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>>8369791
>rhetorical essay
>Owls by Mary Oliver
>call owls corporate America
>flowers are communist
>got a 35
I memed him so fucking hard.

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>be me in 8th grade
>that quiet kid who sits in the back of class and is barely noticeable
>we have to write a short story and read it for class the next day
>i don't finish story
>worried that i'll get a bad grade for it being incomplete
>i never get called to read
>i never get asked to complete the assignment
>even the teacher forgot i exist

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>>8369928

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What did?

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King Charles Murray I

>>8369646
I'm not really sure, but as far as I am aware the stoics wrote about it.

>>8369646
You are going to have to be more specific about what you want. This is one of the big questions of philosophy. It would be like someone saying 'could anyone recommend some books on the economy'. The only realistic answer is what exactly do you want to know about it.
>>8370880
Orthodox stoicism =/= determinism. They are probably closest to compatibilism.

>>8369508
Chiming in to say that yeah, I tried to read that book and in fewer than 20 pages I became convinced that Robbins is a terrible writer.

>>8369508
I read it in rehab and I thought it was absolutely amazing. I don't k now what to tell ya man.

Also what kind of fucking school would let you read a book filled with so much sex for curriculum.

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>jus follow ur dreams lol

https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-history-of-the-united-states-ohus/?cc=de&lang=en&

He fucked his slave women. What more do you need to know?

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>>8369868
this desu

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Read Benedict.

Start with the Greeks.

Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI has some pretty good books to start off with. Introduction to Christianity and his Jesus of Nazareth series are his most notable. Introduction to Christianity is very good but quite dense for an "introduction", it was written around the time he was a German philosophy teacher or something so it reflects that.

A good, but similarly dense, book you might like to read is "Theology for Beginners" by Frank Sheed. This title also feels somewhat deceptive, but it's a lot shorter than Ratzinger's book and simpler too.

A pretty good writer on the scene right now is Edward Feser. He wrote a good introduction to Thomas Aquinas, plus a large book called Scholastic Metaphysics. He also wrote a more polemical work about new atheism called "The Last Superstition" if that interests you.

Obviously you can always read the big guys like Augustine and Aquinas, but you might want to start off with secondary texts like Feser to get a good grounding in their language and ideas.

Elizabeth Anscombe wrote quite a lot of articles about Catholic ethics I think as well.

really only scratching the surface but this is a good 'in' to the more academic stuff

>fell for the catholic meme
Don't do it OP. There is nothing patrician about a bunch of fucktards on the internet reading Joyce, wanting to find fulfillment, security, and conveniant dogma in their otherwise boring lives, and "faking it until they are making it" through all the bullshit contradictions, the nonsensical and biblically ungrounded rituals, and the downright unreasonable superstitiousness that comprises the Catholic Church. Just go back to fapping. It would save you the business of lying to yourself in attempt to convince yourself that you are a positive moral entity simply for reading a religious text or sitting in a pew mechanically performing some dumb rites.
>inb4 muh jesus

what did you think of voice of the fire ?

>>8369395
I am judging this book by its cover
I am judging it harshly

>>8369415
everyfucking time

He had to go to his only trial you clusterfuck of inadequacy.

couldn't handle the bants

>>8369265
Did Socrates even exist, ffs?

They aren't.

>>8369255
you can know how terrible a person is by how highly they speak of bukowski, it's amaizing

>>8369267
What bukowski should I start with?

climax

>>8369128
It's not necessarily an ending but it does imply that feeling of sudden revelation that could be tied to climax

catharsis?
realisation?

cinema is an inferior medium

Reminder that all of Stanley Kubrick's movies were book adaptations.

/mu/ movies are more entry level faggotry like Frank or Whiplash instead of mememovies for pseudo-indie kids

>>8368981
best to get it over with as soon as possible, desu.

>>8368988
Ok thanks, I'll probably give it a spin anyways because I already bought it but I'll try not to take myself too seriously

>>8368990
Honestly this is why I want to read this shit. I mostly frequent fa and mu but stop by here for recommendations and you guys act like this is the best book ever while simultaneously being the worst book ever, it's great advertising and I'm interested

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>>8368948
>it's a gately in hospital chapter

>it's a wardine chapter

fucking kill me

>it's a stream of consciousness episode

Jesus Christ fuck off with the frogposting already.

quite rational approach desu

>>8368773
i do the same thing desu

i also stalk prospective writers from /lit/ and negative review bomb them to eliminate competition even though i haven't published anything yet

It's one of my favorite books.

The time spent reading that book is not wasted at all. It helped me a lot and i personally think that it is a must read

Was Alyosha cucked?