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How can objective morality exist in a godless universe?
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t. brainlet
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You just find some other object?
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you saying our world is subjectively moral?
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How to read slower and also improve reading comprehension 2017-08-21 04:56:51 Post No.9922003
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How to read slower and also improve reading comprehension
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How does one learns to read slower instead of just racing through the words and actually understand and remember what he just read. For example I'm reading an intro to metaphysics and this sentence doesn't make sense to me at all when the philosophers mentioned have the opposite stance of the one claimed here:
>and others still (Parmenides and Zeno) who deny that there is a special class of objects that do not change.
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Take notes. I read through first time quickly and get the general ideas then read it a second time, taking notes in each chapter and to finish I write a one page summary.
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>>9922003
If your having a hard time reading it's cuz of a loss of passion.
have you ever noticed when reading something that really excites you it's like you're not even reading you don't even notice the Pages going by it's just one big flow, a symphony of interest and you're taking it all in and years later the not only do you remember what you had read but you remember where it was on the page when you had read it ?
It's like working out. You gotta psych yourself out. Get pumped up
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>have you ever noticed when reading something that really excites you it's like you're not even reading you don't even notice the Pages going by it's just one big flow, a symphony of interest and you're taking it all in and years later the not only do you remember what you had read but you remember where it was on the page when you had read it ?
I like to read it but when I get stuck on some sentence that makes absolutely no sense and there is no source on google about it I get really discouraged since I might miss something else later.
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Where can i find e-booked Völkisch literature (paricularly The Warwolf: A Peasant Chronicle of the Thirty Years War
Author Hermann Löns) in English?
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I don't know but I can recommend you some Völkisch literature.
Adolf Bartels' Die Dithmarscher (1898)
Hermann Burte's Wiltfeber der Deutsche (1912)
Hermann Grimm's Volk ohne Raum (1926)
Will Vesper's Das harte Geschlecht (1931)
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north american authors can't writ-
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He is a jew
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Would this book be a good starting point on Roth, anon?
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north american authors can't writ-
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>There's a limitless volume of information out there waiting to be absorbed, and here you are reading genre fiction.
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Those who read fiction are unable to face the brutal reality so they choose the reality simulator "lite mode" which prevents them to be killed or injured. Once taken the veil off, one proceeds to find an ideology which describes the laws of the world the most accurately.
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>>9921889
OH SHIT RICK I TURNED MYSELF INTO A PUPPET RICK!
HAH WOW MORTY THAT'S ACTUALLY KINDA *BURPS* COOL *HICCUPS*
NO RICK I THINK I'M FREAKING OUT
HAHA WELCOME TO THE PUPPET SHOW KID
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It is I, Lao Tzu, here to empart my divine wisdom on your dumb ass
In the pursuit of knowledge:
everyday something is added.
In the pursuit of enlightenment:
everyday something is dropped.
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philosophy is for failed artists or scientists. no one would choose to be a philosopher over a genius composer or a genius scientist, because it is always a last resort profession, for failures and frauds
>Nietzsche - wanted to be a composer and failed
>Wittgenstein - wanted to be an engineer, failed, wanted to be a mathematician, failed, wanted to be a musician, failed
>Heidegger - wished he was a poet/artist, failed
>Schopenhaur - wished he was a musician so that wouldn't have to live his boring philosopher life, failed
>Russell - wanted to be a great mathematician, wasn't as smart as other mathematicians and so opted for philosophy
>every single modern anglo philosopher - wished they were mathematicians, but failed, so they try pathetically to use mathematical symbols and logic in their philosophy so that they can at least get the aesthetic of it
Philosophers are also all sad manlets trying to compensate for low self esteem
>Heidegger was like 5 feet
>Wittgenstein - 5'6"
>Nietzsche 5'8"
>Camus - 5'7"
>Kant - 5'0" LMAO
>Sartre - 5'0" LMFAO
>Derrida - 5'5"
>Zizek - 5'8"
etc. etc. etc..
Philosophers wish they could make an impact on the world, they wish they could create beautiful works of art, they wish they could be good looking Chads, but they always fail, so they try to argue their way out of it, reason their way our of it: "I may not be able to get that cute girl, but, uh, it's because I'm the Ubermensch, hehehe, right guys!?" Every philosophical theory has been overturned, and philosophy has NEVER come up with a definitive answer. It is a failed field, and no one takes it seriously. Philosophers are all sad, pathetic, delusional people.
>inb4 philosopher manlets try to refute this with "hurr durr spooks!" "muh muh philosophy was before science so therefore uh, uh, it's superior" or "surprise you've been doing philosophy ur whole l-life, haha gotcha!" or literal philosophical reasoning, proving my point exactly
LMFAO
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>it is good to be a normie
says the normie
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we have this thread every day comrade.
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>>9921829
Those names will live on through the ages. As for your name? Who are you? Wait...who cares?
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What will you be reading inside during the eclipse? 2017-08-21 03:50:53 Post No.9921806
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What will you be reading inside during the eclipse?
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Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
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Blindness
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>>9921806
W.H. Gass essays from the Finding a Form collection.
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I am trying to read Brave New World, but for some reason I can't stand the prose. How do I power through it? Also, general /complaint/ thread, I suppose.
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>>9921799
Audio book while following along
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What was meant by this /lit/?
Is it true that people should stop reading white males authors?
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comet suicide homo
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Whites need to start using ethnic pen names to protect themselves from discrimination is all, just like how women have long adopted male pen names to protect themselves from discrimination. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using pen names so you are judged not by the colour of your skin, but the content of your work. No matter how people want to spin things, no matter what mental gymnastics they want to use, the only reason you would be against people disguising their race with their pen names is to enable people to select books based on racist criteria.
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Anyone else so intelligent that they scare people? Are there any books/poems for this feel? Ever since I was little, I have always terrified my parents with my cognitive abilities. When I was 8, I once verbally destroyed my father in an argument so badly that our relationship has been awkward to this day. My teachers have always disliked me to a certain degree because I always terrified them with my intelligence, and of course, one hates what one fears. When i was in an English class in high school, I remember monologuing about Shakespeare as the jaws of my teacher and fellow students dropped, their eyes wide and afraid because of the sheer depth and profundity of my intelligence. In college, I have learned to tamp down my intellect, lest it scare off possible sexual conquests, connections, and professors. I know what you're thinking -- scaring off sexual conquests with your intellect? It should be the other way around, shouldn't it? I too, felt, since I was young, that that should be the case, and in some instances, perhaps it may, but in my own, my intellect is beyond the erotic, so fearsome that the people in my vicinity simply cannot withstand it without shivering in fear or apprehension: can a man like this truly exist? what is this man capable of? Can human potential really reach this far? But, I truly do not mean to brag, and I apologize if that is how this came across: what I have said is just for context. What I am really looking for is book recommendations, as this is, of course, a literature website and not a personal blog. so i will reiterate, once again: are there any books for this feel?
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>Killing a book thread for a blog thread
>Thinking you're not a dick
Turns out you're just a dick and not very smart OP.
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Why do you need so many threads just to jerk off?
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it's a teenage girl trapped in a neckbeard's body. she's probably just on her period.
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Is his view of religion philosophically lazy?
He states that because religion is the human expression of moral values that it is therefore necessary for a moral society. Yet if it was truly the human expression of morality then the morals would already be naturally ingrained into society making religion useless.
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Bump
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Isn't that a chicken-egg issue? If its naturally ingrained wouldn't that make us likely to create religion? So the human expression of morality being naturally ingrained is why we invented religion, so Dostoevsky is not incorrect. Religion is not artificial, its fundamental part of our minds and part of our evolution. Humanity can't really be meaningfully separated from civilization, we're basically a different species now than we were 10,000 years ago.
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This is literally just a list of brands and products
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>duuhhhhr i read for the plot when there's already a movie for that experience and i dont even know what the point of reading a book is in in the first place
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could you be more illiterate?
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they're not even the right brands and products. they're a list a pseud would check off. just imagine instead of clothes he's /lit/ saying "but you can't read heidegger without aristotle of course"
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wtf i love Catholicism now 2017-08-21 03:29:42 Post No.9921751
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wtf i love Catholicism now
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"Christianity has perhaps chiseled the finest specimen of human society of all time: the specimens of the higher and highest Catholic clergy." - Nietzsche
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"The way in which reverence for the bible has been maintained in Europe is perhaps the best cultivation and refinement of morals that Europe owes to Christianity. Such books of death and of ultimate meaning need to be protected by an external tyranny of authority in order to secure the duration of millenia, which are necessary for their exhaustive interpretation." - Nietzsche
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ok
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well then why didn't he leave it the fuck alone if so much of morals and civilization depended on it? He was smart enough to know that criticizing it served no purpose other than to give ammunition to degenerates
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Where do I start with Aristotle? 2017-08-21 03:00:27 Post No.9921676
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Where do I start with Aristotle?
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Has any of his shit been disproven? Anything I should know before tackling this guy?
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This motherfucker blew Socrates the FUCK out for all eternity.
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>>9921743
How could he have intentionally blown him out when he was a close follower and wrote all dialogues with him as a character except the Laws? It's also generally said that his early dialogues were the views of Socrates. You must be memeing.
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Scaruffi's "Best Novels Of All Time" (since 1850 and only one per writer) 2017-08-21 02:57:24 Post No.9921667
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Scaruffi's "Best Novels Of All Time" (since 1850 and only one per writer)
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http://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/best100.html
what do you think, /lit/?
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go to best novels of all time
>V. is #8
go to best novels in the English language
>V. is #34
>Underworld appears twice at #40 and #21
I will give him props for having The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (#35) on there though, that book is never mentioned here on /lit/ but in my opinion it's one of the greatest novels I've read.
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>>9921667
Go back to /mu/ motherfucker.