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>>7709964
Read JR and agape agape

>>7709965
Is JR better ?

>>7709964
No, but you're probably not ready

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Here's mine

This chair belongs to a couch collection but it wont' fit in the living room so I just threw it in the corner of my room

I love chilling here and reading, or in my bed

And I did that painting

>inb4 shit quality pic
I know

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>>7683836
your pic is out of date. anon posted this one recently

>>7683836
I was just thinking about this...does anyone know a general good chair for someone with lower back pain? A more supportive, upright back chair? or a more cushioned chair...I just need something that helps ;_;

Yeah you spammed it here a bunch of times before. It's still mediocre and unoriginal.

>>7712021
Assuming you're really this clueless, it'll probably go nowhere and you'll end up right back where you are now in a couple of months.

where do you live?

>>7712021
If your CV is fucking shite (I'm guessing it is) they'll just have you to do some trivially easy work that only a complete fuckup couldn't handle. Just don't be a retard, show up to work, be polite and do what you're told. You can read after work is done(still more than enough time for that) and you'll overall probably be happier because you're actually doing something with your life.

What Proust are you talking about? ISOLT?

no, taleb is a hack

>>7711869
I read it in my 3rd year (Econ student), it's pretty much the most important book that influenced my way of thinking (among with Anti-fragile later). So yeah, I'd definitely recommend it.

>>7711871
with him being a "hack", why is it necessarily a bad thing?

>>7711904
thanks for the feedback, actually my statistics teaching assistant recommended it, and the book really does seem intriguing. did it influence your choices in specialization?

I don't really have any recommendations for you OP, but I'll bump for interest.
Maybe read Foucalt's Pendulum? It's about the Knights Templar and other various secret behind the scenes shit. It's not exactly the same thing but it's in the same vein.

>>7711621
nice, thank you. i was stuck on the illuminati sort so i didn't even think of the knights templar.
mainly looking for examples of rituals
sex, sacrifice, etc

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>>7711595
I recommend "La-Bas" by Joris-Karl Huysmans ("Tief Unten" in German translation since i assume you're german, pic related is the edition i own), it's about a writer who is introduced into a secret satanic cult in Paris. I think it's exactly what you're looking for. One of the first novels dealing with Satanism in the modern world, there's even a detailed description of a black mess.

I appreciate that you mentioned Arthur Schnitzlers Traumnovelle, how did you like it? Did you read any other of Arthur Schnitzlers work? Unfortunately he's rarely mentioned on /lit/ although being one of the finest writers in german language.

>>7711165
An island rising from the shit sea of genre fiction.

I like her story well all the men just play football while the women rule. Never read EarthSea saga. Should I give it a shot? Has a.non ever read Elric?

I got about 2/3 of the way through this book and had to put it down. I just couldn't bear the dry prose and dull characters. The only interesting thing about it, and what got me to read as far as I did, was the premise of the one-gender species.

>>7711001
using a manual as instructions in how to write a poem is the opposite of Dada

>>7711052
this poem is going to brilliant, worthy to be sung by Lady GaGa

>>7711159
she said, from the inside of Friar Lawrence's basket

>>7710952
>tfw same nose as beckett

I'm a massive fan of his novels and short stories. if you're new to his stuff I'd def recommend either his short stories or the film version of many of his plays in a great project called Beckett On Film (def. worth torrenting). do not touch Watt or Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnameable if you're unfamiliar with his stuff even though they are by far and away his best works.

>>7710952
Godot is pretty Goodot

>>7710348
come back when you've finished

>>7710348
he should have just called it Cancer: The Book

>>7711334
Naw, that was Tropic of Capricorn.

Rule of law and accountability mechanisms exist to reign in corruption. He talks about those at length.

He misses how the elite's demand cheap labor has caused all liberal democracies to import millions of third worlders.

This in turn threatens to undermined Western culture, and will result in the collapse of the West and liberal democracy.

He's stuck in the 1990's, his big moment of success.

Fukuyama has been discredited so many fucking times it's not even funny, he's really not worth reading. He's far too idealistic.

The End of History pissed me off so much when I read it, what a fucking idiot. How dare he appropriate that title from Hegel.

>>7710319
It was really just The End of History. He admitted he was wrong and his other work is respected.

p good. i wouldnt get a reference to it tattooed on my forehead, but its a good read.

>>7710157
This is accurate.

Jailbird on the other hand- that's forehead worthy Vonnegut

>>7710169
Should i start with Jailbird then?

Frisch, 'Stiller' or 'Mein Name sei Gantenbein'.

>identity
>what it means to us
what?

>>7709922
The Odyssey has identity as a central theme (the Iliad too, but I'm less familiar with it). However, heroic identity is quite a bit different than what you're looking for, probably.

No, literally every other aspect of life is imaginary.

How can anyone really say that?Of course there is, go outside or read a book

what's your idea of 'being weird', OP?

>>7708930
If you want to have any hope of understanding anything in OP, you had better have a very solid understanding of Plato and Aristotle, at least the cliffnotes version of the Miletians and Heraclitus, a basic grasp of Christian theology, and a decent understanding of the core rationalists and empiricists, their arguments and why there is a split. This leads you into Kant, who leads to Hegel, both of whom you must understand to have a hope of understanding Heidegger (you also kind of need Nietzsche for him, and probably a basic grasp of German).

Of those works, only Stirner and Nietzsche are capable of truly standing alone, though Nietzsche in particular is made a hundred times richer by understanding all that preceded him. Stirner actually works pretty well as a solitary philosopher though, which makes sense given his philosophy.

>>7708945
Thanks a lot. I did an A-Level on philosophy and we covered a lot of Aristotle, Plato, Hume, with a bit of Kant (to criticize ontological and cosmological arguments), but never really read a lot of the Greeks (but I did read Hume). In terms of what to read first, do you have any suggestions that could help my understanding?

>>7708930
> very solid understanding of Plato and Aristotle
This post, but the above point isn't as necessary as you'd think and this one >decent understanding of the core rationalists and empiricists
is under emphasized. Kant credited Hume with waking him up philosophically.