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Nice laser sight, faggot

>>9843980
Is getting a 1911A1 a meme

>>9843980
lmao at that tacticool mall ninja piece of shit.

>being a glockfag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTyQgwVvYyc

no such thing. Alpha males are a spook!

Aborb this quote

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark."

>>9843884
kek I watched this earlier today, what a fucking nu-male beta fag
he doesn't even understand what an "alpha" male is all about, it's just a different way to say highly confident, charismatic and beautiful male

>Granta
Wait they still exist? Holy shit I thought they went bankrupt a decade ago after publishing a string of poorly selling (think <300 copies each) books.

These writers aren't necessarily good. They're just on the Granta list. Probably none of them will be remembered after a couple decades. Who knows....

>>9843787
>jews
>bankrupt
That sweet naivety

I think a personal study into philosophy and the cultivation of one's perspective is an essential part in life.
Philosophy has the power to eliminate fear, worries, anxiety, stress and reduce proness to mind controll, gullibility and will dramatically increase one's overall intelligence, IQ and EQ.
That philosophy isn't already taught since elementary is beyond me.
Now a days its something you'd really have to be into to choose as a class, study or profession.
Where as in the days of Greeks, Romans etc this was more common.
Philosophy is also a key strategy in buddhism for liberation(moksha).
The mind is an essential tool for humanity and must be trained.
It's incredible how unstimulating we are in this and would rather fill eachother with crap in the hope of absurd profit. Something very prominent since the 2000's.
I think philosophy and psychology are one of the most essential study's in life. Philosophy helps to build your own perspective and think for oneself and psychology explains why others do what they do.
So you may understand your fellow brothers and sisters. The two go hand in hand and a mastery in either will ensure a mastery in the other aswell.
Psychology is by far not as complicated as study's and psychologists will have you believe and yes there are permanent answers to be discovered that will satisfy on all levels.

>>9843629
>That philosophy isn't already taught since elementary is beyond me.
The younger a person is, the less apt to study philosophy she is, with few exceptions.
Majority of students dont care about deeper stuff, they care for the necessary grades to go to next year and their own present pleasure.
Yeah, you need to present kiddo's with it at some point, but being taught, thats other thing. Schools don't have a good history teaching philosophy to majority of their students, mostely because the average student don't care about self-reflection or deep criticism of everything.
In short: philosophy ain't for plebs, althought it would be great if plebs started to care about philosophy and think for themselfs, rather then buy the "opnion creators" garbage that media and other formes of entertainiment trown at them.

>>9843603
Id rather be a forgotten billionare desu

Give yourself a break, no one can be real for that long

>>9843586
you're a faggot

Expel video games from your life.

Isn't this book gigantic? How long did it take to read?

>>9843580
The single-volume Penguin version is abridged, even then it's about 1000 pages.

There's a 10-volume version that's unabridged, costs over $100

>>9843580
I have a penguin version of roughly 800 pages, took me about just over a month to finish the book and I have re-read it once and going for another read because I find it difficult to follow the narrative with so many persona's and family's.

>>9843512
>Yeah, I've done the greeks and the history of the last 500 years.
>Hasn't done the Romans or the Middle Ages.

You're not ready anon.

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>>9843568
>tfw you will probably not be ready till the west has declined

read peter turchin instead

The Age of Innocence. Summer. Most of Wharton to be honest. Ulysses as well.

post Woolf: A Dance to the Music of Time.

>>9843492
>Woolf, gnashing her teeth at the genius Joyce, only willing to admit his absolute mastery after it becomes a popular opinion
I don't care a fig what she thinks.

>>9843490

your diary, desu

>>9843490
myth of sisyphus - camus

>>9843490
Start with the greeks

pushkin

>>9843464
Start with the greeks

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Start with The D

>>9843414
use a digital word processor.

>>9843417
Still waiting for the day that someone gets a simple answer to what he is actually asking instead of some smart-alecky cunt forcing his opinion on him.

>>9843414
my general advice is kys

Do you not understand how the passage of time works?

>>9843403
People have a stake in the politics of this era, so there's emotional response to it

>>9843405
>understanding how the passage of time works
Dull, everyday, passé

>>9843371
BUMMMP I started listening to the black tapes but there has to be better stuff.

>>9843371
Norm Macdonald reads his own book, go for that. I've also heard really good things about the audio book for the Disaster Artist, I enjoyed the actual book quite a bit.

fuck off with these fake threads you bitch ass mod, you do it for free to enrich some capitalist on the other side of the planet, kys

>>9843360
People on the internet say Maude.

>translation

>>9843360
MAUDES

>>9843353
>>>/ic/

>>9843400
That board is unofficially only drawing.

>>9843353
I've been recommended (but haven't read) Art: The Whole Story and Art and Visual Perception by Rudolf Arnheim