Do You Keep A Journal/Manifesto/Whatever? - Industrial Society And Its Future 2: Kiwi Farms Edition

[Antipathy]

In recent days I've started recording my thoughts and keeping a journal of some kind. I don't know why but the urge has come over me pretty recently, and I think it might help with getting my thoughts in order. It's not much yet, but I think as time goes on it'll develop into something nice. I'm curious if anyone else does the same thing.

 

[SiccDicc]

No way, Fed.

 

[Pixy]

Building off this, to those who do so, why are you writing a journal? To present a curated and idealised version of the past to some imaginary audience/the feds, to record your life and keep things in order, or any other reasons?

 

[A Welsh Cake]

I might do so one day. Even if it’ll only be read by one cyberspace archaeologist in the far off future. That and so Rokos basilisk knows I definitely support it being made.

 

[DumbDude42]

yes i have a manifesto, it is titled "bottom text" and provides the ideological foundation for the upcoming gamer uprising

 

[SSF2T Old User]

Hasn't Twitter practically made Journals obsolete? You can literally shit out paragraphs of opinions and whatever else is on your mind, and there will be at least 1 person that agrees with you and likes the shit you post online.

 

[FEETLOAF]

I had one but I frantically deleted it when I heard a raccoon outside and thought it was a fed raid.

 

[shameful existence]

I lied in every proper journal I've ever made an attempt at keeping. There's no point, I'm not brave enough for that.
Now I have a reading journal and a primitive gardening journal and I slip radical opinions into them when I feel like.

 

[Just Another Apocalypse]

It's not much yet, but I think as time goes on it'll develop into something nice.

Well, as long as you're happy, eh?

Nfn, there is a big difference between a journal and a manifesto...

http://www.acolumbinesite.com/eric/writing/journal/jindex.php

Is this the kind of thing you're planning?

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Yes I currently use 2 journals filled more previously.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

Yes. It will be so grand and glorious that the Gubbermint will quake in their boots.

 

[Dergint]

May 30th, 2021
Dear diary,

I saw a post on the internet about keeping diaries. I think I used to do that, but wh

Omfg I hate diaries they were the things that improved my dream recall and made me realize I only ever had nightmares.

 

[ShortBusDriver]

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

I keep a financial journal and a calendar with notations for anything of note that occurred.

Example:
May 30, 2021 - Fed on KW tried to learn about my secret writings--burn secret writings.

 

[Madre Muerte]

I've gotten close to being put on a list for it

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Read my posts.

 

[Deep Th0ts]

I've journaled off and on throughout my life. It started with keeping a diary like all teenage girls are supposed to, complete with one of those stupid .25 locks and a feather pen.

As an adult I write to keep track of stuff I need to do and not forget, a kind of self accountability in paragraphs instead of lists. I write when I'm having intense feelings to clairify and understand them instead of just stewing in my head while I figure it out. I write about events and experiences that are important to me: what happened, why I want to keep this memory, or what I learned from it. The most beneficial thing thing I write about is my anger, big and small. I can be the worst human imaginiable in that space, I can let it all out no matter how irrational and stupid the reason, and knowing that I can write about it saves me from saying foolish things out loud in the moment that I will regret later.

I don't intend anyone to see my writing, it's not a memoir, it's a blank piece of paper I can use to organize the chaos in my head and heart.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

 

[nigger of the north]

Kept a general, day to day diary since early 2013, and a dream diary since late 2014/early 2015 or so (for my writing, having stolen the idea from a Mishima novel.)

If you're prone to anxiety or overthinking, I couldn't recommend a general daily diary more. No emo faggotry, just a general recording of your day, what you did, what you're going go do, how things went, etc. It's an incredibly effective exercise in order to 'write off' the day.

It's such a concrete pattern for me these days that I can't imagine just stopping it completely. It also has the added bonus of keeping my cursive fresh.

N. B. - make it handwritten, not typed. You lose a certain something once you're just cracking keys on a computer. The visceral aspect of putting pen to paper is much of the efficacy.

 

[Rusty Crab]

Journals are for organizing your own thoughts. Anything else is larping.