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What is /Nael/s endgame?
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>>9941633
Destroying cages locally and globally
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>>9941633
Is this the original formatting?
This changes everything. This discovery makes every modern Nael scholar practically useless. What are the implications of centering the "YES"?
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>>9941705
moving the lines unexpectedly is a common way to get an ever so slightly longer pause between them, while further emphasizing the word.

Tell me good books with edgy content that revolves around life and how meaningless it is. Books that show you the banality of lifez sending you into a abysmal depression of a existencial crisis just for a time later, you returno knowing that utimately, all your actions will be for nought and the world will make another turn while you being a slave of society will do the same, with the ilusion you had achieve something, but in reality, you are just marching into the deep, deep darkness that is the void of nothingness.

So yeah, I am looking for edgy books like this.
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>>9933438
I will, as long as you can verify these views to be true
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-Mainlander-
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Going Native by Stephen Wright. Masterpiece

Is this book good? Should I buy it and read it? I keep reading about it everywhere.
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>>9933430

You shouldn't get your recommendations from Youtuber.s Especially that centrist faggot Vernaculis.

Sage
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>>9933435
I got it from this place, tho:
https://aldaily.com/
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>bongs fight for freedom
>they are now not even allowed to own sharp spoons
>they are now forced to buy a license to watch state sponsored liberal propaganda named after black men's benis

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consider this:
which works are the most popular (also in mainstream philosophy)?
easy to understand shit that makes pseuds feel good or smart but doesn't require high cognitive abilities.
why should that have been different with the greeks?
most of the works from that time are lost, isn't the chance high that only the easy to understand shit survived because it was copied the most?
consider Aristotle for example, he is what in the sense of Nietzsche I would call "feel-good philosophy" for the herd.
what if western philosophy and literature was based on the most basic stuff the greeks had to offer?
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this is the problem with worshiping tradition in general. old does not equate good. bad stuff also lasts the test of time.

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>Muh Chesterton

There's a reason why no one but edgy fascists and people who like stupid adventure novels like this guy, and why Anglo-American intellectualism has discarded him. Grow up you twats.
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>>9941549
Meh, you can appreciate an author's ideas even while disagreeing with him overall. I understand why Zizek likes him.
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>>9941549
What fascists like him? Gaiman loves him.
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>>9941549
I like him and I'm a Trotskyist. Sometimes you can like people you disagree with.

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pic related
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>>9933377
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
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Fuck off.
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>An Introduction to Conspiracies: Possibilities, Foundations, and Limits
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
- James H. Jones
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of ‘Brainwashing’ in China - Robert Jay Lifton
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
An Atlas of World History - Patrick O’Brien

>Globalism: The Socio-Economic-Political Framework of the Modern World
A Brief History of Neoliberalism - David Harvey
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Michel Chussodovsky
Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 - Charles Murray
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life - Charles Murray
The Clash of Civilizations - Samuel P. Huntington
Neoconservatism: Biography of a Movement - Justin Vaïsse
The Road to Iraq: American Neoconservatism and the Iraq War - Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

>Culture, Media, and the West
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
The Culture Industry - Theodor Adorno
The Culture of Critique - Kevin MacDonald
Edward de Bernays - Propaganda
Jacques Ellul - Propaganda
The Disappearance of Childhood - Neil Postman
The Abolition of Britain - Peter Hitchens
The Death of the West - Pat Buchanan
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam - Douglas Murray

>Special Interests and their Role in Public Policy
The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, & the Attack on U.S. Democracy
War is a Racket - Smedley D. Butler
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Wall Street and FDR - Antony Sutton
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler - Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution - Antony Sutton
Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development - Antony Sutton

>The Rise of Intelligence Agencies
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive & the Secret History of the KGB
The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors - Herbert Romerstein
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government - David Talbot
The Pinochet File - Peter Kornbluh
Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up - Lawrence E. Walsh
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion - Gary Webb
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade - Alfred W. McCoy
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State - Glenn Greenwald
The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program - Jeremy Scahill
The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam - Douglas Valentine
The Terror Enigma - Justin Raimondo

>Miscellaneous: A Possible Divulge?
Tragedy and Hope - Carroll Quigley
The Anglo-American Establishment - Carroll Quigley
Diplomacy - Henry Kissenger
Between Two Ages - Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Grand Chessboard - Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Guys, I keep hearing how people are stupid to question religion or the "incredible transcendental nature of continental thinkers". If you dare to ask why you shouldn't believe in any other unfalsifiable system you get abused.

So what are the benefits of pretending, I mean, knowing Nietzsche's "profound truths" (that nobody can agree on) or about any other area of bullshit, I mean, deep thought?

Does it let you walk on water or do a physics degree in two days? Where are all the superhumans kept? Surely they choose to use their incredible powers outside the Critical Theory or Women's Studies department?! Their powers are being wasted!
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Alright Jordan, you can go now.

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How do I evolve out of Vonnegut/King/Palahniuk core?

I honestly enjoy the majority of their books a lot and don't know how to change it.
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You're in the Seyda Neen of literature

Stop trying to perfectly plan your route to the next logical location to proceed to, in a perfectly straight line, after Seyda Neen

Just fucking leave Seyda Neen

Remember to pick up 4 of each flower and mushroom along the way
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>>9941352
fuck that drug dealing catboy
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>>9941337
Don't change it. Just enjoy what you enjoy. There's no real reason to do otherwise. You can branch out and read different and "harder" things without giving up your enjoyment of those authors. Don't feel pressured by all he patrician/pleb memes here, just have fun with the hobby of reading.

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https://mega.nz/#F!MQBRHBJA!L_on3h-XUrtbc719UaMygw

5 GB of philosophy PDFs
containing the complete works of:
-Aristotle
-Schopenhauer
-Spinoza
-Cicero
-Cioran
-Nietzsche
-Hegel
-Arendt
-Bergson
-Kant
-Derrida
-Rosseau
-Wittgenstein
-Heidegger
-Foucault
-Plato

Also a bunch of philosophy related Oxford Handbooks and other stuff

hf
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wow ty
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>>9933362
>pdf
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>>9933362
>no greeks besides Platozzz
shit list

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Thoughts on this?
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>>9933353
A little too long for him, but I liked it.
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>>9933353
Loved the writing at first, but once the meat and potatoes of plot swung into gear the details bored me. I do want to try again in the near future.
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I think I would have liked it better without the "epilogue" though from what I've read it was originally conceived as a short story that comprised precisely that epilogue.

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/dec/14/you-can-t-speed-read-literature
>The celebrated academic Harold Bloom is a lightning fast reader; blink and he's probably turned the page – twice. In his prime he could churn through 1,000 pages an hour, which means he could have digested Jane Eyre during his lunch break and still had time to chew through half of Ulysses before returning to classes
>1,000 pages an hour
Is the TRUE POWER of aestheticism?
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I really have to doubt he was able to turn the pages that quickly with his chubby sausage fingers.
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Oh shit, maybe he wasn't lying when he counted 'dozens' of the phrase 'stretched his legs' in the book Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and has just become senile?
Maybe he has dementia and marked his envelope, went back to the page, saw 'stretched his legs', marked it again and so on.
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>>9941167
"Stretched his legs" doesn't even appear once though.

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Just finished time of contempt, what are your opinions on this series?
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>>9933256
Bump
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Meh
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the witcher is better

Can we have a civil discussion on the female side of beat generation literature?

Personally I think that the big three, but also Bukowski, were actually pretty terrible people, but I think their biggest failure was their disregard for a female perspective, even when they had exceptional female writers as their own wifes.

Why did they choose to not give a fuck about anything but themselves?
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>>9933255
because they weren't retarded?
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>>9933255
The Beats were a meme movement that produced nothing but dogshit. Leave it to women to become pseud groupies
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>>9933255
I think Burroughs shooting his wife and letting his son get raped by his degenerate faggot friends was much worse than not giving a shit about female perspectives.

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Thinking of getting into this large beast. How was it? is it worth all the time investment?
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>>9933222
No. You could read Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milton and the Bible as well as the whole commentary of Thomas Aquinas on the Gospels instead. Comparatively, what would you say is worth your time? A bunch of beautiful and timeless works or a contemporary 10 volume fantasy enjoyed by nerds only?
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>>9933231
>page for page comparison

I really hope you don't read Milton at the same speed as you would with Game of Thrones
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>>9933241
This would be about 1/2 of the page count of Malazan, but you are right.

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Anything I should read / know before diving into pic related?

I don't wanna waste half a year getting through it, just to realize I missed some important background.
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half a year? its book for a week if you have life,2 days if you neet. There aren't any prerequsities, only have decent brain which you seem to lack.
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>>9941055

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hyperbole

you're welcome
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>>9941055
A week? It's 900 pages. Spotted the neet.

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