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>>9095840
take the redpill instead, fucking retard

>>9095840
Your meme game will be unbeatable

Do it, faggot

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>>9095439
Youru Eviruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

I got an A in a philosophy elective without reading any of the set texts desu
Really made me admire non STEM graduates (not haha)

>>9095439
It's so easy to do it too, for some books. Take for instance Blood Meridian, Catcher in the Rye, anything Hemingway, anything Vonnegut, the Bible. I'm starting to do it with increasing success with the ol' Pynchmeister too.

RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening

>>9095383
John Green must know something about Gardening after all his name is green . . .

>>9095480
His name looks black to me.

>>9095357
who cares? nothing matters anyways

Not really, since suicide is ultimately as pointless as living.

>>9095357
No, Communism is the logical conclusion of nihilism.

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>>9095188
>life wilting away
>has to be more to life

Recognize your spooks, my property.

>>9095188
I had something similar happen to me a couple of years ago, in university. But it wasn't me, it was this girl I knew because we were both studying Latin American literature. She said something to the effect of, "do you ever feel like the only reason you read is because you were known as 'the bookish kid' and you kinda just embraced it?" I didn't say anything autistic or insulting them because I didn't want to ruin the date, but I'll say it now: this is what I love, this is my passion. I could choose to do anything else, be anyone else, have a "hobby" to pass the time and a "career" that would fund my itinerant and unstable life, but I choose to read because it is the only thing that really matters to me. You can believe anything you want, that you're really artistic, creative, intellectual, and that you show that by reading or being erudite, I don't care. I know what i want, I know what my passion is.

>>9095188
Sometimes. I personally read to gain new perspectives and keep my mind open, but if I spend too much time in a day reading then I feel a little disconnected from reality, but if I stop reading completely then I start to become narrow-minded and confused. There's gotta be a balance between reading alone and interacting with actual humans, whether it be in person or online. Taking breaks and exercising a little bit helps. Also don't read shit just because someone told you to; you should read because you're simply interested in the subject.

>>9095166
>reading LOTR for the first time
>no diarrhea scenes despite the fact they're all probably drinking tainted water
>none of the Orcs have asthma despite the fact they grew up in an industrial shithole with pollution everywhere
>no Aragorn Orc genocide sequence where he puts all of the Orcs in concentration camps after the war

wtf tolkein, fucking hack

>>9095250

Fuck this would be the best LOTR. I won't tell you to write it because I am stealing your idea, murdering all tolkiens heirs and writing it.

>character eats a meal
>no page long description of the food

into the trash it goes

What evil scheme?

>>9095331

Perpetual war to keep the dumb masses morally upright and the smart should rule, or something like that.

It doesn't matter what the scheme is. I'm asking why people try to use the Greeks to justify it rather than "Because that's what I want". Is it purely marketing? I think so

I dunno, I just started his book on natural law. I believe he studies thinkers of natural law, greeks being the first and mandatory reading on the subject

PS non anglo so sorry about m'prose.

>>9095092
>imagine if it were these moral illnesses which are discussed on lit
A lot of literature deals with these things and a lot of it is discussed. The board is just shit up, so you have to go looking for it. I'm not sure what exactly is your dilemma.

>>9095092
https://markmanson.net/disease-of-more

reading

read Absalom, Absalom! first

Read the wikipedia page then the book. You can make sense of the story yourself, but there's honestly not a point to it.

>>9095025
>not realizing the only reason I'm here is to use any thread that is vaguely political to spread right-wing redpills

This isn't your safespace, honey. We won the election. Enjoy the next 8 years

>>9095047
I'm a republican and I voted for Trump. That doesn't mean I want to hear about him or the same "tell me about Evola" thread 4 times a day. Keep it on /pol/.

>>9095055
wow you must be a numale cuck.

Trump belongs everywhere, he's fucking based. The right is rising, deal with it. No more cuck-tier french continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and marxism threads. This place is now for Trump, Milo, PIeterson, and Hitler

>Stealing a book that literally tells you to not steal.
Do you not see the irony in this?

>>9094966
>Give unto the poor
>Dudes wanting 200 dollar for study bibles
Do YOU see the irony?

>>9094960
Simple: the Oxford Annotated Bible which uses the NRSV translation. I have it as a pdf.

>>9094825
Please don't post that picture ever again.

>>9095059
She was a qt. That's why it was sad.

Is this the girl who got tortured and killed by those high-school kids?

>productivity
you should despook yourself first

>>9094786
producing and creating satisfies me more than meaningless self indulgence.

>>9094757
>i also want to start exercising
Whats stopping you? No book will stop you from being a weak willed faggot.

The closest things I can think o are Deep Work and The War Of Art, which both suck

>>9094671
can't be bothered to read anything by that nazi LARPer, but Tolkien was a hardcore christian, so Christian Vikernes is probably wrong, he's also incabable of coherent thought anyway and can fuck off twiceJesus' Tod is still the greatest black metal song everexcept maybe Transsilvanian Hunger

>>9094697
>not Kathaarian Life Code
Trans is great, but KLC is the definitive Darkthrone song. I dislike Varg, too, since I find he's views quite laughable and equal to black "dindu's", but I've read through it all and actually find it somewhat interesting. The problem is I lack knowledge of norse mythology and what not, so I'm looking for other, more informative, opinions on the matter at hand.

>>9094701
his*

it gets worse bro. if you read the latin romans instead of the greek romans, you're officially pleb

What did the romans even contribute outside of Greek rehashing

>>9094724
sex poems and shitposting 101