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>>9952779
Don't read any Ryan Holiday books, he is a pseud

>>9952779
Read sum Cicero, nigga.

>>9952860

Any ones in particular?

>>9952768
like the cover suggests

he evolved into metapod

sad!

That he is literally a cuck.

>>9952768

No longer human is an edgier version of L'Étranger.

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>>9952721
Plutarch's Lives, Dryden Translation

Explain how you can get around nihilism without God?
William lane craig believes that a logical and rational person in a godless universe would have to be a nihilist, is he wrong?
He's a very smart guy btw so you might want to think twice before you say some dumb shit.

>>9952721
I can't take Ben Carson seriously. He always looks like he's sleepy. DEFEND YOUR CHOICE OP.

You should go talk to real enlisted guys, they have military threads on /k/ and shit

If you want to be all gung-ho for the military read Starship Troopers and/or early uncensored versions of Junger's Storm of Steel or On Pain

But really, there's a good chance that you'll be wasting your life, or at least getting into something that isn't at all what you think it is. Different eras have different military experiences and different enlistment demographics. You might very well be joining an outfit of mainly retard rednecks that will feel more like a cliquey high school than like the camaraderie and "I'd die for you, my brothers!!!!" shit from Starship Troopers. Only way to find this out is to do a LOT of research.

Thus meditated Zarathustra

I read fast and selective, it has its drawbacks

>>9952646

Peter "if she's a vegetable rape isn't morally questionable" Singer.

I honestly don't know. I think it is sort of hilarious that you have an entire ethical system which claims superiority to other ethical systems by being easily applicable, based on some sort of quantificational system that no one has bothered to put any thought into.

In thought experiments so constructed that they verge on parody, such as torture one guy and save millions from nuclear annihilation, utilitarianism is intuitive. In any real moral situation/dilemma, I haven't seen anyone give serious thought as to the method of quantification needed to act in a utilitarian way.

I walked past peter singer 3 years ago, I still remember it as if it happened yesterday.
I turned around, thinking, is that THE Peter Singer and lo and behold it was! I tried to listen to his conversation, presumably with a post grad student for about 5 minutes by walking quietly behind them but I had uni classes that I needed to attend to.
It was very interesting.
I wanted to say hello.

>>9952646
>how are this guy's ideas compelling to anyone
They aren't, the guy had a embarrassingly low attendance rate for his courses at one of the most liberal colleges in the world that half-way through the academic term he regularly goes travelling to foreign countries to interview with literally nobodies.

>>9952627
Post pics for proof

>>9952627
jokes on you, I'm always naked.
also, there's a horror movie with the premise of pic. Fuckin' gross gross gross.

>>9952627
How naked is naked? Does walking around in your undies count? :-3

>>9952556
I'm white and into white nationalism

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>>9952561
I am an ayyynunaki

>>9952556
some norwegian on /sci/ did that test and then got 30 points lower on the irl test

Soon to be ITT: identity politics.

>>9952473
why are women so stupid?

>>9952485
who fucking knows

>>9952439
communuaty

Beautiful

>>9952439
Thanks for shitting up the board

>>9952416
lol so funny

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>>9952417

i also remember when /lit/ was good

>>9952361
Why don't you translate it pederu

>>9952515
Because jebi se

rolling for skyrim roulette

>>9952293
Thomas Pynchon is a shit author and a literary con artist.

>>9952368
nice one, thomas.

>>9952368
How good is he? I've never actually read anything by him before

>>9952221
If the train commute is that short, I'd be surprised if you retain much of what you read.

I don't know what pseud-cred you're looking for. Barely anyone will recognise what you're reading or even be interested. One in a thousand people might be interested and even then, if the book is doing the job properly, you probably won't want to discuss it right then and there for too long.

I always bring a worn-out copy of IJ onto the train, make sure its dog-earred pages are visible, its bent spine held up high for all eyes to gander at