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Just ordered pic related.
What am I in for?

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Why are so many librarians mean, fat, and old ladies ?

At my local library there is a lady librarian, she is old and fat and mean to everyone, especially the kids. I remember when I was a kid, there was an old librarian who was also old, fat, and mean to the kids. Today I had to go to two branch libraries and both of them had two fat, old lady librarians yelling at the kids.

Is that like a requirement for libraries? You know, all your librarians must have a BA and at least one must be old and fat and mean to the kids.

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so who would you put in or replace

or did wikipdia nail it

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Hey /lit/.
How's your philosophy treating you?
Too bad you're falling for that millennia old meme.

You're too clueless to know about Non-Philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-philosophy

Philosophy = outdated

"Laruelle's non-philosophy, he claims, should be considered to philosophy what non-Euclidean geometry is to the work of Euclid."

Philosophy= Newtonian physics
Non-Philosophy = Relativity & QM

>s-shut up, I've read countless book of philosophy, y-you can't say it was all for nothing ;((
>h-he's probably some crackpot

Nope, even modern philosophers can see his genius:
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Until a decade ago, he has been described by Scottish philosopher Ray Brassier as "the most important unknown philosopher working in Europe today"[4] and was described by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as "engaged in one of the most interesting undertakings of contemporary philosophy."
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Laruelle out-Wittgenstein'd Wittgenstein.

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What books have protagonists who are legitimately bad people?

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What do you guys think about comedy in literature? Is there any writer who can actually make you laugh out loud?
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>>7912424
Lankhmar, New Sun, Elric of Melbourne, Conan and Name of the Wind edition
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg (embed)
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg (embed) / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg (embed)
>Talk about whatever you want basically, I'll just talk about the 10 authors I usually do

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Is anyone else sad the way that art and literature seems to be progressing? I'm not going to be the guy who says that "art is dying" or whatever. But, there seems to be a sort of purity, sanctity to previous works of art, like the works of Shakespeare or Chaucer, or even the KJV that is impossible to recapture in the modern age. Literature has become so self-conscious and ironic over time, and it seems impossible to navigate the literary waters of the time and to still come out with a work of art of the same kind as the ones I just mentioned. I'm not saying that art is worse, though some might argue it might be. I'm just saying that there's this tone of almost divine sincerity that seems to be missing nowadays, and I really find it to be a shame. Because, of course, to try to write like Shakespeare right now would also be to make a work of art that is antiquated and out of date. It's almost like I wish I could travel back in time to when literature was first starting in order to avoid the restrictions/requirements/standards of the modern literary environment.
Anyone else have this feeling occasionally?

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I'm reading the KJV of Genesis and am amazed by how amoral most of the characters are, including God. The only other book that comes to mind as I read it is The Odyssey. Most of the characters seem to be rewarded for being sly and clever rather than being good. Cain gets his mark, but anyone who kills him is cursed. Abraham deceives Pharaoh and Jacob deceives Esau. Are there any "good guys" in Genesis? The book seems mostly to be about self-preservation rather than good vs. evil. Am I reading Genesis the wrong way by looking for some sort of moral teaching in it?

Genesis / Old Testament General Thread

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What are you honest-to-god qualms with his writing? No memes please.

I'm convinced that /lit/ just hates him because young people find a connection with his work, and anons like to act jaded and indifferent to anything hip.

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is there anything more epic than blood meridian?

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Do actually hold any sincere belief? Whatever it may be: dialectical materialism, the dasein is thrown in to the world, the jews pull the strings, christ died foru our sins, "we're actually just brains in a vat" and so on and so on. I genuinely want to know whats your personal experience with the knowledge and modes of thought you encounter in your life an how it is shaped by them.

I'm mainly interested in people who study philosophy (doesn't matter if academically or not), but everyone is free to contribute if he or she wants.

Oh and just another thing: let's not be judgemental, I don't want to refute anything, I just want to collect some experiences rather than concepts.

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Why do people act like not experiencing hedonistic pleasures (think /r9k/ or regretting not having partied/traveled) is such a bad thing?

Like eating, fun while you do it, but meaningless as soon as it's done. You don't think back of all the 1000 good chocolate cakes you had and the time you ate them. At best, you think of the platonic ideal of eating chocolate cake and how nice that is, but the past events, after having eaten chocolate cake 3 times say, don't contribute to the feel of thinking back how great chocolate cake is.

If you spent your time nicely, almost everything is better than having repeatedly and repeatedly having had chocolate cake or sex. Yes, great while you do it, but over as soon it's over.

Why would all of this have shaped you for the better - is there any reason to believe that?

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>"And he was, truly, the catcher in the rye."
Fuck this hack

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Alright guys, time to figure out the best authors of all time. You get three votes, and I'll compile all of them into a list, hopefully it doesn't end memetastic like last time, I'll start
1. Dostoevsky
2. Tolstoy
3. Kafka