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why does every resource regarding introductory study of kabbalah marketed as some self-help scam? where can i find relevant literature for this pursuit?
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>not scam
>Kabbalah
Choose one
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>>9616176
Sholem's Major Trends..
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>>9616176
the book of abramelin the mage, one of the older books i've found, literally was written to be sold at length to "help" people. you're looking in the wrong place if you don't want schemes.
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>Shadow had done three years in prison. He was big enough, and looked don’t-fuck-with-me enough that his biggest problem was killing time. So he kept himself in shape, and taught himself coin tricks, and thought a lot about how much he loved his wife.
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stop posting this fucking thread. it's not gonna be a meme you fucking autist.
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I like how erotic fan fiction has the same quality as a Neil Gaiman book
http://cartoon.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600095399
>Hot air rushed around my face as the sun rode high in the. It was blinding, even with my high end polarized reflexive ballistic grade sun glass goggles. At least it reduced glare of metal. Not that there was much of that either on the open road. The rolling hills and sparse grasslands all around the long paved road was the only mark of mankind in the desertscape.
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Just read the first page online because of this thread.
>HURR DURR THE DEATH SENTENCE ISNT ROMANTIC ENOUGH
>ROMANCE
>ROMANCE
>HURR DURR ROMANCE
I can't fucking stand this meme. It's literally making a vein pop in my forehead. When the fuck will authors give this shit up?
>oh my god
>jesus (fucking) christ
>holy shit
>bless you
>for christ's sake
>amen to that
>it'll be a cold day in hell
What are some other christian expressions? I don't mean idioms from the bible (e.g. "my brother's keeper" etc.) but things that, logically, only a christian should say.
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>>9616115
A Christian should say half of those
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>>9616139
Should not*
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>>9616150
They do say them though, and will say them until hell freezes over. Until then they can just count their blessings.
>Now these are the generations of...
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>of our discontent made...
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>What else can be said about...
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>...the digital-analog transitions...
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How has your choice of favorite book changed over time?
I ask because I have never had any particular favorite book, although my tastes have changed.
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I had a favourite book in high school, but not since then.
When I was younger, in my late teens/early twenties I read a lot of classics because these were the books I was supposed to like. Many of them were quite good of course, but these days I read what I'm interested in personally and am a lot happier. If I had to choose a favourite I would pick the Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littel.
I like books with wars in them, that certainly hasn't changed. To me a book isn't really complete without a good war :^)
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My favourite book was Jane Eyre as a kid since I read it so much. As I got older, I have a favourite genre rather than a book. Although I barely read for leisure rn.
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The only classic I've ever read in my life is TBK when I was 16 and I loved the shit out of it because how much it made me think
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are these /lit/? have you read them? should i read them?
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>>9615173
I read some, they suck. Enjoy the games and move on
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>>9615185
darn
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>>9615173
they're pretty good, but I think they tend to be better if you are Slavic/European at least, because it seems to me that they have that "middle-european spirit" with all the beast lore and stuff...
also Short tales>the saga (which progressively gets worse and worse but still is a fun read)
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Do you think reading made you more intelligent ?
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Reading science and math textbooks, yes. Literature does not make you more smarter, it just makes you one of those people who are out of touch with reality and have their head buried in their ass
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reading has made me feel much smarter but i'm skeptical sometimes if it actually has made me smarter or just distracted me with word games and abstract thought
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This is a really good book.
Has /lit/ read it?
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>>9615101
It's been so long since I've been able to post this
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>>9615101
Yes. Being the pleb that I am, I only knew it because I played the Stalker games and read about it in an article about the games' influrnces.
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>>9615101
Yes.
It was good.
Not amazing.
The Stalker games explore the universe better but the book has some interesting depth in its characters.
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We should all appreciate this literary form native to 4chan. Post anything /lit/-related. But please: do it in greentext
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>be me
>with my strange choice of adjectives
>be you
>with your muscular teeth and clock-wise vagina
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fuck you shitposter
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>sentence fragments with memes in them
I just started reading this and I love it. There's something about her prose here that is hypnotic and beautiful. What are your thoughts on it or her as a writer?
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>>9614963
poetic gluttony.
made me hate other writers retroactively
killed my family
ilove her
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>Women authors
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>shitposters
>>9614963
Only Woman with comparable prose is pic-related. Fom HERmione:
I have tasted words, I have seen them. Never had her hands reached out in darkness and felt the texture of pure marble, never had her forehead bent forward and, as against a stone altar, felt safety. I am now saved. Her mind could not then so specifically have seen it, could not have said, "Now I will reveal myself in words, words may now supercede a scheme of mathematical-biological definition. Words may be my heritage and with words...A lady will be set back in the sky....there was hope in a block of unsubstantiated marble, words could carve and set up solid altars...Thought followed the wing that beat its silver into seven-branched larch boughs.
All the time I grow wiser and wiser, but people around me are still as dumb as a retard. I don't know why it is that some people remeain at the neanderthal level.
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sounds like a nietzsche aphorism
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>>9614842
Actually the little known French philosopher Aristotle
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>>9614835
> consumer
>capitalism
>intellectual utopia
>philosophy student
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is there any research i should do before i dive into this? i've read Nausea, so i understand where sartre is coming from, but i'm sure this book is much more difficult.
will i be totally lost if i've never read any certain philosophers or will i be aight?
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I guess just be familiar with the existentialist movement (starting with Dostoevsky/Kierkegaard/Nietzsche) as a response to phenomenology and such, as the title is almost a direct play off of Heidegger's "Being and Time", though in no way am I advocating it's necessary to read that first. I suppose a better option would be to read some of Sartre's essays such as Existentialism Is a Humanism
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>>9614810
If you bought it then just read it. If you haven't yet, then don't buy it
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Be on as much speed reading it as he was writing it and you'll love it.
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You are walking down a street in Paris with your gf when this man flashes her his naked body. What do you do?
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Invite him into a three-way with my girlfriend. Naturally.
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>>9614709
Rousseau's the only one that i'll let get away with that
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>>9614709
Really, pleb?
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how to navigate essay hell
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I considered going on /adv/ for this and then realized this was a question for the experts.
So. Yeah. I have to write a lot...
As in, probably 4 5 page essays and a 9 page research paper. Two of the essays are late (but will be accepted)
>not used to writing so much--used to be relatively ok (best student in shit like AP lit) then went downhill when college happened
>very slow writer, easily distracted, probably am a brainlet
>hard to get into the flow; I tend to write disjointed sentences of ideas then poorly connect them together
>there *is* technically plenty of time, next week is 100% free
>feel reasonably well motivated but am still hit writing blocks all the time
>don't know how to pull all-nighters
>will be kicked out if I can't do my essays, am scared out of my mind
I've been using an add-on that blocks certain sites, yet it doesn't help me write any faster.
The two essays I turned on in time did get the top grade in class (both were called "compelling" which was nice) but it feels like a fluke because I know that I've lost my way and am not a real writer.
What advice do you have for me, /lit/?
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go to /adv/, nobody writes on /lit
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Go to academic advisers and ask for help you faggot
Go to the administration and say you're having panic from the strain or whatever, say you have real life shit going on that is making it hard to focus on all five essays, and they'll maybe help accommodate you
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>>9614693
But they try. That has to count for something...r-right?
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I don't see this series discussed much here. I read Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow as a teenager and liked both, but preferred Shadow. I recently found several of the sequels that I never read and picked them up.
Do you guys like these books? Are the sequels any good? Do you prefer the main series or the Shadow series?
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>>9614399
Speaker for the Dead is quite good and somewhat insightful, as was the first one. I would recommend it if you liked Ender's Game.
Xenocide was so awful I couldn't bother with the rest of the books. Don't bother reading it unless you want to see the series turn into a trainwreck with your own eyes.
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Orson Scott Card sucks and Ender's Game is kind of overrated.
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Isn't this book for children?