Anyone else keep a journal? How often do you use it?
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You couldn't cover up that ugly bitch on the right instead of a remarkable qt?
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>>9265574
I didn't craft this fine meme, sadly
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>>9265576
Oh wait, the qt in question is on the far right. What in the world.
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Has anyone ever read this? I've recently ordered it and I'm wondering what I'm in for.
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no but van der graaf generator owns
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>>9265585
Hell yeah man. Peter Hammill is the lord.
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>>9265590
you like his solo work? never heard any myself but i've been meaning to.
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Any good books on monarchism? 2017-03-20 04:19:35 Post No.9265334
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Any good books on monarchism?
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Any recs?
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The republic
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>>9265334
Somewhat related- Diary of a Man in Despair.
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>monarchism
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>Those two forms of converse [friendships and loving relationships] depend on chance and on other people. The first is distressingly rare, the second withers with age, so they could not have adequately provided for the needs of my life. Converse with books (which is my third form) is more reliable and more properly our own. Other superior endowments it concedes to the first two: its own share consists in being constantly and easily available with its services. This converse is ever at my side throughout my life’s course and is everywhere present. It consoles me in my old age and in my retreat; it relieves me of the weight of distressing idleness and, at any time, can rid me of boring company. It blunts the stab of pain whenever the pain is not too masterful and extreme. To distract me from morose thought I simply need to have recourse to books; they can easily divert me to them and rob me of those thoughts. And yet there is no mutiny when they see that I only seek them for want of other benefits which are more real, more alive, more natural; they always welcome me with the same expression.
>"No need to pity an invalid who has a remedy up his coat-sleeve!" All the profit which I draw from books consists in experiencing and applying that proverb. In practice I hardly use them more than those who are quite unacquainted with them. I enjoy them as misers do riches: because I know I can always enjoy them whenever I please. My soul is satisfied and contented by this right of possession. It is the best protection which I have found for our human journey and I deeply pity men of intelligence who lack it. I on the other hand can accept any sort of pastime, no matter how trifling, because I have this one which will never fail me.
>If anyone says to me that to use the Muses as mere playthings and pastimes is to debase them, then he does not know as I do the value of pleasure, plaything, or pastime. I could almost say that any other end is laughable. I live from day to day; and, saving your reverence, I live only for myself. My plans stop there. In youth I studied in order to show off; later, a little, to make myself wiser; now I do it for amusement, never for profit. A silly spendthrift humour that once I had for furnishing myself with books, not to provide for my needs but three paces beyond that, so as to paper my walls with them as decorations, I gave up long ago.
>Books have plenty of pleasant qualities for those who know how to select them. But there is no good without ill. The pleasure we take in them is no purer or untarnished than any other. Reading has its disadvantages – and they are weighty ones: it exercises the soul, but during that time the body (my care for which I have not forgotten) remains inactive and grows earth-bound and sad. I know of no excess more harmful to me in my declining years, nor more to be avoided.
Montaigne is the coolest person ever to have lived.
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Cool excerpts. Thanks for posting.
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>>9265291
>books are better than people
okay
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>>9265366
That's the exact opposite of what he said you utter retard
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Alain de Botton thread 2017-03-20 03:55:50 Post No.9265229
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Why haven't you copped a philosophers' jumper, /lit/? Don't you want to be well-regarded by peers and qts alike? Aren't you afraid people will won't be able to tell your philosophical abilities by looking at your garments?
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>size - extra large
You're a big guy.
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>ywn cuck de Botton with his wife, forcing him to admit that he lacks any philosophical rigor while you fill his wife with your superior alpha seed
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I personally only wear my Philosopher's Jumper© when I'm also sporting my Philosopher's Shoes©. I think the jumper argues that minimalism is a key concern in a crowded and busy world: it means efficiency without loss of grace. The jumper believes it is possible to embrace the elegance of a pared-down life, without being dour or puritanical.
In other words: This philosopher’s jumper invites us to a life of soul-searching, melancholy walks, interesting relationships, impassioned argument and bold speculation.
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>dude i have tell you about that time that i was on chile? i ended on prison
>by the way, LATM is HELL
Is this the only two things that he wrote about?
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>>9264873
Fucking sodomite liberals.
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>>9264873
You have probably read two things from him. Just give up.
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Is he worth reading outside of The Savage Detectives and 2666? After reading those I feel like reading everything he ever wrote but don't want to be disappointed by him.
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Salinger and Pynchon were the same person 2017-03-20 02:18:10 Post No.9264761
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Salinger and Pynchon were the same person
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Prove me wrong.
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Holy
Fucking
Shit
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Holy... I want more...
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wizz wizz its time to wazz
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>tfw too afraid to take the leap of faith to devote my entire life to literature
Woe is me.
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i too, am too afraid to take the leap of faith and throw myself off the top of a forty story building in the hope i might magically learn to fly before i hit the ground.
have you considered trying it?
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>>9264708
>could be getting a bachelor's degree in english right now
>half way through college and i still dont know if i should switch majors.
>have to live with whatever my decision is for the rest of my life.
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Why would you devote your entire life to literature?
You mean sitting around in University board meetings and discussing things which have no bearing on the world of real working people?
You mean sucking up to people who did it years before you so you can get a grant and eventually have your own cabal of suck-uppers?
Literature is ancillary to life. To make it your whole life deprives it of the necessary relational meaning
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Anyone read pic related? Thinking of picking it up. I have a long flight coming up, so if this isn't good recommend me something fantasy/sci-fi that you think might be fun.
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It's bad. There's a containment thread for sci-fantasy fags. Go there.
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>>9264649
Fucking kill yourself faggot.
Yeah I got this one and one called Dictionary of Northern Mythology by Rudolf Simek, I don't particularly fancy Norse mythology but a good read nonetheless. Made me want to move to Svalbard.
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Opinions on Dune? I'm about 10% of the way through and I'm really enjoying it so far, but I don't want to commit to reading it unless I'm sure it can keep me entertained for the whole thing.
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Jesus Christ, what are you, a fucking faggot? You can't make a decision in your life without the help of others? Does the prospect of reading a fucking book give you so much entertainment anxiety that you need to seek approval from /lit/ in order to enjoy a damn book? DFW was right, man. People can't committ
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OP: i am afraid the second poster is correct. what precisely are you afraid of, that you will find you spent a month reading a book that it turns out you didn't think was as entertaining as Mario Kart? it's a fucking book, it's not an eight year tour in the fucking Marine corp.
if you want recommendations that will save you wasting time, see attached pic.
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Read Dune, they said. It's a sci-fi masterpiece, they said.
Dune is terribly written trash.
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Tip reg downloading from #BOOKZ 2017-03-19 10:43:21 Post No.9263752
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Tip reg downloading from #BOOKZ
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Hi, I have been trying to download a book from Flipmoran since 3 days but when I enter the command "!FlipMoran Essentials of Business Analytics (2015) - Jeffrey Camm et Al.pdf" nothing happens.
I realized that flipmoran is offline. So my doubt is, how do I set it up such that when he comes online, the book gets downloaded automatically? I am usign HexChat.
I have an exam tomorrow, so need to download this somehow.
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Try searching it on libgen.io. I would search it for you but it's blocked in my country.
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>>9264684
I already searched there. It had the first edition while I specifically need the second edition.
Thanks anyway,
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>>9263752
I've decided to revive this thread from page ten in order to point out that it sucks to be you.
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Please state your opinion on these popular questions.
(Copy+paste so it's easier for me to parse the thread later for analysis.)
(Also approximate your answer if unsure.)
1. Atheism vs Theism:
2. Realism vs Idealism:
3. Rationalism vs Empiricism:
4. Free Will vs Determinism:
5. Deontology vs Utilitarianism:
6. Capitalism vs Socialism:
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>>9262847
I'm redpilled, so
Theism
Realism
Rationality > feels
Free will
Deontology
capitalism
women back in the kitchen
segregation of races
no homosexuality or promiscuity
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>>9262847
Atheism
Idealism
Empiricism
Neither
Neither
Neither
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>>9262847
>1. Atheism vs Theism:
Neither (Agnosticism)
>2. Realism vs Idealism:
Neither (Linguistic idealism/naive realism)
>3. Rationalism vs Empiricism:
Neither (Epistemic pragmatism)
>4. Free Will vs Determinism:
Neither (Compatibilism)
>5. Deontology vs Utilitarianism:
Neither (Ethical pragmatism)
>6. Capitalism vs Socialism:
Neither (Agnostic anarchism)
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What's the most based philosophy to live one's life by?
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Stoicism.
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>>9261140
Whichever one you devise yourself.
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Deny yourself the fear of change desu.
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>age
>location
>current book you're reading and how do you like it
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> 9-years-old
> Aleppo, Syria
> the little prince, it's ok
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>>9258240
>22
>DC
>The Encantadas and Other Stories by Herman Melville
It's brilliant, absolutely brilliant. He just might be my favorite writer.
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>>9258257
>Aleppo
Oh
How's life for you
How do I live the most ascended, patrician lifestyle? Help me make a list. I want to disassociate myself from all the pseuds and normies ruining the gene pools.
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Read books
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eat well. drink well. sleep well. exercise. have one passion to which you dedicate all remaining time. meditate regularly to understand the whole plight is at best a joke
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>>9258123
>at best a joke
I plan to commit a ritual self suicide once I am out of my physical and mental prime.