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>>9767157
Your heart isn't in it. Be honest with yourself and find a different hobby

>>9767157
My brother always told me this, and I'll repeat it to you: If you don't like reading than you're not reading right.

What does that mean? It just means to find the books that really interest you! Don't try to be all INTELLIGENT and read non-fiction books. Just read fiction books that you enjoy, and maybe you'll build yourself up.

Start with short stories.
Franz Kafka and H.P lovecraft has a bunch of them.
These are quite nice for beginners.

Try to read consistently everyday
It's all about habit building.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

You can never solve a problem that was formed around a lack of perspective. The only thing to do is to realize that the question cannot be answered but by further lack of perspective.

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>>9766913
first post worst post

>>9766873
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount

>>9766849
I just go over the same shit over and over in my head until it clicks.

>>9766849
I take notes

>>9766849
take notes,
but realistically, if it takes a long time to understand, it's really not worth understanding.

I read meditations almost every day :^)

>introduction by china mieville

shit

>>9766828
Not OP
Which one would you recommend?

It's OK. It kind of drags on a bit. Lovecraft's works haven't really aged as well as Poe's.

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

>>9766662
For example?

His professional life is like a stroke in slow motion.

>>9766472
Who or what has btfo'd him?

He's sitting on top of the world -- indifferent, paring his fingernails, while scattered chittering chipmunks, who'll likely gather on this thread, murmur idle insults and cast loathing glances, all the while encompassed in the shadow of his brobdingnagian bum.

But mark this, anon. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, Martin's success in it is not.

>>9766472
He sure figured out how to waste a lot of people's time.

>>9766246

Who cares? Are they hurting you? There's nothing more pseudy than caring about others like this. Let them make a fool out of themselves and instead spend the energy fixing your own faults.

>>9766246
>How do you deal with pseudointellectuals and dilettantes?

You don't.

>>9766246
being a pseud is a gateway
t. Pseud

Js mill on liberty
DE tocqueville
Adam Smith wealth of nations skip the begats
Pursuit of power mcneill

Understand why the colonies rebelled

American Military Power and the New Mandarins

>>9766221
Basically, go to either Huffington Post or Breitbart on facebook, find the most ideologically berserk individual, go to their about page, and like everything they like. Then you get reams of on the ground, honest to god american political philosophy

This board wouldn't exist if they did because they'd be able to think for themselves, so the survival of this community hinges on ignorance.

>>9766212
Just started this. It's insightful thus far.

How could you read a book to teach you how to read a book? Sounds like a catch 22.

>>9766083
And now liberals are destroying the white world

I'm glad those pieces of rags with scribbling drawn on burned away like the mass of chemicals they are. Who cares about a bunch of ramblings of white old men that was transfered from their drunken, ignorant brain farts to the ink on the poop-touched cloth from thousands of years ago? Literally as useful as my brainlet first draft essays I wrote in high school while distracted by boobies, not even useful for wiping your arse with.

>>9766087
We could have prevented this.

he's my favorite confessed socialist. Try his roads to freedom, it's bretty good

>>9766041
quite

Not as much as people like to portray him. His history of philosophy is decent, but far below Copleston's and his philosophy was destroyed by Gödel, this is not even a joke, Gödel literally proved that his works on logic and mathematics couldn't be possible.

But he was indeed very influential and had some interesting things on the field of analytical philosophy.

>>9765900
Overrated

>>9765908
Overrated 2

>>9765917
Overrated 3: Overrated with a Vengeance

>>9765895
libcuck trash. Try something with a redpill theme like Gulag Archipelago

>>9765916
Reader both and form your own opinions. Goddammit it's getting more and more pathetic every day with this shit.

>>9765937
postmodernism is a cancer, try Peterson

He's a non-fiction worshipping materialist
Basically a successful redditor

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He's a pretty cool guy who wrote terrible books that you shouldn't be reading.

His books are very good, but he isn't /lit/.

>>9765767
Magnolia is probably exactly what you want. Just go watch it

schindler's list

He asked for a book, faggots.

Billy Budd.