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>>8210519
If you mean William Morris the designer and political activist, then I found pic related to be a useful sampler and a good starting point for investigating his other works.

>>8210625
i did! thanks, i'll check it out

>>8210519
both of them are fun to read. morris is comfy as shit, and fourier is hilarious fun. don't know if all fourier's stuff has been translated, but you should be able to find some in english

th Greeks

aeschylus, sophocles, euripides, homer

also some greek/roman histories.

>>8210478
>aeschylus, sophocles, euripides, homer
but those people suck and aren't fun

That's how I read it. What are you having trouble with?

>>8211219
Well to give examples, he argues in

1.3.3 "some of us incline toward intelligence, which we share with the gods, some of us incline towards the kinship that is wretched and mortal, and only a few of us towards that which is divine and blessed", and again a similar argument in 1.12.27 is used to show that reason is "divine" and should be used to rise above savagery.

1.5, "On providence" pretty much justifies a creator because "it's obvious" and "how else could the world be" then goes on to assert a handful of lofty ideas.

1.9 "How from the idea that we are akin to God, one may proceed to what follows" is obviously completely tainted.

etc. It just feels like I'm tip toeing around this idea of god and it's making it difficult to reason about some of his arguments. Am I interpreting this wrong or missing something?

If you understand God/gods as metaphor and not fact then it's perfectly easy.

Gods are personifications of the forces of nature or aspects of the psyche or a unification of all the universe.

Hold the cringe for just a moment, but take Sagan's famous remark of "We are all made of star stuff"; you could argue that it's very similar to the phrase "I and the father are one" if you understand it as someone realizing the indivisible reality of man and nature.

We are

>>8210423
Your mom svckin my dick to be desu

>>8210423
A perfectly drawn sheep.

>>8210344

>Celine
>not maximum edgy

>>8210344
>camus more edgy than king
>actually just everything about this chart
fyad

>>8210344
>Ligotti
>respectable

Ya blew it.

>I don't like x
>Therefore anything and anyone that uses x is an idiot

How's 6th grade? Learn to compose sound arguments.

Sage.

None system thinkers always produce a implied system and act schizophrenically about is rules.

It's a cheap rhetorical game to rail against systems/horizons/metaphysics/phycological reasons/obfuscation etc.

Most of the puffy birds who hang their hats on being down to earth, of the people, or unsystematic are usually the worst offenders.

>>8210223
No one said that. Now please justify your self induced enslavement.

>>8210173
>g, like the best george carlin sketch you ever heard, or the time when you realized you were ardently opposed to the very existence of religion, or the realization of technology being the next step in evolution for mankind and that our intelligence is not special and will soon be replicated and surpassed. Not those particular subjects themselves, but things like those that make you no longer a mind controlled puppet of some entity, enterprise, organization, person, or really anything.

weeak bait, try harder

>>8210198
I'm sick of you dumb fucking fools on this board, making responses like this. What the fuck do you know about the world, dumb fucking fool? You're a little chuckle fuck, you're just fucking around wasting my time. So go on and fuck off if you're really so dumb that you think I'm not being serious, a presumptuous little christian shit, or if you really are just a dumb fuck troll. Because let's be honest, if a christian were seriously as butthurt as he'd be to make a comment to me, it probably wouldn't be some trolly dumb fuck response like that.

Now this is autism.

>>8210098
>not Vidal
>not even a worthwhile book
-.-

>Destroying Infinite Jest
>Gore
literally 10,000 of those things in prime condish at my local used book store all of the time. people give up on it and give it away. or they read it, realize it sucks, and then give it away. and then you can go buy it for 3 cents on the dollar. pic isn't gore, it's the literary equivalent of stepping on a dry cat skull that you bought on veterinaryprops.com. do this with a 1st ed Lolita or a Women and Men or something like that and maybe we'll get somewhere

she's right about people getting shit wrong eventually changing language if it happens often enough, but wrong in general because "have a good dream" has not happened often enough for it to sound right to native ears.

>>8209964
Thank you for the quick reply, I guess I'm not as much of an idiot as I think myself to be. Of course, widespread acceptation (and possible dictionary entry) seem to be the turning point where an expression or word goes from "literally wrong" to "accepted and integrated inside a culture".

>>8210000
>acceptation
acceptance is the word. beautiful quads

>>8209941
I think your girl is autism fαm bc that shit makes 0 sense

She doesn't want to hurt your feelings, but she is no longer romantically interested in you.

"in love" = excessive romantic/sexual infatuation, usually childish, girlish, almost puppydog-like love, obsession, enamoration, etc...
loves you = more long-term and mature

why do you make this thread every day. Is there humor in this for you? Is this supposed to be funny?

>>8209936
first time making this thread, I can only assume that I am not the only one too stupid to figure it out

>>8209930
>Is the humor supposed to be funny

>>8209890

their*

>>8209890

bump

>>8209890

read Blood Meridian

>vaporwave
>good

>>8209897
Pretty much this.

cyberpunk t b h

>>8209824
You aren't a genius.

Is this guy dead or not?

>>8209824
You mean Anthony Zyrmpas? Not as long as he keeps his genius behind a paywall.

9/11 – Did it happen on 9/11, as most people remember, or on 9/10, as some recall?

>>8209782
Remember on September 11th, how you felt when you saw that footage of the first plane hitting the tower?

No, because you didn't see that footage until the next day

>>8209787
Also there are 52 states in the United states because of Alaska and Hawaii.