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I'm not an atheist, but there's no reason to think God is your best friend or even cares about you specifically. I believe in more of a Plotinus type All-Is-One God.

Even Aristotle realized this

>>9644469
Aristotle got a lot wrong.

>>9644424
Consistent logic != truth

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>>9642585
Books: My mom letting me stay up as late as i wanted as long as i was reading
Literature: Rome Total War loading screen quotes

>>9642597
Beethoven eat your heart out
https://youtu.be/12HXnYNA6Cg

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>>9642585
When I started to be really depressed

I got myself a Kobo a couple of years ago, for something like 50€.
It works perfectly.

Laptop
Mobile Phone
Kobo

With e-readers (hardware or software) you can read nearly everywhere. So based.

>>9632248
I mostly use a Kindle Paperwhite, but I also have an addiction to buying physical books even though most of my literary diet consists of books in the public domain.

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Conrad BTFO

>>9623864
metaphor ABOUT the darkness?

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>>9623839
>I've never lived outside of a major city, the review
Winesburg, Ohio.

Sam Harris is sort of bro lit imo.
Jordan B Peterson is kind of bro philosophy, though he really goes out in the weed imo.

>>9652452
He's a bad writer and got laughed off of some radio show when he got exposed. There's plenty of "bro" literature how there that Max aped. Henry Miller, Bukowski, etc.

>>9652452
If only inches were that small

>>9652131

>implying someone couldn't learn these themselves if they devoted effort to it, especially if they are intelligent

Yes, to answer your question. All they need to do, if they want to learn such things, is pick up a book about them. You also don't need to be a genius or even up to speed on the algebra or various other maths in the field to make an assessment on it if you can understand the concepts of those maths. You just need to be, what's that? An intellectual?

>>9652159
I didn't imply that, but you won't really internalize all of the concepts unless you study them to the degree that you would need to pass a university course. Otherwise you don't actually understand them.

>>9652131
depends on what you consider to be an "intellectual"

according to my perception, yes, it is, if you have a decent understanding of it and can grasp the most important concepts (post-modern is a classification that's generally attributed to philosophers by other people, the great majority of the so called "post-modern" philosophers don't identify themselves as that)

but if you have a positivist, capitalist (basically the same hehe) or just generally pragmatic view i guess no, only those "TRUE SCIENTIFIC!1" people could be

but keep in mind that no one can know everything and that if you dedicate your life to something it's very hard to have an understanding of all the shit there is along with your specific field

so in that case no one could really be an intellectual. most of those STEMfaggots dont even know the basics about the philosophy behind their science and/or epistemology so

>>9651394
No, it's a good book for Normie's who don't read at all but you should read history of ancient Greece, read mythology, Iliad odessey, presocratics, trial of Socrates. You could read other shit in between but that's a good start.

If you're not a heavy reader then it's a great book to read in and of itself.

Don't know if this is bait or not

Not OP. I have finished with the presocratics and sophists, have read the iliad and the odyssey and want to start with plato's dialogues. What is the general reading order if I want to read a few dialogues before starting with the Republic?

No, for fuck's sake, read Plato in order.

I'm an amateur writer, and yeah, I prefer english, with my native language being portuguese

>How do you memorise idioms, contextual figures of speech etc?


The internet

>>9651378
native language chinese
i keep a pretty well detailed book of vocab (some quite laughable, some esoteric)
i have a vocab count of about 30k so it ain't too bad

My native language is German and I fucking hate it. I'd never write in it, I almost never read in it (excluding e.g. Nietzsche and Kafka which simply can't be translated, but that's once in a blue moon, I almost exclusively read Americans). I avoid German like the plague. I've been a total americaboo all my life and everything I do revolves around that. I feel as if English is my native language desu.
I just read a lot is all. I do keep a notebook for idioms and vocabulary, but I barely ever see anything new these days and I don't use it a lot. (And you can totally make idioms up as you go and no one will be the wiser, that's what's so great about English.) The most important thing is to read works by native speakers, and, well, it helps to read very consciously/actively, but you really just need to read (and write) a lot and your vocabulary will grow naturally. There's no big secret to getting better at a language. Just use it.

Blame Protestants.

Why did you choose to visit McChurches?

>>9651236
>or human beings are just awful
The Bible itself asserts this constantly.

The NT makes no claims that Christianity will fix all the world's problems, or be free of problems itself. Several of Jesus' parables foresee a church that is at best a mixed bag of true believers and phonies.

Even so, there will always be people trying to do good in Jesus' name.

>>9651167
You really need to think about the costs associated with an action when asking why a business does anything. Is /lit/ this naive? /lit/ posts about how dumb women and black people are yet this is unironically posted.

>reading

>>9651177
>he didn't read the last two points

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Oh and there's also this fugly leatherbound edition from Barnes & Noble. Quite expensive.

>>9651071
I have this, it's great. No omissions and correct ordering, neat font and high quality paper. I'd recommend it, it's pretty cheap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j22SJ-TSw8A

>>9651048
incontinent.

>>9651087
Thanks but more specific to shopping and something positive...

womanish
weak
foolish
dull
worthless
cowlike

First two, no contest. Enjoy

>>9651052
/thread

Having only read the kite runner, I can say that it is not one of the two you should read.

>>9650721
Elysian fields?

>>9650721
Paradise.
The Wasteland in Arthurian lit (and by derivation in Eliot's poem) is a state of removal from Paradise and of waiting for the restoration, the second coming.

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>>9650732
Hmm Elysian Fields, I really like the ring of it, but wikipedia more describes it like a passage trough rather than the place itself..

>>9650747
.. so the way you (or the poem) describe it says that "a state of removal" i.e. Nothing nearly like it?

>>9650608
Autism

>>9650621
Please humor me, just this one time. I promise to never be autistic again.

>>9650638
Shitpost: Get rich

Legitpost: "Game" is literally this. Check out RSDTyler on YouTube.