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22092596 No.22092596 [Reply] [Original]

Can I learn just by reading? Or at least remember what I read?

>> No.22092614

You will learn the most in 6 months of NEETing at home, reading books.
> b-but NEETing is le bad! You have to support the economy, do something, le daily structure!
Stay at home and you won't encounter such dorks.



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22092543 No.22092543 [Reply] [Original]

And why is it Theon?



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22092533 No.22092533 [Reply] [Original]

What's some cleverly written 21st Century literature? Something with relatable characters, that doesn't put expectations on the reader, a book that surprises every other page, serious topics funnily written, nothing explicitly political, a dull ignorance about everything that is political nowadays, criticism where it is childish and dull, humble and clever at the same time but realistic and in touch with reality. Gruelsome things can happen but the story has to go on optimistically right afterwards.

>> No.22092572

Douglas Coupland. His best work is arguably 20th century, but something like Elanor Rigby qualifies.



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22092512 No.22092512 [Reply] [Original]

Any books about someone who is a schizoid (not schizophrenic)? I think so far this is the closest I've come to reading about someone like me but I'd like to read another.

>> No.22092519 [DELETED] 

I have recieved word that OP is, in fact, a faggot.

>> No.22092521

>>22092512
Honestly keep reading Hyusmans because he mentions other works. You might also randomly like McLuhan as he has a similar schizoidal style.



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22092473 No.22092473 [Reply] [Original]

Rousseau wasn't the Newton of social sciences, Newton is the Rousseau of natural sciences.

>> No.22092477

>>22092473
based. RUSE-EAU (pbuh) was a hero and a scholar. TAKBIR!



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22092394 No.22092394 [Reply] [Original]

WOuld some nice soul have some recommandation of traditional text in praise of God, to gain and maintain more love for God. Traditional and good litterature please, we seek soul refinement

>> No.22092416

Grogs were polytheists.

>> No.22092425

>>22092416
I simply post a good poet, homer. WHoes legacy is still revered by christian greeks and have always been.

>> No.22092549

San Juan de la Cruz
Santa Teresa de Avila

>> No.22092615

>>22092394
Soren Kierkegaard



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22092377 No.22092377 [Reply] [Original]

Being a 'le book guy' has helped you to get laid? or do women just don't care about what you read or if you read at all?

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22092528

>>22092377
>Reading to get laid

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22092531

>>22092517
Women don't get off like that

>> No.22092540

>>22092531
i don't give a shit about women

>> No.22092590

>>22092377
This is true. But also only a select number of girls will find these qualities attractive or even be able to recognise them, and the vast majority aren’t capable of appreciating these qualities. The girls who do appreciate these are likely to be more interesting, intelligent, creative, potentially more faithful, empathetic, higher socioeconomic status, etc. So in terms of mating strategies, it’s very good for medium to longer-term relationships. From a utilitarian PUA POV of quantity over quality however it is obviously not the way to attract girls.

>> No.22092597

>>22092590
>>22092380
Meant to reply to this



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22092348 No.22092348 [Reply] [Original]

>The possibility of such a "unifying" and "coherent" knowledge -- which unifies created nature in its personal, relational ec-stasy outside its creaturely limits -- was restored by Christ. We call Christ the "second Adam," precisely because in his person the whole human nature is "recapitulated" -- the organic body of universal nature acquires Christ as its head; humanity is harmonized and summed up in a new mode of existence, incarnate in the personal hypostasis of Christ.

>In their essence Christ's commandments are the Self-revelation of God. Though expressed in seemingly relative terms, whoever would rightly obey them finds himself on the frontier between the relative and the absolute, the finite and the infinite, the determined and the arbitrary. The keeping of these unconstrained prescripts far exceeds our human strength. It is imperative that he Himself, the Almighty Who manifested Himself to us, by His effective abiding within us should lead us into His own sphere of unconditional and absolutely unconditioned Being

>Man is not only a being with physiological, psychological, and social functions, but he is a citizen of God's Kingdom, i.e., his entire life -- and especially its most decisive moments -- involves eternal values and God Himself.

>When the cyclical law of repetition suddenly stops its rotating movement, creation, freed from vanity, will not be absorbed into the impersonal Absolute of a Nirvana but will see the beginning of an eternal springtime, in which all the forces of life, triumphant over death, will come to the fulness of their unfolding, since God will be the only principle of life in all things. Then the deified will shine like stars around the only Star, Christ, with whom they will reign in the same glory of the Holy Trinity, communicated to each without measure by the Holy Spirit.

>By his gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of his love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization.

>The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the same way, though of course any analogy is condemned to fail, our entrance into the presence of Christ is an entrance into a fourth dimension which allows us to see the ultimate reality of life.

Discuss.

>> No.22092360

Millbank

>> No.22092398

>>22092348
My preferred : Saint Justin popovitch, and Wladimir Lossky. Also, they stay orthodox, unlike others. Lossky might be a bit personalist on the trinity though (might be heresy in his case).

>> No.22092402

Sergei Bulgakov

>> No.22092450

Bulgakov

>> No.22092563

Richard Swinburne



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22092332 No.22092332 [Reply] [Original]

> The possibility of such a "unifying" and "coherent" knowledge -- which unifies created nature in its personal, relational ec-stasy outside its creaturely limits -- was restored by Christ. We call Christ the "second Adam," precisely because in his person the whole human nature is "recapitulated" -- the organic body of universal nature acquires Christ as its head; humanity is harmonized and summed up in a new mode of existence, incarnate in the personal hypostasis of Christ. > In their essence Christ's commandments are the Self-revelation of God. Though expressed in seemingly relative terms, whoever would rightly obey them finds himself on the frontier between the relative and the absolute, the finite and the infinite, the determined and the arbitrary. The keeping of these unconstrained prescripts far exceeds our human strength. It is imperative that he Himself, the Almighty Who manifested Himself to us, by His effective abiding within us should lead us into His own sphere of unconditional and absolutely unconditioned Being > Man is not only a being with physiological, psychological, and social functions, but he is a citizen of God's Kingdom, i.e., his entire life -- and especially its most decisive moments -- involves eternal values and God Himself. > When the cyclical law of repetition suddenly stops its rotating movement, creation, freed from vanity, will not be absorbed into the impersonal Absolute of a Nirvana but will see the beginning of an eternal springtime, in which all the forces of life, triumphant over death, will come to the fulness of their unfolding, since God will be the only principle of life in all things. Then the deified will shine like stars around the only Star, Christ, with whom they will reign in the same glory of the Holy Trinity, communicated to each without measure by the Holy Spirit. > By his gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of his love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. > The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the same way, though of course any analogy is condemned to fail, our entrance into the presence of Christ is an entrance into a fourth dimension which allows us to see the ultimate reality of life. Discuss.



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22092295 No.22092295 [Reply] [Original]

>He could, for example, pick up a fight with a Guénonian, a little-known target. Due to his familiarity with an inaccurate and uncommon thought, the Guénonian is kept in a state of profound ignorance with respect to the real world. The difficulty, indeed the almost impossibility of the undertaking, would consist in tracking down a famous Guénonian.

Guenonbros, I thought Houellebecq was based? Why is he writing this about us?

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>>22092333
it's from "Quelques mois dans ma vie: Octobre 2022 - Mars 2023", I translated the passage

>> No.22092409

>>22092408
He is referring to Stefan Ruitenbeek from the KIRAC collective, advising him on what targets he could choose for documentaries in the future

>> No.22092421

>>22092343
It's true, I have extensive experience. Quebecois are garden variety assholes and anglo Canadians, at least the "international" sort that everyone else meets, are two-faced smug liberal authoritarians.

>> No.22092576

>>22092408
ça se trouve déjà en pdf?

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22092611

>>22092295
based and bataille-pilled



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22092237 No.22092237 [Reply] [Original]

Especially during and after the decolonization period in Africa

>> No.22092414

>>22092237
Centurions by Jean Larteguy



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22092236 No.22092236 [Reply] [Original]

Hi, the image is my writing.



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22092198 No.22092198 [Reply] [Original]

Anons, I am in a situation where reading is near impossible due to the overwhelming amount of talking and noise going on.

What are some good earplugs that block noise?

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>>22092300
actually there are no niggers in my country but i hate people in general

>> No.22092312

>>22092198
3m foam plugs like the ones in the picture, watch a video about how to actually put them in
they're the best for sleep, too

>> No.22092486

>>22092269
I live in a place with big parks, like woods. Get a bit deeper and have no problems...

>> No.22092570

>go to the library to read
>it should be quiet and put me in the right surroundings to read
>some idiot is talking to the librarian
>talking about he is worried about taking his fifth shot of the vaccine because some people have had side effects

Very frustrating. It's almost impossible for me to read if someone is talking.

>> No.22092603

I use bluetooth buds with ANC and listen to slow bar jazz while reading in public. Very relaxing.



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22092193 No.22092193 [Reply] [Original]

whenever i have time i read a book, when i watch a movie i read the subtitles when i listen to music i read the lyrics when i am at my phone i read posts all day when i have nothing to do i pick something anything and just read read read

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22092213

>>22092193
>my brain is a dustbin
you should be more selective about what you read, instead of just filling your mind with words. being a tasteless receptacle for anything and everything arguably makes you worse than a non-reader



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22092192 No.22092192 [Reply] [Original]

Post a single word, and others must find out which author you are talking about. Starting with an easy one:
>cyclopean

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>> No.22092581

>frig

>> No.22092594

Susurrus

>> No.22092599

>>22092382
come on now, don't make it that easy

>> No.22092600

>Driscoll

>> No.22092601

Goodness



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22092116 No.22092116 [Reply] [Original]

Why does it feel a lot more easier to read these three books for me? Have I gone insane or autistic?

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>> No.22092556

>>22092351
Gr is with ij, not uly

>> No.22092586

>>22092116
I got filtered by gravitys rainbow. At least IJ was fun to read.

>> No.22092595

>>22092586
Gravity's Rainbow was the most enjoyable book I've ever read.

>> No.22092598

>>22092116
>Why does it feel a lot more easier to read these three books for me?
have you read them before? or read more in general since you first tried reading them? both scenarios would explain it

>> No.22092617

GR I found very fun because my autistic interests align a lot with Pynchon's

IJ is turning out to be great too



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22092098 No.22092098 [Reply] [Original]

The natural world remains at a distance, because it is apprehended only by the senses. So too do human beings: "A real human being, however profoundly we sympathize with him, is in large part perceived by our senses, that is to say, remains opaque to us, presents a dead weight which our sensibility cannot lift."

Fictional characters, on the other hand, occur "within us." The novelist "provokes in us within one hour all possible happinesses and all possible unhappinesses just a few of which we would spend years of our lives coming to know and the most intense of which would never be revealed to us because the slowness with which they occur prevents us from perceiving them."



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22092042 No.22092042 [Reply] [Original]

Does the expression "looks like ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag" refer to pounds as in weight, or as in pound sterling? Thinking about it when have you ever referred to a bag as how much it can carry outside of listing it for sale online or something? Like you wouldn't say "i'm going camping, i'll bring my eight pound bag" so i'm starting to think it's referring to the cost of the bag, not the capacity. What are your thoughts?



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22092033 No.22092033 [Reply] [Original]

Will reading more books get me the same enjoyment that watching summaries do? I’ve just had a weird affection for them since high school.

>> No.22092046

>>22092033
There are books which are essentially summaries of summaries. I know it's a meme but the first that comes to mind is infinite jest. There must be at least 300 condensed stories in there.

Just read what you want, anon.

>> No.22092558

>>22092046
I mean I am but I just can’t trust that I’ll feel the same gratification I feel from reading as I feel from watching a summary.



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22092003 No.22092003 [Reply] [Original]

What are your favorite birds in literature?

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>> No.22092066

>>22092003
The vöglein in Siegfried.

>> No.22092067

>>22092003
The eagles that could have taken the ring to Mordor but didn't.

>> No.22092274

>>22092067
if the eagles would have taken the ring to Mordor than Frodo and most importantly the reader would have never learned their lesson.

>> No.22092307

>>22092003
Zeus before he raped some bitch.

>> No.22092391

>>22092066
Based.



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