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>>9798558
>the sound of "VROOM VROOM" ?
Trains aren't VROOM VROOM though

Looks like we got ourselves a reader!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwkdGr9JYmE

>>9798558
By not having ADHD you spastic retard. Reading is how I deal with being surrounded by noise and shit. If you don't have the ability to shut out the world and focus completely on what you're reading then you've never really read anything seriously before in your entire life.

She does too little.

>>9798385
You cheeky cunt, don't think your pun went unnoticed...!

>>9798364
I'd rather shill Akhmatova desu

>>9798313
cont.

Something that I've noticed is that people who I find exceptionally intelligent or clever, or whatever you want to use to describe how noticeably sharper they are than everyone else you see every day, have the following qualities across the board, every time, no matter what, no question..

1. They read books and have for most of their lives, making them well-read and cultured - they know what they're talking about and don't bullshit anything

2. They are strikingly articulate when forming arguments, partially by using "big words" fluently that most people don't even know the definition of

3. If they attend(ed) university, they don't pay much attention to the work and instead focus on their own thoughts and projects outside of class for their own purposes

4. They are eccentric enough to be noticeable(aspergers, etc), but normal enough to function in society.. i.e. live on their own, have a job, what have you...

5. They only have original thoughts, and never regurgitate anything.

What i'm describing, I very, very rarely if ever see go to university and use it as some kind of path to higher learning... or act like it means anything. I don't know how to explain it. They take everything into their own hands. They form their own opinions ALWAYS, and very rarely give a shit what other people think on any subject.

I don't see THESE people working hard on their term papers and sweating to get a 4.0 because they JUST HAVE to get into law school, or whatever, you get the point. These people don't listen to professors, or give a shit about what their peers think AT ALL. It's like they're incapable almost, or think it's 100% a waste of their time.

They form their own path. These qualities just don't fit the mold of university, do they? Am I wrong? Regular people do not act like this, and they go to university because "it's what you're supposed to do". I think it is a positive correlation.

Here's the thing, OP: reading books and having your "own original thoughts" are not mutually exclusive. The only way to learn to think for yourself is by apprenticing yourself to someone way smarter than you; ie, by reading the great books of the past. You have to get your ass kicked by someone way smarter than you. Since the professoriate in this country has entirely abdicated that responsibility, you might have to do it on your own by reading.

You don't become an original thinker by sitting alone in a room and having deep thoughts all by your self. In fact, NOT reading is a surefire way to become a parrot of someone else's opinion.

TL;DR: You have it backwards. Reading is what prevents you from becoming tainted by pop culture and NY Times op-eds.

Addendum: Find a tradition and apprentice yourself to it. This is the only way to be original.

Start with the Greeks.

>>9800782

Cool, what’s next?

One last bump

>>9798152
the intersectional oppression of women, their status as victim of the first world. rupi reinforces this status.

/thread

That's not a bad poem at all.

women is a trip

>>9798127
Based on your shelf and your humor, I recommend John Green.

>>9798137
Based on your thread and your pic, I recommend reddit.

What the fuck kind of life do you have where you can do Duolingo and read kids books for 6+ hours a day?

>>9797780
Lately I haven't tryed to learn any language.
Months ago I tryed german with Duolingo. I was going okay even, but lazyness cought me and now I am suffering with plebian talk of:

Portuguese [Native/Native]
English [Accented/Accented]
Spanish [Broken/One-Way]
I wish I could get the strenght to start learning russian or japanese.

>>9797895
Vocaroo you speaking English

>>9797468
You read one of his stories.

>>9797468
Read his story's while bathing in blood.
Oh yeah, I suggest you start will Call of Cthulhu first, at least, it was this one who got me into Lovecraft.

>>9797468
Here: >>9797438

From the first page.

>>9797563
ok thanks

Concept of the Political. Just don't expect any actual explicit Nazism or Fascism.

You should refresh up on your Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau before you start too, it helps.

any gay fantasy?

Any mech kino recommendations?

>>9797037
No, we all grimdark now.

>>9796835
The bibble and that Burpo kid's book, Heave is For Reals.

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>>9796835
>Protestantism

>>9796835
Protestantsim is heresy, you heretic faggot.

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>>9796380
Only from online purchases.
Most my books don't have the best covers. But I am a picky artist sort.

This cover for one is so much better than the white and green thing I picked up

>>9796380
sometimes, but fantasy cheese like OP are a plus not a minus

Not entirely related but the other day a friend if mine showed me a pic of a girl he likes. It was an instagram pic if her laying over a boulder with a copy of The Hobbit next to her. It had a caption over it that read "A perfect moment of quietness and reading".
Now. Not only was the book The FUCKING Hobbit but it had the movie adaptation bookcover. To add salt to the injury the photo was taken very clearly at nightime with literally only the light of the flash. How I hated that picture. I punched my friend in the stomach just out of pure anger.

Some people use it to refer to a stateless, classless commune, and other people use it to refer to any government built on communist ideology.

>>9795955

I like this one
https://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/wanhum/wanhum04.htm

>>9795955
I think communists probably have the best handle on what it means, as literally thousands of them have written literally hundreds of thousands of pages on what it is

But, you know, communist manifesto is a good guide to what the historical program and aims of communist organization were. If you're curious I would start there, takes like an hour to read.

Fifty Shades of Grey tier

>>9794447
nah it is the mediocrity of a rationalist who love to think his opinions matter.

>>9794447
i know nothing about Peterson and will use this thread to ask general questions about him because I can tell you're the type of anon who won't be able to resist.

Who is Peterson and why is he all over /lit/ and youtube and wherever else? He just looks like every other meme-psued only with a 'surrogate dad' angle which has made him a fuckload of money

>>9794457
>I don't know who he is but I'm going to psychoanalyze him and the entirety of the people who like him

Yeah... sure. How about actually watching a lecture of him, instead of acting like you're Freud or Lacan on the internet.