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Does stoicism really lead to happiness? I feel as if abstention from vain pleasures and pursuit of knowledge and virtue just lead to a numb life. What branch of philosophy do you believe best leads to happiness?
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>>8857622
Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom not happiness. Happiness is more closely related to understanding psychology and physiology than philosophy.
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>happiness
what a meme
purpose and social cohesion is far more important and giving than happiness
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Aristippus of Cyrene. His hedonism as described by Diogene Laërtius is very inspiring for me. Stoicism is helpful too during hard times. The philosophy of life as a material for art from Proust can get you through really tough times also and is maybe the most inspiring... Very synthetic, sorry, but here are the points.
>RRRRREEEEEEEEEEE FUCKING NORMIES
Is this the most cringeworthy book ever written?
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>He and his son would spend their nights searching for UFOs through telescopes and binoculars, and when they believed they had found one would roll out the cloudbuster to suck the energy out of it. Reich claimed he had shot several of them down. Armed with two cloudbusters, they fought what Reich called a "full-scale interplanetary battle" in Arizona, where he had rented a house as a base station.
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>>8857623
That's pretty badass
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>>8857623
This is what quality father-son bonding looks like
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You guys ever wonder if Greg got his shit together?
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DIARRHEA
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tfw when unironically read this.
who else /ZooWeeMama/ here?
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>characters that are literally me
Somebody gave me this (for free) today. It's from 1958. What should I expect?
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>>8857474
The Canterbury Tales translated by Nevill Coghill
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>translation
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decameron 2
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Computer? What program do you use? Paper?
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>>8857441
Paper.
Typing is more contrived, it changes the form in my experience. I guess that can be okay if you prefer to type, but I think everyone should at least try writing with paper.
If I'm out or have nothing else, I've typed phrases and rough motifs on my phone and worked them on paper when I get home.
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>>8857441
Don't call me Computer
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>>8857468
fuck what you want
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>Our civilization’s trajectory is irreversible. We are being psychically culled by illusions, and our machines are now domesticating us. Corporations are plotting to build sub-realities via trendy virtual-reality technology that celebrities will soon endorse as fashion so they may act as gods to the under classes. In a matrix of their own creation, the spiritual peasants are all too eager to submit.
>Sexual intimacy will no longer be intimate, the act will be as mundane conversation; we will be monitored by artificial intelligence through every medium for “our own protection”; and humans will always feel incline to erode morality through slogans relating to love and freedom, believing that it is part of evolution, conditioned from birth to worship the institution.
>The narrative will not be conquered from within – faith must be put into intangible higher orders. Do not submit to the good of mere machines.
are there any postmodern-antimodernist thinkers/writers out there?
https://westcoastrxers.com/2015/11/06/nobodytm-and-postmodern-antimodernism/
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>>8857370
The greatest tract on this is of course Theodore J. Kaczynski's Manifesto, which made lots of academics very uncomfortable.
If you want some light reddit tier reading, try Kurzweil.
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>>8857377
Why they feel uncomfortable?
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>>8857377
>Kurzweil
transhumanism seems a pretty pro-modernist narrative to me
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Anyone here speak Russian?
I'm already bilingual and I was thinking on picking up a 3rd language. I was debating between French and Russian but I'm leaning towards the latter simply because of the superior lit.
So realistically, how difficult is Russian? Without full immersion can one get a solid degree of fluency or should I just give up and settle on an easier language.
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>bilingual
English doesn't count because it's piss easy
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Native here. If reading fluecy is all you aim for, russian shouldn't be that difficult. Cram up all declensions and conjugated endings and you can start reading, the grammar is very simple and flexible. Spoken russian would be harder because nobody in Russia talks with correct grammar, everyday language is highly idiomatic and implicative.
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>>8857399
Mostly active sentences with no retarded word order?
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How many books have you read through this year? At which pace will we make it to transcending wisdom?
I'm at 35 full novels right now, hoping to better myself for next year.
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>>8857352
I was just counting and I estimate to have read a maximum of 10 books, not counting reading material for my uni studies. This doesn't sound like many, especially since most of them are quite short, but it is actually a pretty good number for me as I am a beginner. I'm happy with it but hoping to read even more next year.
Do you feel that you fully experienced all 35 books, OP? Whatever that question means.
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19 but i spend like a half a year on reading bible
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>>8857488
OP here.
I'm a slow reader normally but I was able to make some time for reading because I was preparing for unversity this year. Thomas Manns The Magic Mountain took me like 2 months though. The rest of the books were in the 150-500 pages rank. I don't feel like it was that much idk.
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Do you write about your dreams? Do you think its a good exercise?
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>>8857304
Are there legit cameras in my house or do you have a telescope or something?
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>>8857315
kek'd
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>>8857328
This is illegal
Is there an (at least somewhat) established English translation for 'kollektivroman', that is a novel starring a collective rather than one main character or a couple of main characters?
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Sounds like some commie bullshit
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>>8857288
it is in fact an interesting concept. I recommend you works of Lion Feuchtwanger.
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Traktorhjulen går runt, runt, runt
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What is your absolute favorite book?
Mine is Bizancio because it's the adventure of a monk named Aidan going to constantinopla and it's filled with dangers and more adventure, and by the end you feel the nostalgia along with the character. Better than any D&D book ever.
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>>8857271
Recommend Laurus and The Name of the Rose
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>>8857271
The Third Policeman
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>>8857298
The Name of the Rose I have read and it's good but not as good as Bizancio
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Hello all. I'm new to writing a book.
I'm writing a novel that's in script format right now only because it's more of a layout. then I'll try and novel format it.
My question is. I have this habit of using blank lines between all paragraphs I write. It came from high school when they talk about over spacing everything.. Is that accepted in the book world or should I do paragraph, enter, paragraph..
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god I love home improvement
mostly cus my name is tim but it was genuinely really funny up there with frasier
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>>8858437
nobody cares
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>>8858442
fuck you
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So this is a joke, right?
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>>8857260
I dont think so. Please tell me why you think its a joke?
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/lit/ is a slow board! Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own
>try to make thoughtful, well-written posts
you had one job OP
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So this is a joke, right?
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Have I the finished Philosophy Journey?
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I usually feel like I grow out of Philosophy ideologies after a time and move on up to better ones. I look down on the philosophy works I don't agree with anymore.
But have agreed with Albert Camus ideas for two years now. So my question is is there anything beyond Absurd-ism etc.
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>>8857243
Stoicism.
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>camus
can this meme please die already
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>>8857278
>camus
>i am still a teenager
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Any books on how to live a fulfilling and happy life with positivity?
I'm sick of reading philosophers poisoning my positive state of mind, i'm sick of looking for the truth, I just want to be happy.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now
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>>8857227
Read Eckhart Tolle already, but all this enlightenment vague bullshit is making me more anxious than before.
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Do you really think the stock family man is happy? He has to give up any self-pursued dreams in order to work a 40+ hours a week job to support kids who will grow up to be degenerates and a wife who will likely cheat on and divorce him.