What are some books that help dealing with depression
Definitely not my diary, desu
Anything by the Existentialists ought to help. Try Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Camus, and Kierkegaard.
What are you depressed about anon?
Or do you just feel depressed for no real reason?
Write your best stories about spaghetti falling out of your pockets. If you need an example of a spaghetti pocket story here is a link: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spaghetti-stories
fuck you
>>9281795
Fuck you
>Be me
>F-fuck y-
>le spaghetti falls out of my pockets
>le oops
I don't get it
This is like the third thread about a book I've either read or started reading in the past week.
I'm working on reading this, what's not to "get"?
>>9281644
Ride on the cuckolding wave, young bull, don't follow Akka's steps.
I got to the the part where the prostitute has sex with some guy he cums black semen and dropped it
What are the best books on the philosophy of theology
>>9281608
The bible
Feuerbach
Kierkegaard
Stirner
Nietzsche
Nishitani
>>9281614
City of God- Augustine
Summa
Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death
In Praise Of Folly- Erasmus
How do I teach myself mathematics?
Proper maths that is, not just number crunching.
buy/pirate textbook, do exercises, repeat
>>9281763
What textbook? I'd really like to understand more expressive mathematics.
https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/course/schedules.pdf
http://www.archim.org.uk/notes.php
https://dec41.user.srcf.net/
To do it seriously, start from the earlier courses and build your way up, doing exercises. Use textbook recommendations from the top link if you want. It's hard work. To be honest I'm not sure how possible it is to become extremely good without formal education, unless you're ridiculously dedicated or clever. Wikipedia and stackexchange are actually great resources too.
Alternatively dip into areas which you find interesting. Things like graph theory don't require so much prerequisite knowledge compared to, say, differential geometry.
Can give more information if you're seriously interested. What do you mean by expressive mathematics? You may find that actually becoming competent isn't so exciting compared to reading about pop-math style facts.
Don't use /sci/. The FAQ is alright but the board in general will not help you learn.
Source: do maths at Cambridge.
Sup /lit/
What's the earliest occurrence that you can think of, in any mythology, of artificial bodies, as in, human soul/spirit/whatever with a man/God-made body?
>>9281663
genesis
>>9281666
Can you give me some examples, Satan?
>>9281671
Genesis 2:7 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
A couple of you, minimum, have read philosophy extensively... So, how does one live the good life? Let's read your gems of wisdom.
By not asking advice from chantards
>>9281603
Keep busy
>>9281603
By not getting abused by others. Surround yourself with friends and spend >70% of your time alone.
If there are an infinite number of timelines with me in it, as long as i'm in the top 50% of the timelines then i've lived the good life.
>Killing people is wrong
>instead we lock them up inside of some dread fort in the middle of nowhere
>we use horrific monsters to torture them into insanity or death
>sometimes we let the monsters just eat your soul
>Did I mention we use the same level of punishment for everyone regardless of crime committed?
>Remember we are the good guys
What did Rowling mean by this? If I didn't know any better I would think she was a hack.
Your first mistake would be giving a fuck about Harry Potter.
>>9281562
Could be for selfish reasons.
When you kill someone, it "tears your soul". Might be safer to just torture 'em?
Stoicism, epicureanism or cynicism /lit/?
>pretty people can make videos about making out with plants and still remain normies
not fair
Accelerationism
>>9281517
garbage time is running out!
>give conversationing a try
>the things people say are far less interesting a than the words in books
what a waste of time
>>9281435
>conversationing
Try conversating next time
>>9281439
I would even go so far as to recommend conversing
>>9281435
>try reading
>book doesn't give me a gf
What a waste of time
Name a flaw.
PROTIP: you can't.
>>9281452
liberal, zionist
>>9281452
giant phoney
I still can't understand how a guy who does respectable psychological research clings onto Jung and Freud
Is creativity more developed from reading fiction or non-fiction?
depends
It develops from a combination of both- non-fiction is like the source material that fiction teaches you how to manipulate
Was this suppose to be hilarious? I had to stop reading it on the train because I'd constantly be in titters and it'd attract attention. I genuinely broke into a vocal fucking guffaw when I read
>when I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the bejesus out of me
Anyone else have this reaction? I honestly can't tell if its intentional.
>>9281256
Yeah me and a close friend both read it around the same time last year and independently came to the conclusion its fucking hilarious. Hacks here dont get it tho
So edgy so cool
He gets hard from watching Bono- I mean come on, surely was intentional
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-sage-of-yale-law
What do you think of this? Has he figured things out?
>>9281332
If the so-called pilots who are flying the plane right now into a mountain, I'd rather some passenger took over to avert the disaster and bring us to safety, even if there is significant risk, and the ride and landing will be rough.
>>9281332
>fuck democracy n shiet
>>9281332
I wish I could do shitty illustrations of points that Plato made and then get paid for it.
Why does Zizek hate paganism and glorify Christianity?
Žižek belongs on /lit/ as much as e-celebs belong on /tv/, i.e. he doesn't.
>>9281253
Because the old gods are dead. Götterdämmerung.
He believes the only way one can be truly Atheist is through the Christian faith:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpRqxKbgF8