Need a book for when I have an insomnia spell and can't sleep. I don't want to doomscroll my phone so it seems like a good way to get back into reading.
pic rel, i read it when i'm up at 2am trying to get back to sleep. I've been reading the series for 9 years, I'm almost through the first book, it's a sedative so strong it should be illegal
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>>24949522any book on programming. or better yet, raw code
>>24949522I listen to audiobooks in bed, right now this
>>24951120this looks like a solid read
Have you been able to leverage philosophy and literature in your career?Most classical literature and philosophy was intended to be appreciated by educated individuals whose enlightenment would advance their occupations as noblemen, administrators, warriors, poets, clergy, whatever. Even philosophers who had no other occupation taught law and medical students for practical application in their careers.
>>24952196>>24952196Wtf is that the masonic hand???? I thought based prussia was above such judeo-satanic machinations. What is this shit? Has the west always been like this??? No! The elitist prussian junker aristocracy was supposed to sit atop the heap in a beautifully regimented military hierarchy. No no no! Not like this. Why the need for secret societies? WHAT THE FUCK
>>24952196I have no career. I hedge all my bets on entrepreneurship in the not so distant future. My degree is worthless and I currently work in a low-status job performing menial labor. The gamble is using your liberal arts education to deconstruct society down to its frame so that you're able then exploit that under the hood knowledge for gaming the system in personal business ventures.
>>24952271Chad move, I feel the same way. Failing that, I plan to devote myself entirely to fermenting a coup d'etat. If I can allow myself one criticism of your plan, it's working at all. As long as you are paying taxes you are part of the problem.
no. i work an actual honourable job as a nurse so i have no need for this bougie wankery
>>24952196My love of philosophy and litearature hasn't provided much material benefit beyond the high 'verbal iq' that comes as a consequence. Which really just means being able to string together more than a few sentences coherently which can get you decently far in a white collar setting. But mostly it's just allowed me to have a rich interior mind that's allowed me to stay sane throughout my bleak working existence. If not for literature and philosophy I'd probably be abusing drugs and alcohol to get by and perhaps still be depressed on top of that.
The dregs of society pool together like the dirty puddles they tromp. Dublin is their city. Dubh Linn. Black Pool. The name evokes images of heroin rolling on foil. The Spire watches high over O'Connell Street, a lantern above the oily slick roads, taxis and buses rolling through them, like a needle penetrating the veiny patchwork streets.
>>24950354It's mine
>>24950354>>24950431Are you Irish btw?
>>24951012Yeah. Never been there though.
>>24946850except there is an actual town in england called blackpool and it's a shithole
>>24951643Dubh Linn (Irish for "Black Pool") is the original Gaelic name for Dublin, referring to a dark tidal pool where the River Poddle met the River Liffey, near modern-day Dublin Castle and Dublin Castle. This name, adopted by the Vikings as Dyflin, evolved into the English "Dublin," signifying the city's ancient origins at this key river junction, now largely covered by development.
Is this actually poorly written, or is that just the thing where they try to bash him any way they can (small dick, missing testicle, secretly gay, etc.)
>>24950051Germanic Perfidy
>>24942898>they go out and do shithe did, thoughtried to restart the roman empire
>>24950657>just mostly vibesPretty much
>>24942860>OP actually just reading the books he makes threads about challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
my biggest take away was that it undermined a shit load of /pol/ neo nazi talking points i saw repeated for years there. Hitler talks pretty bluntly about war as the central pillar of national socialism quite extensively, lays out his plans for large scale conquest in europe to turn germany into a literal physically large super nation like the US or China or Russia, talks about how it needs to be in europe and whites need to die because germany cant into overseas colonialism. even directly completely destroys the idea that "he just wanted german territory lost in ww1 back" by flat out mocking the idea and shitting anyone who perpetuates it (lol) honestly a really important book no matter what angle youre coming at it from and im happy retards didnt go around banning it because it is extremely enlightening i you want to cut through the propaganda and see what national socialism is all about straight from the horses mouth (its not good, in fact it is wildly retarded and self destructive)
>>24952356Sex projections more like.
If Mr. Gifs woke up in 2025 do you think he would be more like the left or the right
I regularly see threads on JP and Zizek but less commonly Jung and rarely Lacan.I have been reading Lacan on and off throughout the year and it has been pretty revelatory to me. If I were to try to take a stab at summarizing Lacan for anons that haven’t studied him, basically everything is fake and gay, anything not fake and gay is real, and >you are a subject beneath the fake and gay but not exactly a 1:1 product of the fake and gay. Your motif should be to recognize that to understand the real through anything fake and gay is impossible, therefore traverse the fake and gay knowing it’s fake and gay in accordance to your desire(TM). If anyone with more experience in Lacanian thought disagrees with my shit take, feel free to correct. Question: Why is Lacan not talked about as often as Freud and Jung are, or perhaps in general? Is his thought too subversive? Is it because he’s French? Pic related, worst mistake of my life
>>24952235>You seem to be criticising Freudian thought, which thought the unconscious was nothing more than repressed ego, rather than Jungian thought which pointed out that the unconscious is collective, innate, natural, prior to reason and wiser than reason.I’m critical of this sort of approach to the matter from any corner. Philosophise about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Religion, since you mention it, needs bite, and science can never supply the necessary teeth. Best enforced by drums, moonlight, masks (literal not metaphorical), flowers, divine possession.>brought about the next stage in the evolution of consciousness.here too is where I jib: consciousness doesn’t evolve upward into synthesis so much as return, again and again, to the same human (not cosmic) scale. The eternities of divine commonplace.
>>24952248You're philosophising right now, so your 'don't-think-just-experience' line rings hollow and naive. On what basis do you make these claims?
>>24952329Trying to show you something. Certain truths are damaged by being made too explicit. The poetic mind works in broken images.
>>24952343No they aren't. Symbolic imagery can be understood consciously. That's the major reason why we experience dreams or artistic impulses. The ability to understand symbolism this way is an essential part of psychic health and the major role of the ego in the psyche. Again you're just regressively romanticising the pre-conscious instead of uniting the conscious and the unconscious.
>>24952371Speech can dull a roses scent. Retreat into abstraction (away from too much joy or too much fear) and you at last grow sea-green and coldly die... Trusting your images, you assumes their relevance; mistrusting my images, I question their relevance. This is the way to understand your confusion.
If, according to Gnosticism, the material world was created by an ignorant or malevolent Demiurge, why did the higher, benevolent source of reality allow such a being or such a world to come into existence? This idea seems to relocate the problem of evil to a meta-level rather than resolving it.
>>24949807>retvrn to the one brother> but (∞ + 1 = ∞), isn't this just another doomer eastern pseudo-suici...>JUST PUT THE GUN IN YOUR MOUTH BRO. LIFE IS SUFFERING!
>>24950590Sophia is the one who did itYet gnostics glorify herMost curious
>>24952123Jews hate this one simple trick
>>24950052>"I didn't cause these problems, why should I have to solve them"That's exactly why you MUST solve these problems. It is not your fault that you were born in a burning house. It is the fault of your fathers and forefathers. But if you do not do your part (put the flames out, leave the house) then nothing will get better for anyone at all, especially not the people who will succeed you. If you do nothing, then it DOES become your fault.Existence is only a punishment if you let it be through inaction, selfishness, denial of responsibility, arrogance, apathy, and cruelty towards others. Liberate yourself, anon. Otherwise, we will all remain slaves.
The original gods never created reality or material world. It's entirely the demiurges domain. The original gods don't give a shit and won't lower themselves by interacting with the demiurge in any way. You having the ability to escape is good enough.Also in most forms of gnosticism the demiurge is a tragic character, more like a small child playing with dolls rather than some evil eldritch being most people seem to portray it as.
Where do I start with this guy? He's the one philosopher from my country I know of, and I want to check out what he wrote and the theories he came up with. I heard some stuff about his book on Finnegans Wake, is that worth reading too?
Charles Taylor is a better canadian philosopher
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>>24951595OP does it this way because he's a lazy faggot who can't process raw data.
>>24951986>Nooooooo you have to do things more complicated
>>24951578 Seems like Moby Dick is popular.Its over.
>>24951578This shit is always rigged, boooooo
>>24951605What you mean to say is it was restarted over and over again because it wasn't coming out how the anon running it wanted
Is this the life all incels are so envious of? Truth is, most marriages were and still are much of hate towards the partner, if there is no passion to be found. And that happens for almost all couples if the other one is mentally unstable or otherwise literal child in a grown up body. Stoner was too good for Edith, but also a total loser for simping for her in the first place. They ruined each others lives and just kept going on with it. Also ruined the life of their child and made them an alcoholic. Can't tell if that life would be better than being without pussy desu (which Stoner did for most of his life anyway). So the question now is, how – if anyhow – should a man of intelligence pursue women? Just fuck a college pussy for a semester and be reminiscent of it for a lifetime like Stoner did?
>>24951131Personally I think i should be able to empty my balls into any woman I want.
Just finished this book today. Jesus it was fucking depressing.
>>24951464cringe
>>24951006It's 2025, we're post-incel now, be it homonationalist, NPNW, NTTW/NFTW, full on doomer, etc. We don't even give a fuck and we certainly don't want to get married. Technically I'm an incel but I refuse to label myself as one and associate myself with the dysgenic freaks and brownoids who do. Get with the times unc.
>>24952364fr bro's talking about incels wanting to get married lmao.
Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
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Is the concept of a spook a parody of the Hegelian Geist?
>>24952119Yes, whilst also serving as a metaphor for how these ideas haunt and possess one.
>>24952107Stirner never claimed spookiness to be bad.
>>24948083This guy sounds like half the cunts on Twitter
So at the end of the day, who deserved the Hugo more? Dune no doubt had a much bigger impact, but is there an argument that the literary merit of 'This Immortal' is stronger than Dune?
They're practically different genres, so it's mostly apples to oranges. I like This Immortal more; it's more fun and more formally inventive. Zelazny is clearly the better writer. But in retrospect, Dune was more influential, and on the basis of scope of concept, I can understand why some people would prefer it.
Zelazny is a much better writer than Herbert. Dune was influential but that doesn't automatically make it good. Facebook is influential.
>>24947433Are these schizos in the room with us right now?
>>24950839I reckon so.
>>24950345Because like so many other people on this website he is probably an adult convert to I'm guessing Catholicism because he finds the imagery of being a le based redpilled tradcath appealing and is now trying to justify this belief post hoc
>>24950345Because christians are intellectual cowards and natural slaves who want to be told what to think, feel, and believe.
>>24950345A select few eventually encounter something beyond this ordinary life and must construct their understanding of their existence in reaction to this encounter, rather than constructing the staircase to such an encounter using reason as a tool. I hope you and all others who wish to believe but rationally cannot one day are graced by such an encounter and are able to see the beauty in all things in the light of it.
What's the funniest book you've read?
>>24951865>He was entrancing, with that epicene beauty that in extreme youth cries aloud for love and withers at the first cold wind>The languor of youth (sorry, Youth) - how unique and quintessential it is!>I was made free of her narrow loinsi may have missed the irony, but i cannot believe a man could write as badly as that for fun.ever read waugh’s first (best) book? some good bits about the welsh. also much closer to >>24951738>What can I say?i can think of one or two things
>>24951882>i cannot believe a man could write as badly as that for fun.Your problem is you mistake good writing for bad and vice versa. Explain the Amis fixation.>ever read waugh’s first (best) book?No but I mean to, I’ve heard that passage before, in a documentary about waugh
>>24951894>I mean toyou’ll dislike it i think.not sure why he thought that the way to avoid writing as he did in the 30s (which was quite well) is to write as BAD WRITERS did in the 30s.
the bit with the shitty british sour candies in Gravity's Rainbow made me chuckle
Confederacy of dunces, catch 22, antkind
This is horrifying. Is there a better way than Christianity to transcend this?
>>24948191>fell for the memeGood grief
>>24950501>I'm happy to do this with the entire French leftPlease do, I like keeping notes on that kind of stuff
>>24951644I'm sure you are glowie.And just before the bullet from the Dick's Sporting Good's surplus Czech SKS enter my brain, my back pressed against the cold wall for my crimes again The People, I will remind you that no one thinks you look cool in your Doc Martens, that everyone was talking before the struggle session and we all agreed we think you look like a Berklee lesbian.
>>24950818Believe it or not, Girard already builds on Nietzsche
>>24948443This
