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>Be Nietzsche in Universe-2
>be born in 1970
>get rejected by my soulmate in my mid '20s
>start writing furiously gold philosophy
>publish Also Sprach Zarathustra (it's the same as our ASZ, but there's a scene with a train)
>decide to drop LSD
>realize that I was just building my entire life and personality on a non-existant made up narrative
>realize that there is no personality
>realize that rationality is more effective than intuition
>realize that a scientific approach to philosophy is more effective than a poetic one
>become a pseudo-buddhist
>open a podcast
>tfw you're Sam Harris now
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>be ben stiller lookalike
>cling to positivism like a drowning man clinging to driftwood
>earn plaudits on reddit for it
>tfw you're Sam Harris now
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>>9023756
What's wrong with positivism and why are the humanities often hostile to it?
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Why did you employ the Kantian notions of "reason" and "intuition" in the contrary way to their usage by Kant? Isn't reason the speculative faculty of the mind, whereas intuition denotes whatever is to apprehended by the senses?
My dear sir, are you an idiot? Did you not realise that Nietzsche's epistemology is "ego-death" WRIT LARGE? The basis of his "perspectivism" and "experimentality" is the critique of the Cartesian and Kantian auto-reflexive "I-am-I". Friedrich says from the existence of a cogito only cogitationes could ever be inferred, which means thoughts are derived from thinking, but these thoughts cannot necessarily be predicated of a "self" or an "I" as their emanations or attributes.
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A lot of of write. It doesn't matter what you write, post here. Some ideas:
>Writers block? Bitch here.
>What programs/typewriter do you use to write?
>What do you write? Try-hard deep novels or pulp fantasy novellas?
Fill this out:
>Age
>Gender
>Genre
>Why did you start writing?
>Thoughts on your current undertaking?
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>>9023688
>What programs/typewriter do you use to write?
>typewriter
Please tell me no one here actually does this
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>>9023688
i use MS word but may switch to google docs and i write genre trash
>31
>male
>fantasy
>storytelling is a fascinating combination of formula and creativity
>i just finished the first draft of my first novel and I now understand why people tell you to finish the first draft no matter what - it's a lot easier to edit from something than to come up with new stuff from nothing. so finish those first drafts, anons, no matter how bad you think it is
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>27
>Male
>Wacky absurdism
>I have no friends
>It sucks
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I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
How the fuck is this poetry, /lit/?
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its not its archetypal normie-tier pandering faggotry masquerading as em cummings but what else could u expect from a person so unimaginative that the only last name he could come up with was his first name but with an "s" tacked on at the end
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so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
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>>9024473
I hate poetry
What are the chances of him being a pedophile? Does he make trips to the Poor East to bang little tan boys?
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don't be silly, death in venice isn't in the canon
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>>9023587
I doubt it but it'd be patrician as fuck.
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>>9023587
*little tan-girls,
Lolita is in the canon of a reason....
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Did she do anything wrong?
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CHOO CHOO
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>>9023483
If you have read the book, u wouldnt be asking
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Maybe, but she would have been miserable either way
What was his Endgame?
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one of those joke studies where every move is forced for both players
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Why is modern literature always so negative? Beckett is the prime example for this.
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I HAVE HIT ROCK BOTTOM AND I'M NOT TAKING IT ANYMORE
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2017-01-26 10:17:44
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FOR YEARS, MASSES OF MEN CLIMB THE LADDER OF SUCCESS AROUND ME WHILST I SQUANDER WHAT WORTH I HAVE TO THIS MEANINGLESS PITTANCE OF CHILDISH PLAY!
FROM NOW ON, I WILL DEDICATE EACH SECOND TO CRAFTING MYSELF, BY APPLYING ALL MY METHODS TO LEARNING PROGRAMMING AND WRITING A PHILOSOPHICAL WORK WITHIN THE NEXT 6 MONTHS.
IN 6 MONTHS TIME, I WILL RETURN HERE AND POST A THREAD CONTAINING MY NEW PHILOSOPHICAL WORK WHICH WILL BE MY MAGNUM OPUS AND THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHICAL WORK EVER WRITTEN!
WATCH ME, KEKS AND LOSERS!
WATCH ME, AS I TAKE YOUR PITIFUL LITTLE LIFE AND SQUISH IN MY HANDS!
I SHALL REALIZE ALL MY IDEALS AND YOU WILL REMAIN A LOSER!
WATCH ME AS I RETURN IN 6 MONTHS A GOD! NO MORE LAZING AROUND! NO MORE WAGE SLAVE OR NEETDOM!
IN 6 MONTHS, I SHALL BE A GOD!
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Cringe/10
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>>9023251
FOOL!
YOUR CRINGING IS A LIMP-WRISTED QUEER ATTEMPT AT MOCKING A MAN WHO IS 200 POUNDS HEAVIER THAN YOU.
YOU'RE A TWERP AND A RETARD, BOTH AT ONCE.
WATCH ME BECOME GREAT AND YOU BE A LOSER, IN 6 MONTHS I WILL RETURN AND YOU WILL STILL BE POSTING OUT OF MOMMY'S BEDROOM AND BASEMENT.
YOU'RE A KEK AND A LOSER AND I DON'T RESPECT YOU!
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>>9023245
My philosophical magnum opus is set for mass distribution in four months.
You lose yet again.
And I won't even post a thread when its time, either. Everyone else will be clamoring for the chance to do so on my behalf. You are child's play even when you are trying not to be.
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What was his endgame?
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>>9023232
Everything to be equal? Death is nothingness, life is nothingness. Nice sort of equilibrium.
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>>9023232
Endlösung
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>>9023232
The salvation of the white race
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How much did the failure of the hippie movement / 60's counterculture affect Pynchon's writing? I sense a total tonal drop between L49 (written around 1965 / 1966) and GR (written between 1969 - 1972)
Not that Lot 49 was bright and cheery or anything but GR is incredibly bleak
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>How much did the failure of the hippie movement / 60's counterculture affect Pynchon's writing?
... I take it you haven't read Inherent Vice
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Pynchon was never allied with the hippie movement, he was just friends with them and lived with them because they like him smoked pot had conspiracy theories and fought "the man". He was as much as a hippie as Frank Zappa was.
It's not like we're dealing with Hunter S. Thompson or Ken Casey here
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>>9023008
Good album
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*teleports behind you*
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>*teleport on top of a mountain at dawn*
>*kill God*
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>>9023000
*farts*
*blushes*
:3
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>>9023000
Trips confirm.
Do people still rp in message boards like this?
#oldfeels
I know this is more /his/, but fuck that board is full of retards.
Anyone know of any good texts that break down and describe language?
Like it talks about different forms of language (eg. free word order), history of language, maybe writing as well.
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>>9022943
>that board is full of retards
>Implying /lit/ is not.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
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>>9022943
What direction are you looking to go OP?
Pinker has a popsci book about neuro-linguistic processes that isnt very technical. Its called the language instinct and it argues for language modules in the brain.
If youre feeling brave and want to get into philosophy of language then Wittgenstein's later work is dank. Just be sure to read Austen or Rylke after for different views. Those are all a little old but good enough to get a sense of whats talked about in the field. Or you can jump into the deep end, read some situationalists and shitpost hatred fir french philosophers because you wasted time not understanding what you were reading.
If you want to read more technical stuff go Chomsky. His linguistic stuff, not his political stuff obviously. Again, a bit dated but necessary to underatand the field.
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Started reading Iluminations after Season in Hell. I consider myself a "good reader" in the sense that I can understand works that seem far more complex and full of symbolism than this. However I can't understand shit when it comes to this beautiful bastard. It seems like im reading sentences from diferent poems that where put together into one. Any help/advice?
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>>9022915
1 Learn French fluently
2 Read it in French
Thats the only way to do it
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>>9022988
>are you assuming my native language?
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>>9023448
If french is your first language et que la chose ne te suffit pas à comprendre Rimbaud... Just don't read Valéry or Perse yet, lol.
When are we going to do another survey?
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End of 2017 tee bee aitch. But I find it to be more guidelines for beginners that anything. Books are on there that are obvious memes like Bottom's Dream and Jerusalem in place of more deserving books or poems or nonfiction.
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>>9022953
At the end of the year like this anon said. Otherwise the results would be far too similar. Gotta at least wait for some new memes to pop up.
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>>9022869
Why is there no Brave New World in that chart?
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Holy shit.
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>shit
stopped reading there.
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>>9022822
LONG LIVE GOD!
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but I talked to him just this morning
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Finaly found a book four me.
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me two
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>>9022790
>tfw IQ is 81
you dont now how good you have it
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>>9022823
IQ 200 here, ingorance is bliss m8