talk about this stuff with me, and my friends have the emotions of a brick wall. The other issue is that in two weeks I will be finished school, and will probably never get to see my friends again because I cant contact them.
I just hate feeling so damned empty and sad all of the time
I guess what im looking for is just some hope from you guys and maybe some advice too if you want
futile act of fertillty
Hello /hope/,
I made this thread to satisfy a verbal agreement.
I am planing to an hero after my school's semester is up. I am not doing this because I am depressed or have suffered any kind of lost, in fact I have a moderately comfortable life. The problem is twofold, the security that is by the grace of my mother is coming to an end and I will have to wage slave soon I am not saying I am entitled to be taken care of by anyone, but by the same token no one is entitled to my labor or time, but the problem comes up when I have on more food to eat, and I would rather take the quick painless way out, then weeks of starvation I understand, then the question is there anything to work, so you stay live to experience it, and the answer for me is no. I don't enjoy learning, being around other people, food, exercise, I get no sense of accomplishment from anything.
I am 18 and in college, no friends, and my mother works too much to notice me.
I was told /hope/ would be able to 'help' me, not that I am see what I need help, but it isn't like I have anything else to do.
Hi friends. I didn't really know that there was a board like this, and I appreciate what you all do here. Was sent here by an anon on another thread on another board . I'm not sure now what to do. I'm sure anons like me come and go a lot and it might get tedious, I'm sorry. To avoid flood detection I will post said thread in comment, thanks for the read
breddy gud board tbh
t. ebin board r8er
I like this board. I found myself smiling when I found it and read the contents of it, and when I saw what the board owner is doing with this, I genuinely said out loud "What a genuinely nice person." And the boards meager content has been satisfying to think about and relate to my own experiences. I'd like to believe I'm a little bit happier from stumbling upon this board.
However, it's a little bit inactive, and I suppose I should throw my two bits of philosophical nuance that I've been racking about in my brain for the past few months, so as to give this board a little bit of activity.
I'm rather curious as to how multiple paths pan out in life, and I'm at a bit of a crossroads.
I'm a sophomore university student majoring in Computer Engineering with high prospects of a decent life if I just continued my studies and got hired by one of the local companies who pick up students in my major like hotcakes right out of university. But I've been thinking recently and I have to admit that I absolutely detest this idea of a decent life. I've begun to become apathetic towards my classes, and the more I think about it, the less I am certain that I could actually be a stable member of society working 40 hours+ a week in any capacity, really. I've also taken to a lifestyle of sitting on my ass, playing video games, and browsing multiple boards on multiple websites when I'm not doing schoolwork, and even though I had a chance when I first went to college to not do so, I retreated into my shell and chose such a life, and I find myself craving something completely new out of life, as I fear the stagnation will destroy me in some way shape or form.
And so I've been thinking about my options based on this scenario.
I've friends back in an old city who would be absolutely amazing to go back to, and with a little bit of luck and my limited knowledge, I could make a decent living going to raves and parties downtown and selling a variety of drugs.(Considering the nature of this board I assume the answer to this idea is a unanimous no, though it'd be interesting to hear input regardless)
The other decision I've been capable to scrounge out of my mind is to simply walk away from everything, to go homeless and seek the life of a stoic, as it seems like an interesting prospect, though I have no idea if I'll obtain any form of enlightenment or content out of it though.
I've only barely scratched the surface of this issue, and I'm afraid I'd have to go into a very long tangent for one to fully understand it, so I'm sorry if this sounds rather vague or unspecific. I'm open to any criticisms or suggestions towards this awkward crossroads in my life. And hey, thanks for reading up to this point.
Wikia Thread
This thread is for discussing the creation of a /hope/ wikia or other online deposit of information. Discuss what should be included, how we can set it up, who should run it, etc.
I'm just the board owner and am a functional computer illiterate, so the more /tech/nical anons among us will have to go about this on their own. Feel free to consult me about it, though. God bless this task and those who undertake it.
What should I do?
Alright anons, I need some help. For the past few months, I haven't really felt like anything. Nothing seems to excite me anymore nor does anything really make me sad. In general, I feel like shit. I want to do something about my condition without using antidepressants. (I might use them as a last resort tho. Just maybe)
alcohol and alcoholism
At what point does drinking become an addiction? At what point does that addiction become detrimental to the user and the people around him? How thin is the line, what counts as crossing the line?
I'm currently 19, almost 20. I get alcohol now and again from my mother or coworkers. I highly anticipate that the day I turn 21, given my temperament, that I will begin drinking hard liquor at least once a week, and drinking beer every other day. Even when things are looking good in my life, my mental illnesses disallow me from feeling anything but misery, hate contempt and boredom. I hate myself and I hate everyone around me. And that misery I mentioned is always very subdued. My emotions are always subdued when sober. And it sucks. I can't stand not feeling anything other than hate. Using drugs is the only time I ever feel anything more–even profound sadness is preferable over nothing, and I'd rather that drug be one that is approved by the FDA and sold at shops rather than something off the streets.
I think of myself as a very social and emotional drunk on average; the latter usually being very warm and loving emotions and rarely angry or sad ones. I remember multiple instances where I was enormously hammered and someone was antagonizing me, and in one occasion even beating me, and I responded to the attacks with only soft words in an attempt to defuse the situation, or walked away and avoided further conflict. I've never raised my fists once under the influence. However, after those debacles, I do plan to only get drunk in the privacy of my home and only with family.
Considering that, is my future alcoholism such a bad thing? Is there no justification for knowingly abusing drugs under any circumstances?
There was another couple examples I feel I should mention where I cuddled with basically strangers, just acquaintances I had only known for a couple weeks, for hours in bed and caressed their faces. I'm very lonely. I'm lonely because as I said I hate everybody, and alcohol's the only time I don't hate people. I loved them. I loved them for the duration of the alcohol being in my body. I wished it could have never ended. I proceeded to cry in their shoulders from a combination of every emotion at once as I held them. As soon as I woke up the next day at their side, I hated them all the same again though and I cut contact with them out of embarrassment. Help.
i hate everyone so much i want to die
i can't make friends because i hate people too much
i feel like everyone but me is retarded. even though i'm very retarded myself. that makes my opinion of people that much lower.
i'm the most socially unaware guy i know, i can't do simple math and i'm so mentally ill that i'm incapable of driving. and yet i'm somehow better at articulating and critically analyzing things and seeing through propaganda than anyone i've ever met.
and i hate them for it. i hate them for being below such a piece of shit like myself. how is it possible to be below a turd? they find a way.
it makes me want to kill myself, knowing i'm surrounded by such loathsome beast men. knowing i'll always be alone, miserable and wishing for a companion with more common sense than a dog.
i'm scared to die
Company meeting
I am at the annual kickoff of my company. Everyone talks in groups, I am alone writing this. I know 1-2 people. Help.
Field Trip!
I just had a great idea that I think will increase activity on /hope/.
Every week, starting on a certain day and ending on the same day the following week, we can have a board that we all pledge to visit and post on. We'll do this to increase the activity and UIDs on other boards and also to spread /hope/ through kindness and compassion. After we post there, we can come back to this thread with stories, screencaps, and other evidence of our efforts, and discuss what we did and how it affected other anons.
This week's board is >>>/adv/
Apparently they have been suffering from low activity and there are a lot of anons there with unanswered questions and unbumped threads. So! /hopefuls/, suit up and move out! It's time to go spread some /hope/! Find anons who aren't being helped and help them! Make sure to read the rules of /adv/ and be polite and respectful at all times. Also, pack lunch.
We'll meet back here in this thread over the week and share our experiences.
Charity General
Post ideas on how to give more to others
NEET/Employment/Work General
ITT we create help for NEETs and employment general, how to start businesses and whatnot
How do you pray?
I've just seen this board and would like to help out, as well as have you help me out.
I'd like to ask anons (/hope/rs? what?) what their personal experiences are with prayer. How do you pray, and how often do you do it? What kind of reaction have you experienced when praying, and how do you deal with the disappointment of unanswered prayer?
Do you use some kind of prayer aid, what position do you take in preparation?
Any tips and stories would be greatly appreciated, and I hope to see this board take off.
How do you deal with people who insist there is no hope? I recently tried to talk an anon out of suicide. I don't even know if he was really considering it. At the same time, others were egging the anon on, whether they thought he was serious or not.
I was called out on my attempt to persuade the anon not to commit suicide. Admittedly, I wasn't the best with words. But I had to try. But I was mocked for trying, for being optimistic. They argued it was pointless. They told me not to try to help.
I just don't know what to say when people believe things like this.
==Board Discussion Thread==
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, I hereby claim the first post
(B.O. Edit: This thread is for all inital members of this board to discuss how it should be set up and run. Now taking volunteers!)