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With the Greeks

>>9856871
I probably read more books than you and I don't even fucking read. I even have literature published, something a hack like you will never achieve.

You aren't an intellectual for being a brooding faggot. You're just a brooding faggot. A stick in the ass and dick in the mouth makes for a bad artist. Even responding to me, you're Ressentiment is palpable. I can only imagine how thick it becomes when you receive your monthly rejection letter. Or, better yet, the publisher doesn't even make the effort to send a letter, or even an email. Oh wait, maybe you aren't a brooding faggot, maybe you're one of those Peterson-sucking LARPers pretending to be Christian? Goodness, if you people ever faced actual theology (no, Augustine and that narniashit you read as a kid don't count) then you would be amazed what actual religious reflection looks like. Your entire exposure to your identity is limited to brooding faggot Russians, '''psychologists''' who are nothing more than pseudo-deists (they adore the mere idea of God, after all, for its '''social utility''' or whatever gentrified statement they'll come up with next). What else could you be? I've seen a few LARPing as TRVE EVROPEANS around here, lately. Haha le stupid jewish sky daddy, right? STUPID! WORSHIP THE MEME GODS OF YOUR 'ANCESTORS' (the essential hick that raped your actual ancestor) FOR SOCIAL UTILITY!

Aristotle's Organon
Hume's Treatise on Human Understanding

Lectures on Logic
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Critique of Pure Reason
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Critique of Practical Reason
Metaphysics of Morals
Critique of Judgement

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>frog posters

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>>9856805
> actually

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>>9856805

>>9856774
haha nice england

>criticize continentals for being obscurant, posturing themselves with outlandish opinions, eccentric mannerisms, never explaining their work
>worship Wittgenstein
silly anglos

>thinks he knows about French political philosophy
>hasn't read E.H Taine

>>9856775
Wittgenstein wasn't obscure in the way continentals are. He merely ascended above the all other mortals.

define purpose

Forget about philosophers; they write unfalsifiable opinions masked as logical and insightful. Go for scientific books, better papers, but remember to avoid Malcolm Gladwell. He is a turd.

>>9856751
how many fucking reasons do you need?

>>9856748
>Why?
I like music.
>What kind of music?
Music I like.
>How does it effect your ability to maximize comprehension
Like music, I.
>Does it have any benefits like minimizing subvocalization?
Like I, music.

>>9856795

/thread

>Why?
music is good
>What kind of music?
david guetta and avicii and calvin harris
>How does it effect your ability to maximize comprehension
what+?
>Does it have any benefits like minimizing subvocalization?
i dunnno xD if the book is boring i can just listen to the music andnot to worry about the boring story in the book haha.

the best way to make text easy to understand is to standardize the written language

>>9856743
about the time I realized that you don't actually have to make sense to be understood.

>>9856642
Wat

damn i was about to read this to see if it could help me cope with being an incel but thanks for the warning. guess i'll try something else

>>9856719
You should still read it. It captures so much of what it means to function as a person who's inner self is shunned by society. Shortcomings and trials we are all familiar with.

It was possible before posting that froggo picture. It's too late now, OP.

>>9856597
The only thing studying multiple subjects and multiple languages taught me is how ignorant and stupid I really am. Education is not the solution for idiocy. Ignorance is bliss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

>>9856637

this meme needs to die, the plasticity of wisdom or knowledge cant be reliably quantified. whenever anyone quotes this shit i am instantly reminded of dr kaku or ted talks and bill nye, just chill man we are all going to make it

>>9856585
Not everyone likes the classics. Its okay op.

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I'm unspooked as fuck. I see myself living in a meaningless world. I see people as disgusting. My jealousy comes out of nowhere and it disgusts me.

>see guy with his gf
>get madly jealous and randomly the thought, "the best revenge is a life well lived" goes through my mind
>realise as I'm thinking it how pathetic and spooky it is, the coping mechanism of a genetically deficient organism

>see someone reading a maths book
>feel hatred for them because they might think they're smarter than me

Guys I'm not going to lie, being unspooked is tough as fuck. I worry that marketers and advertisers are trying to take advantage of me.

I have no life philosophy. Work on many things? Work on one thing? Do what I enjoy? Do what others say is important? I have no clue. I want to do 50 things at once. I see all sides. I started reading more recently and worry about "reading myself stupid". I try to remember what I read when sitting on the train and although I know the condensed outline, and see this as enough, I get annoyed for not remembering perfectly.

I am an ugly beta male who has never had female attention, even at the age of 26, has had no social life since 18, and became the ugly loser loner that nobody talks to within two days at work. Seeing attractive women everywhere is torture when I know they have lives on easy mode, consider me a disgusting non chad, as have 50999 tinder matches.

I trust my intellect and taste but I am always abused by the pseudo intellectuals who claim I need to suspend these and worship and spend my money. If I spent all my time doing all the shit I'm supposed to do, I'd have no time for anything. Everyone else is a fraud. Everyone else is either a woman who gets everything handed to them or a normie who glides through institutions while being judged by their clones.

My spiritual malaise is entrenched and I refuse to sprinkle Christian (or any other) droplets on it like the low IQers, pseudo intellectuals, and the frauds.

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>>9856591
Why are we still here?Just to suffer?

Are you serious? Mishima made it pretty obvious he was gay, and is still respected as an international author. If you don't want to read gay authors that's your choice, but I can't believe loving thick Asian cock would make anyone take a writer less seriously.

>>9856460
>hating someone's work because it hurt muh feels over fags
Go back to /pol/

>>9856460
>greatest japanese writer
Japanese here. Mishima is good, but whenever anyone says that he is the greatest Japanese writer, I know that he is an uneducated American just getting into Japanese lit. I know you guys probably get "exotic" points for saying that you like Mishima in America, and so you probably feel really unique and sophisticated for having such exotic tastes or some shit, but it's like the equivalent of some guy saying Hemingway is the greatest english language writer of all time. You just immediately know they're a normie fuck.

Plz halp i am curious

>>9856451
Kushiel's Dart series by Jacqueline somethingorother. I remember hearing about it on a fantasy lit board. It's supposed to be breddy gud. Main characters are courtesans.

>>9856593
Thanks anon I love you so much that when I write my book about fantasy whores I will make you a rich lord that will buy the entire brothel.

>>9856442

The book is by far superior to the edgy, style-over-substance action flick, you'll realize that when you grow up.

you would know its a good book solely of how it transpired in other artists minds to tranform it into something innovative. it created a genre.

>at least there's book version of tears in rain to look forward to
took the bait until this line

6/10

>>9856438
Lord of the Rings. Same thing really. Bad writing loved by those who have poor taste.

>Google this
>look at the references
>the idea that "God is good and can do a lot of things" is cross-referenced between different books of the OT and NT
>the idea that "I'm good and I don't hang out with evil people" is cross-referenced between different books of the OT and NT
>the idea that "We are supported by God in our struggles" is cross-referenced between different books of the OT and NT
>the idea that "God will make things new" is cross-referenced between different books of the OT and NT

Fucking deep.

read stanley cavell

>>9856424
>Ever since I've gotten into philosophy and literature, I feel like I have been slowly going insane, becoming unhappier and unhappier. Everything that I once took for granted is now on shaky territory.

Good, it means it is working and you are doing right.
Now, start making your life have meaning by your own hands, and achiev full potencial of yourself.