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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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[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 94 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anon buys a journal; uses 4chan instead.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

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

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] CJOtheReal@ani.social 7 points 10 months ago

Bro you bake cookies yourself!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 47 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@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gotta check the viscosity somehow...

[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] instamat@lemmy.world 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.

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Anon's a fucking moron, apparently 😂

[–] Restaldt@lemmy.world 33 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

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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

[–] Anachronology@sh.itjust.works 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@lemmy.world 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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[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 33 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.

[–] Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Interesting!

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

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine applying gender to the act of writing words.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 months ago

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

[–] astreus@lemmy.ml 31 points 10 months ago (3 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.

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[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 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.

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[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

Dear diary,

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

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 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.

[–] Fedop@slrpnk.net 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Nerorero@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (5 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@lemmy.world 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.

[–] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

pull a tolkien and make your own lexicon and language

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Instructions unclear nepis tucks in botenook

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Go full Anne Lister with it

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 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.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 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

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

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[–] Itte@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Hey I posted this before

upvotes anyway

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Sometimes I sketch and write down ideas for patents that somebody definitely already thought of between 10 and 80 years ago.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 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

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 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.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 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!

[–] Chinchillax@lemm.ee 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.

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 5 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.

[–] CJOtheReal@ani.social 4 points 10 months ago

Man, you write one day in detail and then just write "see page one" on the other pages unless something interesting happened.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 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.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

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

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