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>>9683824
im redpilled maybe schlpenahuer on women or hitler mein kampf??

idiot bluepilled

>>9683833
>im redpilled
>dismisses the Bible
What are you doing?

>>9683841
ever wonder what would happen if we lived in a white world with women in the kitchen where they belong?

I haven't slept
I haven't slept
But words upon you I have left
And words so spoken I have kept
For words so broken I have wept
And guilt has seen I haven't slept
I haven't slept

I just got up, I'm out of bedlam
But last I checked it was 2am
I didn't get much sleep
Just a little peep
Now I have to quit my job and study for a final fucking shit work coffee god fucking damn it FUCK SHIT AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

books are things, simple and trivial things.
they got text, text are things, trivial things.
text got ideas, ideas are not things.
things are not trivial ideas.
books are weird text things.
books are not ideas, but weird things.
weirth ideas are not trivial things.
because trivial things at least doesnt matter.
weird people are not thins, but trivial ideas.
weird.
oh, normies, you all should be no more than text.
oh text, shall you be the only i read.
fucking normies get out my text.

I wouldn't remove my hand no problem. Got my hand stuck in a sander once and it sanded down to the bone but I didn't cry because I'm a big guy.

>>9681325
I have no thoughts of Frank Herbert's "Dune"

my blade hath chipped and shattered

wat do

>>9688877
Personally reading War and Peace is giving me a lot of inspiration as I currently battle my addictions. It helps me cope with life and have a desire to live nobly.

>>9688877
Advice, books are a way to overcome addiction. I quit smoking and drinking by doing this. Next time you get an urge that you want to squelch, pick up a book and start reading until it's gone.

>>9688877
What addiction do you have, OP?

>>9688817
Overrated piece of crap.

>>9688817

>Another one of these threads

BNW, 1984, et al have some level of accuracy in their foresight. Huxley's universe is a little more comparative to the modern day, where instant gratification and endless distraction have a stronghold over society.

>>9688817
At the time it was dystopian, in another 100 years it will be considered an optimistic view of the future.

>>9687922
With an image like that just go back to redddit please.

>>9687922
most of /lit/ still doesn't like reading

>>9687927
How exactly is my picture redddit?

>>9687820
Too edgy for me. I find it to be the philosophy for 18-21 year olds.

>free will

Pass.

>>9687820
>>9687847
Reminder that existentialism was so intense that even Sartre gave up on it. It was too much for him and he was its founder.

No, but I did read Beyond Sleep in high school (dutchfag), it was pretty good.

>>9687732
Dutchfag too, it's a shame his lit is so overlooked outside of the Netherlands. Au Pairs is quite good as well.

Beyond Sleep by him is really very very good. I only read TDoDamocles as a highschooler so I don't know if it's actually good or not. Onder professoren by him is unremarkeble.

Let's make this a dutchlit thread
>The Evenings by Reve
Intentionally grating, quite funny. It's about twenty-something guy going nowhere with his life, making edgy jokes to his friends who are all moving up in the world and getting children. I really identified with the work.

>Back to Oestgeest by Wolkers
Colourful ,funny and interesting just like Turks Fruit, great light read. It's really just Wolkers writing down the story of his youth with his brothers death as the centerpiece. Would recommend.

>Max Havelaar by Multatuli
Not that good, shouldn't be a classic

>The Disovery of Heaven by Mulisch
A dutch 'epic', really enjoyable read, great idea but ultimately I don't feel like he had anything significant to say.

>The Metsiers by Claus
Not that great, apparently it's his first work, which shows. Feels like he is heavily borrowing from Faulkner. I'm still intending on reading Het Verdriet van België

Anyone got any dutchlit recs? I've got Bordewijk, LP Boon and Claus on my to do list already

>>9687580
Well consider the new quandry.

We find a way to emulate and copy human consciousness (reading the electrical signals, synapses, reasoning and intelligence, and brain matter storage and transferring to SSD) before death.

Is that still the persons soul? Or some electrical homunculous. What about a cut and paste instead of a copy? Does this person still have rights, or is it an image of the deceased?

The Soul of Theseus.

It is a false problem related to the brain's prioritizing quick and practical abstractions over true correspondence.

>>9687590
There is no soul you mongoloid. All there is is electrical and chemical reactions inside a meatchunk. If one can copy down the medium in which those reactions happen AND maintain a continuity between the original brain's reactions and the new medium's (the bit-by-bit replacement concept), then you have the same person in the sense that their continuity of experience WILL continue in the new medium.

We know this works because the brain and all other parts of the body continuously replace their own atoms, with total atomic replacement estimated to happen around once every 7 years in adults. Now, the nature of whatever the new brain medium is and how its sensory, locomotive and mood-regulating systems will interact can and almost definitely would change the personality of the individual whose mind was copied, but that's no more creating a new person than is blowing a railroad spike through someone's skull. The person before and after the change are not metaphysically different.

>>9687375
How did this book profoundly effect you. Did you become a serial killer or Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions?

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>I was 11-12 years old

>>9687387
It was the first book I read with a real clever and effective use of an unreliable narrator.

>>9687317
>not abebooks or alibris

those books look gay as shit my man

>>9687362
A Confederacy of Dunces is a good book but that's a shit cover

It's globalist trash similar to the work of nations

no because thomas friedman is dumb and consistently wrong.

about 30 years ago he was walking along and looked around and said to himself "gee Tom, a lot of people are talking to each other on cell phones now." and he's written about 30,000 op eds and 5 books about this same theme for the last 3 decades.

It's actually impressive that he can talk so much and say nothing of substance.

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/i-swear-to-god-this-is-a-real-graph-from-thomas-friedma-1789428361

>>9687062
>>9687371
Wish I knew this before wasting 2$. Thanks anyway, /lit/

>>9686900
People are going to be very angry for no reason, but the truth is that they're very good books if you want to get into reading.

>What am I in for?

Sister rape

Just read them you faggot.

E-reader. I say this everytime, but there's something about only having to focus on 200 words, or whatever at a time makes it a lot easier.

Turn on music. Do it when your bored aka at work.

I honestly struggle. I want to read. But then when I start reading I want to game, when I game I can't decide what to play and go back to shit posting, after that I watch TV.

Jesus Christ why did I ever clink on that link.

that was the gayest i've ever felt looking at straight sex

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>this exists