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Do you think your life's story is worth turning into a book at this point of your life? 2016-09-16 20:02:53 Post No.8516280
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Do you think your life's story is worth turning into a book at this point of your life?
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lmao no
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In capable hands, sure. Otherwise, lol no
>There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus
what did he mean by this? That we have to submit to 'muh SJW equality'?
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>>8516205
>That we have to submit to 'muh SJW equality'?
you're approaching it from such a retarded angle I don't even know how to respond.
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>>8516205
uhmmm don't you know that alien cartoon character is a Nazi? kind of messed up that you'd post it...
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He means ultimate gnosis is the cessation of all individuation, and the City of God is a Parmenidean whole, so if you want to have awesome fucking religious wars and beat the shit out of your wives, you'd better do it a LOT while you're in the Earthly City and really get get it out of your system.
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ITT books that you will never finish 2016-09-16 19:14:12 Post No.8516130
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ITT books that you will never finish
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What books do you keep starting with the intent of legitimately reading only to lose interest shortly after ?
Pic related is a book that I will never be able to devote myself to. Every month or so I pick it up with the aim of finally striking it off my list, and every time I lose interest within the same day. The furthest I've gotten is 105 pages and I keep forgetting why I stopped reading until I try starting again. The writing is god-tier at times, but the style of the book is a chore to get through.
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pleb general?
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>>8516135
No, I wouldn't say so. I don't find it difficult to read books in general, just this one specifically. Challenges are fun, but for some reason reading Ulysses just doesn't feel rewarding at all. Jung's critique of the book is very accurate.
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>>8516141
Same here.
Same book.
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A lot of people here seem to dislike the analytic tradition of philosophy. Why is this the case?
It seems to me that contemporary analytic work is by far the most readable and comprehensible, and covers the whole range of traditional philosophy. A likely explanation is that most people probably don't read the major changes that have happened since the 60s or so - and they end up equating logical positivism with analytic philosophy as a whole. But it's apparent that anglophone departments are not doing philosophy in the way conceived by Russel or Moore, and their fairly dogmatic positions on the role and limits of philosophy have been largely abandoned.
For instance, metaphysics is a respectable discipline now, as well as various revivals of ancient ethics and re-assessment of medieval thinkers. I think it's safe to say that "analytic philosophy" conceived as a rigid logicism that only clarifies arguments and plays haindmaiden to science, is a useless and outdated conception.
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Its mundane, banal and reductive.
The aim of analytic philosophy is not to expand the possibilities of thought, it's simply descriptive explicating the world as it exists in common understanding.
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>>8516085
It's mostly women and liberals who shy away from it because they've been taught that rationality and logic are patriarchal and white supremacist capitalist concepts that oppress.
They'd rather think with their feels than with reason
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>>8516092
How does continental endless regurgitation of Marxism and postmodernism expand thought any more than analytics?
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are there any books that are exceedingly "uncomfy?" You guys are always asking about how certain books are comfy, but in my experience, every fucking book provides a comfy experience.
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
I can't believe anyone can think like that.
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Beckett's Unnameable
v. uncomfy
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Lord of the Rings if I'm honest.
Its got a good story but the pacing is pretty shit and the whole Tom Bombadil and scouring of the shire scenes feel very out of place.
The Hobbit is max comfiness though
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Is Lord Dunsany the comfiest of writers?
If not, who is? We need to settle this in time for autumn.
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>>8516016
Yeah, I need some opinions on this too for my rainy fall evening reading--horror or not.
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>>8516016
Algernon Blackwood is comfy too.
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One of the comfiest fantasy authors
What books can give me the same sense of nostalgia, regret and wistfulness as Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion?
Books about a better world long gone, or past glory being forgotten and ignored.
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>>8515983
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Though it is very oriented around war and less around travelling listlessly like in Fellowship of the Ring.
- possibly Don Quixote
Most fantasy writers are poor readers of Tolkien and don't understand why so many people react with incredibly melancholy while reading Fellowship. I wouldn't trust any modern Fantasy to grab you the same way. Read the classics, especially East Asian material. Tolkien's European influences aren't very emotional to the modern reader, except perhaps Beowulf.
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>>8515983
Growth of the soil gave me that feeling, but in a different way than LotR
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>>8515983
If you're not opposed to short stories some of Lord Dunsany's works have a similar feel imo, and are very atmospheric I guess is the word.
Carcassonne is a good one to start with maybe.
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Post excerpts from your diary.
Pic related: it’s one of Tolstoy’s diary.
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>this is my diary desu
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>>8515931
Dear diary, today was a great day
Bought myself a brand new horse
Shes strong and fast and so very beautiful
and just a little wild of course
I know tomorrow I can tame her
If I only believe
Wish me luck diary,
Christopher Reeve
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Dear diary,
Some faggot made a diary thread and I'm feeling paranoid.
THE END
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>The sea at night seems so scary
>So dark as if it might swallow you
What are lines from?
They seem extremely familiar. I feel like I've read them many times.
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I heard something similar in The Act of Killing
"Imagine, in all this darkness, it's like we're living at the end of the world. We look around, there's only darkness. It's so very terrifying."
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>>8517083
In what way is that even slightly similar?
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>>8517534
great thread
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What the fuck? He's completely off the deep end. Fucking madman.
This unreadable garbage. Fuck.
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>sideways pic
opinion discarded
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>>8515909
how many people here keep dustjackets? I tend to discard them even if the book is new
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>>8516030
I fucking read with it on, as looking at it when I put it down with no jacket truly disgusts me.
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Why did so many philosophers have deep admiration for Quine 2016-09-16 17:48:59 Post No.8515862
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Why did so many philosophers have deep admiration for Quine
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i just found out he was politically conservative?
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so?
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>only left wingers can be SMAHT
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>>8515899
OP is baiting for this response
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If postmodernism is still the current fashionable thing how is academia so full of ideological bullshit?
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>>8515838
Because your daddys a cuckold
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>>8515838
explain to me how having postmodernism fashionable is in anyway a contradiction to an academia full of ideological bullshit
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>>8515855
Postmodernism is critical of ideology, at least in theory.
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Has /lit/ read pic related? 2016-09-16 17:34:46 Post No.8515800
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Has /lit/ read pic related?
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I just started reading The Quiet American. Like it so far, has anyone read it?
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>>8515800
>muh indochina
>muh 1950s Saigon
GOAT tier. Made me want to spend the rest of my life in a sweaty, tropical, opium-induced stupor, shacked up with a Vietnamese qt in downtown Saigon.
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>>8515800
ooo, im gonna read this
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>>8516018
Made me want to smoke opium with Phuong
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Where do I begin with political philosophy?
I know the usual answer is "Start with the Greeks", but what particular works are truly helpful in learning about the philosophical side of civics?
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Republic > The Prince > Das Kapital > xenosystems.net
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>>8515750
• Marx, Capital, Communist Manifesto*
Recommended: The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd ed., Robert C. Tucker, ed.
• Bakunin, God and the State,* Statism and Anarchy, Bakunin on Anarchism
Recommended: No Gods No Masters, Guerin, ed., Sharkey, trans.
Anarchism: From Theory to Practice,* Guerin, ed., Klopper, trans.
• Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
• Freud, Civilization and It’s Discontents*
• Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, Tristes Tropiques, The Savage Mind, Myth and
Meaning*
• Lacan, Ecrits, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Look into Critical Theory, too.
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>>8515750
Politics are a farce and only involve the best liar. It's all fucking stupid.
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Who were your favorite characters?
Mine in order
>Orr
>Yossarian
>Major Major
>Nately
>McWatt
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>>8515715
Aarfy freaked me out by the end
But I liked yossarian the best
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i liked hungry joe
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>tfw no 12 year old virgin gf that's actually a 33 year old fat balding prostitute