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>>9364114
>One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
>Ephesians 4:6 KJV

Therefore, since God is in all things (is everything), his cause must be egoistic since he can only look to himself, being everything. I don't understand what's fallacious about this.

>>9364114
Just means that the will of God is THE will.

>>9364114
It gets good half way through, it remains fedora though.

>>9364079
Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water.

>>9364098
Truly, ruling is hard

It's in Cirth runes, and says "Hello, little hobbits. The treasure is North two zero B..B..dot k plus a west one zero zero..." and so on. The runes are too mangled, and I don't have the energy for the whole thing.

lol, i love when celebrity say a thing on twitter!

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bitch got blacked so yea fits perfect

that is not claire

>>9364065
My diary desu

>>9364065
trite shit

>>9364065
Tinker is the name of the famous school speech case bruh.

>>9364011
>tfw you will never see a Stephen King and Harold Bloom buddy cop movie

>>9364756
I'd watch it

Though we need to write a screenplay asap, they're both getting old

Hyperbole.

DFW is pretty bad, though.

I'm sure you want us to say no so you can feel better about your lack of effort. Sorry bud, your own laziness is far more of a barrier to success than your socioeconomic status.

Only the destitute and the luxury class can write anything of value.

anyone can produce great works of literature. even retards can do it unintentionally

>>9363792
Is that autism? It seems like autism.

>>9363792
im white and against women enjoying sex

>2017
>reading this

Look, I can make shitty posts that add nothing to anyone's life, too!

Understanding Power

>>9363702
Manufacturing Consent, too

>>9363623
>Where is a good place to start on Chomsky?
Reddit.

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SORT YOURSELF OUT
>SORT YOURSELF OUT

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1. Eat well. Limit simple carbohydrates in favor of complex carbohydrates, healthy fats with balanced omega 3, protein. Consume plenty of vegetables and some fruit.

2. Exercise daily. At least 20-30 minutes of moderate cardio to improve memory, energy, and thinking. Lifting optional for /fitlit/izens.

3. Sleep well. Establish a consistent sleeping schedule and do your best to never deviate from it. 7-8+ hours, preferably in intervals of 1.5 hours (7.5 hours, 9 hours, etc.) are optimal for adults. If you work hard and limit brightness at night, this should be no problem.

4. Establish good working habits to promote flow state. Pomodoro timers, StayFocused app, earplugs/noise-canceling headphones, discarding smartphones, going to libraries, etc., whatever it takes to concentrate and stop procrastinating.

5. Keep a journal. Start with making a simple task list in the morning and commenting about your day in the evening. Progress with more and more thoughts as you continue your habit.

6. Meditate daily. At least 5 minutes of mindfulness meditation per day in the morning and evening in order to reduce stress, improve concentration, and regulate emotions.

7. Keep order. Keep yourself clean, keep your working space reasonably ordered (after use), and ensure that everything has its place. A good organizational system pays dividends in projects with many moving parts, like when attempting to synthesize large amounts of information together.

8. Pick up a practical hobby or skill. Learn an instrument. Become a hiking expert. Learn to cook. Fix your own house. Being involved in the world is a perfect chance to apply your newfound knowledge and remain connected with reality. Immerse yourself in a foreign language. We learn to solve problems, among other things, so keep this purpose in mind.

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>>9363609
It's hilarious that this has become a meme on a forum populated by such idiots.

Reminder that the reason people go to college isn't to learn shit, it's to get something you can put on your resume (and to develop socially of course, you won't do that sitting in your room reading genre fiction)

>>9363516
holly shitting this are will get frogmen out of force :):):):)
read Shaftheimer's 'On Female' essay where he BTFO them (redpill style)!

>>9363516
Give her a feminine penis.

On a more serious note, you can use female archetypes.
>mother
>whore
>protector
>selector
>collector / gatherer
>mourner
>dancer
>wallflower
>janitor
>Oedipal mother

>>9363495
I was about to say The Stranger, but then again I only feel apathy for it

Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
Stranger in a strange Land

the holy bible: king james translation

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No. He was.

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>implying that /lit/ isn't an edgy version of Diogenes of Sinope

>>9363485
That's a pretty sweet vest.
It looks like something I would wear on Dark Souls.

>>9363469
There is an article about Benjamin Franklin's technique to become a better writer. Let me find it.

>>9363678
I'll be waiting

>>9363469
>>9363678
Found it.

>Early in his autobiography Franklin describes how as a young man he worked to improve his writing. The education he had received as a child had left him, by his own assessment, not much more than an average writer. Then he ran across an issue of the British magazine The Spectator and found himself impressed by the quality of the writing in its pages. Franklin decided that he would like to write that well, but he had no one to teach him how. What could he do? He came up with a series of clever techniques aimed at teaching himself how to write as well as the writers of The Spectator.

>He first set out to see how closely he could reproduce the sentences in an article once he had forgotten their exact wording. So he chose several of the articles whose writing he admired and wrote down short descriptions of the content of each sentence—just enough to remind him what the sentence was about. After several days he tried to reproduce the articles from the hints he had written down. His goal was not so much to produce a word-for-word replica of the articles as to create his own articles that were as detailed and well written as the original. Having written his reproductions, he went back to the original articles, compared them with his own efforts, and corrected his versions where necessary. This taught him to express ideas clearly and cogently.

>The biggest problem he discovered from these exercises was that his vocabulary was not nearly as large as those of the writers for The Spectator. It wasn’t that he didn’t know the words, but rather that he didn’t have them at his fingertips when he was writing. To fix this he came up with a variation of his first exercise. He decided that writing poetry would force him to come up with a plethora of different words that he might not normally think of because of the need to fit the poem’s rhythm and the rhyming pattern, so he took some of the Spectator articles and transformed them into verse. Then, after waiting long enough that his memory of the original wording had faded, he would transform the poems back into prose. This got him into the habit of finding just the right word and increased the number of words he could call up quickly from his memory.

Hyperion is the best science fiction novel of all time. Dune is overrated, but this is a true masterpiece. Read the first two, skip the two after that.

He's got that academic "lemme stuff my novel with 1000000 historical and literary references" writing style that makes me feel dumb because how dare I don't know Charles Dickens' close friend's biography. I enjoyed Terror, Hyperion Cantos, Ilium, Drood, and Flashback. Black Hills and Carrion Comfort were a slog getting through.

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>>9363361
No.

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i liked the american psycho movie a lot, ive been told the book was even better

>>9363337
American Psycho overshadows all of Ellis' work I guess.

>>9363337
It's not really better; the book is as worthless as the movie. It would serve you well to forget these and spend your time reading something better.