I think you bookworm ladyboys need to read this and become REAL men.
Please explain why the heckerino I would want to read that book
>falling for the masculinity spook
>>9442026
Falling for the post-modernist gender spectrum disorders spook
How do I overcome nihilism?
>>9441905
Read Nietzsche. His philosophical works deal with being an 'active' nihilist in order to overcome being a 'passive' nihilist (which he saw as a disease)
>>9441905
Don't read Nietzsche. His philosophical works deal with being an 'active' nihilist -- but you still stay a nihilist.
>>9441905
I'm the greasy creep by the way. Also, Nietzsche will do the trick.
Cats or dogs?
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky?
Voltaire or Rousseau?
Tea or coffee?
Lenin or Trotsky?
Artaud or Tzara?
Beckett or Joyce?
Gogol or Pushkin?
Star Trek or Star Wars?
Apples or oranges?
Lolita or Ada?
Hitler or Mussolini?
Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon?
Finnegans Wake or Ulysses?
Linux or Windows?
Neither
>>9441661
>>/b/
>>/trash/
>>/reddit/
>>/out/
>>9441661
yes
>>9441630
Nice work.
>(((Goldberg)))
Aint falling for your science jew
>>9441654
Yep, Science is hard
What I Expected thread.Template comin' up.
>>9441594
>>9441594
my favourite
Thoughts?
Slightly less retarded than the flying sky-jew
I actually have this but never got around to it.
i read at like 150 wpm, which is like half the speed of the average reader, which means it takes me 15 hours to do something that would take a normal person 7.5 hours. I just can't read knowing this. I'm 22 it shouldn't be like this >:(
how do i improve my reading speed?
Sprint Reader chrome extension helps a lot for digital stuff but it feels like cheating, probably doesnt even help me improve my natural reading
>I don't read because somebody out there on planet Earth reads faster
Sounds to me like you don't like reading at all. Try videogames.
Just read more books you jabroni.
>>9441294
i've tried to read, i thought it was the books content that i didnt like
you try and watch a movie at half the speed without wanting to shut the fuck down : (
>>9441299
are u sure this works
because i feel like im doomed to reading at turtle pace and maybe there's something i can focus on to actually improve?
My favorite author is hesse, am I pleb?
yeah
>>9441133
A little yeah. He's great but still just lower mid tier in patrician power level.
sounds good to me. just finished reading Siddhartha. any recs on what of his to read next for a Hesse noob?
>"More on pop music. It's amazing that this shit is held up as progressive, when really it's an uneducated fool without any teeth and gold chains all over him bragging about selling drugs, murdering people, and how much money he makes. The only difference between that and a minstrel show is that pop music producers have actually found black people to act for them, instead of having to don blackface themselves.
>Then there's America's weird pseudo-protestant fetishization of money as a virtue, as though making a fortune as a paid clown is somehow as virtuous as a doctor, lawyer, or teacher who earned their fortune through their own contributions to society. It seems like most people even think it's more virtuous any more, because doing hard things that actually require some intelligence is seen as "upper class" and thus pretentious/exclusive, whereas any retard can "make it" as a professional idiot.
>Sometimes I feel as though our entire civilization has been hijacked by Satan himself. Everything I see in popular society runs so contrary to anything decent or worth living for. Nothing but an orgy of selfishness, victimization, debauchery, and nihilism. Earlier today I was listening to a podcast called "guys we fucked" or something like that. It's one of Apple's most listened to podcasts, and it basically consists of two uninteresting bimbos saying "fuck" for shock value and being generally bitchy, shallow, and utterly repulsive human beings. This is considered political activism in our post-political secular age.
>The only glimmer of hope I've been able to find is the Quran. Submission to God and living a decent morally upright life, that makes sense. All the noise on the radio and television is nothing but a spiritual and intellectual black hole. It's no wonder Islamists would rather go out in a hail of bullets than accept our "superior" western lifestyle."
Is he right /lit/? Is rap music just a modernized form of the minstrel show?
Well, so much of rap music these days is bragging about how much money you've made and how much stuff you can buy. I guess that's a little minstrel-esque.
>>9441126
Malcolm X wouldn't use the word shit like that
1/10 for effort
>DNA
>Gimme some ganja, gimme some ganja
>DNA
>Gimme some ganja
>Real nigga in my DNA
>Ain't no ho inside my DNA
>Drippin' gold inside my DNA
>Power shows inside my DNA
>DNA
>Gimme some ganja, gimme some ganja
>Real nigga in my DNA
>Ain't no ho inside my DNA
This guy is the artistic and intellectual inspiration for a generation of disenfranchised youth.
What does that do to a society?
More importantly, should media be regulated? It seems like the New Yorker class has a reason for or takes a certain joy in pushing this stuff, so how can society combat that?
>>9441153
Oh, so it wasn't the apple podcast paragraph that clued you in?
Discuss.
The Koran starts repeating itself backwards halfway through?
OT KJV is by far superior to all the others?
The Gnostic Gospels are MGRR
What is the actual meaning behind the name Moby Dick?
It's when a woman with tracheotomy performs oral sex on you but pulls your cock out at the last second, takes the load up her nose, and tilts her head back as far as she can before coughing and blowing the shame juice out of her neck hole.
>>9440873
Pretty sure that's incorrect
melville was a half a fag and put gay shit in all his stuff. see billy budd.
moby dick is about how anal is great and everyone should try it or they're homophobes
he was before his time
Is there a secret to doing self-deprecating humor and getting people in the same group as you to laugh at it instead of being butthurt? Like I make fun of nerds a lot in this thing I'm writing even though I am a nerd and a lot of people who read probably consider themselves some type of nerd.
http://www.indolentbooks.com/humor-poetry-and-privilege/
>>9440774
"I've been a fool... such a fool.. a real... fool!"
...
"If you think i'm going to contradict you, you're wrong."
avoid it.
>>9440774
When being self-deprecation you have to appear smarter than the person you're talking to: this is the secret.
Your damned if you do, your damned if you dont. Nice! Thanks Gaddis.
>>9440728
You are * do not*
It's about the introduction of a problem more than a solution. Do you have a better way to deal with it?
>>9440728
t. brainlet with the reading comprehension of a 5 year old
Right now I'm making an effort to read through Homer, Hesiod, Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Thucydides and The Bible.
I was wondering what literature, philosophy and history I should read after Classical Greek literature. There seems to be a wide range of works in Latin within Roman literature and through to Enlightenment/Renaissance (via lingua franca of Europe) and Greek through the Byzantine Empire mostly focusing on history and the theological development of Christianity.
Are there any guides and charts which focus on everything Greek and Latin in post-Classical Greek?
>>9440544
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
>>9440953
Damn that's pretty dope. I wish there was something as in depth as that which also talked about essential literature from Greeks to modern times.
>>9441268
http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/harold-bloom-creates-a-massive-list-of-works-in-the-western-canon.html
I think /lit/, in general, doesn't care for Bloom though.
What are you currently writing, anon?
i had an idea for a book about the oj simpson trial from the perspective of marcia clark, rips off the tunnel where that book slowly reveals the main character to be a nazi sympathizer, this one slowly reveals marcia to be crazy fucking racist
>rips off the tunnel where that book slowly reveals the main character to be a nazi sympathizer
bastard you spoiled it!
Just some political-philosophy stuff.