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>>9507615
>modern science

>>9507615
If that wasn't so out of place I would otherwise think it was kinda neat. 99.9% of modern art really is just pure garbage though.

>>9507615
So what do you want modern art to be like?

>[fiction] has no information that will benefit you.
Not even you are this stupid.

>>9507502
i know this is a provocation but i can't a give a concrete answer hmmmmm

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>>9507502

aesthetical pleasure.

gonna read meditations just so when i run into a stoic pseud i can talk about it, and paglia's sexual personae, not sure what else maybe some pynchon, maybe some rousseau, idk

>>9507476
going through romantic era before 20th century american then on to Cicero

>>9507476
Ton of christianity stuff, maybe some pinecone, and some thirty+ papers for my thesis.

Watch his lectures and talks.

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>>9507315
Postmodernism completely BTFO the pseuds and tryhards of modernism

>>9507315
has this kind-of-post always been a meme or is it fairly new??

>>9507324
There's a Canadian newfriend who is a dedicated anti-postmodernist who makes these threads all the time so someone will eventually reach him and explain postmodernism in a way he can understand

>>9507152
>become
Hate this meme

>America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight.
The real Trinity of Camelot was Look Good, Kick Ass, Get Laid. Jack Kennedy was the mythological front man for a particularly juicy slice of our history. He called a slick line and wore a world-class haircut. He was Bill Clinton minus pervasive media scrutiny and a few rolls of flab.
Jack got whacked at the optimum moment to assure his sainthood. Lies continue to swirl around his eternal flame. It's time to dislodge his urn and cast light on a few men who attended his ascent and facilitated his fall.
They were rouge cops and shakedown artist. They were wiretappers and soldiers of fortune and faggot lounge entertainers. Had one second of their lives deviated off course, American History would not exist as we know it.
It's time to demythologize an era and build a new myth from the gutter to the stars. It's time to embrace bad men and the price they paid to secretly define there time.
Here's to them.

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is this you anon? you looks familiar. Hmm

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What did you expect?

My fourth grade teacher was a tall leggy blonde named Ms. Manning. Until I was about 25 years old I just imagined she must have been "Mature Adult Woman" years old, so eternally 40 or something like that, but having recently turned 25, I realized in hindsight she was probably 25. She was some 25 year old fresh out of teacher's college with sexy fucking thighs and long blonde hair. I want to go back in time and suck your ass and pussy Ms. Manning.

for me it was this never happened to me and it never happened to you either

>>9507137
fpbp

>>9506639
>protagonist is christian
Bud if you can't differentiate between the sects and identify the unique neuroses brought about by each you're gonna get rekt

>>9506639
>I'm writing a novel where my protagonist is christian. However, I'm not christian myself
Holy fuck /lit/ is so retarded at times

>>9506645
I gathered. So is there anything that relates to that?

What book was he reviewing?

>>9506626
Wise Blood

>>9506609
pynchon?

One of the few poems I know from memory, mainly because it's short and mildly amusing.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1gvE9MmKt2d

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>>9506295
Wallace Stevens is great, it's one of the things me and Maul (forgive if this sounds circle jerky) agree on even if we're politically opposed.

Thoughts? What are /lit/'s thoughts on this? Opinions? ITT this book

>>9506044
He's the ultimate LARPer.
Evola is what happen when you're a nobleman in a country in which aristocracy means nothing, but still want to teach your son the main aristocratic values.
He's basically like those self-absorbed girls who grew up thinking they were ''princesses''.

>>9506073
>refining yourself is bad
Gutter trash detected.

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>>9505861
> Übermensch

>>9505891
What did he mean by this?

>>9505921
I think what he means is 'dog' as in 'wtf, brah?' but with a nod of approval for the sheer audacity, etc. Tres complex response.
DQ's a Lothario, not an Uebermensch. Uebermenschen, for instance, do not allow themselves to be hauled off to hell by animated statues.

Read a history of philosophy. When picking, know
????>Copleston>Most>Russel

Being an eclectic is bad. Pick a school and stick to it, using what you read in conjunction with meditation and experience to create your own ideas. What do you hope to gain by reading the entire Pantheon of philosophers? Being able to namedrop them?

>>9505758
If you don't at least sample the majority of the Canon then how could you know you'd picked the right school?

The reason I want to study philosophy is to develop a worldview.

>>9505597
Drop the E-kart Tolle crap, drop the spiritualism crap, live with the pain that you are just a complex mass of cells, and then read Nietzsche you pleb.

>>9505651
I read some Nietzsche about 10 years ago. I'm Austrian so I could read the original. I didn't particularly like it.
I also don't like Tolle, as far as my friend who read all his books told me about him. But I think that the question of living in the moment vs. learning and planning is interesting.

I'm just a 30-year old guy that wonders and feels like he needs a new perspective. When I was 15 I would have subscribed to what you wrote about the mass of cells, but I think that once you have made some basic life experiences you know with certainty that this is not a fitting description of a human and not a well-functional perspective on life, growing old and sick, then death.

>>9505597
practice learned autism

rhetorically they tend to overuse eponyms, polysyndeton, antiphrasis and when they try to be witty it's usually litotes or antanagoge.
their narratives only happen on material level, they get compliments, something gives them sensations etc, because women aren't as ontologically 'there' as men, they aren't properly inscribed into the symbolic text. They have no depth, no real existential angst or anguish, they are superficial, dumb, and selfish.

>>9505547
Fuck we had this thread like two days ago.

The answer was: probably not really, but you predict it slightly better than just 50/50

>>9505547
Last time I read a female author was when I was ten, it was the first Harry Potter book.
Your question is like asking how does driving one of those cars you can drive without a driving license feel like in comparison to driving a car.