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>The woman you love killed herself? Just have sex with her best friend
>The woman you love is a lesbian? Just have sex with another guy's wife
>Your father is a piece of shit? Just have sex with your own mother
I don't know how this hack is so famous, holy shit.
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>>22544124
They're 12
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>>22544798
Out of 10
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>>22542077
The Japanese seem like the biggest coomer race from the limited insight Dazai and Murakami have given me
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>>22542334
Dancing is (or can be, when it is done well) a higher form of physical intimacy than mere sex, as it relies on non-verbal communication and coordination and awareness of your selves and others (to avoid crashing into them). At a certain level dancing is a participatory art, whereas sex never requires the same level of consciousness.

>>22542328
Sex, even good sex with a loving partner, is nice but it alone brings no lasting lifelong fulfillment. Your full relationship with your spouse - of which sex is only a small part - on the other hand does, as does raising good children. Neither is over in an hour but require a lifetime.
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>>22545543
My dude you just have to look at the amount of hentai they produce. They're total coomers

Post you’re score
https://www.writingtoiq.com/
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>>22545409
Accidentally cropped out the score!
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Kek this thing is so retarded. Also Hesiod eternally btfo
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>>22545455
>and, and,
>list of names
>simple sentence structure
>simple vocab
yeah it's ~100IQ
>>22545409
note the difference between yours and this, the OP wrote better than that excerpt
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>>22545529
>I, Anon who has never put my name to anything know better than Hesiod
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>>22545552
The AI, and I agree that what the random Anon wrote is better than that Hesiodos excerpt. Not everything by lé Greeks is magnificent.

Post the hardest to parse Mccarthy sentence you know.
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Why didn't this nigger use punctuation
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>>22544963
reads like someone describing their rectal hemorrhage suddenly started talking
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>>22544988
Filtered pleb
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>>22544963
>The horse raced past the barn fell.
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>>22544963
the worst is the judge talking about judging people.
It's so bad it came out ambiguous. Whole thread on it a while ago.

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PBUH
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every muslim guy i have met was a turbo autist and every muslim girl was a turbo slut
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>>22545469
Whites are even worse. Every white woman is a purple hair feminist creature. All white men are depressed docile little cucks
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>>22545447
Guenon reference

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Is there a memoir or fictional book, of man well into adulthood renouncing formulaic bourgeois life, going on trips to exotic places, exploring city and town, living bachelor's dream, learning local dialect and wandering under the city night sky then escaping to next destination before he becomes too settled down?
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>>22543251
He's a neurotic beta, see >>22540520
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>>22543681
>i-it's not laughable!!! They just don't geddit!!!
Cope
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>>22543904
post body
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>>22539692
For anyone interested, BAP's literal zionist grifter project has been exposed. BAM is a larp grift because whites are bred to be niggercattle and eat it up. His goal is to decrease antisemitism:
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>>22537910
>>22540722
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>>22545533
fuggin bazed

Pregnancy test is a go. Need to know how to make my kid a reader
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>>22545215
>i don't have sons
That's a relief
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>>22545256
my interests make me an anomaly amongst my peers and i developed them in spite of the compulsory school system not because of it.
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>>22545275
I'm going to have them and rape them, you can't stop me bitch
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>>22545063
I'm not a burger so I wouldn't know
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>>22545170
Srudy more then.
There's physical evidence of the earthquake after Christ's death, along with many other archaeological proofs.

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Memes, shitposts, and bitch fits aside, we're the Harry Potter books really that bad? I read them at the appropriate age and remember enjoying them.

Please... keep the thread civil.
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What more remains to be said on the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though

"No!"

The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
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>>22545376
Is this a pasta?
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>>22545441
newfag
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Setting aside their quality for a moment, the Potter books are supremely comfy.

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Write what's on your mind.

Previous: >>22536145

Black Dynamite edition.
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>>22545163
You sound sour.
>>22545196
lol
lmao even
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>>22545377
resentment is demonic
yo i mean that li'tall
cos everytime a certian bitch is standing next to me
she be hatin
when i crap in the street
she be hatin
when i puke on her feet
she be resentin me

and its not myactions that result in all this
is the devil inside the victims who dis
on the innnocent
litttle me
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the west cannot ever overcome identity /pol/ or libel propaganda because their religion is identity /pol/ and libel propaganda; when they begin to look for a way to overcome the identity pol and propaganda in the present they will find it in early christianity and they cannot understand and refute one without understanding and refuting the other.


the toxic roots
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my reading goal for this year was to finish In search of lost time as well as My Struggle (knausgard's), I'm happy that it looks like I will for sure finish it

I'm thinking what should be my reading goal be for next year. Making it just about number of books would be boring. I'm thinking Tolstoy's novels and Human Comedy, but there's no way to get the whole thing in my country easily they only released it once in 60s
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>>22545491
The enlightenment is the cause of ID politics and identify is only elevated to a political program because real politics is systematically denied by enlightenment-informed pseudo-politics. Every truly political state is fundamentally religious. The abandonment of religion leaves a void to be replaced by whatever other lines of distinction can be drawn, like race.

Why did you guys recommend me a book with no plot?

I am mid way through and have not even picked it up for a week straight as there is just nothing interesting to get me into the story. I cant even remember where they are going or why, its not giving me anything either to lead towards.
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>>22536459
FILTERED.
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>>22540655
>It's grim dark.

What the Comanche did to the Apache was even more 'cartoonishly evil'. Realism shouldn't be a verisimilitude complaint.
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>>22536459
You seem proud of being dumb as fuck
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I'm 1/3 in and it's okay. Just a party of vagabonds messing around in no man's land. The closest thing to Book of the New Sun I've ever read. This is the "Boy runs away from home" genre.
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I’m a bad Indian

This one time a man walks into my space
Asks me questions about my things
I tell him
When he suddenly interrupts
As only a white man can
With all the euro-swagger of a man who’s people where so sure of their place in the universe
Their place in the world
Their place in the eyes of God
You speak real good for a
Native American
An indian
A savage
A pagan

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Do you get the joke she is making /lit?
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>>22545128
She's saying she hit the wall. 30s have been tough for her.
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>>22545500
Anone we're in the 20's right naow, you don't wanna see what the 30's have in stoare foar pepple like yon.
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>>22545267
Who is she?
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>>22545517
She's in her 30s. You can tell because her face looks like a rubber mask.
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>>22545523
Nevermind I found out she is Mia Alves.

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>mfw DFW is detailing his feelings
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>>22544801
/thread
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>>22544532
It's like white people who have a fetish of being raped by an animal or an african, the idea of humiliation by an inferior creature turns them on
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>>22545369
if it were all about inferiority then the fetish would work with weak stinky shrimp sick Indians but that’s not the case.
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Hey mods, thanks for not deleting this obviously NSFW thread so that cumbrains can have a jolly discussion about their fetishes
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well that fucking hurt

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My Noumenal Insight just revealed to me that Intellektuelle Anschauung isn’t real.
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>>22545397
>Intellektuelle Anschauung
wat is this
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>>22545397
this phenomenal conclusions tells me I have no taste
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>>22545404
Intellectual intuition.

/lit/bros, do you ever feel alone irl because you cant talk about the stuff you read with anyone?
I am from a third world country, average IQ levels here are legit bordering on retardation, and left wingness is strong (LATAM)
Any serious subject is viewed as pretentiousness, and often they are indeed mentioned with pretense in mind, which creates a culture where serious book talk is something to be mocked as uptight and arrogant (as DFW said was common already in 2000s America in his interviews) and at the same the book is a fetish object to signify wisdom, but to the point that the population reads so little that any book whatsoever, even the stupidest self help slop, grants someone the image of intelectual for the majority of people around them, and people mistake fancy words for deep thought
In educated circles, what dominates is Marxist thought and derivatives. Every single bookish person you find is left leaning, and even if they are knowleadgeable in other fields, they are commie parrots when it comes to politics, and they are always super invested in that, revolution, opression etc
Its frustrating
Thats a bit of my experience, I want to know yours
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>>22545414
Thats part of the problem man, thinking this opposition of right and left is real
Werent the Golden Age Muslims creative? The Renaissance Europeans?
They would fall under todays "conservative" more than left leaning, but even then applying this label to them is dumb
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>>22545320
just say you're a brazilian self-hating xenophile already.
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>>22545427
The righ wing people are dumb too, often dumber
But its not me that obsess over politics, its just the cool thing to do, and they just happen to be left leaning
I agree with you, I only disagree with you in what I dont think we disagree in anything
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>>22545430
I just did. Its liberating desu
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Yeah, I think literature has always been a lonely pursuit but it is now more so than ever. We should try to seek out others we can identify with, but to some degree, we’ll just have to accept that this is how it is. And I think given the madness of modernity, the principled loners should perhaps even be admired.

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Which books for helping finding your true identity and meaning for life? Shit you actually care about and strive towards to after a life of inaction and self delusion.
Will just take a large dose of mushrooms if I don't find something decent to read about it.
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Bhagavad Gita literally starts by telling Prince to stop being a pussy, get up and fight

क्लैब्यं मा स्म गम: पार्थ नैतत्त्वय्युपपद्यते |
क्षुद्रं हृदयदौर्बल्यं त्यक्त्वोत्तिष्ठ परन्तप ||

klaibyaṁ mā sma gamaḥ pārtha naitat tvayyupapadyate
kṣhudraṁ hṛidaya-daurbalyaṁ tyaktvottiṣhṭha parantapa

O Parth, it does not befit you to yield to this unmanliness. Give up such petty weakness of heart and arise, O vanquisher of enemies.
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>>22544104
12 Rules for Life gets shat on because it's a self-help book, but ffs we're on 4chan... let's be real: lots of people here could use some helping of the self. It's a decent easy read with practical advice. It's not Earth-shattering, but it did make me nod in insightful agreement here and there.
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>>22544042
>just work hard and be exploited
Peterson is the classical liberal. Free markets, government bad and only do things for money.
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>>22544040
What a loathsome picture.
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>>22544040
The power of subconscious mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy

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Refuted by scientists
Refuted by philosophers
Refuted by theologians
Refuted by himself
Entire school of german idealism born out of desire to refute this utter moron some more
Refuted by kantians and anti-kantians
Instead of using IQ tests we should just give people a copy of Critique and see how quickly they refute it
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>>22541178
I just realized.. he has no neck and is surely suffering from that mental retardation disorder associated with no neck.

OHHH KANT IS A TOKEN
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Necessary universal validity claims another buck broken anti-Kanttard.
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>>22541136
>Entire school of german idealism
I’m a newb when it comes to philosophy. What school are you referring to exactly?
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>>22545506
He means school as in school of thought

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_idealism
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>>22541136
That just means his observations revealed something worth considering deeply by a wide range of thinkers.


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