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>>9894688
>he didn't start with the sumerians

Not even the Romans started with the Romans, they started with the Greeks.

>>9895746
do you have the infographic of the timeline recommendation?

I like these threads

>>9894463
what did he mean by this?

Competition

ideamachìa

>>9894387
I mean you're not wrong. But I'm looking for a more technical term. Guess I'll have to think of one.

>TFW you start with the Greeks.
>Now forced to read works chronologically and can't read anything from the 19th-20th centuries without doing an exhaustive reading survey of all the previous thinkers that come before.
>TFW it will take an entire lifetime.
>TFW I don't have an entire lifetime to do this.

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>tfw other idiots constantly get cucked hard by memes and I'm still sane

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>tfw i skipped the greeks

>>9894086
I don't even narrate it to myself within my head, I just look at the words and understand.

>>9894089
How long do you read a day?

>>9894103
2 or 3 hours most days.

meditate regardless of what you do eventually.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/9avnnk9e5180bon/Meditation.zip
http://www.meditationexpert.com/ebok/howtomeditate.pdf

>>9894093
I have the Headspace app. What do you think of it?

>>9894018
I'm in a somewhat similar situation
I'm not an atheist and I know what I belive but I'm unsure where to go with my faith

born and raised Catholic, still have a lingering appreciation/loyalty to it and Christianity in general I can't shake; anyone who comes from a strong catholic family would understand.
on the other hand I've read enough and am aware enough of the major issues with Christianity which nagg me, mainly the slavishness of it in some respects.
more than Christianity I appreciate Greek and Roman thought, but becoming a Hellenic pagan just seems incredibly silly to me.

I like in asia now so Buddhism is everywhere and I've had time to read a lot on it, while I appreciate it immensely it just seems to lack the same level of conviction in my view that Catholicism has. there does't seem to be that feeling of "rapture". thus far I've always treated Buddhist beliefs and practices as more of an addendum to my Catholic faith, though calling myself a proper catholic would be a lie.

Orthodoxy has always interested me, I read a bit about it while learning Greek in uni but I never went far with the language and thus not with Orthodoxy either.

really I have no idea where to go, I've thought about heathenry as well but again it seems so artificial for me

Criticism holds no ground.

>>9893942
Pic definitely related, objectively shit game that gets loads of undeserved praise

The only important part to me is that people stop equating "art" with "art I like" and stubbornly claiming that whatever they don't like "isn't actually art."

Art isn't good or bad. That's not what the word is meant to denote. Low-quality, easy, untalented garbage is still just as much "art" as classic novels and musical compositions are

So what?

>>9893691
sounds like he knows how to read Nietzche properly. you should try it sometime

Heidegger's lectures on the Republic are just about the first sentence, or so I hear.

>>9893408
Consider starting with the Greeks.

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>>9893423
Must that be first? I've read the Iliad and the odyssey but that is a lot of greek literature.

>>9893442
No. It's just a /lit/ meme.

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I found that the most fundamental distinction in Plato's philosophy is between the many observable objects that appear beautiful and "the one object" that is what beauty "really is", from which those many beautiful things receive their names and their corresponding characteristics. Nearly every major work of Plato is, in some way, devoted to or dependent on this distinction. But here's the kicker: he never says it straight out. Think about it! It's all in dialogue form. How do you know he is not poking fun at this ridiculous abstracting? Oh because we have many people tell No, he really believes in that. Nevertheless many of his works explore the ethical and practical consequences of conceiving of reality in this bifurcated way. I believe what Plato really believed, given that his student was the Father of science, that we are urged to transform our values by taking to heart the greater reality and the defectiveness of the subjective world. I believe Plato meant through his dialogues that we must recognize that the body is a different sort of object from the soul—so much so that it does not depend on the existence of the soul for its functioning, and can in fact grasp the nature of reality far more easily when it is not encumbered by its attachment to anything abstract.

>who the fuck do you think you are extrapolating all this shit?!?!

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My reading is encouraged by the belief that the forces surrounding religion and politics over the thousand years around the birth of Christ shaped Plato's works and bastardized it and if it wasn't for Aristotle's space for metaphysics and the cleansing of religion by the Muslim caliphate, science would have been completely stunted by these institutionalized power hungry historically based forces (I.e. Rome, Judea, etc.). I believe Socrates isn't his "go to" guy, but a clown, perhaps fictional, and one that needs to die. Of course the oracle would say he was the wisest, the oracle doesn't know shit! In my reading of Plato he uses a very creative way of saying what he really believes by having this clown say it in the opposite and that what Plato really wants for us, and for philosophy is nothing short of a phenomenological science. I have found in a few of his dialogue works that, if you keep in mind this creative inversion technique, Plato really believes it is the body, not the soul, that always retains the ability to recollect what it once grasped of reality, and that the lives we lead are to some extent a punishment or reward for choices our ancestors made in their life (genes, inheritance, etc.). We all know this to be obviously true, that we are a product of our ancestors, but the genius of Plato, beyond the technique, is that he is saying that the body itself anchors is to reality and that subjectivity is a weak spook. Plato is doing existential psychology, he is at the forefront of creative writing and the psychology of being and that's why he is still the first, the head of philosophy. I believe that if we read through the bullshit of spooky readings we see that in many of Plato's writings it is asserted or assumed that the truly enlightened —those who recognize how important it is to distinguish the many (the many real things that are called good or virtuous or courageous, which is true) from "the one" (the one thing that goodness is, or virtue is, or courage is, which is retarded) —are in a position to become ethically superior to unenlightened human beings, because of the greater degree of insight they can acquire into the abundance of reality (I.e. zoology, astronomy, geology, etc.). You see that science belongs not to Aristotle, but to his all too brilliant and deceptive teacher, Plato.

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You made it. Are you pissed off? You should be faggot

>>9893280
K E K
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Well, I think weaving a symbolic identity and developing an inauthentic self would be a poor start in this venture.

the only way to win is not play the game

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>>9893210
>he wants to live his life in accordance to a meme some faggot on r9k whipped up in half an hour
>he wants to look at himself in a mirror every morning and say "I am a gamma male"

>the people that manipulate me and fund our ideologies through foundations are naive

da woke white undergrad striver underclass, gents

>>9893093
>>9893108
Congrats on a shit thread already. Fucking idiots. Get the fuck off the literature board

>reading for points and not for the hybrid modernism.

i can't see why you would retain less at all, the screen looks just like a page of a book and there's no distractions or notifications or anything. i actually think i understand it more when i read on an ereader because of how easy it is to define and translate unknown words.

With ereader i read MUCH FASTER but in the end remember less.

I can't comment about it being worse in terms of retention, but an ereader is just not as good as a real book, so don't buy one thinking you'll leave paper behind for good.

I don't regret buying one because a lot of what I want to read is either expensive or rare and there's no way I'm reading hundreds of pages on a conventional LCD. However if I had the choice between buying a book for $5 or reading it on an ereader for free I'll still pay for the real thing.

>>9892542
how the hell is schizophrenia real? like just realize there's no one else in the room, like ghosts don't exist lmao

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>>9892548
Try to count the voices inside your head instead

You most likely wont mind many actual schizophrenics browsing this board.

Enjoy the soothing tunes of Wesley Willis instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh942B0QmRU

If you take its dust and put it on your dick a succubus will come tonight

>>9892244
Kekbump

>>9892244
>open bookcase
What did he mean by this?