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>>8222657
You should watch Kaiji, its an anime about gambling

>>8222665
Anime is for children.

emergence of probability, and, taming of chance-hacking

>>8222621
green eggs and ham f+a+m=family

probably under the volcano

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>>8222621

no, but you seem to be

>>8222594
yeah

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>>8222594
and are women retarded? pic related.

I was in a 5 year relationship (pic not related), a quarter of my life, with my high school honey until she decided she wasn't in love with me anymore. draw your own conclusions to that.

but she was also retarded. I loved her more than anything and she was really well-read as far as chemistry goes but philosophically and conceptually she was retarded

>rectums

ectoplasm means cum, right?

>>8222631
spooky cum

Plutarch's Lives of Eminent Romans and Greeks

>>8222463
Actual men? Or this hyperbolic stereotype you never actually meet in real life?

>>8222473
blue-pilled cuck fuck off

>be Russian
>pick up saxophone on a whim
>holy shit I'm really good at this saxophone
>don't really need any training at all
>just doodle doot doot on the saxophone, people love me
>amazing at this saxophone
>people ask how I'm so good
>tell them I can smell colors
>"I just smell them," I say
>"This note is blue" *toot*
>"This one is orange" *toot toot*
>everyone claps
>release one magnum opus after another by tooting the correct color combinations, directly from my soul to your ear
>listen to other saxophone players
>clearly I am better
>listen to some of the ones considered the absolute best in the world
>none of them are fucking blue enough
>get angry
>call them all shit erratically
>randomly say certain ones are okay
>people ask me to explain
>"can't you see? there isn't enough blue in that one! the orange balance is all off!!!!!!!!! this fucking guy doesn't even put reds in his yellows after a green movement!!!!!!!!!"
>try to found a new aesthetic theory where the search to understand harmony and beauty and soul and emotion are all retarded horseshit and everyone should just listen to my personal toot toot theories about color combos forever
>die a bald russian faggot
>unique synesthesia brain rots in ground
>burn in hell
>no one cares about my aesthetics ever again for eternity
>people keep quoting my toot ratings out of context because they're vaguely familiar with my symphony about child-fucking

>>8222441
lel

>>8222415
They were called "evil" back then, and still are. Psychiatry is bullshit, making fancy terms for stuff that's already been known by intelligent people since the beginning of human history and, incidentally, very good for ostracizing and pathologizing anything that's different from the norm.

>>8222415
sociopathy isn't a diagnosed disorder today you dummy

and no, nobody noticed the habits of crazy people til the DSM came out

>>8222428
Yeah I kind of realized after I posted that it's not really a disorder but it is something that is identifiable by certain personality traits and it just seems interesting that Shakespeare was able to create a character that possesses all the traits of what would now be considered a sociopath by definition

Take a class

>>8222317
start with learning the cyrillic script

>>8222317
It'll take 10 years and you'll never feel like you've learned it. (I'm talking about any language)

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>immoral

>>8222300
words are tools

>>8222300
>>8222311
Dubs are checked

>>8222272
You've got no replies, yet I find your question interesting.
I don't know if free will is still a very contemporary issue. I'm not saying it's worth nothing, but I'm not certain it's used under these terms.
To be quite honest I don't see very much how you can take this question without considering past ontologies, ways of thinking and living, etc. despite what you said about 17th philosophy. Since you seem to be wanting to take it on a sociological approach, it would be a good idea to see what the concept of "free will" was referring to (if referring to something) in Medieval times (and to be more precise, where and when), and its evolution during the last centuries (this concept is far from being simple) ; simultaneously, see how these concepts were in discussion with their own societies. The risk otherwise is to compare oranges and apples, by forcing what one thinks to be the concept of free will in past times which didn't knew it in such a form.
I can't see how one could ask how the term is heard today, without leaning on the history of the concept and the social evolution behind it.
To say it with other words : if you ask how we could analyse medieval societies by the "free will" filter, you risk both anachronism, and deluding yourself on the actual/contemporary meaning of the concept

Well, maybe we can think of free will as the ability to imagine taking certain actions. Perhaps you are constrained by physical reality but you can still imagine doing them. You might imagine walking out of a prison cell but since its closed you cannot. You might imagine yourself fling but since you are bound by gravity you cannot.
You can always try to do as you imagine it can just result in your physical death or your inability to go through with an action towards its desired outcome.
In this sense what then limits free will is a deterministic view of human thought and mind.

free will is a meme

>>8222169
>feels
you silly humans

>>8222169
>reading on break

That must be some pop lit bullshit

>>8222169
>work
>2016

>typical french garbage

that phrase doesn't bode well for you

but yes its a perfect book

>>8222187
*tips*

>>8222167
Why are the French so pretentious?

>>8222078
yes but he was a p obscure dude

>>8222101
lel

>>8222078
yes he avoided all rivers

>rivers for captcha

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>Katy and the Big Shit
REAL PATRICIAN TASTE COMING THROUGH

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>>8222759
Good one.

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>>8222072
>>8222759
>>8222778
I was not prepared for nostalgia of this magnitude

>>8222043
great book

>>8222043
ahhh this is an author with a huge number of books we never talk about. what do you guys recommend? why don't we talk bout this nig

>>8222425
cuz they atheist n dun like christian stuffssss