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itt: we post rare Flashbirds before this shit goes mainstream and we all have to hate it.enjoy it while it lasts
Is Tao Lin's work actually worth reading or is it just a meme?
tao lin was the official meme 2-3 years ago
>>8083925
I know but is he actually worth reading? Eeeee has decent reviews everywhere I look but they're almost all "ironic"
How does one overcome their spooks?
I just can't do it, no matter how hard I try. I'm still in the pursuit of some of my spooks even though I know I shouldn't be.
I'm a slave to the spooks.
What's with all this Stirnerfags lately, are we invaded by 13 year olds?
No one can. You are doomed to be beta
There are no spooks to overcome. The ego creates the spooks.
Is the Satanic Bible worth a quick read?
No edgy or anything I heard it had decent philosophies on living
>>8083896
sure why not, if it satisfies your curiosity
it's basically shit though
>>8083896
I read in in high school while I was going through a rebellious phase. It has ups and downs.
Pros:
Basically just says to live your life to be happy. Even if you have the weirdest fetishes or are a complete misanthrope you can find people you belong with as long as you are not harming anyone.
Also talks a lot about how to deal with negative influences and the best ways to cut them and the unhappiness out of your life.
Cons:
A lot of the time it reads like red pill.
Denies religion...
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It's just another step in the "egotist" type philosophy.
Stirner ---> Nietzsche ---> Rand ---> Satanic Bible
Stirner did it best and Nietzsche was pretty good but it's been going downhill ever since.
So no, it's not worth it; Stirner and Nietzsche or even Rand are much better options if you are looking for that kind of philosophy.
What do my /lit/fags do to help with retention in things like non-fiction or denser philosophy?
Do you highlight? Do you reread? What about notes? Are notes for the weak?
Post your comprehension and retention strategies. If you don't do anything post that too.
i dont do anything
I don't do anything
Forget everything
highlighting is the biggest meme of all time
books for this feeling
>>8083759
american psycho
To remedy that feeling or to induce that feeling?
>>8083765
remedy
![civilizationset[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4ScyDuY.jpg "civilizationset[1].jpg")
Are these worth it?
I want to know everything that there ever was, is and will be to know.
>I want to know everything that there ever was, is and will be to know.
just read sam harris
>>8083706
Isn't he just about atheism?
>>8083701
>stops at Napoleon
I've always had a kernel of an idea for a more adult fantasy than Game of Thrones, and now that it has clearly dropped the ball in that arena, I've been determined to start writing it. I expect it to take over a decade to reach full maturation in my mind, never mind the actual writing.
What are some basic resources for learning how to turn your idea into a book? I've never done this before, but I really feel like I'm on to something, and I want a basic rundown of basic mistakes to avoid when writing.
>>8083611
Wait, youre going to spend a decade thinking about what to write?
Shit I did that as a kid. Never wrote it though because I realized it was fucking dumb.
You need to write. And fast. Just babble onto a page, violently. If it is any good, you can polish it off into a novel. If not, dont edit it and say its a new postmodernist piece, you will make even more money.
>>8083611
The problem with this is that you need much, much more than just an idea. Many people have 'good ideas', but even the most minimally acceptable execution will require very much effort. Even the authors of the simplest, 'lol i could've done that'-type novels (think Hunger Games, Harry Potter) spent pretty much their entire lives reading and writing. Regardless of intellectual quality, to get published you're going to need to reach a certain threshold, and you won't be able to do that if all you commit to it is time. You need discipline to write and read each day and every day for as long and as well as you can, and that's something that only few can keep up for more than a couple months or years.
So yeah, if you have a good idea, and you're just now starting with writing, chances are that 1. you won't finish it 2. when you finish it, it will be of poor quality or 3. by the time you have made sufficient progress with your writing and literary understanding you will suddenly find your idea worthless, cliché, or incompatible with your style.
Plot question.
Poor guy becomes rich. Hates the female world because no one gave a shit about him while being poor and because they are now fawning over him. Hires a person(was thinking guy but woman would be better IMO) to fuck up all the women that are now interested in him. Fucking up = permanently crippling. Hepatitis perhaps or staged car accident. Something that keeps a person alive.
What sort of affliction should this contractor give to the women?
Coming from a group of ugly, poor-to-rich kids (started a company together), I can guarantee you that no single heterosexual man in this whole world will ever feel any form of resentment toward the female race after they start lathering them with pussy-juice.
>>8083600
Thats nice. Now how about those ideas?
>>8083617
Fair enough. MRSA is pretty brutal and difficult to treat, and you'll have lots of ways to choose from when deciding how the disease will affect the victim. Alternatively, you could think of some parasitic infection. Naegleria is fun, as are certain types of tapeworms that lay eggs in the brain.
Is this the greatest mind of the 21st century?
>It would be spiteful
>To put jellyfish in a trifle
Get rid of em
Is this guy actually retarded or does he just pretend to be
>>8083481
He's dumb IRL, but plays it up for the cameras.
I think my prose is shit and my thoughts cliche. How do I improve?
>Moves and countermoves, a strategic rigidness binding and shackling one's ego and driving it far below into the darkest depths of one's cloudy black soul. An anomaly nonconforming or self-stereotyping out of default rather than choice. Sui generis, and all the pain it brings. So stands Mitchum, caught and trapped by the invisible, impervious chain binding one and all's both spiritual and physical plexuses. The chain considered one's own and one's alone, yet reaching all from every cynosure and vertex.
>Mitchum, a man the epitome of "ill-suited", has achieved and gained, through noble well-inculcated struggle. The fear of loss is now an obstinate, perpetuating occupant of his inner machinations. He has anthropomorphized the agent of luck as an insidious turncloack, ready to snatch at all he is worth with indiscrimination and strike not at the appearance of opportunity, but rather, adventitiously. He convinced himself a downturn in what little fortune he's rightfully earned would be an event without malice or malignancy. Instead he imagined an inevitable decay, like the weathered and battered essentiality of ruins, the destructed, and anything human yet forgotten.
Beware, everyone. This is how you write when you take yourself too seriously and try to impress, rather than having a sense of the aesthetic.
>>8083252
This so much, it just feels so tryhardy, like you open a thesaurus at random pages and shit out pretentious words.
>>8083209
Your first three sentences are unmoored from reality. They don't connect to anything, it's a series of pretentious floating shitpiles and the fact that it's right at the beginning is absolutely disgusting and puts me off the whole thing.
Which one do I get that I can use under the shower? I'm not just talking 'waterproof', I want one that I can actually use with fair functionality while the water splatters over it. Price doesn't matter.
this is not going away. help pls
None get a ziploc bag
>>8083248
i'll get your mother's remains in a ziplock bag you unhelpful piece of shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmOR1I2Q-OI
this is what i listen to while i think of your death
also bump, i know there are waterproof kindles out there and i need to know which is best
What does /phil/ think of Galen Strawson?
If your answers aren't insightful, please at least type them in a British accent.
Excuse the stock picks, I'm too lazy to do them from scratch.
As a rule, which is better, penguin classics or oxford world classics?
Oxford are better in my opinion. But they are both excellent publishers.
Look at each book in isolation -- some penguins are better than their oxford partners.
Wordsworth
>>8083000
Generally, Oxford is better. But there are plenty of exceptions to that.
Why is everything I write turn out pretentious? Unless I use the vocabulary of a 15 year old, it seems as though everything I write comes from a 65 year old pious asshole smoking from a cob pipe while reading his own book.
>I'm garbage
>Example below
I was born asleep. So when I woke up on February 15th, in a small, nonchalant room, which lay in an equally small, equally nonchalant home, I was confused. Little men on elongated canoes surfed the rampant waters of the walls around me, their eyes...
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>>8082860
i like it but you're still a bit clumsy around your adjective strings. should be fine by the time you're sixty.
The problem isn't your style, IMO your writing itself isn't all that bad.
The problem is that you say nothing, your work is void of meaning. In this paragraph, for example, you got out of bed, walked to the kitchen, opened the fridge, fell down because of the light (?), and got back to bed, and pretended every step of the way was somehow a grand milestone, a point of deep philosophical reflection. In reality, we know nothing new about your character after reading this, nor are we aroused to investigate further, because the emotions you try to portray are so...
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Your style is excellent but like another anon said, this paragraph doesn't say anything interesting.
If you combine your style with some interesting themes I'd definitely read your work.
