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mentally harmful ideas 2016-07-02 09:44:36 Post No.8232051
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ITT: we try to come up with an idea or thought experiment so harmful that it is too dangerous to be read entirely.
>TL;DR we try to out do roko's basillisk
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monitoring thread...
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An afterlife justifying a lack of concern for our "current" life.
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>>8232056
So a breed of nihilism?
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Honest question, why is reading important? or what does it add to a human being?
I admire intelectuals but reading is such a chore, why should i even bother and are there any tips?
I only liked pic related best seller
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Reading –> knowledge –> making your life better.
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1. Reading gives you knowledge. Even fiction will challenge your perspective on the world which is how you grow intellectually and spiritually
2. Reading will enable you to get a perspective on how things were in the past. A well written book encapsulates the time period it was written in and preserves it so we can immerse ourselves in it in the future
3. Reading is free and easy and will make you an all around better person, unless you're reading Schopenhauer
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>>8231979
Believe it or not, some people actually like reading. I have fun reading, which makes it a great hobby for me. It obviously isn't for you if you think it's a chore.
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The new fascism is, in effect, "anti-imperialist" right now. It is opposed to the big imperialist bourgeoisie (unlike Mussolini and Hitler earlier, who wanted even stronger, bigger Western imperialism), to the transnational corporations and banks, and their world-spanning "multicultural" bourgeois culture. Fascism really wants to bring down the World Bank, WTO and NATO, and even America the Superpower. As in destroy. That is, it is anti-bourgeois but not anti-capitalist. Because it is based on fundamentally pro-capitalist classes.
Fascism, in this slowly accelerating global crisis of transformation, believes in what we might call basic capitalism, o.g. capitalism. It is the would-be champion of local male classes vs. the new transnational classes. Enemy of emigrant Third World labor and the modern supra-imperialist State alike, fascism draws on the old weakening national classes of the lower-middle strata, local capitalists and the layers of declassed men. To the increasing mass of rootless men fallen or ripped out of productive classes – whether it be the peasantry or the salariat – it offers not mere working class jobs but the vision of payback. Of a land for real men, where they and not the bourgeois will be the one's giving orders at gunpoint and living off of others.
Wow it's like this guy totally predicted 4chan and neo-reaction
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oh I forgot, quotation from here:
http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/books/fascism/shock.html
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>>8231939
Except what you're describing; as in the new trend of ethno-nationalism, does not entail the inherent and only grounded coherent aspect of Fascism that is societal mobilisation
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>>8231990
What do you mean by social mobilization?
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Well, this was completely and utterly depressing. Is there anything similar to Stoner worth reading?
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unironically my diary desu
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>>8231901
>Depressing
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>>8231901
The Prince of Tides
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Giving away copies of my ebook 2016-07-02 07:05:13 Post No.8231823
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/lit/,
Recently, I made the choice to start following my dreams. That being said, I'd like to give you a chance to read my first Military Sci-fi ebook available for download through my giveaway. At the time I'm posting this, only 3 others have claimed their prizes, and that means there are 47 other copies of my ebook available to claim. So if you're interested, the link will be below.
https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/68f393392e93fe13
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>>8231823
>military scifi
Is this gasfag? No thanks.
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>>8231835
what?
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>>8231843
He was this guy who posted here about his really autistic 10 volume long sci-fi YA series that he eventually self-published.
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r8 this excerpt from my novella:
You aren't the only one to grow up on the killing fields. War is a cruel parent, but an effective teacher. Its final lesson is carved deep in my psyche: that this world, and all of its people, are diseased. Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns of something even greater: memes, the DNA of the soul. They shape our will. They are the culture. They are everything we pass on. Expose someone to anger long enough, they will learn to hate. They become a carrier. Envy, greed, despair: all memes, all passed on. You can't fight nature, Jack. Wind blows, rain falls, and the strong prey upon the weak. Sam tells me you see your weapon as a "tool": something that saves lives, a means of justice. Now, there's a pretty meme! Exquisite! It spared you the burden of all the lives you've taken, absolved you of guilt when you enjoyed it.
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>>8231767
dude edge lmao
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>>8231767
Is this an awful fake opening line thread? I better be, for OP's sake. I couldn't get past the 50the word.
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>>8231767
Now that I gave it a little thought, it sounds a lot like Hideo Kojima. To paraphrase, OP, you suck taint and anus, no offense. Your stuff sounds like something a 15-year old dweeb would write 10 minutes after playing through Metal Gear Solid. Unfuck your entire worldview, screw your head on and come back in 15 years.
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What the fuck is Postmodernism? I am having a hard time wrapping my head around this. Could anyone give a serious explanation? Also; any books on Postmodernism?
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>>8231733
A word.
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A bunch of vague hand waving nonsense. Nothing more.
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Postmodernism describes both an era and a broad movement that developed in the late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism which marked a departure from modernism. While encompassing a broad range of ideas and projects, postmodernism is typically defined by an attitude of skepticism or distrust toward grand narratives, ideologies, and various tenets of Enlightenment rationality, including the existence of objective reality and absolute truth, as well as notions of rationality, human nature, and progress. Instead, it asserts that knowledge and truth are the product of unique systems of social, historical, and political discourse and interpretation, and are therefore contextual and constructed. Accordingly, postmodern thought is broadly characterized by tendencies to epistemological and moral relativism, pluralism, self-referentiality, and irony.
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Is this really the best available at the moment??
Please recommend me something just as good and where characters dont have plot armor...
Preferably no magic..
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>>8231699
Finnegans Wake
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???
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bait af desu senpai.
read Finnegan's Wake
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Premise for an original Lovecraftian fiction story 2016-07-02 05:52:52 Post No.8231658
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Premise for an original Lovecraftian fiction story
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Obviously haven't worked out all the details, very early concept.
Main protagonist (an educated yet kinda isolated, outcasted individual) who has language background and serves as a linguist is contracted by a foreign military to examine and decipher a manuscript or book written in a most Eldritch terrible language, which he has incredible trouble with, and which has driven many a man insane, until one day he seemingly cracks it's secrets, which leads him to a cult trying to summon a Great Old One (a la Cthulhu, Azathoth, Shub-Niggurath) and stops them, but in the end goes insane, but through this insanity and the knowledge gained from encountering the cult, he learns that ANOTHER Eldritch being had purposefully imparted false knowledge upon him so he would find the cult and stop them so this being could be more powerful than the other. This last bit could also be up for interpretation because at this point he's gone completely mad.
Thoughts and comments would be greatly appreciated.
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>>8231658
>original
>Lovecraftian
Choose one.
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Sounds like a shit low budget horror flick
In other words, perfect for Lovecraft. go for it
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>>8231660
Is there no such thing as an original Lovecraftian style fiction?
what is the meaning of life?
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reaching a point to where you dont have to ask that gayass question ayyy lmao
>muh futility
>muh sault
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You decide.
Anything's good so long as you do not harm anyone
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>>8231631
Nonsensical question.
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tinychat /4chanlit
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>>8231610
what is?
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2 AM Eastern Time
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>>8231610
>falling for the hype
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does /lit/ read any indian literature? Like tagore or the ancient texts?
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I read Siddhartha. does that count?
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no, theres no point in reading anything that wasnt written by white high-class heterosexual men, becasue everyone else is inferior.
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>>8231489
maybe?
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looking for some fun entry level books to get back into reading again
I read pic related as well as the white tiger by aravind adiga. I liked both books, so any more like these?
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I think Murakami and Atwood are good 'beginners' adult lit.
Try Kafka on the Shore and Oryx and Crake to start, even though they aren't what I would consider 'the best' by either author.
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Don Quijote.
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>>8231453
Ive already read it
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Trying to find free Ebook, no luck 2016-07-02 04:17:05 Post No.8231413
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Trying to find free Ebook, no luck
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Trying to download The Good Lieutenant by Whitney Terrell for a kindle. Need it in PDF, EPUB or MOBI.
Can't find it anywhere. Anyone know where I should look for this? Not sure if this should have gone in /r/.
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>>8231413
http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=121&t=1598550&hilit=whitney+terrell
here ya go anon.
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>>8231413
>help anon, get no thanks
typical.
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>>8231413
Is that sum tendies
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How do you differentiate between modernism and postmodernism, /lit/?
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>modernism
wow
>postmodernism
wew
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>>8231411
this
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>>8231412
thanks