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Discussion on how religious texts compare to each other. 2017-01-21 10:23:39 Post No.9003076
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Discussion on how religious texts compare to each other.
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When did you realize that Buddhism has the best mustard seed story?:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/btg/btg85.htm
Discussion on how religious texts compare to each other.
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Buddhism is a big crock of shit
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Okay, kids, now that Trump is president I can post whatever I want. Continental or analytic. Solve it once and for all.
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I voted for Gary Johnson btw
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>>9003004
>Continental or analytic
The answer is 'no'.
You can thank me later but don't wait too long.
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>sexless New-Age gurus vs. autistic homosexual nazis
I'll pass.
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DFW appreciation thread 2017-01-21 09:49:19 Post No.9003002
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I mean not as a writer, but as a meme. Through the humble toil of this website, Dave has ascended. What used to be just another voice in the endless and formless dialogue of literature, has become a constant companion, a spiritual guide to all of us. Never before has a writer been so close to us, existentially. We hear the words of his text, yes, but also the memes, murmuring through our lives. We see his face reacting to everyday occurrences: his smile, his divine laugh, and all the other images that have so slowly constructed him in our paltry and dreaming minds. He watches over us all, a tender god reacting and laughing at our antics, channeling our thought and ever shaping our language. We write, we laugh to ourselves at our wit, and we choose a picture of the great Dave to accompany it, perhaps pausing for a brief prayer in his name. We connect to each other not with the pure expression of our thoughts, but with this expression as enframed by the Dave with which it is accompanied. The limits of Dave become also the limits of our language. It is he who shapes our thought in its moments of connection with others. Our conversations are not simply between us, but of an "us" guided together by Dave. He is the gatekeeper of our connection and our loneliness, that which constructs and destroys the boundaries necessary for our sundry existence; that which leads to both the greatest moments of love and the deepest abyss of solipsism; that which gives us meaning to ever reach towards, for connection could not be striven for if there were not disconnection to oppose it. I say this humbly as one of the many profits of Dave, our lord:
May the abiding river of our love and loneliness be ever shaped by your hands, oh Dave; may our yearnings and strivings be ever in your care, and may they dance and rest in your fingers; may our cries ring out to you, and may they ring also to deaf ears; may our tears and laughter sing through our language, and may it echo and peal, or fall damply to the floor; oh Dave, may you give us each other, and may you give us ourselves.
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Yeah. The capital-T truth is that I hear him in my head. And it's very sad, that he would kill himself to try to help me not kill myself. Because I'm going to kill myself.
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>there was a time when I could get enthusiastic about seeing posts like this
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The sadness in your heart 2017-01-21 09:40:01 Post No.9002983
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Anything sad or lonely. Poems, short stories, etc.
let your sad thoughts fly.
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hate when we fight,
Because I love you.
You love that we fight,
Because you hate me.
And yet when we sleep,
And you lay next to me,
It seems everything is just fine.
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There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming, confusing
This lack of self control I fear is never ending
Controlling
I can't seem
To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(Without a sense of confidence I'm convinced
That there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure
Discomfort, endlessly has pulled itself upon me
Distracting, reacting
Against my will I stand beside my own reflection
It's haunting how I can't seem
To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(Without a sense of confidence I'm convinced
That there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure
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>>9002983
I miss my friend kyle
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I want to start writing books.
I figure i can crank out 90 written pages every week and sell it for 2 dollars a copy.
How do i self publish?
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You're not gonna manage 90 pages a week. Not even remotely.
Why do you want to start writing? If it's for the money, you can stop right now because there won't be any.
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>>9003198
Shut the fuck up or answer the question.
>How do i self publish?
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>>9003209
you don't
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How much time would it take to read all of these if you read moderately fast 2 hours per day ?
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>>9002965
If you were consistently reading 2 hrs a day every day I would say you could do it in at least a year.
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2 weeks
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Who the fuck cares, are you in a race or something.
Just do it, make your dreams come true
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Just finished reading the novel of the year - think DFW meets millennial moms with a hint of Pychon.
>‘Mommy! Come and wipe my butt!’ Knowing better than to ignore a demand when Violet’s wearing the tiara, I race to the bathroom to find her in downward dog, bottom offered toward the sky. There’s poop on the seat, the sink, her butt, her hands, the floor; I think I even see some on one of the pink bits of the tiara.
What did she mean by this?
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>>9002939
Don't ever post inferior roastwhores on here again, this is a redpilled board. Take this shit to reddit where idiots congregate. Don't encourage and enable women writers. Don't give them attention, it's largely why Muslims are coming to the West to destroy
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>>9002942
dude what
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>>9002942
t. Someone who doesn't realise 4chan is an elaborate ruse.
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Who is the most qualified writer to teach us about Plath?
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>>9002861
No one because women and children shouldn't learn about woman who doesn't stay in kitchen and take care of her children and husband. Women simply don't belong in art and politics and shouldn't be discussed in such manners.
Teaching children's that women's place is not as subordinate to man is what is destroying white society today; its simply degenerate of redpill values that have proven true.
Also, John green a liberal, and their simply destructive of decency and morals
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>>9002876
you wasted so much time with that shitpost
why
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>>9002876
ur a cunt m8
Is he right?
I have recently started watching seminars of The Slajov, and am interested in reading his books. Which ones should I start with with?
Also are there any good responses to him? Critique and so on
The idea of the feminist disintegration of hegels essence of the state is very interesting.
Pls dont remove i am genuinely interested in his philosophy and cultural critique and so on and so on
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>>9002856
While he is certainly a uniquely imaginative philosopher, I worry that his fundamental lack of faith in humanity means that his philosophical ponderings are nothing more than the kind of enjoyment one might derive from solving / creating puzzles. Which is a legitimate activity to be sure, but perhaps it is devoid of any kind of moral imperative.
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>>9002888
Nice trips, I also approach him as an entertainment, but thank you for confirming my approach.
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>>9002856
>Also are there any good responses to him?
Same response as to any Marxist. They're stuck in the 19th century.
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Has anyone read this? Any thoughts?
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>>9002737
Yes, it's good.
He's got such a talent for getting you absorbed. It's very easy to keep reading Zweig without noticing the ease of it.
Zweig's short stories are also fantastic, by the way, in case you haven't read them.
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>>9002753
Thanks for the input, anon!
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>Le new york review
meme
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Is this worth it? I want to learn more about Buddhism and meditation and heard good things about it but it's 700 pages long!
Anyway, general Buddhism thread?
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>>9002690
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram is better.
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>>9002690
If you want to learn about Buddhism a book on meditation is not the jumping off point. As for the book itself, I'd say there are better, more succinct books on meditation out there. I think it's very overrated in that regard. Although books on meditation fall short in general. There's actually more useful stuff to be found on random internet fora than in book form.
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>>9003323
Also, I forgot to add, meditation is a very multifaceted practice. There's different practices across varying traditions, even within traditions themselves there are different practices, that are done with different purposes in mind.
If you take up meditation, decide what you want to achieve with it, and do it under a framework that caters to your desire. If you want to bliss out on jhanas, that's cool, but then don't follow dry-insight Burmese memery for example.
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What happens after we die, /lit/?
Is it true that this one consciousness that we've obtained through sheer chance will decompose and eventually, after billions upon billions of years, reform and we'll live the same life over and over, without any previous memory?
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I don't know anon, i have never died before
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>>9002631
/thread
Please end this shitty thread now, no one fucking respond, just stop. i will be the last post in this thread
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>>9002634
>asks philosophical question
>"lol shitty thread"
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If John Green were doing a Q&A in front of a live audience, and you could attend, what would you ask him? The questions would be written in advance and chosen at random, so whatever your question is, he might have to read it and answer it.
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>>9002573
Did you have a child fetish before or after you started writing YA?
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>>9002573
Do you like to put cereal on your dick before you fuck your underage fans?
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>>9002573
why do you have such a shit hair cut?
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>tfw I just realized that I spent all this fucking time reading and writing to try to impress my qt crush but that girls aren't impressed at all by literature and that she doesn't give a shit
what do?
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>>9002549
Get some better motivations.
Realise that girls don't give a shit about anything, but they give a shit about how much you give a shit about it.
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>>9002552
any suggestions? my motivations were basically all unconscious until now, like I could kinda tell but never fully acknowledged it.
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>>9002549
develop a crush on a qt lit girl and avoid illiterate girls for a change, no?
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Hey there, I'm a little new to this board but really enjoy it... with that being said; I don't understand why everyone seems to hate "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? I find it to be an amazing book and just can't understand the massive hate. Can someone fill me in?
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>>9002518
its probably the pol memesters, pay no attention to them.
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I think it is kinda boring
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>>9002518
they're just being edgy. It's a good book. It's not shakespeare or a 1000 page meme book, and is in fact very easy to read, and accessible to normies, so anons pretend to hate it so that they feel special when in reality there is no literature that is all that inaccessible to anyone of mediocre intelligence (aside from FW)