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>>9223145

Do I need to fuck boipussy to understand the Greeks?

>tfw your squat plug falls out

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>>9223145
What did OP mean by this?

>>9223145

>OPs pic

what other boards do you guys go to?

>>9223174
Reddit

>>9223174
/pol/ and /his/

>>9223246

I mean, are there really people on 4chan that really don't go on reddit ever?

We like to make fun of reddit and to be fair most of the main subs are shit but there are some legit good communities like Askhistorian and plenty of small niche subs.

How long should I keep do linear progression routines amd then move to intermediate

>>9223260
Some of us have autistic tribalism over websites you reddit using queer.

>>9223260
I once made an account to contact a guy with an underground movie and never went back, are you bait? I never liked 4chan either. I despise Anglo-saxons in general and who appreciate them. English speaking countries are even more trash than poor countries. Not bait, It's sickening.

>>9223260
The only times I go there are to read stories or threads that very occasionally go viral, or if I'm stalking someone and it leads me there. Maybe less than once every two months.

>>9223260
>redditor trying to normalize his reddit use
fucking leave and never come back. you are the cancer killing /lit/

>>9223260
I don't know where else you find quality RC sources or comprehensive darknet/bitcoin info.

The alt high end subs for books and movies are entertaining enough.

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What are some dope nonfiction books that will really make me think?

If a democracy votes to not be a democracy anymore, are they still a democracy?

>>9223174
/ck/
>>9223260
Never, I only use the internet for two chans.
>>9223315
Three Christs of Ypsilanti
Varieties of Religious Experience
History of Madness

All come highly recommended. Just don't become a full-blown Marxist after reading Foucault

>>9223145
who is the best horror writer, and what is HIS best work?

>>9223384
lovecraft
colour out of space, followed closely by rats in the walls

What's the comfiest philosophy? Is it Epicureanism?

Where do I start with post-modernism? The wiki's got suggestions but I'd prefer to start with a textbook or good description about what it actually is first

>>9223145
Is there any merit to self-publishing?

>>9223260
Never went on reddit. It's time to go back faggot

>>9223319
No. On account of them choosing not to be. That's evidently the last democratic vote that theyll ever have.

Writing on MDMA is amazing. It's unsustainable though

>>9223315
Kant's critques

>>9223441
You're already living amongst it my man

>>9223174
/co/, /tv/, /b/, /s4s/, /f/, /wsg/ anything that i can use in my work

>>9223441
4chan dot org

>>9223174
/mlp/ /s4s/ /soc/ /pol/

>>9223174
/gif/, /d/

There's a specific term I need to know which refers strictly to the motion of an animal/dog flapping their ears upwards in panic

>>9223174
Just /vr/ to check for Thief threads

>>9223174
/mu/ /tv/ /fa/ /sp/
I'm a consumer

>>9223978
Forgot to finish my post

Anybody remember it?

>>9223174
/his/, /pol/, /fit/, /sp/

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>>9223145
>>9223160

>>9224035
Athenians got bitch slapped by Spartans, though.
Spartans were even more into boipussy.

>>9223978
Could it be 'pricked ears [up]'

>>9223839
reminds me of this story i hear about a fish saying to another fish

what is water?


this is water

>>9224087
too manly for women desu

>>9224035
Still one of my favorites

>>9223174
/int/, /g/, /tv/, /mu/ for the most part.

>>9224131
I can just barely tolerate a bit of /g/, but /tv/ is too much. I mean they have some decent OC/memes once every two years, but as far as discussing shows and movies it's just pure plebbery. They know nothing outside of Hollywood and mainstream tv.

>>9223174
/fit/ and /his/

>>9224158
Yeah I don't browse /tv/ for insightful discussion on film, although the people in /lbg/ at least seem to watch stuff that isn't Hollywood or Game of Thrones.

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>>9223174
This is the only one I go to regularly. There are 5 or 6 other boards I visit mostly just for laughs, and /sci/ for math.
>>9223315
Have you read GEB?

This might deserve its own thread, but I don't really feel like attending to a thread right now so I'll just post here:
I'm reading Aristotle's Prior Analytics, and a lot of this ground (I'm through chapter 7) seems to be covered in an introductory logic or set theory course. So far I've been able to understand it just by thinking about venn diagrams that correspond to each. For example, if A is predicated on B and B is predicated on C, we arrive at A is predicated on C, which amounts to pic related.
My question: if I have a good background in formal logic, can I just skip the rest of Prior Analytics and move on to Posterior Analytics? George Boole pretty much incorporated Aristotelian syllogisms into his logic, so if I understand Boolean logic don't I understand Prior Analytics? Is there any reason for me to read this other than for its innate historical interest?

>>9223295
why are you stalking people?

>>9223174
/fit/ /an/ /adv/

>>9224171
/lbg/ has been cancer since the archiveposter and Emily Jean poster started fighting

>>9223174
/tg/ because I'm a filthy genre fiction reader/writer.
/his/ because I love the historic implications of geopolitics and differing philosophies.
/wsg/ because I get bored sometimes.

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>>9224187
>GEB
Thanks a ton, this is exactly the subject I was looking for.

>>9223315
Christopher Lasch-Culture of Narcissism and The Minimal Self
James Burnham-The Managerial Revolution

>>9223174
/k/, /pol/. rarely: /diy/, /ck/, /o/

>>9223174
/ck/, /co/, /fit/, /his/, /out/, /pol/, /trv/, /tv/ and /x/

>>9223145
What are the deepest fiction books you've ever read? Like so profound they're more beneficial and you learn more than most nonfiction books?

>>9223174
/x/ , /diy/, /vp/ , and sometimes /fa/

>>9223174
/o/ and /k/ mostly.
/gif/ to jerk off.

How does one write if one has nothing to say?

>>9223819
doing MDMA more than 3ish times a year is extremely harmful/dangerous

pretty much taking it makes your brain release ALL the feelgood chemicals you have stored up, so it needs time to regenerate them. Also why you feel depressed the day after rolling. No more feelgood chemicals

Are there any modern horror writers worth checking out?

I've been listening to stuff on audio for the last couple months and I find that a good horror novel is really engaging for me while I listen.

I ask about modern horror writers because I've already gone through Lovecraft, Poe, a bunch of Stephen King stuff, and I just finished The Exorcist. I'm hoping there's somebody new who's doing something good in the genre.

Is it actually hard to get an agent/get published, or is it just that most "writers" are My Immortal tier? Genre fiction.

>>9223174

/pol/ (and its older brother), /his/, /biz/, and /a/.

>>9223260

I've tried various times, but you can't say anything that could be remotely controversial (so you pretty much can't post anything that isn't a headnod or "witty" "humor") or you get b& from subs by asspained retard mods. It's cancer and a giant hugbox. I love you assholes on 4chunz because you can take someone disagreeing with you without needing therapy and leading a downboat brigade. reddit is shit. You can't have any actual discussion on faggit.

Reddit is where dumb people go to act smart, 4chan is where smart people go to act dumb.

>>9223260
If ever, then I hope they realized their mistake and return to the autistic fold

>>9224679
C and P

what is the literary version of a kino?

>>9224679
Moby Dick is the first one that comes to mind, although you could argue that it's largely autobiographical and encyclopedic

>>9225131
patrician

How hard is it to publish philosophical works as a varied major? I'm majoring in classics and linguistics but I would like to make some contributions to philosophy. Is it going to be difficult to attempt to publish a manuscript? Should I start with journals to dip my name in the water?

>>9225163
write airplane-tier self help to get your feet in the water. put some leftist diversity bullshit spin on it and you'll be featured in hundreds of university courses across the world.

>>9225170
Literally or just trying to make myself look bad?

>>9225201
you'd be doing that either way, just giving you advice on the most efficient way

Is reading the Bible essential to understanding western literature?

>>9224679
The Name of the Rose is used in intro to semiotics classes

>>9223174
/his/, /sci/, /g/, /pol/, /r9k/

>>9223174
/pol/, /k/, /vg/, /tg/, /fit/, /sci/
With varying degrees of frequency.

>>9223260
Never.
Fuck off back to plebbit.

>>9225230
No book is essential.

>>9223174
/vp/, /sci/ and /sp/ mostly

>>9223260
Yes you fucking sub human, I'd rather suck off a pig than go to your shitty fucking site. Leave.

>>9225427
this

What philosopher should I read into after Kant?
Assuming I've already read almost everything relavant, chronologically up until Kant from the Greeks.

>>9223174
/ck/ is the only other board I visit frequently. To a lesser extent /fit/, /x/, /pol/, and sometimes /k/ and /o/ if I have questions.

>>9223260
Just the MDE subreddit of course

>>9225103
>Reddit is where dumb people go to act smart, 4chan is where smart people go to act dumb.
One of the most reddit-tier things I've read on this site in a while.

>>9224187
anyone wanna give me their two cents on my Aristotle question?

>>9225456
I don't really know the answer to that question, but this might help.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub

>>9225489
You really shouldn't date yourself like that anon. People will make fun of you.

>>9225685
Thanks a lot.
This seems pretty impressive, I'm surprised I haven't come across it earlier.

>>9225786
No problem, think you could help me out with my Aristotle question above?

Looking for a recommendation for babby's intro to philosophy of mind

I know qualia, the ghost in machine, and the soul are all incorrect, but doesn't a conception of "consciousness" within philosophy of mind capture a similar idea? If not then what is the term for the feature of my existence that, from my perspective, sets me apart from the rest of humanity? This concept is my chief interest and would like a recommendation that includes an explanation/exploration of this topic.

>>9225900
>I know qualia, the ghost in machine, and the soul are all incorrect
Question that doesn't deserve its own thread: What did you read to arrive at these conclusions?

>>9225900
Theaetetus
Categories

Frege's On Sense and Reference
Kenny's Frege introduction

brain in the vat

any putnam reading

>>9225900
Stay the holy hell away from analytics at first. They will give you a bizarrely impoverished and ahistorical perspective, whose priorities/unreflective epistemological premises are a bizarre mixture of autism and hostility to traditions outside their own, disguised as "naturalism" and simple language philosophy. The worst analytics make up 95% of analytics, and they gird themselves in the (still usually kind of misguided) ideas of the other 5% and fuck everything up.

If you're reading shit like Dennett and Quine and stuff, you need to run for your life right now.

here's a fun sourcebook
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789400769663

You probably want to know the history of what was taken for granted in consciousness:
>What did Plato think the knowing soul "was"? (complex question with possibly contradictory answers)
>How did Aristotelian philosophy see the nature of the human intellect/soul in relation to reality? Is the knowledge of the soul a receptivity to ontology that is "already there," or are Aristotelians dualists + conceptualists?
>How do early modern philosophers of mind appropriate the medieval tradition, and to what extent do they even have a philosophy of a res cogitans as a substance distinct from matter?
>How does Kant's critical idealism and how do its inheritors deal with the problem of dualism?
>How does the mechanistic and deterministic philosophy of the 19th century support mere emanationism?
>How do things like Renouvier and William James reassert the the "efficacy" of mind?
>etc.

The real answer is that no one has an answer. Mainstream science would probably cautiously say right now that consciousness is emergentist and materialist, but not emanationist. Philosophy doesn't say much on metaphysical matters like these currently.

If you're willing to dabble in idealism, freer metaphysics than modern science allows (which can allow for fudging the barrier between mind and matter in interesting ways, but all are fringe currently), and outright mysticism, there is a lot of room for interesting stuff. Personally I think going back to the pre-Hegelian idealists is a good starting point, but whatever.

Seriously, don't learn this shit from the analytics. Learn it historically and engage with different traditions. Analytic philosophy is like a litmus test for weak wills. All they'll do is bully you with non-answers until you go "well, I guess I'm SO wrong that I just can't see the non-answers as answers, so I'll forcibly commit myself to accepting them as answers. Then I can be a good analytic philosopher too." Disgusting tradition.

>>9226027
>>9226078

Thank you

You wouldn't have any similar advice on evolutionary psychology?

>>9225981

I heard qualia dismissed as outdated on an episode of Philosophy Bites and I heard the concept of the soul dismissed by Dennett for being inconsistent with neuroscience and someone else for being inconsistent with the law of conservation of energy.

>>9225103
>Reddit is where dumb people go to act smart, 4chan is where smart people go to act dumb

I hope for your sake this this is some kind of meta-bait

>>9226078
ok. ok. wow. just... ok. what's it like to put so much time into a post that has so little substance?

>>9226165

How slow do you type? Not him, but that'd take me no more than two minutes

>>9223145
What are some very good books that are non fiction books?

>>9223174
/pol/, /fit/ and the occasional /a/ /v/ /ck/ /tv/

>>9224679
Brothers Karamazov
War and Peace

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What are some books that deal with childhood memories and their seductiveness?

>>9223174
/trv/ /fa/ and /mu/
/trv/ is by far the best board in this website but it's slow as fuck

For all you native English speaking people out there, from what more obscure countries literature have read the most of?
Excluding France, Russia and Germany.

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Is The Gulag Archipelago several books or just one normal sized book?
Saw a copy of it yesterday but it didn't look so thicc, but it had three parts in it. Asking because I have heard that it's massive.

What would be a good starter into deeper lit? I've finished most of the starter guide and I'm wondering what the next step logical step is. If it helps I was a big fan of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Stranger, in all its simplicity.
Also, what would be easier to teach myself, Latin or Greek?

Is it Marquez, Gabriel Garcia or Garcia Marquez, Gabriel?

Whats a good author for dark medieval fantasy stories? Example of good books also welcomed

What was the word that described a situation where a person is no longer effectively within a position but reserves its title?

e.g. "Creator of 4chan"

>>9231895
Nvm I discovered it myself

It's "emeritus" if anybody was curious

>>9230719
>>>/lit/sffg

>>9223174
All the porn boards, /int/ and /pol/ (to shitpost of course :3).

>>9223174
/tv/ /fit/ /mu/ /asp/

Does anyone know any novels that are told in first-person but are introduced by a different (fictional) character? Like J.R. Jr in Lolita and the start of The Name of the Rose?

So I autistically impressed & made a connection with this /lit/ girl by pretending to know about philosophy. We are meeting next week to talk about it.

What the fuck can I do to make it seem like I sound like I somewhat know what I'm talking about? Like I know the basic idea behind mainstream Western philosopher's beliefs but nothing really of substance. I know she likes Marx and Kant (she's not marxist though thankfully). Is there anything I can say sounds like it has substance?

>>9230117
None of them. Stresses are not optional, faggot

>>9233724
Nah mate your only hope is that she is also a huge pseud and you can bullshit your way through

Anyone know any good writing on film?

>>9223174
In order after /lit/:
/k/
/tg/
/diy/
/g/

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>>9223174
/sci/, /fit/, /fa/, /k/, /o/, /mu/, /adv/

/g/ only for watch/headphone generals

What question deserves their own thread?

Some anon was talking about the connection between Nietzsche and Wagner the other day. He said something about there being preferable versions of Wagner's operas. Can someone point me in the direction of said operas?

Does anyone here understand my poem? If so, can you explain to me what I'm trying to get across. Everyone says it makes no sense. I want to know what people think of it before I continue.

Some light, imperceptible
To the common scope
Factory boring filters
Absorb and choke, no hope

Rattle bone
It's will
Violence unknown
License to kill

>>9223174
/tg/ mostly

>>9233731
don't be mean, I just want to know where to shelve it.

>>9234960
Yeah, i remember that thread.
Anon had lots of amplifying information but didn't sound autistic.
Pretty sure it was fliegende hollander, tannhauser (gwen jones 1978 version or something), then lohengrin which are operas, and then meister singers in this order for ring cycle; rheingold, walkure, sigfried, then gotterdammerung.
I think...
Hope that was what you meant

>>9235109
Thanks anon!

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Am I fucked? I find myself getting sucked in to bad habits way too easily. I enjoy the feeling of reading and understanding literature and philosophy, but i always end up spending hours per day staring at youtube videos, scrolling through /lit/, watching trashy comedy tv. Its likely a result of my upbringing at a time when no one knew the damage of what they were letting me do was (and uninformed parents, pretty smart people but just smoked weed, worked, and made music or sculptures for all my childhood).
Is everyone fucked? Before television (let alone the internet) people read for entertainment. They mostly read trash but it was in a form that allowed for the exploration of weighty topics, as well as trash. The medium of entertainment that is now the baseline is such a big leap from literature, how is anyone supposed to absorb themselves into it when theyve come from such an alien world.
It feels like im just making excuses for my lack of discipline, but seriously the first time i picked up a piece of what we would call "literature" for a reason other than me having to for school was when i was 20.
I started a BA a couple of years later by the way and should be reading hegel right now.

>>9224187
>Is there any reason for me to read this other than for its innate historical interest?
I don't know but Aristotelian logic is apparently different from classical logic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJVk08OIrLY&feature=youtu.be&t=7m09s

How do you use hegelian dialectics in everyday life?

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>>9223298
> muh special little safe space

Fuck off faggot. /lit/ and all of 4chan has been cancer and dying forever. Let it be.

>>9235670
>Before television (let alone the internet) people read for entertainment.
too idealistic desu

>>9223411
I've read a lot of his work, and while I enjoy it I can say that it is overwrought and super predictable.

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>>9235670
>Before television (let alone the internet) people read for entertainment. They mostly read trash but it was in a form that allowed for the exploration of weighty topics, as well as trash.

So does every medium. Go watch a decent movie.

Also most people probably didn't read before television as most of them were probably semi-literate factory workers and farmers who had hobbies that didn't involve sitting in their dimly lit houses straining their eyes. Those who did read for entertainment probably did little more than the read daily news and the occasional shit tier genre fiction or magazine. Stop romanticizing the past and just realize that the vast majority of people were always uninterested in literature and they still are because it's dense and not immediately rewarding.

The problem isn't that less people read it's that more people are engaged in extremely passive activities all the time and are losing any ability to think critically or productively outside their basic nine to five workaday lives. Jim Davies the Welsh coal miner in the 1890s may have struggled to write his own name but at least he wasn't sat on his arse every night watching Dancing with the Stars and live tweeting his thoughts while stuffing his face full of empty calories.

People being idiots isn't the problem. People being numbed to death with social media, television on demand and pointless consumerism is the problem.

>>9223174
/pol/ /his/ /x/ /wg/ and /d/

>>9236919
actually nothing is the problem. live your life and stop complaining about how others live their lives.

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>>9236951

> hur dur so enlightened

You legitimately believe there is nothing wrong with society and that we live in some utopia where everything is as it should be? Or was this a meaningless platitude you've heard somewhere and thought would sound intelligent?

>>9233132
The book of the new sun has translator's notes after every volume

Can you help me?

if you reply I won't respond

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Sup guys. Im writing a research paper and im having some trouble.
There's a particular phrase that im thinking of, but I cant place it.
This is specifically about the film Seven Psychopaths. Im trying to think of the best way to explain that the screenplay being written in the film shares a title with the film itself without sounding like a retard.

>>9236951
That was deep.

>>9238040
metanarrative? meta-something

What's the literature equivalent of Quick Time Events?

What's the literature equivalent of adding in chromatic aberration to a digital painting?

>>9238211
Here's an example of how im trying to fit this sentence together.
>Seven Psycopaths follows an alcoholic writer as he attempts to draw inspiration from his personal life in order to write the [so-named] screenplay
I cant think of the term i should be using, but I know there is one.

>>9238273
QTE would probably be a choose-your-own-adventure novel.

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>>9223174
/pol/ for shits and giggles
/tg/ for ideas
/k/ for shits, giggles, and guns made out of shits and giggles
/ck/ for people raging over steaks
/aco/ for BBW stuff
/lit/ is new territory for me

Anywho, does anyone have that list for descriptors being used in a certain order? I saw it elsewhere and now I can't find it.

>>9238288
No you don't understand-- CYOAs are the visual novels of books. Visual novels are the books of video games. What is the Quick Time Event? I'm thinking some kind of frivolous margin note.

>>9238282
titular?

>>9234972
gun shooty?

more books like notes from underground?

>>9223174
/lgbt/, /a/, /tv/ (but not as much as I used to. Place is shit right now), /co/ and sometimes /pol/ for a good laugh.

>>9223260
I used it and became addicted for a year.
I am still trying to detoxify myself from its mentality.

Fuck reddit, it ruined my critical thinking abilities.

>>9238653
what subs did you frequent

>>9223260
i don't go there

>>9238653
>its mentality
Do tell, what would you describe as a "Reddit mentality?"

>>9223174
Mostly just /lit/ really

I sometimes go to /a/, /v/, /tv/, /his/ and rarely /pol/. They're all kind of awful so i mostly just avoid them these days

>>9223174
sci, fit, ck, Out

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if william vollmann can get laid......why can't you?

What's a relatively modern (20th century), relatively obscure short story or play that "says something about the nature of wisdom?"

>>9238040
>There's a particular phrase that im thinking of, but I cant place it.
>This is specifically about the film Seven Psychopaths
shit anon I got you
the line is "dream sequences are for fags"

This isn't a question but a thought that doesn't deserve its own thread.

Everyman's Pocket Library Poetry series is very aesthetically pleasing but too small and expensive given that you can buy the complete poems of many of these poets for half the price.

>>9231895
I'm sure that if Moot ever posts again they'll let him write in his special fonts and colors.

>>9239100
william vollman
lived in a hole man
cause he was a mole man.

~fin~

>>9224679
i enjoyed American Pastoral and it offers some interesting ideas about the decline of urban areas in the post-war era.

>>9223174
/sp/, /biz/, /pol/, and /his/

Used to go to /mu/ and /int/ a couple of years ago
Used to go to /r9k/ before that

>>9239549
how do you tell scammers from good advice on /biz/? I'm never able to take anything I read there at face value.

>>9224863
Please go to bluelight and learn a tiny bit about chemistry and a smattering of pharmacology before talking about drugs again. Please.

>>9223260
I... fist fucked... your mother... to death.

Why does anyone go to /fit/? I remember going there years ago when I knew nothing, maybe 7 or so years now. You learn some basics, get some memes, then you go research things on your own. There are much better sources of information than /fit/. Hell, they'll even tell you to go to reddit for the more advanced stuff and for steroids because they have good stickies.

It's such a shit hole. Only go there if you want to meme it up with high schoolers and college freshmen.

Why is the Transmigration of Timothy Archer considered part of the VALIS trilogy? It has nothing to do with it, it's basically just a thinly fictionalized account of when PKD was friends with the kinda unorthodox Bishop Pike.

>>9224035
I wish I was gay

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>>9223174
/v/, /trash/, /d/, [s4s], /tv/ mostly

>>9238317
CYOA does not compare to graphic novels as a whole. Comic books? Cape books? Yes. But to compare CYOAs to all graphic novels just doesn't work. Read Kerascoet as an introduction.

>>9239771
I'm talking about Visual Novels™. This kind of trash: https://vndb.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel

>>9239787
Oh shit. I was wrong. Young Adult novels that are easy to digest and give instant gratification. They're what you're looking for.

>>9224087
>>9224035
As far as I know the Greeks did not actually go for boipussy as we know it, but rather for intercrural sex.

>Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West
>Moby Dick, Or the Whale
>Wieland, Or The Transformation

What's this called? Inb4 pretentious.

>>9240241
subtitling

>>9223174
/int/,/a/ and sometimes /ck/

>>9223432
Idealism

>>9223432
Bishop Berkly's Idealism

His dialogue is like eating candy.

>>9236994
nah the theme of the post you replied to says its not that big a deal if society is a little wonky and we don't live in some utopia.
When you're responsible for your own mood it shouldn't bother your society is behaving in a certain manner

>>9234972
cigarrettes and how dumb it is that we can't help ourselves from shortening our lives

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>>9241448
so if something in society annoys me i should just ignore it?

>>9233736
Which she probably is. So good for >>9233724

>>9224035
physical well being is done through healthy food and walking. beyond this shows that you either do it because
-you are bored, aka a failure
-you are a homo, aka a failure
-you do it for women, aka a man devoted to please women even if you claim otherwise, like all men, aka a failure
-you cling to your health, aka a failure living in fear of death

=>you are a pleb as soon as you lift.

>>9239746
because when you actively invest time in a hobby its nice to spend some down time on a forum dedicated to that hobby

the assumption here is that you go to /fit/ because your looking for an authority on fitness when in reality you go to /fit/ to circlejerk

>>9241462
uhhh idk, give me an example

don't get your panties in a wad because society isn't as nice as you could imagine

>>9241472
careful, your insecurity is showing

>>9241501
Take any example. Crime, poverty, childhood obesity. Are people wrong to be upset about these things? Is every campaign to change these things just people getting their "panties in a wad"?

>>9241501
>don't get your panties in a wad because society isn't as nice as you could imagine
And why not?

If people hundreds of years ago didn't get their panties in a wad because society wasn't as nice as they wanted then society wouldn't be as nice as it is now. And it could still get better so why not try and pursue that?

>>9225230
Yes, the bible is essential.

>>9225230
To be perfectly honest the bible is so ubiquitous in western consciousness that you probably already intuitively know everything important. But it would help.

>>9225456
Schopenhauer or Hegel.

>>9241522
nah people can get upset at whatever they wan't but I'm not going to.

>>9241535
Well because I don't like having my panties in a wad. If you let things outside of your control upset you, then you should expect to be upset often. I would rather the opposite so i'll stick to not getting my panties in a wad

>>9241639
> nah people can get upset at whatever they wan't but I'm not going to.

Nothing bothers you?

>>9238040
eponymous?

>>9223174
/mu/, /his/, /x/, /tg/, /ic/, /fa/, also /fringe/ on 8ch and /cake/ on 7ch

Could anyone recommend me some philosophy books on beauty and/or human emotion?

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>>9241693
ehhhhh I'd go with "titular" myself!

>>9223174

/lit/ and /mu/

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Hi guise! I'm thinking about buying Cooper's 'Plato: Complete Works' to sate myself while I collect the Loeb Classical Library editions. Is it money well-spent?

>>9244061
no. read better books.

>>9223160
of course

>>9244067
O-oh okay...

>>9244061
It's ok if you really need a single volume edition, but translations are pretty shit. Loeb is also shit btw. Bloom and Waterfield are GOAT.

>>9244091
hey guise! i'm thinking of buying chestnut italian leather chair so people think i'm a smart handsome guy while i collect books i'll never read to impress people i'll never meet. is it money well-spent?

>>9244104
Thanks!

is it reasonable to think that reading a spanish translation of the divine comedy (and also the aeneid) is preferable to one in english?

>>9234939
nice cat my man

>>9244295
Sure. Isn't Spanish closer to Italian than English? Romance language or something like that?

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>>9223339
>>9224658
>>9224670
>>9225462
>>9228601
>>9238309
>>9238872
>>9241348
>women on this board RIGHT NOW
>>9234939
>watch/headphone generals
Oh, hello, you must be the cancer killing /g/. Fuck you especially.
Fuck all of you. I'll be back later to mass reply again.

>>9239771
Graphic Novels as a term was created just to appease pretentious folk such as yourself, Will Eisner, the guy who coined the term said it himself. Graphic novels and comics are the same thing.

>>9244104
Opinion on Cornford?

What do you guys think of Fahrenheit 451?
Just finished it. P good

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I feel mentally jaded. I want to read a work, philosophical or otherwise, that will greatly reconstruct the way with which I see the world - preferably in a positive light. If anyone could point me to something like that, I'd appreciate it.

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>>9245155
Read the inauspiciously named "suicide note.pdf" by Prof. Heisman. There's a PDF available online, and while it's 9000 pages you can skip to chapter 3 and get the full gist. The main theme is the impact 1066 had on world civilization, and the relevance of forecasting singularity events.

"Against Nature" is a fin de siecel satire of hedonism and the NEET life, where a man slowly realizes the futility of his habits and hollow belief system. It also has amazing prose and gold-plated turtles.

"The Red Queen" by Matt Ridley is a super pop-sci book with more" sci" than "pop" which will totally recontextualize your understanding of organic life altogether. Did you know the gritty details of why human penises are so huge? Fuck no. Read "The Red Queen".

Also consider: "Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson, and "Inner Space" by Aryeh Kaplan. Controversial political works like Ted K's manifesto and "The Camp of the Saints" might be serviceable too.

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I just spent 30 minutes looking for an adequate English translation of Rainer Maria Rilcke's Autumn day - and not a single one did the original justice.

If I want to appreciate literature, do I really have to speak the work's original language?

That's depressing.

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Which translation/edition of Oblomov should I buy? There doesn't seem to be a certain, definitive copy of it in english from what I've looked at online.

>>9245224
I have nothing to say on what translation of the poem you should read, but I have this vague idea that there is a general academic consensus considering Rilke's German translating well to English.

So in this case no.

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>>9239100

>>9223174
/tv/ mostly

it is the worst board on 4chan

Does /lit/ not like detective fiction?

>>9241472
Lifters can indeed be insufferable
But like...you can lift a little bit so you're not a weak pile of twigs.

>>9244356
>killing an already shit board

lmao

>>9241472
>im too lazy to work out and got cucked one time by a guy who works out, so i'll just call them bad things so i can feel better about myself

>>9246868
>lift a little bit so you're not a weak pile of twigs.

But that would require you to lift a lot

>>9223174
/fit/, /his/, /pol/, /a/
>>9223145
Does anyone have that picture of philosophers used for "Which ones have you read" threads

>>9244382
There is a point in making a distinction. Communication is important. Say comic and people will mostly think about marvel and dc. They'll shut down on the topic or start talking about movies. You know as well as I do that language is alive and evolves. Yes, I would consider Judge Dredd, Transmetropolitan, Moomin, etc comics, but if you want to present them to other people using the term graphic novel will net you more success.

In the mind of the majority comic=cape (specifically marvel and dc). You can consider the term graphic novel as pretentious, yet to most people it conveys a different idea. People are more willing to be open to reading a graphic novel when it isn't associated with cape heroes.

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>>9246966
This one ?

>>9246606
Is that actually true? I would have assumed that /b/ and /mlp/ are objectively the worst.

>>9223174
I'm a refugee from /his/ as of like 2 days ago.

Besides that /x/ and /mu/ occasionally.

>>9247053
Yep

>>9223174
/hr/
/s/
/b/ occasionally

i used to go to /fa/, /co/, /ic/, /o/, /sp/ during the olympics

>>9223260
no i dislike reddit very much thank you