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Not even trying to be edgy or anything. I saw this on sale and thought about buying it. Is it a good read?
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Popular "science" for dummies. Very entertaining though.
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>>10010743
It's Atheism 101. It's not bad, but it's not very interesting unless you're a pleb. As books, his biology and evolution stuff is a thousand times better and smarter.
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>>10010743
thinking about religion is pointless. some people need it others don't, let the autists fight and get laid.
also, atheism in the dawkins vein is religious.
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thoughts on Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning?
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PoMo bullshit
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"Hey Jordan, are you a christian?"
"Well, uh, I suppose, that depends on what you mean by christian... And what you mean by belief... See, I don't like this question..."
>15 minutes later
"see, I don't like the bloody postmodernists, because they think there's an infinity of ways to interpret something, and that's despicable, and that's that."
Memerson busted.
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>>10010809
Actually, both of those statements are due to him recognising that most people don't have a perspective of Christianity and God that takes into account its evolutionary, developmental, and cultural necessity, rather than a set of ideas. Which he then goes on to discuss rigorously.
You just want him to say: Believe this. He just wants you to fucking use your brain.
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why does postmodernism gets so much hate?
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>>10010664
Their ideas don't mean anything
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because the modernists are used to fighting teddy boys
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>>10010664
His best contribution to music is helping record Ys, he didn't even produce it.
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The verdict, from lit
Particularly interested in people who don't agree with him, but have read anyways. Do not want to start a \pol\ thread. Feel this is a misunderstanding of a lot of his ideas anyways
Primarily looking at "Revolt Against the Modern World", but also "Ride the Tiger". Some of the essay collections are very interesting as well.
I find his attitude to the Catholic Church a bit contradictory. Throughout his work I get a sense of fairly intense cultural catholicism, but of course he rejects all christian morality. How does someone reconcile this? When he refers to himself as a "Catholic Pagan", is this meaningless, or an interesting comment on the mixed roots of the Church?
Discussion of other Traditionalist authors is welcome as well. Understand fairly few have read beyond Evola / Sorel but interested to discuss both those and anyone else with a similar aristocratic view.
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>>10010653
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YqKf3v2aPs
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>>10010988
>Jonathan Bowden
drobbed
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>>10010653
it's /pol/ not \pol\
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What sort of literature would they read?
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>>10010631
T.H. Houghton is mentioned
for good reason, Time Flies Tomorrow is a masterpiece
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O Henry
>>10010644
Niles is a Jungian.he cleans his room
/k/ h343
what are some good non fiction books having to do with or about a war?
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dispathches by michael herr.
fantastic account of the vitnam v american conflict.
George Orwell - homage to catalonia
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what book has actually improved your life?
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Unironically Infinite Jest
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I understood everything is a sign for me.
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>>10010570
How so? I decided it was too long to read for the memes
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can you recommend poetry similar to Gil-Scott Heron's? I don't usually like poetry but his resonates with me a lot.
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>>10010513
intersted as well
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The lyrics of Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye have similar poetic elements to them but I'd prefer an actual poet who did that sort of style.
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>>10010513
Try out Amiri Baraka. These links are to Youtube videos of him reading his work (he comes from the Beat generation, so listening to his work is just as satisfying as reading).
Dope- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ89lZDBDR4
Somebody Blew Up America-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEu-pG1HWw
Black Art- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh2P-tlEH_w
Enjoy!
I cant find any good books that are short can someone help me? If a book isnt Stephen King level of words and pages then it must be a book for babies right? I feel like reading contests back in elementary school really skewed me and made me think more words= more mature
can anyone prove me wrong i want to read good books but dont have time to read massive things anymore
PRove me wrong
I'm from 4chan
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Hemingway's work mostly consists of reasonably short novels. Some of Steinbeck. Bukowski, if you're into degenerate personas.
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>>10010413
Holy shit how did you get so fucking smart?
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I've heard good things about Notes from Underground (only halfway through rn) and Siddhartha. Those are just from the top of my head though.
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(First draft) Albert Einstein once said "Insanity is doing the same things over and over again expecting a different result"
I once came to the realization words are only compounds of syllables and are a reflection of the supreme gauge symmetrical system that is programmed with in the universe. I was in awe that people all around the world figured out how to speak in their own way saying the same things and in some cases sounding the same
When examining the word "insanity" I see (In-sanity) meaning inside of sanity, sanity meaning to think in rational manner. So why is the word for thinking inside rational manner attached to being bat shit crazy? The truth is simple, adding "In" to "sanity" makes it a double negative resulting it to actually mean Dis-sanity, but the real truth is I stumbled upon the first discovered double positive in language.
(+In) X (+in)side sanity = - insanity
But the real question of the mystery still remains. Why? Why not just use the word crazy? Why was insanity brought out of the light?
What does rational thinking mean? In mathematics rational means "a number has a finite or recurring expansion." In language rational can be broken in to ration, ration meaning a fixed amount, so to think in rational manner, to be sane is to think in fixed amount. When you think in fixed amount you will behave in fixed amount. So sanity can be broken down to think and behave in fixed amount as the true definition, so by attaching the prefix (in) to sanity you are creating a double positive resulting in a negative based on human perception A.K.A "insanity" meaning the opposite of sanity, but still being inside sanity. The truth to me seems to be a intentional or unintentional effort that suggest: to be a conformist and to limit your thoughts to what is already there (think with in ration) is equivalent to being bat shit crazy. Hence Einsteins brilliant quote.
TL;DR? Insanity = Never stepping outside of conformity
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>>10010379
That's nice dear. You're on the literature board, though. Kindly take this rambling nonsense to some other board.
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I was expecting 4chan to be more clever than reddit, apparently it's a sea of inevitable retarded people. Will the people with a clue on what I'm talking about please stand up, I will answer any question related to the thread. Fire away, I'm prepared. If you're starting off with "in' really means "not" please show me another example and not talk out of your contrarian ass.
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>>10010400
You talk like a fag and your shits all retarded.
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Hey /lit/
I've got my hands on "Understanding Life" by Alfred Adler. Is the book worth reading if you want to learn more about psychology and are some ideas presented there still even relevant/plausible?
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>>10010352
Try the redpill instead
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>>10010352
Nigger they were still conducting lobotomies after this quack died
If you want to read classic Psychology read Freud
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>>10010352
just read Freud, for fuck's sake
why does no one read Freud :(
Did Abbe Faria really die?
Towards the end of the book the Count uses a potion to put Valentine into a deathlike sleep, and this potion was described very similarly to the one that the Abbe was using to control his own apoplexy. The Abbe, knowing that he was too old and likely wouldn't have been able to escape, may have faked his own death to urge Dante onward.
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dude wtf spoiler alert !
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Does anyone else think it odd that the Abbe knew that he would die after the third stroke? If he knew that he would die then why did he instruct Edmond to pour the entire bottle of that potion into his mouth? It's a common motif in the book that cures can easily become poisons with a change in quantity. That a little bit of a potion can do one thing and a large amount of it can do something entirely different. I think a little bit of the Abbes potion does treat apoplexy while a large amount puts a person into a deathlike sleep. Is this interesting at all or am I reading too far into this?
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it is interesting, i hadn't thought of this possibility, it certainly has a martyrdom flair to it. The Count was my first fully fledged foray into literature, and it has been quite a long time since I read it. When I do, I will certainly think of this. a keen observation to be sure.
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[Prepping this post with a stupidity disclaimer]
It seems to me, admittedly a novice of philosophy, that the nietzschean and the christian meet at the same crossroad.
Both agree that can be no synthetic judgements a priori which are reasoned by us alone. This is the point at which they diverge.
The nietzschean, at this point, decides that the Will to Power is (or, at least, should be) the guiding principle.
The christian, on the other hand, follows the word of God, or tradition, or Tao, or whatever you wish to call it.
Both seem to arrive at this position knowing that the human mind cannot discover an objective system of morality on its own. One chooses to construct his own, the other chooses to follow that which tradition/God has produced
My question is this: Having arrived at that initial crossroad, how did you personally decide which route to take?
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>>10010104
Why was he so a e s t h e t i c
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>>10010104
Did you learn philosophy through youtube?
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>>10010104
oh do fuck off you pseud
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Any good book/literature on espionage?
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I'm interested
bump
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>>10010072
"The Company" by Littel.
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy.
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Give me /pol/ essential reading list with Schmitt and Thucydides.
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>>10010066
Is that girl of age, anon?
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>>10010066
go ask /pol/. Though probably Evola, Gentile and Chesterton.
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It is a picture. I can't find it.
>>10010071
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Lipnitskaya