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Do you ever think about the fact that you'll never get to read all the books you want to before you die?
pro tip: you can apply this to all the pleasures of life
There honestly isn't a huge amount of authors worth reading, relatively. Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Proust, DFW. When you narrow it don to only the best, your reading list becomes a lot more managable.
I become less and less ambitious all the time. I don't really care anymore, you start to expect you might not actually want to read all of them anyway. Disappointment after disappointment. Music is worse.
Catching the Sun...
Need someone to share my ring...
https://youtu.be/nUmwhMgpV0M?t=72
Eros is a mysterious energy inherent in the whole of creation, fascinating seekers all over the world. Across the cultures, Eros takes different names but still remains the same agent that has to be awakened from within, since it is the only element that can transform the human psyche. Psyche has to be pacified and Eros’ "fire" has to be transformed into "light" so that he can become the mediator and guide that gently pushes and pulls the seeker towards...
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...a spontaneous, free-flowing, 'non-linear' manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion. Many possible solutions are explored in a short amount of time, and unexpected connections are drawn...
Tell me what you wanna drink
Smart Art of the Nu Know Brow School
-A don't be boxxy'd in type of cubism
https://youtu.be/FSnAllHtG70
What are some good books to read for an aspiring lawyer?
>>8222742
john Grisham you stupid fuck
>>8222742
All of them. I contribute the majority of my success on the LSAT and in law school to practicing deep reading as a hobby before and during school.
Satanist Bible.
What are some good books for learning how to act? Not stupid theater acting but solid realistic acting for film and tv.
>>8222732
start with the greeks
>>8222735
Is this a philosophy joke or do you have an actual book rec
bump i'm interested too, psychology of acting is pretty interesting
>writing about protagonist's developing love interest
>never have been romantically involved with a girl ever in real life
>come to a blank at the precipice I could never cross in my own life
wat do
Write about what you know. Write how it all falls apart and how the infantile protagonist let's opportunity after opportunity pass
>fiction =/= truth
>what is fantasy
>sci fi writers really went to outer space and contacted alien beings
remember you're writing fiction, you're actually at an advantage
start new project :L
I need a good book about chance, about randomness. Maybe I should ask /sci/ this, not sure.
>>8222657
You should watch Kaiji, its an anime about gambling
>>8222665
Anime is for children.
emergence of probability, and, taming of chance-hacking
Well /lit/? What book are you?
>>8222621
green eggs and ham f+a+m=family
probably under the volcano
>>8222621
this board is shit and so is everything else on 4chin and the internet
but you guys praise this stack of garbage so I picked it up. it'll be the longest book I've ever read. I am a pleb. only novels you guys talk about that I've read are shit tier: catcher in the rye, which made me cry like a cuck, slaughterhouse 5, of mice and men, 1984, the stranger and also the plague
that's about it off the top of my head. I am essentially a mentally deficient entity and can only hope to reach your level by reading this.
so,
I have two questions.
Is...
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no, but you seem to be
>>8222594
yeah
>>8222594
and are women retarded? pic related.
I was in a 5 year relationship (pic not related), a quarter of my life, with my high school honey until she decided she wasn't in love with me anymore. draw your own conclusions to that.
but she was also retarded. I loved her more than anything and she was really well-read as far as chemistry goes but philosophically and conceptually she was retarded
>ectoplasm
>rectums
ectoplasm means cum, right?
>>8222631
spooky cum
>violent
>territorial and tribal
>mysogyinistic, and will go to extraordinary lengths to rationalize this hatred
>obsessed with sex, pornography, and masturbation
>obsessed with youth and virginity
>disturbing potential for sexual perversion
>cannot go a day without thinking about sex
>sex sex sex
What are some...
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Plutarch's Lives of Eminent Romans and Greeks
>>8222463
Actual men? Or this hyperbolic stereotype you never actually meet in real life?
>>8222473
blue-pilled cuck fuck off
What the fuck was his problem?
>be Russian
>pick up saxophone on a whim
>holy shit I'm really good at this saxophone
>don't really need any training at all
>just doodle doot doot on the saxophone, people love me
>amazing at this saxophone
>people ask how I'm so good
>tell them I can smell colors
>"I just...
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>>8222441
lel
I remember when I was in 10th grade I read Othello in English and I wrote in a paper that Iago seemed like a sociopath. I googled "Iago sociopath" to see what other people thought but no one seemed to have written anything about it. Sociopathy obviously wasn't a diagnosed disorder back then so Shakespeare must have based Iago on someone he knew in real life and identified the connection between their personality traits and how they fit together. I totally forgot about this until now. What do you guys think? Does Iago fit the description of a sociopath? Do you...
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>>8222415
They were called "evil" back then, and still are. Psychiatry is bullshit, making fancy terms for stuff that's already been known by intelligent people since the beginning of human history and, incidentally, very good for ostracizing and pathologizing anything that's different from the norm.
>>8222415
sociopathy isn't a diagnosed disorder today you dummy
and no, nobody noticed the habits of crazy people til the DSM came out
>>8222428
Yeah I kind of realized after I posted that it's not really a disorder but it is something that is identifiable by certain personality traits and it just seems interesting that Shakespeare was able to create a character that possesses all the traits of what would now be considered a sociopath by definition
Where does one start with learning a foreign language? The one I have in mind is Russian, but I have absolutely no idea where to start at when I'm trying to learn.
If this is off-topic please tell me which board it goes on.
Take a class
>>8222317
start with learning the cyrillic script
>>8222317
It'll take 10 years and you'll never feel like you've learned it. (I'm talking about any language)
“There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.”
>immoral
>>8222300
words are tools
How is it that during medieval times when society was so conservative, not allowing any social mobility, free will was taken for granted as given to us by god but today, when the modern world allows for much more social mobility, we(in our every day view of life) tend to favor a more deterministic physicalist view of reality...
WHICH CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHERS WRITE ABOUT AND MAKE A GOOD CASE FOR FREE WILL?
not as determinists define it but as something absolute that is inheent to the structure of reality(cause a true free will, the kind that i think we all wish for, is...
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>>8222272
You've got no replies, yet I find your question interesting.
I don't know if free will is still a very contemporary issue. I'm not saying it's worth nothing, but I'm not certain it's used under these terms.
To be quite honest I don't see very much how you can take this question without considering past ontologies, ways of thinking and living, etc. despite what you said about 17th philosophy. Since you seem to be wanting to take it on a sociological approach, it would be a good...
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Well, maybe we can think of free will as the ability to imagine taking certain actions. Perhaps you are constrained by physical reality but you can still imagine doing them. You might imagine walking out of a prison cell but since its closed you cannot. You might imagine yourself fling but since you are bound by gravity you cannot.
You can always try to do as you imagine it can just result in your physical death or your inability to go through with an action towards its desired outcome.
In this sense what then limits free will is a deterministic view of human thought and mind.
free will is a meme
