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Hey /lit/ how long do you think it'll take people to realize this book is the new Bible and begins to hit the mainstream?
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>>9161609
Not to be that guy but... (((Schucman)))
Why do they hate Christianity so much?
I'm starting to hate /pol/ for being right all the time, I don't want them to be.
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>>9161623
Because duality is a dated concept.
>See Buddhism and it's rejection of Christianity due to non dualistic perception for further information.
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>Not now Mom, I'm trying to save Earth
~OP
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So, /lit/, I've decided to git gud at critical theory and understand this behemoth of a system that traps and maintains me under control through their "cultural marxist" lenses. So far I've read Plato (The Republic, The Symposium, Apology), Aristoteles (Excerpts from Politics, will soon get to his Metaphysics), Descartes (The Discourse of The Method) and Schopie (On Writing, On Women). As you can see, it's very superficial and limited.
That said, I tought about following this sequence in order to reach the Frankfurt School:
(Plato to Descartes/Hume) > Kant > Schopenhauer > Hegel > Heidegger/Witty > Adorno & Company
Any ideas?
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go straight to the Frankfurt school, otherwise it would take at least one year
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Start with Frankfurt school. Read dialectics of enlightenment.
Post back when you realize cultural marxism is a meme and Adorno hated everyone.
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Other than William F Buckley, has anyone ever beaten him in a debate?
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I did. Got BTFO so hard he stopped emailing me
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>is anyone cruel enough to beat a senile old pseud
No.
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Foucault tore him a new one
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Are there many differences between the abridged and unabridged versions of Decline of the West?
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Length, for one.
(sigh. should i post this. it's so fucking stupid and unhelpful. what am i doing. guy asked an honest question and you're giving him a smartass answer like a kid. you are a kid. grow up.)
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>>9161155
One's abridged and the other one isn't.
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>>9161155
There are differences, not sure if "many" though
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Where do I find a book from English literature that is not more than 70 pages and without copyright..
How to search gutenberg and where to find less known literature?
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>>9161047
a bump
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which title ?
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>>9162161
there is no title, I want to search through -70 pages long books, texts.
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I love Master and Margarita, but I didn't find it "hilarious".
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Good for you. Have some sage and fuck off, pleb.
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>>9160216
I found it hilarious but I didn't """"love"""" it.
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I found it, but I didn't """""read""""" it.
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>>9159203
I don't fucking know I've barely read any of them.
I'm 23 dude, cut me some slack.
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You got it backwards, idiot
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Will Epic Poetry ever make a comeback?
Should it?
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>>9158672
I intend to write an epic poem about the Cold War, so we'll see.
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>>9158672
If it ever came back it would probably only be ironically
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> want to read Russian novel
> never read Russian literature
Where should I start?
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Start with the varangians
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>>9158540
Anna Karenina is the greatest Russian novel; Eugene Onegin is the greatest work of poetry. MAKE SURE YOU FIND GOOD TRANSLATIONS
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Start with Gogol.
Do you ever reach the point where you have a whole shelf with just one author?
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>>9157851
>hurr durr
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>>9157851
no you don't. I doubt you even read anything beyond text on an imageboard.
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>>9157831
I have a whole shelf of Baudrillard and a whole shelf of Burroughs.
Also a whole shelf of Robert E. Howard, but I haven't actually read all of his conan stuff yet, and alot of the paperbacks are also Carter and L.Sprauge DeCamp
It's there any book that deals with losing pleasure on the things the plebeian consider what life is about.
I'm 27.
I drank beer and got drunk when I was 18, at my prom party.
Didn't saw the appeal, never got drunk again.
I smoke cigs when I was with a friend, smoke it cigs, never saw the appeal, never smoked again.
I smoke a cheap tabaco some years ago, never saw the appeal, never smoked again.
I fucked a whore last week, wasn't a big deal, and haven't even fapped since then, even I lost all my thoughs about sex and lost interest in porn, don't feel nothing about it, and lost care about sex.
I lost interest on my child dream about making games and thinking of switching my major to literature.
Most films and anime bore me to death, even if I still like weeb music, is like my last weeb pleasure, because I'm too retarded to understand classical music.
The only things that now keep me motivated and going in life is starting to read philosophy, literature, politics and economics.
It's like suddenly everything is beneath me and simply too primitive and vulgar.
What's wrong with me?
Have I become the dreathful snob?
Am I a snob?
I don't hate popular culture, simply it bores me to death, I am looking for the meat and popular shit simply gives me the bare bones, you know?
Is there any book that deals with this?
Is this maturity?
Have I mature?
Help me with this, faggots.
Am I nihilistic?
Is death the only solution?
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you're a spiritual anemic like everyone else in the modern world
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>>9164710
will philosophy and spirituality save my soul?
I don't even believe in jesus, you know?
will he let me enter heaven even if I'm agnostic?
what if there's no heaven and we all dissapear after death?
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>>9164710
>doesn't indulge in carnal pleasures
>spirtual anemic
What?
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are we e/lit/ists?
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I'm not, I'm barely even holding my life together, and that's the way it's supposed to be.
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"Me last night"
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>>9164347
Nah I don't even actually read desu
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What's the best translation of Meditations? I don't mean "What is the best for pseudo-intellectual redditors who like flowery verbiage" I mean what is the best translation to get the real understanding of was Marcus Aurelius actually meant?
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>>9164050
>I don't mean "What is the best for pseudo-intellectual redditors who like flowery verbiage"
You probably shouldn't look for a translation, then, pseud.
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read epictetus instead idk why even sucks marcus aurelius's flacid cock, epictetus was the truly the best stoic philosopher
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Better all around versed gamer with better opinions than OP, AMA
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>>9164050
>I don't mean "What is the best for pseudo-intellectual redditors who like flowery verbiage" I mean what is the best translation to get the real understanding of was Marcus Aurelius actually meant?
Hays, it is verbatim what you are looking for.
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Any vaporwave literature?
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Wouldn't that just be cyberpunk?
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>>9164007
I was thinking the the 2814 stuff, which is very much inspired by the Wong Kar Wai type of movies.
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>>9164007
No, vaporwave is like recycling/distorting an old text and changing it so that gives off an extra nostalgic/moody feeling of the age it was originally from.
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I ignored books my entire life because I've always been forced to read books I simply don't enjoy.
I couldn't give less of a shit about classics like Catcher in the Rye and Tom Sawyer. I had to force myself to finish them.
A few years ago someone introduced me to PKD and after reading a few of his novels I realized that my indifference towards reading was based on me being fed books I didn't care about. Since then I've gone through a couple dozen books, most of them old-school nebula award winners
Am I in the wrong? Should I force myself through some other old school classics?
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>>9163918
Start reading with what interests you, I would be surprised if after a long time you wouldn't be interested in understanding and appreciating the themes in classics like Catcher in the Rye in their own rights.
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>>9163918
>Am I in the wrong?
of course, dumb nigga
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>>9163922
This guy has the right idea. If you have to force yourself through a book, you're likely to miss the themes/ideas that make it a classic. Those books aren't going anywhere. Get to them when you actually want to.