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Not only a great philosopher and humanitarian, LRH created an expansive library of great science fiction. He is one of our world's most creative minds.

Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:45:09 Post No.7807158
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Fuk off Tom Cruise!

Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:47:27 Post No.7807167
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>>7807107

l ron hubbard

more like l ron blubber

cause hes so fat lol

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2016-03-13 17:27:04 Post No.7807088
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:27:04 Post No. 7807088 [Report] [View this topic]

/lit/ BTFO
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:27:32 Post No.7807089
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>>7807088
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/#about-the-authors

Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:28:16 Post No.7807091
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:28:16 Post No.7807091 [Report]

/pol/ please leave
We don't need your memes and clickbait articles, stick to your containment board.
Sage and report.

Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:41:14 Post No.7807145
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>>7807091
This doesn't have anything to do with pol.

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:05:44 Post No. 7807007 [Report] [View this topic]

THUS

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:06:28 Post No.7807010
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:06:28 Post No.7807010 [Report]

SPOKE

Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:06:56 Post No.7807012
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:06:56 Post No.7807012 [Report]

GRENOUILLE

Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:12:13 Post No.7807032
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 17:12:13 Post No.7807032 [Report]

hey i get this reference

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2016-03-13 16:32:56 Post No.7806909
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 16:32:56 Post No. 7806909 [Report] [View this topic]

Just bought pic related. What am I in for?

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 16:34:49 Post No.7806912
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 16:34:49 Post No.7806912 [Report]

Read the introduction.

Anonymous 2016-03-13 16:35:03 Post No.7806914
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 16:35:03 Post No.7806914 [Report]

Fun. It reads like an American Ulysses

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>>7806909
It gets quite grim near the end.
It is alright.

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 15:25:11 Post No. 7806762 [Report] [View this topic]

What are good books on beauty being the most important thing/meaning of life?

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 16:37:26 Post No.7806918
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Mishima ... temple of the golden pavillion. But you just might have to destroy it because the touch of humanity and time defiles ...

Anonymous 2016-03-13 16:38:14 Post No.7806922
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>>7806762

The Book of the Law

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Lolita

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:47:08 Post No. 7806534 [Report] [View this topic]

Would it be at all productive to disregard all filters and considerations of audience and literary merit to crank out pages and pages of self indulgence?

Could this lead to spontaneous and inspired writing or is it solely the makings for self-insert fan fiction and fetish writing?

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 19:36:34 Post No.7807630
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This would be an interesting experiment.

Anonymous 2016-03-13 21:09:02 Post No.7808028
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>>7806534
I have never written anything and I have a week off with very little to do. Should I do this and report back here with what happens?

Anonymous 2016-03-13 21:14:02 Post No.7808047
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>>7808028
Please do this. Try OP's method and then more traditional conventions of writing. Report back on each of the two products.

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Opinions on 'Ozymandias'? 2016-03-13 13:14:09 Post No.7806464
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Opinions on 'Ozymandias'? Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:14:09 Post No. 7806464 [Report] [View this topic]

What does /lit/ think of 'Ozymandias' by Percy Shelley?

Here is a reading of it by Bryan Cranston for those who haven't read it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sum6A2enC6s

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:51:05 Post No.7806544
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I had to write an essay on it in high school.
I do not remember what I wrote exactly but I tied it in to hamlet's graveyard speech about Alexander the Great now being the dust in a bunch hole.
Sick rhymes though and nice flow

Anonymous 2016-03-13 15:37:52 Post No.7806792
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>>7806464
One of my favourites.

Anonymous 2016-03-13 15:49:30 Post No.7806818
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 15:49:30 Post No.7806818 [Report]

It's a great meditation on time and figurative immortality. It also evokes an atmosphere of menace that lingers like Yeats' "Second Coming."

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:09:20 Post No. 7806447 [Report] [View this topic]

ITT: Guilty Pleasures

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:11:07 Post No.7806451
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>>7806447
>Implying Alice wasn't a masterpiece

Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:19:19 Post No.7806481
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:19:19 Post No.7806481 [Report]

Why guilty?

Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:25:20 Post No.7806491
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>>7806481
>>7806451
Alice is undoubtedly brilliant. I think OP means it's not exactly 'high /lit/'

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:05:35 Post No. 7806440 [Report] [View this topic]

Finnegans Wake thread?
I finished this often incomprehensible, occasionally aggregating but consistently amusing and interesting book about a week ago. I'm looking to see if anyone on here has also legitimately read it so we can have real meme free discussion of it.

Did you like it?

Did you finish it?

If so, what were your favourite parts ?

A personal favourite of mines was Shaun's questioning in book 3 chapter 1.

>in the name of the first , the latter and the holocaust. All men

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:40:43 Post No.7806522
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:40:43 Post No.7806522 [Report]

Why doesnt riverrun have a capital R

Anonymous 2016-03-13 14:09:59 Post No.7806576
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>>7806522
The no memes lasted long

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Did you understand it? And be real OP. Is it really as incoherant as it first seems or is there actually something there worth trying to decipher?

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Sorites Paradox Anonymous 2016-03-13 12:17:51 Post No. 7806354 [Report] [View this topic]

If we define "heap" as some certain amount of parts, then the paradox is resolved. So the confusion comes from "heap" being a vague predicate. It seems obvious to me that vague terms like "heap" should not be used when we are trying to establish facts about the world. They are only useful in day-to-day conversations where some vague meaning is permissible or useful.

I must be missing something here, because philosophers have gone to the effort of applying a whole lot of weird many valued logic systems to this problem.

Can anyone recommend some compelling critiques of my approach?

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 12:45:43 Post No.7806409
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>>7806354
>complains about vagueness
>let's define "heap" as a CERTAIN amount of parts!

The point of the paradox is that it springs from vague predicates. It is not showing any "established facts about the world", but evicing the inherente vague nature of language and how we build our understanding of the world through it, even if it's flawed.

When does a heap stop being a heap? That is a decision as arbitrary as language itself.

At least that's what I gather from it.

Anonymous 2016-03-13 12:50:30 Post No.7806420
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 12:50:30 Post No.7806420 [Report]

this is a worthless line of thought

heap is somewhat vague by definition

fapping about what exactly constitutes as "heap" is pointless because there are far more precise concepts that can be used when necessary

same thing as with "few", you use it when you intentionally wish to be somewhat vague or lack necessary data to make more accurate judgments

Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:15:53 Post No.7806467
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>>7806420
Yeah, that's pretty much exactly my argument. My confusion stems from the amount of philosophers who have not found this answer satisfactory and gone on to create alternative logic systems.

>>7806409
This post is all over the place.

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German language recommended reading 2016-03-13 11:59:39 Post No.7806334
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German language recommended reading Anonymous 2016-03-13 11:59:39 Post No. 7806334 [Report] [View this topic]

I want to make a German language recommended reading picture that's a little more comprehensive than the old one.

It covers the classics just fine but I'm interested in modern recommendations and a bigger variety of topics including genre literature.

You could help me by posting books you'd want to see included.

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 13:14:06 Post No.7806463
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>>7806334
How about Peter Stamm? Either "Agnes" or "Weit über das Land".

Also pic related.

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>>7806463
I haven't read either. Translations should be available too, so I'd rather include Agnes.

Anonymous 2016-03-13 20:16:17 Post No.7807827
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>>7807017
Yeah, Agnes is the better known work anyways.

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 11:58:16 Post No. 7806329 [Report] [View this topic]

Is there a more JUST writer?

~~Can someone shop the JUST hair onto him please~~

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 12:13:05 Post No.7806348
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>>7806329
>Can someone shop the JUST hair onto him please
>doesn't know how to shop

JUST

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>>7806348
>JUSTing a pleb

JUST

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>>7806329
>>7806329
JUST

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Lovecraft 2016-03-13 09:59:27 Post No.7806174
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Lovecraft Anonymous 2016-03-13 09:59:27 Post No. 7806174 [Report] [View this topic]

You're at your local bookstore, and this guy comes up to the cashier who you have been unsuccessfully trying to flirt with and have been infatuated with for over three months now. What do you do?

No seriously why do you guys hate Lovecraft

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Anonymous 2016-03-13 10:00:22 Post No.7806177
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>>7806174
Comes up to hypotnises with eloquence*

Anonymous 2016-03-13 10:29:56 Post No.7806219
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Anonymous 2016-03-13 10:29:56 Post No.7806219 [Report]

roses are red
violets are blue
my name is lovecraft
niggers

Anonymous 2016-03-13 11:45:32 Post No.7806310
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>>7806174
I actually enjoy Lovecraft.
>inb4 stupid nigger

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