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> been alive 20 years
Wow i bet they are enlightened and can help me better understand my condition!

>>9764472

This is a stupid way of looking at it.
You can't game social status. You either are something or you aren't. The fact that you're occupied with appearances assures that you aren't. The Mozarts of the world aren't sitting around thinking about how to game how they are perceived.

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>>9764489
You have it too? I have this condition... my memory it is all blurry. I remember things that happened before the accident, but I can't make new memories.. it sucks
I have to make screenshots of all topics I make because I won't remember what I posted. At least with the (You)s I can figure out which post is mine but if nobody replies I don't know if it was me who posted it even if I make the screenshot.

>>9764407
liar

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>>9764407
Talked to my sister for the first time in a year
They know I am alone
They keep wanting to talk to me but I'm never in a good mood
Live alone, make good money, rich and miserable
At least she sent me pictures of the family
Sometimes I never know if leaving home
Moving half way across the country was a good idea

>Growing up dad was always distant and stoic
>Recently discover that he just doesn't like me very much and also isn't my real father

>>9764356
Stop posting this retard, retard

>>9764356
i hate his fuckinf- face

>>9764356
No

He is making money and profit

just remember u can use him to totally pwn post modernists.

>>9764196
Don't worry, I think he's harder to understand than Kant. Work on it.

>>9764366
Fuck, I forgot: He's harder because you need a good grasp of most of the best philosophers who came before him (don't forget the bible).

Jerusalem is shitty
Snow Crash is leddit tier
Lovecraft is kiddy shit
McCarthy in audiobook is a waste since his prosaic style is so strong youll miss most of the atmosphere
2666 is great but similarly not sure i would use an audiobook

tl;dr get some non fiction and learn something instead

I'd say Lovecraft off that list, but I haven't read the others. Jerusalem just seems terrible judging by the type of fans Alan Moore attracts imo.

>>9764194
Not op. What are some great non-fiction audiobooks? I occasionally listen to fiction on my way to work (books I've already read), but I'm looking to mix it up.

Even if you don't know which audiobooks are worth listening to, how about some general non-fiction you found interesting/worthwhile. No pop-science.

i started reading that book, got to chapter one and stopped.

ill read it eventually but the style was really not what i was in the mood for. 10 pages about watering the lawn...

>>9764177
I would rather jerk off to furry porn in a public place than be seen reading that.

and on the same day as Will Smith and Jim Carrey

>>9764109
Bump

>>9764109
Goddammit, and just after announcing that he's starting work on an experimental novel RIP Pinecone you will be missed :'(

Also finish with Christ.

>Not learning Hieroglyphs and reading Egyptian poetry

step up, amigo

Philosophers and poets usually allude to older philosophers and poets and the Greek literary tradition is the oldest, so it seems like the correct place to start.

You have to reload a save-state that you created back when you hadn't entered the American education system yet.

>>9764051
English isn't my first language, I forgot to mention that but thanks for your contribution. :)

>>9764060
Quit the game, then

>>9764041
I haven't read it all the way through but am about halfway through it right now. I like it, though generally I don't like love stories.

>>9764052
I think the love story in We was nice but i paid more attention to the surroundings and the way the protagonist thought. It was an interesting way of reading the thought process of someone who would be stuck in that kind of weird society and how people interacted with each other.

What do you think about those glass buildings? I love that idea very original imo.

>>9764069
I think the glass buildings are a nice touch. So many dystopian novels take place in concrete brutalist cityscapes so it's nice to see that one of the first dystopias was more creative. I also like that the protagonist is a mathematician, since it gives the book a more abstract, timeless feel.

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I'm waiting for the good times.

You know bookzz has a new site?

http://b-ok.org/

>>9764025
The passive voice is being used by me. I'm using the active voice.

>>9764025

basically passive voice is when u take ur object and u make it the subject of the sentence

the vase was broken by charles
charles broke the vase

here u can see how passive voice can be used as a rhetorical device - in the first example, attention is centered on the tragedy of the broken vase rather than charles' agency and incompetence, as in the second example.

>>9764033
If you can add "by zombies" after the verb and the sentence still makes sense, the passive voice was used (by zombies).

Tell me, my white brother: from whence came your hatred of the children of the sun; from whence came the false, Jewish prophet who gave you the foul lens through which your own essence looks as coal? I beg of you: repent before I strike you down in the name of Evropa!

Post-structuralism is a facet of post-modernism as a broader literary and aesthetic movement (not a philosophy). Yes, Jordan Petersen doesn't seem to understand or care about the difference, but that doesn't change the hierarchy.
Now, post-structuralism has begun to invade a lot of Marxist philosophical offshoots, and has since at least the time of the Frankfurt School. I'd wager this is because post-structuralism pairs well with the existing ideological tool of decontextualization in modern Marxist teaching.

>>9764039
Post-structuralism is all about context.

>>9763943
temporal boof by eating the trees, silly you

Ungoliant was the most powerful creature in the universe with an endless hunger.

>>9763943
She is the embodiment of darkness itself, something fundamental about the universe. The fact she was able to consume the light of the two trees at all is extremely suggestive of her power. It's also worth mentioning that Morgoth became more and more earthbound as he displaced his magic into form in Arda, growing weaker as a result.

>>9763923
Tfw have been my whole life but haven't found a comfortable position.

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>>9763927
tfw when after 28 some years of being-there and still have not found a position.

>>9763923
i was thinking on this about two months, one week, three days, thirteen hours, seven minutes ago, and i realized the answer was zero g, so i went ahead and developed the technology, and now i can read in blissful and absolute comfort.