Inspirational and or funny quotes about life
>>7654760
plebbiest comic alive
literally >lel women amirite the comic
>>7655936
He makes some excellent points on women though. Nothing new to a patrician who reads Schopenhauer, but good stuff to get out to the public.
This is the first books that's really interested me in some time. Has anyone on /lit/ read it? If so would you recommend it? I love Ulillillia
>>7654689
I know Ulillillia has autism. That's partly why he has such a fascinating mind.
It's one of the first pieces of 21st century literature that I've found truly interesting. At least since House of Leaves.
What does /lit/ think about this?
>>7654567
This is a very useful pronoun
>>7654567
I guess most of /lit/ doesn't want to think about it at all, cause /lit/ doesn't really wanna bother with the shit it, itself, is in.
>>7654567
It is a dream that will never be realized
How much respect would you lose for a Nietzsche if it was discovered that he had a side project death metal band with songs called "god is dead" "the superman" etc?
His compositions are actually pretty good unfortunately
I'd respect him even more
>>7654060
>lose
you lost methough tbqh i don't particularly respect nietzche, or any artist. I like aesthetics, I don't really care who's responsible
I've recently been toying with the idea of switching from buying physical copies of books to taking the dive and buying an e-reader. The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, specifically. I'm just looking for some opinions on the matter of e-readers, especially from those who have made the switch. Is it terribly difficult to adjust to reading everything off of a screen or is it not that hard? I don't browse /lit/ often, but I've recently rediscovered my passion for reading and I'd like to get back into it. Again, any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
>>7653887
kindles use a sort of magnetic ink system, they aren't like reading on a computer screen at all. They don't produce light either, so in terms of what your eyes are doing they're pretty much the same as reading a book.
I personally don't mind reading on a screen, but if you don't like it due to eyestrain or whatever I can't imagine a Kindle would bother you at all.
I've only had a few days with my paperwhite, and I like it.
It's nothing like reading off a screen. e-ink was developed specifically for that purpose.
the only annoyance with e-ink is that it has a slow refresh rate. so it can take about a second to turn a page. Frustrating if you're in a section with a lot of short dialog.
But the piracy and storage of them more than makes up for their downsides.
I got mine on craigslist for 40 bucks.
>>7653887
Every single day the same thread.
Too much caffeine intake today. Decided to make one more of these. Good luck.
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>>7653710
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i'm a meme
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Post what books you're currently reading and which ones you will read after.
Currently:
- Euclid - Elements
- Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- Homer - Iliad
After:
- The Works of Archimedes translated by T.L. Heath
- Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Homer - Odyssey
- Johannes Kepler - Mysterium cosmographicum
Currently: huckleberry Finn; a confederacy of dunces
After: the sun also rises; the sound and the fury; stoner
Currently:
- The Tunnel
- The Lime Twig
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- The Beetle Leg
- A Frolic of His Own
- 2666
- Mason & Dixon
- Omensetter's Luck.
>Johannes Kepler - Mysterium cosmographicum
Sorry I'm actually reading On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Copernicus
Opinions? Is it better than IJ?
>>7653340
They're both memes. They only appeal to 20 year old white upper middle class male college students.
>>7653344
Go back to tumblr faggot
>>7653340
Yes.
Which is a low bar, but yea, GR > IJ.
How do I learn to write better?
Could you recommend maybe a first year textbook (or maybe even highschool) or upper year textbook you were assigned that really helped you out, or perhaps a website or video series?
I'm not so interested in learning how to write good characters or a good story, I'm interested in learning the technical things about grammar, syntax, structure, types sentences, types of words, punctuation and so on. I'm interested in stuff as basic as learning what a predicate and subject are in a sentence, up to the most advanced ideas professional editors use.
thanks!
>>7653290
I think Cormac McCarthy is good place to start.
>>7654660
Think again.
>>7653290
How Fiction Works
my name is Glenn and you can thank me later
There is no libertarian free will (from this point on, when I say "free will", I mean libertarian free will unless otherwise specified).
The idea of free will is incompatible with both causality (everything having a cause) and acausality (some things having no cause).
If everything is caused, then all our thoughts and feelings are the result of prior causes, meaning every action we do, every thought we had, etc. is the inevitable result of what happened before.
If some things aren't caused, then our wills can't cause them (because then they wouldn't be uncaused). So that also means no free will.
Beyond that, we have proof that chemicals can CAUSE (i.e., MAKE) people have thoughts they wouldn't otherwise have and do things they wouldn't otherwise do. Antidepressants can make you feel better, or they can make you kill yourself. Amphetamines can cause you to compulsively masturbate, or cause you to do well in school when you were sucking.
We don't even "experience" free will. Thoughts just pop into our heads. When you're jacking off and you think of your mom all of a sudden, did you "choose" to have that thought? No--it just popped into your head. You didn't select it. It just came to you. That's how thoughts work.
There's also tons of evidence that our personalities come from our genetics and how we were raised. So that kills free will too.
Free will is incompatible with reality and we don't even experience it. It's a meme.
>>7653219
haha get yourself fucked statist
to yourself your will will always appear free. you can't change that, try as you might.
anyways, go read some buddhistic or some vedic stuff. not even joking.
>When you're jacking off and you think of your mom all of a sudden, did you "choose" to have that thought?
I fell for the Lolita meme
If I buy this in a shop they'll report me to the police right?
Not immediately. You'll be kept on a NSA watch list though.
>>7653127
You see all these "A masterpiece, one of the great works of art etc" ? Is just a bait for pedophiles like you.
It's a book dude
A book
There is also no blacklist for "people who own the communist manifesto" in the usa
What the first book that made you jerk it off? For me it was the depiction of a kiss in Romeo and Juliet.
>>7652814
your mom's diary desu
>>7652819
She died in a traffic accident when i was in my early teens.
go go go
What is the political alignment of the majority of /lit/?
>>7652883
Left but driven farther to the right by SJW propoganda.
>>7652883
idiotes
I just finished reading in the miso soup. Holy fuckSo this is the first book I've read this year. In order, the things I found interesting about it were, the incredible psychological mind games going on, between frank and kenji, the sense of surrealism. The immense grotesqueness and paranoid (the book caused myself the reader, I had trouble sleeping after reading it in the 2 nights between when I first started reading because of it), but also the turn around to warm empathy I felt for frank, after he began to tell his stories; I related so much to the way kenji reflected on the world. It was refreshing and enlightening in a way, to have painted such an immensely deep anti hero. It all touched me on a very deep level. I was wondering if anyone knew any books that I would also enjoy.
Literally nothing interesting happens, it seriously reads like a long B-grade creepypasta
> First book I've read this year
You had a whole fucking month, what else did you do?
>>7652574
Not really. If it was just a generic horror like say, halloween or something, there wouldn't be such a deep character dialog and reflections on the realities of every day life. For one, I don't think you really read it very closely or really retained anything that was said in it, or reflected on it in any meaningful way. Your tone makes you come off as a complete troll, to be honest. I don't really care what makes you tick, your presence here is boring. You've added nothing interesting.
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Contemporary Edition btw
#diversity
#youth
#change
#feminism
#equality
#YesWeCan
#GirlsRunTheWorld
>>7651908
low level bait but - 2/10 made me respond
>>7651914
What's the matter, don't know any of their names?