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>>9309567
A little more serious than that: be yourself even in the face of total ridicule and ostracisation. Rather than live to please God live to please yourself and comport yourself as your God (whatever that entails is specific to each individual)

I'm not 100% on board with it desu, i think there are times that call for character revision as a consequence of the world around you.

>>9309576
actually it's a bit more than that too: it's find your true self, not the one your herd wanted and conditioned you to be, and stay true to it

also how can you not agree? if you cannot be who you are, what is the point of being? you might as well die

>>9309587
I believe that you should be who are you are fundamentally, and resist being transformed by the masses on things that you disagree with. But I also think some personal growth and transformation is healthy, even if it is inspired by the views of other people. Otherwise what's the point of learning, dialogue, consensus, etc.

Of course i agree with him about NEVER conforming to things you fundamentally disagree with simply because the herd is trying to condition you to.

(ive only ever read thus spake zarathustra and it was years ago, so forgive me if i am misinterpreting Niettzsche's central message)

hello ghost of William Gaddis. What did J R mean and why does it make me cum?

hey ghost of william gaddis, fuck you!!!

>>9310384
So he did tell it true.

Fuck off

>>9309523
>How
Read the Bible.
>and why
READ THE BIBLE

>>9309528

Why? I am trying to learn more about Kierkegaard.

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monke

are all biographies and autobiographies inherently /hyperreal/

>>9309479
In his early books, such as The System of Objects, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, and The Consumer Society, Baudrillard's main focus is upon consumerism, and how different objects are consumed in different ways. At this time Baudrillard's political outlook was loosely associated with Marxism (and situationism), but in these books he differed from Karl Marx in one significant way. For Baudrillard, as for the situationists, it was consumption rather than production that was the main driver of capitalist society.

Baudrillard came to this conclusion by criticising Marx's concept of "use-value". Baudrillard thought that both Marx's and Adam Smith's economic thought accepted the idea of genuine needs relating to genuine uses too easily and too simply. Baudrillard argued, drawing from Georges Bataille, that needs are constructed, rather than innate. He stressed that all purchases, because they always signify something socially, have their fetishistic side. Objects always, drawing from Roland Barthes, "say something" about their users. And this was, for him, why consumption was and remains more important than production: because the "ideological genesis of needs" precedes the production of goods to meet those needs.[17]

A cheap charlatan.

If you want genuine magic and sorcery, read Hegel. Hegel's spells still affect us to this day.

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decided to investigate Ceremonial Magic(k) from a scientific perspective. along the way decided to sample every drug known to man.

got as far as trying morphine and didn't go any further. started out as a scottish lord, ended up a penniless addict with his teeth filed down, living on one hard-boiled egg a day.

wrote a lot of insane gibberish along the way.

"If the barking of a dog disturbs your meditation, it is simplest to shoot the dog, and think no more about it."
-Aleister Crowley

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>>9307796
>>9307802
fpbp

i have read crowley's book of lies, book of the law, and magick without tears. charlatan is the word. he was a slave to stinky English quim and his practice of the occult was strictly to fulfill his sexual urges and gratify his contrarian ego. apologists will say that was the point.

he was not a magician. he was a third rate author and unoriginal as fuck cult leader. he does not merit a second thought.

>>9307448
Making a great deal

>>9307448
Bart without any bs

That whch is created to inspire beauty and/or pity

I am literally the only person I know irl that appreciates poetry. I'm in a fucking liberal arts college and the children here read Shakespeare - which is very easy to read - all in one fucking breath as quickly as they can.

There is no appreciation for the stage anymore either.

Oh yes, poetry is the last thing I think about.

I personally never had an interest in it, it's amusing to play with words for something nearing ten minutes before it grows really dull.

>>9307344
confirmed for never having read a poem and uncovering all the hidden meanings embedded in its wonderful arrangement of words

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>>9307155
>Based R.R Martin is a hack
Stop being a contrarian cuckold

>>9307155
He makes my cock rock hard

>implying literary gods have ever made good money

>>9306301
The best way to lose weight imo

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>>9307080

>>9305219
To drive home an important point: Even in Galilee 2000 years ago, it was damn hard to find good staff.

>>9305219
jewish Anti-Semitism

Also
>no these healing miracles are not metaphorical, he is spitting in people's eyes, putting fingers in their ears and other weird witchcraft shit.

>>9305105
This is just a worse "poorly describe a book with memetext"

>tfw the article itself is clickbait
2meta4me

>>9305105
Its stupid, but at least admirable to push the classics. Plebs have always read shit.

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Pretty much yep

Not anymore.

Science and philosophy are compatible with Catholicism, who the fuck knows what fucked up shit those protestants are cooking up.

It's only by a lack of ghosts that Canada is haunted.

>>9303008
spooky

i liked life of pi

>>9302761
I have the book. Since I don't know anywhere you can download it for free I will try to scan it and upload at a later date. Its a really wild book.

>>9302761
Yes.

bumping for 2nd gen new wave sf. sort of.

I wonder how many times I've saved this picture to never look at it again.

I think the part I find the sexiest is the hair. Also, there's just no way to imagine this woman without a pretty face.

>>9297101
>No depressing, gay, boring, pretenious, too sincere, genre fiction, too old books.

So fantasy?

Patrick modiano. If you want fun, read after the circus. If you want literature, read out of the dark

T. Resident modianofag