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>>8516770
In the west the argument would have been about how women and nonwhites are oppressed and the victim would've been a white male

my entire weltanschauung is informed by 4chan memes

those fags on /int/ tried to convince me slavs were all dumb apes

this could never happen in the west today

>>8516827
It is possible that Russia is the only country in the world where you can get beaten up for saying you don't like Dostoevsky

>>8516767
My diary, desu

Time Cat

Natsume Soseki - Kokoro

>>8516684
Re-reading Schopenhauer's 'On Women'

Starting The Golden Bowl

>>8516684
Picture of Dorian Grey

>>8516606
Its great to see a passionate patrician at such a young age. Keep fighting the good fight kid

Has he down a DFW video?

he's a wee "troll" faggot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmJcTqIjRfY

>>8516598
This website is pretty interesting if you would to practice scansion. Go to the hardest difficulty setting and you'll find some bizarre metres
http://prosody.lib.virginia.edu/

>>8516617
>scansion
>prosody
So those are the terms for this sort of this.

This is really cool, actually, thanks.

>>8516598
Yeah Tennyson is one of the best, a meteical virtuoso. Maud in particular.

He believed in the spiritual supremacy of the white race which is pretty cool IMHO DESU SENPAI

>>8516581
so did Kant and Hegel, both also believed in the supremacy of the White Man

answer the question though?

>>8516595
he's the father of pragmatism which is a delightful school of american philosophy which is often overlooked because of eurofetishism

>>8516574
Wow, thay dude on the right is salty as salt.
>what would that extraordinarily intelligent book be?
I am me, you are you, how am I meant to know?

Start with the bibliography of John Green, and go from there.

>>8516574

I like steve way more than linda. so sick of running into fucking cunts like that, concerned with being 'liked' by all the other vapid cunts concerned with being 'liked' at the office. if i was picking friends i'd rather have one steve than thirty lindas. steve says and thinks interesting things, linda takes instagram selfies with friends for literally an hour before everyone heads to the club. perhaps linda goes to europe but it is a hollow experience anyways and she should kill herself.

>>8516537
Camus, if anything, is a decent novelist. He is also an existentialist. Does that work?

Nietzsche and Kierkegaard can also be considered existentialists. So there is that.

>>8516537
He wasn't really an existentialist, so yeah pretty much

no but my ex had an apartment in the street he lived in. not kidding. i plowed my ex less than 200m from where this guy came up with the most inane shit.

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>>8516530
you got meme'd son

>>8516530
BZZZT
Pynch'd again!

>>8516530
the novel is about broken communication, meaningless signs, ostensible facts
I guess that is why a statement is wrong?

I never noticed that, but I know jack shit about the topic anyway

>>8516444
Why would you read a book written by a serial killer?

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>>8516444
>not giving a f*ck

I just read the OP and i'm already sucked in.

this book sucks

>>8516442
God damn this is a shitty post.

>>8516446
You're wrong. It's my all time favorite book.

>>8516402
'Mio diarrhea' by Desu

>>8516402
Le diary de desu

I hope you did the "Start with the greeks" starter pack you cuck

>>8516381
Fuck off, frog retard

>>8516381
>frog poster
>asks retarded question
hmm

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Imo it's faulty reasoning, first and foremost the classic is/ought fallacy. Existence without purpose, no objective truth and so on are descriptive claims not to be confused with (the rejection of) moral claims and if an "is" does shape your "ought" we are not speaking of a philosophy but of something related to psychology, biology, neuroscience etc. We may philosophize about why nihilism and a pessimistic outlook on life correlate *through psychology* etc. perhaps after seeing convincing studies (or just making armchair observations like sigmund) or that once you *psychologically* accept/believe in nihilism you are free (relative to the degree/intensity of your belief) to do whatever you want because of a loss of conscience and so on -- but all of this applies only if this "is" has *psychological* impact on your "ought" (or even shapes it completely but as we all know there are no real nihilists).

So basically none of this follows philosophically. To make any normative claims from nihilism can only be the result of human fickleness explained through psychology, evolution, biochemicals and so on.

And shit, as long as we have the potential to feel and do good in this world how about we do that instead of shitting our pants and moping around because the mighty Logos has failed us? Love doesn't need an explanation.

>>8516378
he meant "look ma I'm being profound"

>>8516378
Sounds like something that dumbass Plato would write.

>>8516385
>>8516395
Why do you fags feel like you're being attacked

If you don't exclusively sit in a garden all day quoting Epicurus with your friends you're not doing it right, and you will never escape pain.

>>8516330
It's too hot for that.

>>8516305
Why do you want to be happy?