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I dunno much about chance, but the gamblers are dear to Krishna and the I Ching works every time

>>9440392
Gamblers in a literal sense, or just anyone dabbling in chance?

>>9440366
>>9440400
Got two dubs in a row btw. Dubs dubs.

I met him before. Real nice guy.

>>9440097
Love that flat New York inflection. But is he worth my time? My time is valuable.

>>9440110
Time. That's all he talked about. I tried to leave him a few times, but he would put his hand on my shoulder and say "My friend!" He gave me his watch and told me to ask him the time so he could guess. He guessed correctly then he said something like "I was too shy to tell you but I work here and the fee for my service is five dollars." I gave him a five and he almost left without his watch. He came running back nearly in tears and told me to give him the "damn thing."

It's been some time since you last made this thread.

Unless you are not the same...

Should be in prison

that part when his laugh segues into hers.

fucking hell

Tell me more about your erotica, anon

>>9439962
Basically its about a kid who is into an ass-fetish with older women, and meets them exclusively online, but whenever he is performing a rimjob in 69, he has a huge existential crises about having his tongue in the rectum of a strange woman. This repeats several times before he is able to attain redemption.

>>9439976
It's about people going into seemingly normal places of business and playing with cock.

>>9438844
Anything from before the 19th century is alien and scary to them

>>9438844
Classism. They can't accept that a genius wrote for a mass audience, rubbed shoulders with the actors, loved shit jokes, etc - he must have secretly been some rarified aristocrat. Obviously.

>>9438868
This

>>9438837
*detailed lists

>>9438837

Genesis is terrible. Also, it amazing how anyone could have taken this book seriously. Noah lived for over 1000 years. LOL

>>9438837
>Is it some kind of meme?

Show some respect, it is The Holy Meme.

L. Ron. Hubbard.

>>9438538
Shakespeare
Dostoevsky
Nabokov
Eliot

These are the only writers I've read enough of -- that meet the criteria -- to make a judgement on.

Khaled hosseini

pere goriot chapter #9

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The classic. It's hard to support democracy after this.

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>>9438473

hoh boy

>>9438187
Nothing has a value.
Moral is just a opinion.
All women are beautiful because aestethics are also just an opinion.
ayyylmao

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Imagine thinking that this is as valuable as Pietá.

You might find Peter Turchin's War and Peace and War interesting.
If you are interested in the Americas you could go with the books by Charles Mann.

I sort of enjoyed "Forgotten Kingdoms" by Norman Davies but parts of it weren't that great.

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>>9437813
>I can't Google bibliographies, gaise!

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I would also recommend The Politics of Heroin by Alfred W. McCoy

I cannot imagine the idiot behind this has written anything of value. Distilled pseud affectation

>>9436917
nice typewriter faggot

do you use it to type "more tendies" notes to your mom?

>>9436970
I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

>>9436673
>How the fuck do I come up with an argument that hasnt already been made?
I don't think you really can, considering the amount of people who've thought and written about god(s) over the years. At a certain point all the possible variations of the idea have been used, surely?

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>>9436673

Well if we give you ideas, then your argument won't be too original.

>>9436694

this has to be a 10 page paper, I cant even start it. This gen ed has taken up more of my time than my upper level biochem classes, im done

Moldbug's gentle introduction

I'm reading it right now and while I don't entirely agree, he has an interesting perspective.

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>>9436593
How about this? Moore talking about the occult, meant for a magazine that never got published.
http://glycon.livejournal.com/13888.html

Also who is this patrician qt?

Who is the girl?

>>9436428
well, the meme answer is that it's lies and propaganda.
my suspected answer is that it would go against liberal socialist and communist ideals, and would make indoctrination difficult.

because it's factually wrong.

>>9436477
as if that's stopped books from being read in high school before

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>>9436395
>I'm an anti-natalist and proud
What's the point of living then? Why didn't you off yourself by now?

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with pedophilia

>>9436414
You should be gassed tbqh unless you're referring to people post-puberty

>>9436461
I'm not from Burgerland, so your wishful system doesn't apply to me.
t. Citizen of a civilized country, which classifies actual pedophilia as, you guessed it, pedophilia.