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>>>/sci/
go fuck yourself STEMfag

>>8056525
Do you know how to read, you absolute fucking retard? Do you think you're on board for giving life advice?

Here's a practical tip: don't study physics. Go back to preschool, learn how to read, learn to FOLLOW DIRECTIONS, and never post on this board again, scum

>>8056525
I hope you mistakenly posted this here. No one here knows about this probably.

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You first faggot

>>8056689
haven't read it, just wanted to observe a discussion, lady hands.

>>8056516
Goddamn that yellow on light blue in the jpg is hard to read.

Personally I like but heavy drug use was definitely involved.

boipussy

>>8056493
It's hit and miss but i still love it.
>ywn hang with Jimbo

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Yes, it is very real.

>>8056701
What the fuck.

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>>8056701
hahahah

Philosophy is peddled by charlatans, it has no artistic merit whatsoever.

Undergraduates will disagree.

Philosophy is a word that describes everything epic and cool that only I understand because I have a measured IQ of 240.
Philosophy invented science and medicine and any philosopher could easily cure cancer or create quantum computers but they don't even try because they have more important things to do like discuss the virtue of epistemically demarcated ontology and noncognitive morality.
Could you imagine a world without philosophers?
How would you get to school in the morning if it weren't for the hermeneutics of transcendent metaphysical permutations?
You'd surely be dead by then.
Philosophy is highly important and is a sign of severe intelligence but only I understand it because it is very esoteric and altruistic.
Inb4 scientists disagree based on intransigent jealousy due to their unsuperior minds and lesser powerful intellects to mine.

>>8056483
this..... so much this.....

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>it feels scummy pirating everything i read.

Hoh boi, you done been spooked

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you have access to almost all the good literature ever written for the mere cost of a kindle. that is something very few people in the history of mankind have had. and you are throwing it away because of capitalism.

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>>8056399
I would prefer the physical book, but dealing with 3 week shipping for thrift books, my tiny New Hampshire library network where I have to wait 2 weeks to get an NYRB release from Dartmouth library, or paying top dollar for amazon books is fucking annoying; id rather just use btdigg or libgen and building a calibre library is fun for me.

>>8056419
This, when the govt considers piracy a "new sin" I chuckle. Thou shalt not make copies of freely available media my ass.

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>get book
>look each page
>read all word until book gone

>>8056395
books are shite

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I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.

Here's how I did it.

-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person

-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure

-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.

-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.

-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.

-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.

Is it because you don't think science fiction is legitimate?

>>8056364
both are shite.

>hur dur i can see the future
>but i can't keep myself from doing bad decisions on purpose
I just spoiled every book in the series.

>>8056343
no. your just holding a book at the library.

The little bit I read of it was fantastic. Then again, I have better taste than you.

>>8056343
please steal this

Glen beck is such a fucking idiot. Can't stand that shithead

>>8056329
look up his birthplace guys

>>8056337
Stupid sjw faggot

>>8056252
Of course ebooks all the way, people who still pay for books have been spooked

>>8056252
only for use as a paperweight with which to safely secure our precious manuscripts

>>8056252
no because you can't read PDFs, epubs convert poorly, and you have to plug a cable into your computer like its the early aughts. Get an android tablet, the app Ebookdroid for pdfs (ELITE VERTICAL SCROLL), the app Aldiko for epubs, upload all your files to dropbox, get a bluescreen filter app, and join the master race.

>>8056198
Know your Plato and Aristotle and be familiar with the moderns from Descartes to Hume

Then read up on Kant's career and where the CoPR fits

From there it's simply a matter of getting used to Kant's style, it can feel like you're smashing your head against a brick wall sometimes (especially once you get into the Dialectic) but if you're willing to take notes and re-read certain sections you shouldn't have too much trouble.

Kant is honestly pretty easy, it's just the vertical wall of a learning curve that turns a lot of people off.

I'm not OP, but I'm wondering how long the First Critique takes to read. As far as I'm aware, it's a pretty damn big book, as well as difficult. I am currently reading all the big names pre-Kant and I'm getting close to reading him.

>>8056198
Just make sure to take regular doses of penicilin if you ever begin to feel like you're enjoying it

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn has a teenager as one of the main characters, but it goes back and forth from his perspective to a mid20s woman

>>8056136
Dickens
Faulkner
Huck Finn
Adventures of Augie March

>>8056152
>>8056153
Thank you, writing these down in my notebook as we speak.

>>8056128
So did Reddit actually have a mass exodus to /lit/, or are you cross-posting?

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>>8056134
crossposting

>>8056128
You neglected to give any credit to both their predecessors
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>>8056068
DDDDDDAAAAAAAANNNNNNNKKKKK

cool shit, thanks anon

>>8056068
is it really about a half-naked fat woman riding a bomb