/lit/ - Literature

>>15300481
I keep thinking about that girl I almost fucked but then didn't, and how I messed that up, and how she will go on to fuck other men who are not me. And then I hate myself because right now in the world, millions of people are sick, out of work, dead, and dying from the pandemic and I am so selfish that I obsessively nurse my feelings and unfucked cock. I have food, water, shelter, income, and family to rely upon and support. The biological imperative evils the mind and squanders the belssings I have. I wish to rid myself of its importance and be virtuous again.

Self-hatred is a protective measure used to shield our egos. At least that is how people in this place function, I believe.

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> The Stranger - Camus
> Dorian Grey/Salome/De Profundis (grouping these as I did these all at once)
> Hadji Murad - Tolstoy
> Gulistan - Saadi
> Anatomy of the State - Rothbard

Reading Wilde this summer has really awakened my desire to read, more than I ever have before. Planning on finishing the Quran soon and corresponding the late Antiquity part of the canon with Muslim philosophers. Interested in ancap for the concepts, I’ll probably learn more about economics from there. I’m trying to be a bloomer, I’ve been more creative lately

>>13617177

Persian Muslim scholars and the Alexandrian fathers

>>11304700
There's dozens of documented cases of parrots understanding concepts like "larger/smaller," "same/different," names, consent, requests, preference, age, etc.

It's also pretty common for bird-owners to give their pet birds puzzles to solve, including puzzles that involve abstract and/or spatial reasoning.

Birds in the wild make and use tools, as well as developing simple music (drumbeats & singing).

Dismissing these behaviors as mere repetition is silly, especially when the consensus among biologists is that there's complex thought going on. You can trust science or be a Randian, but not both.

t. bird enthusiast who reads too much about birds

>>10192415
Nigga that's not even the best Pratchett book ever written.