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is Gass the new meme

>>8057651
ive read fanfiction better than this

off a fucking bridge memester

just play video games then. why force yourself to do something you don't enjoy?

reading will make you smarter

that's about all i can say

>>8057656
Playing video games = stupid manchild "hobby"
Reading books = v patrician

>>8057587
Never read it, but based on the sub-sub-title, I'm calling bullshit.

Understand - fine
Enhance and empower - gtfo deepak chopra

>Has anybody on /lit/ read this?

no

>>8057587
Wasn't he a physicist? I'm not saying he can't have other interests, but what are the chances that he actually wrote something meaningful on the subject of mind and not just Sci-Fi daydreams?

>>8057447
I've been away from the internet before. It's awesome and you get so much more done.

Now I'm addicted again and feel like a piece of shit, but I'm weaning off of 4chan. Do it dude.

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky

>>8057451
Yeah I barely got on here at all last year and ended up reading 20000+ pages, then I got back into vidya in December and started coming around here again.
I've finished one book so far this year. I gotta get out of here.

>>8057418
>pick book from goodreads want to read list
>dl an epub
>use calibre to convert and send to kindle
>read book

>>8058158

nice, my thread finally got bumped at 4 AM

>>8058158
FYI: I recently realized that the calibre epub->azw3 conversion is worlds better than the epub->mobi conversion, mostly because azw3 supports weirder features like colored/marked tables etc.

>>8057355
tbhfam Moby Dick

>>8057359

it's very comfy but it's a slow read and you can't "turn your brain off"

I have to read like 5 minutes a page trying to decipher some of his more complex analogies or musings, but that's just me

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>>8057355

>>8057296
Andrew Wiggins

I guess just because, out of all the characters in books I have ever read, he was the most relate-able.

is this book really the best work by Dostoyevsky

I only ever see this book being posted.

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Kilgore Trout

>>8057272

i guess big? there's no context

Starting by assuming a shit theory of personal identity (and identity of bodies and brains). Yeah, I guess that's ballsy.

>>8057272
That's honestly embarrassing, also why did he write "literally" in quotes when he just ment "literally"?

Aight.

what should you read before reading this?

i read somewhere that it's one of the hardest novels to 'get' if that means something.

>>8057273
Nah. Just read it.

my diary desu

>>8057185
pretentious garbage

Shit. Shit.

I want to ____ the rabbit.

>>8057127
>ones a sheer cliff
>ones differing forms of water vapor falling from the sky

What's so hard to understand? You one'o'dem Frenchmen who dun come here for the beavers?

>anime

>>8057113
Well if Berkely is your example God did it (or does it rather)

Roughly: they don't. They may allude here and then to the historicity of any particular human soul, but then make it clear their concerns are elsewhere. Consider Kant:

>There is no doubt whatever that all our cognition begins with experience as far as time is concerned. No cognition in us precedes experience, and with experience every cognition begins.

>The human being is obviously in one part phenomenon, but in another part, namely in regard to certain faculties, he is a merely intelligible object, because the actions of this object cannot at all be ascribed to the receptivity of sensibility.

The human being is, in regard to certain of his faculties, purely intelligible. He's seeking for a priori structures that are constitutive for experience, so causal accounts of how those a priori structures come to be are beside the question. It's precisely the possibility of phenomena he wishes to demonstrate.

You may, of course, wonder why he makes his particular assumptions about the object of his investigations, but that they're there is obvious. And it's equally obvious that someone like Kant has a ready answer to your question: "I don't speak of the coming to be of the understanding or transcendental unity of apperception because I would be begging the question were I to try--I'm interested in how we have the ability to inquire into the coming-to-be of an object at all. My understanding or apperception is not an object, properly speaking. It makes no sense to give an account of their genesis."

Does that make sense? I know it may sound like bullshit, but is that description of what I think he says understandable, before any discussion of whether or not it's true?

>>8057190
>Does that make sense?
nope

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Check the wiki.

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>>8057110
Here's a list to start with. Come back when you've finished them all, and not one second earlier.

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>>8057107
It's not really that hard, it's just consistency. I read a minimum of 25 pages a day. Most days i probably read about 25~30. Some days i'll read up to 100, but that's rare. Philosophy i might only read 10 whilst taking notes.

I set aside 2 hours of reading time each day. usually get 50 pages done in that span. before you know it its been two weeks and you're done with a massive tome

>be me
>convert to islam
>decide to only read one book
>memorize the entire quran
>claim to be a moderate muslim
>get a free pass for making inaccurate claims and historical inaccuracies
>still considered an interesting bloke with important insights by the leftist intelligentsia

It's that simple.

I get this feeling too. Bumpin.

>>8057057
Some people were just meant to work in coal mines and do menial shit all day. Sucks to be you.

No, because reading like that is the dumbest thing you can do. You don't put the pussy on a pedestal because you won't be able to put it in the pussy, not because it isn't worth the place on the shelf.