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ah nvm let this thread die

i found it

>>7688459
>>7688488
Nope, fuck you OP, will be bumping the thread periodically

dune is on youtube
a lot of shit is on youtube

>>7688438
Go to school for sociology, or just research Critical Theory in depth. Become, if at all possible, weak in some way, display said weakness, be biting, incisive against the powers that be, sarcasm is a must, mixed with a heartfelt humanism and caring for others and oneself amid this trying grief. You are halfway there. Now present a controversial topic, not to yourself, or those whose opinions you follow, to the enemy, what will make the enemy mad? Find the thing they hate the most, it isn't hard, you just have to circle the alt-right or MRA or something internet for a week or two. They complain about 3 or 4 things which will in all likelihood never happen. Bring up one of those exact things. The MRA, or altright or whoever will flip their collective shit, your tribe will flip their own collective shit, twitter wars will be had, tears of oppression will be shed, death threats will be hinted at, at least 4 opeds on semi-respectable journals and 200 blog posts on the raging man and womandom internet spheres will be raged. You will potentially if you do something even more outrageous be backed by people who hate the people you're upsetting enough to fund it make at least enough to do a talk show.

Results may vary

>>7688458

bretty gud analysis dare bud

>>7688438
you're stupid, the point is not to have the blog, but a portfolio
one would normally write for a uni paper but if you're looking for a job now i assume that route is not for you

hey fuckers cmon

I don't.

>>7688356
>the philosophers who are hard to understand are all talking shit

ideas and concepts can be extremely complex. it might not be rocket science, but having a multitiered and multifaceted thought process can bring you multiple branches and conclusions that vary from circumstance to circumstance. Philosophy, moral and practical is very very complex. and if something has to be said in a different way to make it work; for example, if something one said has to be reworded or altered to make it more precise and clear to make more sense, then that doesnt make it "hard to understand", you just have to keep up with ever changing variables and circumstances.

>>7688356
>>All of philosophy is baseless crap because the Münchhausen trilemma exists and we cannot know nothing
Knowledge needn't be absolute, only functional in its context
>>Anyone who says that novels are anything more than an entertainment is probably someone in the academia /publishing/ media industry who wants to mysticism / justify his job for personal gain
Mysticism is the core of all understanding, being, and everything in general
>>the philosophers who are hard to understand are all talking shit
They invent obscure ways of talking because they are trying to express something fundamentally obscure and recognize the paucity of natural language, the use of new and complex terms and systems is to step away from common understanding and hint at the unintelligible that they need to express
>>history can be extremely entertaining but any attempt to draw general principles from it is always either pretentious posturing or motivational quote tier banality
Mostly true. History is only analogy, there is a pseudo-science and a mystic interpretation of trends, and they yield varying results.

the srand fucking sux to be h

>>7688160
What?
>>7688129
I've been meaning to go to the strand, I'm in Central NJ. How is it? The best bookstore we have in our area is the Princeton uni one which is pretty damn good.

>>7688168
>the strand sucks to be honest

Anyway I love the strand, but I don't get to go to it that often which is probably why. I just ducked in really quickly while rushing to a date and lucked out.

>>7687796
Please respond

nah he killed himself so you can disregard all his work. not the kind of thing you want to put in your head.

Talentless hack.

>>7687492
>write something like This Is Water
>almost verbatim say people lacking this sort of consciousness are why they commit suicide
>kill self
kek top

That example sentence is an all-around mess, but yeah, "as" doesn't really help its case

>>7687066
I'm not good at English, but just do shit like: " , yanking himself up"
A gerund, I think?

>>7687072
>>7687073

This is the kind of stuff I really struggle with.

Which of the two tweaks works better?

>‘They’ve seen me!’ yelped Beim, stifling a scream. He squeezed the rail and tried yanking himself out of the firing line...

>‘They’ve seen me!’ he stifled a scream and tried yanking himself up to safety.

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Enjoy

>>7686912

I, Robot. At least read this before the Robot novels, which in turn read before the Foundation novels.

Don't

In scifi and fantasy you have to have a good and original world. In other literature it's pointless.

>>7689443
>Is world building largely pointless and unnecessary

depends on what you do with it

modern fantasy writers have taken the surface trappings of the stuff(genealogies, shit tonne of dates, names, lands and their histories etc) to be the essence of world building. what tolkien did was to create a set of themes and motifs into the history of middle-earth that repeated over and over in different ways, which gave even the smallest story in the universe a place and context within a larger whole.

This is why I stay with the classics. I'll take the Moorcock over Sandersons RPG fiction any day.

Read Plotinus lad

read

http://www.christianperfection.info/tta78.php
https://archive.org/stream/MN41530ucmf_5#page/n748/mode/1up

Avoid Quietism, i.e. the practice of retreating from all activity in order to passively "immerse" yourself in God. This is the "quick and easy" mysticism. It has always been popular in the East. It gives you a false sense of divinity; it allows you to fell like you are One with God. This is a delusion though.
There is a passive state in the higher stages of the Spiritual Life where God unites Himself to the soul by love, and at that point you do temporarily cease from action to allow God to act in your soul. But this is a TEMPORARY state and one of intense love, sweetness, consolation. It is not a constant state of apathy that goes on indefinitely. In order to arrive at it you have to first practice prayer, meditation, penance, fasting, mortification, almsigiving, abstaining from sin in general, and cultivating the virtues. The reason that God does not immediately communicate Himself to the soul is because that would result in gross pride. If you could just sit down whenever you felt like it and "empty yourself" and God would come, you would feel like you had already arrived at perfection. God does not come to people who are lazy, lustful, proud, envious, etc. The reason for this is, for example, if God gave Himself to a lazy person, the lazy person would use His sweet communication with God as an excuse not to fulfil his duties in life. The same goes for any other vice. You have to exercise yourself spiritually, normally for years. God does give consolation/sweetness even to beginners at the very beginning of the spiritual life, but this is to draw them away from the world and reassure them in the beginning. As soon as the beginner makes his first proper steps God stops sending so many consolations in order to test the beginner's love for Him, because the point of the spiritual life is to love God for His own sake, not for His gifts.

>>7686941
This anon, speaks wisdom.

Ogi Bearclaw

>>7688994
Louis

I need a first and last name, please and thanks!

>>>/his/

>>7686829
Fuck off

>>7686811
Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars

Tacitus' Annals and Histories

>>7686811

This is technically historical fiction but check out I, Claudius...it's a great book and written like the autobiography of Claudius.

I think you'd enjoy it, it has a lot of what you're looking for.

Is this what they are calling poetry these days? What is this?

Are you from the 13th century?
I'll try and find a better translation.

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He hath not lived here, who hath sober lived,
And he that dieth not drunk hath missed the mark.
With tears then let him mourn himself, whose life
Hath passed, and he no share of it hath had.

>should
>believe
Nice spook faggot

what

>>7688271
whats a spook