What do I read to focus on the mind-body problem? From my search for good literature so far, most of the interesting theories have been made after 1960. Is it really necessary to "start with the Greeks"?
Start with the tao te ching
No. It really isn't. The most interesting and relevant work is, as you've noted, largely contemporary. If you want to look into the history of it at all, you can read some of the early-moderns, but a lot of their stuff is outmoded for the simple reason that we know a lot more about the brain/mind now.
Cogsci and "philosophy of mind" people are literally fucking retarded and know absolutely nothing. Actual children playing with toys.
>practice stoicism irl
>people think I'm autistic because I don't react to anything
>practice stoicism
>people think I'm autistic because I don't react to anything
>>9717131
Say something insightful or ask a relevant question every once in a while and people will start seeing you as the smart guy that doesn't really talk.
Also have one or two persons that you can be open with.
Why does /lit/ take the Gulag Archipelago any more seriously than any of the tens of thousands of accounts from Holocaust survivors? Serious question, where does the obsession come from?
>>9716378
petersonfags and /pol/ immigrants are disproportionately opinionated
Depends on the writer. Elie Wiesel for one is a fraud.
>>9716378
/pol/
>whos the voice of our generation Edition?
Our first contender. Savannah Brown. She a cute!
>>9716347
Another contender appears.
>she bleeds wherever she wants, when ever she wants.
Rupi put the poo in the loo kaur!
Beautiful legs and foot, can I masturbate to them?
>>9716347
>a voice
>in the new millennium
haha
What book makes the best case for atheism, and what book makes the best case for faith? I'm currently reading The Brothers Karamazov and I'm enjoying this theme.
>>9715717
>What book makes the best case for atheism
The Bible.
>what book makes the best case for faith
The Bible.
>>9716183
So true it hurts
>>9715717
my diary desu
Where does Rupi Kaur rank among the greatest modern poets?
>>9712199
ok I'll bite, as a non-anglo, who is this Ruki person and why do people keep posting it here (do people actually read/buy this/consider this poetry?)
If so my culture pessimism has just increased to levels I didn't even no existed
>>9712271
She's an Indian immigrant to Canada who became famous after an instagram stunt involving menstrual fluid. I don't think anyone with a Y chromosome has ever willingly purchased or read her book.
Share, make friends, love, h8
go back there
>>9708103
assuming you aren't Sebastian, if you aren't brave enough to post your account in the OP nobody else will
>>9708120
*blocks your path*
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/23937251-hack-soul
I need a friend who can hold conversations on Malick, Schelling, Hegel, Kant, Fichte, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Montaigne, Rousseau, Freud, Hume, Berkeley, Locke, Leibniz, the presocratics, David Foster Wallace, Clauswitz, Grand Strategy, Politics, Machiaveli, history, chess, Go, Risk, Stirner, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, other existentialists, and most of all, Malick, all simultaneously.
Later.
>>9702227
That would be me. But I am too autistic for le friendship. Oh no!
>>9702227
I would love to help you OP but sadly I am too autistic for le friendship.
Sounds a bit like my gf... what race are you anon?
RIP
>>9721404
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3664286/Pulitzer-Prize-winning-author-Cormac-McCarthy-died-stroke-age-82.html
Sticky this
>>9721404
fuck you
stories in relation with fire
>>9721133
to start a fire - jack london
>>9721133
Fahrenheit 451
Theogony
What do you think about this guy and his work? Favorite story?
>and than the door had a knock
Did not age well, that I can tell you.
I think he's kinda concealed influential person.
The type of one that noone knows, but had a massive legacy left behind.
I'm going with the most plebeian opinion, but, yeah.
Murder in the rue morgue is my favourite.
a very bad writer and an even worse poet, which is a shame because his visions are exceptional and inescapable
>Tell the truth no matter what!
>Be courageous!
>The epics tell us to fight the dragon and get the virgin woman!
>Read Nietzsche on morality!
>Jung was right about everything?
So explain to me how this guy is not a crypto Germanic Pagan?
>>9720955
he believes some truths you should take to the grave.
>>9720993
This is the Troth.
Peterson the man is an oracle of Wotan!
Praise the return of the new gods on the European mainland and colonial Anglosphere!
We have not been forsaken, for Ragnarök is over and the Christian is dead!
>>9720955
lol
Hello, /lit/. Give me your most best sexual poems to help me get laid. This is aimed at a rather unpolished and brutish women, so there is no need to beat around the bush. Give me your best original content that is straight forward, yet, defines her as she truly is. (5/10 in looks, dependent on alcohol, and no stranger to casual sex, especially for money)
hey baby gurl
would you like to suck
me dry until the world
stops?
>>9720938
My god, man! This is so degenerate. Did you even read the perimeters? This woman is no cow, she is an angel!
>>9720905
poems won't get you laid sperg. be assertive and no bullshit. save the romance for the one that becomes your gf and shows you that she is down and wants to stick around, until then fuck a bitch. don't even give them the time of day.
Do I have to be well versed in the bible to understand or enjoy the Blood Meridian?
I liked The Road but I only have a very basic knowledge of the bible.
Blood meridian is enjoyable on a surface level. I read it when I was a retarded 14 year old and liked it.
>>9720903
Could you please elaborate?
Was Hunter S. Thompson a good writer in your eyes?
Is his most popular work worth a read?
>>9720767
Yes and yes.
>>9720767
Fear and Loathing is extremely poignant and captures that otherwise ineffable something of the hippy movement. It has great power, for a book essentially about nothing.
I can't speak for his other works however.
No and No