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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

want to eat cookies

buy pack of cookies

open pack of cookies

there's just cookies inside

what am I supposed to do? bite on them? that's something that little kids do

[–] [email protected] 88 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anon buys a journal; uses 4chan instead.

[–] MashedTech 22 points 10 months ago

Yeah, he's journaling on 4chan, wtf is he doing

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Catalogue your nut. How long it took to nut, the amount, the consistency, etc.

[–] VicentAdultman 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What? This way instead of telling people you're going to jack off in your room, you can say you're conducting experiments in your lab.

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gotta check the viscosity somehow...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] scarilog 4 points 10 months ago

The only difference between experimenting and fucking around is writing it down.

[–] instamat 2 points 10 months ago

Missed opportunity to vlog this instead. I’d subscribe, share and comment. I’d ring the bell to get notifications. I’d join the nut squad.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Journaling is a great way to monitor and think on the results of your actions and improve over time. I've seen that, I've done it, I know it works. Yet I still can't bring myself to suffer through the act of writing down my thoughts. I don't like to belabor what is already done, I'd rather call good enough good enough and move to the next problem.

That said, I do establish systems to record efforts and results, they just aren't handwritten. Tables can be quickly searched and summarized.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Interesting!

Could you elaborate on your record keeping efforts or share resources you've built off of?

[–] Restaldt 34 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I tried keeping a journal once

Then my parents found it, read it, and put me in therapy for a while

I no longer keep journals

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Locked folders on your phone work well in my experience. Sucks they forced you to do smth you didn't want to do or weren't ready for, I'm sorry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It sucks they violated your privacy, but there's nothing wrong with therapy. Did it for a couple years myself. Good to get it out and get someone else's perspective on things.

Of course, I did that on my own volition. It would've been better if you had that choice too.

[–] VicentAdultman 5 points 10 months ago

That sucks. Parents don't understand what privacy means when it comes to their children. My diary/journal got exposed by my mother in front of the entire family. That memory just got into my mind by reading your comment. Time to forget it again. 2024 resolution is to try keep things written down again.

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[–] GrammatonCleric 33 points 10 months ago

Anon's a fucking moron, apparently 😂

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine applying gender to the act of writing words.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

good sirs, is thou engaging in buggery if thou makes record of thine notions?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use mine to freewrite. Just mental dump everything and anything that comes into my mind for three pages. It's cathartic and often comes up with nuggets of useful information I didn't know I was burying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can you give an example by just doing a journal entry here so I can get a feel for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Oh hell no! Because it's stream of conscious it's very, very personal 😂

But whatcha gotta do is set a fixed goal (time or pages - I recommend pages) and then write down everything that comes to mind without judgement or fear. Sometimes, when I'm having a dark day, the first page is just me complaining and moaning. But for three pages? It's hard for the brain to get stuck in that rut for so long so it starts exploring solutions, options, or simply other things.

Give it a go! Don't stop writing for three pages, don't worry about quality, reader, or anything! Just write whatever comes into your brain. Like meditation it takes practice but is well worth the results (imo).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Here's an article for writers that I found helpful for my journaling. I don't do it creatively, I just write what comes to my mind about life and the day ahead and the day finished.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My friend had a hard time journaling until I told him to format it like greentext. I meant what are greentexts but stylized journal entries? Just write greentexts about your day. Your emotional state. Shit that pissed you off. Notable things that made you happy.

You can look back in 6 months and see what your life was like compared to now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Damn, can't believe I used to go on 4chan."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Dear diary,

Today OP questioned if he was a removed for wanting to write in a diary.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Alas, an actual paper journal is dead to me.

Too insecure, too accessible. If it ain't encrypted, nothing personal would ever go in it.

[–] MashedTech 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Encrypt your words at the time of writing if you're smart enough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

pull a tolkien and make your own lexicon and language

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Instructions unclear nepis tucks in botenook

[–] captainlezbian 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Go full Anne Lister with it

[–] MashedTech 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you for making me search her. Very interesting person

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Create your own cypher.

I seriously doubt you have any sort of critical information on your hands but...

Cyphered journals have been a things for centuries. If nothing else, it's a hobbie you can develop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to, but they're pretty easy to crack if they're easy enough to be kept in your head (well, my head lol).

And ya never know when laws might change, or some bitter ex decides to steal shit, or whatever. Critical in terms of dangerous in general, obviously not, but sensitive, yes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's why you don't write down your plans to shoot the president, you write what you had for dinner and what happened at work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you write this sort of thing down you're a cartoon supervillain

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Hey I posted this before

upvotes anyway

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Tbf, I'm not sure what I would want to put in a journal either.

Had a wank, ate breakfast, played Horizon Forbidden West, watched LOTR, had tea, went to bed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I mean that's a great day, you should write that down for posterity!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Do that, but write down how long you game. My grandpa did that with smoking.

Saved every penny he would have used for smokes. Financed a car for the money after some years

[–] Prox 3 points 10 months ago

That, but add how you felt/feel about those things. Or what they made you think of. Etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I find they are good for keeping track of media I consume whether it's movies, TV shows, or video games

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

In all seriousness, yes.

For me, my most valuable journaling has been stream-of-conscious thoughts as they come in. Good. Bad. Whatever. It all gets written down. This ain’t archival biography writing. In fact, it’s super liberating to throw out old journals sometimes. They’re all just thoughts.

Journaling has been the single most valuable tool in my mental health journey. It’s baffling how bad a day can be when I haven’t had my morning brain dump.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bullet journal. Leave a few pages blank at the start for an ongoing index. Then use it for writing whatever you feel like and adjust the index as you go.
It'll end up being a mishmash of grocery lists, shower thoughts, reminders, sketches, goals, bad poetry, and evidence for tax fraud, and you'll still be able to find what you need when you need it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Plus, in 300 years, your journal will be used in an anthropology class to educate future generations on the modern way of life!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Start a dream journal. Write down your dreams the second you wake up. It's a big step to lucid dreaming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

You just fucking write anything. Literally anything. Over time you'll develop a style that works. Just start with something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Imagine just leaving your thoughts around where anyone could find them and have you committed.

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