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>be me.
>Been single for the last 3 years.
>like I don't even know what that thing between my legs is for anymore.
>get bold on dating site and message this 8/10 cutie with some autistic message with my retarded brand of humour
>she's actually into it
>we're totally hitting it off
>talking about the food we like, books that we like to read.
>Then I pull out the Greeks.
>Hit her with some Plato dialogue and ask her to choose between the Cynics and the Athenians
>radio silence
How can I go back to normie books so grils will like me?

>> No.10237736

FPBP

>> No.10237743

>>10237726
That what happens when you don't start with the Greeks

>> No.10237775
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"Wait so like, you didn't even start with the pre-socratics, omg, anon, do you even now how important they are to Hegel and Heidegger?"

>> No.10237783

>>10237726
>Not starting with a Cuneiform joke

Dude you can't just rush in with Plato.

>> No.10237784

>>10237726
Just wait till you try discussing German idealism with a normie

>> No.10237801
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>>10237783
>>10237775
If that was the issue then she was probably bound to pick the Athenians anyway.
>mfw no comfy barrel wife.

>> No.10237809

>>10237801
If she didn't know anything about the Greeks, why didn't you try something easier? For example; quickly expain the Crito-Socrates situation, and then ask her if she thinks Socrates should try to escape. Although I do laud your effort of trying to engage her with the material.

>> No.10237829

>>10237801
>Not picking them
You a stemfag or something?

>> No.10237838

>>10237829
>being team Athenian
Enjoy your miserable materialist life!

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10237888

I don't know if it's going to be the ruin of my life or the wisdom of my life, but I am in a strange bind. Blogpost incoming. I've finally met the kind of girl I never thought I would meet, I won't rave too much here but let's just say it's all too perfect, there have been Jungian synchronicities, it's freaky, etctera. But I feel wary about pursuing romance. If I do, I will be plunging myself further into a world of desires and attachments. How could romance possibly be spiritually healthy? I don't want to end up like Ligotti, always kvetching about how bad it is to want anything but never biting the bullet and taking the steps toward peace. Will the peace even be waiting for me, or is it just another carrot on a string? Is UG Krishnamurti right, will I work like a dog only to find that I have been scammed and there is no enlightenment? This girl, you know, means quite a bit to me, gives me feelings like a never once expected return from all my childhood happiness. But I'm being a fool aren't I? Hemingway said that if two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. And it's all really just reproductive urges making me dance, isn't it? Can Christianity save me? She's a Christian. The Bible values romance. Or does it? Paul seems cynical about it. She's a Kierkegaardian Christian, very nervous about it all, struggles with faith, might be passed over after all. I always wanted to be with someone like that. I've been checking out books on NDEs to try to bolster my faith. But shouldn't my faith be divorced from reason? Reason is a whore. Martin Luther. I need to think more about it. But they also say thinking is bad for you. Thanks for making my life so complicated, /lit/. Fuck the Buddha. He can't take Abigail away from me. I'll admit I've cried like a little bitch over all this, and also felt a sharp and murderous anger I never knew I had before, blah blah blah. Fuck you Walt Whitman you lied to me, life isn't cool at all

>> No.10237921

>>10237801
Do the fags who create these images rely on nothing else besides the motivation behind some kind of eternal 4chan machine wherein they think they’re contributing to the community?

>> No.10237927

>>10237921
>he thinks ps is hard

giggles m8

>> No.10237928

>>10237921
>implying

>> No.10238053

>>10237921
Maybe it's fun

>> No.10238786

>>10237921
Holy

>> No.10238818
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HARRY POTTER

>> No.10238894

>>10238818
i love these memes
is this one referencing a particular story or is pepe just a reference to the turtle infinite regression argument?

>> No.10238913

>>10238894
Probably just a reference Zeno's paradox involving a slow runner and Achilles.

>> No.10238917

>at bar
>girl pulls up next to me
>give a 45 minute lecture on the nature of greek pederasty

>> No.10238925

>>10238917
>You: Hey.
>Her: *looks you over... hey he's kind of cute* Hey *wink*
>You: YOU KNOW I'M SICK OF PEOPLE CLAIMING THAT PEDERASTY WAS HIGHLY NORMALIZED IN GREEK CULTURE. PEOPLE ARE JUST TAKING CERTAIN HISTORICAL FACTS AND QUOTATIONS OUT OF CONTEXT....
>45 minutes later
>AND SO WHAT IF SOME OF THEM DID. SHOULD THAT REALLY DETRACT FROM HOW WE FEEL ABOUT ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY AS A WHOLE?

>> No.10238947

>>10237921
>why do autistic NEETs spend their time scribbling down narratives from imagination

>> No.10238954

>>10238894
>>10238913
Those two images are both references to Godel Escher Bach which does make use of the Achilles and the Tortoise example of Zeno's paradox.

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By "Those two" I mean the one posted and pic related as they're the two variants.

>> No.10238977

>Be me.
>Second week of university.
>My tutorial teacher has been talking about free will and determinism. He asks what determinism actually means.
>I'm the only one to raise their hand. "It's like when you believe you're completely embedded in the natural world. It's a completely materialist view... It's naturalistic."
>"Yep, materialist, naturalist. Yep." The teacher replies, nodding.
>"Um, I think the word is... epicurean. Where you believe everything is reducible to the atom."
>The teacher raises his eyebrows, surely impressed by my sheer vocabulary. "It's atomist. Yes..."
>"I don't know... it's weird. I don't understand how anyone can actually believe in it"
>"You don't UNDERSTAND? What?" The teacher asks, shocked, turning away. "Okay, who in here believes in determinism?"
>Then around three-quarters of the class raise their hand, some had given me strange looks as I'd talked. It'd only been about a week's worth of set readings (Nagel on Dennett, as well as Dennett) that convinced them.

I'm not sure why this moment haunts me, but it does. Not really /lit/'s fault though, only my own.

>> No.10238987

kek

>> No.10238992

>>10238987
for
>>10238925

>> No.10238998

>>10238977
>I don't understand how anyone can believe in rigorous ancient philosophical thought
I'm more surprised why you were so incredulous to the class agreeing with it

>> No.10239006

>>10238998
I think most of them believed it because brain = chemicals bro

It was a cognitive science course, after all.

>> No.10239020

>>10238977
id shoot a spitball at the back of your fucking geek ass head. saged.

>> No.10239021

>>10239006
unless you believe in some kind of transcendental force, every part of our being is just cause and effect including what we perceive to be our will

>> No.10239102

>>10238977
nice pasta