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>go to check out book
>computer makes a beeping sound
>"Oh sir it looks like you have an outstanding fine of 65 cents."
>"Wow I can't believe it ma'am! I'm so sorry! Do you take credit cards?"
>"Not for transactions under 5$"
>"Well I'll just have to pay it the next time I guess, sorry about that!"
>"It's okay sir have a nice day"
I've owed them 65 cents for three years now and I'm never, ever paying.
General library thread?
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I don't go to libraries but you sound like someone I would trip if I saw you walking by
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>>9703194
Yeah I'm sure you trip people up all the time kid.
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>>9703201
I don't think he does.
It's not often you are aware of who's a scumbag or not.
Why don't you just pay your fine? You are what's wrong with society.
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Imagine a guy who has played chess with his family and a few friends all his life, and always wins, versus an amateur chess player who plays online and in tournaments. The former knows his family aren't great at chess, but often he thinks he's above average. The latter knows that he is really awful in the grand scheme of amateurs chess, but he can still beat the first guy 9 times out of 10. If they meet, and agree to play chess, watch out!
In reading books there is no real goal, but there is a similar dynamic. Let's say I'm doing a college interview and the applicant says he loves reading, reading is really important to him. Okay, good, this is a chance for me to learn something about how he thinks, his preparation for university-level work, the richness of his ideas - so I ask him what books have affected him the most. He saysMaximum Ride, because he really wishes he could fly. This is a potentially embarrassing moment - from his perspective he's the biggest bookworm he knows, but from my perspective he's not reading at grade level. To me, he comes across as somewhat pretentious. I don't think he's objectively pretentious - it's just an unavoidable clash of worldviews.
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nice blog.
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>not realising the profundity of man's will to fly
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>>9703142
Indeed, and it can be found as far back as the Greeks
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Actually understanding the meaning of words
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When reading, and not only, do you really understand the words you're reading or just the generalization of them? I'm asking this because when I search a word on wikipedia there is a quite long page for every word but before you can read even one sentence of page for a specific word there is a link of another word that has a lengthy page too and you can get quite big chain of links till you can(if even) read the second sentence of the previous link and so on.
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I suggest instead of reading wikipedia pages on words you read the wikipedia language on linguistic anthropology and get an understanding of what a word is and how they are used.
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>>9703046
Read those pages you dumbass
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What do I need to read to become a decent /lit/fag and talk philosophy shop and junk? Also how long does it take to learn to speed read?
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Step One: Get rid of that stupid shit on your computer.
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Step Two: Start with the Greeks.
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add a short sentence of blogposting for maximum bait effect. a self-absorbed reason why you wish to do these things. the thread will get 2-3 times more replies.
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ITT: Writers who are literally you.
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So..a talentless hack?
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>>9702964
jej
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>>9702961
An objectively bad human being?
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Are fears a spook? Is jealousy or envy a spook? Are bag thoughts spooks?
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ur life is a spook
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>>9702910
yeah the stoics were the only despooked
fucking idiot
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Cool painting OP, who is it?
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>I'm writing a novel about my own boring neurosis!
I seriously hope you don't do this /lit/
Seriously, every "novelist" I encounter just writes about their mental health problems, which aren't even caused by anything because you are all privileged middle class kids who just hate your parents, and the people around you due to your own failures.
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>>9702885
im redpilled ever tried the redpill m8? ITS INsanely against women and ehtnics
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>>9702885
Joyce's Ulysses turned out to be a masterpiece.
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>>9702899
It's been done.
We don't need another book about how totally weird you are.
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Is /co/ real /lit/ when it's non-fiction?
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Nice logic there, aardvark.
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>>9702804
You aren't reading superheros made for kids but real stories.
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Comics are Jewish as fuck
wtf is he talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnMfKacI9AY
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>>9702789
Inferior to Ariel Pink musically, both are equality retarded and pseudish
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>>9702819
maybe you're right but at least they know that pseudish isn't a real word. so you are stupider than them
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>>9702824
It seems like you aren't better than them
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>has sex with a married woman
>recalls her husband from war to try and make him have sex with her so nobody realizes the affair
>her husband feels too ashamed to allow himself to relax while his fellow soldiers are still suffering in the field
>King David has him murdered in combat instead and marries his wife
Why is this guy represented as the perfect King, again?
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>humans are fallible
>God recognizes this and admonishes our sins but loves us despite them
color me shocked
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>>9702750
oy vey you anti-semite! king david(pbuh) was one of the greatest kings in all of human history!
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>>9702774
>David does all this and gets away with a dead newborn and contention in his family
>Random priest reflexively touches ark of God to stabilize it while it's being transported and gets killed instantly by God
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What's wrong with Materialism?
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>>9702693
Nothing is objectively wrong about anything
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>Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental things and consciousness, are results of material interactions.
I have no idea what this means
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>>9702698
I guess he is talking about physicalism, the belief that only the physical world exists.
Problem with this interpretation of the world is it is too reductionist. Sure, everything can be reduced down to individual particles, but then it ceases to be what it originally was, and becomes only mere particles.
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I like reading but can never find a comfy enough place to sit down and read. Thoughts?
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with drugs, all is comfy
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>>9702694
And degenerate
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>>9702692
Sounds like you're making excuses.
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>Dans l'art érotique, la vérité est extraite du plaisir lui-même, pris comme pratique et recueilli comme expérience; ce n'est pas par rapport à une loi absolue du permis et du défendu, ce n'est point par référence à un critère d'utilité, que le plaisir est pris en compte; mais, d'abord et avant tout par rapport à lui-même, il y est à connaître comme plaisir, donc selon son intensité, sa qualité spécifique, sa durée, ses réverbérations dans le corps et l'âme.
>Notre civilisation, en première approche du moins, n'a pas d'ars erotica. En revanche, elle est la seule, sans doute, à pratiquer une scientia sexualis. Ou plutôt, à avoir développé au cours des siècles, pour dire la vérité du sexe, des procédures qui s'ordonnent pour l'essentiel à une forme de pouvoir-savoir rigoureusement opposée à l'art des initiations et au secret magistral : il s'agit de l'aveu.
What did he mean by this? What does 'truth' mean in the context of sex?
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my french is only good enough to get, In erotic art, the truth is-
Sounds good to me though.
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>>9702651
>gays fucking in the ass
>having sex
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>>9702656
Quick translation:
>In erotic art, truth is extracted from pleasure itself, taken as practice and gathered as experience; it isn't in relation to an absolution law of allowed and forbidden, it isn't in relation to a criterion of utility that pleasure is measure; but, first and foremost, in relation with itself, it is recognized as pleasure, so according to its intensity, specific quality, duration and reverberations in the body and soul.
>Our civilisation, at first glance, doesn't have an ars erotica. However, it is the only one, probably, to practice a scientia sexualis. Or rather, to have developped with the centuries, to say the truth of sex, procedures which aim at a form of knowledge-power rigorously opposed to the art of initiations and magistral secret: that is confession.
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Have you ever stopped to think about the meaning of dreams? Such an argument may sound trivial and perhaps even childish in this board of philosophy aficionados, men of science etc... but honestly, have you ever had precognitive dreams? How would you explain those?
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I have them occasionally.
I don't really have an explanation, but I would guess it has something to do with the fact that linear time, as we understand it, doesn't really exist, and it's no such much that you're looking into the future, but more like the future doesn't really exist and the future has already happened.
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>>9702649
by dreams are so on the nose about whatever topic they're about that it's a little insulting. I see it as my subconscious being a little shit.
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>>9702654
I thought about it as well. But how exactly do dreams link us to such a distant side of our reality?
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What're his best poems?
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>>9702540
Wonderful adventure stories and a great novel, Kim.
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>>9702540
If
Gunga Din
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>>9704008
t. just googled rudyard kipling poems