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If I were able to be an atheist, I think I would be happier. Instead, I have to deal with being a good person and upholding my ethics, reconciling free and divine will, contemplating life after death, and all of the thing that come with metaphysics.

Life would be far simpler if I just thought of life as biological and social impulses and death as a dissolution into atoms and energy

What's the source for this? Because outside of the context it reads like some bullshit dreamt up by an edgy 18-year-old.

No, he was a reasonable man

>>9505953
He took a life for reasons other than self defense. But in his mind, he did not do it with evil intent.

Would you call him a monster?

>>9505963
get off his case

>>9503999
do well on the GRE and get away from this place

>>9504004
>3.3 GPA and no relationships with profs to get recommendations

Even a great GRE score will probably only get me into some mid-tier uni. There's no point if I can't get into an Ivy/Stanford

>>9503999
>since I had no life experience, I let my grades slip and now have no chance at getting into grad school

HAHAHAHAHA

I literally had no friends and didn't talk to any of my class mates and still got a 1st. git gud.

In a way it had been fate. The Chesapeake was my mother--she fed me, guided me through life, and gave me her blue eyes. I cared for the Bay more than any given aspect of my life at the time. She cared for me, too, I’d like to believe with complete trust. I hoped for the day I died so that my ashes can be scattered across the rolling waves of the bay and return home.
I’m quite protective over this home, too.
When you’re invited to my home by the ways of the river or the guidance of a horse, a gull shall alert me of your arrival--that or the whispers of the grasses. Whatever may happen, I’ll know of your presence. Don’t make too much noise. When you get to my house, you’ll know it’s my house from the distinct green walls that climb the sky to the clouds. Open the yellow doors of grass and you’re in. Listen to the songs of thrush and relax yourself.

On your visit, though, I ask that you to be mindful of the house laws. I didn’t create them, they’ve always been etched into the Bay’s history. They’re learned as soon as you step foot into the bay’s boundaries:

You must accept the insects for what they are and why they are. Yes, that is a bee hovering near your head. In fact, it is a European Honey Bee, an extremely hard worker. It has a family, a job, and a ruler, just like you. It has a home where it returns to day after day on a given basis. It will not harm you if you do not insinuate it, just as yourself. Instead, I recommend you look at it from afar and appreciate its work and its beauty.
There are pests of which the average foreigner to the Bay will dismiss as disgusting, but you must know that this is quite against the natural laws declared by Earth. The Northeastern Tiger Beetle is one that you’ve probably (briefly) encountered, for, I’m almost sure it flew away from you just as quickly as you walked away from it. From the Patuxent River to the Bay, they roam and keep watch over the sand. They hook themselves to the ground and survey a wanderer's feet. It is harder to appreciate a beetle, I must say. Unlike bees, they do not always have a job. They are often wandering the sand and hiding from those who seek them. They reproduce and they die. But then ask yourself: do you not wander at times? Like humans, they take a break from their busy schedules. They take walks, but they prefer the word “crawls. They drink when thirsty--what doesn’t?. They observe their world.
They’re a scientist's dream, and, like any curious man, your eyes may wander and catch the shifting movements of the beetle. When you see the beetle, don’t only appreciate it, honor it. Smile at it to yourself and continue your journey.

>>9495527
Re-post from the end of the last thread.

>All right, /lit/, I'm a dick, here's my shit:

“In distant lands with ever-present clouds lay an egg supported by a tree. Heard, or perhaps felt, for many miles were struggles of the protectorate being in the confines of its shell. Its endeavors toward freedom like a newborn’s tender heartbeat. Should any creature survive the mists and terrors wont to meander the egg’s aura, that creature could regard the translucent nature of the membranous shell. If said creature were to then gaze long enough -- with clarity and focus of mind -- a rare and ancient abscission may rend the world external, veiling the moment of connection between creature and eggnomaly. An icy, cool darkness would baptize them in a calming privacy. The fatal mistake of all such creatures, however, is staring too long at the abyss – for even the Lord Death could not stave folly.”

I'm also a faggot and calling it "Birth of the Altkneht"; tentative subtitle "Purveyor of the Abyss."

>Tear that shit up.
>Yes I know I'm an ultrafgt for eggnomaly. Get.

Yes, I saw the other thread already.

https://pastebin.com/dd29QVb5

Context: Alternate history where Europe (officially and openly) unionizes under the Nazis and the Business Plot works (FDR is killed in a coup).

This is chapter 1, I intend to finish it.

This is my first attempt at a short story/novella, all my other drivel has just been vignettes and more down the lines of poetry/descriptive prose.

>22 going on 23 soon
>Illinois
>Ron Chernow's Hamilton book I haven't picked up since 2015

Pretty good at capturing Hamilton as the creator of America's politico-economic structure; but like the musical it fails to capture how much of a smug, elitist cunt he also could be. The reason why the Federalists are dead while the Democrats still exist, is because you don't openly talk about a semi-permanent "aristocracy of merit", while shitting on the "dregs" of society.

You talk about the "equality and importance" of all, while your political deeds don't nearly match your populist talk.

>>9487184
>25
>Texas
>Principles of Texas Criminal Law


It's good because my test is tomorrow and the professor wrote this book as a supplement.

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>26
>NYC
>Moby Dick and The Essential John Maynard Keynes.

I enjoy Moby Dick, though I'm only 100 pages on. Queequeg is a lovely character and reminds me of Caliban from The Tempest. Melville seems to be making the most apparently savage character (he is a cannibal, after all) into the noblest, and he does so with such skill that I find myself anxious about his fate and also use him as a barometer for the characters he interacts with. Of course the language is brilliant and his knowledge of history and philosophy deep. I've had to google various references, as when he's comparing the stern of the ship to the Three Kings of Cologne or the deck Canterbury Cathedral where Becket bled, etc., etc. Sometimes I think he's a bit of a show off, but he limits himself and all is well.

John Maynard Keynes has an interesting outlook on probability that I am struggling to fully grasp, where basically if you are pretty sure that X will cause Y in 1 day, but then not certain whether it will cause Z in a year, you can say Y is more probable. Who cares though, really.

Even if he's too blind to tell a bowl from a hat, at least he's enjoying himself.

>>9510894
Young Borges looks like Trick2g, and Trick2g is handsome.

>>9510894
whitest looking Argentine ever

Don't worry. Brandon Sanderson will finish the series.

>>9510504
Grrm has already said that if he doesn't finish asoiaf all manuscripts, notes, and progress needs to be destroyed

>>9510511
Who cares, he's gonna be dead anyway, he's not gonna sue.

I choose a better book and a different thread

Moaning Myrtle.

just waiting for the pasta

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>>9510350

>red pilled

I'm sorry I cannot discuss this thread with you. I haven't read Brothers Karamazov (which is what I'm assuming the book is, probably something else Dostoevsky that I haven't read.) Piece of advice tho: Don't use meme terms like that, it's pretty crude.

>>9510359
Side note. Hope you get a good thread though.

>>9510154
>doesn't know how to greentext

Fuck off, newfaggot

>>9510154
Most of those writers have some pretty tedious subjects.

OP is a troll, move along people.

>>9510154
calls himself lit hasn't even read the bible
gertrude who
wyndham what

>>9510038
>tattoos

D R O P P E D

>>9510038
Stop giving attention to these "women".

Saged and hidden.

Mira is a bit disgusting and her work seems to be total garbage, Rupi's just angry about everything and the same. I actually quite like Savannah, she's not consistently in your face about Issues, while still she does address them. She does work with rhythm and metre. Yeah. Sav.

rapesque

>>9509836
Isn't that "like rape"?

I'm thinking of going with "raping".

Trumpian

>>9509698
Around 200 pages before I think it's way too much and remember I have to do something else.

If the book is amazing I can do 300+ but it doesn't happen often.

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I read a book a day

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>>9509717
How can I do it?

It is easy to do if you follow the 67 proven steps.

>>9509424
Create a convincing philosophy of an opposing view, and get off the internet.

accelerationism

By not posting anime.

The empire doesn't like you reading about that stuff

>>9509318
What do I need to read before reading it? Because its collecting dust on my shelf.

>>9509356
Apology by Plato is all you need, I think.