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As someone who have powerlifted in my youth, no, strength doesn't make one "happy", external things don't cause happiness.

NEXT

Idolization of happiness makes me sick. It's literally chasing a shadow.

>>9056172

>le edgy meme man

The only book worth getting from these overpriced fucks is the illustrated Finnegans Wake

You'd have to take it on a case-by-case basis. The same applies to translated books coming from anywhere.

Folio doesn't translate the works. Google translation reviews for each individual book you're interested in. Most are fine, but every once in a while they suddenly decide to go with some shitty/antiquated translation over better ones, particularly in Philosophy and Religion sections. Sometimes it happens because they reprint older books instead of commissioning a new edition.

virus link DO NOT CLICK!!!

>socializing
>chatting with strangers on the internet

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>>9056109
Oh....it's just been a while though, and I thought I'd see what eveyone's up to...

Idk why dont you try it and let us know?

>>9056067

Depends. I've had a lot of success with it, finding out of print works by Hamsun and Strindberg, and dirt cheap works by Tolstoy.

It'll take some footwork to find good stores though, many of the ones I were in had nothing but crime fiction and ghostwritten memoirs by b-list celebrities.

>>9056078
>nothing but crime fiction and ghostwritten memoirs by b-list celebrities.

that's what I feared. I think I will give it a shot. It would be amazing to find something like a super cheap Tolstoy.

>>9056046
read the trial, the priest explains why it's shit.

>>9056046
Wrote a freshman year final class paper on it.

Just wrote a bunch of bullshit philosophizing because I am a stemfag and the class was a faggy Liberal Art Gen Ed.

Got an A

>>9056395
I've read The Trial.

>the priest explains why it's shit.
What do you mean, shit?

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opened my eyes...

>>9056058
Can anyone give me a quick rundown on this book?

>Gorsuch
>intellectual
Pick 0.

>>9055985
Isn't funny how liberals suddenly trust The Daily Mail once they publish an unsubstantiated story that attempts to discredit a conservative?

It's not real. It was a joke. He went to a JESUIT school surely that's enough of a giveaway.

I have no strong opinion of the man but it was clearly meant as a laugh.

shameless self bump

joseph de maistre
leviathan

ur not gonna find much else im sorry to say, but at the same time, monarchy is the natural state of politics. its superiority is attested to by the world itself.

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>>9055982
De Monarchia by Dante Alighieri.

It's really good.

Yeah

Especially if you live in Dorset

>>9055933
pretentious pleb shit for beta cuck nigger jews who believe in god. fucking pathetic

Keep lurking

Giovanni's Room.

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

Unless you consider Eye-ties to be a race

>>9055880
It's really funny, especially when you realize that the only reason people on this board don't avail themselves of the joys of analytic philosophy is because it isn't some "power of now" wankery that gives them a set of ethical guidelines to adhere to.

Religionfags are even worse

>he posts frogs on a cambodian woodcarving forum

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We're hitting SJW levels that shouldn't even be possible

>>9055858
that theyre ugly and smelly and gonna die soon?

>>9056446
We hate women here, idiot. Their inferior

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RealiTTY
By Miles Hingston
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvQV7gqXryR0vFRThNnvyeqOdzHbUq0nI

As mentioned previously, our brains are all about finding and decoding patterns, we are designed to think symbolically. Consider then that as children we have been taught what symbols to use to construct our model of the World. We are taught how to “spell”, or rather be put under the spell of language, just like a computer people are programmed by symbols. Words are also symbols, when we think about things we are really thinking about the construction and interaction of various symbols, it is a code. This is the foundation of magical practice, language is an esoteric science first and foremost

Information as a linguistic object is a rather undiscerning metaphor. Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination, yet it is much more pervasive in everyday life than most people assume. Our ordinary conceptual system in terms of which we both think and act is fundamentally metaphorical in nature

Language is the medium by which we transmit our thoughts. The language we use to communicate does fundamentally affect how we see the World, language structures thought to atleast the same degree that it reflects thought. For the most part, we live in a world constructed by language. What and how we see the world is tied directly to how we describe it. Linguistic relativity was first suggested by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf when they noticed that differences in language reflect the different views of different people

We can only establish knowledge about something through its interaction with something else. Nothing takes on a meaning by itself, meaning and existence comes only through interaction and relationship. In this way the linguistic associations we build do profoundly affect how we see the world

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Language and Reality
Holoplex Productions
youtu.be/zOHvslNI-WI

As Philip K. Dick reminds us, “the linking and unlinking of objects is actually a language”

“To question language is to question being.”

– Georg Hegel

“A change in language can transform our apprehension of the cosmos.”

– Benjamin Lee Whorf

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>I've read Wikipedia pages on Durkheim, Veblen, Weber, Marx, Frankfurt School, etc.

Try reading their actual writings you fucking nigger

>>9055686
John Dies At The End

>>9055686
J R is really funny

Totalitarian in a Tundra is pretty absurd

>>9055637
mods delet this

>>9055637

This list is embarrassing.

Tier lists should be banned