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How does "courage" manifest itself in everyday modern life? Alphas like Plato and Dostoevsky viewed this quality as being a necessary virtue for thinkers, and nearly every culture venerates those deemed to be courageous, but what exactly does that entail? How in the world can someone in a developed part of the world be courageous?
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Speaking uncomfortable truths requires courage, as does genuinely questioning one's own beliefs.
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>>9548352
Oh, yeah.
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>>9548338
live without avarice, and dont charge interest
have the courage to not smoke weed or have pre-marital sex. have the courage to take a stand against immigration even if it puts your career at risk.
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I'm so tired of being alone and trapped in a backward third world country where everyone is so dumb and shallow.
Imageboards are the only place where I can find people like me, who share similar interests and thoughts.
I'm so desperate, I wish I could live with any of you, I don't care if I have to sleep in your backyard, I just want someone to have meaningful conversations with and discuss literature, politics, philosophy, capitalism, A.I, the future of society, etc, maybe work together in literary projects.
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>>9548245
what country
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>>9548257
America
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>>9548257
Somwhere in South America, close to Argentina.
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Is ambiguity the key to writing a great novel?
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KNEES WEAK
ARMS SPAGHETTI
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>>9548219
Hah. Nice.
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>>9548217
Vagueness, yes. Ambiguity, sure.
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Recite as much poetry as may be easy for you 2017-05-24 08:41:12 Post No.9548202
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Recite as much poetry as may be easy for you
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The point of the thread is: No looking. From your head. The result is what you really, actually remember. The poem of your life.
>all the old Gods are dead
>and wasn't the church of the wold already in ruins?
>I sang in my chains like the sea.
>everything became RAINBOW, RAINBOW, RAINBOW,
>and I let the fish go.
>It could not be dangerous to be living in a town like this
>it is a privilege to witness so much confusion
>whose origin is not bravado
>imaginary gardens with real toads in them
>I myself am hell
>mother skunk jabs her head into a cup of sour cream
>and will not scare
>and I lie, sleeping with one eye open
>Hoping
>That nothing, nothing will happen.
>It was an adventure much could be made of,
>A walk, along the banks of the darkest known river
>the trees swept the grass with the gowns of their shade,
>after the first death, there is no other
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Alright I'm just gonna type up one poem I know in full
I Know a Man
As I sd to my
friend, because I
am always talking,
John, I sd, which was
not his name, the darkness
surrounds us, what
can we do against it?
shall we and why not
buy a goddamn big car
drive, he sd, for
christ's sake, look out
where yr going.
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>>9548202
Is this the dead quote olympics or something?
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>Do not stand on my grave and weep
>I'm not there
>I do not sleep
>I am a thousand winds that blow
>I am the diamond glints on snow
>I am the sunlight on the grave
>I am the gentle autumn rain
>Tы coвceм, ты coвceм cнeгoвaя
>Tы тaк cтpaннo и cтpaшнo блeднa
>Для чeгo ты дpoжишь, пoдaвaя
>Mнe бoкaл зoлoтoгo винa?
>Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken sie abends
>wir trinken sie mittags und morgens wir trinken sie nachts
>Dar nu mai cade c-an trecut
>Îm mări din tot înaltul:
> — Ce-ți pasă ție, chip de lut,
>Dac-oi fi eu sau altul?
>Trăind în cercul vostru strâmt,
>Norocul va petrece
>Dar eu în lumea mea mă simt
>Nemuritor și rece
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Paper, is superior to electronic 2017-05-24 08:24:27 Post No.9548129
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Paper, is superior to electronic
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I read only paper books, because they don't have cameras. That way, NSA can't look at me while I'm having a poo poo/pee pee. Any other /lit/fags feel the same?
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>I read
Stop lying and fuck off.
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nanocameras can fit inside physical pages you moron
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>>9548132
???
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>antinatalism is nihilistic
Where do people get this idea?
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>antinatalism is retarded
FTFY. They're also not wrong.
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>>9548090
Because people tend to believe that pessimism is the same as nihilism, a belief that's reinforced by edgy idiots calling themselves nihilists misinterpreting pessimistic philosophers (Nietzsche in particular got hit hard with this).
Antinatalism comes mainly from pessimists like good old Schopes, Zapffe and Ligotti
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>>9548090
Because it is pessimistic and pessimism is a precursor to nihilism.
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Is it really that bad of a book?
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Yes.
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nobody has ever read it so why ask
hopefully this thread will earn some lucky r/4chan user lots of upvotes
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>>9547879
It's bad if you consider the consequences of the ideas it contains
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>Poems
>Short stories
>Novella
>Essays
Give me one more consistent writer
Protip: there isn't
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alright
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>>9547777
checked. He looks like Arno Schmidt
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Picked up a copy of pic related at the school store used for a few bucks. My question is, why is it so highly regarded in general but so hated on /lit/? Who's right?
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>>9547700
Are you really gonna listen to /lit/? They think you should 'read the Greeks.' They're fucking retards.
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>>9547700
Only fantasy/scifi these nerds like if book of da sun.
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>>9547700
Why don't you read it and find out for yourself instead of making stupid threads?
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It is feeling ultra reddit in here 2017-05-24 05:02:39 Post No.9547480
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It is feeling ultra reddit in here
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Let's discuss things reddit will never understand.
Ancient history a paraphase: did Cy really have an effect on doms suicide? Was Cy a good person?
Smugglers bible: on a scale of 1-10 how comfy were the Duke and Tindall chapters?
The rainbow stories: do you agree with the skinheads when they said vollmann is a shit author?
The recognitions: what happened to hukilau the dog? Did wyatt and otto stat to redeem themselves at the end? Why didn't anyone learn to play life like max did? Who had the original table wyatt stole from his dad?
J R: why didn't bast just stop working for J R?
The sound and fury: why didn't Jason beat the shit out of Quentin jr?
Solaris: why did the scientists feel the need to get rid of there guests. I would have stayed on the ship and fucked mine until the end of time?
Mason and dixon: was mason afraid of his sons because they reminded him of Rebecca? How did dixon lift the tub? Why didn't he use his magic any other times?
The dead Father: what exactly was the dead Father? How big was he?
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>>9547480
>to get rid of there guests
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>>9547494
Woops lmao. But honestly you didn't have to read that spelling mistakes to notice me stupid.
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>>9547480
>Did Cyrus really have an effect on Dom's suicide?
They barely even fucking knew each other, that's like asking "did that dude he bumped onto in the street make him kill himself?"
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>He reads e-books
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>discussing a book with someone
>find out they read it on an e-book
>realized how much time I just wasted
e-book users should have a fucking pin saying "I use e-books, feel free to bully me"
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>not having 10000000 carefully curated ebooks ready for the apocalypse
cant wait to use them to barter
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>>9547037
>doesn't read e-books
now thats what I call good goy
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/lit/ top 100 philosophical texts 2017-05-24 07:37:18 Post No.9546091
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/lit/ top 100 philosophical texts
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Now that the top 100 fiction chart is finished, would anyone be interested in voting for a chart of top 100 philosophy books? If this is too narrow, we could expand it to top 100 non-fiction books.
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>le ebin top 1337 charts
Stop being a retarded underage faggot and read anything instead.
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>>9546091
No. You should make a suffering chart like /his/ did instead.
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I've made a poll here, enter your top 4 choices
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdy8K_Ex7c0H4GcwhB_fyOkReHgOQyij5Y6P85G3r_tL1h7g/viewform?usp=sf_link
When the fuck did we get a new top 100? What is this?
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nvm im retarded i didnt see the thread
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Yeah there was a thread not too long ago. First time I've seen the new list, though. Glad that we managed to get Ulysses back to its rightful #1 spot. Also interesting to see how much IJ has fallen out of favor.
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I understand English way better than my own native language.
What the hell is wrong with me? I was struggling a lot with The Divine Comedy, so I decided to download the english translation, and it was delicious. Not a single word I didn't know, every statement was ridiculously clear to me. Same with Critique of Pure Reason. Am I retarded? How can I possibly comprehend any language if I can't comprehend my own? Plus, I always loved Portuguese(my language), I consider it the best for poetry and cantatas. Yet I can't understand basic texts, basic wording?
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>>9545024
you're not retarded. I'm absolutely sure of that.
mildly schizophrenic, perhaps. But retarded? No way.
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>>9545024
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting...
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>>9545024
I have a similar problem. Until I was 20 I only knew English but now after five years of studying French I understand it on a far deeper level than English. For example, as beautiful as the Moncrieff/Kilmartin translation of In Search of Lost Time is I simply couldn't get through it, but I'm now reading through the novel untranslated without any trouble whatsoever.
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What is the most depressing book you've ever read?
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Why didn't you just come out and tell us why you think the bible is depressing instead of sitting around and waiting for somebody to ask? Is it because a society that routinely sacrificed children was destroyed? I try to think the best of people so I hope you don't think the book of Job is a record of history.
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>>9544524
OP knows he's going to burn in hell for masturbating to anime.
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>>9544531
No I just think if you put the mercurial and vindictive nature of Yahweh together with the new testament you actually get a very hopeless picture where any possibility of salvation is remote and obscure.