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how to be more ..convincing?
Connect with your audience. It must be recognized that hierarchies and flat equal relations can in fact be sublated.
For example, that bisexual/gay/fem boys give their male friends blowjobs, especial straight friends, should be a normal and accepted thing and there should be some way to ''signal'' your friends you're up for it and its up to them to use your mouth
The sexuality of those receiving the service should never be put in question, in fact there should be no fuss at all about crap like gender/orientation/whatever, just spontaneous...
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one post later and we're already talking about suckin dicks.
This board took a nosedive lately.
>>8186618
>"It is not enough to present the facts; you must convince those present that they are the facts. There are even those who need convinced that there are any facts at all." - Me, 2016.
Is it any good?
Will I go to hell if I read it?
>>8186574
Silicon Valley?
>>8186574
well, part of it is plagiarized. If your copy has an introduction with a "biography" of LaVey, make sure you take it with a grain of salt. A lot of LaVey's "biography" is just shit he made up to sound bigger than he was. For instance there is no proof he had a relationship with Marilyn Monroe or that he ever worked with the San Francisco Police as a photographer.
Also keep in mind the story of his first child, Zeena LaVey (now Zeena Shreeck). She was baptized in the Church of Satan at...
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I thought Pale Fire referenced LaVey as the family Occultist or something but then I realized that he came later
Am I just too stupid for books?
I recently got into reading the classics and had a pretty good time. But there are books from Dazai or Dostoevsky where I have to read every sentence several times or where my mind goes blank halfway through and I have to start the page anew. No Longer Human has like 135 pages, but I finished it after 4 months, because I got so frustrated while reading. Should I just go back to The Cat In The Hat?
>>8186466
>I recently got into reading the classics
It will come with practice.
Meditate more.
I don't think so. You simply have concentration issues, which is pretty common nowadays. Reduce the time spent before a screen, improve your diet, drink as much water as possible and it should disappear fairly quickly. I don't think it's healthy to play, watch television series or stream through YouTube more than an thirty minutes each day. It overstimulates your brain and you can't focus on simpler media any more.
What is your honest opinion on Stephen King?
>>8186345
Pleb clusterfuck.
>>8186345
My opinion is that King is going to die this year, because a number of other B-list cultural figure types (and could still trade on their names) who had their best successes in the 70s and 80s yet were still active, have already died this year: Scalia, Prince, Bowie, Alan Rickman,
King was great (for his league) back in his hay-day, there seemed to be a real underlying psychological plumbing of the depths of the average man's dark nature because of his writing style. After his car accident I noticed a striking difference in his writing style and everything I've read post-accident has just left a bad taste in my mouth (never finished Dark Tower because of that) and I just can't read him anymore, not that I was an avid reader of his in the first place.
is this the only way to get children to read in this era?
>>8186308
They're joke books, calm down.
I went to school at a turning point, when i was a kid my teachers would teach us a lot of outdoorsy type stuff like where the red fern grows, and white fang, and hatchet.
Then one day my teacher breaks out this new book called harry potter.
And literature was down hill since then
>>8186321
This.
Just like Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, I originally saw it in the humor section in BooksaMillion.
Tabula Rasa OP. All a child needs is a good upbringing with competent parents who will not feed them garbage pleb filler from an early age. I don't like Harold Bloom, but he was right about one thing: Reading Harry Potter (or books like it) prepares you for reading Stephen King.
Well, I figure if anyone will know it's you guys (never been on this board before) I remember hearing someone talk about a book a couple years ago that peaked my interest. It's either about a sound or a color that kills people somehow. Literally all I know. I'm 90% certain it's a sound but for some reason because of how long ago it was it might of been a color.
The brown note
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
It's not real
>>8186324
No lol I learned about "the brown note" from southpark. This is a horror book.
People who mix up the words "peak" and "pique" are subhuman
Wow. This was fantastic.
>Don DeLillo
Dropped.
>>8186286
no it wasn't. your your a pleb
Karl Schmidt BTFO Johannes Schmidt AKA Big Forehead AKA the milkman AKA Max Stirner.
He was spooked by infinite consciousness, and Karl dragged it to its grave.
(Karl Schmidt was the last Young Hegelian and criticised Stirner in "The Realm of Understanding and The Individual" as well as "Love Letters Without Love. If you haven't read him you are most certainly a /leftypol/ shill and probably have a hypocritical understanding of the unique one as well.)
>>8186271
Jesus Christ this guy should have picked a more unique pseudonym, Stirner had him beat in that aspect.
Can someone link me where to buy or download Das Verstandestum und das Individuum? Can't find it but sounds interesting enough,
>>8186325
That's because it wasn't a pseudonym.
Also was so obscure doesn't have a wiki page, find a reference to him on the young hegelians wiki page.
You can buy a part of the English translation called "The Individual" online, where he utterly BTFO'd Stirner though agreed on like 80% of what he said...point is you don't need to set your cause on nothing.
>>8186371
Maybe that came across wrong, I'm saying he should have picked one tbqh.
>a part
That's only like the second half though, right?
Is Schopenhauer underrated?
In what context?
>>8186232
As a philosopher in his own right, not as an influence on other philosophers like Nietzsche or Wittgenstein.
>>8186231
As funny as on women is, he is underrated
What are your favorite Socratic dialogue texts and why?
I recently got my hand on some film equipment and as exercise I thought it would be neat to adapt a scene stemming from this tradition.
>>8186207
well, the trial of socrates is kinda shit (sorry plato), symposium is actually pretty good, meno and phaedro are godly. the republic is an achievement of humankind however. laws is long and pretty abridgeable tbqhf. ps i read all of them years ago but cant remember all of them.
>>8186865
Did you mean phaedrus or phaedo? Cause the phaedrus is sublime.
For adapting a scene from Plato, I would go with the part in Theaetetus where Socrates explains his "midwife of the soul" concept. I've always loved that part of the dialogue and the back-and-forth that goes on there.
I'm biased towards Theaetetus, as I spent a lot of time working with it, but Phaedrus is also good, as anons said above. However, I can't recall a specific passage that might be good.
Why do people in this board tend to bash The German Ideology? That book is perfect and Memex Stirner got BTFO. Accept it egocucks.
>>8186143
>Memex Stirner got BTFO
Precisely for that reason.
>>8186167
Why is it so hard to admit though? Why are they taking so seriously a meme philosopher?
>He actually believes Karl "Butthurt Pro" Marx and his anti-egoist lies.
Post must read ya books.
>>8186069
/thread
>>8186069
When will they learn?
I don't get the comic.
Women can only love their offspring?
His mom didn't like him and he drugged her mom to love him? (a so sad it's funny kind of thing)
He's really short (and women hate that) and his love potion was really just a potion that spurred a mother-son relationship-fetish in her. And she fought it for a long time but eventually she gave in and he cried tears of joy because he's finally accepted for what he is. ?
My father was too soft on me and my mother an anxious mess. What other books do I read to learn to replace parental guidance and build fortitude?
>inb4 Stoics
stoics
>>8185846
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Seadont be a little faggot and blame your parents for your own failures. its all been your fault since you were about 12
>>8185846
Start with the greeks
I just read the first volume. Why should anyone even bother writing anymore if this guy just analyzed human consciousness so brilliantly it is hard to grasp?
Yeah, it's only worth writing about topics besides consciousness.
Joyce and Proust basically nailed it
Post some examples. Otherwise I'm just going to assume you're a bandwagon-jumper.
Who?
How patrish is my library /lit/? How's yours?
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/booksarefornerds/yourlibrary
Can you choose which edition have you read, like Goodreads? I might migrate.
>>8185770
This looks like a bearbones goodreads tracker without year challenges or the ability to show off to people on facebook. Explain why it is good.
