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What book gave you a sense that there are things worth doing in life?
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>>8439600
my diary dessu
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Dubs and I end it
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"Brevity is...wit" - William Shakesman
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Dunkey pls go back to vidya
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Brevity's wit.
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>>8439602
Bravo /lit/
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Pushkin's prose translated by the preeminent translators of Russian literature into English, the unrivaled husband-wife tag team, the world's greatest, Pevear and Volokhonsky.
Finally, finally, we will be able to read the Russian Shakespeare as if we were reading him in the original Russian.
Are you ready?
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Why the hideous cover though ?
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>>8439570
>Pevear and Volokhonsky
I've heard some pretty negative reviews of this teams translations, specifically of their translations of Bulgakov and Gogol.
This may all be hand wringing and 'tism from native Russian speakers, but then it's hard to find a review of a specific translation that isn't just a promotional circle-jerk.
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Megan Boyle keeps a copy of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus on her toilet so she can shit on philosophical nonsense while she shits. Why don't you?
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How old is that bitch?
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>>8439545
One must flush away the contents of the bladder, so to speak, when one has already flushed it out.
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>>8439550
30.
Liveblog when?
are there any good books about relationships and shit? not PUA shit. i'm talking about something to have a better understanding of what a girl wants.
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>>8439467
Your problem is that you're looking for "what a girl wants." You're thinking that they all want the same thing. You could try maybe listening and paying attention to whomever you're interested in.
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>>8439939
But I'm a coward.
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>>8439948
There's no book that can change that. That's purely up to you.
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Worth reading?
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>>8439396
yeah
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yes, he's a top japanese author
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What does /lit/ think of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind? I've been told that it's so foundational that many practitioners don't need anything else aside from it.
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Considering Shunryu Suzuki's life, I don't think so.
Start with a familiarization with the actual teachings of the Buddha, then move to Zen literature.
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>>8439361
It's a relatively easy read, coming from a guy who reads about 1 book a year
I thought it taught me a lot about buddhism, it was certainly more entertaining than d.t. Suzuki's work
I'd recommend it
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This is actually bad advice considering that zen is not the same as buddhism, a common misconception. this is a reddit tier argument, in the west, but serious zen practitioners would tell you to make a clear decision between zen and between buddhism, because when you muddle the two you're basically creating your own religion. the same could be said if you were a christian but you like a lot of buddhist philosophies. At that point you're not following the divine law of Christ but creating your own system of good and evil.
tl;dr
either start with the book as a introduction to zen
or research foundations of buddhism but don't do both because thats bad.
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are aku no hana and boku no mari the most /lit/ manga in existence?
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>>8439347
Aku no Hana isn't even that good. And it ended in total shit. Even Blame! is more /lit/
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>>8439347
Flowers of Evil is great but I haven't read the either. Most /lit/ manga is probably Goodnight Punpun though.
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>>8439347
>Nippon
>Books
pick one
All they read is guides, study books and manga, and entertaining the idea of translating French poetry to moonruned language is ridiculous.
Reminder that japs don't say
>that book is mine
they say
>book me
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Ancient Greek Philosophy General
Questions and answers, suggestions, discussion about the greeks.
Get in here!
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Could /lit/ share some advice on writing good essays.I'm a stemfag but I'm taking a course some psych course and it wants us to reflect on our first weeks in college. Am I supposed to be truthful about how hard my cs/math classes are? Or do I just sugarcoat and say its going great im happy etc
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Read more.
t. Fellow stemfag
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>>8439240
You could try reading a few famous essays or something.
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>>8439240
If I understood you correctly, you want to write a good essay, not an honest one. Start writing.
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Thoughts?
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>>8439222
don't use flash
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>>8439225
yeah neither do i now desu
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>>8439225
I mean on the book, not the picture
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Delusional but ill-willed. A flawed human being laughed at by his peers. Rendered vulnerable by his insanity, he was laughed at instead of helped.
A noble and tragic figure in a way
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Delusional but not* ill-willed.
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>>8439177
Look at him and tell me he could have been saved.
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Perhaps 10 years ago
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Why do fine artists pretend to be philosophers?
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>>8439122
Its a comic by jeroom, not from some shitty meme website.
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>>8439135
>jeroom
which makes what difference?
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Have you noticed that religion is used solely for social posturing these days? If you suggest that the church may not have been the least bloodthirsty thing in the world in the past you get insulted.
I'm not saying that religion is the only conduit it greed and oppression, simply that it's a damn good one. Stop telling me to read the Bible or give a shit about a particular set of stories.
Zizek is bad with this as well. "Atheist Christian" my ass. His comedic / posturing routine really hits its apex when he talks about that shit.
Oh yeah, and of course you get people talking about religion or philosophy in some faggy literary theory way rather than stuff that literally happened and they pretend the latter never happened. "It-it was a prank bro!"
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>>8439092
You should have said Christianity, then you might have been on to something. But instead you made yourself look stupid.
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>>8439092
Nice looking, fedora.
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>>8439092
Yes. Religion is just posture. Real ascethics learn everything they can from other doctrines/philosophies, form their own set of beliefs, and don't share it with anyone.
Any good reads on dealing with misanthropy?
I don't want to feel this way, I don't want to idealize people only to then feel disappointed and disgusted later.
How do I accept people as flawed and nasty creatures yet love them and help them?
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>>8439055The Holy Bible, especially the New Testament
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>>8439055
Misanthropy is for ohsoedgy teens.
A mixture of filanthropy and neutrality about the human race is the truth.
If you can't accept that people are flawed and do things that you don't like then you have a pretty big ego and you should fix yourself.
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>>8439125
>Misanthropy is for ohsoedgy teens.
Within environmentalism and animal rights misanthropy is extremely common.