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ITT We make our own book covers out of stock photos
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Bump. I'm gonna make one just wait.
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this was pretty fun
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>>9802575
This looks like a legit book cover, good job anon
Is anybody actually convinced by this guy's ontological argument for the existence of God? This question is not meant to mock Descartes—I am genuinely curious if anybody buys his argument.
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>>9802356
just from reading the first few pages of meditations, I can tell you he set out to kill idea of god that christianity forced onto its subjects, and sought to replace it with a true idea of god.
which god were you referring to?
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>>9802441
I'm referring to the existence of any god at all—not just the Abrahamic God.
I think I may be missing something. I just don't see why it is necessary for the idea of a god to be caused by a god.
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>>9802356
No. Have you ever attended an introductory philosophy class? Nearly every professor makes clear the obscurity of the ontological argument.
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Anyone else here /literarygenius/?
This is not ironic, or a shitpost. I once made my attractive female English professor break down into tears with my genius. It was like the scene in Good Will Hunting where the math professor breaks down after Will easily solves the math problems he was given, saying "there are some days where I wish you didn't exist." She thought it was probably the best thing that she had ever read from the last 20 or so years. Yes, we did have sex eventually. I write the greatest work out there today. You pathetic posers will probably try to project onto me and deny it, but it's true, and I don't need to prove it to a bunch of sad anime-watching, hentai-jerking retards on the internet, so no, I will not post my work. No, I'm not scared or doubtful of my work, I just don't want my name to be ever associated with this sad little website. I have read most of the Western Canon, am fluent in 6 languages (Russian, Mandarin, Latin, Greek, Spanish, and of course, English), and my poetry and prose are both at the level of Joyce's. A different professor of mine once said that if I do not go down in literary history, then literary history has failed us. I once met with Bloom in person, where we had a deep and detailed conversation about Faulkner, and he told me that I was "incredibly competent and wise young man." My philosophy professor praised my work in philosophy, but as my true strength remains in art, also told me that a poem of mine "has the emotional depth of Coleridge and the precise linguistic mastery of Yeats." Upon graduating college, I will publish my masterpiece which will undoubtedly shock the literary world. It is profoundly imaginative, reaches a level of linguistic perfection on the level of Flaubert, and effortlessly dismantles the superficiality and degeneration of modern culture with a violent and powerful personal confession, reaching beyond the modern age to something much greater. I am 6'2" and very good looking, so I have many female admirers, but I have often ignored them for the sake of literary greatness. I have even received a love letter from a lovely petite brunette in my sophomore year. After being accepted into a highly selective program at my university (highly prestigious, of course, but I will not name it for the previously articulated reason), I have had the opportunity to work with the greatest poets alive today, all of whom have been blown away by my work. After publishing my work, I plan to study at Oxford or to travel around Russia.
I hope there are some of my kind on this website, with whom I can talk about literature and philosophy at a level that I find appealing and worthy of me. It is difficult to find people like this at university, of course, which is so full of pretention, insecurity and stupidity. My life is not lonely, aside from the fundamental loneliness that affects us all, but the life at the top of the peak is often frustrating, as most of you imagine.
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I'd expect a self-proclaimed literary genius to know that pretention isn't a word.
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>>9802363
i laughed at this one.
8,5/10
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Hey /lit/
I'm bored at work and feel like drawing. Come up with crazy titles to fictional books and I'll draw up some covers to fit them. Might have to post in another thread when I get home, but if you have fun ideas I'll be appreciative
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>>9802311
kino book covers my man. here's my titles:
Horace Vegan, PhD
The Peruvian Complex
A Shelf Deceived
Russian Carrots
Odin.. Easy On The Eyes
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The Tales of the Red King
Ignominy
Before It Rains
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Hitler: The boy who did nothing wrong.
Have fun!
>did not start with the greeks
>jumped straight to Kant, Hume, Hegel, Heidegger, Deleuze, and NEETshe,
>understand every single word
"start with the greeks" is just a meme for brain/lit/s
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You only think you understand, I can assure you if you jump to neechee without reading Homer first you're missing out on major concepts. Read the allegory of the cave friend.
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>>9802294
understanding Heidegger without understanding Greek is pretty pro, especially since he didn't really speak German.
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>>9802294
where 2 start with greeks
Where do I start? Is there an authoritative work? Why is it not practiced in the present? Which author should I avoid?
Atheists stay out.
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>Where do I start?
Go to Wikipedia, look up "Deism", find an author you like.
>Is there an authoritative work?
No, Deism is a cover for, depending on the time period, either "I'm an atheist and don't want to sabotage my political career" or "I'm a Freemason and have my head stuck up my ass so far I'm pretty much not a Christian anymore".
>Why is it not practiced in the present?
Freemasonry is less popular, the Great Awakening's killed off Christian Intellectualism in America (And the world, by proxy), and outright calling yourself an atheist is no longer taboo.
>Which author should I avoid?
Every author who isn't the one whose wikipedia article you picked.
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>>9802138You are the one from my dreams.
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>>9802163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN80_7rNmcE
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Is Mencius Moldbug the biggest fedora to ever be taken seriously?
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>>9802107
rather, he is the biggest seriously to ever be taken fedora
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I found him easy to read - I don't know why others found his verbiage so insurmountable.
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He's not that big.
What can I learn from Spinoza?
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>>9802070
Ethics
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>>9802070
Spinoza's ideas
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>>9802070
His Ethics is an outstanding map of the geography of the Central Cosmos. His work however is devoid of true gnosis, likely due to the fact he was a proto-bugman.
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Can we have a BotNS thread? I just read the whole thing and loved a lot of it, although felt fatigued near the end and felt myself getting a little lost.
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>>9802027
I finished it maybe 2 weeks ago. Easily my favorite fantasy/sci-fi I've read. One of the best things I've read in general. His lovely short stories throughout are probably what pushes it up so high for me.
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Barnes and The NobleS is usually too expensive for me, and I'd rather shop at a locally owner store anyway.
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>>9802038
boo
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Required/essential reading not available in books
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Any PDFs, articles, wikibooks, etc that you can't find in a physical book?
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>>9801983
Hard to find Hitler's Mein Kampf in physical form where I live. And it's my favorite book of all time, one of the most amazing thinkers imaginable
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>>9801988
Where did you get your imagination?
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>>9802005
Ever wondered how good the world would be without liberalism?
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crash
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>>9801945
OP...easy on the golden retrievers
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A thread died for this sin. Repent your wicked ways
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>>9801945
Mom made the pancakes.
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>no mention of my niggah Henry Miller in this board
lets fix this
What's your favourite work from this controvesial author?
I would have to say Sexus followed closely by the colossus of amarussion(read it in Greek, don't know the english name). Sexus in particular is one of the few media that has made me get an erection, cried, and laughed. And his anger at the coworkers that didn't appreciate the Odyssey guy was amazing
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Have only read the Tropics and Black Spring but Tropic of Cancer is my favorite book. I'm looking forward to reading the Cosmological eye soon
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>>9801903
It's Maroussi in the Original English title, good book. Favorite by him is Cancer, though.
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>>9801903
Cancer, Capricorn and Black Spring as well here. I remember finding Cancer pretty repetitive at times, but I enjoyed the lexical experimentation of Capricorn. It made me laugh a great deal, and he also impressed me by his sheer willingness to exhaust the English language and our patience by expounding infinitely on the subject of copulation and a woman's quim. Black Spring is pretty great as well too. All in all, Miller's one hell of a honky.
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What's /lit/'s consensus on reading translations?
Given the impossibility of preserving meaning across languages, should one only read books written in their original language?
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>>9801860
>should
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>>9801860
>Given the impossibility of preserving meaning across languages, should one only read books written in their original language?
If you assume that you can't preserve meaning in translation, of course you shouldn't read a translation.
But that assumption is complete bullshit.
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>>9801860
Dont read translated poetry. Prose might be harmed. Fiction is fine.
Imagine never having read Brother Karamazov because you shied away from fiction. How impovershered your mind would be.
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>want to write for the sake of writing
>have no life experience or knowledge to write about
>all i can write is surface level ripoffs of other writers i've read and i'm not interested in doing some memey postmodernist collage
how the fuck do i get a subject to write about? nobody wants to read about a depressed middle class white kid who spent his life playing video games and reading books
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>>9801834
You find frogs funny. Just fuck off
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You might need to do something drastic like move to another country to teach English, get into an intense manual labor job, join the militar, start committing (non-violent) crimes like selling drugs, etc. You have to push the envelope a little bit to have authentic experience.
Joining literary groups and so on will help, but in the end, you will have to pursue uncomfortable and uncommon experiences.
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>>9801834
let the world treat you like shit. get uncomfortable. stop reading WH40K books and learn something. go outside. lift weights. become invested in the greek meme, then follow them up through romans and christianity to the present. read the postmoderns but keep an eye on the past; they don't know their place.
if all that's in your head is fantasy tropes, you're only going to be able to write using fantasy tropes.
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>claims his thesis is going to be an anti Aristotelian thesis
>thinks that Aristotle is a dualist
Legit fucking retarded. Are we sure his mental breakdown wasn't because he had a brain lesion that impaired his thought processes?
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>>9801794
Please don't throw garbage at my post.
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Philosophy is dumb I say this as a philosophy major. Toward the end of my degree I had a mental breakdown. Many asked me if the degree caused the breakdown. Few asked if the nascent instability caused the degree. Anyway, what i've realized after coming back from insanity is tht sanity is hard to recognize and harder to come by unless it comes easy. Most philosophy majors are mildly insane. Few have any serious grasp of the canon. Everyone who thinks they have some big thesis and is not a humble historian is megalomaniacal. Ever philosophical breakthrough is a regression in new and unnecessary verbiage.
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>>9801802
sorry man