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Can anyone recommend me other self discipline books? I found this one on amazon for $4.50 for Kindle and am interested, but are there other books out there that you can recommend for me, /lit/?
Thank you.
Learn to meditate.
None of that dry-vipassana meme shit; look into jhana.
>>8049641
Meme suggestion.
Truth is most people work jobs that wear them down for a wage that barely affords them any meaningful pleasures. You can meditate and work out and eat as many turnips as you like, fact is you're cucked until you embrace the NEET lifestyle and become truly enlightened.
>>8049681
Please, for the love of all written words, for the sake of future minds, for the good of all memes - Would you please stop using the word "cuck" to describe fucking EVERYTHING
Disclaimer: not a native english speaker.
This may be a cheap trick, but I'm desperate.
I'm currently on creative writing course and we've gotten a short story to write (6000 letters with spaces) with inspiration title "Drowning".
Holy fuck am I stuck on ideas! All I can imagine is "drowning" in consumerism, the sobby "we're really too rich" stories or dark social realism of a family slowly losing their income and drifting into powerty. I was thinking of a character, a guy, who is drowning his traumas (yay,...
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>>8049491
>Holy fuck am I stuck on ideas!
>!
>(yay, so inventive!)
Don't you have a tampon to change or some of those quirky booktubers to watch?
>>8049491
just take it literally. no one else will and thus you'll do something original in contrast to the others; write 6000 letters of stream of consciousness from the perspective of a drowning person.
>>8049513
OP here.
Strong stuff, I agree.
Holy shit, you people are smart as all fuck.
How do I become smart, you fucks?
>>8049439
That seems pretty dubious, we just value intelligent discourse here. Even our shitposting is pretty verbose, and for all we joke about it, reading and immersing yourself in reading shapes the mind in ways you don't even notice.
So, read good books. They make you smarterer. If you ever lose focus or motivation, I find it immensely helpful to read up on neural pathways and picture actual literal, physical changes occurring within your brain.
>>8049439
i've seen this so many times and still nobody explains why /wg/ would be smart. ideas?
>>8049457
>Even our shitposting is pretty verbose,
Oh, I wanna see that.
>So, read good books.
I don't like reading very much. I'm just here to congratulate you guys on being smart.
Favorite book(s) of the year thus far?
How many have you read?
For me, My Antonia, Silence, and the End of the Affair were great, and The Dwarf was really fun and entertaining.
Up to 29 on the year.
Probably this, Confederacy of Dunces and Breakfast at Tiffany's.
>>8049422
Der Prozess
Nox
Jesus' Son
Petersburg
25
>>8049422
Highlights have been Anna Karenina, The Cossacks, Macbeth and vol 2 of My Struggle.
45
Any good anti-nuclear arms/anti-war/peacenik books?
>inb4 a bunch of edgy pseudoconservatives
>>8049320
Sorry, I meant non-fiction. Thanks though.
>>8049329
Can you be a "mature" nihilist? Or is it exclusively for angsty teenagers that don't understand the difference between intrinsic purpose and self defined meaning?
>>8049283
There is no such thing as nihilism as an authentic position one can "be", it exists only as a philosophic behaviour, the claimed total dismissal of a prescribed ideological frame while failing to recognize what you are replacing it with
>>8049283
Camus thought he had it.
>muh edgy nihilism
>DUDE GOD LMAO
>muh utilitarian west is ruining mother rooshia
>muh purple prose
>muh """""psychology"""""
>muh ubermensch
>muh russian spirit
>muh French dick-sucking
>muh serfs muh freedoms
What parochial shit!...
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>>8049250
muh m8
>>8049250
>Nabokov
>>8049250
kys
Have you ever learned a language purely for literary purposes? If so, was it worth it?
Yes and yes.
no and no
>>8049204
What did you learn? How did you find it?
the recognitions is 50% off on bookdepository at the moment, should i get it famalam?
Yes!
>>8049148
What? Link? I don't see it.
>>8049173
https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Recognitions/9781564786913
its 50% off for me but not sure if its regional
Are there any decent books that argue for monarchy that won't make me cringe? Apart from Leviathan?
Evola
>>8049115
in order for Evola to be worthwhile, you don't just have to confront a philosophy, you have to confront an entirely new literal religion that he synthesized and if you don't accept it then his philosophy is invalid. I'd rather have a more conventional philosopher
>>8049118
A conventional philosopher arguing for monarchy?
Get the fuck out of here
what do you guys think about the audacity that exists in the analytic person's mind to blatantly lie about pic related day in day out?
>analytics stay out
please stop pretending you're continental, we say enough weird shit without adding your dumbass
>>8049058
you want to debate me kid?
>>8049059
lol no. you want to debate someone who knows nothing about analytics though, so it's a kindness.
Who is the bestand why is it TolstoyI mean and why is your choice the besy
>>8049000
nabby
>Owen Wilfred
>>8048946
You're pathetic.
>>8048971
Do I look pathetic? Dumb ass
>>8048971
You sound spooked. Notice how I said "sound" despite no sound? Notice how I wrote "said?" Notice how I typed "wrote?" Spooked.
I am finding this book difficult. Am I retarded?
>>8048939
No. Faulkner is not light reading. His stream of consciousness style places him somewhere around Joyce or Woolf in terms of a specific type of difficulty. It can take a bit of getting used to if you haven't read those authors.
Stick with it, though. As I Lay Dying is great.
>>8048939
This novel's pretty short so don't be afraid to reread the entire thing, it might make more sense afterwards.
>tfw you'll never be a classy well respected author or artist
>tfw despite how good or shit your work is, it will never be appreciated the way it would have been 70 years ago
>tfw you will never live a classic bohemian lifestyle
>tfw you cant appreciate sadness/loneliness in an artistic way, you just feel bad
>tfw you have many good ideas an eanna write again but youre to tired and depressed to do it
Is...
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These are the golden ages of bohemian lifestyles. Nab those Neet bux, hang out with homeless people and street kids, they will love all of your shit and help you figure out how to properly express what you feel you can express to those who haven't had the same experiences or studied the same things as you. Quit complaining and start rebelling against the system that has enslaved you, set you in chains against your own ego, and taught you to disparage your self and wallow in your self-pity. Rise up and appreciate the world as an act of spite against an uncaring, irrational...
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>>8048861
it's never been easier to neet it out
>>8048881
Step 1: Consider the neet
Step 2: reject the neet
Step 3: disparage the neet
Step 4: appreciate the neet
Step 5: dream of neet
Step 6: become the neet
Step 7: ???
Step 8: Profit
>tfw u realize u could've skipped steps 2-5
