Write something that sounds profound on the surface but falls

>>9482077
The application of strict scrutiny is a false dichotomy of the supreme court's ability to distinguish between fundamental rights and the general needs of the masses.

https://twitter.com/hisperic

>>9482077
>"God isn't real but anyways God is stupid."

Thank you, PKD.

>>9482097

VALIS? Didn't that guy get btfo anyway?

>>9482077
"Never eat the yellow snow"

Traps are not gay

>>9482090
kek, I unfollowed him recently

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liberalism
egalitarianism
democracy
humanism
conservatism
progressivism

>>9482120
fuck you faggot, traps arent gay

>>9482151
Nick Land wants to achieve gnosis through material means, which defeats the point of gnosis

>>9482162
>falling for the duality meme

>>9482162

Does Nick browse 4chan and shitpost about himself?

In the winter the songs of the ancients are better beloved by lambs

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>>9482151
>accelerationism

>>9482166
its a real possibility

>>9482077
Avoid the clicketty clack of modern life, it's dull, reverveless, overproduced. Instead try to kick it up a notch, push the dial pass 11.

>>9482077
The paleo diet is the original, most nutritionally adequate diet for modern man.

Be yourself.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need

>>9482227
it's true tho just that most people sold themselves out when they were 12 or something

>>9482077
The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that’ll be the point. Maybe that’s why they’ll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today’s risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the “Oh how banal”. To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows.

Do you know why the sun sets? So it can rise again.

>>9482247
as much as i'm not a dfw fan he was right

>>9482243
What is your true self? How do you know when you are being yourself? What is this "self" that exists apart from social ties, conditioning, and principles of interaction?

>>9482278
I don't know that I'd use the term "true self". Think of it more as be YOUR self. It generally centers around giving a shit about yourself. You'll know when you're being yourself. Society is a part of your self, it's how you choose to function within it. If you're unaware of the demands of society then it's tricky of course.

>>9482317
So give a shit about yourself I can get right behind. But how will I know when I'm being myself? How do you know you are choosing your choices within society?
>be the self you were conditioned to be in your formative years, not the self you were conditioned to be in your conscious years.

>>9482166
http://www.xenosystems.net/kek/

>>9482144

this is actually the winner

>>9482329
You'll know.
Social conditioning teaches you the rules, if you want to be yourself you have to first know what's stupid and what's important. From there, it gets a lot easier.
People who hate "be yourself" tend to forget that nobody exists in a vacuum.

>>9482393
>People who hate "be yourself" tend to forget that nobody exists in a vacuum.
I am arguing against be yourself BECAUSE no one exists in a vacuum, there IS no separate self. Are you trolling?

>>9482432
No. People hate be yourself because they think being themselves means being their isolated selves and when they realize that doesn't work, completely conforming to society.

We are the universe becoming cognizant of itself.

>>9482230
>W-wow anon, so edgy

>>9482097
pkd was a major christfag and gnostic spiritualist pleb

good try tho

>>9482077

while the rest of the world was becoming scientific I learned how to take cold showers

>>9482577
cold showers are unironically good for you

>>9482604
sounds like bullshit

>>9482445
Aaah, ok I see your point. I still think that when you pull that string far enough the self ceases to exist, though.

>>9482222
underrated

>>9482077
/lit/ is for discussing literature

>>9482703
this

>>9482090
>>9482144
"if you like technology I hate you"
poast your @'s

>>9482230
I knew someone would post this before I even opened the thread

>>9482703
>>9482767

This

Distance has no way of making love understandable

>>9482845
Wilco?

>>9482077
Head like a fucking orange

>>9482247
He's mostly right, but even he admitted in an interview that took place 5 or 6 years later that it sounded dated to him.

>>9482874
yee

>>9482077
“Fiat justicia ruat coelum. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. Normally this phrase is cited in a positive sense, such as in reference to Lord Mansfield’s 1772 decision in Somersett’s Case: No matter what harms may befall the English economy or society by abolishing slavery, justice demands that it be done.
“But there is a negative sense to the maxim as well. Carrying out a sentence legally arrived at, but morally repugnant, exposes the fact that our system of justice contains the seeds of its own destruction. When we elevate the rule of law above all other considerations, and pursue it as an end in itself rather than as an means to pursue justice in a larger, transcendent sense, we find ourselves upside down, doing evil to avoid stepping outside the system that calls it good.”
- AV Club review for tonight's episode of Better Call Saul

>>9482077
If you think that girls are unclean after you've touched her, then maybe you should look at your own hands.

>>9482077
Women deserve the right to vote

>>9482077
>communism is great on paper, but terrible in practice

>>9483240
I want to cut my own throat when people say this

>>9482077
Existentialism is a humanism

>>9483241
But it's true.

>>9483258
communism is not great on paper

>>9482077
Eternal stillness is inside unique molecules


Fundamental reality is a reflection of incredible fulfillment


A single particle is reborn in mortal timelessness

Perception drives unbridled destiny

>mfw one of these is ACTUALLY profound...

You decide

>>9483248
stop shitposting sartre

We can all fuck each other in the butt.

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

God is the ultimate expression of man's innermost and his outermost.

>>9482077
If you traced time back far enough you'd eventually reach the present.

>>9482876
Wrong shaved chimp

hegel's entire philosophy

my life

>It's always darkest before the dawn.
I've always HATED this.
It reminds me of that Vonnegut quip:
"What's that white stuff in birdshit?"
-"That's birdshit too!"

>>9483561
The idea is that "darkness" will teach you a lesson or cause self-improvement, leading to the "dawn".
Idiot.

>>9482090
exactly. fuck that guy. rehash of oscar wilde

mick infected by the german influenza of maudlinism

>>9482254
well done

>>9482077
We're all just energy, man.

>>9482077
You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

>>9483564
I thought it was more like "the final moments of suffering, when you can see the end, are always the most excruciating"
Like the last five minutes of the last school day before summer vaction are the longest five minutes of the year

>>9483661

I've actually read that somewhere, the Alchemist maybe?

>>9482090
Second post best post

>>9483687
It's a CS Lewis quote, and for anyone who read Phaedo the profoundness of it is apparent

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

>>9482166
hello it is me nick land hello

>>9482618
try it
>>9482698
If you mean that nobody exists in a vacuum yea I just think that as paradoxical as it may sound, you are only really ever allowed to be yourself around other people, without any reference point you don't really know yourself and you can float on to whatever delusion of self-identity you can conjure up.

The caveat is that while you require society to be yourself, society generally also tries to stop you from being yourself. Some people internalize societal beliefs and they become their own obstruction too. So it's a battle and one that's won with a mix of intelligence, awareness and caring about yourself.

I see it as you can either be the blank slate that society puts its colors on or society can be the blank slate that you put your colors on and you can't be the blank slate that you put your colors on.

>>9482152
That sounds like somthing a gay person would say

>>9482876
Wouldkekagain/10

>>9483564
I understand exactly what it means but it only works as an analogy.