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This is the thread where you insult me for buying
approximately 300 dollars on pleb books.
>>8021616
$300 is pocket change in the grand scheme of your life
Read whatever makes you happy and healthy, asshole
Looks like you got memed by /lit/ AND /pol/. Most of those books aren't really worth it. But whatever you are a rich nordic fuck. Isn't a mcdonalds meal like $150 over there ?
>>8021627
Then tell me what to buy motherfucker.
Does anyone else feel awful because they went to a university lower ranked than they were capable of? I had the grades for any university in my country but went to my local one, which is ranked from 130 to 160 in the world, I think.
Even though I have lmao0debt I feel like it was such a fucking waste of time. Compared to the best universities, the courses covered much less content (to give a slight indication, it barely touched linear algebra (eigenwhat?), vector calculus (what do dev, grad, and curl mean?), and no doubt other stuff). I once heard a girl say that only weird people went to the library (i.e. the university is filled with people who wouldn't have gone to uni 30 years ago). I would literally rather be surrounded by people from Eton instead of this (not that I dislike posh people but I'd rather be with smart people I have nothing else in common with than regular people).
My degree was also a waste of time because even though it was a "respected" STEM degree, I realised that all undergrad degrees except for mathematics or physics are a huge waste of time. An engineering degree is just basic maths and physics courses along with engineering stamp collecting bullshit I.e. brain-dead corporate cuckoldry training. How embarrassing. This makes me look worse than humanities majors. Engineering majors are intellectually superfluous and corporate cucks. Humanities / arts people are only the first one. I remember that people would wear formal shirts and trousers when giving presentations and I found it fucking awful. How can people see this as anything but cuckworthy?
Also I went to university in not-England and did an integrated masters (common for engineering) which means my degree which meant my degree was 5 years!!!!!!!!!! Holy Jesus, people who went to university at the same time as me could be one year in to PhD stuff right now while my potential was flushed down the fucking toilet.
I don't really care. I own a cat jewelry business that gives me about $300k a year. I live a pretty comfy life and read all the shit I want
no i'm just happy i got any education at all and i don't have any debts.
>>8021554
Yeah, I went to Brown. Really should have buckled down harder and gotten into Harvard, but oh well, I guess I'll just survive as a mediocrity.
I was trying to create a comedy plot (for a play) about Pharmaceuticals companies and some of their products, but I am having a hard time thinking in something.
One of my ideas was that a young and ambitious doctor discovers a pill that cures phobias (not only relieve them, like the drugs of today: it would be some sort of wonder drug), and the comedy would be made with her interactions, tests and exams with a "Phobic Patrol", a group of phobic patients that are testing the drug.
I don’t think this is a very good idea, and I am not very sure how I can develop it more. I was wondering if any of you people could offer me some ideas, if you eventually imagine something and don’t plan to use it: I would like alms to a beggar; if you have some spare change and could give me I would be forever grateful.
>>8021524
bump
i had an idea about a company that sells corporate ideologies to brainwash people with. One character was going to work for a company that sells those laundry detergent capsules that have detergent and powder in them and write something called the 'critique of pure detergent'. If you think this doesn't sound awful you can steal it.
>>8021524
>One of my ideas was that a young and ambitious doctor discovers a pill that cures phobias (not only relieve them, like the drugs of today: it would be some sort of wonder drug)
antidepressants cure phobias
tranquillizers briefly relieve them
also
>a young and ambitious doctor
>her
into the trash it goes
Post books/authors you would sacrifice your left hand to.
But im left handed :(
what proof do the existentialists have for saying that existence precedes essence?
are they saying someone with a brain tumor is totally responsible for his crimes?
what the hell does "existence" even mean? aren't things just the way they are in reality? the way atoms are just atoms?
he essentially says you don't exist for a distinct reason.
The example (i think) he gives is that a stapler or something like that's essence precedes its existence because there is a clear idea of what is its purpose is before it's made and when it's made if it no longer staples then it is no longer worth anything in terms of what its essence is meant to be.
Whereas humans exist i.e. live but haven't this pre-ordained constraint on purpose so they exist first and only afterwards can they decide what they are about , how to orient their life and so on, i.e. their essence
It's not a proovable statement you empiricist retard
Existence precedes essence = you are not born the person you are, you become it
What books will help a miserable autist like me to uproot my vain desires for a gf and human company?
Discourses, Meditations, Enchiridion. Stoic authors in general
>>8021371
Spend enough time with them/ attempt to befriend them and youll soon find out whether they are spooks or part of your own desires
>>8022339
what is the best version of meditations?
Self help and self improvement lit general thread
Post books
>that changed your life
>improved your outlook
>helped you overcome a real world problem
For fags too poor for therapy and want to read themselvces better
Amazon blank books get the fuck out, this thread is for reading oneself to enlightenment and overcoming fears with sagely wisdom
>>8021352
Epictetus' Discourses, and Aristotle's Ethics; together they are basically the intellectual, yet realistic guiding father you never had growing up.
Zorba the Greek both inspired me to begin reading lit and philosophy and to notice and try to dial down my narcissistic shyness.
OP start and bump
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
My babbie's first book introduction to Taoism, would later read the Dao De Ching.
Remember reading this in a day and feeling a sense of peace and happiness for the first time in years, with a new perspective on all my problems. Sensation has since washed away and I'm trying to reclaim it but still grateful for reading this.
Didn't appriciate the rant chapters about 3/4 in, even less so in the Te of Piglet (which I put down) but willing to overlook. Now I think Hoff's ranting as such goes against Tao principle and he should just shut up but that's my interpretation.
Would like to read up to Time and Being by Heidegger at some point but heard it's hard as fuck
>>8021370
>narcissitic shyness
More on that please, what do you mean?
kickass obscure authors. I recently read McElroy, gass and hawkes and enjoyed them.
what are some other good obscure authors. Hopefully with more than one good book. thanks nigz
I never hear philip roth on /lit/, but he's jewish
>>8021360
He's also not obscure
>>8021369
neither is McElroy, Gass, or Hawkes
What does /lit/ listen to while reading?
For me it's Gymnopédies, Glassworks, Music for Airports, the list simply goes on...
>falling for le experimental minimalism meme
off yourself pseud faggot
>>8021261
>taking obvious b8
You're already dead inside desu
>>8021246
I like her earrings
Is this it, /lit/?
Is this the list?
The Definitive /lit/ List of Fiction and Poetry.
This has to be the list, right?
I think so.
Best Russian: Tolstoy
Best Brit: Shakespeare
Best Irishman: Joyce
Best American: Whitman
Best Frenchy: Proust
Best German: Goethe
Best Spaniard: Cervantes
Best Argentine: Borges
Best Italian: Dante
Best Greek: Homer
You forgot best Chilean
>>8022609
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
>>8021183
Best Roman: Virgil
How often do you read stuff you disagree with? You don't want to turn into an American who thinks everyone who disagrees with him is an irrational liberal/bigot/cuck who's out to destroy society do you?
How often do liberals, SJWs and tumblrinas read stuff that disagrees with them without resorting to namecalling, demanding safe spaces, and demanding an end to free speech by calling it hate speech?
>>8021173
It's fine if I'm reading something like Aristotle or Nietzsche or whatever, but reading for example the newspaper makes me break stuff so I tend to refrain from that.
>>8021194
Op included the word "bigot", implying the question was directed both ways.
Do you read any contemporary authors?
Also:
John Green
Cormac McCarthy
that Asian-american meme writer everyone hates here
--- they are exempt from this conversation.
Corncob McCarthy is good.
>>8021099
Pinecone
Donald Ray Pollock
I just got them. Which one would you recomend to start with?
>>8021026
>i, clavdius
>robert graves
>i, robert
>tiberius claudius caesar augustus germanicus
>>8021026
both
>>8021040
It's I, clavdivs you pleb
/lit/, I'm having difficulty here.
Over the last few months I have developed a strong love for logic but have no fucking idea how the fields of logic relate to one another.
Philosophical logic, Philosophy of logic, Logic, Mathematical Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, and possibly Philosophy of Language.
What in the fuck. Can anyone point me somewhere that definitively clears this up or is there a reason for this?
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>>8020938
W-why, Anonymous, I didn't know you felt that way about me! *kysses back with passion and gusto*
Mmm. That feels nice. *puts my hand on your inner leg*
>>8020949
IF YOU PURPOSEFULLY MISUDNERSTAND ME LE ONE MORE LE TIME I LE SWAER I WILL KILLLLLLLL YURUYITROTYOTOTO AHHHAHQHAHHAHHHC
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I'm 31.
Am I too old to be here?
yes. If you haven't sorted out your life by 25 your life is objectively over. The dye has been cast and is too ingrained by now to be reversed
You have a future of drudgery ahead of you i'm afraid
>>8020894
>If you haven't sorted out your life by 25 your life is objectively over. The dye has been cast and is too ingrained by now to be reversed.
Expand on this, please.
>>8020900
speaks for itself. If you don't get it when said basically, you won't get it when expanded on
