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Words that should come back 2017-09-07 04:45:13 Post No.9992213
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Words that should come back
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In essence, words that you wish were retrieved from the grave. Preferably from the history of the English language.
My choice would be nescience. Not knowing, a faultless statement about a lack of knowledge, as opposed to ignorance, a chosen way to limit knowledge, by ignoring it.
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What do we think of him, /lit/? 2017-09-07 04:18:07 Post No.9992095
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What do we think of him, /lit/?
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>Doing the snow-clearing
>Not being financial embarrassed in any way
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Anyone else own any nice coffee table books?
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Yeah I used to have a nice coffee-table book about the anatomy of horses but I lost it in my move after not eating for 3 days and having an emotional breakdown about the fundamental lack of purpose in life.
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>book about the anatomy of horses
nice
>having an emotional breakdown about the fundamental lack of purpose in life.
not so nice
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I guess some of my artbooks would fall into that category.
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Dude people reading books and talking to each other about what they just read lmao
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ITT: Children's books that make you cry?
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If you didn't cry at this as a kid, you were probably a little psychopath who tortured small animals to death.
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There was ashort story I read once about a dragon who wanted to sing in a choir but he looked different so all the other dragons made fun of him and he died alone in the snow without ever having joined a choir...
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Christians believe the soul is eternal 2017-09-07 03:19:52 Post No.9991836
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Christians believe the soul is eternal
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It is stated in the Bible all men would go to heaven or hell for all eternity implying there is a soul after death. What is thought to be the soul is personality and personality can be explained through modern day neuroscience and psychology. Therefore there is no soul and therefore you can't go to heaven or hell and therefore Christianity is debunked. You can't believe in the afterlife anymore Christians because I just refuted the existence of the soul.
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Are there any other good books on gambling? I liked The Gambler but i would prefer something that explain how the casino works etc
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Casino
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Do you know any good books on Nihilism?
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Of Human Bondage, The Death of Ivan Illich, The Stranger
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Thanks. I've read Camus, but he wasn't too fond of the whole idea of nothing having meaning. In his Sysiphus, he stated that it was all about the road and not the destination (which is nothingness). I was thinking more like Cioran. I'm def going to try the other two you mentioned, though.
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Thoughts? is it worth picking to read?
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Has anyone read this? The premise is fantastic:
>The late 21st century seems like a good time to be alive. Earth is at peace. Humans now command self-replicating machines that create engineering marvels on enormous scales. Artificial habitats dot the solar system. Anti-matter driven Valkyrie rockets carry explorers to the stars at nearly the speed of light. All seems well.
>Then, from the uncaring black of space come swarms of relativistic missiles. Though they are merely boulder-sized hunks of metal, they move fast enough to hit with the force of many nuclear arsenals. They are impossible to track and impossible to stop. Humanity is all but wiped out by the horrific bombardment.
>A handful of survivors desperately struggle to escape the alien mop-up fleet. They hide close to the sun, inside asteroids, beneath the crusts of moons, within ice rings, and in the fathomless depths of interstellar space. But most are hunted down and slaughtered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Star
I can't find it anywhere to download, I guess it was never published as an e-book or scanned?
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What's your experience with literary agents? Any story I think must also be contexualized in the territory.
For what I have seen (italy) agents want:
- A curriculum of your lit work (previous praises, and so on)
- Your work must be complete, so nothing like 'I have this plan but I have written only three chapters'
- know something about you as a person, so in your mails you should not be super formal.
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From a consequentialist perspective, what's the difference between a Buddhist or Stoic, who might refuse to take some action citing their own particular rationalization ('I refuse to be governed by desire / emotion'), versus your typical sour grapes? If in the end none of them pursue their desire, why does it matter how they explain it to themselves?
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>from a consequentialist perspective
>why does it matter how they explain it to themselves?
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OK, I'll give you an example (which might be so general that it's worthless, but whatever); it's possible that the different reasoning, leading to similar immediate results in one instance, might form different patters of behavior when considered over a longer timeframe.
Which reminds me of something else related to consequentialist reasoning. I've often heard Noam Chomsky compare the actions of small, but ineffective groups who kill for "evil" reasons (ex. Islamic extremists) with the actions of large effective killers (ex. US military) who kill for "good" reasons. From his perspective the large scale of US killing makes it worse than killing of extreme islamists, even though islamist reasoning is overtly hateful and the US is (dubiously) well intentioned (he argues that the careless nature of collateral damage deaths actually might make it worse than "evil" reasoning).
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Ehy /lit/, I was wondering how many of you arrived at some point where you don't want to read anything new, but re-read your favorites and gain something new out of it.
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Can you truly say that you've "read" a play, in a manner of speaking, if you have only seen it on stage? Or must you physically read the text as well to have experienced it?
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You have to follow along to the text during the play
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While listening to the audio book and watching the film as well.
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Depends. Do you feel like you understood it to a similar degree as if you had read it?
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What is /lit/s opinion on speed reading?
Can you speed read?
What technique do you use?
Is dit worth it or all just bs?
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great movie
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For you
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It's not worth it, speed reading has been consistently shown to be a load of bullshit. The faster you push yourself to read the more comprehension you lose. All the self purported 'speed readers' are essentially expert skimmers who train themselves to recall key points. Just read at a comfortable pace, comprehension will always be more fulfilling than speed.