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>want to have a nice book shelf and collection
>can buy books for cheap digitally or even get them for free
What do I do guys? Are you guys physical or digital?
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Pseud peoples problems
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>>9237656
I'm not a pseud I enjoy pleb horror books and comic books.
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>>9237651
Uh, both? Jesus christ, why are so many people literal retards? Just buy some books you think look nice, and get the rest as ebooks. For fucks sake
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Why is everyone so infatuated with the idea of ego death?
Religions hail it. Submission and selflessness is the highest virtue. (Neo-)Marxists wish to stress the irrelevance of the individual, as if he were not even an existing entity even a thing.
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>reads NEETshit once
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>>9237645
What's NEETshit?
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>>9237641
I assume it's because ego is the motivation to most crimes and shitty behavior general. Ego in moderation is a good thing, but people are notoriously bad at moderation. Better just advise to avoid it all together. It's like banning a toy because a couple kids couldn't not choke to death on it.
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>want to read book
>not sure whether to read introduction or not because on one hand it might provide important information and context for understanding it, but on the other hand it might spoil it.
Every fucking time.
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so this is a "top 10 excuses to avoid reading" thread
- I can't focus on the book because I got some work to do, so I stay there thinking about work instead of reading.
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I'd argue that an introduction that gives you a set of pre-packaged categories with which you can interpret the rest of the text is more harmful than a spoiler, but I try to read them and form my own opinion (if I can) nonetheless, as you could miss some fairly important and/or interesting context.
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>>9237558
Skim through it
Well, this is unexpectedly moving
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moving from your hand to the wastebin right
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kinda goes to shit at the end (some really bad movie villain-tier dialogue at the climax) but the first two books are great.
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What's up with Hegel?
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He's the greatest.
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He's the worst.
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pseuds cant pierce his wizardly gaze
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Why does nobody discuss him here?
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Nobody here read "The Baphomet" or "Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle"?
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no man's bump
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>Michel Foucault noted in a letter that Klossowski's book La Monnaie vivante is the most sublime book of our era.[citation needed]
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>J.K. Rowling confirms her new book will be titled Lethal White
>The Cormoran Strike crime novels, written under Rowling's pseudonym Robert Galbraith, follow a private investigator and his assistant.
Why are modern authors so terrible?
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>>9237426
>JK Rowlin
>author
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>>9237426
>Crime fiction
Could there be a more tacky and gimmicky genre?
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(Anglish) Soothly we live in mighty years! 2017-03-14 04:39:11 Post No.9237359
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(Anglish) Soothly we live in mighty years!
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"Uncleftish Beholding" ("Atomic
Theory"), by Poul Anderson (an excerpt)
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For most of its being, mankind did not know what things are made
of, but could only guess. With the growth of worldken, we began
to learn, and today we have a beholding of stuff and work that
watching bears out, both in the workstead and in daily life.
The underlying kinds of stuff are the *firststuffs*, which link
together in sundry ways to give rise to the rest. Formerly we
knew of ninety-two firststuffs, from waterstuff, the lightest and
barest, to ymirstuff, the heaviest. Now we have made more, such
as aegirstuff and helstuff.
The firststuffs have their being as motes called *unclefts*.
These are mightly small; one seedweight of waterstuff holds a
tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most
unclefts link together to make what are called *bulkbits*. Thus,
the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the
sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some
kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling
together in ices when in the fast standing; and there are yet
more yokeways.) When unlike clefts link in a bulkbit, they make
*bindings*. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts
with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the
forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand thousand or more
unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and
chokestuff.
At first is was thought that the uncleft was a hard thing that
could be split no further; hence the name. Now we know it is made
up of lesser motes. There is a heavy *kernel* with a forward
bernstonish lading, and around it one or more light motes with
backward ladings. The least uncleft is that of ordinary
waterstuff. Its kernel is a lone forwardladen mote called a
*firstbit*. Outside it is a backwardladen mote called a
*bernstonebit*. The firstbit has a heaviness about 1840-fold that
of the bernstonebit. Early worldken folk thought bernstonebits
swing around the kernel like the earth around the sun, but now we
understand they are more like waves or clouds.
In all other unclefts are found other motes as well, about as
heavy as the firstbit but with no lading, known as *neitherbits*.
We know a kind of waterstuff with one neitherbit in the kernel
along with the firstbit; another kind has two neitherbits. Both
kinds are seldom....
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Wtf I'm a linguistic natavist now
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>>9237359
reactionary postmodernism. nothing else to see here.
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Is Nastasya Filippovna the best example of a death drive in literature?
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>>9237357
Explain the concept of a "death drive" in general and then I will respond in the context of literature.
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>>9237357
does Jesus count?
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>>9238525
you can only bump your own threads after someone else posted in them iirc
also i read this seven years ago and forgot the plot
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>tfw I just got a job in the local philosophy factory
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fuck the haters, if it's something you love then good job anon
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What is the relationship between "what ought to be" and "what will be?" 2017-03-14 03:51:58 Post No.9237179
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Is and ought are independent, but what is and what will be are determined by behavior. Behavior is dictated by our intentions and predilections, which have some connection to ought. What's that relationship?
Or am I entirely wrong? If so, can someone explain how and direct me to texts so that I will shut up and stop humiliating myself?
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The connection between intentions and predilections on one hand, "ought" on the other, is not so obvious. If I understand you correctly, intentions and predilections will mean something like "I want to...", "I will probably...". However, this has nothing to do with "ought", which only means that, morally speaking, I "should" do this or that.
Google the famous passage where Hume says "'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger." I can't remember where it's from exactly, but basically it says that my behavior only depends on "intentions and predilections" and reason itself is absolutely unable to determine any other "moral" behavior. There is no "ought" at all, at least strictly speaking.
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>>9237179
Still independent. "Will be" is just the future tense of "is."
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>>9237206
What "is" in the future has some connection to what we do now. What we do now has some connection to what we think we ought to be doing. What we think we ought to be doing and what we ought to be doing are independent because what we ought to be doing doesn't exist or is unknown.
Right?
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How would DFW react to us using his mug as reaction photos? Would he have eventually written something about the Internet?
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>>9237157
he was very embittered against irony, he would have written something lame imho
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>>9237236
Because it's shit. As you assholes continue to make fun of every honest attempt at betterment, people suffer and the capitalist dogs reap the reward of wealth.
Everyone is getting more miserable and you are part of the problem. Big Dave was a good, honest man trying to help people and you shit on him because you're insecure and you want company in your misery. If you'd just stop and let everyone else be, we'd all rise out of the shitter and be better.
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>>9237256
Hear! Hear!
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What are some good arguments for the existence of God?
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Read a book
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>>9237134
Ok, done that.
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>>9237137
Good. Now read a book about Christian apologetics.
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HEGEL IS USELESS BULLSHIT 2017-03-14 03:14:26 Post No.9237054
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TELL ME ONE USEFUL THING YOU LEARNED FROM READING HEGEL
HINT: YOU CANT
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>>9237054
Hegel also like de Maistre thinks that war is OK. Actually de Maistre is more of a kind-heart since he doesnt glor8fy it.
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If he's generating this much butthurt then he did something right.
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>>9237100
And yet you can't point out a single useful thing he said
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This tops Lolita, so Why nobody talks about this ?
Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. She drives a red Corvette with tinted windows. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed, and devoted to her.
But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession—fourteen-year-old boys. Celeste pursues her craving with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought; her sole purpose in becoming a teacher is to fulfill her passion and provide her access to her compulsion. As the novel opens, fall semester at Jefferson Jr. High is beginning.
In mere weeks, Celeste has chosen and lured the lusciously naive Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his teacher, and, most important, willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret relationship—car rides after school; rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works late; body-slamming encounters in Celeste's empty classroom between periods.
Ever mindful of the danger—the perpetual risk of exposure, Jack's father's own attraction to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind—the hyperbolically insatiable Celeste bypasses each hurdle with swift thinking and shameless determination, even when the solutions involve greater misdeeds than the affair itself. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress driven by pure motivation. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure.
With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut.
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>>9236952
>tfw live in tampa
its a shit hole
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>>9236952
Sounds like a pedo smut novel.
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>celeste
dropped
if an author can't even choose names, the rest is shit too