What's some literature that explores the importance of intuition and non-scientific inquiry in understanding the world?
I'm sick of vital ideas being subject to scientific darwinism simply because they do not comprehensibly conform to requirements of supreme materialistic evidence. I'm sick of the dogma of the scientific me(me)thod.
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>>9343215
Read Nietzsche. The problem is, he loved "science" in the original sense, because he thought the highest calling was to be a philosopher, which means someone who investigates the world and seeks after truth. (Even as an anti-Christian, he admitted to still being pious because he worshipped truth.)
BUT,
For Nietzsche the ideal is the "gay science" (gaya scienza) of the Provençal troubadours. This is a combination of love-of-life with a firm sense of duty and a ceaseless quest for knowledge all in one.
Nietzsche's book "The Gay Science" is both an explanation and example of this method (it also talks about dozens of other things, and there are some really faggy poems and rhymes included).
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>>9343215
Sophie World
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>>9343228
Is the scientific method included in that definition of science?
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What book most dramatically changed your perspective of the world?
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The Phenomenology of Spirit.
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The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
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The Ego and His Own
Though I wouldn't say it "changed" my perspective: it helped me find my own perspective again.
Unironically
My favorite directors are Godard, Tarkovsky, Bergman, Antonioni, Resnais, Melville, Fellini, Malle and Bresson.
Who are yours?
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>>9350495
Lynch, Coens, Anderson, Malick, Kaufman
you look like bait btw
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Nolan and Eastwood.
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>>9350495
Tarkovsky, Tarr, Antonioni, Lynch and Rivette
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Best gay authors and/or works about gays?
>inb4 n/a
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hello, boys!
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Fucking twinks isn't gay
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>>9349609
boys r boys
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http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/literature-language/writing/writing-great-fiction-storytelling-tips-and-techniques.html
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/literature-language/writing/building-great-sentences-exploring-the-writer-s-craft.html
Opinions on these?
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Scam-tier
Read the classics
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>>9349475
I'm not paying for them.
;)
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>>9349483
You're paying with your time
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Redpill me on Max Stirner, /lit/
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>created a concept called spook
>spooks are "things that does not exist in reality" thus must be rejected
>blindly embraced the concept of spook disregarding the paradox
>spent the rest of his time philosophizing with a hammer
All his writings is based on a performative contradiction. Stirner is a hack.
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>>9348728
Don't worry, I'll explain his whole philosophy to you. I haven't read any of his works, but /lit/ has provided me with all of the information I need to know about Stirner. So like, basically, it's all about spooks and stuff lmao.
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>>9348741
the trick is that literally everything is performative contradiction
might as well just say "im an existentialist" and get it over with. It's all the same absurdish-nauesau-induced shit
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What would be the "main theme" of the Infinite Jest soundtrack?
I'm thinking of anything by Brian Eno, but probably this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE24Eli_mxk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cx10MrMYB4
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>>9348733
the title of this song could be a sentence DFW wrote
(I really dislike The Books tho)
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Aphex Twin. Probably Windowlicker.
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I haven't read the book yet and in the perspective of an ignorant such as I, I could not fathom why people love Lolita so much.
I've seen its summary. I've read its plot. There really is nothing baffling about it aside from it being another typical pedophilia story.
Is it because of the writing style? Is there an underlying philosophy that Nabokov wants to convey in this book? Explain why should I write this book cuz shit's expensive af!
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fucking READ IT
The plot is actually you reading it. It is the story of the jury.
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>>9348646
Holy fuk ur stoopid
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LMAO gonna buy the book now then. I was having a dilemma between the Little Prince and Lolita son I'll probably just buy both.
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What's the most /lit/ religion:
Sufism
Zen Buddhism
Gnosticism
Kaballah
Rasterfarianism
?????????????
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>>9348481
most /lit/
Christianity by far
followed by Hinduism then Buddhism if you like poems about monks hitting themselves with their own shoes
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Agnosticism
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inb4 demiurge guy
Jewish scripture is by far the most /lit/ of traditions, but learning Aramaic &c. seems like a hassle.
Ok, I'm mad.
A few years ago,with the rise of the New Atheists and great smart-sounding people like Christopher Hitchens, my adolescent mind was super convinced there was no god. I would be so cringey and it would be basically all I would talk about, to the point where I ended up alienating friends and family, sometimes badly severing ties with people over this very sensitive issue which I thought others just weren't smart enough to understand critically. It turned off a lot of potential girlfriends and lost me quite a lot of job opportunities. The hopeless, depressing way I took life made everything go to shit, as I didn't see a reason for doing anything. Life was just atoms in motion. It's not until recently that I've started reading up on islam and finding a lot of profound and beautiful stuff in there.
I'm now open-minded enough to accept people's beliefs in god and to see the good things religion can bring. But in spite all my efforts, it's so hard for me to believe again. What books should I read to regain my faith in God??
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>>9348432
Out of curiosity what quality works of atheism have you read?
Are you concerned about swinging your pendulum to the equally faulty opposite?
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>>9348432
my diary, desu
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The Gospel according to St. John
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
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*deletes all punctuation in the novel I'm writing*
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once i removed all commas from a story I wrote and i suddenly felt much better about it
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what's the purpose of doing such a random senseless thing
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>>9348324
To post sick memes
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Where do I start with Cioran? I want to be an extremely cynical and detached draftdodger.
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His Wikiquote page
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>>9348100
Any book of his, really, they're all the same.
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On the heights of despair.
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I'm Brazilian but I think monica Dante is 100x better than shakespeare. I think Americans think in this manner:
>We are the best economy in the world therefore anything in English must be the best.
Which is retarded.
A guy with raw intelligence like Ramanujan was born in rural India and still was able to make contributions. and he was messing with mathematics, imagine when it comes to literature.
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>>9348066
Did you read it in the original language or a translation? If it was a translation, your opinion doesn't matter
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>>9348068
Portuguese is very close to Italian.
>Portuguese (Ela) fecha sempre a janela antes de jantar.
>Italian (Ella/Lei) chiude sempre la finestra prima di cenare.
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lol who cares
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What would I be getting myself into if I bought this?
Also, Nick Land General.
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you might be interested to know that there's already a nick land-ish thread going on
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>buying books
good goyim
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What literature should I read before the draft? I'm not prepared.
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Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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>>9347957
My diary, desu.
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Unironically? Meditations
Ironically? An aerospace engineering textbook