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What are some good books on psychology?
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TMWMHWFAH
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I think your best best is to ask someone who studies psychology and ask what books are must reading in their universities?
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>>8642854
Écrits
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Is it "for all intents and purposes" or "for all intensive purposes"?
I am having a fight with my uncle over it.
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It's "for all intensive porpoises".
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>>8642774
this
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Your uncle is right
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>getting STEM masters
>also get short stories being published regularly by serious magazines
What now, commie humanitiescucks?
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vox day's blog doesn't count as a serious magazine
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>>8642719
impoverished nu-male literature major spotted
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>>8642721
Post stories or GTFO pussycat
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what is the /lit equivalent of kino? I'd like to read some kino.
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Problem Child 2
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nyrb
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when is mook going to send /tv/ to the firing squad?
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Any dystopian transhumanist literature? 2016-10-21 15:25:20 Post No.8642612
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Any dystopian transhumanist literature?
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2016-10-21 15:25:20
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I keep seeing this 'transhumanist' stuff on the internet and it is always highly optimistic about the future.
So I am very interested if there's any literature that deals with transhumanism and that is critical or even dystopian.
Preferably something that deals with more than technology alone.
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>>8642612
my diary desu
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>>8642624
You are a great person with much substance, would love to read your diary to be perfectly honest!!!!
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>>8642612
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
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The girl i have a crush on gave this book to me.
What am i in for?
She always talks about horses, but i really like her. I can vaguely rememeber that Turin incident.
What does this all mean?
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We gonna go on about "horse girls" for a hundred posts again?
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Sage.
Stop reposting old threads.
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>>8642599
>horse girls
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Who here is a literature postgrad and what are you studying?
I'm writing a thesis on Philip K. Dick
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>>8642552
>one venti caramel macchiato please
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>>8642555
I'll stick with cheap scotch, and speed
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>>8642564
Atta boy.
My thesis was on Barth (Funhouse) and Coover (Burning).
Had a really really great time. Now I'm doing copy/edit stuff for a newspaper and editing textbooks. Keeps me sharp desu.
Also cheap bourbon and Vicodin for me.
What's more beneficial?
self-awareness/consciousness or plain intelligence?
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What is one without the other?
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Plain intelligence.
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>>8642501
Plain intelligence. Awareness is suffering.
A non-concious superintelligence will take over the universe and we will perish.
Praise Gnon.
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what went wrong?
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women
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Women are thoughtless, morally empty animals.
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>>8642495
Maybe in the western world, yes. My perfect waifu is a grill that doesn't into internet and lives on a farm in some eastern country
Why is stoner philosophy so disrespected? There is some theory that the universe is a simulation farm meant to produce specific results over infinite planets and compressed time. Is that not a million times more interesting than those frenchh faggots?
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>>8642460
even more interesting would be the theory that if you found out a specific thing (with no indication of what that thing is) it would cause a atom-bomb like effect of causing an exponantial increase of knowledge that would expand your mind into the infinite!
Or any other stuff you could make up. It's generally considered more worthwhile when theories have a relation to actual contemplation though.
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I wouldn't say that's 'stoner philosophy' exactly, that usually boils down to "Woah", and I don't mean that disrespectfully because if you just stop over-analyzing and observe the night sky it certainly does evoke that feeling. You had me interested in your thread until the last sentence.
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I truly believe Joe Rogan will be considered an important philosopher of this era. All his ideas like OP are far ahead of his time and will be the norm in one hundred years.
Holy...ahm no, no yes ahm, that is to say, boy...
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>>8642456
good post
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>>8642457
great post
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>>8642456
lmao hoppin with flavor!
this book has so many memes
A few sources told me to read The Stranger. I liked it but I don't understand what's supposed to be so amazing about it. Can anyone tell me why It's so highly recommended? Also is there a better Camus book I should read?
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You clearly aren't the target audience for the book then.
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>>8642466
What are you on about I said I liked it. You've got nothing to say about why it's praised so much?
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>>8642466
Also it was a lot like Nausea and I preferred that.
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Got a "gift card" that can be used to buy only books but now I'm having trouble to choose which ones to buy. I'm trying to focus on references and hard to find. I'm excluding literature because I have no trouble reading on screen. Easy to find and cheap books are being excluded because I can get them later as needed.
So suppose you have 5k and you must spend all the money on books. You cannot sell them later to take back the money. How would you choose which ones to buy?
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>>8642296
buy all the hardy boys 10 times and spend the rest on crack
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>>8642296
5k? Who did you scam, anon?
Clever touch coming here for recommendations instead of suspiciously buying a ton of random expensive books, though.
Good luck.
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>>8642296
Those are different girls
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>The choice between the blue or the red pill is not really a choice between illusion and reality. Of course The Matrix is a machine for fictions, but these are fictions which already structure our reality. If you take away from our reality the symbolic fictions that regulate it, you lose reality itself. (…) I want a third pill. So what is the third pill? Definitely not some kind of transcendental pill which enables a fake fast food religious experience, but a pill which would enable me to perceive not the reality behind the illusion, but reality in illusion itself. (…) Our fundamental delusion today is not believing in what is only a fiction, to take fictions too seriously – on the contrary, it is not taking fictions seriously enough.
What does he mean by this? How do you perceive "reality in illusion itself"?
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T H E O R Y
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>>8642196
To see the truth behind the fiction, why we do it and what does the fiction we make up mean. In other words, theories that explain the meaning of our fantasy
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There are people that dismiss everything as "illusions" or "social constructs" and think only atoms are real. But of course things like language, traffic rules, laws are social constructs that are very real. And so-called illusions like "meaning", "identity", "morality", categorization and even "perception of time and space" are more real than some particle that nobody cares about like B mesons.
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>Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
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>>8642114
what did he meme by this?
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>>8642114
recent theories on predictive coding and the minimisation of free energy might render freud correct in some vague respects. maybe not the poets bit.
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>>8642114
> Campbell and Laing understood schizophrenia as a quest for meaning. Yet neither went so far as to call it a fruitless search. People only go to escalating extremes if they are perpetually unsatisfied.