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What literature would you recommend someone read before they take their own life?
Sorry if this question is asked too much on this board, or if it comes off as clickbait.
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Charlotte sometimes is one of my favourite books that i can recommend no matter the situation
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>>9777983
The Bible unironically
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>>9777983
r/suicide or whichever subreddit deals with suicide. Every time I start seriously considering it I go there and laugh at how silly it is to kill yourself. Also watch a video on youtube of bridge jumpers. It makes me too sad to go through with it
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White Nights Dostoyevsky 2017-07-19 07:16:59 Post No.9777845
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[Spoiler]My god, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a lifetime?[/spoiler]
What did he mean by this? But seriously this part made me shed a couple tears, that entire last part.
Was he actually content? He seemed ultra depressed after he gotfriendzoned
So I have Crime and Punishment read, Brothers Karamazov, and White Nights. Brothers Karamazov ending also made me sad, like extremely sad.
Where should I read next? This book with white nights also has Notes From Underground as its main story. I have Demons as well. Demons is hard for me to get into though because of all the names. The hardest one by far.
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>>9777845
Fucking hell. I didnt know capitalization messed up the spoiler tag. Sorry everyone.
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He had a cuck fetish
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>>9777880
So it worked out well for him? Did he become a lodger of the couple and rent out their cuck shed?
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which book will make my life seem eternally meaningful and enjoyable upon reading/finishing?
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>>9777635
The Holy Bible
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>>9777662
except that one
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Brothers K by my dude Dosto my man.
The necklace by my guy de Maupassant.
The death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoyyy lmao.
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what makes for good writing, anon?
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>>9777591
Capitals are very important, OP.
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>>9777591
Overuse of commas.
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>>9777591
using question marks is a no go.
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Alright /lit/, so I wrote my first major piece and it came really sluggish and laboriously to me.
I struggled with it for nearly 2 years, including pauses, and while I like the narrative pretty much I think the story line is total bullshit. But I read the parts so often, I lost my view for it.
Now I want to know how much of a pile of crap it is. Thing is, I ain't got no one to read it.
Long story short, please recommend communities where you share your written pieces and get them roasted.
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post it in the critique thread
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>>9777522
smashwords
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>>9777529
It's fifty thousand words long
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What do you think they read? Probably Joseph McElroy because they are so smart.
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I think their eyes are cosmetic only
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They've written several books. I'm actually borrowing one of them, even though I don't read French. Dieu et la science: Vers le métaréalisme
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>>9777471
Uhh I would probably delete that before you land yourself on a list you don't want to be on my man.
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Anyone know of other books like this one?
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His other three.
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I suggest reading about complex systems and evolutionary biology, I don't think there is anything like this
But I do think Eric D. Beinhocker is worth checking out
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Could you clarify what you are looking for OP?
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What is the best Christian text, and why is it the Confessions of St. Augustine?
From sentence fucking one this guy starts listing scripture left and right, proving it (not proving the Trinity, proving the scriptures ffs), pointing out flaws in preachers' teachings, using casual analysis to discern the true nature of Him.
Example: You know that theoretical mathematical question "does the set of all sets contain itself?" Well, motherfuckers, this guy was asking this question about God over 1600 years ago, the fuck have you done today?
Page fucking 2: "Since, then, Thou fillest heaven and earth, do they contain Thee? Or, as the contain Thee not, dost Thou fill them, and yet there remains something over? And where dost Thou pour forth that which remaineth of Thee when the heaven and earth are filled? Or, indeed, is there no need that Thou who constainest all things shouldest be contained of any, since those things which Though fillest Though fillest by containing them?"
>spellchecker has an aneurysm after typing that
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>si fallor sum
>literally did Descartes before Descartes
>blew manicheism the fuck out
Can non-christians even compete?
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I just purchased this book. Excited to read it.
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Augustine never quit being a gnostic. He got famous off smuggling Neoplatonism into Christianity. Probably only converted to Catholicism for cultural reasons ("sorry, mom, I was just going through a phase")
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Is this worth adding my my philosophy queue?
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No.
Whachu on right now? I'm making my way through the massive autism of the Critique of Pure Reason.
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Well I'm just getting into Jerusalem by Alan Moore at the moment, but then I'm going to work through some of the classics. Homer, Aristotle, Plato, Sophocles, Machiavelli, Calvin, Paine, Aurelius, Hume, Kant, Shopenhauer, Nietzsche...
Fortunately a lot of them are public domain so the audiobooks are free on YouTube. Makes it more digestible when you can listen anywhere.
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No, I have it and it's a bad book. Honestly embarrassing to even own, not because of the title, but if anyone saw it who knew about how bad the contents were.
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have any of u read 'zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance' and what is it like? Is it pop-philosophy or is it actually good?
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Take a guess.
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>>9776558
it's actually good
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Why ask us? Just go ahead and read it, should take about 4 hours if you are a very slow reader.
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Pop-philosophy is starting to pick up steam. Most notably 'the school of life'.
Search on youtube any important philosopher and the first result will always be from SoL.
This is a worrying trend. Aside from watering down philosophy for normies, they have created a gigantic net which strangles everyone who would have otherwise pursued a fulfilling education.
So? Any idea on how to counter this cancer?
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>>9776468
We don't. Giving it attention will make matters worse. Plebs will be plebs.
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>>9776468
Meme him. Read all his books as a sarcastic ironic joke.
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>>9776468
Could you explain the problem? If it gets people interested in Philosophy and then they read deeper into it, I can't see it being a bad thing.
Is this the hottest book of all time?
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I read this the other day and it was a bore desu. You'd think pissing on eggs and shoving eyes in an anus would be interesting but nope.
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My ex read it to me as I ate her out
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>>9776447
How'd you lose her man
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Did he ever explain why determinism was wrong?
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why don't you read the fucking book (Being and Nothingness) and stop being a fucking millenial and expecting to be told to you.
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French philosophy isn't about explaining things its about feeling things with nice rhetoric
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>>9776335
>implying qualia can be explained at all
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Reasons Nonreaders Don't Read. 2017-07-19 08:09:21 Post No.9776290
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Reasons Nonreaders Don't Read.
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why?
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>>9776290
Video games, movies, anime, TV and any other forms of entertainment douse the flames of boredom once they get home from their jobs/school.
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>>9776290
The reason I didn't before about 20 was because I assumed it was just escapism and that I had no more to gain from it than watching a long movie.
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A lot of people don't like to mentally focus/reflect on their entertainment. (Admittedly it sounds like a dichotomy to require high amounts of mental energy for finding distraction.)Thats why arthouse movies, complex music or any proactive artistic activities are not that common.
Reading has a far higher entry level mental commitement than other media, and for serious literature you need to come over the idea that media consumption is for distraction and start to find intellectual joy in its studying. Now count the amount of people around you that find true joy in stuying (anything), it's frighteningly low.
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the most unenjoyable book you have ever read 2017-07-19 05:51:19 Post No.9775932
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the most unenjoyable book you have ever read
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God this fucking book was a slog, I cannot fathom why it's so fucking revered, I have never read a book more grating and arduous to get through
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It has a war in it.
That's enough for me.
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>>9775932
agree
>MUH WINE