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Some say she's naive, she's a stupid bitch
Some say to forgive, guilty she should die

The beginning of the end begins at birth
Breeding masses of twisted screaming flesh
An example we should make out of theses creators of misfortune
A serious crime that should not be forgiven

The guilty one, innocent she now cries
A life of hell, better off to die
Born without eyes, hands, and half a brain
Being born addicted to cocaine

>>8513178
What... Is this?/

The Girl Next Door

will scar you emotionally

Of course he would. He would dominate anything to do with poetry.

If he does come back to life at least he'll be right at home in modern cities since he's used to seeing all black

To be fair, spoken poetry competitions tend to be dominated by millenial progressivism

Milton has no chance really

james joyce is the original meme author

stay woke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-ZH-OvbQyg

>>8513147
It's a good album anon, but what does it have to do with Joyce?

>>8513093
>translation
Not for this particular text.

I loved it, but it depends on your taste I guess. Definitely worth a read either way. He's a brilliant author. I preferred the older translation, whichever one has the translation by Havelock Ellis. Just be sure you get an unabridged edition:
http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/jkh/rebours.html

>>8513106
Sorry, introduction by Ellis, not translation.

I wonder what he would write about if he grew up patrician.

Great impression of a woman

It's meant to be a humorous reposte to "What is to be Done?" (the novel), which has someone saying he is an egoist and will do whatever he wants, and what he wants to make everyone happy, and he ends with, "Do you hear me, you in your underground hole?" Dostoevsky's character is supposed to be the guy in the underground hole writing a response, saying, "Fuck happiness."

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>>8513039
you gotta live the quixote lifestyle my friend

Because Quixote mostly consists of irony which transcends translations

>>8512986
I write in "I" but it's dishonest as fuck

hows that sound

Don't write about yourself.

>>8512986
stop caring what reddit thinks.

>>8512914
it's not long just read it

>>8512914
It's pretty horrible, but it has a few fanboys here who defend it as a work of genius. It's political existentialism mixed with Utopianism and generic anprimism with some shitty political analysis at the beginning to get the braindead interested

>>8512914
Yes. Make sure you read Ship of Fools too.
There's a website called The Electric Typewriter which has famous essays for free. Some are from environmental activists.
Go for it.

Holden Caulfield is a faggot, just like OP, so it was relatable

can't get the phoebe meme out of your head?

>>8513078
Holy..... I want more...

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find peace in the philosophy of pragmatism: things should be believed based on how well they predict results. Planes fly, math works.

Truth in the noumenal sense is entirely another matter.

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The historians of future will look back at this post with great astonishment because what they will discover is that it only took one post (a comic, to be exact) to destroy OP's cherished little logical positivism fantasy.

I'll be here when you shed your current identity and facade and adopt something equally ridiculous in its place (but for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ, please don't let it be an Analytic Marxist or a theist that churns out arguments in Quantified Modal Logic for the existence of God ala Plantinga).

>>8512835

I am partial to quietism, although I still usually feel led back to Schopenhauer or Parmenides when I try to work with what is available.

Actually, the likelihood I ascribe to metempsychosis or panpsychism has kept me from suicide, seeing as I'll just wake up again as a different mind (though obviously without the experience of continuity).

But I'm afraid this doesn't help clarify my difficulties with logical positivism.

>>8512843

I suspect you didn't read the post.

OT: did you know Alvin Plantinga is an expert on air conditioners?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDOxLh6AbQ

>>8512742
I want to pull Karl's hair while he sucks my cock

>>8512742
It was a struggle, all right.

>>8512755
>>8512803
Well done boys

>>8513974
How dare you.
He is, dare i say, our guy.

>>8514149
no, all jungians are frauds and must leave

>>8512641
Expected a good thread. Reality served me a shit one

Don't trust Orr man! Its not as happy as it all seems!

>>8512641
It's also funny though.

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>>8512619

bump.

Down to page 10 I go ;_;

seriously, no one read or have an opinion on this?

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oh! and i forgot ive also read

>Flashman and the mountain of light

>>8512619
i like royal flash the most too. tried to start a flashman post on here the other day. someone said they thought it looked to british. flasher is literally me.

>>8512618
No

Nah, not really. Dante, Milton, Tolstoy are authors who were philosophers, Shakespeare in contrast is something more of a commonsensical anti-philosopher, à la Montaigne.

>>8512618
He was too dumb, in addition to not being well read.

>There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hurr durr, more than in his writings for sure.