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>>9771470
This thread had the possibility of not being complete shit.
Well, here I go again

*raises paw*
Any fellow furries here?

>>9771599
Trump's killed more civies fighting ISIS in the past 6 months than Obama has in his entire Presidency. Since reality isn't a video game, I call that pretty impressive.

we know, brainlet

>>9771447
>needing books to gain knowledge
>not accruing knowledge through deep introspection and meditation

Guess you're the brainlet here chief

>>9771453
>Deep introspection and meditation
Wooow you are probably genius, anon.

>>9771413
yes

>>9771413
one nobel laureate and some cool national mythology is all i think. Gondola obviously their greatest contibution to literature

>>9771345
not every thing Lovecraft wrote has an elder god in it, scratching to get into our universe. "The Color Out of Space" is a pretty good read, and there aren't any tentacles in that.

suggestion: get hold of any of the dozen or so Lovecraft collections and read the stories at random. if there aren't enough tentacles, or if there are too many loathsome squamous fish-men, then .. skip that story and try another one.

seriously, do you need to be told how to read?

>>9771345
>>>/sffg/

>>9771345
Try the Case of Charles Dexter Ward or the Dunwich Horror. They excellently portray eldritch forces while not overdoing it. My personal favorite is The Shadow Out of Time, though.

>>9771335
new sincerity tho

anybody who's so much as glanced at his wikipedia page knows this already

sage

Go back to twitter you nu male faggot

>>9771317
A Short History Of Ethics: A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age To The Twentieth Century?

>>9771363
Hmm, well, I dunno. Care to rephrase your question?

scott siskind reviewed this a while back

> As far as I can tell, MacIntyre’s central argument works something like this:
> 1. There are many theories of ethics in existence today
> 2. The ones that came after Aristotelianism have failed to objectively ground themselves and create a perfect society in which everyone agrees on a foundation for morality
> 4. Therefore, we should return to Aristotelianism
> You may notice a hole where one might place a Step 3, something like “Aristotelianism, in contrast, did objectively ground itself and create a perfect society in which everyone agreed on a foundation for morality.” This is exactly the argument MacIntyre digresses into a lengthy explanation of how much he likes Greek tragedy to hope we will avoid noticing him not making.
..
> The strongest defense I could give of MacIntyre is that he is doing something like this – he’s saying that if we can’t objectively ground one moral tradition, we might as well make sure we’re all operating inside the same moral tradition so we can talk to each other. I agree and think this is important. I just have no clue where he goes off on saying that this tradition should be virtue ethics, or that this ever worked in the past.

>>9771104
Because Peterson discussion either devolves into anti sjw shit, or it devolves into how the discussion always devolves into anti sjw shit.
Look, I'm doing it right now!

>>9771104
Because no one here reads

Reply to this post with

G if you think SJWs should be gassed

F if you think they're well-intentioned and just misled, and it's the atheistic nature of the era that's at fault

>>9771089
>we
>>we
>>as if i didn't
yes. we were scammed.

Anybody buying any of McElroy's work is getting scammed.

>>9771103
seriously, is women and men really a thousand pages of shitty prose? it's so fucking bad.
>He went to the gym.
>She was there.
>They talked.
>He went home.

what was /pol/'s consensus on jews who attack christianity again? i forgot

The fact that the soul exists proves that free will exists.
The exact mechanism of free will is a mystery that God has hidden from us but it's within the soul so there's literally nothing you can do to refute free will.
Any attempt to do so is blasphemous.

>>9771075
>soul exists
>fact
Oh boy. We're gonna need a bigger fish.

>>9771034
Call me when Cicada wants to read my diary, desu.

>>9771042
Bring it boo

>>9771060
When Cicada proves to me they're worthy of my diary, I'll let them fuckin' read it.

i can relate to the salami, star trek, and driving slowly in the dark. it's comforting to know there are others out there. do you read anything though?

>>9771030
i read your mom's birth control instructions

>>9771005
best paragraph i've read on /lit/ in a month

Looking at shit. And I mean REALLY looking at it.

Not really an expert, but I think the idea is that the way things appear is a clue to the way they really are. (Phainesthai=Greek; to appear.) So instead of a strict distinction between the appearance of a thing and the truth of a thing, careful attention to how things seem to us actually can give us a clue as to how those things really are.

The study of UFOs.

if u want to join a big money cult, mormonism seems like a better bet

>>9770955
They can't possibly keep tabs on everyone who looks into scientology since Project Chanology turned it into a meme. Besides many organizations already have a complete profile on you.

u gotta give scientologists credit for carving out a little niche in hollywood tho, that must have took some serious grit

Read something by J Edgar Hoover

jk

I don't know I'll monitor thread

>>9770887
Definitely start with the existentialists, but I recommend The Stranger by Camus before Kafka or Dostoyevsky

Don't fall for the classics meme: they're classics and will always be with us, but remember that most of the cretins who post these must-read lists on here are simply fresh out of high school edgelords trying to get one up on the next anonymous poster.

My advice is to read more of the authors you've enjoyed, or on topics/periods/styles you've liked, and to randomly browse through some of the so-called classics until you find one you can get into. Work your way from there.

There's nothing worse than having people who are genuinely interested in reading and improving their culture being turned off by the faux-elitism of these dimwits masquerading as renaissance men.

ITT: PhD student who doesn't bother reading anymore. Trop de plaisir tue le plaisir.

>>9770856
King meme himself, OP.

>>9770856
Vonnegut worked in a machine shop
Faulkner worked at a plant
McCarthy was a mechanic
Pynchon I think was an engineer for the Navy or some shit

Gene Wolfe invented the Pringles can or something.