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Whatchu talkin bout Willis?

sock-sock shoe-shoe

>>8144555
The order of how you put your socks and shoes on. Do you put both socks on and then both shoes, or do you do one foot at a time?

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>>8144533
Hey I said a Spook!
Spook!
Spookity Spook!
Hey lookie here it's a,
Spook! Spook!
Spookity Spook!

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>>8144557
You're spooked.

>>8144533
>Not even a minute in
>Already talking about islam
Holy fucking shit

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Epic. You should have fucked the rhythm of your sentence up a bit more though.

>>8144525
that movie was fucking amazing desu
#1 all time

>>8144653
>Nu-Male gets cucked by his pretend e-girlfriend

Yeah no wonder you liked it

>>8144498
>Have any of you actually read this? and why?

Yeah I've read it entirely once, then gone back and read significant portions here and there.

Why? I thought it was going to have a lot more "actual" mathematics, and I was about to go for my BS in math. Still I kept reading after I realized there wasn't a ton of math.

It gets shit on a lot but it's a very fun book. I don't think you're supposed to take it very seriously. It's a lighthearted philosophical romp that's supposed to get you to think, and expose you to some cool ideas, good music, neat pictures, funny dialogues, etc.

You can read it without thinking he's right about every assertion he makes, which is something the reddit crowd doesn't get.

>>8144498
I get through like half of it each time and then realize that its basically a watered down version of my undergrad theoretical CS class. Read QC since democritus (scott aaranson) if you want a rigorous, and arguably more fun read.

read I am a strange loop, is better if you like the philosophy parts

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Stanislav Lem, especially Solaris. That's where you should stop as well, most of the other stuff doesn't transcend the genre. Maybe the Strugatzkijs, but they are not on the level of Lem.

>>8144472
I gotcha.
Arthur c clarke can be good. Apparently the rama series is widely loved but i've never read it. Childhoods end, I have. And I agree with many people who say it's his best. The space oddysey series by him was alright but you have to be patient for it.

Dune is liked by a lot of people, I found it painful to trudge through. I hate the way he writes and I was attached to none of the characters, but the series was not without it's good ideas.

A lot of people differ on the ender series. People hate the author, but whatever. Apparently he's a racist or something but you can't tell in the books. The first one is alright, then as the series progresses the story changes in tone and topic a lot. Good variety there.

Phillip k dick is cool if you're somewhat of a psychonaut or like gnostic sort of ideas, but like many scifi authors the actual way he writes can be painfully bad. And it's really easy to write stories about characters who go nowhetre and do nothing but drugs. All you have to do is do nothing and know nothing but drugs.

I've only read the first of the foundation trilogy, but it was a bit ruined for me because i'm on my way to a psychology professorship and the idea of psychohistory is retarded. But other than that I loved reading about a bunch of academics taking the universe back from a dissolving culture.

I wish you'd posted this next week. I'm starting C.S. lewis' space trilogy today and I would have had something to say about that one too.

>>8144493
odyssey*
I knew it didn't look right.

really?

>>8144223
>As they plummeted back through the atmosphere Slothrop and Private saw some Banana shaped clouds. As Private wondered if he would be able to make it back to Earth in time for Breakfast, he saw a natural phenomenon that blew his find. As their V2 Apollo Rocket passed through the clouds and the symbol God had given to Moses, he realized that he had truly seen Gravity's Rainbow.

I can't believe I got memed THIS hard.

Jesus Christ sage

tell him that he'll turn into a frogposting 40 year old if he doesnt

>>8144212
jonathan livingston seagull, hatchet, swiss family robinson, monte cristo, vonnegut, heinlein, huxley, kipling...

>>8144212
depend on his character mate
don't pick something that he's also going to end up reading at school
when i was 15 i loved stuff like HG Wells and Jules Verne and the Sherlock Holmes stories

>>8144184
literally all of them, for various values of "fair"

>>8144184
well spook'd m'lad

>>8144184
Utilitarianism
If you acquire wealth by making other people happy, it's acceptable.
It's how capitalism should be done.

The only resistance is the pistol, the sword, etc applied to self.

>>8144051
Stop watching Anime

>>8144051
Why resist it? Schlock is what the people want. Write it, market it right, and make money.

>>8144026
I'm okay with that one since I'd rather not speak babbling retard.

>>8144026
>you have to be bilingual to understand cykablyad lingo

>having to re-read the first chapter is a lack of understanding

When someone tells you.

>>8144003
very funny man.

>>8143998
http://www.shmoop.com/notes-from-underground/

If this isn't all stuff you could figure out by yourself, then you're not understanding it.

bump, fags

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https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/stoicism

Meditations by Aurelius
The Enchiridion by Epictetus (or his Golden Sayings)
On Old Age and On Friendship by Cicero

>>8143832
is that morrissey?

The idiot.
>Oh what's that?
I don't even know anymore.

I'm reading the picture of dorian grey and lady chatterley's lover.

I think all of these sorts of things dance around the fact that the is-ought problem will never be solved and we have no idea what we really should do and there is no theory of everything.

socrates was right, we cannot know anything.

Zizek sums it up in the below video, while inadvertently showing how his entire philosophy (and all philosophy) is BS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1siWHmKV5c

>>8143758
The Sickness Unto Death, by Kierkegaard

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Darkness Visible

>>8143688
http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2016/en#/F33
http://psycnet.apa.org/?fa=search.searchResults&type=advanced&db=pi,pb,pq,pa,pe,pt&term=depression&fields=AnyField

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIcf-2AFHgw