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>"goodbye"
formal farewell

>"bye"
blunt conclusion

>"bye bye"
parting with children

>"buhbye"
non-cringe way of ending phone calls

>"byyyeee"
was pleasant and hope to see you again soon
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toodaloo
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For me, it's g'bye.
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>>25348394
>"see you later, alligator"
must be followed up with
>"in a while, crocodile"
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>>25348394
>>"buhbye"
>non-cringe way of ending phone calls
I would cringe if you said this to me
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>>25349267
It sounds like "b'bye", not "buh bye". The latter is cringe, yeah, former isn't.

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Should I read Jim Goad?
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Skimmed through his sex book once, pretty lame & unfunny desu

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How it feels to be an appreciator of literature
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>>25349151
Unironically and somewhat cringe-ally, Ivan Ilyin basically said exactly this in one of his essays about people choosing to watch sports games over staying inside and reading Christian literature.

https://nicholaskotar.com/2017/01/25/what-is-art-ivan-ilyin/
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>>25349375
>nooo you can't just enjoy sport and bread you have to be a le heckin ascetic monk
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I cant figure it out
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the sensation which arises upon one's realisation that oneself is a keen pursuer of the literary arts

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>>25350114
God damn, ain't even off the page 1 yet.
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>>25350118
Too soon?
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>>25350078
i try not to think about it. it was a kind of understandable time to be drunk and disorderly though. i was quickly going from one friends house to another on a saturday night & they got me jaywalking.
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I really don't want to live in a society where apologizing for screwing up is viewed as a sign of "weakness" we live in strange times.

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what do you think about the death of the novel? has this literary form run its course?
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A lot of authors wrote for the joy of writing, and not for the approval of a literati clique or monetary wealth.
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I'm more sick of this stupid "le everything is le dead" bullshit
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>>25348594
>what do you think about the death of the novel?
Not gonna happen in my lifetime, so I don't care.
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>>25348605
genreshit aren't novels
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Storytelling will never die.

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This guy's secret to publishing 4,000 pages of writing per year is adderall, right?
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>>25349309
>greatest living american writer
>you don't even know who he is
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does anyone know how to get a modafnil prescription. that shit sounds right up my alley
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>>25349392
Unironically it's very, very easy to buy it online and if you can't figure out how to get it you shouldn't be taking it
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>>25349456
>>25349392
Literally go to any psych and they'll just give it to you. Do some research on the symptoms, exaggerate your natural laziness and say it's a disease. Simple.
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>>25349633
The withdrawal effects can last for years though

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After reading and loving Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I wanted to delve more into Arthurian literature. I keep seeing Once and Future King recommended, but I'm wary because it's a (((modern deconstruction))), is it actually good?
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>>25340318
More like Sir Gównain amirite lmfao.
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>>25340460
Being a chud must be so tiring, are you even allowed to like anything?
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>>25345811
Back to twitter with you
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>>25340318
It's a retelling for children.
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>>25340409
>King Arthur was based on a Celt
>the Scottish Celts are bad guys
Yes, this was written by an Englishman, how did you know?

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Books for a 28 year old loser who's never had a girlfriend. Never kissed a girl. Doesn't fit in. And wishes he was dead everyday?
(I've already read The Book of Disquiet)
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>>25346361
having kids because "its what we're here to do" sounds incredibly irresponsible but i guess if it werent for people like you humanity would not continue
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>>25349334
>sounds incredibly irresponsible
How so? I am middle class, university educated, live in a safe area, work and make decent money, had an upbringing free from abuse (therefore am not continuing a cycle of abuse), I am healthy with no disabilities or genetic abnormalities, I am white, as is my fiance, and I am sober and have been for 2 years. What factors here could lead to a child living a bad life outside of the factors of existence that are completely outside of direct control? The only real measure of fitness or unfitness to have children through irresponsibility is whether or not the child will suffer unduly as a result of your circumstances and nature. Wanting to have children as a result of both biological drive and a rationalised form of purpose in life is not irresponsible, and it is definitely not "incredibly" irresponsible. If I was poor, a victim of abuse, possessed a hereditary disability, lived in the third world, did not have stable income, was uneducated, was addicted to drugs and or alcohol, and was driven to have children because I felt it would give me purpose, that would be irresponsible. But to decide it is irresponsible while not possessing any information about my genetics, environment, and personal circumstances is just silly. Are you some kind of anti-natalist? Are you a victim of the propaganda that tells Europeans not to have children because its bad for the environment and you are dooming your child to suffer in this "terrible world" of climate change, meanwhile the average thirdy has a birth rate of 4+bpw.
>if it werent for people like you humanity would not continue
Precisely, and there are fewer and fewer people like my fiancé and I, because educated White Europeans have been propagandised into being childless; through a combination of economic and social decline either don't believe it is feasible financially to have children, or now don't believe they want children. This in turn results in only the White lumpenproles and browns are actually having children, and the former still at a much lower rate than the latter. This constitutes a crisis for the existence of people of even middling to slightly higher than average IQ living in the Western world, alongside the catastrophe of ethnic replacement. So maybe (if you're white and of even average IQ) pull your finger out and form a plan to start a family within the next 5-7 years.
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>>25346107
Only works if you are into herenliefde
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>>25346040
The Selfish Gene
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>>25349248
Do not listen to this unless you want to spend a lot of time doing things you hate to have marginally more or significantly less money and still be invisible because you played on the field of things which were never your strength and that you always wanted to abandon.

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It do be like that
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>>25350048
Then, we shall change reality
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Capitalism has always been extended to the sexual market place in both prostitution and marriage.
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>>25350017
>cheat on your wife, you’re a monster
>don't cheat on you wife, get called a sexually frustrated cuck
Pick one.
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>>25350017
>and someone who sincerely wanted to organize
society into mass communal buildings
You mean like "commie block" apartment complexes (found throughout the capitalist world)?

The sexually frustrated come up with utopian social arrangements that resemble hippie free-love, OR they let their sickest fantasies run wild, like de Sade and other sexless sex-addicts.
We all just need a little companionship
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>>25350004
>novel

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How do we feel about the work of Brooke Bourgeois? She does cartoons for the New Yorker
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>>25348404
Why do I care about comic strips? It strikes me they were only ever intended as light humor, I don't know why people elevate them to legitimate commentary. Maybe it's a literacy issue, like people can't articulate their thoughts so they prefer drawings to communicate.
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>>25349239
>people can't articulate their thoughts so they prefer drawings to communicate
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>>25349200
>>25349149
You fail to understand. All pictured "office workers", picturesquely depicted in this picture, are actually faggots, which makes the situation pictured to be a completely different picture.
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>>25349728
meh. 0/5.
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>>25349247
Christ, what an asshole

Is this true?
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>>25349878
There are no women on the internet.
Especially that guy. He has obviously learned everything about dark romances from the fanfictions that the chuds write on incel website and then attribute to women.
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>>25349896
>website
websites*
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That's nice and all but I never even get a real phone number whenever I approach, nevermind any chance to treat anyone kindly or loving anything. I'm more or less ready to throw in the towel but unfortunately that doesn't soft the whole "no children" mental spiral so idk. I guess just keep trying and getting rejected like your local Mormons until I just can't feel anything, and just stop hoping for the best. Sad too because I used to be one of the "just get a hobby bro. Just work on your finances bro. Just work out bro." which to be fair actually does work...for like 3 years before the pitiful state of your romantic life comes knocking at your door again eventually and suddenly the 90 pounds lost, the fables stock portfolio and 6 hobbies just feel empty but yet completed. Then the real killer isn't just feeling empty, but some girl showing up, and flirting hard and giving you all the massive signs to break your deeply learned cynicism...just to get rejected anyways like you always do. Then you just sit there just feeling dumb and know if you're flawed somewhere but never really able to pinpoint why like the "kick me" sign that you can't ever seem to find.


Sucks but it is what it is. At least there's other things in life I guess. So I guess it's just that. Just do stuff and occasionally get rejected then you're 50. I know you want it to be hopeful or you want me to tell you to give up or give some advice but I have nothing. You might as well listen to some Twitter guru who sells you 40.00 dollar self help books because he's just about as credible as me. Just do yourself a favor don't go blaming women or society or yourself or something. Just say you don't know.
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>>25340935
Underrated
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>>25341192
Why can't Taylor Swift's car break down on my lawn so I can house and impregnate her? Life isn't fair.

>in his ideal society, women will be part of the group of rulers
was he insane or what?
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>>25342918
>le communism is good.
I was in the militairy - pretty women are ok but the rest derails any work possible.
The soviet union put women in uniforms and shipped them off to war in the same containers as men. That was not a very effective army - it was the worst large scale forces ever 0 in history of man and woman kind.
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>>25342318
>was he insane or what?
We all know you are an insufferable troon.
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>>25342318

He also said that the men and women rulers would have to go to war, be our biggest physical protector warriors, and they would not be allowed to have any property, living together in a completely different (and poorer) system than the citizens.

Also they would have to be the hardest studiers of philosophy and logic

Remember: it's perfectly fine to put women in the position of doing a typical man's job (what we are doing) : as long as she pays the full price if she fucks it up ( what we are not doing. See: taxation, endless welfare, divorce laws that benefit women )
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>>25349642
Plutarch's collection of the sayings of Spartan women in the moralia suggests otherwise. Education and socialization is always a big factor. "Another [Spartan woman], as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him, saying, “Either with this or upon this.”"
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>>25349892
>where they were in charge of female activities. Overseeing girls/future mothers program.
No.
>“There is, therefore, one woman fit for guarding and another not. Or wasn’t it a nature of this sort we also selected for the men fit for guarding?”
>“Certainly, that was it.”
>“Men and women, therefore, also have the same nature with respect to guarding a city, except insofar as the one is weaker and the other stronger.”
>“It looks like it.”
>“Such women, therefore, must also be chosen to live and guard with such men, since they are competent and akin to the men in their nature.”
>“Certainly.”
>“And mustn’t the same practices be assigned to the same natures?”
>“The same.”

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What are Kant's actual views on faith? Everyone knows what he says in the preface to the second edition of the CPR about limiting knowledge to make room for belief but elsewhere, especially in the third section of the Groundwork, he speaks of freedom (and hence by implication God etc.) as something that can be demonstrated from reason. Because we have reason that transcends experience our causality is free, and reason itself can effect the division between appearances and things-in-themselves necessary for us to 'know' our freedom. The only thing that makes freedom not-knowledge is that we can't know anything about it in itself. In the Dialectic on the other hand he speaks of it as something that we are merely allowed to think of for practical purposes. Usually people present Kant as an agnostic who leaves you the option to believe in freedom and this certainly is how he sounds in the Dialectic but in the Groundwork he sounds quite different. There is another relevant passage in the CPR in the section on the transcendental ideal and the cosmological proof (in which he permanently BTFO's all retarded Godproofs and assblasts zoomer tradcaths into all eternity): "The transcendental object which forms the basis of phenomena, and, in connection with it, the reason why our sensibility possesses this rather than that particular kind of conditions, are and must ever remain hidden from our mental vision; the FACT IS THERE, the reason of the fact we cannot see." In other words the transcendental object is not something we 'believe' in, we must posit it logically, it's just unknowable in itself, and it would seem he wants freedom (hence God etc.) to be like this. But then how is this not knowledge?

What did Kant mean by faith and what is the relation between faith and reason, especially practical reason, for Kant? This has always confused me about him, he seems to vacillate between language of faith alone and language of rational demonstration; in the second critique he seems to vacillate back and forth from page to page honestly. Fichte, on the other hand, makes belief in freedom an absolute choice that is prior to thinking.
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I believe in what I know and know what I believe in: the transcendental aesthetic.

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Any novels about a male character who has lost all direction in life and is simply going through the motions in isolation while struggling with feelings of immense shame and regret?
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yeah. its called mein kampf.
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>>25349904
My post history
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>>25349904
the stranger
steppenwolf
crime and punishman
notes from underground
confederacy of dunces
siddhartha
the tartare steppe
anon's diary

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>>25349648
>"/litpol/"
>imagine not writing /polit/
this is why leftists always lose
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>>25348604
It's better for society to be atheist, if that's what they believe. Eventually they'll form a religion that suits them. You can't force these things, no one wants christlarpers.
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>>25348658
his only relevance was to destroy calvinism, an achievement he now views as a mistake
>>25348872
>The big problem with authoritarian governance is that you're always one shit leader away from total and immediate collapse
whereas with a dumbocracy youre guaranteed evil leaders who will intentionally destroy more than you ever thought possible
>the worst thing a bad CEO can do is burn their company to the ground
and a dumbocracy can make marriage illegal and mandate that the state raise the children to destroy the peoples ability to reproduce, then replace them with foreigners
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>>25349648
because corporate rentacops dont naturally enforce divorce court judgments or force your kids to go to school for slavery and holocaust class, only dumbocracy police do that
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>>25349052
>Christianity fought Jewish subversion
Jewish subversion became a thing entirely because of Christianity. Before Christians came to power in Rome, Jews were just another oriental nigger tribe. When Christians made Judaism the only other religion legally allowed to exist alongside it, it spread and mutated into the shit we have now.


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