>tfw he was right about video chat
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And trump
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What'd he say about it
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What did he say about video chat
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>Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (rational self-interest), that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally.
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>>7875510
For fucks sake lit truly is being invaded by pol his and sci, fuck off already.
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Why is she wrong?
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>>7875514
t. Tony Francis
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>ITT: Others tell us the type of /lit/ our new names would write
Rollin
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>>7875447
YA fiction.
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>>7875447
shitty romance novels or hair cosmetics guides
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Can there be a creation, without an architect?
Leave religion-bullshit aside. We are talking about reality.
i also want to hear /lit opinions on that
>>>/sci/7971784
>>>/his/918601
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If we're looking at reality then there is no difference or separation of the creator and the creation. Mythologically speaking, God created the world, but God is eminent in the world. The apparent separateness of things is only secondary. "I and the Father are one", that whole thing.
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>>7875451
You do understand that you're argueing for pantheism right? Not theology. Thats heresy!
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>>7875459
>heresy
Welcome to the real world, where truth isn't delegated by the middlemanclergy
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NEW FORMAT: Contain your bitching about the new format of the board in this thread.
So that normal discussion can continue unfettered in other threads.
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Better than the Honkening desu
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I'm digging it desu. Pretty hilarious stuff
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>>7875171
The catalog view is still the same as before if that helps. The threads still appear in the new format unfortunately.
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Analytic Philosophy or Continental Philosophy?
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>>7874313
is that a hook from some swaggy trap rap? cuz it would be good
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Where should I start with H.P. Lovecraft? My friend is going to send me on audiobooks of H.P. Lovecraft's works, and I'm wondering where I should start.
I was thinking of starting with 'The Rats in the Walls', but I'm not so sure.
What do you think, /lit/?
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I read 'The Rats in the Walls' first, and that worked as a solid introduction for me. I don't think it's hugely important where you start though
Have fun
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I started with the Shadow Over Innsmouth, and I think it was a pretty solid introduction. It is a large story, more like a novella, and it contains every Lovecraftian theme except for his later more cosmic phase.
If you want to start in a non-committal way, read Call of Cthulhu or a couple of short stories like The Rats in the Walls and Dagon. Don't start with a story like 'The Color Out of Space'.
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>>7873953
Honestly just get one of those big collections of his stories and start readin'. I've read like 20 and they're all good shit
"Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid it is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this dark world AND to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it. You can defend "[American] Psycho" as being a sort of performative digest of late-eighties social problems, but it's no more than that." - David Foster Wallace
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AP > IJ
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DAVE STEP AWAY FROM THE ROPE
AWAY
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Eeh... No
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OK, I'm wanting to learn Latin now (I'm learning Spanish, Japanese, and Ancient Greek as well).
What's your opinion on Wheelock's Latin? I just purchased the textbook and workbook because I found it cheap at a store. There's another book called Thirty-Eight Latin Stories Designed to Accompany Wheelock's Latin which includes stories of ranked difficulty; however, I could not find this book in the store. Should I purchase Thirty-Eight Latin Stories Designed to Accompany Wheelock's Latin as well?
What should I get for speaking Latin? The books did not come with audio files, unfortunately.
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>speaking latin
top kek
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>>7873134
Why are you laughing? I want to learn how to read and speak Latin.
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You can't really learn how to speak it unless you do some really specialized thing in a church or some shit
But "correct"/uniform pronunciation is important. Fortunately it takes like five minutes to learn the basic rules, and you can personally decide whether you give a shit about rolling r's or even pronouncing v's as w's and so on
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>science exposed him as a charlatan decades ago
>the humanities still worship him like a god
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>>7873040
>the humanities still worship him like a god
Lel. No it doesn't STEMfag. No kindly fuck off to your containment board.
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No one takes him seriously except for people like Lacan
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the reason we remember freud is for his idea of the unconscious/subconscious mind. there are things going on in our heads even without us being aware of it. this is helpful in studying ideology and how it functions. it's why freud and marx are still remembered, even though they still got a lot of stuff wrong.
I had to read all this shit for a class, am I a liberal yet?
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>>7872758
No that takes reading socialist thought and finally understanding that all world conflicts have been over unfair distribution of resources taken by the rich and then used to bribe the masses into doing what they want, comvining them that bullshit like race matters more than class
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>>7872758
Even worse: you're a pleb
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>>7872768
Are these considered pleb tier by /lit/ folks? I think we should have read pic related just to make the class a little more objective.
Tell us the premise of that story you're probably never going to write.
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>>7872757
It's a 100 page sentence fragment that is lacking in any and all punctuation, which is supposed to represent, among other things, the nature of time.
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It starts with my great great great great grandfather's birth and ends with me writing the book you have in your hands. Its called Song of Eternity.
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Ottoman harem lesbian fantasy
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Hey /lit/
I have accidentally promised to write the script for a short movie, about 20 min long. I need a fucking plot and I'm completely out of ideas.
It's suppossed to be mystery/horror story set in a city. We already have the main character cast. It centers around a man circa 40-50 years old who is haunted by nightmares and some kind of mystery he has to solve.
Think "In the mouth of madness" or "Hellraiser" but more low-key.
Plz lit you're my only hope, just throw me something.
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>>7872574
Fade in: a guy goes on 4chan looking for movie ideas. Another poster trackes him down and fucks him in the ear until his cock comes out the other side of his head. Fade out.
It's shooting later today.
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>>7872574
An film with no dialogue would work.
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>>7872574
Man falls in love with woman while working a case. By working the case, he finds out that woman was a robot/alien/elder god that only looked and acted like a human being the whole time.
Kind of like Her but mixed up with horror/mystery elements.
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Any good contemporary Muslim lit?
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nope
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>>7871670
Naguib Mahfouz is pretty dope, he won the Nobel some time back. He doesn't actually write about religion a lot though, so not sure if that's what you want. I'd recommend Miramar, it's about a murder in a hotel in 1960s Alexandria where all the guests have some kind of relation to the Egyptian revolution.
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>>7871670
Oh yea anon they've got some authors that are really blowing up right now
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>get STEM degree
>still more knowledgeable about writing/literature than humanitiescucks
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>be STEMpleb
>go on /lit/
>occasionally see someone who probably has an English degree talk about literature with that nuanced insight gained through education that you will never acquire
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>he spat
>they rode on
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>>7871657
>be normal person
>have sex, unlike STEM autismos
go back to your memes, boy