This is a pretty good book
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This is a pretty good book
>>8233964
wow I started reading that today what a coincidence
>>8234013
Don't read too much into it.
>>8233964
What is this it looks extremely interesting
>>8234390
it's about one of the guards at hauswitsch who tortured a bunch of prisoners, and he wrote a book about how he feels bad about it now. pretty shit book if you ask me
>>8233964
I could give a fuck about meaning. I am searching for positive utility
>>8234771
Maybe you're an ebin troll, but have you taken the time to consider that your desire for positive utility reflects an underlying meaning?
>>8234795
you have that backwards, meaning is a means to utility's end.
the only reason to search for meaning in any given situation is as a way to satisfy the will to power.
Meaning is for words - it defines purpose.
Purpose is determined by use - A cup is a cup because it's used to scoop and hold water, not because it has a particular form.
Your hand, for example, can form and unform a cup on command. Purpose is fluid.
Humans differ from a cup only in that we are both the tool and the hand that uses it. Our purpose is whatever we choose to use ourselves for.
That wasn't too hard. Which begs the question - what does he spend 200 pages discussing?
>>8234852
You don't know what "begs the question" means.
