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>>18411706
>BRO SEMANTICS BRO. MODERN TERMS BAD BRO. LANGUAGE BAD BRO IM VERY SMART AND COOL GUYS

>>18330795
>guys I was a loser in highschool and have a ton of self-contempt, also I'm a kissless virgin and I'm >23 years old, I have no financial prospects besides waging at a shitty job and I'm eternally longing for the simplicity of life when I was younger xDD

>>17617275
>This is awful. Do you think think text is inspiring? It's as if a committee of leftists tried to make a Buddhist meme.

>I'd like to see scientific evidence for this.
Just look at any siblings you dumbo

>>16844995
>According to Charles Murray's book 'Human Accomplishment', Shakespeare is the greatest writer based on analyses of multiple encyclopedias across the world and in different languages

>>16593814
>so edgy, anon! Thanks for sharing the prejudices that you're too scared to voice out in any public setting! I also hide my insecurities and social failures by retreating to a worldview I formed whilst watching right-wing videos on YouTube as a young teen whose brain wasn't sufficiently developed enough to distinguish between generalizations!

>>16338614
>>16338691
>Based
>Redpilled

>synthetic a priori truth exists

>>16309262
>Antinous, do not chide with me, but, god willing, I will be king too if I can. Is this the worst fate you can think of for me? It is no bad thing to be a chief, for it brings both riches and honour. Still, now that Ulysses is dead there are many great men in Ithaca both old and young, and some other may take the lead among them; nevertheless I will be king in my own house, and will rule those whom Odysseus has won for me.

>could god create a rock so heavy he could not lift it?
>check and mate christchuds

>>16087838
>Why yes I can't see beyond the dichotomy of extreme America worship vs Pure hate for America. How could you tell?

>the funny thing is if I met you IRL you'd be eating concrete in seconds

>>15814605
>minorities

>I am

>>15727394
>continue with the romans

>>15215057
>So you haven't read Plato's Symposium?Guys, we've got a pseud, sound the pseud alarm.

>I am not a bigot

>>14711181
>oh no, is this metaphysics? fuck I haven’t even read plato uhhh I know muh cumbrain anime shit ahah that defuses the threat of complexity while wittily showing off my quirky Internet personality :)

>OMG THIS WRITER JUST PREDICTED THE FUTURE HE WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME

the utopian writer is neither prophet nor visionary, not even when his predictions have come true. No one will look for prophetic gifts in a Jules Verne or a Bellamy, for they lack almost everything that makes a prophet. Most of all, they lack the voca tion, the call, and with it also the necessary wisdom, and the language in which this wisdom speaks. At best, they make a lucky guess that something will happen. They play with the imaginary, they play with the future, but it can never have for them the certainty it has for him who thinks and lives in re ligious terms. What they project into the future is merely a possibility emerging in the present, ex panded by them in a logical and rational manner. Nor would it be fair to demand more of them.

>>14340997
>i just want to discuss books without every discussion turning into a political shitfest and soijak spam

>niggers bad

>>14310342
>HIDE POST

>>14308066
>RUMI