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>>9375254
>If everything we do produce suffering
Uh, no

>even if we don't do anything at all
???

>is really abstention the ultimate way?
The buddha said asceticism for its own sake is pointless

>>9375254
i had a wank earlier. didn't produce any suffering at all
produced lots of cum tho. i even licked off a bit that went on my hand
buddhists can fuck off tbqhwy

>>9375255
not suffering, but unsatisfaction.

yeah you could wear a bandana but it would look a bit weird in 2017. maybe a sweatband would look better.

also I've only read IJ and brief interviews (I loved them both), where do i go next?

dress how you want, no one really gives a fuck other than your boss and dad.

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>>9375205
good old neon
the planet trillaphon

both are fairly short and readable in one sitting

The reviews are excellent.

literally, reddit

>>9375092
>>9375097
>>9375107
Apparently these people

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>pseud

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>tfw you're hanging out with a girl and she uses a pseudo-leftist alarm buzzword and you probe further to see if she's a dilettante and it turns out she's completely insane and spends all day every day hating bourgeois society as much as you do but also isn't an annoying communist LARPer

>>9374604
That one always makes me kek.

>>9374554
>it's another moby dick thread

>>9374554
smd

>>9374561
>it's another virgin comment

>>9374527
The word you're looking for is allusion

>>9374530
Yes. Thank you for telling me that. I do appreciate when people point out things like that to me, I think it's better to know than to keep being ignorant.

>>9374527
I think it's fine for the people who get the allusions, but the problem is lit nerds tend to mistake this for actual quality.

most famous and critically acclaimed novels are underwhelming in their realization of their ideas

Video games can be literary
and I will be the one to make them so
t. not even /v/

Ayn Rand was a good writer and her philosophy, while simplistic, was right about many things.

If you ever want to solve this you should start with the greeks. Seriously.

Once you crack down on the mechanical aspects the intuition will follow.

Schools always teach the "how" and not "why." Luckily, the internet has all sorts of explanations on most mathematical concepts

>>9374289
this.
euclid's elements

Circle words or phrases that stand out to you and think about what they have in common.

Just make shit up. There is no way to fail a humanities class.

Btw I want an A+

>>9374175
Yes. Mordor represents the Muslim threat on the rest of the world.

>Dwarves are Jews
That's a compliment

We have this thread alot /pol/friend

>>9374207
This.

Reminder, dwarves are the only race in Middle-Earth that absolutely can't be made wicked by the Rings of Power. Their greed can be inflamed, but they'll always have a degree of goodness that none of the other races can maintain forever.

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>>9374145
this one is.

leave it for someone who actually wants it and will understand it

Get the one with the see through nipples on it.

>>9374137
What's with crossboarding teenagers and their recent obsession with shitty personality tests?
Did they just find out these exist?

>>9374137
he was an INTP. Literally the logician

>>9374137

He was clearly INFiniteJest

A thread died for this.

>>9374144
To be honest i expected more hate

>>9374131
This is the most obvious statement I've even in a while. I'd say
>>9374144
but most threads suck anyway.

>>9373971
I'm begining to know myself. I don't exist. I'm the space between what I'd like to be and what others made of me. Or half that space, because there's life there too...So that's what I finally am...Turn off the light, close the door, stop shuffling your slippers out there in the hall. Just let me at ease and all by myself in my room. It's a cheap world.

>>9373972
You think I don’t understand? The hopeless dream of being. Not seeming to be, but being. Conscious and awake at every moment. At the same time, the chasm between what you are to others and what you are to yourself. Every tone of voice a lie, every gesture a falsehood, every smile a grimace. Commit suicide? No, too nasty. One doesn’t do things like that. But you can refuse to move or talk. Then at least you’re not lying. You can cut yourself off, close yourself in. Then you needn’t play any roles, wear any masks, make any false gestures.

>>9373978
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.

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Robert (((Greene)))'s books.
Jocko Willink
Art of War
Art of the Deal
Hemingway
Conrad

>>9373895
>Hemingway
fuck i forgot about him
which books?

>The Prince
>Male example

Don't get me wrong, I adore Machiavelli but I think it'd be disingenous to claim he wanted to craft "the exemplary behavioural protocols of the human male".
Any other text, for the matter, would be of extremely little help to you - since the exemplar male is much less a reality than it is a pecualiar phantom summoned in every culture, of different behaviour and countenance, to tipify a desirable (by the author's, often male, standards) model rather than to embody it in actuality.