>>24739961
They were all druggies but none of them were heavily into stims besides the one I flagged.
>>24739960
I can cop to the possibility of this being true but there is not much evidence either way. All you fags will do is quote some study by CIA Dr. Scheklestein from 1959 where the rate of psychosis in 10,000 LSD administrations is supposed to be 0.48% or whatever. The fact is I've seen loads of people go insane after taking psychedelics and most people who have been around a lot of psychedelics have seen the same. I don't know that they are dangerous but psychedelic advocates tend to be rather cultish about the whole thing and don't want to consider that there may be grave risks in taking these substances.

>>24739986
The rate of positive drug screening in first admission psychosis is 60-70%. People who are crazy tend to also have an unhealthy fascination with mind altering substances, simple as.

>>24738606
You worship a book and rationalizations for power made up by pedos instead of actually relating to the divine.

>>24739775
This
>Look at this screwdriver! You can build nice birdhouses much easier with it!
>But... you could also stab your own eye with it if you are fuckin retarded
>Lets ban screwdrivers and all tools altogether!

>>24740060
I hope the next time you trip you stop sleeping entirely for days and start hearing voices thinking it's the end of the world. Should've used your tool better you tool lol.

probably, i blame all the lead in the water,

KUBRICK IS A HACK

well i mean i liked the movie but it was interesting how they replaced the Beethoven statue, that seemed kind of odd, some changes here and there such as removing the true ending of the story, but visually its a very nice movie considering the decoration and scenes

>>24739792
Basically everything except the endless hordes of brown invaders but he addressed that with 1985

>>24739792
What are you talking about? Thus is the opposite of the modern UK.
You can go to prison for liking a post in social media. The kids in this book were murdering and raping and easily getting away with it.

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Bought this because the cover looked very cool and I wanted a collection compact enough to actually hold.

But the paper is awful. I hate these chinese "editions"

Wish they just sold a $50 version with the same cover design and made in england.

>>24734508
That's not half bad.

>Folio editions
Retards

>>24739099
Way to rich for my blood anyways. I'm not saying I've never splurged on a book but that's just getting ostentatious.

>>24739099
They're nice though

>>24739678
copulation with someone you love feels better and fills you with meaningfulness.
copulation with a whore forces you to reflect on your pathetic animalistic nature, diminishing your spirit and connection to divine purpose.

>>24739690
if you're a man, both fill you with meaningless.
masturbation makes you feel worse but there's still no wholesomeness in the afterparty either way.

>>24739700
masturbation is the same. You are just masturbating with a living fleshlight.

>>24739707
somehow it isn't the same (you can't trick your instinct, there's a real life woman there)

>>24739442
Pretty sure humans envy/wanting to be something other that what they are is their defining trait

And, right now even, more people are reading Kant right now, this instant, than ever in the history of mankind.

>>24739693
nta but yeah. The booked sort of memed itself into me.

>>24739686
Perform the synthesis!

>>24739686
I got into Kant because of these shill threads, originally to figure out what must be wrong with the guy, then to figure out what must be right with him, which led me to the other idealists. The price of entry is high, you will think you understand and then have to completely rethink everything multiple times. Fun stuff, in a masochistic sort of way.

>>24740002
me too

>>24739851
maths is way harder than being a philosophy guy. it is what it is

Nietzsche only became popular because he provided a pseudointellectual justification for the morally impoverished direction in which the elites were dragging society.

>>24738067
How do you parse the multiple beings you encounter? That's also your own construction.

>>24738173
>have brain in a fixed region of time/space
>have brain which creates orderings based on its time/space
>create symbol-independent game of space-time orderings
>woah like, i have access to direct reality man

>>24739962

It's not, and my proof is that it's comparatively much more easy to be a meaningful contributor to some field in maths. You don't have to be mathematics' top guy to make a contribution. In philosophy, you get primarily non-meaningful contributions of cataloguers who analyze concepts, guys who wax eternal about what a previous thinker meant, various ists, le epic "what if we combined x and y philosophies" and droves of charlatan retards. Serious contributions are generally massive winner-takes-all scenarios in philosophy

nova pellicula calvi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5o9XTF_t_Y

>>24739307
the face of the smuggest pedophile

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>>24735700
>Older Imperial Aramaic has inscriptions and stuff from the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Achaemenid empires, probably not that interesting
An Assyrian told me he watched the Passion of the Christ without subtitles, so useful in an abstract way.

>>24731840
>They were to the Greeks
>>To a Boy: Your condition is rather delicate, and it’s because, I am sure, your sandal pinches; new leather, you know, is quite likely to cut into flesh that is tender. That is why Asclepius readily heals wounds received in war and hunting and all such accidents, but neglects these others because of the voluntariness of the action—as due to indiscretion rather than to a god’s capricious malevolence. Why then don’t you walk barefoot? What grudge have you against the earth? Slippers and sandals and top-boots and shoes are for the wearing of invalids or the aged. Philoctetes, at any rate, is pictured in such protective garb—because he was lame and ill. But the philosopher from Sinope and the Theban Crates and Ajax and Achilles are pictured as wearing no shoes, and Jason as wearing but one. For the story goes that, when Jason was crossing the Anaurus River, one boot was caught by the mud and held fast under the stream, and so he had one bare foot—not that he deliberately chose to have, but that chance taught him what was best; and he went his way the victim of a salutary robbery. Let nothing come between the earth and your bare foot. Fear not, the dust will welcome your tread as it would welcome grass, and we shall all kiss your footprints. Ο perfect lines of feet most dearly loved! Ο flowers new and strange! Ο plants sprung from earth! Ο kiss left lying on the ground!
>Philostratus, Letter 18
breh
greeks were the original footfags
what an interesting civilization

>>24738002
Look at that bogged nose. Disgusting.

BRUH

Liking feet is normal and not a fetish
Return to tradition

>>24736282
That was one verbose meth addict.

>>24738198
Did you at least make them pay for your snacks?

>>24739802
The English had it right the first time. You tell 'em.

>>24739184
Thats because you seem to view people in terms of class which is a common European mistake. Marx might have had a point here or there but biological science points elsewhere.

>>24738446
I couldn't care less what he thinks because paternity tests are illegal in his country all things considered

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>>24739802
>Also about the attitude of the superior to the inferior races, the Negroes, for instance. R. says the greatest triumph for the intellectually superior person is to win the love and devotion of those beneath him, whereupon the Count [Gobineau] says such love can be found among Negroes, but not mulattoes.

>We come back to the subject of race, wondering which theory is right, Schopenhauer’s or Gobineau’s. R. feels they can be reconciled: a human being who is born black, urged toward the heights, becomes white and at the same time a different creature.

>‘Negro slave owners etc. as extreme consequence of the conqueror’s becoming far more savage than the animals.’

>>24737357
Ugly chinless blob thinks he's ''the master race'', many such occurrences

>>24737351
books are cheap, they look great on your shelf, and it's much more immersive to hold a book in your hand than some faggy kindle. I 100% undestand torrenting games, as in our times even if you buy the game on steam then you don't really actually own it. And also games are pretty expensive.

https://standardebooks.org/

>>24738982
None of what you said makes any sense. Piracy isn't supposed to be a way to "make money" and if it ever was it was just people in markets selling burned DVDs or camrecorded movies from the Cinema. That hasn't been the case for a long while now, and piracy is for people who want things for free. How on earth were you making money from it? Do you live in the third world?

https://standardebooks.org/

https://www.gutenberg.org/

https://archive.org/

>>24738952
>reading books in pdf and not epub
The state of this board

>>24739272
>>24739323
I also believe some of Plutarch’s lives cover the Diadochi although I haven’t read Plutarch.

>>24739323
thank you I'll definitely have a look at getting this, are there any more modern books you'd recommend for me to read as well?

>>24739272
The same author wrote Alexander to Actium, which covers everything from 323 to 30BC.

>>24739463
To be honest with you, I haven’t read any modern books on this subject. Diodorus was my introduction to the wars of the Diadochi.
The Oxford World Classics edition of Diodorus does contain 100+ pages in footnotes, so there’s that.

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I read this several years ago. I remember it being pretty good. Very readable.

Another modern one I have yet to read is “dividing the spoils” by Robin Waterfield

>>24736418
Based OP

>>24736536

>*discussion and debate of high level concepts*
>uh... you're a schizo
>*displaying a high level of technical knowledge*
>uh... you're an autist

Tired of your anti-intellectual nonsense to be honest. Go scroll tiktok or something. If there was a minimum word count this nonsense would get filtered. If it was only text there would be no obscene imagery. If there was a profanity filter you'd have to write something meaningful and polite. It would be pure, intellectual discussion. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Would be nice to sit and read.

As for Hinduism, you'd expect me to be hostile about it as a Muslim. Yet honestly I grieve over conflicts between Muslims and Hindus. There are some who interpret it as Monotheism, an all permeating force, I can see that.

>>24736418
Neither sin nor free will are real. I'm not hindu

>>24738590
cope

>>24736418
This supposes that sin exists at all. Even if it does, it is a different issue to say that sin is so pervasive as to be unavoidable. I think he has convinced himself that many benign thoughts and actions are sin.

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I just finished the third book in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, Temple of Dawn, and the fourth book Decay of the Angel is the smallest yet so I can't wait to get to the ending since I heard many things about it. After that I'll probably read something lighter like Gogo Monster which interests me because it was released all at once when manga is usually released as volumes over several months/years.

>>24734455
This shit is unfuckingfair now, I am trying to start with the greeks and I have to read 1 page of plato and then think about it for awhile. I am not crushing the greeks like a pulp novel

>>24737988
It's not about reading as much as humanly possible, it's about making progress and being accountable to your stack

>stack threads left and right
>stack thread where you actually have to read the books
>/lit/ becomes a ghost town
Wow

>>24738973
classic

>>24739812
>You're a zoomer who does not read literary fiction so of course you'd think that
I have read litfic but I discover that I don't give a shit about human relations and all of the pleb shit that normalfaggots care about. I am interested in more aristocratic emotions and contemplations.
>Because you're a left wing faggot false flagging as "based"
I am apolitical. I don't care about the personal views of a writer because I am not a direction brained retard. I only care about art.
>He's horror fiction for left wing retards filtered by based trad fiction written by right wing chads
More directioned brained retardedness. I am a true decadent unlike you, I don't care if a writer is a fucking serial killer. I would write his book if it is good.

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>>24739827
> I am a true decadent unlike you, I don't care if a writer is a fucking serial killer. I would write his book if it is good.
>Prince of Darkness, Thomas Ligotti sitting on the throne of Horror Fiction.
>The greatest living author. Ligotti-sama I fucking kneel.

>>24739870
I look like this and say this

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>>24739870
i've been picturing the opposite and yet, in some ways, the same

>>24739870
>>24739931
Wow it's like Ligotti fans on 4chan look like...typical 4chan posters. They are either underweight or over weight and in all cases they are shut in nerds. Wow very surprising for the normie central 4chan.

>>24739018
strange ammo type?

>>24739018
Some quick ones:
Makes it completely silent
Bullets leave a trail only the user can see
Gave it the ability to hit non-corporeal beings
Seeking shoots
The user can make it appear and disappear at will
Explosive, elemental, toxic shots
The firearms doesn't causes damage, instead, when a bullet hits, the user is teleported where the bullet hits

Litrpg with skill trees, but picking a specific skill tree aligns you with a god and religion. You don't just become a fire mage, but also a worshipper of Marahon.

>>24739157
>Gave it the ability to hit non-corporeal beings
Holy shit that's cool. A gun that shoots someone's soul instead of their body.

>>24739234
So it's just a skill tree that are locked behind a specific god