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WHY CAN I SPEND HOURS DUNKING A BASKETBALL AND NEVER HAVE ONE DUNK BE GOOD AS ONE OF LEBRON'S CASUAL DUNKS HOW DOES HE DO IT

Because you can't into archaism

>>9592451
nice try but melville wasnt a 7ft black guy duh

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hrarrr chring chrang chrong

>tfw you live near an inner city black elementary school and they literally sound like this

i saw one the other day being restrained by 5 of his friends and screaming "shut the fuck up bitch" over and over while his voice broke, threatening to kill some girl

he was like 9 years old

>>9592164
ummm maybe try being more respectful of his culture?!

true, the bible is pretty based

>>9592010
>This book has had the single most greatest impact on all of humanity since it's conception.

That isn't Plato's complete works tho

>>9592010

The Bible is just "Star Wars" from 3000 years ago.

write it, post it here, we can tell you if it sucks. Easy way to find out if you have any talent, and if feedback is positive that will probably be loads of motivation

>>9591993
What parts of the story do you believe I should post, cause I have nothing so far because how unmotivated I am about writing it.

Write in longhand, my mother was a pro for 40 years, that's how she did it. It works.

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I haven't read a lot of him so far, but my impression is that Chardin is what happens basically what happens if in an alternate universe you take Nick Land, strip out the drugs and weirdness, and turned him into a cheerful and optimistic Jesuit.

>sounds boring desu
>well i guess

this stupid habit of the french to swap words in a phrase and acting like it's insightful is fucking tiresome

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Sorry for memeing but this stuff is messing with my foundations. "Love God, love technology/religion takes shape in evolution/evolution of tech/spiritualization of the future." That means:

love tech/don't hate tech:
>no heidegger

love God/don't worship misery:
>no nietzsche, no nick land

Don't be a Marxist/Freudian
>no [X]

So basically, if I want to get down with Chardin, it means I can't namedrop most of the guys I have been reading. Christian scientist/prophet/mystic guys are a pain in the neck. Life was easier when I could just blame ideology, tech, capital, whatever. I am basically completely unprepared to think that this is a workable way to look at the world and yet I'm having a hard time thinking of a better possibility. I don't know why I do this to myself.

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What's everyone's opinion on my taste based on one of my bookshelves?

>>9591866
You like men as more than just friends

>>9591866
Absolutely baby boomer

>>9591800
bit bothered by the "He"
replace with "She" and everyone is happy

This. It's the perfect allegory, but many don't read it as such;
They see the albatross / the king of the sky
as a any old, stupid bird --
But when comes the realization that l'albatros
is the poet / then they embark into Hades
bidden to a mast of a ship followed the siren song more dangerous than sleep.

>>9591800

Vain, not vein. Unless you were making a double entendre there that makes no sense.

when authors cant be bothered to write consistently, ugh

>>9591676

Was that the author or the translator?

>>9591676
Don Quixote is bad with a straight face

>>9591472
Horseshit

>>9591472
He's really not bad, especially for a pop sociologist dude. I mean, can you imagine a north american equivalent who would shit on Obama (Macron) and Freud, who admits to having read Mein Kampf? He presents some sound argumentation and isn't retarded politically.

Too bad he's a retarded """"pagan"""" who of course can't use anything other than Christian morality to whine about how pagans were so oppressed. Thankfully, unlike Varg, it just seems a moral, polemic position and he doesn't really act it out or try to revive it.

>>9591472
I'm not spoonfeeding you an original opinion just because you posted a damn picture.
Throw a topic, for fucksake.

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>>9590952
Start with "Economics in One Lesson"

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>>9590952
For politics try Political Power, Political Decay by Fukuyama

>>9590975
"Its lengthy argument can be summarised in a single sentence: without the prior establishment of a well-armed and functional territorial state, and without an independent judiciary responsible for overseeing the rule of law that robust state power then makes possible, modern liberal democracy simply cannot happen."

This seems a little too pointy to be an introduction to something, but maybe I'm just not read up on the subject enough to know that different books state different theses?
>>9590969
I'll look that up, cheers

Every human to have ever existed suffered from various character flaws

>>9590788
Because everyone has fatal flaws. Have you never spoken to people?

>>9590788
Read some Greek plays, tragic flaws are important to characters

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>>9590775
libertarians and sjws are literally the same thing. they both want absolute immunity to do whatever degenerate fag shit they want, but the first group thinks having a CCW makes that possible whereas the other thinks that you need the state to stamp out "wrongthink"

both are corporate slaves and neither care about economics

>>9590822
Haha nicely put.

One thing about Libertarians is that they act like economists are on their side. But then when you read said economists you realize they'd laugh in their face.

>>9590775
Libertarians can definitely read but the bulk of their brainpower is directed toward Bitcoin speculation.

>>9590756
That's literally it. Just look at that taleb fucker. Dude is literally alt right (which is fine, he's entitled to his opinion) but the only reason anyone takes him seriously is because of his background in mathematics/physics

>>9590756
turn yourself into a product because thats what the system wants from you

evolve/produce/discover one really good intellectual meme and repeat ad nauseam until the next meme is basically impossible to think of without namedropping you

>>9590737
Women are the 'marked' gender sociologically – masculinity is default.

Also, women generally have a higher emotional IQ.

>>9590737
No it isn't. Most female authors can't write

>>9590757
This opinion is the true mark of the pseud

Sancte Socrates ora pro nobis

Yes, this comparison has been made a million times

>>9590452
he's satan