What's your favorite poem?
>>25344322anyone got the kafka version?
>>25337577Love this poem.>>25342025>>25344294Christ, these are bad. I'm a woke libtard and these are atrocious>>25344322perfect>>25336440Not sure if this is my favorite, but love this one by AR Ammons
>>25336465>nature is beautiful>now fuck meProfound
>>25345535I dread to think this was a genuine postThe poem is about the beauty of the pairing of things in nature and lamenting a love that cannot bePercy is NOT literally me fr fr though because he had many women in his life
Having A Coke With Youis even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonneor being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelonapartly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastianpartly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurtpartly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birchespartly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuaryit is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as stillas solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of itin the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forthbetween each other like a tree breathing through its spectaclesand the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paintyou suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did themComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Is love the only way out of this hellhole called life?
Just jack off anon
>>25342709>There is nothing inherently wrongLVT is bullshit and wrong, his ideas about where capitalism comes from and what it is are bullshit and wrong. False premises mean invalid and unsound conclusions and not only justify but mandate that the rational person reject any theories which rely upon them. >or dangerous>"In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." t. Marx und Engels>"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." t. Marx und EngelsI know you faggots are retarded but do you not read your own literature?
>>25343077No it’s clearly a cope, it’s sour grapes.
>>25343077You have severe autism and a middling-to-low IQ. Nothing you said is correct.
>>25332760For those of us that are damaged yes. You only have about a 5 year critical period in childhood and adolescence to build a solid sense of self and an innate instead of extrinsic self worth. After that you have to get it somewhere else. Foids spend their whole life running from this simple truth
Picrel is the German subjunctive forms of "to be".These are the English subjunctive forms of "to be":• be• wereDid it ever occur to you that maybe English is not a great language?
>>25345475No.
>>25345507I don't really care
>>25345475Yeah then I learned a few others and realized that it's THE BEST language, unironically. It has transcended the Indo-European family and become the new Latin and the new Sanskrit, likely the last.
>>25345475>Did it ever occur to you that maybe English is not a great language?Unnecessary bloat is the sign of a bad language
>>25345862Wait until OP learns about latin kek
>that chapter 6God, I love Halo.
>bookshit
>>25343203>Book racismYou're on /lit/.
Is anyone here hyped for the game? Looks like the lore has been updated.
>I HECKIN LOVE LORE
>>25345817Sandbox looks fun. I hope to play coop w my dad and best friend. Should have made H3A though, HCA2.0 is retarded.
relaxing river meadow edition>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.Previous thread >>25285042
>>25339645I actually agree with you anon but the fact remains that Catholicism is heavily influenced by Plato and Aristotle. When I first got into this I assumed the normal Fides et Ratio stance by default but years of reading have brought me closer to the protestant takes. The NT uses vague philosophical language at times because those ideas were in the air but it’s anti-philosophical overall, explicitly so in fact. That’s why philosophy is just a pasttime for me, not like these fags who think they’ll become Wise by reading the Summa or whatever.
what is the best philosophy history book?
>>25326419LOL let's see how long till he comes back
>>25326431hello
>>25342193and your point is?
When was the last time you stepped into a chain bookstore? What is your stance on the current state of chain book purveyors?
>>25331371I have shit memory so I always have to pay fees for not returning the book so I stopped and now I just buy them directly instead
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Sunday.
>>25330860I went to Mckay's last year. It was well worth the trip. They seriously have everything. Between that, libraries and my used bookstores there's no reason to ever go into a Barnes and Nobles.
>wanna find new poets to read>sift through all the Pulitzer prize winners and nominees from the 1920s to present day>things are pretty kino until around the 2010s>starts gettin' a little ethnic and feminine>2020s peels around the corner>bleeding-vagina-nigger chaosno wonder chain book stores look like wine-aunts-r-us. And its a considerable problem. Not enough rational men are reading and dominating academia. i I think we are going to live out PKD's flow my tears.
>"homosexual" author>upon further inspection he's actually an unabashed pederast Are there any authors that actually break this trend?
>>25344761*Sexual abuseSexual assault is most often inconsequential ime. No one ever got PTSD from getting their butt slapped lmao.
>>25342323William S. Burrou-Wait nevermind
>>25343604True. All women are bisexual.
>>25342323>>"french" author>upon further inspection he's actually an unabashed pederastAre there any frenchoids that actually break this trend?
>>25342824Have you read burroughs? He wrote Queer. The Soft Machine is like 90% killing second world youths during the act of sodomy. Kiki was a real 14 year old who was was Burroughs real killed houseboy boyfriend. Also Burroughs and Ginsberg made up in their late age and can he seen fagging around in interviews together
I wouldn't say I'm liking it, guys (200 pags or so)
>>25344321If you've ever been on chemo, Tyrone almost starts to feel like a realistic character. The past becomes a blur, you stop thinking about the future and you only live in the present; a mix between blissful ignorance and nausea, the feeling that something is wrong with you both physically and mentally. You feel like you're disintegrating.Though that doesn't explain his rocketman and pig shtick.
>>25342342This shit is literally a comicbook
>>25345579>He’s driven out, away, east over Vauxhall Bridge in a dented green Lagonda by his batman, a Corporal Wayne. >Darlene, pure Nightingale compassion, is handing him a hard red candy, molded like a stylized raspberry . . . mm, which oddly enough even tastes like a raspberry, though it can’t begin to take away that bitterness. Impatiently, he bites into it, and in the act knows, fucking idiot, he’s been had once more, there comes pouring out onto his tongue the most godawful crystalline concentration of Jeez it must be pure nitric acid, “Oh mercy that’s really sour,” hardly able to get the words out he’s so puckered up, exactly the sort of thing Hop Harrigan used to pull to get Tank Tinker to quit playing his ocarina, a shabby trick then and twice as reprehensible coming from an old lady who’s supposed to be one of our Allies, shit he can’t even see it’s up his nose and whatever it is won’t dissolve, just goes on torturing his shriveling tongue and crunches like ground glass among his molars.>Superman will swoop boots-first into a deserted clearing, a launcher-erector sighing oil through a slow seal-leak, gum evoked from the trees, bitter manna for this bitterest of passages. The colors of his cape will wilt in the afternoon sun, curls on his head begin to show their first threads of gray.
>>25342721uh oh meltie
>>25340794>filteredmove on
Love Poems EditionTalk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others. Bonus: post a poem you wrote about your oneitis.
>>25345626Larkin usually rhymes and scans strictly so (as with Auden) when he doesn't you know he's at least not doing it from incompetence. This is a bit like Sheep in Fog in that there is definite form at the large scale (three-line stanzes) but freedom at the smaller scale (each individual line). And he gets his final effect by breaking the pattern (going from 3- to 4-line stanza).
poem category: casio calculator
>>25345653beep boop niggafunction loop nigga click clack niggaoverflow stack nigga
>>25345662Omg is that terzio-parabled hoppenstacked double dualed internal reassuranced vowels with mixed quarternaries in d minor? But without enjammed inserts? Neat.
AffairsThe man with his eyes up in the ceilingfor two hours, not going—is the man who will eventually go.Two men with two beers:nothing to say, competently said. Do they want to stop? They say no—like an avalanche to gravity, despite the group of skiers below.
I don't want to live in a world where unconditional love is frowned upon
>>25345746i mean, she was his rib at some point...
>>25345746Eve macronutrient'd from the Tree of Knowledge of Gains and Anavar.
>>25345766>how to kill your soul without commiting suicide
>>25340391Read Rainer Maria rilke ol
>>25340391The book doesnt frown upon it
How do I stop constantly checking page numbers? I've recently developed a compulsion where I check my progress every time I turn a page. This is hampering my enjoyment. I believe this is a result of me (unfortunately) trying to use my time as productively as possible. In an attempt to condition myself I've tried putting an elastic band on my wrist which I snap every time I catch myself thinking of checking the page but that didn't work. Have any of you dealt with this before?
>>25343644Yes, I understand you. One time I tried cutting the spot of every single page where page numbers are located. Yet later, it kinda felt weird. Now I don't want to torture my books like that.
>>25343644..no? Idk anon, just pay attention to the words more kek
>cut your eyes out(Track reading progress through time, not pages. Read an hour a day instead of to pg blah blah)
Usually to disempower compulsions and intrusive thoughts, you have to stop placing so much weight on them in the first place.Do you get to the end of a session of reading and say to yourself "oh I only read X number of pages? not a great use of my time"? If so, that would be one place where you can dispel some weight by reminding yourself "I read more pages than if I hadn't read at all".Probably the most important one to dispel though is the actual act of checking the page number itself. This happens more frequently, so it has more of an opportunity to build a feedback loop. Each time you check the page, you feel a little bit annoyed, and that gives the ritual more power. It's like how an oyster builds up more and more sediment around an irritating bit of sand and it grows bigger.Instead, when you check the page number, just let yourself do it and don't worry about it. It's OK. If you do it and you have this negative "I am wasting time feeling" let yourself instead think "letting myself casually check the page number will ultimately lead to greater enjoyment, which is a better use of my time, by dispelling the power the check-page-number ritual has." If you feel negative, just let it happen. It passes by pretty quickly if you don't resist it and it's a necessary step towards being rid of it.It's likely a sub-clinical OCD pattern. Everyone thinks like that at times. OCD sufferers just have it more severely. This is quite minor so will probably go away fairly easily once you understand the mechanism of intrusive thoughts and compulsions.Key thing to remember: resisting, amplifying, or otherwise placing weight on them makes them more powerful. They are not that important and can be easily dispelled if you remember that.
Is it worth learning hebrew to read jewish literature and especially the Bible?
>>25345050Jerome learned Hebrew
>>25345230The New Testament was written in koine greek and is several hundred years older than the hebrew Torah.
>>25343942I found out the stupid reason so many Jewish companies are named some variation of black rock is because the letters for "Onyx" in hebrew can be reordered to spell "Hashem" which is the more modern way of referring to God after Adonai became too holy to say a lot
>>25345266That's why you read the Dead Sea Scrolls
>>25343942>especially the BibleHonestly a better reason to learn Hebrew is so you can read Jewish Mysticism texts, quite a few of which haven't been translated or are hard to get hold of.
I am somewhat young, a half spic, introverted, and never quite fit into society. It is due to this that I suspect the possibility of me being a schizoid as well as the fact that I have, in the past, sabotaged my own dates and the only relationship that I ever had due to feeling nothing and wanting to get away and have my solitude again.Some books I have read that brought me comfort and resonated with me were Hunger by Knut Hamsun, The Stranger by Albert Camus, American Psycho (unironically), and any non-fiction autobiography of men traveling the world by themselves and documenting their thoughts and physical journey, just to name a few books.Books such as Whatever by Michel Houellebecq felt over the top and were not to my liking.What books can I read to find comfort with the way I am?
>>25342720Because it's true.
>>25342971the second part of Notes from the Underground especially is very relatable and literally me core. I think you might enjoy it.
>>25343314right, there was absolutely no underlying malice in telling OP to die in the semite war
Unironically have an adventure in your town/city and if you're not too chud go drink a coffee at the park. From spic to spic, perhaps your parents didn't immigrate to give you this life just try your best anon. Love and try your dam best!
>>25343917OP would survive if he doesn't get shot, blown up, or sick.
I would instantly be doxxed and all my retarded messages online would be leaked and everyone would know that I'm just a pseud fag. Why bother writing?
Does it matter?Also just don't maintain an internet identity tied to your real one lol are you dumb
What books will convince me there is a reason to live and suffer?
>>25345611
>>25345611SteppenwolfThe Glass Bead GameThe Book of Marlon
>>25345611bump cause I'm interested in not ending it
>>25345769>>25345771>>25345843Will check these out
Bot comment but the stranger by camus.The conspiracy against the human race, in a very backwards way. Anon take a bath and think what would make you happy. Lie on grass, on earth, in the sun. Breathe in. If all fails Crime and Punishment idk. Good luck anon. Waiting for Godot. Meditations in an emergency
