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Ok lit, name your top two favorite authors and your top two favorite composers, now
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Tolstoy, Dante and Eminem.
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>>7835075
>Herman Melville
>Anais Nin (only the journals)
>JS Bach
>Gabriel Fauré
Ok, now what happens?
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>>7835076
why is the first bost always the rightest??
Pleb here. Never read a single philosophy book in my life. I want to read the Greeks, but I'm afraid just jumping into The Republic will discourage me. How do I into philosophy, /lit/?
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Start with The Apology, you retarded fuck.
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>>7834031
Ironically philosophy is the one place where you don't want to start with the Greeks. Start with Descartes' Meditation and Discourse.
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Republic is babby tier, OP. It holds your hand through the entire process of navigating knowledge issues.
I'd say read it first tbqhfam
Serious series of questions.
1. How old are you?
2. What is the highest degree of education you have achieved/are striving to achieve?
3. Are you happy?
4. What is that one book you've been trying to finish for far too long now?
I'll answer myself after a few other responses.
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>26
>GCSE
>no
>n/a
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>>7833647
>26
>MA
> Day to day mood no, overall trajectory of my life yes.
> King James V Bible
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>>7833647
>24
>JD
>Depends. Sometimes, yes, with glorious peaks. Other time's I'm suicidal.
>Myth of Sisyphus (I keep jumping around, and this is sitting on the nightstand, crumpled and half-finished).
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I want to write the next great American YA series
It's called The Powerless
Every single person on earth developed some kind of super power X years ago.
Our hero,17 year old David Dominick, is the only person on earth with no power.
I have a loose idea of where the story goes but i feel like im missing something, a secret sauce that makes this series epic
Im looking for suggestions, what could i put in this book that really makes it soar?
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>>7832246
homo sex
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>>7832246
>i feel like im missing something, a secret sauce that makes this series epic
>this is what ya authors really believe
K E K
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Do people learn Classical Chinese without ever intending to learn modern Chinese like we currently do with Greek? If so, how does one go about it? I know my university doesn't teach it.
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No. Even Chinglers can't read Classical Chinese, really. There was a good thread recently on this. Some guy fluent in bus-shitter came and gave the inside scoop on Chinese culture and the likelihood of your ever reading Classical texts.
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>>7832233
Well, what did he have to say?
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>>7832233
I've heard the same thing outside of 4chan from some of my Chinese ESL students a while back.
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Is there a more insane opening sentence than
"From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that — a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them."
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The opening sentence of The Bill by Krasznahorkai is unbelievable.
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Damn OP. I've yet to read Faulker, but this board is always showering him with adulations. This is really great.
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>>7831956
Call me israel :D :DDDD
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Relativism or Absolutism? What school of philosophy do you subscribe to (if you subscribe to one)neo scholastic myself
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>>7831326
Relativist. Up until recently I was an existential nihilist. I'm looking for a better philosophy, but it has left me feeling very displaced.
Currently toying with Evola and Nietzsche.
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>>7831366
So you just change your worldview based on how it makes you "feel"? That seems ignorant, and any type of relativism or nihilism will make you feel displaced
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>>7831326
relativists are to undergraduates as absolutionista are to professors
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>Wardine be cry.
What did he mean by this?
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Wardine be cry.
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Wardine be cry.
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>>7831322
Checked, verified and confirmed.
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What's the deal with Freemasonry? Is it as crazy as some claim with kikes scheming, sacrificing, degeneracy, etc?
Or is it just a 'boring' club where they talk about philosophy and shit, kinda /lit/ but irl?
Anyone got an objective look a this matter?
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>>7830203
They're powerful people who have a lot of wealth. So, they run everything.
Philosophically, most freemasonry deals with hermetic alchemy and other occult practices.
Crowley got bored with it cause it was weak-sauce.
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>>7830203
Like most large "secret" societies, it's highly unlikely that most of the members even know what the hell it's about.
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>>7830203
No jews allowed.
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This is the most autistic book series of all time.
> main character is a basement dwelling aspie described as having pale skin from never leaving his computer
> Artemis is basically a neckbeard, or at least how a neckbeard views himself because he's also a genius
> spends his time obsessing over fairies like a retarded brony
> fairy he discovers is part of Lower Elements Police which is shortened to, I shit you not, LEPrecon
> all kinds of bullshit fairy politics and magic events
This series feels like what I imagine would happen if a brony inserted himself into his own fan fiction.
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I read it in 6th grade and forgot about its existence entirely
sage
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Hardly a controversial view here. Take it to /v/, they'll go ape.
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>>7829362
I liked it. It was afunread. I still go back and flip through it when I'm feeling bored and nostalgic. Not everything has to be high literature, anon.
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>"if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you."
What did he mean by this?
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>>7829248
It's an analogy for men who support feminism.
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Nothing. Everything is an interpretation and nothing is real, how can anything be "meant"?
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>>7829248
a man who fights monsters will become a monster himself.
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Does anyone else feel this sense of existential dread when discussing or reading about philosophy? Its the kind of existential dread I have not felt since I did psychedelics in high school, I didn't know the same feeling could be elicited sober. I feel so uncertain about everything, about science even. Growing up in the west as a millennial you are taught a very simplistic materialistic view of the world and everything seems simple and solid. Going into philosophy you have your entire world view shaken to it's core until its barley standing. I use to think it was obvious that this was all there was to the universe, now I see my ignorance.
Also, is there a word for someone who refrains from taking a philosophical view point? I feel like nothing can ultimately be proven or disproven and taking a stance (even a nihilistic one) is ignorant
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Babump
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Pyrrhonian skepticism, bro
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>MFW felt that feel
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what are some books like pic related. ones with horrible main characters, not in a lolita-esque sense, more just ones where they're just terrible human beings. emphasis on prose preferred. i want a book to really make me hate myself
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Less Than Zero
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all of jonathan franzen's characters are terrible people
purity is filled with abusive relationships, you'd love it.
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>>7828721
Trainspotting
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Match comedians to authors.
Doug Stanhope - Charles Bukowski
Mitch Hedberg - Gertrude Stein
Bill Cosby - Mark Z. Danielewski
Amy Schumer - Neil Gaiman
Brody Stevens - DFW
George Carlin - Emil Cioran
Andy Kaufman - James Joyce
Eric Andre - Nathanael West
Joe Rogan - Michael Crichton
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Katt Williams - Iceberg Slim
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>>7826828
>Bill Cosby - Mark Z. Danielewski
wut
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George Carlin and Charles Bukowski are like the exact same fucking person
what is this fucking list
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We're couple of patricians trying to get into analytic philosophy/formal logic.
We're looking for people who are also beginners in the discipline of Logic and want to join our journey in learning, understanding, discussing etc.
Our main source material is this:
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/static/open-logic/open-logic-complete.pdf
It's a textbook of formal metalogic and formal methods (rigorous stuff), aimed at non-mathematical
individuals (students of philosophy/computer science).
It's gonna be fun, for now get in tinychet "litlogic".
Or can ask for invitation in our Slack group.
>hey fag no one cares
I hope there are people in here who are interested because it's impossible to find normies who would be into this.
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>>7818065
I'm a normie, I wanna learn, explain more :)
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>>7818076
Nothing much to explain, we're embarking on understanding Logic and thought the more the merrier in our chat group.
We usually discussed about a wide range of things but decided to undertake formal logic, we can see the potential it has as a tool not only in philosophy but other disciplines as well.
Discussing. questioning eachother, sharing insights, etc will make the learning deeper and more efficient and probably more interesting.
It's a long term project obviously, you can join/leave anytime you want.
We're communicating in Slack (a website for collab group chats).
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I might be interested. Can I get an invitation to the Slack group?