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WHY DID HE KILL HIMSELF?
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>>8845497
wtf he's dead?
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holy shit that drawing is bad
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>>8845497
Because he saw the gas bill.
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nothing more pleb than only reading the classics.
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Your shill technique needs a lot of refining. Think of the frog in the pot.
Make the novel gradually more visibile, take advantage of stack threads, what are you reading threads, rec threads.
Dedicated threads with antagonistic OPs will only drive people away.
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>>8845441
oh I'm not trying to shill that specific book, but newer books / not the classics in general.
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>>8845435
If he had just written the damn book and not tried to format it like he was some avant-garde asshole it would have been better.
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Who is the greatest philosopher of our times, and what is their best work?
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>>8845403
Philosophy is two things: the search for the good life and the search for the truth.
I think that the greatest philosopher for the good life is Marcus Aurelius. For the truth it's very hard to say because nobody contributed more than a few percents to what we know about reality today in light of philosophy. The most important historically is maybe Plato or Kant.
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Hans Hermman Hoppe
Democracy the God that failed
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Is this worth reading casually? As in, I'm not trying to become a fucking war strategist.
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>>8845396
>As in, I'm not trying to become a fucking war strategist.
luckily for you that requires an actual technical military education and not just flicking through a book of very short, millennia-old aphorisms
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>>8845396
>I'm not trying to become a fucking war strategist.
Well that's too bad buddy because once you made your way through this gem of roughly 100 pages you will rival the likes of Napoleon, Caesar and Alexander the Great whether you want it or not.
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>>8845444
>whether you want it or not.
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I did it, boys. I walked into the library, actually talked to another human and became a member. I'm gonna make it.
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>>8845384
>another one who is better than me
i should just kill myself.
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>>8845388
I believe in you.
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>>8845388
Please do.
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does /lit/ recommend any icelandic literature?
is laxness or the sagas worth looking into?
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Brennu-Njáls Saga is okay
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Ruse Lolo Swaglord Hobo bear-Renko-Taco king of Carpal Tunnel stupid fucking le Dumb Cat Poster
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>>8845343
"Trymskvida" by Snorre Stulrason is pretty good desu. The story of Balder's death is also quite good.
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>>8845343
Im almost done with Independent People now. Amazing book - characters, tone, and descriptions of the landscape all fusing together to make the ultimate comfy experience. I wish it was more widely known in America, desu.
Read the first chapter sitting on a rock near Reykjavik. Transformative.
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Cop or not?
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>>8845309
>Cop or not?
what did he meaned by this
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>>8845309
Is it
>How I Stopped Being A Jew
or
>How I Stopped Being: A Jew
or
>How I Stopped: Being A Jew
or
>How? I Stopped Being A Jew
also: Schlomo Sand, top fucking kek
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>>8845309
I don't think you just get to stop when your name is Shlomo
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what book should i get my mom for christmas?
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>>8845214
Tao te Ching. No memeing.
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gET HER lAURIE pENNY'S FEMINISM BOOK
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>>8845214
Something she would enjoy
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I used to be an absolute bookworm when I was younger but then PC games happened. Now, I want to get back into cultivating a reading habit, albeit in baby steps. I made it a goal for myself to read ten books in half a year without double-ticking (don't tick a classic fantasy novel under both categories). I also already decided on the kinds - four novels (2 fantasy, 2 non-fantasy), one self-improvement book, two classics, one play/epic, one (auto) biography and one non-fiction book. By non-fiction I mean stuff like, IDC, something about mechanics or learning a language or whatever). Now, my problem is that I can't decide which ones to read and/or where to start.
To give you an idea of what I like, books that I've read before include the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan (and some of her other works), Bernhard Hennen's Die Elfen (FYI, I'm a native German speaker) which is quite high-fantasy like, Harry Potter, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Le Moulin Rouge by Pierre La Mure, parts of Beowulf, the Epic of Gilgamesh and The Poetic Edda and of all things a biography about Eminem. In my weeb- days I also devoured the Spice and Wolf and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya light novels.
I'll gladly wait for any answers and recommendations
Thanks in advance!
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>>8845145
>10 books in 6 months
Whoa ladjust read on the shitter and you will do it by mistake
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>>8845165
I know it's little, but between being at and sthdying for university every day, spending time with friends, family and girlfriend as well as working part time and giving supplementary lessons, I don't really have much time to read.
As for reading on the shitter, I take that time to check my mails and social media.
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>>8845173
As a human being who has worked a 60 hour a week job for college whilst being married and having a kid and also having gone to university, i declare you full of shit
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Anyone know of any great books about anarcho-capitalism?
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There are none. Go to bed.
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Just play Kaiserreich
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>>8845115
>For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard
>Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard
>Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman
>Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans Hermann-Hoppe
Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
I would warn you that Hoppe has an issue of thinking "things i like=libertarian and things i don't like (such as homosexuality)=incompatible with libertarianism"
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What do you think /lit/? 2016-12-15 11:51:17 Post No.8845094
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Considering whether to dip for a $30 old model, ~$100 for PW/Glo HD, or all in for this Kobo Aura One for a first ereader.
Thoughts?
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>>8845094
I don't care.
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>>8845094
Glo HD/Paperwhite
There is no reason to get premium ereaders, im convinced they exist only to cater to that tiny sub-section of high income earners that want to have the most expensive toy.
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>>8845094
please ask /g/
polite sage
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Intellectual inferiority complex 2016-12-15 11:44:32 Post No.8845082
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Intellectual inferiority complex
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What's the point in living if you can't understand the sciences? How to deal with just not being smart enough to do anything that really matters?
Suggest philosophers who dealt with how to stop worrying and love mediocrity. No stoics pls.
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>>8845082
You don't have to be armed to the teeth with equations and proofs to make sense of science or mathematics. William Thurston is the most wonderful proof that maths is just as imaginative as it is rigorously logical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKSrBt2kFD4&t
RIP, what a lovely human being :(
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>>8845082
Reassess your ideology you simple child.
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>>8845082
Taoists
Possibly solipsists
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Is the idea of meme, as Dawkins proposed not a contradictory statement, just like relativism is.
Proposition: Every proposition is relative
This proposition itself is thus relative and not necessary true.
Proposition: Every proposition evolves and is regarded as true due to cultural/environmental circumstances
This proposition exists not because it is true but due to the environmental circumstances.
This seems to be the same kind of argument, am I wrong?
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Yes, you are wrong. The first example is a paradox, but there is no self contradiction in the second. The key word is 'regarded' that you used in the second example. The idea of a meme has nothing to do with relativism.
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>>8845040
>Every proposition evolves and is regarded as true
Not every proposition is regarded as true. Next.
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>>8845729
>Next.
It's remarkable how much a single word can convey.
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Has anybody here read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Due to being a procrastinating fucking retard, i have 15 hours to read the entire book and write about 5 quotes (700 word assignment) for my English course.
Is there anybody here who read this book and enjoyed it?
If so, would you like to help me with my assignment?
My 5 quotes need to be about:
>Characters
>The climax of the story
>The language of the book (way of speaking, storytelling characteristics)
Anybody feel up to it? I can't offer much as a thanks but my gratitude and boosting you in league of legends.
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Just read it you moron. And because you are too dumb to get some quotes, despite having read it, i recommend you to snatch them from goodreads.
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its not that fucking long
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>>8844868
I'm really fucking sleepy and I can't read the entire book in one day. I'm not good at reading for a long time.
No one has to do it, just seeing if there's some dude with a passion for the book who would like to help a dumbass out.
If no one's up for it, i'll just snatch some quotes from various book analyzing websites and write my own interpretation of it.
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>poetry
>2016
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>>8844822
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
when it chose to reply to bait again
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>>8844831
Trust me, it's no bait. I just don't feel like it is relevent anymore. Only prose matters now.
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>>8844834
Well, I shan't hear of it! Poetry (good poetry) is beautiful, and beauty is its own use.