r/doomer Jan 18 '20

notes from a doomer

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Sometimes I wonder how we are not all walking around in a state of pure unquellable panic. I am, and you are, but why aren’t they? Have they truly numbed themselves to the gravity of the situation?

You walk around alienated, existing on this world but not in it, perpetually dissatisfied. Perhaps at one point you lived in this world, but you can’t be sure, and it is irrelevant. Nothing is fulfilling. You spend all day hiking to the top of a mountain to see the sunset. You arrive at the summit on the brink of dawn, just as the orange glow begins to flirt with the blue sky.

Despite it’s undeniable beauty, you watch this sunset rise and fall and are left with a feeling of emptiness. You yearn to experience the sunset with an intensity that is impossible to achieve just by looking at it. You need to possess the essence of the sunset and won’t be satisfied until you do, and as such you will never be satisfied.

Even sex, if you are one of us lucky enough to expirience it, doesn’t grant you this intensity you are searching for. During it you don the red eyes of an ape, drunk with lust and desire, yet just as the ape’s desires are about to be fulfilled, the human returns, disgusted by the apes appetite, and with an uncomfortable sense of dissatisfaction. You finished, but you have not arrived anywhere.

Sometimes it feels like the only thing that will satisfy this insatiable lust would be ripping your partner apart, but we know that too would fall just short.

This sense of dissatisfaction permeates everything you do. You yearn for intensity of experience but you never arrive at it, you feel disunity between your mind and your body. You may for a brief moment, maybe only a few times in your life, experience immediacy and satisfaction, but as soon as you grasp onto it it slips away. You chase these moments to no avail.

But you will soon find, if you haven’t already, that behind this dissatisfaction is something more sinister.

It has been called a sense of unreality, and this is the term we will use. More medically minded people might call it depersonalization, and it is colloquially referred to as an existential crisis, but to me these terms fall short and convolute the raw terror of our conviction.

Everyone has experienced this, as far as I can tell, but only we cannot escape from it.

Everyone arrives at this unreality slightly differently, for some of us it is gradual and for some of us it happens suddenly, for some of us it lingers and grows. But once a man has seen it, the world can never be an understandable place.

You wake up from a restless sleep and in your brief delusion you may forget about your obsession, but it soon hits you. You look at your skin, and if you are unwise you might look at yourself in the mirror. You are filled with unease and grow tense. You know you are human, but something separates you from reality.

Some of us stop here, laying in dark rooms all day, torturing ourselves with thoughts of somethingness and nothingness. But most of us don’t have this awful luxury. We have to brush this away, and reality becomes a screen that we watch and interact with, but never break through.

We can maintain this facade with a detached persistence, but it is fragile, and all it takes is the simplest reminder to throw us back into doomed unreality. Maybe you realized how insane it is that we drive cars, chunks of earth shapen and propelled by dead animals and plants, or you see a man walking alone and our reminded of our inevitable fate.

We see too deep and too much, and what we see is chaos.

This phenomenon is not unique to our generation; we have many friends throughout history. Edgar Allen Poe was one of us, read this line from his short story Berenice

“Yet differently we grew --I ill of health, and buried in gloom --she agile, graceful, and overflowing with energy; hers the ramble on the hill-side --mine the studies of the cloister --I living within my own heart, and addicted body and soul to the most intense and painful meditation --she roaming carelessly through life with no thought of the shadows in her path, or the silent flight of the raven-winged hours.”

The poet John Keats was one of us, writing that “I feel as if I had died and am now living a posthumous existence”

(These are just two examples among countless, but these will do for now )

But there is something unique about our position. While the world is fundamentally absurd, and always has been, it has taken on a new character since the turn of the century.

We are growing symbiotic with machines, our entire worldviews shaped and funneled through a small sheet of illuminated glass we keep in our pockets. We are lab rats, the first generation to grow up being raped by information from the internet. We can connect to anywhere in the world instantly, bearing witness with tragedy and absurdity in a way impossible to anyone ever before. This shrunk into our hands and we walk around with external harddrives for our brains, at any quiet moment eagerly and mindlessly shoving these illuminated pieces of glass into our faces, distracting ourselves from what was happening.

But we have woken up. We know that the world is a cruel, sick, and meaningless place. The one pure constant throughout history for people like us is what we are now hopelessly destroying- nature. Even if we could ascend all of our anxieties and attempt to lead a meaningful life, what would the point be if we are faced with inevitable collapse.

We cannot live in the comfortable, optimistic world of the boomers, accepting what we see and touch as reality. For the boomers, the world is a fundamentally orderly place, spar the occasional disturbance which their preoccupation with the present allows them to ignore. For us, the world is not rational, and not orderly. This shit is fucked up.

So where do we go from here? We could resign to the inevitable collapse of civilization, laying in our beds until we suffer from nervous diseases and wither away, while boomers drink martinis in their penthouses and go to nightclubs.

Or we can spit in the face of their hopeless optimism and take control of our world, dancing on the ashes of an unknown fate.

If you choose the first option, your life stops here. Try to numb yourself well and continue to distract yourself with anything possible until the end. I wish you the best of luck.

But if you want to fight against the absurdity of the modern condition, I have an antidote. We have to establish a unique cultural identity beyond resignation. We don’t have to lie about our inevitable fate in order to oppose it. We need to make our own art, write our own books, film our own movies. The message of these doesn’t matter so long as they are made. Do anything to disrupt the perceived normalcy of the world, make people think about what they are doing.

I have only brushed the surface of my thoughts on this stuff, but I needed to get them out. If you read through it connect w me, even if you’re just telling me I’m a loony.


r/doomer 15h ago

“Stop being so negative” they say

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People will claim we're being too cynical and edgy or whatever. But the truth is that we're just being realistic. Truth is that nothing ever good will happen to ppl like us. Only kind of people who says it will get better has never experienced true sorrow.


r/doomer 16h ago

Nothing good ever happens

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no lucky breaks, no happy ending, no miracles, no happy accidents, no big life changing event. Nothing. Born in a hole of shit. Keep digging but god and life just keeps shitting on me.


r/doomer 3h ago

Some raw, unpolished, and disjointed thoughts and feelings.

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I have this immense feeling of shame, guilt, frustration, and something akin to fear. Is it just anxiousness? Or something else? Something more complex? This doesn't feel like the anxiousness I was so used to. It's like it's more layered.

I have a lot of self-hatred, but also a lot of self-love. It conflicts all of the time. Maybe most of the time. Maybe the love is just a need for preservation. An ego in denial. Maybe I'm being too hard on myself. I don't know. I think my inner workings are too biased to figure that out objectively.

People really are complex. Maybe more complex than almost anything. I believe this because I believe I'm complex. Then again, I'm probably not well educated enough, nor do I know enough about the world, life, and their inner workings to come to that conclusion. Or am I not giving myself enough credit?

Maybe I'm just messed up. Maybe everyone is their own degree of messed up, but some of us just stronger feel the need to articulate and express it. Is this the human experience? just my experience? Or just the experience of a select few odd eggs?

If you relate to any of what I wrote, maybe we could have a dialogue or something.


r/doomer 8h ago

I hate most poetry but I love one poem.

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Howl by Allen Ginsberg.

I hope it finds you well, all of you


r/doomer 2h ago

I want this world to be changed

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I hope there is hope. If we can get rid of outdated social structure and make a new(and more rational) one somehow, I think we can make this world better. But we live in the era of individualism. Humans survived until now by gathering themselves together and moving as one. We united, and we prospered. But now, everyone is separated, offending others and don’t take any burden themselves. We ought to do it again. If we continue to blame others for making this planet a piece of shit and don’t act for anything, we will suffer. Forever. We need to become a ‘human of humans’. A person is consisted of organs, and each organ is made of tissues, and each tissue is composed of cells. We can refer an individual as a cell. We make ‘tissues’, which are small communities of individuals, and each tissue merges into ‘organs’, which are larger communities functioning properly so that they can supply human needs by themselves. But organs can’t progress unless there is some external help. So, organs unite into a ‘human of humans’, which is the planet earth. Everyone gets his(or her) own duty, and the nature of earth is maintained while we are advancing technology and social justice. This is the basic concept of the ideal world. But we can’t even make tissues. When we even start to debate about political or social issues, we end up spitting curse words to each other and earning no intellectual fruit. Learning to appreciate the other’s opinions and construct logical arguments is fundamental to form ‘human of humans’. This is the basic principle to properly debate. Debating and agreeing on something more reasonable than others is crucial for making better decisions. These sets of behaviors and mindsets improve individuals’ and society’s ability to understand each option’s value, rising the chance to succeed. This is my ideal scenario of the world. We need to unite, act as one. But why are we doomer? Because this is impossible. Though, we can imagine the utopia in our minds.


r/doomer 16h ago

I hate how my dreams were crushed and turned into mediocrity

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I never knew what I wanted to "be when I grew up", college and work were definitely out of the question, then I discovered a passion for music and drawing, but I just couldn't succeed at it, everything was summed up in mediocrity and things that only I could value, there is no difference between my art and jerking off, nothing, my art is worth the same as a cumshot.

Unfortunately, this world is a lottery, a gamble, it all comes down to genetics, if you weren't born with the right one, forget about the effort, it's over.

I try to live my life in peace but this bitterness just won't stop, it sucks to know that you're going to be a mediocre nobody until the day you die unless by a divine miracle.

Life is a pathetic thing for the average person, only stupid normies can deal with it with all that bullshit they believe.

And don't even get me started on the merits of being below average, geez...


r/doomer 11h ago

There used to be a band

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Whose only member played all the instruments and recorded his music himself. He wore a wooden mask and said he hated people too much to cooperate with other musicians


r/doomer 1d ago

survival report

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r/doomer 1d ago

It's holiday but I'm suffering

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What's the point of being born if my existence is meant to just experience suffering and pain? The absurdity of my existence


r/doomer 1d ago

How do your childhood photos make you feel?

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r/doomer 1d ago

I'm a 16 year old doomer.

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I'm not even a fucking adult yet why do I gotta live like this


r/doomer 2d ago

Enjoying Christmas dinner alone. Thankful I have a little money to eat even though I don't have family or friends. Merry Christmas everyone.

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r/doomer 1d ago

The Weight You Carry

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I love this artist so much. I don't think I've really listened to anything else since I found this upload.


r/doomer 2d ago

merry christmas

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r/doomer 2d ago

Here’s to another miserable holiday!

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Been depressed as fuck for over a month. Feel totally dead inside. Feel nothing matters in this rate race hamster wheel world. I miss all the people I’ve lost. I’ve ashamed of my past. Unable to move forward. I’m also ashamed that in my recent depressive state I’ve been stuffing my face full of junk food to numb the pain because I’m trying to stop drinking at the same time. Honestly I keep contemplating the idea of taking my gun, driving out to the middle of nowhere, then shooting myself in the mouth in a place no one will find me. But I can still count on 1 hand, there’s a couple people that need me around so I’ll fight that temptation as best I can.


r/doomer 3d ago

How does it feel when you fade away?

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r/doomer 2d ago

A gift we could never earn. Merry Christmas, everyone!

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r/doomer 3d ago

life after a suicide attempt doesn't really feel real

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r/doomer 2d ago

Lyrics

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Thinking thoughts of extreme hate

Destined to fail no way out of fate

When dreams are reality it's time to see

The guilty all around me running free

There is no court or higher being

No restitution or place among them

Waiting for me

Waiting for me

Just slow decay, damn

How hard is it to grab a gun from a cop

Guns blazing

Crowds here I come


r/doomer 2d ago

why do you think you’re doomed??

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i cannot grasp the fact that there are living individuals that believe they are completely fucked?? every single post i read, it’s always a common mindset all of you have. “we’re fucked” okay, we will eventually die but how do you un-fuck yourselves??? why doesn’t that cross anyone’s mind? are you depressed? have you ever sought REAL help? have you ACCEPTED help? have you even considered reaching out to ANYONE at all for help? you all seem to think you need to live life on your own, or still live with your parents and think it’s the end of the world. the fact that you’re posting your (very apparent) cry for help on THE INTERNET is a LITERAL dream for so many. what makes you think this way? for those do you that don’t live with your parents and have their own personal space? what has changed about you since living alone? did it get worse? why not change what changed you and make an effort to become something new and better? what’s stopping ANY of you from doing that? i’m an outsider looking in. i take wellbutrin and haven’t been suicidal, depressed, or even negative in situations that would normally enable that part of me. i’m just trying to understand, why are people in this community crying for help, attention, and validation when they are unable to comprehend that their ACTIONS dictate every minute of their substantially meaningful life?

i know this sounded argumentative and aggressive. but this is the only way i could express my confusion with the “doomer” mindset.

EDIT: Spelling mistakes.


r/doomer 3d ago

Any other doomer gym rats?

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I’m 19 and my whole life I never had any social life or friends, it takes a huge toll on my mental health. To cope I just lift heavy and eat all day. I thought having muscles would make me happy, but now I’m just buff and depressed.


r/doomer 3d ago

My mother got me this cool drinking set for Christmas.

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My life really is almost like Leaving Las Vegas, only it's mixed with American Psycho, too. The irony of all of this is just so complete now. It's incredible to me that this was ever a good idea to her given everything that's happened. That said, she knows me all too well. This is what my life amounts to. Skeletons drinking from skulls. I adore these items. And I love my mother, too. As I said, she knows me all too well, just not well enough to recognise what these bottles and glasses really mean to me now. I feel vindicated, obviously. Like the mistakes I made drinking that hurt her so much are just passing indiscretions. That she loves me, no matter what. That she understands me. I respect her so much for that. For this. It's like the reassurances I always wanted from her growing up that, like my father, I always knew she didn't have the words to ever truly impart, are all still there. I'm not going to drink myself to death just yet. I'm not. Things are going too well. There's still so much to do. But I have these vessels now, these vehicles to guide me towards my ultimate purpose. I'll fill them up with glee, until I just can't anymore.


r/doomer 3d ago

Finally moved into an actual house after two years of living in a shitty metal box where nothing worked. Been here for a few weeks now, but I only learned today that they're helping cover my rent, which means I can actually swing it. Thank fuck.

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I'm really going to try and turn it around now somehow. All this poisonous self-indulgent misery, the hard boozing, the smoking every fifteen minutes, it all has to come to a hard close if I'm going to pull myself out of this in any meaningful way. This is such a great opportunity for me, if I piss it away like everything else, what else will I have left? It's a charmed little life that I lead, ngl, no matter how miserable it really is. Shit just falls into my lap, it seems. Problems dissappear like they never even mattered in the first place. That won't be so forever, though. I know that. A day is coming where I'll have nothing at all. I just know it. It's like this knife constantly dangling over me. If I'm not ready, I'll fall apart complete when it finally comes down. It's like I've always known that, but I just keep fucking up anyway, as if to spite myself. It's a disease, really. I just don't know what the treatment is.


r/doomer 3d ago

Merry fucking holidays, bitches.

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My biological father had to be sent away to a facility for rampant alcohol abuse.

My step-father is dying of cancer.

My mother only talks to me about work and making money.

The family is nonexistent and none of them could help.

Therapy is too expensive and my meds aren't helping.

All my prospects in the way of work have failed and all I get is rejection emails.

I have no friends anymore.

I have nobody to call or text for help.

I am ALONE.

Kill me already.


r/doomer 3d ago

On Somedays you try to convince yourself that you’re winning and on somedays you just have to accept thAt your not.

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