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>>8634564
My diary desu

I don't know, maan.
Check out William S. Burroughs.

>>8634574
fuck that guy.

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>Women are cereal.
I can't respect him after saying that.

John Green twitter thread?

>>8634563
Because DFW is a meme hack

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44917

>>8634361
No, no. We don't post good poetry here. We post edgy, wholly and intentionally pretentious excuses of "prose" very well much our own and call it a thread. s-so bye

When life gets hard, and life gets tough
no pleasure is ever enough
for when we die, and die we will,
our pleasures all amount to nil.
Pity.

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>>8634253
>also id like some more cool intellectual bromances like pic related to read about so drop your favorites in the thread if ya want

>>8634267
fuck i should have mentioned them.

its one of the best bromances in history but everyone knows about those niggas

>>8634132
Seems interesting, I have a liking for this kind of stuff, might check it out.

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>>8634132
Don't forget your Aran knitwear for maximum comfy

>>8635875
>planning on getting soaked to the skin while reading
wtf are you doing m8

>>8633972
bimp

>>8633972
Rhetoric? What are ye, a damned sophist? A man who speaks well is a man who speaks truly!

Probably a guide teaching NPDA.
The good form of debate

>>8633496
He's a white male so he gets a pass for me

>>8633496
I read most of Man in the High Castle and it was kind of shit.

How does it stack up against his other works?

He was an insane loser junkie so /lit/ identifies.

He was a gnostic heretic, of course he he is suffering in hell

>>8632994
Neither

>>8632994
Real question is
>Which circle?

Of Hypernormalisation, or of Adam Curtis?

>>8632795
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz6u7xRznjY

My diary desu
sempaitachi wa ochinchin ga daisuki nandayooo

The older the house, the older the owners.

You can tell everything about a man by the way he does everything.

Weddings are the only time a couple truly knows one another.

Who would win in a fist-fight?

using schopenhauer language or system, convince me to not killing myself soon(i really love living but at the same it is hurting me so much and i desire so much things and i do not know what to do and i am feeling like it is a one big rollercoaster where nothing is true and certain)

tell me something about schopenhauers ethics

read and write

read and write

read and write

if you want to be a faggot that writes about the actual world, then go outside and live life out loud. if you want to be a literary artiste, become a hermit and embrace the abstract nigga

>>8631977
>but how do I become a writer?

Read as much as you can. Write as much as you can.

>>8631977
A lit degree is a mistake. You will work 30-36 hours a week, unless you are european where you can get off doing like 20.

That leaves what, 148 hours left in the week? Plus you have real world drudgery to inspire you. As long as you read widely you dont need a shitty creative writing class, shit like that is a scam

>Skipping the Kabbalistic encoded messages
The New Testament.

>>8631884
None of it. It's the fucking literal word of God, why would you skip it??? Hope you burn in hell

>>8631894
the whole thing?

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http://www.goodreads.com/christophalus

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https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/47415218-john-conquest

>>8630050
Fuck you Sebastian, you mentally unstable fuck

I havent read it OP, but that cover looks badass.

>>8629455
>not teleologically suspending the ethical

But for real, it's the foundation of S.K.'s idea that taking a leap of faith and believing in God is the only way to truly practice religion. Keep in mind what time period he is writing in. It's the 1840's and all the hubbub about Enlightenment has waned in Europe and the population is feeling pretty directionless. Out of this angst, Kirkegaard writes a bold defense of faith based on the idea that "what else leads to anything better" (it's way more complicated than that, but that's all I remember from reading SK a while back). Fear and Trembling is the most extreme example of someone blindly putting complete faith in God, going as far to killing his own son, only to be rewarded for his loyalty. He then explains how the Abraham-Isaac myth is much more compelling suspension of the ethical than any Greek myth. There's a lot of other stuff in there that I forget, but that's mostly what it boils down to. I read this book out of a Kirekegaard anthology and a lot of his writings about the Christian church pair well as companion pieces to F&T. SK was pretty disappointed with Christians in Denmark because since Denmark called itself a Christian nation, Christians didn't actually have to stick closely to the principles laid out by Jesus Christ, they could just say they were Christians by default. The same idea applies to F&T, if you're not willing to kill your own kid on a dime because God calls for it, you're really not much of a Christian. Total submission to God is the only spiritually rewarding conclusion

>>8629455
>read one book of the bible
>read no philosophy whatsoever
>surprised when he can't understand one of the latest big name philosophers who built on literally thousands of years of existing philosophy

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