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>talk to philosophy student
>say "Modern philosophy is useless"
>philosophy student gets pissed, "You have no idea what you're talking about"
>say "So what is its utility?"
>philosophy student, "First of all it's not SUPPOSED to have utility"
Every time lmao

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Are there any great books with the theme "war is good"?

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Can anyone suggest a book going over Legal Writing and the motions of court? i.e. the phases, what sort of petitions you can make, when it comes time to present evidence, etc

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I'm unspooked as fuck. I see myself living in a meaningless world. I see people as disgusting. My jealousy comes out of nowhere and it disgusts me.

>see guy with his gf
>get madly jealous and randomly the thought, "the best revenge is a life well lived" goes through my mind
>realise as I'm thinking it how pathetic and spooky it is, the coping mechanism of a genetically deficient organism

>see someone reading a maths book
>feel hatred for them because they might think they're smarter than me

Guys I'm not going to lie, being unspooked is tough as fuck. I worry that marketers and advertisers are trying to take advantage of me.

I have no life philosophy. Work on many things? Work on one thing? Do what I enjoy? Do what others say is important? I have no clue. I want to do 50 things at once. I see all sides. I started reading more recently and worry about "reading myself stupid". I try to remember what I read when sitting on the train and although I know the condensed outline, and see this as enough, I get annoyed for not remembering perfectly.

I am an ugly beta male who has never had female attention, even at the age of 26, has had no social life since 18, and became the ugly loser loner that nobody talks to within two days at work. Seeing attractive women everywhere is torture when I know they have lives on easy mode, consider me a disgusting non chad, as have 50999 tinder matches.

I trust my intellect and taste but I am always abused by the pseudo intellectuals who claim I need to suspend these and worship and spend my money. If I spent all my time doing all the shit I'm supposed to do, I'd have no time for anything. Everyone else is a fraud. Everyone else is either a woman who gets everything handed to them or a normie who glides through institutions while being judged by their clones.

My spiritual malaise is entrenched and I refuse to sprinkle Christian (or any other) droplets on it like the low IQers, pseudo intellectuals, and the frauds.

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/sffg/ - Read the Fucking Charts Edition

Fantasy

Selected:
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General:
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Flowchart:
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Science Fiction

Selected:
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General:
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>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21330.jpg

NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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ITT: military literature

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What do you think of these young, popular contemporary American writers /lit/?

What theme(s) do they have in common?

>Joshua Cohen
>Emma Cline
>Gary Shteyngart
>Nicole Krauss
>Dara Horn
>Anthony Doerr
>Ben Lerner
>Lara Vapnyar
>David Bezmozgis
>Naama Goldstein
>Michael Chabon
>Lauren Groff
>Garth Risk Hallberg
>Sana Krasikov
>Sara Houghteling
>Rachel B Glaser
>Nathan Englander

Also I was just reading the New Yorker's Best 20 Writers Under 40 list and these authors really piqued my interest, does their work cover similar topics?:

>David Bezmozgis
>Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
>Jonathan Safran Foer
>Nell Freudenberger
>Rivka Galchen
>Nicole Krauss
>Philipp Meyer
>Gary Shteyngart

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Why is Norm so /lit/?
https://youtu.be/h-jfLIssw0E

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Anyone wanna do something /lit/ in Melbourne this weekend?

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What does he want to say with this?

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The topic is lighter and less philosophical than his usual work but it's great analysis and people actually ask him about things like this much more often than they should.
https://jacobitemag.com/2017/07/12/trumps-warsaw-uprising/

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I bet you're too pleb to double fist

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What's the darkest, bleakest thing you've ever read?

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leave consciousness to me

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Why is poetry not discussed much on this board?