/lit/ - Literature

It's impossible to do nothing. So by default doing "stuff" is mandatory by just being.

>>4669964
And what text have you written in particular?

>>4669859
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Maybe, but only because I want a different perspective from what the majority of the books offer. In that way, I really do just want a different view on the same thing.

You honestly sound like one of those fox news talking heads
>Everything has a liberal bias!

>Yes. No one brought them up by you. I happen to acknowledge a basic difference between people like that and people who tend to see things in a less than liberal manner. They're pretty far from actual conservatism in my book, but to avoid "no true Scotsman" I'll just say that's MY opinion.

I brought them up because what you are essentially asking for is a conservative re-write of history. Would you really like me to bring up all the things the Koch brothers are notorious for when it comes to conservative propaganda?

>So, no, it isn't ironic that I'm asking for an alternative source of history.
That's not what I called Ironic.

>>4669801
> just because I want a different perspective on history
No you want version of history where the events that take place are slanted towards a certain world view. This is intellectually dishonest.

>The above books take great pains to make conservatives the Evil Bad Guys™
Ok?

>and you're doing the same.
I am?

>And then you bring the Koch brothers into this as if I agree with/care what they do.

You asked for a conservative view of history I was being facetious bringing up people known for espousing conservative propaganda.

>Is intelligent discourse alive on this board?
This is Ironic.

So you want to find a book that rewrites history in a right leaning manner?

Go ask the Koch brothers, I'm sure by now they're funding their own Ministry of Truth.

>>4630531
Awe, you're adorable.

>>4630479
It is. The image is abstract enough and just definite enough to be viewed in anyway possible. The only thing that can define it is yourself. And how you define it represents you as a person. It represents your interest and view of the world or just how you feel at the moment.

>>4630464
It's not even meant to provide a definite expiation to anything. You see what you want to see and what you see is not the image on the paper but a representation of a piece of yourself. It's art.

>>4630384
The President of the United States looking in the mirror.

World War 3

>>3236185
I'm doing Nuke Eng.

And yeah, totally trivial. Enjoy saying that now. In two decades, we won't have enough STEM workers for the required fields and openings.

>>3236164
Lol.

Bitch, I taught that nigga. All KAHNS of relevance up in here.

Also, OP:

>STEM Babies
>Babies

Yeah, I'd like you to try and do 1/10th the math or work we do.

>>3236167
Oh, and a 1952 or 1953 collection of "The Great Books". About 50 volumes on things from philosophy, to economics, to the sciences.

My father had an original diary from the Mayflower.

And I have a 1700's copy of the Divine Comedy

>>2308507
then are only the men who know true wisdom considered philosophers? if so, does this mean philosophers can never be wrong? must a philosopher himself always be wise? define wisdom. can any man truly know wisdom when he sees it? etc etc etc

i'm bored of this already. that's the general direction I would have taken this. feel free to respond anyway.

>>2308491
So say there was a man I worship. He is the wisest man I know. Any claims he makes are, to me, rooted in wisdom.

Is my worship of this wise man and his teachings enough for me to consider myself a philosopher?

>>2308471
And I, as a human, am capable of making an error of judgment. Am I not?

>>2308468
Ah, so that would mean philosophers are people who love wisdom. If I were to claim that I love wisdom, would that make me a philosopher?

I am surprised that the warder was willing to listen to you.

How early?

Why have you come so early, Crito? Or is it not still early?