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>NOOO I CANT FIND ANY MEANING IN LIFE UNLESS THE UNIVERSE ITS SELF BENDS OVER BACKWARDS AND PROVIDES IT FOR ME, IM SAD NOW

how the hell do people end up thinking like this? its so foregn and bizzare to me, and I dont even posses any sort of strong religious beliefs. Is it just justification for poor behavior that would take either effort or swallowing ones pride to correct?

For my extended family's secret santa I asked to be gifted "Your favorite Penguin classic". God knows how those illiterates are going to interpret that request.
Also I got a package from my uncle which I suspect is the novel my grandpa self-published before he died; I think it's based on his childhood in western Oregon.
Merry Christmas guise

>>17066610
Germany is the best, Switzerland (Uni of Zurich, plus a few others) and Denmark (Uni of Copenhagen) are solid choices too. Finally I will also but the Netherlands in the top tier (Utrecht Uni, Uni of Amsterdam).

France is another choice, though you really have to commit to learning French in order to get a good experience at a French university or living in France in general.

Southern Europe has some nice universities but the student culture can be extremely apathetic and degenerate (think less than quarter of students graduating on time) so I wouldn't recommend that unless you are doing a PhD/postdoc and know it's a good research group/department.

If you're adventurous, try Poland or the Czech Republic. But no further east than that.

If you're non-adventurous, try Ireland, or even the UK, but then you're going to be running into the exact same demising Anglo university and diminishing standards that supposedly you want to avoid.

>>16992419
H. Rider Haggard

My sister got me The Death of Virgil and A Balcony in the Forest and my brother got me Actual Air by David Berman. Super excited to start all three.

>>14291477
Oy vey, Gevalt! If you are deaf and don't hear what people say to each other before battle, all you see, when the fighting breaks out, is people killing each other. Then, when the battle is done and the graves of past wars, on which they were fighting now, have been turned updside down, then you are given a transcript of the speeches you didn't hear, and they read like the text you have posted.
I don't agree with this kind of reasoning. There will always be reasons to kill one another. It is like an infinite waterslide ride up and down impossible geometry. I, on the other hand, am stupid. I look on the outside of things and don't reason very much with them. I don't turn and twist the thing to find a dirty spot. My way is more like cutting through police tape: I walk right into the murder house, unarmed, gunshots ring out, and a white dove flies to heaven (that is my soul [I don't believe in a soul or in heaven]). It is like some video game role playing game: you can choose different classes and such, what colour your robes will be, black or white, or heavy or light armour. Your post is like the paladin's way (I played some WoW back in the day, 2016). Then we have some people from pol, they seem more like the warriors or barbarians (when jews or blacks are concerned). I on the other hand am a priest. I have no attack spells on my keybar, so I am kind of bad in arena. Maybe I am a warlock, actually, because I offer the world on a plate to evil forces - I don't use my spells though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mayCfvEi3lc

Is a 127 IQ enough to write great literature, or should I not even bother because it maxes out at shit?

In no particular order:

Pascal
Plotinus
Eckhart
Anselm
Proclus