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Beautiful editions so I'm excited to read them

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>Blood Meridian.
>Pic related just ordered. Might go with Resurrection next, but have highest hopes for Life and Fate.
>Everyman's Library Camus. He's kind of shit.

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>Don Quixote & Fictions
>Into Thin Air
>Fictions, I should have got the Complete Fictions by Borges instead

>>9178466
>>9178466
generally the best way to get someone suggestable to to break down their ego, keep them at a lower level of consiousness by fucking around with the basic drive of the human being.

while you also have to consider Dr.Yueh's back story. We only know that he is a doctor imperial conditioning, and works for house atredies, we also know that he loves his wife.

I haven't read anything beyond the first dune but I imagine Dr. Yueh maybe might have led a life of a complete r9k
that his wife was like the entire universe to him.

I mean imagine the training to undergo imperial conditioning, not to mention becoming a doctor at the furthest reaches in the future that the human mind could possibly imagine. guy probably led a pretty dull, and ardious life for quite sometime till he found his wife, became comepletley enamoured by her.

Dr. Yueh could have been a borderline case for imperial conditioning.

Dr. Yueh is mainly a vehicle to show how fucked up the harkonen are and what lengths they'll go to to achieve their aims.

>>9178507
>Dr. Yueh is mainly a vehicle to show how fucked up the harkonen are
Of course! That is obvious.
My my point remains - If it was so very easy for the Harkonnens to break the 'unbreakable' Imperial Conditioning, why does it have a reputation?
Also, the Atreides know the Hrkonens had something to do with the death/whatever or Yueh's wife but we not able to track communications between their family doctor and their arch-enemies when they are so paranoid they suspect the Duke's concubine and mother of the heir?
Besides, let's be honest - lots of guys are 'completely enamored' of their wives. That's why they marry them! If 'having your beloved wife threatened' is all it takes to overcome the 'unbreakable' Imperial Conditioning why hadn't it been done hundreds of times already? Why didn't the conditioners know about this weakness?
Sorry. I think it is just (like the rest of the books) terrible writing.

>>9178525
becuase every relationship is unqiue

and the way they knew they could break through yuehs imperial conditioning is through his wife.

they didn't really talk about the process

but the output of that process of breaking imperial conditioning led to the harkonenes "threatening" his wife.
I thought they killed her. And he was just a broken man after that.

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>>9178267
>t. profanelet

shouldn't you be reading Popper or something?

>>9178271

What do I need to read to understand this image?

>Inb4 the greeks

What titles first?

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>>9178267
Wew. How will Platonism survive such a comprehensive and blistering critique?

>>9178283
That image is a broad representation of a certain model of Neoplatonic metaphysics

Here's another image.
Recommended authors - Plotinus and Porphyry. (Augustine relied heavily on these authors alongside Plato, and thereby influenced all of Christian theology.). Also make sure you read Plato (Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus and Meno being most relevant)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Complete Works
Friedrich Schelling - Complete Works

>>9178259
Just read him

>>9178259

Don't read Phenomenology of Spirit before you read or study other works by Hegel, that's all. Of course it's also better if you know enough history of philosophy, but the main point is you should first know enough Hegel. The other anon mentioning Fichte and Schelling is trolling.

Stop trying to find something external to fix your pathetic life. Or just read stoic literature

>>9177756
>Stop trying to find something external to fix your pathetic life.
That is legitimately good advice, anon. But how do I do that?

Heidegger & Aquinas.

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Threadly reminder that KJV is a direct translation of the Catholic Vulgate and was shit even before James filled it with his political agenda

>>9176966
NSRV.

>>9177010
This is just incorrect. Is this a shit post or are you so retarded that you actually think this?

im the love interest in Gay Billionare Jetplane

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i can relate to the osterizer classic blender

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>>9176858


hmm i think i fit pretty well with the stranger, intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

>>9176711
>he's a teenager

If you can find everything you need online you must only know about stuff you can find online.

Sage

>>9176716
No argument to be found!

>>9176716
Professors regurgitate things they read online.

>>9176621
What the fuck are you talking about

>>9176904
conspiracy fag retard, definitely believe in 9/11 being an inside job or chemtrails

So, in a round table game of poker, the government let's the people see its cards ... because somehow it ensures it wins?

I think you're a bit retarded m8.

Lord of the Rings

I am sorely disappointed in the amount of replies I am getting to my --what I thought was thought provoking--thread.

You're saying we have no imagination. And to that I say, WRONG.

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Bumping with another cool cover

I don't think so. Ballard is too much 70s or 80s. Read The Circle by Dave Eggers for a more realistic picture of our immediate future.

Just got a copy of High Rise. Been real into the effects of technology and media on society lately so I'm excited to read it.

>>9175053
He's trying to destroy whiteness
Choose right wing

1. How do you find out when he is speaking?

2. Please ask him very quickly his thoughts on Ludwig Wittgenstein.

>>9175053
Why does he wear the T-shirt?

Can you get to the fucking point, Plato?

My future is like a view from a window glass in a foggy day

>>9174101
I wish I lived before the internet so I could avoid these distractions that make my life so banal.

I wish more than anything that I leave my mark enough on this world to be remembered, but I fear all the trappings of modernity have rendered our time on his earth so insignificant that few of our contemporaries will be remembered.

I am only 18 and already I feel as though I have not yet done enough and I will expire as yet another insignificant being unremembered and unimportant to everyone and everything in the future

Tell me whas good, Anons

http://pastebin.com/pWwNp6Fq

so far I only have the first sentence. pls give constructive critiscism.

>"I am skeptical towards metanarratives" said John Everyman

>>9152911
I would have to see another sentence. I'm so far in my literary journey that I don't give anything a chance anymore. If the first few lines don't assure me that the author is on the same wavelength or """vibe""" as me, then I don't read any more.

I know all these words but it still makes no sense

>>9182009
Pinocchio saves his father from the underworld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw7NvWvwVCA

Peterson low key roasts dawkins by saying that if he "thought more about it" or something that dawkins would have realized that archetypes are memes. Basically calling him dumb lol