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Is /lit/ aware of this site?
How useful does /lit/ find this?
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>>8373055
good for lyrics
idk what else but that's probably all
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>>8373060
http://genius.com/albums/James-joyce/Ulysses
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>>8373064
my favorite album desu.
How would you react to God if any of the Abrahamic religions are right /lit/?
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Uhh, idk
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Punch him in the fucking face!
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>>8372982
go to church more often
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Should I read this?
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STGSTV is a great album
Demian is ok, kind of chessy
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Yes! Reading one book may give you insight to others you read later on. You might pick something up from the book that was referenced in another book that you read earlier.
Reading a book you haven't read before is always a good idea, even if it doesn't feel like it at the time.
What should I read before going into this bad boy?
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most things
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Some shorter stuff by him, so you get a feel for how he thinks before you dive into it. S&Z isn't as difficult as Critique of Pure Reason or the Phenomenology of Spirit, but it's still hard. It's saved, though, because the things Heidegger talks about can actually be related back to your lived experience. When he talks about inauthenticity and the they-self, or what moods reveal, it's easy to understand what he's talking about.
I would read: https://www.amazon.com/Discourse-Thinking-Torchbooks-Perennial-Thought/dp/0061314595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470627642&sr=8-1&keywords=Discourse+on+Thinking
And a couple essays from: https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Language-Thought-Harper-Perennial/dp/0060937289/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470627663&sr=8-1&keywords=Poetry+Language+Thought
The point is not to understand and lock down everything he says, but just to get a feel for it.
About Being and Time in general, though: the book begins with two introductions. These are daunting and unpleasant, at least for your first time through. My advice is to keep on going.
Also, don't worry about getting it all the first time. Heidegger actually works better if you read him as you would a novel.
Anyway, good luck, it's a great book and will change the way you think.
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>>8373003
fucking stupid post.
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tfw looking back on my writings from the most disturbing time in my life, and feeling such an unbearable wave of guilt and bad memories hit me, as if the writing themselves contained an unbearable stench which burns me just to be near them. Anon, have you ever dealt with this feeling? I was trying to find the only 3 poetic things that I'd ever written, but they're buried in these things I wrote which are very stupid and not self aware which make me feel incredibly ashamed to be alive.
I just wanted to see these poems again, but I only found one of them and I know there was 3. That is, in the copies of them written in gmail archives which I sent myself. The others that I am too scared to dig through are written in a paper that was kept in the bottom of a box for years now, I opened them up and recurring memories flooded my head, as I write right now it feels like my head has been overwhelmed with the negativity and anguish.
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>>8373963
I read this last night...but I didn't see a point you were trying to make or question you were posing...
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I delete all writings, pictures, videos, emails, text messages, chat logs, browser histories, downloads et cetera about once a week.
I recommend it, feels good to live in the perpetual present desu.
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>>8374074
>but I didn't see a point you were trying to make or question you were posing...
I was asking if anyone has ever dealt with this feeling. I didn't add that question mark in the first paragraph superfluously.
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If an instructor asks for an "essay" but has a few numbered questions for you to write about, do you number them on the paper or do you write one essay and tie it all together somehow?
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>>8372810
I just acknowledge the question at the start of the paragraph.
Is it better to...? As to...
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As a rule of thumb I'd say to always just do what the instructor wants. But if I had to guess I'd say that history/English/psych teachers prefer essays, and business/science/engineering prefer numbered answers.
I'd honestly just hit up a random person from your class via email who you don't suspect would bite your head off and ask what they're doing.
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Are you sure your not supposed to pick one of the options to write your essay on?
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Does the Marxian method/Marxian philosophy make sense at all 2016-08-08 02:05:40 Post No.8372797
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The last thread got close to no replies, strange given the amount of interest there seems to be on this board for Marxism and the number of self-proclaimed Marxists that lurk here.
Let's talk Marxian philosophy.
I can't be the only one outside of academia (for god's sake Pareto had an issue with this when considering professional academics) who has troubles with Marx's method in this passage.
Tell me this /lit/ what does it mean for two things to be equal?
Alright, I'll go ahead and say what Frege did (and he knew a thing or two about equality) x equals y just means x is the same as y.
Let's say x is the same as y, now if x and y are two different things this obviously means that in some "mode of perception" (I believe that's what Frege called it) they are equal. If we're talking about two goods being the equivalent, in the context of Chapter 1 of Capital, we're obviously talking about their exchange values and "the two things must therefore be equal to a third, which in itself is neither the one nor the other."
This third is obviously just their value as exchange value, so now, knowing that exchange value is itself the third thing, explain this whole shit to me:
>Let us take two commodities, e.g., corn and iron. The proportions in which they are exchangeable, whatever those proportions may be, can always be represented by an equation in which a given quantity of corn is equated to some quantity of iron: e.g., 1 quarter corn = x cwt. iron. What does this equation tell us? It tells us that in two different things – in 1 quarter of corn and x cwt. of iron, there exists in equal quantities something common to both. The two things must therefore be equal to a third, which in itself is neither the one nor the other. Each of them, so far as it is exchange value, must therefore be reducible to this third.
The problem sentence is this:
>Each of them, so far as it is exchange value, must therefore be reducible to this third.
Our arguments will eventually center around trying to show how "warranted" the following statement is, or what convincing argument can be made for someone to assent to it:
>secondly, exchange value, generally, is only the mode of expression, the phenomenal form, of something contained in it, yet distinguishable from it.
For those oblivious, said phenomenal form is embodied labour value and it is also the "third thing" two "equal" commodities are reducible to.
I have issues with, as Croce puts it, "this standard [he is speaking of value], which we have endowed with the dignity of law"
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Why the fuck are you using the word Marxian? You've done your reading. It's Marxist.
Christ.
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>>8372811
Marxian is used to refer to his school of economic criticism.
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>>8372797
>Let's say x is the same as y, now if x and y are two different things this obviously means that in some "mode of perception" (I believe that's what Frege called it) they are equal.
I think Marx broke you.
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Some dude just called me, he is offering me the memory of Shakespeare.
What should i do?
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>>8372742
>Who is this?
>Stop calling!
>TAKE MY NUMBER OFF YOUR LIST!!!
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>>8372742
Accept it.
I guess he's just memeing you.
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>>8372760
But what if he is legit man? what if i become Shakespeare?
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Would you kindly recommend some books I could read to my child? She is turning 2
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She needs to appreciate prose from as young of an age as possible.
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I'm using these guys' lists for mine: http://www.thelittlebigbookclub.com.au/
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>>8372725
Maybe when she's older
What's the word/phrase for defining something or someone by what they aren't?
For example, if you ask me what is good, and I say "Well, it's not murdering children, it's not stealing, etc.," then what am I doing?
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Thanks, but it's more of a casual idiom/phrase than a formal philosophical method/theory.
Also maybe worth noting is that I already tried various search engines which are all rendered useless when your query includes "define" because then all they want to give you is definitions of words.
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>>8372681
Litote is trope that builds a slightly positive connotation through a negative grammatical construction.
I.e. That Shelley talks a lot but she's not undesirable.
Who are the most miserable fictional characters
My vote is Jude the obscure or Ethan frome even though I'm sure there are more miserable characters
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It's Werther for me.
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Raskolnikov.
He fell for the Sonia meme but you just know a few years after the book ends the magic is gonna wear off and that fucker is going to be worse than ever.
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UNA
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Gravity's Rainbow
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>>8372612
You could probably find a link for that by typing in the title and epub. Go download soulseek
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>>8372617
Thanks, every single link for download ask for me to sign up and I would rather not run the risk of giving out private information to a site I will probably only use once.
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>>8372620
10minutemailm.com
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Hey /lit/
It seems that sometimes when I read, I don't really take it in. Sure I read the words, but I'm not really "taking" it in, I don't really know whats happening.
How do I get rid of this or am I retarded.
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>>8372559
Force yourself to make actual associations whenever possible while reading. That way it literally sticks to something inside your brain.
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Concentrate on what you're reading, and exercise frequently. A sedentary lifestyle contributes to mental dullness and torpor, which can manifest in exactly the manner you describe.
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Asvab / Police exam / word knowledge 2016-08-08 00:15:01 Post No.8372554
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Asvab / Police exam / word knowledge
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Alright /lit/fags first time poster here. I need to find a book for word knowledge. I had a test I failed similar to the asvab with English words I have never seen in my life.
The worst part is, they had no context. They asked for synonyms and antonyms of words in multiple choice.
Where do I look?
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>>8372554
Ok lads, post the DFW pics.
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>>8372554
I don't know what they're called, but I think spelling bee fuckers study from books on etymology.
Most English words have either Latin or Greek roots, if you understand the root you can, for the most part, figure out the word
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>>8372554
If you failed the asvab you have no hope. It is literally a tier below a GED exam. I got a 97 out of 99 and I'm a fucking dumbass.
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How do I get intomaximalism?
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You would probably go about reading some books maximally.
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Vollmann, Gaddis, Pynchon, you know.
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>>8372549
all at once