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>>8783140
Spook is a derogatory term

>>8783140
Its logically impossible for egoism to be a spook

>spooks
>the ego
>the self

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>>8783061

>>8783074
Is this like a wapanase Nigeru Farage?

Nigel Farage is kind of like nigger fag now I come to think of it.

>>8782726

Do you already have a good idea of the areas of interest in philosophy, what types of questions it tries to answer, and an overal history of its development?

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>>8782726
This is pretty accessible.

>>8782728
Are you telling me to start with the Greeks? Because I'm planning to in 2017. I just feel like I'll be lost during difficult philosophical texts if I have no real experience.

>>8782431
> graphic novels

" Someone came up with the term graphic novel. These readers latched on to it; they were simply interested in a way that could validate their continued love of Green Lantern or Spider-Man without appearing in some way emotionally subnormal. This is a significant rump of the superhero-addicted, mainstream-addicted audience. I don't think the superhero stands for anything good. I think it's a rather alarming sign if we've got audiences of adults going to see the Avengers movie and delighting in concepts and characters meant to entertain the 12-year-old boys of the 1950s.""

Alan Moore: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/22/alan-moore-comic-books-interview

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>>8782438
Long lost brothers?

>>8782438
I'm not a huge fan of superhero movies as well but The Incredibles is GOAT

>>8781778
Change it again.

>>8781783
I don't understand.

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>>8781778
>you will never have a porcelain princess gf

>>8781686
Can we all just admit that Bloom is a hack with bad taste? He literally just likes what he imagines a good critic is supposed to like + Jew stuff. Corncob McCorncob writes terrible, empty dribble.

this book wasnt good

>>8781686
I like it. Sorry /lit/.

It's not for reading, it's for diving in and out. Even Schmidt said it wasn't for reading cover-to-cover. It's like a weird museum where you look at a bunch of clever/unusual/thought-provoking stuff for a while and go home.

The chart anon insisted on taking all the votes at face value, despite everyone asking to have that and Jerusalem left off.

>>8781154
I'm currently 1/3 through Jerusalem and then it's next on my list.

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Do not read.

Contemplate.

Aristophanes

The Phenomenology of Spirit

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http://pastebin.com/ryuuKTSm

Requesting some more critique on this scene, which is a part of my autistic novel I posted some of above as well. Basically the main city is under siege and losing the war, and the cities around it are falling one by one. So the main character decides they should launch an attack on the enemy's capital since they are doomed anyway. I am curious; does this move too fast? Should I add more interludes? This story is very long, this is only a tiny fraction of it, and I am trying to cover as much material as I can in as few words as possible. I just am curious if I am going too far. And any opinions on my writing in general. This is a raw first draft I just finished minutes ago. Please try to ignore the autistic parts. Thanks in advance, I will try to critique your stuff if you post your own pastebin with your critique. If not I will post my critique of you in the next thread, or leave an email and I'll email you your critique. I try to be nice to people who help me.

Will critique OP in just a minute

>>8779064
Stilted and robotic. Just awkward af.

>>8779064
>>8779150

after reading both of these i really don't think we have any right to laugh at reddit anymore

>>8779150

i've never seen so many cliches concentrated into so little prose

you both need to stop writing a pulpy novelization of a movie you have in your head, and try and write a story instead

libcuck -> libertarian -> Nietzsche -> republican -> 1488

>>8778879

same desu senpai

apolitical/liberal -> edgy special snowflake fascist (third way pseudo-anticapitalism) -> marxist

I'm a girl btw

>>8777906
Any contribution to my question?

>>8777906
haha

Are there any literary journals that don't publish a lot of pretentious bullshit? I agree with this article, I just want more like Dubliners, Moby Dick, and Wuthering Heights. Anybody sympathize?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/

>>8775995
The Paris Review

>>8776895
Thank you. Any reasoning?

This pic probably makes this sound
>Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

>>8775463
What is the criteria for "know"? Because every European I've met has very loose criteria for claiming to "know" a language

>>8775463
I'm a native English speaker, so why should I know more than one?

>>8774824
Getting away from things that oversaturate political topics like social media will help more than literature will. There's so much white noise, non-news now that keeping up with it so regularly is exhausting and toxic.

Sounds like you just need some distance - whether or not you agree with it, you can get degenerative groupthink pounded into you by sheer exposure. The opinion vaccuums we create in our social media profiles doesn't help.

Just read something nihilistic, even if you don't agree with the philosophy it's nice to see media that shrugs its shoulders at how banal following the news has become.

Might want to start with Epicureanism / classical hedonism, then move toward stoicism. Epicureanism posited that a good life was the result of keeping one's needs in accordance with nature - i.e. having a deep appreciate for the simple pleasures in life, or at least those that were most readily available. Anything that causes painful stimuli should be avoided where possible. (in your case, you should probably avoid politics and politically opinionated people, since that's just causing you misery)

Stoicism is a bit more on the cynical side. The stoics believed one should accept the world for what it is and not allow external things to influence one's emotions, regardless of how miserable circumstances may be. In practice, that takes a tremendous amount of willpower, which is why I think Epicurus' doctrines (hedonism) are probably a lot more practical for the average individual.

>>8774845
>Getting away from things that oversaturate political topics like social media will help more than literature will.

This too. Just stop listening to / reading about others' opinions.

>>8774845
>Getting away from things that oversaturate political topics like social media will help more than literature will
I'm sure this is true, but I don't have friends, just books and the Internet.

I exist in a balance between wishing I was never born and wishing I will never die.

>>877432
nothing is in my mind, wbu?

Never, ever trust a person of the female sex. They are unable to keep it in their pants.