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I was violently beaten throughout childhood and now as I enter my early 20s I see that it has affected me on a level more profound than I had originally thought. It's impeded my ability to feel secure among other people and even my retention and memory. For all intents and purposes, I've done the best I could to be a good man and succeed. I go to a prestigious university, have a girl who loves me, a desire to better myself constantly. But in spite of all this, this pain follows me. I cannot shake the helplessness. At my core, I am stunted. I remain a quivering child in fear.

Is there any literature that could perhaps give me some insight into this kind of fear and alienation? To what extent can an individual escape circumstance?

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What should I read before tackling this, besides Aristotle's Metaphysics?

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How many books will you have read this month, /lit/?

>12 book/month masterrace here

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>origin of the species
>bird beaks and shit
>therefore we is apes

The nerve of this guy

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The Silmarillion Edition

Fantasy
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Science Fiction
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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What's the funniest book you've read?

>inb4 it was funny cause of how much it SUCKED

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post the greatest right wing book of all time
post the greatest left wing book of all time

discuss which is the better book

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRj-2ftFUus

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Use a picture of the Simpsons to describe a book you've read

>The Sound and the Fury

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>In 1977, he was among the intellectuals, with Foucault and Althusser, who signed the petition against age of consent laws.

Remind me why this nonce is so highly regarded?

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What are some good African literature?

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I am going for a trip into the Sierra Nevadas this weekend and I need something to read. What would you suggest for reading "inna woods"? I already assume John Muir and the transcendentalists will be in that category.

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hello /lit/

i thought i'd start a thread devoted entirely to the original ideas that this board's users are mulling over atm. the goal is to help each other develop and or point out if it's original or not

i'll start:

i've been thinking about consciousness a lot lately and it's origins. i never gave a shit about history before but if we can find out what led to the development of consciousness (a feature that distinguishes us from other mammals/animals) we can not only propel this development into unprecedented areas but we can create super-humans by accelerating the speed at which consciousness develops precisely because we KNOW the cause

i read in an article that humans developed consciousness because of a combination of two things:

1. consumption of red meat (which up until the pre neanderthal paleolithic eras was never a thing)

2. consumption of human brains

so here's my original idea:

we take a group of volunteers and isolate them from the rest of humanity. we measure their intellect via IQ tests and various other standardized examinations. we feed them nothing but red meat and human brains for 50 years. we make them retake the examinations and compare the results. if we notice a positive correlation of at least 0.5, we take an even larger sample of volunteers and conduct the same experiments for another 50-70 years except this time we make them have children. we conduct this experiments on these children as well, since being born they will consume nothing but red meat and human brains for their whole lives.

we keep doing this for at least 10 generations straight and compare the average IQ of the last generation to the first one, as well as the rest of humanity.

if we find out there is a positive correlation between red meat/human brain consumption and IQ, we make it mandatory for the rest of humanity to include this as part of their diets. this will increase the average IQ of population tremendously and thus increase prosperity and peace

thoughts?

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How do you imagine your soul?

I always imagine it as a glowing balloon attached to the top or back of my head via a "string" - I should add that I think of the soul and the consciousness are the same thing, even though I know they're two different concepts. For me, personally, the two just completely overlapped at some point and I can't untangle them.

A very christian friend of mine imagined it as a "glowing baguette" in the left side of the chest.

My grandmother said she doesn't visualize it at all and the whole concept of visualizing a soul is strange to her (which is strange since she's very into religion and philosophers).

Has anyone ever tried to "describe" a soul, or has it always been just a nebulous thing?