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>>8017535
Going outside. I am not even joking. Normal human contact is the best cure for cynicism and edginess. Loneliness breeds contempt.

>>8017535
Steppenwolf made me the non-edgy fucker I am today

>>8017566
i tried that, i look at people with such hate even when trying not to that i put people and they leave or they stay out of politeness but are brought down to my level of cuntiness by process of osmosis so there is this underlying tension running through each conversation.

i.e. pointless

>>8017499
She threw her hands up (in anger)

>>8017505
Thanks. That actually helped tremendously.

But now I just feel stupid for not realising it myself.

She ate an imaginary rhino's ass out

drugs

>>8017550
k, i'm gonna buy some modafinil

Life is good, dummy. Read some Buddhist lit

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>>8017470
Not this .jpg but the website with the actual guide mf

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There's no point, in fact

I don't read for fun. I read because I'm very cool, like the rest of /lit/.

>>8017272
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You don't have to exclusively entertain yourself by reading.

>>8017196
Set goals for yourself and pursue them like James Joyce smelling a fart. Never give into any temptation. You must become master of yourself.

Ignore anything anyone says. This is done easiest by never encountering anyone. The Übermensch is slave only to himself, and is not part of the herd. This also means giving up modern media of all kinds.

Never tell anyone what to do, even if they ask. The Übermensch is only master to himself, and is not a leader.

Accomplish something with your life that is greater than the promise of Heaven. This is kind of hard, but I believe in you!

And, most importantly of all, refuse to pay, and never admit you've lost.

>>8017238
Also, here's a little picture for inspiration. slightly NSFW, and I don't want to risk a ban

http://culturainquieta.com/images/articles/THE_WOMAN_WHO_CHARMED_NIETZSCHE_FREUD_AND_RILKE/Lou_Andreas_Salome-Paul_Ree-Nietzsche.jpg

>>8017238
hmm, this seems a bit much. i might just tell them i did it and see if they fall for it, thanks anyway

Colin Wilson, Mind Parasites / Philosopher's Stone

>>8017190
Thanks, they seem good :)

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This is OK. It's not some literary masterpiece and it does lack the Lovecraftian language but it's basically a novel format of "Dreams In The Witch House" plus some other Lovecraftian elements. It's casual fun.

>Guy and son move into old house in England
>He is paid to renovate/clean it up
>weird noises in attic
>some random homeless chick shows up
>they start fucking
>... and then things get weird

Neurobiology textbook

The Age of Innocence is the best option.

>>8017159
lmao na but edgy brah, nice

No, but you can learn the theory and use that to explain why something is more complex and original.

you can't. or you can try and be wrong. there's your two choices

No. Grow up and learn that your opinions aren't objective facts.

>>8017123
You can do this, but keep in mind that complex and original isn't always good.

Maybe switching between point of views of different soldiers, some of them getting killed

bang bang bang
jack was kil

>>8017107

I do that quite a bit. It's hard to coordinate, especially when several events are supposed to happen at once, like in pic related when they are shot down and fighting their way out of a crashed cruiser.

I am tyring to focus on keeping the sentences short, but I end up using "shot" or "fired" or "put a bullet thruogh" way too much. It just feels like word gymnastics after a point.

>zizek that low
kek

put him above plato

>continental obscurantists on the bottom

Yeah, the list isn't biased at all. It's like your education of 20th century analytic philosophy stopped at 1920s.

Sage

Doesn't matter what medium. Just add SJW ideals and everyone will love you.

I've never been quite sure what the purpose of art is, so I'm not sure how exactly you can fail to achieve it but make people think you did. The idea of tricking people into enjoying things is weird; if they think they enjoyed something, isn't that the same?

>>8016975
Modern art isn't a scam, it's a scheme to avoid taxes and keeping plebs out of billionaire circles

Posting what I've saved from some threads about Chinese lit here: (each paragraph is a different post)

阿城《棋王》 is the best work of Chinese fiction I've ever read. Aside from one Daoist/mystic section about chess, it's very readable. 《孩子王》 is alright too.

鲁迅 is not very difficult and《阿Q正传》is hysterical (especially if you've ever spent any time with mainland Chinese)

《活着》is pretty easy. Neither 王朔's nor 莫言's books are difficult, but I find both authors juvenile.

If what you're really after is 武侠 shit like Crouching Tiger, just watch a bunch of 武侠剧 and maybe listen to a radio drama of 水浒 or 西游. That'll build up a concrete kung-fu vocabulary that'll enable you to read stuff like 雪山飞狐 (better than crouching tiger) and maybe eventually 水浒.

Last note: bail on the thought of ever reading 红楼梦 and probably 三国 in the originally. Too fucking hard. But the other two are fairly approachable.

Just read 金庸. Chinese literature is garbage.

>>8016970
>maybe listen to a radio drama of 水浒
>and maybe eventually 水浒.
It's like the Chinese room problem has learnt how to shitpost.

>>8016991
I'm assuming the radio drama is an abridged version and not an audiobook.

And king solomons mines... 2 titles i rarley hear mentioned on this board

weird twitter is fucking garbage

there are five classes of people:

1 me and my actually postironic friends
2 people who think they are postironic but actually aren't
3 tumblr who thinks they are 2 tier, but are actually below 2 and even worse
4 reddit memes
5 my mom

weird twitter is like a 2.5 at best, mostly 3

tao lin is 3.5

i'm tired of reading shitty post-irony. get on a csgo server and say gay shit with other dudes, talk about each others cocks when you arent gay, thats postironic. say niggers constantly when you arent racist, thats post ironic right there. stop fucking posting lowercase silly cadence shit on twitter and thinking its new. literally everything you could possibly conceive on fucking twitter was chimpanzee-typewriterd by fyad and fyad offshoots in 1997, ITS ALREADY BEEN FUCKING DONE

STOP IT

EVEN THIS THREAD, STOP

WE GET IT

IT'S LOWER CASE AND SILLY CADENCE

YOUR IRONY IS ON THE LEVEL OF WILL FARREL MOVIES. SAY NIGGER RIGHT NOW OR FUCK OFF

wtf 'postironic' is

because of his edginess

because people who are attracted to philosophy are people who are essentially insecure about what life is about and what to do about it and he's empowering and insightful enough to make even a v depressed person feel euphoric, even if it is only for a moment and he's vulnerable enough that you can't help but love him and feel like he's a mate who feels your pain more deeply than you and can express it more articulately than you and can find solutions better than you.

Having said this when it comes to practical real world application of what freddy says there is next to nothing.

But that just means you continue reading him for the motivational boost instead of doing things.

He's like a very edgy drug