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Would you agree that empathy is an exercise?
Is reading an exercise in empathy?
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Doing your homework, faggot?
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>>10018242
No. How does this even remotely seem like a homework question? This is a discussion board and I'm looking to discuss. I think empathy isn't contemplated enough.
If anyone's got good philosophical works on the subject please recommend.
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>>10018239
Isn't it more self-insertion than empathy that appeals to readers?
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Are audio dramas/radio theater /lit/?
They don't seem to go anywhere else, and plays written for stage are /lit/.
Either way, pic related is. Has anybody read it?
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Not sure about "excessive" description, but this is at least somewhat true.
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>>10018235
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjJt4P4w8io
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>>10018235
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXy7lsGNZ5A
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Books on the occult and magic. 2017-09-13 05:08:42 Post No.10018219
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Books on the occult and magic.
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So I joined some occult group on Facebook a while back and it had a lot of "rare"old PDF books (examples in the pic) and I feel as if they are either all written very vaguely,sounds like mumbo jumbo or expect you to know a lot from the start.
What I want to learn is.
What is real magic -Do the real "magicans" really think they are casting spells and summoning demons.Or is it more that it's a specific way to dril a thought into your own head so you "succeed" in some sort of way.
I've herd different people say both.
The latter more to do with the fact that the origins of magic come from language and language causes effects in the mind and it's went from there.
>How have People come to make up these spells and rituals or found out about them if they are real ?
how has someone discovered that in the bottom left pic ?
>origins of symbolism-I was reading last night about the hidden hand pose.
>meditating with a god or the tree of life as the focus.What will you achieve by doing this in the long run?
I keep going onto one thing and because their is a lot to digest It can me an hour to read 10 pages in some of these books because of how new or hard to read everything is.
Where should I start ?
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>>10018219
Crowley, Evola
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>>10018219
>Amazon exists
>rare books.
There's no such thing as magic. There is however, confirmation bias, echo-chambers, image-consciousness and wishful thinking.
People will often argue this thinking that not everything can be reduced to science. What they mean to say is that not everything can be explained by current scientific understanding. So if a phenomenon were in fact something "more" than what science has thusfar explained, scientists would gather like ants on a cookie looking for the career break that would come with explaining what it was, what it's made of, how it worked, and why we never noticed before.
That's why there is no such thing as magic, ghosts, psychic phenomena, or miracles. Welcome to adult life.
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>>10018224
I read Crowley is a load of shit.
>>10018227
I don't think it really is magic in a magical way.I do know what you are saying though.
I just want to know what these people are getting out of it.
What are the real benefits of "crushing bones mixing them with rosemary the burning them as a candle while facing east and shouting out a mantra 5x"
People pray in all religions and we could say the same about them.Why do they do it.Well most of them are just hoping they go to a better place.
These occultst people are supposedly gaining something before they die.
But what ?
If it's fake,what makes them Continue throughout the years with different spells ?
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was Lise a proto-whore?
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>>10018162
>proto-whore
nigga how old do you think prostitution is
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>>10018166
Lise was a 13yo crippled virgin grill in the book, she just sent creepy notes to guys twice her age
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>>10018170
Oh right that makes sense I thought you were implying prostitutes didn't exist in the eighteenth century
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if human nature is a spook how does psychology work?
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>>10018039
I agree, commies aren't human.
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>>10018060
Well, that didn't take long to deteriorate.
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>>10018039
The lack of an unchanging essence does not imply absence of phenomena.
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Since this is the second most popular book on this board, and also one of the most complex and layered works of literature of all time, I think it might be a good idea to put together a reading chart of books that should be read first in order to maximize understanding of its various references and parodies in the style of the "Start with the Greeks" chart.
I can put the chart together, but I'll need some help deciding which books would be most important for the chart. The Odyssey is an obvious starting point but after that I have no idea how to narrow it down.
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Off the top of my head I'd say that one would have to be familiar with Homer, the other Greeks, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Byron, Blake, Shakespeare, Aquinas, just about the entire western canon now that I think about it.
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>>10017999
nuh uh
alls you need is Ulysses Annotated if you want to be an absolute sperg about it
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>>10017999
I'm pretty sure that already exists. I didn't save it but I'm sure I've seen it before.
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what is after death?
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>>10017844
the rest of the world
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Life
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>>10017844
Sleep without wake
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>"Our French Republic is no more than a great gullet swallowing the negroizing of the French at the command of the Jews. Our governors are a clique of sadistic yids and yellow-bellied masons sworn to swallow us up, to bastardize us further, to boil us down by all the grotesque, primitive means of inter-mixture, part negro, part yellow, part white, part red, part monkey, part Jewish, part everything."
How could somebody who wrote such wise and observational novels be so evil and racist?
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wew lad, and Hagbard Celine was named after this dude?
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Maybe he was right. Did you ever think of that?
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makes u think
>"There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there's always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.”
How could somebody who writes such touching, innocent books for children be so evil and racist?
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>In an effort that was hushed up until today, Dahl’s world-renowned children’s books were heavily edited to remove content that expressed his contempt for women, blacks, the disabled, and other groups Dahl enjoyed marginalizing, often with over-the-top stereotypes.
>Even “Matilda,” that super-rare Dahl book with a heroic female lead, was actually about a “devilish little hussy,” until editor Stephen Roxburgh removed Dahl’s woman-hating content from the original manuscript. “The Witches” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” also received extreme makeovers to cut back on misogynist and racist content, respectively. Dahl once memorably called Cinderella a “dirty slut.”
It's like that somethingawful parody of Brian Jacques where his editor asked him to stop calling moles "niggers." What do you think the original manuscripts read like?
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>>10017735
Wow. Childhood ruined.
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>>10017735
>that somethingawful parody of Brian Jacques
I hadn't read that before, it's fantastic. Thanks.
http://www.somethingawful.com/news/bargain-book-bin-3/
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Nonfiction and fiction. I'm currently reading a book about the Vietnam war that's nonfiction but written in prose or whatever it's called and with no pictures. I don't really like the book a lot, although I like the idea of a book about war. The book is called Behind The Lines - Hanoi.
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I have two other books about war:
With Rommel in the Desert by Heinz Schmidt
Rommel's War in Africa by Wolf Heckmann
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>>10017338
Oh I forgot, I also have Combat Intelligence in Modern Warfare by Irving Heymont
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I'm not too familiar with foreign literature, but I can certainly recommend
The Darkroom of Damocles by Willem Frederik Hermans
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hello lit i am from fit and am looking to get some brain gains. any non fiction books that are written in basic english because i am really bad at reading haha. thanks
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>>10017195
Any specific subject you might be interested in bucko?
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>>10017198
history :))
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>>10017195
Nigger, just look at the sticky. There’s plenty of charts with what you’re looking for in the wiki.
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Are there any felon-turned-authors that were incarcerated for violent crimes? No thug-literature, please. I'm talking about someone who was intelligent and eloquent enough to write something that you would never expect out of someone with a criminal record. And the man (or woman) had to have done something like assault and battery or worse. Hard mode: It can't be a political crime, so no Nelson Mandela. Very Hard mode: Holding someone at gun-point or knife-point alone doesn't cut it, either.
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Eldridge Cleaver
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>>10016612
If arson counts, and I eventually get published, then myself I suppose.
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>>10016622
what did you do?
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How can /lit/ claim to be /lit/erate when they haven't started with the Sumerians?
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Fuck... I just started with the Greeks...
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>>10016599
You can read them in parallel, just remember that the Greek pantheon was copied over from the original Sumerian gods. Same goes for Egyptians, Canaanites and so on.
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>>10016581
i read gilgamesh tho
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Did the downfall of western philosophy begin with William of Ockham?
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>>10016473
No, it began with Roger Bacon and hasn't stopped since. Peirce and William James come up as close seconds and thirds.
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>>10016480
You view empiricism as a greater threat to Truth than nominalism?
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When it became math and "critical theory".
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what is emotional intelligence?
books that prove it's not pop psychology?
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peterson doesn't believe in it
https://www.quora.com/What-is-more-beneficial-in-all-aspects-of-life-a-high-EQ-or-IQ-This-question-is-based-on-the-assumption-that-only-your-EQ-or-IQ-is-high-with-the-other-being-average-or-below-this-average/answer/Jordan-B-Peterson
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>>10016422
its nicomachean ethics for noobs
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>>10016422
Cognitive Intelligence is the measure of logical decision making.
Emotional Intelligence is the measure of both how emotions influence your decision making and how one can interpret another person's emotions.
Moral intelligence is a measure of how virtue influences your decision making through the assesment of one's empathy, conscience, temperance, kindness, respect and tolerance.
Studies have found that all of these "intelligences" exist, though only a pseud believes that any one of these is more important than another (though it could be argued that EQ is only as important as the others in regard to understanding other people's emotions.)