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aesthetics

>>9882155
migrants from /pol/

>>9882155
>how come most people who care to post about religion or christianity are christians
Have a guess

what is the point of threads like this? neck urself

>>9881986
fuck white people

"civilian" homes in the "peaceful" Gaza strip

>>9881911
fuck off Nigel!
am half white and I have been doing my bidding so that I will finally be accepted among my fellow white men in heaven

>>9881921
Ok removing the racist elements still Heaven's going to be filled with shit tons of sick dopers and junkies who only accepted Jesus out of cowardice. There's literally no reason to be good.

My neighbors rap music is blasting at me while I'm trying to read the bible. I feel like God's mocking me.

I don't believe in Heaven anon, but if it's anything like the Bible says you're going to enjoy it and no amount of junkies, niggers or whatever will ruin it for you. Don't get angry about something you have no control over.

>>9881802
Victor Hugo

In translation?

>>9881802
Molière, Montesquieu, Laclos, Voltaire, Hugo, Maupassant, Zola, Flaubert, ect ...

Certainly not in this thread ;)

>>9881772
He lives in NYC I think.

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he's eighty. he has trouble walking, he can't remember things, his eyes are bad, he's balding, his wife is balding and he can't get hard anymore. why doesn't his son call him more often? why doesn't the ipad his son got him ever seem to work? why do the icons keep changing? he watches TV and gets mad at Donald Trump and reminisces about the 50s and 60s when politicians - even the hyenas! - were professionals god damn it!!! he cringes at his early work and wonders why anyone ever read his books. he wonders if he ever had any real talent or if he was just faking it. he looks at that half finished draft on his table and wonders if he'll ever finish it. death is for him no longer some far off abstraction he can ramble on and on and on about in prose poetry, it is real, it is near, it is entirely boring to think about. he bemoans the left, his ineffectuality as a leftist, a revolutionary, his ultimate surrender. he does lots of crossword puzzles and reads Don Delillo's latest book, which he says is good.

chess is a stupid game, computers could already beat all humans at it in the fucking 90s which just shows how fucking lame it is

>>9881285
>A machine with near perfect foresight can beat an imperfect being
Fuck mate, what a shocker

>>9881289
it shows that it requires no intuition or intelligence, just an ability to mentally execute a search algorithm

>>9881198
Also, what music is /lit/ listening to today?

One of my favorite albums desu

What does this have to do with the Canterbury tales?
Why wouldn't you just listen to early music?

>>9881182

I don't. I'm not a brainlet.

>>9881183
No, you are. People with good brains know how fallible memory is, so they write stuff down in order to analyze and synthesize what they read.

>>9881193
>people with good brains know they have bad brains.

Your meme sucks. Even the Greeks laughed at any brainlet who needed to write shit down. They knew it lead to memory weakness.

I know that feel. Are you in the process of reading or have you finished the book?

>>9880769
your mom, sister. and best friend keep coming into your room and talking about you while you sleep?

>>9880776
Just begun part 4. Finding Rodya one of the more compelling protags I've read. Haven't read any other Dostoyevsky

>>9880581
Is it okay for a man like Jordan Peterson to have an ego as he does

>>9880581
what philosopher? i only see the ramblings of the surrogated dad of some internet memesters

>>9880581
He wants to seem like he's not a weak, anxious academic trapped in verbal formulas perennially defeated by circumstance by attacking the 'prophets'

the basis of truth is my dick up your ass homo

>>9880358
>Jordan Peterson says the basis for truth is utility

his greatest flaw. pragmatist definition of truth is so fucking autistic

ree

>>9880358
His definition of truth isn't just utility. His epistemological argument is that, since science can only give us an incomplete picture of the complexities of the human mind and human society, that we should worry less about what we think is empirical truth and more about how we should act in a way that's beneficial to us, our family, and our environment. It's soft pragmatism.

>>9879951
Haha
If only

Second reading, OP

How am I supposed to "enjoy" this series if half the words are intentionally opaque as fuck?

>>9880112
do some research
it's usually coming from latin, greek or french

>>9879741
Shit. Very old news and already obvious to everyone. Empirically wrong and self-contradictory.

>>9879741
Okay, so you know how bedeviling it is that people seem to treat words as if they are little more than brain-offal that you filter to some degree and spew out of your buccal orifice like a shotgun-blast of cognitive ballast which you only have to make enough sense with to temporarily require your conversant to make some sort of response, and hope that they don't actually attempt to deal with the content thereof? The word of the year for 2016 was "post-truth," and we are indeed in that era. This is not new analysis.

So, I have this idea about that: what if there was a dual-effect of the devaluation of the written word? This is confusing out of context - there requires an assumption: the written word has been devalued to a point where it is almost equivalent with speech. If this requires further explication, I can support it with ideas, but for now it seems necessary as a sort of theorem upon which we can build more complex analysis. Are you with me so far?

Historically, the reason that the written word carried so much weight is that it was incredibly *intentional.* You could not "accidentally" dip a goddamn feather into an inkwell and painstakingly mark your words upon a page that had no eraser, much less a fucking delete button. If you wrote it, it meant you had training. Education. You were of a certain social class that was the product of a lineage of tradition, most likely, and therefore were granted access to the tools of the elite. Again, this part may start to sound Marxist (not that I'm not to a very large degree, but it's irrelevant), but the idea is that words, when written, carried immense cultural weight in basically every society in which they existed. Until now.

Now, words are texted on smartphones and shot across keyboards in an instant-volley the likes of which might rival Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (a' la the Stoppard play, not the Shakespeare - and specifically the film, through which medium the rapidity and grace of their banter is finally accessible to the ear). Not now, really - it's just a good transition word - but for the past 20 years, really. We're two decades into the democratization of composition, and boy-the-fuck-howdy does it leave a mark!

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>>9879749
FUCKING READ THINGS - the actual idea is below.

Kthx

>305
>101
>204
I don't get it, what are these supposed to mean? I don't have these in my country, I know they're increasingly more in depth but what separates 101 from 102 for example and what 10x from 20x?

>>9879558
think of it like a season of a show
>season3episode5
>season2episode1
ect.

>>9879569
Oh, alright.
Still what makes a "season" end and another begin? Is it just arbitrary depending on the teacher?

>>9879473

wardine be cry that you are so fucking stupid

>>9879473
wardine be cry man

wardine be cry

No but i didn't read that as Ebonics so much as i read it as the stream of consciousness of a young developmentally disabled person
Who is also probably black sure but i didn't assume that to be the cause of the writing style so much as them being poor and uneducated and probably kinda retarded.

>>9879481
Wartime be cry that her dialect would be so embarrassingly butchered, maybe