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>>7885528
That's a good question. I always supposed that proles lived for the sake of children, superstition and cheap liquor. Have you tried those yet, little fellow?

>tfw at Cornell in April

It actually sucks though, why would you wish this upon yourself

>>7885546
oh sure i drink, and my superstition is marxist teleology, but still. it just doesn't feel that good.

You want to be in any way. after all, many people regret playing nobel prize book all the time.
As some people say, "high" to implement a chemical film, and may be the same, but the refugees.
Optional air cargo vessel for non-life and satisfaction is the loss development. It really is a hedonist you your life will be considered. About his health. If as seriously as they credit you can buy heroin hook blood as chair and start playing a video, listen to music, eating pizza.

Sorry for bad English.

>>7885530
Hmm. Agreed for the most part. Im not sure 'buy' is really the correct verb for the 'heroin hook blood as chair.' Perhaps 'ascertain'?

>>7885530
Air cargo vessel was mandatory in my day
Maybe it was made optional in lieu of chinese horsse to rescue us from empty dismal cave in unceasingly lusterless gray ocean?

>>7885356
This library in Kansas City is a giant bookshelf of 25 foot tall books which are recommendations from the community

Surprisingly okay for public recommendations

>>7885370
this. it's actually really good for a public rec.

How do I stop subvocalizing?

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>>7885300
Why wouldnt you want to vocalise a Pynchon book?

>He doesnt sing all of Pynchons songs out loud while snorting violently in horselike patrician laughter

>>7885310
horses don't snort faggot they neigh whinny or whicker

>>7885061
St. Augustine is great if you like theology, spirituality and philosophy.

>>7885061
Just finished Wizard of the Crow and it was pretty great. Achebe is a go to. And Obioma's The Fishermen was shortlisted last year for Man Booker and it was really excellent about blood feud.

>>7885142
Also Bitter Harvest by Ian Smith and Disgrace by Coatzee if you like the other side of the coin.

Make sure to meme a lot

>>7885056
Speak truth to power
Jews did 9-11

>>7885894
Jet fuel
Can't melt steel beams
Don't be a mule
Things aren't as they seems

>>7884980
both

also source on that pic, it's nice
looks a little bit like my city

>>7884999
I got it from /p/

vlad's pulling yer leg.

do both

>>7884900
Kinboted

please no corn father

Grahack Hackman

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>>7884596
I'm writing a book on the relationship among religion, evolutionary psychology, sociology, society, culture, politics, and well-being. It probably won't get finished or released, but it really should. It would radically change the way that people understand and treat religion, challenge current ideas about psychology and sociology, and make seemingly bizzare human antics such as love for music and the acts of ISIS totally relatable and comprehensible. But I probably won't finish it because doing theosophy and taking is seriously gives you a mindset that is terribly alienating and disatisfactory.

>>7884596
What makes this debate so boring is that it lacks any relevance outside of philosophy - and inside philosophy I would add, if that discipline didn't consist of angry circlejerking since 200 years or so.

You shouldn't read his words. Why you ask? Well because you Kant :p

>>7884588
Booooo

>>7884588
checked and kek'd

yes but it's not as good as remains

read the buried giant instead and then read the unconsoled

I loved both. if you were ever in love as a teenager or kid you will like never let me go. it makes you realize how short life could be.

>>7884271

I'm reading it now and just came here to break after about 150 pages, I like it. It's giving me my depressing fix I was looking for.

define 'define'

>>7884045
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.

proto-internet memery

As far as I understood it, Ivan's argument is about the burden of free will. He is saying that if God exists, he condemns humanity by granting them free will and at the same time creating them in such a way that the vast majority of people will not be able to forestall earthly pleasure for heavenly gain. God is cruel to do this, because he consigns most people to hell. So yeah, in my opinion Ivan is saying that it is in people's best interests for them to be guided (or even forced) to live a good life. But we don't know how sincere he is in this argument because he is mostly atheistic, his views always seem to be in constant contradiction. I don't think we really hear a counter-argument from Alyosha as such, but Jesus kissing the Grand Inquisitor on the lips, and Alyosha repeating this act to Ivan (and also Zosima falling to Dmitri's feet earlier on), is a simple act of human kindness and virtue which symbolises that the spiritual life doesn't always make sense in a way that pleases rational human argument.

That was just my interpretation of it, and I've only read it once. You'll probably find more detailed and well thought out explanations elsewhere online, I'm sure plenty of essays have been written on this very subject.

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>>7883853
Christ rejected the three temptations of the devil so that man could be free. Freedom, however, in an existential sense, means more responsibility for people to deal with. The Inquisitor tells Jesus that people do not want such responsibility. People simply want to be well fed and happy. They do not care of freedom, nor wish to deal with the consequences of having such freedom. Therefore, the inquisitor seeks to keep the people compliant by subtle means of control. By deceiving the people, you let them live happy lives, keeping them aloof to the traumatic truth. It's basically Brave New World mentality. Keep the populace happy by appeasing their conscience and they will forfeit their freedoms to you. As D writes: "anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him."

>>7885059
Yes but how about the great inquisitor ? He doesn't seem to have a problem with his freedom. I believe that Dosto is implying that maybe god shouldn't have given people free will, but first he had to ensure the basics ( food, etc..) because in order to be free human must be alive.Also D says that human is a rebel and from the moment that he is, and god has made him, what does God want from him now ( implying again the second coming of jesus) that he has made his choices? Is he blackmailing us ? I think Ivan doesn't believe that forcing someone for his own good is necessary wrong but ( being an atheist) he does not want that.He wants to make his own choices even if they are wrong.He is using his free will...I don't know if i am wrong but that's the way i read it

Are you reading the film adaptation cover version?

>>7883702
No, the Seamus Heaney version. I just figured posting the film cover would be worth a laugh.

It is easy to read. Its a pretty good

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No, but the German Empire is.

No, Germany itself is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY

>>7883631
You have to be German to actually know what they're talking about, otherwise you can't feel it. They aren't just memeing.