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yeah although the only good paper in the usa the ny times has been disgracing itself with desperate hillary shilling, but then again they also supported the iraq war lies...yeah, reading the nytimes will make you smarter, but only if you read it critically since its filled with propaganda bullshit

NY times and wallstreet journal are both about the same reading level. They're even owned by the same company, the main difference is that one's liberal and the other is conservative. Most local newspapers have an 8th grade reading level, but it's not bad to keep up on current events

>>8016821
is reading a newspaper better than digital?
I use BBC and Guardian news apps.

>>8016724
You can do your highschool homework on your own, we believe in you!

>>8016724
1) tell your kindergarten teacher that you cannot do this homework because you disagree with Hume's solution on the problem of induction (the only solution that she'd even remotely possibly have heard of)
2) get infinite sex
3) coolest kid in the group, high fives by peers

>>8016724
"how I lost my virginity and smoked marijuana "
It was late afternoon and I just got finished from the gym. and suddenly I have received a text from a girl I was talking too from a online dating website called OKcupid.
She texted me saying "Hi"
I replied hey how are you with a smiley emoji face
She then instantly replied back "Oh Nothing I got out of work early today, Would like to meetup"
After reading her reply My heart started beating very fast" But for some reason maybe it because of the endorphins from said gym session I said sure
30minutes later she showed up too my house and picked me up.
Soon as I got in the car I thanked her for picking me up and said she looked beautiful
I cringed immediately after the words came out of my mouth but Like I said endorphins had me feeling okay in my skin
I didn't say much in the car because she was playing music very loudly I recall the Artist was called g-eazy or something like that
Anyway we arrived at her house which was empty since her parents were out of town for the week.Soon as walked in the spacious 2 story house that would make my mother very jealous. she went straight to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of hennessy and 2 red plastic cups. As you can imagine nervous thoughts in my head arrived at the conclusion that today I might be finally losing the thing that I never got to do in high school. keeping a level head I only focused on not dropping spaghetti

I like it
100YOS is a great read

Never fails to induce erections.

>>8016710

Luis Borges king of it

>>8016652
call me ishmael

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as long as ur not writing from a woemans perspective its alright because honestly a womens perspective is probably the worst kind of perspect 2 have

I project very easily by writing in third person

>>8016443
He was right.
He was also one of the greatest poets ever.

We could say he was totally redpilled.

>>8016443

Jew hatred is as low-brow as it gets.

In a sense. The difference is that Western "philosophy-religions" such as Buddhism are practiced every day. You can go to a Buddhist monastery and listen to the wisdom of a monk. You cannot, however, go to an epicurean commune to live a life as Epicurus. Western philosophy is studied as a "thing of the past", while eastern traditions are cultivated on a daily basis. Thus, they are more easily approachable.

>>8016413
lel is the trivia about the whore true?

>>8016413
Okay so the video spouts the cliché that the West is worthy in some way, not at all too despicable, with the fantasy that getting a user manual for the western philosophies would make people happy. He fails to see that the misery of the West is that they more or less understand that hedonism is a dead end, whereas these people refuse to stop being rationalist and keep seeking a way to seek a definition of ''a valid idea'', with the most pathetic attempt being the most recent one: the empirical proof which is explicitly dwelling even more in induction serving hedonism.
Now, with the failure of philosopher to find their truths, objectivity through the ratio, the asian doctrines feed nothing but the eternal hedonism of the humanity through their exoticism to the pleb who loves to think that she is a rationalist.
The good news is that the asians themselves are nothing but pure heodnists, but at least they do not pretend to know the secrets of the cosmos through the formals systems, about the nature (like the typical modern) or the societies (à la hegel) that the liberals and libertarians keep paying for form their scientists.
Of course, nobody wants to hear about the religious contemplation, but the religious guys do note that people are interested thanks to the discovery of the asian religions that the secularized middle class thinks as secularized religions compatible with the liberal mores (they are not and it explains the lack of result : as in our religions really, the morality of these religions must be applied before even beginning the contemplation, precisely because the morality helps the contemplation and because the contemplative life is has the output that the moral life, as rejection of hedonism, is the right in the end).
Asians can claim that they have a detailed manual to be better heodnist and in the end to even stop being a hedonist. Whereas the western pleb still dream of getting a fantasy structure that make hedonism compatible with their fantasy of altruism.

The change from a liberal structure above the individual is not possible in a liberal democracy, since there will always be somebody against you and it is would be poorly implemented (and you cannot force people to change just to change themselves, but you can only touch their ''legal rights'' or their wallets).

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now mine:

Who is the Mars Volta of Literature?

why is my life bad?

>>8017452
that question did not deserve a post.

WHY DO PEOPLE SAVE FUCKING THUMBNAILS

My scarf roja, lanar y cálida
that is wrapped around my throat
is a noose that ties me to the gibbet-lintel
of propriety. I rip it off;
it flutters in the wind like the wing of a blackbird
that bats with all his strength, and lets the wind
underwing for that he can fly away:
un punto negro en vista azul.
With one hand I hold the scarf high above my head
as the other grips the handle of the bicycle
and it catches the wind roaring in its playground
that is encircled by clouds
and it does a dance for that it hails its passing.
I loosen my grip, or the wind is too strong,
but my scarf, the wing, the noose,
un revuelo rojo en la vista azul
it slips my grasp and is lost forever
in the tumbling wildness of the Tierra del Fuego.

>>8016044

ITT: White CIS privileged males sprouting bullshit they've read from some "obscure" poet to make their "hard life" seem interesting.

>>8016020
My emotions matter, victim = hero mentality. Or choice.

Because its entertainment. I dont see how that's hard to understand.

They're still children or they're just retarded. Even as a kid I didn't read YA because it's schlock.

I've come to vipe your vindows.

>>8015929
God damnit you just gave me flashbacks. That story is almost as creepy as the one about the hunter out in the woods who gets taken by the fucking Wendigo.

>>8015934
Oh shit the wendigo one was one of my favorites

>>8015893
It's worthless because it's easier to acquire and you don't want to spend the next four years being slowly spoonfed with material you could get on your own in a matter of months. Get a real degree and eventually steal the target courses' bibliographies and syllabi in case you need a starting point.

>>8015893

I'd go two years for a million dollars without internet or tv. How hard would that be? Just take a shitload of books and board games or fuck even some role playing games for fun.

>>8015893
fucking obviously, what the fuck is 2 months for 1 million dollars?
it looks sweet as hell.

>>8015804
The Sot-Weed Factor is great fun.

>>8015804
i'm interested in him too, SIlverblatt is a huge fan, and i like his taste.

You should read all of his first seven books in order.

Let me sing my soul, love.
I'll sing about you, dove.
I can't solve my problems
Or buy you any roses
I'll tell you how I feel.
and how the light you steal.
For it's my heart, my dear,
the one that sings so clear.
I love you, believe it,
so tell me where's your clit.

the old greek told me in a story across time
that way back when
you and i were one
and we rivaled the gods
and them fearing us
tore us in half and forced us to walk separate
how much sweeter it is now that we join, in lip and loin
and our hearts yearn for each other
desparate for the memory of blissful union
love you babycakes

>>8015730
Just steal some better shit than anyone here will write themselves or destroy with memes. "If" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. There ya go OP

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>>8015520
Raskolnikov

Conan the Cimmerian

>>8015520
dr manhattan or tom bombadil?

>an amnesiac discovers that his forgotten friend was himself

>>8015435
What

Three brothers share two girls. What could go wrong?