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>>8952997
don't
i'm serious

pls dont

Honestly you only need to read the Second Sex.

Everything beyond that is hysterical misandry.

>>8952993
Just write. You're seriously overthinking this, choose a subject, or a theme, and write write write!!

>>8952993
>the greatest waste of time you could ever waste was writing because it's basically a time spent on a whim of a chance.

wtf
I think you're just making anxiety ridden excuses for laziness anon. Not to be rude, I do the same thing.
But just write my friend and you will see it is not a waste of time.

>>8953129
This.

Unsubstantiated pseudo spiritual bullshit

A religion for lazy people

>>8952938
All religions are for lazy cowards who are afraid to die btw

Have you listened to lectures by Alan Watts, OP?

good thread.

>>8952952
elaborate

>>8952930
Avid? More like, avoid.

>>8952875
Coates is a hack
saged

>He's a fucking MacArthur Fellow
I am still pissed. Fuck the Obama years.

Godawful. Everything he is saying was said better by Baldwin, Cruse, etc. All Coates brings to the table is the sickly metallic tang of capitalism fucking your throat. He's a sanitised, watered-down, divvied-up and parcelled-out Baldwin. A new generation of house nigger, the new and improved house nigger, who has found a way to suck whitey's dick while still feeling like he's the edgy rebel. Integrate without giving up any of the pride of rebellion, "rebel" without any of the actual difficulty or obscurity of it.

Primarily read by white college students who are the white versions of himself. Capitalism-sanitised, liberal society-approved, status quo non-upsetting slacktivists who want to dabble in the nigger problem, like a hobby, a little accessory or badge they can pin to their faggot hipster newsie cap without ever having to do anything, commit to anything, or be anybody other than a passive consumer.

The deepest pathos someone like Baldwin addresses, the impossibility of a modus vivendi with white people, the impossibility of sanitising or normalising the problem into a little "cause" you can go on CNN and jerk off over, that's what Coates embodies.

Coates is to black people and race issues what an overfed university-educated """"Marxist"""""" from the upper middle class is to leftism. Totally fucking sterile.

>>8952803

They are almost exactly the same books.

It's basically an American version of Celine who fell in love with booze and fighting at an early age. Not as literary or epic, but still a good story of an outcast kid.

I was living in Boston a couple years ago, boozing a lot, when a random guy at the bar pushed a copy of Ham on Rye across the bar towards me. He told me he'd give me the book, but only under the condition that I'd also give it away randomly at a bar when I was done with it. The book was a slight shock, in a good way - I hadn't heard of Bukowski before - and after I was done I gave it away at a bar. Good memories. It's hard for me to read Bukowski now, though, since Celine is basically the same thing but way fucking better. (Have you read Normance?)

>>8952803
It's like a man who drank too much and couldn't decide whether he wanted to be John Fante or Celine.

Personally, I liked Bukowski. Then I started to hate him. After some time went by I picked some of his books back up and started to re-read his stuff and found myself thinking it was pretty okay. Enjoyable, but nothing monumental.

What do you mean by shorter format

>>8952823
The original interview is around an hour and a half.

I have condensed most of his points down to about 17 minutes so it's just easier to watch.

The stuff I took out is largely him just being overly self critical or repeating the points in different ways.

The full interview is worth a watch but I just wanted something easier to share.

Infinite jest hasn't been translated in my country, would someone care to send me their copy? I really don't wanna read the PDF

>>8952724
The greeks I find are fun to read. Platos dialogues and specially Socrates Aplogy is fucking bonkers. But Im not really into philosophy. Anon above me could be right for all I know. Anyway my point is: Sauce on that gif? Im lonely and horny after seeing that help a pleb out

>>8952825
i know cartoon images get me so horny too

>>8952724
You should read Ladyman's book "Understanding Philosophy of Science". It's about the best introduction to epistemology you'll find and is ideally suited for someone who has no prior experience with philosophy. There's even a pdf download available at the second result on google.

Different stuff

>>8952670
i just can't read pure ideology. it has to be filtered through a cultural lens of story and characters.

>>8952670
Totally different. When I study , I'm focused , practically I'm IN there and when I read a novel or something else than academic stuff I'm enjoying it , I'm tasting every bit of a well written novel , be it fiction or non-fiction.

google it fag

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>>8952641
Rest assured that any book with the words "quantum" and "feminist" in the title is complete pop-sci quantum mysticism trash that isn't even wrong, just delusional. The fact that such a name even interests you should be distressing enough in itself, although it appears you do not have the metacognitive capacities to recognize that you're probably retarded.

That said, there are real books by real philosophers of physics that address conceptual issues related to quantum entanglement and associated problems with nonlocality. You should probably start with Tim Maudlin, who wrote the excellent "Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity". Mary Bell, wife of John Bell (of Bell's Theorem fame) just released a nice collection of essays from prominent philosophers and physicists on this topic titled "Quantum Nonlocality and Reality: 50 Years of Bell's Theorem" which looks very good. There's other stuff if you want to dig deeper but that's where you should start.

>>8952641
From reading the title and description it looks like pure dogshit to me. If anyone has read it and can deny that it's dogshit I would be very surprised.

This is the mindset of the typical anti-trump voter. The lack of instant gratification for them means it isn't worth their time.

>>8952612
sometimes when you work hard to appreciate something, the benefits of that hard work comes to fruition in ways that outweigh the initial hard work. also, as one toils, the toil itself becomes easier and easier, and eventually one is hard pressed to find something unworthy to toil over, if at least to get a taste of that age old pleasure.

>>8952630
Gratification is my middle name

>Students want to decide what they need to learn to become educated.
Great idea.

>>8952569
i wonder wich meme i am

hopefully sad frog hes my fav lol

>>8952569

roll

Boccage's poetry.

>>8952562
What's the white-redpill?

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>>8952439
>tfw no matter how much Robbins I read, my jaw will never be that alpha.

I actually watched the Tony Robbins docu just for gags at first, thought I was only going to watch a bit of it.
Started out cringy but I stuck with it, was kind of inspiring tbhfam

>>8952452
There is no denying that he can offer hope to a certain type of person.
Those people tend to be morons

>tfw you started lifting weights, but don't want to get too jacked and have people think you are a meathead.

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>tfw schizophrenically worried that OP is a parody of me because I unironically think this to some extent even though it's tempered by more humility and realism

>>8952330
Post your work :^)