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>>8449691

Sounds like you just aren't into philosophy, my man.

What you're saying isn't accurate or even very intelligent.

>>8449691
>turns into absolute simpleton
>wants us to award him

>>8449691
Sorta, but in a different way, and only after starting from Plato and following the historical Western philosophy path all the way to 20th century and forming a very rigorous and comprehensive Weltanschuung

Wittgenstein made me realize that unless we stick to an extremely rigorous language and assume as few axioms as possible in philosophy, we're essentially doing baseless conjecturing. I found myself reading the likes of Heidegger, Sartre and Foucault with extreme scepticism and distrust as a result. My thoughts didn't change much then and I'm extremely glad I didn't study philosophy at uni.

It's not even funny though...

Is there any ending in literature more poignant than Molly McBloom's soliloquy?
>Ah wiz a floor a thuh moun'inz aye whin ah pit thuh rose in ma hair lit thuh andaloosian gurls ustae uhr wull ah wear a rid aye n how he pull't me unner thuh moorush wull n ah thought tae masell wull uhs wull hum as uhnnothuhr n then ah askit uhm wuh mah eyes tae ask uhgin aye n ehn he askt me wooda aye tae say aye mah moun'in flowr n fuhrst ah poot mah arrums roon uhm aye n drew uhm doon tae me soes he kid feel mah tits aw perfoom n 'aht aye n his heart wuz goin lit mad n aye ah sid aye ah wull Aye.

Yeats was pretty good 2bh

No, that's Judaism, dumb goyposter

honestly of all the religions the abrahamic ones are the most boring. compared to hindu or greek gods it's pretty weak

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Judaism easily, easily takes the cake. The entire Tanakh, all of the Midrashim and Oral Torah, traditions and traditional stories, commentaries, and the plethora of interpretations of each. Christianity is a wannabe cuck religion that is just "muh I'm not Le Jewish because they probably poison our wells and have horns" which is ironically just nu-Judaism

>>8449495
I recall reading that most great writers aren't genius-level smart, just above average. Pynchon supposedly has a 190 and you can definitely tell he is more intelligent than most writers.

>>8449495
>How much IQ
more than you

>>8449506
I never really got this statement. Is it because he references scientific things? Is it the maximalist style that seems to mirror fast thought? To me, the genius of literature is shown more in the depth of thought within the book itself. Not to say that Pynchon isn't a deep thinker, especially in Gravity's Rainbow, but I'm not sure how his style is reflective of a special superhuman intelligence unknown to other writers.

>>8449477
Society of the Spectacle

>>8449477
>the millennial phenomenon
Go back to facebook and post about how the millennials are all so lazy and attached to their gameboys

>>8449481
Actually, I am only a vidya and anime addict.

MAGA

>>8449473
do you want to see your wife be blacked infront of your eyes? Take a humanities class

Want to be self-fulfilled, succesful, confident and flourishing? Take a STEm

>>8449473
why can't you dumb fucks ever just double major? Humanities majors are ridiculously easy compared to most other STEM majors. At least do something like Econ and English, if you're insistent on majoring in humanities. Seriously, just majoring and focusing only in English really is not making the most of your tuition.

>>8449473
I majored in EECS and I usually just mess with literature and philosophy on the side. I'd recommend a similar path honestly.

>>8449469
You write an interesting post and i am looking forward to some hopefully good discussion here but am curious if you really know what Christian slave morality is.
>and he tossed it all away, and became perhaps the purest example of Christian slave morality

Could you elaborate on this and explain it in more detail what the Christian slave morality is and how you see that in Augustine?

>>8449469
Fuck off you "redpilled" internet """"philosopher"""""

Stop reading Nietzsche as a meme, and start with the Greeks next time genius.

>>8449449
The first two books of his Sea of Fertility saga are definitely his best works, but not a particularly good place to start.

I'd recommend Temple of the Golden Pavilion as a start, then Confessions of a Mask. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea is one of his more known books, but not really one of his best. Read it if you like everything else.

Patriotism is pretty good too, and can be easily read in one sitting.

If you're really into the his homo aspects, read Forbidden Colors.

>>8449453
>Sea of Fertility saga
why do you say this is isn't the best place to start anon?

Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea. The John Nathan translation.

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Sounds like your average college student desu

>>8449404
Yeah, I know lots of college students whose goal in life is to attain poetical transcendence or visionary power.

>>8449348
That he was ready to stop being pounded by Verlaine.

>>8449326
Why'd Joyce do so much heroin?

>>8449326
Is this a "meme"?

>>8449338
What makes you say that?

>>8449274
No, that would be free will

>>8449274
language is the original meme

if you read nietzsche you would know that

>>8449274
Nietzsche is very much not a meme in terms of his work and its impact though, he basically started the contemporary era of philosophy by burying the rest of philosophy under a heap of his own shit. But he was never too stuffy or serious when doing this, he just casually pauses to take a shit on it once in awhile until you've gone through all of his works and notice that there is now a massive mountain of shit laying atop the once beautiful edifice of philosophy which prevents us from ever finding it as beautiful as it once was no matter how much muck is removed. Every time we look at this edifice, no matter if it is cleaned off or apparently rebuilt entirely anew, we remember the stink he slathered all over the original copy.

Read the Zothique series by Clark Ashton Smith. More fantastical than Lovecraft (takes place in a "Dying earth" sort of scenario) but similar themes. Insane archaic vocabulary and moody stories about necromancers, mad alchemists, cult-leading ancient gods etc.

I think he also wrote some Lovecrftian mythos as well. Definitely look him up.

xenomorph fanfiction

>>8449238
Thanks, will check him out

>>8449244
>fan fiction

No thanks.

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A closeup.

what book are you reading?

Put it under your microscope.

>>8449046

You mean synthesize Faulkner and Faulkner and cowboys?

>>8449056
The Faulkner similar stops at the prose. Faulkner writes character-driven narratives, McCarthy's novels are theme-driven and almost always notably distant from the characters.

There isn't a single instance of empathetic psychological insight in BM and that's what fuels Faulkner's work

>>8449067

I was memeing friend.

as if
seemed
appeared to be
any quotation-related word that is not "said"

cut the flab for God's sake

>>8448990
A friend of mine used "dilapidated" in a sentence and had a look of accomplishment on his face. He subsequently gave us the definition without any of us asking

I use nefarious occasionally -- enjoy the way it sounds