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3619353 No.3619353 [Reply] [Original]

Hey, what's up /lit/?

I hardly ever visit your board, but I heard that you're pretty knowledgeable bunch so would you mind playing a game?

>rules are simple, stick to them so we may have some fun

ITT: We post our three favourite thinkers/philosophers/writers in a respective order from most to least liked. Person right under certain post comments on it and tries to make out in a brief description poster's socio-political alignment/identity from these favourite choices.

>Obviously I am aware that you cannot figure out someone's identity in detail from three figures that he admires, but it's purely for fun and educational reasons, maybe it will even encourage you to make some reasearch on unknown ones mentioned in this thread

So, READY, GREENTEXT, GO!

Let me start:

>1. Julius Evola
>2. Fiodor Dostoyevsky
>3. Ernst Junger

Keep it classy /lit/, I know you can.

>> No.3619358

bumping for glory

>> No.3619361

>>3619353

typical /pol/ denizen.

>> No.3619363

shameless double bump (last)

>> No.3619369

>>3619361

I don't visit /pol/ to often, contribute with your choices, sir.

>> No.3619371

1. Jim Morrison
2. Nietzsche
3. Rimbaud

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3619376

>>3619361

Spot on. Let's derail this piece of shit.

Have you watched The Walking Dead? I think it used to be well executed but I stopped after Season 2. It got repetitive.

>> No.3619381

>>3619361
/pol/ is a buzzword for feminist invasion.

>> No.3619388

>>3619371

You're bit of outsider, suffering existentially with a pesimist view on modern-day world, sympathizing with left-wing views, yet looking down on masses, following individualistic way of life. Right?

Wouldn'tagreewith/10

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3619390

>>3619353
>Friedrich Nietzsche
>Martin Heidegger
>Albert Camus

>> No.3619396

>>3619390
self-important, edgy, but ultimately not all that bright.

1) Milton.
2) Shakespeare.
3) Plato.

>> No.3619399

>>3619376
Asked for keeping it classy. I thought you people can discuss without jumping into insults.

>> No.3619410

>>3619371
You are slightly into mysticism and pseudo-buddhist philosophy that encompasses art and aesthetics.

>P.S.
You are a bit of a pleb for worshipping a rock star

You are forgiven for your second choice of Nietzsche (unless you are one of those pretentious tools who think they read/understand him but really doesn't)

I see you have good taste for digging Rimbaud. but I don't really see him as a great thinker, just a great artist.

>> No.3619413

>Nietzsche
>Joyce
>Kafka

>> No.3619424

>>3619396
You are bright but lazy
You are not receptive of relativism
You are stubborn

>> No.3619427 [DELETED] 

>>3619413
secretly considers themselves to be an 'intellectual'. watches shakespeare plays but secretly doesn't follow or enjoy them.

>> No.3619430

>>3619413

Joyce and Nietzsche? Explain this mixture.

>> No.3619432

>Roald Dahl
>Anais Nin
>Alan Watts

>> No.3619436

>>3619427
You are kind of right.

I don't consider myself an intellectual, but I try to be intellectual in my internal thought.

I don't watch plays at all. I read Shakespere on occasion and see that he has a pretty good handle on the tendencies of humanity and he is funny as fuck, but his work isn't something I reach for often.

>> No.3619440

>>3619430
Well I consider Nietzsche a great thinker.
I consider Joyce a great artist.

>> No.3619441

>>3619424

Such popular choices don't always reveal someone's lazyness. In my opinion there's a bright linking between Shakespeare's masterpieces and concepts of ancient thinkers.

>> No.3619462

>>3619441
No, you are absolutely right.
I wasn't saying that your choices indicated laziness because they are so common, I was saying your choices indicated laziness because Plato does not require you to break away from Positivism and Milton and Shakespeare are less about deeply analytical thought and more about humanity.

>> No.3619472

>>3619432
Anyone?

>> No.3619486

>>3619462

I am not the one who posted it, OP here. I think that romantic, irrational convinction that runs through Shakespeare's work doesn't analyse, yet it gives new dimension, new field of analyzing nature of universe we live in.

You're spot on about Plato, but his visionary, nearly supernatural concepts are very often frowned upon by positivists.

Would be glad if anyone commented on my choices tho.

>> No.3619491

>T.S. Eliot
>Arthur Schopenhauer
>Stephen Fry

>> No.3619494

1. Badiou
2. Artaud
3. Yeats

>> No.3619496

>>3619472

I can say very little about your choices, but you seem to be spiritual in a bit eccentric way, aight? Quite decadent also.

>> No.3619546

1. Marcus Aurelius
2. Tolstoy
3. Checkhov

>> No.3619548

>>3619496
Thanks! Sounds alot like me

>> No.3619560

>>3619472
Sorry, haven't read anything by them to give you an estimate.

>>3619491
Posh british. Atheist is a given, gone through some depression. Cynical.

>>3619494
High brow. Spend a lot of your time reading. Hate fantasy and sci fi and you think literature should always be taken seriously.

>> No.3619578

1. Robert Pirsig
2. Kurt Vonnegut
3. Herman Hesse

Woo, entry level as fuck.

>> No.3619580 [DELETED] 

1. Schopenhauer
2. Guenon
3. Spengler

>> No.3619582 [DELETED] 

>>3619578
#YOLO

>> No.3619583

>>3619582
>implying there aren't 2 eastern thinkers in the list
>implying they believe you only live once

>> No.3619595

1. Homer
2. Shakespeare
3. Sara Lidman

>> No.3619608

>>3619560
Mostly right, though I wish I were posh and British.

>> No.3619657

Jung
Benjamin
Walser

OP, what is your favorite by Jünger?

>> No.3619700

>>3619657
A not-too-radical postmodernist, trying to find a way to grasp the bewildering and ever-changing culture of late capitalism.

Mine:
Nietzsche
Leo Strauss
Hegel

>> No.3619704

>>3619657
>Auf den Marmorklippen
>Heliopolis

And of course his recipe for a long life.

>> No.3619720

>Joyce - lemme say as much as possible, so you know my own feels; the dead poets, I talk to, all of my Culture in bags of bags.

>Wittgenstein - lemme say of the 'say' - the limit is sharing the 'say', so you know it's all feels.

>Beckett - lemme say as little as possible, so you can know your own feels; the live Poets, I talk to, all of my Culture in an empty bag.

>> No.3619728

Socrates, I guess. Or at least, the character of Socrates as presented by Plato.

Uh... maybe Shakespeare?

And Noam Chomsky, I guess.

I don't really think about it.

I was tempted to say Laurie Penny, just to get you fellows riled up. But alas, in the end I chose not to.

>> No.3619737

>>3619700
A self proclaimed libertarian conservative, who believes that some people are better than others based on their merits.

>Foucault
>Negri
>Hegel

>> No.3619745

>>3619728
Addendum: Maybe swap Shakespeare and Chomsky, I think.

>> No.3619749

Only three is rather hard, OP. As thinkers are concerned, I would say (for now)
>Kant
>Nietzsche
>Pascal
(really hesitate wether Pascal should be above Nietzsche but anyway). As far as writers go:
>Dante (also love him as a thinker)
>Baudelaire
>Rimbaud

>> No.3619751

Ayn Rand
Aristotle
Reagan

>> No.3619757

tonight is as good as any other night. the day as good as any other. and now, typing away into the internet, opening up like a flower in the night.

futurama plays quietly in the background.

>> No.3619758

>>3619751
You're 10 years old.

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3619762

>>3619700
>postmodernist

>> No.3619767

>>3619737
Pretty good, except for the "libertarian" part.

>> No.3619770

>>3619762
My deepest apologies.

>> No.3619772

>>3619546
comfortable purusing the realms of subsidary psychological paradigms but ultimately concede to general lack of compabaility with contemporary theory and altruistic idealisms relative to the less abridtged analytics of bygone eras and modes of intellect

>> No.3619779

>>3619758
and you're a leech on society hindering any real progress

>> No.3619783

>>3619767
Cool, I don't even know any more why I typed libertarian, I think I was thinking about it in "/pol/" terms, so just neo-liberal of some sorts...
I don't know. But good to see how close I got it.

>> No.3619784

>>3619779
lel, you know nothing about me.

>> No.3619788

>>3619784
i bet you've never even read the fountainhead

>> No.3619789

>>3619788
I did, and I found it lacking.

>> No.3619796

>>3619789
precisely because you're a leech on society

if you were a productive person who had his own best interest in mind, you would find nothing objectable in the book.

>> No.3619800

>>3619783
Nope, not even neoliberal. I care very little for politics, and are conservative only in the sense that I firmly believe in the greatness of the Western civilization and want to preserve it - agenda pretty much derived from both Nietzsche and Strauss.

>> No.3619812

>>3619800
That's an very interesting political position, but one that can be easily seen from the authors you choose. (But that's just because now I know, it's kind of hard to guess it.)

>> No.3619816

i worship in the church of edge

>> No.3619821

>>3619816
You already posted in this thread: >>3619751

>> No.3619844

>>3619821
those guys are circular as fuck

>> No.3620395
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3620395

>>3619595
You know what's what. Beard.

1) Alexander Pope.
2) Heraclitus.
3) King Solomon (or whoever the speaker in the book of Ecclesiastes is)

>> No.3620408

>Steinbeck
>Mishima
>Kafka

>> No.3620431

>>3620408
Competent. No beard. Liberal. Glasses.

>> No.3620449

>>3619353
Centrist/'apolitical'. Secretly tries to avoid black people on the street.

>> No.3620490

1. Borges
2. Pullayup
3. Ziduros

>> No.3620503

Vonnegut
Bill Hicks
Bertrand Russell

If someone surprises me they get titties

>> No.3620525

Aquinas, Hayek,Flannery O'Connor

>> No.3620528

>>3620449

>Lists a zany radical traditionalist who decried modern society as symptomatic of the Hindu "Kali Yuga", an epileptic Russian monarchist who wanted to reconquer Byzantium for the glory of Orthodoxy, and a war-glorifying quasi-Nazi who "hated democracy like the plague"

>Thinking this person is a centrist

You're probably right about the black people though.

>> No.3620557

>>3620525
(annoying) classical liberal

>> No.3620559

>>3620528
Sticking to my guns. (I'm all for that reconquering Byzantium idea by the way. No nation should have its proper capital city grasped in the grubby hands of the Turk like that.)

(I'd appreciate a response too :P >>3620395)

>> No.3620561

>>3620503
American

>> No.3620564

>>3620557
Well, Will Gladstone is one of my favorite historical figures...

>> No.3620565

>>3620395

You lie in bed to all hours of the evening, caked in filth, masturbating compulsively to very dark, nasty lesbian S&M porn, pissing into soda bottles, leaving the room only to eat and tip the BMs you've taken in your hand into the toilet.

>> No.3620569

>>3619737
Tinfoil hat/occultist

>> No.3620571

>>3620503

You lie in the dark with a banana in your arse, punishing your cock to crimelibrary. The room is redolent of human yeast, farts and old semen.

>> No.3620579

>>3619580
Pessimist

>> No.3620576

>>3619720
Edgy teenager

>> No.3620581 [DELETED] 

>>3619751

You lie on the floor, smearing liquid shit with the consistency of chunky peanut butter over your prick, jacking it like a gibbon to photographs of girls you I know on Facebook.

>> No.3620599

>>3619751

You lie on the floor, smearing liquid shit with the consistency of chunky peanut butter over your prick, jacking it like a gibbon to photographs of girls you know on Facebook.

>> No.3620607

>>3620565
Nope. How did you get there from Pope, Heraclitus and Koholeth?

>> No.3620618

>>3619720
Oh my. Kill it with fire.

1) Augustine
2) Hobbes
3) Stanley Fish

>> No.3620619

Heidegger
Arendt
Nietzsche

>> No.3620617

>>3620490
no one ?

>> No.3620624

>>3620490
I don't know who the second two are. I think you're not a native English speaker, and I think you are left-wing.

>> No.3620640

>>3620607

Because I don't give a fuck about the game, I'm randomly posting obscene scene-setting reused from an unsuccessful /adv/ thread.

>> No.3620661

>>3620640
That's no fun.

>> No.3620670

>>3620490
>2. Pullayup
>3. Ziduros
who?

>> No.3621853

>>3620395
My brother. Pope is one my absolute favorites. That style, that class, that intelligence. Heraclitus is pretty fucking awesome too. Haven't read the bible tho...

>> No.3621873

>Jesus
>Jean Rhys
>Vonnegut

>> No.3621884

1. Kundera
2. Baudrillard
3. Vyasa

>> No.3621921

Dostoevsky
Shakespear
Pynchon

>> No.3621928

George RR Martin
ra salvatore
that guy who wrote the phantom tollbooth

>> No.3621933

jean rhys isn't life changing literature sorry...I'm going to guess you suffer from depression

>> No.3621950 [DELETED] 

steven wright
samuel beckett
stanley kubrick

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3621961

>>3621959

Your mind: blown.

>> No.3622123

>>3621961

It's modeled after a picture Axl had in his house, so no my mind is not blown.

>> No.3622156

>>3622123

No it's not. It's modelled after this very painting, you faggot.

Look it up.

>> No.3622157

>>3622156
Please learn to read, you're on a literature board after all.

>> No.3622160

>>3622157

You learn to read:

"The cover art of the album simply combines the color schemes from the covers of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, which were originally designed by Mark Kostabi.[3] The image is a detail of the Raphael painting "The School of Athens". The album is certified Platinum (1,000,000 sales) by the RIAA."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_Your_Illusion

>> No.3622165

>>3622123

>implying you live in Axl's house and see it all the time

>implying Axl has the school of Athens in his house

>implying you're not a faggot doing damage control and back pedalling

>> No.3622167

>>3622165

Troll'd I'm out so don't reply.

>> No.3622188

>>3622167

Not trolled. What I said is 100% true. If you disagree, back it up.

>> No.3622221

>>3621853
He's so cool. I want to be him. Ecclesiastes is amazing. People should read the Bible more. Not because I think it's the Word of God or anything--it's just really cool.

>> No.3622225 [DELETED] 

Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
David Hume

>> No.3622229

David Hume
Franz Kafka
Albert Camus

>> No.3622457

Jim Morrison
Carl Jung
Kafka

>> No.3622465

1. Max Stirner
2. Raoul Vaneigem
3. Wilhelm Reich

>>3622457
Center-left, social democrat.

>> No.3622473

1. Blaise Pascal
2. Plato
3. Edgar Poe

>> No.3622476

>>3619462
So they aren't sociopathic autists? Great!

>> No.3622487

>>3619371

Edgy as fuck. Yet decent taste.

>> No.3622530

>>3619353
John Berryman
Philip K. Dick
Virginia Woolf

>> No.3622547

>>3622473
You believe things were much better in the past, are dismissive of "modern art" and non-metrical poetry.

>> No.3622558

>>3622547

Ok, just exactly for how long have you been spying on me ?

>> No.3622570

1. Dostoevsky
2. Pynchon
3. Sartre

>> No.3622577

>>3619720
>implying bag is empty