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>“Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly.
>Garbage time is running out.
>Can what is playing you make it to level-2?”
What did he meme by this?
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>>8724947
our bodies are bunch of useless rotting fleshbags, that primarily inhabit and perceive the universe narrowly (in 3D space and by vision, respectively). our conscious needs to find a way to leave our bodies behind before its too late.
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>>8724984
Sounds quite gnostic.
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>>8724986
praise gnon
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What are some quality long books? I'm looking for a long fiction novel (600+ pages) to read. Something that goes into detail all the events of the story, but not in a tedious way like descriptions of every room the main character enters. Preffered not a book that is memed on here.
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>>8724920
best cover
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>>8724920
Atlas Shrugged : )
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Doctor Zhivago
East of Eden
Any recommended/liked book to learn french?
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>>8724840
schaums french grammar
learn vocab anywhere
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>>8724840
Tu es un faggot par Op
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What are the meaning of life for you guys?
Like, ambitions and stuff. It doesn't need to be something that applies to everyone, just that when you get it will fulfill you as a person.
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>>8724812
Your connections with other human beings is the meaning of life. Having a sucessful life is to be able to make genuine connections with other human beings, and to make strong connections and to truly Love. That is the meaning of life. Zôion politikòn and all that.
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>>8724812
define meaning
define fulfill
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>>8724812
Looking for a deeper meaning in your life is pathetic. Just adopt a completely detached ironic attitude towards everything, scoff at people who have earnest beliefs, and I guarantee you you'll feel better. It might take you some practice to internalize the mental processes involved, but the effort you put in will be repaid doubly.
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“You don’t think I’m an everyman, that’s it right!”
“I just walked in the door, why don’t we introduce ourselves.” said Lipsky.
ayy
“No, I can see it, you think I’m a Hollywood jerk!” raged David "Career Move" Wallace
At this point David Lipsky was afraid for his life but knew this would be the interview of the decade.
“Ah, about the ontological themes in your opus Infinite Jest, I wonder-”
“If we ate like this all the time what would be the problem?” interjected Wallace. There was no food or drink in sight. Lipsky looked at him perplexed.
Wallace was now doing a hoedown dance in the middle of the room, stomping his feet and whooping in a loud voice. “I’m a regular dude!” he bellowed. “I don’t care about fame! I cherish my regular guyness!”
“Did I mention I own two dogs and drink diet coke?” said Wallace.
Lipsky cast his gaze around the warm, dirty living room. There were heaps of empty diet coke cans everywhere and beach towels used as curtains on the windows. The words “I am a regular guy. Fame doesn’t bother me. I cherish my regular guyness and drink diet coke” were etched into the coffee table in a crude script.
“Hey, let’s go get some dirty Nebraskan pussy at the hoedown!” exclaimed Wallace. “Oh, you’re gay? I know a megachurch we could huff paint in then burn down. Did I mention I named my book after a line in Hamlet? It fucking sucks being rich and white, that’s what it’s about. That’s all brown people want to read about, attractive wealthy people wringing their hands over our futility of it all. This is off the record right?”
Lipsky was appalled at David’s behavior. He contemplated getting up and leaving but Wallace was blocking the door with his large frame.
“Hey I know, let’s get your girlfriend on the horn. It’s only 3am in New York .”
Lipsky was terrified at this point and surrendered his girlfriend’s phone number.
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>>8724734
Is this from the book or the film? If book, how well does the film adapt?
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Super kek rip dwf
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>>8724754
Dude OP made this up it isn't from anything
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
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>>8724637
>When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
If only this were true.
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>>8724646
neetbux aren't "your own money"
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>>8724648
I buy a book every week with my own money. I even get a 20% employee discount.
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Why shouldn't I use passive voice? I like the way it sounds and I especially enjoy it when using it with passive or mixed up characters, I think it adds to the mood
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>>8724363
Synthetic or analytic?
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>>8724363
It's usually more wordy and lacks the force of active voice.
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>>8724420
What if my point is that my character lacks force and doesn't know what the fuck he's doing? What if the point is that none of the characters know what the fuck they're doing?
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Music you listen to while reading? Preferably instrumental.
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>>8724331
Basically anything Ambient (the genre, not like sounds of the Amazon or whatever) or IDM. Try Brian Eno (Music for Airports and Music for Film are good albums), Boards of Canada (Music Has the Right to Children and Campfire Headphase are my favorite albums of theirs), or the One on Twoism series (various artists, Volume I is my favorite) are worth checking out.
Also just start looking into "classical" composers and the like and see who you enjoy. Béla Bartók, Aram Khatchaturian, and Sergei Rachmaninoff are among my favorites outside of the obvious and most well-known like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, etc.
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>>8724366
>Also just start looking into "classical" composers and the like and see who you enjoy.
>listening to classical while reading
No, just no. Classical requires a larger amount of concentration than any other type of music. You can do whatever you want but don't pretend you can retain anything from both mediums when listening and reading at the same time. Unless it's something you've listened a hundred times then I don't see much problem.
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>>8724381
I'm really sick of this response. Obviously you aren't listening to the music in the same you would as if you were just listening to it alone. It is perfectly ok to use it as background music while reading. It should also be listened to by itself, but there is nothing wrong with having it in the background while you read.
>>8724366
Oh, and Celer. Absolutely beautiful ambient and drone music. Husband and wife duo, unfortunately the wife died several years ago. You can find a series of articles that details their relationship and the background of how they produced their music if that interests it. Their story is as beautiful as their music.
Which one should I tackle next?
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>>8724146
literally any
whichever seems the most interesting to you.
I read Catcher in the Rye recently, and that was great.
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>tackle
Kek'd
Read Of Mice and Men. It's short and for the most part super comfy.
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>>8724146
Anon, that's not how it works. Yoiu're supposed to read one on the list then throw yourself against Magic Mountain. Also what the fuck is Huckleberry Finn doing on that list literally 7 dialects.
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Why arent there great russian poets as there are writers?
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there are, but russian poetry translates even worse than standard prose so people aren't as familiar with them
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Russian_Poetry
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>>8723923
What the fuck did you just fucking say you little bitch?
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Which one should I read first--Beyond Good and Evil or On the Genealogy of Morality?
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>>8723871
genealogy
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>>8723871
BGE
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Genealogy of Morals.
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Which translation of meditations does this come from? 2016-11-14 20:24:42 Post No.8723810
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Which translation of meditations does this come from?
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I looked over the penguin translation that my Uni has, but I like pic relateds version much better.
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Looks like the penguin translation.
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>reading white cis males
wew
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>>8723834
correct
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wtf, I hate anarchism now
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if he believes in a borderless world with no nation-states then how is he going to expel anyone from France?
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>>8723741
Kill them
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>>8723733
wtf i love anarchism now
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why is life inherently boring. take away man made entertainment and this shit is brutal
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>>8723699
There are three possibilities:
1)you're a child, and have no freedom
2)you're in prison
3) you're poor and lack creativity.
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>>8723699
made entertainment is part of life. also by made entertainment Im assuming you mean everything form tv shows to simple entertainment of wrestling a bear or skiing.
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>>8723699
Only boring people get bored.
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Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulacrum 2016-11-14 19:49:50 Post No.8723675
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Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulacrum
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Explain it.
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>>8723675
dude what if the matrix lmao: the book.
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>>8723675
A copy of a performance of a copy of a performance of a copy of a performance of a copy of a performance of a copy of a performance of a copy of a performance of a is fucking with your mind.
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>>8723677
Not at all mate. It's
dude, maps covering entire territories, lmao: the book.